Tribal members are getting advice, free trips—and perhaps a new rehab program—from their connection with L. Ron Hubbard's church. Is this the help they need?
By:
Paul Peters
In 1964, when Rayola Running Crane was just 13, her parents sent her away from her home in Browning on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. She and her friends were drinking alcohol on a regular basis, and she had already been in an alcohol-related car accident that caused her permanent back injuries.
She says her parents gave her two options: Go live with her brother in San Francisco, or go to a boarding school in Oklahoma.
“They didn’t want me to lose my life to drugs and alcohol,” she says.
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Behind a thin veil of mesh wire, stalactites of clustered honeybees collapse into gelatinous clumps as their 350 cubic inch world is rocked by outside forces.
Beyond the cramped confines of wire and plywood, a transfer is underway.
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A report issued in late April by the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) warns hunters and anglers to prepare for a new kind of moving target that threatens the future of their sports.
Titled “Season’s End,” the report examines scientific analysis compiled by multiple state fish and wildlife management agencies and private wildlife groups, and predicts a massive, climate-based rearrangement of the habitats that support game populations.
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Before the weather even warmed enough for a weekend swim, a routine zoning proposal put one of Missoula’s favorite local swimming holes in hot water.
At Monday’s City Council meeting, a proposal to allow condominiums on a shore adjacent to the Deer Creek bridge—a favorite East Missoula dip complete with beaches and bridge-jump—sparked anxiety from homeowners at Canyon River Golf Course, which lines the side of the river slated for condos.
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Sometimes getting arrested isn’t so bad. While the eight University of Montana members of Students for Social and Economic Justice (SESJ) were slapped with charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct, and received academic suspensions for their part in an April 16 sit-in, the resulting media attention has proved to be a boon for the fledgling organization.
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Monday night, Mayor John Engen announced his Green Blocks Pilot Project, an energy conservation plan he hopes will take off with citizen interest. By piggybacking on an existing Northwest Energy home audit program, Engen’s initiative could lower Missoula’s energy, water and waste consumption.
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