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Scope: Volumen eats its way through a rare three-city tour Etc.: MCPS Trustee Nancy Pickhardt’s foul-mouthed history Up Front: Rich New Zealander reopens prime local ski hill

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Vol. 21, No. 32 • Aug.12 – Aug. 19, 2010

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

Scope: Volumen eats its way through a rare three-city tour Etc.: MCPS Trustee Nancy Pickhardt’s foul-mouthed history Up Front: Rich New Zealander reopens prime local ski hill

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nside Cover Story This year’s Muzzle Awards, an annual tradition from the Charlottesville, Va.-based Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, are steeped in two key points: whatever venue or means or incentive a government provides for expression, it should allow all opinions equal access, and censorship evolves with culture and technology .................................14

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News Letters Pot lady gets put down, twice........................................................................4 The Week in Review Two on the lam, roller derby and football..............................6 Briefs Jumping for Jesus, big rig DVD and a jockey .................................................6 Etc. MCPS Trustee Nancy Pickhardt’s foul-mouthed history......................................7 Up Front Louisiana group looks to Missoula farm for guidance ..............................8 Up Front Teton Pass hooks wealthy New Zealand investor.......................................9 Ochenski Whitetail border project epitomizes wasteful spending ........................10 Writers on the Range When you bike in Boise, “Stop” means maybe...................11 Agenda Missoula Outfest 2010.................................................................................12

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by Chad Harder

Asked Tuesday afternoon on N. Higgins Avenue

Q:

This week marks the return of the Western Montana Fair. What’s your favorite part of this annual event?

Follow-up: What would you like to see the fair do differently?

Michelle Miewald: I love the fried food. I do the fry bread, the gooey elephant ears with honey and sugar. You know, the really sinful ones. Back in the saddle: It’s a change they’ve already made, but I’m really glad to see horse racing back. I used to provide security with the sheriff ’s department during the races, and they’re a lot of fun.

Charlotte Richardson: The best part would be the food—you call it cotton candy, we call it candy floss in England. Then you get on some machine that goes 1,000 miles per hour, throw up the cotton candy, recover, and do it again. Calling all freaks: Go back to the old days, with acts like “The Hairy Lady” and “The Goatboy”—weird and wacky people. Really, we need more freaks, although I have noticed a lot of drunk people sleeping on the Missoula sidewalks.

Jack Catmull: I like the rides, especially the bumper cars. We really just drive around and bump people, although I didn’t really know how to drive and was just driving all over.

Watch the tail spikes: It’d be a better fair if they had dragons fighting.

Hannah Smith: Christian politics.

There’s always at least one Christian night, and that’s the night you don’t want to be there because they get Christian rock bands and they suck. Sing it, dude: Singing tater pig vendors, in matching outfits, like they have in Bozeman. And miniature horse racing, and panda cage fights.

Damn straight.

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Pot lady put down In a recent letter, Joyce Nalepka of “Drug Free Kids: America’s Challenge” made a number of interesting claims (see “Pot is strong, bad,” Aug. 5, 2010). I’ll address a few of them.

First though, please, Google search “Joyce Nalepka.” Catch her claiming that everyone who smokes a joint supports the “Afghanistani” drug dealers associated with 9/11. (What?) Or her claim that membership in Students for Sensible Drug Policy should be treated just like illegal drug use.

(Witch hunt, anyone?)

Ms. Nalepka apparently would like to have the hundreds of thousands of Montanans who have ever consumed cannabis be arrested and incarcerated for their sins. This anachronistic prohibitionist fails to recognize fundamental principles of justice and liberty held dear by Montanans, and a few other pesky details known as “facts.”

In its 40-year history, NORML’s position has always been clear that there is nothing wrong with responsible adult use of marijuana, and that to treat adult use as a criminal matter is an expensive policy disaster and a moral outrage.

As for Ms. Nalepka’s claim of cannabis containing 47.5 percent THC: The government’s own data on the matter, gathered and analyzed by the Potency Monitoring Project at the University of Mississippi, finds that there has been a modest increase in average potency since the early 1980s, from around 4 percent to around 10 percent recently. However, this does’t make marijuana more dangerous—people simply use less.

Ms. Nalepka also implies that marijuana cannot be used as medicine. However, the federal government owns a patent (No. 6630507) on cannabinoids as neuroprotectants, there are thousands of studies that prove the clinical effectiveness of cannabis in combating a wide variety of ailments, and there’s an FDA-approved synthetic form of THC available as a prescription. At this point, to deny this natural plant’s medical value is absurd.

The tide is turning, and prohibitionists like Ms. Nalepka are fast becoming an endangered species. Montana’s medical marijuana program is a blessing for many people, but now it’s time to get past medical, and regulate cannabis for all adults.

John Masterson Director Montana NORML Missoula

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I feel an undeniable urge to respond to

the letter from Joyce Nalepka. Her letter was so fraught with false assertions, histrionics and outright lies concerning the “dangers” of cannabis that I could not let it be.

While she attempts to endear herself to us by explaining how her son played baseball in the state for two seasons, I am unimpressed. One family member spends six months in our state and you have the nerve to suggest that you know what is best for us? My brother and his family have lived in Maryland (very close to you, I might add)

This “ anachronistic prohibitionist fails to recognize fundamental principles of justice and liberty held dear by Montanans, and a few other pesky details known as ‘facts.’

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for over 20 years—perhaps I should come over and run for governor; I’m obviously qualified. We have not “experienced the same trauma of having to fight the drug legalization movement.” We, as citizens of the great state of Montana, voted to legalize the compassionate use of medical cannabis.

We embrace the idea of states’ rights in Montana. While we would never guess what would be best for the folks of Maryland, we’re pretty sure we know what works for us, here in Montana.

The boring re-assertions of how potent the “new” marijuana is compared to the ’60s is already so easily refuted and grandly false. Oddly, it seems as though the cannabis seed sellers who have been making these grand claims (completely without

proof ) so they can charge $20 to $40 per seed, have inadvertently fed the war on drugs hysteria about the magical, amazing potency of the new marijuana. Through reading peer reviewed scientific journal articles, my own personal analysis experience and discussing results with cannabis testing laboratories in other states, I can assure you there are very few growers out there talented enough to coax anything over 10 to 15 percent THC. Luckily, through state-by-state legalization, a few brave scientists are able to glean factual knowledge about the cannabis being grown in this country. Cannabis has been found to contain hundreds of discreet compounds; THC is only one of them.

When you say, “today, it (the THC level) goes as high as 47.5 percent,” I had to laugh out loud. To honestly believe that a plant can contain 47.5 percent of one compound is ridiculous. I believe water, H2O, would be that compound. What about chlorophyll, cellulose, starch? Is all this science boring you?

Again, your ignorance and hysteria overshadow any sympathy you might get for your position with ridiculous statements like, “Today’s marijuana is so potent, even the kids have nicknamed it ‘skunk’!”

Those kids, aw shucks. Here’s another boring scientific fact for you: The compounds responsible for the wide variety of smells that emanate from various strains of cannabis have nothing to do with the level of THC. Skunk is only one of the smells evident in the different varieties of cannabis.

You may be surprised to learn that cannabis can smell like frankincense, lemons, blueberries and even lavender. These odors come from some of the other hundreds of compounds found in cannabis.

I see by your signature, you are the “president” of the Drug-Free Kids: America’s Challenge in Maryland. Good for you. Nothing in our law suggests the legalization of cannabis for children everywhere. Our law allows adults and their doctors to decide on a constructive course of treatment for their debilitating conditions.

So, this may embarrass you with your passionate plea, but we appear to already be on the same side of that issue.

In the meantime, please direct your energy and passions toward the citizens of Maryland. I’m sure they don’t appreciate you diverting your attention all the way across the country, when you could be dealing with the innumerable social injustices rampant in Maryland. We’ll worry about Montana.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, August 4

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A 36-year-old Missoula man is killed in a collision on Highway 200 in East Missoula. Law enforcement says John Brobst’s car was speeding and driving erratically when it crossed into the westbound lane and hit a 27-year-old woman head on. The woman survives the accident.

• Thursday, August 5 A man reports being robbed and assaulted by two men on Cregg Lane near McCormick Park just before 1 a.m. According to Missoula Police Sgt. Travis Welsh, the victim, who was walking with a female companion, tells law enforcement he believes the alleged assailants are his female companion’s sons.

• Friday, August 6 Missoula’s own Hellgate Rollergirls host their debut bout—an intra-squad battle between the Angels and the Devils—in a sweltering Toole Avenue warehouse.

The Devils’ Becca “Bamphetamine� Carson suffers minor injuries and is taken to the emergency room.

Her team eventually falls to the Angels, 132–79.

• Saturday, August 7 The Missoula Osprey makes up for a lackluster first half of the season by trouncing the Billings Mustangs, 5–1, at Dahler Park. The Mustangs tally five errors, three of them in the top of the third. Meanwhile, Osprey pitcher Robby Rowland strikes out four in five innings, chalking up his first professional win.

• Sunday, August 8 A man wearing a white shirt and blue jeans and wielding a knife attacks a 21-year-old woman on the Clark Fork River Trail east of the Orange Street bridge just after 8 p.m. The woman sustains non-life threatening injuries while successfully fighting off the assailant.

• Monday, August 9 The search for escaped convict John McCluskey and his alleged accomplice, fiancÊe and cousin Casslyn Mae Welch, continues near Glacier National Park. The two went on the lam July 30 when McCluskey escaped from a medium security prison in Arizona along with two other men.

• Tuesday, August 10 The University of Montana football team begins preparing for the 2010 football season, holding its first practice with head coach Robin Pflugrad at the helm. Pflugrad replaces Bobby Hauk, who signed on to coach at UNLV after seven seasons in Missoula.

Workers remove the surface asphalt from Brooks Street Tuesday morning as part of a weeklong paving project that has redirected traffic along the thoroughfare. Crews estimate the project will be completed by early next week.

Economy Sustainability Center adds one Longtime locals Matt McQuilkin and Jim Chapman aren’t afraid to admit they’re coffee snobs.

For the past several months, they’ve meticulously studied roasting techniques in a miniature coffee machine in their garages at home, taking fresh coffee beans, cooking them and then evaluating the end product for richness, flavor and body. “It’s a science experiment. It’s a passion. It’s a love,� Chapman says.

The two fledgling entrepreneurs recently purchased a larger 25-pound steel coffee roaster. The investment is central to Chapman and McQuilkin’s new business endeavor, Black Coffee Roasting Co., slated to open in the coming weeks at the Montana Sustainability Center at the corner of Wyoming and Russell streets next to Home Resource.

Black Coffee Roasting Co. will purchase ethically grown beans and roast them on-site, exhibiting a holistic approach to commerce that fits squarely into the Montana Sustainability Center’s overall vision.

Home Resource co-directors Lauren Varney

and Matt Hisel hatched the idea for the Montana Sustainability Center in 2005, envisioning a onestop environmentally friendly shopping center filled with like-minded businesses. The duo successfully pitched the idea to Rocky Mountain Development Group President Rick Wishcamper, and in 2008 Wishcamper, along with several private investors, formed Berkeley United LLC. The group then purchased the 24,000-square-foot Wyoming Street building Home Resource occupies today, along with a 3.3-acre plot of land slated for development.

Since the purchase, Wishcamper, Hisel and Varney have nurtured dreams for the property. With the addition of Black Coffee Roasting Co. and another business, Bad Goat Forest Products, which will soon begin selling locally grown, sustainably harvested lumber, those dreams are slowly becoming reality.

But as the economy continues to struggle, the vision is shifting. Rather then erecting a commercial building adjacent to Home Resource, the group will divide and sell the property to individual businesses. “[The building] depended on a whole set of financial pieces that essentially got torpedoed by the economy,� Hisel says. “In a different economy we

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would certainly be looking at a completed Montana Sustainability Center right now.�

Regardless, McQuilkin and Chapman are excited to get in on the ground floor. They’re currently evaluating which coffee bean supplier has the freshest product and polishing up the new roaster. “It’s a beautiful machine,� says Chapman.

Jessica Mayrer

Horse races Jockeying the draw Jeff Jones steps away from the deck outside the Western Montana Fairgrounds race office on Tuesday afternoon, engrossed in a cell phone conversation about recent changes to the horse racing schedule. He returns a few minutes later looking visibly stressed. Politics, he says. In jockey parlance, he’s referring to the draw, a delicate balance of barn loyalty and the best odds for a win. “For me, it’s probably the most nerve-wracking part because you don’t want to aggravate people,� says Jones, a 15-year veteran of the sport. “But at the same time if certain horses go in certain races, you

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got a chance to ride a different horse‌And I always try to ride as many as I can.�

Jones, 49, has the steely look of a seasoned strategist. He’s already put roughly 200 races behind him since May—including 39 wins—and came out the leading rider at Montana Downs’ six-day meet in Great Falls last month. Playing the draw right for Missoula’s much anticipated return to horse racing August 13 and 14 could mean more victories—and more purses—for Jones. “Some call it cherry-picking,� Jones says of his desire to choose the liveliest horses. “I call it taking care of business.�

Racing culture seems old-hat for Jones, who bagged his first Montana win in 1982 on a horse called Boss of All. He took a 14-year hiatus from the sport starting in the 1990s and wound up in Wyoming with two young sons and a job breaking horses.

But three years ago, he landed back in Billings and felt the itch to make bigger bucks for his family. He’s since become one of Montana Downs’ most prominent riders.

Jones recently developed a preference for Gifter, a seven-year-old California bred gelding.

Part of racing is finding that rare runner that makes drawing the checks the second best thing about racing, Jones says. He calls Gifter a “big, good-looking bastard.� “He’s just a real dream to ride,� Jones says. “Every rider deserves a horse like him; they just don’t deserve him.�

With that Jones turns his attention back to the race office interior, intent on jockeying for the best position even off the racetrack.

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Fair Jumping the gates of hell Jumping for Jesus’ Gene Sullivan is psyched for his stunt this Sunday at the Western Montana Fair.

He’ll don his leather jumpsuit emblazoned with a red cross across his chest, hop on his motorcycle and crash through a wall of fire in the name of the Lord. “It’s kind of woven in through the program that we’re there representing the Gospel,� Sullivan says.

Sullivan isn’t shy about proselytizing. After his jump this Sunday, he’ll invite fairgoers to pray with him. But such public proselytizing recently grabbed the attention of local and national watchdogs who expressed concern about preferential treatment given to certain religious groups at the fair. “We don’t think that it should be there at all,�

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says Freedom From Religion Foundation Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert of the Jump for Jesus event. “It is organized by the county of Missoula and, therefore, it should be neutral toward religion.�

The Freedom From Religion Foundation lodged a complaint in April with Missoula County after a local resident alerted the nonprofit foundation that people attending a religious service last year were allowed free fair admittance. Markert says that kind of perk clearly violates the law. But as long as Jump for Jesus attendees are treated the same as other fair-

goers the group has the same right to express its opinions and faith as any other group at the fairgrounds. “It is a free speech issue,� Markert says.

Missoula County Chief Administrative Officer Dale Bickell says fair administrators are legally in the clear as long as they don’t show favoritism toward certain religious groups. “We just have to treat that event like any other event,� Bickell says. “We can’t create a special class.�

Missoula Pastor Keith Mobley is sponsoring Jumping for Jesus’ performance. According to a contract between Missoula County and Mobley, Mobley is paying $200 to rent the fairground’s arena and grandstand between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Aug. 15.

Sullivan, meanwhile, is focused on his stunt.

The takeoff, he says, represents one’s launch into life, and the flaming wall represents the gates of hell.

His eventual safe landing signifies salvation.

Jumping for Jesus performed a similar stunt before a packed crowd at the Western Montana Fair in 2007. “We’re really excited about going back,�

Sullivan says.

Jessica Mayrer

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High-and-wide Big Rigs’ short statement Montana Department of Transportation Director Jim Lynch has said the agency will complete its environmental assessment on a request to run 200 highand-wide rigs through part of Montana by Aug. 15. A Missoula filmmaker isn’t waiting that long to weigh in with her own assessment.

Big Rigs is a free, locally made, eight-minute documentary available both online and through local nonprofits like the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. The professional-quality film includes an impressive amount of background on what’s formally known as the Kearl Module Transport Project, a proposal

by Imperial Oil/ExxonMobile to transport enormous tar sands equipment—modules 24 feet wide, 30 feet high and nearly threequarters of a football field long—to Canada. It also offers a pointed opinion on the proposal’s impact to the region. “This is not just a one-time deal,� says director Holly Schroeder. “If this route is approved by the state, it will be used by every oil company. It sets a dangerous precedent.�

Schroeder and her partner, Jane Grochowski, run Jane O’Holly Productions, a local company that helps members of the community make documentaries for public access television. Three years ago, Schroeder made Five Planets, a 52-minute documentary about the effects of climate change in Montana.

This summer, once the debate over the Kearl Module Transport Project intensified, Schroeder felt the issue deserved more attention. “It’s hard to sound too romantic about a road,� says Schroeder. “But once you realize it’s also about the rivers, the entire area and a really beautiful part of our region, it’s easy to make a case for protecting it.�

To illustrate the point, Schroeder’s film includes detailed maps and graphics made from the North American Atlas Project (“and a little bit of Photoshop magic,� she adds) and aerial footage of the route along Highway 12 thanks to LightHawks, a volunteerbased environmental aviation program that offers free flights over areas of concern for the media and decision makers.

Now that her film’s finished, Schroeder simply wants to get it to as many people as possible before Lynch’s announcement. “I think people, even now, haven’t had a full chance to delve into this issue,� she says. “An eightminute video is just the beginning.�

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You’d have to be serving detention to have missed the latest kerfuffle at Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS). The Missoulian last week released a damning 20-second audio clip of Trustee Nancy Pickhardt berating two private citizens with a combination of expletives and sarcasm. The voicemail tirade— which included the choice phrase “go fuck yourselves�—was directed at retired teacher Caroline Pickolick and her husband, Nicholas, over a letter Nicholas had written to the daily paper.

Nicholas, like many in the community, criticized the trustees for awarding Superintendent Alex Apostle a 10 percent pay raise right after teachers received a measly .05 percent boost.

The trustees basically sent the same message to teachers that Pickardt sent to the Pickolicks.

Meanwhile, Pickhardt, now in her fifth year with the board, dodged the press all week. When the Independent called her last Thursday, she told us she’d been “hounded� by the media and still had nothing to say about the voicemail. She then asked us, in a forceful tone but without using any four-letter words, not to call her again. During Tuesday’s Board of Trustee’s meeting, Pickhardt read a prepared statement apologizing to the Pickolicks and asking for forgiveness for her “inappropriate actions and language.�

Pickhardt’s outburst surprised many in the community, and Board Chair Toni Rehbein stated publicly that MCPS has “never had this kind of experience.� But a little digging into school board records revealed some red flags about Pickhardt’s behavior that Rehbein and her fellow trustees must’ve overlooked.

Last December, Missoula resident Jeanne Joscelyn submitted a letter to school board officials titled, “Unprofessional conduct of MCPS Trustee Nancy Pickhardt at September Superintendent, Cabinet and Trustee School Meeting.� Joscelyn writes that on September 26, 2009, Pickhardt approached former trustee Carol Bellin during a public meeting and “began chastising Carol for her earlier comments regarding the beverage contract.� The incident, according to Joscelyn, continued for some time, with Pickhardt “criticizing and bullying� Bellin.

Bellin confirms the story, and was one of several people who called for Pickhardt’s resignation Tuesday night. “I just do not think Nancy Pickhardt has the skills to openly listen to different points of view without intimidating people,�

Bellin told the Indy.

Joscelyn’s letter—available online in the board’s agenda packet for Dec. 8, 2009—also outlines an exchange between her and Pickhardt from summer 2006. Joscelyn said the two were entering a building when Pickhardt turned to her and said, “You are one of the most pathetic people I have ever known.� Joscelyn says she wrote the school board about the incident at the time, but they dismissed it as a private matter.

At this point, Pickhardt’s well-documented behavior is anything but private.

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person we’ve met puts their heart and soul and passion into it and you can tell that their farms are just a reflection of them. Each one is completely beautiful but different.”

Duran, a former aviation consultant, has her work cut out for her in New Orleans. After Katrina, scores of the Latino community left the city. Many were already struggling to make a living because of language, cultural and political barriers, she

Harvest, first thought of the exchange after visiting New York City last fall and seeing an urban farm on a two-and-half acre asphalt lot. Slotnik says the farmers had spread two feet of topsoil on top of the asphalt and were growing vegetables with a view of an IKEA across the street, a lowincome housing development in the other direction and the Statue of Liberty in the distance.

“I saw their chalkboard with a list of tasks they were doing that day and thought, These people are totally different from me but I know how to compost, I know how to harvest broccoli,” says Slotnik.

He took the idea back to Garden City Harvest and, with a student assistant, drafted a letter to send to farms across the country that were decidedly unlike the PEAS Farm, and in towns that did not resemble Missoula.

“We didn’t send the letter to Madison or Bellingham,” explains Slotnik. “We wanted to use urban agriculture as a medium of exchange to learn Photo by Chad Harder about a different culture and Kathia Duran, executive director of the Latino Farmers Cooperative of Louisiana, spent a different place.”

So did Duran.

12 days touring community gardens in Missoula. Her organization, created after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita left New Orleans in tatters, aims to fix a broken food sys“They knocked on my tem by supporting urban farming. door at the right time and provided all of the resources to notes. She doesn’t want to miss a thing. says, and after the storm they were often make the trip a reality,” she says. “This She’s come more than 2,000 miles to hear left with nothing—no shelter, transporta- organization is very committed to reaching tion or means of communication. Those out to low-income people. Our mission has every detail.

Duran and her travel partner, doctor- who had already been marginalized before some intersection—we are just catering to a ate student and former chef Claire Menck, the hurricanes were left hungry in the dis- particular minority group. I was looking for traveled to Missoula as part of an agricul- asters’ wake. an organization that would tell me their histural exchange aimed at teaching farming “My community needs to eat,” tory, and how they fund projects so I might and organizational structure among like- Duran says. “We’re using urban agricul- duplicate that model and bring it back to minded nonprofits. As executive director ture as a way to provide vegetables to our New Orleans.” of the Latino Farmers Cooperative of community. We’re providing the commuSo far, the exchange has been a huge Louisiana (LFCL), Duran hopes to take nity with food.” success for Duran. In October, she hopes what she learns from Garden City Harvest LFCL works to address food scarcity to return the favor when two staff memand apply it to New Orleans, a city trans- issues and to educate, support and encour- bers from Garden City Harvest visit her in formed by crisis. age members of the Latino community in New Orleans. She says they will likely see Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed Orleans Parish to grow their own food. The a food system in transition, in a vastly difthe Gulf Coast almost five years ago and group also works to help secure urban ferent climate, with farmers getting ready New Orleans is still recovering, Duran farmland, and trains Latino farmers in sus- to plant oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, says, with only a limited number of tainable practices. figs, blueberries and raspberries. They’ll resources to address the problems. LFCL But LFCL needs help. That’s why most certainly see Duran, moving from was created to help fix what Duran sees as Duran responded this spring to an e-mail one garden to the next, just as she did in a broken food system. from Garden City Harvest suggesting an Missoula this week, still looking for “As I reflect every night I think about exchange of ideas. answers, and still trying to fix a broken how farming is an art; it’s like building a Josh Slotnik, director of the PEAS system. culture or developing a new language,” Farm, a joint venture between the says Duran of her Missoula tour. “Every University of Montana and Garden City editor@missoulanews.com Kathia Duran has been asking a lot of questions about soil composition, seeds and cover crops during her 12-day stay in Missoula. As she stands in the Northside Community Garden on a recent afternoon, she wants to know who runs it, how much money they make and what their workday looks like?

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by Alex Sakariassen

The Teton Pass Ski Resort west of Choteau has had it rough the past 10 years.

The most recent owners—a group of four local investors—poured thousands into renovations and new equipment for the 407-acre spread on Mount Lockhart in that time, but they faced longstanding debt and failed to execute a master development plan approved by the U.S. Forest Service in 2003. They put the area up for sale in 2008 and, when no interested buyers stepped forward, the owners closed Teton Pass completely just prior to the 2009-10 ski season.

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years, Wood plans to market the resort to both local residents and tourists from around the world.

“Funny enough, we made the New Zealand Herald,” Wood says. “So four million New Zealanders now know about the ski hill.”

Wood’s fortune stems largely from his role as co-creator of New Zealand’s third largest Internet service provider back in 1994. Wood and his partner sold the business in 2003 for about $100 million, and Wood used his share to purchase the Octopus Resort in Fiji. Since then he’s acquired luxury yachts and nearly a dozen

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After two years on the market, Teton Pass Ski Resort outside Choteau has finally bagged a buyer. New Zealand hotelier Nick Wood plans to sink more than $3 million into the area over the next few years, adding new lifts and new access to some 330 skiable acres on Mount Lockhart.

Wood discovered Teton Pass this March.

Wood—on the hunt for his latest investment—was scoping out for-sale U.S. ski areas that would complement his portfolio of vacation properties in Fiji, Tuscany, Colorado and France (to name a few). His list included resorts in Oregon and California, but Teton Pass, one of Montana’s best-kept secrets for decades, was a virtual unknown. Even the industry professionals he brought in to inspect chairlifts and assess the area’s potential were “gobsmacked.”

“Their jaws hit the floor when they saw the full scope of the mountain and what we can do,” Wood says. “They’re professionals who do this for a living, and they’re going, ‘Gosh, golly gosh, gosh,’ constant expletives coming out of their mouths about the diamond in the rough that we’d found.”

Now Teton Pass is international news.

Wood, CEO of the exclusive vacation club Distinctive Holiday Homes, purchased Teton Pass for nearly $300,000 on July 29 and has already begun an extensive improvement project estimated at more than $3 million. With updated facilities and the addition of new lifts over the next two

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vacation homes worldwide—a network pivotal to the 2007 launch of Distinctive Holiday Homes—and is set to open his third hotel in Fiji within the next year.

While Wood’s global marketing strategy may increase competition for the front of the lift line at Teton Pass, his desire to pick up where the previous owners left off means access to an additional 330 acres of skiable terrain in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Wood is making good on the approved expansion plan by installing two new poma lifts before the coming season. Work on a third new lift—which will bring the area’s longest continuous fall line to 1,700 vertical feet—is scheduled to begin next spring.

“The original plan the original investors had was a good one, they just didn’t have the capital to deliver it,” Wood says.

“We’re just going to follow through on the plan—with a few extra bells and whistles.”

The ski industry has had little time to digest the news, but Doug Wales, a board member with the Montana Ski Areas Association and director of marketing for Bridger Bowl, says he expects the improvements will help increase the state’s clout as

a “viable competitor in the national ski market,” and at the very least promote Teton Pass as a destination for more in-state skiers.

“This is obviously a vote of confidence that even in a pretty remote area such as the Front Range around Choteau and Augusta, he feels people will come for that kind of experience,” Wales says. “It certainly bodes well for the state overall.”

The improvements will certainly make Teton Pass an attractive alternative for Missoula skiers when snow conditions here are less than stellar. The area is only about three hours away, roughly the same distance as Big Mountain in Whitefish. Todd Frank, owner of The Trail Head, can’t see locals buying season passes to Teton Pass, but he understands the draw for the odd weekend trip when conditions are “ripe.”

“Missoula skiers are probably still going to ski locally when the conditions are good,” Frank says. “What [Teton Pass] offers us is another exposure, another environment where the east side of the mountains will get pounded with snow and on the west side we don’t get any.”

Teton Pass also fits with a rising skier trend Frank has noted: the “Montana circuit.” Folks have taken to using Missoula as a base for day trips to nearby areas like Lost Trail, Snowbowl and Discovery. Unlike “Ski Resort U.S.A.,” Frank says, these areas don’t struggle with identity.

“You’ve got all these areas that are just cool,” Frank says. “They’re unique, they’ve got character, they’ve got soul. They’re what skiing used to be 50 years ago.”

Until the snow falls, Wood is doing what he can to keep work at Teton Pass local. Contractors from Choteau have busied themselves tearing down the old lodge and will start construction on a replacement next week. He may look into building a new hotel in town if need arises, but for now he’s working with existing businesses and talking to a nearby dude ranch about using weatherized cabins for high-end accommodations. It’s a style of business Wood says he’s perfected in Fiji, where he’s opened hotels at the request of small villages looking for a steady economic base.

And if the expansion falls through or the tourists don’t come, Wood says he won’t be bothered. He’s never actually skied Teton Pass before, and the purchase was as much about keeping himself busy as making a buck.

“It’s filling my days so I don’t get bored,” Wood says. “I’m not the kind of person that would sit on a beach somewhere and read a book and rottiserate in the sun.

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Remember the infamous Alaskan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bridge to Nowhere,â&#x20AC;? the poster child for wasteful pork barrel congressional spending? Well, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look now but Montana has its very own copycat debacle. Even worse, both of our Democratic senators almost broke their arms patting themselves on the back over it earlier this year.

Now, in the fullness of time, they look like foolsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Montanans have every reason to be disgusted.

This story, like so many other sad tales, begins with the sweeping paranoia that gripped the nation after the 9/11 attacks.

Fueled by fear and fanned by the corruption of Washington, D.C., billions of dollars were suddenly earmarked for the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s borders. A giant, environmentally and socially destructive wall on the southern border led the boondoggle projects, but none other than our own Sen. Jon Tester began lamenting what he called our â&#x20AC;&#x153;porous northern border.â&#x20AC;?

For most Montanans, the border with Canada has never been and likely will never be seen as a threat. After all, the U.S. and Canada share the longest border on the continent, and it has been our ally in world wars as well as regional conflicts. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also our largest trading partner and our closest, largest and most secure source of oil.

Treating Canada as some variant of Pakistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s border is, in a word, insulting to both Montanans and our Canadian friends.

But in D.C., you take your money where you can find it and Sens. Tester and Baucus decided there was pork aplenty in the border spending spree. So why not get a little of that for good old Montana, eh?

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what they did. One of Testerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first acts as a senator was to request a â&#x20AC;&#x153;security reviewâ&#x20AC;? of Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s border with Canada from the Department of Homeland Security.

Then, back in April of this year, both senators lauded the tens of millions of dollars theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d appropriated for expanding personnel, installing security improvementsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;such as launching drones to spy on Americans and Canadians while they work or recreate along the border areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and what they called â&#x20AC;&#x153;upgradingâ&#x20AC;? border stations. One of those stations, Whitetail, sits in a remote part of northeastern Montana and was scheduled for a stunning $15 million dollar makeover. To put that number in perspective, one has only to recall that this station gets about five crossings a day and no commercial traffic.

Some security risk.

Given the bizarre state of national politics these days, it was none other than

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Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone congressional representative, Republican Denny Rehberg, who suddenly got religion on fiscal responsibility and took Tester and Baucus to task over the pork barrel appropriation. It would be funny, were it not so tragic, to have Rehberg, who voted in lockstep with the Bush cabal to push the national debt into the stratosphere, suddenly concerned about a few million dollars being spent in

It was, â&#x20AC;&#x153; as usual, merely a matter of political suckage with the pork flowing to the biggest

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his home stateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;however needless the end product.

But lo and behold, Rehberg wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only one to cry â&#x20AC;&#x153;foulâ&#x20AC;? and finally force Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to release the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s review of just how it determined where we had security risks and how much money should be spent to address them. As it turned out, Republican criticism combined with infighting for the pork by fellow Dems eventually revealed the ugly truthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which was basically that Napolitanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agency had virtually no methodology for prioritizing the expenditures. It was, as usual, merely a matter of political suckage with the pork flowing to the biggest suckees.

Embarrassing, but nothing out of the ordinary for Congress and the federal government, despite the pledge of â&#x20AC;&#x153;change.â&#x20AC;?

Hoping to pull some fur over their exposed tails after the investigation, Tester and Baucus harrumphed about the expenditure and, in a token gesture to fiscal responsibility, reduced the planned outlay

from $15 million to about $8.5 million for this five-people-a-day crossing.

Then, last week, as reported by the Associated Press, the Canadians decided to close the road on their side of the Whitetail border crossing. Ironically, they did so after a government study to determine the efficiency of maintaining numerous crossings. Since there are two other crossings within 17 and 34 miles, the Canadians decided the minimal traffic didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t merit the expense.

Meanwhile, on this side of the border, $1.3 million has already been â&#x20AC;&#x153;received or spentâ&#x20AC;? on the border station. Pork barrel projects, by definition, are supposed to put the pork in the hometown barrel. In this instance, however, the money is going to a Colorado contracting firm that says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re progressing as we were in the beginning.â&#x20AC;?

Ah yes, the beginning. Where it ends is unknown, but where it started is not only well known, but equally well despised.

So America borrows money from China to build needless â&#x20AC;&#x153;securityâ&#x20AC;? systems on our border for non-used crossings. That anyone, Democrat, Republican or independent could possibly defend such waste is shameful. And now that the cards are on the table and the façade is mercilessly ripped away, even Tester has decided to hold some â&#x20AC;&#x153;town meetingsâ&#x20AC;? up on the HiLine and asked the feds to temporarily halt construction.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too late, Jon Boyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the pork is out of the barrel, so to speak, and running all over the front pages.

Here are Testerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own words, from his campaign debate with Conrad Burns in 2006: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quite frankly, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support earmarks, period. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not for earmarks because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass public scrutiny with the transparency that our government and forefathers set up.â&#x20AC;? Judge for yourselves, Montanans, whether that particular campaign promise has been kept.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sad state of affairs when a minority Republican has to remind a majority Democrat that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lauding millions in expenditures on useless projects that do nothing but throw future generations deeper into debt. And unfortunately for Democrats, it is exactly this kind of example that may well put their electoral chancesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; like the Whitetail border crossingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on the Road to Nowhere.

Helenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent.

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Pedal problems When you bike in Boise, “Stop” means maybe

by Steve Bunk

Boise, Idaho, one of the most liberal cities when it comes to bicycling, issued new rules of the road this June that basically said to both drivers and bicyclists: “Don’t be jerks.”

The rules said drivers should make room for bikers as they pass them and not harass them, while cyclists should never ride recklessly and should get off their bikes when sidewalks get crowded. As much as an effort to improve safety, the new rules appeared to be an attempt to mollify disgruntled folks in both camps.

Since 1983, Idaho has had the nation’s friendliest statute toward cyclists, which, of course, makes some drivers cranky. The “stop-as-yield” law says it’s legal for cyclists to go through a stop sign (cautiously) without fully halting, and to proceed through a red light after coming to a stop. Regionally, such permissiveness has inspired Arizona, Oregon, Montana and California to look at emulating Idaho in the past year or two, though no laws have been enacted yet.

The new Boise city ordinances were drafted after three cyclists died within a few weeks of each in crashes with cars last spring. In two of the cases, the drivers were charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. One hit a cyclist from behind and the second driver, a juvenile, turned left into an oncoming cyclist. In the other case from last year, no charges were filed, as the cyclist was crossing a heavily trafficked street against the light, and the driver failed to see him in the sun. Then this July 31, another cyclist was killed by a driver late at night on a heavily trafficked but poorly lit road. Police, who said the biker had no lights or reflectors, were not expected to file charges against the driver of the SUV. Beyond the anguish these accidents sparked, cooler heads in town acknowledged that some people act dumb no matter what means of conveyance they operate.

Most people who bike also drive, and even if the reverse is less common, Idaho ranks fourth among the states in per capita bicycle commuting, according to the U.S. Census. Boise has created great places to ride, including bike lanes and a long greenbelt, no helmets required for adults, and

Are they “anarchists?

Holy warriors?

Brain-damaged?

Or do they just feel very safe in our

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little burg?

you can even ride on the sidewalks legally.

That’s why I’m interested in what appears to be the cyclists’ victim mentality.

I’ve been a cyclist since childhood, and usually ride my bike to work each day. On the way, I’ve witnessed all sorts of bizarre behavior by both drivers and cyclists. But it’s the brainlessness of some bike riders that bothers me the most, because they threaten to blow it for the rest of us who are allowed—by law!—to roll through stop signs and red lights.

Here’s what I too often see: Cyclists pedaling down the middle of one-way streets in the wrong direction. I’ve seen drivers going the wrong way, too, but they usually look startled or guilty at their blun-

der. Cyclists, however, are serene, as if they’re beyond ordinary concerns—the law, consideration for others, awareness of one’s surroundings. Are they anarchists?

Holy warriors? Brain-damaged? Or do they just feel very safe in our little burg? Their expressions of Zen-like trance are unmatched even by drivers deeply in thrall to their wrongly named smart phones.

Looking at a cyclist blissfully weaving back and forth across a street and its sidewalks, I can’t help wondering how many are on bikes because they’ve lost permission to drive. It’s true that the police are giving out more tickets to cyclists this year, not that a crackdown will matter to the already cracked.

Otherwise, I see plenty of fine riding through Boise’s quiet North End: couples tooling along at dusk, parents pulling their kids in all manner of safe contraptions, young women floating by with faultless posture on their upright comfort bikes, kids on their BMXs restlessly cruising like sharks in an aquarium. Every second intersection going in either direction has no stop sign, for easy rolling. The streets are flat, low-traffic, lined with a democratic mishmash of big and little houses interspersed with old-growth trees. Frequently, a car stopped at an intersection will wait a long time until I arrive and meander through. Cars often stop even when they have the right-of-way to let me go first.

Cowed by my cycling rights, they try so hard not to break the law that they end up breaking the law.

Bicyclists like me were once a repressed minority, but now we are empowered. I just hope we don’t blow it.

Steve Bunk is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a syndication service of High Country News (hcn.org). He bikes and writes in Boise, Idaho.

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Missoula is an openminded place, but opportunities to celebrate our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) neighbors seem pretty few and far between.

This week, however, you have the chance to put on your rainbow party hat when the Western Montana Community Center (WMCC) presents Missoula Outfest 2010, an all-day party for the LGBTIQ community and its allies.

The event aims to highlight the talents of gay/queer artists, musicians, crafters, business owners and their supporters. Festivities begin at 10 AM when DJ Rash brings the beats while an array of organizations—including the Missoula AIDS Council, Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and the Montana Human Rights Network— host informational tables for your perusal. Food ven-

dors will also be on hand, and the sound system will be booming all day as DJ Rash gives way to DJs Kris Moon, Tigerlily, Raven Digitalis and the Dead Hipster Dance Party crew, along with a live set by local rocker Andrea Harsell.

Besides some fun in the sun and the chance to get better acquainted with Missoula’s LGBT community, Outfest has another goal worth noting: It serves as a fundraiser for the WMCC, our city’s go-to support center for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

–Ira Sather-Olson

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Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict (and no mediation) by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.org.

Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656.

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Snag a sweet knick-knack and help out a local peace center during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s fundraiser rummage sale, which runs from 8 AM–2 PM at the parking lot of KIBO Group Architecture, 140 S. Fourth St. W. Free to attend, with all proceeds to benefit the Peace Center. Call Betsy at 543-3955.

Be the decider, or at least one of many, for what the Missoula Public Library will look like in the future during the library’s “Envision! project,” the second public forum on evaluating the existing building that runs from 1–5 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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MONDAY AUGUST 16 Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM in basement classroom number 3 of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

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Visit gaymontana.org and call 543-2224.

You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

This will be off the chain: Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., hosts the Bikestravaganza: The Off the Chainring Tour, which features discussions about Portland, Ore.’s bicycling activism community with Joe Biel and Elly Blue, as well as screenings of short films by Biel on the issue, starting at 7 PM. $5, suggested donation. This also doubles as a fundraiser for Free Cycles. Visit bikestravaganza.wordpress.com.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 All teamsters past, present and future are hereby invited to celebrate 100 years of success during the Teamsters Local Union #2 ice cream and dessert social, which runs from 4–7 PM at Franklin Park, on the corner of Kemp Street and S. 10th Street W. Free. Call 543-3472.

Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week. Visit kettlehouse.com.

THURSDAY AUGUST 19 Help support an organization that wants to provide locally grown food to low-income people—among other aims—during Garden City Harvest’s annual Farm Party, which features a farm fresh meal plus music by Reverend Slanky and Mudslide Charley, starting at 6 PM at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive. $15/$7 children 10 and under/$2 off the cost for riding your bike or walking. Call 523-3663 and visit gardencityharvest.org.

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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Dallas police said Dwayne Lamont Moten, 20, hired a friend, Jacob Wheeler, 20, to shoot him, intending to blame the crime on his wife’s boyfriend so he could gain custody of his 3-year-old son. Wheeler was only supposed to wound Moten, who “drove a short distance before he realized he was shot a little worse than he had planned and got out of his car and was screaming for help,” then died, according to Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse, who noted, “There’s legal ways to get custody of a child, and taking a bullet and ultimately dying is definitely not one of those ways.”

Shawn Martines, 25, flagged down a sheriff’s deputy in Pasco County, Fla., and explained that he let a woman put handcuffs on him, thinking they were fake, but they were real, and the woman didn’t have a key. Martines managed to pick one cuff and wanted the deputy to unlock the other. First, though, the deputy patted down Martines for weapons. When he found a hypodermic needle and nine Xanax pills, he locked the loose cuff on Martines’s free wrist and arrested him on drug charges.

LOOKS MINUS THE TALENT—AND EGOS - A Los Angeles sperm bank has launched a service that lets its clients choose donors who resemble Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Russell Crowe, Justin Timberlake, Tiger Woods and other entertainment and sports celebrities. Pointing out that state law requires sperm donors to be anonymous, Scott Brown, the communications director for California Cryobank, said the clinic’s “Donor Look-A-Like” service is “a way of connecting the client to the donor” by suggesting which celebrity the donor most resembles and showing pictures of those celebrities to give clients a “general idea.” Acknowledging that there’s no guarantee the offspring will actually resemble the celebrities, Brown said that since introducing “Donor Look-A-Like,” the clinic has seen a 400 percent increase in visitors to its website.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - Millions of dollars earmarked to create jobs under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act have created jobs making posted signs reminding people that the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act has created jobs. Claiming that states have spent at least $20 million of federal funds on the signs, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., introduced a bill “to prevent further funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 from being used for physical signage indicating that a project is funded by such Act.”

UNRAVELING TALES - After receiving reports of a naked man walking along a New Mexico highway with his leg on fire, sheriff’s deputies in Dona Ana County said Randy Malone, 47, told them he let friends set fire to his prosthetic left leg because he lost a drinking bet to them. Malone said the fire spread to his buttocks and lower back, causing such pain that he disrobed. His friends decided to take him to the hospital but became nervous and dropped Malone off on the highway, where deputies found him. After Malone’s story made the news, a witness told investigators that Malone had asked him for a ride, but when Malone pulled out a crack pipe and lit up, the upset driver forced Malone from the vehicle. Malone put the pipe in his pocket, where it apparently caught his pants and plastic leg on fire. Authorities charged Malone with making a false report.

Sara Blasse, 23, told authorities in Camden County, N.J., that she broke her arm during a carjacking that resulted in the crash of her Kia Sorrento. She then changed her story and claimed that she had picked up a male prostitute and was performing oral sex on him when the Kia crashed. After investigators disputed both stories, Blasse confessed that she and Henry Goode Jr., 27, had stolen a laptop computer from a parked car in Chesilhurst, but the owner spotted them and called 911. The couple escaped but crashed the Kia. Blasse made her way home, only to have her parents take her to the hospital, where she told the carjacking tale. Making a false report was the least of many charges filed against her.

DOCTRINAL MATTERS - When an Austrian church undergoing renovations listed its old confessional on eBay, it noted the box-like structure was ideal for conversion to a one-person sauna, a small bar or a children’s playhouse. Vienna’s archdiocese quickly intervened to end the bidding, declaring that auctioning “objects that were used for dispensing the sacraments is not acceptable.” The daily newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten reported that the highest bid received was 666.66 euros.

Four months after Indonesia’s highest Islamic authority instructed the nation’s Muslims to face west to pray toward Mecca, it admitted that its directive actually had the faithful “facing Somalia or Kenya” instead of Saudi Arabia. “We are now suggesting people shift the direction slightly to the northwest,” Cholil Ridwan, the head of the Indonesian Ulema Council said, adding, “There’s no need to knock down mosques, just shift your direction slightly during prayer.” Ridwan said that even though Muslims had been facing the wrong way, “their prayers will still be heard by Allah.”

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REAL-LIFE MATH - Alabama’s Birmingham-Southern College must cut 20 percent of its operating budget, about $10 million, in part because it erroneously awarded millions of dollars in financial aid by adding Pell grant money to students’ financial-aid packages instead of subtracting it. “This was not just a one-year thing,” college President David Pollick admitted. “Our finance operation was dealing with systems that go back 20 years. They’d just been doing things certain ways. It’s almost like you have an infection that you don’t see; nobody knows about it.” Pollick added that besides cutting 51 staff and 29 faculty positions, the school is eliminating five student majors, including accounting.

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his year’s Jefferson Muzzle Awards, an annual tradition from the Charlottesville, Va.based Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression that recognizes the previous year’s most egregious acts of disregard for the First Amendment, are steeped in two key points.

One is that whatever venue or means or incentive a government provides for expression, it should allow all opinions equal access. Governments can’t create a vanity license plate program, for example, only to rule that some words should be squelched.

They can’t offer incentives to movie producers and then capriciously decide that some films are unworthy of support based on their content. As Robert M. O’Neil, the director of the TJ Center, says, “Unless very unusual circumstances warrant different treatment, the presumption is that all those similarly situated should be treated comparably.”

Second, censorship evolves with culture and technology. That doesn’t mean it goes away or worsens, say O’Neil. “Those who seek to restrict free speech or free press may be increasingly ingenious but we could not comfortably generalize that the state of free speech has become better or worse over time. It’s simply different.”

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Oklahoma Tax Commission Keith Kimmel, 28, applied for a vanity license plate in Norman, Okla., that read, “IM GAY.” The Oklahoma Tax Commission, which oversees the Motor Vehicle Division’s cash-cow program, turned down the request because it prohibits plates that “may be offensive to the general public.”

Kimmel cried foul and filed suit this February.

“I want to tell people who I am and what I am,” he told local news media. “I’m openly gay. What better way to tell everybody than to put it on the back of a car?”

The Tax Commission retorted that license plates remain state property, “not the private billboard for the person to whom they are issued.” But the commission had permitted other state license plates to proclaim “STR8FAN” and “VIBR8R” and admitted it had no standard policy.

This apparent caprice, observes the TJ Center, “is almost a textbook example of what the First Amendment does not permit. Government officials cannot create an open forum for the public at large to express itself but then only allow the expression of messages that they approve.” The Muzzle is “for administering the state specialty license plate program in a viewpoint discriminatory fashion.”

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never get his plate. Tulsa police arrested Kimmel at a gay bar March 27 and brought him to a hospital.

Kimmel formally complained that the police had insulted and beaten him; he was found dead at a friend’s home on April 2, the cause of death still undetermined.

Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia’s prison inmates can’t do many things: enjoy evening strolls around the neighborhood, have weapons in their cell or listen to religious sermons on CD. Kyle Mabe found that out the hard way when he requested a free copy of Life Without a Cross from a ministry in Kentucky.

Mabe was beginning his sentence at the St. Brides Correctional Facility in Chesapeake, Va., and when he requested the CD last September, he was told, “You can receive only music CDs, no sermons on CDs.” When Mabe filed a complaint, he was rebuffed. The reason? An earlier memo from the Department of Corrections (DOC) Deputy Director that prohibited audio recordings of anything other than music. Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” would be a go, but Great Expectations a no.

Mabe filed more grievances and appeals until he was told at the end of October, “You have

exhausted all administrative remedies.” That’s when the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties nonprofit based in Charlottesville, stepped in. In February 2010, it sued various DOC officials on Mabe’s behalf for hindering “his exercise of his Christian religious beliefs.”

It was not the first time the Rutherford Institute had challenged the State Department of Corrections. In 2009, the DOC shut down the Books Behind Bars program. The 20-year-old program delivers donated books to prisoners, most of whom want dictionaries, the Bible or the Qu’ran.

When Books Behind Bars volunteers most likely failed to remove a paperclip and a CD from some books, the DOC accused the program of establishing a conduit for contraband. Rutherford stepped in, news media picked up the story, and a month later the DOC relented.

Mabe’s lawsuit may have had a similar effect.

In a letter to the TJ Center, DOC Director Gene Johnson stated, “Effective June 1, 2010, inmates will be able to order religious spoken word CDs in the same manner as they order music CDs.” Although the DOC won’t comment on current lawsuits, spokesman Larry Traylor writes, “all policies are ultimately the responsibility of the Director and the Director does not fashion or change policy based on anything but law, security and other legit-

imate concerns of the operation of a large agency such as the Department of Corrections.”

In deliberating on this Muzzle, the TJ Center concedes prisons “should and do have the authority to prohibit prisoners’ access to information that could cause disruption or create a risk of physical harm.” Yet the sermon Mabe requested doesn’t pass that litmus test. Hence, the Muzzle is awarded “for violating an inmate’s constitutional rights of free speech and religious freedom.”

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson As if prosecuting terrorists, closing Guantanamo and investigating threats against sitting governors weren’t enough for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Congressman Alan Grayson, D-Fla., wanted him to pursue a taunter.

In a four-page letter to Holder in December, the Democratic congressman requested that the Justice Department prosecute Republican Angie Langley for parodying his website, congressmanwithguts.com. Grayson’s red, white and blue site features a video montage of Howard Dean and others praising the congressman’s toughness.

Langley’s site, mycongressmanisnuts.com, apes the style but adds a symbolic streak of yellow. Her video montage begins with Grayson trying to stop someone from videotaping him.

Grayson should have a soft spot for parody. On the House floor, he caricatured the Republicans’ idea of health care reform as “Don’t get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.” Yet Grayson alleged Langley’s parody was “fundamentally dishonest and fraudulent” not because Grayson is or isn’t nuts, but because Langley lived outside Grayson’s congressional district. Hence, “my” was clearly a lie. “I am not her Congressman,” Grayson wrote, “and I have never been her Congressman.” Grayson wanted her to serve five years in prison and pay a fine.

“The right to criticize public officials without fear of government reprisal is a fundamental component of the First Amendment,” says the TJ Center. “As such, elected officials should both expect and tolerate criticism.” Grayson gets the Muzzle for urging extreme action “against a vocal critic for alleged violations of Federal Election law that, even if true, represent minor transgressions.”

hours of research and consulted “every expert on Waco.”

His team also wanted to spend $30 million filming in Texas, which should have made the state rejoice. In 2007, the state legislature created the Moving Image Industry Incentive Program to draw more media production to the Lone Star State. The 15 percent rebate on in-state production costs had helped mostly commercials and only one movie when Ferrari applied.

The program declines projects that advertise for the state government, are obscene, or made by students for

Beverage Control Board banned sales of Cycles Gladiator wine because the label featured a nude nymph flying alongside a bicycle with winged pedals. The Alabamans thereby earned their Muzzle Award “for utilizing a paternalistic, highly subjective, and most likely unconstitutional approach to evaluating the advertising of alcoholic products.”

The banned label reproduces an 1895 advertisement by the French artist Georges Massias. The Gladiator was a line of bikes begun in 1891, and Massias’ original prints have

course credit. Additionally, “The State of Texas is also not required to make payments to projects that include inappropriate content or content that portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion.”

The Texas Film Commission ruled that Waco contained errors and could harm the state’s image. “For denying motion picture production companies tax breaks if their proposed movies portray Texas or Texans in a negative fashion,” the Texas State Legislature gets its second Muzzle.

fetched $50,000 at auction. Reproductions can be bought as dorm room posters or on mugs, T-shirts and the Hahn Family Wines’ bottles in all 49 nymph-friendlier states. The central California vineyard picked the image, according to its website, because it “captures the grace and uninhibited beauty of our hillside vineyards.”

The board may have nothing against hillside vineyards, but it does have an aversion to uninhibited beauty. The board’s attorney told the Associated Press that a “person posed in an immoral or sensuous manner” could not be used to advertise alcohol. The board banned another Hahn Family Wine after enlarging the label many times over revealed that a woman’s nipple was visible through her gauzy garment.

Nonetheless, the TJ Center notes, “the U.S. Supreme Court has determined that works of artistic merit cannot be

The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Maybe you’ve never seen a woman bicycling naked, and if you live in Alabama, the chances that you will became much smaller last year. The Alabama Alcoholic

Texas State Legislature Don’t mess with Texas. Period. Don’t even make a film about people who messed with Texans.

Movie producer Emilio Ferrari learned this lesson last May. Ferrari’s feature film Waco depicts the fiery federal siege of the Branch Davidians’ compound in 1993. Ferrari told a reporter that Waco was America’s “biggest tragedy, after 9/11. And this was by Americans against Americans. I think people have a right to know what happened.”

Consequently, Ferrari and his staff conducted thousands of

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considered ‘obscene’ or ‘harmful to minors’ solely because they depict nudity. While people may disagree on this issue, the First Amendment does not allow the government to automatically take sides in the debate.” Alabama’s ban has boosted Cycles Gladiator sales and generated a new marketing slogan: “Taste what they’re missing.”

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Elvis impersonators beware: Keep the jumpsuit and sideburns in the casino or risk arrest on the Vegas Strip.

Impersonator Bill Jablonski told a Las Vegas reporter that tourists “come from all over the world looking for an Elvis.” He hangs around the street to help them out. He doesn’t want their money; he just thinks it’s fun. He cries when he talks about the girl in a wheelchair who just wanted a picture with the faux Elvis. Is that too much to ask in Vegas?

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Apparently, yes. Las Vegas police have regularly detained and threatened to arrest buskers and street performers for obstructing sidewalk traffic and operating without a license even though the courts say the cops aren’t allowed to do that. Sidewalks, streets and other spaces are “public forums” for the free exchange of ideas. About the only thing cities can do to peaceful people in such places is to regulate aggressive panhandling.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued on behalf of the performers, just as it previously sued on behalf of people who wanted to distribute flyers or preach along the Strip. An ACLU attorney said of the Las Vegas police, “They think each new type of expression they can suppress, and we have to go to court for each of those, and the results are always the same.” The TJ Center also takes up the cause, granting a Muzzle “for continually harassing street performers in contravention of their established First Amendment rights.”

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The Governator may have found his match in the Alderman-ator. James Balcer, 11th Ward Alderman in central Chicago, heard about a private mural he didn’t like so he called in the “graffiti blasters” to blow the offending art into uniform brown oblivion. “Yeah, I’m the alderman here,” he told Chicago Public Radio. “I was told about it and I okayed it and I stand by it,” he said of the mural’s purging.

The mural in question depicted three police cameras, which resemble blue and white boxes and are ubiquitous atop poles throughout the city. One of the mural’s cameras featured a trophy deer head, another a skull and the third a crucifix. Mural artist Gabriel Villa had been asked by the building’s owner to paint the wall for a local arts festival. Villa said his intention with the mural was to get people talking.

Apparently, some people did just that.

Balcer said he received a few complaints from residents and police as the mural neared completion. Balcer had the mural painted over in an early morning raid without consulting Villa or the building’s owner, whose son was organizing the festival.

Balcer also erroneously claimed the mural needed a permit. He then called the mural “a threat to this community.” Well, the Constitution doesn’t give public officials the right to erase art wherever and whenever they want, so the TJ Center recognizes the Alderman “for failing to appreciate this constitutional principle and his city’s own permit requirements.”

Administration of Southwestern College Southwestern College in Chula Vista, Calif., so cherishes its students’ and faculty’s right to express themselves that it has designated a special “free speech patio” for that purpose. Reserve the patio in advance, and complain all you want. Don’t stay, however, if you want to avoid dire consequences. Just ask three sanctioned professors.

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speech patio to decry cuts to classes and funding. They then spontaneously marched to President Raj Chopra’s office, where a line of campus police awaited them. The president’s office was empty, the professors drifted away, and the crowd dispersed.

That night, however, each professor got a surprise visit at home: a cop and the director of human resources. The latter bore a letter that placed the professors on administrative leave and banned them from the campus and its resources, including e-mail, until their presence at the rally had been investigated fully.

Southwestern spokesman Chris Bender explains, “This campus is covered with posters expressing people’s views— we make no attempt to take those down. Those are not the actions of a college that limits free speech. The issue at hand was public safety, and it’s a shame the Jefferson Center has confused protecting free speech with protecting people from getting hurt.”

Nonetheless, “for promulgating and enforcing a policy limiting even peaceful and non-disruptive protests to a designated ‘free speech’ patio,” Southwestern College gets a Muzzle.

Orange High School, and the West Fargo School Board According to his accounts, S.K. Johnson, a California high school principal, found a pre-release copy of Pulp, the final project of the school’s journalism class. The cover pictured a bare back tattooed with “PULP” in Old English type and a panther, the school’s mascot. It related to a story inside about tattoo trends around the predominantly Hispanic campus. Also inside was a list of things to do before graduation, such as skinny dip. After a custodian purportedly saw Johnson with the magazine and asked if he was reading one of those “gang-tattoo magazines,” Johnson ordered all 300 copies to be confiscated and locked in his closet. “It was not an easy decision,” he told a local newspaper, “but we have an image of our school that I want to uphold.”

The trouble is, California’s law against censoring school publications requires people like Johnson to prove the publication is “obscene, libelous or slanderous” or “so incites pupils as to create a clear and present danger” to the law or orderly conduct of school. After a state senator and legal groups complained, Johnson let Pulp out of his closet—in July.

In Fargo, N.D., a similar drama unfolded. Jeremy Murphy of West Fargo High School seems like “Glee”’s Mr. Shue, except he orchestrates the student news, rather than show choir. Former students raved about his advising of the yearbook and the school newspaper The Packer, which under his stewardship won regional awards for best overall school newspaper and journalist of the year.

Yet all that ballyhoo quickly became boo-hoo. A student editorial in May 2009 criticized the school administration for decision-making that “shows a lack of restraint and consideration from administration officials to gauge the outcome of the people being affected. More time should be spent contemplating and going over the issues with those involved rather than jumping hastily into action.” Ouch. Such rhetoric and pesky reporting had become too much for the administration, which sacked Murphy for a “difference in philosophy.”

Although schools do walk a fine line between maintaining an educational environmental and protecting students’ rights, the West Fargo School Board and S. K. Johnson share a Muzzle “for actions that reveal little regard for teaching First Amendment principles.”

Puerto Rico Department of Education Profanity and sex allegedly led to the removal of five books from the U.S. territory’s 11th-grade Spanish curriculum and school libraries.

In September, Puerto Rico’s Department of Education (DOE) banned the books by reputable authors because of crude language. Among the banned books was Aura by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, who is widely regarded as on of Latin America’s most prominent contemporary authors. Gov. Luis Fortuño, backing up his DOE, claimed,

“The books are not being banned,” rather the DOE is determining “at which level they can be read.”

Under pressure, the DOE reconsidered four of the five banned works after a “revision” to remove the vulgarity. It’s not clear, however, who’s doing the revising and how, or who even promulgated the bans in the first place. But even changes to language can’t redeem a memoir by Juan Antonio Ramos, which the DOE will not reconsider. Said a DOE spokesman to a local news organization, “You can have good books with bad words, because they reflect the reality out there. But this book can be a screenplay for a porn movie.”

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I was going to explain how to make a very special green chile stew, and how a variation of that stew can be stuffed into a chicken and baked. But instead I fell so deep into the history and culture of New Mexico green chile that it was all I could do to describe how to roast it at home before I ran out of space. Today I’ll assume you know about green chile and skip straight to the stew. Then I’ll tell you how to shove it up a chicken’s butt, bake it and love it.

A good green chile stew is a poem in a bowl, a New Mexican ballad whose hot winds, heavy with the scent of green chile, fan the smoldering fragrance of garlic, dry the dusty potatoes, and drive the cold, tomato-splitting rain. Typically served with a folded flour tortilla tucked between saucer and bowl, green chile stew will make you sweat, cry, cough and clap your hands like desert thunder.

It’s a simple dish, little more than potato, tomato, onion, garlic, meat and roasted green chile.

There are, of course, variations. Some cooks add olives. Or carrots. Or even red chile. Some serve their stew with a sopapilla instead of a tortilla.

First you brown the meat—typically pork, but any will do. Then, for each pound of meat add one onion and two tomatoes, chopped, and a few minced cloves of garlic. After it cooks together—about 10 minutes— add two cubed potatoes and enough stock to cover it all, and simmer until the potatoes are done. Season with salt and garlic powder, add 10 or 20 chopped green chiles, cook another two minutes, and serve.

Despite being a hearty, chunky affair, very few incarnations of green chile stew are thick enough to actually stuff into a chicken. So I’ve adapted the stew into a lowwater, oven-roasted product that works great as a stuffing and absorbs juices from the surrounding chicken.

This is a great wintertime dish, but I’m giving you the recipe in the dead of summer to get you hooked. Hopefully you’ll consider putting away a stash of green chile so you can make this dish all year round. If so, now is the time to assemble that stash.

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a lot easier than spending all day roasting chiles on the grill or in the oven.

Most of the other ingredients—for stew and chicken both—are crops you can grow in your garden and keep until spring. Potatoes, garlic and onions store themselves, given a cool space. Tomatoes may be frozen, canned or dried, and most any unadulterated form of preserved tomato will do. I use sun-dried tomatoes.

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—Oregano and sage (to sprinkle on top of the chicken) —Tortillas and a big summer squash sliced into 3/4-inch slabs (for placing under the chicken to absorb the juices)

The carrots and nuts are not typically found in the stew, but I like them in the stuffing. Also, you will need a chicken, obviously. And the following ingredients are optional:

Since the stuffing is oven-roasted, and the chicken subsequently baked, your oven will be hot for a long time. It’s good if you can multi-task to keep it full and make use of the heat. Bake some bread, or pies. Bake me a cake. Last time I made green chile chicken, I did a load of oven apricot butter. Of course if you make this recipe in winter, a hot stove will be an asset to the kitchen.

Cut the potatoes and carrots into 1-inch chunks, arrange them on a baking pan, sprinkle with salt, and roast in the oven at 300 degrees. ( You can adjust 50 degrees either way if you have other stuff in the oven, and adjust cooking times accordingly.) Stir every 10 minutes.

With the roasting in progress, prepare the chile and tomatoes. Wash the burnt, blistered skin from the roasted green chile, remove the tops and clean out as many of the seeds and inner membranes as you wish— depending on how hot the chile is and your heat tolerance. Chop the green chile into chunks and mix them with your tomatoes in a bowl. In my case, the moisture in the chile begins to rehydrate the sun-dried tomatoes.

When the potato and carrot chunks develop dry skins, stir in the chopped onion and continue roasting for 15 minutes, stirring at least twice. If the pan starts to stick, deglaze with white wine. Add the garlic and the nuts and keep roasting.

When the smell of roasting garlic reaches intoxicating levels, stir in the chile and tomatoes. Roast until the moisture is nearly gone from the pan.

Remove and let cool.

When the stuffing is cool enough to handle, adjust the salt, add black pepper if you wish, and stuff it into your chicken.

I like to line the bottom of a baking pan with tortillas, and then cover them with slabs of summer squash (this is only an option in summer). Either way, put your stuffed chicken in the pan, surrounded by the stuffing that didn’t get stuffed. Sprinkle the chicken with oregano and sage and bake for three hours, or until done, at 300 degrees.

Let it cool to an edible temperature, and enjoy the poetry.

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The quantities suggested in this green chile chicken recipe will create about twice as much stuffing as will fit into a 4-pound bird. You can place the extra stuffing around and beneath the chicken.

Here’s what you’ll need: —4 medium potatoes —2 tomatoes (in my case, 2 tomatoes’ worth of sun-dried slices) —A head of garlic, chopped —A good-sized onion, chopped —At least 20 roasted green chiles —A quarter-cup of mixed pine nuts and pecans —2 carrots

Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio.

Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room.

Hours: Tavern hours Monday-Saturday 3pm-11pm, Sunday 3pm-10pm . Dining Room hours Monday-Saturday 5pm-10pm, Sunday 4pm-9pm. $$-$$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 38 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. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an exten-

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Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$

juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table.

Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$

Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve

by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience.

Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 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. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$

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 service within a 3 mile radius.

Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave. 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily.

Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook!

Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $

Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close.

WE DELIVER On Campus & to the area between Beckwith, Higgins & 5th Street. Open Mon-Thurs 7am-8pm, Fri & Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$

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. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$

Front Street Pasta & Wraps 247 W. Front Street 728-6655 Can't decide? Front Street Pasta and Wraps has something to satisfy every craving. We have everything from giant wraps to wok tossed dishes. Spicy peanut sauce goes great with just about everything. Vegetarian friendly menu is great for the non-meat eater. And now you can enjoy a cold beer or a glass of wine with your meal. So step off the beaten path of Higgins and ride into Front Street Pasta and Wraps. Just next to the Carousel on West Front Street. Open M-F, 10am-8pm. $ Good Food Store 1600 South 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 free-range chickens, fresh

Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch 11:302PM and dinner 5PM-close. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$

HAPPIESTHOUR The Evaro Bar Atmosphere: Your typical highway-side Montana bar, complete with Keno machines, pool tables and framed posters of scantily clad Maxim models next to the urinals. Patrons are few on a recent Saturday afternoon, but one semi-comprehensible regular assures us it’s usually packed. Bartender Amy Chalcraft’s tally from one Tuesday eight-ball tournament in July confirms his ramblings: 30 competitors, plus plenty of spectators. They also offer free pool every Sunday and Monday. Just keep the kids away from the X-rated claw machine at the back.

Anatomically correct rabbit keychains aren’t a prize for the young’uns.

What you’re drinking: Evaro has two specialty drinks, each as dangerous as its name implies.

You can try your luck with the Crack Pipe—a shot of Stolichnaya with Red Bull and your flavor choice of Puckers. We opted for the Bull Blaster this time around (Chalcraft’s taken to calling it the Blue Ball).

It’s one shot of Stoli Blueberi, two shots of Red Bull, tossed back like you’re ripping off a bandage.

Drinking buddy Bret Robinson spent the ensuing 10 seconds shaking his head before asking, “Why’s the world moving so fast?” Kyle Boe merely looked confused, wondering aloud, “Where am I?”

Claim to fame: One look at the Evaro Bar’s menu tells you everything you need to know about their famed $12 burger. They call it “The Tank,” and a seeming disclaimer sums it up as “Evaro’s stomach bomb.” It’s more than a pound of beef piled high with lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, bacon and two layers of cheese. The trick, as we found out, is to eat as much as you can before the monster decides to topple—or before your stomach realizes what’s happening. Oh, and it comes with a generous helping of tots.

Happy Hour: Plenty of specials to choose from during the week, but we recommend just hanging out long enough to take advantage of Evaro’s “train shots.” Thanks to the bar’s proximity to the railroad, patrons get a free Jell-O shot every time a train passes. Gives new meaning to the phrase “Every hour is Happy Hour.”

How to find it: Head up U.S. Highway 93 toward Flathead Lake. Keep your eyes peeled for the left turn after you crest Evaro Hill. It’s about 15 miles from downtown Missoula.

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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. $$-$$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. • 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on all-natural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case.

Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Enjoy the best patio dining in Missoula with our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare featuring the freshest local ingredients. Come in for happy hour Tues-Friday 5:00- 6:30. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner seven nights a week 5:00-close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$

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Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm.

Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Featuring locally produced specials as well as international cuisine and traditional Irish fare. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. • 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins.

549-7979. $$–$$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Enjoy a Rocky Mountain summer high with Albert, vineyard dog, who says “bring a picnic ~ I’ll share.” $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

HAMILTON Spice of Life 163 S. 2nd St. Hamilton 363-4433 Spice of Life welcomes you to the Bitterroot’s best locavore dining experience. Serving up fresh and fun food in a conscientious manner. For lunch try one of our hand made burgers from Lolo Locker or one of our fabulous fresh salads. Dinner selections include natural beef which contains no growth hormones or antibiotics ever, sustainable seafood selections and pasta dishes made from Montana wheat from Pasta Montana. Quench your thirst with beer from right here in Hamilton or try one of our reasonably priced yet fantastic wine selections. Children’s menu available. No reservations. So come as you are to Spice of Life! 163 S 2nd St. Hamilton, MT. Lunch: Mon - Fri 11:00 to 2:00 Dinner: Tues - Sat 5:00 to 9:00. 363-4433.

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ASKARI Buy beef in bulk I saw your article on Arapaho Ranch (see “The problem with grassfed beef,” July 22, 2010). We are Ramsden Ranch/Mountain Beef and have built a business by putting beef in our customers’ freezers seasonally. We are in the Hells Canyon area of Washington and Oregon.

Like Arapaho Ranch, we sell cattle right off the range that have never been fed hay and are 100 percent grazed. But many customers aren’t ready to make the lifestyle change of buying meat once a year and keeping it in the freezer. [Flash note: Ramsden Ranch sells frozen beef, cut and wrapped in bulk quantities. A 1/4 animal is the smallest unit they sell.]

When we saw your article it really hit home for us. It is our story. We spend our time as pastoral grazers herding our cattle and can spend so little time advertising. Our potential is to sell 300 head of 900-pound steers annually. But most consumers aren’t interested in frozen beef.

Mark Ramsden www.mountain-beef.com

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I decided to print this letter because Ramsden makes an important point.

The price list on the website breaks down the process that converts a 900-pound steer into 300 pounds of frozen meat cut and wrapped into meal-sized chunks. When it’s all done, it works out to $5 a pound, which is about what you’d pay for top quality, range-fed burger meat.

But you’re also getting rib roast, tenderloin, t-bone and other cuts that can cost upwards of $25 a pound. So economically, there’s no question it makes sense to go this route, assuming you want to eat top-quality beef and have the freezer space.

Unfortunately, people often balk at buying frozen meat based on the belief that fresh is better.

And even though grocers know better, they still cater to this misconception by advertising “fresh” meat that’s “never frozen.” There’s no difference health-wise, and taste-wise the only difference is frozen meat might be a little more tender—but last time I checked tender beef wasn’t a bad thing.

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If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t read this, perhaps youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Enjoy yet another corndog, carnival ride and plenty more during the Western Montana Fair & Rodeo, which continues today at the Western Montana Fairgrounds, 1101 South Ave. W., from 11 AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 PM. Admission varies in price depending on age from $6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;free. Visit westernmontanafair.com for a complete schedule and admission prices.

Call 721-3247.

Artists in Missoula looking to go beyond a normal canvas are invited by the City of Missoula Public Art Committee to apply for the Traffic Signal Box Art Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Phase III, a project designed to enhance Missoula by creating art on traffic signal boxes.

Submittals are due Aug. 20. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?NID=899 for an application and more info.

End your afternoon with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

Those in the Flathead can keep it fresh and keep it local during the Whitefish Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market, which occurs this and every Thu. from 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 PM until Sept. 16 in the parking lot of the Pin and Cue, 6570 Hwy. 93 S. in Whitefish. Free.

nightlife Those in Kalispell get down in downtown during Thursday!Fest, which features food, a beer/wine garden, Farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Market, arts/crafts, kids activities and music by Fresh Ink from 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:30 PM on Third St. East,

Tragedy begets more tragedy. The Montana Lyric Opera continues its production of Pucciniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Madama Butterfly at the Montana Theatre in UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PARTV Center Fri., Aug. 13 at 7 PM, and Sun., Aug. 15 at 5:30 PM. $19-39, depending on seats. Get tickets at mtopera.org or call 541-9233.

between Main St. and First Ave. E. Free. Visit downtownkalispell.com.

Sip on some well fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for dinner and a summer show with hundreds of your fellow friends during Downtown ToNight, which features food, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities and music from Victory Smokes starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park.

Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missouladowntown.com.

Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict (and no mediation) by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/ social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.org.

Just say â&#x20AC;&#x153;bahhhâ&#x20AC;? when Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats play a mix of folk, bluegrass, rock, blues and Americana at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Witness artist Kelly Apgar creating an oil painting live during a benefit for the West Shore Community Library, which runs from 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9:30 PM at the Best Western White Oak Grand outside of Somers, 4824 Hwy. 93 S. Call 844-3917 for tickets and pricing.

The benefit also includes appetizers, a silent auction and a wine tasting.

Getting buzzed is always allowed: The Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., presents Buzz Time Trivia, which starts at 7 PM this and every Thu. and features trivia plus specials on Jello shots and homemade pizzas.

Free to attend. Call 549-4152. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., August 13, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Jam out with a fine glass of wine and your best chops when Kevin Van Dort hosts the Musicians Jam at the Missoula Winery, which runs this and every Thu. starting with sign-ups at 7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to spectate, and to sign up. Call 830-3296.

It’s all about music and humor with an Irish touch during the Pig and Whistle Vaudeville Show, with a performance at 7 PM at Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

Celebrate rhyme and stanza with some Western poets during a celebration and poetry reading from the anthology New Poets of the American West, starting at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:45 PM and trivia at 8 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

Enjoy a comedy with a southern touch when the Port Polson Players presents a performance of The Dixie Swim Club at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

Get down to a story about a dog, the couple that adopts her, and the drama that ensues during the Stumptown Players rendition of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, with a performance at 8 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $18, with tickets available by calling 871-6447.

The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, offers you something musical during a performance of Sugar Babies, which starts at 8 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Call 837-4886 and visit bigforksummerplayhouse.com for tickets.

Michael Franti and Spearhead bring another peaceful revolution to your booty and your soles when they play their second show of a two-night run with openers Flobots at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $40/$37 advance at Rockin Rudy’s or online at ticketfly.com.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue that starts at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. in Whitefish. $37/$30/$25/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreproject.org for tickets.

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Bowling and karaoke go together like peanut butter and napalm and during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 541-SING. Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during Combat Karaoke at Deano’s Casino near

well as members of Lazerwolfs) brings the heat when they play what’s likely to be metal at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Locals Judgment Hammer and Maria open.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit o’ karaoke with help from the band Party Trained during Ladies’ Night and Live Band Karaoke at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Sho Down just might cut a rug with your cookie cutter when they play country at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

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Enjoy a carnival ride during the Western Montana Fair & Rodeo, which occurs today at the Western Montana Fairgrounds, 1101 South Ave. W., from from 11 AM–10 PM. Admission varies in price depending on age from $6–free. Visit westernmontanafair.com for a complete schedule and admission prices. Call 721-3247.

A blue tongue is not a prerequisite to check out Whitefish’s

SPOTLIGHT cover me bob Industrial rockers Ministry took Bob Dylan’s country rock tune “Lay, Lady, Lay” and gave it a gritty wash over. Jimi Hendrix, on the other hand, turned “All Along the Watchtower” into a psychedelic summer anthem that still stands the test of time, even after all the LSD flashbacks have subsided.

While it’s hard to know exactly how many times Dylan’s songs have been covered—hundreds, perhaps thousands?—one thing is for sure: People love to put their own spin on Bobby the Hobo’s legendary catalog. And musicians in Missoula are no exception. A number of them, 12 to be exact, plan to present their own twist on his tunes during the YMCA YMusic program’s Profound Artists Series Concert.

No word yet on what the set list will look like, but it’s clear that the lineup is extremely diverse. It includes local jazz mavens the Front Street Jazz

WHAT: YMusic’s Profound Artists Series Concert WHEN: Sun., Aug. 15, from noon–8 PM WHERE: Caras Park HOW MUCH: $10/$5 children MORE INFO: Visit ymcamissoula.org and call 721-YMCA

Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3.

Alaska’s Bearfoot claws its way up the bluegrass chain when the band plays the Top Hat at 9 PM. $18 plus fees online at griztix.com or by calling 243-4051.

I pledge allegiance to the shred: New Missoula band American Falcon (featuring Travis Yost, as

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Group, country crooner Russ Nasset, rapper Tahj Kjelland, bluegrass pickers the Broken Valley Roadshow (pictured), and local electronic music beatsmiths Kid Traxiom and Bocks Elder.

Contrary to what you might think, this isn’t an exercise in Dylan worship. It does, in fact, have a philanthropic objective. All proceeds from the show go to the YMusic program, which, if you’re unfamiliar, gives seasoned musicians and novices alike the chance to hone their strumming, singing and drumming skills through classes, workshops and ensembles instructed by a who’s who of Missoula’s music scene.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

Cross your karaoke sword with others during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

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with sets by Shwag Dankus, The Mermaid, Enzymes, Kris Moon and others until 8 AM on Sat. morning. Cost for a three-day pass: $45/$35 advance at Ear Candy and General Custard in Whitefish until Aug. 12/$35 Saturday only.

Visit synergymusicgathering.com for a complete schedule.

A nuclear family in 1953 meets menopause and Vienna sausages, among other things, during a performance of David Mills-Low’s Is It Hot?, starting at 2 PM at the Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

Yet another opportunity to support local farmers and artists arrives during the Jocko Valley Farmers’ Market, which features local produce, goods, live music as well as a barbecue dinner and runs from 4–8 PM this and every Fri. off Hwy. 93 in Arlee, between Rick’s Kustom Kut and The Hangin’ Art Gallery. Free to attend. Email Deb at star@blackfoot.net.

End your afternoon with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 4–7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 830-3296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

Sop up the sights of a true DIY Missoula institution during an open tour of the Zootown Arts Community Center, which runs from 4–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Free. RSVP by e-mailing Hanna at info@zootownarts.com.

—Ira Sather-Olson

Huckleberry Days Arts Festival, which features over 100 vendors of fine arts and food, along with entertainment and a huckleberry dessert bake-off contest, from 11:30 AM–6:30 PM at Depot Park, on the corner of Central Avenue and Railway Street. Free. The festival continues Saturday from 10 AM–6 PM and Sunday from 10 AM–5 PM. Visit whitefishchamber.org.

Beats reign supreme during the Synergy Music Gathering 3.0, a three-day electronic music fest that also includes workshops on yoga and tai chi and begins at noon at Rock Creek Lodge, 7 Rock Creek Road, and features three stages

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

Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703.

Soak up some found/recycled object art, and ink and colored pencil work, which features images of food, animals, monsters and carnival characters when Chris Koelling and Kelly Smith present their work during the Zootown Arts Community Center’s (ZACC) Artist in Residence Show, which hosts an opening from 5:30–8:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Free.

The ZACC’s hallways gallery also features an opening of art quilts by Melanie Gardner. Call 549-7555.

Let a little gypsy jazz slip into your fermented spirits when EL 3-OH! (featuring members of Cash For Junkers), plays at 6 PM at the tasting room of Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free. Call 549-8703.

Mardi Milligan plays classics and originals while you gnaw on Kung Pao Tofu when the guitarist plays Hong Kong Chef, 2009 Brooks St., from 6–9:30 PM. Free. Call 549-6688.

Enjoy some indigo-flavored sounds by the river during Libby’s Riverfront Blues Festival, which

features blues, brews and barbecue food as well as sets from Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin’ Daddies, Phil Berkowitz, Mike Bader and others, and begins at 6 PM at Libby’s Riverfront Park Pavilion, off of City Service Road. $35 for both days/$15 Friday only/$20 Saturday only. The festival continues at 4 PM on Sat., Aug. 14. Visit riverfrontbluesfestival.com for tickets and a full lineup.

A doctor finds himself in a delicate situation with his patient during Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre production of The Girl in the Freudian Slip, with a performance at 7 PM at the theater, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

A tale of a young Japanese woman and her love for an American naval officer awaits when the Montana Lyric Opera continues its 2010 Western Montana Opera Festival with a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, with a performance at 7 PM at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $39/$29/$19 depending on seats. Visit mtopera.org for tickets or call 541-9233.

Dan Dubuque gets slap happy with your broccoli when he plays slap blues/soul guitar at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, at 7 PM. Free.

Ready yourself for a tale about a man and his accursed accordion when the Missoula Public Library presents a World-Wide Cinema Series screening of The Wind Journeys, at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Enjoy a comedy with a southern touch when the Port Polson Players presents a performance of The Dixie Swim Club at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

Get down to a story about a dog, the couple that adopts her, and the drama that ensues during the Stumptown Players rendition of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, with a performance at 8 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $18, with tickets available by calling 871-6447.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue that starts at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. in Whitefish. $37/$30/$25/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreproject.org for tickets.

The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Fiddler on the Roof, with a performance at 8 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Visit bigforksummerplayhouse.com for tickets and a complete schedule of shows.

Larry Hirshberg makes wise guys cry when he plays folk and Americana at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Beavertail Hill State Park, 26 miles east of Missoula on I-90 off the Bevertail Hill exit, presents a program on the history of U.S. Forest Service smoke jumpers with Missoula author Mark Matthews, at 8 PM at the park’s amphitheater. Free. Call 273-4253.

Son of a Gun blasts another round when they play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hip-hop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free.

Call 543-5678.

Be thankful the freedom to speak includes the freedom to sing when you sidle up to the mic at karaoke night at the VFW, kicking off at 9 PM. Free.

If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.

Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327.

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Hall and Oates’ “Kiss on My List” during Combat Karaoke at the Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Fri. at 9 PM. Free.

jumbo is par for the course when he plays folk, Americana and roots music at 9 PM at the Top Hat. $5.

DJ Brand One never lets his stacks of wax wane when he plays hip-hop and other styles at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

Sho Down twangs you up and down when it plays country at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 7281559.

Party Trained slices and dices your one-track mind when they play cover tunes at 9 PM at Quinn’s Hot Springs Resort, 190 Hwy. 135 outside of Paradise. Free.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage

from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

Wipe some elbow grease on your soles and bust a bluesy move to Zeppo MT, who play blues and R&B at 9:30 PM at the Union Club.

Free.

County Line chugs a little bit of brine when they play Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3276.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s.

Free. Call 728-8799.

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Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which

Bust a smooth move to sizzling hip-hop and Top 40 tracks when The Tallest DJ in America spins tunes at 9 PM at The Underground, in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free. Enter from the southwest basement entrance.

Shake it like a salt shaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sweet at Karaoke by Figmo at Joker’s Wild Bar and Restaurant, 4829 N. Reserve St., which features “Brain Strain” trivia and “Scaryoke Karaoke” and begins at 9 PM. Free.

Don’t worry about the smell of burning rubber when Bloomington, Ill.’s Backyard Tire Fire ignites the night with roots rock at 9 PM at the Badlander. $10. Locals the Mason Jar String Band opens. (See Noise in this issue.)

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runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

Snag a sweet knick-knack and help out a local peace center during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s fundraiser rummage sale, which runs from 8 AM–2 PM at the parking lot of KIBO Group Architecture, 140 S. Fourth St. W. Free to attend, with all proceeds to benefit the peace center.

Call Betsy at 543-3955.

If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

Keep your stomach and your local farmer happy during the Hamilton Farmers’ Market, which offers local produce and crafts and runs from 9 AM–12:30 PM on the corner of Bedford and Third Streets in Hamilton. Free to peruse. Call 961-0004.

Celebrate Missoula’s GLBTIQ community during Outfest Missoula 2010, a community party that celebrates gay/queer artists, crafters and business people, plus allies, and features food, info tables, music from Andrea Harsell, DJs Rash, Kris Moon, Tigerlily, Raven Digitalis and the Dead Hipster Dance Party, and runs from 10 AM–10:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 5432224. (See Agenda in this issue.)

The Synergy Music Gathering 3.0 continues at Rock Creek Lodge, 7 Rock Creek Road, with workshops starting at 10:30 AM, and music at noon until 8 AM on Sun. with sets by SPL, Treavor Moontribe, sAuce, Richie Spoonz, Kris Moon, Tak 45 and others. Cost for a three-day pass: $45/$35 advance at Ear Candy and General Custard in Whitefish until Aug. 12/$35 Saturday only.

Visit synergymusicgathering.com for a complete schedule.

Don’t even think about stealing some trees when Beth Hodder signs her book Stealing the Wild, from 10:30 AM–noon at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Call 721-2881.

Enjoy a carnival ride during the Western Montana Fair & Rodeo, which occurs today at the Western Montana Fairgrounds, 1101 South Ave. W., from from 11 AM–10 PM. Admission varies in price depending on age from $6–free. Visit westernmontanafair.com for a complete schedule and admission prices. Call 721-3247.

Grandma and grandpa get artsy with their grandkids during the Missoula Art Museum’s “Saturday Family Art Workshop: Grandma/Grandpa and Me,” which runs from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5, with scholarships available. Call 728-0447.

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Public Library will look like in the future during the library’s “Envision! project,” the second public forum on evaluating the existing building that runs from 1–5 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

Call 721-BOOK. Parents can learn how to get their rugrats interested in planting some greens during the Missoula Urban Demonstration (MUD) Project’s Gardening as a Family Workshop: How to Get Your Kids Involved in Your Home Garden, a class taught by Craig Domes that runs from 1–3 PM at MUD, 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513 to RSVP and visit mudproject.ning.com.

The woolen warriors of Missoula’s Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle bring the world to drink every Sat. at 2 PM in Liquid Planet’s conference room. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

grounds, 1101 South Ave. W. $25 plus ticket fees. Visit westernmontanafair.com for advance tickets.

Call 721-3247.

Salmon Lake State Park, five miles south of Seeley Lake off of Hwy. 83, presents a program on Montana insects with Brian Williams of the Montana Natural History Center, starting with S’mores at 7:30 PM, and the talk at 8 PM, at the park’s amphitheater.

Free. Call 240-0155.

Enjoy a comedy with a southern touch when the Port Polson Players presents a performance of The Dixie Swim Club at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93.

the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Andrea Harsell shows off her wild streak when she plays folk rock, blues and country at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

This ain’t no lonely hearts club: The Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., presents a Saturday Night Dance with Heart to Heart, from 8–11 PM at the center. $5. Call 543-7154.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING.

nightlife Sip on some well fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive.

Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703.

Cure your summer malaise with a hit of Americana and roots music when Tom Catmull and The Clerics play Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St., at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

You too can be the lovechild of Portland, Ore.’s Keegan Smith and the Family when they play pop, funk, soul and reggae at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. A nuclear family in 1953 meets menopause and Vienna sausages, among other things, during a performance of David Mills-Low’s Is It Hot?, starting at 7 PM at the Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

Get touched and embraced with grace when Patrick Marsolek and Grace Hodges lead Tango Night, which starts with beginning tango at 7 PM, intermediate tango at 8 and Milonga at 9, all at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $15 entire evening/$7 class/$5 Milonga only. Call 541-7240.

Slap a bucket seat and get generous with your dollars when Olympa, Wash.’s Generifus plays indie pop at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., at 7 PM. $5, all ages/free for kids. Malarkey, The Scribblers and Cassandra open.

It’s all about musical reincarnation when Creedence Clearwater Revisted plays the Western Montana Fair & Rodeo with openers Chance McKinney ‘n Crosswire at 7:30 PM at the fair-

Keep the third eye open. Artist Kelly Smith presents her quirky wood work during the Zootown Arts Community Center’s Artist in Residence Show opening reception Fri. Aug. 13, from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free.

$18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

Get down to a story about a dog, the couple that adopts her, and the drama that ensues during the Stumptown Players rendition of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, with a performance at 8 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $18, with tickets available by calling 871-6447.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue that starts at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. in Whitefish. $37/$30/$25/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreproject.org for tickets.

Son of a Gun blasts another round when they play country at

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Expect something sizzling and not lukewarm during the Missoula Outdoor Cinema’s screening of Some Like It Hot, at 8:46 PM on the lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 and visit missoulaoutdoorcinema.org.

Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American. Free.

Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free.

The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip-hop, electronic and other bass-heavy beats ‘til the bar closes during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

DJ Bionic keeps the remixes and mash-ups flowing while you shake it when he plays at 9 PM at The Underground, in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free. Enter from the southwest basement entrance.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sweet at Karaoke by Figmo at Joker’s Wild Bar and Restaurant, 4829 N. Reserve St., which features “Brain Strain” trivia and “Scaryoke Karaoke” and begins at 9 PM. Free.

Party Trained slices and dices your one-track mind when they play cover tunes at 9 PM at Quinn’s Hot Springs Resort, 190 Hwy. 135 outside of Paradise. Free.

Quit dancing with that swizzle stick and bust a move to Cash for Junkers, who play Americana with a swing at 9 PM at the Lumberjack Saloon, off Hwy. 12 and one mile up Graves Creek Road near Lolo.

Free. Visit lumberjacksaloon.com.

Go ahead and join the strike when Phoenix, Ariz.’s The Haymarket Squares brings the revolution with anarcho-influenced punkgrass at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Locals Candyland Liberation Front open. (See Noise in this issue.)

Chicago’s Netherfriends takes your hand thorough a psychedelic netherworld when the band plays psych indie pop at 9 PM at the Top Hat. $5.

Don’t expect a noogie fest when the Country Boogie Boys play The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery every Sat. at 9:30 PM. Free.

Call 542-1471 on Sat. after 10 AM to register.

The Tom Cats know you just want a few hits of that lactic acid when they play variety tunes at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3276.

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Just when you thought there weren’t enough farmers’ markets, along comes the Target Range Community Farmers’ Market, which features an array of local

products and runs from 10 AM–1 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 10 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free to attend/$5 vendor fee per space. Call Todd at 531-0877.

The Synergy Music Gathering 3.0 finishes off its final day at Rock Creek Lodge, 7 Rock Creek Road, with workshops starting at 10:30 AM, followed by music from Beats Wellington and The Great Grahambino from noon–2:30 PM. Cost for a three-day pass: $45/$35 advance at Ear Candy and General Custard in Whitefish until Aug. 12. Visit synergymusicgathering.com for a complete schedule.

Enjoy a carnival ride during the Western Montana Fair & Rodeo, which occurs today at the Western Montana Fairgrounds, 1101 South Ave. W., from from 11 AM–8 PM. Admission varies in price depending on age from $6–free. Visit westernmontanafair.com for a complete schedule and admission prices. Call 721-3247.

The songs of Bob Dylan will most certainly be “blowin’ in the wind” during YMusic’s Profound Artists Series Concert, which features local artists including Russ Nasset, Kira Means, Broken Valley Roadshow, Tahj Kjelland and others covering Bob Dylan songs from noon–8 PM at Caras Park. $10/$5 children. Includes drinks and food available for purchase. The concert doubles as a fundraiser for YMusic. Call 721YMCA. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

The Friends of 2 Rivers present its “Community at the Confluence” nature festival, which features speakers discussing river restoration and area wildlife, as well as interactive activities, and music by Dan Dubuque and the Blue Mountain Music Makers, from noon–4 PM at the old Milltown Dam site, off Juniper Drive near Milltown. Free. Visit friendsoftworivers.org for directions, and call Judy at 258-6335.

Yet another opportunity to peruse local arts and crafts hits Missoula during the Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 1–5 PM this and every Sun. at the New Park parking lot, between

A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park pavillion. Free to attend.

Enjoy a comedy with a southern touch when the Port Polson Players presents a performance of The Dixie Swim Club at 2 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with a performance at 2 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Visit bigforksummerplayhouse.com for tickets and a complete schedule of shows.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue that starts at 3 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. in Whitefish. $37/$30/$25/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreproject.org for tickets.

A doctor finds himself in a delicate situation with his patient during Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre production of The Girl in the Freudian Slip, with a performance at 4 PM at the theater, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

Celebrate Missoula’s newest place to play during the grand opening of Boyd Park’s Playground, which features ice cream, music, games and plenty more fun from 4–7 PM at the park, 3131 Washburn St. Free. Call 721-PARK.

when the Montana Lyric Opera presents a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, with a performance at 5:30 PM at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $39/$29/$19 depending on seats. Visit mtopera.org for tickets or call 541-9233.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry. See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke

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contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Men always get to belt out a slick tune or two during Man Night featuring Karaoke, which occurs this and every Sun. starting at 9 PM at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S. Free. Call 251-5402.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which offers free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz

Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 9:30 PM. Free. This week: jazz from the Freemole Quartet, and DJs Gary Stein and Ryan Wendel.

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Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

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nightlife Get this: Every Mon., Lolo’s Square Dance Center, 9555 Hwy. 12, begins with beginners’ lessons at 6:30 PM and then moves into full square dance party mode at 8.

First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141.

You’ve got another chance to connect the dots this evening when the VFW hosts bingo at 7 PM. Free.

John Sporman and Tom Catmull won’t be snuggling with your steak when they play the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, from 7–10 PM. Free.

Who says America never invented a pub sport? Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

Alcohol and bowling go hand over foot during Monday Madness at Five Valley’s Bowl, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which features $1 bowling after 9 PM as well as $1.25 Coors Light cans this and every Mon. at the bowling center.

Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

Kick off your week with a drink, some free pool and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace. Free.

Denver, Colo.’s The Legendary River Drifters ride the waves of an Americana, folk and rock river when they play the Top Hat at 9 PM. $3–$5 cover. (See Noise in this issue.)

See if your buzzed mind can correctly guess what family of animalia the epihippus came from during Buzz Time Showdown Trivia, which features free trivia—along with drink specials—and runs from 6–9 PM this and every Tue. at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4152.

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson during an open mic/jam night hosted by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the

A homicide detective realizes he’s got some bloody work cut out for him when author Jim Thane reads and signs copies of No Place to Die, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Those who have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

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 discov-

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WHAT: Plan-It-X Fest documentary screening and concert

Men drink on the cheap and can enjoy a game of pigskin, as well as karaoke, during Men’s Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Mon. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

HOW MUCH: $6, all ages

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If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife Ladies, celebrate your feminist tendencies with cheap drinks when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Ladies’ Night every Tue. from 5 PM to close. Free. Call 370-3200.

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This week in Missoula, you can catch a screening of if it ain’t cheap, it ain’t punk: d.uni.ty, a documentary by filmmaker Joe Biel about Plan-It-X Records’ history, ethics and massive impact on the DIY punk rock scene. It features interviews with label head Chris Clavin, pictured, as wells as fans and bands like

WHO: Filmmaker Joe Biel with music from Imperial Can, Tyson Ballew and GODDAMMITBOYHOWDY WHEN: Wed., Aug. 18, at 7 PM WHERE: Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W.

MORE INFO: Visit plan-it-x.com This Bike is a Pipe Bomb. The film incorporates clips from the label’s 2006 Plan-It-X Fest in Bloomington, Ind.—and, I have to say, it’s an inspiring thing to watch. The film captures a scene where community, unity and loving music for the sake of music takes precedence over money and “making it” as a band.

That seems like rare thing these days.

Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. Email terillovet@hotmail.com.

This will be off the chain: Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., hosts the Bikestravaganza: The Off the Chainring Tour, which features discussions about Portland, Ore.’s bicycling activism community with Joe Biel and Elly Blue, as well as screenings of short films by Biel on the issue, starting at 7 PM. $5, suggested donation. This also doubles as a fundraiser for Free Cycles. Visit bikestravaganza.wordpress.com.

This isn’t just any old film screening. As an added bonus, both Biel and Clavin will be on hand to answer questions about the documentary. After the screening, Clavin will present a puppet show titled “But What Can I Do” before kicking out some punk rock with his band Imperial Can—a grassroots music experience further fortified by locals Tyson Ballew and GODDAMMITBOYHOWDY. It’s a pretty awesome do-it-yourself opportunity to add to the old to-do list.

ery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? What exactly is that thing that Cubans call “Yank tanks”? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

You have practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 2739992 to reserve your spot.

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Kid Traxiom and Friends shred supa hard—on their laptops, that is—when they play an array of electronic music at 9 PM at the Badlander. Free.

All royalty gets irie during Royal Reggae Night, which features reggae, dancehall and hip-hop remixes spun by an array of DJs starting at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

Austin, Texas’ Mario Matteoli and His Band kneads your knees when they play folk, country and rock at the Top Hat at 9 PM. Cover TBA. Keep it on the cool side when you listen to some hip-hop and enjoy a drink special or two during hiphop Tuesday with Wapikiya Records, which features DJ B Mune spinning beats starting at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free. Call 830-3276.

WEDNESDAY

In terms of a do-it-yourself ethos, Plan-It-X Records takes the cake. Since it began in the mid1990s, the punk label has stayed true to its slogan of “If it ain’t cheap, it ain’t punk” by self-releasing CDs that cost $5, and by championing the use of inexpensive alternative music venues like basements.

Have a drink and take a load off in the company of your fellow laborers during the Badlander’s Service Industry Night, which runs this and every Mon. and includes drink specials for service industry workers starting at 9 PM. Free. Also, if you’ve got an iPod, bring it in and they’ll play it.

TUESDAY

Chance mixes with money and prizes during bingo night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which occurs this and every Tue. starting at 8 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue that starts at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. in Whitefish. $37/$30/$25/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreproject.org for tickets.

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Tue. night at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

Ladies get their drink on and celebrate themselves with $1.50 well drinks during Ladies’ Night at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which runs this and every Tue. starting at 9 PM. Free to attend.

Call 549-4152.

Your weekly lunch date with almost everyone comes at 11 AM at Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which features food vendors, kids’ activities and music this week by Ben Fuller. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missouladowntown.com.

It’s the dope: The Missoula County Commissioners Office is currently looking for citizens interested in filling two positions on the Missoula County “Marijuana Oversight Committee”—which oversees Missoula’s “lowest priority” marijuana initiative. Applications are due Wed. Aug. 25. Visit co.missoula.mt.us/ mcbcc/forms.htm for an application, or call 258-4877.

All teamsters past, present and future are hereby invited to celebrate 100 years of success during the Teamsters Local Union #2 ice cream and dessert social, which runs from 4–7 PM at Franklin Park, on the corner of Kemp Street and S. 10th Street W. Free. Call 543-3472.

nightlife Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week. Visit kettlehouse.com.

Russ Nasset lets you examine his windpipe when he plays a solo set of honky tonk at the Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St. in Stevensville, at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

Develop eloquence in the face of inebriation, as well as impressive business contacts, when

Toastmasters meets this, and every, Wed. at 6 PM in St. Patrick Hospital’s Duran Learning Center.

Free. Call 728-9117.

If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 6:30 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

Having fully bitched out Barnes & Noble, the Missoula Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle brings the circle of warm fuzzies to the Good Food Store, where you can knit purls of wisdom every Wed. at 7 PM. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

Slip a little DIY into your night during the Plan-It-X Fest, a show featuring a screening of the documentary if it ain’t cheap, it ain’t punk: d.uni.ty., as well as a puppet show and performance by the Plan-It-X Records punk band Imperial Can, at 7 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. $6, all ages.

Locals Tyson Ballew and GODDAMMITBOYHOWDY open. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Jazz guitarist Peter Sprague lets some blue notes emanate from his axe when he plays with Craig Hall and Brad Edwards at 7 PM at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

Missoula’s Trivial Beersuit, a trivia night for the layperson, expands its tentacles to the Press Box for four rounds of trivia with sign ups at 7:45 PM, followed by the game at 8, this and every Wed. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St. Free. You can also find clues to every week’s game by befriending “Trivial Beersuit” on Facebook. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other like-minded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue that starts at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. in Whitefish. $37/$30/$25/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreproject.org for tickets.

The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Fiddler on the Roof, with a performance at 8 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Visit bigforksummerplayhouse.com for tickets and a complete schedule of shows.

He’s easy on your ears, and your pocketbook. The North Bay Grille in Kalispell, 139 First Ave. W., presents a set of folk and classics from Trusten starting at 8 PM. Free. Call 755-4441.

Cure that case of steak withdrawal with some cover tunes courtesy of Party Trained, who play the Hideout Restaurant, 942 Hub Lane, south of Hamilton, at 8 PM. Free.

Enjoy a comedy with a southern touch when the Port Polson Players presents a performance of The Dixie Swim Club at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

Get down to a story about a dog, the couple that adopts her, and the drama that ensues during the Stumptown Players rendition of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, with a performance at 8 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $18, with tickets available by calling 871-6447.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: “Yank tanks” are known in Cuba as classic cars.

The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free.

Get a wicked case of “bowling finger” during Five Valley’s Bowl’s Wicked Wednesday, which features $2 bowling after 9 PM plus $2 cans of Bud Light this and every Wed. at the bowling center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

No intensive training required: The Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., presents beer pong this and every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free, with prizes. Call 251-5402.

Don’t ever worry about getting into a sing-off during Combat Karaoke, which runs this and every Wed. at Deano’s Casino on North Reserve, 5550 N. Reserve St., starting at 9 PM. Free.

Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesday’s at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where $7 all you can drink Miller Lite draft beer mixes with music by Chereal and karaoke between sets this and every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Includes other drink specials as well.

Prepare to laugh your ass off and get beatbox-ified when comedian and beatbox musician Reggie Watts performs at the Palace at 9 PM. $5. (See Soundcheck in this issue.)

Ben Fuller kicks bad chord progressions to the curb when he plays folk, fusion and jazz with opener Kevin Van Dort at 9 PM at the Top Hat. $3–$5 cover.

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Artists in Missoula looking to go beyond a normal canvas are invited by the City of Missoula Public Art Committee to apply for the Tr a f f i c S i g n a l B o x A r t Project–Phase III, a project designed to enhance Missoula by creating art on traffic signal boxes.

Submittals are due Aug. 20. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?NID= 899 for an application and more info.

If you’ve got pain, hop on the medical marijuana train when CannabisCare presents the Caregiver Expo at the Browadway Inn, 1609 W. Broadway St., which runs from noon–8 PM and features free medical marijuana info classes hosted by prominent caregivers, lawyers and patients in the area, as well as the chance to see a doctor for a renewal or a first time card. Free to attend. Call 207-7078.

End your afternoon with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 4–7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier.

Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 830-3296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

Those in the Flathead can keep it fresh and keep it local during the Whitefish Farmers’ Market, which occurs this and every Thu. from 4–6 PM until Sept. 16 in the parking lot of the Pin and Cue, 6570 Hwy. 93 S. in Whitefish. Free.

Celebrate friendship in book form during author Silke Jauck’s Friendship Book launch party and book signing, which features the signing, a book raffle, and entertainment from the Blue Mountain Music Makers, from 4–6 PM at The Learning Tree at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free.

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by Barnyard Riot from 5–7:30 PM on Third St. East, between Main St. and First Ave. E. Free. Visit downtownkalispell.com.

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Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive.

Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703.

It’s totally going to be rad: The Missoula Art Museum’s Artini celebrates its fifth birthday with Total Fest IX during Totaltini, which features performances by Abe Coley, FagRag, Muhammad Ali, and Japanther, from 5:30–9 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Also includes a panel discussion on music and visual art at 6 PM. Call 728-0447.

It’s time for dinner and a summer show with hundreds of your fellow friends during Downtown ToNight, which features food, kids’ activities, and music from Blue Collar starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missouladowntown.com.

Help support an organization that wants to provide locally grown food to low-income people— among other aims—during Garden City Harvest’s annual Farm Party, which features a farm fresh meal plus music by Reverend Slanky and Mudslide Charley, starting at 6 PM at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive. $15/$7 children 10 and under/$2 off the cost for riding your bike or walking. Call 523-3663 and visit gardencityharvest.org.

Jam out with a fine glass of wine and your best chops when Kevin Van Dort hosts the Musicians Jam at the Missoula Winery, which runs this and every Thu. starting with sign-ups at 7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to spectate, and to sign up. Call 830-3296.

Jazz guitarist Peter Sprague lets some blue notes emanate from his axe when he plays with Craig Hall and Brad Edwards at 7 PM at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

A doctor finds himself in a delicate situation with his patient

during Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre production of The Girl in the Freudian Slip, with a performance at 7 PM at the theater, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3.

The Wild Coyotes get doughy with your doughnuts when they play The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Prepare for a totally awesome time during Total Fest IX, Missoula’s independent music fest that begins at the Palace at 9:30 PM with sets from Belt of Vapor, The Ax, Birthday Suits and others. $40 for a three-day pass/$10 Thursday night only/$20 each for Friday and Saturday nights only. Visit wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com for a complete list of bands.

Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.

B o u l d e r , C o l o .’ s C e l e s t i a l Hoedown wants you to break out the jam and juice when they play rock, blues and jam at the Top Hat at 10 PM. $3–$4 cover.

Keep those options open during Birds & Bees LLC’s Polytana: Poly Potluck Party No. 4, a potluck for polyactive and polycurious people that begins at 7 PM at Birds & Bees, 1515 E. Broadway St. Ste. B. $10 suggested donation, and participants are asked to bring a dish to share. This is also an off premise event, meaning no sexual contact.

It’s also dry, meaning no drugs or alcohol. Call 544-1019 and visit aboutsexuality.org.

Life in a cabin in Glacier National Park gets examined and adored when James Webster Sherwood reads and signs copies of Going to the Sun, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Call 721-2881.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:45 PM and trivia at 8 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musical revue that starts at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. in Whitefish. $37/$30/$25/$18 for students.

Call 862-SHOW or visit alpinetheatreproject.org for tickets.

Enjoy a comedy with a southern touch when the Port Polson Players presents a performance of The Dixie Swim Club at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call

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Portland, Ore.’s SPL makes heads spin Exorcist-style. The dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass artist is one of 50+ electronic artists playing the three-day Synergy 3.0 music festival at Rock Creek Lodge Fri. Aug. 13, through Sun., Aug. 15. $45/$35 advance at Ear Candy and General Custard in Whitefish/$35 for Saturday only.

883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

Get down to a story about a dog, the couple that adopts her, and the drama that ensues during the Stumptown Players rendition of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, with a performance at 8 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $18, with tickets available by calling 871-6447.

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Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where

If you dig music on the edgier side, I’d recommend checking out American Falcon, a new project featuring members of The Lazerwolfs and Travis Yost (Tom Catmull and The Clerics, and the New Hijackers). The band turns its amps up at the Palace on Thu., Aug. 12, at 9 PM. While I have yet to hear what they sound like, I’m guessing they shred, considering the talents of the aforementioned members, and the fact that local thrash metal outfit Judgment Hammer is one of the opening bands. Bang your head, and keep the good times rolling by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., A u g . 13 t o c a l e n d a r @ m i s soulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord 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.”

Ladies and gents, it’s time to secure your bike helmets and hit the trails for some serious huffing, puffing and pedaling on a mountain that’s just over 8,000 feet in elevation. If that sounds like a challenge worth tackling with your trusty bike frame, head east on Sat., Aug. 14, to the Big Sky Resort in Big Sky for the 15th annual Lone Peak’s Revenge, a two-day mountain bike race on Big Sky’s Andesite Mountain that begins with a cross country race on a 6.7-mile loop for expert racers at 10 AM. Cross-country races for other race categories kick off at 10:10 and 10:20, with a kids race to follow. Then, on Sun., Aug. 15, you can ride with the wind during a downhill race on the Revenge DH Trail that begins at 11 AM. $30/$25 advance until 10 PM on Fri., Aug. 13, with same-day registration from 7:30–9 AM. Visit gascyclingteam.com to register and call 995-2313.

You could also take a cue from a Pink Floyd song and “Run Like Hell,” but in the most enjoyable way possible, on Sat., Aug. 14, during the Bigfork River Run/Walk 5k, a benefit for Big Fork’s high school and middle school cross country programs that begins at 8:30 AM at Bigfork High School, 600 Commerce St. in Bigfork. Once the race is on, you’ll run or walk through some seriously spiffy scenery on the Bigfork River Trail and eventually wind your way back to the high school. $20, with race-day registration at 7:30 AM. Click to runmt.com/cal1.html to download a form, and call Jill at 212-6760.

Of course, if you’d rather run, swim and bike in the beauty of the Swan Valley, then head over to the YMCA Seeley Lake Challenge Triathlon/Duathlon on Sat., Aug. 14, which begins at 9 AM at the Riverpoint Campground, off Boy Scout Road in Seeley Lake. Here’s the skinny: The triathlon features a 300–600 yard swim (depending on ability), a 3-mile run, and finishes off with a nice 10-mile bike ride, while the duathlon consists of a 3-mile run, a 10-mile bike ride, and then another 3-mile run. Get yourself registered early for $25, or slack

off and show up at 7 AM on Saturday for day-of registration, which runs you $30. Visit runmt.com/cal1.html to download a registration form, and call 677-2309.

Raise your glass for river restoration—but don’t even think about drinking the river water—on Sun., Aug. 15, during The Friends of 2 Rivers Community at the Confluence nature festival, which runs from noon to 4 PM at the old Milltown Dam site, off Juniper Drive near Milltown. Free. The aqua-based soiree features speakers like Doug Martin and Jamie Jonkel giving the good word on river restoration and area wildlife, along with activities from groups including the Watershed Education Network. Live music is also on tap from slap guitar master

talks with reps from the U.S. Forest Service, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and others. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

On Mon., Aug. 16, sign up to ski and save lives during the National Ski Patrol Outdoor Emergency Care Technician Course, which occurs on Monday and Thursday nights in early September through December. This is the first step you’ll take in order to become a National Ski Patroller at Montana Snowbowl, so if carving powder and serving your fellow skiers is your winter calling, shoot an e-mail to snowbowlskipatrol@gmail.com to sign up. But do it before Aug. 19. $350, which includes instruction and materials.

Those of you near Stevensville can take aim at something educational on Mon., Aug. 16, when the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks presents a hunter education class that runs from 6 to 9 PM at the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Free.

The class runs at the same time Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights until Aug. 30, with a field course planned for Aug. 28. Visit fwp.mt.gov to sign up or call 542-5500.

Believe me, this is going to be off the chain, for real: On Tue., Aug. 17, all bicycle enthusiasts ought to hightail it to Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., at 7 PM for the “Bikestravaganza: The Off the Chainring Tour,” a night of urban bicycling/alternative transportation appreciation with Portland, Ore.’s Joe Biel and Elly Blue. The event features discussions on alternative transportation issues, plus screenings of short films by Biel, and a slideshow by Blue. $5 suggested donation. This also doubles as a fundraiser for Free Cycles, and local bike expert Bob Giordano plans to speak about alternative transportation initiatives here in Missoula. Visit bikestravaganza.wordpress.com.

I’ll leave on a hiking and running note with a heads up about the 23rd annual Big Mountain Run, which begins at 9:15 AM on Sat., Aug. 21, at the Danny On Trail at the Whitefish Photo by Chad Harder Mountain Resort, just outside Whitefish. Here’s what’s in store: You’ll ascend 2,200 vertical feet, in 3.8 miles, in order to reach Dan Dubuque, as well as the Blue Mountain Music Makers. Visit friend- the summit of that monstrous mountain. And, as a bonus, those of you sof2rivers.org for specific directions, and call 258-6335 with questions. with dogs can bring them along for the run, but they need to be Those of you yearning for another shot of nature-based revelry leashed. $20 family/$10 per person/$5 children age 16 and under, ought to then head west on I-90 on Sun., Aug. 15, so you can make with pre-registration due Aug. 19. Also, this is a benefit for the Glacier it to The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup’s Community and Nordic Ski Team, just so you know. Call Robin at 862-8121.

Now go push your chain to the limit.

Wildlife Appreciation Potluck, which begins at 3 PM at the Ninemile Community Center, 25620 Nine Mile Road. Free. Expect an calendar@missoulanews.com awesome afternoon filled with homemade food, prize drawings and

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Food network Volumen eats its way through a rare three-city tour

by Jason Cohen

Spokane, Seattle, Portland. Normally you’d call that a “three-city tour,” but when the band is Volumen, “ninemeal tour” is probably more appropriate…and “15-meal tour” more accurate. The Missoula quintet’s memories and road stories are almost always edible: Cheese and mustard sandwiches on white bread with fresh pickles at a gas station in Oklahoma. Chili onion rings in Sacramento. Iron Cheffing 20 different french fry dipping sauces in exchange for crashing on somebody’s floor. Drummer Bob Marshall’s recollection of renowned L.A. club Spaceland?

“They had the best Thai food right next door,” he says.

Food is also what puts food on part of the band’s table in Missoula. Marshall is the owner-chef of Biga Pizza.

Bassist Bryan Hickey manages Big Dipper Ice Cream (and co-owns its new truck). Singer/guitarist Doug Smith used to run the cooking school at the Good Food Store, and is now a wine consultant. As for keyboardist Chris Bacon (who manages Edge of the World and makes BOMB skateboards) and singer/guitarist Shane Hickey (a computer network guy), they just like to eat—especially Hickey, creator of the upload-your-own-food-porn website Chewtime (www.chewtime.com). The band members’ careers and families are a big reason why they haven’t hit the road in four years.

“This is the longest I’ve been gone since the restaurant opened,” says Marshall of his four-day absence.

I meet up with Volumen on the last night of the tour in Portland, where the rock club Dante’s is a cruller’s throw away from local institution Voodoo Doughnut, famous for both its vegan doughnuts and its bacon maple bar, as well as other quirky touches (“I got VD in Portland,” reads a bumper sticker). It’s 6 p.m. on a tourist-heavy Saturday, and the Voodoo line is 50-people-long around the block.

“I wouldn’t wait in that line for crazy sex, let alone a donut that costs four dollars,” Shane Hickey says.

At the moment, he and a few others are content to accept free salads and pizza from the club. But clearly that won’t do for Marshall, who already had a ho-hum heatlamped slice the night of the Spokane show, and rel-

ishes discoveries—sometimes, back when the band was touring hard, to everybody’s irritation.

“We’re driving from Phoenix to Austin or something, three in the morning, exhausted, and we’ll pull over and ask, ‘Hey, where can we eat?’” Shane Hickey says. “And it’s like, ‘Well, Denny’s or Taco Bell.’ Then Bob will be like, ‘Is there anywhere with more soul?’ I’m like, ‘Fuck you, we’re going to Denny’s!’”

It’s still too early for Portland’s downtown food carts, which are mostly late-night on the weekends, so I lead Marshall and Smith to Santeria, a newish Mexican hole-inthe-wall attached to Portland’s oldest strip bar, Mary’s Club (just imagine Charlie B’s with boobs and butts).

“We had Mexican a lot this trip,” Smith notes: once in Spokane and once in Seattle, both trucks. But earlier today, they’d had a dim sum feast at Jade Garden in Seattle’s International District. That made up for last night’s low— the nuclear-yellow pickled eggs an equally pickled Shane and Bryan Hickey had at Seattle dive The Buckaroo.

“I’m like, ‘I like eggs, I like pickles. This is gonna work out!’” says Shane. “Terrible. You bite it and it’s really hard to get through, really rubbery. And then inside, it’s dry, like egg dust.”

Smith passes up a taco plate called “When Pigs Fly”— three different kinds of pork tacos—in favor of the “First Class Flight,” which includes one pork carnitas, one pork pastor and a chicken tinga. He also orders a fantastic cocktail called the “Spicy Robert”: tequila, mint, lime juice, agave nectar and cayenne pepper. Marshall orders chile relleno with cinnamon tomato sauce, cotija cheese and guacamole.

“Those two are pretty safe,” the waiter says, putting down two squeeze bottles of salsa. Then comes the third bottle: the habanero. As if there’s any doubt what these guys will be having.

“Food is just a vehicle for condiments,” Smith says, pouring out the salsa, and I wonder what the rock ’n’ roll equivalent of that statement might be.

“Music is just a vehicle for effects pedals,”

Marshall suggests, digging in intently. Soon he’s sweating like Sipowicz on his first date with Sylvia on “NYPD Blue.”

“A compliment to the chef,” he says.

Three hours later, after a hard-edged set in front of “West Missoula” (the audience included more than 20 expats, including former International Playboys drummer Joe Brennan and Brent Shultz from Squalora), a portion of the traveling party heads to Mary’s Club itself. Marshall misses out on nearly all the unclothed entertainment, as he wants one of those cocktails—and then we spend 10 minutes chatting with Santeria’s manager about ordering procedures, local farmers, recipes and flavor combinations.

Don’t be surprised if there’s tequila-mint dressing on the Biga special salad soon.

The night ends with a Hawaiian “plate lunch” of chicken thighs and mac salad for Shane, never mind the rat we see under the cart (“I’m used to bears and raccoons”), as well as “Northwest quesadillas” (fresh-caught albacore tuna, chicken sausage, vegetables) at the Killa Dilla truck parked next to the van. Then, surprisingly, just as Portland’s bars are closing, the Voodoo line gets short.

Marshall spends the wait fantasizing about savory donuts (“Ortegas chiles and cheddar. Blue corn and ancho...”), and is unimpressed by Voodoo’s sugary schtick.

“The flavors are so unimaginative,” he says. “I don’t want Froot Loops on a donut.” (For the record, though, the cost is less than four bucks.)

“How is it?” Marshall asks the customer in front of us, a Latina in a skin-tight, low-cut top who then proves to be an astute culinary critic. “It’s good, but I’m really drunk,” she says.

For Volumen, eight hours of driving and a Monday workday beckon, but the food part of the tour still isn’t over. Come morning, there will be “Dutch Tacos” with maple syrup and sausage from Flavour Spot, a Portland truck that partially inspired the Clark Fork River Market’s Mmmmm…Waffles stand. And at 6:20 p.m. Missoula time, I get a two-word text from Marshall about the band’s next stop: “DICK’S SPOKANE.” arts@missoulanews.com

Members of local new wave rock band Volumen spend as much time on tour searching out the best street food as they do kicking out the jams. Here, Volumen stand inside the Big Dipper freezer.

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The Haymarket Squares Dancing in the Streets self-released

Anarchist activist Emma Goldman allegedly said, “If I can’t dance I don’t want to be a part of your revolution.” Phoenix-based punkgrass band The Haymarket Squares seems to subscribe to the same tenet. The band’s new album is a diverse collection of jigs best suited for a raucous pub. Some songs are more high-lonesome, others gleefully hyperactive, but the fact that the band uses kazoos and barbershop quartet breakdowns takes it to a whole new level of liveliness.

In truth, it’s the lyrics that really give the album vim. The politics here are clear: religious wars, industrial farms, authority figures and anti-marijuana nazis all get the band’s goat. Instead of whining, The Haymarket

Backyard Tire Fire Good To Be

Kelsey Street Records

Backyard Tire Fire must be getting sick of hearing about this Tom Petty guy, so I’m not gonna mention him. I will mention “Roadsong #39.”

It’s reminiscent of modern country radio with a pinch of The Nuge’s rock and roll strut. Sneaking in some nice auxiliary percussion in the breakdown and surprising us with an acoustic guitar solo on the outro, BTF does it better than those interchangeable cowboys/fancy-lads

The Legendary River Drifters Into the Darkness self-released

The Legendary River Drifters brand of folk is about as “in your face” as accordions, mandolins and saws can get. From the get go, Suzanne Magnusson’s raw vocal holler darn near overpowers the acoustic ensemble.

But on tracks such as “The Fire” an agreement is struck between her and the band (in which she plays the saw: so spooky, so sexy) where she will belt it out and they will quietly build a solid foundation of creative arrangements that allows her to pert near scream her bloody head off.

These kids know about balance and Magnusson’s voice is somehow as soft as it is thunderous on

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Good Day Better self-released

On Good Day Better, Brooklyn-based band Benyaro cranks out folk country anthems brimming with harmonica, stand-up bass and powerful piano chords. At times, the songs are so dramatic you can imagine the music all taking place with actors under a spotlight during an elaborate indie rock opera. That’s not necessarily a good thing: “Mother Daughter,” in particular, dives a little far into the affected, sing-songy theatrical

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Squares delivers hilariously wicked lines to poke fun at all the stiffs.

“The Rapture” actually sounds like an organinfused hymnal, but it’s really a joyful song about the day when the rapture takes all the self-righteous Christians away. “Gateway Drug” makes fun of people who preach about the “evil sprouting up across the land.” Monster truck owners and inefficient city planners also take a hit. It’s a smart and well-crafted album, plus totally satisfying in the way making fun of uptight people and silly rules often is.

(Erika Fredrickson) The Haymarket Squares plays the Palace Saturday, Aug. 14, at 9 PM, with Candyland Liberation Front. $5. plaguing CMT. Still, it’s only rock and roll.

Speaking of the Travelling Wilburys, the production by Los Lobos keyboardist Steve Berlin reeks of Jeff Lynne, particularly on “Food For Thought” with its perversely catchy chorus. It would torque you off if it wasn’t done so well. Since I’m not gonna talk about Tom Petty I will not mention “Estelle.” Or that my backyard neighbor asked me if this was a new Petty track. I won’t mention Ed Anderson swallowing his vocals or allowing his phrasing to hang out a bit too long here and there.

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“Jesus.” Her saw quietly traces around the melody, creating a melancholic juxtaposition of voice and instrument as she wonders if Jesus will remember her on judgment day. The Devil gets his due on the high-energy, tick-in-yourshorts jig, “Devil Dance.” At 1:53, it could last another three minutes and we would all be sweatier, better people for having heard it.

Embracing the great themes of folk music—regret, redemption, whiskey, Satan, Jesus—The Drifters make it all sound so easy, but doing what’s been done and making it this interesting is tough. (Jason McMackin) The Legendary River Drifters plays the Top Hat Monday, Aug. 16, at 9 PM. Cover TBA. realm, making my more cynical side cringe.

That said, it’s also true that about three-quarters of the album emanates a striking, authentic grace.

Singer Ben Musser studied music with North Carolina troubadour Malcolm Halcombe, and you can hear in his voice the same soulful, raspy confidence that makes Halcombe so appealing. Musser’s sister, Meg Chamberlin, also sings on the album and her sweet, mischievous approach to “Put All My Money On You” makes it by far one of the album’s best tracks. Lyrics on “Who Carried You” include lines about churchyards, liquor stores, clotheslines and Agatha Christie, patching together a fresh, engaging story. Other badass songs like the title track and “Dogs” make me feel like doing brave things. That’s a good aspect to have on any album.

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Different beat Montana native goes big with comedy mashup

by Cameron Rasmusson

If any of Watts’ recent endeavors carries that kind of significance, it’s opening for O’Brien. Watts’ friend Todd Levine, one of O’Brien’s writers, recommended him as the opening act, and the production staff sealed the arrangement within 24 hours. From mid-April to mid-June, Watts traveled with O’Brien, Andy Richter and their crew for a 40-show tour where he performed in front of thousands. One of the shows was televised nationally on TBS. “The whole experience was amazing, awesome, perfect,” he says. “There was always something interesting happening all the time.”

Throughout the tour, Watts spent as much time with his collaborators as possible. He says O’Brien and Richter turned out to be easy-going and downto-earth. Everyone had their own quirks, like the trombone player La Bamba, who Watts claims would make out with random girls in line. Plus, there were plenty of fringe benefits, like celebrity meetings.

“Meeting Craig Robinson from Hot Tub Time Machine was great,” Watts says. “I saw him at an L.A. show after I got off stage, and he was like, ‘Yo, man, that was awesome!’ And I was like, ‘Fuck, that’s crazy.’”

With that kind of national exposure, another label that easily fits Watts is “rising star.” “Great Falls native” is the unexpected accompaniment. It’s Great Falls native Reggie Watts recently per- doubtful that Watts knew the craziness of high formed on national television as part of Conan school would contribute so much to his career. But O’Brien’s “Legally Prohibited from Being Funny even today, his Montana years make a major contrion Television” tour. bution to his stage material.

“I’m constantly promoting the idea of Montana “I guess I think of myself as a comedic musician,” in my shows,” Watts says.

Most Montanans, for example, hold a childhood says Watts. “I usually bring both elements to whatever performance I might be doing, so it can be tough to dis- camping trip close to their heart, and Watts is no exception. Sure, his cherry-flavored benders involving tinguish.”

Watts’ manic approach to live comedy paid off big- Robitussin chugging and ghost stories probably deviate time this year when Conan O’Brien selected Watts as the from the traditional experience, but they certainly make opening act on his “Legally Prohibited from Being better comedic routines.

Then there are the Montana idiosyncrasies that Funny on Television” tour. Watts scored the gig, he says, because his routine was distinctive from O’Brien’s. But the rest of the world can’t quite understand. Take then, it’s distinctive from most in the business, a mix- hunting. Montana residents, even those who don’t ture of musical astuteness, bleary disorientation and an directly participate, can’t help but acquire an intimate knowledge of the sport. For some urbanites, however, absurdity you can’t help but laugh at.

Watts’ started his stand-up career with his move to it’s a bizarre holdover from the days of coonskin caps New York City in 2004. Shortly afterward, comedians and muzzleloaders.

“I’ve never really hunted, but of course, living in Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale encouraged him to perform on their variety show, “Invite Them Up.” Montana, you know people who do,” Watts says. “Just Inspired by the experience, Watts began working the describing the act of killing and gutting and skinning an animal and not even throwing in any real jokes is New York comedy club circuit.

“I’d get on stage and I didn’t really have any idea enough for some audiences.”

No word on whether Watts plans to hunt or abuse what I was doing,” he says. “It was an additive process Robitussin (or—here’s an idea—attempt both at once) of figuring out what worked and what didn’t.”

Watts also scored some hits with comedic Internet when he returns to Montana next week on tour, in part shorts. “Fuck Shit Stack,” a profane, gratuitous com- to promote his new DVD Why Shit So Crazy. He will, ment on the profane gratuitousness of hip-hop culture, however, bring his innovative blend of improv stand-up was reposted on music sites across the blogosphere and musical comedy to the Palace for a discount price.

“Missoula’s the shit,” he says. “I’m really looking from the A.V. Club to The Stranger. His College Humor music video “What About Blowjobs?” has garnered forward to being back home in Montana.”

Reggie Watts performs at the Palace more than 500,000 views on YouTube. Television performances and guest spots on shows like “Michael and Wednesday, Aug. 18, at 9 PM. $5.

Michael Have Issues” and “The Venture Brothers” became regular occurrences rather than career coups. arts@missoulanews.com

Applying minimal labels to Great Falls native Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts is troublesome. His parents ran into the problem naming him, and those who attempt to pigeonhole him professionally are similarly frustrated. He’s a comedian, sure, but he’s also a musician. Then when you get into the sub-categories— the staggering range of comic and musical genres that combine to form his act—he’s even harder to pin down.

Reggie Watts’ brand of improvisation is as unpredictable as the movements of his tremulous afro. If nothing else, the man is a performer—and a dynamic one— no matter if he’s doing beatbox or crafting wild lyrics on piano.

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"I got a Small Wonders futon for my birthday!"

Anchor man Ferrell digs up old tricks in The Other Guys

by Dave Loos

So that’s what it feels like to laugh during a Will swindle that resembles the standard white collar crimes we’re used to hearing about—well, standard until the Ferrell movie.

It’s been so long that—to be honest—before I even inevitable gun fights, motorcycle shootouts and low-flywatched The Other Guys, I wrote out a three paragraph ing helicopter chases through Manhattan get going.

The plot is secondary anyway. The real fun here opening to this review in which I lamented that it was time to stop pretending and finally accept that Ferrell tends to be on the periphery: Terry’s shock at meeting peaked as a movie star and comedian more than half a Allen’s beautiful wife; Terry and Allen visiting their captain (Keaton) at his second job at Bed Bath & Beyond; decade ago.

There’s still an element of truth to that. Ferrell is Keaton’s hilarious proclivity to quote TLC lyrics without unlikely to ever duplicate the brilliant four-year run realizing it; and, of course, any scene that involves Allen from 2000 to 2004 when he finished up his tenure on driving his Toyota Prius.

Again, it’s the “Saturday Night Live” model worked “Saturday Night Live” and proceeded to star in Zoolander, Old School, Elf and Anchorman, the latter being perhaps the most re-watchable film of the last decade. But post-Ron Burgundy, things quickly fell off a cliff, with Ferrell giving us such anti-classics as Bewitched, Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro and last year’s Land of the Lost. Even Talladega Nights was a disappointment.

Maybe Ferrell has a bad agent. Or maybe it’s just too hard to pass up a $15 million paycheck for essentially playing the same goofball in every film.

Ferrell still plays a goofball in The Other Guys, but the film is so much better that anything he’s Go ahead, talk about my abs again. I dare ya. been in since George W. Bush’s first term that I was initially incredulous of my own to perfection. Give us scene after scene with strong laughter—that reticence a direct result of the aforemen- characters, a good set-up and some improv, and all of tioned six-year span in which Ferrell’s only decent movie a sudden all of those requisite chase scenes toward the was the underrated dark comedy Stranger Than Fiction. end go down a lot easier than they otherwise would.

That’s not to say I liked The Other Guys because my Even those scenes are done with a wink to the genre: expectations were so low. The buddy cop parody suc- The helicopter is ultimately taken down by golfers at a ceeds because it sticks to a simple formula that plays New York City driving range. It never quite reaches right into Ferrell’s comfort zone. Throw in Mark Naked Gun-level parody, but in this case that’s actually Wahlberg as the straight man, Michael Keaton as the boss a good thing.

The Other Guys is not without some unevenness. and two of the funniest cameos in recent memory by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson, and Most of the misses involve Allen’s tumultuous past as a we’ve got ourselves a legitimate comedy. And just in case pimp during his college years. The set-up and flashyou needed another reason, Ice-T handles the narration. backs work well, but the scenes in which Allen’s misFerrell and Wahlberg play Allen and Terry, respec- deeds haunt him in the present day end up being more tively, two newly partnered NYPD desk jockeys. Allen is creepy than funny. Just imagine watching Ferrell’s clasthere by choice—he sought out the most mundane of sic 1995 “Get off the Shed” “SNL” skit, but if every joke jobs doing police paper work all day and excels in fell flat. That leaves an angry man yelling. And that’s a tracking down building permit violators. Terry, mean- little awkward for everyone.

But The Other Guys is mostly a throwback to that while, has been relegated to deskwork after accidentally shooting Derek Jeter at Yankee Stadium. The two long-ago time known as the early aughts when Ferrell play off each other with ease—Terry relishes in antago- (and writing partner Adam McKay) gave us films that nizing Allen for not wanting to pursue real bad guys, didn’t make us sad for everyone involved. The formula but the insults tend to just bounce off Allen. This of is there: avoid sports at all costs (one of the hardest course just makes Terry more exasperated. These early genres to do really well, and one of the easiest to screw office scenes play out like the best “Saturday Night up), forget about remakes (seriously, Bewitched?) and Live” skits. At one point Ferrell launches into a two- embrace the original comedy.

Of course, I’m willing to bend my sequel rule if the minute rant involving tuna fish hunting lions in Africa during which Wahlberg is obviously doing all he can rumors about Anchorman 2 are true.

The Other Guys continues at the Carmike 10 not to burst out laughing at the improvisation.

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Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:20.

THE EXPENDABLES Has-been action heroes Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and the Governator converge in what critics are largely calling a bloated disappointment.

It’s like Cocoon, only if Wilford Brimley and the gang blew stuff up. Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: noon, 1:30, 2:30, 4, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

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dude from the trunk in The Hangover) lend their voices to this animated 3-D comedy about an evildoer’s plan to steal the moon. Carmike 10: 1:10, 4:15, 7 and 9:30. Village 6 in 2-D: 1, 4, 7:30 and 9:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 7 only, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS In this remake of a French farce, rising executive Paul Rudd tries to impress his boss in a contest over who can bring the biggest idiot to a dinner party. Rudd chooses Steve Carell and, um, we all win? Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 9 only. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 4, 7:05 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

GROWN UPS Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade and others are old chums from grade school who reunite for a weekend after their basketball coach dies.

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two teenaged children have tracked down their biological father, Mark Ruffalo. How exactly Ruffalo inserts himself into the family’s life causes grief for everyone involved. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 5:05 only.

THE LAST AIRBENDER Monkish-looking youngster Noah Ringer utilizes his power to kick ass, take names and turn water into ice—due to an insane ability to control all four elements—in order to be the peacemaker in a world where one country, known as Fire, plays the neighborhood bully to the nations of Air, Water and Earth. Oh yeah, this is all in 3-D, too.

Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

SALT Just a few weeks after the U.S. government captured a real-life crew of clandestine Cold War-style Russian spies, Angelina Jolie conveniently stars in this big budget thriller as a CIA operative accused of being a Cold War-style Russian spy. Carmike 10: 1:45, 4:20, 7:15 and 9:40. Stadium 14 in

3:35, 6:50 and 9:20, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

THE OTHER GUYS The latest incarnation of the Buddy Cop Film stars nerdy Will Ferrell and hotheaded Mark Wahlberg as mismatched NYPD partners fighting endless taunting from coworkers and, presumably, crime.

Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7:30 and 10. Village 6: 1:30, 4:10, 7 and 9:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: noon, 12:50, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6:15, 7:30, 9 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9.

TOY STORY 3 Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and the rest of this 3-D animated pack are at a loss when they find out their buddy Andy is going to college to do “adult stuff.”

Thankfully though, this team of toys finds another set of adorers at a daycare. Carmike 10 in 2-D: 1:45, 4:10, 7:15 and 9:40. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:10, 7:10 and 9:35, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK Before you immediately reach for your favorite joke about Joan Rivers, consider this: The groundbreaking stand-up comic has persevered in an industry known to be fickle, cutthroat and particularly unfair toward women. This critically acclaimed documentary shows her unrelenting will to remain relevant at age 75. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9 nightly, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD The endearingly awkward Michael Cera tries to make us all forget the flat-out awkward Youth in Revolt with this big-screen version of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s cult graphic novel. After meeting the perfect girl, Cera must overcome her seven evil exboyfriends to score. Village 6: 1:35, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:10, 4:10, 7 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE: THE GLAMBERRY BALL MOVIE If your daughter has been berry good, you should take her to this berry special film. Or upgrade and see Step Up 3D. Village 6: 1 only Sat.–Sun. VAMPIRES SUCK If this parody of the current pop culture fascination with pale-skinned hunks and their puritanical love interests follows the same cheap format as other opportunistic parody films, it should suck, too.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Wed.–Thu. at 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7 and 9:15.

NOW PLAYING CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE Much like Hot Tub Time Machine and Babies, the title of this movie pretty much tells you everything you need to know. In this case, all our cute pets are part of a high-level espionage war that somehow involves Jeff Goldblum. Carmike 10: 1 and 4.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 2:40 and 4:45.

Stop, drop and–-screw it, just jump. The Expendables opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

much more fun than being an adult with responsibilities. Village 6: 4:05, 7:30 and 10, with an additional Fri. and Mon.–Thu. show at 1:35.

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD High School Musical stud Zac Efron stars in this romantic drama about showcasing a contemplative and shirtless Zac Efron for millions of teenage moviegoers. Oh, and he can see his dead brother. Carmike 10: 1:35, 4:05, 7 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 12:25, 2:45, 7:35 and 9:55 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9.

INCEPTION Director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight and Memento) offers up a strong cup of surrealism in this Sci-Fi thriller that follows subconscious secret stealer Leonardo DiCaprio as he tries to clear his bad rep with a Herculean task— to plant thoughts into people instead of ripping them off. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Village 6: 1, 4:15 and 7:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only, with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:05, 3:10, 6:15 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:30.

DESPICABLE ME Funny guys Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett and Ken Jeong (he’s the naked

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Things get complicated when life partners Julianne Moore and Annette Bening find out their

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THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE Nicolas Cage lets his hair down, literally, as a contemporary wizard in the Big Apple who handpicks nasal-voiced college dude Jay Baruchel so he can teach him how to kick enemies to the curb with phantasmagorical weapons like plasma bolts.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:55, 3:55, 6:55 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

STEP UP 3D Essentially dance porn for fans of “America’s Best Dance Crew” and “So You Think You Can Dance.”

By “dance porn” we mean the plot matters only in that it moves the aforementioned fans quickly from one mind-blowing dance scene to the next.

Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:35.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:45,

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE Who knows if good things come in threes, all I know is that this third installment of the popular series features more pale faced vamps hungry for blood, some killings in the Emerald City, and an epic—epic—struggle for a lady between a werewolf and a vampire. Carmike 10: 7 and 9:45.

Capsule reviews by Skylar Browning and Ira Sather-Olson Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Aug. 13. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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She’s always been truthful and forthright, so I was dumbfounded that she kept this from me. She claims they’re “just friends,” insists the past is the past, and won’t discuss anything. I had trust issues with my ex-wife and have abandonment issues (thanks, Mom), but had ZERO insecurities about my wife until this. She honored my request and told the guy he needs to get haircuts elsewhere, but I know her other male clients occasionally discuss their sexual escapades. Inappropriate! I think marriage comes with boundaries. I’ve been working hard to rid my mind of visions of her with others before me, but find myself prying into her past for details, which only increases my anxiety.

—Love Stinks

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There are things a man can do to make himself more articulate, and having sex isn’t one of them. Chances are, the guy felt a rush of emotion, reached into the cupboard in his head and found it bare— save for a seriously tired line from Jerry Maguire. Either that, or he was trying to tell you “Having sex with you reminds me of this 1996 Tom Cruise movie.” As for whether it’s more than just talk, time will tell. For now, perhaps you can find what he said endearing, as many women would.

Personally, I find borrowed expressions of appreciation kind of a mood-killer. Then again, at least he didn’t roll over and yell, “Show me the money!”

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Yes, your wife had sex with other men before you—because she was probably raised in some suburb in America, not locked away by her sultan father until you could buy her from him for a Lamborghini and a really nice herd of goats.

Instead of spending your evenings giving your wife something to smile about the next morning at work, you’re giving this seven-year-old fling of hers more late-night reruns than Godfather II. Sure, she still sees the guy, but consider the environment. Yes, it’s what I always advise a man who wants to stage a seduction: Put on a big pastel smock, sit between two little old ladies getting smelly perms, and give the woman a bird’s eye view of his bald spot. Before you know it, he’ll be telling her how he likes it, and she’ll be begging, “Lemme take off my top!”—in that secret language all the hussy hairdressers use: “Want me to take a little more off the top?”

You’re right that marriage comes with boundaries—and it’s time you started respecting your wife’s. You’re her husband, not her owner, so you don’t get to give her a list of acceptable topics of conversation: 1. “Nice weather we’re having.” 2. “Still nice weather we’re having.” Since you’re also not her boss, she doesn’t have to ask you if she’s allowed to do her job: “My 2:30 appointment fooled around with me once seven years ago, but he really needs a trim.”

What stinks isn’t love, but being a guy who’s never bothered to put his

mommy issues and ex-wife trust issues on a leash and walk them to a therapist’s office. Instead, you take them out on a woman you describe as “always…truthful and forthright.” Nice!

And easier on the ego than admitting you’re insecure, seeking reassurance and fixing what’s broken. As for those dirty movies of her you’ve been playing in your head, all the better to feel sorry for yourself. You break a habit the way you picked it up, through repetition, so next time your mental projector starts whirring, swap in footage of Bob Vila replacing a toilet flush valve. Mmmm, sexy!

A woman is most likely to be faithful to, well, to a man who’s so insecure that he keeps her in a hole in his basement and lowers her food in a bucket.

Unfortunately, this is not exactly a prescription for marital joy. To have a woman make you her one and only by choice, do your best to make her happy and strive to live in the moment— instead of that moment in 1990 when she failed to pop up from her prom date’s back seat and say, “I can’t.

Twenty years from now, I might have a really jealous husband.”

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Part-time, 24 hours/week. Valid Montana driver’s license plus 16 years driving experience required. Separate housing in nonsmoking environment provided in beautiful setting for one person. Utilities plus board included. Horse and pets negotiable. Salary $500/month with 30 days paid vacation per year. Call 406-277-3133 for more information and employment application Montessori school looking for full time preschool teacher. Must be interested in long term employment and creative dynamic & nurturing.

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Potential of earning an additional $675/month of performancebased incentives; Tuition Reimbursement is available for applicable degrees; and over $2000 worth of free programming and equipment. Starts from $10/hr up to $12.50/hr DOE. #2978156 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060

NIGHT WATCH TECHNICIAN positions available in Missoula.

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FARM/RANCH WORK AVAILABLE. Experience and riding skills required. Alcohol, drug, tobaccofree workplace. Resume, references to: Blind Box 383, Box 900, Lewistown, MT 59457

30 hrs/wk. 42 wks/yr. Assist teacher with planning, organizing, and implementing program.

Experience working with young children in a preschool setting. HS dipl/GED req. Applications due 8/16/10. Application/job descriptions available at 1001 Worden, Msla, 59802 EOE

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Call Ryan at (406)535-3455 or email at dnifni@hotmail.com for more information TREASURER CLERK to perform a variety of complex clerical work within the Treasurer’s Office involving registration and titling of motor vehicles, County tax payments and issuing liquor and dog licenses.

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ADVERTISING SALES REP MOR is seeking an exceptional individual that has strong skills in strategic leadership, is a creative and innovative thinker, and possesses effective and modern communications skills to manage and oversee all aspects of the Association’s operation. Travel is required. For a complete position description go to www.missoularealestate.com.

Pay $45,000 - $60,000 DOE. Includes benefits. Submit resume and references by August 21, 2010 to Search Committee, Missoula Organization of REALTORS®, 1610 S. 3rd Street W. Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59801.

Are you enthusiastic, creative, motivated? Do you work well under weekly deadlines and enjoy working with people? Are you an experienced sales person, or at least eager to become one? If so, then you may be the person we're seeking to join the Missoula Independent's sales team, and we're anxious to hear from you!

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): When I studied method acting with David Mamet, he taught us to develop such a vivid imagination that we could taste the pretend coffee that we drank out of an imaginary cup. We’d feel the heft of the cup in our hand and the steamy heat rising. We’d hallucinate the bitterly flavorful smell, and the muscles of our face would move the way they might if we were sipping the real thing. Pop star Lady Gaga didn’t work with Mamet while she was maturing as an actress, but she got similar teachings. Recently, she told New York magazine that she can “feel the rain, when it’s not raining.”

And more than that: “I can actually mentally give myself an orgasm.” If you think that you will ever want to have that strong an imagination, Aries, now is a good time to start working toward that goal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When they say “Go with the flow,” what “flow” are they talking about? Do they mean the flow of your early childhood conditioning? The flow of your friends’ opinions? The latest cultural trends? Your immediate instinctual needs? When they say “Go with the flow,” are they urging you to keep doing what’s easiest to do and what will win you the most ego points, even if it keeps you from being true to your soul’s code? I’m here to ask you to consider the possibility that there are many flows to go with, but only one of them is correct for you right now. And in my opinion, it is flowing in an underground cavern, far from the maddening crowd.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Paul, a fortune-telling octopus in Oberhausen, Germany, had an amazing run of success predicting the results of World Cup competitions a while back. His technique?

His handlers gave him a succession of choices between two tasty morsels, each representing one of the teams in a given match. The treat he picked to eat was the team whose victory he prophesied.

I wish I could access his expertise to help me sort out your upcoming decisions. It’s really important that you not over-think the possibilities, but rather rely on simple gut reactions. Why don’t you pretend you’re an octopus, and imagine that each choice you have to make is symbolized by some food item. Ask yourself, “Which is yummiest?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was Through the Looking Glass. As he wrote it, he invited his illustrator John Tenniel to offer editorial advice. In response, Tenniel tactfully suggested that Lewis cut out a certain chapter. Lewis agreed, and so the story, as we read it today, doesn’t include Alice’s meeting with a grumbling wasp who wore a bright yellow wig that sat disheveled on its head like a clump of seaweed. Think of me as your version of Tenniel, Virgo. As you finish up your labor of love, consider following my recommendation to omit the part that resembles a wasp in a wig.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you and I were sitting face to face and I asked you, “What are the most important lessons you’ve learned these last 11 months?”, what would you tell me? I think you need this type of experience: an intense and leisurely conversation with a good listener you trust—someone who will encourage you to articulate the major developments in your life since your last birthday. Here are some other queries I’d pose: 1. How have you changed? 2. What long-term process needs to come to a climax? 3. What “school” are you ready to graduate from? (And by “school” I mean any situation that has been a hotbed of learning for you.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The film Avatar hammers out such vehement anti-military, anticapitalist and anti-imperialist themes that it could have been endorsed by the leftist rock band Rage Against the Machine. And yet it’s the highest-grossing film in the history of the world. One critic marveled at its popularity in even the most conservative areas of America, noting that it got “a theater full of people in Kentucky to stand and applaud the defeat of their country in war.” Your assignment in the coming week is to do what Avatar has done: Try to make sure that your opponents and skeptics are entertained by your message—maybe even excited and intrigued.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I recommend that you enjoy an abundance of recreational time in the coming days, Sagittarius. But I hope that you will favor a rigorous physical challenge over lying lazily on the beach. I hope that you will read great literature instead of mass market paperbacks, and that you’ll attend a brain-bending workshop rather than being a spectator at a sports event.

Catch my drift, Sagittarius? Say yes to embarking on a vision quest that scares the fear out of you and pumps up your spiritual ambition; say no to wasting away in a puddle of sluggish, circuitous daydreaming.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sixty-nine percent of conservatives think that hell is a real place, and over half of all liberals do. Shocking! Ridiculous! I hope that you, Capricorn, give zero credence to the idea that there is a realm of eternal damnation. In my astrological opinion, believing in hell would grossly interfere with your ability to know the truth about your life right now. So would an irrational fear of failure, an obsession with enemies or a tendency to define yourself in opposition to bad stuff. Here’s the alternative: To thrive, all you have to do is accentuate what you love, identify what you want and focus on rewards.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): This is an excellent time for you to get more conscious and proactive about what images you bring into your life and surround yourself with. It’s always important to monitor the pictures flowing into your imagination, of course, but it’s especially crucial right now. Your mental and physical health are unusually dependent on it. So please do yourself a big favor and gaze upon as much uplifting beauty as you can. Favor gardens over garbage dumps, soaring vistas over strip malls, interesting faces over scowling mugs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every year smokers toss away over four trillion cigarette butts, fouling the environment terribly. But recently a few Chinese scientists embarked on the seemingly impossible project of finding value in this noxious waste. Collecting up big piles of discarded filters, they developed a process to extract chemicals that are effective at preventing corrosion when applied to steel pipes. Your assignment, Pisces, is to accomplish a comparable miracle: Turn some dreck or dross into a useful thing; discover a blessing in the trash; build a new dream using the ruins of an old pleasure.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s a thought from the Cancerian philosopher Gaston Bachelard: “He who listens to the singing of the stream cannot be expected to understand the one who hears the singing of the flame: They do not speak the same language.” While I mostly agree with that poetic formulation, I think you’re about to be a temporary exception to the rule. Normally you are acutely attuned to the singing of the stream; your skill at reading its nuances are supreme among the zodiac. But I expect that in the coming days, you will not only have the power to appreciate the song of the fire; you’ll even be able to empathize with and understand people who are entranced by the song of the fire.

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CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 23, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution of the Missoula City Council levying and assessing a special assessment and tax on the lots, pieces and parcels of land situated within special lighting districts of the City of Missoula, Montana, to defray the cost of street lighting in special lighting districts during the fiscal year 2011 in accordance with sections 7-12-4301 through 4354, Montana Code Annotated. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk at 552-6078.

If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 23, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution to levy a special assessment and tax upon all property situated within the pooled sidewalk curb, gutter and alley approach bonds series 2010 of the city of Missoula, Montana, in the total amount of $885,000 excluding debt service to defray the cost of installing sidewalks, curbs, gutters and alley approaches pursuant to resolution number 7539 awarding sale of bonds. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk at 552-6078.

If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 23, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution levying assessments on property situated within Special Improvement District Number 544 (Rattlesnake Valley Sewer Project) of the City of Missoula, Montana, in the total amount of $2,028,089.77 excluding debt service, to defray the cost of making the improvements in said special improvement district pursuant to resolution number 7444 creating said district. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk at 552-6078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 23, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution levying assessments on property situated within Special Improvement District Number 545 (Phillips Street Traffic Calming Project) of the City of Missoula, Montana, in the total amount of $19,999.71 excluding debt service, to defray the cost of making the improvements in said special improvement district pursuant to resolution number 7435 creating said district. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk at 552-6078.

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Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 23, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution levying assessments on property situated within Special Improvement District Number 546 (Pattee Creek Drive Traffic Calming Project) of the City of Missoula, Montana, in the total amount of $15,500 excluding debt service, to defray the cost of making the improvements in said special improvement district pursuant to resolution number 7441 creating said district. For further information, contact Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk at 552-6078. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 23, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance amending Chapter 15.44 and renaming the chapter from “House Moving” to “Oversize Loads and House Moving” to include oversize loads and update fees and regulations and an emergency ordinance amending Chapter 15.44 and renaming the chapter from “House Moving” to “Oversize Loads and House Moving” and amending Chapter 5.70 “House Moving” to include oversize loads and update fees and regulations, enacted as an emergency ordinance in order to have terms and conditions clearly established prior to the commencement of the Kearl Module Transportation project, which will move a large number of oversize loads through Missoula. For further information, contact Steve King, Public Works at 552-6353. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT CALL FOR BIDS- Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808, until 10:00 am.,

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 44 & 64. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting August 23, 2010 by appt only by calling 5417919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to August 26, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

Monday August 23, 2010, at which time bids will be opened and read in the Public Works Conference Room for the purpose of resurfacing the East Missoula Lions Park Parking Lot. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Office of Public Works at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. 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 “East Missoula Lions Park Parking Lot Resurfacing Project” and addressed to: Missoula County Bids Department Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, Montana, 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT INVITATION TO BID *NOTE: CHANGE IN BID DUE DATE* SILVERTIP HOUSING INC. is requesting Sealed Bids for the construction of a complex of buildings providing 115 units of affordable rental housing. The project is funded in part by the City of Missoula’s award of a federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) grant in the amount of $5 million dollars by the Montana Department of Commerce. The City of Missoula is partnered with Silvertip Housing Inc. for this project. Drawings are available Friday, July 23, 2010. Parties interested in receiving a Request for a Sealed Bids Solicitation Package for a total deposit of $300, with $270

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 146, 193, 215, 302, 336, 402, 410, 578, 639 and 669. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods.

These units may be viewed starting Monday, August 23, 2010 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Thursday, August 26, 2010, 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.

being refundable, please contact GAVIN hanks encompass, Silvertip Project Manager Jennifer Clary, at jenn@encompassdesigninc.com or call 406543-1477 or FAX 406-5431486 at their offices at 300 W. Broadway STE 4, Missoula, MT 59802. Sealed Bids are due no later than 2 p.m. on FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010 at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), 435 Ryman Street, and will then be read aloud at said office at 2 p.m. on August 20, 2010. Late bids or bids postmarked, but received after, the deadline will not be accepted. This is a change from the original bid due date of Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

Other Addenda may be requested from GAVIN hanks encompass at the contact information above. A Pre-Bid Conference for General Contractors will be held on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 2 p.m. in the Jack Reidy Room adjacent to City Council Chambers at 140 W. Pine.

Attendance is strongly recommended but not mandatory.

Anyone attending the Pre-Bid Conference or the Bid opening or any other meeting associated with this bid is requested to notify GAVIN hanks encompass at 406-543-1477 in advance. The contract is being funded with federal funds and is subject to all applicable federal laws including but not limited to Davis-Bacon Federal wage rates. If you would like to request special accommodations in order to participate fully in the meeting, please contact Nancy Harte at OPG, 406-258-4657 or Missoula County Government

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula City Council will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Monday, August 23, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana: 1. Good Shepherd’s Preschool/2425 39th Street A request from Stacie Anderson for a Day Care Center use at 2425 39th Street. The property is zoned RT10 (two unit/townhouse), and is legally described as the North 130 feet of Lot 1 in Peery Addition, located in Section 6 of Township 12 North, Range 19 West (Map Q). The appli-

cants request the Conditional Use for a Day Care Center, which allows 13 or more children to be enrolled.

Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and case file are available for public inspection at the Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street. Call 258-4657 for further assistance. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 2584657. The City will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-09-16 Department No. 4 Judge Douglas G. Harkin Related Cause Nos. DN-09-17, DN-09-18, DN-09-19, DN-0920 SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING T.P., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: The unknown putative father of T.P. RE: T.P., born February 8, 1995 to Michele Fornall. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Termination of Parental Rights of T.P.’s Father and Grant of Permanent Legal Custody to CFS with the Right to Consent to Adoption or for said Youth to be otherwise cared for. Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 14th day of September, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why the Father’s rights should not be terminated; why CFS should not be awarded permanent legal custody of the Youth with the right to consent

to the Youth’s adoption; and why the Petition should not be granted or why said Youth should not be otherwise cared for. The unknown putative father of T.P. is represented by the Office of the State Public Defender, 610 Woody, 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 the District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 2584780. WITNESS the Honorable Douglas G. Harkin, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 7th day of July, 2010. /s/s Douglas G. Harkin, District Court Judge MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ANNEXATION TO MISSOULA RURAL FIRE DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held on the 25th day of August, 2010 beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, on a petition for annexation into the Missoula Rural Fire District for the following area: That particular parcel of land situate in Section 13, Township 21 North, Range 11 West, County

PUBLIC NOTICE Knife River – Missoula, 4800 Wilkie Road, Missoula, MT 59808 has submitted an Application for Amendment of Opencut Mining Permit for the Fort Missoula Site (Target Range Site), located at 2800 40th Street, Opencut Permit No. 1402. The purpose of this Amendment is to update the Plan of Operations to change the planned reclaimed use from industrial park to wildlife habitat, revise permitted acreage and amount of reclamation bond, change haul road locations and to update the weed control plan to comply with 82-4-431 MCA of the Opencut Mining Act. The legal description for access roads and pit area is: Tract 1 COS 3744 in S2, NW4 & N2, SW4, Section 36, T13N, R20W, PMM. This area includes 89.5 acres of mine-level area including concrete plants and facilities, equipment parking, stockpiles, materials processing and ponds. Future gravel mining is anticipated to be completed in 2012. Please send e-mails to dave.orbe@knifrriver.com or call 532-5208. You can also contact our office at 532-5250.

of Missoula, State of Montana, Street Address: 3825 Dry Gulch Rd, Missoula MT SUID: 2474803 (For complete legal descriptions, see map on file in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, 2nd Floor.) AND THAT all interested persons should appear at the above mentioned time and place to be heard for or against said petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioner’s Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Missoula, Montana 59802, prior to the hearing day. BY ORDER of the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder/ Treasurer By Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-3241 Date: August 4, 2010 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ANNEXATION TO MISSOULA RURAL FIRE DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held on the 25th day of August, 2010 beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, on a petition for annexation into the Missoula Rural Fire District for the following area: That particular parcel of land situate in SW 1/4, NE 1/4 NE 1/4 Section 11, Township 13 North, Range 21 West, County of Missoula, State of Montana, DE 3887 Street Address: 3850 Dry Gulch Rd, Missoula MT SUID: 2475007. (For complete legal descriptions, see map on file in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, 2nd Floor.) AND THAT all interested persons should appear at the above mentioned time and place to be heard for or against said petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioner’s Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Missoula, Montana 59802, prior to the hearing day. BY ORDER of the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer By Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-3241 Date: August 4, 2010 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No 1 Cause No DP 10 119 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GERTRUDE A. McCOLLUM, a/k/a Trudie A. McCollum, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 DONALD L. McCOLLUM, SR., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above -entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of August, 2010. /s/ Donald L. McCollum, Sr., Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP10 121 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALICIA C. VICK,, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 CHRISTOPHER KEITH VICK, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 5th day of August, 2010. /s/ Christopher Keith Vick, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTYDept. No. 3 Cause No. DP10-110 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PRISCILLA WELLS CONNELL, a/k/a Priscilla W..

Connell,, 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 MARK STEVEN CONNELL, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of July, 2010. /s/ Mark Steven Connell,, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-10-925 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Robert J.T. Wilson-Mayer . This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Robert James Tyler Wilson-Mayer to Robert James Tyler Wilson. The hearing will be on 8/25/2010 at 1:15 p.m.

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Dated 7/13/2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-65 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BARBARA JEAN MORRISON, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Paul Edgar Morrison, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o SOL & WOLFE Law Firm, PLLP at 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED July 8th, 2010. /s/ Paul E. Morrison, Jr. Personal Representative c/o Sol & Wolfe Law Firm, PLLP, 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP10-105 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RAINER J. NIEDERBERGER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THE First Community Bank has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson and Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 20th day of July, 2010. CHRISTIAN, SAMSON & JONES, PLLC /s/ Kevin S. Jones MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Çause No. DP10-114 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LAURA M. LEES, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that William D. Lees has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims

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must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 2nd day of August, 2010.

CHRISTIAN, SAMSON & JONES, PLLC /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-09-212 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WALLACE DALE FLODBERG, 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 Ken Flodberg, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o SOL & WOLFE Law Firm, PLLP at 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED February 6, 2010. /s/ Ken Flodberg, Personal Representative c/o Sol & Wolfe Law Firm, PLLP, 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-10-82 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ZELMA DOROTHY TURNER, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 Charles L. Turner, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at P.O. Box 5433, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 30th day of July, 2010. /s/ Charles L. Turner P.O. Box 5433 Missoula, MT 59806 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP10-106 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET SWEARINGEN, 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 decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Katherine Jean Sterbenz, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 19th day of July, 2010. /s/ Katherine Jean Sterbenz, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP10-107 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARCIA ANN LONGACRE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Darol Longacre has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named 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 their claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 21st day of July, 2010. CHRISTIAN, SAMSON & JONES, PLLC /s/ Jeffrey T. Dickson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP10-88 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF SUSAN W. DUFFY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Patrick E.

Duffy 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 either be mailed to Patrick E. Duffy, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Tiimothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 28th day of June, 2010.

GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP10-98 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY CAROLYN STEENSON BRETZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives 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 either be mailed to Robert Steenson and Geoffrey Steenson, the Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of June, 2010. /s/ Robert R. Steenson, Personal Representative /s/ Geoffrey E. Steenson, Personal Representative MONTANA THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, YELLOWSTONE COUNTY Cause No. DR-09-1394 Judge Susan P. Watters SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. DAVID CHRISTENSON, Plaintiff, and JAMES MICHAEL REED, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: YOU, THE DEFENDANT, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED TO ANSWER THE VERIFIED COMPLAINT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL IN THIS ACTION, WHICH IS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ABOVE COURT, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to file your written answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 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 complaint.

This action is brought for return of funds.

DATED at Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana, this 29th day of July, 2010. /s/ CAROL MUESSIG, Clerk of District Court By /s/ Connie R. Schuman, Deputy Clerk AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to 71-1301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 12th day of October, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., on the steps of the Courthouse of Missoula County located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT “A”. Henry M. Getz, as Grantor, conveyed the above-described real property, and then improvements situated thereon, if any, to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Gateway Community Federal Credit Union, a credit union authorized to do business in Montana, who was designated as Beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated January 31, 2007 and recorded on February 8, 2007, File No. 200703229 in book 791 of Micro Records at Page 1250 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”).

Dan G. Cederberg, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated May 18, 2010 and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. Henry M. Getz has defaulted in the performance of the said Deed of Trust and associated Promissory Note by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $539.53 for the month of August, 2009 and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the

property of loan. As of May 18, 2010, the sum of $5,395.30 is past due. As of May 18, 2010, the principal balance due was the sum of $47,117.83 principal plus $3,515.06 accrued interest, with interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the rate set out in the Promissory Note, which is 10.0% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse any amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary’s interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sum paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust and Promissory Note, the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and Promissory Note and has elected to sell the interest of Henry M. Getz, the original Grantor, his successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Dan G. Cederberg, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants, 5840 LaVoie Lane, Missoula, MT 59808 Henry M. Getz, 4091 MT Hwy 200, Trout Creek, MT 59874-9505 Henry M. Getz, 5840 LaVoie Lane, Missoula, MT 59808 Montana Community Development Corporation, 110 East Broadway, 2nd Floor, Missoula, MT 59802 Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession of claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein.

DATED this 11th day of June, 2010. /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ):ss.

County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 11th day of June, 2010, by Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee (SEAL) /s/ Susan Marshall Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires 17 March 2011 EXHIBIT “A” A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTH ONEHALF OF THE SOUTHWEST ONEQUARTER AND A PORTION OF LOT 3 AND SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WEST BOUNDARY OF SAID SECTION 31 AND SAID LOT 3 WHICH POINT BEARS SOUTH 0º02’15” WEST, A DISTANCE OF 444.85 FEET FROM THE WEST ONE-QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 31, THENCE EAST A DISTANCE OF 1233.28 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERLY BANK OF AN EXISTING IRRIGATION CANAL; THENCE ALONG SAID EASTERLY CANAL BANK FOR THE NEXT THREE COURSES, SOUTH 0º30’45” WEST A DISTANCE OF 166.08 FEET, SOUTH 15º31’45” WEST, A DISTANCE OF 57.80 FEET AND SOUTH 26º12’ WEST, A DISTANCE OF 208.50 FEET; THENCE LEAVING SAID EASTERLY CANAL BANK AND RUNNING WEST A DISTANCE OF 1124.53 FEET OT A POINT ON THE WEST BOUNDARY OF SAID SECTION 31 AND SAID LOT 3; THENCE NORTH 0º02’15” EAST ALONG SAID WEST BOUNDARY AND GENERALLY ALONG THE MIDDLE OF A LANE A DISTANCE OF 408.84 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE BOOK NO. 76 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 368. EXCEPTING THEREFROM A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER AND A PORTION OF LOT 3 OF SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 277 NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MONTANA DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated November 15, 2007 Grantor: Avtonom Martushev, 106 Viewpoint Drive, Hamilton, Montana 59840 Original Trustee: First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. P.O. Box 596, Hamilton, Montana 59840 Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula P.O. Box 393 Hamilton, Montana 59840 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana

PUBLIC NOTICES 59807 -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: November 19, 2007, as Document No. 596965, Records of Ravalli County, Montana; and Modification recorded February 11, 2008 as Document No. 600026. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 19th day of October, 2010, at the hour of 10:10 a.m. in front of the Ravalli County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, 215 South Fourth Street, Suite C, Hamilton, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Lot 10A, Amended Subdivision Plat No. 610028, being a portion of Lots 8, 9, 10, and 11, Block 4, Home Acres Orchards No. 3, Ravalli County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record.

The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly interest payments provided for in the Deed of Trust for the months of June, 2009 through December, 2009, in the total amount of Six Thousand Five Hundred Sixty and 07/100ths Dollars ($6,560.07); together with late charges in the amount of Three Hundred Twentyseven and 98/100ths Dollars ($327.98); together with taxes and assessments for the year 2009. The loan matured on January 9, 2010..

The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is One Hundred Thirty-nine Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-one and 15/100ths Dollars ($139 ,861. 15) in principal, plus interest thereon at the rate of Eight Percent (8 .00%) from and after the 8th day of June, 2009 to May 21, 2010, in the amount of Eleven Thousand Five Hundred Fifty-six and 75/100ths Dollars ($11 ,556 .75, plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Thirty and 65/100ths Dollars ($3 0.65), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 25th day of May, 2010. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 STATE OF MONTANA( :ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 25th day of May, 2010, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at Lolo, Montana.

My commission expires January 6, 2013.

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MONTANA DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated September 4, 2008 Grantors: Avtonom Martushev and Alexsey Martushev, doing business as Tomka and Sons 106 Viewpoint Drive Hamilton, Montana 59840 Borrowers: Avtonom Martushev and Tatiana Martushev 106 Viewpoint Drive Hamilton, Montana 59840 Original Trustee: First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. P.O. Box 596 Hamilton, Montana 59840 Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula P.O. Box 393 Hamilton, Montana 59840 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: September 11, 2008, as Document No. 608139, Records of Ravalli County, Montana; and Modification recorded September 24, 2008 as Document No. 608591. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 19th day of October, 2010, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. in front of the Ravalli County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, 215 South Fourth Street, Suite C, Hamilton, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: A tract of land located in and being a portion of the SW 1/4 of Section 36,

Township 8 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Ravalli County, Montana and being more particularly described as Parcel B2, Certificate of Survey No. 592493-F. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due the full balance of principal as provided for in the Deed of Trust for the months of June 2009 through August 2009, in the total amount of Nine Hundred Twenty-seven and 58/100ths Dollars ($927 .58); together with late charges in the amount of One Hundred Eleven and 51/100ths Dollars ($111 .51); together with taxes and assessments owed for the years 2008 and 2009.

The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Fortyfive Thousand Nine Hundred Ninetyeight and 87/100ths Dollars ($45 ,998 .87) in principal, plus interest thereon at the rate of Eight Percent (8 .00%) from and after the 4th day of May, 2009 to May 21, 2010, in the amount of Three Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty-one and 35/100ths Dollars ($3 ,851 .35), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Ten and 08/100ths Dollars ($10 .08), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.

DATED this 25th day of May, 2010. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 STATE OF MONTANA :ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 25th day of May, 2010, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. (SEAL /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at Lolo, Montana.

My commission expires January 6, 2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/17/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200530907, Book 764, Page 891, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michele D. Peasley, a married man, as sole and Separate property was Grantor, New Century Mortgage Corporation was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services 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 1 of Alff Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, as recorded in Book 4 of Plats at Page 49. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Book 840, Page 845, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley Capital I Inc. Trust 2006-NC2. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 7, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $161,104.87. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $135,787.68, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 18, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in

interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7777.28990) 1002.124551-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/10/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200514158, Book 754, Page 463, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Anirban Mitra, a married man was Grantor, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 10 of Canyon View Two, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Book 817, Page 336, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. 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 12/01/07 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 11, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $211,436.57. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $165,696.52, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 25, 2010 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.northwest trustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwest trustee.com or USA-Foreclosure. com. (TS# 7037.15442) 1002.89743FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/12/05,

recorded as Instrument No. 200508822, Book 750, Page 1455, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which J. Terry Amble and Diann R. Amble was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 12 in Phase II of Crestview Heights Phase II, III and IV, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200827436, Bk 830, Pg 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the holders of Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc., AssetBacked Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-WF2. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 15, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $285,999.29. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $256,730.19, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.19163) 1002.105664-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/21/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200615377 Bk 777 Pg 750, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Benjamin D. Williamson was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC D/B/A Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 2 of El Mar Estates Phase IV, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Bk. 855 Micro Records, Pg. 984, 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 11/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $220,956.87. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $207,624.83, 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 October 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.70934) 1002.147964-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/14/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803358, Bk 813, Pg 453, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which William P. Corette Jr., a married man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Wachovia Mortgage Corporation was Beneficiary and Pinnacle Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Pinnacle Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 15 and 31 of Sorrel Springs, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, 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 03/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $418,937.92. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $406,312.82, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the

Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.75349) 1002.161658-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200733230, Bk 811, Pg 102, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael L. Padrotti and Traci L. Padrotti, husband and wife 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 of 44 Ranch, Phases 1 and 2, 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 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 24, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $343,710.17. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $311,224.72, 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 November 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and

cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.72393) 1002.150878-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/25/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200602127, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Scott W. Reagan and Erin M. Reagan was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 135 of Pleasant View Homes No. 2, Phase IV, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for NHEL Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-WF1. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 24, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $164,976.86. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $152,620.68, 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 November 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee .com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.75699) 1002.162443-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on November 23, 2010, 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: Parcel 1A of Certificate of Survey No. 5692 located in the N 1/2, NE 1/4 of Section 14, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana.

TOGETHER WITH a private access easement as disclosed by Certificate of Survey Nos. 2996, 3664, 4063 and 4183 and an existing driveway as shown on Certificate of Survey No. 590. ALSO TOGETHER WITH an

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PUBLIC NOTICES easement for below ground utilities over Parcel 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 4819 as granted in Book 566 of Micro at Page 418. Rattlesnake 1A, LLC, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Whitefish Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture recorded August 1, 2008, in Book 824 of Micro at Page 41, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.

A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded July 15, 2010, in Book 862, Page 1145, Document No. 201013455, 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 $592,791.80, plus interest at a rate of 6.25% totaling $71,442.05, for a total amount due of $664,233.85, as of July 16, 2010, 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 abovedescribed 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 the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 16th day of July, 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA )) ss.

County of Missoula) On this 16th day of July, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be he 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 me hand and seal the day and year first above written.

(SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires 5/7/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 1, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 13 IN BLOCK 1 OF KLAPWYK ADDITION NO 2, AS PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA . Mary Ann Sutton, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to All Pacific Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 3, 1994 and Recorded on January 10, 1994 at 4:10 o’clock P.M., in Book 403 of Micro Records, page 287. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank NA successor in interest to Washington Mutual Bank f/k/a Washington Mutual Bank, FA, successor in interest to Washington Mutual Home Loans, Inc f/k/a Homeside Lending, f/k/a BancBoston Mortgage Corporation. Charles J. Peterson, 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 $570.16, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 7, 2010 is $26,709.56 principal, interest at the rate of 3.125% now totaling $1,960.80, late charges in the amount of $72.16, escrow advances of $5,905.30, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,819.62, plus accruing interest at the rate of $2.29 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The

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

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 24, 2010. Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee.

MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 24, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 12/24/2014. Wamu V. Sutton 41816.527 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 12, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 62 of Grantland 10, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Less and excepting therefrom Certificate of Survey No. 1031.

Joann Higginbotham, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity Nation Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 22, 2005 and Recorded on June 27, 2005 under Document #200515738 in Bk-754, Pg-2043. The beneficial interest is currently held by Waterfall Victoria Master Fund Limited (WVMFL)..

Charles J. Peterson, 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 $1,810.95, beginning December 1, 2006, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 19, 2010 is $256,016.70 principal, interest at the rate of 7.49% now totaling $78,319.43, late charges in the amount of $91.21, escrow advances of $14,073.61, suspense

balance of $-460.41 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,572.94, plus accruing interest at the rate of $50.82 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: June 4, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On June 4, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Joan Meier, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 02/23/2013.

Quantum V. Higginbotham 41873.080 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 12, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 29 of Hammond Addition No. 3, A Platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Leslie Largay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006 and Recorded December 13, 2006 in Book 788, Page 1168 under Document Number 200631899. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association as successor by merger to National City Bank. Charles J. Peterson, 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 $3,930.21, beginning June 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as

of May 19, 2010 is $674,367.73 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $41,572.90, late charges in the amount of $330.16, escrow advances of $3,262.10, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,963.67, plus accruing interest at the rate of $108.55 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: June 4, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097.

Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On June 4, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Joan Meier, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 02/23/2013. National City Mortgage V Largay/leslie 41716.141 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 4, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 14 OF CANYON VIEW TWO, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION LOCATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF MARC J. FAHLSING AND JULIE A FAHLSING, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to U.S. Bank National Association, ND, as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED MARCH 7, 2005 AND RECORDED MARCH 11, 2005 IN BOOK 749, PAGE 34 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200505680. The beneficial interest is currently held by US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ND. Charles J. Peterson, 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 $1,186.01, beginning November 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which

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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 June 15, 2010 is $170,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.95% now totaling $8,329.82, late charges in the amount of $404.42, escrow advances of $976.90, suspense balance of $313.99 and other fees and expenses advanced of $110.57, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 27, 2010. Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 27, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota, Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Fmc V. Fahlsing 41722.134 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 4, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: UNIT 46 IN BUILDING #6 OF THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS, A RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM SITUATED ON THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY IN MISSOULA, MONTANA, TO WIT: A PORTION OF THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M. CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF ELK HILLS- PHASE 1, A RECORDED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, THENCE S.88°15’00”W., ALONG THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF SAID ELK HILLS- PHASE 1, 232.18 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGIN-

NING: THENCE CONTINUING S.88°15’00”W., 90.82 FEET; THENCE S.84°20’45”W.,169.73; THENCE S.05°31’30”E., 152.30 FEET; THENCE S.84°00’00” W., 100.00 FEET; THENCE S.40°00’00”W., 50.00 FEET; THENCE S.15°00’00”E., 125.00 FEET; THENCE S.67°04’30”E., 123.64 FEET; THENCE S.61°51’24”E 204.56 FEET; THENCE S.48°05’43”E., 189.96 FEET; THENCE N.22°47’57”E., 187.34 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY 175.24 FEET ALONG THE ARC OF A TANGENT CURVE WITH A RADIUS OF 924.93 FEET; THENCE N. 76°35’13”W., 50.07 FEET; THENCE N.62°59’29”W., 170.81 FEET; THENCE N.04°46’56”W., 183.86 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING TOGETHER WITH A 1/45TH INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS AND AN EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT TO THIS UNIT, AS SAID COMMON ELEMENTS AND LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS ARE DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION OF UNIT OWNERSHIP FOR THE VILLAGE AT ELKS HILL Lisa J. Evans, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated December 10, 2004 and recorded on December 16, 2004 in Book 745, Page 110 as Document No. 200434993. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. Charles J. Peterson, 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 $682.81, beginning February 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 17, 2010 is $80,619.18 principal, interest at the rate of 5.625% now totaling $1,710.39, late charges in the amount of $100.20, escrow advances of $-790.17, and other fees and expenses advanced of $7.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $12.42 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

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

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 26, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee.

MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 26, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 12/24/2014. Citimortgage V . Evans 41926.913 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 24, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LAND SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA IN THE STATE OF MT: LOT 4 OF MODERIE LOTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Jack C. Westre, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 27, 2007 and recorded on February 15, 2007 in Book 792, Page 28 as Document No. 200703753. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee for GSR Mortgage Loan Trust 2007OA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-OA1.

Charles J. Peterson, 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 $1,254.70, beginning January 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 15, 2010 is $453,729.08 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $13,760.12, late charges in the amount of $1,254.80, escrow advances of $917.01, expenses advanced of $461.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $82.35 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

PUBLIC NOTICES Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 17, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss.County of Stark ) On May 17, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Litton V. Westre 41462.822 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 27, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: SITUATE IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO WIT:LOT 1 OF LOLO VIEW ACRES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO. : 2168303 Russell C. Parrish and Mary Renae Parrish, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to I.R.E. Processing, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc., dba Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 25, 2005 and recorded on December 1, 2005at 11:29 o’clock a.m. in Book 765, Page 225 under Document Number 200531823.. The beneficial interest is currently held by Beneficial Montana Inc., dba Beneficial Mortgage Co.. Charles J. Peterson, 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 $1,442.18, beginning July 30, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 30, 2010 is $160,452.79 principal, interest at the rate of 10.050% now totaling $31,030.02, late charges in the amount of $327.81, expenses advanced of $8,087.84, plus accruing interest at the rate of $44.18 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the

entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 18, 2010. Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 18, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Hsbc V. Parrish 41472.293 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 27, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACTS 12A AND 12B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1810, LOCATED IN AND BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 28 AND THE SOUTHEAST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. AND TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 877, A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN AND BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH PORTION 13B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 945, LOCATED IN AND BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Paul A. Ronaldo and Angela J. Prince, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to H&R Block Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 10, 2006 and recorded November 30, 2006 at 9:35 o’clock A.M. in Book 788, Page 111, as Document No. 200630842. The beneficial interest is currently held by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Trustee for Option One Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-1 Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-1. Charles J. Peterson, 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 $2,156.02, beginning June 1, 2007, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 29, 2010 is $212,475.30 principal, interest at the rate of 10.45% now totaling $66,524.97, late charges in the amount of $815.01, escrow advances of $8,038.31, and other fees and expenses advanced of $8,909.15, plus accruing interest at the rate of $60.83 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 obli-

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r gation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 18, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 18, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Joan Meier, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota.

Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Ahm/prince 41537.203 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 27, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 14 OF THE RIDGE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Michael J. Gotta and Marie T. Gotta, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 10, 2003 and recorded on March 14, 2003 in Book 701, Page 560 as Document No. 200308782.

The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association successor in interest to Washington Mutual.

Charles J. Peterson, 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 $1,741.90, beginning January 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount

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due on this obligation as of APRIL 27, 2010 is $265,018.64 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $6,341.70, late charges in the amount of $522.40, other fees and expenses advanced of $80.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.66 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 20, 2010. Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee.

MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097, Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 20, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 12/24/2014. Wamu V. Gotta 41916.474 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, the 27th day of September, 2010, at the hour of 11:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or other-

wise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and of the Grantor BETH M. ZEILER, in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana, to wit: LOT 11A of Car Line Addition, Block 57, Lots 10A and 11A, an amended subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 2415 Ernest Avenue, Missoula, MT 59801. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, including The Small Tract Financing Act, Mont. Code Ann. 71-1-301, et seq., and the terms and provisions of: that certain Deed of Trust recorded February 7, 2007, in Book 791 of Micro Records at page 1220, Document No. 200703199 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein BETH M. ZEILER is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA, INC. is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated March 25, 2010, and recorded May 11, 2010, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, as Document No. 201008937, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Stewart Title of Missoula, Inc. with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee.

This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, BETH M. ZEILER has defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that she has failed to make monthly payments when due on the Promissory Note secured by the Deed of Trust. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust is the sum of Two Hundred Fifteen Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-three and No/100 Dollars ($215,623.00), together with interest at the note rate, until the date of sale.

That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and that the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Two Hundred Fifteen Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-three and No/100 Dollars ($215, 623.00) in principal; Fourteen Thousand Six Hundred Twenty-five and 45/100 Dollars ($14,625.45) in interest; and Six Hundred Twenty-four and 06/100 Dollars ($624.06) in late fees, One Thousand One Hundred Eighty-one and 11/100 Dollars ($1,181.11) in escrow reserve shortfalls and Fortyfive and No/100 Dollars ($45.00) in other fees, totaling the sum of Two Hundred Thirty-two Thousand Ninety-eight and 62/100 Dollars ($232,098.62), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 24th day of May, 2010. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA):ss). County of Missoula). On the 24th day of May, 2010, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula My commission expires: January 24, 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALETO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 24, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200

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23 Coat hook, maybe 24 "Blah blah blah" 25 "Hostel" director Roth 26 Less refined 30 Entr'___ 31 Definition of the coined word, Part 1 35 Squealed on 36 Part 2 of the definition 41 Staffs 42 PageMaker maker that merged with Adobe 43 Dream, with a Cockney accent 44 "___ be a shame if you didn't" 45 Doberman's warning 47 Skating jump 48 S, to a soldier 50 Assistance 54 End of the definition 56 Monogram ltr.

57 Fixture for a game show 58 Screener's org.

59 Food served in its own shell 60 "Quite a hot day out" response 61 JFK stat

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DOWN 1 People classified as "homo groovius" by humor website Uncyclopedia 2 Board game also called Reversi 3 Got ready to fire 4 Fruit in a gin fizz 5 Prefix meaning "seven" 6 Will-___-wisp 7 "What did you just say?!?!"

8 Fairy queen mentioned in "Romeo and Juliet" 9 Get hitched in private 10 Tennis legend Arthur 11 Gene therapy's field 12 She had a "Feast" in a 1987 Danish film 13 Punish with a fine 18 What blue sometimes denotes 19 Captain Link Hogthrob, e.g.

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PUBLIC NOTICES West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 42 OF PHANTOM HILLS, PHASES 1 & 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Richard J. Cooksey and Susanne W. Cooksey, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 31, 2006 and recorded on May 31, 2006 in Book 775, Page 640 as Document No. 200612677. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, 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 $1,561.26, beginning January 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 30, 2010 is $299,760.96 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $9,294.84, late charges in the amount of $390.30, escrow advances of $2,001.99, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,575.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $51.33 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

SERVICES may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 17, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 17, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota, Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Gmac V. Cooksey 41965.264

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana

541-7387 TOBY

Toby is big and gentle, sweet and loyal, and really quite handsome.

He seems to love everybody and was a muchloved member of his family. Sadly, hard times did hit, and the family had to move to a no-pets rental, so Toby is having to start over too.

549-3934 GEORGE

B R AV O

Bravo looks sad, doesn't he? That's not surprising, considering that he was left tied to a fence by himself and then ended up at the shelter. He doesn't know what happened to his family, but he does know how to be a good pet for a new family.

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JAKE

Jake has the heft and personality of a big dog, but he's actually a very manageable medium size. He's quite a handsome guy, with interesting markings and a smooth, soft coat. He's hoping for a home with an active family.

2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd Clark Fork River Market

PEONY

Yes, Peony does have a bad eye, but we're getting that fixed so that this sweet, gentle calico will be really ready for a new home. Her adoption fee has been sponsored, which we hope will also help get her adopted soon.

George is a very handsome Golden Retriever/Lab mix, who wants so badly to prove his loyalty to you. He is full of exuberance and desperately wants to be understood. He lives for his tennis ball, and your wish is his command as long as your approval is the reward!

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

RIO

Rio is a Rottweiler X -a big, handsome fellow who always has a smile on his face. He's certainly not scary! In fact, when people ask about him, we always say, "Rio is a big silly!" He's still a pup at heart and loves to play.

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RAISIN

Raisin looks stern, but only because she was severely injured when hit by a car, and now she takes this business of living very seriously!

She's completely healed now, and her adoption fee has even been sponsored, so she's ready to go.

PROMO

Promo is a small little pittie so full of love he could burst. At first sight, his face is filled by a happy grin and his entire body wiggles in anticipation! He loves to snuggle and thinks he fits perfectly in your lap.

SKIP

Skip is a wonderful little fellow. He likes everyone, kids and other animals included, and absolutely deserves his very own family. At just over a year, of course he's still learning, but is proud to say he's housetrained and has already been through our basic manners class!

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HERMAN

Herman is a little 11-weekold kitten, with endless spirit. Since he was tiny, he has been a force of nature, zipping and bouncy about fearlessly. He isn't afraid of anything, and promises to bring your family a lifetime of fun!

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NORMA JEAN

Look at how beautiful this cat is, it's obvious how she got her name. She is has beautiful blue eyes, and the softest, shiniest white coat, with very unique markings.

She knows she's gorgeous and chooses to live like a princess. Now she's just patiently waiting for her 'prince,' someone to come rescue her from the shelter.

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ABBY

Abby is much too old and dignified to being spending her time in a shelter.

She makes the best of it by spending her days lounging on our deck, requesting a steady stream of attention and room service, but of course that doesn't compare to the comforts of home.

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These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4710 B E V E R LY

They threw her out of the car and sped off in a cloud of dust and gravel. Beverly was devastated that her family would do such a thing. She didn’t know what to do or where to go….and the kids in the neighborhood pelted her with rocks every time they saw her.

DOLLY

Dolly’s story is no fairy tale, but the ending could be. This beautiful little girl came from a hoarding situation where she had to fight for her food. Every day was a struggle to survive. She was found bedraggled and extremely underweight.

Make Dolly’s dreams come true by taking this sweet girl homewith you.

SOPHIE

They were out of money.

They hadn’t paid the rent in months and the landlord had run out of patience. The family lost everything and Sophie lost her family. She tried to do her part by bringing mice to pay the rent, but the landlord wanted nothing to do with that.

SASHA

My world was a scary place before I came to AniMeals. I hid a lot, trying hard not to incur the wrath of “the man”. He was angry all the time and everyone in the house was afraid of him. The police came and took him away and the children went to live with relatives. I came to AniMeals.

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“Yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery.”

By Brint Wahlberg, 2010 MOR President A nationally recognized speaker and business consultant was in Missoula recently to provide an update to the Missoula Organization of REALTORS® on what is happening with the real estate segment of the economy, with consumers, and with the real estate industry. A few quick facts: • From its peak of more than 7 million units sold, the current housing market is approaching (at about 4.8 million units) the sustainable level of just over 5 million units. The number taking advantage of loan restructuring has leveled off.

• Consumers are all about lifestyle, relationships, and transparency. They are using social media and mobile ‘apps’ to achieve each in increasing numbers.

• Shadow inventory is a new buzz word and indicates properties that could be on the market depending on many variables. The number is an unknown factor that could affect both prices and market activity. This shadow inventory will affect each market differently and in ways that is not fully predictable yet.

The information about the market is probably the least relevant.

Those waiting for a market that resembles anything with which they were familiar in the past will be sorely disappointed. The key is to understand today’s reality and make the best decisions possible based on the best information available. Here are a few things to think about in the Missoula market: This might be a good opportunity for people to “move up” as prices remain steady for homes on the starter end of the scale and may be decreasing on the ‘move-up’ end.

More people are choosing to rent. There are good options for investors to consider investment properties while interest rates are low and the pool of renters is high.

Tools such as ‘contract for deed’and ‘lease-purchase’ may provide options in addressing financing concerns.

Sellers facing foreclosure or who are severely behind on their mortgage payments may have more options than it seems and need to explore those options sooner rather than later.

Today’s transactions require patience and perseverance by all parties involved. Last second delays in the closing are not uncommon and should be planned for.

There are some song lyrics that express perhaps better than anything else the reality for those now making decisions about real estate transactions: “Yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery.” For those who are willing to give up either a comparison between now and before or a forecast between now and later, there are opportunities, there are options, and there are resources.

One key is to take action based on information that is pertinent and relevant in the Missoula market. The other key is to identify real estate professionals in the local market who know and understand that information. They are the ones who live and work in the community. They make an investment in the community, in the neighborhood, each time they successfully partner with individual consumers to achieve their real estate goals.

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FHA & VA Financing Available

RENTALS APARTMENTS 118 West Alder- Historic Park Place Hotel at the heart of down town -Studio and 1 bdrm coinops and gas heat. Rent $525$575. 721-8990 1801 Howell #3 2bd/1ba $700 Hk-ups, off-street parking, pets?

Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2027 Sussex, 2-bd, 2nd floor, by the mall, built-ins, $575, GCPM, 549-6106, gcpm-mt.com

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422 Madison • 549-6106 All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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REAL ESTATE HOMES 1 Bed, 1 Bath, Garage, U area Condos. Assume contract for deed! Buy one condo or all three.

MLS#’s 10004276 / 10004273 / 10004274. Priced starting at $143,900. Lara Dorman, Realtor, GRI. (406) 531-5582 laradorman@aol.com 10250 Valley Grove Dr., Lolo MLS#902264 - $289,000 Beautiful 2 bd, 2 bath, artsy log home on 1.84 acres 5 minutes from Missoula - Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 2 Bed, 1.5 bath adorable home completely remodeled. Seller will

put a wall up in the bonus room upstairs to make into a 3rd bedroom. $145,000 MLS # 10002211. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com

3 bed, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage.

Huge living room. New tile floors, and roof. Comes w/ garden & fruit trees. $275,000 MLS #10004073.

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2663 Stratford, Target Range MLS#907889 - $212,000 Well maintained 3 bed, 2 bath ranch with fenced yard. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

3322 B Connery Way MLS#908163 - $191,000 Unique 3 level condo. 2 bds, plus loft & 3 bath. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. On acre west of Frenchtown. Main bathroom remodeled. Gorgeous yard w/ small pond. $230,000 MLS #907392. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com

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Lovely home w/ views on 1 acre. So close to town yet out in the country. New roof, wood floors, 2 decks, large master, formal dining room, 2 fireplaces. $309,900 • MLS 10005140. 2475 Humble, Msla. Pat McCormick, 240-

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4 Bedroom, cedar home on 11 acres, double garage. Private location with lots of surrounding trees. $349,900 MLS#901764. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

4322 Capy Ln. - MLS#904419 $435,000 Wonderful executive style 4 bed, 4 bath home on 1 acre lot. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Attractive townhome on Clark Fork River, close to trails. Newly painted interior, new flooring, end unit! 2 Bed, 1.5 Bath, Garage and Basement. 1401

Cedar St. #17, Missoula. $127,100. MLS# 10001861.

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BRAND NEW 3 bedroom home ready to move in. Priced in the mid $160,000’s. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906.

AWARD WINNING HISTORIC HOME IN MISSOULA’S HISTORIC RIVERFRONT NEIGHBORHOOD. Beautifully updated 3 Bdr/2 Ba home in walking distance of Downtown Missoula, the Clark Fork River & UM. $399,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Charming 6-plex across the street from Orange Street Food Farm, parks, and within easy biking or walking to the University and downtown. Very nice neighborhood and well maintained units.

Low vacancy rate. 234 Edith, Msla.

MLS#10004704. $379,900. Lara Dorman, Realtor, GRI. (406) 5315582 laradorman@aol.com

Beautiful 3br/3ba home in a beautiful setting in desirable Lincoln Woods neighborhood close to walking trails, parks, wilderness area, Rattlesnake Creek. 3278787 porticorealestate.com

Charming Affordable Home Walk to downtown, bike path to UM, well maintained historic home with 9’ ceilings, hardwood floors, updated kitchen and bath, garage, patio, fenced yard,

realtors welcome, www.1018 Third.info, $174,900 546-4797 Close to Everything!

FSBO Comfortable & roomy 3 BDR/2 BA home: large eat-in kitchen w/ tons of storage; large bedrooms; remodeled bathrooms; Jacuzzi tub; new carpet, flooring, & paint; fireplace; detached 2-car garage on dead-end alley w/.5 BA; patio; potting shed; mature trees; nicely landscaped w/ perennial flowers; fenced back yard. Close to schools, shopping, & services. 421 Burlington Avenue. $249,000.

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REAL ESTATE COUNTRY LIVING! 2 bed 2 bath home on large landscaped lot, garden area in rural setting $229,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906 Cute & Spacious Home! Quick sale in Pleasantview area.

2story, 3bdrm, 2.5bath. Large floorplan, mature garden. Close to Hellgate Elementary & shopping.

3008 Mary Jane $223,000. (406) 546-2307 EXECUTIVE HOME ON 1.03 ACRES IN THE LOLO CREEK VALLEY. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Main floor master suite, great room, family room & rec room, formal and casual dining rooms, great mountain and valley views. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Fantastic Opportunity for income qualified first time homeowners, great 2bdr. condo along the river, attached single car garage, bonus room, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #12 & #5 porticorealestate.com FISH THE BLACKFOOT RIVER FROM YOUR BACK YARD. Beautifully landscaped 4 Bdr/2 Bath home on 1.2 acres on the Blackfoot River just 10-15 minutes from Missoula. Open floor plan, great deck with hot tub overlooking the river and much more. $475,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy11 to 74362, or visit.. www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS HANDCRAFTED HOME IN 3.3 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Baths, Main floor master suite, great room, gor-

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For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy8 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS SETTING ON 16.5 ACRES. Beautifully updated 3 Bdr/2 Bath Potomac area home.

Great floor plan, large deck and covered porch, very private and quiet setting, tons of wildlife, trees and pasture. $239,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy15 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS TARGET RANGE HOME ON 0.94 ACRES. 5 Bdr/3 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. Close to schools, shopping, and the Bitterroot River. $469,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696,

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Great Investment Property near Downtown Missoula, this triplex is in fantastic shape, close to St Pats, Nice neighborhood. Live in it, rent the other 2 Units! 518 W Alder, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Immaculate & tastefully remodeled home upgraded trim, lighting & fixtures. 3Bd, 2Ba, Garage. Custom blt wd floors grace the upper bedrooms. Fab tiled bath w/deep Jacuzzi tub, heated tiled flr. Mstr bed huge walk in closet, blt in desk. Bk yd fully fenced, mature trees, garden area, shed. www.2325 quail.com. 2325 Quail Dr., Missoula. $235,000. MLS# 1000 5051.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Pru-dential Missoula Properties. 544-7507

Hillview Acres - MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Acreage in Helena area. Zoned for cemetery. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Huge Price Reduction Lot 1 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905530 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for $160,000 2.87 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Huge Price Reduction Lot 2 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905531 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for $160,000 2.25 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round

Immaculate home in great neighborhood. 2 bdrms, 2 bth, family room, sauna, nice yard, Vintage touches, hardwood floors, everything’s in fantastic condition! 135 Kensington 327-8787 porticorealestate.com LOG CABIN SHELL KIT. To be sold at Auction, August 28th, 28x32 with 1/2 loft. missioncreekloghomes.com or 406-745-2110 MAKE AN OFFER! 2002 Atlantic home w upgraded energy package. Over 1700 sq. ft. of liv-

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NHN Applegate & Prarie Rd., Helena - MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Great investment to get in at the very beginning of a cemetery development. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Nice, 2bdrm, 2 bonus rooms, fireplace, family room, walkout-daylight basement, spacious home in South Hills close to Chief Charlo, updated kitchen, backyard oasis, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

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Large detached 28 x 40 heated shop, easy access. All on 20 treed acres w views! 36201 Berthoud, Potomac. $229,900.

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435 Mount • $203,900 Right across from lovely Rose Park. This home has had many upgrades including remodeled kitchen featuring Hickory Cabinets, Brazilian Hickory laminate flooring throughout, all new stainless steel appliances. New blinds in the living room and solid core doors in all the main level rooms. The new roof was put on in May. The yard features a nice array of perennials. There is parking in the rear under the carport and a shed for extra storage.

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6107 Brusett - Gorgeous Martz Built Home!

• 4 bed, 3 bath, 3 car garage • Vaulted ceilings, fenced back yard • Large family room w/ wet bar •Landscaped yard w/ sprinklers • $299,900 • MLS # 10005422

53 Brookside • 2 bed, 2 bath, beautiful condo • Cathedral ceilings and plenty of natural light • Large kitchen, spacious living room • Master bath w/ walk-in closet & deep soaking tub • $325,000 • MLS # 10000721

1375 Woodhill Court • 2 bed, 1 bath, charming home • River access and wetland frontage • Mountain views from back deck • 10 minute drive from Missoula • $195,000 • MLS # 10004174

979 Eaton • 4 bed, 2 bath, 1 car garage • Centrally located home • Large living room & family room in daylight basement • $179,900 • MLS # 10004809

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$379,900 • MLS# 10004704 234 Edith, Missoula owner financing available This charming 6-plex is across the street from the Orange Street Food Farm, parks, and within easy biking or walking to the University and downtown. You can't beat the location. Very nice neighborhood and well maintained units. Low vacancy rate.

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Quintessential Missoula! Recycled maple floors, antique bath fixtures, kitchen made for company. Dining room opens onto extensive decking and a gardener's fantasy yard with outbuildings, perrenials, privacy.

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514 W. Spruce St. • $269,000 1920’s era house has been revamped while retaining all of its original charm. Updated electrical, plumbing, handicapped accessible bath, security alarm, offstreet parking, underground sprinklers, and air conditioning in harmony with original bullseye woodwork, mahogany flooring, high ceilings, and all right downtown on West Spruce. Zoned B2-2 for a variety of commercial or residential uses. MLS#10001940

912 Defoe • $174,900 3 bedroom two full bath home with GIGANTIC shop/garage.

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One of a Kind Listing, Nine Mile Schoolhouse with all the charm, romance and history one would expect. Unlimited possiblities an outstanding property. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Peaceful 3bed/2bath treetop retreat, nestled in the woods on Cedar Ridge, yet is just 15 minutes from downtown Missoula. 9625 Cedar Ridge Rd. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Price Reduced! 5 Bed/2 Bath in Bonner. New wood laminate floor.

Large kitchen with island. Fenced yard in front with private deck area in back. New roof. Mature trees. $209,900 MLS#906641. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

PRICE REDUCED! Wonderful 5 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home on large lot with fruit trees and garden area. Meticulously landscaped with retractable awning over back patio. $223,000.

MLS#10003652. 3 Kasota, Missoula. Pat McCormick, 240SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com PRICE REDUCTION! Wonderful single level home in quiet neighborhood near Rattlesnake Creek. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. 3624 Creekwood, Missoula. $249,900.

MLS#10003714. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great room, open floor plan, double garage, unobstructed views of the Bitterroot Mountains, great yard. $219,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy16 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Spacious, light-filled Upper Rattlesnake Home, 2 Fireplaces, 2 Bedrooms & 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths, a really nice big backyard with patio. #8 Columbine 3278787 porticorealestate.com SPECTACULAR BITTERROOT VIEWS. Gorgeous 3 Bdr/2 Bath Stevensville area home on 10 acres. High ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, fireplace, spacious master bedroom, deck with hot tub, and much more. $489,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy19 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Sweet Target Range Home, Open floor plan, fireplace, hardwood refinished, 4Br, 3Ba, Bonus Rooms, huge lot, fruit trees, gardens 4220 South Ave 327-8787 porticorealestate.com UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3 bed 2 bath home Centrally Located. Priced under appraisal at $165,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906

Unique log home on 26+ private acres, bordering FS, min. to Snowbowl, hiking, 15 min to dwntwn. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 3 carport, w/tons of storage above. Separate guest house on property. www.11815benchroad.com. SELLER WILL LOOK AT ALL OFFERS. They are motivated to sell! 11815 Bench Rd, Missoula. $449,000.

MLS#10001348.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507 Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops and lots of gorgeous wood throughout, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermissoula.com OR call 550-3077

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Beautiful wooded 3.69 acres with 550 feet of Twin Creeks frontage.

Easy access from Hwy 200 on well maintained county road. Modulars or manufactured homes on a permanent foundation are allowed.

Seller will carry contract with $50,000 down at 7 % interest. $219,900. MLS#10005586. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. $179,900.

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Beautiful 20 acres fenced pasture land. Seasonal stream and pond.

Great get away or build your dream home. No power to area. $170 per year road maintenance fee. $149,900 MLS# 905366.

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Nice sized building lot in East Missoula with city water stubbed to the lot and city sewer available.

Located near the end of Sommers with hardly any traffic. $62,500 MLS# 907997. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com TROPHY ELK AREA LAND SALE!!

Horse Trails - BLM bordering. Bank Liquidation Sale - Call Now! 20 acres w/road & utilities - $19,900.

20 acres w/new cabin - WAS: $99,900 NOW: $69,900. Also

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COMMERCIAL Commercial building asking $350K. Call Loubelle, 240-0753 or Bob, 370-0476 for more info DARBY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN GREAT DOWNTOWN LOCATION ON MAIN ST. Two main floor retail/professional spaces featuring 10 ft ceilings, storage/back room spaces, and lots of windows plus two second floor residential rentals. Great income potential and priced to sell! $159,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, Text Mindy4 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITY NEAR VICTOR. 6.2 acres with creek & highway frontage. Beautiful 2 bedroom, 1 bath home with attached garage.

Separate professional shop with guest quarters. Lift/tools negotiable. 2 septic systems/good well.

Great views! For appointment to show call Patrick Halsell 207-2326 or Marabeth Fite 239-5300

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE LENDING WITH A CONSCIENCE. Private funding for secured legitimate “Non-Bankable” Loans with substantial equity. Cash for “Seller Held” contracts and mortgages. Creative Finance & Investments, LLC, 619 SW Higgins, Ste 0, Missoula, MT. 59803. 800999-4809 MT. Lic #000203

4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Nice manufactured home w/ large living room, and a huge laundry/ mud room. Seller may finance. $155,000 MLS# #10001945.

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