☛ ☛ NTERPRISEt h e l i v i n g s t o n E Monday, June 7, 2021 •฀Livingston,฀Montana฀•฀Vol.฀115 No.฀119฀฀ $1.00 Nonprofit building financial support for new center By Jason Bacaj Enterprise Staff Writer The 4 Ranges Community Recreation Foundation is working with potential donors and has already secured “several commit- ments” of financial support for a new community well- ness and recreation center in Livingston. Chase Rose, principal for the Bozeman-based consult- i n g c o m p a n y B a n n a c k Group, is leading the fund- raising campaign. He “This campaign, as you might imagine, will be one of the largest in the history of Park County and TJ Weimer, wearing a lei made of money, hugs Park High School Co-Principal Lori Dust after receiving his diploma during the graduation ceremony will likely take Sunday at Park High School. Also pictured receiving his diploma is salutatorian McCrae Wester. years, plural.” – Chase Rose, Principal for 4 Ranges Com- munity Recreation Foundation declined to comment on the Graduation day financial commitments. He said the primary goal at this early stage in the campaign is to get a sense of how many millions the nonprofit can drum up. The commitments stem from a campaign feasibility study that surveyed about 30 key donor prospects to find out how much money they’d be willing to put into the project. As yet, Rose said, the nonprofit is not ready to make a projection for the final scale and scope of the fundraising campaign. “This campaign, as you might imagine, will be one of the largest in the history of Park County and will likely take years, plural,” Rose ABOVE: Valedictorian Kodie Vondra addresses the crowd dur- said. ing the graduation ceremony Sunday at Park High School. The campaign’s goal is to raise all the money neces- RIGHT: Mitchell Creason, center, throws his cap into the air sary to build the rec center while Angelica Crown looks on during the Park High School from private donors. Class of 2021 graduation ceremony Sunday at Park High. A feasibility study com- pleted in 2019 gave the city three preliminary options Enterprise photos by JUSTIN POST for the new rec center, rang- ing in cost from $20 million to $44 million. The most expensive option is a nearly 70,000-square- foot facility that would Court rules against immigrants with temporary status include such amenities as a 24- to 30-child licensed day WASHINGTON (AP) — A unani- been in the U.S. since the 1990s his administration, like the Trump lands where they haven’t lived in care facility, 160-person mous Supreme Court ruled Monday turned on whether people who administration, argued that current many years. community room, 35-person that thousands of people living in entered the country illegally and immigration law doesn’t permit peo- “All of these families that are aerobic dance studio, 2,000 the U.S. for humanitarian reasons were given humanitarian protec- ple who entered the country illegally established in the United States and square feet of weight lifting are ineligible to apply to become tions were ever “admitted” into the to apply for permanent residency. have lived in our communities for space, a rock climbing wall, permanent residents. United States under immigration On the other side were immigrant decades faced a very real threat,” six-lane lap pool, a Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the law. groups that argued many people said Lisa Koop, a lawyer with the 5,400-square-foot aquatic court that federal immigration law Kagan wrote that they were not. who came to the U.S. for humanitari- National Immigrant Justice Center recreation pool and two bas- prohibits people who entered the “The TPS program gives foreign an reasons have lived in the country who also teaches at Notre Dame’s ketball courts. A second country illegally and now have Tem- nationals nonimmigrant status, but for many years, given birth to law school. floor would house an indoor porary Protected Status from seek- it does not admit them. So the con- American citizens and put down In 2001, the U.S. gave Salvadoran walking and jogging track. ing “green cards” to remain in the ferral of TPS does not make an roots in the U.S. migrants legal protection to remain The facility would be built country permanently. unlawful entrant...eligible” for a Federal courts around the country in the U.S. after a series of earth- by Miles Park and would The designation applies to people green card, she wrote. had come to conflicting decisions quakes in their home country. require a complete teardown who come from countries ravaged The House of Representatives about whether the grant of TPS sta- People from 11 other countries are of Livingston Civic Center. by war or disaster. It protects them already has passed legislation that tus was, by itself, enough to enable similarly protected. They are: Haiti, A second option involves a from deportation and allows them to would make it possible for TPS an immigrant to try to obtain perma- Honduras, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicara- renovation of the Civic Cen- work legally. There are 400,000 peo- recipients to become permanent res- nent residency. gua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, ter, as well as add-ons that ple from 12 countries with TPS sta- idents, Kagan noted. The bill faces Former President Donald Trump Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. would total about 60,000 tus. uncertain prospects in the Senate. tried to cancel the program for square feet and provide the The outcome in a case involving a President Joe Biden has said he many immigrants, stoking fear they same amenities as the most couple from El Salvador who have supports the change in the law. But could be sent back to their home- See Court, Page 5 expensive option. The third option is a roughly 40,000-square-foot aquatic center. This option includes two 25-person com- m u n i t y r o o m s , a CO2 levels hit 50% higher than preindustrial time 2,500-square-foot recreation pool, a renovation of the By The Associated Press 50% higher than the stable in, pushing greenhouse gas existing gymnasium and a pre-industrial levels of 280 levels to new records every six-lane lap pool. The annual peak of global parts per million, said NOAA year. The location of the new rec heat-trapping carbon dioxide climate scientist Pieter Tans. “Reaching 50% higher car- center isn’t set in stone, but in the air has reached anoth- Carbon dioxide levels peak bon dioxide than preindustri- City Manager Michael Kar- er dangerous milestone: 50% every May just before plant al is really setting a new does has said previously that higher than when the indus- life in the Northern Hemi- benchmark and not in a good the intent is to keep it within trial age began. sphere blossoms, sucking way,” said Cornell Universi- the recreation area next to And the average rate of some of that carbon out of ty climate scientist Natalie the skate park, softball increase is faster than ever, the atmosphere and into Mahowald, who wasn’t part fields and park. scientists reported Monday. flowers, leaves, seeds and of the research. “If we want “I’m really excited about The National Oceanic and stems. The reprieve is tem- to avoid the worst conse- being part of the effort to Atmospheric Administration porary, though, because quences of climate change, bring this to fruition because said the average carbon emissions of carbon dioxide we need to work much hard- I think it’s an asset for this dioxide level for May was from burning coal, oil and er to cut carbon dioxide AP community,” said Michael 419.13 parts per million. natural gas for transporta- The Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, high McCormick, vice chairman That’s 1.82 parts per million tion and electricity far atop Hawaii’s largest mountain, samples well-mixed back- of 4 Ranges Community Rec- higher than May 2020 and exceed what plants can take See CO2, Page 5 ground air free of local pollution. reation Foundation. Page 2, Livingston Enterprise Monday, June 7, 2021 BRIEFS OBITUARIES •฀ The City of Livingston, education classes from 6:30- tunities in Park County, and store at 119 S. Second St. Robert (Bob) Blakeslee Public Works Department 7:30 p.m. from June 10 to network with community For more information, call will hold the second public July 22 at The Movement groups, leaders, businesses, 222-5335. Robert (Bob) Blakeslee of Monument, Oregon passed away meeting regarding the plan- Collaborative at 206 S. 11th elected officials and many the evening of May 10, 2021 with his family at his side. ning process for extending St. No registration is others. Applications and two •฀ The Livingston-Park Bob was born in Livingston, Montana on March 5, 1937, to sewer mains into the Green required. The next event on references are due Monday, County Public Library book- proud parents Donald and Edith (Foddness) Blakeslee. He Acres Subdivision at 5:30 6/10 will be “Healing June 14. The application is mobile will be at Arch Park joined an older sister Suzanne. They lived on the family p.m. on Tuesday, June 8. The Through Acupuncture” with available at parklocal.org/ in Gardiner on Wednesdays ranch at the base of Emigrant Peak on Six Mile Creek in the meeting will be held at the Mandy Morrow. ASPEN, community/leadership-49 or from noon to 2:30 p.m.