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CORNER-CUTTING: LEGISLATURE LOOKS INTO LETTING SPORTSMEN LEGALLY ACCESS STATE’S PUBLIC LAND

JEFF MEDLEY RECREATES MISTER ROGERS’ ’HOOD

OPINION

BAUCUS BACKERS REAP BIG REWARDS

NEWS

PROPOSAL PUTS BISON IN THE CROSSHAIRS

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NEWS THEATER

CORNER-CUTTING: LEGISLATURE LOOKS INTO LETTING SPORTSMEN LEGALLY ACCESS STATE’S PUBLIC LAND

JEFF MEDLEY RECREATES MISTER ROGERS’ ’HOOD

OPINION

BAUCUS BACKERS REAP BIG REWARDS

NEWS

PROPOSAL PUTS BISON IN THE CROSSHAIRS

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Tuesday Trivia Night

Cover photo by Chad Harder

News

Wednesday $10 Burger & Beer

Voices/Letters Girls with guns, Lake County and hope ....................................................4 The Week in Review Missoula goes green........................................................................6 Briefs Bison, boycotts and lobbying ..................................................................................6 Etc. Brandon Bryant looks ahead.......................................................................................7 News Joint resolution considers eliminating state parole board.......................................8 News Sportsmen seek definitive answer on corner-crossing.............................................9 Opinion Fiscal cliff deal provides windfall to Baucus donors.........................................10 Opinion Our national parks need room to breathe ........................................................11 Feature The Castle Doctrine ............................................................................................14

Thursday Open Mic Night

Arts & Entertainment

Friday Tom Catmull & the Clerics at 9:30pm

Arts Jeff Medley wants to be your neighbor.....................................................................18 Thearter Biloxi Blues stays true to Neil Simon ...............................................................19 Thearter Opposites attract in VonCommon’s Valentine’s show ......................................20 Art Exhibit exposes the power of the female form ..........................................................21 Film Let’s pretend Movie 43 never happened ................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................23 Flash in the Pan Quinoa is not a crime...........................................................................24 Happiest Hour Beerfarmer.com......................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Standing our ground just fine, with hugs...............................................27 Mountain High Winter Wildlands Backcountry Film Festival.........................................33 Agenda Food expert Anna Lappé.....................................................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk..........................................................................................................................4 In Other News .................................................................................................................12 Classifieds ......................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess......................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y .......................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle..........................................................................................................C-5 This Modern World .....................................................................................................C-12

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Not much hope

STREET TALK

by Eric Oravsky

Asked Mon., Jan. 28 at the University Center on the University of Montana campus.

This week’s feature looks at a 2009 Montana law commonly known as the Castle Doctrine, which allows citizens to use deadly force when defending their house or property without fear of prosecution. Do you feel that this law makes Montana safer or less safe?

Follow-up: How are you prepared to defend your home against an intruder?

Cassidy Creel: It depends on whether that person knew they were trespassing or just crossing a field. It is quite different when they enter a house. Peppered: I have some pepper spray and we lock our doors. Honestly, I have never felt threatened. Montana is already a pretty safe place.

Beth Burman Frazee: Less safe, although I think it’s a fine line. Often, in that kind of situation, people are not using their best judgment. Guard dog: I have a Labradoodle who looks like a Muppet, but is quite fierce. It is not a fear that I live with day to day.

Gwen Landquist: I would say safer. I don’t think there are a lot of instances in Montana where it has to go that far, but it is nice to know that I could do whatever it takes, were someone to attack me. Batter up: Oh man, I pity the fool who tries to get into my house. We used to have bats in every room. Now we have upgraded and I have a dog.

Hats off to Jessica Mayrer for “Arrested Development” (see cover story, Jan. 24).

Thanks for a clear article about a complex situation. I could follow it all the way to the final quote from Seale: “We’re still hoping we’ll persevere.” What does that even mean? A person either perseveres or he doesn’t, right? “Hoping” to persevere isn’t much of a hope, is it? Thanks again.

Marylor Wilson Missoula

Confidence is key “The Best Defense” (see Opinion, Jan. 24) is one woman’s perspective. But the “gun issue” is no more clearly monolithic for women of the West then it is for any segment of society.

Let me begin by stating that I am also a liberal woman. I consider myself a pacifist, I oppose the death penalty, I prefer positive reinforcement dog training methods and my personal spiritual practice emphasizes avoiding doing harm to other beings. It is clear, therefore, that I approach this issue from a particular bias.

However, I do not believe that being a pacifist and being a warrior are mutually exclusive. I have practiced various martial arts throughout my life. I also run regularly, and though I am on the petite side, I consider myself a physically strong woman. I am not certain that I would always be able to overpower or outmaneuver an attacker under all circumstances.

As a recent sexual assault tragedy between jiu-jitsu teammates in New York reminds us, those who practice martial arts are not “immune from being victims of crime because of their ‘special powers.’”

On one point, Ms. Nealson and I are in agreement. The greatest power my

training has given me is confidence and knowledge to avoid acting like a victim. As Ms. Nealson points out, the vast majority of the time, this is all the defense that a woman (or anyone) needs to protect them from assaults in public spaces. So, what about the other times?

How we approach those unlikely, extreme circumstances is a question of ethics, not of gender or region. Ms. Nealson prefers a gun because it allows her to keep

“I do not believe that being a pacifist and being a warrior are mutually exclusive.” her distance from her attacker. But, usually, you can’t know the intentions of your assailant until they’re already close enough to grab you (or your purse). I do not want to live in a world where children in hoodies are shot down because they look like a threat. Whether I live in the Wild West, or anywhere else, I don’t want to live in a society where we shoot first and ask questions later. I want to live in a community where deadly force is considered a last resort. I want to wait until I feel I have no other choice before I inflict undue harm on another person. Perhaps this means I will risk being closer to them and not as effective in my response when the time comes.

That is part of the risk we take every day we wake up alive—that we will not see the sun setting at the end of it.

This spring I will travel to Pablo once a week for work. Statistically, I am far more likely to die or be injured on Highway 93 than by being attacked in the street. Instead of letting fear keep me from living, I let it motivate me to live every minute, so I will be ready when the time comes. It is good to be cautious, but we should be just as cautious of letting fear overcome our compassion.

Alexa Sample Missoula

Wolf woes We believe a biased judge disrupted a reasonable and legal process to close the wolf hunt after too many Yellowstone National Park wolves were taken. We are asking for a return to the wolf management plan as in 2011 when a very low quota protected many YNP wolves.

Gilbert’s ruling contains many irrelevancies and biases, like her argument that we need to take out wolves because they depredate on livestock. Not in the YNP area they don’t.

If the folks at the top of the ladder would take the scientists’ findings, they would learn the good things that have happened in the national parks after the reintroduction of the wolves, such as vegetation growing and the otters, the moose, the song birds and the beaver coming back.

We would like every one involved in voting to vote “no” on HB 73.

Linda L. and Larry L. Rabe Toppenish, Wash.

Correction: In last week’s feature story, “Arrested Development,” we erroneously reported Jay Raser’s agreement with Missoula County prosecutors. He had a deferred prosecution agreement. The Indy regrets the error.

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Slaps on the wrist for Polson police officers,” Jan. 21 Mike O’Leary: I think it makes us safer.

If someone is going to break in, you need to have something to protect yourself with. Graduation gift?: I think I am pretty safe now in the dorms here on campus, but after college I will probably get a handgun.

Justin Hedges: I don’t think it changes anything. In that situation I don’t think people are going to think about whether or not it is legal. I know I wouldn’t. I don’t want to kill someone, but I will protect myself by all means.

Knowledge is power: Chances are protection will not be in reach when something like that happens. However, knowing that deadly force is allowed may deter people who would think about intrusion.

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Setting standards They say cops should be held to a higher standard but that is not true for cops in Lake County. It’s hard to see how the punishment fits the crime in for these two so-called cops. Also why were three cases suddenly dropped without explanation after a year of investigation? Why was the executive director of POST placed on “administrative leave” by the council? It appears that POST council has bowed to outside pressure from Lake County officials and the state police and sheriff ’s associations who do not

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want any interference from POST into their affairs. If it was the “wild, wild West” in Lake County before, what is it going to be now?

Since Montana is unwilling or unable to come to grips with what is going on in Lake County, help may have to come from outside of the state. Wake up people, this could affect you someday, then it may be too late.

Posted Jan. 26 at 11:34 a.m.

Crime stoppers?

This is unacceptable! Poaching? Reckless homicide? DWI? Bribery? Selling confis-

cated weapons? C’mon, these are SERIOUS crimes here. You can’t have justice in this country if the ones administering authority are committing the same crimes they’re “fighting.”

Posted Jan. 22 at 12:32 p.m.

Scary stuff I am horrified to read this story, let alone to see that these officials get to keep there jobs. Does the regular public get to keep their jobs when they cross the line?

Posted Jan. 24 at 7:40 p.m.

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[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Eric Oravsky

Wednesday, January 23 Police Chief Mark Muir briefs the Missoula City Council on 2012 traffic enforcement efforts. Muir says 95 percent of the roughly 15,000 people stopped for traffic violations were perceived to be Caucasian and that officers made 1,050 DUI arrests.

Thursday, January 24 The Loyola Sacred Heart speech and debate team leaves for the Class B state championships in Worden, where it will win a 30th consecutive state title.

Friday, January 25 The Montana House Judiciary Committee tables a proposal by Rep. Steve Lavin, RKalispell, to create a jail suicide prevention program that would aim to better manage “behavioral health risks in detention centers.”

Saturday, January 26 The Lady Griz beat Weber State 61-53 in Ogden, Utah, to tie Montana State for first place in the Big Sky Conference standings.

More than 100 people gathered at the Missoula County Courthouse Monday evening as part of Idle No More’s latest protest. The ongoing Aboriginal movement promotes indigenous sovereignty and environmental protections with grassroots actions throughout the world.

Guns

Sunday, January 27 Two snowmobilers are reported missing when they fail to return home from a trip into the backcountry outside Seeley Lake. A Flathead Search and Rescue helicopter found the men unharmed the next morning.

Monday, January 28 The Missoula City Council unanimously votes to adopt the Municipal Conservation & Climate Action Plan, which will serve as a formal road map toward making municipal operations carbon neutral by 2025.

Tuesday, January 29 The Montana House of Representatives votes 68-31 to send a proposed law that criminalizes driving while under the influence of marijuana to the House Appropriations Committee to determine how much such enforcement would cost.

Second Amendment boycott On Jan. 16, Reed Exhibitions, a UK-based event planner, announced that it would disallow the sale or display of assault rifles at its upcoming Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show, which last year drew more than 1,200 vendors to Harrisburg, Penn. In response, the National Rifle Association called for a boycott. By Jan. 23, Missoula-based Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, along with some 200 other exhibitors, joined the boycott. The event, which touts itself as the “largest of its kind in North America,” was canceled on Jan. 24.

In its original announcement, Reed Exhibitions explained, “...we strongly support the 2nd Amendment … [however] we have made the decision not to include certain products … that would distract from the strong focus on hunting and fishing at this family oriented event.”

RMEF, which was founded in 1984 by four Montana hunters who “wanted to ensure a future for North America’s grandest game animal,” primarily operates as a conservation group. In its 2011 income tax exemption form, RMEF reported $38,102,697 in contributions and grants,

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most of which came from the value of donated conversation easements. On the tax form, RMEF says its mission includes “... conserving habitat, promoting elk management, and educating members on conservation and hunting.”

According to spokesperson Mark Holyoak, it is on behalf of those members that RMEF joined the NRAsparked boycott. “Our members support the Second Amendment, and we represent them,” he says, adding that “Reed Exhibitions is banning legal firearms.”

In the Jan. 24 announcement of the event’s cancellation, Reed Exhibitions President for the Americas Chett Burchett wrote, “It has become very clear to us...that the event could not be held because the atmosphere of this year’s show would not be conducive … to family enjoyment … [A]s the national debate clarifies, we will have an opportunity to consider rescheduling the event when the time is right to focus on the themes it celebrates.”

Even if the “national debate clarifies,” it’s uncertain how many of the boycotting organizations would agree to attend. The damage is potentially already done.

“We’re the same as we always have been” says Holyoak. “They decided to change things up.”

Jamie Rogers

Religion

Faith in lobbying Earlier this month, more than 100 representatives of the Montana Association of Churches rallied in Helena to signal their support for issues reflective of their Christian faith: abolition of the death penalty, the humane treatment of immigrants and child welfare. It was nothing new for MAC—it has been lobbying for issues like health care reform, lowering fossil fuel emissions and public arts funding for decades. But MAC President Rev. Peter Shober acknowledges that in recent years the voices of “progressive” faith-based groups like his have been overshadowed by the religious right.

“You ask the average person on the street for a wellknown religious figure,” he says, “there will not be one non-evangelical named.”

MAC is part of the ecumenical movement, which Shober describes as bringing “the scattered parts of the Christian tradition back into unity.” In all, MAC represents more than 180,000 Montanans from eight denominations and over 550 individual congregations.

Before every legislative session, MAC’s Commission on Church and Society gathers to decide on what issues

[news] MAC will lobby, a decision that it must make unanimously. In 2009 and 2011, MAC only came to consensus on the abolition of the death penalty. This year, the board has added immigration and child welfare to its efforts.

So far, MAC lobbyists have testified against House Bill 50, which seeks to “prohibit immigration sanctuary policies,� and for House Bill 99, which would “appropriate funds to increase participation in the school breakfast program,� among others.

Because MAC will not speak out on issues without unanimous agreement, it does not offer a position on abortion or marriage equality. “It’s a clear, obvious reality that there are differences between our different religious traditions,� Shober says. “Instead of fighting over them, we have just said there’s enough for us to agree on. We need to speak out with one voice.�

MAC has found strength in its adherence to solidarity. But unanimity has also made for a quieter type of advocacy. “[The religious right] has a different kind of culture that is more palatable to the media in America,� he says. “They are louder.�

Jamie Rogers

continue to appeal to state agencies to reduce wolf populations, armed with stories of slaughtered cattle and dead dogs.

It seems the threat status of bison has risen enough to warrant a similar shoot-first mentality. But Jim Kropp, law enforcement director for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, believes HB 249 is a gross overreach. FWP contends that state laws are already strong enough to address the issue of wild bison on private property. Kropp says the bill seems largely a response to a series of whatifs in state bison management, particularly the potential establishment of free-roaming bison herds in northeastern Montana.

Bison

Shoot first, call later The same crosshairs that conservatives once trained on wolves are, in a manner of speaking, now zeroing in on Montana’s wild bison. Ranchers across the state have come out in support of a measure in the 2013 legislative session to allow Montanans to shoot bison that wander onto their private property, citing concerns for their land, their families and their livestock.

State statute already permits landowners to kill bison that pose an imminent threat to private property or human safety. But House Bill 249, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Alan Doane of Bloomfield, takes that right a step further by giving landowners the freedom to “take any action ‌ necessary to protect the private property,â€? provided they alert state officials afterwards.

Doane’s bill also strikes out existing language that refers to wild bison as “publicly owned.� “A free man in a free country on his own deeded property should be able to take whatever action’s necessary—that he deems necessary—to protect himself, protect his family and protect his property,� Doane said last week to the House Agriculture Committee shortly before it passed an amended version of HB 249. Representatives from the Montana Stockgrowers Association, the Montana Farm Bureau Federation and the Montana CattleWomen testified in support of the bill.

In recent years, the arguments favoring wolf delisting and increased hunting have hinged on the threat of predation on livestock herds. Ranchers across Montana

Photo by Chad Harder

Kropp hears the concerns loud and clear. Bison can be destructive on private property, as the species has proven time and again in the greater Yellowstone area over the past several decades. They can even be dangerous. But HB 249, “from its narrowest perspective, it’s just zero tolerance,� Kropp says. And the bill could have serious repercussions beyond wild bison. “This is extremely precedent-setting in terms of all wildlife species,� Kropp says.

Alex Sakariassen

Justice

Fired officer sues county On Jan. 15, former Missoula County Detention Center Officer Warren Soss filed suit against the county alleging wrongful discharge. Soss was fired in November, days after a video camera captured him hitting an inmate approximately 14 times in the head and torso.

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In December, Soss pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault charges filed as a result of the incident. He was sentenced to a six-month deferred sentence.

According to the lawsuit filed this month on Soss’ behalf by Missoula law firm Tipp & Buley, Soss’ termination “was without good cause, and was not for any legitimate business reason.� The lawsuit seeks compensation for lost wages and benefits, court costs and “further relief as may be determined just and equitable by this court.�

Soss had worked for the detention center for roughly 10 years when, on the morning of Nov. 13, he and another officer, Andrew Gaylord, entered inmate Jade Gunhammer’s jail cell. According to court documents, an agitated Gunhammer tried to prevent Soss from removing garbage in his cell and then tried to push past Gaylord. There was a struggle at the cell door before Soss threw Gunhammer back. Gunhammer got up quickly and came at the officers. “Officer Soss then punched Gunhammer with his right fist,� court documents say. Soss hit Gunhammer 10 times on the head and, as Gunhammer covered his face, four times in the torso.

Missoula Deputy Sheriff Detective David Conway investigated the incident. He found that Soss used excessive force, court documents say. “Based on their experience in law enforcement, Deputy Conway and others in the Sheriff ’s Office, do not believe that the amount of force used by Soss was justified ...�

In response to the lawsuit, Missoula County Chief Operating Officer Steve Johnson says that based on the evidence against Soss, it’s clear to him that the Detention Center was justified in its decision to fire him. “Certainly we think there were grounds to terminate his employment,� Johnson says. “Missoula County will be defending its actions and will be arguing that there is no merit.�

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. At his favorite hometown coffee shop, The Break Espresso, Brandon Bryant pushes a sausage biscuit aside and talks about his now public life. He’s ready to move on and keep his days as a drone operator behind him. “I guess I just want people to know that I’m just another guy,� he says. “I’m just here.�

Bryant recently shared his experience as a U.S. Air Force drone operator with a journalist from a German news magazine.

The story was then translated into English and reprinted worldwide, including a recent cover story in the Indy.

Bryant did not have a problem with the original article, but he says some publications took editorial liberties when summarizing his story. The UK’s Daily Mail, for instance, paraphrased a scene where Bryant sees a child walk around the corner of a targeted house seconds before a missile detonation: “... after following orders to shoot and kill a child, [Bryant] knew he couldn’t keep doing what he was doing and quit the military.� “Most places it was fine,� he says. “And other publications butchered the story.�

Since the article went viral, Bryant says he has received mixed feedback. Some people have thanked him for his honesty. Some people, particularly servicemen and women, have ridiculed him. “In the [drone] program you never talked about what you did. Ever,� he says. “I’ve gotten a lot of praise for sharing my experience, and a lot of people have threatened me.�

Bryant seems more focused on his future in Missoula than what people think of his past. A few years ago, he began participating in XSports4Vets, a local program where combat vets participate in adventure sports.

Last summer, he went trike gliding over Flathead Lake. “It was a sense of true freedom,� he says. “You could feel the wind roll your aircraft. I get why people want to be pilots.� It’s something he hopes to do again.

He’s currently coaching wrestling at Big Sky High School, where his grandfather, Lanny Bryant, an inductee in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, is the head coach.

Brandon says he enjoys working with the team and being close to family, but he remains restless. “I’m sort of a ship without a compass right now,� he says. “I’m not sure where I’m headed.�

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Full release Joint resolution considers eliminating state parole board

by Jessica Mayrer

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On Jan. 22, Republican Terry Murphy stood in front of the Montana Legislature’s Senate Judiciary Committee and showed off a green canvas shopping bag stuffed full of slightly crumpled handwritten letters.

“If I had printed out all of the emails,” Murphy told his colleagues, “I would have another sack this size full, plus probably hundreds of hours of conversations.”

Contact Tom at (406) 543-0999 or e-mail him at TOM@TCORRLAW.COM

Murphy’s bag contained complaints against the Montana Department of Corrections, with many grievances specifically targeting the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole. That board is the subject of Senate Joint Resolution 3, which seeks legislative authority to study the parole board and weigh its possible elimination.

“I guess I’m a believer in the old adage,” Murphy told the Judiciary Committee. “Where there’s that much smoke, there has to be a fire someplace.”

Murphy, who began his legislative tenure in 1971, has heard his share of constituent complaints over the years. But he says the criminal justice complaints have bothered him more than most. Now, as Murphy prepares to be termed out of office, he wants to do his part to ensure that Montanans who end up inside the state’s criminal justice system are treated fairly.

“I think this study is very, very important,” he says in an interview with the Independent about SJ 3.

Among the most troubling claims against the parole board, Murphy says, is that it places more strenuous requirements on offenders than sentencing judges.

“The inmates know they’ve done every-

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15 more months in direct supervision, including prison, prerelease centers and treatment programs, than they did in 1988.

As SJ 3 points out, the financial implications of keeping people in jail are significant. According to the bill, the state spends “over $90 per day to incarcerate an offender but only $5 per day to supervise an offender on parole.”

During last week’s judiciary hearing, Montana ACLU Public Policy Director Niki Zupanic and Steve Cape from the Montana Coalition for Safety and Justice were among SJ 3’s supporters.

Cape said that he is especially concerned about the parole board’s autonomy and how it’s impacting the state budget.

“There is no oversight,” Cape said at the hearing.

Parole Board Executive Director Fern Osler told the Independent that the board’s autonomy is essential to maintain the integrity of Montana’s criminal justice system. It’s important to understand, she says, that the board evaluates every case on its individual merits, without respect to political whims or concerns that may Graphic courtesy of Montana Board of Pardons and Parole arise about prison populations. ilies are also angered by the fact that the “The parole board is making good deciboard requires some individuals who sions,” she says. haven’t been convicted of sex crimes to take Board members and staff are keenly sex offender treatment programs as a con- aware of the impact that offenders leave on dition of parole. their victims, Osler says. They’re also If SJ 3 passes and the legislature decides highly cognizant of how the people they to eliminate the seven-member citizen pa- release into society could impact others in role board, the move would constitute a sig- the community. nificant change for the thousands of people Because of the parole board’s caution, under its purview. only 6 percent of those who are returned to As it stands, state law requires offenders prison for parole violations go back because serve 25 percent of court-ordered sen- they committed a new crime, Osler says. tences. Once a prisoner hits the 25-percent (The remainder is technical violations, such threshold, the parole board has the author- as using drugs or alcohol.) ity to release inmates into the community— Osler says that the complaints heard by or have the inmate continue to serve time. the Law and Justice Committee stem from In other words, the board has the power to a relatively small number of people and that keep an inmate eligible for parole after two- to study the oversight body “seems like a and-a-half years serve a full 10. waste of resources.” She told the Senate JuCritics contend the board has too much diciary Committee last week that much of power. It creates its own policies and parole the testimony against the board “was based standards and acts as an autonomous entity on non-factual information.” with no oversight from the Montana DepartOn Jan. 28, the Senate Judiciary Comment of Corrections. mittee unanimously passed SJ 3 out of comAccording to a biennial report released mittee. It must now make its way through by the parole board earlier this month, the the full Senate and House of Representaoversight body is keeping inmates in cus- tives before the study can go forward. tody for increasingly longer terms. In 2011, parole-eligible inmates served an average of jmayrer@missoulanews.com thing the judge told them to do,” Murphy says. “And then, all of a sudden, the parole board is telling them to do a lot more stuff before they can qualify for a parole board hearing.”

Other complaints about the board stem from the assertion that parole hearings are regularly pushed back to later dates, extending prison sentences. Inmates and their fam-

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Land-locked Sportsmen seek definitive answer on corner-crossing

by Alex Sakariassen

A little more than a week ago, the izations in recent years and the apparent growers Association and Montana CattleMontana Sportsmen Alliance launched an support of Kerns, who chairs the Judiciary Women oppose any effort to impose upon unwilling landowners public access across online petition calling on the 2013 Mon- Committee.

“There are a lot of other issues that, in their land.” tana Legislature to pass House Bill 235, a Quatraro doesn’t buy those opposing measure legalizing corner-crossing in the the end, we’re just Montanans,” says Hill, state. The group hoped to see at least some who worked up the bill’s language with arguments, and believes the case for cornerinterest in the petition. But MSA co- three University of Montana law students. crossing has improved steadily since 2005. founder Vito Quatraro was stunned when, “Hunting and sportsmen and public lands— Advances in the reliability and availability of GPS technology have made it easier for by the end of the first day, the group al- a lot of us have a lot in common.” hunters, anglers and hikers to pinpoint ready had nearly 1,000 signatures— corners even on land that isn’t fenced, many from out-of-state supporters he says. And considering the bulk of keen to improve access to public lands. sportsmen already avoid corner-cross“Other states are watching us,” ing for fear of breaking the law, QuaQuatraro says. “If the precedent gets traro feels it’s the law-abiding people, set, you’ll see other states try to bring not the trespassers and poachers, who forth a similar bill. This is not unique are being punished. to Montana.”

“We all support private property In other words, Montana was rights,” Quatraro says. “We don’t want primed this week to be the first state to them violated. But at the same time, answer one of the biggest questions facwe support public property rights. We ing public access in the West: Is cornerdon’t want those violated.” crossing legal, or illegal? But precedent passed us by Wednesday morning; HB Hill takes her skepticism about 235 failed in the House Judiciary Comcorner-crossing opposition a step furmittee with all Republican committee ther. She believes the issue is indicative members—including the bill’s own biof the gentrification of the West over partisan co-sponsor, Laurel Rep. Kraytime. Millionaires have increasingly ton Kerns—voting against the measure. flocked to Montana, snatching up priThe bill’s primary sponsor, Misvate tracts that border public land and Photo by Chad Harder soula Democratic Rep. Ellie Hill, now locking out the public. In an Indy feaintends to blast the bill to the floor of ture on corner-crossing published last Montana’s landscape is a checkerboard of the House and let the entire body de- private and public property, with an esti- July, writer Dameon Matule pointed to cide its immediate fate. mated 1.3 million acres of state and federal Ted Turner’s 22,000-acre Bar None Corner-crossing is sportsmen slang land locked where the public can’t get to Ranch in southwestern Montana as a for the act of accessing a parcel of land them. House Bill 235 could change that, al- prime example. The ranch offers prilowing sportsmen to leapfrog corners by stepping—or, in some cases, fence- where public and private land meet. vate elk hunts on public land for hopping—over the point at which four $14,000. But staff regularly patrol the parcels meet. It’s not as easy as it sounds property and do not allow the public Apparently not. Corner-crossing has to corner-cross onto that same parcel. when you consider Montana’s patchwork of public and private lands; step over private its passionate detractors, the most vocal of Hill believes it’s landowners like Turner property to get to an adjacent piece of fed- which is the Montana Stockgrowers Asso- Enterprises, not the long-established farmers eral or state property and, technically speak- ciation. The issue in many ways represents and ranchers in the state, who have come ing, you’re trespassing. The state currently a standoff between two key themes in the out strongest against efforts like HB 235. has an estimated 1.3 million acres of land- West: private property rights and public ac“To me that’s the tipping point between locked public land that, unless you’re an ad- cess. Opponents contend that HB 235 2005 and now,” Hill says. “Too many people jacent landowner, you can’t get to. And while would have chipped away at private prop- have been affected at this point. It’s not the Montana’s trespassing laws are largely vague erty rights, paving the way for increased same kind of fifth-generation family ranches on the subject, most consider corner-cross- trespassing. If a corner is fenced, landown- and farms anymore. Those guys aren’t the ers posit the public will simply walk to the problem—and certainly, from what I’ve ing illegal.

The legal debate first came to Hill’s at- nearest gate and trespass across their prop- seen, aren’t the ones rattling cages to optention a decade ago. She distinctly remem- erty anyway. pose the bill.”

Ariel Overstreet testified before the bers hanging out in her parents’ restaurant More than anything, Quatraro says the in Idaho, listening to a pair of “old-timers” House Judiciary Jan. 21 on behalf of two sportsmen he represents just wanted a clear just back from a Montana hunting trip be- stockgrower organizations, alleging that HB answer on corner-crossing. The signatures moan their run-in with the sticky nature of 235 was an “erosion” of private property on his group’s petition, which now number corner-crossing. It’s the kind of story you’ll rights guaranteed under the U.S. and Mon- more than 2,160, reveal as much. But HB hear around campfires all over the West, she tana constitutions.

235’s failure in committee this week hasn’t “The majority of people that own land given them one. says. A similar attempt to legalize cornercrossing by then-Rep. Paul Clark failed in in Montana are your neighbors,” she told “I think people just want to know: 2005. Hill felt the chances for success this the committee. “They’re farmers and ranch- Legal or not legal?” time around were significantly better, given ers. They’re people that care about making the increased strength of sportsmen organ- a living off the land...The Montana Stockasakariassen@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Friends with benefits Fiscal cliff deal provides windfall to Baucus donors

by Dan Brooks

As chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus is a powerful voice in Congress. The Montana Democrat’s behavior during last month’s negotiations to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” however, makes us wonder whether he is the ventriloquist or the dummy. Shortly before the cliff deal was finalized, Senate aides inserted a provision that would delay Medicare price controls on a number of kidney dialysis drugs, including Sensipar. When the bill passed, many senators did not even know the earmark had been added.

Amgen knew. Amgen is the world’s largest biotech company and the manufacturer of Sensipar, and it immediately announced its windfall to investors. The delay will cost Medicare $500 million, most of which will go to drug makers. At literally the eleventh hour of negotiations to save the country from fiscal collapse, Baucus found half a billion dollars for the pharmaceutical industry.

It’s possible American taxpayers didn’t need to spend that money. It is possible that Baucus exercised his chairmanship of the Finance Committee with something other than the financial health of the United States in mind.

At the risk of terrifying yourself, consider that Amgen employs 74 registered lobbyists to exert its will on Congress. One of them is Jeff Forbes, Max Baucus’ former chief of staff. You don’t need to dig into personnel records to understand the connection between Baucus and Amgen, though; all you need are campaign finance reports.

Since 2007, Amgen and its PAC have given Baucus approximately $68,000.

That’s a lot of money. Next to $500 million, however, it is also an infuriatingly small amount of money.

I am willing to accept the idea that my senator maintains close connections to the world’s largest biotechnology corporation. I don’t like it, but I am even prepared to compass the notion that he sometimes prioritizes that company over me. Still, I would like to think that such a gross abdication of his duties would cost more than a tricked-out Dodge Ram.

If I had known that the chair of the Senate Finance Committee was on sale for 68 grand, I would have gotten some friends together and bought it myself. If only the voters of Montana had known that $68,000 gets you $500 million from the U.S. Treasury, we might all have contributed 10 cents apiece and become national heroes.

Instead, we re-elected Baucus. We sent him to Washington to ensure that the government of the United States did not suffer some kind of financial/economic collapse,

“He added a half-billion dollar gift to the company that pays his former aides to tell him what to do after he stops paying them to tell him how to stay in office.” and at the very latest possible moment, he did that. He waited until his colleagues in the Senate had worked themselves into a frenzy to reach some kind of deal—any kind of deal—and then he added a half-billion dollar gift to the company that pays his former aides to tell him what to do after he stops paying them to tell him how to stay in office.

Last week, after The New York Times wrote an article about what Baucus and his fellows on Finance had done, the committee issued a press release. It is short enough to be quoted verbatim: “The article in question is a complete mischaracterization of how and why this pol-

icy came together. There was no earmark or provision for just one company. Plain and simple, the provision is smart policy for patients, providers and taxpayers. The bipartisan policy saves taxpayers $5 billion and preserved seniors access to their doctors, while ensuring a lifesaving medical treatment will still be available for vulnerable patients who need it.”

It is true that the earmark provision benefited more than one pharmaceutical company. It is also true that it was bipartisan; Baucus is a Democrat, whereas fellow Amgen cash recipients Mitch McConnell and Orrin Hatch are Republicans. “Plain and simple,” though, I know of no evidence that delaying Medicare price controls saved taxpayers $5 billion, and none has been offered.

Those of us who enjoy the plain and simple will have to content ourselves with the Congressional Budget Office, which stubbornly insists that continuing to pay more for dialysis drugs actually costs money.

We will have to weigh their word—and their actual numbers—against the “plain and simple” claims of the Finance Committee.

We know that Baucus took that $68,000 from Amgen. We know that in December, Amgen pleaded guilty to fraudulently marketing an anemia drug and paid the Justice Department $762 million—a record settlement for a biotech company. We know that at the beginning of this year, the Finance Committee let the Senate unwittingly spend $500 million to delay Medicare cost controls on one particular class of drug.

Against this evidence, we have Baucus’ oath to well and faithfully discharge the duties of his office. He said that he would look out for Montanans and steward the finances of the United States. Maybe he did that, and maybe this expensive windfall for his campaign contributor really is “smart policy.” I don’t know, but I wish Sen. Baucus would give me something more convincing than his word.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, consumer culture and lying at combatblog.net editor@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Space invaders Our national parks need room to breathe

by Daniel B. Botkin and Alfred Runte

In just three short years, the National Park Service will celebrate its 100th birthday.

In anticipation, on Aug. 25 of last year the agency released a report prepared by a special advisory committee on the role of science in the parks. That report called for more support of science, more scientists on park staffs and a scientific oversight committee.

We have nothing against science, but these recommendations miss an essential point. Not even science can save national parks if we neglect and lose their fundamental asset, which is open space.

Up to now, America’s sheer size and stunning scenery made it relatively easy for us to create spacious parks. The founding fathers challenged Europe’s treasured art and architecture by touting the unrivaled natural beauty of North America. In that spirit, America’s first national parks— Yosemite and Yellowstone—were established as “monuments to a living antiquity.”

Later, when other values evolved and were added to these parks, each was large enough to accommodate them.

By the 1910s, scientists recommended that the national parks serve the country’s vanishing wildlife as well as its remarkable scenery. “To the natural charm of the landscape (animals) add the witchery of movement,” wrote Joseph Grinnell and Tracy I. Storer, both zoologists with the University of California. But without generous open space—now recognized as habitat—no amount of science could have elevated wildlife into “an asset” of national parks.

For 50 years, Grinnell’s students— many of them in Park Service uniform— taught about the importance of wildlife. Finally, in 1963, the distinguished Leopold Committee, headed by the zoologist A. Starker Leopold, completed what Grinnell had started. Beyond landscape, “the biotic associations within each park (should) be

maintained, or where necessary recreated,” the committee reaffirmed. In short: “A national park should represent a vignette of primitive America.”

At the time, going back centuries to suspend natural processes may have seemed like good science. Now, we know that nothing about nature is permanent or perfectible. However, the Leopold Committee was onto something in its term, “a vignette of primitive America.” Observing changes in those vignettes and monitoring them scientifically would certainly require open space.

“Is it good science to disrupt the open space inside our national parks for our new technologies?”

Today, preservation of that space remains a critical need. As climate changes occur, how can we provide habitat for endangered species and maintain migration corridors? Moreover, as the human population increases, open space outside public lands decreases. Is it good science to disrupt the open space inside our national parks for our new technologies—cellphone towers, for example? How can the parks serve as locations for environmental research and the exploration of new genotypes while also being asked to accept new distractions purely in order to entertain visitors?

The disciplined maintenance of open space against development is still a national

park’s greatest challenge. On that score, national parks have expanded to include the importance of many other “vignettes,” including those of our national history.

Among our 398 national park areas, there are 25 battlefields (nine known as military parks), 46 historical parks and 78 historic sites, places that can claim neither geological monuments of wonder nor major opportunities for viewing wildlife.

In each, open space is often the critical asset. As historians note, Gettysburg National Military Park is no longer the “exact” battlefield of July 1863. The town in particular has grown, and preserving the open space surrounding it remains the key to preserving the park today. Without that first bout of discipline, as it were, no amount of current efforts to restore the battlefield to its approximate appearance 150 years ago would matter. The entire “vignette” would be gone.

Vision seldom arises from any committee; it is rather serendipitous and comes from the heart. This underscores why the national park idea has a heart so bold and true, and why 187 countries around the world have followed our brand of heartfelt “discipline.” Science is important and instructs us about what we should and should not do to the land. Our gift to the world, however, is open space, as defined by space itself. If we lose that, we lose everything grand about the national parks, no matter how many new scientists we hire.

The writers are contributors to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). A lifelong naturalist, Daniel Botkin’s latest book is The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered. Alfred Runte, an environmental historian, is the author of National Parks: The American Experience.

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PRE-SINNER WINNER - The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that bosses could fire workers they see as an “irresistible attraction,” even if the employees haven’t engaged in flirtatious behavior or made other advances. The case involved a dentist who fired an assistant that he and his wife decided was a threat to their marriage. (Associated Press) TOO MUCH OF A BAD THING - Doctors at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank, Scotland, saved a man who overdosed on Brussels sprouts on Christmas. They said the traditional holiday vegetable contains plenty of vitamin K, which counteracted the effect of anticoagulants the man was taking because he had a mechanical heart. “We think this is possibly the first-ever admission to hospital caused by the consumption of Brussels sprouts,” hospital chief executive Jill Young said. (BBC News) SECOND AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Police revoked the concealed-carry permit of Gary Quackenbush, 61, after he wriggled in his seat while watching a movie in Tillamook, Ore., and shook loose a loaded weapon. A seventh-grade student found the weapon the next day with a round in the chamber and the safety off. “In a time of crisis, like somebody barging into a mall or a theater, you don’t have time to do a two-handed cocking of the weapon,” Quackenbush explained in a brief letter to the local news media after the incident. “It is my mindset everywhere I go.” His letter noted that the movie, The Hobbit, was “overly long and fairly boring.” (Associated Press) While being chased by police officers in Binghamton, N.Y., Robert Garcia, 20, fired wildly over his shoulder at them and accidentally shot himself in the head. (Associated Press)

HAZARDS OF MODERN LIVING - The number of people seeking hospital treatment after consuming energy drinks has doubled in the past four years, according to a government survey, jumping to an estimated 20,000 cases. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said most cases involved teens and young adults. “A lot of people don't realize the strength of these things,” Howard Mell, an emergency physician in suburban Cleveland, said. “I had someone come in recently who had drunk three energy drinks in an hour, which is the equivalent of 15 cups of coffee.” (Associated Press) Falling furniture killed 349 Americans between 2000 and 2011, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC. It estimated that tipped-over items, mostly television sets, injure about 43,000 people a year, 59 percent of whom are children climbing, hitting or kicking them or playing nearby. “Small children are no match for a falling dresser, wall unit or 50- to 100-pound television,” the CPSC said.

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CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION - After Lynette Lee told police in Clarksville, Tenn., that a man she met online raped her, she admitted lying. The investigating detective reported she said they’d been on a date and had consensual sex, but she claimed rape because “she did not enjoy it, and it was bad.”

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DRINKING-CLASS HERO - Police at the scene of a fatal accident in Oklahoma City arrested Thomasine Harjo, 25, after she drove past officers and crime scene tape. Several officers tried to get her to stop, but she ignored them and nearly hit one of them. When she finally stopped, officers smelled alcohol, but she denied drinking. When they asked her why she didn’t stop when she saw the barricade, she told them she was following the car in front of her, although no other vehicle was in the area. When they arrested Harjo, she said she couldn’t go to jail because she had to appear in court the next morning for driving under the influence. (Oklahoma City’s KOTV-TV) BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY - After a third-grade student at a school outside Calgary was found unconscious, stuck in the door of a washroom stall with a lanyard around his neck, Alberta authorities banned lanyards in all its 2,000 schools. The lanyards were used for hall passes, washroom passes and identification. (The Calgary Herald) After a girl at an elementary school in Okaloosa County, Fla., claimed a boy in her class had a gun in his hoodie, officials locked down the school. Sheriff’s deputies quickly responded, only to discover the alleged weapon was a marker pen inside the boy’s cap. (Florida’s Crestview News Bulletin)

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Heather and Dan Fredeberg had a whirlwind marriage. Heather watched the man she was seeing shoot and kill Dan three days before their second wedding anniversary.

“I’m not scared.

I have a gun.”

Brice Harper fatally shot the unarmed husband of the woman he was seeing. Montana law made sure he was never charged.

by Jamie Rogers

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arlier in the day of Sept. 22, 2012, Dan and Heather Fredenberg were once again feeling in love. Their second wedding anniversary was three days away, and though their first two years of marriage were turbulent, the couple woke up that day gushing. From the morning shift at the drive-thru coffee hut where she worked, Heather texted Dan: “Hey baby have i told you lately how much i love you?!...Thank you for always being by my side.!”

Dan received the text message at the shop where he refurbished classic cars for resale. That day he was prepping a 1978 Z28 Camaro for a new engine. He responded, “Thank u beautiful. I wish u knew how deeply I love u even though i cant always show it.”

They made plans to meet after Heather got off work to lower the engine into the Camaro’s front end.

Even if things had happened differently that night, there is reason to believe their marriage would still be over. Members of Dan’s family say their union was on an inexorable path toward dissolution.

Heather had already disclosed her relationship with another man to Dan, and Dan had expressed to his father that things were coming apart. But what happened on and in the weeks following the night of Sept. 22 make up the sort of tragedy that transcends reason. Hours after exchanging text messages, Dan would say his final words to Heather as he crumpled to the floor of an empty garage: “Call 911.”

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Six days later, Sept. 28, Flathead County issued Dan’s death certificate. It read: “Date of Birth: 09/19/72; Spouse: Heather Fredenberg; Manner of Death: Homicide; Date and Time of Injury: September 22, 2012 20:38 Military; Describe How Injury Occurred: Victim was shot multiple times by his wife’s boyfriend.”

On Oct. 9, Flathead County Prosecutor Ed Corrigan issued a press release. Corrigan concluded: “I am acutely aware that the Fredenberg family and others believe this matter should be presented to a jury and strongly disagree with the position I am taking. I am, however, ethically precluded from charging an individual with an offense, particularly Deliberate Homicide, when I do not believe the ev-

idence and the law will support a conviction.

“For these reasons, I am declining to charge Brice Harper with Deliberate or Mitigated Homicide.”

In his decision, Corrigan invoked a law updated in 2009 by the Montana State Legislature often referred to as the Castle Doctrine. The law gives a homeowner the right to use lethal force if the individual “reasonably believes” force will “terminate the other’s unlawful entry into or attack upon an occupied structure.” The “wife’s boyfriend,” Brice Harper, was released from police custody 10 hours after fatally shooting an unarmed Dan. By the time an ambulance arrived, Dan lay in a pool of blood on the concrete floor of Harper’s garage, already dying.

“Let’s get married” Dan Fredenberg met Heather King at Copper Mountain Coffee, a drive-up coffee shack in Kalispell. She had tan skin, glossed lips and blackcherry hair that escaped its bands by the end of her shift. When she handed Dan his 20-ounce mocha with whipped cream, they allowed the moment to linger. After a few months, Dan asked Heather for her number. She wrote it on the back of a receipt.

Dan texted her a week later.

In mid-September 2010, after a few months of dating, Dan was putting the finishing touches on a silver 1970 Corvette with black racing stripes. He’d already invested some $60,000 in the Corvette. He planned to trailer the car to Las Vegas for the Barrett-Jackson auto auction where he thought he’d get his greatest return on investment. The day he was set to leave, a doctor told Heather she would be having twins. She was crying when she called Dan. He invited her to Las Vegas.

On Sept. 25, 2010, the Corvette sold for $30,000 at auction. Hours later, in the hotel elevator, his mind liquid with tequila and debt and the prospect of fatherhood, Dan turned to Heather.

“Let’s get married,” he said.

Friends and family of the couple agree Dan and Heather were genuinely in love with one another, but their love came with baggage. Dan complained that Heather was unreliable. Heather felt that Dan drank too much and spent inordinate time and money on his cars. She said that Dan was abusive with her. She admits that she was abusive with him.

Dan’s father and former Kalispell police detective, Ron Fredenberg, remembers Heather was emotional and would suddenly, hysterically become unhinged.

Dan, he says, struggled to handle the pressures of a new family. “The real problem,” Ron Fredenberg remembers, “was Heather was 21 going on 15. Dan was 40 going on 25.” (Dan turned 40 three days before he was shot. Heather was 22.)

Tammy Kampf, Dan’s cousin, remembers Dan as a “big kid” who loved practical jokes. “He was just always smiling,” she says. “He just had a look when he was up to something.” She remembers Dan, who even in middle age had the stickish physique of a 10th grader, used to wear a mullet hairdo to “hide his skinny neck.”

Ron Fredenberg and Kampf both remember Dan drinking often, but struggle to recount instances of excess. Ron Fredenberg recalls Dan getting in two fights in his life, one which he lost decisively (he was sent to the hospital), and one which he “probably lost.” Heather’s own recollections of Dan’s behavior can be difficult to dissect. “I saw a side of Dan that most people probably never saw … He would … strangle me, choke me. He’d tackle me or bite me or slap me across the face,” she remembers. “But he was also a very gentle person, you know? He hated confrontation.”

According to Heather, their relationship troubles came to a head one night in mid-July 2012. After work, Heather called Dan. She left him messages.

No response. She picked up their infant twins from a friend’s house and called Dan again. Still no response. The evening became night and she began to worry. She drove out to a garage where Dan sometimes worked and drank beer. She called the police station, the hospital. He was nowhere. That night, Heather remembers, she decided something would have to change. Around 12:30 a.m., Dan returned home “drunker than hell.” They fought. She gave him an ultimatum: Dan would straighten out or she’d “start looking for someone else.”

A few days later, Heather says, she met Brice Harper.

“I see it now” Since the night of Sept. 22, Harper has been difficult to track down. He has never spoken to a reporter and, because he was never charged with a crime, his testimony of what happened that night has been sealed from public view. What is known is that Harper was 24 when he met Heather at Copper Mountain Coffee. He was an employee of Franz Bakery, a company for which his father is the Spokane office’s general manager. In photos, he appears to be thick-set, like a fullback, with short-cropped dust-colored hair. In Kalispell, he would be difficult to pick out of a line-up.

Heather met Harper the same way she met Dan— he bought coffee from her. Heather would write him love notes on the back of receipts. Harper would call her after work and they would drive around for a few hours before Heather had to return home. “He had a lot going for him,” she says. “He had a good job. He gave me a lot of attention.”

When she met Harper, Heather disclosed the relationship to Dan. A mutual friend of the couple, who has requested to remain anonymous, said that Dan was upset by the relationship, but understood his role in pushing Heather away.

Heather has maintained that she and Harper never had sex.

One day, driving through an open field west of Kalispell, Harper asked Heather if she wanted to “do something crazy.” He pulled over to the side of the road and reached under the truck’s seat. He held a pistol.

Heather had never shot a gun, and as she wrapped her hand around the grip, she felt like a criminal. She remembers the exhilaration of the detonation. “It hurt my ears,” she says.

After several weeks, Harper started to make Heather nervous. One day, she received a text message from Harper asking what she was doing. She responded that she was at a work meeting at a local restaurant. A few minutes later Harper appeared at the restaurant.

Then, on Aug. 19, Heather and Dan went to the raceway north of Kalispell. Heather was trying to distance herself from Harper, and things with her husband were showing signs of improvement. “Dan was really trying,” she says. “I don’t think I saw it then, but I see it now.”

After the race, in the parking lot, Heather noticed a guy sitting in a pickup truck with the engine running.

She knew that Harper had gotten a new truck, but wasn’t sure what it looked like. She pointed him out to Dan. Driving back to town, the pickup truck began tailgating Dan and Heather before accelerating past them and disappearing. Twenty minutes later, Dan and Heather were at Fatt Boys Bar & Grille drinking beer with friends. Heather noticed Harper sitting across the bar. She told Dan. They ignored him.

Around last call, Heather went outside for a cigarette. Harper followed her. She says she told him to leave her alone. Dan came outside and confronted Harper. She heard Harper say, “I just wanted to make sure she’s all right.”

Dan responded that Heather was his wife and he would take care of her. Heather remembers Dan saying, “Let’s go,” as if he wanted to fight. Harper responded, “I’ll blow your fucking head off.”

A bouncer told the men that there would be no fighting.

“Oh my God, that’s Dan” Empire Loop corrals a tract of flat land and cookie-cutter duplexes northwest of downtown Kalispell. The lawns are all tightly cropped, the pavement is smooth and the cross streets are named for icons of American money-making: Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller and, because there was still one more street to name, Trump.

On Sept. 22, Brice Harper was moving out of his duplex near the intersection of Empire and Vanderbilt. He was preparing to move to Idaho the next morning and spent the day loading furniture and boxes into a rented storage unit. Sometime before noon, he texted Heather to ask if she would help him clean after she got off work.

Around the same time, Heather texted Dan the sort of love notes they had exchanged in the early months of their rela-

tionship, but their rediscovered adoration quickly turned sour. Her Tahoe was making a strange sound and after agreeing to help him put the engine in the Camaro she asked Dan if he could fix her SUV. Dan said he needed to finish the work on his Camaro. A fight ensued. Dan texted: “Every day u have some reason 2 throw a fit n make it impossible 4 me 2 do what i need 2 get done.

When this car is done i will help u with ur car.”

Heather responded: “Im just so stressed and i have put so much money in the last week towards the camaro and i still haven’t gotten anything i need done. Im out of money and im scared sorry...”

That afternoon, Heather brought their twin boys to Harper’s house. The duplex was close to empty.

“All the furniture was out of the house. There was some small stuff, pictures…”, she says. She remembers seeing a gun on Harper’s bedroom windowsill.

At some point, after Harper had ordered pizza from Domino’s and Heather fed the twins, she checked her phone, which was hooked up to a wall charger. She was surprised to find the phone’s power off. When she turned it on, Heather had received two text messages from Dan: “Its getn late. Ill c if jerry is home. I should have had the motor in by now.” And: “Now its 8…Cant you ever do what u say u will without screwing wit me!”

Heather says she called Dan at 8:23. He told her he was driving around looking for her. He asked her if she was with Harper. She didn’t answer. Dan hung up.

Heather then asked Harper to drive around the block with her to diagnose the sound her Tahoe was making. They strapped the twins into their car seats and started down the street. Heather noticed headlights in the rearview mirror. She said, “Oh my God, that’s Dan.” Dan had never been to Harper’s house, and she didn’t understand how he had found them.

She remembers Harper responded, “I’m not scared. I have a gun.”

Heather pulled up to the curb in front of Harper’s house. His garage door was open and Heather says she told him to go inside, close the garage and lock the door. She drove away, but only made it a few hundred yards when she saw Dan stop in front of Harper’s house. She immediately turned around. By the time she stopped in front of the driveway, Dan was in the garage pointing a finger at Harper, who was standing in the elevated threshold to the laundry room. Heather says that’s when Harper pointed the gun at Dan and shot him in the stomach.

At about 8:35 p.m., Laura Bachman, a certified

nursing assistant, and her sisterin-law, Monica Schultz, were smoking cigarettes outside their house when they heard the gun shot. They both recall a five-second pause followed by two more shots.

They heard Heather’s screaming and ran toward the garage, its light casting a glow into the twilight.

“There was a man laying on the ground face down, head turned to the right with one arm above his head. And there was another man standing in the doorway just staring at him,” Bachman remembers.

She found some cleaning rags and began applying pressure to what would end up being the exit wound of the first and ultimately fatal shot. Later, it would be clear that Harper’s first shot hit Dan in the stomach, the second in the chest and the third grazed his face. Bachman says Dan was unresponsive and blood was pooling on the floor of the garage.

When the two women had arrived, Bachman says Harper just said, “He was coming at me, he was coming at me.” Then Harper went back into the house before reappearing in the threshold. He didn’t have a gun in his hand. Bachman asked, “Who shot him?”

“I did,” Harper responded. “He deserved it.”

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Today, most states have some version of Castle Doctrine legislation, and those that do not, like Vermont, uphold a citizen’s right to self-defense through case law. There are two basic degrees of Castle Doctrine law; one that gives the homeowner the right to use justifiable force in defense of his home, and another that extends that right to use force in defense of one’s self, so long as that person is in a public place or otherwise lawfully located. (These laws are often referred to as “Stand Your Ground” or “Make My Day” laws.)

Montana, along with 23 other states, falls into the latter category.

State Rep. Krayton Kerns introduced the revision of Montana’s Castle Doctrine law to the 2009 state legislature. The old law said that individuals could utilize deadly force only if someone entered their house in a “violent, riotous, or tumultuous manner.” The 2009 bill struck that language and gave individuals license to use lethal force if they “reasonably believe” they are about to be assaulted. The law also shifted the burden of proof to the prosecution. Kerns feels the law resolves inadequacies in law enforcement’s ability to respond to threats. “You’re always at the mercy of law enforcement,” he says. “The duty to retreat and dial 911 is your only recourse. And there may be times, maybe a lot of times, maybe most times, where that’s not enough. I think it’s essential to a free society.”

Since 2009, Montana has seen several cases bring the issue of self defense into play, the outcomes exposing a legal margin fettered with uncertainty. On July 7, 2009, outside Roundup, Bobby Cooksey shot and killed his neighbor, Tracy Lee Beardslee, with a high-powered rifle from his yard. The men had previously disputed over property lines and land use. Beardslee was trimming grass when Cooksey shot him. Cooksey was charged with deliberate homicide. During the trial, Cooksey testified that Beardslee had threatened to kill him. “I had to protect my wife and myself,” he said. A psychologist who had evaluated Cooksey diagnosed him with an anxiety disorder. The psychologist testified, “I think [Cooksey] saw a big angry man who threatened his life.”

Before sentencing Cooksey to 50 years in prison, Musselshell County District Judge Randal Spaulding told Cooksey, who was 68 at the time, that when he took Beardslee’s life, “you effectively took your own.”

Less than a year later, 50 miles down Highway 87, another claim of self-defense produced a very different result. On Aug. 10, 2010, at a Billings Walmart, store employees Craig Schmidt and Danny Lira got into an altercation over an extended break Lira took while working at the loading dock. Reports of the incident say that Schmidt bumped into Lira’s shoulder, which Lira took as an invitation to fight. Lira, who was 5’10” and 260 pounds, punched and shoved Schmidt, who was 6’2” and 141 pounds.

Heather worked at Copper Mountain Coffee, where Dan Fredenberg and Brice Harper were both regular customers .

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Schmidt took out his concealed .25-caliber pistol and shot Lira in the forehead.

According to Montana law, Yellowstone County Attorney Dennis Paxinos needed to determine whether Schmidt believed his life was threatened before charging or not charging him. In his decision, Paxinos wrote, “This case is difficult because of the obvious disparity of force between punches and a firearm. But, after careful consideration of the facts, we conclude Mr. Schmidt’s use of force was justified under Montana law.”

“I was crazy that night” Ed Corrigan’s Oct. 9 press release offers scant glimpses into a police investigation that has been otherwise sealed from public view. Through the lens of Corrigan’s decision, Harper’s side of the story comes into peripheral focus. Harper, who declined to comment for this story, told police that he knew Dan “wanted to kick his ass (sic).” Corrigan also quotes Harper as saying that Dan “was charging at him (sic), like he was on a mission,” and that he “was scared for his (sic) life.”

In a summation of the evidence, Corrigan wrote: “Given the relationship between Heather and Brice which was known to Dan, the prior confrontation at Fatt Boys, the manner in which Dan entered the garage, Dan’s obvious anger, Brice’s belief that Dan wanted to ‘kick his ass,’ and Dan’s refusal to stop when ordered to do so, Brice’s belief that Dan intended to assault him was a reasonable one. Heather herself was of the opinion that Dan would have assaulted Brice had he been allowed the opportunity to do so.”

The Fredenberg family disagrees with Corrigan’s decision.

They feel the investigation lacked depth and transparency, and that the police treated the case as a forgone conclusion. Ron Fredenberg, Dan’s father, believes charging Harper with homicide was never an option for Corrigan. He says the night Dan died, Chief of Police Roger Nasset and Sgt. Allen Bardwell, the latter a former colleague of Fredenberg, came to his house to tell him Dan had been shot to death. Fredenberg asked where the shooter was.

They told him Harper was at the police station. Fredenberg asked what he would be charged with. Bardwell said he didn’t know if charges would be brought. Fredenberg says Bardwell recommended a civil suit for wrongful death. Fredenberg believes the investigation was “over before it began.” Roger Nasset does not recall the specifics of this conversation.

Though the entire investigation has been sealed, documents obtained by the Independent offer a partial picture of the information Corrigan used to make his decision.

At 9:45 p.m. on Sept. 22, an hour after the shooting, Kalispell

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Police Officer Doug Overman interviewed Heather. In a summary of the interview, which Corrigan appears to quote from in his press release, Overman outlines a conversation in which Heather says that Harper was a “very responsible person,” and that she saw her husband get shot from the driver’s seat of her car. Overman also writes, “Heather was extremely distraught and at times had difficulty talking to me.” At one point in the interview Overman writes that, “Heather has many utterances … of various ability to understand.”

The summary makes no mention of Harper threatening Dan at Fatt Boys or saying the night of Dan’s death, “I’m not scared. I have a gun.”

Heather claims that she was never read her Miranda rights. She says she was not contacted by the police again, but felt desperate to tell her story. “I was crazy that night,” she says about the night of her interview. Four days later, Sept. 26, Heather handed in a written witness statement to the Kalispell police. She outlined what she considered warning signs that predicted the shooting, the most startling of which having Dan Fredenberg and Brice Harper argued at Fatt Boys Bar and Grille a month before Harper shot Fredenberg. Heather says she heard to do with what was said that August night at Fatt Boys.

Brice say, “I’ll blow your fucking head off.”

Photo by Chad Harder Heather isn’t the only one confused by the investigation. The night of the shooting, Laura Bachman asked a police officer if he wanted her statement since she and Throughout the hearing, Heather was predictably new best: Bentley, for the luxury car manufacturer, Overman: “Yes.” Monica Shultz were the first responders. The officer Rhoades: “Has Mrs. Fredenberg reported to you overmatched by Harper’s legal team. She called no and Paxton, for Paxton superchargers. handed her a piece of paper and a pen, but disappeared any subsequent threats made by Brice Harper to her witnesses and her cross-examination of Overman was Heather doesn’t live in Kalispell anymore. before she could return it. She says she left messages or her family?” circular and brief. At times, she would respond to Today, she and the twins share a duplex with with the detectives assigned to the case. Three days later Overman: “We did speak the next night [Septem- questions inaudibly.

Heather’s mother in a different Montana town. She a detective responded and invited her to the station. ber 23] in the lobby of the Kalispell Police DepartIn the end, Judge Ortley declined to continue the plans to go back to school, maybe to become a den“[The detective] just asked me what I saw…” she says, ment and at that point she did share some concerns order of protection. Harper never took the stand. tist. The twins are growing quickly—their eyes tiny “and he didn’t record it or write anything down.” When with me.” suggestions of their late father. They’ve mastered she heard that Harper wouldn’t be charged, her reacRhoades: “And did you report—make a police rewalking. Now they are practicing the forward-falling tion was singular: “I was shocked.” port of that—of that concern?” leg churning that eventually becomes running.

Corrigan’s press release makes no mention of Ron Fredenberg lives in a small ranch-style house Overman: She didn’t specficially outline any parDan’s cousins have set up a Facebook page to Heather’s second witness statement, which he says he ticular threats…so I did not.” not far from the Flathead County Courthouse. He is raise awareness of what they perceive as the injusreceived “a week later,” after Heather was already the tall with a graying beard and a handshake that feels tice that has befallen their family. The page’s wall is subject of “considerable public scrutiny.” He makes no consciously gentle. He talks about Dan affectionately littered with commentary railing against Corrigan, mention of the other witnesses that night—that one of and realistically, speaking unequivocally of against the Castle Doctrine, against Harper. There is them had heard Brice Harper say that Dan “deserved Dan’s love for his children and his less-than- also a Change.org petition called “Danny Fredenit.” Nor does it mention that Harper was moving the stellar work ethic. berg: Bring charges against the man who murdered next day and that his house was mostly empty save for After the shooting, Ron asked Heather if she him.” The petition is bannered with a photo of Dan a Smith and Wesson M&P .40-caliber semi-automatic would submit to a polygraph test. He asked her sitting in the driver’s seat of a car, smiling coyly. pistol. Or that Dan was shot first in the stomach, and questions about her relationship with Harper, On Nov. 19, Dan’s step-mother, Liz, wrote a letthen after a pause, in the chest and the face. about the night Dan died—obvious questions “that ter. Part catharsis, part exposition, the handwritten After the shooting, Heather filed a temporary everyone was asking.” He says she passed the test. note was given to the Independent by Liz’s husband, order of protection against Harper. On Oct. 24, DisAccording to Ron, there are members of the Ron Fredenberg. It opens: trict Judge David M. Ortley heard Heather’s case to Fredenberg family who have “convicted Heather “Sitting here looking at my son’s stuff. Not much make the order permanent. Harper was repre20 times over.” “Ninety-five percent of the people here. Few pictures, lots of cards, T-shirt, pants and sented by Missoula-based attorney Quentin I talk to think it was her almost as much as it was his slip-ons. Here is a box with his name on it. You Rhoades. Heather represented herself.

Brice,” he says. “The way I see it, Dan loved her, he open it and there are ashes [and] bones crushed and When Heather talks about what happened she may have been fed up with her … but that doesn’t a number. You don’t know how hard this is. My heart progresses through an emotional spectrum: tears mean he didn’t love her.” is breaking. turn to anger, anger to remorse, remorse beToday, Fredenberg’s grief is complicated not by “In my purse I pack his cell phone and his piccomes self-forgiveness, and forgiveness becomes Harper’s freedom, but by a decision left to one man, ture ID card…He didn’t deserve to die.” momentary clarity, which again, returns her to Ed Corrigan, that may have been better left to the proAfter his death, Dan’s cellphone was released to tears. It makes conversations with her compliceedings of a trial. “The [Castle Doctrine] law isn’t as Ron and Liz, not Heather. In the days following the cated, sometimes frustrating, and easier to disbad as Corrigan is making it out to be,” he says, “[but] shooting, as the dust settled, Liz found a text mesregard than dissect—a quality that does not Ed is trying to be God, the judge and the jury.” sage in Dan’s “Sent” folder. look good under courtroom lights, and may The facts are not in question. Harper killed Dan. It is unclear where Dan was when he sent his explain why her full statements have not been But self-defense law can be more alchemy than final text message to Heather. It’s possible he had taken into consideration. At the October hearphysics, the precedents hiding in a gray margin. In an already found her black Tahoe. Maybe he could aling, when Rhoades called Officer Overman interview with the Independent, Corrigan seemed ready see his wife in the car in front of his, make out Heath to the witness stand, the issue of Heather’s aware of the complications. In typical deliberate her shape next to the man who a few minutes later er and text m Dan Fr credibility simmered as a subtext. e e homicide cases, he said, it’s his job to prove that an would kill him. Or maybe their silhouettes were lost hours ssages hour denberg ar gu before s Rhoades: “Did you report in that poindividual knowingly pulled the trigger. But when in the wash and glare of his own high-beams.

Dan’s before Dan’s ed via death. death. lice report [Heather] mentioning Brice self-defense comes into play, he needs to prove that But like so much of this story, the truth is Harper threatening Dan Freedenberg (sic) the individual’s reason for pulling the trigger was not opaque—clouded in the retellings of the people with a firearm?” justified. “I’m not saying [Harper] was morally justi- who were there.

Overman: “I—I believe the only conversation I Minutes before he was shot, Dan wrote to Rhoades: “And on the 23rd, did she tell you about any fied,” he said, “… but it was in a legal sense.” recall is just prior to Brice entering his residence—he threats Brice Harper had made toward Dan Fredenberg?”

Heather, “…U wonder why im so fd up? I told u I mentioned having a firearm.” had a feeling in my gut and that explains a lot. U can Overman: “I—I don’t have a specific recollection Rhoades: “Okay. So that was on the 22nd when of that conversation.” move away with ur number one.”

Brice Harper had a firearm.”

On April 3, 2011, Heather gave birth to twins.

Heather says she never received the message.

Rhoades: “Would that have been important with Overman: “Correct.”

Dan was thrilled to add a pair of boys to his family, respect to your investigation?”

Rhoades: “She talked about that.” and he suggested names inspired by the world he jrogers@missoulanews.com Overman: “I—sure.”

“God, judge and jury”

“My heart is breaking”

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[arts]

Good feeling Jeff Medley gets into the Mister Rogers spirit with Won’t You Be My Neighbor

by Erika Fredrickson

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hen I walk through the door of musician was a former Navy Seal and his arms were covered in his total lack of pessimism made him seem weird at up the record at a flea market when he was 10 years Josh Farmer’s house, actor Jeff Medley is tattoos–a rumor that was dispelled during an episode times. His innocent songs, some of which have anti- old and he and his younger brother played it conin the middle of singing the Mister Rogers where Rogers goes swimming. Other rumors are more quated turns of phrase, could easily be misconstrued stantly, even when Medley was discovering rock and song “You’re Growing,” as Farmer plays along on the unkind, such as that he was a child molester, and that into innuendo–”if your mind is already in the gutter,” roll. Later, he watched the YouTube video of Rogers defending PBS to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee in piano. While still singing, Medley gets up and ushers his character Mr. McFeely hinted at that past. There’s a adds Medley.

But that was never on Medley’s mind. He picked 1969 where, in his distinctly calming voice, he says, mystery surrounding him, if for no other reason that me in politely, without missing a beat.

“One of the first things a healthy child Like Fred Rogers did during every learns in a family is trust,” and goes on to episode of his iconic children’s program, I put his trust in the subcommittee to suptake off my shoes and sweater and settle port children’s programming. And so, for down onto the couch. “You used to creep Medley, unearthing the album and doing and crawl real well, but then you learned to a tribute to that childhood artifact meant walk real well,” Medley sings. “There was a doing it without making fun of it, without time you’d coo and cry. But then you any extra twists. learned to talk and, my!” Medley now diBesides musicians accompanying the rects the song to Jude, the dog, who apperformance, artist Jack Metcalf has crepears to be happily mesmerized by Medley’s ated puppets from the Neighborhood of calming eye contact. On the couch next to Make-Believe including X the Owl, Lady me, Roger Moquin is the sole rhythm secElaine Fairchild, Henrietta Pussycat and tion, slapping brushes on a hand drum.

Daniel Striped Tiger. Actress Lily GladWhen the song ends, Medley says a few stone makes an appearance. Medley enwords about growing up and then transicourages children to attend. The tions to the next number, a kind of awkward performance will include an intermission one called “I’m Going to Marry Mom.” By that happens at the point where the 1961 the time he’s finished singing the outro, record is flipped over.

“Such a Good Feeling,” Medley’s repeated The songs, strange as they are, will the entire 1981 Mister Rogers album Won’t probably make an impression on adults You Be My Neighbor verbatim. and children alike with lyrics like “the very If you’d forgotten about the Neighborsame people who are good sometimes are hood of Make-Believe, you remember now. the very same people who are bad someThere isn’t a cynical bone in the room. times,” and “It’s you I like, whether you Medley and Farmer have been working live in a dark house or a light house.” But on a theatrical version of the album for two it’s Medley’s careful rendering–walking years now–backburnering it for other projthat fine line between playfulness and revects before finally readying it for performance erence–that makes this project so interin front of an audience. Medley is a lanky esting. actor with a thin, handsome face featuring “One of the catalyzing factors was arched eyebrows and a ski-slope nose. He hearing Rufus Wainwright’s 2007–I think can easily look fantastically villainous in a way I borrowed it from the library in 2008 or Tim Burton would drool over. When he first 2009–tribute to Judy Garland, Rufus Does made the Mister Rogers project public, he reJudy at Carnegie Hall, recreating a faceived mixed reactions of excitement and mous 1961 concert/double album,” Medtrepidation. One person worried that the ley says. “I would be the first to admit I am performance would be a parody, a sort of very far from Rufus and Fred is certainly a roasting of a beloved legend. world or so apart from Judy, but maybe “She said, ‘This better not be some hipnot so much. Parallels could be drawn ster dealio,’” says Medley. “And I told her from her looking over the rainbow to Oz that it’s not a hipster dealio, trust me. And and [Mister Rogers’] trolley going through then she just messaged me a couple of the tunnel into the Neighborhood of nights ago in long paragraphs expressing Make-Believe, both magical worlds of inhow strong her feelings are about Fred finite possibilities. Anyway, I realized that Rogers and I tried to appease her.” it could be done and should be done beYou can’t really blame the public, for cause I wanted it to be done.” worrying about the project. Medley has Won’t You Be My Neighbor opens played enough cheeky and bedeviling charFri., Feb. 1, at the Downtown Dance acters to make that connection. He played Collective. Show continues Sat., Feb. 2, Fagin in MCT’s Oliver, the butler in the at 2 PM and the following weekend, Montana Actors’ Theatre’s 2009 production Fri., Feb. 8, at 8 PM and Sat., Feb. 9, at of The Rocky Horror Show, Estragon in 2 PM. $10/$5 for those under 18. Bring Waiting for Godot and most recently the binoculars to see Jack Metcalf ’s despooky, anemic doctor in Viscosity Theatre’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor features actor Jeff Medley and tailed artistry.

Crime in a Madhouse. In addition, Mister musicians recreating the entire Mister Rogers album and Rogers has some strange urban legends suran intricate set design by Jack Metcalf.

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[theater]

True blue Montana Rep’s Biloxi adheres to Simon’s vision

by Erika Fredrickson

Biloxi Blues got well-deserved exposure when it was released as a film in 1988 starring Matthew Broderick–freshly celebrated for his title role in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off–as the lead and Christopher Walken as Sgt. Toomey. The film is a good rendition of the original play; funny and subtle in the ways Neil Simon meant it to be as it deals with homophobia, anti-semitism and coming of age, with World War II as a backdrop. For the most part, the film version got good reviews, though there are a few absurd criticisms on IMDB that call it out for being too “Neil Simon-y.” Well, okay. What makes it good is Neil Simon and the way he writes dialogue. But if it doesn’t always translate from a stage performance to film, it’s because we’re not used to the style. On

the equity actors. Mark Kuntz as Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey rattles off explosive lines with delicious precision, such as, “I’m in charge of this platoon during your 10 weeks of basic training here in beautiful Biloxi, Miss., after which you’ll be sent to some shit island in the Pacific or some turd pile in northern Sicily. In either case, returning to your mamas and papas with your balls intact is highly improbable.” Later, in perhaps the best scene in the show, we see him face-to-face with a Jewish recruit, in a state of breakdown. Kuntz’s keen delivery of a man weighed down by nerves is a delicate balance between hilarity and horror.

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Another reason to see this year’s production, directed by the Rep’s artistic director, Greg Johnson, is that it has a solid gold cast. The play opens with six young recruits on the train headed to Biloxi, Miss., for boot camp. Here we get a sense of their personalities as they joke and fart and wonder, together, what they’re in for. Dylan J. Rodwick plays Eugene Morris Jerome, the disarming narrator who’s based on Simon. He’s an aspiring writer who hopes to survive the war and lose his virginity. Like Wil Wheaton’s character in the film Stand By Me, he’s the observer whose charm stems from his sense of fairness and good will. Hugh Bickley plays Joseph Wykowski with enough humanity to make us sympathetic even in his meat-headed tendencies. Also fun to watch is Sam Williamson, who played Eugene Morris Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs, the prequel to Biloxi Blues, in the University of Montana’s 2009 production. His Eugene was a little goofier, perhaps appropriate for a young pre-war version, and that comedic energy translates well into his new role as the clownish Roy Selridge. There’s also Colton Swibold as the dreamyeyed crooner Don Carney, and Colton Hochhalter as James Hennesey, whose eventual tarnished reputation speaks to the issues Simon boldly explores, both of whom bring to life their characters in a way that makes them painfully relatable.

The standouts in this production, however, are

with her role as the (perhaps unlikely) glamorous prostitute Rowena. But the most sizzling performance, because he does it so naturally, is Michael Lawrence Eisenstein as Arnold Epstein, the Jewish private. Epstein might be the most layered character in the show, and also the most defiant. In a way, he overshadows Eugene, as if he were the main character. Epstein is the outcast who stands up for what he believes in, and it’s easy to see him–flaws and all–as the person any one of us aspires to be. But it’s not just that his character is so great, it’s that even with little expression on his face, the bespeckled Eisenstein ignites Epstein, projecting such intensity, without over-dramatizing, that he steals the show.

This is a remarkable play–a war story that is somehow less about war and more about the conviction of people’s dreams. When the men steal Eugene’s journal to read out loud, Eugene decides to destroy the journal out of guilt for what he’s written.

Epstein stops him, saying, “Once your start compromising your thoughts, you’re a candidate for mediocrity.” Eisenstein’s delivery of that line stands out, despite it being said in the aftermath of what might appear to be a more dramatic moment. That one line is the nut of Biloxi Blues. The fact that this quiet but powerful idea never gets buried is both a tribute to Simon and to the actors in this production.

The Montana Rep’s Biloxi Blues continues at the Montana Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center Thu., Jan. 31 and Sat., Feb. 2 at 7:30 PM nightly. $20/$16 students and seniors. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[theater]

Mystery of love Opposites attract in Heart Magnet Ball

by Kate Whittle

It’s fashionable for people to act like Valentine’s Day sucks. And it does, if you want it to be some perfect romantic time with a significant other. The one time I ever happened to be dating someone on the holiday, I planned a nice dinner at the fella’s house with oven-roasted trout and sauteed kale and sausage. The fella chopped up a homegrown habanero pepper and threw it into the pan. My God, that pepper was powerful. We had to flee the kitchen to wipe our noses and the entire house enjoyed a very sinus-cleansing Valentine’s.

ward him and continues to wind the rope around her.

Opstad’s character is comforted by being bound in a safe place, but also begins to feel constricted. She spins out and they each struggle for dominance of the rope, wavering between playfulness and seriousness.

Opstad, a limber, athletic woman who works in speech language pathology for Missoula County Public Schools, says she is fascinated by the ways people communicate with their bodies. Even sitting down at a table, she moves her torso and gestures with her hands continually as she talks.

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Really, I think of this time of year fondly, as a time to enjoy the awesome people in my life and eat a bunch of sweets. My mom always goes out of her way to remind us kids how loved we are, and I try to keep up that spirit now. I like pink foil-wrapped chocolates and hanging out with my friends, not so much the cultural pressure to land a man who will bring me flowers or whatever.

Missoula performance artist and actor Tricia Opstad isn’t a fan of the commercial version of Valentine’s Day, but she thinks celebrating love is a pretty neat thing to do. “I am in love, in love with the person who is my partner,” she says.

The same kind of cautious happiness can be found in her short performance piece, Heart Magnet Ball, which she and Tully Thibeau will perform as part of the extensive VonCommon art collective’s First Friday event Love Me, Love Me Not. Heart Magnet Ball has transformed from performance art to a scripted play to a wordless movement piece that Opstad doesn’t want to quite define.

For about 10 minutes, she and Thibeau dance, emote and use props to tell a story of two people. Cupcakes will be involved.

In the climactic scene, Thibeau stands a few feet behind Opstad while she winds a rope around her waist. He grabs the end of the rope and pulls her to-

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Thibeau, a University of Montana linguistics professor, is tall, muscular and gray-haired. He speaks slowly, answering questions with an intensity that doesn’t seem to be a joke.

“I consider Valentine’s Day to be what my ex-wife would call a ‘Hallmark Holiday,’” he says.

When not rehearsing, Opstad likes to play, grabbing the prop and using it to jump rope, while Thibeau sits expressionless, holding it.

The two aren’t a couple in real life, but their characters and interactions remind me of many couples I know who seem oddly matched: She’s outgoing and open, he’s reserved and seemingly humorless. In performance, Opstad’s lightness leavens Thibeau’s intensity and fixed stare.

At press time, Heart Magnet Ball hasn’t quite been ironed out yet, and the final outcome of the story will be a surprise to the audience and, I suspect, the performers themselves. Love is a mystery like that.

Tricia Opstad and Tully Thibeau perform Heart Magnet Ball as part of VonCommon’s Love Me, Love Me Not First Friday show at 127 E. Main Street, Suite 316, Fri., Feb. 1, from 6 to 10 PM. Theater performance begins at 9 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

[art]

Going bare Exhibit exposes the power of the female form

by Kate Whittle

You can probably get away with being topless in says the breastfeeding photo shoot was a positive experience. “She had women take off their shirts and public in Montana, it turns out.

Missoula artist Sarah Clark checked with a police nurse freely and naturally as it would be at home,” officer a few years ago before hosting a “Dare to Go Wiesemann says, who brought her 21-month-old son Bare” topless event. Missoula doesn’t have specific to the shoot.

Wiesemann believes breastfeeding for the first city ordinances against nudity, and state law on public indecency says it’s only a crime if one’s genitals few years is one of the best things a mother can do for a kid’s long-term health. are offending someone.

“We’re always told to cover up, or go into the “He said as long as you’re not bothering anybathroom to nurse your baby, it’s almost like shunbody, it’s okay,” Clark says.

The topless rally turned into her and a friend ning or shaming,” she says. “But then we can go down to the mall and Vicfloating the river and havtoria’s Secret has halfing a picnic at a downtown naked models in the park. Her husband joined window.” them and took off his shirt Wiesemann’s oldest in solidarity. child is 16. “I was a teen Clark, a University of mom, and nursing was Montana resource consereven less supported then vation student, is passionthan it is now,” she says. ate about breasts. That is, She remembers hiding in she’s passionate about adcorners of Target, trying to vocating that our society nurse her baby without atstart to chill out about tracting attention. them. She’s creating art When adopting one of pieces for First Friday celeher children from an orbrating women’s breasts for phanage in Ethiopia, Wiesetheir beauty and purpose. mann tried to force herself On a recent cold day in to lactate before meeting Missoula, Clark arrives at a him. She went on birth coffee shop wearing a long, brightly-printed skirt Missoula artist Sarah Clark says she finds control first, to trick her and an oversized breast her outlet in creating work that, even when body into thinking it was pregnant, and then went cancer fundraiser T-shirt. more abstract, celebrates womanhood. off birth control, took cerOn the table she sets a copy of Milk, Money, and Madness: The Culture and tain herbs and used a breast pump every two hours Politics of Breastfeeding—a 1995 analysis by pediatrics each day for about a month until colostrum started.

“So then I was able to nurse my little guy when I professor Naomi Baumslag and science writer Dia L. Michels of the medical, historical, social, economic first picked him up,” she says. “He was 5 months old, he really needed that bonding, that skin-to-skin conand political issues surrounding nursing.

Clark says for a few years now, she’s been frus- tact. He weighed four pounds.” trated with society’s expectations of beauty.

Even then, forcing lactation didn’t produce much “I got very fed up with that, considering I’m small- milk. She mostly fed her baby, Abdisa, with another breasted,” she says. “I have a nice little beer belly going woman’s donated breast milk. The boy is now a small but on, I got my great-grandmother’s butt. It’s important to healthy 4-year-old. “He’s a little firecracker,” she says. realize we don’t have to change ourselves.”

Wiesemann divides her time between mothering The upcoming Feb. 1 show, Empowering Women and working at the milk bank, which takes donated and Honoring Their Spirits, showcases several artists milk and distributes it to babies in need, like adopted with pieces based on the broad theme of empower- children or NICU premature infants.

In the years since Wiesemann had her first child, ing women. Not all of Clark’s art is breast-oriented, but for the main pieces, Clark took photos of topless advocates nationwide have helped make the United women, post-mastectomy chests and breastfeeding States more breastfeeding-friendly. Montana is one of mothers. She framed some of the photos, and used many states with laws specifically allowing women to others to create composite paintings. One painting nurse in public. Maybe boundary-pushing art shows of a nursing mother will be colored purple, blue and and topless events will help advance the idea that green. By using colors not found in natural skin breasts are, while fun and often sexy, also a useful and tones, Clark says she hopes women of all races can sometimes life-giving part of women’s bodies. identify with the art.

Sarah Clark shows her work, along with sevSince starting the project several months ago, she’s met social workers, cancer survivors and nurs- eral other artists, for the First Friday show Eming advocates. “I’m so grateful to all the women who powering Women and Honoring Their Spirits at the Loft, 119 W. Main St., Fri., Feb. 1, from 5 to 8 came and helped out,” she says.

One of the women featured in Clark’s art is Lin- PM. Free. sey Wiesemann, director of the nonprofit Mother’s Milk Bank of Montana and mother of five. Wiesemann arts@missoulanews.com

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Worst joke Let’s pretend Movie 43 didn’t happen

by Molly Laich

Choosing to review Movie 43 was a mistake. This movie doesn’t want or deserve to be held up to any level of reproach or scrutiny. It made me sick to my stomach and it profoundly wasted my time, and that made me feel helpless and mad. Promotion for Movie 43 says that it’s “not for the easily offended,” which is kind of a jerk thing to say, because it puts the onus on us, like if we don’t laugh, it’s just because we’re being uptight or too PC or something. It’s my job to sit there and endure the movie so that I can come

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back and warn you about it, and still, even then, I almost got up and left the theater. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that this really is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.

The premise is as follows: Take a bunch of A-list celebrities and put them in a lowbrow, gross-out comedy. Shoot the film in a series of vignettes, with different directors, over a four-year period. Don’t tell the right hand what the left hand is doing. I could tell by the trailer that the film was probably bad, but I was intrigued by the structure and hoped it might be some other way. I was remembering other films that are collections of shorts, like Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone Movie or Four Rooms. And Kate Winslet wouldn’t let me down, would she? Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are some of the best actors we have, surely they know how to read a script?

That line of reasoning is wrong. Never think that a movie is going to be good just because it has good actors in it or is directed by people like Peter Farrelly and Bob Odenkirk. Who knows why people in Hollywood agree to do things. They’re not like us.

Movie 43 is held together by a reoccurring segment called “The Pitch,” starring Dennis Quaid as a

Jackman with balls on his neck.” “What if a girl got her period?” And so on.

The movie is unabashedly stupid and then halfheartedly self-referential. It thinks that if it looks at the screen and tells you it knows it’s a dumb, thoughtless, ugly movie that somehow knowing that gets it off the hook. If 12-year-old boys wrote the script, it would still be pretty bad, but at least then it would make sense. As is, the only way to enjoy this movie is to turn off large sections of your brain—and pardon me for enjoying my humanity, but I’d rather not have to do that.

Admittedly, I’m not the target market for this kind of stuff under the best of circumstances. There’s that other Farrelly brothers movie called There’s Something About Mary where Cameron Diaz unwittingly uses semen as hair gel. The truth is, I’ve never thought that was funny. Sue me. But at least in that situation the story took the time to set up the gag with meaningful characters and nuance. Movie 43 doesn’t care about you. It’s like a cancer, and the only way to beat cancer in this instance is to walk away and pretend like it never happened.

Movie 43 continues at the Village 6. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] Starring desperate actors such as Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Common, Seth MacFarlane and, of course, Richard Gere. Rated R. Village 6.

OPENING THIS WEEK BULLET TO THE HEAD Two unlikely partners form an alliance and deliver vengeance upon those who killed their old partners. Also to make puns, innuendos and coy remarks. Starring the excellent Sylvester Stallone, Jason Momoa and Christian Slater.

Rated R. Village 6.

PARKER The devastatingly rugged Jason Statham plays a thief who is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Will his handsome good looks help him seek out his revenge? Only if a pretty lady helps. Also starring Jennifer Lopez and Michael Chiklis. Rated R. Village 6.

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT YOUTUBERS This documentary shows how YouTube is more than a website made up of dogs sort of saying, “I love you,” but also is chock full of creativity and skill. Starring Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, Joe Penna. PG-13. Carmike 12.

WARM BODIES Zombie love, y’all. A zombie saves a pretty lady from an attack and love may just change the entire undead world as we know it. Please save your “Keep the tip” jokes for later. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN In this documentary, a couple of South Africans seek out the “Latin Bob Dylan,” Sixto Rodriguez, a 70s rocker who blew up in the African nation after a bootleg recording found its way there 20 years after its recording. Starring Rodriguez, Steve Segerman and Dennis Coffey. Rated PG13. Wilma.

Stallone says no to axe-on-axe violence, but yes to microdermabrasion. Bullet to the Head opens Friday at the Village 6.

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Emma Stone. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

ANNA KARENINA Does the world’s finest literary labor measure up in movie form? Will Anna leave her husband for Count Vronsky? Will you love Keira Knighley’s outfits? Jude Law’s “acting?” Also starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Rated R. Wilma.

HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS What up now, witches? Hansel and Gretel are bounty hunters out to track down and damage every witch on the planet. Best watch out for that Blood Moon, though, kids, not to mention a secret from the past. Starring Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton and Peter Stormare. Rated R. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Entertainer.

ARGO Based on a true story, crafty CIA dudes try to bust some Americans out of the not-so-hospitable country of Iran circa 1979. Ayatollah rock and roll-a! Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Rated R. Village 6.

BROKEN CITY Framed by the mayor of NYC, a cop goes off the rails on the crazy train to catch the scoundrel and prove himself innocent. Starring the cast from the past, Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

DJANGO UNCHAINED Django, a slave turned bounty hunter, seeks out his wife in the antebellum south. It’s about to get real violent up in here. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio. Rated R. Village 6.

GANGSTER SQUAD With no love for East Coast mafiosos, a group of LAPD detectives decide that they are going to go to all lengths to keep them out of their town. Starring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Reclaim the treasure stolen by that old dragon Smaug, Bilbo Baggins, and you and your elven friends will be heroes for a millennia! Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON The story of FDR feeding hot dogs and apple pie to the king and queen of the United Kingdom on the eve of WWII. Oh, and his affair with distant cousin Margaret “Daisy” Suckley. Starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney and Olivia Williams.

Rated R. Wilma.

THE IMPOSSIBLE A family of white people escape a tsunami in Thailand and we all learn just how important family is. Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

JACK REACHER Jack Reacher knows you best be as ruthless and cunning as your opponent. And he is. This dude

is the kind of crime investigator that makes the bad guys’ sheets sweaty. Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike and Richard Jenkins. Rated PG13. Carmike 12.

LES MISERABLES After a lifetime on the run in 19 th century France, Jean Valjean agrees to care for a young girl and lives are forever changed. Plus, you know, singing. Starring the enchanting Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

LINCOLN Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in this biopic about the United States’ greatest president as he struggles with the war, emancipation of the slaves, his cabinet and his family.

Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and David Strathairn. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12 and Showboat.

MAMA So you’ve got to raise your nieces after they’ve lived alone in the woods for five years. Something is bound to go wrong, very wrong.

Starring Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Megan Charpentier. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12.

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Based on the novel by Matthew Quick, this is the story of a former teacher returning home to his wife and parents after a stint in a mental institution. But things aren’t all turkey and stuffing cuz there is a mysterious woman in the picture, too. Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

ZERO DARK THIRTY Zero Dark Thirty, retells the story of the military operation that resulted in Osama bin Laden’s death. If this were a Jerry Bruckheimer film, Navy recruiters would be creaming their jeans, but this one, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), confronts issues of morality in wartime and the demons wrought by interrogation. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned! For show times please visit missoulanews.com or contact the theaters in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 5417469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

MOVIE 43 Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars must have really got on someone’s bad side as they star in this episodic film about three kids plumbing the depths of the Internet for a super-banned film.

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Quinoa is not a crime

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Many quinoa lovers have hit the existential skids recently, thanks to a story in England’s Guardian about the supposedly negative effects of buying imported quinoa.

“The appetite of countries such as ours for this grain has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, for whom it was once a nourishing staple food, can no longer afford to eat it,” the article stated.

This was one of several stories in the last few years published by the likes of NPR, Associated Press and The New York Times. Some, like the Guardian, went to the extreme of guilt-tripping readers against buying imported quinoa. The idea that worldwide demand for quinoa is causing undue harm where it’s produced is an oversimplification at best. At worst, discouraging demand for quinoa could end up hurting producers rather than helping them.

Most of the world’s quinoa is grown on the altiplano, a vast, cold, windswept and barren 14,000-foot Andean plateau spanning parts of Peru and Bolivia.

Quinoa is one of the few things that grows there, and its high price means more economic opportunities for the farmers in one of the poorest parts of South America.

An analysis by Emma Banks for the Andean Information Network responds to many of these quinoa questions with nuance largely absent from the press reports.

“The impact of rising food prices is complex and encompasses food security and sovereignty debates,” Banks wrote. Food security means having enough to eat, while food sovereignty means having a voice in the food system. These are impacted differently in different places by increasing prices. But some generalizations can be made.

“Quinoa fetches a guaranteed high price affording farmers economic stability,” Banks continued. “This economic power has also translated into political power though producers’ associations and cooperatives. Since the 1970s, these organizations have worked toward greater producer control of the market, spurring other political actions such as blockades and protests for greater economic and environmental rights in quinoa-growing regions.”

Relevant to the food security discussion, though absent in all of the recent quinoa press coverage, is the fact that, as Banks notes, “Bolivian government nutrition programs have begun to incorporate quinoa into school breakfast and new mothers’ subsidies.”

Similar programs are underway in Peru.

Edouard Rollet is co-founder of the fair-trade import company Alter Eco, which deals in Bolivian quinoa. His company works with 1,500 families in about 200 Bolivian villages. “I’ve been going to the altiplano once or twice a year since 2004,” Rollet told me by phone. “The farmers are still eating quinoa.”

He said that over the years he has watched how the extra income from rising prices has allowed the fam-

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ilies he works with to diversify their diets dramatically, adding foods like fresh vegetables.

Of course, not all quinoa growers are fortunate enough to sell their product to fair-trade organizations, and many receive less for their product. Regardless of the price, Rollet says, an average small farmer with two or three hectares to work will set aside roughly a tenth of his harvest for personal use, and sell the rest. It’s hard to see how rising prices could be considered anything but good for these people.

Of greater concern to Rollet is the environmental degradation that could result from more aggressive quinoa cultivation. His and some other quinoa merchants require an organic, rotational grazing system in which llamas are pastured on fallow fields, which helps stabilize the soil—and ensures llama meat on peasant tables. Reportedly, it’s really good with quinoa.

This isn’t to say there are no growing pains as the worldwide demand for quinoa continues to grow.

There have been squabbles over land and water. Farmers have been screwed by middlemen.

Those hit hardest by the rising price of quinoa are probably quinoa eaters that live in urban areas, since they must pay higher prices for the grain, but don’t reap the economic benefits. This is especially true for those who have moved to the city from the countryside, and are used to having access to quinoa but can no longer afford it. But at the same time, rising quinoa prices are drawing many urban refugees back to the countryside, where it’s now possible to make a living from farming.

The UN has declared 2013 the International Year of Quinoa, saying it has the potential to advance food security around the globe and prevent malnutrition.

In fact, quinoa is so nutritionally complete that NASA is considering it as astronaut food for long space rides.

It’s a favorite of vegetarians because it’s so high in protein, and because it’s a rare plant-based food that contains a full complement of amino acids.

While attempts to grow quinoa haven’t worked out in Britain, locavores in the United States can take heart at the fact that farmers in Oregon and Colorado are figuring out how to grow it. That said, domestic quinoa sells out quickly after every harvest, so for the time being quinoa lovers will be importing most of theirs from the altiplano. And that’s not a bad thing.

Wherever it’s grown, concerns about buying imported quinoa are overblown.

The Guardian calls it “...a ghastly irony when the Andean peasant’s staple grain becomes too expensive at home because it has acquired hero product status among affluent foreigners.”

There is, in fact, a ghastly irony here. It’s when media stories discourage people from buying imported quinoa in the name of solidarity with the locals. But instead of helping, such reports threaten to kick the legs out from under one of the most promising industries in one of the world’s poorest places.

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Beerfarmer.com HAPPIEST HOUR Anywhere, anytime: The act of spotting a friend a beer just entered the 21st century. Missoulian Dave Evans has partnered with local brewers in launching a website to allow people near and far to “gift” pints for folks here in town.

Beerfarmer.com—partly inspired by the Buddy Board at Snowbowl—lets you purchase a beer online from select vendors, then sends a digital coupon that the recipient can cash in at any time.

How it works: Whether you lost a bet involving a pint or are just in a generous mood, beerfarmer.com is pretty straightforward. Just set up an account, deposit some cash via PayPal and select one of the participating breweries.

Then you simply enter your friend’s phone number and they’ll receive a text message informing them of the pending gift. Drinks are equally easy to claim. Once you get the text, create an account at beerfarmer.com to access the coupon from your mobile device. Show it to whoever’s working the taps and presto—beer. One small hitch: Recipients have to have a smartphone to collect their gifted beverage.

Who’s on board so far: Beerfarmer.com is a week into its pilot phase, and only two breweries have signed on to date—Bayern Brewing and Draught Works. But Jeff Grant, co-owner at Draught Works, says the brewery got involved because the site sounded “innovative and neat.” He

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:303pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$

Photo by Jessica Mayrer

adds the taproom saw quite a few beer gifts show up on smartphone screens in the first week. We can’t really complain about the current limits of beerfarmer.com, since both participating breweries have plenty of tasty pints to choose from.

And beerfarmer.com is bound to spread across town fast, as most beer-centric ideas often do.

Where to start: Eventually, beerfarmer.com is hoping to expand its gifting potential to growler fills and special deals. For now, though, you’re limited to pints at Bayern and Draught Works.

Got to beerfarmer.com, create an account and get gifting.

—Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our nonsmoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, micro brews, fine wines & signature drinks.

Gluten free menu, also. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Serving country French specialties, Montana elk, Berkshire Pork, and delicious seafood dishes. Delectable salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house.

Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$

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Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis's Kitchen 531-5034 sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods.

Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis's Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula "Best Pizza" Winner's for 2008-2012.

Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12"crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right!

Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9. $-$$ Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 406-830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery.

Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. The Montana Repertory Theatre brings back Neil Simon’s gag and fun-filled American theatre classic, Biloxi Blues. Seriously, though, I want to see me some Matthew Broderick in this deal.

Montana Theatre on the UM campus. 7:30 PM. $11-$16. Visit montanarep.org.

January 31 – February 7, 2013

THURSDAYJAN.31 Get a head start on art at the opening reception for the MMAC exhibits Nancy Erickson: Kindred Spirits and Fashion and Textiles from the MMAC Permanent Collection. UM PARTV Center lobby. 5–7 PM. Free.

If you’ve always wanted to make Missoula better or work in the film industry then this is for you: the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Call for Volunteers. Participants get a T-shirt and a screening pass. The more you volunteer, the more goodies you can get. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff.

Visit the childhood recollections of author Elspeth Huxley at the Bitterroot Public Library’s Brown Bag It Book Discussion of The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Test your knowledge and spend some cultural capital at James Louks’ opening reception for his exhibit, Everybody’s Fine. The exhibit explores “the commercial repackaging of these cultural elements that blur boundaries of the historical versus the contemporary.” UC Art Gallery. 4–6 PM. Free.

nightlife Call Mitch Gaylord and mount the pommel horse, cuz Muzikata performs at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Many-headed bluegrass monster The Acousticals play the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

The Headwaters Dance Company Once-a-Year Gala Concert takes place four times, but don’t let that distract you from the acrobatics and toe-tapping dance routines. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 seniors and students. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and Griztix outlets.

Dressing up. The Missoula Art Museum’s 41st Annual Art Auction takes place Sat., Feb. 2, at 5 PM, in the University Center Ballroom, and features works by artists such as Jean Albus’ “Magpie.” For a list of costs, events and artworks visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

The Missoula Maulers take on the hated Blowzman Icedogs at Glacier Ice Rink. 7:30 PM. Griz Card gets you in for free, all other rates vary.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams. Just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it. That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Show up the rest of the room with your version of “Ninja Survive” when you hit the Dark Horse for Combat Karaoke hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials.

1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free.

Blaze on downtown for an evening of modern rock stylings with Nonpoint, Candlelight and Digital Summer. Palace. 8 PM, music at 8:30. $15/$13 advance plus fees at tickets300.com. $5 surcharge for ages 18-20.

Grab a switch and slap that rump and gallop greatly to the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St., for an evening with Ugly Pony. 9 PM. Free.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Big time folksters The Hasslers bring their special brand of “hard-hitting folk” to the VFW, 245 W. Main St., each Thursday during the month January, with special guests and a collection of bizarre dolls (untrue). 10 PM. $2.

FRIDAYFEB.1 Be an early adopter of the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, FLIC, by taking part in the Opening Night Champagne Soiree, in the ballroom at the KwaTaqNuk, at 5 PM. Attendees are invited to dress as a favorite movie star. Hors d’oeuvres, champagne, wine and beer are served until 6:30 PM. Screening of guest filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns’ award-winning short films takes place at the Showboat Cinema in Polson at 7 PM. Movie tickets are $5 per twohour block, $25 for an all-day Saturday pass and $25 for the opening soiree. Visit flicpolson.com.

It’s all ‘bout the money, money at the 2013 Montana Economic Outlook Seminar, which highlights economic trends for local, state and

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[calendar] national economies. Economists Patrick Barkey and Paul Polzin present.

Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. 8 AM–1 PM. Visit bber.umt.edu.

Learn more about the Salish and Kootenai, Pend d’Orielle and other tribes at Travelers’ Rest State

Park’s Winter Storytelling Series. This week Amber Jean Greymorning, daughter of Neyooxet Greymorning, presents a program especially for kids and families that includes crafts, hands-on discovery and hot cocoa.

11–12:30 PM. Free.

Vote for your favorite artist or band at missoulanews.com

FIRST FRIDAY The Invention of Snow is a tantalizing group art show exploring the age-old myth of Persephone from many angles and mediums. This show features many wellknown local artists as well as some from abroad, and is a combination of paintings, sculptures, photos, poetry and performance art. Missoula Community Acupuncture, 127 E. Main St. Ste. 314. 5–8 PM. Free.

See what the keepers of small good things have in their closets at the 12th Annual Collector’s Resale Show at the Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave., which features the works of Walter Hook, Delbert Gish, Clyde Aspevig, Asha MacDonald and many others.

Celebrate Groundhog’s Day Eve at the Monte Dolack Gallery, 139 W. Front St., where new art is unveiled and tunes are provided by Julian Jared Ricci. 5–8 PM. Free.

Artist Jeff Sweten shares his wares at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St. 5–8 PM. Free.

View the colorful world of photographer Katrina Farnum this First Friday at the Dark Room, 130 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

See all the meanings of “blue” at the Out of the Blue opening reception at the Clay Studio, 1106 A Hawthorne St. The exhibition features 21 works from throughout North America. 5–8 PM. Free.

The 4 Ravens Gallery, 248 N. Higgins Ave., hosts the opening reception of Adornment: Expressions in Contemporary Jewelry, an exhibit featuring traditional metalsmithery

by Marcia and Callie Miller, Cheryl DeGroot, Marina Kessler, Pam Caidin and Cheryl Bourguignon. 5–8 PM. Free.

Miss Joanna Nasvik posts up at Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave., this First Friday to share her mixed media and found object artwork. As always, num-nums provided. 5–8 PM. Free.

See the beauty and taste the pain of the Clark Fork River drainage, from Silver Bow Creek and Butte to areas just west of the Missoula valley in Edgar Smith’s exhibit, Mitigation Notes, at the Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St. 5–8 PM. Free.

See the undoubtedly tediously crafted and mos def gorgeous works of Don Gingras in his exhibit, The Dying Arts: Native American Beadwork and Horsehair Hitching, at The Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

We got us a trio of talented peeps here: Kendahl Jann Jubb, Yu Wenya and James Hewes. Works vary in style from watercolor on canvas to woodcut prints to “ceramic hexagrams.” Murphy-Jubb Fine Art Gallery, 210 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 300. 5–8 PM. Free.

Admittedly, we love M. Scott Miller’s work around here. He shows more of his super-excellent views of Missoula at night in Night Life at the Studio D Gallery, 420 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Acrylics and mixed media, oh my! It must be the opening of Ashley Meyora’s exhibit at Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Who can say what Mickey Schlick has in store for us in his exhibit One Down at Blaque Owl Tattoo, 307 N. Higgins Ave. Mixed mediums, perhaps? 5–8 PM. Free.

See woodblock prints by Kelso Redmond and Jack Christiansen and live painting by Jason Bohman before they are big and rich. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Get hopped up on print art at the Think It, Ink It Group Art Show, which features the works of UM art

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Tim Nielson’s Harriet Tubman portrait at the University Congregational Church. students. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Borscht lover Jenna Lyons shares her photography and painting with all us peoples at House Design Studio, 133 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Embrace the feminine when Wanderlust Artistry presents: Empowering Women and Honoring Their Spirits at The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 5–8 PM. Free. (See Arts.)

Christian Ives’ exhibit, Subtle Interactions, is so subtle I can’t tell you what it’s about. Find out for yourself at One Eleven, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Tim Neilson’s exhibit Towards a People’s Mythology of the United States focuses on people seeking social justice and can be seen at the University Congregational Church, 405 University Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Lovers of fine old garments ought to head to the Tides Gallery at Bathing Beauties Beads, 501 S. Higgins Ave., to view Max Gilliam’s, owner of Carlo’s One Night Stand, personal collection of vintage sweaters. 5–8 PM. Free.

Tunes by two of Missoula’s finest rawk outfits, Magpies and VTO, plus art by Barry Thompson. La Petit Outre, 129 S. Fourth St. W. Art at 6 PM, jamz at 7 PM. Free.

Head way back, back to when times were simpler at the exhibit Early Works: 1970 to 1990 by Nancy Erickson, at Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. 5–9 PM. Free.

Ol’ regulars have their goods on display at Upcycled, 517 S. Higgins Ave., where everything is made from recyclables. 5:30–8 PM. Free.

Tunes by two of Missoula's finest rawk outfits, Magpies and VTO, plus art by Barry Thompson. La Petit Outre, 129 S. 4th St. W. Art at 6 PM, jamz at 7 PM. Free.

Anna Donaghy Nix shares her contemporary paintings which feature acrylic and gouache on canvas and paper. Ayurvedic Health & Wellness Clinic, 126 E. Broadway St., Ste. 24. 6–8 PM. Free.

Grab a posy and pull off the leaves for the VonCommon group show, Love Me, Love Me Not, which features dozens of artists, poetry and a theatre performance. 127 E. Main St., Third floor. 6–10 PM. Free. (See Arts.)

[calendar] Get off the couch and into the car for an evening with the Black Rose Band at the Philipsburg Brewing Co., 101 W. Broadway Ave. 4–8 PM. Free.

nightlife The Missoula Writing Collaborative invites all you all to the Words With Wings Book Launch Celebration, where youngsters share their work with you and mee-maw and Uncle Fritz. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 5–7 PM. Free.

Dan West screens his film, My Mother Dreams, at MCAT Studios, 500 N. Higgins Ave. West also shares video poems, too. 5–8 PM. Free.

Get yourself a carved elk antler handled knife or awe-inspiring wildlife photographs at the Art Raffle to benefit Wild Skies Raptor Center.

Naturalist’s Mercantile, 131 East Main St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Join the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Cuppa Community Month kick-off event at Liquid Planet. The In-

tercultural Dialogue group talks it out and Brazilian music by Andre Felipe and Debora Simao is going down.

Proceeds from the sale of hot chocolate covered cherry drinnk benefits JRPC. 5:30 PM. Free.

Listen up, junior, Ron Bissell plays Way Cool Music, folk and rawk, at the North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., in Stevi, from 6–8 PM. Free.

Avast, the Missoula Symphony Orchestra Family Concert presents Pirates!, an evening of educational and fun tunes for the whole crew.

Dennison Theatre. 7 PM. $8. Visit missoulasymphony.org.

Work it out at the Missoula Area Central Labor Council presents the 8th annual Missoula Labor Film Festival. Tonight’s feature is Manufactured Landscapes, a film about artist Edward Burtynsky. Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $5/$9 both nights.

The Headwaters Dance Company Once-a-Year Gala Concert takes place

four times, but don’t let that distract you from the acrobatics and toe-tapping dance routines. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 seniors and students. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and Griztix outlets.

Bob Wills-approved, the Country Kings, perform tunes for the denim dancer in us all at the Eagles, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

Grab your best cardigan and check out Won’t You Be My Neighbor? a Mr. Rogers Tribute led by Jeff Medley on vocals, Josh Farmer on piano and the art of Jack Metcalf. These dudes are doing a note-for-note cover of the album. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. 8 PM. $10/$5 18 and under. (See Arts.)

Tom Catmull & The Clerics aurally pleasure the crowds with the flick of wrists and and the opening of throats at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9 PM. Free.

Take a pork chop to the show and share it with that special someone, cuz Muzikata brings the beats that are so sweet to the dancing crowd in the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Aren’t these kids just grand?! The BassFace Krew presents Fishbowl Friday: The Meat Market, a night of electronic music with BFK DJs, plus a live auction for dates with BFK DJs/photographers/artists to raise funds for a new nonprofit music education/studio space. Bar opens at 4 PM. Music starting at 9 PM, auction at 11 PM. Free. Includes the infamous $5 fishbowl special.

Whoomp here it is, the UM Women’s Resource Center presents the Panty Rock Drag Show, a night of performances to raise funds for the Vagina Monologues, with MC Kiara Drake and music by DJ Mermaid.

Palace. 9 PM. $5/$10 for ages 18-20.

PA sad-rawkers Secret Plot to Destroy the Entire Universe plays the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with locals

Buddy Jackson and The Whoopass Girls. Bring a hankey for the stankey.

9 PM. $5.

Plan a rendezvous with the other Mrs. Hughes at the Miller Creek Masquerade Ball, with special guests the power-popping Secret Powers. Be sure and Google “Vandyke” to prep for this, you all. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 9 PM. $5 with a mask/$8 without a mask.

Cash that check and check that ‘tude at the door cuz Paydirt brings the party-party goodtimes to the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free.

John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406-721-2416 or just show up.

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[calendar] Get caffeinated and learn about a new non-profit at the Community Coffee event hosted by Forest Voices. 4741 Sundown Road. 10 AM–Noon. Free.

Join Loretta Vizzutti for Artist Trading Cards at Living Art Studios, 725 W. Alder St. #17, where those facing illness or loss create miniature works of art to collect and trade. Materials provided. 10 AM–12:30 PM. Free. Call 549-5329.

Egging us on. Walter Hook’s “The First Easter Egg” and the works of others are on display at the 12th Annual Collector’s Resale Show at the Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave., Fri., Feb.1, from 5–8 PM, as part of First Friday. Free.

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volunteer, the more goodies you can get. Visit bigskyfilmfest.org/bsdff.

KVD! KVD! KVD! No split-legged moonsaults here, only tunes by Kevin Van Dort at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Duuuuudes!!! We’re gonna keep this short: Ice Cream for Breakfast, brought to you by Families First Children’s Museum and Parenting Program, takes place at Holiday Inn, 200 S. Pattee St., from 8:30–11:30 AM. Pancakes, bacon and ice cream. Free (Boo-yah!).

If you’ve always wanted to make Missoula better or work in the film industry then this is for you: the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Call for Volunteers. Participants get a T-shirt and a screening pass. The more you

Get your taxes organizado by UM student volunteers at the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, for anyone making less than $50,000. Gallagher Business Building Rm. L26. 9 AM–5 PM. Free.

Never fear, lovers of fresh, local vittles, the Heirloom Winter Market at the Missoula County Fairgrounds in the Floriculture Building is rolling with music, kids’ activities, local produce, meat, baked goods, jam, honey and so much more. This week is the official Grand Opening event with fun and tunes by the Li’l Smokies. 11 AM–2 PM. The guild that sews together, stays together, so join Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., at Craft Vigilantes, its monthly Modern Quilt Guild for beginners and pros alike. Noon–5 PM. $20 (first few sign-ups are free).

Learn how to make that cheddar with your bodice rippers at Celebrate Romance, an afternoon of information on writing and getting published in book and ebook formats with members of the Montana Writers Association at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 1–3 PM. Free.

The Headwaters Dance Company Once-a-Year Gala Concert takes place four times but don’t let that distract you from the acrobatics and toe-tap-

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ping dance routines. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 2 PM. $15/$10 seniors and students. tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and Griztix outlets.

filled American theatre classic, Biloxi Blues. Seriously, though, I want to see me some Matthew Broderick in this deal.

Montana Theatre on the UM campus.

7:30 PM. $11-$16. Visit montanarep.org.

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Be an early adopter of the Flathead Lake International Cinemafest, FLIC, and check out guest filmmaker David W. King’s film series Chasing Fame, at the Showboat Cinema in Polson at 8 PM. Movie tickets are $5 per two-hour block, $25 for an all-day Saturday pass and $25 for the Opening Party Champagne Soiree. Visit flicpolson.com.

The Missoula Winter Market is a family-friendly market much like the Saturday markets, but indoors and during wintertime! Come and enjoy local crafts, artisans, food and entertainment every weekend. 2036 Mullan Rd. Visit missoulawintermarket.com.

You know you love it. You know you want to support it. So do it. Head to the MAM 41st Benefit Art Auction at the UM University Center Ballroom, third floor.

Kicks off at 5 PM with music, cocktails, silent auction bidding and live art auction preview. 6:15 PM dinner seating and welcome remarks. 7 PM, live auction. $90 members/$100 for non-members and at the door/$850 per table of 10.

Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Get onboard the tune train for “ramshackle soul and gutbucket blues” of Mudslide Charley down at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton.

6–8:30 PM. Free.

Work it out when the Missoula Area Central Labor Council presents the 8th annual Missoula Labor Film Festival. Tonight’s features are American Teacher and Roll on Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Administration. Woody Guthrie-tribute singer Scott Hohnstein of The Workers performs songs of labor and love in honor of Guthrie’s 100th birthday. Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. 6 PM. $5/$9 both nights.

Hear author and historian William Farr read from his book, Blackfoot Redemption, at the Grizzly Claw Trading Co. in Seeley Lake and you might just learn a little something about “the good old days.” Hint: they weren’t that good. 7 PM. Free.

A bunch of ragtag musicians with who-knows-what kind of instruments get together from 7 to 9:30 PM on the first Sat. of every month for the Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree at the Grange Hall, 1436 South First St. in Hamilton. Call Clem at 961-4949.

It ain’t a tribute to Aerosmith but Stadium Echoes features tunes played by the Grizzly Marching Band Concert indoors! Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.

The Headwaters Dance Company Once-a-Year Gala Concert takes place four times, but don’t let that distract you from the acrobatics and toe-tapping dance routines. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 seniors and students. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and Griztix outlets.

Get to steppin’ fu-schnickens, it’s time for another Missoula Folklore Society Contra Dance, with Sassafras Stomp and Roy Curet calling. Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. Lessons at 7:30 PM, dance from 8–11 PM. $9/$6 members.

The Montana Repertory Theatre brings back Neil Simon’s gag and fun-

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Bob Wills-approved, the Country Kings, perform tunes for the denim dancer in us all at the Eagles, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

Endorsed harmonicorn player Tony Holiday comes to town with The Tony Holiday Trio for an evening of tuneage at the Dark Horse, with Three-Eared Dog. 9 PM. Cover TBA. Hop in the trouble buggy and head up Hwy. 12 west of Lolo to the Lumberjack Saloon for tunes by them old rascals the Wild Coyote Band. Rent a cabin and sleep it off, Chachi. 9 PM. Free.

Josh Farmer & Co. drop no bombs and have little to do with car alarms but they can make even the saddest monkey do the Ringwald. Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Reggae and rock like the cock of the walk with Bozeman’s In Walks Bud and locals The Trees at the Palace. 9 PM. $5.

Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo is the de facto dopest DJ duo in town. Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. $2.

Cash that check and check that ‘tude at the door cuz Paydirt brings the partyparty goodtimes to the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free.

SUNDAYFEB.3 Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.

This is the kind of mass I can really get behind. The Missoula Area Secular Society presents its Sunday M.A.S.S. Brunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sun. of every month for brunch from 10 AM– noon at the meeting room of Sean Kelly’s Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

Dance your way to a free mind and an open body at Turning the Wheel Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance.

Headwaters Dance Studio, 1042 Monroe St. 11-12:30 PM. $10/$75 for eight classes. Visit turningthewheel.org.

Get a peek at Missoula’s past at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula’s exhibit, Signs of the Times –

[calendar] A Trip Down Memory Lane, which features a collection of business signs from 1945 to 1985. 1–4 PM.

nightlife The Missoula Winter Market is a family-friendly market much like the Saturday markets, but indoors and during wintertime! Come and enjoy local crafts, artisans, food and entertainment every weekend. 2036 Mullan Rd. Visit missoulawintermarket.com.

MONDAYFEB.4 Mr. Russ Nasset pleases your earholes with honky tonk blues at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7–10 PM. Free.

Put your booty to work and volunteer your time at the Spring Volunteer Fair in the University Center Atrium where over 30 community agencies gather to recruit new peeps for their groups. 10–2 PM. Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707.

Author and sustainable-farming expert Anna Lappé delivers two lectures, one titled Eat the Sky: Connecting the Dots between Climate, Food and the Fu-

ture of Farming, from 3:10 to 4:30 PM in the Gallagher Business Bldg. Rm. 123.

She’ll also present a President’s Lecture Series talk later in the day. Free.

The Rough Cut Science Seminar Series shows off the brainiacs of Montana’s scientific community, with presentations on current research each week at 4 PM in the University Center Theater. Visit montanaioe.org/roughcut-series for the schedule.

nightlife Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action.

UM FLAT, 633 Fifth St. E. 6:30 PM. Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.

Hip-hoperinos raid Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., with The Orators, Tonsofun, Dusty Gunz, Rude Meets Gatsby, Trailer Park Jordan and Wormwood. 7 PM (sharp!). $3.

Let’s get more smarter by attending the President’s Lecture Series featuring Anna Lappe, whose talk Sustainability, Sustenance and Social Change: How Sustainable Food and Farming Can Nourish the World and Transform

Communities is probably more interesting than its title. Dennison Theatre.

8 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)

You know it’s gotta be a real party when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse. Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.

Worb yourself silly at Missoula Area Dubstep Mondays, with local DJs Milkcrate Mechanic, Enkrypted, Nic Jaymes, and Mankiisi. Badlander. 9 PM, with the bar opening at 4 PM. Free, with $5 pitchers of PBR on tap.

Open Mic with Joey Running Crane at the VFW, 245 W. Main, seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call him up and get yourself a slot at 229-0488.

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TUESDAYFEB.5 Enjoy grand musical sounds at UM’s Faculty and Guest Artist Series: Margaret Nichols Baldridge, violin, and Robert LedBetter, percussion. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $12/$8 seniors and students.

Put your booty to work and volunteer your time at the Spring Volunteer Fair in

breaking free Fredrick Winslow Taylor was a factory manager and the founder of scientific management. He was also known with grave cynicism as “the man who died with a stopwatch in his hand.” He would break a job into its component parts and measure each to the hundredth of a minute. It’s the kind of mechanical precision that delights robot-minded people and crushes the souls of the rest of us.

Taylor wasn’t immune to criticism from his peers. Management theorist Henry Mintzberg called out Taylor’s obsession with efficiency for its high tendency to overlook less quantifiable social benefits.

What does this have to do with dance? For its annual gala concert, Headwaters Dance Company shows a new piece featuring five dancers and one actor by New York choreographer Hilary Easton called “The Short Cut,” based

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by former Missoulian Felecia Maria and Headwaters Artistic Director Amy Ragsdale. Ragsdale’s piece, “Startling Intrusions,” combines Edward Gorey with Vivaldi to create a gothic world of silent onlookers.

WHAT: Headwaters Dance Co. Annual Gala Concert WHEN: Thu., Jan. 31–Sat., Feb. 2, at 7:30 PM nightly plus a Sat. matinee at 2 PM. WHERE: MCT Center for the Performing Arts TICKETS: Rockin Rudy's, all Griztix outlets, on-line at griztix HOW MUCH: $15/$10 students and senior citizens on Winslow Taylor. The piece raises the question of what’s lost—and how we become dehumanized—when efficiency is the primary focus of worklife. The commissioned score is by Thomas Cabaniss for two pianos, string quartet and percussion, and original text by novelist Helen Schulman.

Other pieces you’ll see includes Seattleites Dana and Gaylen Hanson in “33 Fainting Spells,” and pieces

This is contemporary dance—and one of the few big shows Missoula gets all year. Expect some quirkiness and experimentation, acrobatics and, apparently, boxing. Time to forget about time managment, Winslow Taylor robots. Headwaters has a tendency to obliterate your expectations of what dance should be.

—Erika Fredrickson

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[calendar] the University Center Atrium where over 30 community agencies gather to recruit new peeps for their groups. 10–2 PM. Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best.

All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

nightlife It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free.

Call 327-0900.

It’s a new year, time for a new you, and a new you starts with talking right.

The Compassionate Communication Class develops the tools for making effective conversation. 725 W. Alder St. #17. 725. 6–7:30 PM. $65 per single class or $120 for two. Contact Patrick Marsolek for info. or to register call 4433439 or info@PatrickMarsolek.com Drink from the cup of knowledge during the Socrates Café at the Bitterroot Public Library West Meeting room.

Questions are chosen, terms discussed and thoughts given. 7–9 PM. Free.

Find your dance and yourself at Turning the Wheel’s Tapestry class, which is a self-expression-filled improvisational dance bonanza. Headwaters Dance Company studio, 1042 Monroe St. 7:30-9 PM. $10. Proceeds benefit Turning the Wheel’s school programs.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: Which NFL teams have never

played in the Super Bowl? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

The Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition hosts the Musician Showcase at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., an evening of tuneful live tuneage made by locals for locals. 8–11 PM. Free. 18 plus.

Make mine a double and your’n a triple-threat when the Badlander’s Live and Local Night presents a set by Kenny Wait and The Black Rose Band.

Music at 10 PM, and the bar opening at 4 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAYFEB.6 Join John Roskelley as he recounts his 1976 American/Indian Nanda Devi Expedition which succeeded in making the first ascent of 25,645foot Nanda Devi’s Northwest Face in the Indian Himalaya. He will also share stories of other Himalaya climbing trips he has completed throughout the years. University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free.

nightlife Get soaked and stoked when the Black Rose Band performs at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs. 6–10 PM. Pass the hat, yo.

Show the Man how big your gray matter can get at Super Trivia Freakout. Win a bar tab, shots, and other mystery prizes during the five rounds of trivia. Badlander. 6:30 PM. Free.

Hey, winter is here and TV ain’t exactly pumping out the good stuff these days, so get off your bum for a few and take Cathy Clark’s West Coast Swing Class at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave. 7 PM. $5.

Kraptastic Karaoke welcomes Black Eyed Peas fanatics to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Drop the neutron bomb in your trousers and holla back at Sha-NaNa’s Bowzer when the Manhattan Project presents Eat Your Heart Out: A Zombie Themed Valentine’s Party, featuring electronic beats by local DJs Nic Jaymes, M-AD, and Coma. Palace.

The Blade® Red Bull CBcx 3-channel RC helicopter. State-of-the-art advanced Blade engineering and electronics. Easy to fly—you’ll be hovering like a pro on your very first flight.

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9 PM. Free. (Pub trivia answer: The Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans.)

THURSDAYFEB.7 Forget that old-time rock and roll, check out the new time reggae and rock of the Cali’s kindest band, Iration. Reggae rockers Passafire and Pacific Dub opens. $17.50 at tickets300.com. Also includes a $5 surcharge at the door for ages 18-20.

nightlife Max Hay’s solo show comes back to Missoula for the first time in a long while. Former frontman of local acts Shot in the Foot, 2 Fuggin Guys, and Front St. Guitar Army. Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5 PM. Free.

Rad girls alert: K-fifth graders can join Girl Scouts as they create stories on the go, paint colors, make bird nests, create animal flip books and design a comic book bracelet. $6 for kids, $2 for adults, includes all activities, pizza and drinks. First Lutheran Church, 2808 South Ave. W. Non-Scouts pay the annual membership fee of $12 plus the program fee, which lets them attend all GS programs for the membership year. Register at least two weeks in advance at gsmw.org. Call 800-736-5243 ext. 2306.

Sirius Black is back in the Ravalli County Museum’s screening of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Check out the film and the Harry Potter exhibit. 705 Bedford St. in Hamilton. 6 PM. Free.

Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Grab a rocket train to Hamilton for the Mark Sexton Band at the Bitter Root Brewery. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Hey man, get your pleasure centers ready for the 9th Annual Chocolate Lovers Festival in the Arlee Brown Community Center in Arlee. Enter your items between 1 and 6 PM.

Secret Powers. Sad rockers Secret Plot to Destroy the Entire Universe perform at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., on Fri., Feb. 1, at 9 PM, with locals Buddy Jackson and The Whoopasss Girls. $5.

Make two identical confections; one for tasting and one for bidding. Or just come by to eat them up at 6:30 PM. This year there is a kid’s category, too. $2 or $5 per gamily. For more information call 726-5550. All proceeds benefit the youth programs of the Arlee Community Development Corporation and the Jocko Valley Library.

Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.). 7:30 PM. Free will offering.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams. Just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it.

That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208

Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.

Show up the rest of the room with your version of “Ninja Survive” when you hit the Dark Horse for Combat Karaoke hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free.

Pop the pomp and zipper up them boots, The Cold Hard Cash Show plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St., and it’s gonna be fine old time, y’all. 9 PM. Free.

Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign-up by 9:30 PM to perform or just sit back and take in the funny. Free.

The Super Bowl takes place this Sunday. The 49ers will be victorious by nine points. That is all. Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Feb. 1 to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH I am certain you could care less about my upcoming YurtSki trip (fourth annual, thank you very much). The tasty gnar of backcountry riding has too many rewards to keep it to myself, though: fresh lines, undiscovered powder stashes, even the hard, lung- and leg-busting slogs to the tops of ridges are divine. The Montana Backcountry Alliance, organized in 2005, champions the backcountry experience, specifically non-motorized access.

While it may seem at odds with the group’s mission, its Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival features films that take us deep into the white rooms of North America, sometimes via helicopter.

That’s all fine and good since most of us don’t have access to choppers that could clutter up pristine vistas

and mountain tops. That said, many of us do have access to snowmobiles, and I freely admit to taking advantage of a motorized tow up an old skid road.

But that’s never the best part of the trip. The best parts are when we leave the sleds behind and quietly skin up and up and up, meditating on the snow-covered ground a few feet in front of us before arriving above an untouched glade, ours for the taking.

—Jason McMackin The Montana Backcountry Alliance Winter Wildlands Backcountry Film Festival screens at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave., on Thu., at 7 PM. $10. Visit montanabackcountry.org.

Photo by Chad Harder

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Let the kids climb the walls while you have a snort next door at Draught Works at the Freestone Climbing Center’s Kids Climbing Club. Kids get instruction and encouragement; you get to chill ‘til the next episode. 935 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. $25 per month.

Make sure your first time is safe and the person you’re doing it with knows what they’re doing. So moto on over to First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2

Get a breath of fresh air you darned shuttered folk at the UM Outdoor Program’s Cross-Country Ski Outing. Gear, review of the techniques and transpo provided. 8–4 PM. $30. Call 243-5172 or write to crecop@mso.umt.edu.

Get certified to hunt archery style at the Missoula Bowhunter Education Classes held by the FWP. The all-day class also includes a half-day field course on Sun., Feb. 3. The course takes place at the FWP regional office, 4301 Spurgin Rd., from 8:30–5:30 PM. Free. Register at fwp.mt.gov.

Fisherpeople, get rod-ready with the 2013 Fly Fishing Film Tour at the Wilma Theatre. 7 PM. $15 tickets available at FlyFilmTour.com. $13 in advance at Grizzly Hackle, Missoulian Angler, The Kingfisher Fly Shop and Blackfoot River Outfitters.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 6

Bridger Bowl’s Skin to Win Randonnee Rally is a nasty affair that tests the mettle of those who dare to strap on the skins and slide up 2,300 vertical feet (or 5,000 for the pro division), and then ride down. That last part sounds all right. For more information check out bridgerbowl.com.

Wax your boards and keep your tips up for Snowbowl’s Alpine Evening Race Series. The races take place each Wednesday through March 7, with the last race and a big old party taking place on Fri., March 9. Become the queen of the mountain or the king of the hill—either way, rule your opponents. Contact Deb at 406-258-5260 or debdem@optimum.net.

Just don’t run on a full stomach during Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which occurs every Sat. at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. After the run/walk, you’ll grab breakfast with other participants. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Hit the K-12 and do it for your brother who died trying to break that record back in ‘78 at Whitefish Mountain Resort’s Wednesday Night Race League.

Alpine racing y’all at 6:30 PM, partying afterward.

Visit skiwhitefish.com.

Let the old pros show you race makers how it’s done at the Run Wild Missoula workshop to prepare race directors. Were talkin’ timing, registration, sponsorships and more. GLR Building, 350 Ryman St. 8 AM–1 PM. Free for members/$25 for all others.

Register at runwildmissoula.org.

Join John Roskelley as he recounts his 1976 American/Indian Nanda Devi Expedition which succeeded in making the first ascent of 25,645-foot Nanda Devi’s Northwest Face in the Indian Himalaya. He will also share stories of other Himalaya climbing trips he has completed throughout the years. University Center Theater. 7 PM. Free.

INFORMATIONAL MEETING Present Draft: Maclay Bridge Planning Study Missoula County Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:00 p.m. • Guest House Inn Suites & Conference Center • 3803 Brooks St., Missoula, MT Missoula County, in partnership with the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), have initiated the development of the Maclay Bridge Planning Study to determine potential needs of the Maclay Bridge and connecting roadways within the area. The purpose of this meeting is to present the screening process, and to gather feedback on the draft planning study report.

The planning study identifies potential options and assists in facilitating a smooth and efficient transition from transportation planning to future project development/environmental review, if any, based on need and funding availability. The Maclay Bridge Planning Study is a planning-level study and is not an environmental analysis, design or construction project. The Maclay Bridge crosses the Bitterroot River approximately 2.75 miles west of Reserve Street via North Avenue.

North Avenue connects to the existing bridge as the eastern approach, and River Pines Road serves as its western approach.

The meeting is open to the public and the public is encouraged to attend. Local governments attempt to provide accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person's participation in this meeting. For reasonable accommodations to participate in this meeting, please contact Jeff Key, Robert Peccia & Assocs. Inc., at (406) 447-5000 at least two days before the meeting. For the hearing impaired, the TTY number is (406) 444-7696 or (800) 335-7592, or Montana Relay at 711. Alternative accessible formats of this information will be provided upon request.

Comments may be submitted in writing at the meeting, by mail to Sheila Ludlow, Project Manager, MDT, P.O. Box 201001, Helena, MT 59620-1001

or online at www.mdt.mt.gov/mdt/comment_form.shtml Please indicate comments are for the Maclay Bridge Planning Study.

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[community]

When I think of nutritious and delicious food, I immediately think of the National Frozen Pizza Institute and the Association for Dressings and Sauces. Both of these groups are members of the innocuoussounding Alliance to Feed the Future. Obviously, the future is a fat, pasty place coated in ranch dressing. But if food and farming activist Anna Lappé has anything to say about it, the world will leave behind the mess of industrial farming and focus again on small familyowned farms and ranches.

Lappé’s arguments for a return to the old methods seem so logical that it’s hard to believe that we haven’t re-adopted them. Basically, she believes we should ditch the polluting fertilizers that cost money and destroy ecosystems in favor of letting cows, chickens and pigs do some of the fertilizing themselves, thus letting the animals out of the pens and keeping nasty petroleum-based products out of our drinking water.

But, you know, the National Frozen Pizza Institute just wants us to have affordable food, right?

Organics cost more, right? Maybe, maybe not.

In a short film at foodmyths.org, Lappé explains how we can wean ourselves from industrial agriculture. None of the information is groundbreaking. We’d only have to go back to the ways many farmed merely one or two generations ago.

Sadly, today’s industrial agronomists seem more focused on quantity rather than quality, not to

mention more interested in what it feeds to livestock than what it feeds to us humans.

—Jason McMackin Author and sustainable-farming expert Anna Lappé gives two lectures at UM on Mon., Feb. 4. First, in conjunction with the UM Philosophy Forum, she presents Eat the Sky: Connecting the Dots between Climate, Food and the Future of Farming, from 3:10 to 4:30 PM, in the Gallagher Business Building Room 123. Then at 8 PM, in the Dennison Theatre, Lappé delivers a lecture titled Sustainability, Sustenance and Social Change: How Sustainable Food and Farming Can Nourish the World and Transform Communities. Both events are free.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1 Get yourself a carved elk antler handled knife or awe-inspiring wildlife photographs at the Art Raffle to benefit Wild Skies Raptor Center. Naturalist’s Mercantile, 131 East Main St. 5–8 PM. Free.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3 This is the kind of mass I can really get behind. The Missoula Area Secular Society presents its Sunday M.A.S.S. Brunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sun. of every month for brunch from 10 AM–noon at the meeting room of Sean Kelly’s Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 4 Put your booty to work and volunteer your time at the Spring Volunteer Fair in the University Center Atrium where over 30 community agencies gather to recruit new peeps for their groups. 10 AM–2 PM. Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM FLAT, 633 Fifth St. E. 6:30 PM.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5 Put your booty to work and volunteer your time at the Spring Volunteer Fair in the University Center Atrium where over 30 community agencies gather to recruit new peeps for their groups.

10 AM–2 PM. Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7 Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center is for all those ready to sing in honor of our connection to one another and the earth. 519 S. Higgins (Enter through back alley door.). 7:30 PM. Free will offering.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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By Amy Alkon TALK BLURTY TO ME Why are women so worked up about hearing "those three little words," and why must they turn them into such a minefield? If a man says "I love you" too soon, he gets dumped because he's a clingy, needy Nice Guy. If he waits too long, he gets dumped as a suspected commitmentphobe. Even when a man operates without any calculation -- freely and happily telling a woman he loves her -- he runs the risk of some cutting or insulting response from her or no response at all. (I have gotten tripped up by timing this wrong a number of times.) Methinks there's a bit of self-loathing to the women who pull this baloney.

—Expressing Myself "I love you," said right away, suggests that you have great admiration for a woman's unique and special qualities, such as being female, human, and willing to return your calls.

Early on in dating, should you find yourself brimming with emotion and unable to hold back, "I love bacon!" is a safer thing to blurt out. When somebody says that, even on the first or second date, nobody suspects he's just hoping to use bacon to patch some gaping emotional void. This is probably why, no matter how soon or how fiercely you express your love for bacon, bacon will never respond by running away.

To be fair, bacon also lacks feet.

The "I love you" a woman does want to hear is the one that's shorthand for "I'd like to be the one who's there for you when you can't quite get the Velcro to close on your adult diaper" -- or that at least indicates a desire to point the relationship in that direction and see how it goes. This is not a conclusion you hop to in a handful of dates. It comes out of feeling that who the woman is resonates with who you are and what you care most about, and takes seeing her less-than-lovable sides and deciding that the downsides aren't big and hairy enough to cancel out the upsides.

As for your stumbles in the "three little words" zone, if you've told a woman you love her and gotten an "insulting" response, could it be because you scribbled it on a dollar bill and tucked it into her Gstring? Being into a woman isn't enough.

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HER SUCTION CUP RUNNETH OVER My girlfriend of two years is the bomb but is becoming a little needy. We live together and both have office jobs, and I'm cool not talking to her until I get home, but she'll text me several times a day. If I don't respond, she texts me a sad face or some statement about how busy I must be. If I'm hanging with friends in the evening, she gets upset if I don't call her at least once. I really love her but feel indulging her need for more contact will only cause her to be more demanding.

—Tugged On Affection is not a gateway drug. Texting your girlfriend a few extra "luv u babe"s or "thinkn of u"s during the workweek isn't the first step to carrying her everywhere with you in a giant BabyBjorn. It might even help her stop treating that device in your pocket like an "Angry Birds"-enabled wireless leash. Consider "the dependency paradox," researcher Dr. Brooke C. Feeney's finding that, in a committed relationship, the more a person felt they could count on their partner to be responsive to their calls for comforting and support, the more autonomous and self-sufficient the person would be.

Ask your girlfriend to try a month-long experiment in managing your mismatched need for closeness: You'll commit to giving her more frequent verbal reassurance that you love her and are there for her and to dashing off a few sweet texts to her at slow points during your workday. She, in turn, needs to respect some boundaries, meaning not going all funeral-face when you don't respond to every workday text and not expecting to hear from you when you're out with your friends unless you end the evening in a ditch or in jail. After 30 days, take stock. I'm guessing you'll find your girlfriend feeling -- and acting -- much less like the sort of woman who's about two unreturned texts from sobbing to a packed restaurant, "He's decided to take a break from the relationship!" (Translation: "He's in the men's room.")

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Wageni ni baraka is a Swahili proverb that means "guests are a blessing." That's not always true, of course. Sometimes guests can be a boring inconvenience or a messy burden. But for you in the coming weeks, Aries, I'm guessing the proverb will be 98 percent correct.

The souls who come calling are likely to bestow unusually fine benefits. They may provide useful clues or missing links you've been searching for. They might inspire you to see things about yourself that you really need to know, and they might even give you shiny new playthings. Open your mind and heart to the unexpected blessings.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I turn my psychic vision in your direction, I see scenes of heavy rain and rising water, maybe even a flood. I'm pretty sure this has a metaphorical rather than literal significance. It probably means you will be inundated with more feelings than you've experienced in a while. Not bad or out-of-control feelings; just deep and enigmatic and brimming with nuance.

How to respond? First, announce to the universe that you will be glad and grateful to accept this deluge.

Second, go with the flow, not against it. Third, promise yourself not to come to premature conclusions about the meaning of these feelings; let them evolve.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I want to know more about you" may be the most potent sentence you can utter in the coming week. If spoken with sincere curiosity, it will awaken dormant synergies. It will disarm people who might otherwise become adversaries. It will make you smarter and work as a magic spell that gives you access to useful information you wouldn't be able to crack open with any other method. To begin the process of imbuing your subconscious mind with its incantatory power, say "I want to know more about you" aloud ten times right now.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My hotel was nice but the neighborhood where it was located seemed sketchy. As I returned to my room after a jaunt to the convenience store, I received inquiries from two colorfully-dressed hookers whose sales pitches were enticingly lyrical. I also passed a lively man who proposed that I purchase some of his top-grade meth, crack, or heroin. I thanked them all for their thoughtful invitations but said I wasn't in the mood. Then I slipped back into my hotel room to dine on my strawberry smoothie and blueberry muffin as I watched HBO. My experience could have something in common with your immediate future, Virgo. I suspect you may be tempted with offers that seem exotic and adventurous but are not really that good for you. Stick to the healthy basics, please.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It's the First Annual Blemish Appreciation Week—for Geminis only.

One of the best ways to observe this holiday is to not just tolerate the flaws and foibles of other people, but to also understand them and forgive them. Another excellent way to celebrate is to do the same for your own flaws and foibles: Applaud them for the interesting trouble they've caused and the rousing lessons they've taught. I may be joking a little about this, but I'm mostly serious. Be creative and uninhibited as you have fun with the human imperfections that normally drive you crazy.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A West Coast DJ named Shakti Bliss wrote a remarkable status update on her Facebook page. Here's an edited excerpt: "In the past 24 hours, I did yoga in a bathtub, hauled furniture by myself in the rain, got expert dating advice from an 11-year-old, learned the lindy hop, saw a rainbow over the ocean, had thrift store clothes stolen out of my car by a homeless man, made a magic protection amulet out of a piece of cardboard, was fed quinoa soup by the buffest 50year-old South African woman I've ever met, bowed to a room full of applause, and watched two of my favorite men slow dance together to Josephine Baker singing in French." I suspect that you Libras will be having days like that in the coming week: packed with poetic adventures. Are you ready to handle more than the usual amount of stimulation and excitement?

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, called himself a Christian. But he also acknowledged that there weren't any other Christians like him.

He said he belonged to a sect consisting of one person—himself. While he admired the teachings of Jesus Christ, he had no use for the supernatural aspects of the stories told in the New Testament. So he created his own version of the Bible, using only those parts he agreed with. Now would be an excellent time for you to be inspired by Jefferson's approach, Scorpio. Is there a set of ideas that appeals to you in some ways but not in others? Tailor it to your own special needs. Make it your own. Become a sect of one.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day," said writer Elbert Hubbard. "Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." Judging from my personal experience, I'd say that five minutes is a lowball figure. My own daily rate is rarely less than half an hour. But the good news as far as you're concerned, Sagittarius, is that in the coming weeks you might have many days when you're not a damn fool for even five seconds. In fact, you may break your alltime records for levels of wild, pure wisdom. Make constructive use of your enhanced intelligence!

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "Most humans have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted," said Aldous Huxley. If that's true, Capricorn, it's important that you NOT act like a normal human in the next few weeks. Taking things for granted would be a laziness you can't afford to indulge. In fact, I think you should renew your passion for and commitment to all your familiar pleasures and fundamental supports. Are you fully aware of the everyday miracles that allow you to thrive?

Express your appreciation for the sources that nourish you so reliably.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Poet Jacob Nibengenesabe was a member of the Swampy Cree, a First Nation tribe in Canada. He wrote shamanic poems from the point of view of a magical trickster who could change himself into various creatures. In one poem, the shapeshifter talked about how important it is to be definite about what he wanted. "There was a storm once," he said. "That's when I wished myself / to be a turtle / but I meant on land! / The one that carries a hard tent / on his back. / I didn't want to be floating!"

By the end of the poem, the shapeshifter concluded, "I've got to wish things exactly! / That's the way it is / from now on." I hope that will be the way it is from now on for you, too, Aquarius. Visualize your desires in intricate, exact detail. For example, if you want to be a bird for a while, specify what kind.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF JOINT CITY/COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council and the Missoula County Commissioners will hold a joint public hearing on Monday, February 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution on proposed changes to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program. The proposed rule changes are in Chapter 4 “Missoula County Air Stagnation and Emergency Episode Avoidance Plan”; Chapter 6 “Standards for Stationary Sources”; Chapter 7 “Outdoor Burning”; Chapter 8 “Fugitive Particulate”; Chapter 9 “Solid Fuel Burning Devices”; and Chapter 14 “Enforcement and Administrative Procedures.” Some of the proposed rule changes include clarifying the wildfire smoke emergency episode avoidance plan in Chapter 4; adding a temporary permitting process for portable industrial sources in Chapter 6; clarifying general outdoor burning procedure and the bonfire definition in Chapter 7; modifying the paving rules in Chapter 8; clarifying rules and the adding solid fuel burning devices for licensed mobile food vendors in Chapter 9; and removing the administrative review process for permitting actions in Chapter 14. A copy of the resolution is available in the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802.

For further information, contact Jim Carlson, City/County Health Department at 258-4996. Citizens are encouraged to attend the meeting and comment on the proposal. If you cannot attend, you may e-mail your comments to the City Council at council@ci.missoula.mt.us and the Board of County Commissioners at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. You can also mail them to the City Clerk at the address listed above. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on February 11, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance generally amending Missoula Municipal Code Titles 1 through 20 to change the composition of the Public Works Department and to change references to personnel through Municipal Code to reflect the reassignment of certain duties and functions formerly performed in the Public Works Department to Development Services beginning January 1, 2013. For further information contact Martha Rehbein, City Clerk at 552-6078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s) Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES: Design, Engineering, and Contract Administration for Construction of the URD II – Cedar, Hawthorne, and West Broadway Street Improvement Project City of Missoula, Montana NOTICE TO ENGINEERING CONSULTING FIRMS: Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA), acting as Project Owner (“Owner”) for the City of Missoula, will receive written statements of qualifications and proposals for professional services related to the Urban

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Renewal District II (URD II) – Cedar, Hawthorne, West Broadway Street Improvement Project for the purpose of improving the streets surrounding a new Poverello Center on 1100 block of West Broadway and the expansion of the YWCA facilities on the 1100 block of Cedar St. The project will be funded with URD II tax increment funds. The Project will involve the redesign of the Cedar/West Broadway intersection and the reconstruction of Cedar St. and Hawthorne St. including drainage structures, curb, sidewalk, landscaping, and street lighting. The Project Area is defined as Cedar Street between West Broadway and Hawthorne St.; Hawthorne St. between Cedar St. and West Broadway; and the north side of West Broadway between Hawthorne St. and Cedar St. Assistance with right-of-way acquisition and utility relocation coordination may be required.

Communications with MRA staff, property owners, and City officials are important components of the engineer’s work. The design development phase of this project will begin as soon as possible upon selection of an engineering firm by a City Selection Committee. The selected engineer will be required to follow applicable City, State and Federal regulations. Information to be submitted by prospective firms in their written statements, qualifications, and professional proposals should include: 1. Qualifications of the firm: This section should include a list of design, engineering, and construction management of similar public projects completed by the firm over the last five years. The agency name, contact person, and phone number of the person who worked most closely with the firm on these projects should be included along with information regarding construction dates, quantities, and project cost. 2.

Key Personnel: This section shall include a list of the key personnel in the firm and describe their experience doing work related to the Project. Also include a statement regarding the firm’s intention to subcontract any portion of this work to another firm. 3. Proposed Schedule: Submit a proposed schedule of Project services including design development, surveying and engineering, final design, construction drawings and bid documents, construction management, and Project closeout; and the ability of the firm to meet the scope of services as outlined. Include projected work load and availability of key personnel to complete the work within the schedule. 4. Additional Information: Any additional information that is relevant for MRA to consider in reviewing and comparing the firm’s proposal. 5.

Scope of Services: The Professional Services Agreement entered into by the Missoula Redevelopment Agency and the selected firm will include the following phases: A. Design Development. The selected engineer will provide the following during preliminary design of the Project within the above described Project Area: public notification of the Project; field surveying and engineering; curb and sidewalk alignment to accommodate existing utilities; drainage plan; asphalt patching to existing pavement and/or partnership with the City Streets Division for repaving of streets; soils investigation, utility relocation, and /or right-ofway acquisition if applicable; and preliminary cost estimates. The engineer’s preliminary design will be reviewed and approved by City Development Services engineering officials prior to approval by the MRA Board of Commissioners. The selected engineer will hold a public meeting with adjacent land owners in the Project area to present preliminary design, and also provide for public outreach and communications with property owners to mitigate design and/or encroachment issues prior to bidding the Project. B. Final design. Upon City and MRA approval of preliminary design and cost estimates, the selected engineer will prepare construction drawings and specifications of the

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by MRA and City engineering officials and final payment by MRA. In addition the selected engineer will provide a warranty inspection with MRA and City engineering officials one year after the completion of the Project. An Engineer will be chosen by a selection committee using the following process: A. Four (4) copies of written statements, qualifications and professional proposals shall be submitted to the Missoula Redevelopment Agency, 140 W. Pine St, Missoula, Montana 59802, on or before 5:00 p.m., local time the 28th February, 2013, enclosed in an envelope clearly marked “Response to Request For Proposals for URD II – Cedar, Hawthorne, and West Broadway Street Improvement Project.

Written statements, qualifications, and professional proposals submitted will be evaluated by a Selection Committee appointed for this purpose. Qualified candidates will be evaluated based on their written proposal. Interviews will be conducted at the discretion of the Selection Committee. B. Proposals will be analyzed based on the following criteria: 1. Qualifications of the firm and professional personnel to be assigned to the Project: 50% 2.

Related experience on similar City of Missoula or MRA infrastructure projects: 35% 3. Recent and current work for the City of Missoula: 10% 4. Capability to meet time requirements based upon present and projected workloads: 5% The proposal chosen by the Selection Committee will be presented to the

MRA Board of Commissioners for approval. The MRA reserves the right to accept or reject any proposals deemed to be in the best interests of the City and Urban Renewal District II. Upon MRA Board approval of the engineer recommended by the Selection Committee, a negotiation process for an Agreement for Professional Services between the selected engineer and the MRA will follow. Once an acceptable Agreement for Professional Services has been reached, MRA staff will make a recommendation to approve the Agreement at the March 20, 2013 regular meeting of the MRA Board of Commissioners. The selected engineer will be required to be registered with the State of Montana and carry liability insurance agreeable with current City liability insurance standards. Questions regarding the Project should be directed to Tod Gass, Project Coordinator, Missoula Redevelopment Agency, 140 W. Pine St, Missoula, MT 59802 or by calling (406) 552-6159. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state statutes governing procure-

PUBLIC NOTICE The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following applications: A request from Paradigm Architects; Signs as Part of Building and Building Graphic for Top Hat Lounge located at 134 W. Front St. (SEE MAP C).

Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. E-mails can be sent to kcolenso@ci.missoula.mt.us. Project files may be viewed at the Missoula Development Services at 435 Ryman St., Missoula, Montana. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

ment of professional services. Accordingly, the MRA reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate. The City of Missoula and the Missoula Redevelopment Agency are EEO/AA, M/F, V/H Employers. Qualified women, veterans, minority and handicapped individuals are encouraged to submit proposals.

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1.

Grant Creek-NWF Project A hearing on a proposal to expend $54,000 from

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following item: 1.

A request by Joel and Brenda Cusker for a variance to allow an accessory structure on the property addressed as 9499 Cusker Lane without a primary structure, zoned C-A3. See map A.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling Missoula County Community and Planning Services (formerly Office of Planning and Grants) at 258-4657.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For a complete legal description or additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Jamie Erbacher at the same number or by e-mail at jerbacher@co.missoula.mt.us.

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1 That is, to Nero 6 "All-American Girl" Margaret 9 Elite U.S. Navy squad 14 It's struck from a book 15 "Whadja say?"

16 2005 "Survivor" locale 17 Big book of stories 19 Sean of the "Lord of the Rings" series 20 He's always dropping dishes?

22 Peppermint Pattie brand 23 Gargantuan Brit. lexicon 24 Uneventful 26 Nick at ___ 29 "Sands of ___ Jima" 32 Komodo dragon or Tasmanian devil 36 Ore-___ (tater tots brand) 37 Bedroom area that's useful to have around?

39 ___ Wafers 41 Constrictive critter 42 Sci-fi author Asimov 43 He has a corny sense of humor?

46 Deadlock 47 Dutch beer 48 ID-assigning org.

49 Chip's pal 50 "The Kids in the Hall" bit 52 Blue ball on the table 54 Fashion legend Christian 57 Guy who trimmed Dad's beard?

63 Texas A&M athlete 65 Doesn't lose it 66 Crosses (a river) 67 One of seven: abbr.

68 A few extra pounds 69 Pecan and walnut 70 Torn of "Men in Black" 71 It follows either word in the four long answers

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1 Apple on a desk 2 Short name for Boone or Webster 3 Query to Brutus 4 Average fool 5 Things out of reach?

6 Neapolitan layer, for short 7 Laurie on "House" 8 "I just remembered..."

9 Detoxifying place 10 Top vs. bottom-seed shutouts, for instance 11 Low choral part 12 Grizzly's hangout 13 Destroyed a destroyer 18 Actress/model/socialite ___ Hearst-Shaw 21 Griff and D's Public Enemy cohort 25 Recording studio sign 26 Silent killer?

27 Turn of phrase 28 Peace conference events 30 Liberty's org.

31 Reasons for insoles 33 Mazda model 34 "Garfield: ___ of Two Kitties" 35 School for French students 37 She portrayed Kahlo 38 Thanksgiving items 40 Biker's exit line 44 Go berserk 45 Date on some food packaging 49 The back, in medical textbooks 51 Weapon often seen on "24" 53 Nest residents 54 Nutty 55 Composer Stravinsky 56 Shrek, e.g.

58 Spittoon noise 59 Org. for seniors 60 "On & On" singer Erykah 61 MIT grad, maybe 62 Hazard for a hull 64 Ending for heir or host

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PUBLIC NOTICES the City’s portion of 2006 Open Space Bond funds to purchase a 27 acre parcel and grant a conservation easement on the property to the Five Valleys Land Trust in order to extend the Grant Creek Bicycle/Pedestrian Trail parallel to Grant Creek Road. The City Council held a public hearing on the project on January 14, 2013 and voted to approve the project. The Commissioners will conduct their hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 13, 2013, in Room B14 of the County Administration Building, 199 West Pine, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners. Offices: 199 West Pine. Mail: 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. FAX: (406) 721-4043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 2583432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Missoula County Community and Planning Services at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 2583422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING APPEAL OF FLOODPLAIN PERMIT (KONSTANTIN TSUBER – GRANT CREEK) Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on an appeal of Floodplain Permit #12-25. The appeal is from Konstantin Tsuber who was issued an after-the-fact floodplain permit to construct a new home at 1955 Mullan Trail. Mr. Tsuber is appealing the requirements for the crawlspace to be constructed no lower than the base flood elevation and the lowest floor/all mechanical equipment (including ductwork) be constructed 2’ above the base flood elevation. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at a Special Public Meeting on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in Room B14 - Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax or e-mail to the Board of County Commissioners, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-Mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. Comments may also be submitted by personal delivery to the Commissioners at the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine, Missoula, MT 59802. A copy of the full application is available for review in the former Office of Planning and Grants at City Hall. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Todd Klietz, County Floodplain Administrator, Community and Planning Services, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802; or by calling (406) 258-4841. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. BY ORDER OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR MARKETING SERVICES FOR THE MISSOULA COUNTY SEELEY LAKE WOOD-BURNING APPLIANCE CHANGEOUT PROGRAM The Missoula County Department of Grants and Community Programs (DGCP), an entity of Missoula County, seeks a qualified licensed design firm to develop a multimedia marketing campaign intended to creatively and effectively

“tell the story” of the ongoing Seeley Lake Wood-Burning Appliance Changeout Program. Statements of qualifications will be accepted until 5:00 PM, Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Interested firms may obtain a complete project description on Missoula County’s website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting Barbara Berens, 406-258-3227 or bberens@co.missoula.mt.us MISSOULA IRRIGATION DISTRICT ANNUAL REPORT 2012. Balance 12/31/11: $101,920.03 Assessments Received 2012: $124,900.56 EPA Funds Log Problem: $60,327.00 Grants: $20,000.00. $205,227.56 TOTAL: $307,147.59 Expenditures 2012: $282,040.20 Balance 12/31/12: $25,107.39.

Year 2012 began with funds on deposit from EPA for log-abatement expenses resulting from the Milltown Dam removal. Further funds from EPA for that purpose were received in 2012. Log removal, log abatement, repairs and improvements were made and/or installed as well as placement of a permanent Engineered log grade. All funds received by District are deposited with the Missoula County Treasurer into a MID account and expenses drawn from that account as incurred and require payment by double signature draft(s). Dated this 25th day of January, 2013.

MISSOULA IRRIGATION DISTRICT /s/ Raymond P. Tipp, Sec. to MID Board MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-12-1517 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. BOOMTOWNE CENTER, LLC, Plaintiff, v.

VINCENT L. FARNUM, FREDA A. FARNUM, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of Quieting Title to the following-described real properties located in Missoula County, Montana: That portion of Block 19, Homevale Addition, lying Northwesterly of U.S. Highway 93, according to the official plat thereof on file in the office of the Clerk and Recorder, Missoula County, Montana. TOGETHER WITH that portion of the vacated alley located therein, as vacated

by Resolution recorded on November 27, 1963, in Book ‘V’ of Miscellaneous at Page 158, records of Missoula County, Montana.

Recording Reference: Book 265 of Micro at page 1726. This real property includes the real property previously identified as Lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Block 19 of Homevale Addition to Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof and on file in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of said County. Dated this 14th day of January, 2013. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Cady Sowre, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-12-101 Dept. No. 1 Judge Edward P. McLean SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING J.L., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: TRISHA BREUER AND GRANT LAFROMBOISE Re: J.L., born August 17, 1998 YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana, 59808, has filed a Petition for Emergency Protective Services, Adjudication as a Youth in Need of Care and Temporary Legal Custody or for said youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 20th day of February, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Order to Show Cause, Order Granting Emergency Protective Services and Notice of Show

Cause Hearing should not also remain in effect; why the youth should not be adjudicated a youth in need of care; why CFS should not be awarded temporary legal custody of the youth for six months, or until further order of the Court; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. Trisha Breuer is represented by the Office of Public Defender, 610 Woody St., Missoula, Montana 59802, (406) 5235140. Grant Lafromboise is represented by the Office of Public Defender, 610 Woody St., Missoula, Montana 59802, (406) 523-5140.

Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Edward P. McLean, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 16th day of January, 2013. /s/ EDWARD P. MCLEAN District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-1, Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROBERT A. DURINGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Janice Sue Duringer has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Janice Sue Duringer, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Sally Johnson, Johnson Law Firm, PLLC, 234 East Pine Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 17th day of January, 2013.

JOHNSON LAW FIRM, PLLC, 234 East Pine Street, PO Box 8327, Missoula, MT 59802 /s/ Sally J. Johnson, Attorney for Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-13-14 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MAURICE M. MEIER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Christina M. Anderson has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christina M. Anderson, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 24th day of January, 2013. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Probate No. DP-13-15 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN W. SCALLY, Deceased. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned was appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Sean W. Scally, the personal representative, return receipt requested, care of Geranios Law, PLLC, 120 Hickory Street, Suite B, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court. Dated: January 24, 2013. /s/ Sean W. Scally, Personal Representative Personal Representative’s Attorney: Nik Geranios Law, PLLC, 120 Hickory Street, Suite B, Missoula, Montana 59801 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DP-13-4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATTY LOU LOVAAS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Orville Lovaas, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2820 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 11th day of January, 2013. /s/ Orville Lovaas, Personal Representative /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-13-9 NOTICE TO

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CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JANET ELLEN MILLER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Robert E. Miller has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Robert E. Miller, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 11th day of January, 2013.

GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 16th day of January, 2013 /s/ Robert E. Miller, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-11-203 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of NORMAN JAMES NICKMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, John Nickman, at 2207 Benton, Avenue B, Missoula, MT 59801, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 29th day of November, 2012. /s/ Mark McLaverty /s/ John Nickman, Personal Representative, 2207 Benton, Avenue B, Missoula, MT 59801 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

by BENJAMIN T. CORY, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 711-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAMES OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE TRUST INDENTURE, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER ARE: Grantor: CRIS IVERSON and AMBER IVERSON (the “Grantor”) Original Trustee: STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY Successor Trustee: BENJAMIN T. CORY, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: TREASURE STATE BANK (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: CRIS IVERSON and AMBER IVERSON THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE TRUST INDENTURE IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: LOT 2-A OF SELLE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Deed of Trust dated September 2, 2008, and recorded September 10, 2008, in Book 826, Page 191, under Document No. 200821007; and Substitution of Trustee dated December 3, 2012 and recorded December 7, 2012, in Book 904, Page 1259, under Document No. 201224182. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $1,308.00 due under the Promissory Note dated September 2, 2008, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for the September 8, 2012 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE TRUST INDENTURES AS OF NOVEMBER 30, 2012 ARE: Principal: $210,262.52 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 6.0% per annum. As of November 30, 2012 the interest balance is $3,456.37 and interest accrues at the rate of $34.5637 per day. Late fees: $261.60 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantors or successor in interest to the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: May 1, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight

Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 S. 4th St. E., Ste. 100, Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. DATED: December 11, 2012. /s/ Benjamin T. Cory BENJAMIN T. CORY, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ) ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on December 11, 2012, by BENJAMIN T. CORY, as Trustee. /s/ Christa Shaw Christa Shaw (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: 04/18/2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/29/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200516250, BK-755, PG-298, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kelly J. Keintz, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel I: Lot 23A of Daly’s Addition, Block 64, Lots 23A and 24A, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. Parcel II: Together with a 15 foot permanent water and private utility service easement across Lot 24A as delineated on the Plat of said Subdivision. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 29, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $139,775.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $134,612.20, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.103504) 1002.236401-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to

HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 5, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $934,559.06. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 17, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701747, Bk 790, Pg 1285, and Modified February 24, 2011 as Instrument No. 201103461, Bk 874, Pg 476, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Randie M. Pringle was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SE1/4 of Section 7, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract D of Certificate of Survey No. 1816.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 10, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $398,636.54. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $381,526.84, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or

any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.93790) 1002.236945-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 11, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 10 IN BLOCK 2 OF REHDER HOMESITES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF John S. Knutson and Sandi Knutson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 27, 2007 and recorded April 30, 2007 at 12:44 o’clock P.M. in Book 796, Page 330 as Document No. 200710288. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,021.27, beginning June 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 26, 2012 is $238,451.38 principal, interest at the rate of 3.87500% now totaling $5,252.88, late charges in the amount of $408.48, escrow advances of $4,556.56, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,050.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.31 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by thetrustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 5, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )ss. County of Bingham ) On this 5th day of November, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of

PUBLIC NOTICES First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/04/2016 GMAC vs. Knutson 41207.791 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 15, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3643 A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. A.P.N.: 1194200 Charles L. Harnist Jr. and Kirstie Jo Harnist, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 09, 2006 and Recorded on February 22, 2006 in Book 769, Page 559 under Document # 200604097. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association as Trustee as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Certificate holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset Backed-Certificates, Series 2006-HE5. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,943.50, beginning November 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 01, 2012 is $234,875.52 principal, interest at the rate of 9.0% now totaling $63,838.98, late charges in the amount of $1,323.32, escrow advances of $7,418.23, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,883.55, plus accruing interest at the rate of $55.50 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse

such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 6, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of November, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be

the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Chase Vs. Harnist 41206.438 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 18, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 20, 21 and the West 4 feet of Lot 22 of Block 36 of the Amended Plat of a portion of Car Line Addition, located in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 129 of Micro Records at Page 605 Gary A Linton II and Tammy K Linton, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 30, 2004 and recorded February 4, 2004 in Book 725, Page 1880 under Document No 200403051. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $831.30, beginning May 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 1, 2012 is $80,469.63 principal, interest at the rate of 7.0% now totaling $8,918.79, late charges in the amount of $748.25, escrow advances of $3,795.71, suspense balance of $-38.74 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,220.61, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.43 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed

of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 6, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of November, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Citimortgage V Linton 42011.536

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 18, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in and being a portion of the Northwest onequarter of the Southeast one-quarter (NW1/4SE1/4) of Section 11, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of said NW1/4SE1/4 of Section 11, thence N.00°00’15” E., along the mid-section line, being the centerline of Brayton Avenue, a distance of 174.90 feet; thence S.89°14’E., 30.00 feet to a point on the Easterly right-of-way line of Brayton Avenue, said point being the true point of beginning; thence N.00°00’15”E., along said right-of-way line, a distance of 188.10 feet; thence S.89°14’E., 187.35 feet; thence S.00°00’15” W., 188.10 feet; thence N.89°14’W., 187.35 feet to the true point of beginning. Recording Reference: Book 683 Micro Records, Page 357 Matthew G. Kelley and Michael A. Kelley, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on November 18, 2002 and recorded on November 21, 2002 in Bk-693, Pg-539, under Document No. 200234428.

The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $882.84, beginning January 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 24, 2012 is $131,919.01 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00000% now totaling $22,287.25, late charges in the amount of $169.70, escrow advances of $10,941.44, suspense balance of $-42.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $324.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.69 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and

may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 6, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of November, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor

Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase Vs. Kelley 41954.076 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 25, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 7 OF SKYVIEW ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS AT PAGE 77 Kalli McCarthy, and Michael J. Hyde, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 29, 2007 and recorded on July 2, 2007 on Book 800 and Page 1001 as Document No. 200716796.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,222.93, beginning June 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of October 14, 2012 is $223,720.31 principal, interest at the rate of 2.000% now totaling $2,023.71, escrow advances of $2,617.95, suspense balance of $-408.07 and other fees and expenses advanced of $19,918.30, plus accruing interest at the rate of $12.26 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of

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PUBLIC NOTICES this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 19, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 19th day of November, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the

Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Nationstar Vs. McCarthy 41706.622 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 8, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5236 Amber Armitage and Erik Armitage, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co. of MT, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Montana First Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 22, 2007 and Recorded May 29, 2007 in Book 798, Page 184 under Document Number 200713098.

The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,387.87, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of November 19, 2012 is $195,645.80 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $13,434.29, late charges in the amount of $138.76, escrow advances of $3,359.53, and

other fees and expenses advanced of $1,723.98, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up

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to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 30, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5/26/2015 PHH V. Armitage 41392.532 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 8, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 8 of Montana Vista Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. Michael R. Vandam, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 16, 2006 and recorded on February 16, 2006 at 04:29P, under Document No. 200603660, in Bk-769, Pg-122.. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $732.34, beginning July 1, 2012,

and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of November 1, 2012 is $115,503.23 principal, interest at the rate of 5.5000% now totaling $2,646.95, late charges in the amount of $409.67, escrow advances of $324.81, and other fees and expenses advanced of $956.64, plus accruing interest at the rate of $17.40 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including

costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 1, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 1st day of November, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/04/2016 Phh/vandam 41392.802 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on May 31, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The West 20 feet of Lot 19 and all of Lot 20 in Block 22 of Hammond Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Recording Reference: Book 398 of Micro Records at Page 1422. Tanna E. Clews and Christiana E. Clews, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated July 12, 2007, and recorded

that same date in Book 801 of Micro Records at Page 573, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded January 11, 2013, in Book 906, Page 1129, Document No. 201300763, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable.

There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $284,028.61, plus interest at a rate of 7.5% totaling $11,360.64 and late fees of $3,662.23, for a total amount due of $299,051.48, as of January 8, 2013, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above.

The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 14th day of January, 2013. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee.

STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 14th day of January, 2013 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

(SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT

PUBLIC NOTICES TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 05/14/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DAVID M KNAPP, AND KAREN E KNAPP, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary

by Trust Indenture Dated 08/30/2010 and recorded 09/03/2010, in document No. 201017002 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 865 at Page Number 495 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 37-A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3358, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SE1/4NW1/4 AND NE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 1620 CAMAS RD, Potomac, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $188,008.62 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.50% per annum from 02/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and

costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 12/28/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 120077336 FEI NO. 1006.168183 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 05/14/2013, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which PATRICK LANDELLS & AMY HOUSE, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/06/2006 and recorded 10/12/2006, in document No. 200626539 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 785 at Page Number 153 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS B AND C OF CAR LINE ADDITION, BLOCK 55, LOTS 25 THRU 28, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TOGETHER WITH A 15 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE SEWER SERVICE LINE EASEMENT OVER AND ACROSS LOT A AS SET FORTH ON SAID PLAT. Property Address: 3114 SOUTH CLARK STREET,

MISSOULA, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $208,201.89 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 01/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 12/28/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0042687 FEI NO. 1006.159286 NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 8, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF Eugene Karl Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure

an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp., A California Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 1998 and recorded May 13, 1998 in Book 541, Page 296, as Document No. 9812132. The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,109.48, beginning January 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of November 15, 2012 is $97,135.05 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00% now totaling $38,417.19, late charges in the amount of $567.00, escrow advances of $10,382.16, and other fees and expenses advanced of $10,531.11, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.61 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale Is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and

thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 30, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of October, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Nationstar V Schafer 41706.582 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS(RFP) LAWN CARE AND MAINTENANCE PLEASANT VIEW HOMES SUBDIVISION - MISSOULA, MT The Pleasant View HOA is requesting proposals for professional lawn care and sprinkler maintenance for all common and park areas owed by the association. Lawn care services will include grass cutting, edging, trimming, mulching and mechanical blowing. Tasks will be done on a contractual scheduled basis. Sprinkler maintenance will include annual start-up, winterization, and repairs as needed. Contract will be for 1 year with the option to renew annually for 3 years. Must be licensed and insured in the State of Montana. No proposal can be withdrawn from a period of 90 days from due date. Proposals must be received by US mail before 5:00 pm February 7th, 2013. Information about submitting proposals can be obtained by contacting Bill McGlynn at secretary@pleasantviewhomes.org.

Dated:01/17/13 Trustee Sale Number: 12-03253-3 Loan Number: 1127137821 APN: 1758557 NO-

TICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on May 22, 2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 2 OF MEADOWLARK ADDITION NO.2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 3516 WASHBURN ST , MISSOULA, MT TREVOR DELANEY, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE COMPANY as Beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated 8/16/2006, and recorded on 08/18/2006 in Film No. 781 at Page 512 under Document No. 200621098, in the Official Recordds of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Bank of America, National Association, as Trustee, successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-15XS (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated May 2, 2011 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of December 23, 2012: Balance due on monthly payment from September 1, 2012 and which payments total: $1,681.28: Late charges: $140.08 : Late Charge Forecasted: $0.00 Bad Check: $0.00 Net Other Fees: $30.00 Advances: $0.00 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $189,123.37 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 7.37500% per annum from August 1, 2012, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other

expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED: January 7, 2013 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee 135 Main St. Ste.1900 San Francisco, CA 94105 By: Stephanie Alonzo, Authorized Signature P1016012 1/24, 1/31, 02/07/2013

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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New Complex, 1 & 2 bedroom units, $625-$795 DW, A/C, deck, storage, coin-op laundry, limited off-street parking, W/S/G paid, 2 bedroom units have W/D hookups or 2nd bath.

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446 Washington 1bed/1bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coin-ops. $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

Orchard Gardens. 1 bed: $572.

2 bed: $691. All utilities paid.

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Russell Square West. 55+/Disabled Complex. 1 bed: $525.

Heat paid. Missoula Housing Authority 549-4113 Solstice Apartments. 1 bed: $587. 2 bed: $688. W/S/G paid. Missoula Housing Authority 549-4113 Studio. $495, quiet cul-de-sac, separate room for bedroom, DW, coin-op laundry, off street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No pets, no smoking. 2 WEEKS FREE With 6 Month Lease (Lim-

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Finalist

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REAL ESTATE HOMES 108 North Davis. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage near Milwaukee Bike Path. Lots of upgrades and a great front porch. $180,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $380,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 11689 Stolen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $319,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

12791 Junegrass. Newly built 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage on 1 acre lot with 10 year building warranty. $224,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 1700 Madeline. 5 bed, 3 bath at foot of Mount Sentinel. Vintage architecture, paned glass, wood floors. $685,000. Vickie & Chris Honzel, Lambros Real Estate 406531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath single-level Windsor Park home. $170,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2441 McIntosh. 2 bed, 2 bath in 55+ community. HOA fees include club house, yard work, sewer &

723 North 5th St. $179,500 www.723n5thmissoula.com 2 bed, 1.5 bath with open kitchen, maple floors & deep soaking tub.

Fenced backyard, patio & storage shed

MLS #20126435

1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell GREAT INVESTMENT! $380,000 This is a property that pencils out!

Two story 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 bed, 1 bath basement apt. & 2 bed, 1 bath garage apt.

www.1136howell.com • MLS #20125053 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

garbage. $106,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 2406503 riceteam@bigsky.net

garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net

2905 Larch Camp Road. 3 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.5 acres in Pattee Canyon.

Fully furnished. $639,000. Vickie & Chris Honzel, Lambros Real Estate 406-5312 6 0 5 . vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

8693 Snapdragon. 3 bed, 2 bath on 1/4 acre outside Missoula. $204,900. No money down! Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. montpref@bigsky.net

3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $205,900. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $239,900. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 3455 Jack Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath Linda Vista home with large kitchen, double garage & park-like landscaping. $295,000. Vickie & Chris Honzel, Lambros Real Estate 406531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 4 Bdr, 1 Bath South Hills home. $179,900. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5209 Dutton Court. 5 bed, 3 bath with fantastic kitchen, laundry room and 3 car garage. Near city park. $339,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car

Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 3608234 Fantastic Home With View 6305 St. Thomas. 4 bed, 3 bath, updated and gorgeous setting with large private lot, double garage, landscaped and ready to move into! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Home to be built at the top of Linda Vista with amazing views! One level living, 3 bedroom, 2 bath on corner lot on Jeff Drive. $279,900.

KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. $217,000. 203 Curtis. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Lot 16A McArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath with great views. Budget for improvements. $184,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net Open Floor Plan 1520 South 6th West. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with wood floors, fenced yard & basement. $185,000. KD Dickinson, Portico Real Estate 327-8787. kdrae52@msn.com

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Rattlesnake View Home Great home across the street from open space and miles of trails. Daylight basement, guest suite with granite and slate bath, hardwood and tile flooring, corian counters and new stainless steel appliances in kitchen, master suite with 3 closets and private tiled bath, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2 car garage, hot water baseboard heat and central air conditioning. Call Sally for appt 546-4797. http://www. postlets.com/8719026 Remarkably Cute 2039 South 10th West. 2 bedroom home on large lot centrally located near Good Food Store, bike trails and schools. Full basement and single garage. KD, Portico Real Estate, 2 4 0 - 5 2 2 7 www.porticorealestate.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1641 Stoddard To-be-built 6-plex on Northside. $650,500 Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties 2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues.

Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

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6614 MacArthur. 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhome with amazing views. $194,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properites. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 723 North 5th West. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with maple floors, open kitchen, fenced backyard & lots of light. $179,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000.

1400 Burns. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Beautiful Downtown Triplex Two 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom; great rental history; great building on Historic Register with tons of character and in great shape! $359,500. 518 Alder porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone superinsulated condo with heated floors and so much more. $250,000.

1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com Uptown Flats. From $149,900. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, car port,

storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 - 5 8 1 6 . annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES 1825 Burlington. Two central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile. Great investment or first time buy. $89,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

LAND 20 ACRES FREE. Buy 40-Get 60 acres. $0-Down, $168/month.

Money back gaurentee. NO CREDIT CHECKS. Beautiful views.

Roads/surveyed. Near El Paso, Texas. 1-800-843-7537 www.SunsetRanches.com 23645 Mullan. Beautiful 14 acre treed meadow west of Huson. Modulars on permanent foundation allowed. $169,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 2406503 riceteam@bigsky.net 3.2 Acres in the Wye area. Gorgeous mountain and valley views.

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MOTIVATED SELLER! 1641 Stoddard $84,000 2 bed, 2 bath single wide on commercially zoned C1-4 lot 1530 Spring Hill $500,000 MOTIVATED SELLER! PRICE REDUCTION! Beautiful cedar home on 5 acres bordering Forest Service

6554 MacArthur $240,000 3 bed, 2.5 bath with custom cherry cabinets, granite counters, tile & hardwood floors

6614 MacArthur $194,500 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhome with amazing Missoula views

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Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos $144,900 - $249,900 Under new ownership! 1 and 2 bedrooms. Large units, nice finishes, secure entry, secure U/G parking, riverfront, affordable HOA dues and much more. Owner financing comparable to FHA terms available with as little as 3.5% down!

Units, pricing and info available at www.mullanheights.com

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REAL ESTATE $65,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

3010 West Central. Nearly 5 acres in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. Rural living in town. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com

4 Klakken, Noxon. Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. $259,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

East Missoula Building Lot With great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $55,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Commercial Lease Space Fantastic opportunity to be a neighbor to the award-winning Homeword Organization! New, LEED registered, high quality, sustainablybuilt office space close to river and downtown. $11-$15 per sq.ft. 2405227 porticorealestate.com

INVESTORS / FARMERS: Quick cash sale 200 irrigated acres near Ronan, MT. Divided into 7 parcels of 20 to 40 acres. Horte and Gillette Roads. Priced at $2,800/acre, $560,000. rhaynes@creative-finance.com or Rod 406-360-3050 Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on. $160,000. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

For Sale: 1.5 acres of beautiful property with a 3800 sq ft building.

Huge corner lot. Commercial property. 3 garages. In downtown Salmon. $625,000. Call 208-3037533 anytime.

OUT OF TOWN

COMMERCIAL

14205 Cambridge Road, Bonner. 4 bed, 4 bath on over 4 acres on Blackfoot River. Completely furnished. $695,000. Vickie & Chris Honzel, Lambros Real Estate 406531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

110 Main Street, Stevensville.

Restaurant in heart of Stevensville

Home on the river with 1.87 acres.

Stevensville River Road home with 4 bedrooms, views of the Bitterroot

Mountains and right on the Bitterroot River. This is awesome! Attached garage plus detached RV garage. $340,000. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 15305 Spring Hill Road, Frenchtown. Beautiful cedar 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 3 car garage & deck on acreage bordering Forest Service. $500,000. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $240,000. Prudential Mon-

tana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call

Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com For Sale: 3 bedroom home in Challis, ID. Huge lot, 3 car garage.

Great hunting, fishing, skiing. $82,000. Call 208-303-7533 anytime.

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.Stevensville Charmer . . . . . .Sweet Stevi Home . . . . . . . .Adorable On Large Lot . . . . .Sweet & Charming . . . . . . .Charming Farm House . . . . .One Level Living . . . . . . . .Quiet, Views, Immaculate . . . .Elegant Maloney Ranch Home .Custom Build Beauty . . . . . .Gorgeous Downtown Triplex .

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.$174,500 .$174,900 .$185,000 .$185,000 .$217,000 .$279,900 .$310,000 .$330,000 .$339,900 .$359,500

Homes w/land: 2348 River Road . . . . . .Home & Land to Build . . . . . .$535,000 Land: Rattlesnake Lot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$160,000 East Missoula Building Lot With Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$55,000 Townhomes/Condos: 1400 Burns . . . . . . . . .Cheaper Than Rent . . . . . .From $79,000 Uptown Flats . . . . . . . .Upscale Downtown . . . . . .From $149,900 1530 S 12th W . . . . . .Green Construction . . . . . . . . .$250,000 Commercial: 1535 Liberty Lane . . . . .New Lease Space . . . . . . . . . . .$11-$15

[C12] Missoula Independent • January 31 – February 7, 2013

WORLD HEADQUARTERS All Jewelry: 25% off All Body Products: 25% off All Posters & Art: 25% off All Cards, Journals & Paper Products: 25% off All Toys: 25% off All Clothing: 25% off All Chocolates & Candies: 25% off All Valentine Gifts & Cards: 25% off All Compact Discs, New & Used: $2 off

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Annual Gala Concert • January 31 - February 2 MCT Center for the Performing Arts • 7:30pm nightly; Saturday matinee at 2pm Tickets available at Rudy's