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‘Rapunzel’ FOOTBALL ALWAYS IN at the Merc HERMANSON’S BLOOD MONTANA GRIZZLY GAME DAY, MISSOULIAN.COM missoulian.com SATURDAY, October 4, 2014 Copyright 2014 $1 FWP: No Fun for all evidence Fully accessible playground opens at McCormick Park driver ran down wolves Anti-wolf advocate had claimed he hit two animals with his vehicle By KIM BRIGGEMAN of the Missoulian Toby Bridges won’t be charged for running down two wolves on Interstate 90 last month because an investigation found no evidence that he did. Bridges, the Missoula man and a leader among anti-wolf extremists, posted pictures on Facebook with a claim that he hit two wolves on the Montana side of Lookout Pass on Sept. 14. “At the end of the day, we had nothing even remotely resembling proof beyond a reasonable doubt that it happened the way it was purported,”said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 2 Warden Capt. Joe Jaquith. See WOLVES, Page A5 TOM BAUER/Missoulian Kids play on a slide that comes down from a “play mountain” during the grand opening of Silver Summit, an all-abilities playground in McCormick Park, on Friday. The playground has equipment and a design that allows children of all abilities to play alongside each other. TROY MINE Silver Summit a dream come Operations true, two years in the making back By DAVID ERICKSON of the Missoulian underway What began two years ago as one Missoula woman’s fruitless search for an adaptive swing for her disabled son is now Revett was forced to Montana’s first large- n More scale, universally online: For a shut down after series accessible playground for video and children of all abilities. photo gallery from of rockslides in 2012 On Friday afternoon, Friday’s opening of Missoula Parks and By DAVID ERICKSON Silver Summit, go online of the Missoulian Recreation and the All- to this story on Abilities Playground Missoulian.com. TROY – Mining operations Project celebrated the are back underway at the Troy grand opening of Silver Mine for the first time since a Summit in McCormick Park. series of underground TOM BAUER/Missoulian With play features for children who have sensory, rockslides forced it to close in Kylie McKittrick, left, speaks during the grand opening of the playground as 2012. Melina Peck, who sang the national anthem, listens on Friday. See PLAYGROUND, Page A5 Revett Mining Co. announced this week the mine had recommenced underground crusher operations and milling operations will restart soon. According to company Tenants told Paxson Plaza, Val-U Inn to be sold president and CEO John Shanahan, the mine currently By DAVID ERICKSON uncertain. The plaza, located at the contact. sale of the property. employs 65 people and that of the Missoulian 2700 Paxson St., hosts several According to Hemstreet’s The letter informed the number will ramp up to 95 by businesses, including Montage website, the company develops, tenants that the buyers would the end of the year. The development Salon & Supply, Midnight owns and operates office be contacting them soon to “We hope to return to full corporation that owns the levels of 175 employees as we Dreams, Diamondback Golf and buildings, hotels, resorts, discuss future options Paxson Plaza shopping center a U.S. military recruiting office. apartment buildings, storage regarding their retail space. See TROY MINE, Page A5 and Val-U Inn near Southgate The plaza and Val-U Inn are units and shopping centers A manager at the Val-U Inn Mall has informed commercial owned by Hemstreet across the country. referred inquiries to Chris tenants that the property is n More online: Take a Development Corp., a company On Wednesday, the tenants Wehmeyer, an executive with under contract to be sold to an with corporate offices in of the Paxson Plaza were all tour of the Troy Mine Hemstreet. Wehmeyer declined unnamed buyer. Beaverton, Oregon, and sent letters informing them and read more about to comment on the future of The status of the current Scottsdale, Arizona. State tax that the plaza is currently its history of cave-ins, online tenants that rent retail space is records list Richard Janulis as engaged in a contract for the See PLAZA, Page A11 with this story. 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Antarctic.”When the ice of the country are watching 1985. The Los Angeles melted, he drank it. When the leaves turn a Department of Water and it ran out, he went home. kaleidoscope of fall colors as Blame the Santa Ana Power is urging people to they contemplate Winds, those chameleon- set thermostats at 78 As Los Angeles unpacking winter clothes, like gusts that start out icy degrees. With wildfire County lifeguards California is roasting under cold in the Great Basin danger high across much of prepared for hundreds of an autumn heat wave. region of Utah and Nevada, the state, the Los Angeles thousands of people to As high temperatures but by the time they race County Fire Department storm the beaches (“It were ranging from the low across deserts and down has beefed up many of its should be like a summer 100s in Southern California mountain canyons and firefighting crews from weekend,”said Chief to the 90s in the normally NICK UT/Associated Press arrive in Southern Women shade themselves from the sun in the Chinatown three to four people and Lifeguard Steve Moseley) more temperate San California they are hot as ... section of downtown Los Angeles on Thursday. stationed extra equipment New York’s Fall Foliage Francisco Bay Area on well, you know. m San Diego to San Francisco. in strategic locations. “We report predicted that Friday,National Weather Usually during a heat talk about staying hydrated autumn leaves in the Service forecasters warned wave Southern Californians This is unusual but LA’s Woodland Hills starting early in the day Adirondack and Catskill it was just a warm-up for can tell themselves, “Well, and staying ready to go,” mountains could be at their not unprecedented. neighborhood could what lies ahead this it’s hotter in Arizona and Inspector Rick Flores said. most spectacular this Although temperatures for surpass 108 degrees weekend. Death Valley.”Not this time. Perry Mann, who weekend. Meanwhile, in “We’re looking for it to By mid-afternoon Friday,it this time of year are Saturday. dresses as a pirate and Madison, Wisconsin, peak tomorrow,”said Stuart was 99 in Long Beach, the normally in the high 70s, it Los Angeles County is poses for pictures with temperatures were in Seto of the National same as the temperature in reached 108 in Los Angeles opening dozens of cooling tourists on Hollywood freefall. They dropped Weather Service, adding Death Valley,California, on Oct. 3, 1987,and again centers at places like Boulevard may have come from highs in the 80s last that some high- which calls itself the hottest the next day.“It’s hot but libraries and community up with the most week to the 50s on Friday, temperature records could place on the planet. It was not record-breaking hot,” centers. The Long Beach innovative solution. On with a forecast for sleet or fall Saturday.In the coastal 95 in Phoenix. says Seto. Not yet, anyway. Unified School District Thursday he packed his snow by Saturday. before the ash began billowing pollution from fertilizers and out of the crater. greenhouse gas emissions as some of the main perils facing Earthquakes the planet. The worst wildlife decline was found among At least eight people freshwater species, which were killed when a 4.9 plunged by 76 percent during magnitude quake the 40-year period. Wildlife on wrecked homes and other land and in the oceans buildings in Peru’s southern dropped by 39 percent. village of Misca, near the popular Andean tourist Ringing condemnation destination of Cuzco. n Earth movements were also The iconic cowbells felt in western Bolivia, the ringing around the northern Netherlands, western necks of Swiss cows Montana, north-central could become a thing of the Oklahoma and the Sierra past following a study that finds Nevada range in central the bells destroy bovine hearing California. and affect feeding habits. Researchers at the Swiss events such as an early South hailed by environmental the mountain erupted without Tropical cyclones Federal Institute of Technology Dakota blizzard, freak storms in groups. The five join other warning during a busy hiking in Zurich found the bells create Germany and a cold British corporations, including Cargill, weekend. Dozens of others Typhoon Phanfone a noise level of 100 to 113 spring, other weather extremes that had already agreed to sustained injuries in the formed north of Guam, decibels – basically equivalent then threatened had clear fingerprints of climate stop.