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MONTANA-MADE WINTER IN THE BLOOD MAKES ITS MUCH-ANTICIPATED MISSOULA PREMIERE

AMY LEACH TURNS MACLEAN CALLS AT THE END OF THE OPINION JOHN ARTS NEWSRAINBOW GATHERING FOR A “STAND DOWN” SCIENCE INTO POETRY

[2] Missoula Independent • July 18 – July 25, 2013

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News Voices/Letters Eminent domain, helicopters and coyotes ................................................4 The Week in Review Wildfire, Glacier fall and Lindeen ...................................................6 Briefs Tubers, buses and The SUP Cup..............................................................................6 Etc. Cory Stapleton’s uniform faux pas..............................................................................7 News Jack Hanna drums up support for the bears............................................................8 News This year’s gathering walks line between order, chaos............................................9 Opinion As wildfires change, so should the way we fight them......................................10 Opinion Playing armchair quarterback to one Best of Missoula win ..............................11 Feature The Rocky Mountain Front blues........................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Winter in the Blood makes its anticipated debut .....................................................18 Music Weird Al Yankovic, Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, Kanye West and Jay-Z ........19 Books Montana Gothic resurfaces 30 years later............................................................20 Books Things That Are turns science to poetry...............................................................21 Film Cannabis Destiny localizes the drug war ................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................23 Flash in the Pan Ethanol is corny....................................................................................24 Happiest Hour Tapas at the Top Hat...............................................................................26 8 Days a Week The South Orange Street summertime blues .........................................27 Mountain High The Bike Brew Tour...............................................................................33 Agenda Meals on Wheels .................................................................................................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-7 This Modern World .....................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

by Tommy Martino

Asked Monday and Tuesday in downtown Missoula. The Montana-made feature film Winter in the Blood makes its local premiere Saturday night. What are your expectations? Follow-up: What’s your favorite representation of Big Sky Country on the big screen? Erica Jessop: I know a couple people who worked on it and I have high expectations. I think that it will represent the state of Montana and our history in a very creative way. All about the cast: A River Runs Through It because it captures the spirit of the West and the way the people live here. I also love to fly fish, so of course I love it.

Katrina Woods: I’ve read the book and I thought it was a little boring at points and long. If there is lots of good scenery, I think the film could be great. Deep Powder: I went to the Banff Film Festival and I saw this one film that was made and produced in Montana but I can’t remember the name off the top of my head. It was a great film, very inspirational and it had some amazing footage of Montana.

Ron Ringsbye: I hadn’t really heard of the film yet, but I plan on going to see it now. Ghost story: Always, a movie filmed up by Libby and directed by Steven Spielberg that came out in 1989. The scenery was my favorite part.

Michael Colvin: I would expect it to be moving from what I’ve heard, and inspirational especially for a bastard like myself. Close, maybe: True Grit was mostly filmed in Montana. The old one is better than the new one in my opinion, though. (Editor’s note: Actually, the newer one was filmed in New Mexico and Texas, and the original in Colorado and California. But we agree the original is better.)

Vaun Stevens: I don’t know much about the movie, but I did read the book and it was a great representation of the Blackfeet reservation. I hope that the film captures all the emotion and feelings that are in the novel. Old school: I think there was a film that came out in the ’50s based on A.B Guthrie’s book The Big Sky. It represents the state very well.

[4] Missoula Independent • July 18 – July 25, 2013

Impossible task I consider myself a Wilderness enthusiast. I have spent the past four summers working on Wilderness trail crews for the Forest Service, most recently for the Bitterroot National Forest. I am no friend or advocate to motorized or mechanized equipment in our Wilderness, but I find Gary Macfarlane and Friends of the Clearwater opposition to the 45-minute helicopter flight to transport 682 pounds of material to Fred Burr Reservoir very misguided (see “A dam dilemma,” July 11). The switchbacks and trail to the reservoir is incredibly brushy (you cannot even see the trail), very steep, out sloped and altogether far too narrow for horses. I would advise even the most experienced packer stay away from this trail, let alone make numerous trips on it. I wonder if Macfarlane has hiked this trail recently, or if he has any concept of the amount of time and effort that it takes to maintain and improve wilderness trails. I would say probably not. Macfarlane points out that “Helicopters are prohibited, horses are not.” True, but the work required to keep trails open for horses in Wilderness is highly labor intensive, costs money, and drastically lagging behind. Even blasting is loud, expensive, and impactful. Where is this improvement crew supposed to come from and who is going to pay for them? How much time will they need to spend camping and impacting the land to finish improving the switchbacks? Good trail work takes a high level of skill that takes years to acquire. Last year there were only seven boots-on-the ground members of the Bitterroot National Forest trail crew and 1,500 miles of trail to maintain. That is an impossible task.

I understand that setting precedents like unnecessary helicopter flights is detrimental to Wilderness and degrades the law. If the Forest Service could spend less money and time tied up in Wilderness litigation, maybe they could afford to better

“If the Forest Service could spend less money and time tied up in Wilderness litigation, maybe they could afford to better maintain and improve trails like Fred Burr in the first place”

maintain and improve trails like Fred Burr in the first place. If these trails could be kept in better condition, then they would be more suitable for stock, rendering helicopter flights unnecessary. Maybe Friends of the Clearwater should litigate Congress for not giving the Forest Service enough

money to take proper care of designated Wilderness, the gems of our public lands. I think that Gary Macfarlane should drop this particular issue and let the Forest Service spend that money where it is desperately needed, which is up keeping the trails in the first place. Renee Morley Missoula

Landowners win During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers and Gov. Steve Bullock put the interests of landowners ahead of the corporations that condemn property for private, for-profit purposes when they passed House Bill 417, a bill that helps restore some fairness in the eminent domain process. It was sponsored by Rep. Kelly Flynn, R-Townsend. While Montana’s property owners are eager to build our state’s economy (most are business owners themselves), I believe that the power of eminent domain should only be used for public projects that advance the public good. The process should be fair, and landowners should receive just compensation for the property taken. HB 417 makes the condemnation process more fair by requiring that the entity condemning the property give a landowner a final written offer before initiating condemnation proceedings, preventing bad actors from playing manipulative games with various offers which leave the landowner unsure of where they stand. There is more work to do to restore balance to our eminent domain laws, but HB 417 was an important start and now a good law. Tom Reeves Glendive

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Indy story, petition lead to Homeland Security bulletin,” July 8

No problem

Work together!

“DHS is right to warn about animal rights terrorists, who are real and dangerous. The trapper did nothing wrong; coyotes are a serious problem and dangerous, and as this case didn’t go the animal rights groups’ way, and the website shows their over-the-top reaction and threats to stop coyote trapping, they are right to warn us about this possibility.” Posted July 9 at 5:27 a.m.

“Coyotes are not dangerous animals, humans are! Hunters and trappers along with so-called wildlife officers who are paid to protect wildlife and look out for their safety because humans are a danger to them! Dogs killing and tormenting trapped wolves or coyotes should not be allowed or tolerated! Let’s all work together to change this!” Posted July 9 at 7:43 a.m.

More to come

Big problem

“This is only the tip of the iceberg. Those fed wildlife killers sure are sensitive.” Posted July 9 at 7:08 a.m.

“There is no reason why the Department of Homeland Security should be tracking us just because we might sign a

petition. I’m sure if you signed a petition to impeach President Obama … you wouldn’t want DHS tracking you because of it. Why? Because that First Amendment to our constitution says we have a right to petition the government. And if acting upon that right makes you a target of surveillance, then you don’t really have that right.” Posted July 9 at 8:45 a.m.

Stronger words “I think the beginning of this article is understated—“tormenting”? Tearing to shreds and killing would be more appropriate.” Posted July 9 at 8:32 a.m.

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missoulanews.com • July 18 – July 25, 2013 [5]

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Tommy Martino

Wednesday, July 10 President Barack Obama declares sections of central and eastern Montana disaster areas after spring flooding devastated the region. The state will subsequently receive federal aid to supplement recovery efforts.

Thursday, July 11 Glacier National Park officials identify Cesar Flores, 21, of Davie, Fla., as the man who died in a 1,000-foot fall while climbing Apikuni Mountain two days earlier.

Friday, July 12 A federal judge sentences Jesse Shaderic Wall, 66, to five years probation and orders him to pay back $201,000 for defrauding Columbia Falls-based RBM Lumber Co. out of $350,000.

Saturday, July 13 The Missoula Osprey manage just two hits in a 10-0 defeat to the Ogden Raptors. The Osprey end up splitting the four-game series and squaring their record at 11-11 for the season.

Sunday, July 14 The West Mullan Fire starts two miles northwest of Superior. Officials are unsure what caused the blaze, which grows to 700 acres and shuts down roughly four miles of the Clark Fork, but they do rule out lightning.

Monday, July 15 Members of the media and Big Sky Conference coaches pick the University of Montana football team to finish third in each group’s respective preseason poll. The Griz receive three first place votes from the media and two from the coaches.

Tuesday, July 16 Several days after former Gov. Brain Schweitzer announces he won’t run for U.S. Senate in 2014, State Auditor Monica Lindeen declares she won’t seek the office either. Lindeen tweets, “Montana is my home, it’s where my family is and I don’t want to leav

Brothers Isaac and Tom Chase cheer on and give out high-fives to runners near Bonner Park during the seventh annual Missoula Marathon Sunday morning.

Labor

Nurse aids are sick and tired Kari Hoffman has worked at Hillside Health Care Center in Missoula’s South Hills for more than 20 years helping to care for elderly and disabled patients, and now she’s hoping her employer will take better care of her. The full-time certified nursing assistant hasn’t seen a raise of more than 20 cents an hour in over a year, and says she couldn’t raise her three children without food stamps and housing assistance. She adds that she’s not the only employee in such a position. “Most of the single moms here have kids on Medicare and they rely on public assistance for most everything else. It’s just normal here,” says Hoffman, 53. Hoffman and her fellow workers are currently in a contract dispute with the company that owns Hillside, The Goodman Group. Their labor contract ended June 30, but has been temporarily extended through the negotiation process. UNITE HERE Local 427 representative Mark Anderlik says employee complaints are as much about how

residents are treated as they are. He claims Hillside staff are often forced to buy or borrow supplies from other facilities and sometimes the same meals are served to residents for days on end. He also says that worker turnover is so high that many, like Hoffman, end up working extra shifts to meet the state’s minimum staff requirements. Anderlik says the union’s specifically negotiating for increased staffing, more supplies, better food options, more affordable health insurance and a raise. “We’re asking for a dollar an hour raise and they’ve countered with 6 to 15 cents,” he says. The Goodman Group is a privately held company based out of Minneapolis specializing in residential communities and health centers. In addition to Hillside, the company manages two other facilities in Missoula and several others in Montana. Paul Teague, regional director of operations for The Goodman Group, says he cannot comment on ongoing negotiations. He does add, “Our number one priority is our employees and our residents.” Dameon Pesanti

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Transportation

Mountain Line lobbies for levy Regulars of the Missoula nightlife scene have been known to criticize Mountain Line’s 7 p.m. service cutoff, leaving revelers to assign designated drivers, find cabs or walk home at the end of the night. A newly proposed $1.7 million levy for the Missoula Urban Transportation District, if passed, would provide longer hours, but the selling points are more for business reasons than pleasure. The funding would help Mountain Line enact the second part of a five-phase improvement plan set to take place over the next 37 years. General Manager Michael Tree says the goal is to add another “Bolt!” bus line to route 2, increase wages for bus drivers and other staff by 2.5-3 percent, and expand curb-to-curb service for senior and disabled passengers. The curbto-curb service is currently operating at full capacity. “We foresee denials coming in the near future if we don’t add the capacity there,” he says. “It’s maxed out.”

[news] As for the extended hours, Mountain Line would run until 9:50 p.m., but Tree says it’s not a change aimed at partiers. The later service targets employees who work evening shifts at Southgate Mall, St. Patrick Hospital and Community Medical Center. Tree does not see an opportunity in the future for bus lines to run even later into the night. If passed, the mill levy will increase the transportation tax by $19 on a house valued at $100,000, bringing the total tax to $44 per household. In the 35 years that Mountain Line has been operational, a levy such as this has never been put before the voters. Tree is optimistic that the bill will pass. Ridership is up in recent years, with almost 1 million passengers in 2012. Plus, he says Missoula is a community that understands the importance of public transportation. “I think that most folks recognize that Mountain Line benefits everybody,” he says. “It’s obvious that people who ride the bus benefit, but the more and more people we get on the bus, the less vehicles are on the road, and then that converts to less congestion, better air quality and better parking within the community.” Eben Wragge-Keller

cess when the current pushed her inner tube into a logjam. Recreators are allowed to wade and fish from shore, but ongoing removal efforts of the Bonner dam, sunken logs and submerged bits of angle iron make the Blackfoot stretch too dangerous for floating. The Clark Fork through Milltown is open to floaters, but bank access is closed anywhere above the high

Floating

Milltown still closed Few things are more popular during Missoula’s hot summer days than grabbing an inner tube and floating down the river. But not every stretch of water is safe to play on. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is particularly concerned about reminding people that the stretch from the Blackfoot’s Weigh Station Fishing Access Site to Milltown State Park is too dangerous for boaters, tubers and swimmers. The 1.5-mile closure begins on Highway 200 near Bonner and extends southwest below the I-90 bridge. “Not every stretch of river is safe for tubing,” says FWP park manager Mike Kustudia. “We have some nice places in and around town that are probably pretty darn good, but stretches that are meandering or have brush in and around the banks are horrible places to tube.” FWP reports no injuries this year on the Clark Fork or Blackfoot, but last July an Anaconda woman was killed just below the Weigh Station Fishing Ac-

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water mark. This is meant to give the Superfund site’s recently planted vegetation time to grow. Trespassers could be cited, but Kustudia doesn’t expect that to happen very often. “There are a few river rangers out there but it’s not like we’re setting up a sting operation or anything,” he says. FWP extended the Blackfoot closure in April and will review it again next year. Dameon Pesanti

SUP

Two races better than one Only a few short years ago, stand-up paddleboarding was still raising eyebrows on Missoula’s lakes and rivers. Strongwater’s Luke Rieker remembers he could hardly hit the water without getting asked questions. “About three years ago, people would be like, ‘What are those?’ They wouldn’t know what they were,” Rieker says. “But now, everybody, even the tu-

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bers, are like, ‘Those are stand-up paddleboarders.’” Now that stand-up paddleboarding, or SUP, has officially taken off, the questions have subsided and the sport has exploded. Casual paddleboarders are a common sight on the Clark Fork. Hot House Yoga recently began offering water-bound yoga classes on paddleboards. And within the next few weeks, Missoula will host not one but two competitive paddleboarding events: This Sunday’s SUP Cup, organized by Windermere Real Estate, and Strongwater’s Lake Missoula SUP Classic on Aug. 3. “More and more people are getting into standup paddleboarding, and I think they’re looking for the next thing,” Rieker says. “Racing is that.” Windermere had initially hoped to hold a rowing event in Missoula this year similar to the company’s annual competition in Seattle, but SUP Cup coordinator Leslie Weatherby says they felt paddleboarding was “something that was really taking off.” “We wanted to do something different, help promote the sport and get in on the ground floor,” Weatherby says. Windermere is donating the proceeds to the nonprofit Watershed Education Network and to Brennan’s Wave, which has struggled for funding to repair a crack. The race will start at the ShaRon Fishing Access Site in East Missoula and finish at Caras Park. Weatherby estimates 40 people have signed up so far—entry fees range between $50 and $100— though Windermere had capped the event at 200. She expects to hit 50 participants by race day. “We knew it wasn’t going to be big this year,” she says, “but we kind of wanted to keep it small because we’re testing the waters ourselves.” While the SUP Cup is taking place within two weeks of Strongwater’s race, Rieker doesn’t see the events clashing. The Lake Missoula Classic has an entry fee of just $10, and the route will be a simple half-mile loop between the Higgins Avenue bridge and the Doubletree. If anything, Rieker says, the combination is creating some serious buzz around one of Montana’s newest sports. “It’s definitely not taking any wind out of our sails,” Rieker says of the SUP Cup. “It’s going to be awesome. It’ll get people warmed up.” Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer announced over the weekend that he would not be running for U.S. Senate in 2014, as many hoped and suspected. That somewhat surprising announcement left prospective candidates scrambling to assess their newfound chances and provided an opportunity to turn the attention to the few who declared for the race prior to Schweitzer’s decision. One of those early candidates is Republican Corey Stapleton. A little over a month ago, Stapleton distributed a fundraising plea via snail mail. For whatever reason, the one-time gubernatorial hopeful plastered the envelopes his mailers came in with a photograph of himself in full Naval uniform. In doing so, Stapleton violated a Department of Defense directive that political candidates have been flouting for years. Back in 2008, the DoD issued a rule that retired servicemen and women running for office may not use images of themselves in uniform on campaign literature. The language was pretty clear, and the reasoning rational—that such images might insinuate endorsement of the candidate by the DoD or one of its branches. Yet the story of candidates ignoring this rule has grown old fast. Republican congressional candidate Vaughn Ward of Idaho ran afoul of the DoD in 2010 over a web ad of himself in military garb. Idaho state Sen. Mitch Toryanski circulated a campaign mailer just last year that included a snapshot of him in full uniform. Ward and Toryanski offered no disclaimers with their photos. Neither did Stapleton. By comparison, current Montana Lt. Gov. John Walsh, a former brigadier general, used photos of himself in uniform during the 2012 campaign, though he was careful to include a disclaimer stating the images “do not imply endorsement by … the Department of Defense.” We can certainly understand the motivation behind Stapleton’s choice to use the photo. He’s proud of his Naval record, and voters have a special affection for servicemen and women. (Email requests for comment to Stapleton’s campaign went unreturned.) But this isn’t an obscure rule, what with the glut of news stories, internet forums and online reminders from the DoD itself about its protocol. You’d think Stapleton’s campaign couldn’t possibly violate such a widely debated directive by accident. You’d also think candidates trained to follow military orders could manage to do so after retirement.

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Star power Jack Hanna steps up for grizzly gathering by Alex Sakariassen

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“The finest grizzly people in the counJack Hanna’s farm on the banks of Flat- “You have the elephant in Africa, you have head Lake is a fleeting who’s-who of the the lion in Africa, you have the panda in try are here tonight,” Hanna says, waving grizzly bear conservation world on a recent China, you have the tiger in Asia. You see his hand across the crowd. “You can’t get Friday evening. Everyone from Montana what I’m talking about? … If you can’t do better than this when it comes to promoting Fish, Wildlife and Parks Director Jeff Ha- something for the icon species, you’ve got or talking about grizzlies.” Last year’s rendezvous drew nearly 200 gener to nonprofit Vital Ground Founda- a big problem.” Hanna’s farm rests on the skirts of the people and raised roughly $70,000. Consertion Executive Director Gary Wolfe is present. State fiddle champ Tiffany Boucher Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, vationist and event coordinator Susan Reneau says she was is playing “Rocky Top,” expecting about 170 peoHanna’s favorite tune. ple tonight. That number Bear biologists mingle quickly ballooned to about with Bigfork locals and 260, requiring extra food high-rolling donors over a and additional seating. Reranch-style dinner. Rumor neau hopes the evening has it Sharon Stone is brings in $100,000. somewhere in the crowd. Hanna sees delisting Hanna himself lingers on the horizon for grizzlies on the fringes of the 2013 in Montana. Bald eagles Grizzly Bear Rendezvous, reached that benchmark, as an annual fundraiser put did wolves. He acknowlon by the Montana Fish, edges there’s a faction of Wildlife and Parks Foundathe environmental commution. This is the group’s nity that balks at the confifth year organizing the cept of lifting federal event, and Hanna’s fifth Photo by Alex Sakariassen protections on grizzlies. year hosting. One would Delisting of the Yellowexpect the booths and videos and bear spray Jack Hanna, arguably television’s most renowned zookeeper, stone population led to a hates the word “celebrity.” Still, his name is a powerful draw practice range to be the when it comes to fundraising for grizzly bear conservation in protracted lawsuit and relisting two years later. main attractants, or at least Montana. “What people don’t underthe cavalcade of experts ready to share stories from the field. But the where the bears have made a striking come- stand,” Hanna says, “is that when you take crowd is most interested in the event’s host. back in recent decades. In 2004, biologists an animal off the endangered species list, Hanna refuses to use the word estimated the grizzly population at 765; it’s the greatest thing in the world. You don’t celebrity to describe himself. “I don’t see more recent estimates put that number want to keep an animal on the endangered myself as one of those,” he says. But droves close to 950. GPS data tracked one bear species list forever, ’cause what’s that mean? of people gravitate to the edge of his lawn, swimming across Flathead Lake in 2011, It’s going down the tubes.” People continue to file up to Hanna photographs in hand, waiting for an auto- just two years after another bear from the graph. Hanna poses for smartphone photos NCDE wandered as far east as Fort Benton. for autographs and small-talk. He shows and accepts a loaf of banana bread from a Federal officials published a five-year draft one man a few photos from his phone, woman who says she met him at last year’s management plan for grizzlies in the NCDE images of goats in the Middle East climbrendezvous. She’s got the photo to back her this spring, a critical step if that particular ing trees. Fox News interviewed him about the goats earlier this month, referclaim, and Hanna signs it with a smile. Just population is to ever be delisted. So far, 2013 has been a quiet year on ring to Hanna as an animal “expert”—ana few hours ago, he got a call from the grounds at the Columbus Zoo and Aquar- the bear front. FWP’s Jamie Jonkel, manning other title he abhors. Hanna’s chatter is ium in Ohio, where he now serves as direc- a booth in Hanna’s garage, has heard of a all over the map, but he keeps circling tor emeritus. Justin Bieber was on the other few grizzlies wandering south of Interstate back around to grizzlies, to wolves, to the 90. Mike Madel, the agency’s bear expert on need to “work together” to preserve what end of the line, requesting a quick chat. Ask the nationally renowned animal the Rocky Mountain Front, knows of some our own species has put at risk. Later, he’ll adventurer and he’ll tell you the night isn’t bears pushing east along the Marias River. address the whole crowd, encouraging about Jack Hanna. It’s about the grizzly, Neither have responded to any serious re- donors to open their checkbooks. For now, Hanna continues to flinch at the about celebrating its recovery and ensuring ports of human-bear conflicts yet. Tim Manley on the Flathead has been word celebrity, all the while recognizing there’s enough money to continue the conservation efforts that have gotten the using a high-tech automated trap this sum- the importance of having one on the side species this far. Whether or not you’re an mer, the one built by Missoula inventor of an icon species. “The world is different,” he says. “We animal lover, he says, it’s important that Ryan Alter and tested in the field by Jonkel “our kids and their kids and their kids” last year. He’s had a few unfortunate devel- as man created this mess, so we have to take have an opportunity to understand and ap- opments in his corner of the state, namely care of the mess we created … The animals preciate threatened or endangered species. the shooting deaths of two separate grizzlies were here before we were, so let’s take care “As I tell everybody, the grizzly is an in the Flathead Valley in May. Manley’s trap of them.” icon species,” Hanna says, taking a break is on display nearby. It’s almost as popular asakariassen@missoulanews.com from the crowd at an unoccupied table. an attraction as Hanna.

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End of the Rainbow This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gathering walks line between order, chaos

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The Rainbow Family of Living Light officially ended its week-long national gathering July 7, and the crowds have cleared the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest so that cleanup and rehabilitation of the site can begin. But the effects of the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both positive and negativeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are still being felt. The Rainbow gathering, held annually at different spots around the country, brings together thousands of counter-culture champions and hippie holdouts from the bohemian days of 1972, the year of the first assembly. Since then, migrating anti-mainstream individuals of all shades have converged on the annual meet-up in a designated national forest to the delight of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s romantics and the vexation of locals and law enforcement. The U.S. Forest Service estimated the 2013 gathering topped out at 9,700 attendees, or less than half of the 20,000 who arrived the last time the Rainbows visited the Beaverhead-Deerlodge in 2000. Still, the 2013 gathering proved significant. For one, more people required medical care, according to Geoff Roach, director of Human Services at Barrett Hospital and Health Care in nearby Dillon. As of July 16, the hospital reported 102 people admitted for a litany of injuries. Roach attributed the high number to a lack of preparation for wilderness living exacerbated by a drug-fueled environment. He says the hospital rendered $199,199 in unpaid services treating patients from the gathering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golly, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some assaults, dog bites, sunburns, broken bones, lacerations. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just going down the list here,â&#x20AC;? Roach says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got that many people coming in, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get everything.â&#x20AC;? On the Fourth of July, when the number of visitors at the forest reached its peak,

there appeared to be virtually no loose trash at the site. Once the gathering ended, a few attendees volunteered to remain at the site to assist Forest Service resource specialists with the cleanup, as well as help rehabilitate the land. Russ Riebe, Wisdom-Wise River District ranger and one of the authorities overseeing the cleanup, said in a statement that he expected the cleanup to continue for several weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I anticipate the Rainbow Family volunteers will do their part to return the area back to its natural state by removing all trash and rehabilitate disturbed areas as a result of their activities over the past two weeks,â&#x20AC;? he said. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s site did not come close to the anarchic nightmare that former Gov. Marc Racicot predicted for the 2000 gathering, when he proactively declared a state of emergency in case he needed to deploy the National Guard. The 2013 assembly came and went with no major conflicts. Jordan Durfee, 19, who traveled from Washington state, noted during the gathering that law enforcementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong presence didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t detract from the experience. He said he saw various agencies at the site, some of whom came through on horseback with dogs sniffing around for weed and hallucinogens, items that tend to be as plentiful as dreadlocks there. He also says he saw some folks having their car searched on the road into the site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generally people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind Forest Rangers up here, but the cops do tend to be assholes,â&#x20AC;? Durfee said. More importantly to those who attended the event, its egalitarian spirit appeared to prevail. At the center of the intentional community was a trade circle that looked more like two corridors of peo-

ple intersecting along an expansive meadow. A pair of socks was easily swapped for a Maglite. A two-liter bottle of Pepsi scored two Camel cigarettes from the guy decked out head-to-toe in Vietnam-era fatigues. The same guy then traded another smoke for a shiny crystal of some sort. Durfee claimed he saw a man trade an orange kitten for two beers and a cigarette. Near the trade circle, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nic @ Niteâ&#x20AC;? tent doled out hand-rolled cigarettes to anyone who could use one. Similarly, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emergency 420â&#x20AC;? tent guaranteed a toke of grass to any person at a limit of one per day. While weed and other drugs were readily available as gifts or in trade, alcohol is rejected outright. One band of revelers were apparently exiled to the main entrance of the camp where they tried to hit up cars of attendees for cash donations to finance a keg party far from the gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main nucleus. One of the gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main happenings is the six hours of observed silence in contemplation of peace, an act thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s occurred at every assembly since 1972. The observed silence was followed this year by an ohm circle in the same meadow next to the trade circle. As one hopeful photographer approached to get a shot of the meditation, a man calling himself Rusty Nail warned that some visitors had their cameras smashed and their memory cards taken. He explained that the actions were justified because of suspicion that the photographers were either undercover police or trying to capture images of naked women. After a discussion of the current shooterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intentions, Mr. Nail let him pass and said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d vouch for him to anybody that asked.

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Stand down As wildfires change, so should the way we fight them by John Maclean

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Tough questions are being raised about the deaths of 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots on the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona on June 30. They were physically fit, highly trained young men, and they deployed emergency tent-like â&#x20AC;&#x153;sheltersâ&#x20AC;? in hellish temperatures that likely topped 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit. Burns and suffocation killed them, but were mistakes and bad policy also at fault? Could the fire have been tackled earlier, when it was smaller and easier to control? Were weather reports not radioed promptly enough? Were good decisions trumped by nature? This deadly fire, like all the previous deadly fires, will be studied for years to come. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough. Three days after the deaths, the headquarters for the war on wildfiresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in bureaucratic lingo, the National Multi Agency Coordinating Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;declared a temporary â&#x20AC;&#x153;stand downâ&#x20AC;? for all wildland fire personnel. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become a standard response to such tragedyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a requirement that firefighters stop working for a few minutes to mourn and reflect. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also not enough. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for a more lasting and meaningful stand-down in this war. The cost is too high, and the battle plans have not kept pace with reality. With the increasing severity and size of wildfires, again and again we hear from firefighters, â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are the most extreme fire conditions weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen.â&#x20AC;? For those on the fire lines, climate change is a visible reality, not a Sunday morning talk show debate by people who spend their time in air-conditioned homes and offices. At the same time, millions more houses are exposed to wildfires than when the government began the war decades ago. We send tens of thousands of young men and women out on the fire lines each year with the implied understanding that they will fight harder, and take greater risks, when homes are threatened. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the Yarnell firefighters were doingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;trying to protect houses. Even with all the personnel, equipment and dollars we hurl at the flamesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;more than

$3 billion per year in federal spending alone, on average since 2002, according to the Congressional Research Serviceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we cannot catch up to the problem. Safety practices have improved, but each year in rough numbers between eight and 30 wildland firefighters are killed in the war, including 14 on Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Storm King Mountain in 1994 and 13 in Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mann Gulch in 1949. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrible toll in the families and the closeknit firefighting community, and no one would be surprised if the toll rises. And re-

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let the fires burn if firefighters judge it too risky to engage, and assure them that the nation will have their backs when the inevitable complaints pour in.â&#x20AC;? gardless of those numbers, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a principle involved: Homeowners need to take more responsibility. We need to encourage firefighters to exercise greater caution, even when buildings are at risk. Let the fires burn if firefighters judge it too risky to engage, and assure them that the nation will have their backs when the inevitable complaints pour in. Tell homeowners that we can no longer commit to saving their homes in extreme conditions. That would put more pressure on them to make their homes fire-resistant, and it would likely

discourage future homebuilding in the most flammable areas. If people choose to live there, let them and their insurance companies accept the consequences. The decisions about when to fight, and when not to, should be made by the firefighters themselves, from the ones on the front lines to the incident commanders to the top brass who set strategy. Most fires would still be fought, most houses saved, but the most extreme conditionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the record heat and drought, the most challenging winds and topographyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;would result in a shout: Stand down! A friend just wrote me about a time she tried to stand down in extremely risky conditions: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a 20-person interagency crew in Idaho. ... I refused my crewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assignment and tried to reason why: same set up as Mann Gulch, Storm King, et cetera. I was told, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fine, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have another crew take it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I very boldly said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Either way, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 dead people.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Her stand triggered much discussion and a safer way was found. Every firefighter like her who just says â&#x20AC;&#x153;noâ&#x20AC;? needs support from the fire community and the public. My family has a northwestern Montana cabin that was nearly destroyed by wildfire in 2007. The cabin was built by my grandfather and his sons and has been a source of joy for five generations, but it is not worth the life of a single firefighter. I told my Forest Service district ranger that no firefighters should defend it. Fortunately, a wind change saved us in 2007. If the woods around here blaze up again this year, I am prepared to let the cabin go. Consider it the most effective insurance I can buy for the fire crews. John N. Maclean is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He has written four books about lethal wildfires, most recently The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57, published last January, and reviewed in the June 20 issue of the Independent.

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Upset pick Playing armchair quarterback to one Best of Missoula win by Dan Brooks

One thing can be said about University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson winning Best Athlete in this year’s Best of Missoula poll: It proves the contest is not fixed. What else the Indy readers’ choice might indicate is less clear. It is certainly remarkable, but what to remark? It’s hard to argue that Johnson won based on athletic performance, since he did not play football this year. He was suspended from the team and then expelled from the university before the 2012 season began, after a fellow student accused him of rape. Johnson last played in 2011, when he led the Griz to the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals but lost the 2012 Best Athlete award to UM point guard Will Cherry. Cherry took second in this year’s Best Athlete category. Unlike Johnson, he continued to play for the Griz, but participation in athletics is evidently not what determined Best Athlete this year. So what did? Why did Indy readers not pick Johnson as even one of the top three athletes the year after he played a standout season of football, only to vote him Best Athlete the year he was acquitted of rape? My friend Smokestack theorized that Johnson’s win is a testament to how many smart alecks live in Missoula. As a member of that population, I find his hypothesis plausible but unsatisfying. I didn’t vote for Johnson. I voted for former Missoula Osprey Socrates Brito. Surely, there are enough funny choices and too few wiseacres dividing their votes among them for mere smartassery to vault Johnson into first. My friend Green, who has devoted her career to helping victims of sexual assault, takes a darker view. She saw Johnson’s win as proof that this town can love the Griz a little too much. At a moment when the Department of Justice has just concluded investigating both the university and the county attorney’s office for their handling of sexual assaults, voting a suspended quarterback Best Athlete after he was acquitted of rape seems in poor taste, if not simply obstinate. One hopes that even the most dedicated fans would not like a player better just

because he was accused and then acquitted of rape. If there is something wrong with how Missoula thinks about the Griz, it lies somewhere in that. Yet if readers voted Johnson Best Athlete because of his trial, we can also interpret their choice more charitably. Say what you will about Jordan Johnson; he spent a year defending himself against one of the most frightening and dam-

“Imagine what Johnson is thinking. He didn’t win it the year he started at quarterback and led the Griz to the FCS semifinals. He won it the year he stopped playing football and had the worst experience of his life.” aging allegations imaginable. The prosecution argued that he deserved it, that what he did to his fellow student was far worse. In the end, a court found him not guilty, and a segment of the Missoula population embraced him. The charitable interpretation is a story of remarkable open-mindedness—of a small

town that looked at a 20-year-old man accused of rape not as a monster, but as a possible victim of bad circumstances who deserved its sympathy. When he emerged unscathed, the good people of Missoula didn’t grumble that he probably did it anyway. They lamented that he was ever accused in the first place, and they voted him Best Athlete to show their support. I like that interpretation, because I like Missoula and the people in it. The charitable interpretation appeals to me so much that I have spent the last 10 minutes sitting in my chair trying to think of ways it could be true. Here’s the thing, though: If I were Jordan Johnson, and I had missed a season of football while a jury found me not guilty of rape, I would not be psyched to win that award at the end of it all. Probably, it would make me feel kind of weird. If you’re wondering what the results of this year’s Best Athlete poll might mean, imagine what Johnson is thinking. He didn’t win it the year he started at quarterback and led the Griz to the FCS semifinals. He won it the year he stopped playing football and had the worst experience of his life. There’s a Rorschach blot for a young man to stare at. If Indy readers wanted to do Johnson a favor this year, they did not offer him an unqualified boon. They reminded him of a chapter in his life he would probably rather forget. They reminded us all that our returning Griz quarterback played a hell of a season in 2011, and that a jury concluded in 2013 that he did not know he forced himself on a woman. The Best of Missoula poll is a celebration of what makes this town great. Certainly, our willingness to keep an open mind is Missoula at its best. So is our outrage at injustice when we see it, and even so is our sardonic sense of humor. They were all there when we opened the paper last week, and I can’t say what they could possibly mean together. Maybe that tension is the best of Missoula, too. Dan Brooks writes about politics, consumer culture and lying at combatblog.net.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - To support her claims that Waffle House Chairman Joe Rogers Jr. forced her to have sex to keep her job, former housekeeper Mye Brindle produced video and audio recordings that she secretly made of the pair having sex. Cobb County, Ga., Judge Robert Leonard declared that the recordings violated Rogers’ privacy and Georgia law. As a result, the recordings are inadmissible, and Rogers’ attorneys want criminal charges brought against Brindle and her attorneys. (Atlanta’s WXIA-TV) After being told that a man ordered to stay away from an address in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., had returned, police got permission from the woman occupant to search the apartment. An officer spotted a large ottoman in front of the couch and observed several items that might be stored in an ottoman sitting on the couch. The officer then removed a glass of freshly poured chocolate milk and other items from the top of the ottoman and lifted the lid to discover the trespasser hiding inside. (Northwest Florida Daily News)

PROBLEM SOLVED - Harmful carbon emissions from coal plants could be greatly reduced or eliminated by storing as much as 3,000 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide in underground rock formations all over the country, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Its study shows that the United States has enough storage capacity to handle more than 1,000 years worth of CO2 from power plants after it’s pressurized into liquid form. The Department of the Interior said that nearly half the nation’s “energy-related” CO2 emissions come from the power industry, much of it from coal-fired plants. “This is good news for the fossil fuels industry because it means that fossil power can continue to operate in the future without its carbon footprint,” Bruce Hill, a scientist with the Clean Air Task Force, said. (The Washington Times)

IRONY OF THE WEEK - Volunteer firefighters in Dundee, Ky., could only watch as their firehouse burned to the ground. “Of course, there was nothing we could do,” fire chief Danny Pogue said. “All of our equipment was inside.” (Evansville, Ind.’s WFIE-TV) LIFE IMITATING ‘STAR TREK’ - Three-dimensional printers are now able to produce weapons, as well as delicate eggcups and lamps, and may soon make replacement parts, body implants, even ammunition on the spot. “We believe that 3-D printing is fundamentally changing the manufacturing ecosystem in its entirety — how and where products are made and by whom,” said Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO of New York-based Shapeways. The devices, which entered the mainstream in 2007 and represent a $2 billion industry with about 50 printer manufacturers, are about the size of a microwave oven and cost from $400 to $500,000. They extrude layers of plastics or other materials, even metal, to create 3-D objects with moving parts. (Associated Press) The State Department ordered the nonprofit software distributor Defense Distributed to take down online blueprints for a 3-D printable handgun, called the “Liberator.” The single-shot firearm can be created by anyone with the blueprints and access to a 3-D printer. The file was downloaded more than 100,000 times in its first two days online. (Forbes) Replicating devices might be able to feed crews on missions to Mars. NASA awarded Texas-based Systems and Materials Research Corp. a $125,000 grant to develop a 3-D printer able to create “nutritious and flavorful” food suitable for astronauts. The printers will use a “digital recipe” to combine powders to produce the food, according to project manager and SMRC engineer Anjan Contractor, who said he got the idea after using a 3-D printer to print chocolate for his wife. The project’s initial goal is to re-create pizza. Eventually, SMRC said, the technology could allow astronauts to replicate their favorite recipes from Earth or even feed this planet’s hungry people. (The Washington Post)

FILIAL DUTY - When authorities circulated surveillance photos of a woman robbing a bank in Michigan’s Byron Township, wearing a bright red T-shirt with a large American flag on the front, a man notified police that the robber was his mother. The FBI said Dee Ann Sanders, 53, admitted handing a teller a note demanding $2,500 for her children and grandchildren. She got $1,092. Her son got nothing. (Associated Press)

VICTIM OF PROGRESS - Dozens of birdwatchers traveled to Scotland’s Isles of Harris to glimpse a rarely seen white-throated needletail swift, the world’s fastest flying bird, only to watch it fly straight into the blades of a wind turbine. “It had a blow to the head,” ornithologist John Marchant, 62, said, “and was stone dead.” (Britain’s The Telegraph)

FOOD ABUSE - Roughly a third of the children responding to a survey reported in Pediatrics said they had been bullied for their food allergies. Pediatricians and educators explained that classmates sometimes switched a victim’s lunch or spit milk or smeared peanut butter on a child’s face, causing a swift anaphylactic shock. “Food allergy bullying is really not a joke because someone can be taken to the emergency room,” said John Lehr, chief executive of the nonprofit group Food Allergy Research and Education, which labeled school cafeterias a “scary place.” (The New York Times) THE GIG IS UP - Someone called 911 to report a man with a history of frog gigging was missing after he spotted the man’s unoccupied parked car on family property in Hawkins County, Tenn., and thought he heard someone calling for help. Fearing the worst, more than 30 rescuers searched for the missing frog gigger for nearly three hours, according to Emergency Management Agency director Gary Murrell, before “somebody thought to ‘ping’ his cell phone, and we found out he wasn’t even in the county.” The frog gigger explained he had left his car to ride with a friend for a covert romantic liaison. After the search was called off, the 911 caller admitted that the call for help could have been coyotes yelping. (The Kingsport Times News)

PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - Oregon State University received permission to use drones to fly over its potato fields looking for unhealthy plants. The two drones are equipped with small infrared cameras that can detect plants that aren’t getting enough water or fertilizer. “When plants aren’t happy, they look different, but not necessarily different to our eyes,” Phil Hamm, director of the OSU extension center at Hermiston. “We want to recognize plants that aren’t happy before there’s a reduction in yield.” (Pendleton’s East Oregonian)

RAINY DAY WOMAN - Naveena Shine, 65, announced that she was giving up food to live only on sunlight. Shine lives in Seattle, Wash. (Seattle Times)

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A maintenance drill rig on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Rising Wolf Mountain in Glacier National Park can be seen in the background.

photo courtesy of Tony Bynum

The Rocky Mountain Front

BLUES Self-proclaimed “nature freak” Hal Herring comes to grips with a changing landscape

ine years ago this May, my wife, Holly, and I bought an old house in Augusta, aiming to live and raise our children in a landscape and a culture—the two are inseparable—that we respect. About 20 miles west of town, the fierce wall of geology known as the Rocky Mountain Front leaps from the wide grassy plain, the backdrop to every day, whether good or bad. The Bob Marshall and Scapegoat Wilderness Complex—protecting 1.5 million acres of mountains, well-grassed valleys and forest— beckons at the end of teeth-cracking washboard gravel roads. Tiny Augusta, with fewer than 300 residents, is the hub for the big ranches around it, with a grocery store, a gas station and four bars. Elk Creek runs through our town (and sometimes floods it), connect-

ing us to the wildness of the mountains from which it is born; in mid-June last year, two adolescent grizzly bears were seen cavorting in a neighbor’s backyard. Outfitting—autumn hunting and summer pack trips into the wilderness—is also part of the town’s economy, and its image. It’s a conservative, communityoriented town, where the rough edges and the older values of the West still hold: self-reliance, tolerance for eccentricity, the willingness to pitch in to help a neighbor in need. Augusta has been very good to us and to our children. One cold night in March 2012, I was driving my son and daughter home from Little Guy Wrestling practice in Choteau, another ranch and farming town whose 1,700 residents make it the largest settlement along the 200-mile-long Front. The late winter sky

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blazed with stars and the snow in the coulees glowed like bleached bones in the moonlight. To the west, we could see the bulk of Ear Mountain (made famous in A.B. Guthrie’s classic novel, The Big Sky), its outline a black arc against a sky not yet completely dark. I thought, not for the first time: The Front is a landscape of wind and space that I love more than any other. But that night, for the first time in the years we’ve made that drive, there were oil-drilling rigs out there on the plain, lit up like Christmas trees, surrounded by a wash of halogen lights, a shaky set of bright headlights bucking down an access road. We’d seen the big pickups with Colorado plates at the ExxonMobil station in Choteau, noticed the piles of surveying stakes outside the Stage Stop Inn, overheard the talk of

boom, lease fortunes and skyrocketing rents. We knew that modern energy development, or at least exploration, had arrived. But it wasn’t until we saw those glaring rigs lighting the night that we really understood what it meant. The oil and gas industry has sought riches for more than a hundred years around here. The Lewis Overthrust, running from Alberta southeast into Montana, forming the Front, is such a classic visible example of the earth’s shiftings and buryings that it has inspired generations of hydrocarbon seekers and visionaries. But while the famously jumbled geology— the Disturbed Belt, some call it—has promised much, with a few exceptions (a well west of Choteau at Blackleaf Canyon produced around 7 billion cubic feet of natural gas before being capped in the late

1980s) the result has been lots of dry and marginal holes. The first wells were drilled in the early 1900s near natural petroleum seeps in an area that’s now part of Glacier National Park, on the Front’s northern edge. Early- to mid-20th century oil and gas fields abound from east of ultra-tiny Dupuyer all the way to the Canadian border above the Sweetgrass Hills. Hard-fought political battles from the 1940s to the ’70s created our huge wilderness complex, and only after those battles were settled did the leasing of unprotected land become controversial. In recent decades, even during the drilling-intoxicated George W. Bush presidency, the trend along the Front seemed to veer again toward protection. In 2006, conservationists and their government allies completed a near-total buyout of the existing energy leases along the Front, and federal minerals up and down the mountain edge were withdrawn from further leasing (despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth from many locals). More recently, a surprising coalition ranging from outfitters and sportsmen to ranchers and environmentalists has negotiated the terms of the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, which—if Congress ever passes it—would basically keep federal public lands here the way they are now, with limited motorized access, a plan for controlling noxious weeds and continuing livestock grazing, along with a moderate expansion of wilderness designation for 67,000 acres of national forest. The Heritage Act has broad support from across Montana, including many locals. (Disclaimer: I’m one of them.) At a recent public meeting in Choteau with Montana’s new Republican Congressman Steve Daines, 69 people signed on the “pro” Heritage Act sheet, while 16 opposed it. But such numbers, and even such meetings, can be deceptive. In truth, most people here—at least the vocal ones—don’t want the Front to remain in its relatively pristine condition. Bumper stickers common in Choteau say it clearly: “Save the Front. Drill it!”

The reasons for this sentiment are economic, at least on the surface. Tangible arguments for development, energy or otherwise, include the Augusta school, the stately old brick building our son and daughter attend. It’s a good school, but it’s threatened by declining enrollment and slashed budgets. My friend, Russ Bean, who grew up on the Bean Ranch, where the Dearborn River emerges from the mountain wall, is one of many who worry that the school could close. His family’s ranch dates back to the 1800s and he was the school superintendent for seven years; his wife, Terri, taught my son and daughter in first and second grade, in a class of seven or eight children. In the “all able hands on deck” way of a small community, Russ and I have worked together on the volunteer ambulance, and on other projects. He is a quietly outspoken advocate of energy development and more, not less, motorized access to the Front. As Russ puts it, “If we had some good, high-paying jobs here without energy development, I’d say maybe we don’t need it here. But we don’t have those jobs. There is no economy here. The ranching lifestyle is leaving us, because nobody new can af-

ford to ranch; rich people have come in and pushed up the price of land to where it is out of reach.” He says he values the environment, but the lack of revenue is a more serious problem than any hypothetical damage from energy development. “If this (development) is done right, it can put more money into the pockets of people who work for a living, it brings peo-

eldest son coached my kids’ wrestling team, and whose family has been here for five generations), a local newspaper editor, and by many landowners and businesspeople, from Rogers Pass on the Front’s southern edge to the Canadian border. I don’t know what we’d do if the Augusta school closes. But I like this place just the way it is. I admit

In truth, most people here—at least the vocal ones—don’t want the Front to remain in its relatively pristine condition. Bumper stickers common in Choteau say it clearly: “Save the Front. Drill it!” ple to our community, and it can keep our school open. And if the school closes, we have no community.” Russ’ sentiments are echoed by our current legislator, Christy Clark of Choteau (whose husband and

A ranch near Choteau on the Rocky Mountain Front.

that I once thought everybody did. Some people will say that because I make my living as a writer, I can afford to dismiss the opportunities that energy development would bring. But as they also say of ranching,

outfitting and guiding here, writing “ain’t much of a living, but it’s a pretty good life,” as long as you love where you live. And because I know that an energy boom will forever change this place I love and have chosen for raising my family, I have reported on the consequences of energy development across the West. From New Mexico to Wyoming, I’ve tried to describe, as objectively as I could, the benefits, conflicts and trade-offs I’ve witnessed. Because I usually write for conservation and outdoor magazines, I’ve often concentrated on the impact of energy development on wildlife, including mule deer, elk, antelope and sage grouse. Sometimes it’s the near-destruction of parts of revered and unique landscapes like Colorado’s Roan Plateau or Wyoming’s Red Desert or the pollution of watersheds like the Tongue River in Wyoming and Montana. The impacts are indisputable. Aldo Leopold said it best: “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” My own “ecological education” comes mostly from being a serious hunter and fisherman and biophile, or—as my friends called me in our youth—a “nature freak.” I have sought out the places where what fascinates me the most is most intact. But as anybody who loves the rural West knows, that fascination is not usually shared, at least not in the same way, by all who spend their lives there. Most of my friends and neighbors, who welcomed my family to this town, don’t “live alone in a world of wounds” when they’re working on or visiting the local ranches and farms. They see nothing wrong with having more economic opportunities, and if that means more roads, more people, more industry, so much the better. They certainly do not celebrate the loss of human population and the resurgence of the grizzly, the wolf or the sandhill crane. Instead, they celebrate the economically vibrant (and ecologically destructive) past years of settlement and boom.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

I write this essay from a back room in an old insurance office that closed in the 1970s. Next door was the movie theater. Across the street was the office of the Augusta News, last published in the 1950s. The fact that most of the rest of the world is now replete with movie theaters and insurance offices, that across the planet the crowded vibrancy of commerce and human endeavor has reached the level of a shriek, does not change the view that a loss of human population here represents decline. Many would welcome an energy boom, and on the Blackfeet Reservation, whose border touches Glacier National Park, they have already done so, with mixed results. While some tribal members were appalled at the idea of industrializing landscapes near sacred sites, others hoped that leasing land for energy development would bring more cash and jobs to a reservation that has 69 percent unemployment and a poverty rate conservatively put at 39 percent. As I write this, billionaire Philip Anschutz’s Exploration Corporation, which held about 600,000 acres of leases on the Blackfeet Reservation, has announced plans to abandon its efforts there for now, after drilling 14 exploratory

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photo by Alex Sakariassen

The distinctive peaks of the Rocky Mountain Front, including Ear Mountain on the left, as seen from the banks of the Teton River.

wells. South of the reservation, Fairways Exploration and Production (motto: “High Impact Exploration is Fairways’ Business!”) has recently drilled two exploratory wells on the spectacular Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, a 6,300-acre property owned by the Boone and Crockett Club, and dedicated to wildlife research, hunting and conservation. New drilling is occurring near Augusta, and exploration, especially for natural gas, is unabated. Although federal lands are not open for leasing in the narrow six-mile band where the mountains meet the prairies, leasing of state, private and reservation ground—which together comprise the vast majority of the Front east of the mountains—has been on fire. In the four counties that stretch from the Canadian border to Roger’s Pass, the drillers have already leased most state lands—well over a quarter of a million acres, along with the hundreds of thousands of acres on the reservation and the expanses of the private land that also hold some of the world’s richest wildlife habitat and native grasslands. The Front’s energy resources are nowhere as reliable and rich as the Bakken play in the Williston Basin in eastern Montana and North Dakota. The Williston’s oil-producing layer is 20 to 80 feet thick, whereas the layer along the Front is around five feet thick. So the payout here would be lower than in the Bakken, and the drillers groping around the Front have to deal with very challenging geology. With natural gas prices at historic lows, because the new technologies opening shale reserves across the United States have created an unprecedented glut, many drilling projects are on hold. But a complex new worldwide market is taking shape. Our nation’s largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas, or

LNG, is being built in Louisiana, a $10 billion project, to ship to Korea, Japan and Spain, where the selling price is much higher than here. Federal regulators have approved another new LNG port on the Texas coast, and are considering proposals for many more, including one in Coos Bay, Ore., to export to Asian markets, using the Pacific Connector Pipeline to bring gas from the Rocky Mountains and other producing regions. There is a nationwide rush to retrofit or convert coal-fired power plants to burn the cleaner, much cheaper natural gas. The rumblings of a new U.S. transportation model can also be heard, as cars are fitted with engines that burn compressed natural gas, and trucks convert to LNG. The hue and cry of “natural gas” is on every investor’s lips. The question as to when the price of the natural gas will rebound again, triggering a new rush of drilling, has not yet been answered, but soon will be. Add new research showing that the productivity of many recent gas wells declines at an unexpectedly fast rate, and you’re left with a kind of cliffhanger, with only one guarantee: Wherever natural gas and oil resources have not been declared off-limits, they will be developed eventually. A single successful oil or gas well can generate millions of dollars for the local economy along the Front, along with enormous company profits, so they will keep trying.

Since I began reporting on energy issues, the greatest change I have witnessed has come in our attitudes across the United States. Generally, the pendulum has swung away from conservation, and

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toward an acceptance of trade-offs in developing domestic energy resources. There has been no widespread rebellion against oil and gas, despite both the obvious and subtle environmental impacts, including climate change. When it was widely trumpeted in 2013 that the North Dakota Bakken oilfields could contain as many as 7.4 billion barrels of oil, more than anyone had imagined, no one noted that this would still only be enough to fuel the country for 350 days. And that math, of course, doesn’t include the fact that most of the oil will be sold on the global market. When it was reported that the same Bakken oilfields were burning off, into the atmosphere, enough natural gas every day to heat a half-million homes, simply because it wasn’t “economical” to build a new pipeline, people just shrugged and went about their business. Many would say that the United States has become a more pragmatic nation since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I would say that we have lowered our expectations, abandoned our notions of efficiency and innovation, and instead accepted a model of short-term pillage and squander, not just of the energy resources with which we were blessed, but also of the landscapes that contain them. This is not an abstraction to me. I’ve seen it, and it is real. As I began drafting this essay last summer, a sow grizzly killed 70 sheep in one hell-raising night east of a small town named Conrad, a long way from the mountains. She and her cub were on the move, wandering the ancestral traces on the grasslands. A week later, my son and I set out to ride borrowed horses to White River Pass in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, to help outfitter friends shovel a path

through the snow so they could bring a pack string to their camp. The drive to the trailhead was 30 miles, almost all of it gravel and washboard. We passed only four or five ranch houses between Augusta and the beginning of Forest Service land, all of them lost in a vastness of emerald prairie grass, bright yellow balsam root, purple irises in the lower, wetter ground. Antelope were everywhere, their fawns no bigger than border collies, running wild circles around their mothers. There were elk out on the prairies. (Local wisdom says that the growing number of wolves has made it impossible for the elk to calve in the backcountry public lands.) The whole of the drive, until the mountains, was overshadowed by the strange tower of Haystack Butte, which has been a landmark for human beings here long before maps were drawn in charcoal and ochre on a scrap of buffalo or antelope hide. Haystack Butte is mostly state land, all of it leased for energy exploration. The magnificent private lands around it? They’re also leased. In a world of 7.5 billion souls and counting, in a nation that expects to add 100 million people in the next 30 years or so, all of them expecting to be warmed and fed and powered, we nature freaks, and those who associate solitude with freedom, face hard times ahead. The oil and gas may or may not lie beneath the prairies here. It may not even matter. The relentless eagerness with which so many of us, who live in this land and know it best, have embraced the quest to find the fossil fuels tells the truest, saddest story of our future. This story originally appeared in the June 24 issue of High Country News (hcn.org ).

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Deep thaw From book to screen, Winter in the Blood finds its way home by Nick Davis

ack in 2002, Alex and Andrew Smith were riding a wave of good fortune, creative vision and hard work. The Missoula-raised writer-director twin brothers, sons of noted local author and documentarian Annick Smith, had just released their first feature film, The Slaughter Rule, to high critical acclaim. Over the next five years, they worked on a halfdozen film scripts covering an array of genres and formats, but the initial green lights on every one of those projects eventually turned red. Frustrated, they began thinking about following their hearts back to Montana, to the landscape that had birthed The Slaughter Rule. That quest ultimately led them to Winter in the Blood, the first novel from James Welch. Welch, who died in 2003, had studied under Richard Hugo at the University of Montana in the early 1970s and was a close family friend of the Smiths. He was a Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Indian born in Browning and raised on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations. In Winter in the Blood, published in 1973, Welch spun a gorgeously bruising tale of a young American Indian negotiating a fog of alcohol, familial loss, ancestral uncertainty and cultural isolation. After two years of scriptwriting and revising, another year-plus of chasing funding, a 22-day shoot on the Hi-Line in August and early September of 2011, and 18 months in post-production, Winter in the Blood premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last month. Fans of the novel will be pleased to know that the Smiths went to great Backbone of the World heights to stay true to Welch’s original work. Outside of the standard condensation of locations, characters and dialogue, the only significant departure comes in the form of Airplane Man, the narrator’s ambiguously dream-like companion for the middle section of the novel who assumes a highly definitive role throughout the movie.

This faithful adherence to its source material is the strength of Winter in the Blood. It’s a brave move. The Smiths have turned a beautifully uncomfortable story into a beautifully uncomfortable film. It’s hard-hitting and tragic, surreal and funny. It’s the kind of movie a writer would want made about his own work. It’s also the kind of movie that may not resonate with a general audience. Though its central themes are universal, the combination of an uneasy subject and a densely layered narrative forces you to work to understand it, and at times thwarts those efforts completely. I hope to hell I’m wrong on that. I hope the sublime performances from actors Chaske Spencer and David Morse, the seamless transitions from present to past (and from reverie to reality), and the pitchperfect score from the Heartless Bastards will be enough to pull viewers through to this film’s rich rewards, as they did me. In collaboration with the Montana Film Office, the Smith brothers are showing three screenings of Winter in the Blood this weekend. In anticipation of the Montana premiere, we talked with Alex Smith about the serendipitous task of creating the film. Having reread the book after 20 years, I was struck by two things. The first was its rare combination of beauty and power. The second was how uncinematic it seems—this is a first-person account of a man in a fugue state, bouncing between the physical world and the hazy landscapes of dreams and memory. What possessed you to conceptualize this story into the visual format of film? Alex Smith: The main reason was our relationship with Jim, having known him all our lives and loving this book on an intimate level. It is a touchstone for both Andrew and I. And it’s been 40 years since the book was published—it was time. None of Jim’s

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work has been made into movies. We wanted to start with his first, the one that we identified with most because of its themes—brotherhood, loss of a father, living in isolation, dealing with alcoholism. Those are absolutely stories that we could tap into as writers and directors. With that said, yeah, we knew the book would be a tough one to adapt. The main character doesn’t do that much physically, and the book is obviously very complicated, with a number of narrative strands. It took us a while to unbraid it—the past, the present, the other— and then rebraid it in a filmic way. But we did see that there was a through-line in the narrative, with Virgil [though the book’s narrator is unnamed, the Smiths gave him one for the film] finally dealing with the accident that killed his brother when they were young. Despite your thematic ties to the book and personal ties to its author, the fact remains that you are two white guys telling an intensely Native American story. Were you ever concerned about culturepoaching? AS: Absolutely. One of the first things we did was reach out to [Native American poet, writer and filmmaker] Sherman Alexie, whom we had gotten to know at the Sundance Labs, and asked him if he thought we were the right guys to do this. He said that he couldn’t think of a better fit, and that meant a huge deal to us because Sherman has often said that it was Winter in the Blood that started him down the road to becoming a writer. Further confirmation came from Lois Welch, Jim’s widow, from whom we optioned the novel. She’s been super supportive and collaborative of the effort, reviewing script drafts and film cuts. In fact, she even invested in the film. We paid her to option the book and she turned around and put that money right back into the movie, which was a beautiful thing.

You do not shy away from Virgil’s drinking in the movie—in fact, because of the visual format it seems even more prominent in the film than in the book. AS: It was a big discussion point, and a bit of a departure from the book. In the book he drinks a lot, he’s hungover and disoriented many times. But it was written in the ’70s, and back then there was a little bit more of a romantic sense to that kind of thing. Making the film now, we couldn’t just have him drinking all the time without showing the consequences of his actions. And his drinking also became a kind of cinematic device for us. When he drinks, he goes into reverie. We wanted to tie him drinking to not being fully alive. In a sense, ever since he’s had this trauma he’s been frozen. The winter is literally in his blood. Chaske Spencer, who plays Virgil, is a revelation. It’s a stunning performance, both onscreen and in the voiceover narration. How did you find him? AS: Oh man, the way things came together is quite remarkable, really. Sherman hooked us up with our casting director, who lives in Burbank, Calif., but as it turns out is actually from Great Falls. She recommended Chaske, who played the alpha-male of the wolfpack in the Twilight films. We agreed that he was the guy we wanted, and when we got in touch with him in New York, we found out that he grew up in Poplar, Mont. So many times when we reached out, we were led back home. We just seemed destined to make this thing. Winter in the Blood makes its Montana premiere at the Roxy Theater Sat., July 20, with screenings at 5 PM, 7:30 and 9:45. $10 at theroxytheater.org. arts@missoulanews.com

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Like a virgin The teachings of Weird Al Yankovic Before nerd-dom had earned a modicum of its current cultural capital, Devo opened the gates of geekery to dorks of all vintages. But it was professional pop song parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic who provided the soundtrack to the pizza and pop party upon our arrival. His crackerjack accordion work on tracks like “My Bologna” and “Another One Rides the Bus” had been staples on Dr. Demento’s radio show for years by the time he released 1985’s “Like a Surgeon,” a send-up of Madonna’s number one song, “Like a Virgin.” At that time, while desperately crushing on Madonna, I commandeered a copy of Playboy featuring her nude, unshorn armpits and lady bits. There I was standing on the precipice of manhood, Madonna exhibiting more pubic hair than any boy I knew. I was confused, sad and, of course, horny as a captive monkey. Fortunately, on MTV, Weird Al’s video for “Like a Surgeon” played as often as Madonna’s original. Besides finishing with the solid

line, “I can hear your heart beat for the very last time,” that track taught me three things I have used throughout my life: how to deconstruct popular culture; that being subversive doesn’t require degradation; and not to take Madonna too seriously as a love interest. (Jason McMackin) Weird Al Yankovic plays the Wilma Theatre Fri., July 19. Doors open at 7:30 PM, show starts at 8:30. $40 at Rockin Rudy’s and vootie.com.

Soundwise, the band switches between gravelly, minor-key anthems that evoke Drag the River, and full-blown Dixieland ditties with horns that sound a bit like Larry and His Flask and Split Lip Rayfield. It all seems authentic. Style-wise, the multitude of string and brass instruments give it that teetering, high-wire feeling that it could fall apart at any minute. The lyrics also have a genuine delivery. When Starling isn’t mercilessly yelling at jerks who deserve it, he’s growling gleefully about drinking, living and loving. You can’t really go wrong with that. (Erika Fredrickson) Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy plays Monk’s Bar Fri., July 19, at 9 PM, with Frederick Krueger & the Sweet Dreamers and Aran Buzzas. Free.

F U N IS

Kanye West, Yeezus Jay-Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail I woke dreading the prospect of listening to Yeezus again. Kanye West’s new album is awful. Most critics disagree with me on this point; Pitchfork gave Yeezus a 9.5, and Steven Hyden called it the best album of 2013 during the first week of July. Such enthusiasm is presumably due to the album’s exciting new sound. Yeezus sounds radically different from most contemporary hiphop, in the same way that the cat vomiting a bird sounds different from a bird. That makes Yeezus the opposite of Jay-Z’s recent album/cell phone marketing strategy Magna Carta Holy Grail. Where Yeezus is desperately experimental, MCHG is calculated to sell raps. It is not quite old-school; “Tom Ford” is basically a trap jam, and “Somewhereinamerica” is built around a saxophone sample conspicuously reminiscent of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop.” Still, Magna Carta Holy Grail is as conventional as Yeezus is avant-garde. And yet they are eerily similar. Kanye and Hov are deep into their respective careers. Magna Carta Holy Grail is Jay-Z’s 12th solo album; Yeezus is Kanye’s sixth, and the two have Watch the Throne together. Both of them are insanely rich celebrities. Their two albums, released a month apart, address the question of what a

rapper does when he has basically done everything. Jay-Z decided to do it again. He continues to rap about the socially condemned spectacle of a black man spending a lot of money, over the clean drums and orchestral samples that got him there. Magna Carta is the work of a disengaged craftsman—not bad by any means, but kind of boring. Yeezus, by comparison, is the work of a personality desperate to be somehow more loved. It tries so hard to blow our minds that it numbs them. “How much do I not give a fuck?” Kanye raps on the opening track, before proceeding to give us every single fuck he can think of for the next 40 minutes. Philip Glass never made silence sound so good. Neither of these albums by established masters of hip-hop deviates from the lyrical form an inch. Kanye abandons some of his signature slant rhymes for such nuanced lines as “I am a god / even though I’m a man of God,” but mostly it’s casual sex and Lamborghinis. Jay-Z has a Lambo, too, but is married to Beyoncé. He sticks to the lyrical conceit that he pioneered and Kanye caricatured. Yeezus and Magna Carta Holy Grail sound different, but they say the same thing. (Dan Brooks)

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Having never heard Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy before, I started with the first song I could find, one called “I Saw Your Daughter.” I was worried. Not that I haven’t enjoyed a song or two with the lock-up-your-daughter theme (“TNT” by AC/DC, for instance) but in reality it seems like we need a new trope for women that doesn’t involving them being the object of lecherous characters. But, as it turns out, the Wichita, Kan., punk and brass ’n’ grass band isn’t that indecent. “I Saw Your Daughter” is a galloping, banjo- and up-right bass filled song involving the shaming of a deadbeat dad. “I saw your daughter, a few weeks ago,” snarls guitarist and lead singer Jarrod Starling. “She’s grown up so fast, but that’s right, I guess you wouldn’t know.”

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

eter Rutledge Koch grew up defying the literary mainstream. When he was in grade school he was reading books like Lady Chatterly’s Lover and The Marquis De Sade. It was the late 1950s and those stories were still banned in the United States. Koch discovered them unabashedly displayed at the home of his friend, Eric Fiedler, whose father, Leslie, a renowned literary critic, had smuggled the books. Koch wasn’t really a writer yet when he began studying at the University of Montana, though he’d been published in his high school literary magazine. But Leslie, who was teaching at UM at the time, helped Koch get the position of editor of UM’s literary magazine, Venture, as a mere college freshman. It was a cherished appointment, but from the beginning there was trouble brewing. Venture had just published a pseudo-erotic short story titled “I See Thee Sadly Darkly Navel” that did not sit well with the university’s administration. The day Koch started his new position the literary committee called him into a meeting. From now on, they told him, they would need to approve Venture’s content. “I was told a story had to pass muster, that it couldn’t just go to press, that there was a censor involved,” says Koch now. “And so I quit. I knew somehow or other that this was against what I thought was right. I remember the headline in the college paper, the Kaimin, said ‘Koch’s Five Day Venture as Venture Editor.’” The failed editorship became a jumping-off point for Koch’s lifelong attempt to question literary convention. In 1974, he started a magazine called Montana Gothic: An Independent Journal of Poetry, Literature & Graphics. It lasted only six issues, until 1977, but it was

a bold attempt to push back at what Koch and his fellow writers saw as a narrow view of Western writing. Koch, who now runs a small press in Berkeley, Calif., recently announced the release of The Complete Montana Gothic. Besides all six original issues—which showcase artists like Jay Rummel and writers like Tess Gallagher—it begins with seven retrospective essays from Koch and original contributors such as Butte-born science writer and poet Edwin Dobb, Missoula poet David E. Thomas and scholar/writer Rick Newby. It’s a compilation that takes its inspiration from surrealists, situationists and other counterculturists. At the time it was also edgy, willing to use the word “fuck” and aiming to embrace an international intellectualism during a time when most writers—at least at UM—were heavily invested in the hard-drinking, hard-loving, blue-collar portrait of small-town Montana. Koch grew up surrounded by literary people. He lived next door to Norman Maclean, who taught him to fish. After he left Venture and UM (he would drop in and out of college over the years) he traveled to places like Paris, Morocco and Tangiers. “When I was living in Tangiers I remember meeting William Eastlake, Mohammed Mrabet and Paul Bowels and all those dudes,” he says. “I was just a young kid, but I didn’t know any limits. It was all normal to me.” Finally, needing a job, he settled in San Francisco and he found work as a data analyst in a nuclear physics lab at UC Berkeley. He joined a situationist commune and partied with surrealists. Rummel and Thomas, in fact, were living there at the time, as well. In Thomas’ retrospective essay he recalls a drunken night in which Koch and Rummel got into a fight about surrealism, until

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finally Rummel pulled out a .50 caliber Sharps buffalo rifle and yelled, “I’m the most surreal son of a bitch you ever met, Koch, get out of my house!” He called and apologized two days later, Thomas notes, but that anecdote was one of many during the writers’ early lives. Koch started Montana Gothic when he returned to Missoula. As it turned out, Dirck Van Sickle, the author of the controversial story “I See Thee Sadly Darkly Navel,” had written a novel called Montana Gothic. It was a dark tale of the Montana landscape, Edgar Allen Poe-like, and one that seemed to diverge from other stories that romanticized the West. Koch read it and was enthralled, and later he asked Van Sickle if he could use the title for a magazine that would continue to publish writing that would critique the West in the same way. At the center of Koch’s issue with Western literature, even now, is the late poet and UM writing teacher Richard Hugo. To some critics, Hugo’s famous poem “Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg” captured a sweet and lonely realism about the Montana landscape. To Koch, it showed a lack of imagination—what he called “miserablism”—that was aped by every Hugo student for years to come. “When I was at the university I was appalled,” he says. “Because, Oh God, Richard Hugo! Richard Hugo! Richard Hugo! You’ve gotta understand I did not dislike Richard Hugo. But I didn’t like the one-sided character. I felt like I was in a town of one-eyed jacks and I wanted to see the other side of their face. And it wasn’t there. Or it wasn’t allowed. [The writers] were all a bunch of damn Protestants talking about redemption and a good woman as being the ideal. That was not my ideal.”

Koch started up a printing press called Black Stone Printing, where Bernice’s Bakery is today. He sought out writers who wanted to “write about the marvelous” rather than the misery. Not all of his writers shared the same intense attitude toward Hugo, but many of them, at least in the retrospective, expressed a desire for Montana writing to acknowledge the larger world around it. The Complete Montana Gothic captures a fascinating collection of writing and art from a brief period of time. The retrospectives are possibly the most intriguing part, with their anecdotes and litany of Missoula people and landmarks like Eddy’s bar. With just six issues, Montana Gothic is just a blip in Missoula’s writing history, still drowned out—for better or worse—by more famous writings. But if there’s an alternative to The Last Best Place, regarded as the definitive collection of local authors, this is it. “Two things I regret regarding Montana Gothic,” Koch says. “One is that I didn’t serialize Dirck’s Montana Gothic. The second thing I regret in the end is that I didn’t just keep doing it in San Francisco and keep calling it Montana Gothic. I let those people drift out of my life. They were oddballs. They were pre-Socratic philosophers, maverick poets and cowboy surrealists. They weren’t trying to write for Good Housekeeping to make a living. They were wild hairs.” Peter Koch presents an authors and artists book signing and talk for The Complete Montana Gothic at the Missoula Art Museum Fri., July 26, from 4 to 6 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Heaven on earth Things That Are transforms science to poetry by Kate Whittle

Introduction to Botany nearly derailed my college ing of a stream, beavers speed to the nearest trees to degree. In the final semester of senior year, it was the chisel girdles around their trunks so they go whomping one required general ed credit I had left to take. I at- down and then they can stuff them into the chatterboxy tended every lecture and lab and completed all the river to strangulate it into silence.” I’m tempted to recommend parts of Things That coursework, but couldn’t make heads or tails of the complexities of seed anatomy or the stages of mitosis. Are for reading aloud to children, except that the voMy mind would start to wander as soon as the professor cabulary will stretch even a well-read grown-up. Terms busted out the cell cycle charts. Thanks to extra credit like “frumenty,” “glögg” and “Yablochkov torches” sent me to Google. There’s a glossary in the back of the projects, I scraped a low C and graduated on time. book, but it’s playfully unhelpful. Perhaps I’d have done better The entry for “toxodons,” an exhad Amy Leach been my instructor. tinct Pliocene mammal, says, “If Leach, a writer based out of Bozeever anything seemed indestructiman, has released Things That Are, bly built, it was the toxodon, a series of beautiful, graceful essays chunky and solid and stout. Howmusing upon beaver dams and inever tumbleweeds have fared far tergalactic dust and everything in better. Something to think about, between, like the wonders of trucks.” salmon spawning, the moon’s gravThe essays have deeper itational orbit, jellyfish eyes, mushpoints, too, some of which are room sprouting and supernova more subtle than others. “Love” formations. It’s science made into explains the motivations of flowpoetry. ers like love-in-a-mist and loveTake the opening, which begins lies-bleeding, which is amaranth, by explaining that in the 17th century actually, and love-bind, which the Pope declared that beavers were Leach describes as a viney plant fish. “They decided not to truckle to that happily takes over everytheir new specification, not to be thing. I’m not sure that love-bind perfect fish, textbook fish; instead Things That Are is a real plant, but the message of Amy Leach they became fanciful fish, the first to have furry babies, the first to breathe hardcover, Milkwood Editions the chapter is sweet and clear. 192 pages, $18 “For love, onslaught-love, beleafs air and the first fish to build for all things.” themselves commodious conical Leach’s whimsy might be too much for some, and fortresses in the water.” Leach’s work is difficult to categorize, but might be it’s best in small doses, like reading a chapter before best described as magic realism. She likes to anthropo- going to bed. If you’d like a break from the awfully bormorphize flora and fauna and twine myths and philos- ing language of adulthood, from customer service numophy into her tales. Lovers of poetry and the bers and insurance claims, Leach’s essays are the perfect lusciousness of the English language will find much to escape. They’re a reminder to grown-ups that the smallabsorb here. People have always been describing na- est things in the world, and the very biggest, all contain ture; for Leach to describe it in new ways is a fantastic enormous wonders. Amy Leach reads from Things That Are at feat. Phrases like “frothy churning staircases of rocks” Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St., Wed., July almost ask to be read aloud. Her writing is also a lesson in strong verbs and ma- 23, at 7 PM. Free. nipulating words to extend their meaning. Take this, kwhittle@missoulanews.com also on beavers: “As soon as they hear the burbly gush-

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Pot power Cannabis Destiny localizes the drug war by Molly Laich

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There may be more than a few documentaries floating around that are critical of the war on drugs in this country, but only a couple that feature scenic shots of Missoula and stories of Montanans. One is Rebecca Richman Cohen’s 2012 Code of the West. The other is Kevin Booth’s newest film, American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny. (The first, American Drug War: The Last White Hope originally aired on Showtime in 2007 and seems to take a more inclusive view.) American Drug War 2 focuses on marijuana: How it’s distributed, the changing face of prohibition and conflicts between state and federal laws in this new era of state-by-state legalization practices. It’s a relevant topic here in Montana, where we experienced a brief heyday of legalized medical cannabis, until the federal government suddenly remembered they could do whatever they wanted, came in broad daylight and pillaged grow operations’ equipment, product and livelihood. Most Indy readers are likely familiar with the film’s many arguments for the legalization of pot. Our prisons are overrun with non-violent drug offenders. The illegal drug trade makes for impoverished border towns, drug and gang violence and dirty money along the border. Think of all the revenue we can make in the taxes. Marijuana is less dangerous than heroin, crack, cocaine, alcohol, etc. The drug war is expensive and ineffective. Marijuana alleviates the symptoms of schizophrenia. Booth basically throws the kitchen sink at the audience, but the enemy is a many-headed monster with a lot of money; we need all the weaponry we can get. There is some new information—at least new to me. I knew that pot had great medicinal value when it came to alleviating symptoms. It makes cancer patients less nauseous, it increases appetite, it alleviates pain. But I didn’t know that people were using high concentrations of THC oil to actually try to cure the cancer, and it turns out I didn’t know because Booth says the practice is an ancient, illegal secret. The film posits that our government and the pharmaceutical giants they

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work for have a vested interest in keeping cheap, effective, non-invasive, non-chemical drugs out of the hands of ordinary citizens. At the emotional center of the film is the story of the late Cash Hyde and his Missoula family’s battle with their son’s aggressive brain tumors. When doctors told them there was nothing more that modern medicine could do for 4-year-old Cash, his parents started sneaking bootlegged doses of THC oil into his feeding tube, and their son’s health improved. In one infuriating scene, Cash’s parents go on the television talk show “Dr. Drew” to tell their story, and you watch a TV doctor lecture Cash’s mom on interfering with hospital policy, as if she should have let her kid die so as not to disturb a protocol that favors the bottom line. I was livid and you should be, too. American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny is essentially a call to action. Now that the country is coming around to a more enlightened point of view, we need new laws and regulations that reflect the people’s will. If the film is a little overzealous in its claims of marijuana’s unequivocal goodness, well, you’ve got to stay on message, I guess. I’m wary of anyone who comes along claiming a drug is the perfect panacea, but that’s exactly why changing the system is so important. Pot is powerful and its age-old benefits deserve to be explored with all the tools that modern medicine has to offer—and without fear of prosecution, obviously. Booth’s film invites us to remember that marijuana reform isn’t a given. We have to continually fight for it. I’ve never personally met a person in Montana who wasn’t already of this opinion, but they’re out there. Maybe one of them will stumble into the Wilma and learn something. American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny screens at the Wilma Theatre Thu., July 25, at 7:30 PM, followed by a panel discussion. $7 at Rockin Rudy’s and the Wilma box office. Proceeds go to the Cash Hyde Foundation.

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OPENING THIS WEEK THE CONJURING You can bet your Milk Duds it’s not the cat knocking stuff over when paranormal investigators arrive to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their home. Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and Lili Taylor. Rated R. Carmike 12, Village 6. KON-TIKI Celebrate good ole Norwegian intrepidness inspired by the explorer Thor Heyerdal’s 1947 voyage in which he crossed the Pacific in a balsa wood raft. It helped prove how South Americans might have populated the Polynesian islands, but also gave bragging rights for life. Starring Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen and Gustaf Skarsgård. Rated PG13. Wilma. ONLY GOD FORGIVES Ish gets real in this crime drama, featuring Ryan Gosling as a drug smuggler in Bangkok who must avenge his brother’s death. Artful violence ensues. Also starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Yayaying Rhatha Phongam. Rated R. Wilma. R.I.P.D. If Ghost and Beverly Hills Cop had a baby, this would be it. After a cop dies, afterlife authorities assign him to a team of undead police officers, the Rest in Peace Department. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. RED 2 Bruce Willis is a retired black-ops CIA agent who must reunite his oddball team of operatives to prevent nuclear detonation. But forget Bruce, this has Helen Mirren kicking ass, and that’s what really matters. Also starring John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker and Catherine Zeta-Zones. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6. TURBO A weird accident puts the “go” into “escargot” in the animated Dreamworks underdog tale of a garden snail aiming to win the Indy 500. Starring the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti and Samuel L. Jackson. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharoahplex. WINTER IN THE BLOOD The adaptation of a classic James Welch novel was shot in Montana and depicts a young American Indian man’s search for identity and salvation. Starring Chaske Spencer, David Morse and Gary Farmer. Showing at the Roxy Theatre Sat., July 20, at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:45 PM.

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lock, Melissa McCarthy and Demián Bichir. Rated R. Carmike 12, Showboat.

DESPICABLE ME 2 The somewhat inept but well-meaning Gru is put to work for the Anti-Villain league to fight a new super criminal in this family friendly animated comedy. Starring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig and Miranda Cosgrove. Rated PG. Pharaohplex, Showboat, Carmike 12.

THE LONE RANGER This blockbuster promises to combine all the complexity of old-timey TV westerns with all the subtlety of modern-day special FX. Starring Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer and William Fichtner. (Fun fact: Armie’s dad is the CEO of Armand Hammer Corporation.) Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

GROWN UPS 2 Adam Sandler and co. get into and out of various preposterous shenanigans in their hometown. Drunk ski-cops, bullies, tropes about men and women are all on tap for your amusement. Also starring David Spade, Chris Rock and Kevin James. PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex. THE HEAT An uptight FBI agent teams up with a rambunctious Boston police officer in this buddy-cop comedy. The twist: They’re ladeez! Yes, even women can cuss, wear pants, hold guns and star in formulaic comedies. Starring Sandra Bul-

PACIFIC RIM Guillermo del Toro directs this flick that is as thoughtful and character-driven as an action film involving giant robotic suits and alien lizards can be, no doubt. Starring Charlie Hunnam (AKA the dude from “Sons of Anarchy”), plus Idris Elba and Rinko Kikuchi. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex.

live in Montana, which, if you look closely at the maps in the background, never sees a single zombie. Also starring Mireille Enos and Danielle Kertesz. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. 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 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

WORLD WAR Z Brad Pitt is out to save his family and the entire world from the scourge of running zombies in this action-packed but relatively not-gross thriller. The real winners in this tale are the people who

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While recent Supreme Court rulings on voting rights and same-sex marriage have held the nation’s attention, another decision slipped quietly under the radar. In late June, the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s program to raise the ethanol content of gasoline from 10 to 15 percent, thus clearing the way for more ethanol in gasoline. The new draft Farm Bill, meanwhile, includes more than a billion dollars worth of support for all things ethanol. While this action at the federal level is bullish for ethanol, many states are calling bullshit. The fact that most ethanol is made from corn means that an increase in the ethanol content of gas could create, or exacerbate, a variety of problems, like higher food prices and elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Ethanol production has also been linked to the spread of a dangerous form of E. coli. But while federal support for ethanol appears to be as unstoppable as it is misguided, some individual states have shown the kind of horsepower that could turn around this dead-end policy. In June, Florida repealed its Renewable Fuel Standard that gasoline contain 10 percent ethanol. And in May, Maine lawmakers approved a bill banning ethanol in gas, and asked the federal government to do the same. The Maine House Republicans posted the following on Maine.gov: “Evidence is mounting that ethanol is a failure in virtually every way. It takes more energy to produce it than the fuel provides. Food supplies around the world have been disrupted because so much of the corn crop now goes to ethanol. It costs taxpayers billions of dollars in subsidies at a time when our nation is already $12 trillion in debt. Even environmentalists have turned against it; research shows that ethanol production increases the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.” Maine’s Democrats have voted and spoken against ethanol as well. Ethanol fuel’s many problems have drawn together an opposing orgy of strange bedfellows, including the petroleum lobby, environmentalists, foodies, food processors, auto enthusiasts (cars don’t like ethanol, either) and citizens of all political bents—basically everyone outside of the corn belt and D.C.’s beltway. Only corn growers or the politicians they support stand to gain from ethanol, while all the rest of us get are the consequences. Currently, 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is used to make ethanol. Raising the allowable amount of ethanol in gasoline, as the Supreme Court’s recent decision greenlights, will likely increase demand for corn, drive up its price and collaterally make food more expensive. Already, increased corn demand created by ethanol policy in recent years has led to more land being cleared for agriculture. This activity, and the intensive tillage and monoculture-style farming system

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that produces most corn, has resulted in widespread loss of topsoil: 80 to 100 billion tons lost annually by some estimates. Topsoil sequesters carbon dioxide. Because of agriculture’s impact on soil loss, Allan Savory, a renowned rangeland and desertification specialist, considers agriculture one of global warming’s worst culprits, and has compared its effects to those of coal mining. Thick, healthy soils also absorb and hold water, while thin soil is less able to retain rainfall and irrigation, which increases the amount of water used in agriculture, which washes away even more topsoil. When the energy costs of production, processing and transport are added up, ethanol is a net loss, according to T.J. Rogers, CEO of solar panel maker SunPower Corp. “Ethanol is a total waste,” Rogers told Watchdog.org, echoing the words of the Maine Republicans. “The bottom line is that it takes between one and 1.3 gallons of gasoline-equivalent energy to produce one gallon of ethanol.” Meanwhile, on the food-safety front, a byproduct of ethanol production called distillers grains, widely used in cattle feed, turns out to be a rich source of E. coli 0157, the pathogen behind several recent recalls of E. coli-tainted beef. Though links between distillers grains and specific cases of food-borne illness have yet to be established, it has been demonstrated that the higher the percentage of distillers grains in cows’ diets, the higher the level of E. coli 0157 in those cows. It's frustrating to see ethanol policy, which is clearly destructive and unproductive on so many fronts, being pushed for such transparent reasons. And one has to wonder if the level of federal support for ethanol would be any different if, instead of the Iowa caucus in the heart of corn country, the New Hampshire primary was the first event of the presidential election season. But the recent rebuffs to ethanol in Florida and Maine are hopeful signs that fighting it out at the state level can be an effective means of change. Again, the Maine House Republicans: “We’re not so naïve as to think a resolution from the Maine Legislature will light a fire under Congress…Our objectives are more modest but will still encounter opposition; the Midwest ethanol lobby has powerful advocates on Capitol Hill and billions of subsidy dollars are at stake. But if Maine sparks other states to act, we could coerce Congress to stand up to the special interests.” As the Farm Bill bobs and weaves its way through the halls of Congress, it’s probably too much to hope that the billion-plus dollars allocated to ethanol support will suddenly dry up. But given the broad opposition to ethanol policy—owing to the fact that it’s basically insane—I like the states’ chances to defeat it, step by step. As we’ve just witnessed with same-sex marriage, sometimes when the states lead, the federal government follows.

[dish] Alcan Bar and Grill 16780 Beckwith St. Frenchtown 626-9930 Tantalize your taste buds with Angus beef burgers, chicken strips, shrimp, and biscuits and gravy from Alcan Bar & Grill. With more than 20 years of experience and 10 years in the business, we have been offering fresh meals and beverages at the area’s most competitive prices. Our friendly professionals offer personalized service and make sure you leave our restaurant as one of our friends. We offer have a variety of specials for ladies night and sports events featuring drink specials and free food. Contact us today and enjoy our incredible menu selection. 9 am – 2 am Mon-Sun. $ Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Bernice’s Bakery is a Missoula Landmark. 34 years of baking goodness. Open 6a8p Bernice’s offers an incredible selection of breakfast pastries, treats, cakes, breads and a fine, fresh lunch daily. If you’ve never been in you are missin’ out. And if you haven’t been in lately you really should make it a point to stop by. June & July are great months for slow walks along the Clark Fork while you sip Bernice’s iced coffee or Mountain Huckleberry iced tea and nibble on a coconut macaroon. Picnic? Bernice’s is your stop. We can load you up with all you need and off you go! Bernice’s: made from scratch for your pleasure. See you soon. xoxo bernice. $-$$

Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 10am-6pm Mon-Thurs/10am-7pm Fri+Sat. Downtown Missoula. $

Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $

Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$

The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD he GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$

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Tapas at the Top Hat HANGRIEST HOUR What you’re getting: Tapas are a Spanish tradition, but the term has been expanded to include any menu of small-portion appetizers. The Top Hat started serving a tapas-style menu earlier this year, and though there is a variety to choose from, many of the options adhere to traditional Spanish recipes. Favorite tapas dish No. 1: Ahi tuna Niçoise. This is a spicy one, but it’s also light, so it’s perfect for summer. Crisp green beans, olives, potatoes, tomatoes and red onion make for a tiny salad. The olive oil and Murray River sea salt give it a rich, bright flavor. $8. Favorite tapas dish No. 2: The tortilla espanola looks like bite-sized lasagna, but it’s actually made from potatoes, mushrooms, leeks and spicy pepper aioli. It’s potato salad’s sophisticated cousin. Favorite tapas dishes Nos. 3 and 4: The braised beef brisket and the sautéed brussels sprouts are staples that carried over onto the summer menu. In particular, the beef brisket, speckled with garlic chips, melts in your mouth—especially when you dip it in the sherry honey aioli. It’s almost unbearably good. Server Cara Webb says these two dishes stay on the menu because customers love them so much. “I’ll ask you how they are as a formality,” she says, with a confident smile. “But I already know they’re good.”

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The man behind the tapas: Top Hat owner Nick Checota has final say on what stays on the menu, but the ideas and recipes are developed by Chef Erin Crobar. Crobar recently won the Local Fest chef competition and he’s also won Iron Chef at the Western Montana Fair the last two years. Why get tapas: Tapas are best eaten with a group, and the experience of trying different things off the menu facilitates a social atmosphere. There’s no chance of ordering remorse because you can try so many different dishes. It’s like speed-dating, only you’re dating food. How to find it: Top Hat Lounge, 134 W. Front Street, open 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily. –Erika Fredrickson Hangriest Hour serves up fresh details on western Montana eats. To recommend a restaurant, dish or chef for Hangriest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ 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. $

Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-214-2659 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 wholesome ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one of our braised meat sandwiches. We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$

Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-7154 (on the hip strip) 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 11:3012:30 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.

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. $-$$

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$

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. $$

Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and

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. $-$$

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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. $$-$$$

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“I thought you were supposed to bring the picnic basket.” Heartless Bastards plays the Top Hat, with openers Writer, Sat., July 20 at 9 PM. $22/$20 in advance at tophatlounge.com.

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Theater, Hellgate High School Auditorium and St. Anthony’s Parish. $15 for festival pass. Check choralfestival.org more.

Sarah Jarosz and Ben Bullington play dreamy Americana for y’all at the Top Hat. 9 PM. $18, tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

Who has two green thumbs and likes learning about native plants? Potential Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden volunteers, that’s who. Work beside botanists and gardeners and become an expert on local flora. Thursdays from 4–6 PM at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. Visit montananaturalist.org.

Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org. The global harmonies will be ever-sosweet at the International Choral Festival of Missoula. Afternoon concerts are 2 to 3:30 PM, evening shows are 7:30 to 9 PM, throughout venues including the Dennison

Sip on some well-fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703. Visit tenspoon.com.

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Get your grub on, but don’t pig out, and give a girl a call who you wanna take out to Downtown ToNight, where local food and beer vendors as well as local musicians have a good day down at Caras Park. 5:30– 8:30 PM. Free to hang and bang, but the grub and beer will cost you a couple ducats.

End your afternoon with a fine glass of grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 2–7 PM Mon.-Sat. and 2–5 PM on Sun. 5646 W. Harrier. Call 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

After the revolution, we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where its Sewing Lounge goes from 6 to 8 PM. $9–10/hour. Call 541-7171.

Bring your thinking caps for this one: The lecture “Poetics of Nature” examines how nature as a concept evolved from ancient Greek myth to modern-day technology. Presented by Jim McKusick at the Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton. 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. Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free. Luke Dowler emerges from his secluded mountain home to bring you “post-pop songwriting” at Bitter Root Brewery. 6-8 PM. Free. Riobossanova plays jazz for all you classy mothas at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6 to 8 PM. Free. 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 PM. Free will offering. Win $50 by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Plus, allyou-can-eat wings, $10 two-topping pizzas, $6 domestic pitchers and $7 Blue Moon pitchers. Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door. 7 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. Country music legends Steve Earle and The Dukes grace the stage at the Wilma Theatre, so be on your best behavior, guy who yells “Play Copperhead Road!” every time Mr. Earle steps up to the microphone. With special guests The Mastersons. 8 PM. $34. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and vootie.com. Expect some boiling, toiling and trouble at The Kitchen Witches, a comedy about two feuding cable access cooking show hostesses. O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 8 PM. $25/$22. Visit stumptownplayers.org. Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during

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[calendar] Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. Karaoke follows. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up. Fight for your right to belt out tunes at the Dark Horse’s Combat Karaoke, hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free. Gotta hydrate before you gyrate to the latest hip tunes and underground tracks at Dead Hipster Dance Party. 9 PM. Badlander. $1 well dranks til’ midnight. Make like Coyote Ugly and dance on the bar when Ugly Pony plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Deadstring Brothers preach that whiskeysoaked rock-and-roll gospel, along with Doug Balmain, at Stage 112, 112 Pattee St. 9 PM. $8. Check out stageonetwelve.com. Sonic mysteries will be revealed at Javier Ryan’s Cypher, an evening with The Orators, Mr. Soap, Rob Peoples and Mateo Emblem at the VFW, 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. Cover TBA.

nightlife Town Mountain and the Kitchen Dwellers play the Top Hat this eve. 9:30 PM. $10/$8 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s or tophatlounge.com. Saddle up the dragon and fly to the Magic City for the Fairytale Musik Fest, three days of bluegrass, rock and hip-hop tunes at Oscar’s Park, 3740 Wise Lane in Billings. Headliners this year include Blackalicious, That One Guy, Walla and Cure for the Common. $65/$45 in advance. Visit musikliveshere.com. End your afternoon with a fine glass of grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 2–7 PM Mon.-Sat. and 2–5 PM on Sun. 5646 W. Harrier. Call 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com. Sip on some well-fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine

Broadway’s Family Fare, which highlights shows like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and more. Whitefish Performing Arts Center. 8 PM. Visit atpwhitefish.org for tickets and info. The man, the myth, number one in your hearts, number two on the charts, Weird Al Yankovic brings his too-funny-for-Fontana California music chicanery to the Wilma Theatre as part of The Apocalypse Tour. Prepare yourself, Colonel Kurtz. 8:30 PM. $38–$45. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s or ticketweb.com. A balmy summer evening, tasty brews and films: a delightful combination. New Belgium Brewing’s Clips Beer and Film Tour returns to Missoula with more than a dozen “esoteric” beer offerings and short films. Beer is available in 3-ounce samples or 12-ounce pours. Food vendors will be on hand, as well. Kicks off at 8:30 PM at Caras Park. (See Spotlight.)

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Get your basement rock party on when six, count ‘em six, touring bands play the ZACC Below, 235 N. First St. W. French punks Xtramedium are in town, along with Spokanites Bad Hex, Oaklanders Skin Suit and Death Drive, plus Huntley’s Idaho Green and Bozeman one-man-band Tales from Ghost Town. $5, all ages, alcohol-free. Swing by the Teen Challenge Center yard sale and mayhap you’ll find a treasure. 8 AM-2 PM. 3815 S. Seventh St. W. Call 5431912 if you’d like to donate something to the sale. Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240. The inaugural Sangwa Yeshe Drupchod Retreat at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee is a seven-day retreat, including practice led by vajra master Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche. $650-720 per person, includes camping, outdoor facilities and three vegetarian meals. Participants should arrive by 9 AM to recieve the requisite empowerment. Pre-registration required. Contact Devi at 406240-4249 or email devizdziebko@gmail.com. The global harmonies will be ever-sosweet at the International Choral Festival of Missoula. Afternoon concerts are 2 to 3:30 PM, evening shows are 7:30 to 9 PM, throughout venues including the Dennison Theater, Hellgate High School Auditorium and St. Anthony’s Parish. $15 for festival pass. Check choralfestival.org more. The Women’s Circle Group Acupuncture at Mountain Sage Acupuncture Clinic, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 1, focuses on women’s health issues and sounds comfy and nice. 2–5 PM, last appointment at 4 PM. Sliding scale treatments $20-40 with a first time administration fee of $10. Call (503) 593-7073. Teens go toward the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Teen Writers Group, which meets every Fri. at 3:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

I’ll House You: Ladies Edition, with DJs HotPantz, Hauli and Tygerlily, plus Seattle DJ Kristina Childs. Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Prepare for a face-melting assault of guitar rockery when Shramana and Monks on Fire play the Palace. 9 PM. Free. Enjoy the talented tunesmithing of local dames at Ladies Night II, with Kappa Oie, Calista Singley, Kristi Neumann and Slowly But Shirley at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9 PM. Free. Watch our arts editor shake a tail feather when Mark Duboise and Crossroads play the Sunrise Saloon, starting at 9:30 PM. 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. Acoustic bluegrass blazers Carry Nation and the Speakeasy put the “stagecoach in overdrive” tonight, along with the pillow-talking Frederick Krueger and the Sweet Dreamers and Aran Buzzas. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St. 9 PM. Free. (See Music.)

Hellgate Rollergirls tussle with Everett, Wash.’s Jet City’s Pink Pistols tonight at the Glacier Ice Rink on the Western Montana Fairgrounds. Doors at 6, bout at 7 PM. $10, free for kids 10 and under. Discounted presale tickets available at hellgaterollergirls.com.

Turning over a new leaf. Andrea Wright, a UM alumna who resides in British Columbia, Canada, reads from her first novel, Greenstone Rising, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W, Mon., July 22. 7 PM.

tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703. Visit tenspoon.com. Load up the kids and head on down to Darby for the annual Logger’s Days Competition, held at the south end of town on Highway 93. Kicks off Fri., July 19 at 6 PM with games and music. Saturday’s events start at 9 AM with a parade, with 17 logging events to follow, including hot saws and log rolling. Free to attend. Teach the kids how to Easy-Bake a good time when Kitchen Dwellers play Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM. Free. Don’t yell out your ex-girlfriend’s name during Hump Day Bingo with Bob at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for winners. Beware: $5 mini-fishbowls served all day. Bingo starts at 6:30 PM. You’re a cheap date, not a cheapskate. The Missoula Public Library hosts another installment of its cheap date movie night, which starts at 7 PM sharp at the library, 301 E. Main St. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Free. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org. Leave a slipper behind and wink at a prince when departing Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo:

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Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733. Sing a happy tune at the Evaro Bar’s Friday night karaoke and you just might win a prize. Starts at 9 PM, free to sing. 17025 US Highway 93 North. DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free. Get lucky, Montucky-style when One Leaf Clover plays the Union Club, starting around 9 PM. Free. Escape them lawdogs and boogie with some bandits when Wild Coyote Band plays the Hide Out Bar, 942 Hub Lane in Hamilton. 9 PM. Free. If you’re making the scene in Kalispell this evening, check out Viva La Salsa Montana dance night at the Eagles, 37 First St. W. Starts with beginner dance lesson at 9 PM, open dancing from 10 to midnight. $5 per person. Remember that women belong in the house and behind the turntables during

Pretty people, fresh num-nums, seas of strollers, a man eating a waffle barehanded—it must be summer and time for folks to make the pilgrimage to area Farmers’ Markets. In Missoula at Circle Square (missoulafarmersmarket.com), on Pine St. (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), under the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkforkrivermarket.com) and in Hamilton at South Third and Bedford Streets. Hours vary slightly, but most take place between 8 AM and 1 PM. Swing by the Teen Challenge Center yard sale and mayhap you’ll find a treasure. 8 AM-2 PM. 3815 S. Seventh St. W. Call 5431912 if you’d like to donate something to the sale. Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240. Show them old ghosts a real good time at Bannack Days 2013, a family friendly weekend including horse and wagon rides, shootout reenactments, gold panning, cowboy poetry and a debate on women’s suffrage. (Ooh, I wonder how that one turns out.) Kicks off at 9 AM each day at Bannack State Park near Dillon. Visit stateparks.mt.gov/bannack. Veg out with your carrot out during the Hamilton Farmers Market, where folks can purchase all sorts of dee-lish local goodies from area farmers. Third and Bedford Streets. 9 AM to 12:30 PM. Ladies, prove your mettle with hot metal at the Babes N Bullets women’s shooting event, a fundraiser for Tough Enough to Wear Pink of Montana. 9 AM-4 PM at Deer

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“Wait ’til you see what color we painted the foyer.” The Wailin’ Jennys are in town to rowdy up the Top Hat Thu., July 25. Doors at 8 PM. $25/$32 for VIP seating.

Creek Shooting Range, at the intersection of Deer Creek Road and Montana Rail Link tracks between East Missoula and Bonner. $125 fee gets you into the shooting clinic, Tshirt, snacks, goodie bag and after-party at Canyon River. Email Ryan at rcorwin@bobwards.com for more info. Get musical while finding your flow when Brian Baty leads a live music Vinyasa yoga class, which features music by Nathan Zavalney, this and every Sat. from 9:30–10:45 AM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10 drop-in/$8 students drop-in, with various prices for punch-card holders. Call 581-4093 or visit yogainmissoula.com. Nurture your inner John Constable at the Missoula Art Museum’s Plein Air: Right From The Start class, where artistes will learn via on-site sketching how to break down landscapes into simple compositional studies. Ages 16 and up. 10 AM-4 PM. $45/$40 for members. Find your cherry pie, cool-drink-ofwater-such-a-sweet-surprise when you check out the Flathead Cherry Festival on Main Street in Polson, which includes games and booths all day. Weave a lavender wand with other cancer survivors at a therapeutic class with Niraja Golightly, hosted by LIving Art of Montana, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. Free, but register by calling 549-5329. Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Find out if art galleries are the hangover cure we’ve all been looking for when The Missoula Art Museum hosts a tour every Saturday at noon. Various exhibiting artists, guides and teachers host. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org to find out schedule details. Free. Party down Northside/Westside-style at the Second Annual Rock the Hood, on North First Street between the ZACC and the Stensrud. This all-day shindig includes games, food, beer, ice cream and bands including

Vera, Butter, Shane Hickey and His Magical Ukelele and Jerry, Bob Wire and Total Combined Weight. Noon-9 PM. The global harmonies will be ever-sosweet at the International Choral Festival of Missoula. Afternoon concerts are 2 to 3:30 PM, evening shows are 7:30 to 9 PM, throughout venues including the Dennison Theater, Hellgate High School Auditorium and St. Anthony’s Parish. $15 for festival pass. Check choralfestival.org more.

nightlife Saddle up the dragon and fly to the Magic City for the Fairytale Musik Fest, three days of bluegrass, rock and hip-hop tunes at Oscar’s Park, 3740 Wise Lane in Billings. Headliners this year include Blackalicious, That One Guy, Walla and Cure for the Common. $65/$45 in advance. Visit musikliveshere.com. End your afternoon with a fine glass of grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 2–7 PM Mon.-Sat. and 2–5 PM on Sun. 5646 W. Harrier. Call 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com. Sip on some well-fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703. Visit tenspoon.com. Load up the kids and head on down to Darby for the annual Logger’s Days Competition, held at the south end of town on Highway 93. Kicks off Fri., July 19 at 6 PM with games and music. Saturday’s events start at 9 AM with a parade, with 17 logging events to follow, including hot saws and log rolling. Free to attend. Crane your neck to observe Stars Upon Thars, playing Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6 to 8 PM. Free. Smoke won’t get in your eyes when Blue Moon jazz group plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6 to 8 PM. Free. Leave a slipper behind and wink at a prince when departing Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo: Broadway’s Family Fare, which highlights shows like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and more. Whitefish Performing Arts Center. 8 PM. Visit atpwhitefish.org for tickets and info.

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Zappos had a great sale on boots. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club plays the 2013 Farmageddon Records Music Festival, along with Scott H. Biram, Shooter Jennings, Pentagram, Weedeater, Whiskeydick and many more. Runs Thu., July 25 to Sun., July 28. Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. $140 for adult pass. Visit farmageddonrecordsmusicfestival.com for camping and pass info.

Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733. Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are like Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp, saving rec centers one beat at at time. Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. $2. DJ Dubwise spins hot oldschool and new dance party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free. Watch our arts editor shake a tail feather when Mark Duboise and Crossroads play the Sunrise Saloon, starting at 9:30 PM. Jive Coulis and Good Job Honey ride the veggie-powered bus all the way to Party-Town tonight, with tunes ranging from folk to rock to bossa nova and R&B. Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman. 9:30 PM. Free. The Resonance dubstep night brings the worb and the borg with visiting Boise DJs Dertyderty and Broke, plus our own Digerati, Deadline and Hendawg. Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Bodega presents Sugar-Free Saturday Nights with DJ Squirmi, because, quote: “I am a diabetic and thought it would be fun.” 9 PM. 221 Ryman St. Free. Austin, Texas’ very own Heartless Bastards play the Top Hat, with openers Writer, at 9 PM. $22/$20 in advance at tophatlounge.com. It must be “twee time” as Missoula Outdoor Cinema presents Little Miss Sunshine, at 9:22 PM on the lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 and visit missoulaoutdoorcinema.org.

SUNDAYJULY21 We’re gonna party like it’s Calapatra the Calendar Editor’s birthday when a whole buncha punk bands including Buddy Jackson, False Colours and Party Like Thieves play the ZACC Below, 235 N. First St. $5. 7 PM. All ages. Transition to Peace: A Defense Engineer’s Search for an Alternative to War author Russ FaureBrac presents “Is Peace Possible?” at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. 6 PM. Bring something for the potluck, too. Check jrpc.org. Find out how to harvest lavender at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee today. Specialist Paula Scoggins guides folks in the art of planting, nurturing and harvesting this aromatherapeutic plant. Workshops run 8 AM to noon and 4 PM to 8. Bring hat, work gloves, sunscreen and water bottle. Email volunteer@ewam.org to sign up. Show them old ghosts a real good time at Bannack Days 2013, a family friendly weekend including horse and wagon rides, shootout reenactments, gold panning, cowboy poetry and a debate on women’s suffrage. (Ooh, I wonder how that one turns out.) Kicks off at 9 AM each day at Bannack State Park near Dillon. Visit stateparks.mt.gov/bannack. Catch new thoughts with the Science of Mind Community during a Sunday service via the internet when Rev. Kathianne Lewis spreads a spiritual message at the Carriage House in Hamilton, 310 N. Fourth St., at 10 AM every Sun. Free. Call Barb at 375-9996. Find your cherry pie, cooldrink-of-water-such-a-sweet-

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surprise when you check out the Flathead Cherry Festival on Main Street in Polson, which includes games and booths all day. Take a chill pill and ride a pony during the Carousel Sunday Market, every Sunday from 10 AM to 2 PM. Produce, psychic readings, live food,

music, kids’ activities and, yes, pony rides, are all going down. Your bedtime tales of collegeage debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t get enough of Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy’s good stuff, head out of town to Philipsburg to hear them, Aran Buzzas and Smokestack and the Foothill Fury play a sidewalk show, starting at 2 PM. Philipsburg Brewing Company, 101 W. Broadway in P-Burg. Free. Smell the roses and hear the sweet tunes at the Potpourri of Vocal Artistry show with Anne Basinski and Phil Tummarello (and friends!). St. Mary’s Church, 315 Charlos St. in Stevensville, from 23:30 PM. Bring lawn chairs or a blanket; refreshments will be served. Free. Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their guitars, mandolins, harmonicas, fiddles, banjos, dobros, or other

acoustic instrument. Music includes old-time country, bluegrass, swing, cowboy, folk, old standards, etc. Folks who want to play or just listen are encouraged to come. For more information, call John at 381-2483. Free.

summer suds I have some friends who are already bemoaning that summer won’t last much longer. And to them I say: “La la la la I can’t hear you.” There’s far too much fun remaining, far too many outdoor shenanigans and late-night adventures to be had. Consider any normal year-round activity: Beer drinking, for instance. Now, do it outside. It instantly becomes more exciting. Take the upcoming Clips Beer and Film Tour. New Belgium Brewing sponsors the Clips Beer and Film Tour, which, as you may guess, includes libations and short films shot by New Belgium fans. This is the fourth annual edition of the event, which used to be called the Clips of Faith (presumably, somebody figured out that that made it sound like a religious event, which it’s not.) The shorts this year include a portrayal of a small Colorado ski town, the tale of Wisconsin’s Holders of the Lights, a snowboard stop-animation film, two hipsters dueling for a woman’s affection in “Shot From the Hip,” and the story of how two Brooklynites designed a one-gallon homebrew kit.

WHAT: Clips Beer and Film Tour WHO: New Belgium Brewing WHERE: Caras Park WHEN: Fri., July 19, 8:30-11:30 PM. Movies start at dusk. HOW MUCH: Free to attend, beer available for purchase MORE INFO: newbelgium.com

It sounds like a mellow, relaxing way to spend an evening, but I can guarantee that it’ll be a little more intense for people who geek out over unusual microbrews. As intense as sipping beers can be, anyway. New Belgium is no strange name in these parts, of course, and the brewery sends out its more rare, small-batch beers on the tour, including the dandelion-green-bittered Paardebloem, wood-aged La Folie and the new Pluot, a fruity ale packing a 10 percent ABU punch. Plenty of favorites, like the Trippel and the Abbey are on tap as well. If that’s not enough of a warm glow for you, the nonprofit event travels throughout the country, donating to local groups along the way. Missoula’s recipient is the Bike/Walk Alliance For Missoula, and the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project is organizing recycling bins at the event. Food from Blue Bison Grill and Empanada Lady will be available, too. Food, beer and movies outside? Sounds like a summer dream. —Kate Whittle

[calendar] S. Higgins Ave. Free, but donations accepted. Enter from the back entrance. Visit greatfreedom.org for more info. Kick back with some whiskey but don’t drink a fifth when Michael-Louis Smith Quartet plays jazz at the Top Hat from 7 to 9 PM. Free. 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. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free. Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. $3 Fireball specials. Call 721-1798.

doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays. Andrea Wright, a UM alum who makes her home in lovely British Columbia, Canada, reads from her first novel, Greenstone Rising, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. Spit out that gum before joining the Missoula City Band rehearsal, every Monday from 7-9 PM in the Sentinel High School band room. All players welcome. Learn more at missoulacityband.org. Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness

Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. This class is great for beginners and experienced dancers alike. 6–7 PM. Visit madronadance.wordpress.com. If your attention span rivals that of a flea, maybe check out the Introduction to Meditation Class with Cheryl McMillan, from July 23-Aug. 20, noon to 12:50 on Tuesdays. Red Willow Learning Center, 825 W. Kent St. $40 for the five-week series. Register at redwillowlearning.org or call 406-721-0033. 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. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All

bring “ease, clarity and personal integrity” to every conversation. Every Tue. from 6 to 7:30 PM from July 2 to July 30. Learn more by emailing info@PatrickMarsolek.com. $50/$90 for two people. Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages. James Lee Burke reads and signs Light of the World, a thriller mystery set on Flathead Lake, starting at 7 PM at Fact and Fiction on 220 N. Higgins Ave. Come hear from other Missoulians about the ties between higher education and our economy at the “Jobs and the Local Economy: What Makes a Campus? How Are They Related?” forum, hosted in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Panelists include UM faculty and city planners. 7 PM.

MONDAYJULY22 It won’t be “just” another Monday when “just” Ron Dunbar plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., from 7 to 10 PM. Free. Come on down for Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. (It ain’t called Wall Street Wednesday, amiright?) $1 from every drink sold is donated to a different non-profit each Monday. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. Today kicks off a five-day Middle School Art Club camp led by the rock ‘n’ roll artist Cindy Marshall. Ages 11-15 are invited to learn about creating prints and paintings as well as writing poetry, singing songs and telling stories. 1-4 PM each day. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

nightlife Show 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 at the Badlander. 8:30 PM. Free. Transform into a greater, more flexible version of yourself with Full Moon Flow at The Women’s Club Health and Fitness Center. “Share in a deeply moving, heartopening yoga practice to welcome your internal light within,” complete with glow bracelets and candles. 2105 Bow Street. 5:30-6:30. $12/free for members. 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. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no

which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: What was the seminal hair metal band Poison’s original name? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) “So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow...” Learn to mine great lines from that fabulous mind of yours just like William Carlos Williams when you join other seasoned and novice poets for Poetry Club every Tuesday at 8 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First W. The Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition hosts the Musician Showcase at Stage 112, inside the Elk’s at 112 Pattee St., an evening of tuneful live tuneage made by locals for locals. 8–11 PM. Free. 18 plus. Here, quick, memorize this chorus: “Whoa-oh-oh-oh oh oh, Whoaaaaa,” repeat three times. Now you’re set to sing along when melodic hardcore and pop punk bands play the Badlander tonight. Fort Collins, Colo.’s Convalescents, The Lopez, Albuquerque’s Stabbed in the Back and our own Missoula goofballs Buddy Jackson are on deck tonight. 9 PM. Cover TBA. Get personal with indie folk artists Dwight Smith and Julia Lucille when they play the VFW, 245 W. Main St., at 9 PM. Cover TBA.

WEDNESDAYJULY24 Marco! Polo! Ten-piece Brooklyn power funk band Turkuaz plays the Palace Thu., July 25, with guests, starting at 9 PM. $5, advance tickets at stonefly-productions.com.

Center, 702 Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of practice. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org. 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. Rock the mic 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.

TUESDAYJULY23 The winningest USian will get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s new Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials. Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. Dance cuz everybody’s watching at the American Cabaret Style bellydance class at the Downtown

knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

nightlife If early morning grub grabbing isn’t for you, head to the Tuesday Farmer’s Market at Circle Square on the north end of Higgins Ave. Veggies, flowers and pretty people are bountiful. 5:30–7 PM. 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. Beat the heat with the Cool Water Hula practice sessions, at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., Tuesdays from 6 to 7 PM. The Clark Fork Coalition hosts the hula event on Aug. 3 as a way to advocate for waterways. Learn more at coolwaterhula.blogspot.com. Remember this the next time you have an argument about whether glasses go right-sideup or upside-down in the cupboard. The five-week Compassionate Communication Class at Living Art, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17., promises to offer tools to

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10, $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information. Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free. Drink from the cup of knowledge during the Socrates Café at the Bitterroot Public Library West Meeting room in Hamilton. 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 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,

Author Amy Leach reads from the fantastically imaginative Things That Are, a book of essays about everything from beaver dams to intergalactic dust. Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. Free. (See Books.) Food served out of a truck always tastes better, so check out the goods at Out to Lunch in Caras Park, from 11 AM–2 PM. Free to hang out and people-watch, food will cost you. Until the day comes that we can install GPS locators in our kids, do the next best thing and get a free Child ID, at an event hosted by local law enforcement every Wednesday at Caras Park at 11:30 AM. Child IDs record information like fingerprints and contact info, which are needed in case of an abduction and Amber Alert. The Jocko Valley Farmers Market offers treats, produce, tunes and more in The Hangin Art Gallery parking lot, 92555 Highway 93 in Arlee, from 4-7 PM. For more information or to become a vendor, call Kelley at 726-5550.

nightlife Hey, spring 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.

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[calendar] The Bus Driver Tour rolls into town with rootsy Americana-type stuff at the Top Hat from 7 to 9 PM. (Not to be confused with the rapper Busdriver, ahem.) Free. Feel the grass under your toes, let the breeze ruffle your hair and kick back to the sonic stylings of the Missoula City Band, which presents its annual summer concerts every Wednesday evening at 8 PM in Bonner Park, on the corner of Ronald and Hastings Streets. Free. Check missoulacityband.org for artist info. Let me tell you something I learned the hard way: Meatloaf songs are not appropriate for karaoke. Now go forth to Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free. Would a Beatloaf by any other name smell as sweet? We may never know, but fare thee well tonight at Whompin’ Wednesdays: Beatloaf and Sara’s Going Away Party, with DJs including Phoniks!, Wildcard and Dawnbringer. 9 PM. Free, with $6 pitchers of Pabst and free pool. The Deadly Gentlemen are out to stun you all with irreverent roots music at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. $7. (Trivia answer: Poison originated as a band called Paris, based in Mechanicsburg, PA. Bonus fun fact: Bret Michaels and Charlie Sheen have a production company called Sheen Michaels Entertainment.)

Tom Catmull will either turn green, rip off his clothing and destroy the building with his engorged muscular body, or play pleasant tunes for you all at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-8 PM. It could go either way, really. Sip on some well-fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703. Visit tenspoon.com. Get your grub on, but don’t pig out, and give a girl a call who you wanna take out to Downtown ToNight, where

Keegan Smith and the Fam will get along just fine when they play the Bitter Root Brewery from 6-8 PM. Free. Losing a pet is losing a friend. Hospice of Missoula presents Pet Bereavement Support, an opportunity to work through your grief with others in the community. The four-week group meets Thursday evenings at 6:30 PM at Natural Grocers, 2530 S. Third St. W. Free, but call Hospice of Missoula to register and learn more at 543-4408. Win $50 by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Plus, all-you-

More events online: missoulanews.com

THURSDAYJULY25 The Mike Dillon Band rox some sox at Stage 112, 112 Pattee St., at 9 PM. $10/$8 in advance at stageonetwelve.com. Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org. Put a lid on it at the St. Patrick-sponsored Helmet Sale, which runs from noon to 3 PM and includes hella cheap bike, skateboard, ski and equestrian helmets. Old Western Montana Clinic Building, 515 W. Front St. Who has two green thumbs and likes learning about native plants? Potential Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden volunteers, that’s who. Work beside botanists and gardeners and become an expert on local flora. Thursdays from 4–6 PM at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. Visit montananaturalist.org.

nightlife End your afternoon with a fine glass of grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 2–7 PM Mon.-Sat. and 2–5 PM on Sun. 5646 W. Harrier. Call 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com. Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Intercultural Dialogue Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, where people from various backgrounds meet on the last Thur. of each month at 5 PM for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking. Library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or email peace@jrpc.org for more info.

the Wilma. 7:30 PM. $7, tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and the Wilma box office. Hey, hair farmers and crust punk banjo pickers, here’s something to please all y’all: the 2013 Farmageddon Records Music Festival includes such down-and-dirty bluesy bastards as Scott H. Biram and Shooter Jennings, plus doom metal like Pentagram and Weedeater, and everything inbetween, including Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Whiskeydick, and many more. Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. $140 for adult pass. Visit farmageddonrecordsmusicfestival.com for camping and pass info. The Wailin’ Jennys are in town to rowdy up the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM. $25/$32 for VIP seating.

local food and beer vendors as well as local musicians have a good day down at Caras Park. 5:30–8:30 PM. Free to hang and bang, but the grub and beer will cost you a couple ducats. Slug some bourbon and bite the bullet before checking out Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War, an exhibit opening at Ravalli County Museum in Hamilton. Learn about the nitty-gritty of doctoring and nursing on the battlefield. Free. Guitar master John Floridis plays his bluesy blend of folk rock at Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St, starting at 6 PM. 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.

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can-eat wings, $10 two-topping pizzas, $6 domestic pitchers and $7 Blue Moon pitchers. Don’t let the cover deceive you, the novel Giraffe People is not about inordinately tall people, but rather a coming-of-age tale about a military brat and burgeoning sexuality. Author Jill Malone reads and signs Giraffe People starting at 7 PM at Fact and Fiction. Free. World-class bluegrass shakes ass with sass at the Ruby Jewel Jamboree concert series, tonight featuring Blue Angel and Chris Jones. Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $18/$16 in advance at rubyjeweljamboree.com or at Ruby’s Inn. The Cash Hyde Foundation, a nonprofit in memorial of the young Missoula boy who recently passed away from cancer, presents a showing of the documentary American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny at

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. 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. 8 PM. $8. Visit turningthewheel.org. Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. Karaoke follows. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up. Dance like the floor’s a burning ring o’ fire when Cold Hard Cash Show, along with Texan-turned-Montanan-turned-Texan Amanda Jo Cevallos plays Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., at 8:30 PM. Cover TBA. Fight for your right to belt out tunes at the Dark Horse’s Combat Karaoke, hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free. Gotta hydrate before you gyrate to the latest hip tunes and underground tracks at Dead Hipster Dance Party. 9 PM. Badlander. $1 well dranks til’ midnight. Quenby and the West of Wayland Band cut a rug when they play the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. Turkuaz packs up that Brooklyn power funk and dumps the suitcase out at the Palace tonight with guests, starting at 9 PM. $5, advance tickets at stoneflyproductions.com. Hey, every rose has it’s thorn. Submit events by 5 PM on Friday to calendar@missoulanews.com to ensure publication in print and online. Include the who-what-whenwhere-why and a picture, if you would be so kind. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit events online. Just head to the arts section of our website, scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link on the left that says “submit an event.”

[outdoors]

MOUNTAIN HIGH Here’s a bit of an embarrassing admission for a Missoulian: I would much rather ride my bike around the city than go mountain biking. I know, I know, mountain biking has its glories, but as I learned on junkets cycling around Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle, it’s an awesome way to zip around tight traffic while getting the best possible view of weird people, neat buildings, historic landmarks, interesting shops and enticing bars. If you have a flat tire or some other mishap, you can walk to the nearest bike shop, which, in Missoula, is likely within a two-block radius. If you live close to the downtown core, you can get to work or school nearly as fast as a car and have guaranteed easy parking, to boot. Bicycle Benefits is a national program to encourage people to hop on their two-wheelers. In our local version, buying a helmet sticker gets you deals around town like a few bucks off a Biga pizza, free long-stemmed roses at Bitterroot Flower Shop and free bike maintenance at Free Cycles. The upcoming

Bike Brew tour combines cycling with another hobby of mine, drinking local craft brews, as a way to reward cyclists’ commitment to clean air. (Let’s not forget that little perk for the environment, too.) The tour kicks off at Bayern and rolls around town for drink specials, giveaways and growler raffles at each stop, including Montgomery Distillery, Draught Works and Tamarack. Folks need a Bicycle Benefits sticker on their helmet to participate, but these are available at Bayern for $5 if you don’t already have one. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available, and families are welcome. As the great Freddy Mercury once proclaimed: Get on your bikes and ride! —Kate Whittle The Bike Brew Tour meets at Bayern Brewery Sat., July 20, at 2 PM, and tours various breweries around town. $5 Bicycle Benefits helmet sticker required. Check out bicyclebenefits.org.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

THURSDAY JULY 18 The miniNaturalists Pre-K Program is aces for outdoorsy learning for ye childrens. The Montana Natural History Center. 10–11 AM. $3/$1 for members. Visit montananaturalist.org. Ladies who love climbing will love climbing for halfprice at Freestone Climbing this and every Friday night after 5 PM, 935 Toole Ave. Visit freestoneclimbing.com. The Thursday Night Mountain Bike Group meets on Tuesdays to play polo. Kidding, kidding, they meet on Thursdays at 6 PM to ride trails in the Missoula area. Check thursdaynightmtbr.org to find out locations.

FRIDAY JULY 19 The best athletes in the state throw down for three days of competition at the Big Sky State Games in Billings. Events range from arm wrestling and bowling to cycling and archery. In all, the games feature as many as 10,0000 athletes competing in 37 different sports. For a complete list of events and schedule visit bigskygames.org. 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. Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY JULY 20 Curious about trying a triathlon? Now’s your chance. Dillon’s Beaverhead Y-tri bills itself as a perfect beginners’ race, available to teams or individuals. Includes 750-yard pool swim, 12.1-mile bike ride and 5K run. Veterans are welcome to race, too, as long as they play nice. To register head to signmeup.com/90859.

Join Five Valleys Audobon on a junket out to Seeley Lake to see all manner of winged creatures, like dragonflies and birds. Meet at the UM Field House parking lot for a 7:30 AM departure, and bring muck boots, binoculars, bug repellent, sunscreen and lunch. Call Terry at 214-1194 for more info. You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

SUNDAY JULY 21 Check out the first-ever Windermere SUP Cup paddleboard race hosted in Montana, which starts at Sha-Ron Fishing Access in East Missoula and follows 5.3 miles of river to Riverside Park (by Holiday Inn.) Includes $5,000 prize and Montana Luau after-party in Caras Park afterward. Visit supcupmt.com.

TUESDAY JULY 23 Meet other free-wheeling gals when Montana Dirt Girls meet every Tuesday around 6 PM on Tuesdays for hiking or mountain biking in the Missoula area. For locations and more information, visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com. Free.

THURSDAY JULY 25 Ladies who love climbing will love climbing for half-price at Freestone Climbing this and every Friday night after 5 PM, 935 Toole Ave. Visit freestoneclimbing.com. The Thursday Night Mountain Bike Group meets on Tuesdays to play polo. Kidding, kidding, they meet on Thursdays at 6 PM to ride trails in the Missoula area. Check thursdaynightmtbr.org to find out locations.

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Kalispell, MT Fairgrounds July 26, 27, & 28 Friday • 2pm-7pm Saturday • 9am-5pm Sunday • 9am-3pm

Entrance Fee $5.00 per person Children 12 and younger free when accompanied by an adult

Rifles • Handguns • Ammo Knives • More For Information please call Marilyn

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[community]

The first Meals on Wheels program began, oddly enough, when nurses used baby carriages to deliver food to British soldiers in World War II. It wasn’t until 1954 that the first home-delivered meal program started in the United States, pioneered by a Philadelphia social worker who wanted to help ensure that homebound seniors and people with disabilities wouldn’t go hungry. It’s a service that’s still very much needed: a 2008 report by the Meals on Wheels Association of America Foundation found that more than 11 percent of seniors in America experience food insecurity. There’s many reasons—stock market crashes, home foreclosures, medical bills and pitiful pensions among them. Missoula Aging Services’ Meals on Wheels serves 200 clients on a given day, including 50 people on rural routes. In 2012, the program served over 90,000 meals to more than 600 seniors and people with disabilities. Aging Services is making an urgent call to the community for volunteer drivers to run the routes out to Frenchtown, Lolo and Clinton. Besides delivering meals, Meals on Wheels serves as a safety

check on folks who can rarely leave home. In lieu of a better social safety net, it’s volunteers who can help keep people from falling through the cracks. —Kate Whittle Call Missoula Aging Services at 728-7682 to learn more about volunteer driving or donating. Drivers are reimbursed for mileage. Deliveries take place Monday through Friday from about 10:30 AM to 1 PM, with some flexibility. Check out missoulaagingservices.org/postions.html to learn more and download a volunteer application.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY JULY 19 Swing by the Teen Challenge Center yard sale and mayhap you’ll find a treasure. 8 AM2 PM, Fri. and Sat. 3815 S. Seventh St. W. Call 5431912 if you’d like to donate something to the sale. The inaugural Sangwa Yeshe Drupchod Retreat at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee is a seven-day retreat, including practice led by vajra master Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche. $650-720 per person, includes camping, outdoor facilities and three vegetarian meals. Participants should arrive by 9 AM to recieve the requisite empowerment. Pre-registration required. Contact Devi at 406-240-4249 or email devizdziebko@gmail.com.

and 4 PM to 8. Bring hat, work gloves, sunscreen and water bottle. Email volunteer@ewam.org to sign up.

MONDAY JULY 22 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. Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

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Ladies, prove your mettle with hot metal at the Babes N Bullets women’s shooting event, a fundraiser for Tough Enough to Wear Pink of Montana. 9 AM-4 PM at Deer Creek Shooting Range, at the intersection of Deer Creek Road and Montana Rail Link tracks between East Missoula and Bonner. $125 fee gets you into the shooting clinic, T-shirt, snacks, goodie bag and after-party at Canyon River. Email Ryan at rcorwin@bobwards.com for more info.

If your attention span rivals that of a flea, maybe check out the Introduction to Meditation Class with Cheryl McMillan, from July 23-Aug. 20, noon to 12:50 on Tuesdays. Red Willow Learning Center, 825 W. Kent St. $40 for the five-week series. Register at redwillowlearning.org or call 406721-0033.

Weave a lavender wand with other cancer survivors at a therapeutic class with Niraja Golightly, hosted by Living Art of Montana, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. Free, but register by calling 549-5329.

SUNDAY JULY 21 Transition to Peace: A Defense Engineer’s Search for an Alternative to War author Russ Faure-Brac presents “Is Peace Possible?” at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. 6 PM. Bring something for the potluck, too. Check jrpc.org. Find out how to harvest lavender at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee today. Specialist Paula Scoggins guides folks in the art of planting, nurturing and harvesting this aromatherapeutic plant. Workshops run 8 AM to noon

Come hear from other Missoulians about the ties between higher education and our economy at the “Jobs and the Local Economy: What Makes a Campus? How Are They Related?” forum, hosted in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Panelists include UM faculty and city planners. 7 PM.

THURSDAY JULY 25 Put a lid on it at the St. Patrick-sponsored Helmet Sale, which runs from noon to 3 PM and includes hella cheap bike, skateboard, ski and equestrian helmets. Old Western Montana Clinic Building, 515 W. Front St. Losing a pet is losing a friend. Hospice of Missoula presents Pet Bereavement Support, an opportunity to work through your grief with others in the community. The four-week group meets Thursday evenings at 6:30 PM at Natural Grocers, 2530 S. Third St. W. Free, but call Hospice of Missoula to register and learn more at 543-4408.

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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NOT A MOURNING PERSON My girlfriend died in a car accident four months ago, and I fear I'm not grieving the way I should. I was really broken up at first, crying hysterically, and I miss her terribly. I often think of things I wish I could tell her or we could do together, but I'm comforted by remembering all the positive things about us and her, and I'm grateful for the time we did have. Friends are worried, saying that I need to experience grief fully and work through all the stages in order to recover; otherwise, the grief could come back to bite me. I worry that I am suppressing stuff, but I have no idea what. Despite what's happened, I still like my life and my job. I even find myself laughing at stupid stuff. Am I just in major denial? —Living Those who care about you are worried that you aren't wallowing in pain and despair, and they're maybe even a little suspicious: "Come on, man, who's keeping you company if not Misery?" Supposedly, if you really loved somebody, you'll grieve big, long, and showy: retire from personal hygiene, refuse to leave your bed for six months, and only stop sobbing into your pillow to ask somebody to plant weeping willows so even the vegetation will be crying in solidarity. But bereavement researcher Dr. George A. Bonanno points out in his terrific book, "The Other Side of Sadness," that there's no evidence for this belief or a number of widely held beliefs about grieving, like the notion that there are "stages of grief"—five of them— that every bereaved person must go through before they can go on: "Whoops, you flunked anger. Better go back and punch four walls and get in two bar fights!" The "stages of grief" were based on psychiatrist Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' observations of people who were themselves dying, not those who'd lost someone they loved. "Grieving over the death of a loved one is not the same as facing your own death," Bonanno points out. He adds that Freud's notion that the bereaved must do "grief work" to heal—slog through every one of their memories and hopes about their lost loved one (as if sorting a mountain of wet clothes at an industrial laundry)—is unsupported by research, and there's even evidence that this re-chewing of memories strengthens their connection to the deceased, preventing healing. Yet another myth is that your failure to go into Scarlett O'Hara-style hysterics in the coffee room every day means you're post-

poning your grieving (perhaps until beach volleyball season ends?). In fact, the idea of "delayed grief"—grief as a darkly mischievous force determined to eventually pop up and bite you—is another unsubstantiated idea from one of Freud's psychoanalytic minions. Studies find delayed grief extremely rare—almost to the point of nonexistence. What your behavior seems to reflect is resilience—healthy coping through putting your girlfriend's life and death in perspective in ways that help you go on with your life. In other words, if you have a problem, it's that your friends think you have a problem. The next time they suggest you're grieving incorrectly, you might reassure them. Tell them you're in the "bargaining" stage and that you'd feel much better if only they'd stock your fridge with beer and steak, and on their way out, would they mind detailing your car?

WHEN BALD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE I'm a decent-looking guy with unfortunate hair. It's thinning rapidly and receding to the back of my skull, and topical treatments barely made a difference. I'm now thinking of shaving my whole head, but I'm wondering what women think. Considering my circumstances, what's my best option? —Follicular Rebellion Going bald isn't all bad. If you're like a lot of men, every time you lose a hair off your head, you're a hair closer to growing a ponytail out your nose. Although women generally prefer men with hair on their head, there's a line that gets crossed, and that's when there's a desperate little patch on top (a la Prince William) that calls to mind a pointless attempt to grow a vegetable garden in arid countryside. Doing that doesn't make you look like you have hair; it makes you look like you have hair issues. Shaving your head, on the other hand, projects confidence, suggesting that you're comfortable enough with your face and yourself to put them out there unadorned. If you go the head-shaving route, consider adding facial hair to make it look like there's still a little lawn on the property, balancing out the clearing on top. You could try a few styles, take pix, and poll the ladies. Who knows? It might be just the way to meet a woman who longs to run her fingers through your back hair.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was a prolific creator who produced 39 operas. Renowned for his lyrical melodies, he was sometimes referred to as the "Italian Mozart." So confident was he in his abilities that he bragged he could set a laundry list to music. I trust you will have comparable aplomb in the coming weeks, Aries, since you will be asked to do the equivalent of composing an opera using a laundry list for inspiration. This will be a different challenge than making lemonade out of lemons, but it could be even more fun and interesting. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence? Or is its more vivid hue just an optical illusion caused by your inability to see the situation objectively? Judging from my analysis of your current astrological omens, I suspect that you're not deluded. The grass really is greener. But it's important to note the reason why this is true, which is that there's more manure over on the other side of the fence. So your next question becomes: Are you willing to put up with more crap in order to get the benefits of the greener grass? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You know the voice in your head that's kind of a sneaky bastard? The voice that sometimes feeds you questionable advice and unreliable theories? Well, I suspect that this voice might be extra active in the coming week. But here's the weird thing: It might actually have a sound idea or two for you to consider acting on. For once, its counsel may be based on accurate intuition. So don't completely lower your guard, Gemini. Maintain a high degree of discernment towards the sneaky bastard's pronouncements. But also be willing to consider the possibility that this generator of so much mischief could at least temporarily be a source of wisdom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We keep million-dollar works of art in well-guarded museums. Paintings created hundreds of years ago are treated with reverence and protected as if they were magical treasures. Meanwhile, beautiful creatures that took nature eons to produce don't get the same care. At least 5,000 animal and plant species are going extinct every year, in large part due to human activities. Among the recently lost works of art are the Madeiran Large White butterfly, West African black rhinoceros, Formosan clouded leopard, golden toad, and Tecopa pupfish. I'm asking you not to allow a similar discrepancy in your own life, Cancerian. The astrological omens say that now is a perfect moment to intensify your love for the natural world. I urge you to meditate on how crucial it is to nurture your interconnectedness with all of life, not just the civilized part.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hurry up, please. It's time. No more waffling or procrastinating. You really need to finish up the old business that has dragged on too long. You really should come to definitive decisions about ambiguous situations, even if they show no sign of resolution. As for those nagging questions that have yielded no useful answers: I suggest you replace them with different questions. And how about those connections that have been draining your energy? Re-evaluate whether they are worth trying to fix.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "This morning I walked to the place where the street-cleaners dump the rubbish," wrote painter Vincent van Gogh in one his letters. "My God, it was beautiful." Was he being ironic or sarcastic? Not at all. He was sincere. As an artist, he had trained himself to be intrigued by scenes that other people dismissed as ugly or irrelevant. His sense of wonder was fully awake. He could find meaning and even enchantment anywhere. Your next assignment, Virgo—should you choose to accept it—is to experiment with seeing the world as van Gogh did.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I believe you will undergo a kind of graduation in the next four weeks, Libra. Graduation from what? Maybe from a life lesson you've been studying for a while or from an institution that has given you all it can. Perhaps you will climax your involvement with a situation that has made big demands on you. I suspect that during this time of completion you will have major mixed feelings, ranging from sadness that a chapter of your story is coming to an end to profound gratification at how much you have grown during this chapter.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What's your favorite sin, Scorpio? I'm talking about the mischievous vice or rebel tendency or excessive behavior that has taught you a lot. It may be the case that now and then this transgressive departure from normalcy has had redeeming value, and has even generated some interesting fun. Perhaps it puts you in touch with a magic that generates important changes, even if it also exacts a toll on you. Whatever your "favorite sin" is, I'm guessing that you need to develop a more conscious and mature relationship with it. The time has come for it to evolve. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Sagittarian writer and artist William Blake (1757-1827) made drawings of many eminent people who had died before he was born. Julius Caesar was the subject of one of his portraits. Others included Dante, Shakespeare, and Moses. How did Blake manage to capture their likenesses in such great detail? He said their spirits visited him in the form of apparitions. Really? I suppose that's possible. But it's also important to note that he had a robust and exquisite imagination. I suspect that in the coming weeks you, too, will have an exceptional ability to visualize things in your mind's eye. Maybe not with the gaudy skill of Blake, but potent nevertheless. What would be the best use of this magic power?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How close do you really want to be to the people you care about? I invite you to think about this with unsentimental candor. Do you prefer there to be some distance between you? Are you secretly glad there's a buffer zone that prevents you from being too profoundly engaged? I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It might be correct for who you are right now. I merely want to suggest that it's important for you to know the exact nature of your need for intimacy. If you find that you actually do want to be closer, spend the next four weeks making that happen. Ask your precious allies to collaborate with you in going deeper.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I love your big, energetic thoughts. I enjoy watching as your wild intuitive leaps lead you to understandings that mere logic could never produce. I have benefited many times from the Aquarian tribe's ability to see angles no one else can discern. In the immediate future, though, I hope you will be a specialist in analyzing the details and mastering mundane mysteries. I'll be rooting for you to think small and be precise. Can you manage that? I expect there'll be a sweet reward. You will generate good fortune for yourself by being practical, sensible, and earthy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is it a river or a creek? Is it a mountain or a hill? It's important for you to decide questions like these—preferably on the basis of the actual evidence rather than on wishful thinking. I'm not saying that the river is better than the creek or that the mountain is better than the hill. I simply want you to know that it's important to be clear about which it is. The same principle applies to other experiences you'll soon have. Is the catalytic person you're dealing with a temporary friend or a loyal ally? Is the creation you're nurturing just a healthy diversion or is it potentially a pivotal element in transforming your relationship with yourself? Is the love that's blooming a transient pleasure or a powerful upgrade that's worth working on with all your ingenuity? Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA PUBLIC HEARING ON STREET MAINTENANCE DISTRICT #1 SCHEDULED ON AUGUST 5, 2013. The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 5, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution levying a special assessment and tax on the lots, pieces and parcels of land situated within Street Maintenance District #1 of the City of Missoula, Montana in the amount of $58,777.00, for the purpose of defraying the cost of flushing and removing street rubbish from streets and avenues in the district during the fiscal year 2014. Copies of the resolution are available at the City Clerk Office, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk, at 552-6078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA Request For Qualifications and Proposals For Services Including: Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Bridge Engineering, Construction Engineering and Contract Administration for Design and Construction of the “West Broadway Island” Project in Missoula, Montana The City of

Missoula Redevelopment Agency (MRA), acting as Project Owner for the City of Missoula, is seeking professional design services that include: civil engineering, landscape architecture, bridge design and structural engineering, expertise in river systems and hydrological mechanics, riparian area restoration, and other services for the design, bidding, and construction of the “Broadway Island” Improvement Project. The project is within Urban Renewal District II (District), an urban renewal tax increment district administered by MRA. The scope of the work will include, but is not limited to: planning, design, and engineering of pedestrian bridges and approaches; design and engineering of pedestrian trails; restoration of native riparian vegetation; landscape design which will focus on minimizing noxious weeds and providing specification on appropriate plants for this project; and floodplain and other permitting. The work will also include design analysis and implementation of public safety measures consistent with “Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Principles”; development of a noxious weed mitigation plan; and design of informational signage to augment public enjoyment of the Project. Services will also include construction engineering, contract administration and construction oversight services for the Project. A

copy of the Request for Proposals and Statements of Qualifications and other material discussed in that document is available on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bi ds or by contacting the Chris Behan at the Missoula Redevelopment Agency 406-552-6155 or cbehan@ci.missoula.mt.us. To be considered, responses covering the material specified in the RFP must be delivered to MRA at 140 West Pine Street, Missoula, MT 59802 by Thursday August 1, 2013, at 5:00 p.m. Late proposals will not be accepted. GARDEN CITY STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 3, 12. Units contain furniture, clothes, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, hunting equipment, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Friday 8/9 All auction units will only be shown each day at 10:00 A.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 2310 Fairview Missoula, MT 59801 prior to Tuesday, August, 13, 2013 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR ENGINEERING and GRANT ADMINISTRATION SERVICES Orchard Homes Ditch Company (OHDC) is soliciting a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) for engineering services for the design, permitting and construction administration of improvements to the intake structure to their main canal. OHDC may at its option, utilize the selected engineering consultant for grant administration, design, and construction services for other projects in the system for a 5-year term. Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected engineering consultant. Responses to this RFQ should include: 1. the engineering firm’s legal name, address, and telephone number; 2. the experience, qualifications and location of the staff to be assigned to the project; and 3. a description of the firm’s prior experience, including any similar irrigation projects location of project, and names of three (3) references regarding the firm’s performance on irrigation projects. A Review Committee will rank each Statement of Qualifications according to the following criteria. 1. Experience with irrigation infrastructure and conservation projects 30% 2. Past work experience local regulatory agencies relating to irrigation projects 30% 3. Qualifications of personnel assigned to the project 15% 4. Location of Office and personnel assigned to the project 15% 5. Overall Quality of SOQ 10% The selection of the engi-

neering consultant will be based on the evaluation of the written responses. The award will be made to the most qualified consultant whose Statement of Qualifications is deemed most advantageous to OHDC, all factors considered. Unsuccessful respondents will be notified as soon as possible. Questions and responses should be directed to Al Brule by phone at (406) 5444687. All responses must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. (local time) on Friday, August 2, 2013. Mail or hand-deliver to OHDC, Attention Al Brule, 1810 River Road, Missoula, MT 59801. Proposals should provide assurance that the firm has the professional capability to satisfactorily complete all tasks outlined in the detailed RFQ. Please state “Engineering Services Statement of Qualifications” on the outside of the response package. Include four copies of the Statement of Qualifications. The SOQ may not exceed a total of 10 (ten) one-sided pages, excluding a onepage cover letter and resumes. Minimum font size for all text is 11 pt. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with federal and state governing procurement of professional services. Accordingly, the District 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.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-13-644 Dept. No. 2 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Shannon Lynn Foley, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Shannon Lynn Foley to Shannon Lynn Drye. The hearing will be on 8/13/2013 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: June 13, 2013. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By; /s/ Andy Brunkhart, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-13-666 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of PRESTON RAY QUINTANA, SHERYLL STEWART, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Sheryll Stewart, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Preston Ray Quintana to Preston Ray Stewart. Hearing has been set thereon at the courtroom of the above-entitled Court in Missoula County, State of Montana, on the 30th day of July, 2013 at the hour of 1:30 o’clock p.m. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 21st day of June, 2013. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST, CLERK OF COURT By: /s/ Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DA-13-20 NOTICE OF HEARING IN RE THE MATTER OF ADOPTION OF F.A.E. A minor child. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Petitioner, Henry Ferris Jensen (“Jensen”), has filed a Petition with this Court requesting to terminate the parental rights of Samsun Michael Emmons (“Emmons”) with respect to the minor child F.A.E., and has filed a Petition to adopt the minor child, born on August 31, 2006, in University of Washington Medical Center, in Seattle, Washington. NOW, therefore, notice is hereby given to Emmons and all persons interested in the matter that a hearing on the Petitions will be held at the Courthouse in Missoula County, Montana, on August 22, 2013, at 9:00 a.m., in the above-named Court, whose telephone number is (406) 2584780, at which time objections to said Petitions will be heard. Emmons must mail his objections, if any, to Jensen at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., PO Box 17255, Missoula, Montana, 59808, or file it with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. Emmons’ failure to appear at the hearing constitutes his waiver of interest in custody of the minor child and it will result in the Court’s termination of his parental rights to the minor child, and the entry of a decree establishing a relationship between the Petitioner and the minor child. DATED this 11th day of July, 2013. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Linda Osorio St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-13-135 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JACQUELINE F. SCOVILLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY

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GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim 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 James D. Scoville, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 2nd day of July, 2013. /s/ James D. Scoville, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ James D. Scoville WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-13-102 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROBERT S. SHATZKIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sandra Guida 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 Sandra Guida, 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 29th day of April, 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 23rd day of April, 2013 /s/ Sandra Guida, Personal Representative NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (NOAORFP) FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES The Clark Fork Coalition is requesting proposals for engineering services to assist the Ward Irrigation District, at a minimum, in the preparation of an irrigation siphon bypass plan, and at a maximum, final design and construction management, in compliance with all applicable requirements of the State of Montana. Copies of the detailed Request for Proposals (RFP), including a description of the services to be provided by the respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses can be obtained by contacting Andy Fischer by mail or phone at the Clark Fork Coalition, 140 S 4th St W. Missoula, MT 59801. Telephone 406-5420539 ext 209 during regular business hours. All responses to the detailed RFP for engineering services must be submitted by 4:00 PM, Friday, August 2nd, 2013. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds on August 2, 2013. Proceeds from the sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Bitterroot Property Management, Inc. Abandoned personal property can be viewed by making viewing arrangement with BPM, Inc.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE Trustee Sale Number: 11-016645 Loan Number: 1205271905 APN: 5844006 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on October 16, 2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 17H OF THE AMENDED PLAT OF COBBAN AND DISNMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES, LOT 17, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as:142 SMALL LANE, MISSOULA, MT. DALE S. MARTELL, SUSAN L MARTELL, AS HUSBAND AND WIFE, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN BROKERS CONDUIT, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of December 23, 2005, and recorded on January 4, 2006 in Film No. 767 at Page 104 under Document No. 200600274, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., CSMC Mortgage-Backed PassThrough Certificates, Series 2006-4 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated May 6, 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 June 5, 2013: Balance due on monthly payments from February 1, 2011 and which payments total: $34,585.14: Late charges: $901.74 Net Other Fees: $40.00 Advances: $6,270.61 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $190,585.93 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 3.50000% per annum from January 1, 2011, 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.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727 DATED: June 7, 2013 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature A-4395598 07/18/2013, 07/25/2013, 08/01/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/14/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200731486 Bk 809 Pg 1387, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Richard A. Gensch and Lynn Gensch, husband and wife, who acquired title as Richard Gensch and Lynn Gensch, as joint tenants (and not as tenants in common) and to the survivor of said named joint tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Wells Fargo Financial National Bank was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Wells Fargo Financial National Bank 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 NE 1/4 of Section 10, Township 13 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly de-

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 102, 219, 365, 385, 478, 479, 578, and 637. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, July 22, 2013. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

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$185,000 216 Tower • Cute 2 bed, 1 bath bungalow • 1/2 acre near Clark Fork River • Lots of natural light • Oversized garage scribed as Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 4385. 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 08/20/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 23, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $99,640.26. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $95,427.04, 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 October 2, 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

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Properties2000.com PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. Rezoning Request – Canyon River Subdivision A request from Canyon River Properties, LLC, represented by Paul Forsting of Territorial-Landworks, Inc., to rezone property located in Canyon River Subdivision from OP1 (Parks and Open Space) to RT10 (Residential twounit/townhouse, 4 dwellings per acre) and from RT10 (Residential two-unit/townhouse, 4 dwellings per acre) to OP1 (Parks and Open Space). See Map T.

PUBLIC NOTICE MAGNET RECOGNITION PROGRAM® SITE VISIT • St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center has applied to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for the prestigious designation of Magnet. The Magnet designation recognizes excellence in nursing services. • Patients, family members, staff, and interested parties who would like to provide comments are encouraged to do so. Anyone may send comments via e-mail, fax, and direct mail. All phone comments to the Magnet Program Office must be followed up in writing. • YOUR COMMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND NEVER SHARED WITH THE FACILITY. IF YOU CHOOSE, YOUR COMMENTS MAY BE ANONYMOUS, BUT MUST BE IN WRITING. • YOUR COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY August 9, 2013. Address: AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER (ANCC) MAGNET RECOGNITION PROGRAM OFFICE 8515 Georgia Ave., Suite 400 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3492 Fax: 301-628-5217 • E-Mail: magnet@ana.org Phone: 866-588-3301 (toll free)

The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on this item at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 26, 2013, in the City Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the City of Missoula Development Services office, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 552-6638. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 552-6638. Development Services will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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# 7777.19220) 1002.248122-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 30, 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 1 OF MORMON CREEK MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Darrin Traver, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc, as Beneficiary by Deed of Trust dated October 11, 2007 recorded October 16, 2007 under Book 807, Page 727, Document No 200727367. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing 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 $2140.76, beginning November 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 April 29, 2013 is $244,275.35 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $9,509.34, late charges in the amount of $252.95, escrow advances of $2,506.48, and other fees and expenses advanced of $15.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $45.17 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, whereis 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: April 24, 2013 /s/ Shandale Gordon 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 24th day of April, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, 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 Green Tree vs. Traver 42072.003 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 30, 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 67 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 2, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA, COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Charles Brian Taylor and Janna M. Taylor, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to se-

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cure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 26, 2007 and recorded December 31, 2007 under document number 200733268 Bk. 811 Micro Records Pg. 140.The beneficial interest is currently held by Ocwen Loan Servicing, 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 $1,333.51, beginning August 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 April 1, 2013 is $206,242.70 principal, interest at the rate of 6.12500% now totaling $9,474.30, late charges in the amount of $134.14, escrow advances of $1,783.15, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,959.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.61 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, whereis 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: April 25, 2013 Shandale Gordon 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 25th day of April, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, 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. Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 GMAC vs. Taylor 41965.761 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 16, 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 24 IN BLOCK 2 OF TREASURE STATE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Creg T Dieziger, 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 November 29, 2006 and recorded December 6, 2006 in Book 788, on Page 643, under Document No. 200631374. The beneficial interest is currently held by Fannie Mae (“Federal National Mortgage 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 $1,218.76, beginning January 1, 2013, 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 April 18, 2013 is $198,045.70 principal, interest at the rate of 5.125% now totaling $3,856.01, late charges in the amount of $303.62, escrow advances of

$546.20 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,389.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.80 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, whereis 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: May 7, 2013 Shandale Gordon 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 7th day of May, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Shandale Gordon, 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. Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Seterus v Dieziger 42008.271 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 3, 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: THE SOUTH 55 FEET OF LOT 31 AND THE NORTH 10 FEET OF LOT 32, BLOCK B, RAINBOW RANCH HOMES ADDITION. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, AS FILED IN THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S OFFICE, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Michael C Brown, 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 System, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 08, 2006

recorded September 13, 2006 Book 783, Page 110, under Document No 200623458. The beneficial interest is currently held by Fannie Mae (“Federal National Mortgage 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 $639.08, beginning August 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 April 26, 2013 is $163,855.46 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $2,682.29, escrow advances of $1,414.58, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,199.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $8.98 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, whereis 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: April 29, 2013 /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 29th day of April, 2013, 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 Seterus vs. Brown 42008.261

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on September 16, 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 A13 OF ALLOMONT, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Rachel Monson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 2, 2007 and recorded October 3, 2007 in Book 806, Page 1531, under Document No. 200726378.. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, 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 $2,477.07, 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 May 16, 2012 is $379,274.47 principal, interest at the rate of 4.0000% now totaling $9,473.21, late charges in the amount of $530.39, escrow advances of $845.17, other fees and expenses advanced of $776.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $41.56 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, whereis 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

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THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 9, 2013 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 9th day of May, 2013, 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. Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Citimortgage Vs. Monson 42011.197 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale Number: 1203253-3 Loan Number: 1127137821 APN: 1758557 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on October 16, 2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 2 OF MEADOW LARK 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 the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE COMPANY, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of August 16, 2006, and recorded on August 18, 2006 in Film No. 781 at Page 512 under Document No. 200621098., in the Official Records 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 June 6, 2013; Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2012 and which payments total: $16,812.80: Late charges: $140.08 Net Other Fees: $30.00 Advances; $-1,028.67 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.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727 DATED: June 6, 2013 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature A-4395424 07/18/2013, 07/25/2013, 08/01/2013

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1010 Vine. 2 bed, 1 bath in Lower Rattlesnake close to Mount Jumbo trails, UM & downtown. Many upgrades. $179,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240—7653. pat@properties2000.com 11689 Stolen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $315,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 1716 Schilling. Adorable 2 bed, 1 bath in central Missoula. Patio & double garage. $190,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355 milyardhomes@yahoo.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. Lovely Bavarian-style 3 bed, 2 bath in Lower Rattlesnake. Mount Jumbo views & 2 car garage. $319,900. Pat McCormick,

Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 1 Bath Northside home. $160,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 216 Tower. Cute 2 bed, 1 bath on 1/2 acre close to Clark Fork River. Single car garage. $185,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 2365 Village Square. 2 bed, 1 bath with fenced yard, patio & single garage. $159,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 2607 Deer Canyon Court. 6 bed, 3 bath on Prospect Meadows cul-de-sac. Fenced yard, deck, hot tub and sweeping views. $465,000. Properties 2000. Pat McCormick 2407653. pat@properties2000.com

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NEW LISTING! 19655 Mullan Road, Frenchtown $319,900 Log & frame 3 bed, 2 bath on 15 acres. Mother-in-law apartment. Oversize garage with 1 bed, 1 bath apt. GREAT LOLO PROPERTY! 11082 Cherokee Lane $245,000. Well-maintained 3 bed, 3 bath. Large kitchen & dining area. Large deck with great view of the Lolo Valley.

SELLER MOTIVATED! 13465 Crystal Creek $244,000 3 bed, 2 bath well-maintained with mature landscaping. Two wood stoves, large deck & bonus room for small shop. Near Turah fishing access

MUST SELL! 15305 Spring Hill $460,000 Beautiful 4 bed, 3 bath cedar home with 3 car garage. Large kitchen, dining & finished basement. Borders Forest Service

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, 2.5 Bath, Big Flat home on 5.3 acres. $475,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Wye area home on 3+ acres. $269,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on 5 acres in Target Range. Borders DNRC land. $499,900. Properties 2000. Pat McCormick 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 4 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Rose Park/Slant Streets home. $395,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4834 Scott Allen Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath 4-level on approximately 1/3 beautifully landscaped acre. $372,500. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com

6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

fireplace, deck & 2 car garage. $655,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7365 milyardhomes@yahoo.com

9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres overlooking Clark Fork River. Missoula Valley and Mission Mountain views. $420,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

Location Location Location! 1289 River Street: 4 bed, 2 bath newer home near the river, bike trails, Good Food Store, Home Resource and more! This location rocks! $212,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 360-8234 Central Business District Home! 426 Alder. $244,900. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Gorgeous little home blocks from downtown. Can be used for residential or professional office space. Refinished hardwoods, new paint/windows/doors. Ton of storage space. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Fantastic Lewis and Clark Area Home 130 Fairview. $265,000, 4 bedroom, 2 bath. Close to schools, downtown, University, hiking, biking, shopping. The basement has been recently remodeled, with new egress windows, bathroom, and carpet. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Grant Creek Frontage. 4 bed, 3 bath with open floor plan,

Six Mile Road • Huson, MT • $335,000 • MSL# 20126356 Land For Sale • Unsurpassed 27 acres, creek front, mountain views, lush meadows, with 2 county-approved lots. Great horse/farm property potential, only 20 minutes from Missoula.

Rose Park Beauty 403 Mount. 4bed, 1bath. New windows, refinished floors, newer roof and furnace. MLS# 20133900 $227,500 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues. Starting at $159,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 526 Minnesota #B. 2 bed, 1.5 bath energy-efficient condo with large front yard. $120,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com

6632 MacArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath with gas fireplace, Jacuzzi and wonderful views. $273,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503, riceteam@bigsky.net Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

6614 MacArthur. 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhome with amazing views. $194,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properites. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net

Sweet Home With Character 533 Stephens. $255,000. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, finished attic space for extra room, hardwood floors, front covered porch, private back yard, so much charm and sweetness here. KD: 240-5227. porticorealestate.com WESTBROOK Property Management WANTED! Residential Rentals in Missoula, Lolo and Florence. 544-1274 www.westbrookpm.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1845 B West Central. 3 bed, 1.5 bath on quiet cul-de-sac. Large, open kitchen, patio & garage. No HOA dues! $158,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com

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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THE UPTOWN FLATS Unit #103 One bedroom, one bath with full washer and dryer. Handicap accessible unit. Ask Anne About The Great Investment

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REAL ESTATE 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 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Bistro cafe and Missoula Food Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 531 Minnesota. Building Lot 9. $55,000. Robin Rice Montana

Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net East Missoula Building Lot Sweet lot with mature trees and a great middle of town location. $55,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Frenchtown area, 14.9 Acres, existing well, adjacent to Forest Service land. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Near Riverfront Park. 1265 Dakota #B. To-be-built, 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. Lot: $55,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com NHN Mormon Creek Road. 12 acres with Sapphire Mountain

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views. $150,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties.2000.com Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com

COMMERCIAL Commercial Lease Space Fantastic opportunity to be neighbors with the awardwinning Homeword Organization. New, LEED registered, high quality, sustainably-built office space close to river and downtown. $11-$15 per sq.ft. KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

First time on the market! With it's Excellence in Historic Preservation Award, The Stensrud Building truly lives up to this MT state award. Lovingly and completely renovated by Mark Kersting, this turn key building offers a tasty treat for the discerning history buff! Mark has kept the original flare and flavor of this 1890's building alive and beautiful. The zoning designation offers many varied uses from residential to commercial, and many other uses in between. The back 900 sq ft area is ADA compliant. For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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Gorgeous Victorian home zoned for commercial use in a great location $395,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath on almost 3 acres with large 48â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x30â&#x20AC;&#x2122; heated shop. $285,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties, 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 11082 Cherokee Lane, Lolo. 3 bed, 3 bath with basement, deck, 2 car garage & fantastic views. $245,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503, riceteam@bigsky.net 13475 Crystal Creek, Clinton. 3 bed, 2 bath with large deck, 2 wood stoves & 2 car garage. $244,000. Robin Rice, Montana

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Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 15305 Spring Hill Road, Frenchtown. Beautiful cedar 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 3 car garage & deck on acreage bordering Forest Service. $445,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. 19655 Mullan Road, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath log/timber home on 15 acres with pond, fenced pasture, 2 car garage & 1 bed rental. $319,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Florence area home on 12.6 irrigated acres. $500,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

road from the river and set back in the trees with lovely landscaped yard. Attached garage and detached enormous insulated shop. $299,900. KD 2405227. porticorealestate.com

5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Gorgeous Wooded Property Bordering Forest Service Land 17290 Remount, Huson. $190,000. 2 bedroom, 3 bath, 2.4 acres. Remodeled bedrooms with laminate floors, updated bathroom, newer windows and added insulation. A hop skip and a jump from the freeway. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

5905 Ocean View, Clinton. 4 bed, 3 bath on 1.63 acres with 3 fireplaces, 2 car garage and many new improvements. $300,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com Blackfoot River Corridor 19500 Highway 200 East. 2 acres, beautiful newer 2 story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath home across the

LotB MacArthur. 3 bed, 2 bath to be built with fantastic views. $189,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net Potomac Log Cabin 1961 Blaine, Potomac. $200,000. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath, 8.77 acres.

Light-filled log cabin with an open floor plan with high ceilings and large windows. Hiking in the summer with a great little sled hill in the winter! KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL Looking for a local mortgage lender? Call Lisa Holcomb, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Cell: 406-370-8792 or Office: 258-7519

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