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00 1 CLASSIFIED B3 COMICS A7 DEAR ABBY B7 MONTANA A4 A2 OPINION A6 PUZZLES B7 SPORTS B1 MARKETS A8 $2 Volume 143, Issue 303 A Lee Enterprises Newspaper Copyright 2018 Follow us online: facebook.com/MissoulianNewspaper twitter.com/missoulian instagram.com/missoulian Stay tuned to our website and our Facebook and Twitter feeds for updated news throughout the day. AT MISSOULIAN.COM DISCOVER DIGITAL SHOWERS 45 32 FORECAST, B8 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018 missoulian.com Trouble Fourth quarters have not been good to Griz SPORTS, B1 Playing through Grizzly bear captured at golf course near Stevensville PAGE A4 Bannon to speak? Political strategist listed as keynote speaker for conference PAGE A4 KEILA SZPALLER keila.szpaller@missoulian.com University of Montana Dean Stephen Kalm Mon- day he will step out of his leader- ship role at the College of Visual and Performing Arts and return to teaching music full time. is a good time for me to pursue other in- terests in higher Kalm said. came here to be a teacher and performer, and been lucky to be able to always teach and perform no matter what been Kalm started at UM as a faculty member in 1994 and led the opera program, and he served as chair of the then-Department of Music for six years starting in 2002. UM appointed him as interim dean in 2008, and he accepted the per- manent post in 2009 after a na- tional search.

He leaves the dean post Dec. 31. Last month, Kalm was instru- mental in raising public outcry against dramatic budget that ostensibly placed at risk accredited degree programs in music and would diminish or terminate the arts. In a widely distributed letter, School of Music Director Maxine SEABORN LARSON seaborn.larson@missoulian.com Ten years before a man was struck and seriously injured near a crosswalk on South Russell Street last week, Setsuko Roberts said she knew that stretch of road would be trouble. Roberts, 76, drops her son off every day at Opportunity Re- sources which supports people with developmental dis- abilities.

Drivers there, she said, have six options to turn in and out of parking lots. Meanwhile, pedestrians are headed through a crosswalk across Russell Street to and from the Missoula Family YMCA. The whole thing, she said, is something of a malfunction junction. knew 10 years ago something is going to she said. just happen to my son or me.

You just know until the accident happens, you The most troubling area, she said, is the center turning lane where a southbound car turning left to the YMCA would encounter a northbound vehicle turning left into Opportunity Resources. It son who was hit by a car last week, but she still took her concerns to the City Council. Those gears are now turning, Council member John DiBari told the Missoulian, to see what can be done to prevent an- other injury. I would say if going to be people getting hit by cars there, something we should look at and try to make an he said. DiBari said reached out to traffic services in the engi- neering department to see what the best options are to keep pe- destrians safe in that busy stretch of road.

not the time the city has sought to manage the hustling traffic on South Russell. Last year the Montana Department of Transportation provided the city S. Russell intersection could see improvement TOMMY MARTINO PHOTOS, MISSOULIAN Mike Peterson crosses Russell Street near the Missoula YMCA on his way to the center on Monday. A man was hospitalized with serious injuries last week after being struck by a vehicle at the the crossing. Dean Kalm steps down BILLINGS GAZETTE A 332-foot owned by Montana multi-bil- lionaire Dennis Washington was involved in a fatal collision Friday night off the coast of San Diego, according to U.S.

Coast Guard officials. One person aboard a vessel that collided with Wash- yacht died Saturday morning after being airlifted to the University of California San Diego Medical Center, Coast Guard spokesman Petty Offi- cer 2nd Class Joel Guzman said Monday. Two other passengers on the 65-foot were in- jured, Guzman said, but he did not have any additional informa- tion on their medical conditions. Fourteen other passengers of the boat were taken back to shore on the Coast Guard boat, and the remaining 10 were trans- ferred to the yacht, named the The Coast Guard is investi- gating the cause of the collision, which was reported to author- ities at about 7:50 p.m. by the crew of the yacht.

Guzman de- clined to provide additional de- tails about the circumstances surrounding the crash. The collision occurred about 9 miles south of San Point Loma, just inside the interna- tional maritime boundary be- tween the U.S. and Mexico. unclear whether Wash- ington was on board the Attessa at the time. He was not imme- diately available for comment, according to a spokeswoman at The Washington Companies who was reached Monday after- noon.

Washington, a longtime Mis- soula resident, has an estimated net worth of $6.2 billion that ranks him as the 88th-wealthiest American and the richest person in Montana, according to Forbes magazine. The Spokane native launched his career with a small construction company in the 1960s, later branching out into mining, railroads, marine trans- portation and other industries. The Washington family has also been active in philanthropy in the state, having given $10 million to the University of Mon- tana Foundation to create the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences. The foundation also provided half of the $14 million for construction of the athletic training facility.

Yacht involved in fatal collision DAVID ERICKSON david.erickson@missoulian.com More changes are coming to television news own- ership landscape. Cordillera Communications, which owns CBS affiliate KPAX in Missoula and other stations in largest markets, has announced it is selling KPAX and 14 of its stations to the E.W. Scripps Company for $521 mil- lion. Scripps is also acquiring KAJJ in Kalispell, KTVQ in Bill- ings, in Butte and Bozeman, KRTV and KTGF in Great Falls and KTVH and KXLH in Helena. Terry Hurley, the president of Cordillera, said the company believes that an broad- cast requires an ability to scale for the future.

The deal KPAX, other stations sold to Scripps Ideas in light of accident involving pedestrian Vehicles swing on and off South Russell Street near the YMCA where many businesses are located but lighting is limited, especially during the fall and winter months. UMARTS Kalm DENNIS WASHINGTON Please see INTERSECTION, Page A3 Please see KALM, Page A3 Please see KPAX, Page A3 FLU SHOTS AVAILABLE DURING ALL PHARMACY HOURS. (REGULARANDHIGH DOSE).