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TRAPPED COYOTE IMAGES INCITE OUTRAGE; WILDLIFE SPECIALIST SAYS THEY’RE TAKEN ‘OUT OF CONTEXT’
WHAT? PICKING UP THE CASTLE DOCTRINE MISSOULA FINALLY PASSES ETC NOW NEWS OPINION PIECES AFTER ELECTION DAY COMES UNDER FIRE CELLPHONE ORDINANCE
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News Letters Online comments against coyote trapping..............................................................4 The Week in Review Vann’s sale approved.........................................................................6 Briefs Dark Money at the 11th hour .....................................................................................6 Etc. Picking up the pieces after a long election ...................................................................7 News Castle doctrine comes under fire ...............................................................................8 News Trapped coyote photos incite outrage .......................................................................9 Opinion A nationwide cleanup reveals some dirty truths.................................................10 Opinion Missoula finally passes cellphone ordinance ......................................................11 Feature Pulling the trigger in the Treasure State ...............................................................14
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This week’s feature is about firearms in Montana. Do you own a gun? Follow-up: Do you think gun control laws should be stricter or more lenient? Donovan Peterson: No. I don’t see gun ownership as a bad thing, but I’ve never seen a need for one. I’m not a big hunter, and I have lots of friends who are kind enough to give me meat. Nuclear neighbors: Nobody wants their neighbors to have nuclear weapons, or tanks, so there should be some regulation. Guns for hunting should be allowed, but people probably don’t need assault rifles.
Preston Blakely: Yes. I have three bolt-action hunting rifles, one pistol and two shotguns. Used to have some semi-automatics. I use my guns mostly for hunting elk, deer and antelope. I won’t hunt predators. Point it elsewhere: I feel other states should tighten their restrictions because of their problems, but not Montana. Montanans are better at keeping their muzzles pointed in the right direction.
Nov. 15 is the 15 anniversary of America Recycles Day! This day is an opportunity to recognize the daily decision we can all make to save energy and resources by recycling resources back into our economy. There will be community events in Shelby, Helena, Miles City, Missoula, Lincoln and Dillon. Additional events can still be posted at AmericaRecyclesDay.org or through RecycleMontana.org. A dozen Montana schools are com-
Backtalk from “Wyoming coyote trapper defends graphic photos,” Nov. 2.
Utmost coward
Gotta kill ’em somehow
He should be fired and thrown into jail for years. He is the utmost coward—taking out his sadistic impulses on defenseless animals because he knows he can get away with it. If hunting humans this way were legal, you can bet he’d be out there organizing contests. Psycho. Posted on 11/02/2012 at 4:00 p.m.
It appears by the comments here that most people don’t know that coyotes are out of control for those of us that live out in the country. They are vicious animals that kill cats, dogs, rabbits, etc. They are smart and very difficult to kill. I know this seems cruel but there is no easy way to get rid of them. They hunt mostly at night and that makes it impossible to shoot them if you can see them before they see you. They are a real problem and we are desperate to thin them out. Posted on 11/02/2012 at 5:16 p.m.
These pictures are nothing considering what coyotes do to animals. Put it this way: Coyotes often eat their prey without killing them first. Even worse than that is the horrible gunshot injuries hunters inflict on deer. They suffer terrible pain from the gunshot injuries until the coyotes finish them off. It is heartbreaking to see the results of hunters here in Iowa. Posted on 11/02/2012 at 4:21 p.m.
Just sick Dalton Mainwaring: I have three: a .30-06, a .30-30 hunting rifle and a 20-gauge shot gun. I use them mainly for target practice, but also for deer and elk hunting. Tighten up: I think they should be stricter for assault rifles. Those are only used for killing people, and I don’t see why they should be available to the general public.
Ben Schmidt: Not at the moment. I used to when I lived in the midwest and we went [hunting] for birds, but haven’t since I moved to Montana. My family had guns and it wasn’t a big thing, just something that was around. Automatic stop: I hear all the hysteria about the issue but I haven’t paid much attention to it. Whichever way it goes will have little impact on the country. However, I think the ban on automatic weapons is good. People don’t need those.
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Hunters do it, too Colin Johnson: No, because there is nothing that I fear. I don’t feel threatened in this community. I don’t hunt people or encourage cannibalism. And if I can’t hunt the most dangerous game, I won’t hunt at all. Enough already: To an extent, the backlash about restrictions is obnoxious. All guns are dangerous, and you don’t need an AK-47 to hunt.
peting in this year’s national Recycle Bowl, from Oct. 15 to Nov. 9, with the school recycling the most per-capita guaranteed to win $1,000, with an additional opportunity to compete nationally for funds to purchase recycling bins. This year has seen improved recycling across the state, from electronic recycling events along the Hi-Line to a first-time plastics recycling event in Lewistown. Communities across the state have seen expanded options to recycle priority items such as e-waste and traditional recyclables
Just because you dislike coyotes you brand their natural hunting instinct as cruel. How does that make it OK for a person to torment a defenseless trapped animal? If you hold animals, who are hunting for survival, to the standards of humans, how on Earth can you justify Olson’s inhuman and inhumane behavior? He clearly did this for sport and to brag about it later. If it is not OK for coyotes to eat their prey before they die (which would be a rare occurrence and also the prey would be by nature not feeling a lot of pain due to shock), but it’s fine for Olsen to trap a helpless coyote that clearly is feeling pain, then tear it to bits? Look beyond your prejudice for particular animals to the reality of the situation. This is a very sick thing to do, a very sick thing to photograph and a very sick thing to share. There should be extremely severe consequences for Olson. Posted on 11/02/2012 at 5:01 p.m.
“This is a very sick thing to do, a very sick thing to photograph and a very sick thing to share.”
In the wrong business Doesn’t matter if they are out of control or they kill other animals. That’s nature, that’s how it goes. They use only what God gave them to survive. What this guys did is
disgusting, letting his dogs rip that animal up. It’s horrible for the coyote but bad for the dogs and humans around the dogs given the rabies factor. I wish people would use their head before speaking! And who exactly cares when these pictures were taken? The fact that he even did these things suggest he has no business working in wildlife management or any other government and/or animal related job. Posted on 11/02/2012 at 10:44 p.m.
Murderer! This “man”—a coward in reality— should be treated as any other murderer and suffer the same consequences as a murderer. Murder is murder regardless of the species and this is totally intolerable! As for the earlier comment about the damage these animals do to others, that is nature. This ass trapping and sending other dogs to feast till the coyote dies is wrong on so many levels. What he is doing is not nature, it is cold and cruel! Posted on 11/03/2012 at 12:42 p.m.
The West is the worst Wyoming, Montana and Idaho—where all the psychopaths hang out. What great states. Posted on 11/05/2012 at 4:58 p.m.
God is watching It’s outraging that tax money pays a salary of a wildlife service agent who is suppose to help these animals, and instead he is torturing them. Words cannot express the outrage I feel. Millions of dollars go to waste each year, for this!? No wonder this country is in so much debt. America, wake up! Time for change and repentance. In the end we need to be held accountable for the things we don’t do in order to stop this inhumanity. God is watching. Hurricane Sandy was just a warning. Just Sayin’. Posted on 11/06/2012 at 6:03 a.m.
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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Wednesday, October 31 An Indy staffer, perturbed that no trick-ortreaters are coming to his jack-o’-lanternlit door, hits the streets with a bowl of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and hands them out to little ghouls and goblins. The parents seem wary.
Thursday, November 1 In an apparent suicide, a resident of Missoula Manor Homes, an independent living facility on West Central Ave., jumps from the building’s sixth floor rooftop balcony and falls to his death.
Friday, November 2 A bankruptcy judge approves the sale of Vann’s, the Missoula-based electronics and appliance retailer, to Texas-based McMagic Partners for $4.5 million. The five Vann’s stores around the state are expected to stay in business.
Saturday, November 3 The University of Montana Grizzlies win their second consecutive game, a 24-21 come-from-behind nail-biter over Weber State in Ogden, Utah. The Griz improve to 3-4 in Big Sky Conference play.
Sunday, November 4 At the Animals of Montana facility near Bozeman, Benjamin Cloutier, 24, is mauled to death by a grizzly bear while attempting to clean its enclosure. The grizzly, which reportedly was Cloutier’s favorite, is later euthanized.
Monday, November 5 Missoula City Council approves a ban on driving and biking while using a cellphone or other electronic device, unless the device is hands-free. After the law goes into effect in about a month, police will issue only warnings for 90 days.
Tuesday, November 6 Missoulians wait for up to several hours to register to vote at the Missoula County Fairgrounds, and the last vote is cast after 11 p.m. According to the Missoula County Elections Office, there were 60,520 ballots cast this year— 903 more than in 2008.
A crowd at Forward Montana’s Election Night Party at the Elk’s Club reacts during President Barack Obama’s victory speech early Wednesday morning.
Super PACs
The 11th hour cash-dash The polls have closed, the elections are over and we know by now who won and who lost. But in the weeks leading up to Nov. 6, candidates weren’t the only ones scrambling to get their messages out. The latter half of October bore witness to a disconcerting nationwide trend—one that manifested itself, predictably, in Montana’s Senate race. A host of brand-spanking-new super PACs began appearing on independent expenditure reports in mid-October. One of those groups, the ambiguously named Freedom Fund North America, formed on Oct. 15. Eleven days later, it reported a $495,000 expenditure for advertising opposing incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. By delaying its first cash drops until Oct. 26, the group successfully dodged the final donor reporting deadline on Oct. 25. In other words, while the outcome of the race has been determined, voters won’t know until Dec. 6 where Freedom Fund North America got its money.
Tester wasn’t the only candidate the super PAC targeted. It spent $247,500 on advertising opposing Democratic Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota and spent an equal amount supporting her opponent, Republican Rick Berg. Both expenditures were reported the exact same day as the Tester ad buy—Oct. 26. There were early indications of this 11th hour cash-dash. The super PAC Fair Share Action emerged in mid-September and began spending hundreds of thousands of dollars knocking on doors in support of President Barack Obama and other Democrats nationwide. But a bulk of the group’s spending, including a $119,000 pro-Tester ad buy in Montana, came late in the game. Fair Share Action only began airing ads on Oct. 31. Fair Share Action is actually the sister super PAC of Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) Fair Share Alliance. The pro-Democrat nonprofit is headed by Brad Martin, who served as the executive director of the Montana Democratic Party for 12 years before joining the Democratic National Committee. Unlike Freedom Fund
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North America, Fair Share Action did disclose $1.1 million in contributions before the election. However, it spent an additional $1.3 million after the October quarterly deadline—donations that, again, will remain essentially anonymous until next month. Alex Sakariassen
Demonstration
MUD and Metamucil Psyllium seed husk, the main ingredient in Metamucil, can help keep you regular. The Missoula Urban Demonstration Project, or MUD, is using psyllium in a way that’s quite irregular—as a binding agent in a permeable pavement that the nonprofit hopes will become a widely used alternative to oil-based asphalt. This week, MUD laid 13 cubic yards of the psyllium-infused paving product around its new location on Wyoming Street, next to Home ReSource. The group used a $96,000 Community Development Block Grant to relocate its tool library and truck share pro-
[news] grams from the Northside to the more central location. “We want this to be a real example of a sustainable product,” says MUD Board of Directors Vice President Anne Little, “and do it the right way so people can see it, the city can see it and consider using it in other places—because it’s permeable, it’s durable, it looks nice and it functions just the way we need it to function.” She adds that the pavement will meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements. The psyllium husk-based material came from Grass Roots Agronomics, of Emmett, Idaho, which primarily sells quartz silica sand to golf courses around the West. The company’s owner, Robert Parish, says using psyllium to “stabilize,” or bind, pavement aggregate is especially popular in Europe, and increasingly so in the U.S. “In my lifetime, being out West,” Parish says, “I’ve been on a lot of stabilized pathways I didn’t even know were stabilized.” He specifically mentions walkways in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and at the Sacajawea Center in Salmon, Idaho. MUD worked on the project with Bob Giordano, founder of the Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Free Cycles, who installed two small test plots over the summer. “Instead of creating toxic fumes and oily runoff, as asphalt does, this material comes from a clean, renewable source,” Giordano said in a statement. “All indications are that it holds up well to the wear and tear of a Montana winter.” Matthew Frank
Energy to build the 19.2-megawatt wind farm on C Hill above Anaconda. Exergy’s pitch came in response to NorthWestern’s request for green energy project ideas. NorthWestern is mandated by law to increasingly draw power from community-owned renewable energy projects. Beltrone says that because of Anaconda’s history of using a significant amount of power to fuel the oncebooming mining town, the region is equipped to connect to the existing power infrastructure. “Because of its history of having a lot of electrical load feeding into the mining operation, it now has space for energy to feed back through that system,” she says.
Peggy Beltrone has ambitious plans for the largest Superfund site in the nation. She aims to erect eight wind turbines, each 400 feet tall, not far from the old Anaconda Copper Company Smelter Stack. If the project gets the go-ahead, the farm would generate enough electricity to power 6,000 homes. “It represents an accomplishment, using these lands for a purpose, when they have so few purposes,” says Beltrone, who’s president of the green energy company Exergy Integrated Systems. “It has national significance, because it would be the first project on these Western mining properties.” Exergy is working with Pintler Power and Deer Lodge County to make the plan a reality. On Aug. 28, the company submitted a proposal to NorthWestern
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cording to a recent economic report from the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, production also jumped among craft brewers, from 87,442 barrels in 2010 to 102,925 barrels in 2011.
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Carl Nyman, Deer Lodge County’s Superfund coordinator, says Exergy’s proposal fits squarely with the county’s 2010 growth policy, which calls for transforming the area into the “renewable energy center of the region.” The project is anticipated to create 30 short-term construction jobs and two long-term positions. Some community members, however, have said that’s not a significant enough return for marring the skyline with noisy, towering turbines. Linda Behan Brooks, for one, told the Montana Standard last week that the project’s sheer size made it a “monstrosity.” Nyman says that if NorthWestern signs off on the project, it will be vetted by the county, and community members will have a chance to weigh in. Jessica Mayrer
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BY THE NUMBERS
On Election Day, U.S. Post Office letter carrier Troy Lucas hopped back into his delivery truck after dropping off a tub of mail downtown. He said he’d be happy when his shift—and election season—is over. “I’ve been carrying mail for over 30 years,” Lucas said. “And I’ve never seen anything like this.” This election season has set records for political spending. Campaigns and outside groups are expected to have shelled out roughly $40 million in the Montana Senate race alone. The U.S. Postal Service is the beneficiary of a healthy chunk of that money. Nationally, during the 2010 election season, political mail brought in roughly $335 million for USPS. It’s estimated that campaigns spend as much as 15 percent of their ad budgets on direct mail. For Missoula’s letter carriers, the economic boon translates to hard work. During the week before Election Day, local USPS employees worked 11-hour shifts. They distributed up to nine fliers per mailbox on Friday and Saturday. Sorting glossy fliers, along with the record-breaking number of absentee ballots issued in Missoula County, and then lugging them to their destination, wore on USPS carrier Nancy Hogan. “I was tired,” she says. On Election Day, Hogan, who’s petite, blonde and roughly 5 feet tall, lugged two large bags along Orange Street. Entering the home stretch, she said the bags were a bit lighter. Still, a flier featuring a photo of gubernatorial candidate Steve Bullock peeked out from one of her blue bags. “I can carry a lot,” assured Hogan. But there’s little rest for the weary. Hogan says Christmas catalogs will soon fill her satchels. Jessica Mayrer
Missoula apparently didn’t get the memo about election fatigue. In spite of an onslaught of political mailers, attack ads, door knockers and last-minute robocalls, voters flocked to the polls in droves so huge that election officials struggled to keep pace. At the Missoula County Elections Office, voters waited several hours to register and the last ballot wasn’t cast until after 11 p.m., more than three hours after polling stations were set to close. All told, voters cast 60,520 ballots in Missoula, according to election administrator Vickie Zeier’s unofficial Wednesday morning tally. That’s an increase of 903 voters from 2008. The only lines longer than those at the elections office were at downtown bars, where the scene looked more like a summer Saturday night than a Tuesday in November. Charlie B’s was standing room only, with all eyes trained on newscasts. The Union Club hit capacity before 8 p.m., prompting a line out the door as if people were waiting again at the polling station. Voters packed the Elks Lodge for Forward Montana’s Election Night Party and roared as MSNBC proclaimed victory for President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney. Shortly thereafter, a report of early Montana returns favoring incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Tester prompted several men to hit the bar for shots, screaming “Tester won!” Only 2 percent of Montana was reporting in at the time, but no one seemed comfortable challenging their jubilance. By midnight, United Steelworkers representative and former Missoula Councilman Roy Houseman had taken to periodically updating the crowd at the Union Club with the latest results statewide. “In the Senate race, Rehberg with 89,000 votes...Tester with 107,000!” The crowd went nuts, quieting only when Obama appeared on television shortly before midnight for his victory speech. By 1 a.m., the Dead Hipster Dance Party at the Elks had dwindled to a few diehards, including newly elected state representative Kim Dudik, who sipped water at a table. Most results had to wait until the morning— Tester was declared the winner about eight hours later—and local newscasts had signed off. The party surely raged on elsewhere, but at the Elk’s, at least, voters were finally tiring. All that was left was to clean up the mess.
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Under fire Kalispell shooting death puts state law in the crosshairs by Alex Sakariassen
the unarmed teenager and later claimed self defense under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Fredenberg’s death will likely fuel similar opposition, with the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell already writing an editorial proclaiming the community “has not been well-served by either the law or the legal process in this case.” Former state Rep. Jon Sesso, a Democrat from Butte just elected to state Senate, feels a renewal of the Castle doctrine debate in the legislature is inevitable. Sesso was one of numerous legislators to oppose HB 228 in 2009—a stance shared by law enforcement officials and county prosecutors who felt the original proposal reached too far. Sesso says he felt the existing statute was adequate enough to protect the rights of individuals defending their homes and families. But after HB 228 passed the House with 52 votes, those who’d lobbied hard against it “resigned themselves to the fact that it was going to pass.” “I can’t help but think that with that kind of activity going on, that there will be some discussion on the Castle doctrine,” Sesso says. “And hopefully the legislative body that arrives Photo by Chad Harder in January will be made up State Rep. Jon Sesso, a Democrat from Butte, voted against HB 228 in the 2009 Montana of individuals who want to Legislature, but believes recent events make revisiting the state’s Castle doctrine inevitable. have an earnest debate and discuss this through and his relationship with Fredenberg’s wife, had a statute on the books addressing the make some deliberative changes in the law Heather. Based on Fredenberg’s alleged use of force in defending an occupied struc- if necessary.” behavior that evening—Heather told po- ture. But HB 228 shifted the burden of Such a discussion was largely impossilice she believed her husband “would proof in self-defense cases. Now the burden ble in the 2011 legislative session, during have tried to kill” Harper—Corrigan ex- is on county prosecutors to show that indi- which Marbut and the MSSA successfully cused Harper’s assumption that Freden- viduals like Harper are not justified in their pushed provisions to lessen restrictions on berg intended to assault him. Harper use of lethal force, hence Corrigan’s deci- concealed weapons—provisions that were subsequently faces no criminal charges in sion not to prosecute Harper for deliberate stripped from HB 228 in 2009. Whether the or mitigated deliberate homicide. the wake of the fatal shooting. make-up of the legislature in 2013 will fos“Our position for a long time has been ter a more balanced discussion is anyone’s The Kalispell incident is merely the latest in a series of self-defense cases to be that people need to be fully empowered to guess; former Republican state Sen. Jim dragged into Montana’s debate over the be able to enforce their choice to not be vic- Shockley of Victor, a major supporter of the Castle doctrine, a state law allowing home- tims,” Marbut says. “We’ve been moving in Castle doctrine, says he’s confident that owners to use lethal force to prevent an at- that direction for 20 years and I don’t expect there will be “much breast-beating” over tack. Fredenberg’s death is sparking that direction to change. There might be a Montana’s self-defense laws this spring. renewed skepticism of such laws in the bill introduced to move the ball in the other “Absolutely, somebody will [chalmonths leading up to the 2013 Montana direction on the field, but I don’t expect the lenge] it,” Shockley says. “But you don’t Legislature. Gary Marbut, president of the ball’s going to move in that direction.” change the law because, in one particular The Castle doctrine has been subject situation, the outcome was repugnant to Montana Shooting Sports Association and recent candidate for House District 99, says to widespread scrutiny in the wake of the a lot of people.” there’s a good chance someone will intro- February shooting death of Trayvon Marduce a bill challenging the Castle doctrine. tin in Florida. George Zimmerman shot asakariassen@missoulanews.com Brice Harper stood in the doorway between his laundry room and garage in Kalispell on the evening of Sept. 22 and shot an unarmed Dan Fredenberg three times. The first bullet struck Fredenberg in the stomach. The second two hit him in the left shoulder and grazed his face. Fredenberg died in Harper’s garage. According to a letter written by Flathead County Attorney Ed Corrigan early last month, Harper’s actions were justified under Montana law. Fredenberg had entered the garage to confront Harper about
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“The people who will argue that side of the question will drag up issues from Mars if they want to and try to make them applicable to Montana,” Marbut says. “That doesn’t mean that they will be applicable.” The legislature last dealt with Montana’s Castle doctrine in 2009 with the passage of House Bill 228, a provision that strengthened self-defense laws. But there appears to be some confusion over what actually changed with HB 228 and how those changes factor into the Fredenberg shooting. Marbut explains that Montana already
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Social media isn’t friendly to trappers. Back in March, photos hit Facebook of a Forest Service staffer in Idaho smiling for the camera while a wolf caught in a leghold trap writhes in a circle of bloodsoaked snow behind him. Nothing about the scene was illegal under Idaho’s aggressive wolf-management laws, but animal rights activists went wild. A new batch of cringe-inducing photos of coyotes in Wyoming caught in traps have activists enraged again. The images, which the trapper posted to Facebook and Twitter, are helping those activists convey the cruelty of predator-control laws around the West—just weeks before Montana’s first wolf-trapping season begins on Dec. 15. The trapped coyote photos, taken by Jamie Olson, a Wyoming federal wildlife specialist and coyote hunting tournament coordinator, made the rounds on the internet last week. In response, the Animal Welfare Institute and Project Coyote wrote to the state director of Wyoming Wildlife Services, Rod Krischke, on Nov. 1 requesting an “immediate investigation” of Olson for “blatant acts of animal cruelty.” Olson, reached by phone the same day, acknowledged he made a “big-ass mistake”—not in his coyote trapping practices, but in letting the photos, which he says are more than five years old, be publicly accessible on his Facebook account. “The reality of it,” Olson said, “is that those were private pictures—personal pictures taken on personal time—and most of
them were before I even worked for the agency I work for, and those were not intended for public access.” Now, as a result of the photos going viral, Olson said “shit’s hitting the fan and I’m having to explain things.” He has since deactivated his Facebook and Twitter accounts. Krischke, the director of Wyoming Wildlife Services, said on Nov. 5 that Olson is under investigation. He declined to comment further. While coyotes in Wyoming are classified as predators and can be legally hunted and trapped year-round without a license, the Animal Welfare Institute and Project Coyote expressed concern over Olson’s actions in their letter. Specifically, they object to the use of steel-jaw leg-hold traps “given their inherent cruelty.” “We were further alarmed,” the letter continued, “that instead of immediately killing the trapped animals, this WS employee inflicted even greater fear and pain on already-suffering animals caught in these brutal traps by allowing dogs to torment or attack the trapped animals as is depicted in several of the photographs. This is unacceptable behavior for any trapper, but such wanton cruelty and callous disregard for the welfare of these animals is particularly egregious when done by a government employee and must not be tolerated.” Olson, a lifelong trapper, denied that his dogs tormented the coyotes. “I would never have my dogs chew on a coyote,” he said.
“I understand their concerns,” Olson said of the animals-rights groups, “and I’m sure their agenda is solely driven for their love and desire to keep animals safe. I don’t begrudge anybody that. But they’re really taking that stuff out of context, and it’s affecting my job.” Olson claims the photos were taken out of context, “by making it look like it’s all one sequence of events, and it isn’t. It’s terrible,” he said. In addition to his job with Wyoming Wildlife Services, Olson is also the director of Coyotehunter.net and the Coyote Hunter Tournament Series. The tournaments involve contestants bagging as many coyotes as they can in a given time period. The contests, Olson said, don’t allow trapping, only calling. He referred to the events as a “real ethical, fair-chase sort of situation.” The most recent tournament, the Luke Oyloe Memorial Coyote Hunt, held in Williston, N.D., on Oct. 27, raised about $20,000 for a scholarship fund, Olson said. Olson had planned to host the Montana Coyote Classic Nov. 8-10 in Billings— the first Coyote Hunter Tournament Series event in Montana—but decided to cancel it for lack of registrants. He tried to advertise the event, but, “with the elections going on,” he said last week, “I can’t buy any radio time. I can’t buy a single 30-second spot. Not one.” mfrank@missoulanews.com
missoulanews.com • November 8 – November 15, 2012 [9]
[opinion]
Trashing America A nationwide cleanup reveals some dirty truths by Jeff Chen
Since March 2010, I’ve become intimately acquainted with many of the things that people in our society no longer want to live with: empty liquor bottles, deflated soccer balls, deer guts, aluminum siding. My team and I have picked up this stuff on roadsides from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast. It’s taken us the better half of three years to get this far. We collect garbage as we go, six out of seven days a week, for eight months of the year. We do this to make a statement about America. That statement is about the sheer immensity of waste. We’ve hauled away some 188,593 pounds of garbage: ripped plastic, failed kitchen devices, jagged tires, flying Styrofoam, sex toys, beer cans and bottles and outrageously excessive packaging. Although I do not believe that litter is the biggest environmental catastrophe of our time, I do think it is a powerful indicator that our economy is out of whack—built on the rapid consumption of mostly virgin resources in the form of throwaway packaged goods. We’re highly skilled at buying things we don’t necessarily need, but we’re not very good at disposing of them properly. Picking up litter from a roadside involves repetitive motion. We all wear neon reflective vests and carry 3-foot-long trash grabbers. With each squeeze of the handle, the rubber suction cups at the other end grasp a piece of rubbish that gets stuffed into the giant bag that we hold fast with our other hand. Each piece of trash can tell a story, and the story begins inside the Earth, because all materials begin there, and it usually ends in a commingled, massive burial. But aside from the occasional surprising envelope full of cash or the duct-taped live chicken in a box, there is no juicy story behind most of the trash.
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Who really cares about the cigarette butt, bubble wrap or roof shingle? Sent to a 30-acre landfill, most trash just sits there, surrounded by a plastic liner. The waste this signifies is something most of us don’t know about, or don’t want to know about. The truth is: We’re addicted to consumption, and I’ve seen a cross-country trail of trash to prove it. Each day that my team walks the roads of this country, I find myself obsessing over our addiction to “stuff.”
“Aside from the occasional surprising envelope full of cash or the duct-taped live chicken in a box, there is no juicy story behind most of the trash.” Each time I pick up an aluminum beer can, I picture a person hurling that can out of a car window; if it’s a can of soda pop, I can’t help thinking about our dependency on corn. I envision the damming of the Amazon River and the upheaval of its people to bring in bauxite-ore production. With each passing car, I smell oil addiction. And in each economically depressed town I pass, I sense corporate greed that promotes mono-
economies like monoculture crops. Here in the arid West, UV-degraded plastic is so brittle it shatters when touched, releasing a few more of those plastic polymers and persistent organic pollutants that bio-accumulate in our ecosystems. I admit it: I’m not exempt from my own addiction to what’s available in our still-rich culture––but that’s also how I understand the need for this ongoing campaign for reform. Economists call the impacts of drilling, manufacturing, selling and disposing of used-up or unwanted products “externalities,” but a better term for that is “eternalities,” because this stuff is eternal. Nothing ever goes completely “away.” Externalities is a term that cloaks impacts on our finite resources and impacts on the health of people and the land. It takes a lot of mining and industrial might to create what quickly become useless products. These companies—aided by tax breaks and cheap overseas manufacturing— don’t take any binding responsibility for the waste they create. Instead, the burden descends on us, individual citizens and our cash-strapped municipalities, to haul away the waste that’s created, sometimes reducing some of that waste through community-supported recycling. It’s time to pass a law requiring extended producer responsibility so that companies remain responsible for their products. We have nothing to lose but our growing mountains of trash. Jeff Chen is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the co-founder of Pick Up America, the nation’s first coastto-coast litter pick-up movement. The group of young people will celebrate the completion of their trek on Nov. 11 at Ocean Beach, Calif.
[opinion]
Slow lane Missoula finally passes cellphone ordinance by Dan Brooks
Monday night, Missoula became the last major city in Montana to ban cellphone use while driving. It’s been kind of a big week for votes, so maybe this one slipped by you. Back in 2009, Missoula tried to become the first city in Montana to enact such a ban, but Mayor John Engen vetoed it, citing lack of an exemption for hands-free devices. What a difference three years make. Since Missoula’s first try at a cellphone ban, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, Whitefish and Havre have all enacted ordinances. As Councilman Dave Strohmaier put it to the Missoulian: “We have been eclipsed by all the other major cities in Montana sans Kalispell, and it seems like, okay, it’s time to get with the program here. Let’s take another run at this.� Oh, you say snidely, Kalispell. It is a known fact that Flathead County is home to the worst drivers in the state, and the Buick that made an unsignaled left turn in front of you this morning had a “7� on its license plate. By the same token, it is a known fact that talking on the phone makes you incapable of operating a car. I have established this fact via a scientific study, wherein every time I get angry at the driver in front of me, I zoom past him glaring and, sure enough, notice he had a phone pressed to his head. My data collection has been informal, but my best estimate holds that this result occurs 100 percent of the time. My study has also found that using a hands-free device does not make you drive any better; it only makes you likely to drive a bigger car. Even not using a phone at all appears to consistently impair the driver directly in front of me, particularly in the parking lot of the Good Food Store, but that is conjecture. All that can be said with absolute, scientific certainty is that talking on
the phone makes everyone worse at driving except for me. I am a fantastic driver. It’s probably why I am beset by so many terrible ones: they see my graceful turns and quick reflexes and conclude that I am a safe person to pull out in front of. Talking on the phone while driving is no problem for me, as it merely reduces my superhuman abilities to those of a very skilled operator. It’s like if Tony Stewart had to run the Daytona 500 while eating a meatball sub: He’s not setting a track record,
“All that can be said with absolute, scientific certainty is that talking on the phone makes everyone worse at driving except for me.� probably, but still finishing in the top five. Also, I am rarely on the phone. I pretty much only use my phone to field reports from my father about weather and traffic in Iowa, plus if my girlfriend calls. She, too, is an excellent driver, and I will talk to her only for as long as it takes to absorb pertinent information and hang up in time to narrowly avoid the idiot in front of me, who for no reason at all has stopped at a yellow light. So I welcome our brave city’s ban on cellphones while driving, even though I per-
sonally remain above it. Evidently, I am not alone. Missoula has forbidden texting while driving since 2009, but according to police, that has primarily encouraged texting drivers to look away from the road as they hide their phones in their laps. It’s almost as if public safety laws, from seat belts to turn signals, apply exclusively to everyone else. Fortunately, Missoulians will have time to adjust. For the first 90 days after the cellphone ban takes effect, police will issue warnings instead of tickets. After that, half of the fines collected will go toward signage and programs to educate people about the new law, which is either a good plan or a frightening pyramid scheme, depending on how you look at it. But the important thing is that people will understand that talking on the phone while they drive is dangerous, just like texting, and not signaling your turns, and sneaking through the light at Russell and Broadway because the guy in front of you did. People will probably pick up on the fact that driving while using their phone is dangerous, and change their habits. The only other outcome I can foresee is that the good drivers will obey, and the bad drivers will go on shouting into their phones about the new BK Angry Whopper as they careen down Mullan on their way to that movie where Kevin James is a prize fighter. It could go either way. Hopefully such people will realize their limitations, however, and if they do not the police can stop and ticket them for the safety of superior drivers like me. I just hope I don’t get caught up in the dragnet. The thing about this kind of ordinance is that you don’t want it to punish the wrong people.
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missoulanews.com • November 8 – November 15, 2012 [11]
[quirks]
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - After responding to a call that two men were carrying items from a house before dawn, sheriff’s deputies in Manatee County, Fla., spotted the men driving by the crime scene. They had returned, the sheriff’s report noted, because “they were lost in the neighborhood and trying to find their way out.” Deputies who stopped the car noticed the stolen items and arrested Darien A. Caruso, 19, and James Hardy, 19. (Bradenton Herald) After a man demanded $20,000 at a bank in Syracuse, N.Y., the teller handed him money, and he left. When the robber discovered that the teller hadn’t given him the full $20,000, he returned to the bank to get the rest. Investigators noticed him standing at the front door, trying to get back in. They arrested Arthur Bundrage, 28. (Syracuse’s The Post-Standard)
MENSA REJECT OF THE WEEK - Police said a 14-year-old boy in Manchester, Conn., removed the brakes from his bicycle and rode off an hour after sunset without wearing a helmet. Moments later, he ran through a stop sign and crashed into a 2005 Chrysler 300. He was taken to the hospital for treatment. (The Hartford Courant)
SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - Sheriff’s deputies in Sumter County, S.C. charged John Scott, 32, with stabbing a 23-year-old man while they were watching football and arguing over how long Scott’s girlfriend had been in the shower. (Sumter’s The Item) Police charged Mahmoud Yousef Hindi, 55, with killing one man and critically wounding another when he opened fire at a homeowners association meeting in Louisville, Ky., during a dispute about the height and direction of a fence around his house, as well as a recently constructed driveway. (Associated Press) Eric Brian Pauly, 50, pleaded guilty to shooting his girlfriend to death at their mobile home in Winfield, W. Va., because she woke him up “in the middle of the night.” (The Charleston Gazette) Police in Winter Park, Fla., charged restaurant owner Quoc Trong Tran with shooting at a car occupied by two customers who complained about their meals. (Orlando’s WKMG-TV)
INVENTIVE MINDS - Computer engineer Anirudh Sharma, 24, has invented a device to guide blind people to their destination. Dubbed “Le Chal” (“take me along” in Hindi), it links a smartphone app with a small actuator sewn inside the sole of a shoe via Bluetooth. The user tells the phone the desired destination, and voice-recognition software translates the request into electronic commands. The phone’s GPS directs the actuator when to turn, causing the shoe to vibrate on the side of the direction of the turn. The shoe also alerts the wearer of any obstacles in the path and guides the wearer around them. (The Economist) Martin Gustafson, inventor of the BioDome, promises that the device “can protect anyone from dangerous chemical/biological agents, in the event of a terrorist attack, accidental chemical spill or biological emergency.” BioDome comes in two 60-pound cans and inflates itself in 10 minutes into a 10-footsquare room that can accommodate six adults for “up to several days.” (Time)
CHUTZPAH - While burglarizing a home in Greenbrae, Calif., Samuel Cutrufelli, 31, shot the homeowner, 90-year-old Jay Leone, in the face, according to authorities, who said Leone returned fire, hitting Cutrufelli several times. Both men were hospitalized for an extended period. During Cutrufelli’s trial for attempted murder, his father and his defense attorney filed a lawsuit on Cutrufelli’s behalf, claiming Leone “negligently shot” Cutrufelli, causing him “great bodily injury, and other financial damage, including loss of Mr. Cutrufelli’s home, and also the dissolution of Mr. Cutrufelli’s marriage.” (Marin Independent Journal) BULLISH ON SAFETY - When Virgin America submitted a pre-takeoff safety video to the Federal Aviation Administration for review, the video showed a dog fumbling with its seat belt, with the voice-over, “For the 0.0001 percent of you who’ve never operated a seat belt before, it works like this.” Expressing concern that passengers would think dogs on flights had to wear seat belts, the FAA made the airline change the dog to a bull because bulls aren’t allowed on planes, whereas dogs sometimes are. (The New York Times)
HOMELAND INSECURITY - Aviation blogger John Butler alerted travelers to security flaws in airline boarding passes that could allow terrorists or smugglers to discover in advance which security measures they will be subjected to. Butler said the bar codes of boarding passes are unencrypted, allowing anyone with a smartphone to discover any vulnerability and even modify the coded information. (The Washington Post) The number of guns found at airport security checkpoints has been rising for the past couple of years, from 1,123 in 2010 to 1,320 in 2011 to 1,105 through September of this year. Security experts attributed the trend to two factors: an increase in gun sales and the spread of right-to-carry laws, which lead to more people showing up with weapons at checkpoints because they’re used to carrying them all the time. (The New York Times) Despite Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s assurance that advances in scanning technology would soon allow all air travelers to keep their shoes on, the Transportation Security Administration has rejected four different scanning devices aimed at letting passengers keep their shoes on after spending millions of dollars to test them. All four failed to detect explosives and metal weapons, according to TSA official Lisa Farbstein, who said removing shoes “is going to be a part of air travel for the foreseeable future.” (The New York Times) The TSA’s first collective bargaining agreement allows the agency’s 45,000 screeners to wear uniform shorts in hot weather, as well as athletic shoes and other footwear alternatives, and reduces tattoo restrictions. (Virginia’s Federal Times)
WRONG RITES - Germany’s Roman Catholic bishops warned believers who decline to earmark 8 percent of their income tax for the church that they won’t be able to receive the Eucharist, become godparents or receive a church burial. The religious tax option, which affects all religions, renders more than $4 billion a year unto Germany’s Catholic and Protestant churches. (BBC News) Compiled from mainstream news sources by Roland Sweet.
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missoulanews.com • November 8 – November 15, 2012 [13]
Loaded
Pulling the trigger in the Treasure State by Jamie Rogers • photos by Chad Harder
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n November 2007, I visited a friend whom I’d met in Missoula, at his family’s home in Mississippi. Clayton asked me if I wanted to try hunting, and I, after two years in Montana, was more than curious. I said yes. In an old house with sloping floors, on a soybean farm owned by his grandfather, Clayton held up a picture of a deer and pointed behind its front shoulder: “This is where you should aim.” Then he showed me the 30-.06 rifle. In a tree stand overlooking a field surrounded by dense hardwood, we waited for the light to fail. Clayton explained that deer entered the field before dark to feed. We sat
in the tree for an hour, silent in the deepening blues of the Mississippi evening. Then Clayton leaned over slowly and said, “There’s a deer over there.” Through the gloaming, a deer grazed on the edge of the field. It appeared small, the size of a big golden retriever. Clayton gave me a look that said “go for it.” The shot was awkward because I had to lean across Clayton’s chest to look through the scope, but also because I’d never shot a gun. “Once he’s in your sights,” he whispered, “slowly squeeze the trigger.” The shot vibrated through my cheekbone. The deer was on the ground, and
Clayton was giggling. “You got him, you got him,” he said. “Nice, nice, nice!” I climbed down from the tree on shaky legs. The deer was on the ground, still, with no sign of injury. Clayton explained that the exit wound would be more visible, and when we turned it over the hair of the front quarter was soaked in blood and speckled with fragments of bone and flesh. Clayton wanted to take a picture, and told me to hold the deer’s head up so we were both looking at the camera. After panicky consideration, I smiled for the photo. The next day, I called my mom and told
her I would be coming home for Thanksgiving with fresh venison. I was proud. I experienced something so many of my peers had experienced, something vital and essential to the lives of so many in Montana. It was profound. Not fun necessarily, but powerful, and with the meat on dry ice in a Walmart cooler, hunting even felt good. “You what?” she said. “I killed a deer with Clayton. I have the meat.” “You what? …I…” she trailed off. She began crying. “I just didn’t think you were the kind of person who would do that.”
I’ve lived in Montana for seven years now, and nothing continues to make me feel more like a tourist than guns. I grew up around New York City, where, generally, people don’t own guns, and if they do, they don’t talk about it. Before this story, killing the deer in Mississippi was still my only meaningful experience with a gun, but it was not for lack of opportunity. In Montana, guns are a tool, a sport and a tradition. To many, firearms represent a tick mark on the generations-long continuum of being Montanan. When it comes to guns in Montana, the distance between here and where I was raised cannot be measured in miles.
“This is a .22 manufactured by the High Standard Company,” Stu Smith explains as he gently sets the pistol on the shooting bench at the Ed McGivern Pistol and Revolver Range outside Great Falls. He reaches into his metal-sided box again. “This is a .38,” he says. “And this is a Colt .45…These are firearms, not weapons.” Stu has a thinning black mustache and wears dark blue work pants from his job as a handyman. He’s an avid competition pistol shooter and a director of the shooting range. He and Jamey Williams, a physical therapist from Conrad and president of the Montana Rifle and Pistol Association, have agreed to spend the afternoon teaching me how to shoot.
Competitive pistol shooting involves shooters hitting targets that are 25 or 50 yards away. Sometimes matches are timed, allowing the shooter seconds to fire his rounds. Sometimes the shooters are allowed minutes. “The key to success,” Stu explains, “is fundamentals, and doing it the same way every time…Our sport is all about precision.” Stu’s routine begins with proper grip: He uses his middle and ring fingers to hold the gun in the crook of his hand. His pinkie and thumb hover over the gun’s surface. Then he holds the gun to the target with his right hand, resting his left hand on his belt, so he looks a little bit like a badass. “This is where your breathing becomes important. You don’t want to be breathing when you squeeze the trigger.” “You want to be holding your breath?” I ask. “No,” he says, pulling a half-smoked cigarette from his shirt pocket. “You don’t want to be holding your breath?” I ask. “No.” His smile doesn’t make it to his eyes. “Think about your breathing. You inhale and then you exhale. If you pay attention to when you exhale, there is a hesitation before you inhale. What you want to do is extend that hesitation. That’s when you squeeze the trigger.” Stu goes on to explain that master pistol shooters are able to control their breathing without conscious
thought. They do it the exact same way every time, for hundreds of rounds. “It seems like there’s something sort of meditative about it,” I say. “Like with the breathing, forcing you to be present.” Stu looks at me and then down range, as if a response may be near the targets. “No, not really.”
“Living in Montana, it is easy to forget that most Americans don’t own a gun, because in Big Sky Country gun culture seems to be thriving.”
Stu hands me the .22 first, and tells me to open the action to make sure the chamber is empty. He tells me to squeeze the trigger with the gun unloaded to feel “how light the trigger is.” Then he loads a magazine
and instructs me to aim. Stu’s pistols have optics that produce a red dot telling you where your bullet will go. My red dot is wobbling all over the target. Stu tells me to accept my wobble. “Don’t try to control it,” he explains. “Even master marksmen have a wobble.” I squeeze the trigger. The recoil of the .22 is mild and somehow satisfying like popping a zit. Stu urges me to keep shooting. I fire five rounds into the paper target 25 yards away. It feels good, the release of energ y, the propulsion of a projectile. I am reminded of every camping trip I’ve ever been on, where at some point I became obsessed with hitting a tree with a rock. Stu hands me the .38 next. It’s heavier than the .22, but I find the recoil similarly satisfying. I can also smell gunpowder this time. It smacks the back of my throat, a combination of taste and smell like dirty socks and bleach. Finally, Stu hands me the .45, and as he did with the previous two guns, he runs through my safety checklist. All good, he tells me to aim and fire. The gun recoils aggressively. It takes me a moment to find the target again. I squeeze a second time, and the recoil is more nerve-wracking than satisfying. I decide a Colt .45 is more like a weapon than a piece of sporting equipment, but I keep my mouth shut.
With the .45, I hit the target but barely. I ask Stu if I can watch him shoot. He picks up the .45 with one hand, resting his other hand in his belt. He aims, and his shoulders settle into a remembered rest. He pulls the trigger and the shot is concussively loud. All five of his shots hit the target in a fist-sized group. When I was shooting, I didn’t hear anything, at least not like the thunderclap shot from a beer bottle Stu produced. I tell Stu what I experienced. “That’s because when you’re shooting,” he says, “you’re focusing.”
To say that the United States citizenry is the most armed citizenry in the world is a little misleading. True, there are 88 guns per 100 people in America (the next closest is Yemen with just under 55 guns per 100 people). Also true, America is home to an estimated 35-50 percent of the civilian-owned guns in the world. And, yes, one of the most influential and visible political lobbies in America is the National Rifle Association, which spends millions of dollars every election cycle to protect the Second Amendment rights of Americans. Despite all that, people who own guns in America are the exception, not the rule. According to the 2010 General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, less than a third of American homes had a gun. The all-powerful NRA has 4 million members, representing about 1 percent of the population (by contrast, the AARP has 38 million mem-
bers). In other words, there is a disproportionate number of guns and gun fervor in a country where most people aren’t packing, which suggests two things: 1) People who own a gun probably own more than one, and 2) People who own guns really, really love them, and don’t want anyone taking them away. Here are some reasons why someone would want to take their guns away: On April 20, 1999,
Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into their high school with a TEC-9 (9mm semi-automatic), a HiPoint 995 carbine rifle and two 12-gauge shotguns, one of which Harris named “Arlene.” They killed 13 and wounded 21. On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho used a .22 caliber Walther P22 and a 9mm Glock to
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kill 32 and wound another 17 at Virginia Tech. And on July 20, 2012, James Holmes, dressed in tactical gear, walked into a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises wielding a 12-gauge Remington, a Smith and Wesson M&P 15 rifle, and a Glock 22. He shot 70 people, killing 12. Or on March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley fired a .22 caliber revolver six times outside of a Washington, D.C., hotel in a failed attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. Four people were injured. James Brady, President Reagan’s press secretary, was shot in the head, leaving him partially paralyzed. Brady has since started an anti-gun campaign. In 1993, his campaign succeeded in seeing the Brady Act signed by President Bill Clinton, which required background checks for individuals purchasing guns. Today, the Brady Campaign ranks the states with the strongest (read: strictest) gun laws. California is No. 1 with a score of 81 out of 100 possible points. Hawaii is No. 6 with 50 points. Montana is tied for 47th with a score of 2. Living in Montana, it is easy to forget that most Americans don’t own a gun, because in Big Sky Country gun culture seems to be thriving. Between September 2010 and February 2012, federally licensed gun dealers in the state ordered 16,888 FBI background checks; only two other states, Kentucky and Utah, ordered more per 100,000 people. That figure doesn’t even take into account guns purchased by Montanans from Montana gun manufacturers. In 2009, Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, which among other
things, says Montana-made guns bought by Montana citizens don’t require background checks. The federal government doesn’t recognize the law. Since it passed, statewide manufacturing of guns has grown 82 percent.
After shooting, Stu and Jamey take me to the Great Falls Shooting Complex’s club house, a corrugated-sided building that stands up against the brown-grey bleakness of prairie. Inside, we find four men, each of them either a director of the shooting complex, a competitive shooter, or both. All of them are members of the NRA. I begin by asking the group how they each came to appreciate firearms. Patrick, a neat, skinny guy with combed salt-and-pepper hair, talks about his family, and the bonds guns have strengthened: “When [your father] hands you your first rifle, you’ll never get that feeling again. It takes time. You have to be there oneon-one, engaged with one another…talking about what a gun can do if it’s done wrong, what it can if it’s done right. Because this day and age, everyone is going sideways.” The rest of the men have similar stories. John, a bearish man with an Oklahoma drawl who claims to buy five to 10 guns a year, says the prize gun in his collection is a 1925 A5 that his granddad bought his father the day his father was born. “I have four grandkids now, and I bought each of them a .22 on the day they were born,” he says. “Teaching them all to shoot, seeing the grin on their faces, it’s irreplaceable.” Then James, whom everyone calls Chief and has the unlikely vibe of a church-going Al Bundy, echoes what I had already experienced in my brief shooting career. “There’s something about taking something in your hand, whether it’s a gun or a bow and arrow
or a Frisbee,” he says, “and hitting something way over there and not only doing it consistently but also making that target smaller and smaller and smaller. That feels good.” As the conversation ebbs, I ask the men what they would say to someone who suggests guns be made illegal. Jamey Williams didn’t need much time. “Self-defense.” He offers a supporting anecdote: “I witnessed an assault this summer. I was in a city and we called the police and you would not believe how long it took them to get there. There could have been plenty of people dead if it had escalated to that level. It took the police 7 or 8 minutes to get there.”
Today, the NRA is a political and ideological juggernaut in the world of firearms. Its website is plastered with banners reading, “Send Obama His Walking Papers,” “Gun Laws Ring Hollow with Voters” and “Handgun Stopping Power: Did Your Favorite Load Make The Cut?” But it was not always this way. After the Civil War, a journalist named William C. Churchman and a lawyer named George Wingate returned to New York City and commiserated on the lack of marksmanship of their fellow Union troops. They agreed on the importance of an organization dedicated to “promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis.” In 1871, they found the National Rifle Association. In the beginning, it raised funds to open shooting ranges around New York City. The goal was to provide education in marksmanship and safety. The NRA quickly became a club of recreationists and competitive shooters. It wasn’t until the 1930s that the NRA became politically involved. The National Firearms Act (1934) and the Federal Firearms Act (1938) represented the first major gun-legislation in America’s history, proposing a firearm licensing system and heavily restricting the purchase of automatic weapons. Though not in an official lobbying capacity, the NRA came out in support of the measures. Then NRA Executive Vice President Milton Reckford told the House Ways and Means Committee, “We believe that the machine gun, sub-machine gun, and sawedoff shotgun, and dangerous and deadly weapons could all be included in any kind of a bill, and no matter how drastic, we will support it.” In the years following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and in the midst of the civil rights movement, the NRA began to evolve into the political force it is today. In reaction to a bill proposed by President Lyndon Johnson which would have extended a ban on mail-ordered rifles and shotguns, then-NRA President Harold Glassen called the measure the government’s attempt to “foist upon an unsuspecting and aroused public a law that would, through its operation, sound the death knell for shooting sport and eventually disarm the American public.”
When the NRA was founded, there was no mention of self-defense or rights of any kind. Yet today, it touts itself as the champion for the Second Amendment and a defender of freedom. Before the 2008 election, the NRA distributed thousands of walletsized cards to its members: “Barack Obama’s Ten Point Plan to ‘Change’ The Second Amendment.” No. 1 was ban use of firearms for home defense. No. 4 was close down 90 percent of gun shops in America. No. 6 was increase federal taxes on guns and ammunition by 500 percent.
tween.” Wes doesn’t remember an early fascination with guns, but he had one in his hand from a young age, and what was his circumstance became his passion. He hasn’t hunted for years and he long ago gave up competitive pistol shooting, but he still shoots at a neighborhood gun range notched into a hill below his house. Before we leave the house for the range, Wes tells me he isn’t interested in gun politics and he has nothing to say about gun laws. He tells me that when he was starting to compete in pistol matches, he would
Though the association continues to provide education and host shooting competitions and events, the NRA is most visibly a political lobby, and one that has framed its cause as essentially American.
often get frustrated by the challenge, until one day an old timer set him straight. “This guy said to me I just need to think about the reality of what I was doing,” he says. “Sending a projectile through space.” Wes tells me that he works at the Ax Men South gun store one or two shifts a week because the owners are “wonderful people.” When I ask Wes why he likes to shoot he tells me that’s a bigger question than I think. “More than anything,” he says, “it’s fun.” We start off by shooting pistols: a Walther P22, a Glock 17 9mm, a .357 Smith and Wesson. I feel more comfortable than I did with Stu and Jamey. I know to open the action and check the chamber, I know to keep the barrel pointing down range, I know that when a person walks in front of the firing line, put down the gun. “This one here, this is a really cool gun,” Wes says as he pulls a long-barreled pistol out of a leather holster. Wes tells me it’s a .454 Casull made by Freedom Arms Inc. in Freedom, Wyo. He loads a bullet in the chamber, and hands me the pistol. It’s heavy. I give him a searching look. He smiles, “You can shoot it with one hand. Just make sure the gun doesn’t hit you in the head.” I squeeze the trigger, and the recoiling pistol nearly leaps over my shoulder. Wes is laughing. I am laughing too. Next we fire an AK-47 and a Siaga-12, which is a combat shotgun. Shooting becomes all-consuming; the action of the gun, the discharging of the bullet, contact with the target. You are overwhelmed by a whir of clanking metal, gaseous detonations and clouds of dust, and through it all calmly, deliberately,
On a fall Sunday, the air freshly cleared of smoke from ongoing forest fires, Wes Mills meets me outside of his Bitterroot Valley home. He wears a wool sweater and faded jeans. He shakes my hand, and immediately seems like the kind of person who would rather avoid situations that require handshaking. Wes is an artist whose work is shown and sold in galleries and museums in San Francisco, New York and Munich. In a 2007 booklet for the Portland Art Museum’s exhibition, Apex: Wes Mills, his work is described as “existing in a place between the palpable and the ephemeral…[his] graphite and ink drawings emanate an intuitive sense of the universal.” He shows me into his house, and leads me into a room where he has laid out a dozen of his favorite guns on the floor. “This one is an AK-47. There are probably more of these in the world than anything else.” Wes was born on an orchard in eastern Oregon. For his family, hunting was not only a way of life but a means of sustenance. “We were poor, and ate a lot of venison and rabbit,” he explains. “We weren’t even allowed to have BB guns because they weren’t safe but they weren’t dangerous. They were kind of in be-
you must consider the next shot. Shooting is motion in half-time. Wes suggests we go out to the 100-yard target to do something different. Tannerite is an explosive powder that only detonates when shot with a high-velocity projectile. In the following days I would question why such a thing is legal, but when he recommends that we shoot plastic jars full of Tannerite, I say yes. At 100 yards, I look through the scope of an AR-15 and try to think about my breathing. Wes says the scope sights are true and I should aim right at the orange canister. The crosshairs wobble around the target. I let them. I fire. A cloud of dust and the canister is rolling down the dirt berm it was perched on. I turn the safety and set the rifle down as Wes sets it up again. Second try. Breathing, wobbling, I slowly squeeze the trigger. When I killed the deer in Mississippi, my mom reacted not because I killed something, but because I used a gun to do it. To her, as to me, guns and the people who owned them represented the other side of a rift so wide that seemingly no amount of debate or logic or rhetoric could narrow the gap. But experience can transcend intellectualizing. I wonder what my mom would say if she saw me and Wes shooting a high-caliber assault rifle at plastic canisters full of explosive powder. She wouldn’t have liked the conversation with the men in Great Falls—the talk about rights and self-defense. The reasons Jamey Williams felt so strongly about owning firearms is the same reason my family feels strongly people shouldn’t own firearms: Because there are bad guys out there. But I think my mom would like Wes. She’s an artist who appreciates aesthetic in all aspects of her life. Wes is an artist who appreciates aesthetic and AK-47s. Later that day, I leave Wes’s house and meet some friends way up Miller Creek to shoot guns in the woods. Mike and Dave come to all my band’s shows. They’ve seen our 10-song set a hundred times, but still show up, even if no one else does. Pat is there too, with his 6-year-old son, Wyatt. We park our trucks next to a clearing in the woods. Pat, Mike and Dave have brought a small arsenal: .22 pistols, a Russian combat rifle, a 30-.06, several shotguns and an AR-15. There are already three people shooting rifles at the spot. We ask if we can set up some targets and they say sure and put down their firearms. Wyatt carries a hockey stick and uses it to shoot imaginary ducks out of the sky. Pat tells him to stay behind a line in the dirt. Wyatt never betrays his dad. He collects the spent shells of shooters who were here before us, waiting for the next flight of ducks only he can see. We shoot for an hour, at targets and clay pigeons flung into the air with a plastic arm. I hit a pumpkin with the Russian rifle. For a moment, I think the recoil broke something in my shoulder. Mike smiles and confesses that the rifle kicks. Occasionally, someone from one of the two parties asks if they can go down range and everyone puts their guns down. Friends and strangers armed to the teeth. editor@missoulanews.com
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Science, synchronicity and dance Adventurer Jon Turk takes a walk on the spiritual side by Erika Fredrickson
The Weber Dance Company performs Synchronicity and the Sacred Space.
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ere are some things you should know first about Bitterroot resident Jon Turk: He’s a scientist who got his doctorate in Boulder, Colo. in organic chemistry, and he and his friend Erik Boomer won the 2012 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award for a harrowing 1,485-mile journey—by kayak, ski and on foot—around Ellesmere Island near Greenland. Those who know Turk as a writer, however, know that his life made an interesting turn into the spiritual realm a few years ago when he visited Siberia and encountered a shaman. According to Turk, a shaman named Moolynaut summoned the spirit of a raven to help mend Turk’s pelvis, which had been fractured in a mountaineering accident. The scientist was bowled over by the spiritual experience. He wrote a book called The Raven’s Gift that detailed his journey with the shaman. “And the world started viewing me as a crackpot,” Turk says. “But I couldn’t help it. This is ex-
actly what happened.” Turk has now added one more dimension to his credits: performer. He’s co-written a dance and storytelling piece with Jody Weber of Boston’s Weber Dance Company based on The Raven’s Gift. Synchronicity and the Sacred Space will be performed with the Weber Dance Company in and around Missoula in the next couple of weeks. It features Turk as the storyteller who, in seven sections, relays the details of his experience. In between stories, the dancers perform pieces meant to evoke the feelings Turk had during his time in Siberia. Dancers perform in front of a slideshow of natural landscapes. The collaboration came about because Weber had already been thinking about creating a dance piece based on the idea of spirituality in a modern world. “She’d been working on a dance about this mental landscape that we go through and wanted to know if I would I be interested in creating a joint performance,” says Turk. “We started working together. She came out to
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Montana for a week and then I went out to Boston for three weeks and we started exploring a larger issue.” The title is easy to roll your eyes at: Synchronicity to one person is just coincidence to another. But this project isn’t just a therapeutic rabbit-hole. Turk and crew received a grant from the Boston Performing Arts Council to create the piece in a Boston warehouse and perform it around the city. So far, the production has garnered praise by critics in both the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix. “People get hung up on the word ‘shamanism’ and they say ‘I believe’ or ‘I don’t believe,’ which isn’t the point,” Turk says. “The point is that we here in Montana, especially, live in a world with a close relationship to nature. Really what [this piece] is exploring is what that relationship to nature is in this oilsoaked, internet-crazed world, and we’re trying to do that through a mixed media and do it in an ecstatic, happy way.” Synchronicity and the Sacred Space is a joyful
dance piece that gets more joyous as it goes on. It’s not meant to ignore the reality of the modern age and Western views. It’s meant to tell the story of a scientist who encountered something beyond his scope of understanding and embraced it anyway. “I’m still a westerner,” says Turk. “I own computers and fly in airplanes, but in the story I talk about how, ‘Okay, I had this experience...how do I take this joyful emotion and integrate it into this world that I live in, which is 21st century North America?” Jon Turk and the Weber Dance Company perform Synchronicity and the Sacred Space at the Downtown Dance Collective Sat., Nov. 10, and Sun., Nov. 11. They perform it at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center Wed., Nov. 14, and at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center in Whitefish Fri., Nov. 16. 7 PM nightly. $20. arts@missoulanews.com
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Punchline love Cevallos crafts a strong honky-tonk album The best country music always has good punchlines, and on Amanda Cevallos’ new album, I’ll Never Honky Tonk You, there’s no shortage of play on words. Titles like “He Won’t Stop Leavin’ Me Alone” and “Texas Hold Him” embrace that tradition, along with the practice of mentioning Johnny Cash and singing about honky tonks—though Cevallos is the first singer I’ve heard use “honky tonk” as an action that you do to someone. The former Missoulian and current Austin musician struts the fine line between classic—though totally loveable—tropes and original storylines. “Jose Guadalupe” is a sweet and dark song, full of aching pedal steel, about Cevallos’ tumultuous relationship with her father. She says he always gave such good advice, but she’d rather see him in jail alive. In that one and “Good For Nothing But Each Other” pained twangs punctuate her clear vocals. She’s got a pretty voice but, like Loretta Lynn, you can hear in the way her vocals crack in all the right places that life’s been a little rough. Sassiness becomes her in the title track, but the biggest hit on her album has to be “Read My Hips Swayin’
Goodbye” in which she taunts her former lover by singing, “This is what leavin’ you looks like from behind,” as he watches her walk away. This is one of the best original honky-tonk albums I’ve heard in a long time, and Cevallos’ return to Missoula for the release makes it all the more exciting. (Erika Fredrickson) Amanda Cevallos and her band play a CD-release show at the Top Hat Thu., Nov. 8, at 9 PM. $5.
Devil Makes Three I have not seen Devil Makes Three live, but I can tell they are great, just by those keggers I’ve been to where some tattooed vagabond busts out a guitar and everyone shouts “Old Number 7” in each other’s faces. If your songs are memorable and true enough to become drunken-sing-along mainstays, by golly you’ve got something there. Devil Makes Three has been around a few years and produced three studio albums and two live ones, candidly saying on its website, “We have always felt like our live show was better than our CDs … No multitracking, no studio trickery, just us playing a show and having the time of our lives.”
Devil Makes Three play smart country and bluegrass for people who like dancing to good fiddlin’ and like whiskey a little too much; qualities Missoulians can claim without irony. The most recent live album, Stomp and Smash: Live at the Mystic Theatre, was released in October 2011. The production might be higher quality these days, but near as I can tell, the band is still a downhome good time. (Kate Whittle) Devil Makes Three and Johnny Fritz Corndawg play the Wilma Theatre Thu., Nov. 15., at 8 PM. $20, advance tickets available at Rockin’ Rudys.
Kory Quinn and the Comrades: Angels and Outlaws There’s something to be said for musicians who adhere to strict musical traditions without coming off as crass copycats. Portland’s hobo countryman Kory Quinn possesses the rich vocals and authentic songwriting necessary to carve out his own space in the Americana timeline. Tunes like “$2000 Song” and “You Don’t Hold Me Down” capture the timeless spirit of an old soul who is no stranger to freight yards and jail cells, and the clever phrasing of “I’ll butter you up like hot buttered rum and honey, baby I’ll make you come/ to me” in “My Girl From Carolina” is sure to elicit a sly grin. From the well-worn themes to the classic country instrumentation, nothing on Angels and Outlaws is
groundbreaking. Repetitive lyrics and an unwavering tempo tend to flatten this brief EP. The entire play time of these five songs is just over 16 minutes. The album is too fleeting to become immersed in, but Quinn ties it all together at the end with the thoughtful love ballad “Annabelle Lee.” Complete with yearning lap steel and harmonies sweeter than honey on sourdough biscuits, the song is a satisfying closer. (Jed Nussbaum) Kory Quinn and the Comrades play Zoo City Apparel Wed., Nov. 14, at 8 PM. $4. The band plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton Thu., Nov. 15, from 6 to 8:30 PM. Free.
Titus Andronicus: Local Business Surely there are better songs on the album, but my favorite part of Local Business is the refrain to ‘(I Am The) Electric Man,’ when a falsetto chorus sung by Patrick Stickles is layered under the regular Patrick Stickles. Titus Andronicus needs that song. You can bet the Brooklyn punk band argued about whether to capitalize “The” in the title, too. They are a serious band—sometimes comically so—and the silliness of “(I Am The) Electric Man” comes as a welcome reassurance. It almost makes up for the eight-minute “My Eating Disorder.”
So Local Business is not a deviation from form nor a return, so much as a settling-in. The fever pitch of sincerity that was both invigorating and vaguely troubling on The Monitor—a concept album about how the Civil War is like moving to Boston and breaking up with your girlfriend—has been cut with irony. Titus Andronicus seems to be maturing in the same way as The Clash. They still sound angry and they still rock, but the whole affair is conducted with the jaded certainty that they must do so because they are among the few who can. It is the grim wisdom of 27, and it suits them. (Dan Brooks)
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[art]
Anything we can do Printmaker Lindsey Weber finds art in death by Kate Whittle
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Our society often struggles with mourning—our own and others’. We send cards and flowers. Maybe we drop off a casserole or offer some booze. And we say, “If there’s anything I can do, just let me know.” When Lindsey Weber’s father passed away unexpectedly this spring, her family received hundreds of cards saying just that. “The 600 cards we got were exactly the same,” she says. “We don’t have a language for how to deal with our grief, or the grief of others. ... People were very scared of approaching me and my family for about a month because they didn’t want to stir up any feelings.”
whites, she says, but perhaps even more grim. Her father’s death is undiagnosed, but likely related to a blood clot. “The prints are basically like skeletal and organ drawings, tracings of paths the blood clots went through to reach his brain,” she says. Besides Weber’s relief prints, several of the upcoming exhibit’s pieces are pencil portraits of family members based on photos taken at her father’s funeral. Some of her subjects are in palpable states of misery, like “Youngest Daughter,” which depicts a woman hunched with a tissue clutched to her face, brow scrunched, eyes wide and watery. Weber’s portraits are rendered softly,
A 26-year-old University of Montana art school graduate, Weber specializes in printmaking and teaches printmaking classes at the Zootown Arts Community Center. In relief prints, the artist carves out the negative parts of the image onto a block, dips it in ink and then presses it to a medium like paper or canvas. Weber fell in love with the style during an art class when she was 19 or 20. She says she loves relief painting because it’s one of the oldest art forms around besides drawing and painting—and she loves the graphic starkness the prints produce. Before her father died, Weber had already booked the second Friday of November for her ZACC art show, not knowing yet what the show would be. A few weeks after he passed away, she decided that creating prints addressing death and people’s reaction to it could be cathartic for her and her family. She calls her multimedia Reflections. One of the pieces will be a collage of all the repetitive sympathy cards. It’s fitting Weber’s show comes on the heels of Dia de los Muertos, when many bold relief prints of skeletons are on parade. Weber’s own work is similar, in an unconscious echo. Her exhibit reliefs might be reminiscient of Muertos art, with bare-bones blacks and crisp
without many strong lines. For the show, she’s scanning her notebook pages and stitching them together in Photoshop to create larger digital prints that will retain the textural, wrinkled-paper look of the originals. Weber worries her exhibit will come off as cynical. She’s not looking at it as a slam against people who don’t know what else to say. “Maybe there’s a vacuum here in our society,” she says. “Maybe we should have a framework [for how to address grief.]” Weber doesn’t provide outright answers as to what we can do differently in the face of loss, but her pieces seem to suggest some ideas: through festivals celebrating our loved ones and through creative works acknowledging our loss, we can accept that death is a part of life and not something to be feared. Then, maybe we can move on and keep creating and living. “I’m just going to try not to overthink things,” Weber says, “try to live in the moment, try not to get bogged down with issues that are bigger than me.” Lindsey Weber’s Reflections opens at the ZACC Fri., Nov. 9, with an opening reception from 5:30 to 8:30 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com
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The film marches along a traditional Alcoholics Anonymous narrative, but it works here, because so often the stereotypes are true. (I know a kid with a 3.5 GPA who stops off at the Press Box for 10 shots of vodka before acing every one of his college tests, because he can’t help himself, sure, but it’s more than that. He wants to prove how much the world has let him down.) Alcoholics are manipulators and liars. They abandon their children. They operate heavy machinery and endanger other peoples’ lives, but that’s not the whole story. It’s possible to be both very good at your job and a hopeless alcoholic. Whitaker still expertly landed the damn plane, didn’t he? Flight is director Robert Zemeckis’s first live-action film since Cast Away and only his second Rrated feature. It’s a good look on him. Along with screenwriter John Gatins, they’ve created deep characters with clear motives and interesting things to say. The story asks hard questions and then deprives us of easy answers. It’s the best film I’ve seen so far this year. Flight continues at the Carmike 12.
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Q (Ben Whishaw) trade zingers about the way espionage has changed into something that’s not just about “exploding pens.” And when M is called before a government committee to justify the ongoing work of her field agents, she has to give an impassioned speech about why they’re still relevant—indeed, why the age of terrorism makes them more important than ever. For most of the past 50 years, Bond films have ended with the promise, “James Bond will return.” Skyfall appears to acknowledge that the implied question should be, “Why?” Or perhaps, as it turns out, the better question is, “How?” Craig’s two previous Bond adventures—2006’s Casino Royale and 2008’s Quantum of Solace—aimed to bring the legendary agent back down to earth. Bond the invulnerable, wise-cracking superhero is long gone, replaced here by a man who survives a near-death experience physically and psychically scarred, the lingering effects of his injuries limiting his ability to get the job done. His antagonist is Silva (Javier Bardem), a brilliant former MI6 operative-turned-cyberterrorist who holds a very personal grudge against his former employers, without a megalomaniacal plot in sight. For all the nods to the character’s high-profile history—including the return of a certain special automobile—Skyfall wants nothing more than to set itself apart by being more authentically human. That certainly doesn’t mean an absence of action; director Sam Mendes (who worked with Craig on Road to Perdition) shoots his chases and fistfights with a clean, minimalist flair, even if he’s willing to nod to vintage Bond theatricality by having one brawl take place in a pit full of Komodo dragons. Nor does it mean Bond won’t encounter lovely and dangerous women like
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towards Bond from a distance, oozing confidence. The up-close-and-slightly-too-personal encounter between Silva and Bond that immediately follows captures a kind of psychological warfare—and the magnetic presences of both Craig and Bardem—with which Bond films have too rarely seemed interested. Add the terrific cinematography by veteran Roger Deakins—whether in the neon glow of Shanghai or the dirty light of a Macau casino— and you have that atypical Bond tale that feels not just like the latest piece of a franchise, but like actual cinema. The action builds to a finale that takes James Bond back to his rarely-explored roots, in a gesture that’s more than slightly metaphorical. As much as the screenplay indulges our collective familiarity with the half-century film history of the character and the series, it’s also out to blow up—in some cases literally—some of the crutches that have propped it up. Perhaps Skyfall at times gets a bit too strident in making sure we understand this is a different Bond for a different time, and perhaps it becomes too easy to predict the manner through which Bond might ultimately triumph. But from the trademark impressionistic opening credits— which take us right through the center of 007’s subconscious—it’s clear that this film has no intention of taking for granted that we should care about this franchise or its hero. Skyfall acts as though every new James Bond adventure needs to earn our belief that he still matters, and that a secret agent with a soul can be just as exciting as an exploding pen. Skyfall opens at the Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharoahplex Fri., Nov. 9. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] SILENT HILL: REVELATION What if your nightmares were the key to your past? What if an alternate reality wasn’t so alternate after all and you dreams were the real world and your real life was dream? Heavy stuff, man. Starring Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell and Carrie-Anne Moss. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.
OPENING THIS WEEK DR. FAUSTUS The Globe on the Big Screen presents Christopher Marlowe’s classic play about a man’s deal with the devil. What’s 24 years amongst a man and Mephistopheles? NR. Tue., Nov. 13, at 7:30 PM. Carmike 12. SKYFALL Bond is back and this time MI6 is under attack. Looks like Great Britain’s best operative may have to take down one of his own in order to save the world. Starring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem and Dame Judi Dench. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.
SLEEPWALK WITH ME You’ve heard him on “This American Life,” now laugh at the perils of somnambulistic comedian Mike Birbiglia as his sleep disorder ruins his life/makes us laugh. Starring Mike Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose and James Rebhorn. NR. Wilma.
NOW PLAYING ARGO Based on a true story, crafty CIA dudes try to bust some Americans out of the not-so-hospitable country of Iran circa 1979. Ayatollah rock and roll-a! Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. CLOUD ATLAS David Mitchell’s book is turned into a movie that tells the stories of many people over many centuries and explores how the actions of one person can affect the world. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant. Rated R. Carmike 12. FLIGHT A pilot saves an airliner from crashing, but something more sinister seems to be stinking up the joint. Say it ain’t so, Denzel! Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Nadine Velazquez, Denzel Washington and Carter Cabassa. Rated R. Carmike 12. HERE COMES THE BOOM MMA fan Kevin James stars in a movie about MMA wherein he plays a teacher who decides to take up the sport in order to save the music program from budget cuts. The school nurse is not so sure it’s a good idea. Starring Salma Hayek and Henry Winkler. Rated PG. Village 6 and Showboat. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA In this animated gem, Dracula has to protect his tween daughter from the advances of a human
”Why must you be so buttoned up, Mr. Bond?“ Skyfall opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.
boy, all while operating a high-end resort for monsters and ghouls. Love bites, indeed. Starring the voices of Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Andy Samberg. Rated PG. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex. LOOPER In 2072 time-travelling mobsters travel around space and time killing each other with convoluted devices. Starring my wife’s boyfriend Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. Rated R. Village 6. THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS A lowly blacksmith protects his village from interlopers seeking gold in feudal China. Written and directed by and starring RZA (yep, RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan), Russell Crowe, Cung Le and Lucy Liu. Rated R. Village 6. THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER A naive high school freshman learns the ways of the world from a couple of salty old seniors.
Starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller. Rated PG-13. Village 6. PITCH PERFECT Oh hells yeah, girlfriend, this is the story of a gal who brings some much-needed spunk to her all girls college choir. Watch out boys, it’s time for a sing-off and some shenanigans. Starring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow and Rebel Wilson. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. SAMSARA This documentary seeks to subvert the form as it takes viewers on a dialogue-free trip around the world as it searches for the thing that connects us all. Directed by Ron Fricke. PG-13 Wilma. SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS A screenwriter gets mixed-up with some goofy and dangerous gangsters after his bro-hams kidnap one of the gangster’s beloved shih tzu. Starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell. Rated R. Village 6.
TAKEN 2 It’s all about revenge, baby. Retired CIA operative Brian Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of the man Mills killed in Taken. Undoubtedly, it’s personal this time. Starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
WRECK-IT RALPH Certain to appeal to folks of a certain age and their children, this animated film tells the story of a video game character seeking to be something more, all the while reeking havoc on the entire arcade where he dwells. Starring the voices of John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Showboat.
Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin. Moviegoers be warned! For show times please visit missoulanews.com, contact the theaters telephonically or check theater websites in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
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The fruits of squash by Ari LeVaux It amazes me when people claim not to know what to do with squash. Because, other than pour milk over it in your cereal bowl, what can’t you do with squash? Can you fry it in bacon grease? Check. Toss the resulting browned chunks in a salad? Check. Simmer it in soup? Stuff it into tamales? Flip it in pancakes? Sweeten it into custard? Spice it into curry? Knead it into gnocchi? Check. If that’s too overwhelming a list of options, an easy rule of thumb for cooking squash is “do anything you might do with a potato.” While squash behaves mostly spud-like, virtually any root vegetable recipe can be applied to squash. That’s one reason I believe winter squash deserves to be considered an honorary member of that family. Technically, though, squash is a fruit. So why do the hard-shelled varieties, aka the winter squash, deserve a spot in the pantheon of winter storage vegetables alongside carrots, garlic, onions, rutabagas, parsnips, beets and celery root? In addition to behaving much like roots in the kitchen, winter squash will occupy your kitchen at the same time the roots do—fall and winter—making squash one of the only non-root storage crops. Like its adopted cousins the roots, squash is kept completely unprocessed, alive and dormant. Pirates used to do something similar with tortoises, stacking them in their ship holds for months, where the animals’ slow metabolism allowed them to stay alive with no food or water. When the occasion called, a tortoise would be retrieved and eaten, like grabbing a squash from the pantry. Living storage crops like roots, squash and the occasional Galapagos giant tortoise mean fresh food anywhere, any time. Unprocessed foods are also much easier to put away than pickles, salsa, pesto, chutney or other such value-added products. Like root vegetables, squash basically stores itself. Keep them cool, dry and well ventilated, arranged one layer deep with no individual touching another, and periodically inspect for mold, rot and any other form of damage. Remove any offending fruits before the damage spreads. To demonstrate how completely winter squash belongs among the roots, I’ll explain how to include it in that most quintessential of root dishes: ovenroasted roots. Starchy winter squashes like buttercup, sunshine, kabocha and blue hubbard roast best, in my opinion, because the starch adds body and the chunks don’t wither away. I tend to avoid pumpkin, butternut and other watery squashes. They can work, but they add moisture to the pan, which slows the cooking process, and they shrink during cooking more than I like. As a matter of course I recommend avoiding spaghetti squash as well—
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FLASH IN THE PAN
not just in this recipe, but in all recipes. Spaghetti squash is an agricultural aberration that should have been selected against. Bad flavor, no body, weird stringiness. After removing the stem and blossom ends, a squash can be cut like a potato. Slice it in half, cut the halves in half, and keep going until you have cubes. Don’t bother removing the seeds from the chunks. They add to the finished product. Like most roots, squash can be cooked with or without its skin. All winter squash skin is edible, but some peels make for better eating than others. Since different roots cook at different rates, I add them to the roasting pan in sequence. I cut the squash and potatoes first, tossing them in the pan with olive oil and placing the pan in the oven. While these roast you can cut carrots, celeriac and parsnips, none of which need cooking at all, and certainly can do with less oven time than squash and potatoes. I like to add a few whole garlic cloves with the carrots, tossing and turning the pan’s contents at every opportunity. When the pan is full, stir in your choice of aromatic spices such as oregano, rosemary, and/or thyme, and a little (or a lot) of paprika or red chile powder if desired. I also like to add garlic powder and onion powder, the only inclusion of onion in this dish, as raw onions are too watery. I also forego red beets, even though I love them, because I don’t love a uniformly purple pile of roots. I also skip turnips, rutabagas and other spicy roots that disrupt the mellow flavor I’m going for. A final spice: the smallest pinch of nutmeg. While it’s baking, between 300 and 400 degrees, I make a mixture of raw, chopped garlic and olive oil in which to toss the roots when they’re finished. Eventually the pan will stop steaming as the chunks dry out, and then they will start to brown and crisp on the outside, while softening inside. It takes between 30 and 60 minutes to get there, depending on the temperature. Remove the roots and toss them in your garlic-oil mixture, season with salt and pepper, and serve with or without mayo on the side. Within the symphony of flavors and textures, the nutty crunch of roasted squash seeds stands out, perfectly in place. Roasted roots—and squash—can be a meal in itself or a starting point for many others. The same raw ingredients can be added to the pan of a half-baked bird as it’s coming in for landing. Roasted roots can be mashed together with fresh garlic and butter for a textured but mushy medley. Roasted roots can be added to soup, where their oven crisp offers a hedge against sogginess. Leftover squash and roots can be refried in bacon grease and served alongside eggs. I suppose you could, on second thought, even eat squash in a bowl with milk.
[dish] Alcan Bar and Grill 16780 Beckwith St. Frenchtown 626-9930 Tantalize your taste buds with Angus beef burgers, chicken strips, shrimp, and biscuits and gravy from Alcan Bar & Grill. With more than 20 years of experience and 10 years in the business, we have been offering fresh meals and beverages at the area's most competitive prices. Our friendly professionals offer personalized service and make sure you leave our restaurant as one of our friends. We offer have a variety of specials for ladies night and sports events featuring drink specials and free food. Contact us today and enjoy our incredible menu selection. 9 am – 2 am Mon-Sun. Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice's is rockin' out pumpkin bread and pumpkin pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain't all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly Fall mornin' while nibblin' a Cherry Cheese Danish. Or order any one of our delicious fruit pies with a dozen dinner rolls for Thanksgiving. Bernice's...a tradition on Thanksgiving dinner tables around Missoula since 1978. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Accomodates indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Crawfish omlettes, beignets, and cafe au lait. Open Monday 11am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, and Sunday 9am-3pm (Beignets available Saturday 11am-2pm, and All Day Sunday) Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 • ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$
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Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items.
Educate your taste buds! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 *When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe. Across from the U of M campus.
The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! (Happy Hour 3-6 PM MonSat. 2 Empanadas for $7) Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-8pm Monday-Saturday. Downtown Missoula. $ $
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Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$
original folk & acoustic americana featuring songwriters Richie Reinholdt & 907Britt
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Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Missoula's Tailgate Headquarters! We carry all of the spirits & accessories to make your tailgate party a success! Largest selection of spirits in Montana, including locally made whiskey, vodka, gin, rum and wine. We're located downtown with free customer parking. Grizzly Liquor was voted Missoula's #1 Liquor Store! Open M-F 9-6:30, Sat 9-6. $-$$$ 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Join Brooks and Browns for Thanksgiving dinner! 11-7 Thanksgiving Day. All the traditional favorites will be served tableside and leftovers are yours to keep! $28 per person or family of 4 for $100. Call 721-8550 for reservations. First 10 tables reserved also receive a complimentary bottle of wine. Dining at home? Pick up a Thanksgiving dinner-to-go! $125 feeds 5 with plenty of leftovers! Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.
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Coffees, Teas & the Unusual
Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm
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Warming up at Sean Kelly’s HAPPIEST HOUR Why you’re here: That chilly, rainy fall weather has finally settled in over Missoula, and a scotch on the rocks just isn’t cutting it anymore. Bars throughout town offer a host of hot, boozy alternatives, from the Irish coffee to the Hot Toddy. Sean Kelly’s offers a bevy of specialty drinks, all for under $6. Hey, it’s cheaper than cranking up those baseboard heaters. What to order for your caffeine boost: As an Irish pub, Sean Kelly’s would be derelict in its duties if it didn’t have Irish coffee on the menu, and Sean Kelly’s takes its duties seriously. Don’t expect to find some discount swill here. This Irish coffee is made with Sean Kelly’s House Blend from Craven’s Coffee. The whiskey may not be local, but the coffee roaster hails from your backyard. Bartender Bill Stubblefield says Irish coffee came back into vogue “as soon as the sun started going down early and the rain came in.” He served four during a recent Friday lunch hour. What to order for your sweet-tooth: Stubblefield quickly points out that the B-52 Coffee is far and away the most popular hot drink available. Underneath that mound of whipped cream is a lip-smacking mix of Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish Cream and Grand Marnier. There’s also the chocolaty Cafe Victoria, the butterscotch-heavy Warm-up Hut and, of course, a
11:30-3pm Happy Hour 3-6pm Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close $-$$ $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$
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Hot Spiced Apple Pie. Fighting off frostbite never tasted so good. Where to point your feet: Sean Kelly’s is located downtown, half a block off Higgins, at 130 W. Pine St. —Alex Sakariassen Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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. $
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. $$-$$$
The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. • 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$
Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9.
The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$
Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.
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Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ 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). $-$$
Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Serving country French specialties, Montana elk, Berkshire Pork, and delicious seafood dishes. Delectable salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
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Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$
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. $$-$$$
Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$
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Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.
Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh housemade pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer
Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 406-830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. • 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook. Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! $
November 8-November 15, 2012
Kerry Foresman presents and signs copies of Mammals of Montana, a book that needs no splainin’ from me. But if it did, my guesses are ferrets, wolves and chukars. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free. “That’s great, and it starts with an earthquake. Birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.” The Peace & Justice Film Series presents the end of the world as we know it with the film Crisis of Civilization. After the film screens there will be a discussion with Justin McCoy. UC Theater. 7 PM. Free, but donations are accepted. I’m not sure how I feel about the neologism “Montexas,” but there will be a party in that vein when former Missoulian Amanda Cevallos brings her band to the Top Hat from Austin, Tex. for a CD-release party. Nate Hegyi also plays. 9 PM. $5. (See Music.) Get it together and see what’s happening at Synergy Sessions, a night of electronic music with locals Sounsiva, Keen, Dagga, and Logisticalone. Palace. 9 PM. Free. The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.
FRIDAYNOV9 Up-and-comer Amanda Cevallos plays country-esque tunes out in the woods of the Lumberjack Saloon, about 12 miles up Hwy. 12 west of Lolo and a squirt up Graves Creek Road. 9 PM. $5.
Pretty bird. Pianist and vocalist Vienna Teng performs at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center as part of the Bitterroot Performing Arts Series on Sat., Nov. 10, at 8pm. $27.50/$22.50. For ticket information visit bartc.org.
THURSDAYNOV8 Get your listening ears on, Tiger, it’s time for the Magpies VFW residency week two, with the boot scootin’ Skin Flowers and Minneapolis’s Fort Wilson Riot. 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. Free. Author Erin Brown Saldin reads from her book The Girls of No Return at the Davidson Honors College Ephron Student Lounge. 4 PM. Free.
Famed Inuit poet dg nanouk okpik reads from her book Corpse Whale at the Payne Family Native American Center on the UM campus. 4 PM. Free. The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30 to 6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment.
nightlife Love is a Dog from Nebraska, a Travis Yost and Ron Dunbar project, has some banjos,
guitars and some tunes for you to fall out of love to. Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6– 8:30 PM. Free. The West Valley Community Council meets to discuss findings by the EPA concerning the former Smurfit Mill Site. County Commissioners are on hand to outline clean-up plans. Frenchtown Junior High School Commons. 6 PM. Treasure State Toastmasters invites you to get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at their weekly meeting. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.
The 2nd Annual Inland Northwest Permaculture Conference features field trips to area businesses doing it right, as well as workshops, panel discussions and a contra dance, obviously. $80/$40 students for all three days. Scholarships available. For full schedule of events see inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com. The Holy Spirit Episcopal Church hosts a Fall Festival where keen shoppers can score handcrafted items, ornaments, collectibles and cakes. 130 S. Sixth St. E. 9–5 PM. Free to gaze upon the bounty. Check out the deep cuts at the Acoustic Soul Session with Rod Blackman at the Elbow Room, 1855 Stephens Road. 8 PM. Free.
nightlife The only disease you’ll catch at the world premiere of Going Viral is intrigue as you
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[calendar] watch four collaborative works between Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre and photographer Barbara Michelman hit the Hamilton Performing Arts Center in Hamilton. The production tells the tales of polio, influenza and other disease using dance and rear screen projected virus images. The fundraiser for Ravalli County Museum is put on in conjunction with Rocky Mountain Labs and Glaxo Smith Kline. $100. Call 406-549-5155 for tickets. The ZACC’s 2nd Friday Opening features Lindsey Weber’s collection Reflections, which explores the ex-
perience of grief in America. The show combines drawing, printmaking and digital art. 235 N. First St. 5:30 PM. Free. (See Art.)
Augé, Ph.D. candidate and adjunct instructor, UM Department of Anthropology. Mansfield Library East Faculty Office. 6 PM. Free.
Teach ‘em how to Dougie during the Dance Party at The Girls Way for gals 9-18 years of age. The Girls Way provides a safe place for girls to hang and promotes healthy living and positivity. 1515 Wyoming St. Ste. 300. 5 PM. Free.
The Workers get down to business at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, where you can sip wine and enjoy Biga antipasto plates while they last. Wine tasting starts at 5 PM, music goes from 6 to 9 p.m. Free. Go to Ten Spoon’s Facebook page for more info.
John Floridis plays music at Hamilton’s Higherground Brewery, 518 N. 1st. St. 6 PM. Free. Get your moon on, player, at The Mythic Moon, a talk by C. Riley
Don’t just dance at home by yourself. The 14th Annual Salsa Ball benefits Missoula Medical Aid and includes live music from Salsa Loca.
You can enjoy small bites, drinks and a big auction at the MCT Center for Performing Arts starting at 7PM. $50/$25 students. Go to missoulamedicalaid.net for more info on the event and the organization.
doing it right, as well as workshops, panel discussions and a contra dance, obviously. $80/$40 students for all three days. Scholarships available. For full schedule of events see inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com.
You don’t need to be a craft genius. Parents can get together at Walking Stick Toys to craft wool felt ornaments and felted garlands to decorate a tree for the Festival of the Trees, which will be auctioned off for Mountain Home Montana and Community Medical Center Foundation to help support Missoula moms and babies. 829 S. Higgins Ave. 7 PM.
Get crafty for the holidays when you sprint on down to the craft fair at The King’s Christian Church in Lolo, 9830 Valley Grove Dr., between 9 AM and 3 PM. To be a vendor, call Katherine at 396-7268.
Blue and the Vagus Nerve don’t need Elton John to tell them what to do with the sun. Join them for dancing tunes of yesteryear at them at the Eagles Lodge, 2402 South Ave., at 8 PM. Free. Britchy lays down original folk and Americana style tunes at the Alcan Bar in Frenchtown from 8:30 to close. Get your dance on, people. Free. Dead Hipster DJs present I Love the 90s, a night of delicious tunes from the Golden Age of Music. Nineties dress is encouraged. Might as well do it, you’re already looking California and felling Minnesota anyways. Palace. 9 PM. $3, with a $1 well drink special until midnight. Tom Catmull and The Clerics make you dance, but will they make you consider switching to Geico? Find out at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St., with Kristi Neuman. 9 PM. Free. Miller Creek brings Americana to its knees and burns its arm with a lit cigar when the band plays the Top Hat. 9 PM. $5. Zeppo MT plays old time rock and roll and soul at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. Put on your stockings, you stone fox, and clip on over to Foxy Friday at the Badlander, a night of techno and house with DJs from all around the Treasure State including Chuazz Manual, DJ Kettu, Amory G and Jason Root. 9 PM. Free. Paydirt hits it but does not quit it as the band keeps people partying at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St., until a few hours before dawn. 9:30 PM. Free.
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Our revels now are ended...not! They have only just begun as The Met: Live in HD presents Shakespeare’s The Tempest (aka his best work), at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. 10:55 AM. $20/$18 senior/$15 student. The 2nd Annual Inland Northwest Permaculture Conference features field trips to area businesses
November is bazaar season, so all you lucky ducks with a penchant for baked goods, books, antiques and more should head to the Annual Fall Bazaar: Treasure Fest at University Congregational Church, corner of University and Hilda Avenues. 9 AM– 2 PM. Call Joyce at 360-3114. The Work that Reconnects, an eco-philosophy-based workshop with Kathleen Kennedy and Patrick Marsoleck, teaches folks a different way to respond to pain and repair connections to the inner and outer world. Red Willow Learning Center, 825 W. Kent Ave. 9–4 PM. $80, sliding scale available. Call Kathy at 721-0033. Hobie Hare teaches the teachers during the Montana Natural History Center’s Saturday Discovery Day class Strengthening Student Life Skills and Community Through Connection with Nature. Woof, that’s an eyeful. Anywho, Hare teaches teachers how to use nature in the classroom. Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens. 9:30–1 PM. $35/$30 members. Register at montananaturalist.org. The Missoula Senior Center Christmas Bazaar and Jewelry Sale is exactly what it says it is. Check out the sweet items and get your shopping done early for once. 515 S. Higgins Ave. 10 AM–3 PM. Never fear, lovers of fresh, local num-nums, the Heirloom Winter Market at the Missoula County Fairgrounds is rolling with music, kids’ activities, locally grown produce, meat, baked goods, jam, honey and so much more. 11 AM–2 PM. Ever seen an Andy Warhol up close? Tour MAM’s Selected Works from the Susan and Roy O’Connor Collection with a knowledgeable MAM staff member to see works by American artists who were contemporary pioneers: Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Philip Taaffe, Warhol and Terry Winters, plus sculptures by Louise Bourgeois and Richard Long. 335 N. Pattee. Noon. Free. Get onboard the great art coaster and join the Celebrity Artist Tour with Stephanie Frostad, in which she unveils the secrets behind the exhibition Labor & Leisure: Impressionist and Realist Masterpieces from a Private Collection. UM PARTV Center lobby. 12:10– 12:50 PM. Free.
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Up to mischeif. Comic book maker Jeffrey Lewis and his band The Junkyard play folk and garage rock at the Palace, 147 W. Broadway Ave., Mon., Nov. 12, at 10 PM. $7.
Stan Lynde (any relation to Paul Lynde?) signs his book The Big Open at Fact & Fiction. 220 N. Higgins Ave. 1–3 PM. You can’t read-a my poker face, so don’t even try at the High Stakes for Hospice Poker Tournament at the Elbow Room, 1025 Strand Ave., where 100 percent of the funds raised benefit the Hospice Care Foundation. 1 PM. $50 buy-in, mulitple buy-ins allowed. Visit hcfmissoula.com. A milkman with five daughters faces a plethora of problems. Luckily, there is a plethora of tunes, too, with the production of Fiddler on the Roof by UM’s Schools of Music, Theatre & Dance at the Montana Theatre in the UM PARTV Center. 2 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 12 and under. Visit umtheatredance.org. You’ve been letting regret and fear plague you far too long, mister or missus. Head down to the Holiday Inn for the More to Life Weekend to learn how to make clear decisions and release resentments. Perhaps you’ll figure out how to unlock your life’s meaning. Starts Fri., Nov. 9, at 7 PM and continues through the weekend at 9 AM Sat. and Sun. $450 with early registration/$495 after Fri. Nov. 2. Scholarships available. (If you’re not happy with results you get your money back.) Call 406-396-2433 for more info.
nightlife Mudslide Charlie brings some blues and the like to Draughtworks Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. from 5–8 PM. Free. The Workers work the room at Blacksmith Brewing Co. in Stevi at 6 PM. Free. The Kevin Van Dort Trio is three times more fun than you were gonna have otherwise, so check it at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.
Get britchalicious with Britchy— the folk-Americana duo consisting of 907Britt and Richie Reinholdt—when you head down to the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM where you will also be greeted with wine and Biga antipasto plates (until they run out). Or bring your own food. Check out Ten Spoon’s FB page for more info. Free.
More events online: missoulanews.com The Zootown Idol high school talent show not only benefits the First Step Resource Center it also boasts loads of talented teens singing their guts out. 7 PM. $10/$5 students. Scientist, adventurer and writer Jon Turk presents Synchronicity and the Sacred Space, a storytelling and dance piece that probes the strange landscape where scientific thought encounters the unknown. The author of The Raven’s Gift and a Bitterroot resident worked with Boston’s Weber Dance Company to create this piece, which you can check out at the Downtown Dance Collective at 7 PM. $20/$15 “dancer’s rate.” (See Arts) The Heart to Heart Duo plays the Missoula Senior Center’s Saturday Night Dance, so slide into those glad rags and show the youngsters how it’s done. 705 S. Higgins. 7–10 PM. $5. The Reeled Out comedy show features John Howard, Mike Beers, and Nick Hartford performing at the Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $7. Salute local veterans and celebrate your relative freedom at the Missoula Symphony Orchestra concert American Salute with special guest, actor J.K. Simmons, who does narration. 7:30 PM. $15-$22. Visit missoulasymphony.org.
Pianist and singer Vienna Teng has a name built for stardom and chops to go along with it. Check out her chamber-folk jams at the Bitterroot Performing Arts Series at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center. 8 PM. $27.50/$22.50. Visit bartc.org. Learn to tango like you were born to do it at Tango Night at the Brick Room down at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main, at 8 PM. All levels welcome and no experience necessary. $10 per person/$16 per couple. A portion of the proceeds from this dance will benefit The Boys & Girls Club of Missoula. Call 541-7240 for more info or go to ddcmontana.com. No need to bow down to the Row here, Bless this House is a night of house music with local DJs Hendawg, PandAura, HAuLi and Atom. Palace. 9 PM. Free. Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo is the de facto dopest DJ duo in town. Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free. The Soul City Cowboys are experts at “dancing and general partying.” If that sounds dope to you head to Fergie’s Bar in Hot Springs. 9 PM. Free. Stuart Jackson lays it down so you can pick it on up at Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9 PM. Free. Had enough surprises this week? Then check out Tom Catmull and the Clerics who perform tunes to steal lovers by at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free. ShoDown puts on a country music party show for all you all dancers and Bud Light drinkers at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of
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[calendar] your choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free. Call 728-8799. The Josh Farmer Band tickles ivories and hearts when it performs at the Top Hat, with latin fusioneers La Pachanga. 10 PM. $5.
SUNDAYNOV11 The Ed Norton Big Band put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, from 6–8 PM. $5. Visit missoulawinery.com.
there is a plethora of tunes, too, with the production of Fiddler on the Roof by UM’s Schools of Music, Theatre & Dance at the Montana Theatre in the UM PARTV Center. 2 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 12 and under. Visit umtheatredance.org. Troubadour Tom Catmull plays tunes for you and Annajean at Draughtworks Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 4–7 PM. Free.
nightlife Slide into some slacks and slip on down to the Elbow Room, 1855 Stephens Ave., for Sunday Dance Parties with the Five Valleys Dance Club. Lessons at 5 PM, DJ and dancing from 6:30 to 9 PM. $7/$12 per couple/$2 for those under 25. Costs include lesson. Visit fivevalleysdanceclub.com. Blues and Brews pairs Bayern Brewing’s beers with vittles from
Blue Canyon Kitchen and Tavern, 3720 North Reserve St., not to mention tunes by Mudfoot and the Dirty Soles. Three courses and dessert. $75. RSVP at destinationmissoula.org/destinationdining. The Second Wind Reading Series with Mary Harrington and Amy Ratto-Parks features the words of UM MFA profs and students, plus awkward flirting and clandestine note-taking. Top Hat. 5 PM. Free.
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Get tripped out weirdly to the tuneage of LA’s instrumental rock duo El Ten Eleven at the Palace, with Yourself and the Air and Michina. 9 PM. $10. Tickets available at Ear Candy and Rockin Rudy’s.
MONDAYNOV12 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.
The 2nd Annual Inland Northwest Permaculture Conference features field trips to area businesses doing it right, as well as workshops, panel discussions and a contra dance, obviously. $80/$40 students for all three days. Scholarships available. For full schedule of events see inlandnorthwestpermaculture.com. Take a gander at Missoula’s history today cuz the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula is open today in honor of Veterans Day from noon to 5 PM. Free for vets and active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Call 728-3476.
Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with Josh Farmer, The Vanguard Combo and Front Street Jazz. Free.
It’s Veterans Day. The University of Montana and most city offices are closed for the day.
Wave ‘em like you just don’t care. PDXers Bitterroot bring some much-needed Americana to our burg at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., Wed., Nov. 14, at 8 PM, with openers Kory Quinn and the Comrades, as well as Meade Morgan and Matt Pierce. $4.
Scientist, adventurer and writer Jon Turk presents Synchronicity and the Sacred Space, a storytelling and dance piece that probes the strange landscape where scientific thought encounters the unknown. The author of The Raven’s Gift and a Bitterroot resident worked with Boston’s Weber Dance Company to create this piece, which you can check out at the Downtown Dance Collective at 7 PM. $20/$15 “dancer’s rate.” (See Arts)
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The Rough Cut Science Seminar Series shows off the brainiacs of Montana’s scientific community, with presentations on current research each week at 4 PM in the University Center Theater. Visit montanaioe.org/roughcut-series for the schedule.
nightlife Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org. The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat, 633 5th St. E. 6:30 PM. Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.
[calendar] The S.A.F.E. Book Club discusses poetry this week at the Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, 252 W. Main St., at 7 PM. Feel free to bring a pome to share. Have a pro evening and head to the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., and check out Steve Kalling with D.R. Halsell and Keaton Wilson for an evening of bum-booting good food and tunes to match. 7–10 PM. Free. Take in the tunes of the Missoula Community Concert Band at its Fall Concert conducted by Ms. Jennifer Kirby of Florence-Carlton Schools. MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 Adams St. 7:30 PM. Free. Rhymes from the Los Angeles underground (home of the A-Team!) are in da house when Abstract Rude hits the Badlander stage, with L.A’s The Kleenerz. DJ ZoLe, and B. Squid open, along with Spokane’s Jaeda and locals Tonsofun, the Codependents, Traff the Wiz and DJ Enkrypted. 9 PM. $8/$5 surcharge for those 18-20. Comic book maker and musical goodtimers Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard play a pinch of everything from folk to garage rock with a sprinkle of wink-wink nudge-nudge to boot. Palace. 9 PM. $7.
TUESDAYNOV13 Leave the hemlock at home but bring your questions, good manners and inquisitive nature to the Socrates Café, a conversation facilitated by Kris Bayer at the Missoula Public Library. 7–9 PM. Free. Fa-la-la-la! The Five Valley Chorus of Sweet Adelines invites women of all ages to practice Christmas music with them every Tue. evening from 7 to 8:30 PM at the First Baptist Church, 308 W. Pine. Polish your pipes to sing with the group at retirement homes in the Missoula area and for the Parade of Lights on Dec.1, plus the annual Christmas Concert at the Southgate Mall Clock Tower, on Dec. 14 at 7 PM. There’s no pressure to join the chorus for good, it’s about the magic of new friends and harmonizing. Free.
nightlife Know your rights! Your water rights, that is. Find out more at the Missoula Patriots Meeting Water Rights in Montana with guest speaker Terry Backs. Valley Christian School Auditorium, 2526 Sunset Lane. 7 PM. The Western Montana Genealogical Society meeting suggests a bit of a conundrum. Paulette Parpart, of the Missoula Public Library and the genealogical society, presents And the Wind Blew Them West...Homesteading. Yet the wind tends to blow east. In any case, learn something
Author and adventurer Jon Turk, one of National Geographic’s 2012 Adventurers Of The Year, is in cahoots with Boston’s Weber Dance company for a joint dance/storytelling program about Turk’s experiences. Hamilton Performing Arts Center. 7PM. $20. (See Arts.)
four score J.K. Simmons, who has family connections in Missoula, has a way of showing up on screen and making everything way more awesome. In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man he plays the crotchety, cigarsmoking newspaper editor J. Jonah Jameson who yell-talks his way through lines like, “Who is Spiderman? He’s a criminal, that’s who he is!” You’ve seen him in Hidalgo, The Ladykillers, The Mexican and Burn After Reading. My favorite: the two episodes of “Party Down” where he plays a very colorful rich guy named Leonard Stiltskin who is completely unquoteable lest we offend.
A milkman with five daughters faces a plethora of problems. Luckily, there is a plethora of tunes, too, with the production of Fiddler on the Roof by UM’s Schools of Music and Theatre & Dance at the Montana Theatre in the UM PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 12 and under. Visit umtheatredance.org.
As comical as he is, Simmons is versatile, which is why it makes sense that he’ll fit right in as the special guest for the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to veterans this weekend called American Salute. “Lincoln Portrait” is a classical piece written by Aaron Copland during WWII, that uses a brass-heavy orchestra and narration made up of excerpts from some of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous documents, including the Gettysburg Address. It’s a grand and patriotic piece, which will surely be done justice through the hands of MSO Music Director Darko Butorac and the boom-
PDX’s Bitterroot is joined by Kory Quinn and The Comrades as well as Meade Morgan and Matt Pierce for an evening of sweetness and various forms of Americana and rock, at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St. 8 PM. $4.
ing vocals of Simmons. The orchestra will also perfrom “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber, which was a key song in the film Platoon, and “Ashokan Farewell,” which you’ll recognize from PBS’ “Civil War.” MSO people tell us that there will WHO: Guest star J.K. Simmons also be a surprise reading from Simmons involving the Civil War. WHAT: Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s American Salute WHERE: Dennison Theatre WHEN: Sat., Nov. 10 at 7:30 PM and Sun., Nov. 11, at 3 PM HOW MUCH: $15–$22, veterans attend for free MORE INFO: missoulasymphony.org
about how great-great grandpa Knute came to this place. Missoula Public Library, Large Meeting Rm. 7 PM. For more info. call 529-1155. A milkman with five daughters faces a plethora of problems. Luckily, there is a plethora of tunes, too, with the production of Fiddler on the Roof by UM’s Schools of Music and Theatre & Dance at the Montana Theatre in the UM PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 12 and under. Visit umtheatredance.org. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: Approximately how many military veterans are living in the U.S? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) Attention: Womp, womp, womp. Datsik does the dubstep at the Wilma, with Terravita, Xkore, and Getter. 9 PM. $22/$19 adv. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. Keep your robot walkers humming after the Datsik show with more electronical tuneage featuring Polish Ambassador, Unlimited Gravity and Elfkowitz, at the Top Hat. 10
There’s actually no way of knowing what Abe Lincoln sounded like (the upcoming Spielberg film starrring Daniel Day Lewis has one take on it) but I imagine that Simmons’ dynamic rendering, as always, will steal the show.
PM. $12/$10 advance/$5 surcharge for those 18-20/$2 off with Datsik wristband.
WEDNESDAYNOV14 Hike your skirt up a little more and check out Moons: The Amazing Satellites of Our Planets, with Dan Reisenfeld, professor, UM Department of Physics and Astronomy. Mansfield Library East Faculty Office. 6 PM. Free. Artists who just happen to be teenagers should check out this workshop taught by M. Scott Miller, whose current MAM exhibit Missoula Nightscapes shows paintings depicting Missoula at night. Participants will make pieces portraying their favorite parts of town. 4–6 PM Free. Pizza and snacks provided and all art materials provided. Sponsored by U 104.5. Free.
nightlife See the nature photography of Robin Poole at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. His work focuses (ha!) on bears, eagles and wolfs. Refreshments, y’all. 6–7 PM. Free. Poor Henry ain’t a sod and the aqualung doesn’t fit like it used to, but
Kraptastic Karaoke welcomes Black Eyed Peas fanatics to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free. Be the king of beat street or the queen of the love machine at Archaic Revival, a night of electronic music with local DJs Anivox, Tygerlily, Geeter Tron, and Keen. Palace. 9 PM. Free. Pub trivia answer: 22 million.
—Erika Fredrickson tunes are on tap at the Blacksmith Brewing Co. in Stevi. 6 PM. Free. Get your cheese on big time at the Missoula Winery’s Raclette Dinner, 5646 Harrier Way. This threecourse meal is chock full of fall goodness including melted cheeses, pickled onions, potatoes, gherkins and some fine charcuterie along with tasty wine pairings, all for $45/$80 per couple/$25 for those under 21. RSVP at 830-3296. Hey, winter is here and TV ain’t exactly pumping out the good stuff these days, so get off your bum for a few and take Cathy Clark’s West Coast Swing Class at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave. 7 PM. $5. Get edu-ma-cated about realism and France by MMAC Curator of Art Brandon Reintjes at his lecture, 19th Century French Realism of Jean-François Millet. UM Masquer Theater. 7 PM. Free.
THURSDAYNOV15 “When the lights go down in the city...” Artini Redux: Missoula By Night is an evening dedicated to evenings where you can hear monologues by local playwrights and thespians as they share their individual interpretations of the theme Missoula by Night. Greg Johnson, director of the Montana Rep Theatre, has curated the evening of monologues. Check out paintings of Missoula at night by M. Scott Miller, and an artist’s talk at 7 PM. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres from the James Bar and drinks from a cash bar. 5–9 PM. $5 suggested donation, MAM Members always get in free. Family friendly hour goes from 5–6 PM.
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Show off your ungulate smarts at the Montana Natural History Center’s Naturalist Trivia Night held at 120 Hickory St., at 7 PM. Prizes galore. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation.
Got dreams to remember? Then maybe you remember Toots & the Maytals. The venerable Jamaican ska band visits the Dennison Theatre on the UM campus. 7:30 PM. $28 from griztix.com
Long time poet-about-town Mark Gibbons reads from and signs copies of Forgotten Dreams at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.
Grandfather Glen ain’t a golf course, it’s music for you to time travel by and the band performs at Draughtworks Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.
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[calendar] Old-timey weirdos Kory Quinn and the Comrades play stark and dark tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free. (See Music.)
lows the life of a Canadian Blackfoot Spopee who shot and killed a white man and spent the next thirty years in complete silence. Fact & Fiction, 220 Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.
The Dirty Corner Band plays rock and roll to dance and soak by at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs. 7 PM. Free.
A milkman with five daughters faces a plethora of problems. Luckily, there is a plethora of tunes, too, with the production of Fiddler on the Roof by UM’s Schools of Music and Theatre & Dance at the Montana Theatre in the UM PARTV Cen-
William Farr (any relation to Jamie Farr?) reads from his intriguing book Blackfoot Redemption, which fol-
ter. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 12 and under. Visit umtheatredance.org. Go star-hopping with UM’s Dr. Diane Friend at November Night Skies, where the good doctor walks you though the sky with the aid of a telescope. Fort Missoula Native Plant Gardens, weather-permitting. 8–10 PM. $5. Call 327-0405 to register. Dirty Americana-makers The Devil Makes Three bring a bevy
of musical styles to the Wilma stage, with Missoula-born and hell bound Johnny Fritz Corndawg. 8:30 PM. $20/$16 adv. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. (See Music.) The party is over...at least until Mar. 10, so have one last bit of revelry at the Top Hat’s Clear the Kegs-Closing for Remodeling Party, with Dodgy Mountain Men and Polecat. And many, many drink specials. 9 PM. $3. Slurp some spaghetti and get ready to dance with that ass during Bocks Elder Sessions, a night of drum ‘n’ bass and other bass-heavy electronical music styles by locals Bocks Elder, plus DJs Kris Moon, and Tak45. Palace. 9 PM. Free. The Dead Hipster Dance Party is all kinds of sweaty, but ‘tis the droplets of the beautiful people. Get a taste in the place where love and funk is in the air (sometimes they are the same scent). Badlander, 208 Ryman St., $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight.
103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Get a load of some fine rock and roll and fine long legs at the Week Three of the Magpie’s VFW Residency, with the Juveniles and John Brownell. 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. Free. All this election junk seems to have buried the upcoming Veteran’s Day under a pile of nonsense, hooey and lies. High five or fist bump a veteran this weekend. Freedom isn’t free, but high fives and fist bumps are. Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 9 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”
Show up the rest of the room with your version of “Ninja Survive” when you hit The Dark Horse for Combat Karaoke hosted by Aaron B. and accompanied with drink specials. 1805 Regent Street. 9 PM. Free. Abracadabra. The Magpies continue their month-long VFW Residency with a show on Thu., Nov. 8, at 10 PM, with openers Skin Flowers and Fort Wilson Riot and a show on Thu., Nov. 15, at 10 PM, with openers the Juveniles and John Brownell. 245 W. Main St. Free.
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MOUNTAIN HIGH For those of us of a certain age, skiing is inextricably linked to the “hot-dogging” era of the late ’80s. This was a time when well-kempt coifs of hair took to the slopes in tight hot pink and yellow suits with cinched up waist belts, all the while pulling off amazing tricks like the “Daffy Duck” with nary a blip of irony. Maybe it was a time before irony took hold of skiers. Greg Stump helped pioneer the ironic ski film by introducing audiences to the likes of Glen Plake, Scot Schmidt and Mike Hattrup. His 1988 movie, Blizzard of Aahhh’s, has “fun” narration full of winks, nods and nudges to skiing’s past while staring into the future of ski and snowboarding films. Stump’s latest work, The Legend of Aahhh’s, is a capstone to a successful film-
making career in which Stump places himself into the canon of great ski film directors, cinematographers and producers—and rightly so. —Jason McMackin Greg Stump’s The Legend of Aahhh’s screens at the Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave., on Wed., Nov. 14, at 7 PM and 9 PM. $10. Tickets available at the southside Kettlehouse, 602 Myrtle St, beginning Thu., Nov. 8. The Kettlehouse Taproom, 313 N. First St. W., screens highlights from some of Stump’s best films on Thu., Nov. 8 and Tue., Nov. 13, at 6 PM. Free.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8 Studier of Montana’s forests Elaine Sutherland does the talking at the next Montana Native Plants meeting. Her talk, How Surprising Complexities in Historical Fire Patterns Shaped Today’s Forests, seems timely after this year’s smoky summer, hmm. Gallagher Business Bldg. Rm. L09. 7:30 PM. free.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9 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. Fire up the Stoke-a-tronic 5000 Plus, it’s time for another installment of Whitefish Mountain Films, an outdoor feast for the eyes and ears for skiers and boarders of all bents. Schwag giveaways abound. The Bierstube at Whitefish Mountain Resort. 7 PM. $12. Tickets available at The White Room.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10 REI’s Map and Compass Basics course is going to come in real handy when Skynet crashes at the end of the year. The class is hands-on and in-store. 3275 N. Reserve St. 1 PM. $35/$15 members. Visit rei.com/missoula. Fire up the Stoke-a-tronic 5000 Plus, it’s time for another installment of Whitefish Mountain Films, an outdoor feast for the eyes and ears for skiers and boarders of all bents. Schwag giveaways abound. O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave., Whitefish. 5 PM. $5. Proceeds benefit The Whitefish Trail.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11 Here ye, here ye skiers and boarders, this day doth be the last for which ye may purchase a Montana Snowbowl pass at the discounted rate. Passes range in price from $321 for students and seniors to $1,349 for the whole fam damnly. Of course, the Bowl is the bomb with 2,600 feet of vertical drop and some of the best terrain in the state. Visit montanasnowbowl.com. There’s no better way to get ready for ski season, except for doing lunges, than watching the 2012 Banff Festival of Mountain Films World Tour, presented by UM Outdoor Program and The Trail
Head. Wilma Theatre. 6 PM. $15/$12 advance, available at the UM Outdoor Program, The Trail Head and Rockin Rudy’s.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 12 Raptor migration trends are on the brains of Five Valley Audubon’s members. Find out how the vacationing birds are doing at the Gallagher Business Building Rm. L14 at 7:30 PM. All are welcome.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13 Why do you hate winter? Because you stay inside and watch that insidious television; instead, get outside and breathe in the freshest of air. Learn what to do at the UM Outdoor Program’s Cross-Country Skiing and Snowshoeing presentation, which explains how the gear works and where to go for maxi-fun points. 6–7 PM. Free. Visit umt.edu/outdoorprogram. The Rocky Mountaineers meet at the Trail Head and discuss beard length and lumbar support, among other things at 7 PM. Call 543-6508 to get involved. The Trail Head and The Rocky Mountaineers present an evening with National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Jon Turk at The Trail Head, 221 E. Front St. 7 PM. Free. More info. at rockymountaineers.com
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14 The snow is coming, pull out them rusty old boards and look at them. You are not ready. Visit the UM Outdoor Program’s Ski and Snowboard Maintenance Class and you just might be. Now go do some lunges. 6 PM. $5. Visit life.umt.edu/CREC/Outdoor. The West Central Montana Avalanche Foundation presents part two of its Introduction to Avalanche Awareness class. This week emphasizes protocols while recreating in avalanche terrain. REI, 3275 N. Reserve St. 6:30 PM. Visit rei.com/missoula.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15 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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It seems funny to learn new words at my advanced age. Honestly, I thought I would know all of them by now. But this week I learned that “misandry” is a word while perusing the Information Superhighway for the scoop on anti-sexism activist Jackson Katz. By the way, misandry is the correlative to misogyny: it’s man-hating. Katz doesn’t simply tell us dudes to be sweeter to the ladies, he explains how we are manipulated by what I’ll call “dark forces” to believe in the myth of American manhood. His book Leading Men explores how the two dominant political parties have changed the conversation about what manhood is. This year’s election brought the delightfully ignorant term “forceable rape” into the public lexicon, while funding for women’s health care seems to have been relentlessly attacked by right wing folks. Katz also has created a list called “Ten Things Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence.” He puts the onus on men to be proactive. Men are not only perpetrators but also “empowered bystanders who can confront abusive peers.” I’ll give away the No. 10 way to prevent gender violence: “Mentor and teach young boys about how to be men in ways that don’t involve degrading or abusing girls and women.” Ob-
vious, right? But not obvious enough as we continue to see one in six women report experiencing rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives, according to womenshealth.gov. Katz reminds there is always more to be done and more to be learned, and that the word misandry exists for a reason. —Jason McMackin Jackson Katz’s talk More than a Few Good Men: A Lecture on American Manhood and Violence Against Women takes place in the UC Ballroom on Tue., Nov. 13 from 7–9 PM, and is sponsored by UM Athletic Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Free. Visit jacksonkatz.com.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8 “That’s great, and it starts with an earthquake. Birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.” The Peace and Justice Film Series presents the end of the world as we know it with the film Crisis of Civilization. After the film screens there will be a discussion with Justin McCoy. UC Theater. 7 PM. Free, but donations are accepted.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9
The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat, 633 5th St. E. 6:30 PM. This month’s Bonner Milltown Community Council meeting focuses on whether to support the tax district proposed for the Bonner mill site and whether to request Missoula County participation in the DEIS scoping process for the proposed Cherry Point Terminal in Washington State (coal hauling). Bonner School Library. 7 PM.
Learn why your business ought to be more sustainable and how it can save you moola at the Sustainable Business Council’s Strive Towards Sustainability Workshop at Office Solutions and Services, 1020 North Ave. West. Noon–4 PM. $40/free for members. Call 721-3000 ext. 19.
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Helping people doesn’t need to be a drag. Enjoy two hours of nothing but Zumba and Oula at UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center, all to benefit the Missoula Food Bank. Bring at least one non-perishable food item to donate as your entry. There will be snacks and prizes. Starts at 10:30 AM. Help folks around the world attain access to clean water, vaccinations, mosquito nets and the like by attending the Griz for UNICEF Fundraiser at the First Presbyterian Church, 201 S. Fifth St. W. Foods from Africa, Brazil and Tajikistan and French macaroons are on the menu and there are cultural dances to witness as well. 6–8:30 PM. $15. Tickets available at the UM Foreign Student and Scholar Office in Lommasson Center Rm. 219 and the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 12 City Club Missoula has invited Ron Erickson (DMissoula) and Gary MacLaren (R-Victor) to discuss the upcoming state legislative season. Certainly they can do better than talk about hunting with spears. Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. 11:30–1 PM. $11 with lunch/$5 without. RSVP at cityclubmissoula.org.
Know your rights! Your water rights, that is. Find out more at the Missoula Patriots Meeting on Water Rights in Montana with guest speaker Terry Backs. Valley Christian School Auditorium, 2526 Sunset Lane. 7 PM.
Brush up on your local toxic chemical issues when you join the Clark Fork Coalition and Peter Nielsen of Missoula Water Quality District from to talk about the latest news at the Smurfit-Stone site including history of the place, how the EPA and local agencies plan to clean it up and what you can do. Go to 301 W. Alder St. 2nd floor of the Missoula County Health Department building from noon to 1 PM. Free. The Arlee Community Development Corporation Meeting takes place in the Arlee High School Business Lab at 7 PM. All are invited to attend. Tee off about UM’s plans to develop Missoula College on the site of the existing University of Montana Golf Course at the University District Neighborhood Council and the Lewis and Clark Neighborhood Council Meeting. UM prez Royce Engstrom is on hand as well. Oh snap! Sentinel High School. 6–7:30 PM.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15 The ACLU presents former Washington Dept. of Corrections Secretary Eldon Vail and the National Geographic Film: Solitary Confinement Overused, Cruel and Ineffective, at the UM School of Law, Rm. 201. The film explores ways prisoners can be moved back into the general population and the needs of mentally ill prisoners. 7–9 PM. 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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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 HOPS• Hops
is an energetic, happy guy with a beautiful red coat and a constant smile. His owner simply couldn't care for him anymore, and he asked us to find Hops a really good home. We certainly plan to do just that because that is exactly what this great dog deserves.
ACORN•Acorn is a petite older lady with a sweet, quiet personality. She loves to be held and will snuggle into your shoulder and purr at any opportunity. She'd love to be someone's constant companion, and we certainly can't think of anyone who could do that job any better.
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CHIEF•We were told that Chief is 13 years old, but he certainly doesn't act like a senior citizen! His two favorite pastimes are talking to anyone who'll listen (or even when no one seems to be listening at all) and romping around our cat room like a kitten. He would prefer to be an only cat, since he is -- after all -- the Chief.
place -- either because the dog's presentation misleads or because the dog is indeed a challenge.
MISS LUCY Lucy looks like a purebred St. Bernard, but this isn't certain. What is certain is that she got lost, was unclaimed at the shelter, secured adoption, and then was returned within 24 hours. A young couple with a St. Bernard wanted to adopt Lucy. All three visited with Lucy in the shelter yard. She was all goodness and grace with the couple's dog, and when she went back inside she also behaved kindly to the shelter cat. Papers were signed, and off went Lucy with a new sibling to a new loving home. And therein lay the problem. The home was indeed loving, but Lucy felt it would be more loving without a sibling. In short, Lucy became dog-aggressive and was promptly returned. Indubitably Lucy must be an only pet. As for tolerating nonfamily cats and dogs, Lucy likes some and dislikes others. Another Lucy trait is her indomitable strength. If a leashed Lucy refuses to enter her kennel, she either becomes a standing sumo or zooms away with leash-holder in tow. But on walks Lucy is calm and sedate. She lumbers about 10 minutes, stops, looks up at you for petting, and once received, resumes lumbering. She repeats this choreography until the end, when you realize you weren't out for a walk at all, but instead were DRIVING MISS LUCY.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 RED•This 2-year-old Airedale/Griffon mix
CHASE•This fun-loving Pointer mix loves everyone! Chase is roughly 2 years old and loves to play. He is also very smart and is currently enrolled in our Paws Ahead training program to learn more. Chase enjoys playing with toys, going for hikes, and meeting new people. He’s a great dog to take along on outdoor adventures. Visit www.myHSWM.org to view all adoptable animals.
loves to learn. Red has completed all the necessary behaviors for his B.S in the C.L.A.S.S. (Canine Life and Social Skills) training program. Smart, athletic, and handsome – he’s the whole package! Red is looking for an adult-only home where he can be the center of attention. Call (406)549-9295 to speak with the behaviorist for more information about Red.
CONNIE•This one-year-old tabby has style! Connie is inquisitive and intelligent. She loves to play with her food toys to get her treats. You can almost see the wheels spin in her brain as she tries to figure something new out. She is also sweet and snuggly once she has gotten her exercise. Looking for an energetic cat with a lot of purrrsonality? Meet Connie!
JEROME• November is Adopt-a-Senior-Pet month. To celebrate, the adoption fees for cats over 7 years old will be FREE all month! Jerome would like to say that even though he’s seven, he’s not an old man! He still loves to explore new things and chase toys. He is a quiet fellow who has his own tasks to attend to. Jerome gets along well with other cats and is declawed on his front paws.
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I GOT SPEW, BABE You wrote in your column, “Men, especially, are compelled to ditch what’s chasing them and chase what’s trying to ditch them.” It seems you’re advising that the simple desire to love a man must be approached without authenticity and personal integrity. Must a woman really scheme to get a man, using a painfully conscious strategy based on men’s psychological makeup, and wait and wait like Cinderella until he reaches out to her? —Truth-Teller For a woman of character, honesty is the best policy—except when judicious honesty is a better policy, like on the second date, when you refrain from telling a guy that you and he should pick out side-by-side burial plots: “The moment I saw you, I just knew I wanted to decompose next to you!” You think of employing restraint as “scheming.” Um, scheming is talking a guy into a $10 million insurance policy and then sending him skydiving with a busted parachute. The notion that it’s morally bankrupt to refrain from chasing a man is an idea out of some future gender-neutral utopia where everyone wears “Star Trek” uniforms, eats single little cubes of lunch, and grows babies in a Mason jar in their front room. As I’ve written before, any sexual encounter had a hefty potential cost for a woman during the Stone Age—a particularly crappy time to be a single mother. Because of this, women evolved to be choosier about partners, and men coevolved to expect that of them. Times have changed, but our psychology really hasn’t. So, when a woman throws herself at a man like a big flopping flounder, he’s likely to duck—suspecting that she probably isn’t worth having (for anything beyond a quick romp) if she’s so easy to get. This is unfortunate, but whining endlessly about it is an ineffective strategy for getting what you want, unless what you want are polyps on your vocal cords. What you’re really arguing for is, “Why shouldn’t I be able to throw all self-discipline out the window and have the man I want drop down my chimney like Santa?” In a similar vein, I often wonder why I’ve been unable to become incredibly wealthy by napping. (Welcome to real life. Please visit often in the future.) The answer is neither throwing yourself at a man nor waiting for him to notice that you dropped your glass slipper. You flirt to indicate that you’d be interested in going out with him, if only he’d ask. Flirting takes
Ken's Barber Shop patience and self-control, but it isn’t exactly a horrible chore. It’s playful and fun. Kind of like tag. You run a little, and if all goes well, the guy chases you. Men just love to chase things—women, animals, pursesnatchers. In the U.K., they even have a tradition of chasing a big wheel of cheese down a hill. Wait—don’t get ideas. You will need to flip your hair and make eye contact and teasing remarks. You can’t just throw yourself down a grassy incline.
SCHLONG STORY SHORT Thanks to recent medical issues, my husband of 10 years can no longer get an erection, and our sex life has dried up. Sitting side by side on the couch watching the Food Network is, no doubt, a marvelous way to spend an evening; it’s just that we thought those kinds of evenings were a bit further down the road for us. No offense, but writing you this has been the most romantic thing we’ve done as a couple in quite some time. Help! —Prematurely Old So, his penis refuses to stand up anymore: “Is that a piece of lasagna in your pocket...?” As devastating as this may seem, it’s no reason to have a funeral for your entire sex life. (If your stove broke, would you stop eating?) Chances are, your retirement from sex has less to do with recent penile developments than believing that the only “real” sex is the hot dog into the Lincoln Tunnel variety. Sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein points out in “Sexual Intelligence” that many people make the mistake of defining what sex is by how their bodies work at 18 or 25, and then, ridiculously, cling to that vision into their 30s, 40s, and beyond, when they have far different bodies. Because physical intimacy is pretty essential for maintaining emotional intimacy, thinking this way can be relationship-wrecking. Turn off the TV and start making out and doing the kajillion sex things that don’t require perfectly functioning hydraulics. Watching Paula Deen re-enact “Last Tango in Paris” with a pork chop has its merits, but exploring Klein’s advice—that “there isn’t any part of your body that can’t be erotically charged”—should prove far sexier and a lot less likely to give you diabetes.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): The data that’s stored and disseminated on the internet is unimaginably voluminous. And yet the 540 billion trillion electrons that carry all this information weigh about the same as a strawberry. I’d like to use this fun fact as a metaphor for the work you’re doing these days—and the play, too. Your output is prodigious. Your intensity is on the verge of becoming legendary. The potency of your efforts is likely to set in motion effects that will last for a long time. And yet, to the naked eye or casual observer, it all might look as simple and light as a strawberry. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What if you have a twin sister or brother that your mother gave up for adoption right after you were born and never told you about? Or what if you have a soul twin you’ve never met—a potential ally who understands life in much the same ways that you do? In either case, now is a time when the two of you might finally discover each other. At the very least, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be going deeper and deeper with a kindred spirit who will help you transform your stories about your origins and make you feel more at home on the planet.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I urged my readers to meditate on death not as the end of physical life, but as a metaphor for shedding what’s outworn. I then asked them to describe the best death they had ever experienced. I got a response that’s applicable to you right now. It’s from a reader named Judd: “My best death was getting chicken pox at age 13 while living in the Philippines. My mother banished me to the TV room. I was uncomfortable but hyperactive, lonely and driven to agony by the awful shows. But after six hours, something popped. My suffering turned inside out, and a miracle bloomed. I closed my eyes and my imagination opened up like a vortex. Images, ideas, places, dreams, people familiar and strange—all amazing, colorful, and vibrant—flowed through my head. I knew then and there that no material thing on this Earth could hook me up to the source of life like my own thoughts. I was free!”
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Conservationists are surprised by what has been transpiring in and around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park. The tigers that live there have changed their schedule. Previously, they prowled around at all hours, day and night. But as more people have moved into the area, the creatures have increasingly become nocturnal. Researchers who have studied the situation believe the tigers are doing so in order to better coexist with humans. I suspect that a metaphorically similar development is possible for you, Cancerian. Meditate on how the wildest part of your life could adapt better to the most civilized part—and vice versa. (Read more:tinyurl.com/HumanTiger.)
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is a dry waterfall? The term may refer to the location of an extinct waterfall where a river once fell over a cliff but has since stopped flowing. Döda Fallet in Sweden is such a place. “Dry waterfall” may also signify a waterfall that only exists for a while after a heavy rain and then disappears again. One example is on Brukkaros Mountain in Namibia. A third variant shows up in Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall, a landscape painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. It’s a lush rendering of a stark landscape near the New Mexico town where O’Keeffe lived. Soon you will have your own metaphorical version of a dry waterfall, Leo. It’s ready for you if you’re ready for it.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are getting to where you need to be, but you’re still not there. You have a good share of the raw materials you will require to accomplish your goal, but as of yet you don’t have enough of the structure that will make everything work. The in-between state you’re inhabiting reminds me of a passage from the author Elias Canetti: “His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.” Your next assignment, Virgo, is to see what you can do about coalescing a few constellations.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Doctors used to believe that ulcers were caused by stress and spicy foods. But in the 1980s, two researchers named Barry Marshall and Robin Warren began to promote an alternative theory. They believed the culprit was H. pylori, a type of bacteria. To test their hypothesis, Marshall drank a Petri dish full of H. pylori. Within days he got gastric symptoms and underwent an endoscopy. The evidence proved that he and his partner were correct. They won a Nobel Prize for their work. (And Marshall recovered just fine.) I urge you to be inspired by their approach, Libra. Formulate experiments that allow you to make practical tests of your ideas, and consider using yourself as a guinea pig.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is not prime time for you to rake in rewards, collect hard-earned goodies, and celebrate successes you’ve been building towards for a long time. It’s fine if you end up doing those things, but I suspect that what you’re best suited for right now is getting things started. You’ll attract help from unexpected sources if you lay the groundwork for projects you want to work on throughout 2013. You’ll be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, too. Your motto comes from your fellow Scorpio, writer Robert Louis Stevenson: "Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On a beach, a man spied a pelican that was barely moving. Was it sick? He wanted to help. Drawing close, he discovered that ants were crawling all over it. He brushed them off, then carried the bird to his car and drove it to a veterinarian. After a thorough examination, the doctor realized the pelican was suffering from a fungus that the ants had been eating away—and probably would have removed completely if the man hadn’t interfered. Moral of the story: Sometimes healing takes place in unexpected ways, and nature knows better than we do about how to make it happen. Keep that in mind during the coming weeks, Sagittarius.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A farmer in Japan found a 56-leaf clover. Well, actually, he bred it in his garden at home. It took effort on his part. Presumably, it provided him with 14 times the luck of a mere four-leaf clover. I don’t think your good karma will be quite that extravagant in the coming week, Capricorn, but there’s a decent chance you’ll get into at least the 16-leaf realm. To raise your odds of approaching the 56-leaf level of favorable fortune, remember this: Luck tends to flow in the direction of those who work hard to prepare for it and earn it.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The largest bell in the world is located in Moscow, Russia. Called the Tsar Bell, it’s made of bronze, weighs 445,170 pounds, and is elaborately decorated with images of people, angels, and plants. It has never once been rung in its 275 years of existence. Is there anything comparable in your own life, Aquarius? Some huge presence that has never actually been used? The time is near when that stillness may finally come to an end. I suggest you decide how this will occur rather than allowing fate to choose for you.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you interested in experiencing a close brush with a holy anomaly or a rowdy blessing or a divine wild card? If not, that’s perfectly OK. Just say, “No, I’m not ready for a lyrical flurry of uncanny grace.” And the freaky splendor or convulsive beauty or mystical mutation will avoid making contact with you, no questions asked. But if you suspect you might enjoy communing with a subversive blast of illumination—if you think you could have fun coming to terms with a tricky epiphany that blows your mind—then go out under the night sky and whisper a message like this: “I’m ready for you, sweetness. Find me.” Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA Notice of Public Hearing on a Proposed Project and the Issuance of Revenue Bonds Under Montana Code Annotated, Title 90, Chapter 5, Part 1, as Amended, to Help Finance the Costs Thereof Missoula, Montana NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Missoula, Montana (the “City”), will meet on Monday, November 19, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., M.T., in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on a proposal that the City issue its revenue bonds (the “Bonds”), under Montana Code Annotated, Title 90, Chapter 5, Part 1, as amended (the “Act”), on behalf of YWCA of Missoula, a Montana nonprofit corporation (the “Borrower”). The Bonds would be issued in order to provide funds in the approximate amount of $920,400 to be used to finance a portion of the costs of refinancing existing outstanding debt and designing and constructing an addition to the Borrower’s Broadway Secret Seconds, store increasing the square footage by 5,890 feet and adding 23 parking spaces on the vacant lot adjacent to the current store, and related improvements (the “Project”), and to pay certain costs associated with the sale and issuance of the Bonds. The Project will be owned and operated by the Borrower and will be located at the Secret Seconds thrift store at 1136 W. Broadway in Missoula, Montana. The maximum aggregate principal amount of the proposed bond issue is $920,400. The Bonds would be secured by a pledge of the revenues to be derived by the City from a loan agreement with the Borrower and by such other security devices, if any, as may be deemed advantageous. The Bonds will be special, limited obligations of the City. No holder of any Bonds will ever have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the City to pay the Bonds or the interest thereon, nor to enforce payment thereof against any property of the City except money payable by the Borrower to the City and pledged to the payment of the Bonds. All persons interested may appear and be heard at the time and place set forth above, or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of the hearing set forth above. Further information may be obtained from the City Clerk, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana 59802, telephone: 406-552-6078. Dated: October 22, 2012. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that separate sealed BIDS for the construction of The Partnership Health Center, Creamery, Phase Four will be received by Partnership Health Center, c/o MMW Architects at their office located at 125 West Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 4:00 PM on November 27, 2012, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud. All work is to be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by MMW Architects. Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of MMW Architects located at 125 West Alder
Street, Missoula, MT 59802 upon payment of $100.00 for each set and a mailing fee of $35. The documents will be available @ MMW on Thursday, November 1, 2012 after 1:00 PM. Any BIDDER, upon returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS promptly and in good condition, will be refunded their payment, and any NON-BIDDER upon so returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS will be refunded $100.00. Any mailing fee will not be refunded. Each Bid or Proposal must be accompanied by a cashiers check, certified check, or Bid Bond payable to Partnership Health Center in the amount of not less than ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid and must be in the form specified in MCA 18-1-201 through 206. The bid bond or other security shall protect and indemnify Partnership Health Center against the failure or refusal of the bidder to enter into the contract within 30 days of bid acceptance. Bid security will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Late bids will not be accepted and will automatically be disqualified from further consideration. Bid must be signed by an authorized representative of the bidder. The Montana Prevailing Wage Rates for Building Construction 2012 apply to this project. A list of litigation will need to be provided by the apparent low bidder within (5) days of the bid opening. All litigation filed by or against the Contractor in the past 10 years shall be included. Partnership Health Center reserves the right to waive informalities, to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid, which is in the best interest of the owner, to reject any and all proposals received, and, if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award, as in the judgment of its officials, best meets the owner’s requirements. The contractor is required to be an equal opportunity employer. Successful bidders shall furnish an approved performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount. Insurance as required shall be provided by the successful bidder(s) and a certificate(s) of that insurance shall be provided. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is 4:00 PM, local time, November 27, 2012. There will be a pre-bid conference, and existing facility walk-through scheduled for November 13, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at the site, 401 W. Railroad Street, Missoula MT 59802. Each BIDDER will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for Partnership Health Center, Creamery, Phase Four, c/o MMW Architects” and addressed to: MMW Architects 125 W. Alder Missoula, MT 59802 MISSOULA COUNTY FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning & Grants has received a floodplain application from the MPG
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1004 Charlo $249,900 MLS #20126560 Built in 2009, energy-efficient 2 story 1876 sq.ft. home with 3 bed + bonus, 2 bath, high finishes & stainless appliances 1825 Burlington $89,900 MLS #20120388 Two Central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile. Great income potential or first-time buyer opportunity 5104 Village View Way #3 $164,000 MLS #20124017 Beautiful South Hills Condo with open floor plan, garage & patio, 2 bed, 2 bath 1010 Vine Street $171,5000 MLS #20126285 Updated, low-maintenance Lower Rattlesnake 2 bed, 1 bath near Mt. Jumbo trails, UM & downtown 57005 West Road, Moiese $525,000 MLS #20121983 Certified Organic Farm on 80 acres with house, rental, studio & barn near Flathead River Ranch to work within the Bitterroot River floodplain. The project is located at 19400 Lower Woodchuck Rd near Florence in Section 19, Township 11N, Range 19W and includes the construction of an avian viewing structure in the floodway. The full application is available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall. Written comments from anyone interested in County floodplain permit application #13 -10 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., November 30, 2012. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 2584841 for more information. MISSOULA COUNTY LEGAL NOTICE The Journals of the Board of County Commissioners and the list of claims for the second quarter of Calendar Year 2012 (April, May and June), are now available at the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, located in the Missoula County Courthouse. This notice is published pursuant to MCA 7-52123. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1. Rock Creek Confluence Project A hearing on a proposal to use $400,000 of Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of 201 acres near the confluence of Rock Creek and the Clark Fork River. Five Valleys Land Trust would purchase the property. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 14, 2012, in Room B14 of the County Administration Building, 199 West Pine, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners. Offices: 199 West Pine. Mail: 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. FAX: (406) 7214043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-3432;
or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 2584981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting for the alteration of a utility easement specifically described as: Relocation of Utility Easement to East Side End of Lot 5, Located in Section 27, T14N, R20W; and in Section 34, T14N, R20W. West End Industrial Development Subdivision Phase 2, beginning at Southern Boundary Lot 4/5 along Lot Line, ending at Northern Boundary Lot 4/5 along Lot Line. The County Commissioners are requested to alter the easement as follows: Relocate easement from West Side of Lot 5 to East Side of Lot 5 (For more information, please see the petition on file in the Clerk & Recording Office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor, Missoula, MT) The alteration of this easement is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: Allows for Development of Lots 4 and 5 as a single property. A Public Hearing on the above requested alteration will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on November 14, 2012 at 1:30 P.M.; At the Missoula County Administration Building, located at 199 W Pine, Missoula, County, Missoula, MT. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, at the Missoula County Administration Building located at 199 W Pine, Missoula, MT prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder / Treasurer By /s/ Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder Date October 23, 2012 MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine Street, Room B14, in Missoula, Mon-
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Properties2000.com tana. Amendments to the Missoula County Growth Policy Missoula County is proposing the amendments at the request of the Board of County Commissioners. The proposed amendments include the following: Chapter 2 - Description of industrial land use and associated economic trends for promoting secondary, value adding industry in Missoula County Chapter 3Additional goals and objectives that address economic development needs Chapter 4- Expanded description of all forms of tax increment financing as implementation strategies Information about this project is available for viewing at www.co.missoula.mt.us./rural. It is also available for public inspection at the Missoula County Rural Initiatives (physical location: 317 Woody Street, Missoula) and the Missoula County Commissioners Office (physical location: second floor of the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 W Pine, Missoula). Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged on the public hearing items noted above. Comments may be directed to Missoula County Rural Initiatives at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802, or via email to ri@co.missoula.mt.us. If anyone attending these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-3432. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. MISSOULA COUNTY SHERIFF’S SALE WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DAWN M. GASS; TIM G. GASS; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; and all other persons unknown claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real and personal property described in the complaint for foreclosure adverse to plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 29th day of November A.D., 2012, at Ten (10:00) o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, 200 W. Broadway, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain
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PUBLIC NOTICES real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: THE WEST HALF OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 23 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT RECORDED IN BOOK 445 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 926. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 8th day of November A.D., 2012. /s/ CARL C. IBSEN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By /s/ John R. Hinckley, III, Deputy MISSOULA COUNTY The Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board will continue to hold a public hearing on proposed changes to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 12:15 p.m. or soon thereafter. The Board meets in the second floor conference room at the Health Department at 301 West Alder in Missoula. The Air Board will consider proposed changes to Chapter 4 “Missoula County Air Stagnation and Emergency Episode Avoidance Plan”; Chapter 6 “Standards for Stationary
Sources”; Chapter 7 “Outdoor Burning”; Chapter 8 “Fugitive Particulate”; Chapter 9 “Solid Fuel Burning Devices”; and Chapter 14 “Enforcement and Administrative Procedures.” Some of the proposed rule changes include clarify the wildfire smoke emergency episode avoidance plan in Chapter 4; add a temporary permitting process for portable industrial sources in Chapter 6; general outdoor burning procedure clarifications and bonfire definition clarification in Chapter 7; modifying the paving rules in Chapter 8; general rule clarification and the addition of solid fuel burning devices for licensed mobile food vendors in Chapter 9; and removal of the administrative review process for permitting actions in Chapter 14. The Air Board will take public comments at the hearing before making a decision. Written comments may be submitted on or before noon on November 15, 2012 by mailing them to Air Comments, MCCHD, 301 W Alder St., Missoula, MT 59802; faxing them to (406) 258-4781 or emailing them to bschmidt@co.missoula.mt.us . For more information, a copy of the proposed regulations or to sign up for the Interested Parties mailing list, visit www.co.missoula.mt.us/airquality or call 258-4755.
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Cause No. DP12-174 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMINATION OF HEIRS, AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CONNER DARREL JOEVON HOWARD HINER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Stephanie M. Zavarelli has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirs, and Appointment of Personal Representative for the Estate of Conner Darrel Joevon Howard Hiner. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the Clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court before the Honorable Ed McLean at the courtroom in the Missoula County District Court at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, on the 5th day of December, 2012 at 1:30 o’clock p.m., at which time and place all interested persons may appear and object. DATED this 18th day of October, 2012. /s/ Eric Rasmusson, Bulman Law Associates, P.L.L.C., PO Box 8202, Missoula, MT 59807-8202 (406) 721-7744 Attorneys for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-09-4 Department No. 3 District Judge John W. Larson Related Cause No. DN09-5 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING K.B. A YOUTH IN NEED OF
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CARE. TO: THE FATHER AND ALL PUTATIVE FATHERS OF K.B. Re: K.B., born September 16, 2003 to Raeleen Stokes in Ronan, MT YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer Street, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition to Terminate the Parental Rights of the Father and All Putative Fathers of K.B. or for said youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 29th day of November, 2012 at 4:00 o’clock p.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why your parental rights to K.B. should not be terminated; why CFS should not be awarded permanent legal custody of K.B. with the right to consent to adoption; why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. The father and all putative fathers are represented by the Office of Public Defender, 610 Woody Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for
Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable John W. Larson, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 1st day of November, 2012. /s/ JOHN W. LARSON District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-980 Judge: ROBERT L. DESCHAMPS, III SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. ZINVEST, LLC, Plaintiff, vs RICHARD A. WILLIAMS AND MARY SUE WILLIAMS, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien of encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAIN ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to respond to the Complaint to Quiet Title in this action which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a
copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, W. Scott Green, 2817 2nd Avenue North, Suite 300, Billings, Montana 59101, within twenty-one (21) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the arrangement prayed for in the Complaint. This action if brought to quiet title to the Plaintiff in the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 8 in Kallis Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. WITNESS my and the seal of said Court this 18th day of October, 2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court, By: /s/ Andrew Brunkhart, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-12-1247 Dept. No.: 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Emily Mae Solomon: Genevieve McGrath, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Emily Mae Solomon to Emily Mae McGrath. The hearing will be on 12/1/2/2012 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/31/2012 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Cause No. DP-12-159 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHAUMOUDE I. HICKETHIER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Glenn Allen Hickethier has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Thomas W. White, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of September, 2012. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 18th day of September, 2012 /s/ Glenn Allen Hickethier, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-12-188 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUNE R. MACDONALD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate. All persons having claims against the
PUBLIC NOTICES deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to GREGORY S. MACDONALD, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP, PO Box 7909, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 31st day of October, 2012. /s/ Gregory S. MacDonald, Personal Representative. /s/ William T. Wagner, Attorney for Personal Representative 11.8.12, 11.15.12, 11.22.12 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-12-137 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF KATHRYN I. WHITE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Thomas W. White has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Thomas W. White, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 22nd day of August, 2012. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 22nd day of August, 2012 /s/ Thomas W. White, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-12-185. Honorable Karen S. Townsend, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROBERT J. ELLIS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Robert B. Beaty, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30th day of October, 2012. /s/ Rosemary Carlton, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate Case No. DP-10-141 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JANET ROWE, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within 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 the Personal Representative, Arkelle Hagan, return receipt requested, at PO Box 142, Frenchtown, MT 59834 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 1st day of November, 2012. /s/ Arkelle Hagan, Personal Representative, PO Box 142, Frenchtown, MT 59834 Mullan Mini Storage will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for Unit 30. Unit contains household items, children’s cloth-
ing, toys and miscellaneous. These units may be viewed November 8th, 9th, and 12th by appointment only by calling 721-8710. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 2855 Mullan Road, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 3:30 p.m. on November, 12 2012. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered for sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales final. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAME OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR(S), ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S) IS/ARE: Grantor: WILLIAM LEE HOFF (“Grantor”) Original Trustee: MARK C. PROTHERO C/O UPF Washington Incorporated Successor Trustee: BENJAMIN P. HURSH, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: STERLING SAVINGS BANK (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: WILLIAM LEE HOFF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: LOT 4 OF ORCHARD PROMENADE – PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Deed of Trust dated August 12, 2008, and recorded August 14, 2008, under Book 824 of Micro Records at Page 1146, records of Missoula County, Montana; THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $2,359.32 due under the Promissory Note dated August 12, 2008, as extended, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for the April 15, 2012 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF JULY 6, 2012, ARE: Principal: $278,758.50 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 11.74% per annum. As of July 6, 2012 the interest balance is $10,277.72 and interest accrues at the rate of $90.9062 per day. Late Charges & fees: $609.85 Delinquent Property Tax: $22,551.53 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: January 25, 2013 Time: 1:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th
Street East, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated: September 4, 2012. /s/ Benjamin P. Hursh BENJAMIN P. HURSH Trustee STATE OF MONTANA): ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on 4th September, 2012, by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as Trustee. /s/ Dawn L. Hanninen Printed Name Dawn L. Hanninen [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: February 14, 2016 File No. 871168-001 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/29/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200913340, Bk. 840, Pg. 1179, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Corey D. McClure and Stacey Keleen McClure, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California corporation, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana corporation was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana corporation 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 Block 13 of West View Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, being a portion of Lots 14 and 15 in said Block 13, located in the SE1/4 of Section 27, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., and being more particularly described as Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 564. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. 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 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 18, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $174,783.67. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $157,686.33, 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 January 30, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7037.90584) 1002.229340-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 10, 2012, 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 2B OF FAIRFAX ESTATES, LOT 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, TOGETHER WITH PRIVATE ACCESS AND UTILITY EASEMENTS AS SET
PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. Subdivision Request – Bonner Mill Industrial Park 1.A request from Bonner Property Development, LLC, represented by Territorial-Landworks, Inc., to create 13 condominium units on a 20.02 acre parcel. This requires subdivision review. The property is located at the former Stimson Lumber site in Bonner (see Map A).
FORTH ON SAID PLAT Robert G. Young and Penny E. Young, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company Of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 07, 2009 and recorded on April 14, 2009 in Bk-837, Pg-434, under Document No. 200908398. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. 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 $1,478.88, beginning February 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 August 25, 2012 is $263,670.27 principal, interest at the rate of 5.0% now totaling $7,476.84, late charges in the amount of $471.17, escrow advances of $628.61, and other fees and expenses advanced of $590.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $36.12 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
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by Jack Wade to build a new two car garage in his front yard and setback for a property located at 1805 Traynor in the R8 zoning district. SEE MAP D.
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
will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 82, 211, 291. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting November 12th, 2012 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to November 15th, 2012 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's 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 final.
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The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on this item on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be held in Room B14 of the County Admin Building, located at 199 W. Pine Street in Missoula. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana, (406) 258-4657. Your attendance at the public hearing and comments are welcomed and encouraged. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.
If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the 258-3869 or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.
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The Missoula Board of County Commissioners (“BCC”) will conduct public hearings on November 14, 2012, and November 28, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine Street, Room B14, in Missoula, Montana. Creation of the Bonner Mill Tax Increment Financing Industrial District (TIFID) Missoula Board of County Commissioners has adopted a Resolution of Intention to create the TIFID to encourage secondary, valueadding industrial growth by providing a financial mechanism to install necessary infrastructure improvements as authorized by Title 7, Chapter 15, Part 42, Montana Code
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2. A request by Summit Hotel Properties for a variance and a special exception to have an off-premise sign for the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel at 4559 N. Reserve. SEE MAP A.
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 dueunder the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and at-
Will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 5, 21, 55, 74, 82-90, 92, 93, 95, 105-125. Units may contain misc. household goods, furniture, toys, clothes, tools and other misc. items. We will hold a live auction starting at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 19, 2012. Payment will be due immediately at acknowledgment of winning bid. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Unit must be emptied by buyer at least 10 business days from day of sale. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final Please contact Grizzly Property Management, Inc. at (406) 542-2060 or rentals@grizzlypm.com with any questions.
Annotated. The proposed plan for the Bonner Mill TIFID addresses the following: The Bonner Mill TIFID encompasses an area that is located northeast of Highway 200 and includes approximately 148 acres. The Blackfoot River forms the northern boundary of the site. It is located in Sections 21 and 22, Township 13 North, Range 18 West, Missoula County Montana.Missoula County has as its goal, the development of secondary, value adding industries in order to sustain and grow its economy over time. At the Bonner Mill TIFID, achieving this goal may require the upgrade of water and sewer services, transportation and utility upgrades, stormwater collection and treatment, extension of rail service, improvements to fire safety systems, property clean up, and other facility and services improvements. Missoula County intends to use tax increment financing in support of making infrastructure improvements as revenues permit and may issue tax increment financing bonds.The purpose of the public hearings is to receive public input on the Ordinance to Adopt the Bonner Mill Tax Increment Financing Industrial District (TIFID). First reading of the Ordinance will be on November 14, 2012, with final adoption to take place on November 28, 2012. The TIFID plan is available for public inspection at the Missoula County Special Projects Office (physical location: 317 Woody Street, Missoula) and the Missoula County Commissioners Office (physical location: second floor of the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 W Pine, Missoula). Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged on the public hearing items noted above. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted any time prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices, in the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, FAX: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us and/or Barbara Martens in the Missoula County Special Projects Office, 317 Woody Street, Missoula, MT, 59802, FAX: (406) 258-3920, Phone: (406) 2584763. If anyone attending these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4763. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.
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PUBLIC NOTICES torney’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: Aug 6, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ) )ss. County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Guild/young 41291.820 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 21, 2012, 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 16 of O’Brien Creek Meadows No. 2, Phase III, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Daniel E. Hiltz and Mary C. Hiltz, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated on February 27, 2009 and recorded on March 04, 2009 in Book 834, Page 1032, under document No. 200904799. The beneficial interest is currently
held by U.S. Bank National Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $4,790.18, beginning January 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 September 3, 2012 is $705,603.97 principal, interest at the rate of 7.0000% now totaling $86,707.06, late charges in the amount of $3,353.14, escrow advances of $9,389.85, and other fees and expenses advanced of $395.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $135.32 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 haz-
ards. 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: August 15, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 15th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Us Bank/hiltz 41810.639 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 21, 2012, 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 45 of Meadowlark Acres, a patted subdivision in the City of Missoula,
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Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Thomas W. Theisen, 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 on July 20, 2006 and recorded on July 21, 2006 in BK-779, Pg-515, under document No. 200618024. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association not in its individual capacity, but solely as Legal Title Trustee for LVS Title Trust I. 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 $470.02, beginning September 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 August 30, 2012 is $161,150.59 principal, interest at the rate of 3.5% now totaling $6,072.37, late charges in the amount of $282.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,066.80, plus accruing Interest at the rate of $15.45 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: August 16, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 16th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5/26/2015 3point/theisen 42037.002
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 24, 2012, 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 100 of GRANTLAND ELEVEN, PHASE II, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 11 of Plats at Page 49 Ricardo Mussiett Jr and Sonia P. Mussiett, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank Of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on June 27, 2007 and recorded on June 28, 2007 in Bk-800, Pg-556 under Document No. 200716351. The beneficial interest is currently held by M&T BANK. 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 $2,311.44, beginning March 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 August 10, 2012 is $340,034.66 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $11,373.09, late charges in the amount of $1,617.98, escrow advances of $245.59, and other fees and expenses advanced of $41.74, plus accruing interest at the rate of $59.39 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: August 14, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 14th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the As-
PUBLIC NOTICES sistant 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/ Cassidy M Wilcox Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 7/16/2013 M&t/mussiett 41902.251 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/05/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which DOUGLAS T. KIEWATT AND RONDA R. KIEWATT, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC., A CORPORATION as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/10/2008 and recorded 01/15/2008, in document No. 200801007 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 811 at Page Number 1240 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL I: TRACT 15A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1877, LOCATED IN SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH A NONEXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY PURPOSES AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1608. FURTHER TOGETHER WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY PURPOSES AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1877. AS IMPROVED BY: 1993 FLEETWODD MANUFACTURED HOME, MODEL CHADWICK 5663U, SERIAL #IDFLP04A/B16111-CW10, HUD TAG NUMBER IDA126511 AND IDA126510, 65’ X 26’. A.P.N. : 5806399 Property Address: 18995 MOONLIGHT DRIVE, Frenchtown, MT 59834. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $192,678.17 together with interest
thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 09/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/21/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0063642 FEI NO. 1006.168679 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/08/2013, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KENNETH M FIESTER, J DOLLENE FIESTER, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/23/2004 and recorded 11/29/2004, in document No. 200433268, in Book/Reel/Volume Number 744 at Page Number 87 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT C OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 05635, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: TRACT C OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5635, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR RIGHT OF WAY FOR ROAD PURPOSES AS CONVEYED IN BOOK 107 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 69. Property Address: 10246C BEAR RUN CREEK ROAD NKA 9078 BEAR RUN TRAIL, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such pro-
vision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $191,505.66 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 01/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 10/02/12, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0027857 FEI NO. 1006.131835 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/01/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which PETER E BUGONI, AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 03/23/2006 and recorded 03/28/2006, in document No. 200606845, in Book/Reel/Volume Number 771 at Page Number 94 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 OF HART ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 4 OF PLATS AT PAGE 6. Property Address: 816 GARY DR, Missoula, MT 59804-2038. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-14CB MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-14CB. There is a
default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $146,246.32 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.50% per annum from 06/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and
attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/19/12, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0079164 FEI NO. 1006.168486 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/12/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ROBERT D MUSCUTT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to AMERICAN PIONEER TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/09/2006 and recorded 05/06/2008, in document No. 200810219 in
Book/Reel/Volume Number 818 at Page Number 595 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 21 OF BITTERROOT MEADOWS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 13343 GREEN TREE CT, LOLO, MT 59847-9624. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-22. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed
immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $241,919.08 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.875% per annum from 11/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 10/03/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0138432 FEI NO. 1006.147995
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1 Bdr, 1 Bath, 1 Bounus McCormick Park home. $174,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1004 Charlo. Energy efficient 2 story 1876 sqft home with 3 bed + bonus, 2 bath, high finishes and stainless appliances. $249,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 1010 Vine Street. Lower Rattlesnake 2 bed, 1 bath very well-maintained home with single garage. $171,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 108 North Davis. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage near Milwaukee Bike Path. Lots of upgrades and a great front porch. $180,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $380,000. Rochelle Glasgow,
Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 11689 Stollen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $329,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 1265 #B Dakota. To-be-built 3 bed, 2 bath with double garage near McCormick Park. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $205,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $195,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
428 Jefferson. 3 bed, 1 bath near downtown. Hardwood floors, tile & fantastic fenced yard. $258,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula, 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 4412 23rd Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage on 9600 sq.ft. lot. Lots of room!
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BRAND NEW LISTING • 4 Klakken, Noxon $259,000 MLS #20125908 Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. Great area for hunting & fishing & other outdoor recreation 23654 Mullan $169,900 Beautiful 14 acre parcel west of Huson Modular on foundation allowed
HUNTER'S PARADISE 15305 Spring Hill $590,000 5 acres bordered by Forest Service
TWIN CREEK ACREAGE $165,000 3.69 acres near Bonner & Blackfoot River. Modular on permanent foundation allowed
$185,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net
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4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $176,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com
Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 2405227 porticorealestate.com
5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Wye area area home on 2.5 acres. $389,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
521 Daly. 3 bed, 2 bath in U District. Single garage, basement, studio, enclosed front porch. $369,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 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 833 Defoe. 1 bed, 1 bath Northside bungalow with large front yard. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 900 & 902 Longstaff. Unique opportunity. New energy-efficient 2 bed, 2 bath with additional 2 bed, 1 bath home and garage. Many green features. $321,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com
I can help you sell your home! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for a place to call home? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for homebuyer education? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Near River Trail 1401 Cedar St #2: This 2 bed, 1.5 bath townhome next to rive trail is close to downtown and the walking and bike trails. Income qualified buyers only and owner occupied. $125,000. Call KD for details. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1641 Stoddard To-be-built 6plex on Northside. $650,500 Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties
723 North 5th St. $182,500 2 bed, 1.5 bath with open kitchen, maple floors & deep soaking tub. Fenced backyard, patio & storage shed
1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell GREAT INVESTMENT!
2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues. Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. Fenced backyard with dog kennel & pergola. Very nice! $179,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 5104 Village View Way #3. Beautiful 2 bed, 2 bath South HIlls condo with garage & patio. $164,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 53 Brookside. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage on corner lot with Mount Jumbo views. $289,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 723 North 5th West. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with maple floors, open kitchen, fenced backyard & lots of light. $182,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000. 1400
Burns, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Beautiful Downtown Triplex Two 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom; great rental history; great building on Historic Register with tons of character and in great shape! $359,500. 518 Alder porticorealestate.com 240-5227 Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more. 1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. $250,000. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $149,900. Great downtown living! Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Uptown Flats #109. Upscale gated community near downtown. $154,710. One bedroom, one bath, all SS appliances, deck and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Uptown Flats #210. Upscale gated community near downtown. $149,900. One bed-
room, one bath, all SS appliances, deck and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Wilma Condo 1 bedroom condo in the beautiful historic Wilma building, in the heart of downtown Missoula in the center of it all. This is sweet sweet. Come take a look today. $185,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
MANUFACTURED HOMES 1825 Burlington. Two central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile. Great investment or first time buy. $89,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com
LAND FOR SALE 3.2 Acres in the Wye area. Gorgeous mountain and valley views. $65,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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www.1136howell.com MLS #20125053 For location and more info, view these and other properties at: Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos $144,900 - $249,900 Under new ownership! 1 and 2 bedrooms. Large units, nice finishes, secure entry, secure U/G parking, riverfront, affordable HOA dues and much more. Owner financing comparable to FHA terms available with as little as 3.5% down! Units, pricing and info available at www.mullanheights.com
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REAL ESTATE 4,500 Sq Ft Lot on the Northside. Zoned for single or multifamily. All utilities available. $59,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
NHN Kemp. Corner building lot. Mobiles allowed. $60,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com NHN Twin Creek Road/Bonner. 3.69 acres with creek. Mobiles on permanent foundations allowed. $165,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227
COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville. Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 3.2 Acres in the Wye area. Gorgeous mountain and valley views. $65,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4 Klakken, Noxon. Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. $259,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $55,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
OUT OF TOWN 170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres. Close to the river and Forest Service land. $174,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 19488 Highway 200 East/ Bonner. 5 bed, 3 bath, basement & 3 car garage on 3 mountain view acres. $399,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net 2 Bdr, 3 Bath Lolo home. $217,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
2110 Petty Creek, Alberton. Gorgeous 3 bed, 2.5 with 2 car garage on over 10 acres. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more
info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
57005 West Road, Moiese. Certified Organic Farm with artesian well on 80 acres near Flathead River. $525,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com HUGE PRICE REDUCTION! 15305 Spring Hill Road, Frenchtown. Beautiful cedar 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 3 car garage & deck on acreage bordering Forest Service. $500,000. Robin Rice @ 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.
[C12] Missoula Independent • November 8 – November 15, 2012
PRICE REDUCED! 101 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with separate office. $310,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 2406503 riceteam@bigsky.net PRICE REDUCED! 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with 48’x30’ shop. $293,500. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 2406503 riceteam@bigsky.net
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