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A special publication of The Livingston Enterprise and The Big Timber Pioneer Inside today’s Enterprise

Commission reappoints Desnick as health officer

By Sam Klomhaus Enterprise Staff Writer

The Park County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to continue with Dr. Laurel Desnick as Park County’s Health Officer. Desnick has served as health officer through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Montana Legislature recently stripped local health boards of deci- sion-making powers. Deputy County Attorney Shannan Piccolo told the commissioners the Board of Health now recommends a choice for health officer, and the commission votes whether to appoint them. Enterprise photo The Board of A bull rider gets tossed in the air in this image from a previous Livingston Classic PBR event. Health voted May LAUREL 17 to recommend DESNICK the county commissioners vote to continue with No crowd size restrictions for the July 17 event Desnick. According to the Montana State Code, health officers are charged By Jason Bacaj bull riders, stock from Chad Berger Buck- one more ride. The highest cumulative with protecting the public health Enterprise Staff Writer ing Bulls and popular rodeo clown Flint score after those two rides wins the Clas- from imminent threats, including Rasmussen. The competition will be a dif- sic. ordering the closure of buildings or he Livingston Classic PBR is com- ferent format from the last Livingston Watson said he fully expects the bulls to events; making public health inspec- ing back for 2021. make it a challenging night for the cow- tions, and issuing orders for compli- T It’s scheduled for July 17 at the boys. Chad Berger and his business part- ance or correction of the issue; Park County Fairgrounds, with “The PBR is one of the ner, Clay Struve, have won the title of PBR reporting communicable diseases to doors opening at 5:30 p.m. and the show Stock Contractor of the Year a record nine the Health Department; establishing beginning at 7 p.m. many things that encom- times. and maintaining quarantine and iso- There will be no restrictions on crowd passes a wonderful Saturday Anticipation among the community is lation measures as ordered by the size in this Professional Bull Riders event, high for the Livingston Classic, said Leslie county; and pursuing action in court though some changes are in the works to event, and then downtown Feigel, CEO of the Livingston Area Cham- if county health orders are violated. spread out foot traffic during the event. ber of Commerce. She noted that there will A few members of the public Additional entry and exit locations are comes alive.” be an official after party at the Office objected to reappointing Desnick, planned, and possibly additional bar loca- Lounge following the Classic. citing her involvement with Park – Leslie Fiegel tions, said Andy Watson, of Three Forks, “The PBR is one of the many things that County’s mask mandate and vaccine who produces the event with his wife, Jac- Livingston Area Chamber of Commerce CEO encompasses a wonderful Saturday event, rollout. ey. and then downtown comes alive,” Feigel The mask mandate was enacted “The cowboys are super excited to come Classic in 2019 — and all new compared to said. by the Board of Health, of which back and spend some time in Montana,” last year, since it’s actually happening, Tickets are available online now at Liv- Desnick is not a voting member. The Watson said. “Tickets are going faster than joked Watson. ingstonClassicPBR.com, and will soon be board voted May 17 to remove the normal — shows that people are excited to Each bull rider will get one chance to go available for in-person purchase at the Liv- mandate. get back out there and start living life eight seconds and post a score. The 10 rid- ingston Area Chamber of Commerce, the “From my personal perspective, again.” ers with the highest scores will qualify for Spur Line and all area Murdoch’s Ranch & Dr. Desnick has been very respon- This year’s PBR is expected to feature 35 the championship round, where they’ll get Home Supply locations. sive,” Commissioner Clint Tinsley said before saying he would be very supportive of Desnick continuing to serve as health officer. Commission Chairman Steve Caldwell said he wasn’t sure Desn- Fifth Street crossing to be closed for repairs ick’s decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic have been any different By Enterprise Staff day, the city of Livingston North Seventh Street and North fic is recommended not to make a than those previous county health announced in a news release. The Yellowstone Street using Chinook left-hand turn on to Park Street to officers would have made. Montana Rail Link will close the crossing will be open to traffic on Street, are recommended to travel help flow of traffic. “I’m glad we’ve got her on board,” North Fifth Street railroad cross- Thursday. down East Gallatin Street to the The city has requested that Commissioner Bill Berg said. ing between Park and Front Street The traffic light at B and Park Bennett Street crossing, the MRL install a no-left-turn sign at The commission also voted unani- to do repairs on the railroad Street has been lengthened for release said. B and Park for the sound-bound mously to approve a purchase order tracks. north- and south-bound traffic. Star Edition and Fleshman lane. for a van to be used by the health The closures are planned for 9 Residents who live east of North Creek residents using Front For immediate updates follow department to serve as a mobile a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, and Main Street and those in the North Street are recommended to use the city of Livingston’s Public vaccine clinic and testing site, as again from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fri- hill area who are traveling down the underpass. South-bound traf- Works Facebook page. well as help with outreach to more far-flung parts of Park County. Park County Emergency Services Director Greg Coleman said the Health Department has a goal of administering 2,000 more vaccina- tions in the county in six weeks, It’s not just in Arizona: The push which would get the county to a 60-70% vaccination rate. One part of that plan is to go mobile, Coleman said. Desnick told the commissioners to review 2020 ballots is spreading the van will be used to conduct COVID-19 vaccination and testing ATLANTA (AP) — Six months after Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. The clinics during the COVID-19 pan- Donald Trump’s loss, conspiracy theo- votes have been counted — and often demic. rists and Trump backers are continuing recounted — and certified by local offi- The Health Department has been their push for repeated examinations of cials. Still, the lingering debate and making an effort to get to all parts ballots and finding limited successes. legal wrangling have propelled suspi- of the county, Desnick said, and A Georgia judge last week awarded a cions and advanced debunked theories. would use the van to provide regu- group the chance to review mail ballots And their sometimes misleading con- lar Health Department services to in a large Georgia county that includes clusions have been amplified by Trump, more rural parts of the county once Atlanta. Officials in a rural Michigan whose false allegations of election the pandemic is over. county have expressed interest in a fraud sparked the push. The estimated cost for a van review of their voting machines. A sim- The profusion of audits alarms elec- would be about $13,000 for a used ilar debate has caused sharp divisions tion experts, who note that the Arizona one and $25,000 for a new one, Cole- in a New Hampshire town. In some cas- audit has set a troubling new precedent man said, and the van would be es, the efforts have been inspired by an of third-party, partisan review of the funded through money disbursed to audit of the votes in Arizona’s Maricopa ballots, long after elections are over. the county through the American County, an elaborate exercise engi- “This is bad enough to see it happen Rescue Plan. neered by the GOP-led state Senate. “The important thing is we get it The efforts are unlikely to yield any as soon as possible so we can get out new revelations about President Joe See Ballot review, Page 5 in the community,” Coleman said.

Page 2, Livingston Enterprise Tuesday, May 25, 2021 BRIEFS OBITUARIES   ฀ •฀ The Livingston-Park Participants can sign up for ric softener, dish soap, sham- ment rural address numbers, Eva Clelland County Public Library early multiple weeks, but can poo/conditioner, body wash, call the Park County Rural literacy programs, Books & attend only one program each paper towels, toilet paper, Addressing Office at 222- Eva May (Ashton) Clelland, 62, came Babies meets at 10:30-10:50 week, due to space concerns. women/children’s socks, 4100, ext. 4275 or email sjay@ to the end of her journey here on a.m. on Wednesdays and If the library has more par- cleaning supplies, women’s parkcounty.org. earth May 20, 2021, in Livingston, Thursdays, and Preschool ticipants than slots, it will sports bras, and towels. Montana. Storytime meets at 10:30-11 host additional times to Donations can be dropped at •฀Stafford฀Animal฀Shelter is Eva was born Feb. 19, 1959, to a.m. on Fridays. The library accommodate families. To the ASPEN office/porch, 411 in need of foster families for Thomas Junior Ashton and Ethel Mar- limits the size of each pro- sign up, call the library at E. Callender, Livingston. young kittens. Instruction is gie (Hughes) Ashton, who both pre- gram to four families or no 222-0862. available to learn to adminis- ceded her in death. Eva is survived by more than 10 people. Care- •฀ Park County Rural ter medication, bottle feed her daughters: Geanette (Cave) Estra- givers are required to wear • The ASPEN women’s shel- Address will replace faded or and give fluids, etc. Email da (Victor) with children Arianna, masks. Pre-registration for ter is in need of laundry lost rural address numbers Alicia at adavis@staffordani- Emily, and Victoria; and Jennifer Cave each program is required. detergent, dryer sheets, fab- for free. To receive replace- malshelter.org for detail and son Jason. Eva is also survived by her siblings: James (Debbie) Ash- ton and their children; Jewel Ashton and children; Patti (Jer- ry) French and her children; and Iona (Bart) Dorsey. Eva CALENDAR prided herself on family, and her large surrogate family in Livingston played a big part in her life and was very impor-   tant to her. EDITOR’S NOTE: The Building, 4:30 p.m. •฀ AA฀ meeting,฀ Happy฀ tion, U.S. Highway 89 South, Eva’s family wishes to thank the Frontier Assisted Living Enterprise has not con- •฀ Yellowstone฀ Gateway฀ Hour Group, Vince Grant 6:30-7:30 p.m. staff and residents, as well as the residents at the Miles firmed if these groups are Museum board of directors, Hall, 1306 East Park St., 5 •฀ Narcotics฀ Anonymous,฀ Apartments, who made Eva feel so at home. A special thank- still meeting, in light of coro- 118 W. Chinook St., 5:30 p.m. p.m. Vince Grant Hall, 7 p.m. you to Ms. Josie, Ms. Penny, Ms. Janet, Ms. Sherri, Ms. Jai- navirus concerns. Please •฀Last฀Word฀Toastmasters,฀ •฀ Al-Anon,฀ Vince฀ Grant฀ •฀ AA฀ meeting,฀ St.฀ Wil- me, Mr. Dale, and many others for all the love and support. contact your local group to via Zoom, 6 p.m. Hall, 1306 E. Park St., 5 p.m. liam’s Catholic Church, Gar- A small celebration of Eva’s life will be held at Frontier confirm events. •฀ AA฀ meeting,฀ 12฀ x฀ 12฀ •฀Overeaters฀Anonymous฀ diner, 7 p.m. Assisted Living, with a memorial service to follow at a Group, Vince Grant Hall, meeting, Big Book Studies, •฀ AA฀ meeting,฀ Mount฀ future date in Sheridan, Arkansas. Franzen-Davis Funeral 1306 East Park St., 7 p.m. Vince Grant Hall, 5:30 p.m. Republic Chapel of Peace, Home and Crematory has been entrusted with arrange- Tuesday, May 25 •฀ Livingston฀ Parks฀ &฀ Cooke City, 7 p.m. ments. To view the tribute page or leave condolences, visit • ฀ To b a c c o ฀ C e s s a t i o n฀ Wednesday, May 26 Trails Committee, City- •฀ Gardiner฀ AA฀ meeting,฀ www.franzen-davis.com. Group, Peer Solutions Drop- •฀ Communication฀ Skills฀ County Complex, via Zoom St. Williams Catholic In Center, 104 W. Clark St., Group, Peer Solutions Drop- Video Conferencing, 6 p.m. Church, 7 p.m. 4-5 p.m. Call 222-3332. In Center, 104 W. Clark St., •฀Golden฀Word฀Toastmas- •฀Group,฀Vince฀Grant฀Hall,฀ Della L. Tucker •฀T.O.P.S.฀No.฀481,฀Grabow฀ 4-5 p.m. Call 222-3332. ters, Gardiner Ranger Sta- 1306 East Park St., 8 p.m. Della L. Tucker, 92, passed away May 18, 2021, in Livingston, Montana. She was born on June 15, 1928, the daughter of William Basto and Cora (Stevens) Basto. She graduated from Woodstock Academy, Woodstock, Con- Montana man restores world’s last necticut, in 1948 and Phoenix Beauty School in 1953. On Oct. 29, 1949 she married Rich- ard J. Tucker in Troy, New Hamp- 1910 Greenlee woodworking machine shire. They made their home there until moving to Livingston in 1972. By Jeremy Weber ing where it had been sitting She was a faithful member of Liv- Daily Inter Lake for the previous 40 years, I ingston Congregational Church (Living Hope Church). She couldn’t believe how well-pre- loved to garden, crochet and paint. One of her murals deco- For nearly 40 years it sat served it was,” Williams said. rated the hallway of Winans School. Her biggest joy was collecting dust in a field out- “All it took was a slight tap on baking cakes and donuts for friends, visitors, and helpers. side of Chester on Montana’s each bolt and then I was able She is survived by children, Duane Ernest (Kandy) Tucker Hi-Line. to remove them all by hand. of฀Mosca,฀CO฀and฀Nadine฀(Ross)฀Dworshak฀of฀Worland,฀WY;฀ Now, with the help of Those pattern-shop workers grandchildren, Chelsie and Tyler Tucker, and Kurt Dwor- Kalispell collector and resto- were meticulous in the care shak; and numerous nieces and nephews. ration expert Steve Williams, of their machines since they She was preceded in death by her parents, William and the only remaining Greenlee depended on them for such Cora Basto; three sisters; six brothers; son, Rick in 1976; and Variety Woodworker in the accuracy and that care really husband of 63 years, Dick, in 2012. world soon will have a home shows.” A graveside committal service will be held Wednesday, in a Smithsonian affiliated As he disassembled the March 26, 2021, 11 a.m. at Mountain View Cemetery, Flesh- museum. machine for cleaning, Wil- man Creek Road, Livingston. A luncheon at Living Hope The 3-ton, fully restored liams also began researching Church will follow the service. If desired, memorials in Del- and functional iron behemoth its past. la’s honor may be directed to Living Hope Church, 226 S. began its 2,500-mile journey A trip to the Montana His- Third St., Livingston, MT 59047. to the National Museum of torical Society in Helena Franzen-Davis Funeral Home and Crematory has been Industrial History in Bethle- gained Williams rare access entrusted with arrangements. To view the tribute page or hem, Pennsylvania on May to the society’s archives, share condolences, visit www.franzen-davis.com. 18, returning to the home where he spent two days state of the pair of brothers going through the catalog who founded the company looking for glass-plate photo- Henry ‘Hank’ Lahren that made it. graphs of the Anaconda Min- The Greenlee Company Photo by Jeremy Weber/The Daily Inter Lake via AP ing Company pattern shop. Henry “Hank” Lahren, 84, of Livingston, passed away on traces its roots to the 1838 Collector and restoration expert Steve Williams stands in An ad in the Great Falls Tri- Saturday, May 22, 2021. Franzen-Davis Funeral Home and birth of twins Ralph and Rob- his shop in Kalispell, where he has spent the last three bune led to Williams being Crematory has been entrusted with arrangements. To view ert Greenlee in Pennsylvania. years researching and restoring a 1910 Greenlee Variety able to make contact with one the tribute page and share condolences, visit www.franzen- The sons of barrel maker Woodworking Machine. of the Anaconda Copper Com- davis.com Edmund Greenlee, the boys pany’s former pattern-shop inherited their father’s to Williams, pattern makers machine sat in the field for workers, who, before his mechanical ingenuity. After today likely would need the next 40 years, until again death last year, was able to Marcella Bernethy moving to Chicago in 1862 advanced college degrees. seeing the light of day when teach Williams much about and later Rockford, Illinois, The work required only the Williams purchased it in 2018. the machine’s uses at the Marcella Bernethy, 96, most recently of Paradise Valley, their Greenlee Bros. Compa- best and most precise Williams said it was love at shop. passed away on Monday, May 24, 2021. A full obituary and ny went on to manufacture a machinery, which is why the first sight. When Williams contacted additional details are forthcoming. Franzen-Davis Funeral host of innovative industrial Greenlee Variety Woodwork- “As soon as that wooden the Greenlee company, now Home and Crematory has been entrusted with arrange- machines, including the No. er was picked to do the job in door hit the ground, I pulled owned by Emerson Electric ments. To view the tribute page and share condolences, visit 576 Heavy 16-inch Variety 1910. out my wallet and we made Company, the project truly www.franzen-davis.com. Woodworker that Williams Advertised in Greenlee’s the deal,” he said. “I couldn’t took off. has spent nearly 1,500 hours 1911 catalog, the No. 576 wait to get it home and get to Once they found out what restoring over the past three Heavy 16-inch Variety Wood- work on the restoration.” was going on, Emerson decid- years in his shop. worker and its vast array of With the help of a friend ed to fully fund the restora- The owner of Montana accessories cost $500, the with a low, sturdy trailer and tion effort and contacted the Handmade off Montana 35, equivalent of nearly $14,000 a heavy-duty pickup, Wil- National Museum of Industri- Elected officials to east of Kalispell, Williams has in 2021. liams drove the 200 miles to al History to arrange to have a passion for restoring and The machine somehow sur- Chester to fetch the machine. the machine put on display utilizing vintage woodwork- vived the scrap-metal drives A large farm tractor loaded it there. see salary increase ing machines, and that led of World War II that led to the on the trailer and Williams “Emerson funded this com- him to purchase the unique recycling of most others of its and his friend returned to pletely out of altruism to hon- HELENA (AP) — Most of The survey that determines item from cabinetmaker kind and continued to be used Kalispell, where a crane or their history and the histo- the statewide elected offi- any changes to the salary is Norm Anderson in 2018. in the pattern shop until the unloaded the piece just out- ry of this machine. A compa- cials in Montana are expect- conducted before the end of Many of the machines Wil- Anaconda Copper Company side of Williams’ shop. ny that is willing to do some- ing a salary increase soon June each even-numbered liams has restored to utilize closed its doors for good in Covered in a fine layer of thing like that is very rare under a state law that year, officials said. The new in his shop were acquired 1979. caked prairie dust, the and I thank them for all they requires comparative pay salary then takes effect July through an advertisement he Anderson purchased the machine was moved into the have done,” Williams said. raises every other year. 1 the following year. maintains on Craigslist that machine from a broker that workshop where Williams His restoration project com- The Montana Legislature The changes this year will simply states, “Vintage Wood- was liquidating the copper was amazed to find it in amaz- plete, Williams and his labor passed laws in 1995 that be in effect until June 30, working Machinery Wanted,” company’s assets, but soon ingly good condition. of love will begin the long require the state Department 2023. However, elected offi- but when Anderson answered found it would not fit in his “There was virtually no journey to Pennsylvania on of Administration to conduct cials can choose to not accept the ad, claiming to have a small shop in Chester. So, the rust, no replacement parts Tuesday, his 73rd birthday, in surveys comparing the sala- all or part of the raise. It is “massive, very old Greenlee 60-year old variety wood- and only a small number of a truck whose use for the trip ries of the state’s elected not immediately known if any jointer,” it immediately worker found a home in the parts were missing. Consider- has been donated by Penske. executive branch officials official has declined the piqued Williams’ interest. field of Anderson’s brother- and justices with the same raise. “I knew exactly what he in-law’s 5,000 acre industrial positions in Idaho, North Republican Gov. Greg had,” Williams told the Daily farm north of Chester. After Dakota, South Dakota and Gianforte, who will receive a Inter Lake. “There had been being covered in 10 gallons of Wyoming, the Independent more than $4,000 raise, said rumors floating around for lard and encased in a hand- Record reported. he will donate his entire sala- decades that this machine made wooden crate, the Under the law, the Supreme ry to various philanthropies existed somewhere in the Court justices and district statewide. Those philanthro- West. One source said it was court judges will receive a pies have not yet been in North Dakota, another said 4.2% raise on July 1. The sal- announced. His office it was in Idaho. Nobody knew ary for the Supreme Court released a statement on Fri- exactly where. When I asked chief justice will increase day saying he will make him if it was made by Green- from $151,486 to $157,784, or $122,693, which will be donat- lee and he answered ‘yes,’ the average salary of the ed on a quarterly basis. then I knew exactly what it chief justices from the other Gianforte said state had to be.” states. employees outside the survey This particular Greenlee The lieutenant governor will get a 55-cent-an-hour Variety Woodworker had and Supreme Court clerk will increase during the next fis- spent decades being used by not get a raise, according to cal year under different leg- the pattern shop of the Ana- the data. islation. conda Copper Company in Great Falls, where it was employed in the production of the high precision wood Affordable apartments launched parts used in the creation of MISSOULA (AP) — The city of Missoula will have 200 new the patterns for sand-casting affordable apartment units in about two years, the Missoula molds that were later used to Housing Authority said. make the giant cast-iron The housing authority held a groundbreaking ceremony gears (some 16 feet tall) for last Thursday for the $42 million Villagio project. mining operations around the The project consists of two five-story buildings with apart- world. ments with two, three and four bedrooms, geared toward Being a pattern maker was families. There will be underground parking. The project is a demanding position that expected to take two years to complete. required its workers to be a The apartments will be open to households making at or combination of engineer, below 60% of the median income. The area median income draftsman and highly skilled on April 1 was $70,900 for a household of four. woodworker, and, according

Page 3, Livingston Enterprise Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Amtrak Empire Builder resumes daily Livingston schools service across Montana’s Hi-Line launch Summer KALISPELL (AP) — Amtrak’s year, the Daily Inter Lake reported. week in October as ridership dropped Empire Builder train has resumed dai- “Whitefish depends on the reliable due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ly service from Chicago to Seattle and service — and economic boost — that Amtrak was provided $166 million in Scholars program Portland, including a dozen stops along the Empire Builder route brings, and the most recent federal stimulus bill Montana’s Hi-Line, after cutbacks we are thrilled that service is return- to return to normal operations and By Sam Klomhaus who are struggling,” Scalia made due to the pandemic. ing to seven days a week,” Whitefish reinstate about 1,200 workers. Enterprise Staff Writer said. The Empire Builder makes stops in Mayor John Muhfeld said in a state- Daily service resumed Monday on T h r e e s e s s i o n s a r e Wolf Point, Glasgow, Malta, Havre, ment. “With travel season right the Empire Builder along with the Cal- The Livingston School Dis- planned: one for June 14-24, Shelby, Cut Bank, Browning, East Gla- around the corner, this is just the shot ifornia Zephyr from Chicago through trict is launching Summer one for July 6-15 and one for cier Park, Essex, West Glacier, White- in the arm our economy needed as we Denver and Salt Lake to San Francis- Scholars, a free summer July 9-29, according to the fish and Libby in Montana. work to build back after the pandem- co; the Coast Starlight from Seattle school experience that release. Whitefish is the busiest stop, with ic.” and Portland to Los Angeles; and the according to the district will Sessions for grades K-8 more than 55,000 passengers boarding Amtrak reduced service on most of Texas Eagle from Chicago through St. help students recover cred- will be half days, with full- or disembarking there in a typical its long-distance routes to three days a Louis and Dallas to Los Angeles. its and engage in learning day sessions for grades 9-12, opportunities. with all sessions four days a The program is designed week, according to the to close any gaps in students release. learning while offering “Offerings include expedi- enrichment opportunities, tionary, project-based learn- according to a Livingston ing in Reading/Writing, School District press Math, STEAM, Language, release. and the Arts,” the release Park High Co-Principal stated. Lynne Scalia said in an Enrollment for summer email the district wants all scholars began last week, students to experience con- according to the release. tinuous academic success Those interested are asked through the program. to contact their children’s “This isn’t just for those schools directly. Contempt hearing set over judge’s order requiring vaccine This June 29, 2017, remote camera image provided by the U.S. Forest Service shows a female gray wolf and two of the ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — first defendant into the three pups born in 2017 in the wilds of Lassen National Forest in northern California. A federal judge in Aberdeen courtroom refused to dis- will decide whether three close her vaccination status, members of the U.S. Mar- Aberdeen American News shals Service should be reported. As a result, Korn- Wolves scare deer and reduce found in civil contempt over mann told the marshal to his requirement to have leave and pulled in a differ- everyone in his courtroom ent deputy marshal to sit in vaccinated for the coronavi- the courtroom. rus. Chief deputy marshal, Ste- auto collisions 24%, study says Judge Charles Kornmann phen Houghtaling, told Korn- notified courthouse employ- mann by phone that the WASHINGTON (AP) — Academy of Sciences. “Most economic studies of costs can include large med- ees in March that the vacci- remaining defendants sched- Ecologist Rolf Peterson Both thinning of the deer wolves have been negative, ical bills and, sometimes, nations would be required in uled for hearings had been remembers driving remote population by wolves and focusing on livestock losses,” human fatalities.” order to provide the safest removed from the court- stretches of road in Michi- behavior changes in fearful said Dave Mech, a senior A 2016 study found that environment for everyone. house because the marshals gan’s Upper Peninsula and deer are factors in the drop- research scientist for the U.S. cougars decreased the num- The U.S. marshal for South service didn’t think it could seeing areas strewn with off, Parker said. Geological Survey in Minne- ber of deer-vehicle crashes Dakota, Daniel Mosteller, keep the courtroom secure deer carcasses. But that “When you have a major sota, who was not involved in in parts of the eastern U.S. responded to the judge, tell- without two marshals in the changed after gray wolves predator around, it impacts the new study and praised it. by about 22%. ing him the U.S. Marshals room. arrived in the region from how the prey behave,” he “But wolves also reshape eco- The wolf study “adds to Service is not requiring Kornmann noted that the Canada and Minnesota. said. “Wolves use linear fea- systems in many ways, growing awareness that sci- employees to get the vaccine marshals service hasn’t fol- “When wolves moved in tures of a landscape as trav- although that’s hard to mea- entists should consider both and that they will not pro- lowed that practice in the during the 1990s and 2000s, el corridors, like roads, pipe- sure economically.” the costs and the benefits of vide their vaccination status past. the deer-vehicle collisions lines and stream beds. Deer Some studies have looked having large carnivores on to the court. The judge ordered Mostell- went way down,” said the learn this and can adapt by at tourism revenue generat- the landscape,” said Adrian Kornmann held his first er, Houghtaling and the chief Michigan Tech researcher. staying away.” ed by wolf-watchers in Yel- Treves, a University of Wis- courtroom session for the of staff for the U.S. Marshals Recently, another team of Gray wolves, among the lowstone, but that money consin conservation biolo- year on May 10. The U.S. Service, John Kilgallon, to scientists has gathered data first species protected doesn’t flow directly to com- gist not involved in the marshal who brought the appear at a hearing June 14. about road collisions and under the Endangered Spe- munities living alongside wolf movements in Wiscon- cies Act in 1973, were rein- wolves, said Jennifer sin to quantify how the troduced to Yellowstone Raynor, a natural resources arrival of wolves there National Park in 1995. But in economist at Wesleyan Uni- affected the frequency of other regions of the U.S., versity and a co-author of deer-auto collisions. They gray wolves have dispersed the new study. found it created what scien- naturally; the population in “We wanted to look at oth- tists call “a landscape of the lower 48 states now er ways the wolves impacted fear.” totals about 5,500. the region,” Raynor said. “In a pretty short period of The new study said that “These auto collisions are time, once wolves colonize a the presence of wolves, happening, or not happen- county, deer vehicle colli- maligned by ranchers whose ing, in rural areas, and so sions go down about 24%,” livestock suffers predation, are livestock damages.” said Dominic Parker, a natu- also can save money by indi- Michigan Tech’s Peterson, ral resources economist at rectly reducing deer-vehicle who was not involved in the the University of Wisconsin, collisions. In 2008, a study research, said, “If anything, Madison and co-author of for the U.S. Department of the researchers underesti- their new study published Transportation estimated mated the value of the deer- Monday in the journal Pro- those crashes cost more vehicle crashes. The deeper ceedings of the National than $8 billion annually. dimension of these collision S. Dakota governor pushes to bar ‘critical race theory’ from universities SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) the nation’s founding and A report on a possible — South Dakota’s public uni- history. restructuring is due in versities shouldn’t be teach- The Board of Regents has November. ing certain concepts of race a policy of protecting free- “It is critical that our and racism, Gov. 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pinion Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Page 4, Livingston Enterprise O GUEST COLUMN Biden’s EV tax credits redistribute wealth ... upward

By George Will million vehicles on U.S. roads in 1920 to 23 tunate majority. And if Democrats repeal the gram’s $2.85 billion essentially shifted Syndicated Columnist million in 1930 without tax credits, the pri- $10,000 cap on deductions of state and local “roughly a few billion [consumers’] dollars vate sector, responding to real rather than taxes by individuals filing their federal forward from the subsequent two quarters WASHINGTON — Presidential gravitas synthetic demand, built sufficient gas sta- income taxes, this would almost entirely ben- following the program.” Most of the 677,842 swamped Michigan last week when Joe Biden tions. efit very wealthy taxpayers. sales — that many clunkers were traded in announced that, regarding electric vehicles There are tax credits of up to $7,500 for EV But desperate times require desperate mea- and, as required by law, destroyed — were (EVs), the nation was at both an “inflection purchasers, until a manufacturer sells sures, and Earth, the administration says, just “slightly earlier [purchases] than other- point” and a “crossroads.” After he remakes 200,000. GM and Tesla have reached this desperately needs EVs. For reasons unrelated wise would have occurred.” They did create the automobile industry, his speechwriting camp. GM wants the tax credit restored and to climate change — including cost and con- some jobs — at a cost of $1.4 million each. shop should be next. made permanent. Internal Revenue Service venience — the future of EVs probably would Nevertheless, Senate Majority Leader Hitherto known as “Amtrak Joe,” the presi- data for 2014 showed that the biggest benefi- be bright even without government midwife- Charles E. Schumer, whose environmentally dent told Michiganders he is “a car guy,” ciaries were households with adjusted gross ry. Perhaps, however, these should be called responsible recycling extends to recycling which was well-received by automobile exec- income of at least $100,000. One percent went “19.3 percent coal cars,” that being the per- threadbare ideas, proposes $392 billion for 10 utives and autoworkers pleased by his indus- to households earning less than $50,000. centage of U.S. electricity generated by coal. years of tax credits and vouchers for those trial policy promoting EVs. This, like all his States, too, have joined the market manipula- Furthermore, Bjorn Lomborg, a climate writ- who replace gas-powered vehicles with EVs. policies, is, he says, climate policy, and serves tion. In California, where about 47 percent of er, notes, EVs require large batteries that Biden wants to recycle the $7,500 EV tax racial “equity” (by improving urban air quali- EVs are sold, buyers can gain up to $15,000. “are often produced in China using coal pow- credit. All such measures will have a climate ty). That such subsidies “work” is shown by what er. According to the [International Energy impact too tiny to measure, given that U.S. What the White House calls a “fact sheet” happens when they end: In 2015, when Geor- Agency], just producing the battery for an personal cars, of which EVs will be a small says Biden’s administration will “support gia ended its $5,000 state tax credit, EV sales electric car can emit almost a quarter as proportion for many years, produce only 2.4 market demand” for EVs by “driving plummeted 89 percent in two months. much of the greenhouse gases that a gasoline percent of global emissions. demand” with “point-of-sale incentives” to Biden’s policy to use less affluent Ameri- car will emit across its entire lifetime.” In 1928, presidential candidate Herbert encourage “deployment” of EVs. Translation: cans’ money to entice more affluent Ameri- The Obama-Biden administration “Cash for Hoover’s supporters said Republicans had put Subsidies, including tax credits for purchas- cans to buy EVs is only one of the contem- Clunkers” tried to meld economic stimulus “the proverbial ‘chicken in every pot.’ And a ers, will fiddle the market by lowering EV plated regressive policies by which his and environmental stewardship. Consumers car in every backyard, to boot.” Biden should prices enough to manufacture a demand suf- administration would transfer wealth trading in old vehicles received vouchers for promise coq au vin on every plate and two ficient to justify manufacturing the vehicles upward. Another such policy would cancel more climate-friendly, fuel-efficient vehicles Teslas in every garage. Progress, or at least in quantities that the administration says are student debts for some of the fortunate — vouchers for $3,500 or $4,500, depending progressivism, is inexorable. vital for the planet. Biden even wants $15 bil- minority of Americans who, having college on the miles-per-gallon difference between ——— lion to build 500,000 EV charging stations. degrees, will likely enjoy lifetime earnings trade-in and the new purchase. A Brookings EDITOR’S NOTE: George Will’s email When U.S. automobile sales exploded from 8 significantly higher than those of the less for- Institution study found that the 55-day pro- address is [email protected]. Law and order should not be political

The conversation started And they were right. on a long Uber ride. The The recurring mayhem in driver, originally from Portland has become a sport Colombia, said he knows a lot for punks. Though they may of Colombians living in the invoke the usual woke U.S. “without papers.” He causes, they are performers out for thuggish “fun.” And though they often riff on “identity politics,” the few who get arrested are almost all young and white. Earlier this month, May Syndicated Day demonstrations brought columnist another fresh round of havoc to Portland. Buildings were damaged and windows FROMA HARROP smashed. Garbage piling in the streets prompted The Oregonian to rename the city argued that they are good “Dumptown.” people paying taxes and Seattle is still recovering should be left alone. I from the fallout of the Capi- responded that I believe they tol Hill Autonomous Zone, are good people paying taxes several blocks that city lead- but our immigration laws ers astonishingly made off- should be respected. limits to police last year. He then said, to my sur- Early on, Seattle Mayor Jen- prise, “I kind of like Donald ny Durkan naively told CNN, Trump.” Why, I asked. He “We could have the summer went on heatedly about the of love.” Not quite. The area riots that followed the killing was tormented by rapes, of George Floyd. He thought assaults, burglaries, vandal- Trump was more serious ism and shootings. about restoring order. The Economist recently The public really dislikes pointed to a study strongly civic chaos. Democrats, you suggesting that last year’s need to address this more civic disorder cost Demo- forthrightly. crats support in November. It matters not that only 6 Biden’s share of the vote, it percent of the racial justice noted, was lower in and Instead of focusing on China, the right dwells on rallies from May through around Kenosha, Wisconsin, October of last year saw vio- than in similar places in the lence. Nor is the intention to state. The apparent reason slanderous myths about the origins of COVID downplay troubling cases of were the ugly riots that fol- police brutality. And let’s not lowed the Kenosha police WASHINGTON — The uni- funded “gain of function” coronavirus work done Organization did not inspire forget that the most outra- shooting of a black man. verse of MAGA politics and research at China’s Wuhan under NIH funding corre- much confidence, and was geous incident of savage law- A poll of New York City media regularly defies Dar- Institute of Virology that sponds to the novel coronavi- criticized by the United lessness, the Jan. 6 rampage voters has crime as the No. 1 win. It is an environment in genetically modified bat rus as it actually emerged. States, the European Union, on the Capitol, was staged by issue. More than 60 percent which the least-fit ideas tend viruses to become more The very limited amount of a global chorus of scientists the Republican right wing. of those responding said they to thrive. lethal and easier to transmit. “gain of function” research and the director general of It’s just that the right talks wanted to raise the New Such is the case with its funded by NIH generally the WHO itself. The NIH has a big game on maintaining York City Police Depart- treatment of the origins of happens in the United States, strongly supported mounting law and order while some on ment’s budget and hire more the coronavirus. Sen. Rand under the strictest controls. a second WHO investigation, the left leave the impression cops. The top-polling mayor- Paul, R-Ky., has heavily The terms of the grant in to be given unimpeded that Democrats don’t care so al candidate is Eric Adams, a implied that the National China did not permit such access to all materials need- much. The liberal media former police officer and the Institutes of Health collabo- research. The charge that ed to assess what happened tend to give these radical current Brooklyn borough rated with Chinese scientists Syndicated the United States funded the in Wuhan in late 2019. voices outsized attention, president. When his chief to engineer a supervirus that columnist creation of SARS-CoV-2, the But this kind of necessary which the right-wing media rival, Andrew Yang, bashed somehow got released in virus that causes COVID-19, reckoning becomes consid- happily scoops up. the movement to defund Wuhan, China. And Fox is categorically false. Claim- erably less likely if the U.S. Thus, we hear stupid calls police, Adams countered that News’ Tucker Carlson, as is MICHAEL GERSON ing otherwise is a despicable political system remains to “Abolish ICE” (U.S. Immi- he himself had bashed the typical, turned an implied lie calumny. focused on absurd partisan g r a t i o n a n d C u s t o m s movement first. into a vile slander. “More This does not mean that charges against American Enforcement), the agency In Los Angeles, mean- than any other single living The reality? In the after- the origins of the coronavi- public health leaders. The tasked with stopping cross- while, Mayor Eric Garcetti American,” Carlson has math of the SARS-CoV-1 out- rus are clear. It appears that manias and vendettas of border crime and illegal recently swatted down the charged, “Tony Fauci is break in 2003 — which the closest related viruses to Paul, Carlson and the popu- entry. And there are noisy activists, saying, “If responsible for the COV- emerged from bats — the SARS-CoV2 are found hun- list right are helping shield demands to “defund police,” you want to abolish the ID-19 pandemic.” NIH funded studies to sam- dreds of miles away from Chinese authorities from which President Joe Biden police, you’re talking to the The prosecutors of this ple and investigate bat virus- Wuhan, where the outbreak scrutiny. Every vile, unjusti- and the vast majority of wrong mayor.” charge have credibility es in China. It would have first took hold. Most likely, fied charge against an Amer- Democrats totally oppose. This is how people in problems. Paul has a history been odd to do such work in, this was a natural event, ican official delays the next I recently had dinner with America’s liberal cities feel. of playing down the pandem- say, Luxembourg, given that caused by a leap of the coro- stage of Chinese account- progressive friends who It’s time the rest of America ic, dismissing the impor- the guilty bats originated in navirus from an animal spe- ability. Every moment in were angry over the violent knew it. tance of masks, putting his China. As part of these cies to humans. But there is which American politics is demonstrations in the liberal ——— Senate colleagues at risk of experiments, viruses were still no clear evidence of occupied with MAGA myths strongholds of Portland and EDITOR’S NOTE: Follow deadly infection and refus- tested to determine whether how or where that happened. about COVID-19 is a Chinese Seattle. They complained Froma Harrop on Twitter @ ing to take the coronavirus various spike proteins from So the possibility can’t be victory. that the rioters’ destructive FromaHarrop. She can be vaccine. If more Americans existing bat viruses could excluded that this virus was ——— behavior -- and the apparent reached at fharrop@gmail. had followed Paul’s COVID infect human cells. That is under study at the Wuhan EDITOR’S NOTE: Michael toleration of it by cowardly com. To find out more about example, far fewer of them very different from modify- Institute of Virology (possi- Gerson’s email address is local officials -- was helping Harrop, visit the Creators would still be breathing. ing these viruses to become bly carried in cell culture or michaelgerson@washpost. elect Republicans opposed to webpage at www.creators. Carlson, meanwhile, has set more transmissible or dead- in the animal where it com. their progressive values. com. himself the task of distract- ly (which is the formal defi- evolved) and was accidental- ing attention from President nition of “gain of function” ly released — perhaps by an Donald Trump’s lethal bun- research). infected lab tech. (The more A Yellowstone Newspaper gling of the United States’ Fine points are generally diabolical conspiracy theory John Sullivan, Editor and Publisher • Justin Post, Managing Editor initial pandemic response. In lost on committed fabulists. that the Chinese built the both cases, political need is But this distinction is not virus from scratch is much Tel. (406) 222-2000 or 1-800-345-8412 • Fax: (406) 222-8580 the father of scurrilous fine. There is a large scien- less likely, given that the Published evenings Monday through Friday. 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Page 5, Livingston Enterprise Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Families separated at border build new American life

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In Keldy was one of four par- rated at the border. Keldy a cramped house with mice in ents who returned to the Unit- needed to get passport photos. the kitchen and music boom- ed States during the first Keldy entered on May 4, in ing outside from passing cars, week of May with temporary a car with Corchado, through Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe legal status to join their chil- the Bridge of The Americas, lays bare her three-year jour- dren. Her family’s ups and then flew to Philadelphia. ney from Honduras to the downs illustrate what many A video shows the family United States and all that lies parents and children may reunion on May 4 in the Phila- ahead to adapt to life as an encounter as they try to make delphia home of a niece, with immigrant. up for lost time. Keldy crying while her kids She fled the Central Ameri- Keldy and her family lived hug her. “Hola mi amor, amor can nation with her family on the north Caribbean shore mío (“Hello my love, my and a price on her head to of Honduras, a tourist area. love”),” she says, her face seek asylum at the U.S. bor- Her husband was a guide, tak- buried in the arms of her sons. der. Instead, U.S. officials sep- ing American tourists to a AP Keldy counts her blessing to arated her from her children, region of tropical rainforest, Amanda Brebe, 75, tends to her granddaughter Zuniga Gonzales, 7, in the Kensington sec- be a family, free from death jailed and deported her under pine savannah and marsh tion of Philadelphia, Sunday. threats in Honduras and pain President Trump’s “zero-toler- called La Mosquitia, or white- of separation. ance” policy to prosecute water rafting on the Cangrejal deported by the Mexican gov- tion center in Deming, New in January 2019. But there are many difficul- adults entering the country River. ernment right away. Mexico, 35 miles north of the She traveled back north and ties. Keldy’s son, Mino, illegally. While the boys were Keldy described herself as Back in Honduras, they fled border. Then she was hand- settled in Tapachula, Ascen- dropped out of school to help allowed to live with relatives middle-class housewife. She to a rural mountainous area cuffed, and separated from sión and then Ciudad Juarez, pay the rent on the house that in Philadelphia, their mother would cook for the tourists on called El Naranjo in attempt the boys. Mexico, waiting for a chance six of them share, where made her way back from Hon- the expeditions. to hide from the gangs. Her The children were both soon to enter the United States. She Keldy sleeps on the living duras to Mexico, where she Drug trafficking gangs con- husband left again, making it released, and family members got by with money sent to her room sofa. She wants to get a struggled to join them. trolled some areas and into Texas. Then in 2017, as paid for their flight to Phila- by her kids, her sisters and job, but is caring for her Keldy missed celebrating required payments from busi- neighbors warned that people delphia. Their older brother, her husband. She video mes- 7-year-old autistic niece and birthdays and holidays togeth- nesses and people for protec- were asking uncomfortable Alex, now 21, eventually saged with her boys, and an unsteady 75-year-old mother. She watched from afar as tion. For those who didn’t pay, questions about her, she also became the legal guardian of remembers with pain of miss- er, along with cooking and her teenagers filled out and the penalty was death. left with the boys. his brothers and cared for ing graduations and other big cleaning for the family. She grew facial hair. Hit men killed four of her She crossed the border with them while they went to moments. sees drug use and hears gun- “There were times I thought siblings. When she testified her youngest son Erick, now school, working construction. Finally, last month, Linda shots in the streets of the I would never see them against the killers in one case 17, and her middle child Mino, But Keldy was kept in an Corchado, director of legal Kensington section of Phila- again,” she said. in 2011, she received numer- now 19, in the fall of 2017. Immigration and Customs services at the non-profit Las delphia where they live. Three years later, America ous threats and was told there Keldy flagged down a Bor- Enforcement detention facili- Americas Immigrant Advoca- It’s enough, now, to be with has jettisoned many of was a price on her head. der Patrol cruiser, and she ty in El Paso, Texas, for a year cy Center, contacted her: her children. She knows that Trump’s hardline immigration The whole family fled to and her sons were taken and a half and then deported Biden’s task force was work- is more than many of her fel- policies. Mexico in 2013 but were together to a cell in a deten- to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, ing to reunite families sepa- low migrants have. Public schools try pep-rally tactics to get more students vaccinated SAN DIEGO (AP) — A rus before summer vacation. rooms in the fall. They are time to guarantee wide- vaccine for children 12 to 15. and Prevention. Among 7.5 growing number of public Districts from California also enlisting students who spread immunity on campus- Younger children are not yet million teens ages 16 and 17, schools are using mascots, to Michigan are offering have gotten shots to press es. eligible. that number goes up to 34%, food trucks and prize give- free prom tickets and their friends to do the same. The massive effort has So far, about 14% of the and about 22% have had both aways to create a pep-rally deploying mobile vaccina- Officials are concerned just gotten underway nation’s 15 million kids ages shots, according to the latest atmosphere aimed at encour- tion teams to schools to inoc- that once school lets out, it because it was only two 12 to 15 have received their figures released Monday. aging students to get vacci- ulate students 12 and up so will be even tougher to get weeks ago that federal regu- first shot, according to the The doses are scheduled nated against the coronavi- everyone can return to class- enough teens vaccinated in lators authorized the Pfizer Centers for Disease Control about three weeks apart.

Ballot review , from Page 1 once,” said Eddie Perez, an expert to a small cybersecurity firm gan, told the Cheboygan County tend we have to accept whatever Kemp in the GOP primary, held a on voting systems at the OSET whose founder, Doug Logan, had elections committee. She offered to you tell us.” news conference outside the state Institute, said of Arizona, but see- tweeted pro-Trump election con- provide auditors free of charge. Fulton County Chairman Robb Capitol last week to hammer the ing it elsewhere in the country is spiracies. Arizona has also inspired calls by Pitts said in a statement: “It is out- governor for not commissioning a “dangerous for democracy.’” Logan has ties to the Michigan pro-Trump groups to push for their rageous that Fulton County contin- statewide audit. “There’s a dead cat The audits are serving a clear effort as well. In April, Logan and own pick to take over a post-elec- ues to be a target of those who can- on the end of this line, and we just political purpose in firing up the another cybersecurity expert tion audit of a statehouse race in not accept the results from last want to find out what it is, that’s Republican Party’s base. At a rally involved in the Arizona audit, Ben Windham, New Hampshire — home year’s election. The votes have all,” Jones said. “People have a outside Phoenix last week featuring Cotton, filed separate expert wit- of former Trump campaign manag- been counted multiple times, right to know. What are you hid- GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjo- ness reports alleging security prob- er Corey Lewandowski. including a hand recount, and no ing?” rie Taylor Greene, references to lems in voting machines in a law- But the biggest new entry into evidence of fraud has been found.” That’s the sort of sentiment that the Arizona audit drew much more suit filed in rural Antrim County, the audit field is in Georgia’s Fulton Both sides are scheduled to meet alarms Tammy Patrick, who used to enthusiastic applause than even Michigan, that sought to compel a County, where a judge on Friday Friday to discuss how to review the oversee post-election audits in Mar- immigration, normally the top hot- statewide election audit there. That ruled that plaintiffs could inspect mail ballots. Favorito said Jovan icopa County. Those examinations button issue on the right in the bor- case was dismissed by a judge last 147,000 mail ballots as part of their Pulitzer, an inventor and key figure are essential, she argued, but must der state. week — one of more than 60 court lawsuit alleging fraud in the most in the pro-Trump movement to be done by election experts, not In a statement Monday night, losses for pro-Trump groups in law- populous county in the state. overturn the 2020 election, may be ideologically interested novices, Trump criticized Republican Party suits challenging the 2020 election. The lawsuit was spearheaded by one of the people he consults for and should be completed soon after leaders for not doing more about But Logan’s and Cotton’s claims Garland Favorito, a longtime skep- the ballot examination. voting. “what went on” in November. He were used by a Michigan attorney tic of Georgia’s voting systems who Pulitzer had pushed unsuccess- “In a healthy democracy, you cited the ballot reviews underway to bolster the case for a “forensic has embraced conspiracy theories fully for a statewide audit of Geor- have a an auditing process, you and promised “more to follow.” audit” of voting machines in rural about 9/11, Clinton-era scandal and gia’s election results, even after have legal recourse, and when that The Arizona audit has been cited Cheboygan County, in northern Supreme Court justices. Favorito two recounts by the Republican period is over, all the candidates as a template for the others, Michigan, earlier this month. says he voted for Don Blankenship, secretary of state confirmed that who have won take over and you although each is distinct. In Arizo- “If you don’t have your vote the U.S. Constitution Party candi- Biden won the state. That finding move on,” said Patrick, an adviser na, the Republican-controlled state counted as it was intended to count, date, last year. infuriated Trump, who has at The Democracy Fund, adding Senate subpoenaed more than 2 we don’t have a free country,” “Our ultimate objective is the slammed both Secretary of State that the people calling for audits million ballots and voting attorney Stefanie Lambert, who had truth. What is the truth of this elec- Brad Raffensperger and the state’s clearly want only one result. machines from Arizona’s most pop- filed an appeal of the dismissal of a tion?” Favorito said in an interview. Republican governor, Brian Kemp. “They are not going to be satis- ulous county, which includes Phoe- separate, unsuccessful lawsuit “Don’t tell us what the results are Former state Rep. Vernon Jones, fied,” Patrick said. “This is just nix, and gave control of the review challenging Trump’s loss in Michi- and then hide it from us and pre- a Trump backer who is challenging going to play out in perpetuity.”

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SILVER SPRING, Md. expectations index, based (AP) — Consumer confi- on consumers’ short-term now faces crucial assessment dence ticked down slightly views for income, business in May but remains nearly and the job market, fell to WASHINGTON (AP) — from Senate Republicans as high as its been since the 99.1 in May, from 107.9 in President Joe Biden’s infra- after a core group of GOP pandemic began. April. structure plan is hitting negotiators rejected his lat- The Conference Board Consumers’ expectations roadblocks. A policing over- est $1.7 trillion proposal, reported Tuesday that its for the future may be less haul after the killing of leaving the fragile talks on a consumer confidence index bright because the tailwind George Floyd is up in the air. compromise at a standstill. fell to 117.2 from April’s from Americans spending Even a seemingly bipartisan White House Press Secre- 117.5 reading, the highest their $1,400 stimulus checks effort to investigate the Jan. tary Jen Psaki said the presi- level since February of could be fading. Earlier this 6 insurrection at the Capitol dent is “eager to engage” and 2020, just before the pan- m o n t h , t h e C o m m e r c e faces the blockade of Repub- would welcome more talks demic began. Department reported that lican opposition in Congress. with the senators. But she The present situation retail sales in the U.S. flat- It’s a pivotal time for many said the Republicans have “a index, based on consumers tened out in April after aspects of Biden’s ambitious ways more to go” to find assessment of current busi- soaring in March, when agenda. Rounding the first AP common ground. Biden ness and labor market con- many Americans received quarter of his presidency, the Members of the Michigan National Guard join the U.S. Cap- dropped $500 billion from his ditions, rose to 144.3 from those government checks White House and Congress itol Police to keep watch over the Capitol grounds in Wash- initial $2.3 trillion offer, and 131.9. Although the percent- and boosted their spending. have been unable to meet key ington on March 3, in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection by Psaki said the Republicans age of consumers surveyed Economists have said that Memorial Day deadlines set a mob loyal to former President Donald Trump. raised their $568 billion claiming that business con- rising confidence should by the administration on cru- offer by about $50 billion. ditions are “good” fell bolster overall economic cial priorities. with Democrats if no prog- factors to heart as Biden Republicans have rejected slightly from 19.4% to growth as consumers, who While lawmakers quickly ress is made over the next makes his case to the public Biden’s plan to pay for the 18.7%, those claiming condi- account for 70% of econom- approved Biden’s $1.9 trillion week. Biden’s allies in the and conducts extensive out- road and broadband spending tions are “bad” declined ic activity, spend more as COVID-19 rescue package House and Senate are prepar- reach for his agenda on Capi- with a corporate tax increase. more, from 24.5% in April lockdown restrictions are and senators confirmed the ing for all scenarios. tol Hill. “The ball is in the Republi- to 21.8% in May. eased or abandoned alto- top ranks of the administra- “This is going to feel like a The administration is sig- cans’ court,” Psaki said at the Consumers’ assessment of gether in many places. tion with Biden’s nominees, tightrope walk all the way naling that it’s important not White House briefing. the labor market also Recent government data the next legislative priorities until it gets to Biden’s desk,” just whether Biden can push At the same time, key con- improved as the percentage shows that the nation’s on the White House’s agenda said Jim Kessler, executive his infrastructure and other gressional negotiators are of consumers saying jobs gross domestic product — will be a longer slog. vice president of Third Way, proposals into law, but how working behind the scenes on are “plentiful” climbed its total output of goods and The sweeping infrastruc- a centrist think tank. he does it. By this reasoning, a bipartisan police overhaul from 36.3% to 46.8%. Those services — is expected to ture investment, in particu- Presidents are often judged voters — and some moderate in response to a nationwide saying that jobs are hard to continue to rise. Following a lar, faces a crucial moment: not only by the goals they Democratic lawmakers — reassessment of law enforce- get fell to 12.2% from 4.3% gain in the fourth The White House is assessing achieved, but whether their are more likely to be on ment practices sparked by 1 4 . 7 % . U n e m p l o y m e n t quarter of 2020, the govern- whether the president can proposals were popular with board if Biden at least tries Floyd’s death a year ago claims have fallen to pan- ment’s first estimate of the strike a bipartisan deal with the public and the leadership for bipartisanship. 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Sports Page 7, Livingston Enterprise Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Jokic scores 38, Nuggets beat Blazers to even series DENVER (AP) — Nikola A change of plans at half- scored 54-32 in the paint, and things like that, which Jokic and the Denver Nug- time helped slow down Lil- 16-4 in fast-break points and once again was expected,” gets played with an unspo- lard. Denver put the 6-foot-9 21-4 in second-chance points. Lillard said. “Obviously, we ken sense of urgency. Aaron Gordon on the 6-2 “They outplayed us top to didn’t allow that to happen “Because if you’re going to guard. bottom — other than Dame’s on purpose. But that’s what talk about it, you’re not “I looked at the coaching (42),” Blazers coach Terry happens.” going to do it,” the big man staff and said, ‘I got him,’” Stotts said. “We have to be reasoned. said Gordon, who was more aggressive, there’s no TIP-INS So no talk, just a much acquired from Orlando in question.” Trail Blazers: Nurkic more physical mentality. late March. “It could be a While Lillard lit it up — fouled out on a charge with Jokic scored 38 points to point guard or it could be a and McCollum added 21 — 9:58 remaining. The Blazers overcome a 3-point shooting center — I’m there for it all.” the Nuggets kept Anthony unsuccessfully challenged barrage from Damian Lillard Lillard’s already thinking (five points) and Anfernee the play. ... Lillard’s eight 3s and the Nuggets evened the ahead to Game 3 in Portland Simons (three) in check. matched the playoff mark first-round series by beating on Thursday and what he They hurt the Nuggets com- for a half held by Toronto’s the Portland Trail Blazers will do to counteract Gor- ing off the bench in the Vince Carter, who hit that 128-109 on Monday night in a don’s defensive tenacity. series opener with a com- many in the first half against chippy Game 2. “Just moving around more bined 32 points. Philadelphia on May 11, “ T h e y p i c k e d u p t h e off the ball, getting some The game turned physical 2001. ... Lillard had 10 aggressiveness and we did it, more off-ball sets,” Lillard early in the first, with Jusuf assists. too,” Jokic said. “We met said. “Things like that, you Nurkic and Jokic getting tan- Nuggets: G/F Will Barton their aggressiveness, maybe can typically get a little bit gled up and Jokic falling to (right hamstring) missed his even a little bit higher.” of space.” the floor. At the next time- 15th consecutive game. ... G Jokic also had eight It was a physical affair, out, the teams started jawing Jamal Murray once again rebounds and five assists, with four technical fouls near midcourt, leading to played the role of enthusias- which was four more than he being issued (three on Den- technical on Porter and Port- tic cheerleader on the bench dished out in Game 1 when ver, including one on Jokic) land assistant coach Nate as he recovers from a torn the Blazers made sure the and two flagrant-1 calls (CJ Tibbetts. ACL. big man didn’t beat him with McCollum and Carmelo AP The tempers escalated as his pinpoint passing. Anthony). Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard (0) glances over Anthony pushed Jokic down NO COMPARISON The third-seeded Nuggets “It was chippy and that’s his shoulder as he shoots against Denver Nuggets forward and drew a flagrant-1 foul. The Blazers took a 1-0 had few answers for Lillard the way it should be,” Nug- Aaron Gordon (50) in the first quarter of Game 2 of a first- Just when things began to series lead last season on the early on as the dynamic gets coach Michael Malone round NBA basketball playoff series Monday. settle down, Morris picked eventual NBA-champion Los playmaker scored 32 of his said. “I loved it. That’s my up a technical right after the Angeles Lakers, before los- 42 points in the first half. kind of game right there.” sealed the win with a 3-point- 3-point range after going halftime horn. Lillard shot ing in five games. His eight 3-pointers before Up by 20 points midway er. Monte Morris also had a 1-of-10 from long distance in the free throw to start the “We really don’t make any intermission tied an NBA through the fourth quarter, big block on Lillard. Game 1. second half. comparisons to last year,” playoff record for most in a the Nuggets withstood a Michael Porter Jr. found The usually sure-handed “They just brought energy Stotts said. “Denver’s a dif- half. Lillard finished 9 of 16 mini-rally from Portland his rhythm and finished with Blazers committed 21 turn- to the game with that physi- ferent team than the Lak- from 3-point range. before Facundo Campazzo 18 points. He was 3-of-6 from overs. They also were out- cality and the deflections ers.”

Gomber pitches Colo. Rockies past Mets 3-2 for the team’s third road win NEW YORK (AP) — The Colorado will improve offensively on the ting .189 in his first season with the Rockies wanted to make sure they road,” Black said. Mets. didn’t fall flat again when they got Colorado went 5 for 27 with two Cameron Maybin, who moved back to sea level. homers against the Mets, and Gar- from right field to take over from Having started 2-17 on the road rett Hampson boosted the lead to Fargas in center, went 0 for 3 and is and 16-12 in the thin air at mile-high 3-0 with an RBI triple in the fourth 0 for 19 this year — seven hitless at- Coors Field, they began batting that sent rookie Johneshwy Fargas bats short of the Mets’ franchise- practice more than five hours crashing into the outfield wall in an worst start by Charley Smith in before Monday night’s game at Citi unsuccessful attempt to make the 1964. Field — elevation 13 feet. catch. Peterson (1-4) gave up both home Ryan McMahon and Elias Díaz A 27-year-old left-hander who was runs on poor sliders and dropped to responded with second-inning solo among five players obtained from 0-3 in seven starts since beating home runs off David Peterson, Aus- St. Louis in the Feb. 1 trade that Philadelphia on April 14. He permit- tin Gomber pitched two-hit ball sent star third baseman Nolan Are- ted three runs and five hits in six through eight innings and the nado to the Cardinals, Gomber (3-4) innings. Rockies provided one of their better struck out a career-high eight and “For us,” Peterson said, “it’s next road shows, beating the banged-up walked none, throwing 28 change- man up.” New York Mets 3-2. ups among 103 pitches. “We got a machine out there. We Gomber gave up Jonathan Villar’s MOVES spun breaking balls. We threw four- single leading off the fourth and Colorado claimed INF Rio Ruiz seam fastballs, hard sliders, hard James McCann’s two-out homer in off waivers from the Baltimore Ori- curveballs to have the guys see spin the seventh. Pitching past the sev- AP oles and designated INF/OF Bret early, just get the background of enth inning for the first time, he Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Austin Gomber (26) winds up during Boswell for assignment. Citi Field,” manager Bud Black allowed pinch-hitter Brandon the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Monday. said, “and conversation really about Drury’s first Mets home run lead- TRAINER’S ROOM mentally going from Denver to New ing off the ninth and Patrick Mazei- Mets: 3B J.D. Davis (sprained left York — or Denver to anywhere.” ka’s single. sent for tests. first time in 994 professional hand) will likely play at least three Colorado was coming off a week- Gomber started a trip opener for “It’s challenging, man. These games, and the longtime catcher’s more rehab games, including one at end three-game sweep of Arizona, the fourth time following two losses things keep happening,” Mets man- first play was a nose-first dive into first base, before returning. ... 1B but the Rockies’ road record was in San Francisco and one in St. Lou- ager Luis Rojas said. “We react in the infield dirt for a backhand snare Pete Alonso (sprained right hand) the worst for any team at a season’s is. the moment, saying, like, oh, not on Josh Fuentes’ hard three-hopper was to swing with two hands Mon- start since the 2006 Kansas City “I haven’t gotten us off to a good again.” in the second inning. The bill of his day and also will have at least one Royals. Colorado was on track to start,” he said. “Things are starting New York lost its third straight cap bent, McCann got to his knees rehab appearance before returning, break the record-low .167 road win- to move in the right direction, just and was so short of players Rojas and threw to Peterson covering possibly next week. ning percentage of the 1935 Boston keep that going, get us off to a good said pitchers were told to get ready first, just in time for the out. Braves at 13-65. The Rockies had start, so hopefully we can carry that to play the field if the game reached McCann had not played first since UP NEXT been 0-4 on the road against left- momentum the rest of the trip.” extra innings. NL East-leading New his junior year in college for Arkan- Mets RHP Jacob deGrom (3-2, handed starters. Carlos Estévez got three straight York already had a major league- sas, at Memphis on March 23, 2011. 0.68 ERA) makes his first start Road stats included major league outs for his second save, with closer high 16 players on the injured list “I joked with some of the guys since May 9 following a bout with lows of a .208 batting average, 58 Brad Hand unavailable after throw- and said right-hander Jordan Yama- and said I haven’t felt these kind of right side tightness that sent him to runs and 11 homers, down from .267 ing 27 pitches Sunday. moto was set to be added on Tues- jitters in a while,” McCann said. the injured list. LHP Kyle Freeland with 165 runs and 37 homers at Fargas, the Mets’ fourth-string day. Francisco Lindor went 0 for 4 is set to make his season debut for Coors. center fielder after injuries to “Anybody want to suit up?” Mets with two strikeouts and a double- the Rockies after recovering from a “The guys I think showed some Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Pillar and owner Steve Cohen tweeted in the play grounder and was repeatedly strained pitching shoulder that had incremental toughness through our Albert Almora Jr., sprained the AC seventh inning. booed by the crowd of 8,438 at Citi sidelined him since his spring train- conversations and hopefully things joint in his left shoulder and was McCann played first base for the Field. The four-time All-Star is hit- ing start on March 23. Alex Ovechkin confident he will sign extension with Capitals ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Asked when he might sign, because of work stoppages “When you think of the Alex Ovechkin said Tuesday Ovechkin joked, “Maybe we and the pandemic, Ovechkin Washington Capitals, you he is confident he will sign an sign contract right now” after said there are still chances to think of Alex Ovechkin,” extension and play again next going through exit interviews. chase that mark. The 16-year wingerT.J. Oshie said. season for the Washington He and the Capitals were NHL veteran turns 36 in Sep- Ovechkin said a leg injury Capitals franchise he led to eliminated by the Boston Bru- tember. caused him to miss seven of the Stanley Cup in 2018. ins in five games, losing in the Ovechkin said he still loves eight games late in the season AP The longtime captain’s $124 first round of the playoffs for the game and wants to keep and it will keep him from join- Maryland head coach Brenda Frese looks on during the million, 13-year contract the third consecutive year playing hockey as long as he ing Russia for the world first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Penn expires this summer. He said since winning the team’s first can. championships in Latvia. State in College Park, Md., on March 6. he has spoken with owner Ted championship. Teammates said they’d be Ovechkin said it didn’t ham- Leonsis, who was also behind The Russian winger is sixth surprised if Ovechkin isn’t per him in the playoffs and the last contract. on the NHL’s career goal list back. won’t require surgery. Md. extends women’s basketball “We have time,” Ovechkin with 730, 164 behind of said. “I want to finish my Wayne Gretzky’s record. coach Brenda Frese’s contract career here.” Despite losing several games COLLEGE PARK, Md. championship team, but still (AP) — Maryland women’s went 26-3 and won the con- basketball coach Brenda ference for the sixth time in Frese agreed to a contract its seven years in the league extension that could keep in 2021. The Terrapins her at the school through reached the Sweet 16 at the 2027-28. NCAAs. Maryland athletic direc- Frese is the winningest t o r D a m o n E v a n s coach in Maryland women’s announced the deal with basketball history, surpass- The Associated Press wom- ing 500 victories this sea- en’s basketball coach of the son, and is 512-131 at the year on Tuesday. school, a .796 winning per- Frese’s contract now runs centage. at least through the 2026-27 She is 569-161 overall as a season. If she is still with college head coach, includ- the Terrapins in May 2023, ing previous stints at Min- an additional year would be nesota and Ball State. added to the agreement. In March, Frese was hon- Frese led Maryland to the ored as AP coach of the 2006 NCAA championship year for the second time. and has been to the tourna- Geno Auriemma, Muffet ment in 17 of her 19 years McGraw and Kim Mulkey AP as its coach. are the only other women’s Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin warms up Maryland lost five start- basketball coaches to win before Game 5 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round ers from last year’s Big Ten the award more than once. playoff series against the Boston Bruins, Sunday.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — rent state and prospects of Putin was “a killer.” President Joe Biden will hold the Russian-U.S. relations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry a summit with Russian Presi- strategic stability issues and Peskov said that Biden’s com- dent Vladimir Putin next the acute problems on the ment demonstrated he “defi- month in Geneva, a face-to- international agenda, includ- nitely does not want to face meeting between the two ing interaction in dealing improve relations” with Rus- leaders that comes amid with the coronavirus pandem- sia and that relations between escalating tensions between ic and settlement of regional the countries were “very the U.S. and Russia in the conflicts.” bad.” first months of the Biden The White House has Geneva, a rich, if mid-size, administration. repeatedly said it is seeking a city on the banks of Lake The White House con- “stable and predictable” rela- Geneva, offers bucolic vistas firmed details of the summit tionship with the Russians, of the Mont Blanc peak — the on Tuesday. The two leaders’ while also calling out Putin on highest in Western Europe — meeting, set for June 16, is allegations that the Russians and a reputation as both a being tacked on to the end of interfered in last year’s U.S. hub for international institu- Biden’s first international presidential election and that tions and an icon of Switzer- trip as president next month the Kremlin was behind a land’s much ballyhooed neu- when he visits Britain for a hacking campaign — com- trality. meeting of Group of Seven monly referred to as the Geneva became a leading leaders and Brussels for the SolarWinds breach — in crossroads of diplomacy in NATO summit. which Russian hackers the postwar years of Cold “The leaders will discuss infected widely used soft- AP War intrigue, an intersection the full range of pressing ware with malicious code, Then Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir where the Soviet-dominated issues, as we seek to restore enabling them to access the Putin in Moscow, Russia, on March 10, 2011. Eastern bloc met the Ameri- predictability and stability to networks of at least nine U.S. can-styled capitalist West. the U.S.-Russia relationship,” agencies. Last month, the administra- During his campaign for would be taking a radically The city last hosted Ameri- White House press secretary The Biden administration tion announced it was expel- the White House, Biden different approach to Russia can and Russian leaders in Jen Psaki said in a statement has also criticized Russia for ling 10 Russian diplomats and described Russia as the “big- than Trump. 1985, when President Ronald announcing the summit. the arrest and jailing of oppo- sanctioning dozens of Russia gest threat” to U.S. security “I made it clear to Presi- Reagan met Mikhail Gor- Biden first proposed a sum- sition leader Alexei Navalny companies and individuals in and alliances, and he dispar- dent Putin, in a manner very bachev -- a summit consid- mit in a call with Putin in and publicly acknowledged response to the SolarWinds aged his predecessor Presi- different from my predeces- ered short on substance but April as his administration that it has low to moderate hack and election interfer- dent Donald Trump for his sor, that the days of the Unit- critical in breaking the ice prepared to levy sanctions confidence that Russian ence allegations. cozy relationship with Putin. ed States rolling over in the between East and West and against Russian officials for agents were offering boun- But even as Biden moved Trump avoided direct con- face of Russia’s aggressive fostering what would become the second time during the ties to the Taliban to attack forward with the latest round frontation with Putin and actions — interfering with mostly friendly relations first three months of his U.S. troops in Afghanistan. of sanctions, he acknowl- often sought to downplay the our election, cyber attacks, between the two men through presidency. The Biden administration edged that he held back on Russian leader’s malign poisoning its citizens — are their tenures. White House officials said announced sanctions in taking tougher action — an actions. Their sole summit, over,” said Biden, who last A Biden-Putin meeting earlier this week that they March against several mid- attempt to send the message held in July 2018 in Helsinki, week spoke to Putin in what there could revive the reputa- were ironing out details for level and senior Russian offi- to Putin that he still held hope was marked by Trump’s White House officials called a tion of the city as a hub for the summit. National security cials, along with more than a that the U.S. and Russia could refusal to side with U.S. intel- tense first exchange. “We will international diplomacy, a far adviser Jake Sullivan dis- dozen businesses and other come to an understanding for ligences agencies over not hesitate to raise the cost cry from the Trump adminis- cussed details of the meeting entities, over a nearly fatal the rules of the game in their Putin’s denials of Russian on Russia and defend our tration, which largely when he met with his Russian nerve-agent attack on Naval- adversarial relationship. interference in the 2016 elec- vital interests and our peo- shunned its globalist institu- counterpart, Nikolay Patrush- ny in August 2020 and his In fact, he brought up the tion. ple.” tions like the World Trade ev. subsequent jailing. Navlany idea of holding a third-coun- Weeks into his presidency, In March, Biden in an ABC Organization and the World The Kremlin, in is own returned to Russia days try summit in an April 13 call Biden said in an address News interview responded Health Organization. Biden’s statement announcing the before Biden’s Jan. 20 inau- in which he notified Putin before State Department affirmatively when asked by administration has re- meeting, said that the presi- guration and was quickly that a second round of sanc- employees that he told Putin interviewer George Stepha- engaged with both of those dents will discuss “the cur- arrested. tions was coming. in their first call that he nopoulos whether he thought organizations.

Floyd family meets with President NEWS BRIEFS

Biden as Congress mulls bill on police Moderna says its COVID-19 shot WASHINGTON (AP) — The anniversa- works in kids as young as 12 ry of George Floyd’s death was supposed (AP) — Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine to a milestone moment, a time to cele- strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put brate passage of legislation to “root out the shot on track to become the second option for that age systemic racism” in the criminal justice group in the U.S. system, in the words of President Joe With global vaccine supplies still tight, much of the world Biden. Instead, Floyd’s family visited is struggling to vaccinate adults in the quest to end the pan- Washington on Tuesday to mourn with demic. But earlier this month, the U.S. and Canada autho- Biden and prod legislators to act as they rized another vaccine — the shot made by Pfizer and BioN- commemorate the loss of their brother, Tech — to be used starting at age 12. father and son one year ago. Moderna aims to be next in line, saying it will submit its Floyd’s death sparked a global reckon- teen data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and oth- ing over racism and growing calls for er global regulators early next month. police reform, but a legislative response has been elusive. Still, congressional negotiators remain optimistic about the prospects for a bill, and say they’ve Stephen Colbert says he’s going made progress toward an agreement this week. back before live audiences It’s a high-profile legislative fight NEW YORK (AP) — In one more step toward a reopened where Biden has notably taken a back entertainment world, CBS said Monday that Stephen Col- seat, preferring to leave the work of bert’s late-night show will return on June 14 to episodes with AP crafting a compromise to lawmakers on a full studio audience. Capitol Hill, in contrast to his fevered George Floyd’s sister, Bridgett Floyd, addresses a rally in downtown Minneapo- Audience members will have to provide proof that they advocacy, both public and private, for his lis, Sunday. At left is attorney Ben Crump. At right is the Rev. Al Sharpton. have been vaccinated against COVID-19 before attending infrastructure bill and the COVID-19 shows at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater. Face masks will relief package. called on Biden to “reiterate that we law enforcement against civil lawsuits, be optional. The Floyd family will have multiple need to get it passed.” as well as create national standards for Since the COVID shutdown in March 2020, Colbert has opportunities to weigh in on the congres- It’s in line with the sentiment shared policing in a bid to bolster accountability. produced 205 episodes without a live audience, taping his sional efforts Tuesday. In addition to by many criminal justice advocates, who It passed the House in March, but faces a first monologue from the bathtub of his South Carolina their visit to the White House, the Floyd say the onus is on Congress, not the pres- much tougher road in the evenly-divided home. In August, he moved to a small studio at the Sullivan family was meeting with House Speaker ident, to act. Senate. Theater offices, usually only with the show’s executive pro- Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Karen Bass, the “It’s absolutely vital that members of On Monday, White House press secre- ducer, stage manager and occasionally Colbert’s wife watch- lead House negotiator on the policing Congress put partisan politics aside and tary Jen Psaki said that the White House ing. bill, as well as key senators. pass meaningful reform to hold police still sees the George Floyd Act as the While Biden set the anniversary of officers responsible who act outside of appropriate vessel for police reform. She Floyd’s death as the initial deadline for their oath to protect and defend,” said added, “What we’ve seen from the nego- Suspect arrested in South Florida legislation to reach his desk, the issue of Wade Henderson, interim president and tiators — and we’ve been in close touch police reform is a particularly politically CEO of The Leadership Conference on with the negotiators as well — is that synagogue harassment thorny one. Congressional negotiators Civil and Human Rights, in a statement they still feel there is progress being HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Police have arrested have struggled to find a compromise that to the AP. made.” a man who they say yelled antisemitic remarks at a rabbi can make it through an evenly-divided Floyd died on May 25, 2020 after for- White House advisers say Biden and and dumped a bag of human feces in front of a South Florida Senate. mer Minneapolis police officer Derek his team have been in frequent touch synagogue. Still, speaking on Tuesday on CNN, Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more with Capitol Hill negotiators over the Hallandale Beach police arrested Jeffrey Carl Fleming on Philonese Floyd, Floyd’s brother, than nine minutes, while Floyd repeated- legislation, but that this is an issue in Monday on charges of felony stalking with a hate crime expressed optimism at the chances for ly said he couldn’t breathe. His death which a high-profile public campaign by enhancement and littering human waste. He was being held an eventual bill to pass the Senate. “I sparked months of nationwide protests the president may do more harm than Tuesday morning without bond at the Broward County Jail. think things have changed. I think it is focused on systemic racism and a good, because of the political challenges Details on his arrest were not released. moving slowly but we are making prog- renewed debate over police reform in surrounding the bill. ress,” he said. the U.S. Chauvin was convicted last The biggest point of contention He spoke, too, to the gravity of the day month on multiple charges stemming remains the issue of ending qualified for the Floyd family, saying his sister from Floyd’s death. immunity, which shields officers from had called him just past midnight to tell The George Floyd Justice in Policing legal action taken by victims and their him, “This is the day our brother left us.” Act would ban chokeholds by federal families for alleged civil rights viola- Ben Crump, the Floyd family’s lawyer officers and end qualified immunity for tions. Flight attendant loses 2 teeth in assault by passenger DALLAS (AP) — A South- ignored standard inflight masks, which are required ber of passengers are west Airlines flight atten- instructions and became by federal rule. The FAA becoming bolder in challeng- dant was assaulted by a pas- verbally and physically abu- provided those numbers as it ing the authority of crew senger and lost two teeth in sive upon landing,” said the announced it was seeking members. the attack last weekend, spokesman, Chris Mainz. He civil penalties totaling Montgomery, the president according to a union presi- said police were asked to $54,500 against five passen- of Local 556 of the Transport dent, who complained to the meet the plane when it gers for behavior ranging Workers Union, wrote about airline’s CEO about unruly arrived in San Diego, and from refusing to wear a the weekend attack in a let- passengers. the passenger was taken into mask to assaulting flight ter to Southwest CEO Gary “Unfortunately, this is just custody. attendants. Kelly. one of many occurrences,” Neither the passenger nor “I’ve been in the industry Montgomery asked Kelly said the union president, Lyn the flight attendant were since 1992, and this is the to lobby federal officials for Montgomery. She said there identified. The flight atten- worst ever,” Montgomery more federal air marshals were 477 incidents of “mis- dant went to a hospital for said in an interview. “People on flights and to ban passen- conduct” by passengers on treatment and was later seem to be more angry. gers who violate rules Southwest planes between released. Southwest flew a When they’re asked to do instead of putting them on April 8 and May 15. friend to San Diego to be something, compliance another flight. She said A Southwest spokesman with her. seems to be more difficult.” flight attendants are con- said Tuesday that the inci- The Federal Aviation Southwest and most air- cerned about Southwest’s dent happened Sunday morn- Administration said Monday lines train flight attendants plan to resume selling alco- ing after a flight from Sac- that airlines have reported to de-escalate tense situa- hol on board planes. Many ramento landed in San Diego 2,500 incidents of unruly tions with unhappy travel- recent cases that have and involved a female pas- passengers this year, includ- ers. Montgomery said those caught FAA’s attention senger. ing 1,900 cases in which pas- tactics are growing less involving passengers who “The passenger repeatedly sengers refused to wear face effective and a small num- were drinking.

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Ap- tions in order to attend or partic- or call 406-209-2403 (Katie) ply in person at 91 Swingley with any questions. Classified liner ads with ipate in the hearing should con- Rd. tact the Commission at (406) typos (errors) are the 444-6170. The Commission will IT PAYS to look in the Liv- hELP WANTED for farm make every effort to assist in ingston Enterprise Clas- chores, events such as responsibility of the Liv- accommodations for individuals. sifieds. “The best sales farmers market etc. Please ingston Enterprise the The Commission’s jurisdiction person around.” 222-2000. Call 220-2122. over this matter is provided in first day only. Call 222- Title 69, Chapter 3 of the Mon- 2000 to notify us of the tana Code Annotated; Title 38, Chapters 2 and 5 of the Montana The Livingston Enterprise has a full time position mistake. We will make Administrative Rules, and any open in the bindery and inserting department. This posi- the correction and prior orders of the Commission relevant to the issues presented. tion requires mechanical and computer skills. Must pos- place the ad an addi- DONE AND DATED this 21st sess driver’s license and be able to work various shifts. tional day at no charge. day of May, 2021. Duties will include operating inserting equipment, learn- Ads that continue to BY THE MONTANA PUBLIC ing the bindery process of the newspaper business, run with errors are the SERVICE COMMISSION some driving for deliveries if necessary. General duties in the mailroom as assigned by supervisor, handling fly- responsibility of the JAMES BROWN, This is a number-placing puzzle based Chairman ers, learning to operate fork lifts, and maintenance of on a 9x9 grid with several given advertiser. Additional BRAD JOHNSON, equipment. numbers. The object is to place the placement of the ad at Vice Chairman You may pick up an application at 401 S. 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Page 11, Livingston Enterprise Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Belarus facing sanctions after plane diversion BRUSSELS (AP) — The European flights operated by such airlines.” Union agreed Monday to impose In addition calling for the release sanctions on Belarus, including of Pratasevich, they also urged banning its airlines from using the authorities in Minsk to free his airspace and airports of the Russian girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, 27-nation bloc, amid fury over the who was taken off the plane with forced diversion of a passenger jet him. to arrest an opposition journalist. The text was endorsed quickly by Reacting to what EU leaders the leaders who were determined called a brazen “hijacking” of the to respond with a “strong reaction” Ryanair jetliner flying from to the incident because of the “seri- Greece to Lithuania on Sunday, ous endangering of aviation safety they also demanded the immediate and passengers on board by Belar- release of the journalist, Raman ussian authorities,” said an EU offi- Pratasevich, a key foe of authori- cial with direct knowledge of the tarian Belarusian President Alex- discussions who was not authorized ander Lukashenko. to speak publicly about the private “We won’t tolerate that one can talks. try to play Russian roulette with At least one European airline the lives of innocent civilians,” said already diverted a flight around EU Council chief Charles Michel, Belarus. British Airways flight who presided over the EU meeting. 3599, which on Saturday and Sun- A brief video clip of Pratasevich, day crossed over Belarus, who ran a popular messaging app bypassed the country Monday by that played a key role in helping using Russian airspace instead, organize huge protests against according to the website Flightra- Lukashenko, was shown on Belaru- dar24. sian state television Monday night, Ryanair said Belarusian flight a day after he was removed from controllers told the crew there was AP the Ryanair flight. a bomb threat against the plane as Protesters hold up paper planes during a demonstration of Belarusians living in Poland and Poles supporting Sitting at a table with his hands it was crossing through Belarus them in front of European Commission office in Warsaw demanding freedom for Belarus opposition activist folded in front of him and speaking airspace Sunday and ordered it to Raman Protasevich in Warsaw, Poland, Monday. rapidly, Pratasevich said he was in land. A Belarusian MiG-29 fighter satisfactory health and said his jet was scrambled to escort the ior needs a strong answer.” unjustly detained by the Lukashen- plane, which was flying between treatment in custody was “maxi- plane in a brazen show of force by Von der Leyen added that a 3 bil- ka regime,” Biden’s statement said. two of the bloc’s member nations mally correct and according to Lukashenko, who has ruled the lion EU investment and economic White House press secretary Jen and was being operated by an air- law.” He added that he was giving country with an iron fist for over a package for Belarus will remain on Psaki said earlier that National line based in Ireland, also a mem- evidence to investigators about quarter-century. hold until Belarus “turns democrat- Security adviser Jake Sullivan ber. organizing mass disturbances. Belarus authorities then arrested ic.” raised the issue in a call with the EU leaders have tried to bring In their unusually swift action in the 26-year-old activist, journalist U.S. President Joe Biden said late secretary of the Russian Security Belarus closer to the bloc — to Brussels, the EU leaders also and prominent Lukashenko critic. Monday that he asked his team to Council. encourage democratic reforms and urged all EU-based carriers to Pratasevich and his Russian girl- develop appropriate options to hold Two U.S. senators urged the reduce the influence of Russia — avoid flying over Belarus, decided friend were taken off the plane accountable those responsible, in Biden administration to prohibit but have failed so far. to impose sanctions on officials shortly after it landed, and authori- close coordination with the Europe- U.S. airlines from entering Belarus British Transport Secretary linked to Sunday’s flight diversion, ties haven’t said where they’re an Union, other allies and partners, airspace because of the incident. Grant Shapps said he instructed and urged the International Civil being held. Ryanair Flight FR4978, and international organizations. “We must protect innocent passen- the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority Aviation Organization to start an which began in Athens, Greece, “This outrageous incident and the gers from despotic regimes and “to request airlines avoid Belaru- investigation into what they viewed was eventually allowed to continue video Mr. Pratasevich appears to stand in solidarity with dissidents sian airspace in order to keep pas- as an unprecedented move and on to Vilnius, Lithuania. have made under duress are who are being targeted,” Sens. sengers safe.” He added he was what some said amounted to state “This is an attack on democracy,” shameful assaults on both political Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illi- suspending the permit allowing terrorism or piracy. said Ursula von der Leyen, the dissent and the freedom of the nois, and Marco Rubio, a Florida Belavia to operate in the U.K. The leaders called on their coun- president of the executive Europe- press. The United States joins Republican, said in a joint state- Ukraine President Volodymyr cil “to adopt the necessary mea- an Commission. “This is an attack countries around the world in call- ment. Zelenskyy ordered officials to sures to ban overflight of EU air- on freedom of expression. And this ing for his release, as well as for EU leaders were particularly move to cut the air link with Belar- space by Belarusian airlines and is an attack on European sover- the release of the hundreds of forceful in their condemnation of us and ban Ukrainian flights via prevent access to EU airports of eignty. And this outrageous behav- political prisoners who are being the arrest and the move against the the neighbor’s airspace. US warns against all travel to Japan as Olympics loom WASHINGTON (AP) — travel to Japan,” the Atlanta- American athletes will be That move came amid grow- U.S. health officials and the based Centers for Disease able to safely compete at the ing calls for the games to be State Department on Monday Control and Prevention said Tokyo Games. canceled. warned Americans against in a new COVID-19 update. “We feel confident that the Japanese Prime Minister travel to Japan because of a “Because of the current situ- current mitigation practices Yoshihide Suga is deter- surge in coronavirus cases in ation in Japan even fully vac- in place for athletes and mined to hold the Olympics the country, which is prepar- cinated travelers may be at staff by both the USOPC and in Tokyo beginning on July ing to host the Olympics in risk for getting and spread- the Tokyo Organizing Com- 23, after a one-year delay, just two months. ing COVID-19 variants and mittee, coupled with the test- and has made an ambitious The twin alerts don’t ban should avoid all travel to ing before travel, on arrival pledge to finish vaccinating U.S. citizens from visiting Japan.” in Japan, and during Games the country’s 36 million older the country, but they could The State Department’s time, will allow for safe par- people by the end of July. have an impact on insurance warning, which followed the ticipation of Team USA ath- Japan has recorded just rates for travelers and may CDC alert, was more blunt. letes this summer,” the com- over 12,000 COVID-19 deaths factor into decisions by “Do not travel to Japan due mittee said in a statement — good by global standards, Olympic athletes and specta- to COVID-19,” it said in the Monday. but poor in Asia — but Tokyo tors on whether to compete announcement, which raised Earlier Monday, Japan and Osaka and several other in or attend the games, the department’s travel alert mobilized military doctors areas are under a state of which are due to start in from Level 3 — Reconsider and nurses to give shots to emergency until May 31 that July. There was no immedi- travel — to Level 4 — Do not older adults in two major cit- is likely to be extended. ate indication as to what travel. The previous alert ies, as the government tried There is fear of new vari- effect the warnings might was issued on April 21. desperately to accelerate its ants spreading, with only a AP have on would-be Olympic- The United States Olympic vaccination rollout and curb tiny percentage of the Japa- A man walks by posters promoting the Olympic Games goers. & Paralympic Committee coronavirus infections nese — estimated at 2% to planned to start in the summer of 2021, in Tokyo, Monday. “Travelers should avoid all said it still anticipates that before it hosts the Olympics. 4% — vaccinated. Mali’s president and prime minister are arrested by mutinous soldiers BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — release of President Bah action taken today carries the ruling military junta agreed state television hours later given for their exclusion, but Mutinous soldiers arrested N’Daw and Prime Minister risk of weakening the mobili- to hand over power to a civil- calling themselves the Nation- the move suggested mounting Mali’s transitional president Moctar Ouane, who were tak- zation of the international ian transitional government al Committee for the Salva- divisions within the transi- and prime minister Monday en to the Kati military head- community in support of under growing international tion of the People and promis- tional government. hours after a government quarters. Mali.” pressure. ing a swift return to civilian There has been widespread reshuffle left out two mem- Those who signed on to the The developments raised The junta had grabbed pow- rule. However, Monday’s concern the upheaval in Mali bers of the junta that had joint statement called for new alarm about whether the er a month earlier after muti- developments appeared to over the past year has further seized power in a coup nine Mali’s political transition “to transitional government nous soldiers encircled the throw that promise into ques- set back efforts to contain the months earlier, the African resume its course and con- would be able to move ahead home of President Ibrahim tion. militants linked to al-Qaida Union and United Nations clude within the established freely with plans to organize Boubacar Keita and fired The arrests came just an and the Islamic State groups. said. timeframe.” new democratic elections as shots into the air. He later hour or so after a new govern- Islamic extremists took con- A joint statement issued “The international commu- promised by next February in resigned on national televi- ment Cabinet was announced. trol of major towns in north- along with the West African nity rejects in advance any Mali, where the U.N. is spend- sion under duress, saying he Notably it did not include ern Mali after the 2012 coup. regional bloc known as act of coercion, including ing $1.2 billion a year on a did not want blood to be shed Interior Security Minister Only a 2013 military interven- ECOWAS and other members forced resignations,” the peacekeeping mission. in order for him to stay in Modibo Kone or Defense Min- tion led by the former colonial of the international communi- statement said. “They empha- The two leaders were sworn office. ister Sadio Camara, both junta power France pushed extrem- ty called for the immediate size that the ill-considered in last September after the The soldiers then went on supporters. No reason was ists out of those towns.

CORONAVIRUS HELPFUL TIPS FROM THE CDC Protests in Oman draw massive police response DUBAI, United Arab Emir- der from neighboring United ence, activists said online. ates (AP) — Scattered pro- Arab Emirates. That demonstration was tests in Oman over layoffs Other videos showed dem- acknowledged by Oman’s and poor economic condi- onstrators in Salalah, a city Labor Ministry in a tweet, tions drew a massive police some 525 miles southwest of which said it was aware of presence Monday in at least Muscat. people gathering there to try two cities in the sultanate, Similar scattered protests to “find new job vacancies with protesters throwing in Sohar on Sunday also and to solve the problems of stones at one point and police brought a mass police pres- those who were fired.” firing tear gas. Videos posted to social media show several dozen Omanis in the city of Sohar trailed by a long line of riot police vehicles. Other images appear to show a line of doz- stay away ens of officers in riot gear near a government labor office in the city, some 125 Put distance between yourself and other people (minimum miles northwest of the capital, Muscat. of 6 feet). This is especially important for people who are at higher risk of Other images appear to getting very sick. show Omanis fleeing smok- ing tear gas canisters and To learn more, visit www.cdc.gov. others being arrested by nightstick-wielding riot police. The images corre- spond to known landmarks PENNSYLVANIA around Sohar, the first major city people enter in the sul- ASSOCIATION tanate after crossing the bor- Weather Page 12, Livingston Enterprise Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Livingston Area 5-Day Forecast National Weather Tonight Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Forecast map for May 26, 2021

Showers Showers Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Precip Chance: 80% Precip Chance: 90% 42 57 39 72 48 66 38 67 41 Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds: 7-24 mph E 7-14 mph SSW 8-14 mph SSW 10-18 mph WSW 9-13 mph S Livingston Outlook Montana Weather Tonight, expect mostly cloudy skies with an 80 percent chance of showers, Libby Cut Bank Havre Glasgow overnight low of 42. East wind 7 to 24 45/71 40/55 40/53 38/53 mph. The record low temperature for tonight is 25 set in 1950. Kalispell Great Falls 44/62 44/55 Sidney 37/56 Livingston Statistics Missoula Lewistown As recorded through yesterday. 41/53 Glendive 46/61 Helena For latest weather updates: www.UpdatedWx.com/LE Temperatures 44/55 37/57 .High . . . .yesterday ...... 63...... Butte ...... Tomorrow Thursday Tomorrow Thursday LIVINGSTON .Low . . . .yesterday ...... 43...... 38/51 ...... Miles City City Hi Lo Wx Hi Lo Wx City Hi Lo Wx Hi Lo Wx 42/57 Billings .Record ...... high ...... 87 . . in. . 1988...... 42/59 Anchorage 63 47 s 62 46 pc Los Angeles 79 57 pc 74 58 pc Bozeman 47/59 .Record ...... low ...... 28 . . in. . 1989...... Atlanta 92 68 s 93 71 s New York 87 68 sh 86 60 s 42/58 Red Lodge Broadus Precipitation (as of 4 p.m.) Boston 91 68 pc 81 54 s Phoenix 99 71 pc 100 72 s West 42/53 43/69 .Yesterday ...... 0.00" ...... Chicago 83 54 t 59 50 sh Salt Lake City 72 50 s 81 57 s Yellowstone .Month . . . . . to. . date...... 2.14" ...... Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are Dallas 86 72 mc 87 73 mc Seattle 66 54 mc 59 51 ra 34/51 .Normal ...... for. . .month ...... 1.51" ...... tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. Denver 82 51 mc 76 52 pc Washington, D.C. 93 69 sh 89 64 pc .Year . . . .to . .date ...... 4.73" ...... Tomorrow Thursday Tomorrow Thursday Legend: Wx-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, cl-cloudy, sh-showers, .Normal ...... year. . . . to. . date...... 4.98" ...... City Hi Lo Wx Hi Lo Wx City Hi Lo Wx Hi Lo Wx t-thunderstorms, ra-rain, fl-flurries, rs-rain/snow, sn-snow, i-ice, w-windy, R-Record. .Average ...... Humidity ...... 45% ...... Belgrade ...... 58 . . .36 . . . sh. . . 72. . . . 44 . . . pc Havre 53 36 ra 69 46 pc .Barometer ...... (noon)...... 29.81" ...... (falling) ...... Billings ...... 59 . . .43 . . . sh. . . 71. . . . 49 . . . pc Helena 55 38 t 71 44 pc Wind Sock Bozeman 58 38 sh 70 46 pc Kalispell 63 43 sh 71 44 mc Sun? Rain? Snow? Wind? Peak gust for Butte 51 33 sh 64 40 mc Lewistown 53 37 sh 68 44 pc last 24 hours: Dillon 58 33 t 69 41 pc Miles City 59 41 t 60 43 sh 51 mph Glasgow 53 39 sh 60 41 mc Missoula 61 41 ra 74 44 mc (Recorded at Glendive 57 38 sh 56 39 sh Sidney 56 37 sh 57 36 sh Mission Field) Great Falls 55 39 sh 73 45 pc W. Yellowstone 51 29 t 61 33 s Yellowstone River Sun and Moon Moon Phases Depth...... (at . . Carter's . . . . . Bridge)...... 5.01. . . . ft...... Sunset ...... tonight...... 8:58...... p.m...... Full ...... Last ...... New...... First. . . . .Current ...... flow...... 8,420. . . . . ft3/sec...... Sunrise ...... tomorrow ...... 5:40...... a.m...... 77-year ...... average...... 9,320. . . . . ft3/sec...... Moonrise ...... tomorrow ...... 9:45...... p.m...... Don’t let the weather catch you by surprise. Check the weather in The Enterprise every day. .Temperature ...... 45...... Moonset ...... tomorrow ...... 5:48...... a.m...... 5/26 ...... 6/2...... 6/10 ...... 6/17. . . . Colo. supermarket shooting suspect heads back to court DENVER (AP) — A 22-year-old initial court hearing days after the briefed on the shooting previously shoppers and workers inside and ammunition magazines, devices man accused of fatally shooting 10 shooting, one of his lawyers, Kath- said that the suspect’s family told outside the store as well as one of banned in Colorado after previous people at a Colorado supermarket ryn Herold, said the defense legal investigators they believed Alissa the first three police officers who mass shootings. was set to appear in court Tuesday team needed two or three months to was suffering from some type of entered the store. Investigators have not released a for a hearing to discuss what will evaluate his “mental illness” and mental illness, including delusions. Alissa has also been charged with possible motive for the attack. Dis- happen next in the case. evidence collected by investigators The official was not authorized to attempted first-degree murder for trict Attorney Michael Dougherty The status hearing will be only before proceeding. She did not pro- speak publicly and spoke to The allegedly firing at 26 other people, has said there was no indication the second court appearance for vide any details about his mental Associated Press on condition of including 11 law enforcement offi- that Alissa, who was from the near- Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa since the health at that time. anonymity. cers. He is also accused of unlaw- by suburb of Arvada, had ever visit- March 22 attack in Boulder. At his A law enforcement official Alissa is accused of killing nine fully possessing 10 high-capacity ed the supermarket before.

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INSIDE: Blake Nursery has plants for where we live – Page 3

Local resident learns backyard project lesson – Page 7

Exterior lighting – Page 8

Sod or seed? – Page 10

Controlling backyard mosquitoes – Page 11

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Yellowstone Newspapers photo by Justin Post ABOVE: Sandi Blake checks out a tree tag at Blake Nursery in Big Timber recently. ON THE COVER: Blake explains a plant detail while showing her nursery. Big Timber’s Blake Nursery focuses on .... PLANTS FOR WHERE WE LIVE

By Chelsa Nickell Nursery, located just outside Big Tim- “It is a team effort here for sure,” When propagating the graft, it will Yellowstone Newspapers ber, is gearing up for another year of said owner Sandi Blake. “We are very take six weeks to ensure that the roots helping to meet the local demand for fortunate for the team we have and have fully formed before you will be planting supplies and to answer ques- the great employees that keep coming able to put it into the ground, and you t is that time of the year tions. back year after year.” can only propagate between April and again when gardeners Opening its doors in 1977, Blake The Blakes grow a lot of their own mid-May. I Nursery was one of the first retail plants and trees on-site at the nursery. Some of the main things people need and planters are pulling nurseries in Montana to promote and They will later be able to use what to take into consideration when plant- out their shovels, gloves, sell native plants, and to this day they they planted in upcoming landscape ing in Montana is the different eleva- have been slowly growing their busi- jobs or the items are made available tions, climates and growing seasons wheelbarrows and other sup- ness into a successful nursery, land- for sale to customers. To ensure the that can vary from less than 90 frost- plies to begin the yearly task scaping company and cattle ranch. quality of the plants being used and free days to more than 150, depending Owners Sandi and Francis Blake — sold, the nursery began propagating on your location. Most of the plants of creating their perfect along with their sons Amory and Alex many of its own seedlings on-site, offered for sale at Blake are native front yard and backyard — have worked together to provide such as the Harison Yellow Rose. plants, are very hardy and drought- people from Montana to Wyoming “We got a Harison Yellow Rose 40 tolerant, and are used to Montana’s landscapes. with quality trees, shrubs, perennials, years ago,” said Sandi Blake. “We Whether you are a first-time planter grasses, fruit trees and many other began grafting off of it and have had or have been doing it for years, Blake supplies. great success.” See Nursery, Page 4

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Nursery, from Page 3 harsh conditions. Trees and shrubs provide tremen- dous diversity, beauty, and benefits to an already beautiful Montana landscape. The trick to any good gardener is to work with nature and not to think you can control it. “We focus more on what we are familiar with and know does well in the conditions and climates that we live in,” said Blake. “What might work well for one person in one part of the state does not mean it will work well for another person in a different part.” Native trees, plants, flowers and grasses are genetically adapted to the unique landscapes of Montana, which includes diverse soils and temperature extremes. Native plants that are properly sited are adapted to these cold, dry and often erratic conditions and will display less evidence of stress. They often require less water and will not require fertilization once they are established in the proper site. Some examples of these would be Fringed Sage, Col- umbines, Golden Currant, Prickly Pear Cactus and the Montana Chokecherry to name just a few of the native plants With the ease of being able to walk out their back door to one of the many hillsides that are on their property, or along Otter Creek which runs through the ranch, the Blakes have enjoyed the opportunity to cut and propagate many of the native grasses, trees, cactus and other plants that are native to the state. “People seem to appreciate that we grow a lot of Yellowstone Newspapers photos by Justin Post things right here at the nursery,” said Blake. Daffodils shine in the sun at left while above, a One thing that will ensure a healthy, strong tree or bee makes a stop at a flower blossom at Blake plant is the type of soil that you use. The Blakes Nursery. began making their own fertilized soil to help with this exact problem. Combining an organic mixture of peat moss, pumice, composted bark and natural Irrigation Innovations UNDERGROUND SPRINKLER SYSTEMS & LANDSCAPE RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL • DESIGN & INSTALLATION 222-7745 SPRINKLER SEASON IS HERE!

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Yellowstone Newspapers photos by Justin Post LEFT: Sandi Blake enjoys the smell of flowers at her nursery. ABOVE: A robin nests above the entranceway of the sales office at Blake Nursery. fertilizers, the Blakes have created a print. The 5.5 kW grid-tie system that level consultation for any customer. the customer with the cost of the plan soil that is loaded with the nutrients was installed in 2013 on top of their The first involves getting together and time it will take to complete. that your trees and plants need to main shop helps offset the nursery with the customer to come up with a “We love helping people and thrive. and ranch power needs. Solar energy plan. The second is going to where the explaining where things come from,” The nursery has even installed solar has an excellent sustainability advan- planting will be, draw a sketch and said Sandi. “I have always loved the paneling in different areas of the tage over other sources of energy like work with the customer to see if it native plants here and have never ranch to help cut the cost of electrici- fossil fuels. matches their vision. The third stopped wanting to learn what grows ty and leave less of a carbon foot- Blake Nursery also offers a three- involves the nursery getting back to better where.” now open Décor to Adore Home Decor ð Furniture ð Accessories Specializing in locally grown, hardy species — the perfect choice for the Southwestern Montana climate Patio Perfection Full Service nursery Hanging Basket Specialist

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By Amelia Murphy Enterprise Staff Writer

y gardening experience started in the summer of 2020 while COVID was going strong. The projects were a series of ups and downs, Mbut very interesting and even quite innovative. But with all of them, I should have done some research before starting. The projects began when a kiddie pool blew into my yard. I didn’t know where it came from, and I put up notices for anyone looking for it, but no one reclaimed it. I didn’t want to take the time to dispose of it, so, with the idea of planting things in it, I washed out the pool, and made X cuts in the bottom for drainage. Then I traveled to the river to pick up some heavy, oval, flat rocks. I placed the pool where I wanted it and filled the bottom with the rocks I had collected. Then I filled the kiddie pool “garden” with six bags of Black Gold All Purpose Potting Mix. In the mix I planted chocolate mint, rosemary, sage, columbine, marigolds, forget-me-nots and daisies. But later in the summer, I figured out you do not want to plant mint or peppermint plants in gardens, due to how they take over. As a result, I had to transplant all the mint plants into their own planter pots. I then decided to build another garden by ripping up the ground near the kiddie pool where lilac roots and new shoots had grown. I also pruned back an existing lilac bush. With Enterprise photos by Amelia Murphy The kiddie pool planting project, complete with sage, columbine, chocolate mint, Rocky See Projects, Page 9 Mountain rose bush and soon-to-sprout forget-me-nots — as well as gnomes on each side.

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The value of the right lighting in a installed in the ground and direct light home is undeniable. Lighting can up at a tree, focusing on its trunk or instantly transform a room and create canopy. This creates a dramatic effect the ambiance homeowners are looking that makes it possible to enjoy majes- to establish. Though it might be mostly tic trees at night just like you might seen as a way to create mood inside a when spending time in the yard during home, lighting also can do much for the day. lawns and gardens. •฀Focus฀on฀trees. Many homeowners Backyards have come a long way already have exterior lighting lining over the last several decades. Once their walkways and patios, but focus- reserved as play areas for children ing on trees can create an entirely dif- and stomping grounds for the family ferent look. Though it’s possible to dog, backyards have become oases for install exterior tree lighting on your homeowners and their families. Out- own, landscaping professionals with door living areas are wildly popular, lighting experience know which fix- and no such area is complete without tures will pair most effectively with exterior lighting. In fact, a recent the trees around your property and report from the National Association how to arrange them for maximum of Home Builders found that 85 per- effect. cent of home buyers want exterior •฀Opt฀for฀warm฀light. Warm white lighting, making it the second most light creates an inviting feel around desired outdoor feature (patios topped the property. The exterior lighting that list). experts at Utah Lights acknowledge Exterior lighting can have a dramat- that choice of lighting is up to home- ic effect on landscaping, and estimates owners but also note that, in situations from the online financial resource with lower levels of ambient light, Kiplinger.com suggest such lighting is such as in exterior lights around a inexpensive, with installation averag- property, people typically prefer ing roughly $67 per fixture. warmer light. That’s because warm When installing exterior lighting light tends to be easier on the eyes and around their landscapes, homeowners directs attention to the features of the lighting timers make it easier than homeowners shouldn’t have to tinker can keep various tips in mind to create landscape, which is many homeown- ever to control the lights outside a with the timer once it’s set. a relaxing, awe-inspiring mood on ers’ goal when installing exterior light- home. Many such timers even adjust Exterior lighting can add significant their properties at night. ing in their yards. for the changing seasons and the shift- appeal to a property without breaking •฀ Consider฀ uplights.฀ Uplights are •฀Utilize฀a฀timer. Modern exterior ing hours of daylight. That means the bank. Time to get growing!

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Photo courtesy of Amelia Murphy headaches. The author with the swinging bench seat/bed, in the process of weaving the rope. Projects, from Page 7 the idea to plant several plants under seat by weaving rope for it. the bush, I laid newspaper down and However, it didn’t work because I wet it, and placed soil on top of it. used the wrong type of rope. It needed SPRINKLER SYSTEMS: However, the paper layers were too parachute rope and specific macramé thin to prevent weeds from coming knots. So I redid that project as well. through. So I had to redo everything, This year I also made planters out of Design putting down ground fabric and a truck tires turned inside out to get a newspaper layer 4-5 inches thick, then tea cup shape. But the tires were too covered the newspaper with 12 bags big, and I had to use a blowtorch to Installation of Black Gold All Purpose Potting Mix bend them. Car tires should have been for the new plants. used. Repair Another backyard project — a non- So whatever your own do-it-yourself planting one — involved recycling our project is this season, make sure you swinging bench seat/bed whose origi- research it a bit before jumping ahead Free Estimates nal covering had rotted out. I redid the like I did. DID YOU KNOW? FENCING: Agriculture • Commercial Gotta have pollinators Residential Without pollinators, more than 100 crops grown in the United States would not be able to thrive. Plants, including various fruits, vegetables, nuts and more, rely on pollinators to ensure transport of pollen. Though many plants are self- pollinating and others are pollinated by the wind or water, many others rely on SOD: insects and animals to become pollinated. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says birds, bees, bats, butterflies, moths, Delivery • Installation flies, beetles, and small mammals all can work as pollinators. Examples of crops pollinated by pollinators include apples, squash and almonds. Animals and insects help pollinate more than 75 percent of the world’s flowering plants, and nearly 75 percent of all crops, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Unfortunately, pesticide use can diminish the number of natural pollinators. Natural gardening and pest-control can help protect the habitats of pollinators. Leaf stains ARTISTIC Leaves that fall from trees can be a marvel to behold. But leaves can stain exterior surfaces when they eventually settle on vehicles, concrete driveways, patios, and other surfaces, become wet and/or are not cleaned away in a timely fashion. LANDSCAPING Leaf stains are caused by tannins in the leaves. The pigments can be absorbed by porous materials like concrete and leave stains behind. While these stains may wash away over time, homeowners may prefer a faster way to get rid of unsightly stains. To remove moderate leaf stains, mix oxygen bleach with hot (406) 224-0721 water and apply to stains using a scrub brush. Dark stains may require a tougher cleanser, such as one that contains trisodium phosphate. Some homeowners find success using a pressure washer to clean away leaf stains, while others [email protected] rely on commercial leaf-stain removers.

Spring฀Home฀&฀garden฀฀ Tueday,฀may฀25,฀2021฀•฀page฀฀10 SOD VS. SEED: Which is your best option? A pristine lawn can be the to $1.29 for sod. That afford- finishing touch to a landscape ability compels many home- and add significant value to a owners to turn to seed. Howev- home. er, seed can take up to two According to a joint study by years to produce a lush lawn the University of Alabama and and it requires high mainte- the University of Texas at nance in the initial months to Arlington, homes with high establish the grass. curb appeal sell for an average Seed also requires greater of 7% more than similar houses soil preparation, including till- without inviting exteriors. ing to loosen soil and keeping When it comes to establish- the lawn well watered until the ing a lawn, homeowners have grass is hardy. Weeds also may two key options: starting from mix in with seed more readily, seed or installing sod. Each meaning weed prevention comes with its share of advan- becomes an additional task. tages and disadvantages. Which option makes the most Sod sense for a given lawn will boil One of the advantages to sod down to various factors, includ- is that it can produce an instant ing homeowners’ budgets. lawn. When time is of the essence, sod will produce a Seed complete lawn nearly as soon Seed is the first thing home- as the sod is laid. Sod can be owners may think of when used to mitigate soil erosion, as planning a lawn. Seed is an it works faster than seed, inexpensive, easily installed which needs to establish a root option. Plus, garden centers system to keep soil in check. sell a variety of seeds specific Also, sod does not require as tion, sod will require careful need to be installed. The Fami- main options for lush lawns. to particular regions and cli- much soil preparation as seed. maintenance for at least the ly Handyman says sod tends to Each has its perks, and home- mates. The home improvement The potential disadvantages first two weeks until the sod be sun-loving and may not owners can speak with a local resource Fixr says seed will to sod are its cost and the time takes stronger roots. It can be work in shadier areas of a lawn specialist to determine cost an average of 24 cents per it takes to install it, particular- an expensive mistake if sod property. which option is best for their square foot installed compared ly on a large property. In addi- doesn’t thrive and new pieces Sod and seed are the two lawn.

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The value of a retreat-like backyard grounds when you find them, and do was never more apparent than in 2020. so each day, as mosquitoes mature Over the last year-plus, much of the from eggs to nymphs in roughly four world has been forced to stay home as days. a global pandemic has claimed mil- lions of lives while countless others 2. Mow regularly. have had to fight to survive in hospi- Mowing the lawn so the grass never tals. It’s no surprise people have gets too high is another way to make a looked for a respite from the harsh backyard less hospitable to mosqui- realities of living during a deadly pan- toes. The pest experts at Terminix® demic, and many turned their atten- note that mosquitoes seek tall grass to tion to their own backyards to provide protect them from the elements, such an escape. including wind and hot summer sun. The online home remodeling plat- Mowing enough so grass never gets form Houzz reported a 58 percent too high in summer can make back- annual increase in project leads for yards less inviting to mosquitoes. home professionals in June 2020. Con- tractors who specialize in outdoor 3. Plant with mosquitoes in mind. spaces saw the biggest increase in The home remodeling experts at demand. A revamped outdoor space HGTV note that plants can be part of can provide the perfect retreat for homeowners’ strategy to repel mos- homeowners who want to get away quitoes. Various plants have mosquito- from it all. But one winged, unwel- repellant qualities. For example, bee come guest can quickly transform an balm releases a fragrance as it grows, oasis into an uninviting space. and mosquitoes don’t like that fra- Mosquitoes make their presence felt grance. Homeowners can speak with a in many areas each summer. These AP local lawn and garden professional for pesky, often hungry insects can carry A backyard retreat can be even more enjoyable when homeowners find ways recommendations about plants that disease, and their bites can be painful to keep mosquitoes at bay. can thrive in their region and repel and itchy. Homeowners can try these mosquitoes at the same time. three techniques to keep mosquitoes for mosquitoes, who don’t even need a collect water. Even clogged gutters Mosquitoes can make it hard to out of their backyards. lot of water to successfully breed. A can lead to the accumulation of a enjoy a backyard oasis. But various daily walk around the property may small amount of water, and that can be strategies can help homeowners keep 1. Remove standing water. uncover kids’ toys, empty flower pots enough for mosquitoes to breed. these unwanted guests out of their Standing water is a breeding ground or other small receptacles that can Remove these potential breeding backyards. SEE US FOR ALL YOUR GARDENING NEEDS

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