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Vol. 21, No. 33 • Aug. 19 – Aug. 26, 2010

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Scope: A complete guide to three days of Total Fest IX madness Up Front: Calculating the economic impact of wolf relisting Ochenski: Revisiting BLM’s controversial Treasured Landscapes

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Vol. 21, No. 33 • Aug. 19 – Aug. 26, 2010

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

Scope: A complete guide to three days of Total Fest IX madness Up Front: Calculating the economic impact of wolf relisting Ochenski: Revisiting BLM’s controversial Treasured Landscapes

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nside Cover Story The Independent reviewed health inspection reports for 227 local establishments and found only 15 percent passed their most recent routine inspection without receiving at least one critical violation.

We also found the most telling information lies beyond those numbers..........14

News Letters Gadflies and a list of suggestions...................................................................4 The Week in Review Big rigs, killer hawks and Christian rock................................6 Briefs Spotted Dog, Swan Valley and closure ............................................................6 Etc. The Indy tries an FOIA audit...............................................................................7 Up Front Wolf relisting causes fiscal repercussions...................................................8 Up Front St. Ignatius Christian youth center comes under fire................................9 Ochenski Revisiting BLM’s Treasured Landscapes Initiative ..................................10 Writers on the Range California response only fans the flames ............................11 Agenda Garden City Harvest’s Farm Party. ..............................................................12

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Asked Tuesday afternoon near the Missoula County Courthouse.

Q:

This week the Indy reviews 227 health inspection reports for area restaurants. What’s the sketchiest thing you’ve witnessed at a local restaurant?

Follow-up: What local restaurant do you most frequent?

Lillian Davis: You know, really, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so bad in a restaurant here that I wouldn’t eat there, and I was born here. Although sometimes the food’s bad enough that I don’t want to go there in the future. Variety is the spice of life: I like The Shack, usually for lunch. They have a lot of good food and I like to mix it up.

Three minutes at a time I want to thank my friend Kandi Matthew-Jenkins for standing up for families who have lost children to Child Protective Services (see “Open mic night,” July 22, 2010). Since she began, she hears heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story. Once a parent has been accused, they have few friends indeed and few avenues of recourse.

Kandi has been calling out fraud and abuse in the secrecy-cloaked department for years. What could be more alarming?

That the City Council thinks it’s a yawner is kind of creepy.

Plato referred to Socrates as a gadfly for goading the lazy political class in Athens. Thanks, Kandi, for doing what you can in three minute increments.

With the media watchdog asleep, you are appreciated.

Rena Wetherelt Missoula

Happy anniversary

Nicole Starr: Ooh La Latte! They walk around in bras and panties and serve lattes and mochas. Oh, sketchiest? I thought you meant skankiest. Hot, not sketchy: HuHot, because it’s delicious, unlimited and you can make it yourself.

Danny Crump: I’ve got some bar stories… One time, in a bathroom, I was already peeing in a toilet when this guy opened the door and peed into the urinal from the door.

There was an actual urine stream, right behind me. He just stood there, like he was really cool. Two-item entrée: Right now I’m heading to Sa Wad Dee. I go there pretty often, for the lunch special.

Larry Walsh: You know, I usually don’t look around at what I’m eating—I usually just eat it. One time though, I ate at a chicken restaurant and got food poisoning and so did my mom. I got real sick but she almost passed away from it.

Never-ending foodie: Taco Bell, because it’s cheap. But also that Hong Kong place, because it’s like a never-ending plate of food.

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This August marks the 75th anniversary of a program that has lifted millions of Americans out of poverty and helped them cope with the economic uncertainties of retirement, disability and the death of family wage-earners: Social Security.

There’s no question that we would have a tougher time without this innovative program, which was signed into law

by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Aug. 14, 1935.

Today, many Americans tend to forget how far-reaching Social Security is, and how important it is to our nation and to our history. They tend to think it’s only for old people, that it doesn’t pay out enough, and that we should change it, privatize it or do away with it.

People debated the potential merits of Social Security mightily when it was created back in 1935 and, no doubt, they’ll be debating those merits for many years to come. But in this anniversary year, I think it’s important to consider what the program has achieved over the past 75 years, and what it means to us now.

Today, many people joke about going to the poorhouse when they are besieged by big bills. But in the years before Social Security, the poorhouse was a very real place. Without the promise of retirement income, people who lacked pensions were forced to work for as long as physically possible. When they couldn’t work any longer, many destitute seniors lived out the rest of their lives in

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one of the nation’s many literal poorhouses, or “alms” houses.

People who became disabled and unable to work were forced to rely on what charity they could find. If a family’s wage earner died or became disabled, his or her family members also were left without any firm social safety net.

Social Security made working Americans a basic promise: If you pay into this program during your working life, your retirement will be more secure.

Your family will have at least a modest

What could be “more alarming?

That the City Council thinks it’s a yawner is kind

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as a way to trim Social Security is unfair to those who have been paying into the program and hope to benefit from it when they retire. Under current law, the program’s full retirement age is gradually shifting from age 65 to age 67 for those who turn 62 in 2022 or later. That represents a 13 percent cut in monthly benefits for those born in 1960 or later. If the age is raised to 69 or 70, as is proposed by some in Congress, that will result in an additional 13 to 20 percent cut in monthly benefits.

Public opinion polls show that these changes are unpopular and that most Americans hold Social Security in high esteem. Rather than trimming the program, we should look at how it might be strengthened for future generations.

Through multiple wars and myriad hard times, Social Security has persevered and I’m optimistic that it will overcome this latest round of challenges too.

Passing this law 75 years ago was a tremendous achievement and one that we should celebrate triumphantly today.

John Melcher Former U.S. congressman and senator Missoula

Slaughter rules income in retirement or if you are disabled or die. The average annual benefit for Social Security recipients is $13,000.

The program also elevated the moral status of the United States: We became a nation that could pride itself in looking after its citizens by providing them a social safety net.

Without Social Security today, nearly one out of every two elderly people and 55 percent of all disabled people and their families would live in poverty.

Social Security also prevents 1.3 million children from living in poverty.

In Montana, nearly one in five Montana residents receives Social Security benefits. And the program prevents more than 62,000 Montana seniors from living in poverty.

Most recently, Social Security has come under threat from those who propose cutting or changing the program as a way to reduce the national debt. This isn’t fair. Social Security benefits belong to the working people who paid into the program and shouldn’t be tampered with. Social Security didn’t cause the deficit and it shouldn’t be used to fix it.

Likewise, raising the retirement age

Milk and all dairy products that we enjoy so much do not come without a sacrifice. The only way a dairy cow can produce milk is if she gives birth to a calf.

In some “factory farms,” where the newborn calves are intended for veal, they are immediately tied into crates so small that they cannot turn around. A few weeks later, they are often too weak or sick to walk to the slaughterhouse. Their little knees buckle and they fall. Right now in America, there are no regulations to ban slaughter of downed veal calves.

Please write Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C., 20259. Ask him to amend the regulations to stop slaughter of downed veal calves, and enforce the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, which prohibits animals from being slaughtered while conscious.

Lene Harris Somerville, Tenn.

Correction: A story in last week’s issue about musician and comedian Reggie Watts stated he was born in Great Falls. Watts was born in Germany before moving to Great Falls when he was young. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, August 11

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The U.S. Department of Energy awards $3 million in grants to Montana and Wyoming universities for studying ways to store carbon pollution from power plants. Montana State University receives $1.6 million to research ways to seal injection wells using a liquid-like mixture of carbon dioxide.

• Thursday, August 12 Former Lolo resident Jack Morris arrives in Missoula, a weekend stop on his walk across the United States. Morris began his trek May 1 in Jacksonville, Fla., as a fundraiser to earn $100,000 for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. He plans to end the journey in Seattle, his home city, by Sept. 10.

• Friday, August 13 The Western Montana Fair continues with an evening rodeo and rare clear skies. An Indy staffer can’t help but notice a particularly cute couple dressed up in their cowboy best walking the grounds near the children’s rides. It turns out to be best-selling author and part-time Lolo resident James Lee Burke and his wife taking in the scene.

• Saturday, August 14 Great Falls resident Kelly Rohrich finds a hawk dead on a fence when returning home from work for lunch. She believes the hawk to be a member of a vicious gang of avian thugs that have terrorized the community for over a month with diving attacks that, in one case, bloodied a local’s scalp.

• Sunday, August 15 Newsboys, a Christian rock band, plays live at OgrenAllegiance Park. The concert was originally planned for the fairgrounds, but a dispute over whether the concert—and the worship service preceding it—violated the separation of church and state precipitated the move. “They tried to stop us,” says frontman Michael Tait, “but we’re going to do this concert anyway.”

• Monday, August 16 A report reveals the grizzly bear that on July 28 mauled three campers outside Yellowstone National Park, killing one, had parasites and was struggling to feed her cubs. But those factors alone, wildlife investigators conclude, are not enough to explain the bear’s unprovoked attack.

• Tuesday, August 17 An Idaho state judge grants a temporary injunction that stops ConocoPhillips’ big rigs from rolling on U.S. Highway 12. The move comes just one day after three Idaho residents took the Idaho Department of Transportation to court, claiming the agency’s permitting process was flawed.

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The sounds of clanking metal and high-pitched screams provide a soundtrack for The Kamikaze and The Zipper as they spin through the last night of the 2010 Western Montana Fair on Aug. 15.

Conservation State seeks Swan lands A proposed land acquisition by the state of Montana could lock up nearly 10,000 acres of fish and wildlife habitat in the Swan Valley west of Highway 83.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) two weeks ago released a draft environmental assessment of the proposal, known as the West Swan Valley Conservation Project. The agency would acquire or purchase conservation easements on 9,500 acres of land currently owned by Plum Creek Timber Co. that’s set to transfer to The Nature Conservancy in November as part of the Montana Legacy Project. The checkerboarded lands, centered about 20 miles south of Bigfork in Lake County, are interspersed with state trust lands that make up the eastern half of the Swan River State Forest.

FWP has had its eyes on the land since 2005, according to FWP Wildlife Mitigation Coordinator Alan Wood, and he says two things happened recently to make the acquisition possible: The

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Nature Conservancy entered into a contract with Plum Creek to buy the land with the intention of transferring ownership to a conservation buyer, and the Bonneville Power Administration made at least $15 million available for the project through its Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Program.

“It’s the merging of those things that’s led to the opportunity,” Wood says.

The total cost of the project won’t be known until after the land is appraised, and after the public comment period, which ends Sept. 7. Depending on the results of those two steps, the agency will decide whether to buy the land, buy conservation easements, or a mix of both.

Regardless, land management objectives would change.

“The Bonneville Power Administration money provides an increased emphasis for resident fish,” Wood explains. “So whether it’s a conservation easement or FWP ownership, we’ll have measures that would significantly restrict any timber management along the cutthroat trout streams, for example. A lot of the other stuff, in terms of road management and

grizzly bear measures, probably wouldn’t change a lot.”

FWP scheduled a public meeting for Thursday, Aug. 19, at the Swan Lake Community Hall at 7 p.m.

Matthew Frank

Drifters Investigating a fatal float More than a month ago, after two tubers floating through Missoula found the body of Dennis Plant in the Clark Fork River, news reports suggested the 59-year-old was homeless. His apparent drowning was lumped in with the rest of the town’s too-frequent transient deaths, mostly anonymous and quickly forgotten.

But Plant, his family says, wasn’t a transient, and they, at least, haven’t forgotten.

Crystal Bunce, 32, the youngest of Plant’s four children, is looking for closure. She hopes someone who saw what happened on July 14, the day Plant floated downstream from Jacobs Island past Brennan’s Wave in an inner tube, will come forward.

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Plant, of Arlee, was a member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes. Bunce last saw him on Father’s Day. She says he would spend weeks at a time in Missoula, he too-often abused alcohol and he had many transient friends, but he wasn’t homeless.

“He had a home in Arlee. He raised us in Arlee,” says Bunce, who works for the tribes in Pablo as an accounting technician. “He raised four kids on his own as a single father. And when he raised us he didn’t drink or any of that. He was a good father. He didn’t start drinking until after we were grown.”

Plant’s body was found submerged in about six feet of water at the end of Tower Street on July 17. He was fully clothed. Toxicology results showed his blood-alcohol content was 0.27, more than three times the level at which a person is deemed impaired.

At first, Capt. Greg Hintz of the Missoula County Sheriff ’s office called Plant’s death suspicious. But after a month of investigation including dozens of interviews, Hintz doesn’t have anything that leads to criminal charges.

“These people were inner tubing and they were intoxicated,” he says. “That was basically it.”

Hintz has talked with Plant’s family almost every day since his body was discovered. They’re hoping for new evidence proving that Plant’s death wasn’t an accident, and that whoever was responsible will be brought to justice.

“I just don’t know if we’re going to be able to satisfy them,” Hintz says.

Matthew Frank

City Council Tolling the big rigs Missoula City Council will soon vote on whether to increase the toll of transporting supersized rigs through town, including those high-andwide loads ExxonMobil wants to route along Highway 12 to oil fields in Alberta.

The new proposal—a rewrite of laws currently on the books—would increase the cost of acquiring a permit to transport large loads through town from $100 to $200 per trip. City number crunchers estimate permitting revenue from ExxonMobil’s proposed project alone would bring in roughly $40,000. The rewrite would also up the bond requirement—a pot of cash the city can draw from if anything goes wrong—from $2,000 to $20,000.

As it stands, the city doesn’t expressly have authority to regulate rigs like those ExxonMobil pro-

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poses driving through Missoula. The rewrite would change that.

“We are making it more explicit,” says Councilman Bob Jaffe, who, along with Councilman Roy Houseman, leads the effort to update existing regulations. “It’s somewhat ambiguous now.”

The city’s proposal comes as the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) is slated to announce within days its decision on whether it will

allow ExxonMobil to drive some 200 massive oil processing “modules” through Montana. The petroleum company’s pitch is raising concern along the proposed route. Missoula City Council in May passed a resolution calling for a more thorough analysis of the potential environmental impacts of the shipments.

Jaffe says the rewrite isn’t designed to stop the modules, but better account for the plan’s impacts.

MDT has different concerns. According to City Attorney Jim Nugent, once the department heard of council’s intentions, an attorney with MDT called Nugent to question the city’s legal authority to oversee transportation on state highways within city limits. “(MDT) seemed to be concerned that the city was going to try to obstruct or preempt their permit, if issued,” Nugent says.

It remains to be seen if MDT will officially weigh in on the ordinance when the city holds an Aug. 23 public meeting on the rewrite.

Jessica Mayrer

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Spotted Dog The home stretch The state’s proposed 27,616-acre Spotted Dog acquisition entered the home stretch Monday morning when the Montana State Board of Land Commissioners unanimously voted in favor of the $16.6 million deal. Now the only remaining question concerns funding—and the answer is already clear.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) applied for a grant earlier this summer through the Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP) to fund its purchase of the Spotted Dog property from the Rock Creek Cattle Company. The Trustee Advisory Council meets next Thursday to issue recommendations on the agency’s grant request.

The final decision on rewarding the grant, however, rests squarely in Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s hands.

Late last month, Schweitzer voiced his first public words of skepticism over the purchase when he stated there was a greater than 50 percent chance the state would be beat to the deal by private sector interests. Schweitzer’s confidence grew after the FWP Commission and the Land Board finalized their opinions.

“I’m becoming more optimistic all the time that this is going to make it to my desk,” Schweitzer says.

FWP’s final goal is to designate the property a Wilderness Management Area and allow for public access from May 15 to November 30. But public comment has outlined concerns ranging from limited road access to uncertain long-term funding. The proposal includes roughly $1.2 million for five-year maintenance expenses, yet FWP has no concrete plans beyond that.

“You’ve got to maintain fences, you’ve got to take care of weeds,” says FWP spokesman Ron Aasheim. “But that’s down the road. We have sources of funding for maintenance, and we don’t buy property unless we have the ability to maintain it.”

The main focus of debate over Spotted Dog continues to be the appropriateness of using NRDP funds for the purchase. Scores of residents have spoken out against FWP’s grant application, arguing that the money should instead be spent on restoring portions of the Clark Fork watershed contaminated by historic mining activity.

Spotted Dog critics have one more chance to speak their minds on Aug. 26. But in the end, it appears the only voice with any weight will belong to one of the acquisition’s biggest supporters: Schweitzer.

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Dollars bet Aug. 14 during horse racing events at the Western Montana Fair, a single-day track record. The sport returned to the fairgrounds for two days of races after a three-year absence.

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Easy assignment: At the request of the Montana Newspaper Association (MNA), the Independent was asked to request a report from the Missoula Police Department as part of a Freedom of Information Act audit. The law states anyone—journalists, non-journalists, even you—can obtain criminal justice information upon request. The only catch is the city may charge a “reasonable fee.”

Sounds simple enough, save for the brick wall that appears in the form of steely-eyed and khaki clad “records specialists” inside the department.

When a staff writer requested two reports last Thursday— both documenting a June 30 incident involving a 75-year-old man arrested for felony assault—all the writer received was a cold shoulder camouflaged in earth tones. In order to obtain the information, the paper would have to pay $22 for a report and provide the man’s date of birth.

“Without this information [the date of birth], I don’t know if we have a report,” said Jennifer, the woman working the police department’s front desk who refused to give her last name.

Huh? Staff writers have experienced trouble the past couple months shaking out public records, but we’ve never heard these specific requirements before.

Needless to say, our writer didn’t have the cash (in this economy?) or the man’s birth date (how could the writer know?). More importantly, none of this seemed to fit the letter of the law.

“They can’t charge you $22,” said attorney Mike Meloy with Montana’s Freedom of Information Hotline. “That’s patently just illegal.”

John Barrows, executive director of the MNA, also added his two cents about the 22 bucks.

“It appears to be there simply to discourage the public from asking for such information,” he said.

Days after this surprisingly frustrating—and ultimately unresolved—encounter, Police Chief Mark Muir called our reporter, unsolicited, to hash out the issue. The Indy has always found Muir, as well as the department’s media liaisons, extremely forthcoming with information, and this was no different. He chalked the whole thing up to a new employee and a miscommunication and, low and behold, hours later we received notice that the documents we requested were now available. We never had to provide a birth date (it wasn’t even included in the report), but the department still wanted $22 for two pages of information.

This “easy” assignment turned out to be anything but, and we don’t expect the issue to be resolved any time soon. The Independent will continue to find ways to work around the system, but the public should be aware that the system currently appears, at the very least, flawed and inconsistent.

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Kill fee Calculating the economic impact of wolf relisting

by Matthew Frank

George Edwards, coordinator of Montana’s Livestock Loss Reduction and Mitigation Program, uses Facebook to document claims paid to ranchers who’ve lost livestock to wolf predation. Last Friday Edwards typed, “Today’s claim is for a calf killed in Powell County.” Lately he’s posted similar claims two or three times a week— for cows, calves, bulls, ewes and lambs.

So far this year, Edwards has paid out about $51,000 to compensate the ranchers who have reported 86 dead head of livestock. That’s up from about $41,000 during

(Because the money came in between legislative sessions, the agency hasn’t been given legislative authority to spend it.) The agency can’t count on that revenue again.

Carolyn Sime, FWP’s wolf program coordinator, says it’s actually not much money, considering hunting and fishing licenses account for more than $57 million, or about 66 percent, of the agency’s 2010 revenue.

“Even though people’s eyeballs might get pretty big about $325,000 for wolf license revenue,” she says, “it’s really not

Photo courtesy USDA

A USDA Wildlife Services employee radio-collars a wolf in the Madison Valley after darting it from a helicopter. Now that gray wolves have been returned to the endangered species list, state wolf managers say federal agents, not hunters, will be killing problem wolves. That’s more costly—and just one of the economic implications of the relisting.

the same period in 2009, when his office paid out a total of $145,000 during the year.

With U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy’s recent decision to return Northern Rockies gray wolves to the endangered species list— a move that preempts the second wolf hunting seasons in Montana and Idaho— Edwards figures his agency’s payouts will continue to rise.

“I anticipate seeing an increase in livestock losses,” Edwards says. “I mean, more wolves on the landscape means more livestock depredations.”

According to state figures, Montana’s wolf population grew from 256 in 2005 to 524 in 2009. During that time the number of reported cattle killed by wolves jumped from 23 to 97, and the number of sheep from 33 to 202.

Edwards’ tightening wolf-kill reimbursement budget—which relies heavily on donations—can be counted among the many economic implications of Molloy’s decision. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) sold 15,603 wolf-hunting licenses for the state’s first wolf hunt last year. The licenses earned the agency $325,916.

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adequate if the idea is that wolf license revenue would wholly sustain wolf management in Montana.”

But what will be more eye-popping, according to Sime, is the cost of addressing the conflict.

“One of the concerns you’ve heard expressed pretty clearly from the state of Montana with the relisting of the wolf,” Sime says, “is the potential for increasing conflicts between wolves and livestock resulting in injured and dead livestock, and the economics that go along with that.”

Beyond the Livestock Loss Reduction and Mitigation Program’s payouts, Sime points to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, the agency that carries out the on-the-ground work eliminating problem wolves.

“They’re the ones out there flying the helicopters killing the wolves,” Sime says.

“That stuff ’s not cheap.”

As the wolf population rises, so too does the number of wolves Wildlife Services kills. In 2005, 35 wolves were killed in the state. Last year, 145 were killed. Wildlife Services accounts for most

of the deaths. It can legally kill wolves regardless of the species’ endangered species list status.

“It certainly helps our agency out when there is a hunting season,” says Wildlife Services State Director John Steuber.

Steuber estimates his agency’s work costs about $400,000, including responding to reports of wolf predations, necropsies, radio-collaring, lethal control, etc. He says that number is sure to rise “dramatically” as the wolf population grows, and Wildlife Service’s role will become even more crucial without hunters in the field come fall.

“Now, without a legal harvest, we’re going to be back to the 20 to 25 percent increases [in the wolf population] that we’ve seen in prior years,” Steuber says.

Sime doesn’t expect Montana’s wolf numbers to jump quite that high in the absence of a hunt. Regardless, she believes hunters ought to be the ones culling the packs, not government agents.

“Hunters are willing to pay,” Sime says.

“They’re willing to pay to fund conservation management of habitat and animals.

And now, instead, we have government agents doing something that, in the absence of the listed status, hunters would be doing—paying to be doing—and supporting the agency.

“To think that no wolves are going to die now that we’re back to a listed status is not realistic,” Sime adds. “So the fundamental contrast here is hunters and their role versus government agents killing wolves, which starts to look a little bit like Alaska, if you ask me.”

Defenders of Wildlife, one of the plaintiffs that succeeded in returning wolves to the endangered species list, and which contributed $100,000 to help launch the Livestock Loss Reduction and Mitigation Program last year, says hunters can never fully take the place of wildlife managers.

“Hunters cannot target specific wolves that are responsible for livestock losses,” says Suzanne Asha Stone, the organization’s Northern Rockies representative. “That’s the responsibility of professional wildlife managers. Randomly killing wolves can actually provoke livestock losses by splitting up packs and orphaning young wolves that cannot yet hunt wild game on their own.”

Economics aside, leave it to the wolf debate to draw contention over not just whether wolves are killed, but who does the killing. mfrank@missoulanews.com

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The runaways St. Ignatius Christian youth ranch comes under fire

By Jessica Mayrer

When 13-year-old Cody Thompson father were hired to work as house parents. ward, yet the law specifically excluded reliwas sentenced for burglarizing a house, his During the three years Bingham lived at the gious youth homes like Pinehaven.

Pinehaven alum James Mason, who is mother gave him a choice: complete his youth home, and in later visits with her probation at Pinehaven Christian family, she says she witnessed staffers using assisting Krug in rallying other former resiChildren’s Ranch in Saint Ignatius, or do inappropriate force. Specifically, Bingham dents, hopes to change the exemption time at a juvenile detention center closer to points to tactics employed when Pinehaven when the Montana Legislature convenes the family’s Illinois home. Thompson employees doled out a typical ranch pun- this winter.

“I pray for it,” says Mason. “There’s no chose Pinehaven, an easy decision consid- ishment: shoveling manure in the bullpen.

“I’ve seen a girl dragged down there,” accountability from the outside.” ering its bucolic setting and promises of Larsson, who has run Pinehaven since says Bingham, now a Missoula resident. improved discipline.

Now, more than a year after her son “It’s all gravel and her back was cut up. I 1976, says if half of the allegations launched against his facility were true, arrived at the Christian law enforcement would youth home, Laraine have shut him down a long Cornwell claims time ago. Mechanisms Pinehaven’s physical beaualready exist to protect chilty covers an ugly reality. dren from abuse. Plus, he “No one knows adds, Pinehaven houses what’s going on there,” troubled youth—some with she says. “He couldn’t criminal histories, like even say anything, or he’d Thompson—and strict disciget in trouble.” pline is a necessary part of Cornwell’s son is one the program. of four children to run “We’re here willingly away from the St. Ignatius taking care of other peofacility since July 15. ples’ problem kids,” Larsson During the past weeks, all says. “I have stacks of letters four teenagers have been from families of kids who found. But the runaways— were here, saying, ‘You and the media scrutiny folsaved my life. Yeah, you had lowing them—constitute to discipline me, but that’s the latest challenge for Pinehaven, as former Cody Thompson, left, ran away from Pinehaven Christian what I needed.’”

Larsson, 81, also points alumni come forward Children’s Ranch on July 26. He and his mother Laraine recounting personal sto- Cornwell, right, are part of a growing number of former to the two-month investigaPinehaven residents and their families calling for increased tion conducted by Lake ries of alleged physical and regulation of religious youth homes in Montana.

County Detective Michael verbal abuse.

Pinehaven founder and director Bob saw a kid during wintertime—it was so cold Gehl, which turned up nothing on Krug’s Larsson disputes the allegations. He stands out—and he had taken off his gloves to help child abuse allegations.

The detective wonders why, if there by the center’s methods of discipline for shovel the manure, because it was extremely hard. It was frozen. And afterwards, all of are so many alleged Pinehaven “victims,” troubled children.

“You can’t treat people the way that his fingernails were falling off. He had frost- he’s only received one formal complaint.

“To this day there’s only one person they say that we did,” Larsson says. “They’re bite. Those kinds of things are never reportnot deprived of food and water and ade- ed. If a kid gets an injury like frostbite, his who’s made a complaint—that’s Mr. Krug,” parents weren’t told. It’s extremely hush- Gehl says. quate clothing.”

Nevertheless, the number of In April, former Pinehaven resident hush there.”

Former residents say insufficient regu- Pinehaven critics continues to grow since David Krug filed a formal compliant with the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office. Krug latory oversight of religious youth homes in Thompson and the other teens went missalleges Pinehaven staffers used unnecessary Montana allows Pinehaven to get away with ing in July. Emboldened, Krug says he situations like what Bingham describes. plans to explore other legal options while force during his stay..

“There were some incidences that I Private religious youth homes like also pushing for legislative change.

In the meantime, Thompson, back at would categorize as physical abuse,” he Pinehaven, they argue, should be subjected says. “I was pushed down the stairs on one to the same regulatory scrutiny as non- home in Illinois, will have to deal with the legal fallout yet to come. It remains to be denominational facilities in the state. occasion.”

For years, youth advocates complained seen how authorities there will deal with Krug is the only former resident to file a formal complaint, but he isn’t the only too little supervision over private youth him. But his mother, referencing her son’s one speaking out. When Krug launched a homes left kids vulnerable. In 2007, the negative experience at Pinehaven, says any Facebook page for alumni last year, past Montana Legislature passed a law requiring decision will be an improvement.

“He made it through Pinehaven,” residents by the dozen began posting their all private alternative adolescent residential memories of life at the Flathead Valley and outdoor programs achieve licensure Cornwell says. “He can make it through just through the state’s Department of Labor about anything.” ranch.

Brittany Bingham moved to Pinehaven and Industry. After the bill passed, advowhen she was 16, after her mother and cates touted the legislation as a move forjmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Merits over malarkey Revisiting BLM’s Treasured Landscapes Initiative Having just returned from a week on a climbing trip to Wyoming’s stunning Cloud Peak Wilderness, I was pleasantly surprised to open an e-mail containing a copy of the Discussion Paper on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Treasured Landscapes Initiative. Many will recall the hoopla that arose over the issue of expanding federal land holdings earlier this summer and the head-knocking and fingerpointing that took place between Montana’s lone congressional representative, Denny Rehberg, and our junior U.S. senator, Jon Tester. If questions or confusion about the Department of Interior’s plans for Montana and the West persist, the Discussion Paper provides significant clarification instead of political jive.

Much to his credit, Tester has decided to post the 22-page document on his website. Oddly enough, the document has no date or author and is clearly marked “Internal Draft—NOT FOR RELEASE” on every page, but it’s readily available for the public to download or read at http://tester.senate.gov/Legislation/upload/ DOI_Treasured_Landscapes_Memo.pdf During the previous dust-up between our battling politicos, this column looked not so much at the content of the BLM’s proposal, but at the use of DocumentCloud, a new investigative journalism tool that allowed reporters to wade through and analyze hundreds of pages of individual documents in a comprehensive, searchable manner (see “Cloud nine,” July 8, 2010). Now, however, it’s time to take a harder look at the proposal itself.

As stated in the paper’s “Introduction,” it’s intended to outline “BLM’s vision for Treasured Landscapes in the 21st Century,” and opens with a straightforward estimate that out of the 264 million acres the agency manages, “some 130–140 million acres are worthy of consideration as treasured landscapes.” In a comparison that will make opponents of further federal lands acquisition or preservation gulp hard, that area, as noted by the BLM, is “roughly equivalent in size to Colorado and Wyoming combined.”

Yet, as also noted, the BLM very realistically acknowledges that: “We now know that these large-scale ecosystems, watersheds, airsheds, and migratory pathways exist and function only at their natural scales, regardless of jurisdictional boundaries. Therefore, in order to facilitate the transition from the current land management system, which is based on jurisdictional boundaries, to a modern landscapelevel management system, the BLM proposes to ‘designate, rationalize, and manage-atscale’ its treasured landscape holdings.”

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It is good news that federal agencies such as the BLM are finally, after decades of resistance, realizing the connectivity of natural systems that cannot and will not function sustainably into the future if defined by the geopolitical and/or bureaucratic boxes into which they have been stuffed for so long.

The agency “acknowledges that it may have to find other methods, such as the Antiquities Act, to achieve its goals

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Ironically, in relation to Tester’s dormant Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, it is exactly this truth that the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) was based upon when it was introduced nearly 20 years ago. Unfortunately, it is not the model Tester used in his bill, with its many fragmented wilderness boundaries and extraction-targeted forest lands, but may explain in part why Tester’s bill, with its mandated logging levels and Wilderness Act exemptions, goes against the grain of current ecosystem management science.

The document goes on to explain exactly how the BLM, over the course of the next 25 years, will achieve the goals of preserving treasured landscapes and their operating ecosystems. First, the agency intends to “finalize appropriate conservation designations and fully account for the ecosystem services values of its lands.” This, of course, is one of the points of contention in the political arena between Tester and Rehberg. To “finalize” the designations, President Obama will likely have to use the Antiquities Act to designate National Monuments, as President Clinton did for some 4 million acres nationally.

Additionally, the document discusses in some detail the desired acreage, its location, and the methods that may or may not be used to achieve the designations.

In a move similar to the land banking programs in Montana and other states, the BLM would “consolidate and rationalize its

fragmented landholdings.” Simply put, this means land swaps and/or outright purchases of inholdings with states, individuals or corporations to lump smaller, disparate holdings into larger parcels to both facilitate management and sustain ecosystem functions. Contrary to assertions by opponents of increased federal land holdings, there is nothing underhanded or shady about openly negotiating with willing sellers who may well find off-loading isolated parcels in their best financial and management interests. Prime examples would be the railroad land grants from more than a century ago, which are checkerboarded in unmanageable units with federal lands—or Montana’s 39,000 acres of inholdings in the Missouri Breaks.

Finally, the agency envisions a serious commitment to “planning and allocating resources and resource uses at their natural scales, in effective coordination with Federal, State, and Tribal governments.” To this end, the Obama administration would seek to end siphoning funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which was horrifically depleted under Bush. Further, using its authority to sell off certain lands, it would seek to retain those funds for purchases of conservation easements and outright acquisitions instead of simply funneling the money into the black hole of the Treasury as has been done for years. Again, this exactly emulates Montana’s Land Banking program, which sells isolated parcels to raise funds for acquisition of inholdings on state lands or acreage to add to state lands.

But the hurdles to accomplish such an ambitious plan are high, indeed. The agency acknowledges that it may have to find other methods, such as the Antiquities Act, to achieve its goals since Congress may not find the political will to designate critical lands. And some may be surprised to find that both Alaska and Wyoming have already been specifically exempted by Congress from further designations under the Antiquities Act. Nonetheless, looking through the document and studying the sound reasoning behind the proposed land acquisitions and consolidations, it makes a great deal of fiscal, environmental and social sense to debate the proposal on its merits—not just drown it in all-too-typical, politically motivated generalizations.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent.

Contact Ochenski at opinion@ missoulanews.com.

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High on fire California response only fans the flames of criticism

by Char Miller

Scorched earth and gnarled oaks lit up like flares. Blackened skies and the whompwhomp-whomp of helicopters aloft as evacuees huddle in a local school. This quickcut imagery can mean only one thing in California: The summer fire season has begun.

Although the first major fires in the Southern California counties of Kern and Los Angeles have been contained, the larger lessons to be drawn from this trio of lateJuly fires already are obvious. The stunning devastation from last summer’s Station Fire, and the political inferno it ignited, is driving a much-more aggressive firefighting response this summer.

Take the wind-whipped Bull Fire. It started July 26 in the Sequoia National Forest, and within three days had swept through 16,000 acres of grass and brush along the Kern River, near the town of Kernville. Nearly 2,400 fire-fighting personnel battled the blaze, at their command an impressive arsenal of 124 fire engines, five bulldozers, 16 water tenders and 14 helicopters. That ground and air technology, combined with 99 hand crews doing the essential back-breaking labor to clear fire lines around the perimeter, was a sign of the seriousness with which this early outbreak was taken.

Every bit as significant was the swift reaction to the West Fire. It flared up July 27, not far from major wind farms. The same gusting force that turns those turbines propelled the fire through the kindling-dry landscape; within two days it had burnt through an estimated 1,400 acres.

However small it may have appeared, the West also drew a major crew to extinguish it: more than 1,000 firefighters from county, state and federal agencies worked in conjunction with eight helicopters, nine fixed-wing aircraft and a fleet of engines and dozers.

They also got a governor. Not one to

miss a fire-action photo-op, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an appearance at Tehachapi High School, command post for the West’s operations. He did what governors should do, praising the first responders and declaring Kern County a disaster area, a declaration that frees up additional

Schwarzenegger’s “presence underscores that politics, not science, is determining when and how fires will

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be fought.

state funding for the emergency. But his most critical contribution was in showing up. His presence underscores that politics, not science, is determining when and how fires will be fought.

True, one reason so many firefighters raced to the West Fire, and another 1,750 were quickly dispatched to the fast-moving 14,000-acre Crown Fire near Palmdale, is that these areas have not burned in a very long time. The fuel load, and thus the level of fire danger, was (and remains) extreme.

Yet another reason why so many resources were hurled at Bull, West and Crown fires is the searing memory of the 2009 fire that got away. Last August, a small, arson-ignited fire in the Angeles National Forest blew up into the single largest conflagration in the history of Los Angeles County. When the Station Fire finally was

brought under control in October, it had torched more than 250 square miles of the San Gabriel Mountains, killed two firefighters and destroyed countless structures.

Its charred acres have become an inyour-face warning to firefighting agencies across the state. So have congressional hearings that charged the Forest Service with mismanagement and media investigations that unearthed damning evidence about a possible cover-up of its actions.

Because no agency head wants to endure such public scrutiny, and because no one wants to bear witness to the anguish of burned-out communities, every fire now is going to get hit hard.

This is not the smartest response. Not all fires must be controlled; some are essential to maintain ecosystem health. Not all firefighting makes economic sense, either. Yes, the commitment to protect human life is non-negotiable, the swift punishment of arsonists is essential and the need for more funds to fireproof the wildland-urban interface is critical.

But it is also true that Californians and other Westerners must become a lot smarter about where they choose to live. If they decide to reside in fire zones, they need to learn how to safely inhabit those areas so as not to endanger the lives of those racing to their rescue.

In the immediate aftermath of the Station Fire, these cautionary insights have gone up in smoke. Now that fire has become so politicized, whenever and wherever sparks fly, a small army of firefighters will storm in and flame-retardant will rain down.

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I think it’s fair to say that Garden City Harvest (GCH) has nourished Missoula in more ways than one. Since its inception in 1996, the nonprofit has offered us the chance to grow healthy food on community garden plots and has helped troubled teens turn their lives around through a therapeutic farming program. GCH also educates UM students about the importance of sustainable agriculture through internships at the PEAS Farm—a farm in the Rattlesnake that’s run as a partnership between GCH and UM’s Environmental Studies Program. Each year, students working on the farm grow thousands of pounds of organic produce, and the bulk of it goes to lowincome families.

Obviously, GCH has done many good deeds. This week, you can support its efforts by hitting up its annual Farm Party fundraiser, which features a farm fresh meal, along with tunes from locals Mudslide Charley and Reverend Slanky.

For those of you who live by the motto of keeping it local and sustainable, I’d say this is a party worth attending.

–Ira Sather-Olson Garden City Harvest’s “Farm Party” is Thursday, Aug. 19, at 6 PM at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive. $15/$10 for children ages 10 and under. $2 off admission if you walk or bike. Call 523-3663 for tickets.

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THURSDAY AUGUST 19 Hook up some kids in need with school supplies during the United Way of Missoula County’s “Stuff the Bus” school supply drive, which includes a collection box to drop off donations from 6:30–8:30 AM at Community Medical Center, 2827 Fort Missoula Road.

Free to participate. Drop-off boxes are also located at the local offices of D.A. Davidson and United Way. Call 549-6104 and visit missoulaunitedway.org.

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.

FRIDAY AUGUST 20 The Mayor’s office of the city of Missoula is currently looking for interested citizens to apply for positions on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, the City-County Library Board, and the Missoula Urban Transportation Board. Free to apply. Get applications online at ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?

NID=426 or at the Mayor’s office at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. Applications are due by 5 PM today.

Call 552-6001.

Watch some rubber ducks race for a good cause during a duck race that benefits the Boys & Girls Club of Missoula County starting at 8:30 PM at Splash Montana, 3001 Bancroft St. $2 admission/$5 per duck, with ducks available at Holiday gas stations and Loose Caboose coffee huts. The water park will also be open to attendees before the race at 7:30 PM. Visit missouladuckrace.com.

Central Bar & Grill, Iron Horse and other Missoula bars host holes in a pub crawl/mini-golf tournament that benefits the Montana Food Bank Network, and begins with registration at Charlie B’s, 428 N. Higgins Ave., from noon–3 PM, with the courses open throughout the day up until 8 PM, when prizes will be given away. $10, which covers participation in the event and gets you a T-shirt.

Help support early detection and awareness of breast and cervical cancer through art when the local organization Faux Pink presents the “Art in the Garden” silent art auction and garden tour of the Gibson Mansion, which runs from 3–5 PM at the mansion, 823 39th St. Call Jill at 640-FAUX for pricing.

Complimentary champagne and appetizers will also be served.

MONDAY AUGUST 23 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.

If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use the alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY AUGUST 24

SATURDAY AUGUST 21

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.

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.

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.

SUNDAY AUGUST 22

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25

Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-8090112 to RSVP.

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. This week’s featured nonprofit is the InnerRoads Wilderness Program. Visit kettlehouse.com.

Put it up for a good cause when the Badlander and

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Three women ran from a Waffle House restaurant in Springfield, Mo., without paying their $39 check, but they didn’t get far before one of them returned, asking for the three purses the women had left behind. She fled when the manager told her she’d have to wait, but the purses contained the women’s identification.

San Francisco police needed only nine minutes to track the man they said snatched an Apple iPhone from a woman’s hand and fled on a bicycle. The phone was being used to test a new, real-time GPS tracking application, which led officers to Horatio Toure, 31, whom the victim identified as the thief.

After Lori Shannon Turner, 39, complained loudly at a McDonald’s restaurant in Spartanburg, S.C., that she hadn’t received a sandwich she ordered and demanded another one, a sheriff’s deputy who arrived on the scene noticed Turner had a large grease stain on her pants. When a female officer was called to the scene for a search, Turner removed the missing sandwich from her pants.

PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE - Japanese authorities admitted losing track of Tokyo’s reigning oldest woman just days after police who searched the home of the city’s oldest man found his mummified body. Fusa Furuya, reportedly 113 years old, had been registered as living with her daughter, but when officials went to the address, her daughter told them she hadn’t seen or heard from her mother since moving into the apartment in 1986. When police found the body of Sogen Kato, officially listed as Tokyo’s oldest man, the week before, they concluded he had been dead for more than 30 years.

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - Dennis Zeglin, 67, admitted shooting his family’s 20-year-old African gray parrot to death with a pellet gun in Randolph, N.J. Zeglin’s lawyer explained that the bird’s squawks distracted his client from a NASCAR race on television.

Authorities accused Jerome Keller, 72, of hitting his wife while she was fixing dinner in Pasco County, Fla. Deputy Gary Stritt reported that Keller told him he didn’t think Peggy Keller, 73, was cooking correctly. “He told me all she wants to do is fight with him and accuse him of stupid things,” Stritt said.

Police in Pontiac, Mich., said Torrie Lynn Emery, 23, repeatedly rammed a car driven by Alesha Abernathy, 21, causing her to lose control and hit a dump truck. The crash killed Abernathy and sent passenger Danielle Booth, 20, to the hospital in critical condition. Detective Paul McDougal, who witnessed the incident, said Emery attacked the vehicle after she spotted Booth, with whom she had been feuding on the social networking site Facebook.

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REASONABLE EXPLANATION - When Eugene Todie, 29, tried to return home to Buffalo, N.Y., from Canada, border agents observed that he was wearing an ankle monitor. Todie, who’s on probation for criminal contempt and not supposed to leave the country, explained that he was wearing the monitor as a show of support for actress Lindsay Lohan, who earlier this year had to wear an alcohol ankle monitor.

MENSA REJECTS OF THE WEEK - An 11-year-old boy from Laval, Quebec, was hospitalized in critical condition after being pierced in the head by a metal pole thrown by a 17-year-old boy, according to police Sgt. Francois Dumais, who noted the pole was the type used to mark property lines for snow removal. “Both of them were playing a type of baseball,” Dumais explained. “They were throwing the metal pole, and the other one was trying to hit the pole with a stick.”

CAPTIVE AUDIENCES - After eight Los Angeles County inmates hanged themselves last year, sheriff’s officials cited so-called suicide-proof blankets and mattress covers, which inmates have been able to tear into strips for nooses. “They come up with some very clever ways,” Cmdr. Stephen Johnson said. “Ways we would not consider.” The suicide-safe blankets, used on 125 inmates beds, cost the county less than $55 each, whereas the thicker, sturdier, effective blankets sheriff’s officials had requested cost more than $135 each.

After two inmates managed to escape over the wall of a prison in Argentina’s Neuquen province, workers told a local newspaper that only two out of the 15 guard towers were staffed. A third featured a dummy made from a soccer ball wearing a prison officer’s cap “so that the prisoners see its shadow and think they are being watched,” a source told Diario Rio Negro. “We named him Wilson, like in the film Cast Away. Daniel Verges, director of the penitentiary service, confirmed the use of “a type of mannequin” for guard duty, blaming budget cuts.

FIRST THINGS FIRST - After an unidentified man was shot during a dispute in a parked car in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., he started to drive himself to the hospital but wound up at a Kentucky Fried Chicken store. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said the victim was airlifted from the KFC to a hospital in Pensacola in serious condition.

THE DATING GAME - A 30-year-old woman told police in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., that she arranged a date with Jason Anthony Brown, 28, but when she met him at the parking lot of an Olive Garden restaurant, he got into her vehicle, brandished a gun and demanded money. The woman said she gave Brown about $90, and he fled on foot. Officers said that when they located Brown coming out of a nearby condominium, he admitted he had “obtained” $50 from the woman, then spent it on food at the Olive Garden.

NOT-SO-GREAT ESCAPE - When Cincinnati police tried to pull over a 26-year-old woman driving 78 mph in a 55-mph zone, she exited the highway to drive home. With officers in pursuit, the woman drove the speed limit and stopped at red lights, but refused to pull over until officers finally stopped her just yards from her home by using strips that punctured her tires.

FINALLY MAKING SENSE - Iran’s Islamic regime has banned the mullet haircut for men, as well as Steven Seagal-style ponytails and the 1980s’ Prince-style pompadour. Gel-slathered, combed back haircuts are acceptable, however, as are short front and sides, according to the government’s new grooming guidelines.

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s soon as anyone learns what Alisha Johnson does for a living, they almost immediately ask some variation of the same question: What restaurants should I avoid? Is [insert name of beloved greasy spoon] safe? Where shouldn’t I eat lunch today?

“I get it all the time,” says Johnson, who has spent nearly two years with the Missoula City-County Health Department conducting risk-based inspections of local restaurants. “My answer is simple: It’s not our job to draw that line of where you should or shouldn’t go. Our job is to educate and to regulate. We’re a service to the public—to protect the public health and to help the restaurants be the best they can be. I tell people, if you want to come down here and look at the reports, you’re welcome to do so. Judge for yourself.”

We did exactly that. And we found Johnson makes an excellent point: Mainly, a lot more goes into Missoula’s health inspection reports than a simple thumbs-up or thumbs-down on your favorite eatery.

The Independent reviewed files on 227 local full-service restaurants, bars, groceries, bakeries and coffee shops. ( We skipped coffee kiosks, temporary food vendors and manufacturers.) The review focused on the Health Department’s searchable online database (available at www.co.missoula.mt.us/EnvHealth/Licest /Food/Inspections.htm), which details each restaurant and its violations dating from Oct. 1, 2008, to present. In instances where a restaurant accumulated a high number of violations, required a follow-up inspection or otherwise showed an anomaly in its online report,

the Independent checked the establishment’s extended history and each inspection’s detailed notes in hardcopy files available at the Health Department’s 301 W. Alder Street offices.

Overall, the review found only 15 percent of the establishments—or 34 of the 227—passed their most recent routine inspection without receiving at least one critical violation. The average number of critical violations came in at 3.1 per establishment, with one restaurant reaching a high of 12.

While those numbers may appear high, Johnson is quick to point out critical violations can be a misleading statistic.

“It is next to impossible to get away without a critical violation at a full-service restaurant,” she explains. “I’m saying that not because the establishment is a poor operator, or because the food is

unsafe. It’s just that we conduct a riskbased assessment, and a full-service restaurant has a lot going on and more things that could go wrong.”

Johnson says each inspection focuses on what’s known as “The Big Five”: inadequate cooking or holding temperatures, poor personal hygiene and handling, unsafe food sources, improper cleaning and sanitizing, and cross-contamination. In addition to these five main issues—known as “critical violations” on an inspection report—an inspector also looks for a series of lesser offenses that may not directly relate to food safety. All of this information gets noted and treated as a “snapshot” of the operation on that day. It also serves as a basis for teaching the establishment how to make improvements and avoid potential problems. Unlike a New York City health

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inspector, Johnson doesn’t assign a letter grade to each inspection. Unlike Seattle, restaurants don’t receive a final score to either tout or hide behind.

“We have operators who ask, ‘Hey, what’s my grade? Did I get an A? Did I get a high score?’” says Johnson. “It’s more than a number. You’ll see, a restaurant may only get one critical [violation], but if you read the report you may find it’s actually quite a big deal.”

In other words, you can’t just microwave the data and serve up a list of safe and unsafe establishments. But you can learn a lot about what’s going on in local restaurants—and how the Health Department deals with it—by reading the reports.

DIGGING IN After a while, the majority of the inspection reports read like one long, nagging lecture from a concerned parent: wash your hands properly, don’t leave food out, etc. Johnson and her three colleagues responsible for inspecting more than 1,400 local licensed establishments—that includes everything from public pools and trailer parks to full-service restaurants and the folks who hand out samples at Costco—would argue those hand-washing violations are vital to a safe establishment, but they hardly stand out.

Some reports, however, are immediately noticeable either for the number of violations or the nature of specific complaints.

Between September 2009 and January 2010, local health officials conducted nine different inspections at China Buffet on Brooks Street. The last four of those inspections followed an alleged incident on either Jan. 16 or Jan. 17, 2010, when, according to the Health Department report, five people sought medical attention for what St. Patrick Hospital doctors believed was a foodborne illness. “All complainants had identical symptoms and one commonality: a

meal at China Buffet with sweet and sour chicken and noodles with vegetables,” reads the file.

The possibility of a food-borne illness prompted health officials to inspect the restaurant on Jan. 20, and showed five critical violations. A report the following day turned up three similar offenses. In both inspections, notes indicate the sweet and sour chicken was not being cooled and reheated properly, a possible source of the food-borne illness. On Jan. 21, officials delivered China Buffet a “Notice of Violation,” indicating it could be closed down. On Jan. 25, the restaurant voluntarily shut its doors for cleaning and onsite retraining with health officials rather than “initiating official closure procedures,” according to the report.

The Independent asked for comment from management at China Buffet on three separate occasions—in person and over the phone—but they declined each time.

The restaurant’s most recent routine inspection, which occurred June 1, 2010, showed no critical violations.

Denny’s on Brooks Street also voluntarily closed earlier this year after a routine inspection turned up seven critical violations, including a series of problems with the general cleanliness of both the building and individual staff.

“Facility found in a filthy condition with drains completely plugged, plumbing leaking, long term build-up of food/grease on equipment, and general filth,” reads the April 12 inspection report.

One critical violation noted the presentation of the restaurant’s cooks.

“Staff must routinely bathe, be physically in a presentable condition and practice good personal hygiene including clean clothing when working with foods offered to the public,” reads the report.

The problems lasted three weeks and required three different follow-up inspections, even after Denny’s closed to address the issues. The first follow-up, on

April 13, turned up the same number of critical violations—seven—and a similar scolding for continued plumbing problems. A second follow-up on April 26 once again decried “patchwork” fixes on the plumbing, but only listed four critical violations. Finally, a May 7 inspection that still noted standing wastewater in the kitchen—as well as five critical violations—referred to a planned long-term fix involving a licensed contractor.

“We have a structured regimen in place if there are ever any problems either with a corporate inspection or a city inspection,” says Ty Swimley, a Denny’s manager. “As far as I know, we took care of it, and I don’t think we’ve had problems since then. I know our last corporate inspection was last month and we got a 96 percent.”

By comparison, a Missoula health inspector visited the new DQ Grill and Chill on N. Reserve Street on June 28, 2010, and noted 10 critical violations.

Among the problems listed in the report were a hand sink with no hot water, inadequate hand washing and a “small burger patty” with an internal temperature of 120.9 degrees Fahrenheit rather than the required 135 degrees. While the number of critical violations doubled those at China Buffet, and surpassed the number of violations at Denny’s, the infractions were quickly corrected.

“It was our first health inspection report,” says Kelly, a DQ manager who would only offer her first name. “There were some rules we didn’t know about and we had some problems with our building. It was all fixed.”

A follow-up inspection on July 20 showed four critical violations—Kelly remembers just three—with hand washing and hot water still making the list.

In general, the Health Department takes pride in its track record of educating restaurants and limiting repeat violations.

Of the follow-up inspections noted in the

Independent’s review, 87 percent showed fewer critical violations than the routine inspection. In many cases, the first followup inspection showed no violations at all.

“Really, the majority of food establishments in Missoula do a really good job and, if you look at the history of inspection reports, they really do care,” says Johnson. “You can see the critical violations go away or they’re at least making a clear effort to fix things.”

In the event that an establishment does not show improvement, the Health Department can impose a number of penalties. If a business requires continued inspections beyond its annual routine visit and a follow-up, it must pay a $165 fee for the second follow-up—as well as for any other inspection until the critical violations are addressed. Inspectors can also force staff and managers to attend the Health Department’s quarterly ServSafe class, which costs $10 per person and covers all the basics of “The Big Five.” In rare cases, according to Johnson, the department will deliver a “Notice of Violation” to repeat offenders. The notice reframes the history of violations at the establishment, offers a timeline for when the violations need to be corrected and warns an establishment of any fines or, in some cases, its possible closure.

“Most often we end up suggesting the class and that’s all it takes,” says Jeanna McPherson, another inspector who teaches ServSafe lessons with Johnson. “A lot of places don’t understand what they’re doing wrong, or insist what they’re doing is fine, and I understand that. I worked in a restaurant [she bartended and waited tables in Havre while studying at Montana State University-Northern], and even though I washed my hands a lot—that’s just how I was—I still made mistakes. I was proud that I could carry 10 glasses at once back to the bar with my fingers inside the glasses, then walk back with another glass for a customer without washing my

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hands. These people are trying to do the best job they can, and then they get hit…The class gives them a chance to step back and see the risk involved.”

A few establishments take the initiative with training and retraining, rather than wait for the outcome of an inspection. The Good Food Store, for instance,

The grocery store hasn’t been inspected yet this year, but its last inspection on March 9, 2009, showed two critical violations, including one for a beverage without a lid in the meat area (spillresistant drinks are required).

Finn & Porter inside the Doubletree Hotel also schedules regular on-site training,

report showed a conclusive link between the restaurant and the illness.

Nevertheless, the hotel took immediate steps to ensure staff was aware of proper procedures: Health Department records show an on-site ServSafe class was conducted July 30 at a cost of $400, and an on-site food handling class was

“Really, the majority of food establishments in Missoula do a really good job and, if you look at the history of inspection reports, they really do care.

You can see the critical violations go away or they’re at least making a clear effort to fix things.”

—Alisha Johnson, environmental health specialist

July incident, but did speak in general about the restaurant’s dealings with the Health Department.

“We’ve always had a good relationship with the Heath Department, we still have a good relationship with the Health Department and we worked well with them last summer in a difficult situation,” Carlino says. “They’re thorough and they’re fair. They do a good job with their on-site training, which we’ve been doing for years. They help make it a better restaurant, and I’m thankful for that.”

A July 31 follow-up inspection showed just two critical violations at Finn & Porter— one dealing with proper use of gloves and the other with an errant ice scooper. There was no need for a follow-up.

FOOD FIGHT started scheduling quarterly on-site classes for its staff earlier this year.

“It’s working,” says deli manager Rebecca Canfield-Perkowski. “Food safety is obviously very important to us, and we found that rather than conducting our own quarterly training sessions it made sense to have the Health Department come in and do it for us. They’re the experts.”

although its latest round came under unfortunate circumstances. On July 16, 2009, 13 members of a conference group staying at the hotel reported “GI issues,” according to Health Department documents, and had to be transported to the hospital. Management at the hotel complied with a full investigation and, while a July 17 inspection turned up eight critical violations, nothing in the

held Aug. 21 at a cost of $225. In addition, executive chef Erin Crobar worked at stations throughout the kitchen and reported back to health inspectors with detailed questions about proper kitchen protocol, like whether plates could be wiped with olive oil for better presentation.

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Johnson and McPherson fear the “food cop” label for a reason: Not all reviews of the Health Department are filled with marshmallows and cherry pie.

On the record, every restaurant manager, chef, bartender or server we spoke with offered praise—some measured, some effusive—for the work done by local inspectors. The general refrain: Inspectors help customers feel more confident about eating out and, as Carlino noted, they help make each restaurant a safer place to eat. They’d rather deal with a diligent Health Department than the alternative.

Off the record, however, food industry workers delivered the same message with a caveat—inspectors can be condescending, unrealistic, contradicting, unfairly rigid and blow certain small issues completely out of proportion.

“They’re like the mafia,” said one manager at a local full-service restaurant who requested anonymity for obvious reasons. “They come in, spout off a bunch of problems—half of which are different than what they said the last time—but you do what they say so they leave you alone after the follow-up. The whole thing’s a racket.”

McPherson’s not surprised to hear the criticism. As she puts it, some restaurant owners have been cooking and serving food for a lifetime; she’s been an inspector for three years. Who is she to tell them how to conduct their business?

“Of course, there are always places that disagree with the job in theory, or people who think my job shouldn’t exist,”

she says. “It’s not necessarily comfortable going into someone else’s place of business. But, really, my job is to keep people safe, and if I focus on that then the positives tend to outweigh the negatives.”

Johnson has also heard the complaints, which is why she’s quick to offer praise for restaurants that show improvement or a concerted effort toward safety.

Many of her inspection reports start by complimenting certain aspects of a restaurant’s operation before suggesting changes that will mitigate risk.

“I know where they’re coming from in a lot of cases,” says Johnson, who, like McPherson, used to work in the food service industry; she managed a café in New York. “This isn’t easy, and I understand that it can be difficult to, say, wash your hands before changing gloves when you’re in the middle of a major dinner

rush. That’s why we stress this is just a snapshot, and try to help operators understand what’s at stake.”

Johnson points to what sounds like a mundane critical violation to underline her point: proper hand washing. It appears in a majority of the inspection reports and can elicit a roll of the eyes from preoccupied staff, but it’s a part of “The Big Five” for a reason.

“The number one individual cause of food-borne illness in the United States is not salmonella, it’s not E. coli—it’s norovirus,” says Johnson. “Up to 40 percent of the cases are attributed to norovirus. That means it’s not necessarily due to food, it’s due to hand washing or touching an unclean surface. It’s basically fecal-oral. It’s gross, but it’s as simple as not washing your hands after going to the bathroom. Sometimes, that’s all it takes.”

DIGESTING IT ALL Take a look at the 34 establishments that turned up no critical violations on their most recent routine inspection, and there’s little common thread: Arby’s on N. Reserve Street and Big Dipper Ice Cream; Zootown Brew and Tropical Smoothie Café; Doc’s Sandwich Shop and Little Caesars on Brooks Street; the Missoula Club and Iza; Taco Bell on N. Reserve Street and Posh Chocolat, to name a few. Corporate franchises make the list alongside locally owned cafés, fast food chains on major thoroughfares receive high marks along with sit-down restaurants in downtown Missoula.

There’s no rhyme or reason—and the honor roll could change as soon as one of the locations comes due for its next inspection.

The randomness of the list points back to Johnson’s initial point: To fully understand the safety of your favorite restaurant, you’d have to check its history and read the full inspection report. A simple list doesn’t tell the full story.

“There are three main things I really would like to remind people about: We try to be an educator and a resource; each inspection is just a snapshot; and please read the full report,” Johnson says. “Just because somebody has a bad inspection report doesn’t mean they’re an unsafe place. It just means that on that particular given day they needed to pay more attention to certain things.

“Anybody can have a bad day,” she adds.

“We’re lucky that we live in a place where there are more good days than bad.” sbrowning@missoulanews.com

Spot check WHAT ELSE WE FOUND WHILE GOING THROUGH HUNDREDS OF INSPECTION REPORTS If the main story didn’t preface this enough, it bears repeating: Inspections serve as only a “snapshot” of an establishment on any given day. It does not serve as a damning indictment of a restaurant’s food handling or a shining halo above a chef ’s hat. People have off days. People have funny days. People have days that make us want to lose our lunch.

Understanding that, here are direct quotes from real inspection reports:

China Bowl Date: Dec. 8, 2009 Critical violations: 8 Choice quote: “Mouse droppings throughout the facility in multiple locations that indicate significant presence and continued infestation.”

China Bowl’s take: “We did exactly what the inspectors asked us to do,” says Quan He Han, owner of China Bowl for 14 years. “There have been no problems since then. Nothing.” Health officials served China Bowl a “Notice of Violation” on Dec. 15, 2009. A Dec. 21 follow-up inspection noted just two critical violations.

Ciao Mambo Date: Sept. 17, 2009 Critical violations: 4 Choice quote: “Lots of flies and other insect [sic] now in kitchen!”

Ciao Mambo’s take: The restaurant offered a “no comment” for this story, but the report explained the kitchen had propped open the door to the back alley for fresh air. A follow-up inspection Sept.

29 showed no critical violations.

El Diablo Date: Dec. 28, 2009 Critical violations: 3 Choice quote: “Today, staff on the make line routinely needed to pull up pants to keep working and did not wash hands.”

El Diablo’s take: “The guy was wearing shorts that day and had to take off his belt so he could wear an apron,” says owner Mike Eiseman.

“He was pulling up his shorts with his wrists. It wasn’t a big deal.”

Fiesta en Jalisco Date: May 25, 2010 Critical violations: 7 Choice quote: “A bin of hamburger patties are showing a very distinct ‘green’ color to the meat. The green color is almost a grass-like color and not typical for meats getting old. The patties were discarded…”

Fiesta’s take: A call for comment was not returned before press time.

The Keep Date: June 11, 2009 Critical violations: 5 Choice quote: “Glove use... wow...Lots of nose touching, face touching, etc…”

The Keep’s take: The Independent reached a manager, but he did not return our call with a comment before press time.

out of one of your live traps and another trap underneath the shelving in your dry storage area with a lot of dust on the top of it. This latter trap obviously hasn’t been checked recently…Dispose of mice immediately.”

Paul’s take: “It was a total fluke,” explains owner Mike Ramos.

“We hired a new pest control company that didn’t know where the old pest control company kept its traps. The old company should’ve removed all their traps, but they didn’t. We’ve never had another issue.”

Little Caesars on N. Reserve Street Date: March 11, 2010 Critical violations: 4 Choice quote: “Staff has what appears to be a boil or inflamed eruption near the eye and is the primary food handler.”

Little Caesar’s take: No comment.

Outback Steakhouse Date: April 20, 2009 Critical violations: 4 Choice quote: “I am seeing general debris all over the kitchen.

I understand how busy establishments can be…Why I am concerned is the following: I am seeing where the debris is falling into food and clean dishes. This is a source of contamination.”

Outback’s take: “It was a minor issue and I don’t really remember what the debris was that she was referencing,” says kitchen manager Greg Leitner. “I can assure you that whatever problems the Health Department found, we corrected them as soon as possible. We work with them, not against them. We consider them our partner.”

Viva Mexico Date: May 18, 2010 Critical violations: 9 Choice quote: “Sergio [the owner] was smoking a cigarette when I came in to do the inspection. Another cigarette butt was in the hand sink. Smoking is strictly prohibited while preparing foods, but also is illegal per the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act.” Viva’s take: The owner did not return a call for comment before press time.

Paul’s Pancake Parlor Date: Dec. 11, 2009 Critical violations: 7 Choice quote: “Today I found a dead mouse hanging

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FLASHINTHEPAN “Cool as a cucumber” is a statement typically more descriptive of someone’s personality than their body temperature. But it’s a murky simile, because the expression is based more on the cucumber’s physiological thermodynamics than its ability to refrain from spazzing out. According to both Chinese and Ayurvedic (Indian) medicines, cucumbers belong in the category of “cooling foods,” which supposedly cool you down.

Whether or not you buy into such warming and cooling food theories, there’s no disputing that cucumbers are mostly water, which is a classic antidote to heat. But if water content were the only reason for the epic coolness of cucumbers, then we’d hear about people who are cool as a cantaloupe, cool as a watermelon, cool as a camel—or cool as Rush Limbaugh, since he, like all other humans, is mostly water too. So maybe there’s something especially cooling about cucumbers. Dieters like cucumbers because they have lots of nutrients and few calories, and a calorie, technically speaking, is a unit of heat.

It was in the tiny country of Bhutan, sandwiched between the cucumbers-are-cooling superpowers of India and China, that I learned one of my most interesting culinary parlor tricks: how to “milk” a cucumber.

If you’ve ever been offended by a bitter bite of cucumber, this is a skill worth having. The bitterness comes from cucurbitacin, a compound from which the cucumber family, cucurbits, gets its name. Bittertasting cucurbitacin is thought to be a defense mechanism against herbivores. Milking a cucumber removes cucurbitacin.

While doing some Google research to verify my facts on cucumber milking, I had the misfortune of discovering that there are also cucumber-related techniques to milk prostate glands. Milking a cucumber, I assure you, is quite different, and requires neither lubricant, nor microwave, nor Rush Limbaugh bending over.

First, slice off the stem end of a cucumber about half an inch from the end. The stem end, which connects to the plant, is where most of the cucurbitacin resides. The stem side is darker, if there is no stem remnant to clue you in. After slicing off the stem end, press it back in place against the cucumber, cut

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Most of us are so used to eating cucumbers raw that the thought of cooking one might seem strange. But none other than James Beard provides several simple recipes in which the cucumber’s coolness is cooked away via brief steaming, poaching or sautéing. Those familiar with Beard won’t be surprised that most of these recipes include butter and/or cream, as well as the occasional mushroom and twist from the pepper grinder. Following one of his leads, I tried poaching thin cucumber slices in salted water for two minutes and tossing them with black pepper and garlic butter. It makes a simple, tasty side that Beard recommends to accompany fish.

For some reason the process of cooking cucumbers hasn’t caught on—perhaps because cooking takes away the cucumber’s crispness and coolness, which for many people is its biggest draw. Since this summer is going down as the hottest on record in many places, it makes sense to focus on the cooler side of the cucumber.

In keeping with its coolness, the cucumber is mild mannered in the flavor department. Yet its taste isn’t easily drowned out even when paired with strong flavors like dill, mint, garlic and yogurt, with which cucumbers are paired in recipes with astounding frequency. From Indian raita to Greek tzatziki to Turkish soup to California-style cucumber salad with dill/yogurt dressing, examples can be found almost anywhere in the world.

There are so many chilled soup versions of this combination that it hardly makes sense to give a single recipe. So I’ll start by giving you a basic formula, and then steer you toward some variations.

Don’t bother milking your cucumbers for soup— the effects are noticeable only if you’re eating a plain cucumber. Keep the cucumbers in the fridge until use, so the soup will be cool enough to eat right away.

Add yogurt to a blender, followed by sliced cucumber, chopped garlic, salt and dill or mint.

Blend. Voila.

Ingredient proportions are entirely up to you, but if you’re fundamentally incapable of winging it in the kitchen, try this: two medium cukes, one clove of garlic, half a cup of yogurt, a tablespoon chopped fresh dill or mint, and half a teaspoon of salt. If it’s not cold enough, or if it’s too thick, you can blend in some ice cubes.

Some people skip the yogurt. Some add avocado for extra creaminess. Some garnish with chives.

Perhaps the most interesting variation, and one of my favorites, comes from Beard, who calls it Iranian cucumber soup. After blending the cucumbers with dill, garlic and salt, stir in raisins and a chopped hard-boiled egg. The soup has an intriguing, weightless flavor, as if your mouth is floating through space. The occasional raisin and egg pieces are like celestial bodies in the cucumber galaxy. The impossibly different ingredients couldn’t work together more harmoniously, making this a very cool recipe in more ways than one.

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Although many of the cucumber’s nutrients reside in the skin, that’s also where any toxins may be as well. So unless you’re eating organic or chemical-free cucumbers, it’s best to peel them first— especially if they’re waxed.

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Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ 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. $ 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. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch 11:30-2PM and dinner 5PM-close.$-$$

HAPPIESTHOUR Trixi’s Antler Saloon and Family Diner the walls. Dinner tables are interspersed with a pool table, a foosball table, a jukebox, a few arcade games and Keno machines. Dozens of signs and stickers include: “Earth First: We’ll log the other planets later;” “Free beer tomorrow;” and “Eat more beef.” Cattle brands are etched into the wooden bar.

Why you’re here: It might be because Trixi’s, beyond being a bar and restaurant, is effectively the Blackfoot Valley’s community center and boardroom.

It’s the place where local ranchers, federal and state land managers and nonprofit leaders get together to hammer out conservation strategies over a beer.

Trixi’s, named for famed r o d e o t r i c k s t e r Tr i x i McCormick, who opened the saloon in 1960, is actually better known than the town it sits in, Ovando.

“People don’t know where Ovando is but they know where Trixi’s is,” says coowner Cindy Francis.

If you’re hungry: The most popular lunch menu item is The Logger, a bacon cheeseburger.

Steaks for dinner.

Photo by Matthew Frank

What you’re drinking: That depends on whether you’re a tourist or a local. Tourists tend to order Bayern Amber. Locals? Miller Light or Crown Royal.

Atmosphere: Antelope, bear, moose, bighorn sheep, elk and deer heads hang from

How to find it: From Missoula, drive east on Highway 200 for about an hour. It’s on your right. Can’t miss it.

–Matthew Frank Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

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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 Slow week Two years ago I went to Turin, Italy, for the Slow Food Movement’s biennial convention. It was so immense and overwhelming I almost didn’t know what to do with all of the information.

This October I’m going back. And since nobody sent me any questions this week I’m going to do the asking, with a question related to Slow Food’s future.

The event resembles a small city, with whole neighborhoods given over to various kinds of food like olive oil, chocolate, cheese, sausage and prosciutto, to name just a few. Within each category are myriad variations: prosciutto from acorn-fed pigs, prosciutto from rare black pigs, prosciutto cured with juniper berries, etc. You can find niche products, like jam made from wild strawberries and rose petals gathered in the Dolomites.

Haunting the overwhelming display of culinary diversity is the issue of how this movement intends to reconcile two seemingly opposing

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allegiances within it. The Slow Food movement pays a lot of lip service to environmental sustainability, social justice and other aspects of the lefty foodie agenda. But there is an apparent disconnect between these world-saving aspirations and the advanced gastronomy on display. There isn’t enough acorn-fed prosciutto in the world to go around.

What are your impressions of Slow Food? Is it a fancy supper club for middle-class soccer moms with the time to cook and eat slowly? Or does it have the potential to save the world through loving, artisanal food preparation? I want to hear from you. Let me know your thoughts.

The movement’s leaders are aware of the issue—they told me as much two years ago. Now, when I return in the fall, it will be interesting to see what they’ve done to address it.

Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net.

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Hook up some kids in need with school supplies during the United Way of Missoula County’s “Stuff the Bus� school supply drive, which includes a collection box to drop off donations from 6:30–8:30 AM at Community Medical Center, 2827 Fort Missoula Road. Free to participate. Drop-off boxes are also located at the local offices of DA Davidson and United Way. Call 549-6104 and visit missoulaunitedway.org.

The Treasure State Chorale wants to find out if you can hit the key notes as a member of the adult select mixed chorus during auditions for the group, which occur at a TBA time and place. Free. Call 396-3933 to set up an audition time and for more info.

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 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.

Pretend frowns. Boston’s Joy Kills Sorrow plays bluegrass at the Top Hat Mon., Aug. 23, at 9 PM. $3.

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.

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Fido gets time to socialize and sniff while you witness dog and landscape photography during Yappy Hour at Lauren Grabelle Photography, 7984 Hwy. 35 in Bigfork, which features dog art, discussion on dog issues and more from 4–7 PM this and every Thu. through August at Grabelle’s studio. Free. Call 837-3900.

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.

nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Sip on some well fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 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.

(See Scope in this issue.)

Let local artist Shirle Wempner lead you through an aesthetic hallway with her brush when she demonstrates her painting and presents her work during the Dana Gallery’s Third Thursday opening, which runs from 5:30–8:30 PM at the gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-3154. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 20, 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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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.

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

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free.

Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

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 northern rockiesrisingtide.org.

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. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Let the Hot House Tomatoes stew your fruits in some vino when they play the tasting room of Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free. Call 549-8703.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Keep an eye out for monsters when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents A Monstrously Queer Weekend with Laramie Dean, which features readings from Solomon— a forthcoming novel of Dean’s—along with new material and selections from the Queer Wolf Anthology, starting at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Visit mtactors.com.

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. Email 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 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.

Expect something ghoulishly funny during the Missoula Children’s Theatre Performing Arts Camp performance of Monster Musical–A Medley of Mayhem, Giggles, and Ghouls!, which begins at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Pattee St. $15. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets.

Bowling and karaoke go together like smiling faces and drowned dreams during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

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.

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

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

Women give a thumbs up to spirits during Ladies’ Night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which features half-off drinks for

women and occurs this and every Thu. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

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.

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.

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.

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, with tickets at Ear Candy and online at wantageusa.com. Visit wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com for a complete list of bands. (See Scope in this issue.)

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.

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.

Boulder, Colo.’s Celestial Hoedown wants you to break out the jam and juice when it plays rock, blues and jam at the Top Hat at 10 PM. $3–$4 cover.

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If you have fond memories of Out to Lunch, and you have photos to go along with those memories, the Missoula Downtown Association (MDA) wants you to share them during the 25th anniversary of Out to Lunch on Wed., Aug. 25. Send any memories or photos to the MDA by today by e-mailing jessica@missouladowntown.com or by mailing the MDA at 218 E. Main St., Ste. C, Missoula, MT 59082. Call 543-4238.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, The Mane Squeeze by Shelly Laurenston. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. It’s all about music and humor with an Irish touch during the Pig and Whistle Vaudeville Show, with a performance at 2 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.

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. E-mail 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.

Witness the beauty of an old-school architect when the Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents an opening reception for The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson, an exhibit featuring blueprints, models and photos of the late Missoulian, at both the Meloy and Paxson Galleries in UM’s PARTV Center, with the reception running from 4–6 PM in the galleries. Free.

Call 243-2019 and visit umt.edu/montanamuseum. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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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.

The Mayor’s office of the city of Missoula is currently looking for interested citizens to apply for positions on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, the City-County Library Board, and the Missoula Urban Transportation Board. Free to apply. Get applications online at ci.missoula.mt.us/ index.aspx?NID=426 or at the Mayor’s office at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. Applications are due by 5 PM today. Call 552-6001.

Expect something ghoulishly funny during the Missoula Children’s Theatre Performing Arts Camp performance of Monster Musical–A Medley of Mayhem, Giggles, and Ghouls!, which begins at 5 PM, with another performance at 8 PM, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Pattee St. $15. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets.

John Floridis turns your table grapes into something intoxicating when he plays folk rock at the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free. Call 549-8703.

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.

Russ Nasset sizzles your asparagus with his crooning when he plays a solo set at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, at 7 PM. Free.

You’re a cheap date, not a cheapskate: The Missoula Public Library hosts another installment of its cheap date movie night, which screens a TBA movie at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org for updates on movie titles.

Keep an eye out for monsters when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents A Monstrously Queer Weekend with Laramie Dean, which features readings from Solomon— a forthcoming novel of Dean’s—along with new material and selections from the Queer Wolf Anthology, starting at 7:30 PM at the Crystal

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Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Visit mtactors.com.

Watch some rubber ducks race for a good cause during a duck race that benefits the Boys & Girls Club of Missoula County starting at 8:30 PM at Splash Montana, 3001 Bancroft St. $2 admission/$5 per duck, with ducks available at Holiday Gas Stations and Loose Caboose coffee huts. The water park will also be open to attendees before the race at 7:30 PM. Visit missouladuck race.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 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, presents Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 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.

Snuggle up with some old-school old schoolers when the Eagles Nest Band plays music from the 1930s up to the 1960s 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 Montana’s hot springs with author/lecturer Jeff Birkby, at 8 PM at the park’s amphitheater. Free. Call 273-4253.

Let Claude Pineault jazz you up and out when the singer-songwriter plays French and American songs with Eden Atwood at 8 PM at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. $5.

Call 830-3296.

Get a hardcore punk injection courtesy of some former Montanans when Portland, Ore’s Squalora plays with A Coin in the Coffer,

Sephirot and The Graveyard Girl Scouts at 8 PM at the Grateful Head Shop in Kalispell, 2458 Hwy. 93 S. $4, all ages.

You’re going to love this: The Hamilton Players present I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, a musical revue by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts that celebrates the ups and downs of relationships with a performance at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under. Visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets or call 375-9050.

The Jimmy Snow Country Show just might dance with your snow globe when it plays 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 hiphop 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.

Bust a smooth move to sizzling hiphop 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.

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.

YAMN just wants to gorge out on your yam fries when they play prog rock with jam rockers Miller Creek at the Top Hat at 9 PM. $5.

The Country Boogie Boys get high off your greenhouse gases when they play at 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.

Keep it totally rockin’ during the second night of Total Fest IX, Missoula’s independent music fest that begins at the Badlander/Palace complex at 9:30 PM and features sets by Oneida, Kinski, Miss Lana Rebel, Lesbian and others. $40 for a three-day pass/$20 for Friday night only.

Visit wantagetotalfest. blogspot.com for a complete list of bands and get a pass at Ear Candy or online at wantageusa.com. (See Scope in this issue.)

Party Trained gives autocrats a reason to relax when it plays a variety of tunes at 9:30 PM at the Union Club.

Free.

Zoo City brings the grit with lots of wit when it plays rock at 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),

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

Keep your stomach and your local farmers 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.

Gardening and landscaping never looked so green during the Garden Tour in the Bitteroot Valley, which features tours of gardens including the Hamilton Community Garden, starting with van pickup at 9 AM at either the K-Mart parking lot in Hamilton, or the parking lot of the Victor Steakhouse in Victor. $10, with donation-based refreshments. This also doubles as a fundraiser for Sustainable Living Systems. Call 642-3604.

Don’t expect Sneed Collard to feed you any collard greens when he signs copies of his book World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale, from 10:30 AM–noon at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Simple Writing/Creative Phrases” with Lori Mitchell. Free, but donations are appreciated but not expected. Register by calling 549-5329.

It’s all about pets, pet adoptions, exhibitors and entertainment during the fifth annual Pet Fest, which runs from 11 AM–5 PM at Caras Park.

Free, but a donation of pet food to help hungry animals is requested.

Visit petfest.net.

Bring your stacks of wax, old CDs, or even your trusty tapes and trade ‘em off during the Total Fest IX Record Swap, which runs from noon–2 PM in the parking lot of Big Dipper Ice Cream, 631 S. Higgins Ave., and features music by Julie & The Wolves, Birthquake! and Turner Capehart Canty. Free. Visit wantagetotalfest. blogspot.com. (See Scope in this issue.)

Hook up some kids in need with school supplies during the United Way of Missoula County’s “Stuff the Bus” school supply drive, which includes a collection box to drop off donations from noon–3 PM at Shopko, 2510 S. Reserve St. Free to participate. Drop boxes are also located at the local offices of DA Davidson and United Way. Call 549-6104 and visit missoula unitedway.org.

Soak up something traditional when Travelers’ Rest State Park, a half mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12, presents a program on traditional arts, crafts and trades, which features demonstrations on brain tanning, crafts, outdoors skills and other topics and runs from noon–4 PM at the park. $2/free children aged 18 and under. Call 273-4253 for a complete list of events.

Expect something ghoulishly funny during the Missoula Children’s Theatre Performing Arts Camp performance of Monster Musical–A Medley of Mayhem, Giggles, and Ghouls!, which begins at 1 PM, with another performance at 4 PM, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Pattee St. $12. Call 728PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets.

Get down with your Hellgate High buddies during the Hellgate High School Class of 2000 Reunion, which runs from 1–9 PM and features food, entertainment, beer and time for reflection, all at the Bonner Park picnic area, on the corner of Ronald and Hastings Avenues. $20.

E-mail Brian at hellgate2000 reunion@gmail.com for more info.

The reunion crew is also hosting a river float at noon at Johnsrud Park on Sun., Aug. 21, which is free.

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.

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 2 PM at the theater, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

A tasty challenge awaits during “Cupcake Challenge!,” a cupcake decorating contest for kids grades 4–6 that is part of the Missoula Public Library’s “Something to Do” series, and begins at 4 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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.

Soothe your singed eyebrows with some suds and hot dub, rock and funk when Luau Cinder plays the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. 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.

Teens entering grades 7–12 get in tune with music, dancing, and food, as well as board and computer games, during the Missoula Public Library’s Make Waves Party,

cal 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

Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under. Visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets or call 375-9050.

The Jimmy Snow Country Show just might dance with your snow globe when it plays country at the

SPOTLIGHT fresh air film While most drive-in theaters in America have kicked the can, a little thing called the outdoor cinema has taken its place. Unlike drive-ins, where you often sit in the cramped confines of your car watching the big screen, the outdoor cinema brings the movie watching experience, well, outside. Blankets and lawn chairs replace car seats, giving you a more spread out, open-air experience.

Although it’s difficult to determine when, exactly, the first outdoor cinema made its debut in the United States, it seems that the Seattle neighborhood of Fremont sparked the trend when organizers started the Fremont “Almost Free” Outdoor Cinema in the summer of 1992. From that point, cities like Boulder, Colo., and Berkeley, Calif., followed suit, putting their own spin on the concept of community-based outdoor film nights.

WHAT: Missoula Outdoor Cinema screening of The Big Lebowski WHEN: Sat., Aug. 21, at 8:34 PM WHERE: The lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. HOW MUCH: $5 suggested donation

Here in our neck of the woods, the Missoula Outdoor Cinema (MOC) got its start in the summer of 2002, with a weekend of movies that drew a crowd of almost 500 people to the lawn of Head Start School on the Northside. Eight summers later, it’s still going strong.

You’ll be able to get a taste of the experience this week when the MOC presents a screening of The Big Lebowski—the Coen Brothers movie about a dude, his stolen rug and a serious case of mistaken identity.

Oh yeah, and that $5 suggested donation? It goes to a good cause known as the North-Missoula Community Development Corporation, a neighborhood revitalization organization that’s helped do things like build affordable homes on the Northside and Westside.

—Ira Sather-Olson

MORE INFO: Visit missoulaoutdoorcinema.org

which runs from 7–10 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Salmon Lake State Park, five miles south of Seeley Lake off of Hwy. 83, presents a program on watersheds with Alaina Strehlow of the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, starting with S’mores at 7:30 PM, and the talk at 8 PM, at the park’s amphitheater. Free. Call 240-0155.

Keep an eye out for some fangs when the Montana Actors’ Theatre continues A Monstrously Queer Weekend with Laramie Dean, which features a reading by Dean of Dracula in Love—a twist on the Bram Stoker classic—starting at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Visit mtactors.com.

Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musi-

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 P M at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $18, with tickets available by calling 871-6447.

You’re going to love this: The Hamilton Players present I Love Yo u , Yo u ’ r e P e r f e c t , N o w Change, a musical revue by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts that celebrates the ups and downs of relationships with a performance at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100

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

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.

Mel Gibson thankfully won’t show up to crash the party when Braveheart plays instrumental music at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but passthe-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

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. Rock out ‘cause you totally can during the last night of Total Fest IX, Missoula’s independent music fest that begins at the Badlander/Palace

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complex at 8:30 PM and features sets by No-Fi Soul Rebellion, Deranged Diction, Squalora, Unnatural Helpers, Sasshole and others. $40 for a three-day pass/$20 for Saturday night only. Visit wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com for a complete list of bands and get a pass at Ear Candy or online at wantageusa.com.

(See Scope in this issue.)

Get down with a dude with some dudes and dudettes when the Missoula Outdoor Cinema presents a screening of The Big Lebowski, at 8:34 PM on the lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 and visit missoulaoutdoorcinema.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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.

Have one too many drinks and you just might start singing pop tunes backwards during Bassackwards Karaoke at Larry’s Six Mile Bar & Grill in Huson, 23384 Huson Road, every other Sat. 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.

The Country Boogie Boys get high off your greenhouse gases when they play at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Party Trained takes you to the motherland when it plays a variety of styles at 9 PM at the Full Moon Saloon in Stevensville, 207 Main St. Free.

High Voltage electrifies your Adam’s apple when it plays rock during a CD release party at the Top Hat at 10 PM. $5.

The Whiskey Rebellion breaks all the rules when it plays outlaw country at 9 PM at the Lumberjack Saloon, off Hwy. 12 and one mile up Graves Creek Road near Lolo. Free.

Visit lumberjacksaloon.com.

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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 5421471 on Sat. after 10 AM to register.

Andre Floyd and Mood Iguana get you tangled up in something blue when they play blues at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3276.

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.

Yo u ’ r e g o n n a l o v e t h i s : Th e Hamilton Players present I Love Yo u , Yo u ’ r e P e r f e c t , N o w Change, a musical revue by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts that celebrates the ups and downs of relationships with a performance at 2 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8

cal 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.

Help support early detection and awareness of breast and cervical cancer through art when the local organization Faux Pink presents the “Art in the Garden” silent art auction and garden tour of the Gibson Mansion, which runs from 3–5 PM at the mansion, 823 39th St. Call Jill

Festival at 4 PM at St. Timothy’s Memorial Chapel, high above Georgetown Lake. $15/$10 students.

Visit sttimothysmusic.org for directions and call Betty at 846-1317.

nightlife 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.

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Just when you thought there weren’t enough farmers’ markets, along c o m e s t h e Ta r g e t R a n g e 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.

Put it up for a good cause when the Badlander and Central Bar & Grill, Iron Horse and other Missoula bars host holes in a pub crawl/minigolf tournament that benefits the Montana Food Bank Network, and begins with registration at Charlie B’s, 428 N. Higgins Ave., from noon–3 PM, with the courses open throughout the day up until 8 PM, when prizes will be given away. $10, which covers participation in the event and gets you a T-shirt.

Bike or walk to Caras Park in order to celebrate biking and walking in Missoula during the third annual PEDal Festival, which begins at noon and features art, bike repair, bike and pedestrian safety info, bike stunts, as well as music by Beyond the Pale, Voodoo Horseshoes, Modality and the Dead Me Downs. Free. Call 258-4963.

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.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “I wanted to huff that Sharpie marker!” Free. Call 543-7154.

If your chakras have been a little backed up lately, clear ‘em out during Table Time with Alternative Healers, an intuitive healing and energy balancing workshop from 2–4 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Call Janit at 207-7358.

Enjoy a comedy with a southern touch when the Port Polson Players presents a performance of The Dixie Swim Club at 2 PM at

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The Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., wants to let you know it’s opening at 1 PM today due to a staff meeting, and that it’ll be open until 9 PM. Call 721-BOOK. 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.

build me up What does President Barack Obama’s digs have in common with the Missoula County Courthouse? Both the White House and the Missoula County Courthouse are buildings built in the style of Neoclassical architecture—which, if you’re unfamiliar, utilizes symmetrical and proportional designs.

And while late Missoula architect A.J. Gibson had nothing to do with building our president’s estate, he had everything to do with designing our county’s courthouse. But that’s not all. Over the course of about 20 years—from his arrival in Missoula in 1889 to his retirement in 1909—he created at least 144 building designs, in styles that run the gamut from Neoclassical to Queen Anne Victorian (the latter of which uses an asymmetrical form).

A few of these iconic structures include UM’s Main Hall, the older portion of the Missoula Art Museum (which, back in the day, was known as the WHAT: Opening reception for the exhibit The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson WHO: Montana Museum of Art and Culture WHEN: Fri., Aug. 20, from 4–6 PM WHERE: Meloy and Paxson galleries, in UM’s PARTV Center HOW MUCH: Free

children 12 and under. Visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets or call 375-9050.

Help someone named Amanda go to Africa during the “Send Amanda to Africa silent auction” from 2–6 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton. Free to attend. The event features the silent auction, a raffle, live music from Too Trees, and discount refills on beer.

Call 363-PINT. Take a journey through song when the Alpine Theatre Project presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, a musi-

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Carnegie Library), as well as countless houses and apartments—most notably The Babs Building on S. Fourth Street W. The guy had his finger in the pie of Missoula’s late 19th century and early 20th century building scene, that’s for sure. In terms of local architecture, that’s a pretty freaking huge impact. But here’s the kicker: He created these designs without any formal training, and with a sixth grade education under his belt.

Gibson’s legacy hits the gallery this week during an opening where you’ll be able to peruse his drawings, along with scrapbooks, photos (like the one pictured), and even models of his work constructed by regional architects—all while soaking up the sounds of local gypsy jazz peddlers EL 3-OH!. It ought to be one heck of an aesthetic trip through the mind of a man who created some of the most monumental buildings in town.

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Complimentary champagne and appetizers will also be served.

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 4 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.

Witness the talents of a young cello master when Louis Rassaby performs with pianist Sarah Broomell at the St. Timothy’s Summer Music

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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 Front Street Jazz Group and DJ Mermaid.

Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free.

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.

Reno, Nev.’s Hellbound Glory scrapes the scum off of scumbags when they play country at the Top Hat at 9 PM. Cover TBA.

What reason have you got for lying around the house watching the tube when Florence’s High Spirits offers Free Pool at 6 PM? Free. Call 273-9992.

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

Figure out why “The Big Burn of 1910” was such a big deal during a screening of Ordeal by Fire, a documentary by George Sibley on the issue that screens at 7 PM at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Building 322 at Fort Missoula. Free, with a discussion after the screening with Sibley and forester Dale Bosworth. Call 728-3476 and visit fortmissoulamuseum.org A pitch perfect family of musicians navigates the ups and downs of the music biz when Rick Bass reads and signs copies of Nashville Chrome, at 7 PM at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 549-9010. (See Books in this issue.)

Richie Reinholdt lets no grape escape when the plays country rock at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, from 7–10 PM. Free.

Any and all actors in the Flathead area are encouraged to audition for a play about the results of death coming to dinner when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents auditions for Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate, at 7 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. Free to audition. Scripts are available at all country library reference desks. Call 862-5371.

Calm those nerves with a shot of Irish new age adult contemporary music when Celtic Woman pres-

ents their “Songs From the Heart” tour, with a show at 7:30 PM at UM’s Adams Center. $65.75/$40.75 plus fees at griztix.com or by calling 243-4051.

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.

Guzzle down some honey with your laboring friends when San Jose’s Worker Bee plays rock with locals Modality during the Badlander’s Service Industry Night, starting at 9 PM. $3.

Hang out with some burners before you head to a desert wonderland during a Burning Man Precompression Party featuring DJs ir8prim8, Kris Moon, Hendawg and the Milkcrate Mechanic, at 9 PM at the Palace.

Free.

Boston’s Joy Kills Sorrow kicks your case of sadness to the creek when it plays bluegrass at the Top Hat at 9 PM. $3.

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.

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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. 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.

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.

Peruse veggies and fresh fruits while taking in the sounds of a rotating cast of live musicians during the Whitefish Downtown Farmers’ Market, at Depot Park at the north end of Central Avenue, from 5–7:30 PM. Free. Call 862-2043.

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.

Keep your mind outta the gutter.

Learn what exactly the “backdoor” is while wrapping your head around the “stop and go” and slurping down a fuzzy navel during free poker lessons at 6 PM this and every Tue. at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Includes drink specials. Call 549-4152.

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.

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

Any and all actors in the Flathead area are encouraged to audition for a play about the results of death coming to dinner when the Whitefish Theatre Co. presents auditions for Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate, at 7 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. Free to audition. Scripts are available at all country library reference desks. Call 862-5371.

Meet up with like-minded music hounds during a meeting of Nashville Songwriters International, which meets at 7 PM at the Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. Free. Call 542-9258.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

Ready? What language do Gypsies usually speak? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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.

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.

Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great

Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers.

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free.

Call 721-1798.

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.

Before

starting at 9 PM. Free to attend. Call 549-4152.

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.

Keep it on the cool side when you listen to some hip-hop and enjoy a drink special or two during Hip-Hop 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.

They’re like the A-Team, but for your

ears. The Badlander presents a set by Peoples, a new band by Rex from Reverend Slanky and the Freemole Quartet with Phil Maher, which begins at 10 PM. Free.

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and music this week by the Smoke. 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.

Shirk your responsibility for a few hours and enjoy a free matinee during the Missoula Public Library’s afternoon matinee, which starts at 2 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org for updates on movie titles.

Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: Gypsies commonly speak Romani, the language of Roma and Sinti peoples—who are known to us English speakers as “Gypsies.”

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.

Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Electric Avenue” by Eddy Grant (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Those in Kalispell get down in downtown during Thursday!Fest, which features food, a beer/wine garden, Farmers’ Market, arts/crafts, kids activities and music by Andre Floyd and Mood Iguana from 5–7:30 PM on Third St. East, between Main St. and First Ave. E. Free.

Visit downtownkalispell.com.

Prepare for an aesthetically pleasing salon of sorts during the Pattee Canyon Ladies’ Salon: Studies from the Figure, an exhibit featuring work based on the female form by an array of Missoula female artists with an opening reception from 5–8 PM at the

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. This week’s featured nonprofit is the InnerRoads Wilderness Program. Visit kettlehouse.com.

Joan Zen wants you to be one with some lentils when she plays Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St., from 5:30–8 PM. Free. Visit blacksmithbrewing.com.

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.

Chicago’s Chevelle takes a few drinks from the water wheel when they play rock and hard rock with opener 10 Years at 7 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $30, with tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and online at jadepresents.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.

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

Go ahead and make it a triple when the North Bay Grille in Kalispell, 139 First Ave. W., presents the Singleton Duo, who play a set of upright bass and guitar music starting at 8 PM. Free. Call 755-4441.

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.

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.

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Scumbags to center stage. Hellbound Glory plays self-proclaimed “scumbag country” at the Top Hat Sun., Aug. 22, at 9 PM. Cover TBA.

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 Wednesdays 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.

Don’t be such a hater and rock out to Green Alligator when they play the Top Hat at 9 PM. $3.

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Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM, as the Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from 5–7:30 PM.

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.

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Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St. Free. Call 721-0591.

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 The Tom Cats starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missouladowntown.com.

North Carolina’s Paul Cataldo gives you permission to ogle his flannel shirt collection when he plays Americana, country and roots music at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Bruce it up with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when Bruce Threlkeld plays Americana at the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free. Call 549-8703.

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.

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.

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.

Go ahead and get around when The Beach

Boys play Ogren Park at Allegiance Field at 7 PM. $40 reserved seating/$30 general admission, with tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and online at missoulaosprey.com.

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. Email 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.

The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Tom Foolery, with a performance at 8 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Visit bigforksummerplayhouse.com for tickets.

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.

Women give a thumbs up to spirits during Ladies’ Night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which features half-off drinks for women and occurs this and every Thu. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

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.

Scoot your boots and your rump to Cash for Junkers, which plays Americana with a swing at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

DJs Kris Moon and Jerry Abstract make your brain dance when they play an array of electronic music at the Top Hat at 9 PM. Cover TBA. 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.

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.

This week, I’m an overlord of few words. To the point: Let me know of your upcoming gigs (scumbag country or not) by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 20 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. 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.”

For the better part of the last year, my seven-speed Schwinn Cruiser bike has been a vital part of my life as my go-to vehicle for getting around town. It’s gotten me to work in minus 6 degree weather, and it’s provided me with a plethora of beautiful commutes during the summer months.

If you feel the same fondness for your trusty two-wheeled friend as I do, I’d recommend partying it up in honor of your bike during the third annual PEDal Festival, which kicks off at noon on Sun., Aug. 22. Dubbed as a celebration for bicyclists and pedestrians, the soiree includes bike repair demos, bike/pedestrian safety info, bike stunts performed by the Safety Team, bike jousting, an obstacle course, plus music by Beyond the Pale, Voodoo Horseshoes, Modality and the Dead Me Downs. It’s free, and features food and beverage vendors, as well as a raffle with some sweet biking and walking-themed prizes. All proceeds go to Missoula in Motion, the Bike Walk Alliance of Missoula, and Free Cycles. Call 258-4963 and visit pedalfestmissoula.org.

Of course, that’s just Sunday, and we’ve got plenty of other adventures to hit up before then. On Thu., Aug. 19, a little bit of hard work translates into a weekend filled with delightful sights during the sixth volunteer trip to the Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area with UM’s Wilderness Institute.

This week’s outing runs from Thursday to Mon., Aug. 23, and takes you through the heart of the Ten Lakes Area by Poorman Mountain and Wolverine Lakes. What follows is a weekend of mapping and monitoring weeds, as well as taking inventory of campsites, roads, trails and any wildlife you come across. Free. RSVP by visiting www.cfc.umt.edu/wi or by calling 243-5361.

Or you can scratch that itch to finally go the distance when you join Run Wild Missoula’s Beginner Runner Training Class, an eight-week running program for beginners (or those who’ve been out of the game for awhile) that begins at 8:15 AM on Sat., Aug. 21, at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. It meets each and every Saturday morning, as well as each and every Thursday at noon, up until early

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Go ahead and howl at the moon on Tue., Aug. 24, but first take a trip down to Fort Owen State Park in Stevensville so you can catch the Bitterroot National Forest’s 2010 Moon Walk Interpretative Series presentation by Salish elder Frances Vanderburg titled “Salish History in the Bitterroot,” which begins at 7 PM at the park, off Fort Owen Ranch Road. Free. Call 375-2606.

Then on Wed., Aug. 25, run fast like Forrest Gump with a barley soda on your mind when Run Wild Missoula presents its Missoula Beer Run, a five-mile run that begins at a local watering hole and ends with a brew (or non-alcoholic beverage) with your running comrades and starts at 6 PM at Bayern Brewing, 1507 Montana St. Free for Run Wild Missoula members/Cost TBA for all others. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Learn how to spread some native seeds on Thu., Aug. 26, when the Montana Natural History Center presents a Native Seed Collection Workshop, which runs from 5:30–7:30 PM at the Nature Adventure Teaching Garden at Fort Missoula. Once there, you’ll learn how to collect native grass and wildflower seeds, as well as how to propagate shrubs with root cuttings. $3 donation suggested. Call 327-0405.

Before I leave you, I want to let you know about an upcoming hiking/climbing fest you won’t want to miss. It’s the Rocky Mountaineers’ sixth annual Glacier Classic, a weekend filled to the boot with an array of climbs and hikes that runs from Fri., Aug. 27–Sun., Aug. 29. It includes a sevenmile scramble/climb up Mount Gould on Saturday, as well as an eight-mile hike up to the Scalplock Mountain Fire Lookout on Sunday, which, according to the Mountaineers’ website, Photo by Chad Harder includes some breathtaking views of Mount St. Nicholas, Elk can also bring Fido along for the race, but just make sure your furry Mountain and Salvage Mountain. It’s also free from what I can tell, but friend is leashed. $20 family/$10 per person/$5 children age 16 and I’m sure these masters of mountain ascension will want you to chip under, with pre-registration due Thu., Aug. 19 and day-of registra- in for group camping at Glacier’s Apgar Campground. If you plan tion running from 8–8:45 AM. Call Robin at 862-8121. to go, RSVP first with Forest Dean by calling him at 240-7612 or You could also gain some running wisdom on Sat., Aug. 21, by by e-mailing him at mtnear1@gmail.com. Also, visit rockymountaking a trip to Wisdom during the Run the Big Hole, a 5k and 10k taineers.com for a detailed description of planned hikes. walk/run that begins at 10 AM at the American Legion Park in the Until next time, may the wind be at your back and the force be town. Once your soles hit the road, you’ll run on the Lower North Fork in your pedals.

Road and finish at Fetty’s Bar and Café, with a free beer to satiate the calendar@missoulanews.com taste buds of pre-registered runners. $25 day-of registration from 8–9 October. As for the program, it begins with running/walking intervals, and culminates in your completion of the Pumpkin Run 5k on Oct. 16. $50/$25 Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit runwildmissoula.org to register.

If your running legs are already toned to perfection, then skip the training class and consider heading up north for the 23rd annual Big Mountain Run, which begins at 9:15 AM on Sat., Aug. 21, at the Danny on Trail at the Whitefish Mountain Resort. Essentially, this is a climbing race that takes you up 2,200 vertical feet, in 3.8 miles, in order to reach the summit of Big Mountain. Those of you with dogs

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Rock of ages Your guide to three days of Total Fest IX madness

by Erika Fredrickson

It’s pretty amazing that Total Fest started on a whim.

Founder Josh Vanek recalls coaxing some touring bands— in particular The Last of the Juanitas—to play a 2001 onenight-only show he decided to dub Total Fest. Nine years later, the indie rock showcase has become a three-day, 40plus band affair, and one of the most anticipated rock events in the Northwest.

Total Fest also has the rare status of being all-ages, with extra security to ensure that certain people—ahem— make good choices to carry on the tradition.

Speaking of tradition, here’s our contribution: Your guide to old festival favorites, tasty virgins and must-see reunion bands, plus the inside scoop on how you can smuggle a little eye candy into your dirty music habits.

Reunited and it feels so good

One of the best parts of Total Fest is the coming together of old friends—or long-lost bands, as the case may be. This year Sasshole hits the stage to give new listeners a taste of local music history and old fans flashback fever. Loud, sassy and unapologetic, the band was known for partying and a no-b.s. attitude. The local group started in the mid-1990s as an all-female four-piece, switched lineups and ended up with three girls and a guy before their final disbandment in 2004. The band’s aggressive, lo-fi sound evoked punk rock from L.A.’s 1980s scene comshole

band Street Eaters for more entertaining and unpredictable behavior.

Festival newbies

In a way, Deranged Diction is also a reunion band. It only reunited last year—after being defunct for two decades—to play to a wall-to-wall crowd at the Palace in celebration of new recordings from 1982 and 1983 songs.

One would have thought that was the end of it, but the hardcore band is back for Total Fest. Of course, part of the allure is that the band includes a little-known bass player named Jeff Ament from some band called Pearl Jam. Another band (or, more accurately, dude) not to miss: Thrones, aka Joe Preston from the Melvins. Fortunately, both bands prove celebrity status is irrelevant when it comes to good music making.

There are plenty of other Total Fest virgins worth getting in line for. The Unnatural Helpers, for instance, have the kind of straight-shooting rock swagger that almost ensures an electrifying stage performance. Others, like the Brooklyn-based psychedelic band Oneida, already arrive with hype.

Night of Joy might not be on your radar at all, but this

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Remember: you can bring tapes, records and CDs, or just come for the live music. This year includes local duo Julie & the Wolves and Salt Lake City’s Birthquake!, which somehow combines math rock with woodwinds and gets away with it. Also on deck is Turner Capehart Canty who can easily be introduced by his rich artistic heritage: son of writer Kevin Canty and photographer Lucy Capehart, plus nephew to Brendan Canty of Fugazi (who produced Turner’s recent experimental folk album, Building Your Own Hidden Fortress). The former bassist for The Sherlocks treads his own talented path, with no special handouts besides, perhaps, some good genes.

The Total line-up

Total Fest kicks off Thursday, Aug. 19, with music at MAM from 5:30 to 9 p.m., and music at the Palace from 9:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. On Friday, music starts at 9:30 p.m. in both the Badlander and the Palace. Saturday begins with a record swap and music from noon to 2 p.m. at the Big Dipper, and music at the Palace and Badlander starting at 9 p.m. All-access passes run $40/$10 Thursday/$20 Fri. and Sat. Go to wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com for more info.

Thu., Aug. 19 MAM: Abe Coley, Fag Rag, Muhammad Ali and Japanther.

Palace: Ah Holly Fam’ly, The Skurfs, Belt of Vapor, Street Eaters, Thug Nasties, The Ax, Custody Battle, Birthday Suits.

Fri., Aug. 20 Badlander: Bird’s Mile Home, The Grandparents, Chin Up, Meriwether!, The Lights, Pure Country Gold, Oneida, Lords of Falconry, Kinski.

Photo courtesy of Nicole Vanek

plete with witty, freewheeling songs about bodily fluids, beer and blood all performed with mischievous glee.

These days, Sasshole members are well-respected professionals and business owners, but none of them really ever shed the sass.

Welcome home, rockers

Seattle’s The Lights are veterans of the Total Fest scene. In the wake of their new album, Failed Graves, they’ll bring songs that hop between raucous campfire tunes and icy, dark-edged melodies that curl from the corners of early 1990s post-punk angst. Also returning are former locals No-Fi Soul Rebellion whose expertise at audience participation usually leaves people covered in sweat and slightly violated in the best way possible. Finally, if you were lucky enough to witness The Fleshies’ Johnny No Moniker wrapped in toilet paper slithering on the Badlander’s floor two years ago, and then witness his stage antics again last year with his band Triclops!, you’re in for the third wave: Johnny returns this year with his new

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Denver band will quench any thirst you have for new-wave. The trio simmers in feverish pop that somehow seems both gruesome and pretty.

Cocktail rock

No-Fi Soul Rebellion

Over the past few years, the Missoula Art Museum has made it a mission to find a doorway into the hip, edgy art scene. Artini, which happens every third Thursday of the month, aspires to draw in the kind of crowd that might easily dismiss art museums as stuffy. So, what do you get when you cross Artini’s fifth birthday with Total Fest? That’s right: a party called Totaltini. The partnership means that MAM will be hosting four music acts that are the opposite of stuffy including experimental local rock band Fag Rag and creative favorites Japanther.

Record swap

The record swap takes place on Saturday afternoon at the Big Dipper, far away from the boozy bars so that anyone looking for a little afternoon culture can take part.

Palace: Streetlight People, Miss Lana Rebel, Sugar Sugar Sugar, Fist City, Night of Joy, Lesbian, Thrones, Wildildlife.

Sat., Aug. 21 Big Dipper: Julie & the Wolves, Birthquake!, Turner Capehart Canty.

Badlander: Shahs, Mordecai, Broken Water, Todd Congelliere, No-Fi Soul Rebellion, TacocaT, Sasshole, White Drugs, Deranged Diction.

Palace: Deny the Dinosaur?, A Coin in the Coffer, Coconut Coolouts, Bacon & Egg, Chinese, Arctic Flowers, Squalora, Warcry, Unnatural Helpers. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Chin Up, Meriwether! plays sloppy, fun punk with queercore streaks and other socio-political shades. The new 12-inch record, Fruition, from the Olympia, Wash., (via Missoula) band doesn’t explore new territory, but it adds to the dialog of loss, love and societal ills.

“Fags Rule!” and “Wally’s Hardcore” (about a violent incident on Missoula’s own streets) deal with homophobia, and it’s easy to get behind the sentiment: No one should be made to feel ashamed, let alone beat up, for being gay. But these songs also feel like public service messages, to hell with the aesthetics of the music.

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If Japanther’s latest actually were ice cream, it would be rocky road.

Moments of isolation and confusion crop up against 20-something exuberance in the lyrics like nuts and sticky marshmallow encased in a smooth chocolate consistency. But ultimately, the ingredients taste a lot better together than they would on their own.

That analogy holds up when applied to the Brooklyn duo’s musical concoction. Solid punk and noise rock anthems provide the album’s chocolate-y

Streetlight People Supergaze self-released

Though infused with the rambling inclusiveness of indie Americana (cellos, harmonicas, multiple percussionists) Streetlight People is, at heart, a garage band.

Singer and guitarist Fletcher Reveley has mastered the soulful garage-rocker’s knowing rasp and goofy enunciation, the smidge of spooky depth and the diphthonged vowels that are the legacy of Sky Saxon and Eric Burdon.

The majority of the songs follow a sort of patternless pattern of shifting tempo and instrumental layering, held together by Reveley’s world-weary ranting. On “They Don’t Know” this scheme works to perfection, while other songs are merely good. The cowpunk quickie “This Hate” provides a nice change of pace and

Fag Rag

Rainbow Satan self-released

Fag Rag isn’t the kind of band you take home to mama, particularly if your mama lives in a world of Sunday services and bunnies and not-gay rainbows.

This Missoula group is pure piss and vinegar, and they don’t really care if said metaphorical fluids offend your societal norms and expectations. Even their name is set to send radio DJs into a fit of squirmy apologies.

Rainbow Satan delivers lots of experimental punk—brash, loud, barely-held-together punk. Fag Rag

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It’s really tracks like “Howling Underwater” that make this record feel artistic and not just political. Lyrics delivered in gang vocals like, “I want out of the city, I want back into the fire, from the fire to the river, heard you howling underwater,” don’t get so tied up in the need to deliver a literal message. Mystery can be a good thing.

Then again, in “Relapse, Recovery, Reprise” the band sings, “If it all amounts to a set of clichés then at least our thoughts have been voiced.” True. Sometimes you’ve just got to say what you mean, even if it is a tad too earnest. (Erika Fredrickson) Chin Up, Meriwether! plays Total Fest at the Badlander Friday, Aug. 20, at 10:30 PM.

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base, complete with Misfits-lifted rhythms and guitar riffs fuzzier than the food in your average punk rocker’s refrigerator. But bandmates Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly throw in some unexpected nuttiness with spoken-word sections and subtle hip-hop flavoring. I guess that makes album collaborator Anita Sparrows’ vocal contributions the marshmallow. And, sure enough, her voice adds a welcomed, distinct texture to the final product.

Punk has served as a powerful expression of youthful volatility, and that holds true on Rock ’n’ Roll Ice Cream. But when I listen to the genre, I expect to get good and pissed. That’s not the case here. The album contains moments of anger, sure, but the final experience is, as the title suggests, surprisingly sweet.

(Cameron Rasmusson) Japanther plays Total Fest at the Missoula Art Museum Thursday, Aug. 19, at 8 PM. reminds us how much more Streetlight People could offer, if they decide to stick around a while.

Rumor has it the band will make its last appearance at this year’s Total Fest. On the other hand, we’ve heard that before. This is a band constantly on the eve of destruction, but Missoula just won’t let it die. On Supergaze, a good chunk of the local rockerati lends a hand, including all-around cowboy Shmed Maynes on piano and organ. Supergaze leaves you with the sense of a band just hitting its stride. If this is their last gasp, I’ll be sad. (Ali Gadbow) Streetlight People plays Total Fest at the Palace Friday, Aug. 20, at 9:30 PM. combines the shrill atonality of noise rock with the spit and swagger of frontwoman Mikki Lunda. The girl has some serious attitude and theatrical range: growly and sinister one second, lost in an insane yowling frenzy the next. That screaming delivery really drives the band. She sounds a little like how Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would sound, I imagine, if someone lit her on fire.

This isn’t the kind of album I’d pop on while at work or recreation. But if Fag Rag delivers the same energy in person that they’ve packed into Rainbow Satan, all the ingredients are in place for a killer live show. And if your expectations of a gay devil veer toward the sensitive “South Park” portrayal, you’re in for a surprise. This Satan has some teeth. (Cameron Rasmusson) Fag Rag plays Total Fest at the Missoula Art Museum Thursday, Aug. 19, at 7 PM.

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In 1959, despite his service in the army, Elvis and how her siblings, Bonnie in particular, can be so Presley still managed to have 10 Top 40 hits. damn happy with the middling success life has Impressive, certainly, but he wasn’t the only household bequeathed to them.

I gotta admit, I kinda dig old Maxine Brown. When name on the charts. Back then a little family trio called The Browns—Maxine, Jim Ed and Bonnie—gave their she decides her big comeback will be the biopic about old friend Elvis a run for his money with their own suc- her life (“Everyone else has a movie…A movie at or cesses, among which included a number one hit on near the end of one’s career or life is simply de rigueur both the country and pop charts. “The Three Bells” was in country music. Where’s her movie?”), I have to admit further that the old bird sort a melancholy and sweet balof has a point, not to mention lad that had originally been some panache. With neither recorded by Edith Piaf in the agent nor publicist, Maxine early 1950s. It was a perfect tacks up an ad at the local match for the harmonizing Piggly Wiggly for someone to folk trio and the song would help her make a movie about catapult them to some degree her once-famous self. of international success.

Surprising and moving, Unlike Elvis, however, The even quirky, the chapters that Browns were not especially focus on the lonely yet still sexy; they were neither cuthungry old woman are easily ting edge in their music nor the best parts of the novel. particularly tragic in their Unfortunately, the other lives. Their music was simply parts of the novel, compitch-perfect, which is probapelling though they could bly why they are mostly forhave been, just don’t match gotten today. up. For one, Bass employs an It’s The Browns’ story overly self-conscious narrathat Rick Bass chronicles in his tion that fawns too heavily new novel Nashville Chrome, over its subjects. He which is being inexplicably describes The Browns as “the hailed as Bass’ “return” to ficepicenter and nucleus” of the tion. Within only the last five Nashville Chrome Nashville music industry; years, Bass has published a Rick Bass they were “predetermined” to novel (The Diezmo, 2006), a hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt be “burdened” with “somecollection of short stories (The 272 pages, $24.00 thing rare—that they had Lives of Rocks, 2007) and, only been chosen to carry it—the a few months ago, a novella (The Blue Horse, 2010). Nashville Chrome, however, world nonetheless would have been preparing them does represent unchartered territory for the author for their journey.” Bass describes their voices as a who’s most prominently known as the environmentalist “summons,” “as if some higher order had decided to champion of his beloved Yaak Valley. Here, though, he use them as puppets.” Knowing and clearly lamenting tells the sweet and arresting story of three siblings from the reality that his readers may not have heard of The Arkansas who became major players in the country Browns, Bass goes to great and ultimately self-defeatmusic scene of the 1950s and into the 1960s, the turbu- ing lengths to tell us—over and over and over again— lent decade during which the smooth harmonies of the that The Browns could sing mighty prettily. What we could have appreciated for ourselves, Bass muddles trio could not find a place.

Though told in the omniscient voice, the novel with cloying force.

Furthermore, it would have served Bass well to focuses often (and most successfully) on the eldest of the three siblings, Maxine Brown, who not only com- have taken a few lessons from the storytellers of counmandeered the trio during its most successful years but try. Rather than simply telling a story close-up, with all who felt the group’s inevitable break-up in the mid- the tools any storyteller has at hand (dialogue, con1960s as an amputee might feel a missing limb for years flicts, scene, etc.), Bass pulls his narrative camera way to come, ubiquitous and forever painful. Perhaps back and chronicles the story almost as though he were because of her ferocious ambition, Maxine would an essayist, rather than a novelist. As a result, there’s become the most frustrated among her siblings: Jim Ed lots of exposition here, but very few actual scenes, would go on to a modestly successful solo career that resulting in static chapters that feel like set-pieces.

In the song “The Three Bells,” The Browns told would morph into a still-running Nashville radio program, and Bonnie, with no small amount of relief, the story of “Little Jimmy” simply, letting little details would marry a doctor (for whom, if we are to believe provide the luster and the sentiment. It’s a lesson Bass the story as Bass tells it, she dumps Elvis) and live a could have taken to heart.

Rick Bass reads from Nashville Chrome at happily married life in the Ozarks. Despite her siblings’ relative happiness, Maxine remains miffed, shuffling Shakespeare & Co. Monday, Aug. 23, at 7 PM. Free. about on her slow-to-heal broken hip wondering why in the hell The Browns have been so bloody forgotten arts@missoulanews.com

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own. That show quickly failed, Johnny Carson never spoke to her again and her husband committed suicide in 1987.

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Rivers may be right about the acting (two years later, there’s still no play in her hometown), but it would be hard to argue that the aging comedienne doesn’t make a fascinating documentary subject. And while it’s one thing to be a good subject, it’s another all together to craft an engaging narrative when that subject is already an overexposed celebrity. To that end, the filmmakers here have reinvented the celebrity documentary much the way Rivers attempts to reinvent herself whenever necessary in order to stay relevant.

Whether Rivers succeeds in her reinventions is— like her acting—debatable. But by capturing those moments of reinvention with an honest eye and avoiding the traps that could easily have turned this into a sycophantic puff piece, directors Ricki Stern and Anne Sunberg have done something remarkable: They’ve managed to turn a caricature back into a person.

Throughout all 90 minutes of A Piece of Work, we’re never quite sure whether we are A) bearing witness to the tail end of a 50-year show business career as the grand dame of celebrity culture hurdles toward an ugly and destructive train wreck or B) eavesdropping in on a one-year window in the life of an icon who understands the joke is now on her but will, nonetheless, take every stand-up job she can until the day death finally puts a damper on her gig.

There are strong elements of sadness in both of those storylines. Integrating footage from her early career as a groundbreaking comedienne and then later as permanent guest host of “The Tonight Show,” the filmmakers do not try to camouflage the fact that Rivers has reached the point midway through her eighth decade where she is famous for being famous.

Interviews with friends and business associates pinpoint the beginning of her decline to 1986, when she abruptly left “The Tonight Show” gig after the fledgling Fox network offered her a late night show of her

Rickles. Yes, I too was surprised to learn Don Rickles is still alive and performing.

Rivers jokes about these gigs, but since comics are by nature self-deprecating, we’re never quite sure whether she really wants our sympathy or not.

Whenever we feel hints of that emotion, Rivers is quickly back on camera to brag about her life of luxury, including the now infamous plastic surgeries and her New York City penthouse, saying, “This is how Marie Antoinette would have lived if she had money.”

Eventually, the confluence of fleeting fame and desperation come to a head as the filmmakers follow Rivers as she begins filming “Celebrity Apprentice.”

Only in this documentary could a Donald Trump reality show serve as an emotional centerpiece. It’s quite apt, really. It takes a healthy dose of ego, confidence, naiveté and bombast to declare, as Rivers does, that, “If I win ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ I’m back.”

The sentence hangs there for a second or two, left dangling for us to consider whether this is a serious statement, or whether Rivers is, again, just trying to show us that she fully understands the irony of her situation. That we never know for sure is the beauty of this documentary. It is heartbreakingly funny.

The Joan Rivers of today is best described by a friend near the end of A Piece of Work, who says, “You can’t get hit by lightning unless you stay out in the rain for a long time.” Rivers, as we learn, will do just about anything for that next lightning strike. Like, for instance, allowing a camera crew to film a documentary about an aging star trying to stay famous. Look who’s relevant again! You have to wonder whether that was her plan all along.

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work concludes its run at the Wilma Theatre Thursday, Aug. 19. arts@missoulanews.com

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Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9, with a 7 only show on Wed., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

LOTTERY TICKET Bow Wow wins the lottery on the eve of Fourth of July weekend, then tries to keep it a secret from all his neighbors in the projects before he can collect his winnings. Spoiler alert: Bow Wow is terrible at keeping a secret and chaos ensues. Village 6: 1:30, 4:15, 7 and 10.

NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS Emma Thompson is the bucktooth nanny you always feared who returns to the screen to help a helpless Maggie Gyllenhaal keep a gaggle of kids in line using magical tricks. Oh yeah, pigs fly and perform a synchronized swimming routine, too.

Carmike 10: 1:15, 4:10, 7 and 9:35. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30 and 9:55 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:35, 4:05, 6:50 and 9:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9:05.

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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. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9:10, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

EAT PRAY LOVE Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir about eating (in Italy), praying (in Bali) and finding true love (in India) comes to life with Julia Roberts as the divorcee with a bad case of wanderlust. Carmike

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Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 3:10, 6:15 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:30 and 8:30.

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Things get complicated when life partners Julianne Moore and Annette Bening find out their 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 a 9 only show on Wed., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

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

that it moves the aforementioned fans quickly from one mind-blowing dance scene to the next.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 4:55, 7:15 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:40.

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. 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. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 2:25, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:45, with an addi-

PIRANHA 3D Insanely gnarly looking prehistoric fish infest a lake during the height of Spring Break—and they’re hungry for human flesh. The perfect movie for the cast of “Jersey Shore,” yet we’re stuck with Ving Rhames and Christopher Lloyd. Carmike 10: 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:25 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 3:55, 7:25 and 9:45.

THE SWITCH Jason Bateman gets blotto and instead of doing what most dudes do when they’re drunk and lonely—play “Madden” and fall asleep on the couch watching old Dirty Harry movies—he decides to hijack Jennifer Aniston’s artificial insemination by swapping her donor’s sperm with his own. Carmike 10: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 and 9:45.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1, 3:45, 6:45 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

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.

Village 6: 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15 and 9:25.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:55, 4:25, 7 and 9:15. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

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. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 2:45 and Mon.–Thu. at 2.

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

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10: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 3:15, 6:10 and 9:10, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 12:15 and 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 9:20.

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. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1:30, 2:30, 4, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2, 3, 6:30, 7, 9 and 9:30.

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

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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 Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 4:50 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 4:10 and 9:35.

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.

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.

Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9:10.

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

tional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:50, 7:20 and 9:45. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.Sun. show at 1:15.

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. Village 6 in 2-D: 1:45 and 4:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 2:25 and 7:10 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25 and 7:10.

Capsule reviews by Skylar Browning and Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Aug. 20. 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-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 4 .

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THE LARVA OF THE PARTY I love to dress up and go socialize with people. My boyfriend, however, can only smile friendly and chitchat for about 20 minutes before he seats himself in some corner and starts reading the host’s books. Last time we went to a dinner party, I found him alone in a room petting the owner’s dog! I do introduce him around and encourage him to be more outgoing. I think if he’d just make more of an effort to talk to people, he’d have a better time. He says he’s not miserable but just can’t do this social stuff for long. I love having him with me, even though he’s kind of not actually with me.

So, can it work with a self-proclaimed introvert and a party girl?

—Social Butterfly It’s a party! You’re in your element, making the rounds, meeting tons of new people, racking up invites to parties after the party, and your boyfriend’s, well, probably in that little crawl space under the host’s stairs.

Sartre once said, “Hell is other people at breakfast.” An introvert sees no reason to narrow it down to a particular time of day. My own introvert boyfriend is charming and fun one on one, but his favorite kind of party is one that’s canceled, and his preferred RSVP would be something Ving Rhames said on the set of Out of Sight: “I don’t want to talk to anybody I don’t already know.”

Ever since Freud decided (sans evidence) that introverts were repressed, narcissistic trolls under the bridge, extraversion has been considered the ideal and introverts have been seen as socially stunted.

Introversion is also wrongly conflated with shyness, but shyness is fear and shamebased—quite different from seeing no reason to say anything to strangers unless you or they are on fire.

More and more, research points to a strong biological basis for personality. Brain imaging shows distinct differences in introverts and extraverts. Studies by neuroscientist Debra L. Johnson and others found that extraverts, who get energized from external stimulation like meeting new people, have increased blood flow to rear areas of the brain for sensory processing (like listening, touching, watching). Introverts, who tend to be more pensive and introspective, and are easily overwhelmed by too much external stimulation, showed more blood flow altogether (indicating more internal stimulation), over more complicated pathways, with more activity in frontal regions for inward tasks like problem-solving, reasoning and remembering. Put that together

with a Chinese study adding evidence that introverts get socked with a higher level of cortical arousal from stimuli, and you get the idea that urging introverts to be more outgoing is a bit like urging scissors to be more like a stapler.

So, can it work between you and a boyfriend who probably researches the host’s wallpaper so he can dress to blend into the background? Well, maybe—if you’re independent enough to show up to most events without him as Your Date(TM). There will, of course, be times when it means something to you to have him there, and the compromise then is his to make. Be sensitive to his feelings, try to get there early (when the houseplant-toguest ratio is greatest), and be okay with him eventually slinking off to read “The Life History of the Dung Beetle” or talking to the dog (who’s sometimes the most interesting person at the party).

TOON DEAF Is there any way, for a man out on a date with a woman, to utter the phrase “Whoopsie daisy” and not see a Road Runner cloud where she was just sitting?

—Just Curious Just wondering…under what circumstances would a man (you?), on a date with a woman, be compelled to utter the phrase “Whoopsie daisy”? Dropped your knitting? Or, was it your Hello Kitty wallet and matching compact?

There are some women who like to date girlier types, and they’re called lesbians. Otherwise, unless you’re joking, and your date shares your sense of humor, you probably will see a cartoon puff of smoke in her wake if you talk like her elderly aunt.

You don’t have to grunt and adjust yourself every two minutes, but if you’re looking for a conversational role model, lean more toward Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry than Kurt Hummel in “Glee.”

People on dates often blurt out dumb stuff because they’re nervous and sitting across from somebody and have nothing on their mind but “I have nothing to say!”

You can avoid this if you plan dates that have you going places, seeing sights and showing off your keen powers of observation by pointing out things of interest; for example, “Wow, look at that man running away with your pocketbook.”

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 17 1 P i e r A v e , # 2 8 0 , S a n t a Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 18th century, the French Academy laid down rules about the differences between professional and amateur paintings. For example, it was decreed that true artists must create a “licked surface,” hiding all evidence of their brushstrokes. The illusion was more convincing that way; viewers could sink their attention fully into the image without being distracted by thoughts about the artist’s process. When the Impressionists barged into the scene in the 1870s, one of their rebellions against convention was to reject the licked surface. By making some of their brushstrokes visible, they declared they weren’t interested in upholding the artifice. They wanted their audience to get involved in their subjective interpretation of the scene that was portrayed. In the coming week, Aries, I encourage you to be like the Impressionists. Forget about trying to present a licked surface. Reveal the inner workings that are whirling and humming behind your eyes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If your home is like a museum, a staid assemblage of fine memories, I suggest you shake things up a bit. If your imagination is filled with tape loops that keep running storylines you’ve heard a thousand times before, shake things up a bit. If your daily actions are so thoroughly possessed by the anesthetizing demons of habit that you can’t recall your last creative innovation, shake things up a bit. On the other hand, there’s no need for blame. Don’t berate yourself for your sluggishness. It was an inevitable byproduct of your efforts to solidify and stabilize your life. Just slip into a more playful mode and enjoy a bout of experimentation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Maybe you know a person like my friend Joanna. She’s bright but terse, open-minded but not chatty. Like an inscrutable Buddha, she watches everything closely and churns her thoughts carefully. Silence is her ally. Now and then, though, when moved by an inner prompting that has nothing to do with drinking wine, she will suddenly erupt with a torrent of sweet talk and pithy observations and wild explorations. I predict that for you, Gemini, the entire world—even the parts of it that are not usually very forthcoming—will soon resemble Joanna when she’s overflowing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This would be an excellent time for you to get aggressively inventive about your education. It wouldn’t be too crazy, in my opinion, to launch your own school, with you as the only student. You could design your own course curriculum for the coming years. Decide who your teachers will be. Think about where you can get the stuff you’ll need to expand your mind, enhance your skills, and just plain increase your intelligence. You could call your center of higher learning the University of Wily Exuberance or the Academy of Astonishing Grace or the Institute of Getting Down to Business.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For the people of Finland, the word sisu describes a quality they regard as integral to their national character. It refers to a courageous strength of will that can be sustained for a long time—a staunch ferocity that refuses to be defeated. We all could use more of that good stuff, not only to weather our personal ordeals but also to stay plucky in the face of the world’s lunacy. The coming weeks will be an especially good time for you to build up your reserves of sisu, Leo. How? Start by taking inventory of all the resources and allies and skills you have at your disposal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Ever upstream from myself,” wrote Belgian poet Edmond Vandercammen. “I advance, implore and pursue myself.” I suggest you adopt that attitude, Virgo.

Assume that your best self is sailing along at a rapid clip, somewhere in the distance ahead of you, and it’s your job to catch up. Your highest form of expression is eluding you, but you’re hunting it down.

The most beautiful possible embodiment of all your potentials is surging toward the future, and it’s your fun job to close the gap between you and unite with it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In one possible scenario I could foresee for you in the coming week, you’re sweaty and tearful, enmeshed in an extreme state that causes an internal blockage to dissolve. The sweat is purgative, the tears are cathartic, and you’re riding a wave of relief and release that clears out a backlog of emotional congestion. In a second possible future, I could see you as supernaturally relaxed and exuberant, periodically laughing so hard that you break up an internal blockage. The calm is purgative, the laughter is cathartic, and you’re riding a wave of relief and release that clears out a backlog of emotional congestion. Which scenario would you prefer?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Last June, comedian Stephen Colbert reported that President Obama’s big TV address to Americans about the Gulf catastrophe was a failure because it went over the heads of too many people. Language experts who analyzed Obama’s speech determined that it was written at a tenth-grade level—too professorial, scolded Colbert. I wonder what he would say about the horoscopes I compose, which are designed for readers who enjoy thinking metaphorically and have a high degree of emotional intelligence. In the coming week, Scorpio, I suggest that you take the approach that Obama and I use rather than the one Colbert (farcically) recommended. Don’t talk down to your audience or pander to the lowest common denominator. Raise everyone up with your appeals.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): My favorite baseball player Tim Lincecum told San Francisco magazine: “I think you either get in the canoe with your oar and control the boat, or get into it and let the current take you. I’m kind of in between. I want to be able to enjoy the ride but don’t want to be swept away by it. I don’t want to be overwhelmed; I want to see what’s going on.” Whether you are customarily the type of person who controls the boat or the type who enjoys drifting dreamily along, I suggest you take Lincecum’s in-between approach for now. Be half in charge and half surrendered.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The poet Jean Perrin dreamed “of marrying the dawn with the light of the moon,” and I invite you to do the same. The darkness you’ve been immersed in will leave you soon. As it does, please don’t forsake the pale, moon-like radiance that has provided you with a bit of guidance and consolation. Rather, bring along what it has taught you as you head into the far brighter phase you’re entering. In other words, retain some of the wisdom the dim light has compelled you to learn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I know two people in their 80s who have accomplished a sensational long-running creative art project: They’ve been happily married for 65 years. The amount of reinvention they’ve had to dream up in order to keep loving each other is so profound that it confounds the imagination. How could they possibly have continued to stay closely interwoven through all the changes each of them has gone through as they’ve aged? During the fascinating relationship tests that will be coming your way in the weeks ahead, Aquarius, I’d love for you to summon some of their dogged ingenuity and tenacious collaborative skills. In fact, I predict you will be able to do just that.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For the last 20 years, I’ve worn just one brand of shoes — all-black Converse high-top sneakers. I’ve had them on at weddings and while jogging, at my daughter’s high school graduation and while performing at my shows. Am I too set in my ways? Definitely.

In any case, Pisces, don’t be like me. Whatever your version of covering your feet with nothing but black Converse high-top sneakers may be, the upcoming weeks will be an excellent time to change your ways.

Break out and branch out! Try something new about how you present yourself— the equivalent of me switching over to suede moccasins or snakeskin cowboy boots.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

EMPLOYMENT LEAD CASE MANAGER. A nonprofit’s Community Living Program & Veterans Directed Home & Community Based Services. Participate in creation, implementation & coordination of the CLP & VDHCBS grant activities in Missoula & Ravalli counties. Educate clients, organizations & the community on the intentions of the grant; training & monitoring staff & assisting Case Management Program Manager to ensure prescribed activities are carried out in accordance with the program guidelines, goals & objectives.

Travel required; must have vehicle, vehicle insurance & valid driver’s license. Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or relevant behavioral science(e.g. human services, psychology, nursing) & 5 years of relevant experience with experience in a health care setting preferred; OR combination of education/ experience. Volunteer work may be considered in evaluating work experience. Experience working with Medicaid’s Home & Community Based Services Program preferred. Mon-Fri, 40 hrs/wk, 8am-5pm; occasional weekends and/or evenings.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on September 27, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance of the Missoula City Council amending Title 20, Missoula city zoning ordinance, Chapter 20.05.040 Development Options, and Table 20.05-3, intended to provide a development tool for subsidized small lot projects as recommended by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board.

For further information contact Jen Gress, Office of Planning & Grants, at 258-4949. 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., 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 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 of Missoula, State of Montana, Street Address: 3825 Dry Gulch Rd, Missoula MT SUID: 2474803 (For complete legal descrip-

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tions, 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 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 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. DP- 10 121 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 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 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 COUNTY Cause No. DR-10-562 Summons for Publication In re the Marriage of Memory E. Smith, Petitioner, and Doug V. Smith, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SEND GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed

PUBLIC NOTICES with the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner within twenty days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service: and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a dissolution of marriage.

Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: DATED this 12th day of August, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk 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 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 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 Çause No. DP-10-114 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 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 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 Cause No. DP-10-116 Honorable John W. Larson, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CARLA RAE DOLSMAN, 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 Wayne A. Dolsman, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 2nd day of August, 2010. /s/ Wayne A. Dolsman, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate 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 above-named 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. DP-10-88 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 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 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7037.15442) 1002.89743-FEI 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

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.

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., Asset-Backed PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005WF2. 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured)

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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.

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 Missoula County Government

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The Missoula Historic Preservation Commission will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Thursday, September 9th, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana: 1. St Francis Xavier Historic Preservation Permit 420 West Pine Street A request from Paradigm Architects representing St. Francis Xavier Parish for an Historic Preservation Permit for an addition to the Rectory and Church. The property is zoned B2-2 (Community Business), and is legally described as Block 14 of WJ McCormick’s Addition, located in Section 21 of Township 13 North, Range 19 West

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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be

accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 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

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.

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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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are

incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

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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 install-

ments 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

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7023.75699) 1002.162443-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200725637, Bk. 806, Pg. 790 and rerecorded on October 25, 2007 as Instrument No. 200728089, Bk. 807, Pg. 1449, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kristin D. Marshall, a single person 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: Parcel I: Tract 5A-2A of Certificate of Survey No. 2582, located in the W 1/2 of Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Parcel II: A 60’ right-of-way for roadway purposes and for the installation and maintenance of utilities over the 60’ private road and public utility easement shown on Certificate of Survey No. 1155, which extends from the above-described real property to the county road. 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 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 29, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $404,243.48. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $356,238.20, 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 9, 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.05994) 1002.130901-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/31/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200900014 Bk. 831 Pg.444, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Tyler J. Harbour, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property

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(“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 461 of Pleasant View Homes No. 4, Phase 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 08/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 1, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $289,782.45. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $264,712.74, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 10, 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.09011) 1002.141031-FEI 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r 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 18, 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 80 OF MANSION HEIGHTS PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF

MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Brett Tischler, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated April 24, 2007 and recorded April 25, 2007, Book 795, Page 1632 as Document No. 200709937. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, N.A.. 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 $1,561.00, beginning May 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 24, 2010 is $416,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 3.25% now totaling $4,443.24, late charges in the amount of $675.96, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,617.80, plus accruing interest at the rate of $37.04 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 8, 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 8, 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 Pnc V. Tischler 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 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

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"The Bleat Goes On"–Woolly? Bully.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Amanda who retired, then "unretired" from acting in 2010 6 Disaster zone 10 Kingpin 14 "To say the ___..."

15 Express lane unit 16 Tip-top 17 Org. with a shelter outreach program 18 Lord's mate 19 Oodles 20 "East vs. West" sports event 23 Actor Keir who played Dave in "2001" 24 Dial 25 "Just look ___ now!"

26 Liqueur-saturated dessert 32 "___ Communication" (Beastie Boys album) 33 Ladd or Lane 34 Hip hop-pioneering DJ 41 Biblical food 42 Note in place of money 43 Saddam Hussein's group 46 "___ Well That Ends Well" 50 Robert who played A.J. Soprano 51 Let out, like a fire hose 53 Duo from "The Lion King" 57 Endeavour launchers 58 "___ one..."

59 1970s Lincoln Continental 60 Augustana's record label 61 The Dalai ___ 62 "Please make ___ of it" 63 Say no to 64 Website for handmade crafts 65 Kids, in Colombia

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DOWN 1 George who played a record 26 pro football seasons 2 "However..."

3 Incendiary jelly 4 Musician's practice with four sharps 5 Like old pretzels 6 Measures of thickness 7 Floride or VirginieOccidentale, e.g.

8 Neil who sang "Laughter in the Rain" 9 Atlanta suburb named for an ancient Greek city 10 The toe of Italy's boot 11 1970s PBS show 12 Pot starter 13 Lo-___ graphics 21 Word before majora or minora 22 Dutch dairy product 27 Nat. on the Adriatic Sea 28 Prime Minister two before Cameron 29 "Poodle ___" ("Weird Al" Yankovic album) 30 One, in Oaxaca 31 ___ culpa ("my fault") 34 Foreign dignitary: abbr.

35 Gp. that monitors flights 36 Genetic messenger material 37 Common relationship fear 38 Role for Hayek 39 Word to the Oise?

40 Purchase all of 44 Like some implants 45 One of Time's 1993 Men of the Year 46 Word on nice suits 47 He got heat for joining the Heat 48 Disseminate, as for the press 49 Emancipation Proclamation subject 52 Gary who sang "It's the only way to live in cars" 53 Gift wrapping need 54 "The doctor ___" 55 Munches on, like an LOLcat 56 Sturdy cart 57 Beatty of "Deliverance"

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montanaheadwall.comMissoula Independent Classifieds Page C9 August 19 – August 26, 2010

PUBLIC NOTICES expires: 12/24/2014 Fmc Fahlsing 41722.134

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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 BEGINNING: 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 obliga-

SERVICES tions 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 NVITATION TO BID FOR ELECTRICAL WORK Home ReSource, Inc. has been awarded a federal loan in the amount of $79,760 by the City of Missoula to partially fund a remodel the interior of the Home ReSource building at 1515 Wyoming, creating a 1500 square foot community woodworking shop. Home ReSource is requesting sealed bids for the electrical portion of this work. Work must be completed between August 26th and Sept. 10th, and in compliance with all applicable requirements under the CDBG Program.

Time is of the essence; ability to complete work according to schedule is a qualification for bidding. As of August 16th, copies of the Sealed Bids Solicitation Package, including construction schedule and a detailed description of the work to be provided by respondents, can be obtained by contacting Jack Rowan at Home ReSource, 1515 Wyoming St. Suite 100, Missoula MT 59801; Phone: (406) 541-8300 or examined at Missoula Plans Exchange, 2011 N Russell, Missoula, MT 59801; Phone: (406) 549-5002. Bids will be accepted until 9 a.m. Thursday, August 26, 2010. Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope, addressed to Jack Rowan, ReVAMP Program Coordinator, at the above address. The bids will be opened and read aloud immediately after the specified closing time. Late bids or bids postmarked before, but received after, the deadline will not be accepted.

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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.

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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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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 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 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 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 3 bed, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage.

Huge living room. New tile floors, and roof. Comes w/ gar-

den & fruit trees. $275,000 MLS #10004073. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com 4 bed, 1. 5 bath, 3 car garage and basement. Guest or rental set up ( 1977 Marlette). 2 separate Kitchens-and lots of room to stretch! This would make a great primary/ or vacation home!

208 N Cristisen Rd, Darby. $325,000. MLS#10005332.

Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

4 Bed/3 Bath/ Double Garage.

Lovely home with 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, Missoula. Pat McCormick, 240SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com 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.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507 AWARD WINNING HISTORIC HOME IN MISSOULA’S HISTORIC RIVERFRONT NEIGHBORHOOD. Beautifully updated 3 Bdr/2 Bath home within walking distance of Downtown Missoula, the Clark Fork River and UM. $399,000.Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Beautiful 3br/3ba home in a beautiful setting in desirable Lincoln Woods neighborhood close to walking trails, parks, wilderness area, Rattlesnake Creek. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com BRAND NEW 3 bedroom home ready to move in. Priced in the mid $160,000’s. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906.

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 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.1018Third.info, $169,900 546-4797

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REAL ESTATE Close to Everything! FSBO Comfortable & roomy 3 BDR/2 BA home: large eat-in kitchen with 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 with perennial flowers; fenced back yard. Close to schools, shopping, & services.

421 Burlington Avenue. $249,000. 543-0761/396-1095.

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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 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, gorgeous kitchen, hardwood floors, heated double garage, with guest quarters, and great views. $595,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, 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, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com 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. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, Garage. Custom blt wd floors grace the upper bedrooms. Fab tiled bath w/deep Jacuzzi tub, heated tiled flr. Mstr bed has huge walk in closet, blt in desk.

Bk yd fully fenced, mature trees, garden area, shed. www.2325quail.com.

2325 Quail Dr., Missoula. $235,000.

MLS#10005051.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507 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 3278787 porticorealestate.com LOG CABIN SHELL KIT. To be sold at Auction, August 28th, 28x32 with 1/2 loft. missioncreekloghomes.com or 406745-2110 MAKE AN OFFER! 2002 Atlantic home w upgraded energy package. Over 1700 sq. ft. of living space. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 3 Car Garage. Very nice floor plan. Large detached 28 x 40 heated shop, easy access. All on 20 treed acres w views! 36201 Berthoud, Potomac. $229,900.

MLS#10002286.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507 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 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. 3278787 porticorealestate.com PRICE REDUCED! 3 acres fenced & ready for horses. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, modular home on a permanent foundation. 24x18 outbuilding, beautiful views. 499 Grandview, Stevensville.

$179,000. MLS# 10002488.

Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

Price Reduced! 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 car garage. Nice deck in private back yard. Close to Clark Fork River. Close to recreation area for horse back riding, hunting, snowmobiling and 4 wheeling. $179,900. MLS#10004303.

Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

Montana Preferred Properties.

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 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

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

Immaculate & tastefully remodeled 3 Bed, 2 Bath home with garage, upgraded trim, lighting & fixtures.

Fab tiled bath w/deep Jacuzzi tub, heated tiled flr. Newer carpet & windows, open floor plan in kit/lvng/dining areas. Mstr bed has huge walk in closet, blt in desk. Bk yd fully fenced, mature trees, garden area, shed. Home sits on a corner lot. Newer roof, steel siding.MLS# 10005051

Lara Dorman Realtor GRI 2325 Quail Dr., Missoula

$235,000 www.2325quail.com

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406.531.5582 laradorman@aol.com 36201 Berthoud Potomac $215,000

Grant Creek Log home 26+ private acres $449,000 Located just 15 minutes from downtown Missoula! The main house is a 3 bd, 2 bath, 3 story log home, with completely renovated bathrooms, newer 3 car open garage with tons of storage built above it and a small guest cabin! mls#10001348 www.11815benchroad.com

2002 Atlantic home w upgraded energy package. Over 1700 sq. ft. of living space. Very nice floor plan.

Large detached 28 x 40 heated shop with water, easy access. All on 20 treed acres with views!

MLS#10005731.

For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

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Rochelle

Missoula Properties Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com

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.

Call Mary Marry for a showing today.

Price Reduced Flathead Lake Views • $148,000

This land would be a good alternative energy (sun/wind) lot. An RV hookup is already in place and waiting for your temporary home while you build. Additional acreage available.

1527 S. 4th St. W. • $225,000 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.

Lots of unique touches; Art Deco Vibe.

Downtown Sweetheart

RICE TEAM

514 W. Spruce St. • $269,000

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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

Robin Rice Janet Rice missoularealestate4sale.com 240-6503 240-3932 • 3 bdrm/2 bath/10 Acres • Covered deck / fenced acreage • 28 x32 garage / 40x49 Quonset shop • RV hookup behind garage • $259,900 • MLS#10002960

• 4 Bed/3 bath cedar home on 11 acres • Private location with lots of trees • 28 x 28 garage / large parking lot • Near Potomac with easy access • $349,900 • MLS#906884

FENCED FOR HORSES • Custom built 3 bed, 2 bath home • Hardwood floors, radiant heat • Private setting with great views • 30 minutes from Missoula • $314,900 • MLS#10003067

PRICE REDUCED • Bonner area 5 Bed / 2 Bath on 2 acres • Large kitchen w/ island • Chain link fence in front yard • Private deck in back, mature trees • $209,900 • MLS#906641

912 Defoe • $169,900 3 bedroom two full bath home with GIGANTIC shop/garage.

Brand new carpet just installed. Come take a look!

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REAL ESTATE

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

MANUFACTURED HOMES 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. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com

LAND FOR SALE 3.5 ACRES BARE LAND ON PETTY CREEK. Gorgeous bare land parcel straddling Petty Creek. Septic, well, and utilities in place. Gorgeous building spot with mountain, creek, and

valley views. Custom builder available. $149,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, Text Mindy0 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Nice 1 acre lot, beautiful country setting west of Missoula. City Sewer available. Great view. $99,900. MLS#908159. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

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 PRICE REDUCED! 19,602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot.

Close to river access, golf and shopping. $84,900.

MLS# 10003279. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam @bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

able: 200-3000 acres w/trees, views, utilities. Loaded w/350 class bulls, deer & game birds.

Large acreage starts at $800/acre. 888-361-3006. www.WesternSkiesLand.com

COMMERCIAL 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

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4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Garage Many new updates 2nd floor deck off master suite Private backyard with deck

408 North Ave East Missoula

$520,000 MLS#10003636

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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 avail-

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Tsuru Mai California Brown Rice

$2.69

lb.

8.8 oz.

Fetzer Assorted California Wines

$5.99 .75 liter

14-16 oz.

3 Varieties USA Pluots

Family Pack Boneless Pork Sirloin Steak

$1.89

$1.39

lb.

lb.

Pacific Chai Spice Chai Latte

Large Butter Croissants

2

$2.49

for

99¢

10 oz.

IQF Vacuum Pack Tilapia Fillets

Hass Avocados

Green Genius 13 Gallon Tall Kitchen Bags

$7.69

69¢

$4.19

2 lbs.

each

45 count

Croissant, Lean, or Hot Pockets

3

for

$5

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