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A2 SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2019 INDEPENDENT RECORD 00 1 HOW TO REACH US Independent Record, P.O. Box 4249, Helena, MT 59604 Phone (406) 447-4000 Toll free 1-800-523-2272 Fax (406) 447-4052 NEWS Work hours 447-4074 Evenings, Weekends 447-4073 Fax 447-4052 News Tips Sports 447-4065 ADVERTISING Retail Display 447-4042 ed 447-4040 Commercial Printing 447-4012 CIRCULATION Front Desk (406) 447-4000 To subscribe 447-4010 Missed papers 447-4010 Call before 9 am weekdays, 11 a.m. on weekends. MANAGEMENT STAFF Publisher Anita Fasbender 447-4012 Editor Jesse Chaney 447-4074 Circulation Manager Steve Biere (406) 496-5545 Advertising Director Erica Yakawich 447-4042 Controller Lynn Lloyd (406) 496-5530 Our business hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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For assistance setting up your account, visit www.helenair.com/manage-subscription or call 406-447-4000. MONTANA TOM LUTEY BILLINGS The relative silence over the disappear- ance of two Native Amer- ican women was Deborah call to action. It was 2014. May- tubee-Shipman was enrolled in a Navajo community col- lege and volunteering as a native liaison for Missing in New Mexico. A native Navajo woman, Amy Lynn Hanson, had gone missing during the Thanksgiving holiday.

May- tubee-Shipman was working with family, and was getting increasingly frustrated by the commu- nity response. No one was sounding the alarm. found there was a real lack of May- tubee-Shipman said, both before and after Hanson was found in a gully outside Gallup, New Mexico, three weeks after disappearing. I experienced a couple more murders, I saw they were so used to it, they react. And that broke my she said.

was a hopelessness you could sense, even driv- ing through A second case not long after played out the same way. was there that I saw the gravity of the situation, but I thought it was centralized in the It just the South- west. The Chickasaw woman started a Facebook group, MMIW USA, dedicated to nding information about missing and murdered in- digenous women nation- wide. The requests for help poured in. Since 2015, nearly 800 reports of mostly indig- enous women, but also chil- dren and some men, have been submitted to May- Facebook page.

The list of les of the missing people on her Facebook page is so deep a computer must pause and reload several times before reaching the bottom. At the top of the list March 1 were a Yakima, Washing- ton, mother of four, last seen Oct. 2, and two Billings teens: Cecellia Rose Marie Whitford, 15, missing since Feb. 26, and Jacy Lynn Gon- zalez, 16, missing for 39 days. Three posts farther down, there was another Native American teen, missing from Billings since January, recently ed as a run- away staying with friends.

Freda Knows Gun, a Crow Agency woman last seen in Kennewick, Wash- ington, in 2016. In Montana, MMIW USA, by just listing the known re- ports of missing indigenous people has produced some- thing that federal and state law enforcement never have an easily accessible data- base of nothing but missing Native Americans. If found, contact Indigenous people make up 26 percent of Taking their search online BETHANY BAKER, BILLINGS GAZETTE A poster with information about the disappearance of Freda Knows Gun lies on the kitchen table in the home of Aldean Good Luck, a family member of Knows Gun, in Hardin on Feb. 7. When fails, Natives use web to locate loved ones CORRECTIONS If you see something incorrect in the Independent news coverage, please call 447-4074.

Written requests for corrections may be sent to Corrections, P.O. Box 4249, Helena, MT 59604 or WEATHER TRIVIA Spring of 1967 ranks as snowiest. The foot of snow that fell on March 10, 1967 was only the rst in a series of snowfalls, separated by warm spells, that were to total four feet by May 10. Cold front Warm front Stationary front Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice Monterrey Chihuahua Los Angeles Washington New York Miami Atlanta Detroit Houston Kansas City Chicago Minneapolis El Paso Denver Billings San Francisco Seattle Toronto Montreal Winnipeg GoodModerate Unhealthy (sensitive) Unhealthy Very Unhealthy Hazardous FIVE-DAY FORECAST 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Libby Helena Bozeman Idaho Falls Dillon Great Falls W. Yellowstone Boise Hamilton Missoula Cut Bank Jackson Butte Kalispell Salmon 90 90 90 90 84 94 15 15 15 Billings Cody REGIONAL FORECAST City City ALMANAC Temperature Precipitation Forecast index based on presence of man- made particulates affecting aspects of human health.

The higher the AccuWeather.com UV number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Air Quality airnow.gov Skywatch UV Index Today RealFeel Today Shown are noon positions of precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. City City City City WORLD FORECAST -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, i-ice, r-rain, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow Shown is the highest value of the day. National Extremes Yesterday for the 48 contiguous states WIND WIND WIND WIND WIND WIND Partly sunny and cold today.

Bitterly cold tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow. Tuesday: increasing cloudiness; however, mostly sunny to the east. Wednesday: a little snow at times, accumulating 1-3 inches in the west and up to an inch in the north, to the east, in the south and central parts of the area. forecasts and graphics provided by High: in McAllen, TX Low: in Stanley, ID Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Birmingham Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte Cincinnati Cleveland Colo.

Springs Columbus Dallas Denver Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Pensacola Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Portland, OR Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle St. Louis Tampa Tucson DC Today Monday Today Monday Acapulco Amsterdam Baghdad Beijing Buenos Aires Cairo Dublin Hong Kong Johannesburg Lima London Madrid Moscow Nairobi New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Vancouver Today Monday Today Monday First Quarter Last Quarter Full Moon New Moon Mar 14 Mar 27Mar 20 Apr 5 Sun 7:51 a.m. 7:26 p.m. Moon 9:57 a.m. 11:43 p.m.

Statistics through 3 p.m. yesterday 24 hrs through 3 p.m. yest. 0.00” Month to date (normal) 0.22” (0.14”) Year to date (normal) 2.99” (0.80”) Record for date 0.39” (1904) Degree days are an indicator of energy needs. The more the total degree days, the more energy is necessary to heat.

Yesterday 47 Month to date (normal) 571 (291) Since July 1 (normal) 6459 (5848) Normal Record high (2012) Record low (1932) REGIONAL OUTLOOK NATIONAL OUTLOOK Shown is weather. Temperatures are highs and lows. Rise Set Heating Degree Days -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 32 18 33 17 29 14 30 12 31 21 31 11 27 7 28 7 28 -2 26 7 19 -5 2 -27 -7 -30 1 -18 Daily Temperature Forecast Temperature Average High Average Low TEMPERATURE TRENDS An exclusive index of effective temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipita- tion, pressure and elevation on the human body. 8 a.m. noon 4 p.m.

8 p.m. ESE 2-4 mph TODAY Partly sunny and cold SW 3-6 mph TONIGHT Mainly clear and frigid 3-6 mph MONDAY Mostly sunny and cold 3-6 mph TUESDAY Cold with increasing clouds NNW 6-12 mph WEDNESDAY A little snow, up to VAR 3-6 mph THURSDAY Rather cloudy and cold Anaconda Baker Big Timber Boulder Broadus Drummond Glasgow Glendive Hardin Harlowton Havre Jordan Lewistown Livingston Miles City Nampa Plentywood Polson Red Lodge Roundup Sidney Superior Thompson Falls Townsend Wisdom Wolf Point Today Monday Today Monday A potent storm will generate strong winds from the Midwest to the Northeast today. Several inches of snow will fall on northern New England with a wintry mix and rain farther south to the mid-Atlantic coast. Thunderstorms will rumble through the Southeast as rain and snow showers extend from California to northern Nevada and Utah. Bitterroot Snowpack Daly Creek 5780 ft.

Lolo Pass 5240 ft. Nez Perce Camp 5650 ft. Saddle Mountain 7940 ft. Twelvemile Creek 5600 ft. Twin Lakes 6400 ft.

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