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HARRISON CAPTURES TRANSITION TOWN SNACKERS HOARD BOOKS JIM NEWS TWINKIES TWO MEN ON THE VERGE MULLS NO MORE HOSTESS MUNCHIES
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News Voices/Letters Bob Brown on the fiscal cliff......................................................................4 The Week in Review Cats send Griz to first losing season since ’85 ................................6 Briefs Green Taxi, Cash Hyde, Maverick Mountain and Twinkies .....................................6 Etc. Closure can be hard to find.........................................................................................7 News State cannabis advocates double down ....................................................................8 News Transition Town Missoula loses the question mark..................................................9 Opinion What war on coal? .............................................................................................10 Opinion A better way to pay state Rep. Jerry O’Neill .....................................................11 Feature The year’s most underreported stories ..............................................................14
Arts & Entertainment Arts Common turns uncommon with poet Melissa Mylchreest.......................................18 Music Turbo Fruits, Bent Left, Certain Molecules and Himanshu Suri ...........................19 Books Harrison’s novellas detail two men on the verge .................................................21 Film Guys in iron lungs have urges, too ..........................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .........................................................23 Flash in the Pan Spices take local global ........................................................................24 Happiest Hour Wines for Thanksgiving ..........................................................................26 8 Days a Week The Man ain’t invited to our feast...........................................................27 Mountain High Avalanche safety .....................................................................................33 Agenda The Invisible War.................................................................................................34
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missoulanews.com • November 22 – November 29, 2012 [3]
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STREET TALK Asked Nov. 15 on the corner of Higgins Avenue and Front Street
by Eric Oravsky
We are officially entering the holiday shopping season. What’s your plan of attack for Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, etc.? Follow-up: What’s the most smokin’ deal you’ve ever scored? Kevin Kuhns: I’m not. I’m in school and I don’t have any money. What I do is, when I see something that I think someone in my life will like, I get it for them. Or I get nothing if I don’t find that something. Etchin', brah! Gotta be this really bitchin’ etched mirror I got for $400. It has all of these adventure scenes of kayaking, skiing, climbing and stuff. I would expect it to be in the thousands. It is gorgeous.
Lavinia Pisano: I don’t because I just make stuff. I make lavender sachets, cloth bags and macrame tree ornaments among other things. Those are my gifts. Fair trade: I got a lovely coat from the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center for 30 percent off. It is wool with beautiful embroidery from Nepal.
Logan Cochrane: Probably won’t get around to it until about the 20th of December. Definitely one of those guys. I realize everyone else has already done it, and figure I should get on it. On target: I don’t shop enough to know where all the deals are, but I think the cheap clothes at Target are pretty good. Buy a pair of pants for $12 that turn out to be the best pair you ever owned. Erin Carter: I will probably buy everything. Yes, everything, that is my plan. Max out my mom and dad’s credit card. I will be in Chicago, so it will be easy. I have it all written down. A watch, Pendleton blanket, Portillo’s. Lots of Portillo’s. They are hot dogs, and I am going to bring them back here and throw them at my friend who calls them meat fingers. Big High Country: Well, since an eighth here costs only around $30, and in Chicago an eighth is around $60, that would probably be the best.
Taragon Peressini: I am going to L.A. and Boise and I have a list. A Nikon camera, a Michael Kors rose gold watch, an indie board, earrings, heels, boots. Anything that will make me look good in the winter—it's hard to do! Free score! Just today on eBay I found this awesome Free People dress for a fourth of the price. I love Free People.
[4] Missoula Independent • November 22 – November 29, 2012
Patriotism over pride Folk philosopher Will Rogers commented that “We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring ’em to make good.” Implicit in Rogers’ observation is that either a Republican or a Democrat is capable of making good. In the modern era when each side assails and demonizes the other we are implored to believe that today’s political differences are unbridgeable. One party will take us to the promised land. The other will lead us to destruction. This was once illustrated to me by the example of an airplane and an armored car. One is slow and heavy and can power its way to where the country needs to go. The other is light and fast and can fly us there. But we have to choose one or the other. If we combine the armored car with the plane, the result will be something that can neither fly nor drive. This simplistic example was used to show that there can be no compromise between two greatly different approaches to a problem. It’s either all the way with the philosophy of the conservative anti-government Republicans, or with the liberal pro-government Democrats. To the partisan ideologue, compromise is impossible. It has to be one way or the other. Today, as we near the “fiscal cliff,” we hear the Republicans saying that the huge national debt is “a spending problem, not a taxing problem.” They won’t raise tax rates to pay down the debt, they say, even if it means allowing the debt to doom the country. The Democrats counter that they, too, will ignore the debt and let the country suffer the consequences before they will agree to an approach that focuses on spending cuts that would fall disproportionately on the middle class and the poor. Most American people, I think, see neither approach as all right or all wrong. But one is shared deeply by a majority in the House of Representatives, and the other by President Obama and the Senate. The “fiscal cliff,” which will confront us on Dec. 31, was deliberately created by both parties when they couldn’t reach an agreement on a debt reduction plan a year ago. Though further delay can only make the problem worse, we now hear talk that they will “kick the can down the road” again, avoiding the politically painful compromise of higher taxes combined with deep spending cuts necessary to save the country. Are our nation’s highest leaders too stubborn and headstrong to join hands and wade into the hot water together?
Our congressional delegation used to boast that it brought home two dollars in federal spending to Montana for every dollar that left the state in taxes. That would suggest that the strategy of spending cuts alone would fall more heavily on us than on the states where the federal spending is less. The trouble is that there is nothing unique about Montana when it comes to getting more for less. That’s the $16 trillion problem. We are past the time for ideological pigheadedness. What is urgently re-
“Are our nation’s highest leaders too stubborn and headstrong to join hands and wade into the hot water together?”
quired is presidential leadership and courage in Congress. Compromise is the traditional American way. As founder Thomas Jefferson observed, “It is necessary to give as well as take in a government like ours.” Our government has followed his wise advice through countless difficult times. The story of hard bargaining and painful compromise is the entire political history of this country. Our modern leaders are as capable of summoning the will to find the way as all who have come before them. Patriotism must overcome pride in order for our modern politicians “to make good.” Bob Brown Former Montana Secretary of State and state Senate president Whitefish
The water is falling Water is essential to all life. The value of our property, our homes and even the ability of people to exist and maintain a livelihood depends upon availability and use of water. We must be aware and voice opinions on the proposed plan for control and management
of water rights in 11 western Montana counties, impacting over 350,000 residents plus businesses and industries. The targeted region extends from the Canadian border south to Butte, and west from the Continental Divide to the Montana-Idaho border. In fact, the entire state could experience major changes in economy and tax base. For over a decade the federal government, with input from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, has been working with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to develop a reserved water rights compact basically giving the tribes too much control, in my opinion, over water west of the Continental Divide. This proposed water rights compact is now being introduced through a series of 13 public information meetings prior to its submission for vote by the state legislators in the upcoming legislative session. This leaves little remaining time for the public to review and comment on the extensive proposal. Buried within it are details for future control over uses and water allowances on and off reservation, both residential and commercial. Current landowner-reserved water rights could change. The amount of water to be contained and maintained in streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs needs clarification and commitment. This is particularly critical for those with waterfront properties and boat docks likely threatened by lowered water levels. Heavy water users, such as golf courses and farmers requiring irrigation, seek assurance that their needs will be based upon historical water use. Standardized allowances for all current reservation irrigators are already being contested. Inadequate available water could drive operators out of business with land values and land salability destroyed. The great Northwest has been proud of its inexpensive hydropower made possible by the abundant watersheds from our mountains, feeding reservoirs behind the dams. We even wonder if the dams themselves will be allowed to remain secure. Stored water protecting against droughts also provide recreation, fishing and boating. Where will these revenues go as well as returns on power generation and excess water? People must seek answers to many questions at these information meetings. Equally essential is our communication with our elected officials expressing our concerns over water and its impacts on our lives and livelihoods. We must watch for public meeting announcements, attend and speak out. Clarice Ryan Big fork
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missoulanews.com • November 22 – November 29, 2012 [5]
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Eric Oravsky
Wednesday, November 14 ALCOM, a Maine-based aluminum trailer maker, signs a lease to establish a 70,000square-foot manufacturing facility at the Bonner mill. The company plans to hire about 60 workers in early 2013, and perhaps as many as 200 over the following two years.
Thursday, November 15 A federal judge denies a request made by Chris Williams, a former state-licensed medical marijuana provider, to be released pending appeal of his conviction on drug charges. Williams rejected a plea bargain and could face life in prison.
Friday, November 16 After more than four years on the job, Glacier National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright announces that he’ll retire at the end of the year, marking the end of a 40-year career in federal land management.
Saturday, November 17 Before a record crowd at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, the Grizzlies and Bobcats meet for the 112th edition of the Brawl of the Wild. Second-ranked MSU beats UM 16-7, dropping the Griz to 5-6 and ensuring the program’s first losing season since 1985.
Sunday, November 18 Missoula Big Sky graduate and Stanford University forward Joslyn Tinkle scores a career-high 25 points in a thumping of the University of Tennessee—Martin. The next day, the AP ranks Stanford No. 1 in the country.
Monday, November 19 A woman reports that she is raped after a man approaches her on Woodford Avenue near Myrtle Street. Law enforcement says the woman was walking home at roughly 2:30 a.m. when the man, whom she does not know, accosts her.
Tuesday, November 20 The Montana Department of Labor and Industry reports that the state added 1,500 jobs over the last month, “the strongest monthly gain since the end of the recession in 2009,” says Labor Commissioner Keith Kelly.
Who says curling isn’t dangerous? An unidentified curler injured himself during Saturday’s match at Glacier Ice Rink after losing his footing near the stones and hitting his head on the ice. An ambulance crew later responded and removed him from the facility. His injuries are unknown.
Loss
Laying Cash to rest The Nov. 19 funeral for 4-year-old Cash Hyde became a celebration of the high-profile cancer patient’s life with hundreds in attendance. But even as the community rallied to say to goodbye, the firestorm that erupted after Cash’s death remained. “I want to tell the Missoula Police Department Drug Task Force that even though they threatened my family...I forgive you,” said Mike Hyde, Cash’s father, during the ceremony at St. Francis Xavier Church in Missoula. Cash died on Nov. 14 at home in Missoula after waging a two-and-a-half year battle with brain cancer. He gained fame for being one of the country’s youngest medical marijuana patients. His parents gave him cannabis oil to alleviate the nausea and malaise that accompanied his illness. They credit the drug with helping to extend Cash’s life. Cash’s family created the nonprofit Cash Hyde Foundation to help other children suffering from cancer. The foundation’s visibility, along with Cash’s role
as a medical marijuana icon, contributed to the furor that erupted after he died. When Cash passed away last Wednesday, his family called their social worker to share the news. That call triggered a response from Missoula city and county law enforcement. When officers arrived at the family home, according to a post on the Cash Hyde Foundation Facebook page, they informed the family that Cash would be taken from them. “They told us they were taking him and we had to argue with them for 45 minutes that Cashy was staying with us,” read the post. The Facebook post drew hundreds of comments. Some community members surmised that Cash’s status as a medical marijuana patient made the family a law enforcement target. Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir denies that antimarijuana ideology played into law enforcement’s response. Montana law requires police investigate “unattended deaths,” or those that occur without medical supervision, he says. Muir adds that after speaking with the family, law enforcement agreed to leave Cash at home with them until the next morning.
“To say that there was any political side to this is really misguided,” Muir says. “It’s just wrong. Here’s a terribly tragic situation.” Jessica Mayrer
Skiing
Maverick’s future for sale Maverick Mountain Ski Area, near Dillon, has been on the market for some years now, and the asking price has steadily dropped. Stelling Real Estate is now listing the resort—groomers, snowmobiles, rental skis and all—at $850,000, reduced from $950,000 earlier this year. But Maverick isn’t the only item on the market. So is the resort’s future. Randy Shilling, the jack of all trades who’s owned Maverick for more than two decades, is getting up in his years. And the mountain’s going to need the kind of hefty financial investment that Shilling simply can’t afford himself, says broker Steve Stelling. The Forest Service approved the first phase of a master plan for Maverick back in 2000, and a preliminary phase two calls for a second chairlift accessing the mountain’s northwest ridge. That kind of
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[news] aggressive growth requires a serious cash infusion, and the resort itself doesn’t bring in much income. “The biggest problem is your major trade centers are a little distant,” Stelling says. “Dillon is the only town of any consequence within a reasonable distance. You can pull from Butte, you can pull from Pocatello or Idaho Falls or Missoula or wherever, but you’re not going to get a regular bread-and-butter crowd from places like that.” That’s not to say there hasn’t been interest. Over the years, Shilling has fielded a number of offers for Maverick. Stelling recalls one prospective buyer who spent an entire winter scoping the place out. “He couldn’t sell his property, otherwise he would probably have gone through with the purchase of it,” Stelling says. “But we had some people down there a couple weeks ago.” Stelling sees serious potential in Maverick, and in the Grasshopper Valley, where four new subdivisions have been approved in the past year. What it’ll take to realize that potential is a different story: Either an independently wealthy buyer who isn’t worried about the bottom line, or someone willing to invest heavily in expanding the operation. The former does have a precedent in Montana. Just three years ago, New Zealand resort mogul Nick Wood bought Teton Pass Ski Resort for $270,000. But it’s clear to Stelling—himself a Maverick skier of 15 years—that Maverick can’t keep going the way it is much longer. “Randy is the only reason Maverick is still open,” Stelling says of the resort’s 72-year-old owner, “and he puts all of himself into it.” Alex Sakariassen
Munchies
Hoarding Hostess snacks On Nov. 19, three days after Hostess Brands announced it’s going out of business, the Hostess display case inside the Town Pump on the corner of Orange and First streets was completely bare. “I got some Ding Dongs back in the office for a million bucks,” a worker behind the counter quipped. The rest was long gone, plucked from the shelves on the day of the announcement. “I’ve never sold so much Hostess is one day,” another staffer said. Such is the demand, however exaggerated, for Hostess products like Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s and Wonder Bread now that Hostess is closing its 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers and 570 bakery outlet stores around the country. The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, which represents about 5,000 Hostess employees, went on strike, and CEO Gregory Rayburn said on Friday,
Nov. 16, that the company lacks the financial resources to weather it. By Monday morning, Hostess aficionados had purchased every single package of cake and bread from the Sweetheart Bakery Outlet on West Broadway in Missoula. All the Twinkies were gone by Friday. The woman working the store, who declined to give her name, said she heard word of the store’s imminent closure at 9:45 a.m. on Friday, and by 11:30 a.m. all the Twinkies were gone. She couldn’t estimate how many of the classic American cream-filled sponge cakes customers bought. “A lot,” she said. “We could have used a whole lot more.” A few of the outlet’s long rows of shelves were
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empty, and most of what was left on Monday, the outlet’s last day in business, were cookies and stuffing. “There’s not a whole lot to choose from,” the staffer told a customer as she walked in. “Well, I might as well buy something,” said the customer, Ruby Chavez, of Missoula’s Tiny Bubbles Daycare, which relied heavily on the Sweatheart Bakery for bread. Chavez proceeded to pick through the remainders. The Orange Street Food Farm’s Hostess shelves were picked clean, too. Just a few packages of Sweetheart burger buns and Wonder bagels remained. “We have no Twinkies,” said co-owner John Lubbers as he was stocking shelves, a reply he said he’d given several times over the prior few days. Despite the rush and recent news, Twinkies and other Hostess products could be back. As of Monday afternoon, Hostess and the union had entered mediation to avoid liquidation. Matthew Frank
Transportation
Cabs clash over patients Jessica Murray, the co-owner of Missoula’s Green Taxi, says her company consistently gets calls from locals who need rides to medical appointments. But
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Attendance at Washington-Grizzly Stadium for Saturday’s Cat-Griz football game. The total beat last year’s attendance record of 26,066, set during Montana’s game against Eastern Washington. Green Taxi, with its fleet of two Toyota Priuses, has to turn those requests down, because it’s not licensed by the Montana Public Service Commission, which regulates motor carriers in the state, to transport patients. And Murray insists many patients are in need of a lift. She’s out to convince the PSC to green-light Green Taxi’s recent application to provide the service. She has a handful of affidavits signed by Missoulians who say that the two local companies currently licensed to give patients rides, Medicab and Yellow Cab, aren’t meeting the demand, or are too expensive or unreliable. “In Missoula, we need a better choice,” wrote one disabled 75-year-old woman, “and there is one: Green Taxi. They are utterly reliable and caring, which are the two things that matter most to the people who need medical attention.” The PSC is holding a hearing at 9 a.m on Nov. 30, at Missoula’s Red Lion Motel on West Broadway, to help determine whether to approve Green Taxi’s request. In addition to transporting patients, Green Taxi is asking to expand its geographic scope into Flathead, Lake and Ravalli counties. “We have to prove that [Medicab and Yellow Cab] are basically not going to be hindered by us getting into the market, or that they’re doing such a lousy job that somebody needs to step up and help these folks that are falling through the gap,” Murray says. “And we’re going to fight it from both angles.” Medicab and Yellow Cab are fighting back. Both oppose Green Taxi’s application. “I’ve never turned anybody down,” says Medicab owner Brian Parks, “so how can a need not be met?” Medicab only provides medical transportation, so already, Parks says, Green Taxi has a “bigger piece of the pie” than Medicab does. “I do a good job at it and I provide an excellent service for this community,” he says. “People in wheelchairs depend on me to get to dialysis.” The PSC has cited Green Taxi twice for unlawfully giving patients rides to appointments, in November 2009 and January 2011. Murray says the citations were given to a former driver who “had this huge heart and a hard time saying no.” Matthew Frank
ETC. Three months ago, a crew of search and rescue volunteers found the remains of former Marine Noah Pippin deep in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The discovery brought to an end two years of uncertainty for the Pippin family. Yet some hope still lingers. Among Noah’s possessions was an iPod with recording capability. It’s too damaged to play back any material, but the Pippins have sent it into Apple, praying for some final word from their son. Noah’s father Mike shares the news in the lobby of Helena’s La Quinta Inn on the Friday before Thanksgiving. He’s sipping coffee with his wife, Rosalie, their youngest son, Josiah, and Josiah’s wife, Ashley. The family flew in the night before for a ceremony honoring the two search crews who, in 2011 and 2012, braved bad weather to find Noah. And while Rosalie’s eyes betray the specter of sorrow, her smile hints at silver linings. Because of the publicity around her son’s disappearance, people have been keeping a vigilant eye in Montana’s backcountry, Rosalie explains. Authorities have subsequently received tips that, when investigated, closed the book on other missing persons cases. A scrap of cloth, a few spent shell casings—even as Noah’s family prayed for closure, their tireless search was providing it for others. Then there’s Kevin Latshaw. A little over a year ago, a search crew combing the Bob for traces of Noah saved Latshaw’s life. The young man’s insulin pump had stopped working, and had those volunteers not been so deep in the backcountry—with a helicopter to boot—Latshaw would have perished. Latshaw is a native of Noah’s home state, Michigan, and graduated this spring from the last college Noah attended. Rosalie chokes up when recounting the story. She recently spoke with Latshaw’s mother for the first time, and the woman said she felt bad that Noah wasn’t similarly saved. As if to answer, Rosalie opens her Bible and quotes from Romans 9:15. “‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion,’” she reads. “I believe God has a purpose, for both our families. Even if I don’t know what that purpose is.” Mike, Josiah, Ashley and Rosalie appear to be in good spirits, all things considered. They’re bound for the Capital Rotunda, where they’ll join friends made during their two-year battle with the unknown. And deep down, somewhere, is a shred of hope. Hope hinging on a broken iPod and the thought of hearing Noah’s voice one last time.
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Pipe dream? Montana cannabis advocates push to end prohibition by Jessica Mayrer
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If the federal government does not Unwilling to give up after a series of tered patients and removing any profit block marijuana legalization in Colorado legal and electoral defeats in Montana, from their business. Essman says he has no intention this before the law goes into effect Jan. 5, incannabis proponents are hoping to capitalize on this month’s marijuana legaliza- session to further tweak the law, nor has dividuals over the age of 21 will be able tion in Washington and Colorado and use he heard his colleagues discuss the issue to possess up to six cannabis plants and as a priority. “I’ve not heard a lot of talk an ounce of marijuana. The Colorado it to double down under the Big Sky. Center on Law and Policy estimates the “I think it's become clear that medical in the hallway about it,” he says. There are a handful of marijuana-re- state’s cannabis industry will generate an marijuana patients will not be protected until we end prohibition of marijuana for lated bills pending at the Montana Legis- annual $23.3 million in sales tax alone. Lindsey points all purposes,” says out that prosecutors Bob Brigham, who led in Colorado and the state’s No on IR Washington are al124 campaign, which ready dropping missought unsuccessfully demeanor marijuana to toss out last year’s possession charges legislative changes to and, in doing so, savthe state’s medical ing money that can marijuana law. be used elsewhere. On Nov. 15, “It goes to the heart Brigham, Montana of state budgets,” he Cannabis Industry Assays. sociation President Not everyone is Chris Lindsey and sold on Lindsey’s Barb Trego of Helena budget pitch. Misfiled the first round of soula Police Chief paperwork required Mark Muir, who chairs to put marijuana dethe Missoula Area criminalization on the Photo by Chad Harder High Intensity Drug 2014 ballot. The new initiative will mirror CI Cannabis proponents filed the first round of paperwork last week Task Force’s executive board, says it’s impor110, which failed to to put marijuana decriminalization on the 2014 ballot. tant to look at the garner enough signatures to make it onto the 2012 ballot. lature. Among them is one from Sen. Dave broader economic impact of decriminalCannabis proponents say that while draft- Wanzenreid, a Missoula Democrat who ization. “This is not an industry that you can ing the first initiative, the objections of aims to prepare the state if the federal state officials forced them to repeatedly government reclassifies the drug from its open the doors to tax it, control it and tweak the language, shortening the time current Schedule 1 tier—a classification not expect to see huge social costs,” Muir they had to collect signatures. Brigham that includes drugs that are considered says. Muir acknowledges that marijuana lesays this year’s early start better ensures dangerous and without medical value—to a lower tier. “I think it’s necessary to con- galization might trigger savings from a dethat won’t happen again. “It will allow us to start collecting sig- tinue to talk about it,” Wanzenreid says. crease in incarceration rates. But, he asks, natures in June,” Brigham says. “It will He acknowledges, however, “We may not what about the inevitable costs associated allow us, really, an 18-month period of ag- have the votes now.” with policing a growing contingent of In the meantime, the cumulative ef- stoned drivers? gressive grassroots organizing.” The cannabis industry says it sees no fect of the state’s legislative impasse, fedAlcohol is already responsible for far other recourse than to focus on persuad- eral law enforcement intervention against too many crimes, Muir says. He just doesing voters to legalize the drug after work- marijuana dispensaries and passage of IR n’t see the point of adding another drug ing unsuccessfully during multiple 124 has left Montana behind more pro- to the mix. legislative sessions to find a compromise gressive states, says the Cannabis Industry “I’m okay with saying there’s a strong with state lawmakers. Brigham calls it lib- Association’s Lindsey. “Montana is the similarity between beer and wine,” Muir erating, because marijuana proponents only state that’s lost ground on marijuana says. “But my point is this, we’re not no longer feel like they must use a centrist issues,” he says. doing a great job as a society of keeping Lindsey was in Denver on Nov. 8, two ourselves in hand with beer and wine.” approach to sway legislators. “We don’t have to fight defensively days after Colorado voters made the historic In the months leading up to Monanymore,” he says. “There’s nothing more decision to end marijuana prohibition. He tana’s 2014 election, Lindsey will be urgspoke to lawyers, entrepreneurs and in- ing opponents to keep an eye on they can do to us.” Republican Sen. Jeff Essman spon- vestors who wielded laptops, tablets and Colorado and Washington. It is possible sored the 2011 legislation that signifi- smartphones at the National Marijuana to tax and regulate marijuana and not excantly reeled in the state’s original Business Conference. They hardly looked perience significant negative fallout, he medical marijuana law. Among the major like a fringe group, and that pleased Lind- says. Just watch, he says. changes in that legislation were limiting sey, who’s worked for years as an attorney marijuana providers to three state-regis- defending Montana’s marijuana users. jmayrer@missoulanews.com
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No more mulling Transition Town Missoula removes a question mark by Alex Sakariassen
Transition Town Missoula officially dropped the question mark from its name last Friday—nearly one year to the day since the group’s first introductory meeting at the University Congregational Church. In other words, the mulling over whether Missoula should join a global movement toward more resilient and selfsustaining communities is over. Now comes the doing. “We knew that we’d be approved because Missoula is even already a Transition Town,” says Transition Town Missoula coordinator Claudia Brown. “All the layers of environmental nonprofits and groups that are working to strengthen the local food system here—there’s already a lot of interest in Missoula.” According to Brown, roughly 50 people gathered in the UCC Nov. 23 to welcome Transition Town Missoula to a network of more than 1,000 Transition initiatives across the globe. The movement started in late 2006, when Rob Hopkins and Naresh Giangrande co-founded the original Transition Town in Totnes, England. Their goal of building a sustainable community to combat the impacts of peak oil and climate change quickly went viral, eventually taking root in towns on six continents; besides Missoula, some of the latest official Transition U.S. initiates include Two Peaks, Colo., Bedford, Mass., and Milwaukee, Wis. “The real overarching theme is that we’re working on this transition from a fairly unstable and unsustainable way of doing things towards something that is more stable, resilient, sustainable, regenerative,” says Transition Town Missoula spokesman Justin McCoy. “As we move in that direction, we have such a long way to go. We plant the seeds and see how they sprout.” Erasing the question mark in Missoula is less a first step than an acknowledgment of the challenges ahead. One of those challenges is time, and with so many nonprofits already working to solve their own pieces of the sustainability puzzle, McCoy says lots of Transition-minded folks in town are already busy. Transition Town Missoula hopes to take some of the networking pressure off those very nonprofits that give Missoula such Transition promise. “This is really, as far as I know, one of the few organizations that’s looking at the whole puzzle and saying, ‘Okay, how do we come together as a community and start to really weave these connections to bring it all together?’” McCoy says.
McCoy’s own involvement with Transition Town Missoula came about by happy coincidence. In early 2011, while traveling in Europe, McCoy attended a Transition training conference in the U.K. He mostly learned the basics—the problems of peak oil, the stresses of economic crisis, how to make such discussions accessible to a broader audience. A few months later he met the core group of “mullers” exploring Missoula’s Transition potential during a permaculture conference in Spokane. And in true Transition fashion, they built a connection.
Missoula will become a “Transition Hub,” hosting meetings with nearby groups to develop Transition goals at a state and regional level. One of those goals will be establishing “energy descent plans,” or concepts on decreasing the energy footprint of individual towns. Brown adds that she’s heard of unofficial Transition initiatives taking shape in Helena, Bozeman and Billings. Missoula’s recognition is also an indicator of more potlucks to come. In fact, McCoy’s pet project within the Transition sphere is to organize the world’s largest community potluck right here in Mis-
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Transition Town Missoula celebrated its official status as a Transition Initiative during a potluck last Friday. Missoula is now one of more than 1,000 official Transition Initiatives around the world.
“He’s just a Transition soul,” Brown says of McCoy, who works as an independent consultant for sustainable building and living initiatives nationwide. “He lives it completely.” Transition Town Missoula’s following has steadily grown over the last year. The group has pulled in students from the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana, as well as professors and members of existing nonprofits. Transition members launched a film series in October 2011, met with Mayor John Engen last April and continue to host regular reading groups. McCoy noted representatives from nearly 10 local groups at Friday’s potluck, including Garden City Harvest, the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition, the Green Business Council and the UM FLAT. The official designation as a Transition Initiative doesn’t change much. Transition Town Missoula isn’t even sure it will seek nonprofit status. But as more Transition Towns form in Montana, Brown says
soula. The existing record isn’t all that big—Casper, Wyo. reset it last February when community members collectively brought 863 dishes to a church fundraiser. McCoy believes Missoula could “blast that record out of the water.” “Once you’ve done something like that, if you could already plan the world’s largest potluck, then if you ever had some sort of emergency situation where you’d need all these people to get together, you’d already know how to do it,” McCoy says. “It’s building resilience, and it’s having fun at the same time.” McCoy is quick to pose the logical follow-up question—hypothetically, of course. “How is a potluck going to take the whole world from a destructive, consumptive culture to a productive, sustainable culture?” McCoy asks. “We have to start somewhere ... The way to start is to build connections.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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On the day after Election Day, Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, the coalmining company that owned the mine in Utah in which six miners and three rescuers were killed in a collapse in 2007, laid off 163 workers. The reason? President Barack Obama’s “War on Coal.” This year, domestic coal production is expected to be down about 10 percent from the banner year of 2007, and Murray and other industry leaders blame the retirement of old coal plants resulting from Obama-era regulations. But they’re going after the wrong enemy. It’s not regulations that are hurting coal so much as the market’s vagaries and the abundance of cheap natural gas from the drilling boom that began a decade ago. Coal has long been America’s favorite source of electricity, and regulations haven’t diminished that. The Clean Air Act of 1970 forced a few plants to clean up their stacks, but didn’t dampen demand. The 1990 amendments to that act clamped down more. Instead of hurting the coal industry, they just encouraged eastern coal plants to start using low-sulfur coal—opening a huge market for coal from the West, which is rife with the stuff. By 2007, the United States was burning twice as much coal as it did in 1973. Yet changes were afoot. Natural gas turbines were improved in the 1990s to become more efficient and cheaper to build, and between 2000 and 2010, natural gas-generating capacity grew by 96 percent. In the meantime, the drilling boom, driven by new fracking and drilling technology, resulted in a glut of natural gas, dropping the price enough to be competitive with coal on a per-megawatt-hour basis—something to be used all the time, not just during times of peak power demand. Utilities that had natural gas generators at their disposal started using them, reducing coal’s share of electricity generation to its lowest level in decades. Utilities faced with upgrading their old coal plants are choosing, instead, to replace
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them with natural gas generators, because it makes more economic sense to do so. Industry analysts predict that this will result in between 59 and 77 gigawatts of coal power going offline by 2016. Sure, pressure from environmentalists and the Environmental Protection Agency contributed to the planned shutdown of five coal-fired units at power plants in northern New Mexico. The EPA’s mercury emissions limits were finally put in place after languishing for a decade,
“It’s not regulations that are hurting coal so much as the market’s vagaries and the abundance of cheap natural gas” and a proposed carbon dioxide emissions cap would make it virtually impossible to build a new coal plant without carboncapture technology. These regulations aren’t new. They are leftovers from previous administrations. Nor do they amount to a declaration of war. To the contrary, an op-ed by fellows at the libertarian Cato Institute declared that conservatives should be euphoric, since the administration could have enacted far stricter regulations—targeting existing coal plants rather than just new ones.
In fact, Obama has even handed coal a few gifts. His Interior Department has opened more land to leasing, approved Oxbow’s exploratory work for a major expansion in Colorado and exempted some mines from that state’s version of the Clinton Roadless Rule. Obama delayed his own EPA’s smog rule, and the EPA continues to stall on coal ash disposal regulations that have been on the table since Clinton was in office. The big question is whether coal is really in decline. While earnings are down for some companies, the big ones in the West seem to be doing just fine. And while U.S. coal demand may be down, U.S. coal mines are shipping record amounts of it to Europe, China and Japan. Peabody Energy’s profits have done nothing but go up since Obama was first elected, even during the recession. Arch Coal isn’t quite as healthy, but it has posted profits, even during the so-called war. And coal companies showed they had plenty of money to spend on politics. Peabody and Arch have spent $36 million on lobbying since 2008, and Oxbow Corp., which belongs to Bill “the other brother” Koch, donated $3.75 million this year to the Restore Our Future Super PAC, a major source of funding for Mitt Romney’s campaign. As for Murray Energy, because it’s not a publicly traded company, its financials are kept under wraps. But it can’t be hurting too badly: In September, less than two months before laying off all those workers, it donated $100,000 to American Crossroads PAC, while Bob Murray and his relatives gave nearly $200,000 more to various Republican candidates. Coal company executives may call it a “War on Coal,” but when you look closely at the facts, it just seems like a publicity campaign. Jonathan Thompson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a senior editor of the magazine in Durango, Colo.
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Golden age A better way to pay state Rep. Jerry O’Neill by Dan Brooks
Last week, state Rep. Jerry O’Neill, a Republican from Columbia Falls, wrote a letter to Montana Legislative Services asking to be paid his public salary in pure gold. He definitely did not do it for attention. Like many adults invested with the power to make laws, O’Neill is merely concerned that U.S. currency will soon become worthless. “It is very likely the bottom will fall out from under the U.S. dollar,” he wrote. “Only so many dollars can be printed before they have no value.” He is also worried that paper money may not be legal. In an interview with Politico, O’Neill cited Article I, Sec. 10 of the Constitution, which prohibits states from making “anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.” I don’t know how closely you follow current events, but here is where I point out that Montana no longer mints its own currency. The problem of individual states printing paper money whose value was prone to market-rending fluctuations pretty much vanished after the Civil War, as you might remember from learning elementary concepts of modern governance as a child. While we are in the realm of conjecture, I might also guess that O’Neill uses U.S. dollars in his day-to-day life. I have no way of knowing, but I bet he does not appear at the grocery store with a saucepan full of gold like a damn leprechaun. Maybe, just possibly, his request to be paid in American Eagle coins—not at their face value of $50, but at their market value of approximately $1,800 per—is a symbolic gesture. O’Neill has built his legislative career on such gestures. Back in 2003, he sponsored a bill in the Montana Senate to repeal the 17th Amendment, which provides for the direct election of U.S. senators. Previously—and “previously” here means “before 1913”—U.S. senators were appointed by their state’s legislatures, in what was either a ready instrument of big-business
corruption or a bulwark for state’s rights, depending on whether you asked a farmer or the owner of a copper mine. O’Neill’s proposal to return us to those heady days passed the Montana Senate Judiciary Committee but failed before the larger body. That’s probably just as well, since—back to high school civics, here—state senates are not currently allowed to amend the U.S. Constitution. The functional and political impossibility of his proposal did not deter him, however, and
“His role in the legislature seems purely symbolic— why not pay him in a currency that befits his performance?” O’Neill resubmitted his legislation in 2005. “Not willing to give up on the principle, in the 2005 Montana legislative session, I introduced Senate Bill 464 to allow legislative caucuses to nominate candidates for the U.S. Senate,” he said. “I wasn’t even able to get SB 464 out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.” That’s from his response to a 2010 Tea Party questionnaire, in which O’Neill touts his record of using his position in the state legislature to unsuccessfully propose imaginary changes to the federal government. The operative phrases here are “not willing to give up on principle” and “Tea Party.” Like the imaginary party that failed to return America to Constitutional fundamen-
talism, O’Neill has committed himself to bold politics that accomplish nothing at all. It is fitting that O’Neill would start negotiating his 2013 compensation a week after winning his 2012 campaign, since he has concerned himself so little with doing the people’s business. Why shouldn’t we agree to pay him in gold for work he hasn’t done yet? His role in the legislature seems purely symbolic—why not pay him in a currency that befits his performance? We could probably think of something even more appropriate than gold. Each month, the state of Montana could pay O’Neill in children’s laughter, and if he does a really good job we could give him a bonus in the form of the scent of a woman’s hair. Or we could insist that he govern the actual state. Montana has chosen its representatives to the federal government, and O’Neill is not one of them. We have identified several problems facing the millionodd people in Big Sky Country, and the illegitimacy of paper money is not on the list. Neither do we face a shortage of libertarian blowhards, nor legislators willing to waste the state’s time—and gold—with pious declarations of their own orthodoxy. What we could use are some lawmakers who understand that the state’s practical concerns transcend the theoretical. Last year, O’Neill voted against repealing Montana’s medical marijuana law, in a rare acknowledgement that economic and demographic realities might trump 18thcentury political science. I would like to see more of that. I am worried less about the collapse of dollars into worthless paper and more about the collapse of politics into empty theater. I pay Jerry O’Neill’s salary, and I care more about his actions than how the props read onstage. Dan Brooks writes about politics, consumer culture and lying at combatblog.net.
missoulanews.com • November 22 – November 29, 2012 [11]
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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN Authorities investigating the theft of President Barack Obama’s teleprompter and podium last fall identified Eric Brown, 48, as their suspect. The equipment was recovered a few days later in Henrico, Va., but federal investigators continued their search for the culprit because the case involved the president. After an informant reported Brown had bragged about the theft and possessed items bearing the presidential seal, federal agents used tracking data in Brown’s cellphone to learn that the phone had been where the items were when they’d been stolen. (Richmond’s WTVR-TV) Border patrol agents who spotted a Jeep Cherokee teetering atop a 14-foot-tall fence in southeast California reported that drug smugglers had built ramps to drive up and over the fence but got stuck at the top. Agents said two men on the Mexican side of the border trying to free the Jeep ran away when they approached, but they arrested the occupants of a pickup truck that had already made it over the ramp. (Associated Press)
MRS. DOUBTFIRE’S EVIL TWIN Paul Henry Cannon, 44, pleaded guilty in Waterloo, Iowa, to masquerading as a woman for four months. Cannon wore women’s clothing, was issued a driver’s license in the name of Shelia Davis, used her birthday and Social Security information, and held two jobs posing as her. He opened a bank account under Davis’s name and used it and the driver’s license to pass $600 worth of bad checks. Authorities uncovered the ruse after state troopers stopped Cannon driving 92 mph while wearing women’s clothing and issued the ticket to Shelia Davis. They later learned the car was stolen and went to arrest the real Shelia Davis, who knows Cannon, but realized they had the wrong person and nabbed Cannon. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) BLAME GAME An Italian court convicted six scientists and a government official of manslaughter for failing to predict the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, which killed more than 300 people, and sentenced them to six years in prison. The court also ordered Italian authorities to pay 7.8 million euros ($10 million) in damages. (CNN) CANE FOLLIES Authorities in Akron, Ohio, evacuated city hall after someone reported seeing what looked like a pipe bomb: a four-foot-long aluminum stick with duct tape at both ends and the word “Kaboom” written on it. The Summit County Bomb Squad determined it wasn’t a bomb. Further investigation identified it as a homemade cane belonging to James Kaboom, 66, who said he’d forgotten it at a meeting. Noting his family came from Poland, he explained his last name was shortened from Kaboomski. His actual, full legal name is Natural Hunka Kaboom. (NBC News) After British police received a report of a man carrying a samurai sword through Chorley, in Lancashire, an officer spotted a suspect and ordered him to stop. When he didn’t, the officer discharged his Taser, forcing the man to drop the object and fall to the ground. At this point, according to Chief Superintendent Stuart Williams, it “became apparent that this man was not the person we were looking for.” Instead, it was Colin Farmer, 61, a blind man using a white stick to find his way. “It felt like I was grabbing an electricity pylon,” Farmer, who has suffered two strokes, said after he was treated at the hospital and apologized to by police, who later arrested a man carrying an actual samurai sword on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly. (BBC News)
WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED A man who rammed into a wall at the Greater Sweethome Missionary Baptist Church in Forest Hill, Texas, apparently on purpose, got out of the car, chased the minister and beat him to death with an electric guitar. Police who found Derrick Anthony Birdow assaulting the Rev. Danny Kirk Sr. used a Taser to subdue him. Birdow became unresponsive and died in the back of the patrol car. (Associated Press) HIDEY-HOLE Police who stopped a car driving erratically in Naples, Fla., observed a bag of marijuana in the back seat and arrested passenger Vida Golac, 18, who was sitting nearest it but denied ownership. Two friends told the officer it wasn’t theirs and were allowed to leave. When jail deputies strip-searched Golac, they found more marijuana in her genitals. She insisted it wasn’t hers but that she was hiding it to keep her friends from getting in trouble. (Naples Daily News) PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLELESS Dozens of schools have begun offering programs to graduate unmanned systems operators for when the Federal Aviation Administration begins integrating drones into the nation’s crowded airspace in 2015 by granting personal and commercial licenses to people who meet pilot training and medical requirements. Retired Air Force colonel and commercial airline pilot Jerry LeMieux opened Unmanned Vehicle University, the world’s first school dedicated solely to educating drone operators. UVU, which received its international accreditation in July, offers only online courses. The University of North Dakota began offering its own degree program in the field of unmanned systems through the school’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Matt Waite founded the first “drone journalism lab” to explore the opportunities and ethics of using drones to gather news. (The Washington Times)
CLEARANCE SALE Joseph M. Lamport Jr., the owner of Easy Auto Cars in Helena, Mont., returned from vacation to find his entire inventory missing. He contacted a car dealer in Blackfoot, Idaho, with whom he’d previously done business, and found that Easy Auto’s sole employee, Robert Alfred McGinnis, 38, had sold the dealer all 25 or 26 cars for about $100,000 while Lamport was away. (Helena’s Independent Record) CHICKEN LITTLE WAS RIGHT Jennifer Cording was giving horseback riding lessons to a group of teenagers while their parents watched near Assawoman, Va., when a foot-long piece of raw chicken hit one of the students on the head. “Three objects fell out of the sky in front of us,” Cording said, “two larger and one quite small.” Avian expert Bryan D. Watts of the College of William and Mary said the chicken parts likely came from high-flying seagulls, “which we know carry chicken parts.” (Salisbury, Md.’s The Daily Times) BUSINESS PLAN OF THE WEEK Operating under bankruptcy protection, American Airlines paid $40,000—a year’s salary—to each of the 2,205 flight attendants who accepted its buyout offers. Then the airline posted job openings for 1,500 new flight attendants, the first time in 11 years it has hired flight attendants. (Associated Press)
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eople who get their information exclusively from mainstream media sources may be surprised at the lack of enthusiasm on the left for President Barack Obama during the recent election. But that’s probably because they weren’t exposed to the full online furor sparked by Obama’s continuation of his predecessor’s overreaching approach to national security, such as signing the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the indefinite detention of those accused of supporting terrorism, even U.S. citizens.
Project Censored has been documenting inadequate media coverage of crucial stories since it began in 1967 at Sonoma State University. Each year, the group considers hundreds of news stories submitted by readers, evaluating their merits. Students search Lexis Nexis and other databases to see if the stories were underreported, and if so, the stories are fact-checked by professors and experts in relevant fields. A panel of academics and journalists chooses the Top 25 stories and rates their
topical “clusters.” This year, categories include “Human cost of war and violence” and “Environment and health.” Project Censored director Mickey Huff says the idea was to show how various under-covered stories fit together into an alternative narrative, not to say that one story was more censored than another. “The problem when we had just the list was that it did imply a ranking,” Huff says. “It takes away from how there tends
Consider this year’s top Fortune 500 company: ExxonMobil. The oil company has a history of pollution, yet most stories about its environmental devastation go underreported. Weapons manufacturers Lockheed Martin (58 on the Fortune list), General Dynamics (92), and Raytheon (117) are tied into stories about U.S. prisoners in slavery conditions manufacturing parts for their weapons and the
THE EXPANDING POLICE STATE TOPS THIS YEAR’S MOST UNDERREPORTED STORIES by Yael Chanoff We’ll never know how this year’s election would be different if the corporate media adequately covered the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause and many other recent attacks on civil liberties. What we can do is spread the word and support independent media sources that do cover these stories. That’s where Project Censored comes in.
significance. The project maintains a vast online database of underreported news stories that it has “validated” and publishes them in an annual book. Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution will be released Oct. 30. For the second year in row, Project Censored has grouped the Top 25 list into
to be a pattern to the types of stories they don’t cover or underreport.” In May, while Project Censored was working on the list, another 2012 list was issued: the Fortune 500 list of the biggest corporations, whose influence peppers the Project Censored list in a variety of ways.
underreported war crimes in Afghanistan and Libya. These powerful corporations work together more than most people think. In the chapter exploring the “Global 1 percent,” writers Peter Philips and Kimberly Soeiro explain how a small number of well-connected people control the major-
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ity of the world’s wealth. In it, they use Censored story number 6, “Small network of corporations run the global economy,” to describe how a network of transnational corporations are deeply interconnected, with 147 of them controlling 40 percent of the global economy’s total wealth. For example, Philips and Soeiro write that in one such company, BlackRock Inc., “The eighteen members of the board of directors are connected to a significant part of the world’s core financial assets. Their decisions can change empires, destroy currencies, and impoverish millions.” Another cluster of stories, “Women and Gender, Race and Ethnicity,” notes a pattern of underreporting stories that affect a range of marginalized groups. This broad category includes only three articles, and none are listed in the top 10. The stories reveal mistreatment of Palestinian women in Israeli prisons, including being denied medical care and shackled during childbirth, and the rape and sexual assault of women soldiers in the U.S. military. The third story in the category concerns an Alabama anti-immigration bill, HB56, that caused immigrants to flee Alabama in such numbers that farmers felt a dire need to “help farms fill the gap and find sufficient labor.” So the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries approached the state’s department of corrections about making a deal where prisoners would replace the fleeing farm workers. But with revolutionary unrest around the world, and the rise of a mass movement that connects disparate issues together into a simple, powerful class analysis—the 99 percent versus the 1 percent paradigm popularized by Occupy Wall Street—this year’s Project Censored offers an element of hope. It’s not easy to succeed at projects that resist corporate dominance, and when it does happen, the corporate media is sometimes reluctant to cover it. Number seven on the Top 25 list is the story of how the United Nations designated 2012 the International Year of the Cooperative, recognizing the rapid growth of co-op businesses, organizations that are part-owned by all members and whose revenue is shared equitably among members. One billion people worldwide now work in co-ops. The Year of the Cooperative is not the only good-news story discussed by Project Censored this year. In Chapter 4, Yes! Magazine’s Sarah Van Gelder lists “12 ways the Occupy movement and other major trends have offered a foundation for a transformative future.” They include a renewed sense of “political self-respect” and fervor to organize in the United States, debunking of economic myths such as the “American dream,” and the blossoming of economic alternatives such as community land trusts, time banking and micro-energy installations. They also include results achieved from pressure on government, like the delay of the Keystone Pipeline project, widespread efforts to override the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, the removal of dams in Washington state after decades of campaigning by Native American and environmental activists, and the enactment of single-payer healthcare in Vermont.
fication, caused by global warming, to acidification that was one of the causes of the “Great Dying,” a mass extinction 252 million years ago. Life on earth took 30 million years to recover. In a more hopeful story, a study of 14 protected and 18 non-protected ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea showed dangerous levels of biomass depletion. But it also showed that the marine reserves were well-enforced, with five to 10 times larger fish populations than in unprotected areas. This encourages establishment and maintenance of more reserves.
3. IMPACT FROM FUKUSHIMA
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A plume of toxic fallout floated to the United States after the Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found radiation levels in air, water and milk to be hundreds of times above normal, government testing ceased one month later.
As Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed writes in the book’s foreword, “The majority of people now hold views about Western governments and the nature of power that would have made them social pariahs 10 or 20 years ago.” Citing polls from the corporate media, Mosaddeq writes: “The majority are now skeptical of the Iraq War; the majority want an end to U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan; the majority resent the banks and financial sector, and blame them for the financial crisis; most people are now aware of environmental issues, more than ever before, and despite denialist confusion promulgated by fossil fuel industries, the majority in the United States and Britain are deeply concerned about global warming; most people are wary of conventional party politics and disillusioned with the mainstream parliamentary system. “In other words,” he writes, “there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the current political economic system.” And ultimately, it’s the public—not the president and not the corporations—
that will determine the future. There may be hope after all. Here’s Project Censored’s Top 10 list for 2013:
1. SIGNS OF AN EMERGING POLICE STATE President George W. Bush is remembered largely for his role in curbing civil liberties in the name of his “war on terror.” But it’s President Obama who signed the 2012 NDAA, including its clause allowing for indefinite detention without trial for terrorism suspects. Obama promised that “my Administration will interpret them to avoid the constitutional conflict”—leaving us adrift if and when the next administration chooses to interpret them otherwise. Another law of concern is the National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order that Obama issued in March 2012. That order authorizes the president, “in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology, for
national defense requirements.” The president is to be advised on this course of action by “the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council, in conjunction with the National Economic Council.” Journalist Chris Hedges, along with co-plaintiffs including Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, won a case challenging the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause on Sept. 1, when a federal judge blocked its enforcement, but her ruling was overturned on Oct. 3, so the clause is back.
2. OCEANS IN PERIL Big banks aren’t the only entities that our country has deemed “too big to fail.” But our oceans won’t be getting a bailout anytime soon, and their collapse could compromise life itself. In a haunting article highlighted by Project Censored, Mother Jones reporter Julia Whitty paints a tenuous seascape—overfished, acidified, warming— and describes how the destruction of the ocean’s complex ecosystems jeopardizes the entire planet, not just the 70 percent that is water. Whitty compares ocean acidi-
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Mother Jones reported on the FBI’s approach to identifying potential terrorists by “seeking to identify those disgruntled few who might participate in a plot given the means and the opportunity. And then, in case after case, the government provides the plot, the means, and the opportunity.”
A plume of toxic fallout floated to the United States after Japan’s tragic Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found radiation levels in air, water and milk that were hundreds of times higher than normal across the United States. One month later, the EPA announced that radiation levels had declined, and they would cease testing. But after making a Freedom of Information Act request, journalist Lucas Hixson published emails revealing that on March 24, 2011, the task of collecting nuclear data had been handed off from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a nuclear industry lobbying group. The full extent of Fukushima’s impact is unknown. (Editor’s note: The original Project Censored report included research suggesting an excessive number of U.S. deaths linked to the radioactive fallout, but due to questions about the accuracy of the research we have removed it.)
4. FBI AGENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR TERRORIST PLOTS We know that FBI agents go into communities such as mosques, both undercover and in the guise of building relationships, quietly gathering information about individuals. This is part of an approach to finding what the FBI now considers the most likely kind of terrorists, “lone wolves.” Its strategy: “seeking to identify those disgruntled few who might participate in a plot given the means and the opportunity. And then, in case after case, the government provides the plot, the means, and the opportunity,” writes Mother Jones journalist Trevor Aaronsen. The publication, along with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley, examined the results of this strategy, 508 cases classified as terrorism-related that have come before the U.S. Department of Justice since the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001. In 243 of these cases, an informant was involved; in 49 cases, an informant actually led the plot. And “with three exceptions, all of the high-profile domestic terror plots of the last decade were actually FBI stings.”
5. FEDERAL RESERVE LOANED TRILLIONS TO MAJOR BANKS The Federal Reserve, the United States’ quasi-private central bank, was audited for
missoulanews.com • November 22 – November 29, 2012 [15]
the first time in its history this year. The audit report states, “From late 2007 through mid-2010, Reserve Banks provided more than a trillion dollars...in emergency loans to the financial sector to address strains in credit markets and to avert failures of individual institutions believed to be a threat to the stability of the financial system.” These loans had significantly less interest and fewer conditions than the highprofile TARP bailouts, and were rife with conflicts of interest. Some examples: The CEO of JP Morgan Chase served as a board member of the New York Federal Reserve at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. William Dudley, who is now the New York Federal Reserve president, was granted a conflict of interest waiver to let him keep investments in AIG and General Electric at the same time the companies were given bailout funds. The audit was restricted to Federal Reserve lending during the financial crisis. On July 25, 2012, a bill to audit the Fed again, with fewer limitations, authored by Rep. Ron Paul, passed the House of Representatives. HR 459 is expected to die in the Senate, but the movement behind Paul and his calls to hold the Fed accountable, or abolish it altogether, seem to be growing.
6. SMALL NETWORK OF CORPORATIONS RUN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Reporting on a study by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich didn’t make the rounds nearly enough, according to Censored 2013. They found that, of 43,060 transnational companies, 147 control 40 percent of total global wealth. The researchers also built a model visually demonstrating how the connections between companies—what it calls the “super entity”—works. Some have criticized the study, saying control of assets doesn’t
9. PRISON SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
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The first-ever audit of the Federal Reserve showed that from late 2007 through mid-2010, Reserve Banks provided more than a trillion dollars in emergency loans to the financial sector.
equate to ownership. True, but as we clearly saw in the 2008 financial collapse, corporations are capable of mismanaging assets in their control to the detriment of their actual owners. And a largely unregulated super entity like this is vulnerable to global collapse.
7. THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE COOPERATIVE Can something really be censored when it comes straight from the United Nations? According to Project Censored
evaluators, the corporate media underreported the UN declaring 2012 to be the International Year of the Cooperative, based on the co-op business model’s stunning growth. The UN found that, in 2012, one billion people worldwide are co-op member-owners, or one in five adults over the age of 15. The largest is Spain’s Mondragon Corporation, with more than 80,000 member-owners. The UN predicts that by 2025, worker-owned co-ops will be the world’s fastest growing business model. Worker-owned cooperatives provide for equitable distribution of wealth, genuine connection to the workplace and, just maybe, a brighter future for our planet.
8. NATO WAR CRIMES IN LIBYA
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President George W. Bush is remembered largely for his role in curbing civil liberties in the name of his “war on terror,” but it’s President Obama who signed an executive order that included a clause allowing indefinite detention without trial for terrorism suspects.
[16] Missoula Independent • November 22 – November 29, 2012
In January 2012, the BBC “revealed” how British Special Forces agents joined and “blended in” with rebels in Libya to help topple dictator Muammar Gadaffi, a story that alternative media sources had reported a year earlier. NATO admits to bombing a pipe factory in the Libyan city of Brega that was key to the water supply system that brought tap water to 70 percent of Libyans, saying that Gadaffi was storing weapons in the factory. In Censored 2013, writer James F. Tracy makes the point that historical relations between the U.S. and Libya were left out of mainstream news coverage of the NATO campaign; “background knowledge and historical context confirming Al-Qaeda and Western involvement in the destabilization of the Gadaffi regime are also essential for making sense of corporate news narratives depicting the Libyan operation as a popular ‘uprising.’”
On its website, the UNICOR manufacturing corporation proudly proclaims that its products are “made in America.” That’s true, but they’re made in places in the United States where labor laws don’t apply, with workers often paid just 23 cents an hour to be exposed to toxic materials with no legal recourse. These places are U.S. prisons. Slavery conditions in prisons aren’t exactly news. It’s literally written into the Constitution; the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, outlaws “slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” But the article highlighted by Project Censored this year reveal the current state of prison slavery industries, and its ties to war. The majority of products manufactured by inmates are contracted to the Department of Defense. Inmates make complex parts for missile systems, battleship anti-aircraft guns, and landmine sweepers, as well as night-vision goggles, body armor, and camouflage uniforms. Of course, this is happening in the context of record high imprisonment in the United States, where grossly disproportionate numbers of African Americans and Latinos are imprisoned, and can’t vote even after they’re freed. As psychologist Elliot D. Cohen puts it in this year’s book: “This system of slavery, like that which existed in this country before the Civil War, is also racist, as more than 60 percent of U.S. prisoners are people of color.”
10. HR 347 CRIMINALIZES PROTEST HR 347, sometimes called the “criminalizing protest” or “anti-Occupy” bill, made some headlines. But concerned lawyers and other citizens worry that it could have disastrous effects for the First Amendment right to protest. Officially called the Federal Restricted Grounds Improvement Act, the law makes it a felony to “knowingly” enter a zone restricted under the law, or engage in “disorderly or disruptive” conduct in or near the zones. The restricted zones include anywhere the Secret Service may be—places such as the White House, areas hosting events deemed “National Special Security Events,” or anywhere visited by the president, vice president and their immediate families; former presidents, vice presidents and certain family members; certain foreign dignitaries; major presidential and vice presidential candidates (within 120 days of an election); and other individuals as designated by a presidential executive order. These people could be anywhere, and NSSEs have notoriously included the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, Super Bowls and the Academy Awards. So far, it seems the only time HR 347 has kicked in is with George Clooney’s high-profile arrest outside the Sudanese embassy. Clooney ultimately was not detained without trial—information that would be almost impossible to censor—but what about the rest of us who exist outside of the mainstream media’s spotlight?
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Eating words Common turns uncommon with poet Melissa Mylchreest by Chris Dombrowski Photo by Eric Oravsky
sk award-winning Missoula poet and budding gourmand Melissa Mylchreest which is harder, cooking a good meal for six or writing a poem from scratch, and she won’t so much waffle (okay, that’s bad), as say she’s on the fence. “Writing a poem from scratch is generally harder, but it’s a question of constraint,” she says. “Once a meal is cooked and eaten, it’s over. There’s no more tinkering to be done. With a poem, however, it’s often hard to declare, yes, this poem is finished.” For Mylchreest, recent recipient of her second Obsidian Prize from the Bend, Ore.-based High Desert Journal, cooking offers a rich contrast to the making of poems. “When I’m cooking, I’m constantly thinking about my audience,” she says. “Poetry, on the other hand, for me, is much more personal. Even though there’ll eventually be an audience, I don’t think about it at all. It’s internal, quiet, measured, intensely ideaand sound-driven; the poems I write are intensely ‘mine,’ even after they enter the public eye, I think. “I love that there are no hard and fast rules for
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either,” she adds, “but there are guidelines that dictate how the machine of the poem or the machine of the meal work—complementary flavors, complementary words, frameworks and techniques.” A 13th generation New Englander turned Rockies transplant, Mylchreest graduated with a master’s from the University of Montana’s Environmental Studies Program, then worked the freelance writing circuit for a spell, publishing in Big Sky Journal and High Country News among others, before returning to UM for her master’s of fine arts in creative writing. (Full disclosure: Mylchreest also occasionally contributes to the Indy). Last spring, her poetry thesis manuscript was selected as the University of Montana’s MerriamFrontier Award Winner, and was recently published as the chapbook Reckon. Rife with rough-hewn language, a pleasant density and vivid sensory images from the physical world, the poems in Reckon are guided by a voice that hasn’t merely visited the West, but inhabited it. “The GapTooth Girl,” for instance, epitomizes the collection’s ability to illuminate (without sentimentalizing) what
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poet Ted Kooser called “local wonders”: The gap-tooth girl is dancing, and the man in Wranglers holds his arms around her like a loose hoop of rope, a snare for her tight two-step. The band will never play better than this town limits, and still it’s sweeter than the sounds the country makes, gumbo mud, trains coupling, a wild Chinook, a place laced with ice and barb-wire singing. With titles like “Driving the Eastside Highway to Threemile,” “Bitterroot and Sweetgrass” and “Frenchtown,” Reckon plants itself definitively in western Montana, but its nuanced themes remain philosophically universal. In the opening passage from “Frenchtown,” a harrowing ballad to the going and the gone that, like “The Gap-Tooth Girl,” rhythmically channels the ghost of Richard Hugo. They shutter the mill and still the mill stink settles in this valley, and men
soured—thirty years of a sure thing and now this shame—turn to their old friends and then the bottle and for a few there’s finally the certain comfort of blued steel. In “Frenchtown” and throughout Reckon, Mylchreest uses the common—Swiss chard, crows, moons, chickens chasing grasshoppers, etc.—to escape the commonplace, a practice 17th century Japanese poet Basho urged his budding haiku students to employ. The result is a collection that both the distinguishing and uninitiated poetry palates will enjoy. Mylchreest, who tends a blog called “Bricolage and Breakfast” (bricobreakfast.wordpress.com), says that she can spend hours creating a poem or creating a meal, and end up feeling like only minutes have passed. Readers who immerse themselves in Reckon will no doubt share this sensation. Reckon is available at Missoula bookstores. arts@missoulanews.com
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What is this strange, magical phenomenon called Turbo Fruits? The Nashville garage rock band was formed around 2005, and appears to have almost instantly notched several marks of indie success including making appearances at Reading and Leeds in 2006 and at SXSW from 2007 to 2011, recording a song for the Whip It! soundtrack and touring in support of Jay Reatard, Dinosaur Jr. and Deer Tick. The vinyl for Turbo Fruits’ most recent full length, Butter, produced by Spoon’s Jim Eno and released in September, is sold out on the band’s website. (Hipsters will have to suck it up and download the mp3s or buy the—shudder—compact disc.) Maybe Turbo Fruits owes some of its success to an apparent delightful sense of humor and party vibe. Its website banner reads “Turbo Mutha Fuckin Fruits” and the “About” page says what the members “lack in physical adeptness they make up for in wild abandon and unfettered debauchery; in buzzsaw guitars and pummeling, primal rhythms. And they STILL look good in a unitard and head gear.” Maybe Turbo Fruits owes some of its success to having a band member formerly of Be Your Own Pet.
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Bent Left If you jumped in the Wayback machine and played, say, American Steel or the Lawrence Arms for New York punker kids in 1977, would they recognize it as punk rock? Punk is far from dead—and I am happy to tirelessly push that point upon you—but I concede that it is very different from what it started out as. People who assume punk rock is total degeneracy, all about drinking malt liquor, slam dancing and fist-pumping to “Hey! Hey! Hey!” choruses aren’t wrong exactly. Those things are still pretty integral to the scene. But most of the notable bands these days are more likely to have English literature degrees than to live in a
squat house or spraypaint anything. Far from the Decline of Western Civilization scenes that my mother envisions me in, punk has become an outlet for smart, often neurotic, middle class kids. Take the Missouri band Bent Left: With fast beats, driving guitar rhythms and literate lyrics, you can slam yourself around in a mosh pit to its live show or sit at home dissecting the meanings behind songs like “Byzantine Horlogerie” and “Professora Emeritosa.” It’s punk rock, either way. (Kate Whittle) Bent Left, Edhochuli, Buddy Jackson and Shramana play Zoo City Apparel Mon., Nov. 26., at 8 PM. $5.
Certain Molecules: Intratomic Larry Hirshberg is good at making albums with pretty and unnerving soundscapes. For Certain Molecules, his project with versatile percussionist Brandon Zimmer, he’s created yet another oddball experimental album. It’s mostly instrumental, but Hirshberg has an ear for telling a story through gossamer melodies, electronica and free jazz elements, which he invades with an avant garde touch that keeps the songs from feeling too safe. This is not music for meditation or holiday family gatherings. On one song, piano chords ring like ominous church bells. The fuzzed-out synth evokes a record
playing backwards in fits and starts. Partway through, we’re cradled in warm guitar strums, until the melody begins to distort like the preface to a horror movie. The album has some narration. On “The Hit Single,” Hirshberg tells a short story that feels straight out of a James Joyce passage. “There was a headlight and there was a horn,” he says. “When the train passed it was felt in the feet of the people nearby. Birds flew up and away, circled for a while then landed and resumed their business.” You’re left wanting more from this mysterious world. (Erika Fredrickson)
Himanshu Suri: Wild Water Kingdon The title track from Himanshu Suri’s new Wild Water Kingdom mixtape is both dumb and wonderful. Repeating “I’m with my family at Wild Water Kingdom / Wild Water Kingdom, Wild Water Kingdom” 50 times is not exactly The Blueprint. But the hook is an earworm, the synths are lush and inventive and the line “I’m the Jamaican crab in the mermaid movie” is exactly what we want from Himanshu, aka Heems: facile, ironic and metrically perfect. It’s aggressively modern hip-hop that hearkens back to an era when the term of greatest approbation was “stupid.”
In our present age of the ultra-produced mixtape, it is also feels messy. Yet it is not so lackadaisical as the most recent effort from Suri’s fellow Das Racist emcee Victor Vasquez. He is conspicuously absent from Wild Water Kingdom, and maybe that’s for the best. Heems deviates from his neurasthenic monotone on several tracks, as if he were trying to make up for the loss of Vasquez’s more robust voice, and the result is a broader dynamic range. Wild Water Kingdom sounds like a step forward. It is not perfect. It is frequently idiotic. But what matters is that it is often and startlingly both. (Dan Brooks)
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Jim Harrison’s last novel, The Great Leader, featured a retired, divorced cop in Michigan on a mission to track down a sexually deviant cult leader while simultaneously battling his own issues with faith, lust and power. While I appreciated the detail and intelligence of the story, I was a little underwhelmed by the prose. It seemed clunky and without art, but perhaps that’s what it takes to get into the mind of an atheist cop. Harrison’s latest collection is a more complete accomplishment. It’s a slim volume containing two novellas, The Land of Unlikeness and The River Swimmer. Like his previous work, they’re told with memories, thoughts and impressions from the past seamlessly interwoven into the present action of the story. The stories are smart and enjoyable as ever, but this time the matter-of-fact sentences are imbued with electricity. You get the feeling there’s something to be learned by these characters’ experiences, and with such crisp prose, the lessons hit home. For example: “He had spent a great deal of time pondering suicide because of the pain and the fact that his life was in shambles.” Think of the scaffolding it takes to make a sentence like that ring true without it being trite or overly simplistic. The Land of Unlikeliness begins: “Clive awoke before dawn in a motel in Ypsilanti, Michigan, thinking that it was altogether possible that every woman in the world was married to the wrong man.” So right away we know we’re dealing with a lonely divorcé from Michigan who thinks too much. In the present action, 60-year-old Clive has left his cosmopolitan life as an art critic in order to take care of his ailing mother in Michigan. Childhood bedrooms and landscapes lend themselves to nostalgia. Clive thinks back on high school crushes, on eschewing the farm life in order to become a painter, a doomed marriage, the decision to abandon painting and the accident that ended his career as an art critic. There are basic questions put forward as to what it means to be an artist—how people coming back to their art late in life might find themselves with nothing to lose, and from that freedom, a great deal to gain.
Adult Novelties! University of Montana professor David Gates wrote a book in the early ’90s called Jernigan about an alcoholic painter. Gates once talked about the difficulty authors have in writing convincingly about other careers, since so often writers are doomed with a singular obsession toward writing. Gates said of his characters with jobs as musicians, marketers, painters, and so on: “But really, they’re all fucking writers.” Harrison doesn’t seem to have this problem, or if he does, he solves it by allowing his painter to dabble in journal writing and by what I can only assume is a lot of diligent research. When he talks about the artist’s struggle with immortality, I believe him, and it’s true when Clive muses: “There was an obvious vulgarity to nearly all livelihoods that was disarming.” It’s a curious choice to put the title novella second in the collection, firstly because Thad, the narrator of The River Swimmer, is not yet out of high school; he stands at the precipice of his life, so that the stories, while disconnected, take on a reverse chronology. Secondly, the action of the story moves with great speed. Told in this order, it comes as a delicious reward for having spent the time in meditation with the aging artist. This might be superficial, but for me, The River Swimmer invites a comparison to John Cheever’s short story, “The Swimmer.” Both feature slightly implausible tales of men who can’t stay out of water. Cheever’s swimmer is a ruined drinker who jumps from one affluent friend’s pool to the next, blind to the community’s pity and ridicule. At his moment of enlightenment, he’s looking back on a life already ruined. Harrison’s swimmer has his whole life ahead of him, two girls to choose from, a tremendous physical ability to cash in on and magic may exist. In The River Swimmer, Harrison hangs Thad’s destiny from a thin thread and then makes us watch as it dangles perilously. Taken as a whole, Harrison’s latest collection shows us through sharp prose what freedom looks like and how two men in different stages of life manage to embrace what they’ve discovered. arts@missoulanews.com
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Physical therapy Guys in iron lungs have urges, too by Molly Laich
This is the second time this year the Indy has made me watch a film about a severely disabled person who gains emotional freedom through women and friendship. (The first was the French film The Intouchables, which I did not care for.) Filmmakers were bound to get around to mining the rich minerals of sex surrogate work sooner or later, and here we are. The wait is over. If you only have room in your heart for one (and who could blame you?) make it The Sessions.
The Sessions is a sensitive and interesting film— it teaches us about corners of sexuality most of us will never be burdened with visiting. It helps that O’Brien is charming and sweet, but then, they always are in these films. (Think of all the poor dolts in wheelchairs with lives undeserving of biopics, who aren’t wealthy or cultured or witty…no, stop. It’s too painful.) Inevitably, in all of these narratives about broken men, he will fall for a beautiful girl, and then, over-
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Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes) suffered from polio as a kid, but he went out and achieved anyway. We meet him as a 38-year-old virgin with sensation in his body but without the power of mobility. He spends his time being wheeled around on a gurney by assistants, or at home in an iron lung. It’s bleak, but he has a good sense of humor, and his caregivers make for fine friends and crushes. He has ongoing conversations with a priest, played by William H. Macy. The priest has a weird haircut that I theorize speaks to a growing disconnect between what the clergy does and the modern world—but I might be over-thinking the hair. O’Brien was a working writer in real life, and the film is based on an article he wrote in 1990, “On Seeing a Sex Surrogate.” Through his research, he realizes that hey, guys in iron lungs have urges, too, and he enlists the help of a surrogate named Cheryl (Helen Hunt). There’s a lot to know about this profession! She is not a prostitute, to be clear, but a hands-on therapist who works on teaching her clients about the potentials and limitations of their own body. They’re only allowed six sessions together, and audiences should be advised, you’ll be watching many of these sessions up close, with full female nudity, in real time. I reiterate: an aging but still very lovely Helen Hunt appears flagrantly and repeatedly naked.
whelmed by his disability, she will reject him. Rather than accept this as an unpleasant reality, the woman is painted as superficial. The idea is that he will find a woman of true virtue, who is both beautiful and saintly enough to appreciate him for his mind alone. Do you see the double standard? I find it aggressive toward women, but never mind. Let me go off for a moment on yet another sensitive subject that no one in this town seems willing to talk about: Why can’t the good people who run the projection system at the Wilma get their act together? I have never not seen a film at the Wilma that didn’t break down at some point. When I saw the movie Sunday night in the big theater, the film broke at a critical moment between Cheryl and her aloof, philosophical husband, so that as a critic I am helpless to draw conclusions: Is the relationship between them murky and poorly defined, or did I miss a crucial plot point? We should think about sending around a collection plate or something to update the Wilma’s equipment. On the subject of men finding themselves in the face of overwhelming adversity through the power of sex, love and laughter, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to miss a single second. The Sessions continues at the Wilma. arts@missoulanews.com
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Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy. Rated R. Wilma.
LIFE OF PI Disaster at sea. A boy befriends a Bengal tiger. Adventure abounds. Epic journey. Epic discoveries. Life, man, life! Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.
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, Pharaohplex and Entertainer.
RED DAWN The 1984 version of this film was the first to be rated PG-13. This version is PG-13, too. The resemblance doesn’t end there. Yeah, so some high school kids in Washington state defend their homeland from North Korean paratroopers. What? Cuba was too busy? Starring Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas and Josh Hutcherson. 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.
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2 In the conclusion of the series, dawn rebreaks again and the child born of human woman and vampire is under attack from the evil Voltouri. Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Showboat.
ARGO Based on a true story, crafty CIA dudes try to bust some Americans out of the notso-hospitable country of Iran circa 1979. Ayatollah rock and roll-a! Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. 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. LINCOLN Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in this biopic about the U.S.’s greatest president as he struggles with the war, emancipation of the slaves, his cabinet and his family. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and David Strathairn. Rated PG13. Carmike 12.
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 and Pharaohplex. The cat is seasick. Life of Pi opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS After the evil little twit Pitch tries to destroy the hopes and dreams of the world’s children, the Immortal Guardians get in cahoots to take him on. Nobody messes with the Easter Bunny, not now, not ever. Starring the
voices of Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Showboat. 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 con-
nects us all. Directed by Ron Fricke. Wilma. THE SESSIONS Based on the autobiographical writings of poet and journalist Mark O’Brien this story follows the life of a 38-year-old man trying to lose his virginity with the help of his priest and a sex surrogate, all while confined to an iron lung. Starring John
Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin. Moviegoers be warned! For show times please visit missoulanews.com or contact the theaters directly. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan-883-5603.
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Spices take local global by Ari LeVaux Indian food is wildly different from hamburgers and apple pie, as one would expect from a country on the other side of the world. But many Indian recipes, especially from the country’s north, can be made with the ingredients of home. Consider the Punjabi recipe for palak gosht, meat with spinach, in which the only ingredients that need be imported are spices and ginger. All of these ingredients, including fresh spinach and fat animals, are in season right now, making palak gosht a great fall dish that can be as exotic as it is local. Since the cow is sacred in India, beef is rarely eaten, but the recipe does work fine with beef. The most commonly used red meat is mutton, which can mean either sheep or goat in India. I make it with venison, since that’s what I have, and it turns out great. Most Indian restaurants use lamb, or gosht, as in the version I use, which comes from a wonderful cookbook by Camellia Panjabi called 50 Great Curries of India. In addition to those 50 recipes, the author also delves deep into curry theory. Panjabi’s preparation of palak gosht begins with pureeing two big cloves of garlic with an equal part ginger, and two or three minced jalapeños. (They don’t have jalapeños in India, but they make do somehow.) The pureeing can be done with a food processor, mortar and pestle, or any other means at your disposal. Thin this mixture with a little water, just enough to make it more of a puree than a paste. Loosen up ½ cup of yogurt with a whisk or fork and add it to the puree along with ¼ teaspoon of cumin. Cut a pound of the meat of your choice into chunks a little less than an inch square, and marinate the meat in the spiced yogurt for at least an hour. Yogurt is often used in curry as a souring agent, something that all Indian curries contain in one form or another. Other souring agents are vinegar, tamarind, lime, tomato and green mango. Yogurt is also considered a thickening agent, helping the curry achieve the right consistency (other thickening agents include onions, coconut, ground nuts and lentils). Wheat flour, the cookbook author explains, isn’t used as a thickener because it “has no flavor.” While the meat is marinating, blanch a ½ pound of spinach leaves for 10 seconds in boiling water, or 20 seconds in steam. Let the spinach cool. Puree and
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set aside. You can double or even triple the spinach if you like, given spinach is in season. Now the action really begins. Heat ¼ cup of oil and fry 2 bay leaves, 3 cloves and 2 cardamom pods. Frying spices in oil extracts flavor from them. Fry the spices patiently, over low to medium heat. When the bay leaves just start to turn brown, add a ½ pound of chopped onions and fry on medium heat. Panjabi helps with the east-to-west translation of the recipe by noting that “in temperate climate zones, the onions will take longer to fry to a brown color as they have a higher moisture content” than the onions in tropical India. That means about 15 to 30 minutes to caramelize onions in temperate climates. Once the onions have caramelized, add coriander powder (ideally ground fresh from seeds) and sauté for two minutes. Then add ½ teaspoon of cumin, and a little water to thin things out and prevent burning. Cook like this for a few minutes, then add the meat and its yogurt marinade, along with three chopped tomatoes—or the equivalent from your pantry or freezer. I use fresh tomatoes if I have them, otherwise homemade ketchup. By now, as the flavor is starting to come together, the dish looks more like puked-up pizza with milk than cuisine, but that will soon change. Add ¾ cup water and 1 teaspoon salt, and cook slowly for at least 20 minutes with very tender meat, but ideally for hours. Finally, add the pureed spinach, which transforms the color into an appetizing shade of green. The book recommends serving this curry with an Indian-style flatbread, like chapati, or even naan or paratha made from that flavorless wheat flour. A thick flour tortilla—heated, of course—comes pretty close. As with the substitution of venison for goat, or homemade ketchup for chopped tomatoes in the winter, the flour tortilla brings the dish home to North America, where we have a soft spot for the subtle, earthy flavor of wheat flour, and we grow plenty of it. To make perfect renditions of palak gosht all we need from India are the same spices that drew the early explorers in their sailboats. Now, as then, just a little special powder can turn homegrown ingredients into aromatic delicacies that sing of faraway places. It’s a delicious compromise between local and global.
[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. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice's is rockin' out pumpkin bread and pumpkin pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain't all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly Fall mornin' while nibblin' a Cherry Cheese Danish. Or order any one of our delicious fruit pies with a dozen dinner rolls for Thanksgiving. Bernice's...a tradition on Thanksgiving dinner tables around Missoula since 1978. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Accomodates indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Crawfish omlettes, beignets, and cafe au lait. Open Monday 11am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, and Sunday 9am-3pm (Beignets available Saturday 11am-2pm, and All Day Sunday) Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 • ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$
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. $-$$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items.
Get Your Gobble On! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 *When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe. Across from the U of M campus.
The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! (Happy Hour 3-6 PM MonSat. 2 Empanadas for $7) Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. 11am-8pm Monday-Saturday. Downtown Missoula. $ $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Join Brooks and Browns for Thanksgiving dinner! 11-7 Thanksgiving Day. All the traditional favorites will be served tableside and leftovers are yours to keep! $28 per person or family of 4 for $100. Call 721-8550 for reservations. First 10 tables reserved also receive a complimentary bottle of wine. Dining at home? Pick up a Thanksgiving dinner-to-go! $125 feeds 5 with plenty of leftovers! Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ 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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Choosing the right Thanksgiving wine
HAPPIEST HOUR Admit it: Thanksgiving is the best holiday ever. It is the one day of the year when it is acceptable, nay, encouraged to overeat and over-imbibe. With the glorious holiday less than a week away, turkey is on the brain— and, naturally, which drink would go best with the bird. Adam Sandoval, a winesavvy longtime bartender at The Red Bird Restaurant and Wine Bar, gives a few ideas on which wines will complete the holiday meal. The approach: Most assume that white meat equals white wine (or at least those of us who only choose wine by the pretty label). It turns out, there is more to it than that. “Think of wine as another dish at the table,” Sandoval says. According to Sandoval, the wine should complement rather than mimic what you are eating. A wine with heavy cranberry tones, for example, may be overwhelming on top of the cranberry dish that is already on the table. Keep it light: Though turkey is the mainstay of the Thanksgiving holiday, its flavor isn't as strong. Because it is a lighter tasting meat, it should be pared with a light wine. For those who only drink red wine, a pinot noir is a good choice
because it won’t overwhelm the flavor of the food, but is complex enough to stand on its own. With white wine, Sandoval lists a few more choices. A vinho verde is a good, cheap option. “It is light in alcohol and slightly effervescent,” Sandovol says. If you want a wine with a bit Photo by Kelly Conde more bite, a chenin blanc offers a drier, yet fruity flavor. For the sweet tooth at the table, a gewurztraminer is the best option. Those who enjoy some sparkle with their meal are in luck. According to Sandoval, any bubbly will pare nicely with turkey. But if you really want to go crazy, make it a red bubbly. It will complement the cranberry sauce. Where to find them: To try a bottle or two first, stop by The Red Bird at 111 N. Higgins Ave. Once the Thanksgiving drink list is made, stores including Worden’s Market and Deli, Liquid Planet, the Good FoodStore, and CVS provide a variety of wines at a range of prices. —Kelly Conde Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.
11:30-3pm Happy Hour 3-6pm Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close $-$$ $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ 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. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Serving country French specialties, Montana elk, Berkshire Pork, and delicious seafood dishes. Delectable salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from Wordens. Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.
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Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis's Kitchen 531-5034 sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods. Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis's Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula "Best Pizza" Winner's for 2008-2012. Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12"crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $$-$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9. Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 406-830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
THURSDAYNOV22 Turkeys can fly. The Turkey Trot 8K and 3K starts at Toole Park Thu., Nov. 22, at 9:30 AM. The 8K is $30/$28 for Run Wild Missoula members. The family 3K is free, but a canned food donation is appreciated. For a full list of details visit runwildmissoula.org.
November 22-November 29, 2012
Get out of here, already. Or, at least, don’t go to work or school. It’s Thanksgiving, and that means city offices are closed and the University of Montana has commenced Thanksgiving Break. Enjoy your turkey, tofurkey or otherwise lavish spread.
FRIDAYNOV23 Wrap it up and be a soul man at the Sam and Dave Tribute Band show, featuring members of Zeppo and Reverend Slanky playing the R&B duo’s classic tracks. Badlander. 9 PM. $5.
nightlife Girls ages 9 to 18 learn to be powerful speakers during Express to Speak at The Girls Way, 1515 Wyoming St. Ste. 300, every Fri. from 5–6 PM. The first two visits are free. $5 for each subsequent class. Monthly memberships are available. Visit thegirlsway.org. Hear John Floridis play tunes at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, while you sip wine and indulge in antipasto plates from Biga, until they’re gone. Or bring your own food. Music goes from 6 PM to 9 PM and wine tasting starts at 5 PM. Free. Go to Ten Spoon’s FB page for more info. Christopher Plummer stars in Barrymore, a film that begs the question: What would John Barrymore do? And it uncovers the man’s life, too. Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors/$11 students. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. Stuart Jackson, one of Missoula’s most popular guitarists besides Zakk Wylde, is a member of Tom Cats and County Line, but tonight he’s doing it his way at the Elbow Room, 1855 Stephens Ave. 8 PM. Free. Get your howl on and party with Cindy the cute Rosauers cashier when the Wild Coyote Band takes the stage at the Eagles, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. Free. Guitarmageddon. Classical guitarist Sean Frenette performs at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., Sat., Nov. 24, at 7 PM. $15.
Do you see what I see? Yup, it’s Blue and the Vagus Nerve playing the Union Club and
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[calendar] is rolling with music, kids’ activities, locally grown produce, meat, baked goods, jam, honey and so much more. 11–2 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. This sounds like a recipe for too much fun. The Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre presents its Montana-holiday-themed production featuring high-kicking cowgirls, roping cowboys, dancers from the Salish-Kootenai and Blackfeet Nations, plus pieces like the “Montana Wild Turkeys,” the “Winter Wonderland Kickline,” the “Parade of the Toy Soldiers” and a Missoula premiere of “Going Viral,” a collaboration with scientists from the Rocky Mountain Labs of Hamilton. Kaboom! At UM’s Dennison Theater at 2 PM. $21/$11 for kids 12 and under. Tickets available at griztix.com 243-4051.
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nightlife Turkeys can fly. The Turkey Trot 8K and 3K starts at Toole Park Thu., Nov. 22, at 9:30 AM. The 8K is $30/$28 for Run Wild Missoula members. The family 3K is free, but a canned food donation is appreciated. For a full list of details visit runwildmissoula.org.
A portion of the proceeds goes to Missoula Food Bank
your old Russian prof dancing limply with that brown-nosing TA. That should be you! 9 PM. Free.
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Sing the songs that dwell in your heart and soul or do some Rihanna at Sean Kelly’s open mic night. 9 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Fri. to sign-up.
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John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub, where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main St. in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406-721-2416 or just show up. Take a swig of The Hard Arnold Palmers when they perform at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave., but don’t let the side effects grab you by the boo-boo. 9:30 PM. Free.
4-H Club invite you to the Corvallis Christmas Bazaar inside the school’s gym from 9–3 PM. Over 150 vendors and num-nums to nosh. Free to take a gander. How bazaar? Not that bazaar. The Teen Challenge Annual Craft Bazaar takes place at the City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview St., from 9–3 PM. Free to peep. Take a toodle out Huson way for the Nine Mile Valley Craft and Art Fair at the Nine Mile Community Center, 25620 Nine Mile Rd. The fair features handmade gifts, Sapphire Mountain Men black powder gun shoot, Christmas ornament demonstration and more. 10–4 PM. Free to peek.
Russ and Sam Nassett play tunes for you and the children playing in the corner at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5– 8 PM. Free.
Get in the spirit at Walking Stick Toys, 829 S. Higgins Ave., for the local business’ holiday open house where you will find snacks and sales from 11 AM to 6 PM. From 1 PM to 3 PM you can have your kids meet with Santa and Mrs. Claus to find out if they’ve really been as good as you think they have. Free. Photography for the magic moment with Santa is available from Details Photography.
The Corvallis High boys and girls roundball teams and Sidewinders
Never fear, lovers of fresh, local vittles, the Heirloom Winter Market at the Missoula County Fairgrounds
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It would be foolish to not go see Malarky down at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, where you can drink wine and eat from delicious antipasto plates from Biga until they’re gone. Or bring your own food. Music goes from 6 to 9 PM and wine tasting starts at 5 PM. Free. Go to Ten Spoon’s FB page for more info. Missoula’s very own captains of tuneage Tom Catmull and The Clerics perform delights for the ‘Root at Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery from 6–8:30 PM. Free. Sean Frenette loves Jimi Hendrix just as much as he loves Gregorian Chant. The guitarist, multiinstrumentalist, composer and singer, who has performed three times at Carnegie Hall, blends improvisation and slow-crafted composition at the Crystal Theatre at 7 PM. $15. DR Halsell and Steve Kalling of The Captain Wilson Conspiracy perform pleasurable tunes for you and yours at Finn & Porter, 100 Madison St., 7–9 PM. Free. 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. This sounds like a recipe for too much fun. The Rocky Mountain
[calendar] Ballet Theatre presents its Montana holiday themed production featuring high-kicking cowgirls, roping cowboys, dancers from the SalishKootenai and Blackfeet Nations, plus pieces like the “Montana Wild Turkeys,” the “Winter Wonderland Kickline,” the “Parade of the Toy Soldiers” and a Missoula premiere of “Going Viral,” a collaboration with scientists from the Rocky Mountain Labs of Hamilton. Kaboom! At UM’s Dennison Theater at 7: 30 PM. $21/$11 for kids 12 and under. Tickets available at griztix.com 243-4051. The hounds do what they do when the Wild Coyote Band performs at the Hamilton Eagles Lodge. 7 PM. Free. Take in some tasty licks and conga hits when Lannie Head Wounds and the Mookie Ace Band hit the Palace stage, with openers. 9 PM. $5.
Joan Zen is at it again. The group performs for you people at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.
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George Harrison would be into it, so check out The Dark Horse Band at the Lumberjack up Hwy. 12 on Graves Creek Road. 9 PM. Free.
The UM School of Music rings in the Christmas season with Handel’s Messiah. The proceeds will benefit the School of Music Scholarship Fund. Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. Donations accepted.
Erin and the Project saturate the Sean Kelly’s with soothing, soulful sounds and a pip of indie-rcoking, too. Take it all in, Pepper. 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. Take a swig of The Hard Arnold Palmers when they perform at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent Ave., but don’t let the side effects grab you by the boo-boo. 9:30 PM. Free.
Dance your way to a free mind and an open body at Turning the Wheel Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance. Headwaters Dance Studio, 1042 Monroe St. 11-12:30 PM. $10/$75 for eight classes. Visit turningthewheel.org. The Red Poppy Christmas Boutique Opening Party features handmade gifts and the like, plus a performance by the Flathead Flute Choir at 2 PM and author Natasha Moore signing copies of her new children’s book with English and German text, The Circus/Der Zirkus.
Music that stays with you.
Holiday Pops! Join the Orchestra and Chorale for a sleighful of music sure to get you into the holiday spirit. This year’s spectacular holiday show is the perfect event for all ages to share. Even Santa will be there!
SAT., DECEMBER 1, 7:30 P.M. SUN., DECEMBER 2, 3:00 P.M. The University Theatre Tickets: $10 to $40 Online at missoulasymphony.org Call 721-3194 or visit 320 E. Main St. Sponsored by
Plumbing the depths of stardom. Barrymore starring Christopher Plummer screens at the Roxy Theatre, 718 S. Higgins Ave., Fri., Nov. 23, at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors/$11 students. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s.
There will be no pre-concert talk with Darko before these concerts.
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[calendar] The Red Poppy is located in Ronan across Hwy. 93 from True Value at the south stoplight. Noon–4 PM. John Floridis plays music at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 4–7 PM. Free.
nightlife 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.
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MONDAYNOV26 Hey Joanie, fall in love all over again when Milkcrate Monday’s presents Vinyl Night, with DJs Chachi, Enkrypted, Kodel, and the Milkcrate Mechanic. Badlander. 9 PM. Free, with $5 pitchers of PBR on tap. 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/rough-cut-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. Charlie Hopkins plays some fine tunes (unlike Dan Fogelberg) at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7–10 PM. Free.
Witness the machinations of your local government during tonight’s city council meeting at the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 7 PM. Crack nuts and kick butts when Pittsburgh’s Edhochuli throws the rawk and roll flag at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., with Missourians Bent Left and locals Buddy Jackson and Shramana. 8 PM. $5. (See Music.) 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. You know it gotta be a real party when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse. Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.
TUESDAYNOV27 Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Permaculture, Paul Wheaton, explains a variety of permaculture tools that reduce the need for irrigation. UM Social Science Bldg. Rm. 352. 3:30 PM. Free. For more info. about permaculture visit permies.com. 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 Pa-
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rade of Lights on December 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. Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elkcamp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free. Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.
nightlife It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900. Be a cheeser, you cheeser during the Cheese Making Class at the Burns St. Center, 1500 Burns St. The class teaches the basics of making fresh cheeses at your home. 6–8 PM. Free. For more info. email dave@davebudge.com. Patrick Marsolek answers the query, What is Compassionate Communication? and explains how to connect needs to feelings, learning how to make connective requests and how to receive
[calendar] information clearly without judgement. Missoula Public Library, Large Meeting Rm. 6:30 PM. Free. Visit innerworkingsresources.com/ Communication. Drink from the cup of knowledge during the Socrates Café at the Bitterroot Public Library West Meeting room. Questions are chosen, terms discussed and thoughts given. 7–8:30 PM. Free. Be a dizzy rascal and check out the UM Opera Theater presentation of Dizzying Dilemmas at the Opera!, an evening of snippets from all sorts of classic operas featuring UM’s award-winning singers. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. (See Spotlight.) The Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition hosts the Musician Showcase at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., an evening of tuneful live tuneage made by locals for locals. 8–11 PM. Free. 1 8 plus. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tue. 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: In pounds, how much turkey does an average American eat each year? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) Get a load of up-and-coming hip-hop artists at the New Talent Extravaganza! with Schmodz, Sincerely Grown, The Orators, Wormwood, Trailer Park Jordan with a special appearance by Traff the Wiz with live DJs. VFW, 2456 W. Main St. 9 PM. $5.
WEDNESDAYNOV28 UM’s Dr. Mark Hebblewhite talks big critters and collaborating with the Montana FWP during the Montana Natural History Center’s Evening Lecture, Carnivore-Ungulate Management in the 21st Century. 120 Hickory St. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation. Join One Thousand Hands for Peace and add your peace-loving hands to the fold. EWAM Missoula Center, 180 S. Third Street W., above Meadowsweet Herbs. Noon. For more info. call Clare at 721-8224. At the Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, Scott Mills, UM professor of wildlife population ecology, gives a presentation called Can Camouflage Keep Up with Climate Change? Seasonal Coat Color Confronts a Decreasing Snowpack. I’m going to guess yes, but it still
makes me sad. Interdisciplinary Sciences Building Rm. 110. 4:10– 5 PM.
us. Intuitive Empowerment Institute, 725 W. Alder St. 6 PM. Donations accepted.
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Dudes, this Wine and Chocolate Pairing sounds sweet (ha!). The Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, is collaborating with Dove Chocolate Discoveries for an evening of good sips and delicious chocolate nips. 6 PM. $10/free for wine club members.
Help out the fine folks from Traveler’s Rest State Park and help yourself to some dee-lish beers at the Kettlehouse taproom, 313 N. First St. W. during Community U-Nite Pint Night where 50 cents of each pint benefits the park. 5–8 PM.
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.
Attend the 1,000 New Gardens Meeting and allow the Garden City to live up to its moniker by helping folks plant the seeds of self-foodulation. UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth Street E. 5:30-6:30 PM.
Author Alan Kesselheim and illustrator Thomas Lee talk about and sign their book Montana: Real Place, Real People. The book tells the stories of folks from all over the
Journey into the quantum field and find out how Quantum Physics tells us that we have, by cosmic law, the whole universe inside of
state, even Malta! Fact & Fiction 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Free.
go up a quarter every half hour. (Pub trivia answer: 18 pounds.)
Be a dizzy rascal and check out the UM Opera Theater presentation of Dizzying Dilemmas at the Opera!, an evening of snippets from all sorts of classic operas featuring UM’s award-winning singers. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. (See Spotlight.)
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.
Fast-flung strawberries Turbo Fruits make their VFW debut, 245 W. Main St., with local cuties The Boxcutters and Boys. 9 PM. 18 plus. $7/$5 advance at Ear Candy or Stonefly-productions.com. (See Music.) Pop on the robot walkers and spin to win at Progressive, a night of house music and other electronic styles by local DJs. Palace. 9 PM. Free, with a progressive beer special featuring 25 cent drafts of PBR that
aria ready?
WHAT: Dizzying Dilemmas at the Opera
Step back man, it’s Rod Blackman, and he’s playing tunes for you all at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.
Dress up that drab old apartment at the Holiday Wreath Workshop at the Fort Missoula Native Plant Garden Classroom. All materials needed to create a sweet wreath are available, plus there’s someone ready to help you out. $5. Registration required. Please call 327-0405. Erin and the Project trips out the patrons of Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery with “soul-ternative” music. 6–8:30 PM. Free.
Photo by Chad Harder
tle this upcoming January, after sweeping the regional competition in Spokane. Also, two of the scenes featured in Dilemmas have been designated finalists in the National Opera Association Collegiate Scenes Competition taking place in Portland, Ore.
WHEN: Tue., Nov. 27 and Wed., Nov. 28, at 7:30 PM
HOW MUCH: $11/$6 seniors and students
The holidays are here and that means rad art stuff and handcrafted gnar-gnar is available at the University Center Holiday Art Fair on the UM Campus. 9–6 PM. Free to gaze.
City Life Community Center Annual Auction takes place at the, uh City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave., and boasts goodies like autographed Griz basketballs, vacays and Harley Davidson gear, plus hors d’oeuvres galore. Doors at 5:30 PM, auctioneering begins at 7:20 PM. Tickets are $100 per couple and include a $50 auction credit. Take a peek at the goods at citylifemt.com.
WHO: Singers from the UM School of Music
WHERE: Music Recital Hall on the UM campus
Zut Alors, Francophiles! It’s time for the Alliance Française de Missoula’s Soirée du Beaujolais, an evening of fine French wine, hors d’oeuvres and les bon moments. The Shack, 222 W. Main St. 7 PM. $15/$10 for members. Visit afmissoula.org.
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Fact: The average music fan has heard approximately 1 percent of all the operas that have ever been written. Typically, we hear the same few pieces recycled and re-recycled in films (Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” in Apocalypse Now) and in old Bugs Bunny cartoons (“Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit,” sung to the melody of “Ride of the Valkyries”). That doesn’t mean the music isn’t good. It just means that most of us opera newbies have plenty to learn about the form. Luckily for us, the University of Montana School of Music is hosting what amounts to a delicious tapas bar of operatic delights and highlights in Dizzying Dilemmas at the Opera. The show features scenes from well-known operas performed by the school’s award-winning vocalists. Operas represented include The Marriage of Figaro, Die Fledermaus, Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute and more, making it a perfect introduction to the world of opera. According to director and UM voice teacher Anne Basinski the sampler “allows [her] to cherry pick and show off the skills of the students.” And what students she has. Three of them, Neila Getz, John Knispel and Arielle Nachtigal, are headed to the Northwest Regional Finals of the Metropolitan Opera held in Seat-
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No dilemmas here. If you’ve ever had the itch to hear something a little more substantial than the typical pop music puffery, a platter-full of classic songs and scenes await. —Jason McMackin
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. Get an earful of tuneful electric violin and bangin’ horns mixed up with a driving rhythm section when The Lionel Young Band does work at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Blvd. 6:30 PM. $12. The Invisible War is a film by Kirby Dick that uncovers the epidemic of rape in the U.S. military. It screens at the UC Theater. 7 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)
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[calendar] The Dirty Corner Band plays rock and roll to dance and soak to at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs. 7 PM. Free. The students in the Composition and Music Technology Program bring us New Music Missoula, a night of, duh, new tunes which benefit the Composer’s Club. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 8–10 PM. During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, amazing musicians could play some great jams, just don’t tell your cousin Rapping Timmy about it. That guy’s version of “Santeria” is terrible. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up. Don’t get twisted, sister, The Price plays that rock and roll for all them ladies and dudes at the Palace, with TBA openers. 9 PM. $5. 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. Photo courtesy of Gretchen Troop
Purple people pleasers. The Lionel Young Band plays soul and blues at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Blvd., Thu., Nov. 29, at 6:30 PM. $12.
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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.
Dancing? Work off the peanut brittle and Busch Light pounders at the Soul City Cowboys show at the Sunrise Saloon, 1805 Regent St. 9:30 PM. Free. Russ Nasset done gone and cured ya of your tremors with a sweet shot of country hits up at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Hey, don’t use a turkey fryer anywhere near your house. And lay-off the sub-par football. Go outside. It rules there. Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 23 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”
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he white rooms in the backcountry are steadily filling with fresh and puffy Rocky Mountain snowfall. Many riders are already jonesing to rip it up, eyeing the NOAA online weather forecast hourly, pressing the refresh button and hoping a new storm appears on the radar. But there is another website to get cozy with: missoulaavalanche.org. Currently there isn’t enough data (i.e. snow) in the West Central Montana Avalanche Advisory to tell you how safe or dangerous backcountry conditions are, so in the meantime brush up on your skills and attend the
Avalanche Awareness lecture co-sponored by the University of Montana Outdoor Program and Missoula Avalanche. This one-hour lecture is a great opportunity to take in a refresher about the dangers and joys of backcountry skiing and boarding, not to mention hang out with other like-minded powder hounds. —Jason McMackin The Avalanche Awareness Lecture takes place Wed., Nov. 28, at 7 PM, in North Underground Lecture Hall on the UM campus from 7–8 PM. Free. Visit missoulaavalanche.org.
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Before you gobble up Grandma Nell’s famous oyster stuffing this Thanksgiving, strap on the running shoes for Bozeman’s 6th annual Huffing For Stuffing Thanksgiving Day Run. There are 5K and 10K races, as well as a kids’ run and an un-timed 5K Fun Run/Walk. All events start and finish at the Museum of the Rockies. $20 to register but the kids’ race is free with a canned food donation. All the proceeds benefit the Gallatin Valley Food Bank. To register, visit huffingforstuffing.com. Forget the goose it’s all about the turkey at the Gobble Wobble 10K and 5K run at the Anaconda Country Club, 1521 Country Club Road, in Opportunity. This is the first year for the event, so ditch the fam and say you were there. 8:30 AM. $25. Register at anacondarunningclub.blogspot.com. Don’t be a turkey this Thanksgiving Day. Instead, strap on your skis and take a slide down Big Sky Resort’s slopes on opening day (weather permitting). Also, be sure to seek out a local and learn the locales of some of Montana’s best-hidden smoke shacks, or just take in the views from the Huntley Lodge. Visit bigskyresort.com. Do the Turkey Day 8K and 3K Family Fun Run before you do that voodoo that you do so well to your stomach at Aunt Jim-jam’s pad. The run begins at Toole Park (at the end of S. Fourth St. E.) and follows the Kim Williams Trail. The 3K family fun run is free (bring a canned food item, yo!), for a full list of rates for the 8K visit runwildmissoula.org.
Just don’t run on a full stomach during Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which occurs every Sat. at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. After the run/walk, you’ll grab breakfast with other participants. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23 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.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25 Closing day for fall hunts of black bears, mountain lions, bighorn sheep, moose, mountain goats, deer and elk.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28 UM’s Dr. Mark Hebblewhite talks big critters and collaborating with the Montana FWP during the Montana Natural History Center’s Evening Lecture, Carnivore-Ungulate Management in the 21st Century. 120 Hickory St. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation. Before you head out to the backcountry brush up on your snowpack knowledge at the UM Outdoor Program’s Avalanche Awareness Lecture. UM North Underground Lecture Hall. 7– 8 PM. Free.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29 Big time water enthusiast and one of Outside magazine’s “top ten ‘game changers’ in adventure since 1900,” Doug Ammons presents Riverscapes: The Geology and Human Culture of Rivers. though photos and personal experience Ammons explains how rivers shape our culture. Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. 6–8 PM. Free. calendar@missoulanews.com
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The Department of Defense estimates less than 14 percent of military members who have been sexually assaulted actually report the assault. With more than 3,000 reported cases in 2011, that means something like 19,000 members did not report being sexually assaulted. These numbers include both women and men. Anyone can be victimized in the military. One study suggests that as many as 20,000 men were sexually assaulted in 2009 alone. Kirby Dick’s film, The Invisible War, follows some of the victims as they try to remake their lives. The filmmakers found their subjects by creating a Facebook page and inviting victims to share their experiences. After being inundated with eerily similar stories of “brutal assault followed by ostracization and isolation,” the filmmakers interviewed 70 current or former military personnel and narrowed those who would be in the film down to two dozen. Unlike civilians, military members live in a closed culture, one that is more secretive than
many may want to believe. Rats are not tolerated in close quarters. Sucking it up is what you do when you’re in pain. And many men in the service continue to believe that women have no place anywhere in the military, let alone in combat roles. Of course, the DOD does its best to keep up the appearance of good order and discipline within the ranks by hampering outside investigations and doing little to punish perpetrators. It’s a significant problem and something even the biggest, most cold-hearted skeptics should take seriously. How seriously? Consider that the Veteran’s Administration spent over $900 million on the military survivors of sexual assaults in 2011 alone. —Jason McMackin Kirby Dick’s documentary The Invisible War screens at the University Center Theater Thu., Nov. 29, at 7 PM. Free.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] MONDAY NOVEMBER 26
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28
Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.
Join One Thousand Hands for Peace and add your peace-loving hands to the fold. EWAM Missoula Center, 180 S. Third Street W., above Meadowsweet Herbs. Noon. For more info. call Clare at 721-8224.
The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat, 633 Fifth St. E. 6:30 PM. Witness the machinations of your local government during tonight’s city council meeting at the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. 7 PM.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27 Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.
Offer good on Black Friday, Nov. 23 & Sustainable Business Saturday, Nov. 24
Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955. Duke, Duke, Duke of Permaculture, Paul Wheaton, explains a variety of permaculture tools that reduce the need for irrigation. UM Social Science Bldg. Rm. 352. 3:30 PM. Free. For more info. about permaculture visit permies.com.
Help out the fine folks from Traveler’s Rest State Park and help yourself to some dee-lish beers at the Kettlehouse taproom, 313 N. First St. W. during Community U-Nite Pint Night where 50 cents of each pint benefits the park. 5–8 PM. Attend the 1,000 New Gardens Meeting and allow the Garden City to live up to its moniker by helping folks plant the seeds of self-foodulation. UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth Street E. 5:30-6:30 PM.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29 City Life Community Center Annual Auction takes place at the, uh City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave., and boasts goodies like autographed Griz basketballs, vacays and Harley Davidson gear, plus hors d’oeuvres galore. Doors at 5:30 PM, auctioneering begins at 7:20 PM. Tickets are $100 per couple and include a $50 auction credit. Take a peek at the goods at citylifemt.com.
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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THE CALL OF DOODIE AND SILENT KNIGHT Loved your response to the bored-out-of-their-gourds parents of the 1-year-old. I’m three months pregnant and a little worried in the wake of a recent dinner party. There were four sets of new parents there, and all the wives seemed to resent the hell out of their husbands. The husbands, predictably, seemed defensive and angry in response. My husband and I have a really great partnership, and I’d like to keep it that way. Are there things we can do to avoid the parental hate stage, or...fret, fret...is it an inevitability that comes with the stress of having a child? —Baby On Board Today’s marriage is reportedly a more equal partnership. For a lot of couples who become parents, here’s how that works: The woman blimps out for nine months, spends hours and hours in agony squeezing a huge thing out an extremely small opening, and then becomes a 24-hour milk dispenser and poo-slave for the better part of a year. The man holds her hand and says “You can do it, honey!” while she’s in labor, helps name the kid, and then, when friends come over to watch the World Series, picks it up and says, “Look what we made!” Trophy dads aside, if there’s one area of parenting that breeds eye-daggers of wifely resentment, it’s unequal sleeplessness. Yeah, I know, according to The Beatles, “love is all you need,” but they forgot the small print: This is only true of people who are not suffering from sleep deprivation, which, by the way, is not only a necessity for tending to one’s newborn but a form of torture banned by the Geneva Conventions. Sure, there are certain biological problems with sharing the nightly feeding duties. But, just because the booby with the drinks in it is on only one of you doesn’t mean there can’t be catering. In other words, Daddy can bottle-feed if mommy breast pumps, and nothing’s stopping him from diaper-changing. What matters is that Mommy and Daddy are going halfsies on sleeplessness. As a happily married male friend with a new baby puts it, it’s essential to “scrupulously share” wakeup duty, or a wife who used to look lovingly at her sleeping spouse may begin calculating how much jail time she’d get for smothering him with a pillow. During daylight hours, a little time off for the stay-at-home mom, even for 20 minutes after Dad comes home, is a huge
relief, as are playdates—one night a week for her to go out with friends and be a person instead of a big udder. Just a little alleviation goes a long way in showing that a husband doesn’t think women have babies and men have babies as props—to parade around Starbucks in a BabyBjorn, making all the hot girls coo, and then hand back to Mom until the kid’s old enough to be interesting: “Hey, little man, Daddy’s gotta read the newspaper and putter around the garage for six or seven years. Let’s talk when you’re big enough to throw a ball around.”
SILENT KNIGHT I’m thinking I should wait until after Christmas to break up with my girlfriend of two years. She is planning on accompanying me to my family’s for the holidays and otherwise has no place to go. (I’m picturing her home alone, maybe calling her stepbrother she talks to once a year.) —Not Jolly When your thought is “I think we should start seeing other people,” it isn’t supposed to mean making your girlfriend spend a week with your grandma and 62 of your closest relatives. Although you’re trying to be kind, delaying your breakup is the wrong thing to do. You break up with somebody as soon as you know, which means they can lick their wounds and get on to somebody who does want them that much sooner. (There are exceptions to the immediacy rule, like if it’s two days before your girlfriend has finals or if somebody’s just died and she’s on her way to identify the body.) Just think how what you’re suggesting could play out. In the weeks before Christmas, she’ll likely sense that something’s not quite right. She’ll gnaw endlessly on this with her girlfriends, and they’ll come up with the perfect solution...Santa lingerie! When you finally end it, she’ll likely drag out of you that you weren’t really feelin’ it— starting around Halloween. So, besides the painful emotions that accompany any breakup, you’ll be giving her the gift of humiliation as she replays the mental video of herself prancing around in a Santa hat and jingle bell pasties...on what turned out to be the biggest chopping day of the year.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Don’t think about making art, just get it done,” said Andy Warhol. “Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” I encourage you to adopt that mini-manifesto for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Aries. If you’re not an artist, simply substitute the appropriate phrase for “making art.” It could be “creating interesting relationships,” “exploring exotic lands,” “changing corrupt political institutions,” “fixing environmental problems,” or even “making money.” The main point is: Focus on doing what drives your quest for meaning, and forget about what people think of it.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let’s talk about the Decision. I’m referring to the Choice you have been dancing around and fretting about and analyzing to death. By my estimate, there are at least 15 different solutions you could pursue. But just seven of those solutions would meet the requirements of being intelligent, responsible, and fun. Of those seven, only four would be intelligent, responsible, fun, and enduring. Of those four, only two would be intelligent, responsible, fun, enduring, and the best for all concerned. I suggest you opt for one of those two.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How many times have you been in love, Leo? Just once or twice? Or have you dived into the depths of amorous togetherness again and again over the years? Whatever the case may be, I bet you have strong ideas about the nature of passionate romance and profound intimacy. That’s natural and normal. But I’m going to ask you to temporarily forget everything you think you know about all that stuff. I invite you to become innocent again, cleansed of all your mature, jaded, hopeful, and resentful thoughts about the game of love. In my astrological opinion, there’s no better way for you to prepare for what will come next.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A medical research journal reported on a British woman who accidentally swallowed a felt-tip pen. It lay there in her stomach for 25 years. When surgeons finally removed it, they were surprised to find it still worked. I am not suggesting that anything remotely as exotic or bizarre will be happening to you, Virgo. I do suspect, though, that you will soon have an experience with certain metaphorical resemblances to that event. For example, you may retrieve and find use for an element of your past that has been gone or missing for a long time.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Sapiosexual” is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence. Urbandictionary.com gives an example of how it might be used: “I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want a sapiosexual.” In the coming weeks, Libra, I suspect you will be closer to fitting this definition than you’ve ever been before. The yearning that’s rising up in you is filled with the need to be stimulated by brilliance, to be influenced by wisdom, to be catalyzed by curiosity.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2007 the band White Stripes did a tour of Canada. One of their final gigs was outdoors in St. John’s, Newfoundland. They came on stage, played one note—a C-sharp— and declared the performance over. It was the briefest rock show in history. Judging from the current astrological omens, Scorpio, I’m thinking it would be a good time for you to do some almost equally pithy things. You have the potential to be extremely concise and intense and focused in all you do. I urge you to fulfill that potential. Pack every speech, gesture, and action with a concentrated wealth of meaning.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix is finally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, you’ve managed to purge all the bugs from your cellular tracking pulse, and your high-resolution flux capacitor is retooled and as sexy as a digitally-remastered simulation of your first kiss. You’re almost ready for take-off, Sagittarius! The most important task left to do is to realign your future shock absorbers. No more than a week from now, I expect you to be flying high and looking very, very good.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The plot twists will be intriguing. The actors may be unpredictable, even erratic. Blossoming and decay will be happening simultaneously, and the line between wisdom and craziness could get blurry. There’s not nearly enough room in this little horoscope to describe the epic sweep of the forces working behind the scenes. Are you willing to confront uncanny truths that other people might regard as too unruly? Are you brave enough to penetrate to the depths that others are too timid to look at, let alone deal with? I hope you are, Capricorn, because that will give you the power to ultimately emerge from the drama with your integrity shining and your intelligence boosted.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Psychologists have done studies that suggest we subconsciously adopt the qualities of fictional characters we read about or see in movies. That’s not a problem if those characters are smart, ethical, highly motivated people whose ideals are similar to ours. But if the heroes of the stories we absorb are jerks who treat others badly and make messes wherever they go, our imitative urges may lead us astray. Right now is a crucial time for you to be extra careful about the role models you allow to seep into your imagination. You’re especially susceptible to taking on their attributes. I say, be proactive: Expose yourself intensely to only the very best fictional characters who embody the heights you aspire to reach.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.” So said the ancient Greek philosopher Seneca, and now I’m passing it on to you. It’s an excellent time for you to think about the issue. Ask yourself: Have you been cooperating with fate so that it has maximum power to shepherd you? Have you been working closely with fate, giving it good reasons to consistently provide you with useful hints and timely nudges? Or have you been you avoiding fate, even resisting it out of laziness or ignorance, compelling it to yank you along? Spend the next few weeks making sure your relationship with fate is strong and righteous. 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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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A Jungian writer whose name I have unfortunately misplaced made the following observations: “In a man’s psyche, the unconscious is experienced as chaotic, filled with violent and irrational processes of generation and destruction. But to a woman’s psyche the unconscious is a fascinating matrix of sacred images and rituals which in their wildly contradictory meanings express the secret unity of all life.” After analyzing the astrological omens, I suspect that you Taurus men now have an unprecedented opportunity to experience your unconscious as women do. As for you Taurus women: You have the chance to get a vivid, visceral understanding of how true this description of the female unconscious is.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m not necessarily asserting that you need to edit yourself, Cancerian. Only you can decide that. But I will state unequivocally that if there is in fact any editing needed, now would be a good time to do it. You will have extra insight about what aspects of your life might benefit from being condensed, corrected, and fine-tuned. It’s also true that the rectifications you do in the coming weeks will be relatively smooth and painless. So look into the possibilities, please. Should you calm your blame reflex? Downsize a huffy attitude? Shed some emotional baggage?
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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on December 3, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution amending the FY 2012 budget to appropriate expenditures that were not identified in the original budget to recognize grants, proceeds from bond sales and capital lease financings, the recording of budgets for debt service payments for new bond issues and certain other revenues received during the fiscal year. A copy of the resolution is on file in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Brentt Ramharter, Finance Director at 552-6108. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA Request for Proposals – Forestry Thinning on Mount Jumbo The City of Missoula, Parks & Recreation Department is requesting proposal statements for a forest thinning project on Mt. Jumbo. Proposals are requested from interested professional foresters. Mt. Jumbo is a public conservation area located within the Missoula City limits and managed primarily for native habitat. The contractor shall perform work necessary to reduce susceptibility of forest to pine beetle attack, decrease wildfire danger and restore historic (pre-fire suppression) forest conditions on the property. The density of trees per acre is quite variable across the site depending on slope, age of stand and available moisture. This project will entail selectively thinning small diameter conifers across 101 acres on the eastern slopes of Mt. Jumbo. Contractors interested in submitting proposals are required to attend a pre-bid tour of the project area on Friday, November 30, 2012, at 12:30 p.m. The tour will begin at the Marshal Canyon Trailhead located on Marshall Canyon Rd. approximately 1.25 mi. north of the intersection w/ highway 200. Contact the city Conservation Lands Manager with questions. Proposals are due Monday, December 10th, 2012, at 4:30 PM at the Missoula Parks Operation Office. Late proposals will not be accepted. Detailed requests for qualifications must be obtained from Morgan Valliant, City Conservation Lands Manager or on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bid s.. Please see below: Morgan Valliant, Conservation Lands Manager Missoula Parks and Recreation Operations Division mvalliant@ci.missoula.mt.us 100 Hickory St. Missoula, MT 59801 (406) 552-6263 (406) 327-9367 (fax) CITY OF MISSOULA Request for Proposals – Missoula City Hall Electronic Access Control/Video Surveillance System The City of Missoula Police Department is seeking proposals for
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1004 Charlo $249,900 MLS #20126560 • Energy efficient, open floor plan • 3 large bedrooms on same level • Bonus room and 2 bath • Cherry floors, Avinite & Butcher Block counters, stainless steel appliances • Fenced yard, large deck in back and a wired shop of Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 Telephone Number (406) 258-4753. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: Cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. 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 Skid Steer Purchase 2012” and addressed to: Missoula County Department of Public Works Attn: Jeff Seaton 6089 Training Drive Missoula, Montana, 59808 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 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 ONE-QUARTER 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 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-09-4 Department No. 3 District Judge John W. Larson Related Cause No. DN-09-5 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING K.B. A YOUTH IN NEED OF 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) 2584780. 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, Defen-
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Properties2000.com dants. 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
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 15, 219, 258, 358, 534, 637 and 665. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, November 26, 2012. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, November 29, 2012, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.
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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 12/12/2012 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 Department No. 3 Cause No. DP-12-186 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUCILE M. ROGMANS, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Angela Herring at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2820 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25th day of October, 2012. /s/ Angela Her-
ring, Personal Representative. DATED this the 25th day of October, 2012. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter STATE OF MONTANA ) : ss. County of Missoula ) I, Angela Herring, declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. /a/ Angela Herring, Personal Representative. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this 25th day of October, 2012. /s/ Don C. St. Peter, (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: May 22, 2014 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP10-127 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROY EDWARD RAYMOND aka Roy E. Raymond, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate. All persons having claims against the 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 ELIZABETH RAYMOND, 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 13th day of August, 2010. /s/ Elizabeth Raymond, Personal Representative. 11.15/11.22/11.29, 2012 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 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 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. DP12-188 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 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
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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. 3 Cause No. DR12-486 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF ROBERT D. HUGHES, Petitioner, vs BRENDA OLWEN HUGHES, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: BRENDA OLWEN HUGHES: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Amended Petition for Dissolution 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 response and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner’s attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the 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 relief demanded in the Amended Petition for Dissolution. Petitioner’s preliminary declaration and disclosure prepared pursuant to Mont. Code. Ann. § 40-4-252 is available for Respondent to review by contacting Petitioner’s counsel. this action is brought for the purpose of dissolving the parties’ marriage and to direct the delivery
of property. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 7th day of November, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk (SEAL) By: Casie Kragh, Deputy Clerk WORDEN THANE P.C. PO BOX 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP12-189 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BARI LYNN CARDIFF, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent 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 SHAWN E. ROSSCUP, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807-9410 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: November 1, 2012. /s/ JESSICA L. MURRAY, Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED: November 1, 2012. /s/ JESSICA L. MURRAY. WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Shawn E. Rosscup, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP12-185. 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
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 evi-
PUBLIC NOTICES denced 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 non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7037.90584) 1002.229340-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/24/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200910705, Bk 838, Pg 1342, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jeffrey McCaffree and Megan McCaffree was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for American Bank was Beneficiary and Madison Settlement Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Madison Settlement Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 419 of Pleasant View Homes No. 4, Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201210741, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 27, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $252,702.07. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $245,000.83, 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 February 6, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid
money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.102808) 1002.230120-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/13/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200330476, Bk 715, Pg 225, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David M. Huerta and Georgie A. Huerta, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Stewart Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 33, of Pleasant View Homes, Phase III, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. 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 09/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 20, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $128,314.64. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $106,563.74, 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 February 1, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.91146) 1002.180637-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/26/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200338653, Bk. 719, Pg.
1110, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Tanya M. Sharbono and Benjamin D. Sharbono, as joint tenants was Grantor, Washington Mutual Bank fsb, a federal association was Beneficiary and Title Services, MT was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, MT as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 2 of Lake View Addition to Platted-Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200709128, Bk. 795, Pg. 823, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 5, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $122,262.56. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $119,268.56, 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 February 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.102971) 1002.230684-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/27/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200730982, Bk. 809, Pg. 883, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James Leonard Sampson, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 15 of Hurt First Addition, a platted subdivison in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. 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 06/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment pay-
ments due thereafter. As of October 5, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $162,592.29. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $156,932.38, 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 February 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.102943) 1002.230681-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/04/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201010942, Bk. 861, Pg. 31, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Sean W. Hayward, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 except the West 13 feet of the South 79 feet and all Lots 7 and 8, Block 11, Butte Addition in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 2 of Plats at Page 57. 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 04/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 1, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $189,931.36. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $182,684.62, 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 February 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, suc-
cessor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.102345) 1002.230247-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 26, 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: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SW1/4 OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 12C2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3692 Cody Iddings, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on December 15, 2006 and recorded on December 19, 2006 in Bk789, Pg- 313 as Document No. 200632432. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $$2,099.85, 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 September 3, 2012 is $253,468.17 principal, interest at the rate of 6.0% now totaling $8,954.71, late charges in the amount of $572.81, escrow advances of $2,780.15, and other fees and expenses advanced of $879.74, plus accruing interest at the rate of $41.67 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled
Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 17, 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 17th 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, Idaho Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Citimortgage V Iddings 42011.767 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 26, 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 9 IN BLOCK 2 EAST MISSOULA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND DESCRIBED AS LOT 9 OFCERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5373 Rebecca E Titus, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to David R Chisholm, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 9, 2005 and recorded August 16, 2005 in Book 758 and Page 359 as Document No. 200521182. 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 $708.60, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 14, 2012 is $112,989.05 principal, interest at the rate of 5.5000% now totaling $5,917.90, late charges in the amount of $212.58, escrow advances of $876.96 and other fees and expenses advanced of $135.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $17.03 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 24, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 24th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 US Bank v Titus 41810.644 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 4, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 9 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 6, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF JENNIFER D HRITSCOMURRAY & Steve R Murray who took title as Steven R Murray, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on November 19, 2007 and recorded on November 26, 2007 on Book 809 and Page -511 as Document No. 200730610. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,265.67, beginning November 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 15, 2012 is $147,509.31 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5% now totaling $9,156.89, late charges in the amount of $244.60, escrow advances of $2,543.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,150.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or
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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 29, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 29th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shauna Romrell Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 06/04/2016 Green Tree V Hritsco-murray 41525.433 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 7, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 5 OF EMMA DICKINSON HOMESITES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT
THEREOF Terri Lee Rider, 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 April 10, 2009 and recorded on April 15, 2009 on Book 837 and Page 526 as Document No. 200908490. The beneficial interest is currently held by EverBank. 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 $1,192.17, beginning January 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 September 16, 2012 is $225,083.69 principal, interest at the rate of 4.5% now totaling $8,440.60, escrow advances of $2,572.87, and other fees and expenses advanced of $386.94, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.75 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is
being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 29, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 29th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Everhome V Rider 41470.276 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 7, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NE1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MON-
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TANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4065 Keith A. Patterson and Tina M. Patterson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 24, 2008 and recorded on October 24, 2008 on Book 828 and Page 658 as Document No. 200824272. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.. 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 $1,249.45, beginning August 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 16, 2012 is $189,875.45 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50000% now totaling $14,939.87, late charges in the amount of $199.92, escrow advances of $2,158.46, suspense balance of $-1,075.26 and other fees and expenses advanced of $147.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.81 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made
by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 30, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 30th day of August, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Chase V Patterson 41954.032 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale Number: 12-02602-3 Loan Number: 0308227149 APN: 5842204 TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on March 25, 2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, on the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula the following
described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: TRACT 2B1B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2305, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. APN#5842204 More commonly known as: 15975 NAVAHO TRAIL, FRENCHTOWN, MT JAMES D MERRITT, A MARRIED PERSON, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES INC, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Wells Fargo Bank, NA, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of September 15, 2010, and recorded on September 15, 2010 in Film No. 865 at Page 1394 under Document No. 201017901, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated October 2, 2012 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of September 21, 2012: Balance due on monthly payments from May 1, 2012 and which payments total: $1,458.18: Late charges: $233.32: Late Charge Forecasted: $0.00 Bad Check: $0.00 Net Other Fees: $0.00 Advances: $0.00 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $216,088.09 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 4.50000% per annum from April 1, 2012, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid
price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.lpsasap.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714.730.2727 DATED: October 29, 2012 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITTLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Stephanie Alonzo, Authorized Signature A-4326065 11/15/2012, 11/22/2012, 11/29/2012 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.
PUBLIC NOTICES 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, TOWIT: 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 598479624. 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. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0138432 FEI NO. 1006.147995 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the followingdescribed property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 231 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI-432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and
Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the followingdescribed property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 233 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI-432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above
and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 235 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32— Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013
County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 237 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Inden-
ture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in
Missoula County, Montana: Unit 239 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such
Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 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
1265 #B Dakota. To-be-built 3 bed, 2 bath with double garage near McCormick Park. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. 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
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. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net
1010 Vine Street. Lower Rattlesnake 2 bed, 1 bath very wellmaintained home with single garage. $171,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $195,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
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
4 Bdr, 1 Bath South Hills home. $182,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
833 Defoe. 1 bed, 1 bath Northside bungalow with large front yard. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net
4412 23rd Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage on 9600 sq.ft. lot. Lots of room! $185,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. 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
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
4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $176,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com
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PRICE REDUCED! • $394,900 • MUST SEE PROPERTY 19488 Highway 200 East Blackfoot River right across the street 4 Klakken, Noxon $259,000 Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. Great area for hunting & fishing & other outdoor recreation MLS #20125908
23654 Mullan $169,900 Beautiful 14 acre parcel west of Huson Modular on foundation allowed
TWIN CREEK ACREAGE $165,000 3.69 acres near Bonner & Blackfoot River Modular on permanent foundation allowed
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
Call me, Jon Freeland, for a free comparative market analysis. 360-8234 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 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 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 ken-
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nel & pergola. Very nice! $179,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. 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. 880-4749. 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 7 2 8 - 8 2 7 0 . 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, 2405227 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 s h o w i n g . 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 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 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. 2405227 porticorealestate.com
MANUFACTURED HOMES 14x70 MOBILE HOME FOR SALE! $6500.00 o.b.o at 12 Laurie Lane (El Mar Village) 1971 Century 14x70 single-wide. In good condition with built-in dishwasher, stove, garbage disposal, 2 refridgerator/freezers, washer and dryer, raised living room...a MUST SEE!! Please call if interested, we are asking for serious inquiries only. (406)549-2515 or georganayahvah@gmail.com. 1825 Burlington. Two central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile. Great investment or first time buy. $89,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com
LAND FOR SALE 20 ACRES FREE. Buy 40-Get 60 acres. $0-Down, $168/month. Money back gaurentee. NO CREDIT CHECKS. Beautiful views. Roads/surveyed. Near El Paso, Texas. 1-800-843-7537 www.SunsetRanches.com 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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MLS #20125491 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 @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Kemp. Corner building lot. Mobiles allowed. $60,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential MIssoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com
Gorgeous Victorian home zoned for commercial use in a great location $395,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
OUT OF TOWN
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
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
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
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. 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net
COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville. Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 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
2 Bdr, 3 Bath Lolo home. $217,000. 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
[C12] Missoula Independent • November 22 – November 29, 2012
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. PRICE REDUCED! 101 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with
separate office. $310,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties. 240-6503 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. 240-6503 riceteam@bigsky.net
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