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ROXY REVIVAL: HISTORIC DOWNTOWN THEATER LAUNCHES AS NEW FILM HOUSE, ART SPACE

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NEWS

ROXY REVIVAL: HISTORIC DOWNTOWN THEATER LAUNCHES AS NEW FILM HOUSE, ART SPACE

HOMELESS TO ARTS FROM A GALLERY AT HOME

OPINION ATTHETHEFIREENDLINEOF

LEE BURKE BOOKS JAMES REVISITS MONTANA

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Cover illustration by Kou Moua

News Voices/Letters Another side of the story, blues and a correction .....................................4 The Week in Review Weird Al, wildfire and Osprey .........................................................6 Briefs Native fish, Rainbow dogs and divorce ...................................................................6 Etc. The Legacy Ranch’s legacy ..........................................................................................7 News Mike Steinberg looks to make an old theater new...................................................8 News As Missoula grows, fire risks intensify ......................................................................9 Opinion End of the fire line.............................................................................................10 Feature The quest for justice in Lake County..................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Out of the cold, an artist re-examines the meaning of success ................................20 Music Ben Bullington finds his way in the songwriting world........................................22 Books Burke brings the action home in new Robicheaux novel ....................................23 Film Kon-Tiki captures Heyerdahl’s wild journey............................................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................25 Flash in the Pan Stock up on salmon, now ....................................................................26 Happiest Hour Tamarack cans ........................................................................................28 8 Days a Week It’s getting hot in here ............................................................................29 Mountain High The Butte 100 ........................................................................................37 Agenda The Float Against Coal Exports...........................................................................38

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

PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters PHOTO INTERN Tommy Martino CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen, Dameon Pesanti COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle EDITORIAL INTERN Eben Wragge-Keller ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Chris Dombrowski Andy Smetanka, Brad Tyer, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest

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More to the story

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, July 23, near the corner of Spruce and Higgins.

It’s hot. What are you doing to stay cool?

Follow-up: We’re also dealing with an early fire season.

What’s on your to-do list before it gets too smoky?

Curtis Yazzie: Floating on the river from Tamarack Road to town. I usually jump off at Kiwanis Park and play volleyball.

Smoke shop: Buy allergy medicine because I get so congested from all the smoke.

Megan Walsh: I wish I was doing things I’m not doing. I’m finishing up summer school and I am stuck indoors. Water girl: I’m going to float the river as much as I can and go up to my folks cabin on Flathead Lake. It’s heaven up there.

Sarah Meismer: I live in a basement so I stay down there and only come out at night. Night crawler: Float the Blackfoot River in a tube.

John D. Nilles: I like to “Godzilla” the river. Between the Madison and Higgins bridges it’s not deep, so you can jump in and swim to the middle where the water’s up to your chest. Then you march down the river like Godzilla walking into Tokyo. Head for the hills: I’d like to shoot some scenes for my film before the mountains disappear.

The Goodman Group and Hillside Health Care Center would like to respond to a number of items covered in your July 18 article, “Nurses are sick and tired.” Here is our response: How do you know when someone, despite his or her charm, is misleading you?

You check the facts. Unfortunately, the Independent was beguiled by spokespersons for UNITE HERE Local 427 and their histrionic claims.

When your reporter contacted us, we declined to discuss the specifics of our position because we respect our employees and their union representatives and chose to honor the process of contract negotiations, which are continuing. We believe it is in the best interests of all parties to keep talks confidential until contract negotiations conclude or collapse. We avoid airing complicated issues (which are not easily distilled into pithy comments) in the public arena.

However, since the union opted to “talk outside the talks” and that talk resulted in misstatements and incorrect inferences, we are compelled to defend our reputation and set the record straight.

Here are the facts: • The talks are not a contract dispute, as reported. They are negotiations for a new contract. The former contract initially expired on June 30, 2013 and has been extended.

• The union refused our offer to extend the contract with all existing terms, plus a wage increase at a higher percentage.

• The last wage increase per the former contract was in July 2012; an extension of that would have taken effect July 1, 2013.

• Kari Hoffman was quoted as saying she “hasn’t seen a raise of more than 20 cents an hour in over a year.” Under the former contract, Hoffman received a cost of living and merit raise of $.34 per hour in July 2012, which would have continued under the contract extension. Effective October 2012, she applied and was selected for a position that pays her an additional $1 per hour.

• The story inferred that employees are concerned about how our residents and patients are treated at Hillside Health Care Center. This is not supported in fact. An independently conducted Hillside Employee

opted to ‘talk outside the talks’ and that talk resulted in misstatements and incorrect inferences, we are compelled to defend our reputation and set the record straight.” communities managed by The Goodman Group, we do share resources to take advantage of bulk purchasing/shipping, volume pricing and effective allocation of little-used equipment. It is insincere for union spokespersons to misrepresent cost efficiency and purchasing power as miserly.

• The absurd statement from union reps that “the same meals are served to residents for days on end” is easily disproved: Patients have several menu choices every day. Meals are planned in advance and a monthly calendar of daily menu choices is distributed and posted. All long-term care

Paul Teagle Regional Director of Operations The Goodman Group Bernice Zimmermann Executive Director Hillside Health Care Center

Backtalk from “The Rocky Mountain Front blues,” July 18 “The North Dakota development trail should say much to those of us who choose to call Montana our home. As a fourth generation Montanan I think we should view the promise of jobs and cash very carefully.”

Posted July 18 at 10:10 p.m.

Missing home “The reason my family and I live in Dickinson, N.D., has to do with not enough opportunity for us in Montana.

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“Since the union

facilities are required by law to provide variety, for nutritional diversity as well as to provide a range of tastes. Patients who request the same, or a few, menu choices every day, do so against our dietary advice.

Menus, patients’ individual diets and their dietary requirements are all directed, managed and monitored by Hillside’s registered dietician.

• Union reps’ citing of turnover and an attempt to link it to staffing is deceitful on two counts: 1) Hillside Health Care Center staffing standards exceed the state’s minimum staff requirements. This readily available information on total nursing staff at Hillside is posted daily. Using the last two weeks as an example, state staffing requirements for Hillside are calculated to be 1,495 hours and actual nursing hours paid out were 2,869 hours (nearly double) 2) Turnover has decreased 12 to 15 percent over two years.

This story is potentially injurious to the mutual interest of the parties because our center’s reputation is paramount to our position in the marketplace. The outcome of people taking these statements at face value could potentially result in loss of market share at Hillside. Isn’t this counter to employees’ stake in job security, continuing wage increases and better benefits?

We have a felt need to defend the reputation of our community and the 78 percent of Hillside employees who rate the care they provide our residents as good to excellent.

Inferences to the contrary illustrate why we refuse to participate in public dialogue (“he said/she said”) while negotiations are continuing. It is counterproductive outside the meeting room and there is so much “inside baseball” surrounding all the issues, to simplify it colors interpretation of the true facts.

It is not a winning proposition for any of the parties, including the Missoula Independent.

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com]

Caution ahead Jason O’Connell: I work for the Forest Service doing trail work so I just go in the shade. Stargazer: Get to some area where I can see the stars at night.

Down in the Salmon-Challis area it’s so hazy you can’t see them at night.

Satisfaction Survey last April showed more than three out of four employees (78 percent) would recommend Hillside for the care patients receive, judging it at as “good” or “excellent.”

• Union reps claimed that Hillside is “forced to buy or borrow supplies from other facilities.” Correct. At the three local

Not good enough

Wilderness while leaving too much of the federal public lands along the Rocky Mountain Front open to private grazing, motorized use, logging and other uses that compromise the ecological integrity of this American Serengeti.”

Posted July 22 at 8:44 a.m.

“While the ‘Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act’ (mentioned in the article) would protect some small portions of the world-class Rocky Mountain Front in Montana as Wilderness, as currently written the RMFHA protects only a paltry sum as

Correction: An article in last week’s issue on the annual grizzly rendezvous fundraiser incorrectly identified Susan Reneau. She was the media coordinator for the event. The Indy regrets the error.

Man, I would give just about anything to move home! But the opportunity that living in this area has given is in stark contrast to our prospects back home.”

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, July 17 A flash flood rips through Bannack State Park, damaging 80 percent of the ghost town’s buildings and tearing out boardwalks. About 20 tourists are evacuated from the state’s first capital without serious injury.

Thursday, July 18 The Missoula Osprey beat the Ogden Raptors 10-1 in Utah a day after getting shellacked, 20-3. The Osprey carry a shutout into the last frame, but Ogden rallies for its lone run.

Friday, July 19 Pop music parody master “Weird Al” Yankovic performs at the Wilma Theatre.

For nearly 30 years the Grammy winner satirized hits from Nirvana to Michael Jackson, producing hits like “White and Nerdy” and “Amish Paradise.”

Saturday, July 20 Winter in the Blood makes its Montana premiere at the Roxy Theater with four sold-out screenings. Based on the novel written by Montana native James Welch, the film is directed by Missoula-raised brothers Alex and Andrew Smith.

A boater relaxes on the Clark Fork Saturday afternoon as summer temperatures again reach over 90 degrees.

Sunday, July 21 The Missoula SUP Cup takes place on the Clark Fork. Starting in East Missoula, 62 professional and amateur stand-up paddleboarders race to Riverside Park in downtown. Men’s and women’s first place winners Laurel Douglas and Cyril Burguiere each take home $1,000.

Monday, July 22 Arnold Schwarzenegger joins the Snake River Hotshots for part of the afternoon on the West Mullan fire outside Superior. The former California governor is shooting footage as part of a documentary he’s producing on climate change.

Tuesday, July 23 A rally is held at the Montana Capitol urging Sen. Max Baucus to support broader background checks on people buying guns. A spokeswoman for Baucus says in a release that the senator prefers other approaches to curbing gun violence.

Rainbow Gathering

Event leaves pets behind A fluffy black dog with cuts on his legs was recently found tied to an abandoned car in a Dillon parking lot with a note reading “Gone Home.”

Susie Brown, managing director of the Beaverhead County Humane Society, suspects the dog was left by its owner at the end of the 2013 Rainbow Gathering, held earlier this month in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in southwest Montana. While attendees were discouraged from bringing their pets to the event, they were by no means prohibited as dozens of dogs were seen running around the camp.

As of July 18, Brown said 13 new animals have been taken into the Humane Society Shelter in Dillon, and she presumes all were left behind from the gathering.

“I picked up two at McDonalds last night,” she said.

Brown said the U.S. Forest Service is working with the Beaverhead County Sheriff ’s Department to retrieve animals from the area and bring them to her shelter in Dillon. She expected all animals remaining at the site

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would be rounded up by July 21.

“Everybody’s trying to make sure that we don’t have dogs left up there,” Brown said. “Hopefully they haven’t been eaten by coyotes and bears and lions up there.”

Brown believed some of the animals wound up at the shelter because their former owners were hitchhiking out of the area and if a potential ride refused to transport the pet, the owners opted to leave the pet behind.

Brown said some of the dogs brought in are suffering from injuries or malnutrition. One 8- or 9-monthold pitbull crossbreed was brought in covered in bloody feces, suffering from what Brown thought was a version of dog flu. The dog died four hours after arriving at the shelter, despite Brown’s attempts to revive it.

“I put $200 worth of fluid in it, and it still died,” she said.

Far fewer abandoned animals were found this year compared to the last Rainbow Gathering held in the area in 2000. Brown said 56 animals were left behind last time, including dogs, cats and even a parakeet that Brown scaled a tree to retrieve. Brown hoped this was

the last time she would have to see the effects of a gathering in Montana.

“Please, God, don’t let them come back, ever,” she said.

Mike Gerrity

Family

Legislators look at divorce Divorce involves crafting parenting plans and itemizing property, hashing out bitter feelings and wading through legal jargon. To help alleviate the strain brought on by the emotional and oftentimes antagonistic process—one that’s increasingly being waged in Montana’s overburdened judicial system—state legislators this month began deliberating whether to change the laws that govern divorce.

“This process, whatever it looks like, has just got to be more humane,” says Sen. Larry Jent, D-Bozeman, who introduced Senate Joint Resolution 22, which calls upon lawmakers to identify new alternatives to the status quo before the legislature reconvenes in 2015.

[news] “Maybe our state rules are just too complicated.”

Last year, the number of new legal filings in Montana district courts topped 50,000 for the first time.

More than one in five of those cases involved domestic and family law.

On July 10, attorneys, judges and lawmakers highlighted the scope of the problem before the Montana Legislature’s Interim Law and Justice Committee. Those in attendance said there are roughly 40,000 open child support cases pending in the state that involve 60,000 kids. Divorce is a civil proceeding, meanwhile, meaning that low-income litigants aren’t entitled to a public defender. Last year, 60 percent of family law cases involved at least one party who wasn’t represented by an attorney.

That trend leaves judges and their staffers to help educate ill-equipped couples. “The statistics are alarming in terms of the amount of caseloads in this area that our courts are experiencing,” Montana Supreme Court Justice Beth Baker said during the July 10 meeting.

The Supreme Court asked Jent to carry SJ 22. Baker cited the need to use resources more efficiently as among the reasons the court initiated the study. Reform supporters also noted that the social costs of fighting over such matters in an inherently combative legal system can exacerbate problems within families.

Montana Mediation Association President Linda Gryczan testified before legislators that the law can be made better. Gryczan noted in an interview with the Independent, meanwhile, that some states, including Utah, Tennessee and North Carolina, mandate mediation in contested divorce proceedings. Gryczan believes that’s a good idea, unless abuse is a factor. A third party well versed in encouraging healthy dialogue can help, she says, and, in doing so, alleviate the strain on Montana’s courts.

“It’s far better for people to come to agree,” Gryczan says.

Jessica Mayrer

Fish

Native trout in hot water Scientists say that on top of habitat loss, invasive species and habitat damaging silt deposits from roads and dams, western Montana’s native fish are facing yet another obstacle: climate change.

A recent study published by researchers at the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center examined a century’s worth of air temperature data and discovered that the lower portion of the Flathead River Basin could soon be too hot for native fish to survive. Fisheries Ecologist Clint Muhlfeld says the data shows that northwestern Montana’s average temperatures are tracking with global trends, but increasing at a faster rate. Additionally, the data shows a three-fold increase in hot summer days

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and a loss of roughly one month of cold winter days.

That lost month is divided between the start and end of winter, and the accompanying precipitation that once came as snow now comes as rain.

“The warming air temperature trends are causing the snowpack levels to be reduced and to run off earlier,” says Muhlfeld. “That means decreased base flows in the summertime, and that leads to higher water temperatures.”

Fish rely on the water around them to regulate their body temperature, but cutthroat and bull trout in particular are sensitive to those changes because they’ve evolved over thousands of years to survive in water below 55 degrees. For invasive species like brook, rain-

bow and brown trout—which aren’t as sensitive—warm water is an opportunity to move in and outcompete the native fish, hybridize with them and even drive them from their habitat.

“On the southern limit of their habitats their range has contracted ... especially in the Bitterroot and Rock Creek,” says Muhlfeld. “As the temperature warms up we can expect [native] trout populations to retreat to the headwaters streams—the coldest environments.”

Bull trout are kind of like the canary in the coal mine. They have the coldest water requirements of any fish in the northwest, so their presence—or absence— is indicative of the water system’s temperature.

Muhfeld says the recent research gives fisheries managers an opportunity to consider long-term plans if they want to protect native trout. But he warns that the managers don’t have much time.

“Now’s the time to act,” he says. “The history, diversity and distribution is critical now as these trout face the challenge of a warming climate.”

Dameon Pesanti

Justice

ACLU fights death cocktail Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged in court filings that a new Montana Department of Corrections execution protocol—one that calls for administering a barbiturate and then a paralysis agent in-

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Bighorn sheep struck and killed by vehicles in west-central Montana during a single week in mid-July. According to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, that tally includes five sheep killed on Highway 200 near Bonner. travenously—could leave prisoners alert while they’re being put to death.

“They can no longer show signs of consciousness, but they are slowly suffocating,” says ACLU cooperating attorney Ron Waterman. “It could be as long as 10-15 minutes.”

The ACLU first filed suit challenging the DOC’s execution protocol in 2008. The case, Smith v. Ferriter, was filed on behalf of convicted murderer Ronald Allen Smith. It now also includes the state’s only other death row prisoner, William Gollehon, who was sentenced for killing another Montana State Prison inmate in 1990.

Last year, District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock agreed with the ACLU when finding that the state’s execution method violated constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. In response, the DOC initiated new procedures, including the presence of an emergency medical technician to check for signs of consciousness. DOC also changed the drug cocktail used to administer a lethal injection.

It’s the drug cocktail that concerns Waterman and the ACLU. On July 15, they argued in legal filings that the barbiturate the state intends to use, pentobarbital, will work too slowly, leaving the inmate to suffer the second injection’s effects.

“The second drug’s paralyzing effect makes it impossible for the execution team and witnesses to know whether the condemned prisoner is conscious or unconscious and also induces suffocation with no subsequent cardiac arrest to ensure a quick death,” the ACLU claims in legal filings.

In response, attorneys for the DOC argue in court documents that, despite the ACLU’s assertions, the barbiturate alone is sufficient to kill a person and render them unconscious within a minute and a half. “(It) will cause all persons to stop breathing immediately and die, which would include stopping the heart’s actions.”

The Montana Attorney General’s office, which is representing the DOC, declined to comment for this article, citing pending litigation. The state further notes in its legal filings, however, that it has wholly complied with Sherlock’s 2012 order and that Montana’s execution protocol “far exceeds federal minimum constitutional standards,” adding that, “this case should be dismissed with prejudice.”

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. After months of widespread public criticism and extended deliberation, the Bitterroot’s controversial Legacy Ranch subdivision won unanimous approval earlier this month from Ravalli County’s five Republican commissioners. The moment passed quickly, a simple motion followed by five equally simple “aye”s. None of the commissioners bothered to voice any final statements. In voting yes, all agreed that the litany of potentially significant adverse impacts had been sufficiently mitigated.

The drawbacks of developer Donald Morton’s proposal were documented in hundreds of pages of public comment. The vast majority of locals expressed concerns about everything from water quality to increased traffic on the Eastside Highway to environmental fallout at the neighboring Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. But another theme emerged over the course of the subdivision debate, one illustrated quite pointedly in a comment from Stevensville resident Lois Poswiatowski. “Remember, the people of Ravalli County VOTE!” Poswiatowski wrote. “As Commissioners, your future jobs are on the line and the people have left NO doubt how they want you to vote.”

The sentiment is the same in dozens more letters from Ravalli County constituents: Heed the public’s will or face the consequences on Election Day. History seems to be repeating itself in the Bitterroot. Just two years ago, commissioners approved two separate and sizable subdivisions near Hamilton. The first—the 181-unit Grantsdale Addition—passed unanimously. Not long after, the 551-unit FlatIron Ranch enjoyed similar success. Both proposals sparked hours of intense debate, and locals cited some of the very same fears highlighted in hearings over Legacy Ranch. Nearly a year and a half later, in November 2012, Ravalli County overwhelmingly voted to re-elect two of the very commissioners that approved those subdivisions.

Maybe Legacy Ranch will be different. The public backlash against the proposal was considerably greater than that against Grantsdale and FlatIron. The subdivision’s proximity to Lee Metcalf alone drove much of the debate, making the refuge a sort of bipartisan rallying point for Legacy Ranch opponents. Three of the commissioners are up for reelection in 2014.

Given the stacks of letters and comments that have washed over them in recent weeks, they have to be wondering how long their constituents’ memories will be.

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Roxy revival Mike Steinberg looks to make an old theater new again

by Erika Fredrickson

festival director for Missoula’s International Wildlife Film Festival. It was his work with IWFF, which is housed in the Roxy, that helped him realize the venue’s potential.

Aside from IWFF, which takes up two weeks of the year with its festival, and occasional rentals for screenings of live theater and opera, the Roxy sits unused about 10 months of the year.

“When I got here in March there hadn’t been a lot of activity and so it really felt like a rental hall,” Steinberg says.

It didn’t use to be that way. When Steinberg first visited Missoula in 1989, the Roxy was a dive, but regularly screened second- or third-run movies for $2 a ticket. The speakers were blown out and the crowd usually sneaked in cans of beer, but for a film connoisseur it had an allure.

“There was the Chapel of the Dove [in the Wilma], the Go West Drive-In and the Roxy, which was a funky, weird theater,” Steinberg says.

“We had crazy old theaters in St. Louis, too, but actually at the time they were being devoured, torn down for parking lots. So seeing these, I was delighted. Of the three spaces, the Roxy stuck out to me as the most dilapidated.”

In 1994 the Roxy burned in an arson fire. It remained gutted and abandoned for three years until the Preservation Commission of Missoula helped rebuild it. After that, it continued to show cheap feaPhoto by Cathrine L. Walters tures until ownership fell through Mike Steinberg plans to make the Roxy Theater a place to see art house and and it was once again abandoned. independent films.

In 2002, the IWFF took over the “We were maybe only 9 or 10 and we walls and ceiling were painted from what space and, with grant money and funds were all completely terrified,” he says, Steinberg called “suicidal sea foam” to vi- from the Historic Preservation Society, relaughing. “It was great growing up with this brant orange and oxblood red. The conces- furbished the façade, providing it with a really oddball, passionate dude who loved sion stand countertops are made of 1930s-style marquee.

Steinberg says he hopes the year-round redwood reclaimed from a water pipe at movies so much.”

Steinberg’s childhood fostered a love Georgetown Lake. The new logo sports a programming will not only bring in a new revenue stream for IWFF, but also revive the for film, but it wasn’t until college, when he moon for the “o” in Roxy.

“It’s subconscious, but it’s a nice twist venue as a central spot for the arts scene. watched the 1902 movie A Trip to the Moon in a film class, that he fully committed to the that 25 years ago I saw A Trip to the Moon He talks about featuring local filmmakers, art form. Now, at 41, after crafting a career and decided this is want I want to do,” he hosting family friendly events and planning other programming that taps into Misfocused on movies and filmmaking, he’s says.

Steinberg’s stature in the local arts soula’s core values. He even has partnered ready to launch a new project that he hopes will make a similar impact on Missoula as scene bodes well for the Roxy’s ambitious with local businesses for concessions; for his father made on him: reopening the Roxy new plan. Starting in 2008, he served as fes- instance, Great Harvest Bakery is creating Theater as a year-round venue dedicated to tival director for Missoula’s Big Sky Docu- “The Kubrick,” a brownie that will only be mentary Film Festival, helping it become available at the venue. art house and niche films.

“Missoula really likes to support MisSteinberg envisions using the main two one of the most anticipated events in the theaters—which seat 120 and 150, respec- state. For the past 10 years, he also worked soula,” Steinberg says. “Our tagline is ‘Mistively—for screening films. A third theater as the Film Series Director for Webster Uni- soula’s Community Cinema,’ and that’s with a large stage and seating for 75 will versity in St. Louis. (He traveled back and what we want it to be.” host intimate live performances like con- forth to do both jobs). Recently, Steinberg efredrickson@missoulanews.com left the positions and took a new post as the certs, plays and stand-up comedy.

In an age before home surroundsound systems, Mike Steinberg grew up with a movie theater in his basement. His father, a film collector, decked out the family’s St. Louis home with a large movie screen and a 16mm projector that he kept in use even after videotape became available. Every Halloween, Steinberg and his friends would take their seats in the theater as his father would try and scare them by showing classic monster flicks. The Creature from the Black Lagoon and King Kong were fun but not scary, Steinberg recalls. But then his father introduced them to Night of the Living Dead.

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Steinberg is working with Chris Sand (a musician known as the Rapping Cowboy) and theater manager Jen Putnam to curate the venue’s programming and promote the space. They have already lined up films for August, including A Band Called Death, about one of the first punk bands; A Fierce Green Fire, a documentary about the environmental movement; and From Up On Poppy Hill, a Japanese animation. At the end of August, Missoula indie folk band Butter will play in the performance space.

While the full schedule has yet to start in earnest, some cosmetic changes to the venue have already taken place. The lobby

[news]

Pushing boundaries As Missoula grows, fire risks intensify

by Dameon Pesanti

moved to implement firewise zoning in the Double Arrow Ranch south of Seeley Lake, residents fiercely opposed the plan.

“We knew that there was a certain fire risk involved with living in the woods,” wrote Double Arrow homeowners William and Roberta Cruce in a July 7 letter to the commissioners, “and we gladly accepted that rather than being forced to live within a city and having all the zoning requirements that goes with it.”

Byron Bonney, a forester with Bitterroot Resource Conservation and Development, a nonprofit that works in both Ravalli and Missoula counties to prepare landowners for fire, cautions against such an accepting attitude. He says residents need to understand that it’s not a question of if a fire happens, but when.

“Fire’s been here a lot longer than any of us and it’s always going to be here,” he says. “This isn’t natural. We’ve excluded fire and [some landowners] have a huge problem with too many trees per acre.”

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters Officials say homeowners tend to ignore the Crews work to contain the Stimson fire near Bonner earlier this week. threat of wildfires because County is home to 350 square miles of po- to create community wildfire protection they don’t feel the costs until after the damtentially developable WUI land—more than plans. That directive, in part, required each age is done to their property. Insurance companies in Montana don’t charge higher any other county in Montana. One group county to have a WUI defined by 2012. says that, unless changes are made with But the intentionally broad language al- premiums in WUI areas, nor do they require how that land is managed, the county could lowed each county to define the area differ- any fire prevention efforts. In some parts of someday face some of the most expensive ently. By the Department of Natural the West, the accountability is shifting. Inwildfires in the state.

Resources and Conservation’s own admis- surance companies now require some ColThe Montana Legislature commissioned sion, “WUI delineation resulted in multiple orado homeowners to use firewise Headwaters Economics, based in Bozeman, representations that are inconsistent at the techniques around their homes, and California’s Department of Forestry charges an to study future wildfire risk and state costs state level.”

Part of the problem is how Montana’s annual $150-per-structure fee to those living associated with fighting blazes. The group found that federal and state agencies are try- land is divided. Properties inside the WUI in the WUI. For Missoula, the emphasis remains on ing to be proactive by taking preventive are typically comprised of private, municimeasures, and are also picking up the ma- pal, state and federal lands. The National purely preventative measures, working with jority of the tab for firefighting costs, but that Forest Service, DNRC, county, city and rural developers and educating landowners so little is being done at the local level. That fire departments all work collaboratively that property can be protected in the event setup poses a problem as federal budgets when a fire breaks out, but otherwise each of a fire. Chris Lounsbury, director of the is responsible for managing its own section. Missoula County Office of Emergency Manshrink and local development increases.

County commissioners wield the most agement, says that right now the onus is en“The feds are cutting down how much they pay for funding across the board— influence at the local level, but most coun- tirely on the residents to take advantage of that’s also happening with fire,” says Head- ties—including Missoula—don’t set zoning the resources.

“There’s funding available to help do waters economist Chris Mehl. “I do believe requirements in the WUI. Instead, commison the horizon many local leaders are going sioners offer property owners guidance on that,” he says. “Each community has its own to have more people [in the WUI] but less how to protect their property. The property priorities, but in the WUI the priority needs federal funding than ever before, so they’re owners often don’t want any more than to be defensible space.” those suggestions. For instance, when the going to have to pick up the slack.” dpesanti@missoulanews.com A century of fire suppression, a warming Missoula Board of County Commissioners Last month, 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots died trying to stop a wildfire from escaping the forest and swallowing a small subdivision in a suburb outside of Prescott, Ariz. The tragic incident put an increased focus on not only firefighting strategy, but also the preventative measures taken to manage where homes are built and how the surrounding area is protected.

The area is known as the wildlandurban interface, or WUI, and Missoula

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According to Headwaters’ research, a third of firefighting costs go into protecting WUI homes. After 2007’s particularly harsh fire season, Montana law required counties

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End of the fire line One veteran crew member says a difficult goodbye

by Mary Emerick

I’ve said I was quitting firefighting many times before. My friends just roll their eyes when I announce that this is my last season and I am hanging up my boots for good. I’ve fallen off the wagon a dozen times in the past 26 years, lured back again by the adrenaline rush of a smoke column, the camaraderie of my brothers and sisters on the fire line.

But this time I mean it.

It isn’t just the recent pointless deaths of 19 firefighters in Arizona, though as I watched streaming video of the memorial procession, I was haunted by other deaths, other fire lines that were eerily similar.

All firefighters have stories of lucky breaks and last-minute escapes—when certain tragedy was averted only by a wind shift, quick thinking or plain chance. There was a wonderful monotony in the work itself, seeing just how far I could push my body past exhaustion. I worked 48-hour shifts, coughing into a grimy bandanna pulled tight across mouth and nose, hauling 40-pound containers of drinking water up a mountain, watching the ceaseless motion of moving vegetation out of a slim line that might, or might not, stop the fire.

There were things I missed by fighting fire: Love, marriage, kids, even though I wasn’t sure I wanted that kind of life. I missed out on the vacations that “normal” people enjoy—swimming in lakes, lying in hammocks.

For a long time, though, it was worth it.

I fought fire in what I consider the Golden Age, the time when everyone who worked for the Forest Service or Park Service was expected to pitch in. Law enforcement rangers, naturalists, trail workers all became a motley crew that bonded over nasty Meals Ready to Eat and the equal parts terror and boredom that made up daily life on the fire line. Our crews were considered top-notch, and we worked alongside the firefighting elite of

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smokejumpers and hotshot crews.

Those days are gone. Progress and a bureaucratic machine no longer welcome ordinary folk, and that makes it a little easier to quit. Maybe I am just clinging to a past that no longer exists and an identity—tough firefighter chick—that served me well in my younger, insecure decades.

But we were a family, and I miss that.

Someone always watched your back in a way that doesn’t happen in regular life. There was a dance involved in understanding wind,

“Progress and a bureaucratic machine no longer welcome ordinary folk, and that makes it a little easier to quit.” terrain and how fire moved through it that became second nature; either you had the right stuff to understand it or you didn’t, and I had it, back then.

There was the strange joy and sorrow of watching entire forests explode in a fury of flames 200 feet high, the sound like a big wind, a train or a gigantic living creature. I knew the forests needed fire, saw the sterile deserts that fire exclusion made out of unburned forest.

At the same time, I saw bulldozers tearing through Florida swamp and Southern California chaparral, scarring the landscape for years to come. What I realized most of all

is that we could fiddle with a fire for months, but ultimately weather or land barriers were responsible for putting it out.

Like a bad romance I can’t quite relinquish, I have a complicated relationship with firefighting. I don’t like what it has become, but there are times when I still get a glimpse of something pure and close to the bone that reminds me of what it was like being one of the few women on the line in the late 1980s, the responsibility I felt to my firefighting sisters not to give up, not to give in.

I took pride in accomplishing things I never thought I could do—hauling 80 pounds of gear, working all night, spreading out glowing embers like a blanket. Most of my friends from back then have quit, citing bad knees or the pressure of other priorities.

Some still carry the torch and miss the call.

My firefighting buddies sit around the office, taking a break from our computers.

We talk about the way it was.

“They don’t even have night shift anymore,” Michelle says, perhaps recalling the shadowy figures of her crew in the darkness, the comfort of a blinking headlamp when she felt alone on a mountain. “At least we got to experience it, back then,” Kent says.

He is right, though with all my heart I wish I could go back to those days. The older I get, the more used-to-be statements I have: I used to work outdoors in the woods, not at a computer. I used to build trails. I used to be young, with a map on my passenger seat and endless Western towns to choose from.

I’ve made my peace with all of those things, except for this: I used to be a firefighter. I need to learn to say that, too.

Mary Emerick is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She lives and writes in Joseph, Ore.

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ast year, investigators accused seven Lake County police officers of a range of dishonorable and criminal acts, including poaching, perjury, nepotism, ethics violations, false claims of military combat, and witness tampering and intimidation. The investigators moved to strip those officers of their badges.

As of last week, all seven cases have been resolved. One officer lost his badge.

Of the other six, complaints were dismissed against three cops, two were issued minor sanctions and one was given a lengthy suspension.

The two primary investigators did not get off so easy. A Montana game warden and

the director of the state agency that polices the police became the targets of smear campaigns that undermined their work exposing what the warden called a “culture of corruption” pervading law enforcement agencies in Lake County. Both left their positions—the warden was reassigned, while the director resigned under pressure.

The reputed mantra of the accused officers—that “you can’t break the law if you are the law”—appears to ring as true today as when the investigations began more than three years ago.

In spring 2012, the Montana Public Safety Officer Standards and Training Coun-

cil, or POST, the body that certifies and decertifies police, brought complaints against the seven Lake County officers. The Missoula Independent requested access to those complaints and related documents. Four of those requests landed in court. At issue was the of-

ficers’ individual privacy versus the public’s right to know their alleged offenses. Over the last several months, Helena District Court Judge Kathy Seeley followed established case law by ruling in favor of the public, writing

in one of the orders, dated June 3, that the officer in question, “as a public employee in a position of public trust, may have less of a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding the information that bears on his ability to perform public duties.”

The judge’s orders set a new precedent of transparency for POST, which had lacked policy on whether files detailing complaints against peace officers are public record. Now they are.

Seeley’s orders, combined with three officers waiving their right to privacy, granted the Independent access to hundreds of documents—all of the evidence POST had compiled in bringing complaints against Lake County Lt. Mike Sargeant, Sgt. Dan Duryee and former Undersheriff Karey Reynolds; Polson Police Chief Wade Nash and Officer Cory Anderson; Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth; and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Officer Jason Nash.

The evidence reveals an above-thelaw culture in Lake County law enforcement agencies, described by POST counsel and assistant attorney general

Sarah Hart as “utterly terrifying” and a present-day “wild, wild West.”

But as troubling as the evidence itself is the lack of criminal charges. Lake County Attorney Mitch Young has declined to prosecute and thwarted any investigation of Lake County officers, to the point that he’s been accused of breaking the law himself. The Montana Department of Justice has largely avoided intervention. And depositions given

by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wardens suggest election-year politics surrounding former Attorney General Steve Bullock’s successful campaign for governor in 2012 cut short the investigation of an organized

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Assistant Attorney General Sarah Hart argues to suspend Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth on July 16 in Helena.

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poaching club because of how it may reflect on the state’s chief law enforcement officer.

The onus of justice has fallen solely to POST, which is not a criminal justice agency but rather an administrative quasijudicial board. The agency’s power is limited to suspending or revoking an officer’s badge—even if an officer is alleged to have committed a felony crime.

If some of the evidence lacks specificity to prosecute or revoke officers’ badges, as state officials claim, the evidence nonetheless deepens the doubt over whether certain Lake County cops and officials entrusted with enforcing the law have abided by it themselves.

request an outside investigation, the state won’t intervene. That policy held even after two FWP game wardens and two Lake County sheriff ’s deputies met with Bullock in January 2011 to present the wide-ranging allegations of misconduct involving Lake County cops and officials. Bullock’s office said there wasn’t enough evidence.

FWP Warden Captain Lee Anderson would later confirm, also in a sworn deposition, that Bowen’s investigations were cut short because of what Anderson called “political stuff.” He said, “There was a lot of press, a lot of publicity…and so they wanted to see us wrap this thing up as quick as we can to get it done.”

Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth

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ver the course of nearly two years, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Game Warden Frank Bowen says he compiled 65 pounds of documents and recordings detailing what was known as the Coyote Club, a circle of Lake County officers who for a decade had allegedly poached deer, elk and other animals. The investigation was controversial. Bowen received death threats; one referred to the warden taking a “dirt nap.” Some of the incidents Bowen investigated occurred in Flathead, Ravalli and Beaverhead counties, but the cases originated in Lake County.

In January 2012, five of Bowen’s superiors, including FWP Regional Supervisor Jim Satterfield, met with Bowen about his investigations. During that meeting, Bowen was told—as he later recounted in a sworn deposition—that it was time to “wrap it up.”

“What they asked,” Bowen said, “is we try to slow down the pace for some of this stuff because it…was getting close to an election.”

At the time, the attorney general, Steve Bullock, was running for governor. In Bowen’s deposition, he spoke to his supervisors’ concern that continuing his investigation would further highlight what some had called Bullock’s inadequate oversight of the law enforcement agencies in Lake County. The attorney general’s office generally defers to local prosecutors; if a county attorney or sheriff or chief of police doesn’t

photos by Cathrine L. Walters

Sarah Hart, assistant attorney general and POST counsel

The Independent first reported on Bowen’s investigations in a December 2011 feature story.

Bowen quickly finalized his poaching case reports and, in February 2012, passed them to Mitch Young and the other county attorneys.

Bowen didn’t expect that his investigations would make him a target of Lake County’s prosecutor and the state, but that’s what happened.

Young pilloried Bowen. The county attorney emailed Jim Kropp, FWP’s chief of law enforcement, among several others, saying Bowen’s case files were “poorly organized, relied almost exclusively on rumor and hearsay, contained irrelevant information and included accusations that Bowen knew were not true.” He also called the files “inadequate and clearly devoid of probable cause.” Young declared that, “the Lake County Attorney’s Office will not prosecute any cases that come out of Bowen’s investigations,” until the state launched a separate investigation into Bowens’ conduct. The other county attorneys in Flathead, Ravalli and Beaverhead counties also sat on Bowen’s cases.

FWP granted Young’s request and Missoula-based Warden Captain Jeff Darrah conducted an investigation of Bowen in March 2012. Darrah found Young’s accusations meritless and intended solely to impede Bowen’s investigative efforts. But FWP wouldn’t release Darrah’s report exonerating POST Council Chairman Hal Harper

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Bowen because the agency said it contained confidential criminal justice information.

Withholding the report worked to further delay potential prosecution during the 2012 election season.

The Montana Legislature’s Law and Justice Interim Committee subpoenaed Bowen to testify about his poaching investigations at a June 2012 hearing at the Montana Capitol. The day before the hearing, Bowen was summoned to meet in Kalispell with FWP Regional Supervisor Satterfield and Warden Captain Anderson. During the meeting, as Bowen later claimed in a grievance before the state Board of Personnel Appeals, Satterfield made “several verbal comments intended to intimidate Warden Bowen into an altered testimony.” Bowen said Satterfield’s motivations were political, quoting Satterfield in the complaint as saying, “Are you willing to fall on your sword just to make the Democratic Party look bad?” Bowen also said Satterfield told him to “ride for the brand” and “do what you’re told or there could be consequences.” Satterfield reportedly said, “This isn’t about ethics or doing the right thing. It is about your survival.” Warden Captain Anderson, in his deposition, corroborated that Satterfield said statements to this effect.

During the hearing, former Sen. Jim Shockley, R-Victor, who chaired the committee (and who was in the middle of a failed bid for attorney general), tried to understand why FWP couldn’t release Darrah’s report exonerating Bowen. Shockley said he’d “never heard of a complaint being public but the dismissal secret.”

FWP Chief Legal Counsel Rebecca Jakes Dockter said Bowen himself was allowed to release a redacted version of the report, but his supervisors told him in private that doing so would be “a violation of a direct order and punishable by being fired,” as Bowen told the Independent at the time.

The Independent filed an open records request for Darrah’s report, which FWP rejected. But the Independent recently obtained the report and several other documents related to Bowen’s cases after they were subpoenaed as part of a federal lawsuit filed in February 2012 accusing four officers in the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office—

Lake County Sheriff Jay Doyle

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Former Lake County Sgt. Dan Duryee

Sheriff Jay Doyle, Undersheriff Dan Yonkin, Lt. Mike Sargeant and Sgt. Dan Duryee—of organized crime.

In his report, Darrah called Young’s mass-emailed complaint about Bowen “totally inappropriate,” with “potential detrimental effects to not only Warden Frank Bowen, but to FWP in general.”

Darrah continued: “It appears that County Attorney Mitch Young is trying to discredit Warden Frank Bowen in every way possible. This seems inappropriate from a prosecutor’s office, maybe from a defense attorney I would expect such a thing.”

Darrah accused Young of tampering with a witness when Young quizzed the witness on what she’d told Bowen. Darrah also criticized Young for accusing Bowen of “operating on hearsay evidence” when “it appears that is exactly what County Attorney Mitch Young is doing here.”

“Personally I feel that County Attorney Mitch Young is trying to kill Frank Bowen’s credibility and thus have this case go away with possibly several others,” Darrah concluded.

In the weeks following the June 2012 hearing, Bowen asked his supervisors to report Darrah’s findings and Young’s alleged

misconduct to Bullock’s office. They equivocated. Bowen decided he would deliver the document himself, but Satterfield warned that doing so would be insubordination and grounds for termination. Satterfield penned a letter to Bowen summarizing his “oral warning regarding unauthorized release of FWP complaints to other agencies.” Satterfield wrote, “Any and all information obtained by means of your official capacity as a game warden cannot be used on a personal basis.” The letter also noted that Bowen was no longer authorized to talk with POST about any investigations.

In Bowen’s grievance before the Board of Personnel Appeals, he called Satterfield’s demands “a virtual gag order.”

Meanwhile, Bowen was temporarily reassigned as a FWP warden to the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. In a memo to Bowen dated Aug. 14, 2012, Warden Captain Anderson said the move was in Bowen’s and the FWP’s best interest, given the POST investigation and the “unwillingness of County Attorney Mitch Young to prosecute any of your cases, combined with threats to your personal safety,” among other reasons. The memo ordered Bowen “not to conduct any work activities in the Polson warden district.” Anderson made the reassignment permanent effective Jan. 28, 2013.

As for Bowen’s grievance before the Board of Personnel Appeals, he and FWP reached a settlement agreement last month. The June 11 document acknowledges that Satterfield threatened to fire Bowen for being honest.

“It is not within legitimate management directives for supervisors to direct employees to tell less than the truth or the whole truth,” the settlement reads.

“Threats of losing one’s job can be intimidating and are not to be used.”

The settlement goes on to note Bowen’s first-rate record as a game warden.

“He consistently met expectations of his supervisors in all categories and exceeded expectations in numerous categories,” it states. “We regret any misleading statements construed by the public as unflattering and damaging to your reputation.”

Satterfield did not respond to a request for comment.

Mitch Young and the three other county attorneys have still not prosecuted any of Bowen’s poaching cases.

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round the time Frank Bowen began taking sworn statements from Lake County Sheriff ’s Office deputies and detectives about the Coyote Club, in fall 2010, POST Director Wayne Ternes started building a case against Lake County Sgt. Dan Duryee.

Duryee, who had worked in the department since 1998, lied about serving in the military. One former colleague testified to POST that Duryee claimed to have been “a U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant in Iraq during the first Gulf War” and that he had “seen combat, lost members of his unit in battle, and had killed enemy combatants.” Another person testified that Duryee claimed he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Early on in POST’s investigation, Ternes wrote, “It is evident that Duryee was allowed to be a member of the Special Response Team and a sniper without attending any formal training, based on his false claims of military service and combat experience. It is also evident that Duryee was given command of the Special Response Team” based on those claims.

Duryee, in a September 2010 letter to Sheriff Lucky Larson, admitted to lying, though only once, calling it a “fish story.”

Ternes’ case against Duryee was the first of seven POST would file against Lake County officers.

But before Duryee’s or any of the other cases went to a hearing, Ternes, like Bowen, himself became the subject of an investigation.

At the same June 2012 Law and Justice Interim Committee hearing at which Bowen was ordered to deliver a half-truth testimony, Ternes requested that the committee draft legislation that would help POST investigate allegations against officers. He proposed to designate POST a criminal justice agency and grant it investigative authority.

The committee chairman, at least, supported the proposals, but they were met with stiff resistance from state law enforcement associations. Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir, president of the Montana Association of Chiefs of Police, wrote a letter to POST Council in July 2012 stating that Ternes’ requests amounted to a “power grab.” Muir told the Independent at the time that he didn’t want POST to “just come in and flex the licensing authority,” and that it should remain “strictly an administrative agency.”

POST subsequently placed Ternes on administrative leave while a Helena-based human resources consultant investigated Ternes’ job performance.

In October 2012, the consultant, Jim Kerins, completed a 214-page report informed by 24 interviews with people who had worked with Ternes—mostly sheriffs, police chiefs, city and county attorneys and current and former POST Council members. They voiced a number of complaints, among them the fact that Ternes proposed legislation without approval of the POST Council. Others complained about “office administration issues that were not addressed in an effective or timely manner.”

“Instead of returning phone calls, updating training records, and maintaining the certification program, he wants to police the police, and go out and investigate law enforcement,” said Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin.

Montana Police Protective Association Director Jerry Williams said POST had spent “much more time on investigations as opposed to doing what they are supposed to be doing—providing and certifying training.”

The word “trust”—as in, the lack of it—appears 55 times in the report. But Jim Smith, the Libby police chief and a POST Council member, said, “If trust is broken with MACOP and MPPA, so what? We don’t work for MACOP and MPPA, we work for the citizens of Montana.”

Sarah Hart, the assistant attorney general and POST counsel, tried to put the differing views into perspective when interviewed for the report. “I think Wayne Ternes needs a slap on the wrist…But I think the big thing is local agencies don’t like being regulated. I think they don’t like it at all, and are taking it out on Wayne,” she said.

In other words, police don’t think they need any policing.

Ternes defended himself in the report. He was quoted as saying, “I am not here to make friends and I am not here for political reasons.” He called the Lake County situation “the stuff movies are made of.” He said the former Lake County sheriff, Lucky Larson, warned him to steer clear of the county “because it wouldn’t be safe.”

“What kind of thing is that to say to a state official?” asked Ternes. “There is stuff we’ve been privy to and information that needs to go through the process.”

In January of this year, Ternes received a pre-termination notice. He responded with a letter to POST Council Chairman Hal Harper largely denying the complaints against him. He also called his performance review “one-sided” and

photo courtesy of Frank Bowen

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Game Warden Frank Bowen

based on “agencies that we currently had open complaints against specific officers.”

Ternes resigned from POST on May 3.

In the resignation agreement Ternes said he would not file suit against the state.

Meanwhile, just days before Ternes left, Dan Duryee, the officer who told a “fish story” about his military experience, was stripped of his law enforcement certifications by POST Council, barring him from ever wearing a badge in Montana again. He had already resigned, in January, from the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office.

Mike McCarter, the POST hearing officer, wrote in his revocation recommendation that “there is little in the record to show remorse,” and Duryee had “failed to acknowledge and take responsibility for his lies.” McCarter also called into question Duryee’s “honesty and integrity.”

During the meeting at which POST Council voted to strip Duryee of his badge, Lake County Sheriff Jay Doyle attested to the quality of Duryee’s character. He did this even though Duryee had lied directly to the sheriff about serving in the military, as Doyle acknowledged in a deposition.

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n summer 2010, as the race for Lake County Sheriff was heating up, an anonymous group called Concerned Citizens of Lake County created two websites to disseminate allegations of misconduct

by Lake County officers, including participation in the Coyote Club. Polson Police Chief Wade Nash knew, as he said in a deposition late last year, that only a couple people were aware of the Coyote Club.

One was Jennifer Cannon. She’d been in

Bowen said Satterfield’s motivations were political, quoting Satterfield in the complaint as saying, “Are you willing to fall on your sword just to make the Democratic Party look bad?”

a relationship with Lake County Lt. Mike Sargeant, the officer who, according to Nash, created a hunting club within the department in the late ’90s.

On June 23, 2010, at 1:17 in the morning, Nash and Polson Police Officer Cory Anderson, both of whom were offduty in a Helena motel room and had been drinking, called Cannon on Anderson’s cellphone. According to an investigative report filed a few months later by Frank Bowen, Nash took the phone from Anderson and “warned Jennifer not to speak to Fish, Wildlife and Parks investigators. Cannon felt threatened and told Nash his hunting indiscretions were the worst kept secret in Lake County.” Cannon eventually hung up. Phone records show that the officers called her two more times over the next hour.

In March 2012, POST filed complaints against Nash and Anderson alleging witness tampering and intimidation. In their depositions, both deny the allegations.

Nash said he asked Cannon if she was releasing the information to Concerned Citizens of Lake County. “It was not a threat,” he said. “It was a simple question. There was no investigation going on.”

But there was, in fact, an investigation going on. About three months before Nash and Anderson called Cannon, FWP, after receiving a tip, launched an investigation into the hunting activities of Jesse Jacobs, a Lake County Sheriff ’s Office reserve deputy. The tip also named Mike Sargeant.

Beyond witness tampering, POST also accused Nash of accepting, in 2004, a shotgun as a gift for coordinating a sale of guns seized as evidence.

Anderson got POST’s attention with repeated alcohol-related offenses. POST accused him of “the use of alcoholic beverages in a manner which tends to discredit the profession.” POST counted three other drunken incidents involving Anderson over the course of several years, including domestic abuse, for which the POST Council suspended him for two years beginning in 2005.

POST did not ultimately list in its complaint the 2004 incident in which Anderson was driving a boat on Flathead Lake while under the influence of alcohol and pulling a woman in an inner tube. The woman, 38year-old Laura Lee Grant, was flung from the tube, broke her neck and died. Anderson worked in the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office at the time. His colleagues didn’t measure his blood-alcohol content until about two and a half hours after the accident, when he registered a 0.055. The attorney general’s office reviewed the incident and determined that “proof of his actual blood-alcohol level would be difficult” because of the amount of time that lapsed before Anderson’s BAC test.

The state declined to prosecute.

At a December 2012 POST Council meeting, the members voted to let Nash and Anderson keep their badges as long as both attended ethics training. Nash was ordered to also attend training in evidence procedures, while Anderson agreed to undergo a chemical dependency evaluation.

During that meeting, Sarah Hart spoke in general terms about the lack of

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ethics she’s encountered within Lake County law enforcement agencies.

“When we went into this case, the stuff that was going on, you wouldn’t believe it,” she told the POST Council members. “But the bottom line is that, in this instance, what happened was POST came in and rang some bells…and said, ‘Hey, we’re paying attention here, guys. You’ve got to clean this nonsense up. This is not okay.’”

Members of the law enforcement agencies were “furious,” Hart said. “If they could have spilled blood, they would have.”

Sargeant, an officer in the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office. They and a few other officers were inside the sheriff ’s office, and Sargeant started talking about hunting.

The season was approaching. Sargeant suggested that they form a club.

Nash said in his deposition that he remembers his exact response to the idea. “I said, ‘that’s gay,’ all right, because I had never heard of no hunting clubs.”

Nash said he also told Sargeant that nontribal members can’t hunt big game on the Flathead Indian Reservation. “I said,

reservation for more than a decade.

Bowen concluded that Sargeant and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Officer Jason Nash were the club’s central figures.

Bowen obtained one taxidermist’s records showing that between 2001 and 2005, Sargeant, Jason Nash, Wade Nash, Dan Duryee and Ryan Funke, a Lake County Sheriff ’s deputy, brought in 26 animals—deer, elk, moose, antelope and bear. Two other taxidermists told Bowen that Sargeant and Jason Nash were their

“It appears that County Attorney Mitch Young is trying to discredit Warden Frank Bowen in every way possible.

This seems inappropriate from a prosecutor’s office, maybe from a defense attorney I would expect such a thing.”

—Jeff Darrah, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden captain

photo by Tony Martino

She said Lake County Attorney Mitch Young wouldn’t touch the cases “with a 10-foot pole.”

Young did not respond to a request for comment. Last year he ignored an open records request filed by the Independent.

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n Polson Police Chief Wade Nash’s deposition, he recalled that on one night in 1998, his first year with the Polson Police Department, he met Mike

‘The only thing you can hunt is coyotes.

So what are you going to name it, the Coyote Club?’”

The club never formed, Nash said. It was “just one of those stigmatisms [sic]… brought up as a joke…There never has been no club, but that’s where it originated from.”

The evidence that Frank Bowen compiled over the course of nearly two years suggests that there was a club, members of which illegally poached game on the

best customers. One said that over a twoyear span, the officers brought in 16 trophy deer, two trophy elk and two bears.

The other said they’d bring in 10 or 12 animals a year.

A former Lake County deputy told Bowen that Coyote Club members would leave poached animals at a taxidermy shop under Nash’s name; as a tribal member, there’s no limit to the number of animals he could take. “Anything not tagged with a state license went under the name of Jason

Nash,” the former deputy said. “Everyone believed that because Nash was a tribal member and a tribal police officer, no one could or would do anything about it.”

As Bowen noted in a case report he forwarded to POST in February 2012, nine of Sargeant’s alleged violations, including hunting without a license and from a vehicle, occurred several years ago and were beyond the statute of limitations. But Bowen believed Sargeant could still be charged with unlawful possession and transportation of game, obstructing justice and tampering with evidence. The latter charge is based on the allegation that, in June 2010, when Concerned Citizens of Lake County was posting information online about the Coyote Club, Jason Nash and Ryan Funke removed animal mounts from Sargeant’s home.

In September 2010, Bowen and a tribal game warden interviewed Jason Nash, who claimed that he’d never hunted with Sargeant on the reservation, never gave Sargeant or others game meat, and only gave Sargeant four or five deer and one or two elk. Bowen subsequently gathered more evidence that he said demonstrated Nash’s claims were materially false.

Though, as with Sargeant, many of Nash’s alleged violations were beyond the statute of limitations, Bowen sought to charge Nash with obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence and conspiracy.

POST proposed suspending or revoking Sargeant’s and Jason Nash’s badges. In November 2012, the complaints were dismissed without prejudice, meaning the cases can be reopened.

With Ternes on administrative leave, Clayton Coker, who had been a POST investigator, filled in as acting executive director. He’s since been hired as sheriff in Dunn County, N.D. In a recent interview, Coker said he couldn’t corroborate much of Bowen’s evidence.

“I tried to go out and talk to these witnesses and I couldn’t find anybody that could testify to anything I could use to prove a case to take their licenses,” Coker

IT’S NOT OVER

Lawsuit naming Indy awaits resolution

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he Missoula Independent’s investigation into allegedly widespread corruption among law enforcement officers in Lake County started in 2011, when an anonymous source unexpectedly delivered a stack of documents to our office. For pursuing the pervasive wrongdoing, sheriff’s deputy Terry Leonard lost his job, as did POST Director Wayne Ternes and FWP Game Warden Frank Bowen. Bringing this story to light hasn’t been altogether easy for us, either. POST and thenstate Attorney General Steve Bullock named us as defendants in a lawsuit they filed to keep POST’s investigation a secret.

It’s become a common tactic of government agencies in Montana. Faced with requests for constitutionally guaranteed public information, officials increasingly head straight

to Montana District Court, where they file for declaratory judgment seeking guidance from the bench about their legal obligations. Predictably, the court cases drag out for months, and you know what they say about justice delayed. Just as significantly, the pre-emptive lawsuits preserve the government’s ability to stick interlocutors with a big legal bill.

In this case, POST argued that the accused officers’ rights of privacy outweighed the public’s right to know. We argued that whatever individual privacy rights the officers might have, they don’t apply when an individual breaches the public trust. And we complained that POST had abrogated its legal duty to make its own determination about the officers’ rights and turn over its files before bringing a lawsuit blocking our records request.

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In the end, the officers either explicitly waived their privacy rights or the court sided with us. POST’s suit against the Indy took a year to get to this point, and it’s not done yet.

Now we get to argue about the attorney’s fees.

Montana law clearly gives plaintiffs in public records cases an opportunity to recover attorney’s fees from the government, if the plaintiffs prevail. But when the government’s the aggressor and sues first, as in this case, it’s not so obvious how the judge might rule, even if the government loses. That’s a significant stumbling block even for robust businesses like the Indy.

Imagine the chilling effect on the small community papers in rural counties, or on ordinary citizens, who naturally share all the

same rights to public information as professional news reporters.

Thanks to the zeal of crusaders like Leonard and the dedicated professionalism of Bowen, four of the alleged malefactors in Lake County have received disciplinary penalties. It remains to be seen how citizens will deal with the remaining loose ends, like the uncredentialed officer on the job in Ronan and the elected officials in Lake County who tolerated the lawless culture there and thwarted efforts to change it. But one thing’s obvious: For many, many years now, key officials at virtually every level of government have gone out of their way to prevent citizens from discovering what Lake County's lawmen have been doing wrong.

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said. “Do I believe some things were going on? Yeah. But I got to have some solid evidence to make a charge.”

Coker said that since the Coyote Club investigation began, poaching in Lake County has dropped off. “Whether it was law enforcement or not…a light had been shown on the hunting violation issues and they kind of died down to nothing,” he said.

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n July 16, in a room at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy in Helena, Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth and his attorney, Ted Chester, sat before the POST Council waiting for it to decide Wadsworth’s fate. POST had accused Wadsworth of a slew of falsifications going back nearly a decade, but the case boiled down to Wadsworth’s son, Trevor. In late 2010, Wadsworth signed Trevor’s MLEA application certifying that Trevor had met all of the requirements to attend the academy, when in fact Trevor had not. POST argued Wadsworth knew Trevor did not meet the necessary conditions.

The requirements to attend the academy include being an employed, sworn peace officer. While Trevor Wadsworth was attending basic training—something every Montana officer must do within 12 months of being hired—POST discovered that Trevor was neither employed nor had he taken the oath of office. Trevor Wadsworth then left the academy.

MLEA Director Kevin Olson subsequently suspended Dan Wadsworth’s ability to enroll students at the academy because of “several years of a willful pattern of deceit and deception enrolling people that were not law enforcement officers.” At least twice before, in 2004 and 2005, Dan Wadsworth had committed similar offenses.

After Trevor left the academy, as Sarah Hart told POST Council, “Trevor went back to the city of Ronan and continued to operate as a police officer—badge, uniform, gun.” As POST investigated Dan Wadsworth, the City of Ronan produced a document in May 2011 indicating that Trevor had legitimately been hired and sworn in. POST, based on Wadsworth’s inconsistent statements in his deposition, believes this document was also falsified.

Regardless, Trevor Wadsworth didn’t complete basic training, and he still hasn’t— yet he’s still working as a cop. As of this week, Ronan dispatch confirmed Trevor remains an officer in the department. “[Dan Wadsworth is] putting officers on the street who have no authority to be police officers,” Hart said.

POST can’t take action to revoke Trevor Wadsworth’s certification because he doesn’t actually have one. Attorney General Tim Fox’s spokesman, John Barnes, said in a statement that the attorney general’s office hopes the situation “can be resolved amicably and at the local level,” but that the “Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that only properly trained and credentialed individuals are serving as law enforcement officers.”

One of POST’s counts against Dan Wadsworth was “willful violation of the code of ethics.” His attorney, argued that because the code of ethics was updated in 2008, well after Wadsworth received all of his law enforcement certifications, that “Chief Wadsworth may not be charged with violation of an oath he never took.”

Hart responded: “To say that he gets off of a charge because ethics don’t apply to him, based on his age, is unacceptable and…would set a very difficult precedent for POST going forward.” Chester’s argument suggests that the code of ethics

regardless—Light believed Reynolds could not be charged with perjury.

POST dismissed its case against Reynolds in December 2012. He had already resigned from the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office, in January 2012.

At the Montana Law Enforcement Academy last week, Dan Wadsworth fidgeted as POST Council deliberated over how to punish him. Sarah Hart had recommended a 15-year suspension of all of his law enforcement certifications.

Wadsworth is 55 years old, and such a lengthy suspension would be “tanta-

first year as a deputy, anonymously launched Concerned Citizens of Lake County and created two websites calling attention to the allegations ahead of the 2010 election that would determine the next sheriff. Jay Doyle, who went on to win that election, filed a complaint with the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices alleging that Leonard’s website violated election laws and defamed Doyle.

Lake County Attorney Mitch Young obtained a search warrant for Leonard’s residence. In October 2010, Leonard’s former colleagues raided his home and

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Ronan Police Chief Dan Wadsworth, left, and his attorney, Ted Chester.

shouldn’t apply to any Montana officer certified before 2008.

Hart said that Wadsworth is guilty of “multiple, multiple falsities,” and that there were “so many lies and problems that piled on top of each other that it was truly overwhelming.”

Those falsities affected a different POST case against former Lake County Undersheriff Karey Reynolds, who was accused of committing perjury. To be eligible for undersheriff, Reynolds couldn’t have a break in his law enforcement service exceeding three years. Wadsworth provided documentation showing that Reynolds had worked for him. Then-POST Director Ternes decided that Wadsworth’s history of falsifying documents justified further investigation into Reynolds’ work history. POST couldn’t verify Reynolds’ record and ordered him to go back to basic training.

It was suspected that Reynolds perjured himself on a search warrant affidavit he signed that claimed he had “20 years prior law enforcement experience.” Assistant Attorney General Brant Light, in a May 2012 letter to Lake County Attorney Mitch Young, wrote, “It is clear that Karey Reynolds did not have 20 years of law enforcement experience,” and his statement in the affidavit “was in fact false or misleading.” But because the statement was immaterial to the case—the judge said she would have granted the search warrant

mount to de facto revocation,” as Chester had said.

The council voted unanimously to suspend Wadsworth for 15 years. After the vote, Wadsworth stood up and told the council, “I appreciate what you folks do.”

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s POST proceeded through its cases against the seven officers, a separate civil case was filed in February 2012 in federal court in Missoula. The plaintiffs—former Lake County Sheriff ’s officers Terry Leonard, Mike Gehl and Steve Kendley, and current officers Levi Read and Ben Woods—accuse Sheriff Jay Doyle, Undersheriff Dan Yonkin, Lt. Mike Sargeant and former Sgt. Dan Duryee of organized crime.

The plaintiffs allege that the defendants “have formed and continue to operate an organization of officers the purpose of which is to engage in illegal activities and the covering up of such illegal activities by retaliation against officers who ‘don’t go along’ with this group.” By “acting in concert and with criminal purpose,” the defendants violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, the plaintiffs argue.

The retaliations, including demotions and dismissals, resulted from the plaintiffs’ attempts, they claim, to expose allegations of misconduct by their colleagues.

Leonard, after former Sheriff Lucky Larson let him go before the end of his

seized his computers. More than a year later, Leonard was exonerated of violating election laws.

When Leonard graduated last year from the Montana Law Enforcement Academy, his peers elected him as their class representative, honoring him with the Don Williams Award. Leonard also earned the Joe May Leadership Award. After Leonard graduated, the Pondera County Sheriff ’s Office hired him as a deputy. Last month, the Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association presented Leonard with its “Lifesaver Award.” In September 2012, Leonard, with the help of an off-duty firefighter from Phoenix, used a tire iron to pull a man from a crumpled vehicle engulfed in flames.

Leonard and his fellow plaintiffs will not likely see their federal case go to trial.

On July 9, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch recommended dismissal. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen will make the final decision in the coming weeks.

The plaintiffs’ attorney, Rich Buley of Missoula, says it’s difficult to prove organized crime, but his clients had no other course of action.

“In fact,” he says, “we knew going in that almost never does anyone succeed in either getting to trial or winning…But since there really isn’t any state remedy other than appealing to the attorney general to do something, that’s what we had to try.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Sculptor, interrupted Out of the cold, an artist re-examines the meaning of success

by Mark Matthews • photos by Cathrine L. Walters

Mark Matthews resurrected career after 20 yearshiatus, and now sculptures at his at Arlee Mark Matthews resurrected hishis artart career after a 20-year andmakes now makes sculptures his home.

Arlee home.

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ore than 20 years ago—on New Year’s Day 1991—my life as an artist apparently ended.

Around three o’clock that afternoon I returned to Missoula from visiting my parents in Florida. The plane ticket had been a Christmas gift— otherwise I never would have been able to afford to go because, at the time, I was homeless.

The reunion had been pleasant despite the usual rebukes about my wasting my life—or, to be more precise, not making money, living without health insurance and not saving for retirement. I neglected to inform my parents that I had been living out of my Ford Ranger pickup truck for the past year and that exactly $16 remained in my savings account. They thought I was attending the university in Missoula.

Technically, I was. I had enrolled in a one-credit independent study in ceramic sculpture so that I could have unlimited access to the clay studio. The professors there appreciated the fact that I was a “professional” artist and invited me to sit in on their classes.

Throughout that fall I slung mud at the studio for much of the day and evening, cooked simple meals on a camp stove in the kiln room, and showered at the gym. Around midnight I walked to a deadend street where it was legal to park a car without a residential parking sticker and climbed under the camper top of my truck to snuggle into a sleeping bag. On the weekends I often drove up Pattee Canyon to camp on Plum Creek land off Deer Creek. I made

friends with many of the graduate students, my work progressed, the weather remained mild and life was good.

I had been sculpting full time since 1981 after I had retired at the age of 30 from a position with the federal government in Boston. I then moved to South

“Sad Eyed Lady” was one of the first sculptures Matthews did when he started making art again.

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Freeport in Maine and, throughout the ’80s, showed my work in various galleries across the state, making enough money to cover the basic necessities. Then I got a hankering for the mountains and moved to Montana in 1989. I continued to successfully line up exhibitions in various Western towns including Seattle and Spokane, Las Cruces, N.M. and Palm Desert, Calif. But then sales dwindled and living expenses increased, and I transitioned into voluntary homelessness.

Blue skies and temps in the mid-50s greeted me that New Year’s Day at Missoula. While waiting for my luggage I contemplated what to do on my first afternoon back in town. I felt like unwinding a bit before falling back into the routine, so I decided to attend a movie. The old truck kicked to life on the second turn of the key. At the Village 6 on Brooks I purchased a ticket for Dances with Wolves.

I appreciated the film’s depiction of Native Americans as genuine human beings, and then tensed when a soldier aimed his rifle at the wolf about a quarter way through the movie. But then the screen went blank, the house lights flashed on, and an excited usher hustled down the aisle. I half expected him to yell, “Fire.” Instead, he informed us that “a big storm is blowing up the Blackfoot, temperatures are expected to drop to 20 below, with three feet of snow. If you want to head home now you can pick up a rain check for the movie on the way out.”

Out in the lobby a stiff wind held the door open for the fleeing patrons. Biting icy pellets blew in a vertical line across the parking lot. The imminent darkness made the air seem even colder. Out of the back of my truck I grabbed an insulated flak jacket, wool hat and mittens before climbing into the cab. The frigid vinyl seat bit through the cotton of the Dockers I had slipped on in Florida. This time, the truck started with the third turn of the key.

I instinctively sought refuge at the clay studio. It was Christmas break and few students were around.

Nobody would have minded, anyway. The Quonset hut, a quarter mile from Hellgate Canyon, housed the clay studio, sculpture studio and Grizzly Pool. The Hellgate winds rocked the Ranger when I parked by the main entrance. A foot of snow already covered the ground and campus was a ghost town. I breathed a sigh of relief and popped out of the Ranger. The corridor beyond the glass doors was dark but I reached for the handle with a confident heart. It had never locked before—but, this time, it was. Pushed along by the wind, I rushed the length of the building to a back fire door that directly accessed the clay studio. I drummed upon it long and hard hoping some grad students might have returned early from break, but to no avail. I fought the wind back to the Ranger.

This time the engine started with the fourth turn of the key and the heater struggled to keep a face-sized patch of windshield free of frost.

I sat there for a few minutes trying to figure out where to turn. Being homeless I had lost touch with the few friends I had made in Montana since my arrival the year before. And most of the grad students were home for the holiday. I had heard of a homeless shelter called the Poverello Center, but didn’t know its location. I might not have gone there even if I had.

Pride made me hesitate to seek aid from either friends, charitable organizations or government. By accepting help I would have admitted that my parents had been right all along, that I truly was a failure.

Many times over the previous decade I had solemnly vowed never to give up the fight. But what exactly was I fighting against? Evil? Ignorance? The capitalist system? And what did I have to show for my dedication to art? I possessed nothing that could physically protect me in this time of desperation. Even more snow now covered the parking lot and my tires spun as I put the truck in reverse.

Two blocks away, where the Madison Street Bridge spanned the Clark Fork, I came upon a car idling in the middle of the intersection with its windshield wipers flapping like a bird’s wings. I got out.

An hysterical woman rolled down her window and cried, “I can’t see a thing.” As I chipped the inchthick layer of ice from her windshield I thought how best to ask this stranger to take me home with her.

In the end I couldn’t think of anything appropriate.

The woman thanked me profusely and I watched her drive off, her car occasionally fishtailing on an icy patch.

Now uncontrollably shivering, I returned to my idling truck. Any thought of braving out the storm in the back of the truck now seemed utterly ridiculous.

And it was at this time that I actually heard a voice in my head. It wasn’t a thought, idea or a memory, but the echo of an actual voice of a certain individual, as if she were sitting right next to me.

Jeannette Rakowski was another professional artist taking advantage of a one-credit, independent study to access the clay studio, but she also owned her own place on the Northside—an old silver trailer cocooned in a wooden addition. This is what I heard her say to me on that frigid evening—just as she had spoken to me at the studio a month before: “If you ever get in trouble, you can always crash at my place.” Hers sounded like the voice of an angel whispering in my ear.

By the time I drove across town the temps had dipped below zero. I grabbed my sleeping bag before plowing up the front stairs and sheepishly knocking on the door. Jeannette appeared in the window panel holding the lapels of a thick terry cloth bathrobe tightly to her neck. Warmth from a woodstove seeped past her when she opened the door.

“What in god’s name are you doing out there? Come on in here.”

Matthews’ “Our Lady of the Rockies” is based on the statue that overlooks the town of Butte. The painting on the front of the piece depicts the western Rockies.

chased it and watched it that evening. After a while I stopped the film to get a snack. Then the strangest thing happened. While standing at the top of the landing I started to cry.

I stumbled down the stairs in a confused state, still deeply sobbing, and by the time I hit the bottom landing it had all come back—the drama and

fact that I wasn’t making money from my art. And almost as quickly as I had decided to give up that aspect of my life 20 years before, I decided to resurrect it. The part of my life story that I had always considered complete suddenly opened upon a new chapter.

And so, I find myself once again devoting most of my time to creating art. I have returned to my original medium of wood. I also wanted to explore the ancient tradition of brightly painting sculpture. Not possessing that skill myself, I collaborated with Missoula artist Niki Robinson, who decorated my carvings of birds and humans with paint and mosaics. Eventually I tried my own hand at decorating.

My first attempt was on my rendition of “Our Lady of the Rockies”—the statue that overlooks Butte. I had engineered my lyrical version so that the separate pieces (head, arms, torso, etc.) sit atop one another. She stands about six-foot-six with a six-foot wingspan. I envisioned the Rocky Mountains spanning across her outstretched arms, a waterfall cascading down her torso into a lake at her skirt. Somehow the vision materialized to my satisfaction.

After a friendly chat and a bowl of Last spring I focused on constructing soup, Jeannette went to bed and I lay outdoor abstract pieces that involve very down on a lumpy couch. A log in the little carving and, so far, little painting. woodstove popped. I unzipped my sleepWary of getting involved in the tradiing bag and stuck out a leg. I counted 15 tional art scene again, I transformed my years since I had carved my first sculpture small home outside Arlee into a gallery. and I suddenly felt shortchanged. The inAnd even though my parents may now be spiration, the joy and the satisfaction that rolling over in their graves—for me, everythe creative process had stimulated all thing points to success.

“Blowing in the Wind” was decorated with mosaics and paint by Missoula artist Niki Robinson, who collaborated with Matthews on his sculptures. those years could not penetrate the blizMark Matthews is the author of zard that raged outside. I was exactly one Droppers: America’s First Hippie Commonth shy of my 40th birthday. And in the life—and I earned some grudging respect from my trauma of New Year’s Day, 1990. I took a deep mune and A Great Day to Fight Fire. To make an next instant—although the world hadn’t changed— parents before they died. But something was missing. breath and inhaled this epiphany: 20 years ago I appointment to visit his gallery email him at I did. I was no longer a sculptor. My parents had Then, in January 2010, while browsing through used had given up the thing that I had loved most be- peacejumper@yahoo.com. been right all along: I was a failure. I vowed never video tapes at Goodwill I noticed a copy of Dances cause I had considered myself a failure. The verdict again to pick up a wood chisel or pinch together a with Wolves. Having never seen the ending I pur- was not based on the quality of my art, but on the arts@missoulanews.com handful of clay. The change occurred that abruptly— like a teenager walking away from the toys and fantasies of childhood.

For the next 20 years I earned a couple of advanced degrees, worked as a freelance journalist, published a few books and taught composition. I kept a roof over my head and was generally content with

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[music]

Talkin’ to you Montana songwriter Ben Bullington finds his voice among Music City’s finest

by Erika Fredrickson

Country music has always had its dissidents. In 1996, songwriting rebel Robbie Fulks wrote the rollicking “Fuck This Town” about the Nashville scene. A decade later, Shooter Jennings put out his album, Put the “O” Back in Country, to lament how low country music has sunk since his father’s heyday. And, recently, alt-country traditionalist Dale Watson wrote a song about contemporary country artist Blake Shelton that goes, “I’d rather be an old fart than a new country turd.”

Montana singer-songwriter Ben Bullington continues in the same tradition of pushing back against formulaic music. His song “Country Music (I’m Talkin’ To You),” off his new eponymous album goes: “It’s not about the claims you make,/ true tales or what’s at stake/ I smell business in everything you do/ I wasn’t surprised, but it made me sick/ how you turned your back on the Dixie Chicks/ while wavin’ that old red, white and blue./ Country music, I’m talkin to you./ I don’t love you like I used to do./ You left me, man, I didn’t leave you.”

Until recently, Bullington’s been an obscurity—a small-town doctor in both White Sulphur Springs and Big Timber, who also happens to write songs and play guitar. His sound is more Townes Van Zandt than George Jones, and his heroes are the songwriters behind the scenes such as Guy Clark and Rodney Crowell, whose original songs bolstered the careers of Emmy Lou Harris and Jerry Jeff Walker. But like Crowell and Clark did, Bullington is starting to make a name for himself on the national scene.

It hasn’t been without a painful catalyst. Last November, a diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer propelled Bullington to quit his medical practice and jump head-on into music. Over the last few months he’s played the elite Kerryville Folk Festival in Texas and Florida’s 30A Songwriting Festival. A performance he did in Nashville recently caught the attention of the manager for up-and-coming artist Sarah Jarosz, and Bullington was asked to open her Missoula show.

He’s released five albums—two in the last six months—that feature Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nashville singer-songwriter Will Kimbrough, leading multi-instrumentalist Fats Kaplin and Crowell.

“I had a pile of songs—half or a third of the songs we were doing weren’t on any record and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with all of that because some of it went back pretty far,” Bullington says. He recorded part of it at Fred Baker’s studio in Gardiner, Mont., but he also had plans for Tennessee.

“I had booked studio time in Nashville in December to go do that,” he says. “I got this diagnosis before Thanksgiving and I said, ‘Hell, I still want to go make a record.’ We went down there and did. It was one of the best weeks of my life.”

Bullington is a lanky, sunkissed guy with a big belt buckle, plaid shirt and a drawl. He grew up in the bluegrass town of Roanoke, Va. While his friends were listening to Crosby, Stills and Nash and Grand Funk Railroad, he frequented bluegrass picking circles on the outskirts of town. One musician told him he ought to get a Doc Watson album. “So I went to the pitiful record store we had in town and there I got Doc Watson On Stage [1971] and the double record on Vanguard,”

Bullington met his manager, Joanne Gardner, after he recorded his first album but before it had been released. Gardner was deep in the Nashville scene, having started a production company called ACME Pictures with Roseanne Cash before going on to become an executive at Sony, making music videos for stars like Bob Dylan, Will Smith and Ricky Martin. Though she was still managing Rodney Crowell, she had retired to Livingston—and she was enthralled by Bullington.

“When I heard his songs they riveted me,” she says.

She took Bullington under her wing and began pushing his songs to a broader audience. She also introduced Bullington to Crowell.

In 2010, a White Sulphur Springs company called Red Ants Pants, led by owner Sarah Calhoun, kicked off a music festival to support women farmers. Collaborating with Kris Clone of Bozeman’s 10 Feet Tall and 80 Proof, Calhoun sought Bullington and Gardner’s help to create a festival that would start out with a bang. They got Crowell on board, who then enticed Guy Clark, and after a few other big singer-songwriters signed on they got Lyle Lovett to headline.

“And so then there was this whole cadre of old Texas songwriter friends who wanted to hang out with each other and did,” Gardner says. “But we had to create it out of nothBen Bullington quit his job as a small-town Montana doctor to play music full-time after he was di- ing. A lifestyle music festival in a cattle field agnosed with pancreatic cancer. in White Sulphur Springs that’s only got 60 motel rooms in the entire town? It was a pretty good festival but then all of a sudden Bullington says. “I went home and put it on my Bullington studied geology, ended up in Monrecord player, and within 30 seconds was jumping tana at a geology camp and then worked in the Lyle got added and it was, wow.”

That was the first year of the Red Ants Pants Festival. up and down, I was so excited. ‘This is it!’ I said. oil fields in the Northwest. He went to medical It’s what flipped my switch.” school in Charlottesville, Va., but he missed the The second year saw Jerry Jeff Walker and Emmy Lou Bullington was also getting exposure to singer- West. After he graduated in 1989, he returned Harris, among others. For Bullington it was the ultimate songwriters of the era. He had a cousin who went off to Montana and worked for a time as the lone doctor experience of having all the heroes of his youth come to Vietnam and left him with six Dylan records, which on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation before set- play alongside him. Crowell even told him recently, once he had, he never gave back. In his song “Ap- tling in White Sulphur Springs co-directing a six-bed “Welcome to the club.”

“And he means the songwriter club,” Gardner says. palachian Mtn Delta Blues,” from his new album, hospital for 10 years and raising a family with three “And when you think that includes Guy Clark and Bullington mentions the Dylan records, saying he was boys.

Townes Van Zandt, it’s a pretty cool club to be in.”

15 and “just a gangly kid, all heart and appetite and During that time he got his head back into songIn December, a week before he started chemothermisery.” writing. “I got a new guitar and started playing again Bullington went to college at Vanderbilt—not be- every day, telling myself I was never going to put it apy, Bullington played “Country Music (I’m Talkin’ to You)” to a sold-out crowd at the Station Inn in Nashville, cause of the school’s reputation but because it would down.” accompanied by Crowell, Darrell Scott and Will Kimallow him access to the Nashville music scene. Sam And he hasn’t.

Bush and other bluegrass musicians were just showing Bullington’s music gives the same kind of treatment brough. He’ll play the Sweet Pea Festival in Bozeman up around town and Bullington would go see them at to Montana that so many songwriters give to Texas, West and the Red Ants Pants Festival this year, alongside acts like Merle Haggered and Robert Earl Keen. And he plans The Old Time Pickin’ Parlor. There were two scenes Virginia and Tennessee. He sings about the road from to keep writing as many songs as he can. going on at the time in Nashville: Printer’s Alley was Kanesville to Pray, about White Sulphur Springs and “Writing a song that I think is good, it has to sort of where the tourists went to see George Jones and other Montana girls. His most popular tracks are “Born in 55,” well up and it has to be infused with energy,” he says. full-blown country stars for a $10 cover. The cheaper, which is a pedal-steel-infused litany of events about the “And you have to keep that level of energy in it until it’s grittier scene included musicians like Guy Clark and JFK assassination and civil rights, and “I Despise Flies,” done.”

Steve Young, whose songs were being done by Willie a dark depiction of the house fly. There are prophetic Ben Bullington plays the Red Ants Pants Festival Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Those songwriters spoke songs, too, written years before Bullington’s diagnosis, in White Sulphur Springs Fri., July 26, at 4 PM. The to Bullington and, though he wasn’t playing much like “I’ve Got to Leave You Now,” where he sings to his festival runs from Thu., July 25, to Sun., July 28. Go music, he was listening. sons: “Our souls might mingle in the after torch/ like to redantspants.com for festival info and tickets.

“I played that first Guy Clark album to pieces,” he four friends smoking on a midnight porch./ I’ve always says. “One way or another I think we saw them as alt- loved you the best I knew how./ I’ve gotta leave you arts@missoulanews.com country but we didn’t have that term for it.” now.”

[22] Missoula Independent • July 25–August 1, 2013

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Lighting it up Burke brings the action home in new novel

by Skylar Browning

James Lee Burke sets an aggressive tone at the cowboy, a crew of crooked and/or incompetent cops, start of Light of the World, the best-selling author’s a wealthy oilman, the oilman’s troubled family and a 20th novel featuring beloved protagonists Dave Ro- presumed dead serial killer from Kansas who Alafair bicheaux and Clete Purcel, and his 30th novel overall. once interviewed. The presence or mere mention of It’s the sort of bold opening that belies the age of this all of these people means Robichaeux is not exactly franchise and reinforces Burke’s status as one of destined for a true holiday.

While the plot and writing are vintage Burke, crime fiction’s master storytellers.

“I was never very good at solving mysteries,” ex- local readers will take special interest in how western Montana plays into the storyplains Robicheaux in a fantastiline. Burke folds in some recent cally humble opening line. “I events, like the rash of sexual don’t mean the kind cops solve assaults at the University of or the ones you read about in Montana and exploratory novels or watch on television drilling near Glacier National or on a movie screen. I’m not Park. There’s a long description talking about the mystery of of Charlie B’s and another of Creation, either, or the unseen The Depot that makes note of presences that reside perhaps Jim Crumley’s usual seat. The just the other side of the physlocal sheriff tells Robicheaux ical world. I’m talking about that Montana used to be known evil, without capitalization but as “the last best place” but that evil all the same, the kind now it’s just like everywhere whose origins sociologists and else, and in another scene Purpsychiatrists have trouble excel notes that people think Misplaining.” soula “is turning into Santa Fe.” It doesn’t stop there. RoIn a more romantic moment, bicheaux, who acts as the narBurke describes the landscape rator, flips back through his as a place “where dinosaurs days in Vietnam, his service James Lee Burk and mastodons had once fed with the New Orleans Police Light of the World and played among the butterDepartment and his battles with hardcover, Simon & Schuster cups and ice lilies.” Robicheaux alcoholism, all the while com560 pages, $27.99 and Purcel haven’t visited Moning back to the question of what tana since 2008’s Swan Peak, makes someone evil.

“Were some people made different in the womb, and it’s a treat to read Burke again setting the stage born without a conscience, intent on destroying in our neck of the woods.

Light of the World will not disappoint longtime everything that was good in the world?” he wonders.

“Or could a black wind blow the weather vane in the fans of Burke and these characters. There are issues— wrong direction for any of us and reshape our lives I’ve grown especially weary of the improbable detecand turn us into people we no longer recognized? I tive work; Robicheaux and Purcel wouldn’t get away knew there was an answer out there somewhere, if I with a fraction of their antics in the real world—but could only drink myself into the right frame of mind they’re overcome by Burke’s considerable strengths.

Although the book is a robust 560 pages, the action and find it.”

The setup finds Burke at his best, serving up the moves fast and the numerous side stories all neatly kind of epic morality play that allows his lyrical writ- come together. Burke’s evocative writing remains as ing style to flourish among a sea of impossibly de- strong as ever. He also continues to aim the crosshairs mented bad guys and their intricate web of at corporate corruption and destructive one-perwrong-doing. Somewhere stuck in the middle of it all centers, and that makes for crowd-pleasing reading.

I realized in Light of the World that Burke has a are Robicheaux and his loved ones, including his heavy-drinking, gut-busting, rabble-rousing partner, tendency to rely on baseball terminology—a criminal Purcel. The main twist in Light of the World is that will be “hiding his pitches,” Robicheaux will remark Burke, who lives part of the year near Missoula, puts that “it’s still the first inning,” etc. The sandlot chatthis cast of usual characters in an unusual place for ter raised a comparison: At this point in his career, Robicheaux is like a literary Nolan Ryan, the no-nonthem: western Montana.

Robicheaux, his wife and his adopted daughter, sense, hard-throwing, Hall-of-Fame pitcher. Ryan Alafair, who is an aspiring novelist, have all left New played 27 seasons and tossed his seventh no-hitter at Orleans for a vacation near Lolo, and are staying at age 44. One of the secrets to Ryan’s prolonged sucthe ranch of a retired University of Montana English cess was his flawless mechanics tossing a ball, a skill professor. Purcel and his newly discovered daughter, learned by repetition and devotion to his trade. The a former high-level hitwoman from Miami who is now same could be said of the 76-year-old Burke and his pursuing a career as a documentary filmmaker, have ability to craft a story—something he’s been doing tagged along. Within the first couple pages—after more or less the same way for more than 50 years.

Burke’s fully charged prelude—Alafair is clipped on Lucky for us, the old man still has his fastball. the ear by a hunting arrow. That curious incident alsbrowning@missoulanews.com lows us to quickly meet an off-putting former rodeo

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If Thor Heyerdahl were in his prime today, doing now what he was doing in the middle part of the last century, chances are he’d be a media megastar. He’d have millions of Facebook likes and Twitter followers, his own reality show and probably a place on the cover of People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue (the dude was a hell of a looker).

Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer who studied biology and geography as a youngster, and then became consumed with anthropology, specifically relating to the peoples of the Polynesian Islands.

He led a series of expeditions designed to prove that ancient cultures were fully capable of trans-oceanic travel without the aid of mechanical propulsion or even the ability to steer into the wind. The voyage of the Kon-Tiki, a balsa-wood raft on which Heyerdahl and five others drifted from Peru to the Polynesian Islands in 1947, became the most famous of those expeditions. The book Heyerdahl wrote about the voyage became an international bestseller, and the feature documentary he filmed on the trip won an Academy Award in 1951.

Kon-Tiki is the feature-length, dramatic depiction of that voyage, from Norwegian directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg. The film, released in 2012, does a capable job in setting up Heyerdahl’s seemingly boundless courage and thirst for adventure, opening with a young Thor plummeting into frigid waters while trying to retrieve a saw from a floating ice block (one of two water-related, near-death experiences he had as a child, making the fortitude required in his later expeditions even more astounding).

After a short setup that defines both Heyerdahl’s absolute conviction of the voyage’s feasibility and the almost universal opinion of its impossibility, the bulk of the movie, as you’d expect, is spent on the raft with Heyerdahl and his companions. The film is rife with gorgeous imagery (several scenes recall the beauty of Life of Pi), which plays nicely against the internal tension of a group of men grappling with a potential suicide mission.

The script from Petter Skavlan (the credits alone are nearly worth the price of admission, peppered with names like Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård and my personal favorite, Odd-Magnus Williamson) provides a healthy dose of comic relief, though some of the humor may miss its mark with American audiences. One scene, in which an expedition member frantically scatters dehydrated soup (thinking it shark repellent) into Great White-infested waters, got huge laughs from the audience at the Wilma last weekend, while another scene, in which the lone Swedish member of the group climbs into a rudimentary shark cage made of bamboo while proclaiming, “That’s right, send the Swede!” fell absolutely flat. (Note: You may want to brush up on some Sven and Ole jokes before you go.)

Kon-Tiki has several significant narrative flaws.

After spending a considerable amount of time establishing the relationship between Heyerdahl and his first wife, and the strain of his travels on that relationship, she basically disappears a third of the way in, never to be heard from again. And while facing the last obstacle of the journey—a razor-sharp reef that threatens to kill them all mere yards from Polynesian shores—the crew member in most need of redemption comes up with an erroneous wave formula to get them over safely, which they eventually do. But that scene never happened on the actual trip, and doesn’t work all that well in the film, so why have it at all? There was plenty of existing drama in the reallife dynamic of waiting for a wave big enough to ride over the reef.

Still, this is a thoroughly enjoyable movie about a remarkable man. It’s a testament to an age not so long ago when a daring journey made in the name of science could captivate the world, when a lone Norwegian could almost single-handedly redefine the scientifically accepted notions of human possibility.

Kon-Tiki continues at the Wilma Theatre. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] R.I.P.D. After a cop dies, afterlife authorities assign him to a team of undead police officers, the Rest in Peace Department. If Ghost and Beverly Hills Cop had a baby, this would be it. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Bacon. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

OPENING THIS WEEK THE WOLVERINE Hugh Jackman is back as everyone’s favorite rendition of the carnivorous species of the weasel family. This time Wolverine must travel to Japan to battle bad guys and his personal demons in the process. Also starring Rila Fukushima and Will Yun Lee. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Village 6, Entertainer, Pharaohplex.

RED 2 Bruce Willis is a retired black-ops CIA agent must reunite his oddball team of operatives to prevent nuclear detonation. But forget Bruce, Helen Mirren shows up to kick ass, and that’s what really matters. Also starring John Malkovich, MaryLouise Parker and Catherine Zeta-Zones. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6.

NOW PLAYING THE CONJURING You can bet your Milk Duds it’s not the cat knocking stuff over this time. 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, Pharaohplex.

TURBO A weird accident puts the “go” into “escargot” in this 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, TK

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 the follow-up to the 2010 family friendly animated comedy. Starring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig and Miranda Cosgrove. Rated PG. Pharaohplex, Showboat, Carmike 12.

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 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, Showboat.

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.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit missoulanews.com’s arts section to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters 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

THE HEAT An uptight FBI agent teams up with a rambunctious Boston police officer in this buddy-cop romp. The twist: They’re ladeez! Yes, even women can cuss, wear pants, hold guns and star in formulaic comedies. Starring Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy and Demián Bichir.

Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

KON-TIKI Celebrate good ole Norwegian intrepidness in a depiction based on real-life explorer Thor Heyerdahl’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 def. also gave bragging rights for life. Starring Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen and Gustaf Skarsgård.

Rated PG-13. Wilma. (See Film.)

THE LONE RANGER This blockbuster promises to combine all the complexity of old-timey TV westerns with all the

“I swear to God, that copy machine has malfunctioned for the last time!” The Wolverine opens this week at Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

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.

ONLY GOD FORGIVES Shizz gets real when Ryan Gosling is a drug smuggler in Bangkok who must avenge his brother’s death in this gritty crime drama. Artful violence ensues.

Also starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Yayaying Rhatha Phongam. Rated R. Wilma.

PACIFIC RIM Guillermo del Toro directs this flick that is as thoughtful and character-driven as an action film involving giant robotic suits and invading 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.

missoulanews.com • July 25–August 1, 2013 [25]

[dish]

Stock up on salmon, now

by Ari LeVaux We’re about halfway through the commercial fishing season for salmon. During this window, the quality is high and prices are low for wild Pacific salmon. This presents an opportunity for savvy shoppers to gather a stash of fish to freeze, and subsequently feast on all year long. But doing so requires care and focus. The process includes many steps, all of which have to be done just right. Small lapses here and there can quickly add up to the difference between expensive disappointment and affordable delicacy. The two phases of this endeavor are the purchase and the processing of the fish.

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The Purchase Because salmon are currently being pulled from the water by the millions, most cities have multiple retail outlets that are bringing in fish just days after it’s caught. Upscale grocers like Whole Foods make guarantees, like 48 hours from the boat to the counter, but less prestigious stores can get fish just as fresh at a better price, so it pays to ask around.

I cruise the fish counters of “normal” grocery stores, like Albertson’s and Safeway, until I find fresh fish at a good price at a fish counter that looks clean and wellmanaged. When I find it I ask the manager if it’s possible to buy whole fish, minus the guts and heads.

While I don’t mind some fish head soup now and then, I don’t want to pay the same price for the heads that I pay for the bodies. But I do want the collar, which is at the end of the fish’s body, right before the head and gills, where the pectoral fins attach on either side. Sometimes called spare ribs of the ocean, collars contain big chunks of rich, succulent flesh.

There are several reasons why I prefer whole fish to pre-cut. The price per pound is lower, even after accounting for the bones you pay for. More importantly, with whole fish the flesh receives less handling than do filets, and the flesh remains protected from the air by the skin. This leaves the meat in better shape when you get it home. And whole fish can be cut into steaks, which is the best way to freeze salmon.

Last summer in Alaska I was appalled at how much good meat is wasted in the filleting process.

Even if the cutter is skilled and the knife is sharp, it’s impossible to get all of a fish’s meat in two filets, and the rest gets tossed with the skeleton. In Alaska, where salmon are almost as abundant as mosquitoes, they can afford to waste a little fish, but I can’t.

Freezing steaks is preferable to filets for much the same reason that purchasing whole fish makes more sense than buying parts: the flesh is better protected from exposure to air, reducing the potential for spoilage. With steaks, most of the meat remains covered by the skin, with only the two cut ends exposed.

FLASH IN THE PAN

Some people complain about the bones in salmon steaks. But I think the bone situation is arguably preferable compared to filets.

Filets sometimes contain short, hidden bones that can catch you by surprise. But with steaks, the bones all remain attached to the spine. You know where the bones are, and the flesh falls off them without hesitation. And when cooking steaks, those bones add flavor, in the same way bones add flavor to stock.

Some markets will stock whole fish, as my local Costco did the other day, at $7 a pound for headless sockeyes. The fish had arrived the day before, according to the label. I took a chance on a five pounder, and it passed my inspection. After dinner I froze the remains, and I would be comfortable returning with a couple hundred dollars for a year’s worth of awesome fish.

Many places will order whole fish for you, and give you a call when they arrive. But remember, just because you ordered them, you don’t have to accept delivery if the fish are no good. The eyes should be clear, the flesh should rebound when you poke it, and it should not smell fishy. Make sure the scales are off— if not, ask the fishmonger to scale them.

Processing Bring the fish straight home, on ice, and get to work. I soak them in a strong saltwater solution to remove any slime—it’s an inexact mixture of about half a cup of salt in a big vessel of water. Once the salt is dissolved, add ice to the water, and then the fish.

Remove each fish from the salt water, rinse thoroughly, pat dry, and cut it crosswise into about three to five sections, depending on how big the fish is and how many mouths you plan on feeding per sitting. The sections can be cut into individual steaks when the fish is thawed, but for the sake of protecting the flesh from exposure to air, it’s better to freeze larger pieces that can be cut into portion sizes when cooking.

When cutting your fish into steaks, you want a thin knife that’s razor sharp. Otherwise you will risk pressing down too hard on the fish as you cut it, crushing the flesh.

When going to such lengths to freeze good fish, you’re wasting your time—or at least rolling the dice— if you don’t seal it in a top quality vacuum sealer. Once you have one of these units, you’ll probably find yourself using it quite often for more than just fish.

The morning after you freeze your salmon, check on the packets. If any of them have ice crystals, you should eat those as soon as possible, before freezer burn sets in. I recommend a marinade of garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and sugar. And then broil them.

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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. $ 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. $-$$

Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns... THURSDAY is Trivia Night (7:30-10 pm). FRIDAY 7/26 David Boone. SUNDAY: Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). TUESDAY Music Showcase 7-10 PM (Burger + any draught beer $8). Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$

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. $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 41 years of great coffees and teas.

Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

GoodieVille Paxson Plaza by Southgate Mall • 728-0010 www.goodieville.com Missoula’s only Gluten-Free Bakery and Restaurant offers a full line of savories and sweets. We serve breakfast, lunch and dinner including Pancakes, Pizza, American and Indian fare. We also have extensive vegetarian and vegan options.

Open Wed-Sat 7am-9pm and Sun 7am-2pm. $-$$

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! $-$$

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Missoula’s Tailgate Headquarters! We carry all of the spirits & accessories to make your tailgate party a success! Largest selection of spirits in Montana, including locally made whiskey, vodka, gin, rum and wine. We’re located downtown with free customer parking. Grizzly Liquor was voted Missoula’s #1 Liquor Store!

Open M-F 9-6:30, Sat 9-6. $-$$$

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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. $-$$

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BUTTERFLY 232 NORTH HIGGINS AVENUE •

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Tamarack cans HAPPIEST HOUR The lowdown: Back in early June, Tamarack Brewing Company quietly joined the ranks of Montana breweries pushing product beyond the taproom. The brewery began offering two of its most popular beers in 16-ounce cans. So far distribution is limited to the company’s Lakeside and Missoula locations, as well as a string of gas stations and grocery stores in the Flathead Valley. A four-pack goes for $8.

What you’re drinking: Tamarack went with two brews for its initial canning line—Yard Sale Amber Ale and Hat Trick Hop IPA. Fans of both have been posting photos of the cans on Tamarack’s Facebook page in locations ranging from Logan Pass to the summit of Reynolds Mountain at 9,125 feet. Forget growlers. Hauling beer to Montana’s more remote corners is clearly getting easier all the time.

Why you may not have heard: According to Lacy Lopez, general manager at Tamarack’s Missoula location, the brewery hasn’t widely advertised the cans yet. News has mostly spread by word of mouth. Still, she says, “they’re really popular.” One Indy staffer only learned after

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 $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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bumping into a friend in the Flathead last week, who couldn’t stop grinning over his flashy silver four-pack. And Tamarack is stocked at present, which, given how freaking hot the weather has been, seems smart.

Where to get some: Unless you’re in the Flathead, Tamarack’s Yard Sale and Hat Trick cans are currently only available at the brewery’s Missoula bar, 231 West Front Street.

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

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. $ 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.

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. $$-$$$ 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 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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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. $-$$ Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ 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. $-$$ 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. $$ Walking Moustache 206 W. Main St. 549-3800 www.walkingmoustache.com Our aim is to offer excellent food with five star service. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Daily Specials + 2 am Special. Restaurant Hours: 24/6. Tues–Sun 6:00am–11:00pm. Closed Mondays. Winebar Hours: Tues–Sun 11:00am–11:00pm. Closed Mondays.

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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14 miles south of Bigfork along Highway 35 on the lake’s east shore. Free. Learn more at umt.edu/flbs.

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.

July 25–August 1, 2013

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Smoking jacket. Shooter Jennings plays the Top Hat Thu., Aug. 1. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20/$18 in advance plus fees at Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and tophatlounge.com.

THURSDAYJULY25 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.

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.

Bust out the bolo tie, it’s Destination Missoula’s 10th Annual Partnership and Tourism Awards Luncheon, and the community is invited to come honor the folks who work so hard to bring visitors (and their wallets) to our town. 11:30 AM-1 PM. Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. $25, tickets at destinationmissoula.org/annualmeeting or by calling 406-532-3250.

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. Flathead Lake ain’t just an excuse for Sharon Stone to hang out in Lakeside, it’s also a home to all kinds of critters. Learn this and more at the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station open house, with guided nature walks, boat tours, displays about watershed health and the lake’s history.

The station is 17.5 miles north of Polson and

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.

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.

Get a taste of la dolce vita and a li’l vino 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.

The Learning Center at Red Willow presents a garden party and chance to learn about mind/body medicine, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Presentations and Q&A starting at 6:15 PM. 825 W. Kent St. Free, but donations are welcome.

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.

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.

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[calendar] Guitar master John Floridis plays his bluesy blend of folk rock at Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St, starting at 6 PM. Give Haitian-style dancing and music a try this eve with instructor Jeanne Christopherson at The Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. W., from 6-7:30 PM. $6-$10 sliding fee scale. All skill levels welcome.

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.

Keegan Smith and the Fam will get along just fine when they play the Bitter Root Brewery from 68 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-youcan-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.

The Wailin’ Jennys are in town to rowdy up the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM. $25/$32 for VIP seating.

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 the Wilma.

7:30 PM. $7, tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and the Wilma box office.

Time Lords and mysterious Doctors take note: the Missoula Time Bank is having an orientation at 7 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center for new members. The Time Bank is a community service in which folks volunteer for each other in return for anothers’ skills or help. Enter meeting through back door. Email missoulatb@gmail.com to sign up.

Hey, hair farmers and crust punk banjo pickers, here’s something to please all y’all: the 2013 Farmageddon Records Music Festival includes such downand-dirty bluesy bastards as Scott H.

down home There’s two kinds of country: The kind that pretends to be tough but ain’t, and the kind that’s actually down and dirty, made by scuzzy bastards you just might avoid if you walked past ’em on a dark street. The latter kind is, of course, way more fun, and once you meet those scuzzy bastards, they usually turn out to be pretty cool to party with.

As luck would have it, Farmageddon Music Festival collects some of the best country-punk and bluegrass acts in the country, most of which are under the radar, and puts them on one outdoor stage for a few days of camping, Scott H. Biram music and beer-guzzling. Some of my buddies went last year when it was kee Cockfight, who sound rad just from their names. held in West Yellowstone, and I got jealous looking It also makes perfect sense that Farmageddon this at Facebook pictures of hoodie-wearing, tattooed year includes some doomy, sludgy metal bands like dudes raising beers in exuberant singalongs. This Pentagram and Weedeater. Metal culture often crosses over with outlaw country (re: Hank III), at least when it comes to attitudes about drinking, WHAT: Farmageddon Music Festival smoking and scruffy beards. Metal also serves as a WHERE: Rock Creek Lodge nice—I want to say palate cleanser, but perhaps that’s a little too fancy of a term. Chasing bluegrass WHEN: Thu., July 25-Sun., July 28 with metal is like alternating hard liquor with cheap beer. They contrast with each other, and nicely conHOW MUCH: $140 for four-day adult pass/$30 tribute to one hell of a buzz. for youth pass. $50 single-day pass MORE INFO: farmageddonmusicfestival.com

year Farmageddon is good and close to Missoula, out at Rock Creek Lodge near Clinton. Of more than 50 acts, I’m particularly stoked about The Goddamn Gallows, Pine Box Boys, Scott Biram, McDougall and Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. And there’s many more, from Glitter Bomb Burlesque to Whiskeydick to YanBiram 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. (See Spotlight.)

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.

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If you’re planning to go for the whole four-day shebang, a $140 pass includes camping. If, sadly, you can’t give up quite so many days of your week to drunken carousing, there’s $50 day passes available at the gate. Most of the headliners, like Biram and Weedeater, play Saturday, and the day pass for that is available online. Arranging for a sober driver is a real good idea, of course. And come prepared to make friends with a scruffy weirdo or two.

—Kate Whittle

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 Texanturned-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. The Mike Dillon Band rox some sox with electic, high-octane rock-funk performance at Stage 112, 112 Pattee St., at 9 PM.

$10/$8 in advance at stageonetwelve.com.

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 stonefly-productions.com.

FRIDAYJULY26 It’s a very happy dirty 30th birthday to Brandon of Cain and Fable, so party down with them, Monks on Fire and Copilot Eyedrops at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., at 9 PM. $3/$5 for ages 18-20.

Have you ever asked yourself this: Where is me shirt, me noggin’, noggin’ shirt? Then maybe you are a candidate for Celtic Festival Missoula. This two-day family affair celebrates all things Gaelic with music and food, plus it supports the University of Montana’s Irish Studies Program.

Caras Park. Free. For a full schedule visit celticfestivalmissoula.com.

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.

Celebrate Hamilton’s heritage at the annual Daly Days, which include historic reenactments and demonstrations at the Daly Mansion and several events in downtown Hamilton, including a street dance Friday night, vintage car show and brew festival, plus children’s tea party, Cow Pie Bingo and watermelon eatin’ contest. $5 Daly Mansion tours, kids under 12 admitted free.

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.

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.

Get a taste of la dolce vita and a li’l vino 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.

Might be long hard times to come but that doesn’t mean we can kick back a little. The Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival outside Hamilton invites families to camp out and enjoy a weekend of traditional bluegrass from groups like Pinegrass, JD Webb and Downstate Ramblers and Red Desert Ramblers. $10/$5 for kids under 12. Camping fee is $10. Line-up and directions at hardtimesbluegrass.com.

Play nice, now, grownups, while the kiddos run around at Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, with musician Keegan Smith. 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. If you was ever gonna go to court but then you got high, perhaps a trip down the multi-genre lane of Slightly Stoopid is the ticket you need to ride. Big Sky Brewing at 8 PM. With special guests Atmosphere, The Grouch and Eligh. $95 VIP/$35 general. For tickets visit ticketweb.com.

[calendar] the National Wildlife Federation. For Hey, hair farmers and crust info blueskiescampaign@gmail.com. punk banjo pickers, here’s (See Agenda.) something to please all y’all: the 2013 Farmageddon Records Pretty people, fresh num-nums, You’ll be checking mates at the Music Festival includes such downseas of strollers, a man eating a Northern Rockies Chess Chamand-dirty bluesy bastards as Scott H. waffle barehanded—it must be pionship, with cash prizes and all Biram and Shooter Jennings, plus summer and time for folks to make skill levels of play, at Noodle Exdoom metal like Pentagram and the pilgrimage to farmers’ markets. In press, 2000 W. Broadway.

Early bird Weedeater, and everything inbeMissoula at Circle Square (missoularegistration is $15, or $20 at the tween, including Slim Cessna’s Auto farmersmarket.com), on Pine Street door from 12:15-12:30 PM. Junior Club, Whiskeydick, and many more. (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), under registration is $5 in advance, or $10 Rock Creek Lodge in Clinton. $140 the Higgins Avenue bridge (clarkat the door.

Round one kicks off at for adult pass. Visit farmageddonforkrivermarket.com) and in Hamil1 PM. Mail Greg at PO Box 8572 or recordsmusicfestival.com for campton at South Third and stop by Liquid Planet on Wednesing and pass info.

Bedford Streets. Hours vary slightly, days from 7:30-9 PM. but most take place between 8 AM It’ll be a crackerjack of an evening when the Missoula Os- Have you ever asked yourself and 1 PM. prey meet up against the Great Falls this: Where is me shirt, me nog- Get a hit of cardiovascular exVoyagers at Osprey Field. 7 PM. First gin’, noggin’ shirt? Then maybe ercise during Nia: The Joy of 750 fans get a replica Missoula Tim- you are a candidate for Celtic Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM Festival Missoula. This two-day berjacks cap. family affair celebrates all things at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 Soak it up and sing it down members. Call 541-7240. to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & SaExplore how yoga can loon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at help heal emotional Lolo Hot Springs, presents trauma during the Red Wilkaraoke with KJ Mark, starting low Learning Center’s workat 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733. shop training, intended for trauma sufferers, yoga Sing a happy tune at the instructors, therapists, Evaro Bar’s Friday night counselors and social workkaraoke and you just might ers. 825 W. Kent St. win a prize. Starts at 9 PM, $80. 406-741-5117 for free to sing. 17025 US Highmore information and regway 93 North. istration.

DJ Dubwise spins hot oldVeg out with your carrot school and new dance out during the Hamilton party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 Farmers Market, where N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 folks can purchase all sorts PM. Free. of dee-lish local goodies Josh Farmer Band posfrom area farmers. Third sesses the sweet treats to and Bedford Streets. 9 AM get you off your feet at the to 12:30 PM. Union Club, starting around 9 Get in the rhi-zone at PM. the Missoula Iris Society Perk up your ears and fluff rhizome sale, where you your tail for Foxxy Friday, can pick and choose from an evening of sexxy dance Pajama jeans: The look of denim, the feel of paa wide selection of varieties. tunes with DJs Funk Fox, Panjamas. Texan singer-songwriter Hayes Carll The sale supports this daura, Myrth and Mike Stolin. plays Stage 112, at 112 Pattee St. inside the nonprofits’ maintenance Elk’s Lodge, Thu., Aug. 1, at 8 PM. $20/$15 in Badlander. 9 PM. Free. of public gardens. Head on advance at stageonetwelve.com.

Get weird when Calgary’s up to the Fort Missoula Lauren Mann and the Fairly Iris Gardens from 9 AM Odd Folk work it up with folk to 1 PM. Contact Carol pop at the Palace, along with Javier Gaelic with music and food, plus it or Pete at 251-5833 for more info. supports the University of MonRyan. 9 PM. $10, tickets available at tana’s Irish Studies Program. Caras Get musical while finding your etix.com and Rockin Rudy’s.

Park. Free. For a full schedule visit flow when Brian Baty leads a live Seattle country-fried rock outfit celticfestivalmissoula.com. music Vinyasa yoga class, which The Maldives is back in town, features music by Nathan Zavalney, along with Americana band Star Apply pork to low heat for an this and every Sat. from 9:30– extended amount of time and Anna and Missoula’s The All Hails, what do you get? Tasty, tasty, 10:45 AM at Inner Harmony at Stage 112, 112 Pattee St. $5. magic. Get a bite of all things Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10 Strike gold when Paydirt plays the smoked and roasted at the third an- drop-in/$8 students drop-in, with Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave., nual Stumptown BBQ Smoke-Off at various prices for punch-card holdstarting at 9:30 PM. Depot Park in Whitefish, with beer ers. Call 581-4093 or visit yogainJohn “Poncho” Dobson hosts garden, live bands and ‘cue teams missoula.com. open mic at Fergie’s Pub every competing for $8,000 in prize Micki’s Allstars, a light jazz and Fri., where you’re bound to mingle money. Families welcome. Check Latin-tinged combo featuring Curtis and Teri from Soul City Cowwith a mix of resort celebs, odd lo- out stumptownbbqsmokeoff.com. cals and dizzy soakers. You never And they say protestors can’t boys, plays the Missoula Farmer’s know who’ll show up and play. It relax. The Float Against Coal Ex- Market to delight all you shoppers. could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 ports event protests fossil fuel ex- 9:30 AM. Main Street in Hot Springs. traction and climate change. Lordy, son, look what’s 41. Why, Baby please don’t go til the end Carpool at 8 AM from the East it’s the Missoula Farmers Market at of Tommy Castro’s set of blues and Broadway Park-n-RIde to the put-in the XXXXs! Come celebrate with R&B at the Top Hat tonight, kicking on the Clark Fork with your tube kids’ activities, music, prizes and off at 10 PM. $18/$16 in advance and a sign. The float ends at an free! cake! from 9:30 to 11:30 AM at Rockin Rudy’s, ticketfly.com and 11:30 AM rally at Caras Park. Spon- on the north end of Higgins Avsors include Transition Missoula and enue. Free. the Top Hat.

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[calendar] Celebrate Hamilton’s heritage at the annual Daly Days, which include historic reenactments and demonstrations at the Daly Mansion and several events in downtown Hamilton, including a street dance Friday night, vintage car show and brew festival, plus children’s tea party, Cow Pie Bingo and watermelon eatin’ contest. $5 Daly Mansion tours, kids under 12 admitted free.

Calling all Supermen, Cinderellas and Wonder Women, a Carousel For Missoula hosts the fifth annual Fairy Tale and Super Hero Festival from 10 AM to noon. Kids are invited to dress up as their favorite character, play games and be introduced on stage by a Fairy Queen. Free, no registration required. Free Tooth Fairy bag to the first 450 participants.

Discover alternative modes of healthcare for yourself at the Be Well in the Bitterroot fair, at Liaisons Coffee House on Second Street in Hamilton. Practitioners in aromatherapy, homeopathy, craniosacral and massage therapy will be on hand. 10 AM-2 PM. Anyone facing illness or loss is invited to the Make A Glass Suncatcher class at Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. 10:30 AM12:30 PM. Free. Living Art’s mission is to use arts and nature to support healing. Check out livingartofmontana.org.

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 721BOOK. Take a “small vacation to another world” at the inaugural Tibetan Cultural Festival at the

Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee, where Tibetan people will be sharing their customs, music, dancing, food and art. 11 AM-4 PM.

from 2–7 PM Mon.-Sat. and 2–5 PM on Sun. 5646 W. Harrier. Call 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

Get a taste of la dolce vita and a li’l vino when Ten Spoon Vine-

No two Miss Massive Snowflake shows are alike, I bet. The band plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6 to 8 PM. Free.

They seem perfectly bright to me. Slightly Stoopid plays the Big Sky Amphitheater, along with Atmosphere, The Grouch and Eligh, Fri., July 26, at 8 PM. $35 general/$95 VIP. Visit ticketweb.com.

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.

Try the tastiest brews of the ‘Root at the annual Bitterroot Microbrew Fest, which includes food and music and runs from 3 PM to 10 PM on Bedford St. in Hamilton, at the corner of Second and State.

nightlife End your afternoon with a fine glass of grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room

yard 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.

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Might be long hard times to come but that doesn’t mean we can kick back a little. The Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival outside Hamilton invites families to camp out and enjoy a weekend of traditional bluegrass from groups like Pinegrass, JD Webb and Downstate Ramblers and Red Desert Ramblers. $10/$5 for kids under 12. Camping fee is $10. Line-up and directions at hardtimesbluegrass.com.

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Hey, hair farmers and crust punk banjo pickers, here’s something to please all y’all: the 2013 Farmageddon Records Music Festival includes such downand-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.

Micki’s All Stars bring smooth rhythms to Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., this balmy eve, starting at 8 PM. Free.

Reggae rocker David Baty visits from the Mile High City to play Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., along with Kappa Oie and Sophie’s Tea. 8 PM. Free, with drink specials.

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.

Strike gold when Paydirt plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave., starting at 9:30 PM. Everyone’s favorite Idaho country croonin’ fellas Sam Platts and the Kootenai Three grace our fair burg this evening. Stage 112, 112 Pattee St. Cover TBA. Greg Brown brings his folk all the way from the Hacklebarney region of Iowa on down to the Top Hat. 9 PM. $34/$40 for VIP seating. Tickets at Rockin’ Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com.

The Strangled Darlings trekked all the way up the Columbia basin to bring “stomp folk doom pop” to Missoulandia this weekend, and they play the Palace at 9 PM, along with local roustabouts Bird’s Mile Home. $5.

Don’t take Lou for granted and hear the voice of Ed Asner the Missoula Outdoor Cinema presents Up, at 9:14 PM on the lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. Call 8290873 and visit missoulaoutdoor cinema.org.

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nirvana now For those of us plagued with crippling anxiety, the idea of meditation always seemed like the answer to our problems. We've tried everything else— medications, day planners, regular exercise—and still our fingernails look like jagged pink stumps. For whatever reason, the act of clearing your mind takes some kind of mental discipline that many of us don't have. Or, maybe we just haven’t found the right place.

Fifteen years ago, Rinpoche, Ewem's founder and spiritual director, picked a spot 20 miles north of Missoula to start a Buddhist retreat aimed at educating and cultivating spirituality for anyone who may be in need. The garden, which has been under construction for more than a decade, currently holds WHAT: Tibetan Cultural Festival about 800 Buddhas. The organization says that upon its completion WHO: Ewam International the garden will see a visit from the Dalai Lama.

WHERE: The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Arlee

This year, in a kind of ‘rush-week’ effort, Ewam International—a religious, charitable and educational nonprofit organization—will be hosting its first Tibetan Cultural Festival at the Garden of One Thousand

WHEN: Sat., July 27, from 11 AM to 4 PM HOW MUCH: Free

Buddhas. The event offers the chance for people to get educated on Tibetan food and customs, speak with Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche and brother-monk Namchak Khenpo, participate in traditional song and dance and, of course, meditate.

SUNDAYJULY28 Straight outta Compton—for realz—J Boog makes island music and Jamaican reggae for your hot summer night pleasure, along with Aaradhna. Top Hat. 9 PM. $14/$10 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com. 18-plus.

Apply pork to low heat for an extended amount of time and what do you get? Tasty, tasty, magic. Get a bite of all things smoked and roasted at the third annual Stumptown BBQ Smoke-Off at Depot Park in Whitefish, with beer garden, live bands and ‘cue teams competing for $8,000 in prize money. Families welcome. Check out stumptownbbqsmokeoff.com.

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. Free. Call Barb at 375-9996.

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.

The Tibetan Cultural Festival is one of the few instances where words and phrases like “spirituality” and “inner peace” can be heard outside of a yoga studio or Phish concert. It might be the kind of baby step needed for those of us who always liked the idea of Buddhism, but just needed that extra guidance in the quest for better fingernails and a good night’s sleep.

Artist Lisa Hofman is set up on the street corner outside the Import Market at Broadway and Ryman to sell prints and cards from original paintings. Proceeds go to the Humane Society of Western Montana. 10 AM-2 PM. Bring the munchkins to enjoy these dog days at the KBGA End of Summer Family Fair on the UM Oval. Includes games, ASUM childcare, ZACC arts, music from Blue Dream, the Big Kids Band, Spencer, Animal Wonders, Andrea Cross Guns and more.

—Eben Wragge-Keller Head on down between 11 AM and 5 PM to catch the action. Free.

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 721BOOK. Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of

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[calendar] 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.

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 3812483. Free.

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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.

The Black River Killer might just be on the loose when Strangled Darlings play an edgy brand of folk and Americana at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 4 to 7 PM. Free.

Bob Wills is still the king of Western swing, but our very own Western Union is looking to commit some regicide and make some fine old Western swing tunes for you all to dance by at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 6 PM. $5.

Might be long hard times to come but that doesn’t mean we can kick back a little.

The Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival outside Hamilton invites families to camp out and enjoy a weekend of traditional bluegrass from groups like Pinegrass, JD Webb and Downstate Ramblers and Red Desert Ramblers. $10/$5 for kids under 12. Camping fee is $10. Line-up and directions at hardtimesbluegrass.com.

Explore the idea of open intelligence and the peace, happiness and skillfulness that

The one and only Tom Catmull entrances you at Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., from 7-10 PM. Free.

Hey, I sure wouldn’t leave him standing by the side of the road. Country crooner Kip Moore plays Big Sky Amphitheater Tue., July 30, at 7 PM. $25. Visit ticketweb.com.

exists within you during the Balanced View open meeting, which runs every Sun. from 67 PM in the meeting room of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free, but donations accepted. Enter from the back entrance. Visit greatfreedom.org for more info.

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 Jen-

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nings, 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.

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.

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. The Print-It class with Hailey Schofield at the Missoula Art Museum teaches kids ages 7-11 the history and art of printmaking.

Campers can make copies of their original work and decorate cards and T-shirts. Check out missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

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.

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.

[calendar] 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 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.

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 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.

TUESDAYJULY30 Hopeless Jack and Duchovny team up to bring dirty blues and experimental rock (respectively) to the ZACC Below, 235 N. First St. W., at 7 PM. Local rabble-rousers Boston Tea Party join in the fun. $2, free for ages 18 and under. Alcohol-free venue.

Dance cuz everybody’s watching at the American Cabaret Style bellydance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. This class is great for beginners and experienced dancers alike.

6–7 PM. Visit madronadance.wordpress.com.

Better leave her with the kids, the kids are all right at the annual Kidsfest in Caras Park. The fun runs from 10:30 AM to 3 PM and includes arts and crafts, games, music and general frolicking.

Free.

Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Families First Children’s Museum. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

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.

The Print-It class with Hailey Schofield at the Missoula Art Museum teaches kids ages 7-11 the history and art of printmaking. Campers can make copies of their original work and decorate cards and T-shirts. Check out missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

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

nightlife Hear ye, hear ye, clever baseballists. The Missoula Osprey, Flagship Program, Ronald McDonald House, Hospice Care Foundation and Brain Injury Alliance announced their partnership on a new and exciting summer fundraiser: Dinner on the Diamond. Have dinner on the grass of Ogren Park Allegiance Field, enjoy a croquet tournament and Calcutta bingo. 5:30 PM. $50 for dinner. Entry into the croquet tournament is $25 and $20 for the Calcutta. Tickets available for purchase in advance. For more information call 543-3300.

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-side-up 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 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.

If Wrangler butts drive you nuts, hop into that old stead, or better yet catch a ride on the stagecoach, and head out to Big Sky Brewing for an evening of country tuneage for all you hard-workin’, authentic, real Americans with up-and-coming country crooner Kip Moore. 7 PM. $25. Visit ticketweb.com.

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.

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, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: What year was air conditioning invented? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

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[calendar] “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 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. 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.

Las Vegas’ Coastwest Unrest brings a catchy brand of sometimes chaotic, sometimes melodic folk to the VFW tonight, along with Ryan Bundy and D. Ryan Belski. Doors at 9 PM. $5/$7 for ages 18-20.

Inject a little funk into your weekday evening when Supa Grupa, a funk combo of local radsters, play the Badlander at 10 PM. Free.

ginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Right arm, man. San Francisco psychedelic soul/funk group Monophonics plays Stage 112, inside the Elk’s Lodge, starting at 9 PM. Josh Farmer Band opens. $10/$7 in advance at ticketfly.com.

Move your groove to 45 rotations per minute at Whompin’ Wednesdays’ Vinyl Night, with DJs Deadline, Justin Slayer and Kodel. 10:30 PM. Free, with $6 pitchers of Pabst and free pool. (Trivia answer: 1902.

Scientists estimate a/c has the same impact on global warming as every American household driving another 10,000 miles a year.)

classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class.

Visit openway.org.

The Print-It class with Hailey Schofield at the Missoula Art Museum teaches kids ages 7-11 the history and art of printmaking. Campers can make copies of their original work and decorate cards and Tshirts. Check out missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

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 830-

WEDNESDAYJULY31 Bust out the gin and juice when Shinyribs Russell of The Gourds is in town to party down at the Top Hat. Music at 9:30 PM. $12, advance tickets at tophatlounge.com and the Top Hat. Get a nut, have a ball, or just own up to the fact that if it’s fried what’s inside don’t matter at the long-running, always punning Testicle Festival out at Rock Creek Lodge, 22 miles east of Missoula, where party people make some noise and see some breasts (mostly their own). I kid, I kid. There are beers, tunes and two-and-half tons of bull testicles to eat at this four-day fete, which runs July 31-Aug. 4, until the wee hours. For camping and ticket info visit testyfesty.com.

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.

The Print-It class with Hailey Schofield at the Missoula Art Museum teaches kids ages 7-11 the history and art of printmaking.

Campers can make copies of their original work and decorate cards and T-shirts. Check out missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

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 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 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, be-

THURSDAYAUGUST01 Have a cold one and let Rebekah Pulley’s sonic stylings massage your brainwaves at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton from 6 to 8:30 PM. Free.

The ZACC’s Printshop Orientation Class teaches peeps everything you need to know to use the print shop. In just two hours you’ll be able to impress your friends and family with your knowledge in silk-screening, relief printing, and woodcut printing. Once you get the tour, you can work there during business hours. Limited to six people per month. To register call 549-7555.

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Kick back at the lovely Travelers’ Rest State Park with tunes from Shane Clouse and Kevin Van Dort at the third annual summer concert fundraiser. Proceeds support kids’ education programs. $10 per person, free for ages 12 and under. $5 per plate of barbecue. Lawn chairs and coolers welcome.

Get a taste of la dolce vita and a li’l vino 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 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.

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 5417171.

Might we recommend the gin rickey whilst you enjoy the musical stylings of The Good Ol’ Fashioned at Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. 6 PM. Free.

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

Let us adjourn from the workday and enjoy tunes from Curtis Rathburn when he plays the Top Hat 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.

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. It’ll be a whiskey-soaked’ kinda night fer sure when Shooter Jennings plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20/$18 in advance plus fees at Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and tophatlounge.com.

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.

Texan singer-songwriter Hayes Carll croons his scruffy way into yer heart at Stage 112, at 112 Pattee St. inside the Elk’s Lodge. 8 PM. $20/$15 in advance at stageonetwelve.com.

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

Rolling down the street, smokin’ indo, sippin’ on gin and juice. Submit events by 5 PM on Friday to calendar@missoulanews.com to ensure publication in print and online. Include the who-what-when-where-why and a picture, if you would be so kind. Alternately, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. 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.”

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ews stories these days abound with statistics about how lazy and inactive Americans are, and yet, from my secluded perch at Independent World Headquarters, I see dozens of popular, ongoing events that surely test the limits of human physical ability. I always wonder who on earth does these things. Take the annual Butte 100 Mountain Bike Race.

Simple enough premise: It’s 100 miles, outside Butte.

(Racers can do the 50-mile version, too.) The Butte 100 bills itself as no less than “The most difficult 100mile mountain bike race in the country.” Yeesh. It launches at 6 AM on Homestake Pass off Interstate 90, and takes a figure-eight on Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management areas. The 50-milers will depart at 8 AM; they get 8,500 feet of elevation gain.

The century racers climb about 16,600 feet, on trails through scenic forest and high-altitude desert.

And get this: The Butte 100 this year is sold out.

In six years, it’s morphed from 40 local fanatics to reaching the 250-racer maximum within a few days.

So who just does these things? Returning to defend his 8:22:41 victory this year is David “Tinker” Juarez, a mountain bike world champion and former Olympian.

The women’s champion in the 100-mile is Lisa Curry, a much-decorated mountain biker from Bozeman, returning to defend her record of 10:50:53. For all the rest of us normal-type human beings, spectators can watch the awards ceremony and gawk at all those ripped cyclists on Sunday at the finish area. This race certainly isn’t for everybody, but it’s hard not to be inspired to get off your own butt and find your own personal best.

The Butte 100 Mountain Bike Race is Sat., July 27. The century kicks off at 6 AM on Homestake Pass, and the 50-mile version begins at 8. Waiting list, maps and directions to the start/finish line are all at butte100.com. Award ceremony is Sun., July 28 at 8 PM at the finish area.

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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.

No need to drive all the way out to Eastern Montucky to learn about Custer’s Last Stand: Placid Lake State Park, up past Seeley, hosts Rocky professor Tim Lehman and his “Voices from the Little Bighorn” talk. New archeology studies and Indian perspectives are adding to our knowledge of this landmark moment in American West history. 8 PM. Free.

FRIDAY JULY 26 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 27 The views are unmatched, but the water is still cold at the Lake Como Triathlon. The event includes a 1,500-yard swim, 12.6-mile mountain bike section and 7.7-mile trail run. If doing it all solo doesn’t sound appealing, form a team. Visit lakecomotri.com.

MONDAY JULY 29 Wanna hike with like-minded outdoorsy folks? The Sierra Club hosts an easy subalpine hike in the Mission Mountains on the Dinah Lake Trail from Lake Elsina. Five miles round trip with 700 feet of elevation gain. To sign up and learn more, email Janet at janetfiero77@gmail.com.

TUESDAY JULY 30 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.

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.

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Help keep the gorgeous Blackfoot River stay that way at the 10th annual Blackfoot River Cleanup at Johnsrud Park, on Highway 200 11 miles east of Bonner. Boaters and divers register at 8 AM, walkers at 9 AM. Free barbecue afterward for volunteers.

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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. calendar@missoulanews.com

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.

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So how appropriate that the Float Against Coal Exports rally is just that—a tubing trip down the Clark Fork ending in a protest event at Caras Park. Local groups including Blue Skies Campaign, 350 Missoula and Transition Missoula are organizing the float as part of the national Summer Heat climate change protests.

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The Learning Center at Red Willow presents a garden party and chance to learn about mind/body medicine, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Presentations and Q&A starting at 6:15 PM. 825 W. Kent St. Free, but donations are welcome.

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 the Wilma. 7:30 PM. $7, tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and the Wilma box office.

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825 W. Kent St. $80. 406-741-5117 for more information and registration.

Discover alternative modes of healthcare for yourself at the Be Well in the Bitterroot fair, at Liaisons Coffee House on Second Street in Hamilton. Practitioners in aromatherapy, homeopathy, cranio-sacral and massage therapy will be on hand. 10 AM-2 PM. Anyone facing illness or loss is invited to the Make A Glass Suncatcher class at Living Art Studio, 725 W.

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The Float Against Coal Exports event protests fossil fuel extraction and climate change. Carpool at 8 AM from the East Broadway Park-n-Ride to the put-in on the Clark Fork with tube and a sign. The float ends at an 11:30 AM rally at the fish statue in Caras Park. Email blueskiescampaign@gmail.com for more.

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MONDAY JULY 29 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. 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.

TUESDAY JULY 30 Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome.

1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Remember this the next time you have an argument about whether glasses go right-side-up 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 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.

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.

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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CLEANUP IN AISLE HOME I've been seeing my boyfriend for 10 months and living with him and his 12-year-old daughter for half that time. He broke up with his daughter's mother after she became addicted to coke and then meth. She has been in and out of jail and has a massive number of possessions, loads of which are still here: furniture, little picture frames, small decorative pieces, jewelry boxes full of random junk (earrings, magazine clippings, makeup, little figurines, candy wrappers). When I moved in, I spent days boxing up many of her possessions, but she claims to live in a tiny apartment, won't divulge where, and refuses to take a single box. She even freaks out at the mention of getting rid of her dumb garden gnomes (which she stole from someone's yard while high). If my boyfriend tried to make her take her things, she'd have a huge meltdown, putting their daughter in the middle, and he's submissive to her because of that. I'd put everything in storage, but we don't have the extra money. My boyfriend's getting exasperated about this, and I'm thinking I should just drop it. I hate living among all of her things, but I love him so much that I don't seem to have a choice.

—Smothered You're a hard lady to buy a housewarming gift for, as they don't make plaques that say, "Home is where the heart-shaped jewelry box full of your boyfriend's daughter's mother's candy wrappers is."

It's no small thing, having to wake up every day in some other woman's twobedroom junk drawer. But like many women, you seem to prioritize your relationship over your feelings and well-being.

There are compromises to be made in any romantic partnership, but being gnawingly miserable in order to be happy doesn't end well, assuming you weren't looking to live resentfully ever after. Healthy compromise involves expressing your feelings and together figuring out solutions that work for both of you, not keeping your feelings to yourself until clutter control suggestions like "put random stuff in pretty baskets" give way to thoughts like "commit arson."

There is a way to turn this situation positive—without lighting a match or opening your front door and yelling, "Yard sale!"

Use this as your training ground for developing healthier conflict resolution. To bring up how you're feeling, open with the good stuff—how much you appreciate him and your life together—and then tell him that

you're unhappy living in a house that constantly reminds you of his ex. Let him know that you understand his concern for protecting his daughter but that the solution isn't submitting to emotional blackmail; it's talking to his daughter in advance about what you're doing and why and maybe scheduling a sleepaway for her on the day the trash hits the fan (or, more prudently, the storage unit).

Tempting as it must be to "store" his ex's things in a landfill, it's safest to proceed with the expectation that she'll sue him for that and claim that the bud vase that was under the bed came from the Qing dynasty and not free, with a Wednesday wax job, from the carwash. As for your not having the "extra" money for storage, tending to your feelings, as well as your boyfriend's, may mean that you both go without lattes or do odd jobs so you stop living as a second-class citizen to two stolen garden gnomes, 17 partially filled shampoo bottles, and all the rest.

University of Chicago law professor Lior Strahilevitz said that the law typically regards a situation like you've described as "gratuitous bailment," legalese for a person's temporarily holding someone else's property without benefit or compensation. He suggests that your boyfriend send several emails and texts and leave phone messages telling the ex that she needs to pick up her possessions from the storage facility "within a reasonable amount of time." (What that would be varies by jurisdiction.) I suggest that you also photograph her stuff and document all the steps you take. According to Strahilevitz, your boyfriend would be wise to hang on to small valuables, like photos and fine jewelry, which aren't a menace to store.

But, he says, "donating or disposing of the furniture and junk after a few months in which emails and calls ... asking her to remove the property were ignored probably would not constitute gross negligence," a scary legal term that merely describes being really careless with someone's property.

Although, at the moment, one woman's trash is another woman's trash, the prognosis looks good for that "another woman" no longer being you. Personally, I'm picturing the winning bidder on "Storage Wars" dreaming of abandoned art treasure in her unit and finding it—from Rodin's little-known "garden gnome sitting on a toilet" period.

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CLOSE DATE: 08/15/13. JOB# 9978803, Missoula Job Service 728-7060 Assistant Head Housekeeper Seeking an experienced individual to be second in command of our housekeeping department. Must have Housekeeping experience and we prefer Supervisory experience. Must be a self starter and work well with others. JOB# 9978778, Missoula Job Service 728-7060 Clark Fork School is Missoula’s natural alternative for K5 education. Our progressive, parent-guided co-op offers individualized attention in small classes, structured academics designed to meet or exceed public school benchmarks, and exceptional Montana-certified educators For 30 years, our student-centered philosophy and experiential learning have been

EMPLOYMENT inspiring wonder, nurturing growth, and developing the best in our community’s children. Our nature-based curriculum is uniquely suited to Missoula, tapping into children’s natural curiosity, while developing deep observation and critical thinking skills. We are seeking a coteacher for our 1st-5th grade classroom. Position is 30 hours per week. Teacher will be responsible for academics of 3rd5th grades. Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age. Must have BA in Education. Would prefer background in Special Education. Must have a warm and friendly personality, be sensitive to the feelings and needs of others, be able to work cooperatively in a teaching team, and believe in the tenets of experiential education and the benefits of a connection with nature. Please email cover letter and resume.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): "I have tried in my way to be free," sings Leonard Cohen in his song "Bird on a Wire." In other words, he has done the best he can to liberate himself from his unconscious patterns, bad habits, and self-delusions. He hasn't been perfect in his efforts, but the work he has done has earned him a measure of deliverance from his suffering. I recommend you follow his lead, Aries. Do your best to bring more relief and release into your life. Get rid of things that hold you back. Overthrow a pinched expectation and ignore a so-called limitation or two. By this time next week, I hope you will be able to say sincerely, "I have tried in my way to be free."

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm," wrote the novelist Willa Cather. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you're in a phase of your cycle when storm-learning isn't your priority. The educational experiences you need most will unfold when you're exploring the mysteries of peace and serenity. In fact, I suspect that the deeper you relax, the more likely it is that you will attract life-changing teachings -- lessons that can transform your life for the better and fuel you for a long time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is there a message you've wanted to deliver for a long time but haven't been able to? Are you bursting with thoughts or feelings that you've been longing to express but can't find the right way to do so? Have you spent months carrying around a poignant truth that you have felt wasn't ripe enough to be revealed? If your answer to any of those questions is yes, I believe the time will soon be at hand to make a move. But it's important that you're not impulsive or melodramatic as you initiate your breakthrough communications. For best results, be full of grace and balance.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Bees and other insects can see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans. When they look at flowers, they detect designs on the petals that you and I cannot. For example, the evening primrose appears completely yellow to us, but it calls seductively to bees with a flashy star pattern at its center. Many of the secret signs that flowers offer the pollinators are meant to guide them to where the pollen and nectar are. Let's use this as our metaphor of the week, Cancerian. I am not predicting that you will be able to perceive a broader spectrum of light. But I do believe you will discern cues and clues that are hidden from most people and that have been imperceptible to you in the past.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me." So said the Leo science fiction writer Greg Egan in his story "Learning to Be Me." Let's pretend that you, too, have a small dark jewel inside your skull that's learning to be you. It's a good metaphor for what I believe has been happening all these years: You have been gradually mastering the art of being the best Leo you can be. It hasn't been easy. You weren't born knowing how to be your beautiful, radiant, courageous self, but have had to work hard to activate your potentials. Now you're moving into an especially critical phase of the process: a time when you have the chance to learn how to love yourself with greater ingenuity.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of the world's best race car teams is McLaren. It wins about 25 percent of the events in which it competes. Its skilled drivers account for much of its success, but its technicians are also pretty sensational. During a pitstop in the middle of a race, they can change all four tires on the car in less than three seconds. Do you have helpers like that, Libra? If you don't, it's time to intensify your efforts to get them. And if you do, it's time to call on them to give you an extra boost.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Let's try an experiment. It's risky, but I'm hoping you will do it with such flair that there will be no karmic blowback. What I propose, Scorpio, is that you have fun expressing more confidence than usual. I invite you to strut a bit, even swagger, as you demonstrate your command over your circumstances. Enjoy acting as if the world is your plaything . . . as if everyone around you secretly needs you to rise up and be a bigger, bolder version of yourself. The trick, of course, will be to avoid getting puffed up with grandiose delusions. Your challenge is to be more wildly devoted to embodying your soul's code without lapsing into arrogance.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Dear Astrology Guy: Please tell me why I have to work so hard - meditate, reflect, read, analyze, poke, prod, investigate -- to discover truths about myself that must be obvious to others. Why is it so hard for me to see where I need healing and where I need to let go? Why is it such an ordeal to grasp what is interfering with my wholeness when I can quickly pinpoint what other people's issues are? -Overworked Virgo." Dear Overworked: I'm happy to report that you Virgos will soon be offered a gush of revelations about who you are, how you can heal, and what strategies will best serve your quest to minimize your anxiety. Are you prepared to absorb some intense teachings? For best results, make yourself extra receptive.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect that you are longing to take a quantum leap of faith, but are also afraid to take that quantum leap of faith. You sense the potential of experiencing a very cool expansion, while at the same time you hesitate to leave your comfort zone and give up your familiar pain. In light of the conflict, which may not be entirely conscious, I suggest you hold off on making a gigantic quantum leap of faith. Instead, experiment with a few bunny hops of faith. Build up your courage with some playful skips and skitters and bounces that incrementally extend your possibilities.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Hoaxes exposed! Bluffs called! Secrets revealed! Whitewashes uncovered! Curses banished! Taboos broken! Those are the headlines I expect to see emblazoned in your Book of Life during the coming weeks. Can you handle that many holy disruptions?

Will you be able to deal with the stress that might come from having so much raucous success? These are important questions, because if you're not up to the challenge, you may scare away the transformations. So steel your resolve, Capricorn. Mobilize your will. Do what's necessary to harvest the unruly blessings.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The French novelist Flaubert declared that if you hope to write a book, you should first read 1,500 books. A Roman author named Petronius believed that the imagination does not work at its peak power unless it is inundated with reading material. I suggest you adopt their advice and apply it to your own field, Aquarius. Whatever skill or subject you want to master, expose yourself lavishly to the efforts of other people who have already mastered it. Flood yourself with well-crafted inspiration.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you be worried that a venomous spider has crawled into your shoe while you were sleeping? Just in case, should you flip your shoe upside-down before putting it on each morning? My studied opinion: hell, no. The chances of you being bitten on the foot by a venomous spider lurking in your shoe are even less than the possibility that you will be abducted by an alien who looks like Elvis Presley and forced to sing a karaoke version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" at an extraterrestrial bar. And if you are going around filled with delusional anxieties like that, you will definitely interfere with life's current predilection, which is to give you a cleansing respite from your fears as well as immunity from harm.

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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 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Missoula, Montana will meet Monday, August 12, 2013 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the City Council Chambers,140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on a resolution to levy a special assessment and tax upon all property situated within pooled sidewalk curb, gutter and alley approach bonds series 2013 of the City of Missoula, Montana, in the total amount of $393,000 excluding debt service, to defray the cost of installing sidewalks, curbs, gutters and alley approaches pursuant to resolution number 7792 ratifying the sale of bonds. For further information contact Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk, at 552-6078. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of hearing.

Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. BY

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA. Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 26, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on a resolution to establish regulations for the acceptance and review of applications for the creation of a building for lease or rent on one parcel of land in the City of Missoula. All persons interested may appear and provide comments at the hearing or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of hearing. Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. For further information contact Tom Zavitz, Development Services at 552-6632 or Laval Means, Development Services at 552-6628. /s/ 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/bids or by contacting the Chris Behan at the Missoula Redevelopment Agency 406552-6155 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.

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 Department No. 3 Cause No. DA-13-20 NOTICE OF HEARING IN RE THE MATTER

"Sounds Terrible"–music you don't want to hear.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 "Rubaiyat" poet Khayyam 5 Unbuttered, like toast 8 Foil the plans of 14 Vincent of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" 16 Medicine man 17 Extremely drab orchestra tunes?

18 Pulling an all-nighter 19 Not a silk purse source, in an old phrase 21 Clique member, often 22 Fall back, as the tide 25 Rap so ancient that fungus is growing on it?

27 Opulent residence 30 Greek letter 31 The Atlanta Braves' div.

32 Destroy 33 Went ___ for the ride 35 Loud music that's too deep to think about?

39 Succulent plants 40 "Arrested Development" surname 43 Big bygone bird 46 1998 Hyundai acquisition 47 Pic taken at arm's length 48 Anti-label music that's totally bogus?

52 S.E. Hinton classic 53 ___-do-well (scoundrel) 54 Border on the court 57 Let everyone else have a turn 59 Moronic offshoot of reggae?

63 Pink character on "The Backyardigans" 64 Sensitive to other's feelings 65 Visualizing 66 Fast-spinning stat 67 Body shop removal

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1 Deceased Wu-Tang member, briefly 2 Word from Miss Piggy 3 "Brokeback Mountain" director Lee 4 Burgles 5 Art correspondence class come-on 6 Laundry detergent brand of yore 7 Alpine melody 8 Lovey's hubby on "Gilligan's Island" 9 "Cool," once 10 "America's Most Wanted" host John 11 Support group with 12 steps 12 Prepare for a factory upgrade 13 Amplifier setting 15 Progressive character?

20 "Someone Like You" singer 22 Pre-album albums, briefly 23 "Jackass" crew member Margera 24 Nothing to brag about 26 Is impossible 28 In a muddle 29 Sarah of "Roseanne" and "Scrubs" 33 Clock settings 34 Nerve 36 Easy-to-recognize word in speech recognition programs 37 Ache (for) 38 Air, to Germans 41 Pain in the neck?

42 Place a curse on 43 Jazz bassist Charlie 44 Early even score 45 Penguin from Antarctica 47 Cuts corners 49 From Baghdad, say 50 Comparatively peculiar 51 Dirt cluster 55 The Pistons, the Pacers, etc.

56 Founded, on town signs 58 It's "a mass of incandescent gas," in a TMBG song 60 Word ignored when alphabetizing 61 "Ich bin ___ Berliner" 62 %, for short

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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) 258-4780, 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 Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-13-132 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA A. MCBRIDE, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Jon M. McBride, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2820 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 5th day of July, 2013. /s/ Jon M. McBride, Personal Representative DATED this 9th day of July, 2013.

ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Rochelle L. Loveland STATE OF MONTANA ):ss County of Flathead) I, Jon M. McBride, declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. /s/ Jon M. McBride, Personal Representative SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 5th day of July, 2013. /s/ Amanda S. Piilola Notary Pubic for the State of Montana, Residing at Columbia Falls, Montana My Commission Expires: January 30, 2017 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 GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 above-entitled 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 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 406542-0539 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 PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE July 25, 2013 Brady G. Nelson and Cynthia R. Nelson 1830 Trails Street Missoula, MT 59801-152 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Brady G. Nelson and Cynthia R. Nelson 3376 Trails End Road Missoula, MT 59803 K. L. Templeman, as Registered Agent of Bitterroot Valley Bank P. O. Box 9 Lolo, MT 59847 Brady G. Nelson and Cynthia R. Nelson P. O. Box 3932 Missoula, MT 59806-

3932 Bitterroot Valley Bank dba Two Rivers Bank P. O. Box 248 Milltown, MT 59851 Beowulf Tax Liens, LLC 6320 Reserve Drive Boulder, CO 80303 K. L. Templeman, as Registered Agent of Bitterroot Valley Bank 11300 Highway 93 South, Ste. D. Lolo, MT 59847 Bitterroot Valley Bank dba Two Rivers Bank P.O. Box 248 Milltown, MT 59851 K. L. Templeman, as Registered Agent of Bitterroot Valley Bank P. O. Box 9 Lolo, MT 59847 K. L. Templeman, as Registered Agent of Bitterroot Valley Bank 11300 Highway 93 South, Ste D. Lolo, MT 59847 Western Insurance Company/Western Bonding Company P. O. Box 21030 Reno, NV 89515 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: Please take notice that a property tax lien exists on the following described property in which you may have an interest. TAX ID #: 5909374 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A PARCEL OF GROUND LOCATED IN THE SW1/4NW1/4 AND THE NW1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M. BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE SECTION LINE COMMON TO SECTION 19 AND 24, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, SAID POINT BEING 900 FEET NORTH OF THE 1/4 SECTION CORNER COMMON TO SECTIONS 19 AND 24, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST; THENCE EAST A DISTANCE OF 2 FEET TO A POINT, SAID POINT BEING ON THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE AND 30 FEET WEST OF THE CENTER LINE OF TRAILS END ROAD AT STATIONING 23+82.20 A P.C.; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF WAY LINE AND ALONG SAID CURVE, BEING CONCAVE TO THE NORTHEAST AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 214.51 FEET A DISTANCE OF 194.70 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT LINE; THENCE S.52°00’15”E. ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 30 FEET TO A POINT AT WHICH POINT THE RIGHT-OF-WAY CHANGES AND IS PARALLEL TO AND 25 FEET RIGHT OF SAID RIGHT-OFWAY LINE AND 55 FEET RIGHT OF THE CENTER LINE OF TRAILS END ROAD; THENCE CONTINUING S.52°00’15”E., ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 314.11 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT CURVE; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF WAY LINE AND ALONG SAID TANGENT CURVE, BEING CONCAVE TO THE NORTHEAST AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 1719.89 FEET, A DISTANCE OF 257.78 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT LINE; THENCE S.60°35’30”E. ALONG SAID RIGHT-OFWAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 125.0 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT CURVE, AT WHICH POINT THE RIGHT-OF-WAY CHANGES AND IS PARALLEL TO AND 25 FEET LEFT OF SAID RIGHT- OF-WAY LINE AND 30 FEET RIGHT OF THE CENTER LINE OF TRAILS END ROAD; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE AND SAID TANGENT CURVE, BEING CONCAVE TO THE SOUTHWEST AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 666.09 FEET A DISTANCE OF 290.64 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT LINE; THENCE S.35°35’30”E. ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 71.53 FEET AT WHICH POINT THE RIGHT-OF-WAY CHANGES AND IS PARALLEL TO AND 25 FEET RIGHT OF SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE AND 55 FEET RIGHT OF THE CENTER LINE OF TRAILS END ROAD, THENCE CONTINUING S.35°35’30”E., ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF- WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 10.0 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT CURVE; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OFWAY LINE AND ALONG SAID TANGENT CURVE, BEING CONCAVE TO THE NORTHEAST AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 379.04 FEET, A DISTANCE OF 226.92 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT LINE; THENCE S.69°53’35”.

ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 25.0 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT CURVE, AT WHICH POINT THE RIGHT-OF-WAY CHANGES AND IS PARALLEL TO AND 25 FEET LEFT OF SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE AND 30 FEET RIGHT OF THE CENTER LINE OF TRAILS END ROAD; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY, SOUTHERLY AND SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE AND ALONG SAID TANGENT CURVE; BEING CONCAVE TO THE NORTHWEST AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 70.20 FEET A DISTANCE OF 209.37 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT LINE; THENCE N.79°00’35”W. ALONG SAID RIGHT-OFWAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 341.99 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT CURVE; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY, WESTERLY AND SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE AND ALONG SAID TANGENT CURVE, BEING CONCAVE TO THE SOUTH, AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 466.94 FEET A

DISTANCE OF 308.83 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT LINE; THENCE S.63°05’45”W., ALONG SAID RIGHT-OFWAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 129.51 FEET TO A POINT ON A TANGENT CURVE; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF- WAY LINE AND ALONG SAID TANGENT CURVE, BEING CONCAVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AND HAVING A RADIUS OF 366.11 FEET, A DISTANCE OF 260.70 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE WEST A DISTANCE OF 165.27 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SECTION LINE COMMON TO SECTIONS 19 AND 24, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M.; THENCE NORTH ALONG SAID SECTION LINE A DISTANCE OF 1334.78 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. The property tax lien exists because property taxes were not paid on the property. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1, 2010.

Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 16, 2010. The lien was subsequently assigned to DodgeHoldings, LLC, PO Box 17275, Missoula, MT 59808. By, law, you have a 36-month redemption period, beginning on the date of the Treasurer’s tax sale, during which you may pay ALL delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and county costs to stop the issuance of a tax deed. The period will end for your property on July 11, 2013. If the taxes, penalties, interest and costs are not paid as required by Law to the County Treasurer on or before September 24, 2013, the County Treasurer may then issue a tax deed to Tim Christensen by order of the County Commissioners. The amount of delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and cost owing as of the date of this notice is as follows: 2009-2012: $9,801.82 TITLE COSTS: $181.00 TOTAL DUE: $9,982.82 For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed above must be paid by September 24, 2013. If all taxes, penalties, interest and cost are not paid on or before September 24, 2013, a tax deed will be issued on the following day, September 25, 2013.

NOTICE OF PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE July 25, 2013 Edna V. Carney, 1020 Burton St., Missoula, MT 59802-2114 Edna V. Carney, PO Box 3, Dutton, MT 59433 Edna V. Carney, 1633 South 14th Street West, Missoula, MT 59802 Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 Pursuant to section 15-18212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: Please take notice that a property tax lien exists on the following described property in which you may have an interest.

TAX ID #: 619607 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE SOUTH 40 FEET OF LOTS 8, 9 AND 10 IN BLOCK 60 OF SCHOOL ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. The property tax lien exists because property taxes were not paid on the property. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1, 2010.

Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 16, 2010. The lien was subsequently assigned to DodgeHoldings, LLC, PO Box 17275, Missoula, MT 59808. By, law, you have a 36-month redemption period, beginning on the date of the Treasurer’s tax sale, during which you may pay ALL delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and county costs to stop the issuance of a tax deed. The period will end for your property on July 11, 2013. If the taxes, penalties, interest and costs are not paid as required by Law to the County Treasurer on or before September 24, 2013, the County Treasurer may then issue a tax deed to Tim Christensen by order of the County Commissioners. The amount of delinquent taxes, penalty, interest and cost owing as of the date of this notice is as follows: 2009-2012: $8,406.89 TITLE COSTS: $181.00 TOTAL DUE: $8,587.89 For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed above must be paid by September 24, 2013. If all taxes, penalties, interest and cost are not paid on or before September 24, 2013, a tax deed will be issued on the following day, September 25, 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. whose phone number is 406549-9631. The personal property is from 1524 S. 12th W., Unit B, Missoula, MT and 803 Van Buren, Missoula, MT. Sale location will be 414 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. bpm@montana.com Call 406-5499631 for showings. The sale will be to the highest bidder. Sold “as is”, “where is” for cash or certified funds.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE S SALE Trustee Sale Number: 11-01664-5 Loan Number: 1205271905 APN: 5844006 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on October 16, 2013

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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 Pass-Through 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 described 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 occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.19220) 1002.248122-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/29/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200411846 Bk-731 Pg-707, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew D. Campbell and Judith R. Campbell was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 13 of Southpointe, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201304550 B:909 P:716, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 7, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $210,814.60. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $202,932.91, 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 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall re-

sult in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.105993) 1002.251321-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/27/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200710258 Bk: 796 Pg: 300, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Amy C Ganguli, and Christian M Leibbrandt was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc, it successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Charles J. Peterson, Attorney at Law was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson, Attorney at Law as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14 of Drew Creek Addition - Phase VII to the Double Arrow Ranch, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201202745 Bk: 889 Pg: 822, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. 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 10/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 31, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $201,961.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $171,560.55, 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 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7021.16158) 1002.251043-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 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 secure 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 de-

clared 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, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

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

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed Of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: 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. ACCORD-

ING 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, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 29, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Succes-

As the General Contractor/Construction Manager, Jackson Contractor Group, Inc. on behalf of Missoula County, will be accepting pricing for all scopes of work for the Missoula County Courthouse/Annex, Office Remodel Phase 3. Mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontracting firms have been pre-selected.

Only pre-selected mechanical, electrical and plumbing subcontractors may submit a bid for their respective scopes of work. All bids are due on August 8th at 2:00pm MST to the Office of Missoula County Auditor, located at 199 West Pine, Room #136, Missoula, MT 59802. Bid documents may be obtained through the Missoula Plans Exchange, through our ftp site or a hardcopy may be obtained for a plans deposit fee of $200.00 at the Jackson Contractor Group, Inc. office located at 5800 Highway 93 South, Missoula, MT 59804. Please contact Hattie Redmon at hattier@jacksoncontractorgroup.com or 406-542-9150 to gain access to the plans through our ftp site or to obtain a hardcopy.

sor 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, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: 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: 12-03253-3 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

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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

The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following applications: A request from MMEC Architecture; Signs as Part of Building for Taco Bell, located at 3400 Brooks St. (SEE MAP V).

• 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)

Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. E-mails can be sent to kcolenso@ci.missoula.mt.us.

Project files may be viewed at the Missoula Development Services at 435 Ryman St., Missoula, Montana. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 552-6636. The City of Missoula will provide auxiliary aids and services.

Rainbow Mini Storage will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units 16, 37, 49 and 52 owing delinquent storage rent.

Units contains household items. Viewing will be held August 7th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. Written sealed bids must be mailed to P.O. Box 425, Milltown, MT 59851 to arrive no later than August 10, 2013. Buyers bids will be for entire contents of each unit. Only cash 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 engineering 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

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Monday, August 12, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana: 3640-3690 Brooks – Enterprise Commerical Conditional Use Request from Woodbury Corporation for approval of an Enterprise Commercial Conditional Use at 3640-3690 Brooks (former Kmart site) (see Map S), zoned C1-4 (Neighborhood Commercial).

Enterprise Commercial Uses are defined as developments that contain more than 30,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area, whether contained in a single building or contained within multiple buildings on a single development site.

Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged.

The request and case file are available for public inspection at the Development Services office, 435 Ryman Street. Call 552-6638 for further assistance.

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 one-page 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.

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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.

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. The Development Services office will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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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At 2 years old, he gets along with everyone adults, kids, dogs and even cats. A Chihuaha mix by birth, he loves to go for walks and work out any extra energy. Playful, outgoing, and social by nature, he’s ready for adoption today.

These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4701 GALENA•Galena is a 3-year-old female, long-haired tabby. She is playful and full of energy. She is looking for an indoor/outdoor environment and would do well in a multiple-pet home, as long as she has her own space.

TABITHA•Tabitha is a 4-year-old female orange tabby who has been with AniMeals for two years. She is a very sweet girl; however, she will need a single cat home and a patient owner. She is shy upon first introduction, but once she gets to know you, she is very loving.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

ROCKY• Rocky is a large 5-year-old male

tabby. He is declawed on the front, extremely loving and prefers to live with other female cats. He is tentative and cautious around men, but instantly cuddles with women.

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LEONA•Leona is a 6-year-old female lilac

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POST 27 HALL IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR RENTING. $350* (*$450 w/ band) Per Day +$200 refundable Cleaning/Damage Deposit. Capacity 299 people.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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

To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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30 years in Call for Current Listings & Services Missoula Email: gatewest@montana.com

www.gatewestrentals.com MHA Management manages 10 properties throughout Missoula.

All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program.

The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.

No Initial Application Fee Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing

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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $550, North Russell, coin-op laundry, storage and off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No pets, no smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1215 6th: 1 Bedroom, Storage, Central, Share back yard, Cat allowed, $550 GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!!

1914 Scott Street: Large 2 bedroom daylight basement. $753/$650 deposit. W/S/G paid. W/D hookups. Dishwasher. Missoula Housing Authority 549-4113 2 bedroom, 1 bath $795 W/S/G paid, newly renovated, Southside location, DW, W/D hookups, carport. No pets, no

smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 205 W. Kent. Studio/1 bath, lower level, shared yard, all utilities included. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 320 Benton: Studio, lower level w/egress, bath w/shower, microwave needed, all paid, $375.

GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106 440 Washington 1bed/1bath, downtown, coin-ops on site. $700 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 825 SW Higgins Ave. B7. 2 bed/1 bath, single garage, DW, W/D hookups, near Pattee Creek Market $800. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 Garden District. 2 bedroom $580 & $711 W/S/G paid.

Washer/dryer included Contact Jordan Lyons at 406-549-4113,

ext. 127. jlyons@missoulahousing.org

MOBILE HOMES

Gold Dust Apartments. 2 bedrooms $691 all utilities paid. 3 bedroom $798 all utilities paid.

Contact Jordan Lyons at 406549-4113, ext.

127 or jlyons@missoulahousing.org

Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent w/s/g/elec included $425/month 406-273-6034

DUPLEXES

Palace Apartments. (3) 1 bedrooms $438-$556 H/W/S/G paid. Contact Matty Reed at 406-549-4113, ext.

130. mreed@missoulahousing.org

1903 S. 14th Street West 2bed/1bath, shared yard, storage. $600. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

Quiet, private 1 bedroom 8 miles from town with Bitterroot River access. NS/NP. $600 + deposit includes utilities, satellite TV & Internet. 273-2382

2423 55th St. “A” 3 bed/1 bath, shared yard, single garage, South Hills. $900. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

Solstice Apartments. (2) 2 bedrooms $620-$751 W/S/G paid. Missoula Housing Authority. Contact Colin Woodrow at 406-549-4113, ext. 113 or cwoodrow@missoulahousing.org

722 Bulwer. Studio/1 bath, lower level, shared fenced yard, pet? $525. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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HOUSES 107 E. Kent. 2 bed/1.5 bath, single garage, fenced back yard,

extra storage. $1050. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 120 South Ave East. 3 bed/2 bath, close to University, fenced back yard. $1450. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2017 W. Sussex: 3 Bedroom house, 1 1/2 Baths, 2-story, Porch, By the mall, Storage shed, Dishwasher, $1095. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!!

RENTALS OUT OF TOWN 20230 Ninemile: 2 Bedroom house, Full unfinished basement, Garage stall, Hook-ups, Pet OK, $825. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!!

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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 2226 Briggs. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with full basement, deck & 2 car garage. $210,000. Rita Gray,

Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329283 ritagray@lambrosera.com

Pat McCormick 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

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

2401 Gilbert. 3 bed, 2 bath with attached single garage in Upper Rattlesnake. $298,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

4449 Johnsrud Park Road. Incredible 3 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.52 acres along the Blackfoot River. $675,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605

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 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $195,000. 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. $451,250. 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. $255,000. 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.

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 521 North 1st West. 2 bed, 1 bath with front & back decks, fenced yard & garage. $189,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.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 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 Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis.

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

soula, Lolo and Florence. 5441274 www.westbrookpm.com

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

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

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: 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

WESTBROOK Property Management WANTED! Residential Rentals in Mis-

Ronan, Montana 406 Main Street SE

$249,900

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

2121B West Kent. Immaculate, energy-efficient 3 bed, 1.5 bath with covered front porch, fenced backyard & single garage. $172,000. Vickie Honzel, Lam-

bros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 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 6614 MacArthur. 2 bed, 2.5 bath townhome with amazing views. $194,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properites.

240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 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

2550 Pattee Canyon $495,000

PRICED BELOW MARKET VALUE

Beautiful large family custom built home.

This home features 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, wrap around covered porch, triple car garage, large fenced yard with lots of trees. There is separate living quarters with its own bath and kitchenette.

Judy Coulter, GRI • Wright Real Estate Co. • 406.249.4101

3 bed/2.5 bath. Private, park-like 8 acres minutes from downtown. Master suite.

Daylight, walkout. 2 car garage.

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 Edgewood, East Missoula.

3.5 acres bare land. $89,900.

Vickie Honzel, LambrosERA Real Estate 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com NHN Mormon Creek Road. 12 acres with Sapphire Mountain views. $150,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties.2000.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40+ acre parcel with Mission Mountain views. $199,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Old Freight Road. Approximately 11 acres with Mission Mountain Views. $86,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.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 Gorgeous Victorian home zoned for commercial use in a great location $395,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call

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.

Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com HISTORIC STENSRUD BUILDING. Renovated 1890’s building with 95% original hardware.

Residential or commercial zoning.

Lovely opportunity. $868,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-9270. glasgow@montana.com

OUT OF TOWN 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath on almost 3 acres with large 48’x30’ heated shop. $285,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties, 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

fenced pasture, 2 car garage & 1 bed rental. $319,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net 210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $495,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 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

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.

1623 Wild Turkey Lane, Stevensville. Over 200 acre private ranch with creek surrounded by conservation easement land. $949,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoulaproperties.com 19655 Mullan Road, Frenchtown. 3 bed, 2 bath log/timber home on 15 acres with pond,

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

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 road from the river and set back in the trees with lovely landscaped yard. Attached garage

575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres.

Mountain views, hay barn & 2 car garage. $349,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

and detached enormous insulated shop. $299,900. KD 2405227. porticorealestate.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

RICE TEAM

5905 Ocean View, Clinton. 4 bed, 3 bath on 1.63 acres with 3 fireplaces, 2 car

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 Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net

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

Robin Rice • 240-6503

Rita Gray Lambros Real Estate ERA 406-544-4226 www.ritagray.com

Wh it comes to home When loans, we know our way loa around the block.

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

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Jeremy Williams • Windermere Real Estate 532-7919 • jeremyw@windermere.com

3220 Great Northern Way | 327-1012 lhodge@fsbmsla.com

UPTOWN FLATS #306

1716 Schilling $190,000 Adorable 2 bed, 1 bath on huge lot. Fir & tiles floors, granite countertops Patio & double garage

4834 Scott Allen Dr. $372,500 4 bed, 3 bath multilevel on almost 1/3 acre landscaped, fenced. Light & bright 3500 sq.ft. floor plan 2 car garage & 3 storage sheds

11689 Stolen Rock, Frenchtown $319,000 5 bed. 3 bath on over 3 acres Great valley & mountain views

5905 Ocean View $300,000 4 bed 3 bath on 1.63 acres in Turah. 3 fireplaces, 2 car garage & many updates

Air conditioned 1 bed, 1 bath third floor corner unit. Community room, deck with grill & fitness center

$162,000 Call Anne for more details

546-5816

MLS #20131347

Anne Jablonski annierealtor@gmail.com movemontana.com

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REAL ESTATE

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

We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula.

Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

400 West Broadway #206 • $239,000 MLS #20133489

UNDER CONTRACT

Pat McCormick

• 2 bed, 2 bath downtown condo • Efficient kitchen design • Floor-to-ceiling windows for city, river & Lolo Peak views

Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)

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MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL

.Cheaper Than Rent .Third Floor Views! . .ADA Configured . . .Rooms With a View!

. . . . . . . . .From $79,000 . . . . . . . . . . . .$162,000 . . . . . . . . . . . .$155,000 . . . . . . . . . . . .$128,500

Commercial: 1535 Liberty Lane . .New Lease Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$11-$15

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2121B West Kent $167,000

Immaculate, energy-efficient 3 bed, 1.5 bath townhome • Open floor plan with lots of natural light • Covered front porch & fenced backyard • Single attached garage

Free parking and admission Outdoors - bring your own lawnchairs Proceeds go to local cancer patients and their families

Fun for the whole family Kids' games and events Classic cars and hot rods Raffles, live & silent auctions Live music featuring The Bop-A-Dips, The CoupRs, The Tom Cats and Brothers of Blooz

Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History at Fort Missoula (322 Fort Missoula Road)

August 3, Noon to 7pm

The Mark Alan Hart Foundation presents

For a complete schedule, visit celticfestivalmissoula.com

Join us for this annual celebration of great Celtic culture, focusing on music, dance and food.

Caras Park • July 26 - July 28