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Vol. 21, No. 34 • Aug. 26 – Sept. 2, 2010

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Up Front: Knife River gravel mine causes dust-up with DEQ, city Up Front: Local group unveils plan for Russell Street property Music: Coverage of River City Roots Fest, Dylan, Black Crowes

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Vol. 21, No. 34 • Aug. 26 – Sept. 2, 2010

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

Up Front: Knife River gravel mine causes dust-up with DEQ, city Up Front: Local group unveils plan for Russell Street property Music: Coverage of River City Roots Fest, Dylan, Black Crowes

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Photo courtesy of Missoula County Search and Rescue

On June 18, 2010, a collection of hardcore adventurers successfully located the body of Chris Spurgeon, a fellow backcountry enthusiast who had died days earlier in an avalanche.

Missoula County Search and Rescue did little to aide in the recovery mission and in some ways may have delayed the overall effort. It serves as just one example of how the volunteer units can no longer keep pace with Missoula’s growing number of extreme recreationists................14

News Letters Police chief and borders.................................................................................4 The Week in Review Double-dip recession, big rigs and Total Fest.........................6 Briefs Remembering “Momma,” Facebook and The Trail’s End................................6 Etc. President Dennison’s last hurrah, maybe............................................................7 Up Front Developer eyes blighted Intermountain Lumber site................................8 Up Front Knife River operation creates dust-up with DEQ, city ...............................9 Ochenski Idaho judge curbs high-and-wide loads .................................................10 Writers on the Range Foraging fills the soul more than trip to the market ..........11 Agenda “Community Livability and the Path to Sustainability”...............................12

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Asked Tuesday afternoon on and near the Hip Strip.

Q:

This week’s cover story looks into Missoula County Search and Rescue, an all-volunteer organization.

Where do you volunteer your time?

Follow-up: What’s been your most harrowing outdoor adventure?

Lanette Diaz: I volunteer with the Missoula Food Co-op. It helps me have local food, and to know where my food comes from. Major re-route: I’d have to say being chased by a moose in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness during a three-day backpacking trip. He was going up, we were going down, and when he started chasing us we dropped our packs and scurried down the steep trail. He paused at the packs, but then took off.

Mariah Duffy: Well, I just moved back from college and I’m not volunteering anywhere yet, but when I was in Tacoma I volunteered for Big Brothers Big Sisters. Son of a beach: I did a 40-mile backpacking trip along the beach in northwestern Washington. It was very rainy, with 50-pound packs, and we had to time our hiking with the tides.

One person got really dehydrated and collapsed, and our water pump broke, so we headed inland and called the trip short.

Paul Lebelle: Well, I quit my job, started a charity and am right now biking across the country to raise money to get bikes for the children of our troops. Am I a volunteer? I don’t know. Anchors away: I almost drowned off the coast of South Carolina, swimming past the breakers right after hurricane season. But the riptide pulled me out deep, so I swam parallel to the beach. When I started cramping up I told myself I wasn’t going out like that. Then my toes hit a sandbar and I followed it all the way to the beach.

Charles Finn: Currently I do some volunteer writing for a community radio station in Bend, KPOV. All work, no reward: I try to stay away from harrowing outdoor adventures, but years ago I skied into a cabin in the Selkirks in B.C. It was a two-day trip, but we felt strong and tried to do it in one day. When we arrived at where our directions said we’d find a cabin, it wasn’t there— and we couldn’t find it the next day, either. So we just skied out.

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Last week the Indy printed an article about public access to criminal justice information (see “etc.,” Aug. 19, 2010).

Reporter Jessica Mayrer had an interesting assignment, but was apparently constrained by time and space from giving the public an adequate primer on accessing criminal justice information from source agencies. Your readers should know that there are two types of criminal justice information, “Confidential” and “Public.”

The Missoula Police Department (MPD) can only legally disseminate public criminal justice information under most circumstances and our state constitution gives considerable weight to issues of individual privacy. The sanctions against criminal justice agencies for improper dissemination equal or exceed those of failing to give proper access to public information.

Public criminal justice information access means that an agency such as the Missoula Police Department is required to make available for viewing during normal business hours any of certain documents it has created and stored. The only public information created and stored by the MPD are “initial offense reports” and “initial arrest records.” These reports and records are accessible to the public as required by law. Requests for copies of these reports are processed in as timely a manner as possible and the city does charge a fee of certain parties for certain reports. All other information is generally considered confidential and there are legal processes to secure that information if deemed proper by the courts.

Citizens can find additional information about how to view or receive public criminal justice information by visiting the city of Missoula website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us and looking under the “Services” tab for Police Department.

Recent improvements to our website include links accessing daily online summaries (including maps) of crime activity going back seven days, unrestricted access to the MPD’s policy manual and a wealth of other information.

We appreciate Mayrer’s recognition that the MPD works well with local media to share information. It is a vital partnership that we view as critical to keeping the public informed and prepared. The MPD hopes to be as transparent as legally possible and wants to make sure the public is well versed in how to access information it is looking for. We also always welcome feedback about our delivery of law enforcement services in the Missoula community.

Mark Muir Chief of Police Missoula

Thanks to Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester, and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, Glacier National Park, the North Fork Flathead River and Flathead Lake are more secure today than a year ago.

The victories began this past winter during the Vancouver Olympics when Campbell announced that he would place the Canadian Flathead Valley off-limits to mining and energy development.

The MPD “ hopes to be as transparent as legally possible and wants to make sure the public is well versed in how to access information

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it is looking for.

Gov. Schweitzer’s quiet, behind-thescenes work built a relationship with the premier that resulted in a historic agreement that included the ban on mining in the North Fork watershed. After signing the agreement, he said, “I can say of all of the things I’ve managed to accomplish, there’s none I’m more proud of.”

Montana’s senators have also been working diligently to protect our side of the North Fork. Sen. Baucus has championed protection for Glacier and the Flathead’s clean waters since he was first elected to Congress, and he has been joined in recent years in an effective partnership with Sen. Tester. Together they initiated legislation to implement terms of the transboundary agreement. They reached out to energy companies holding leases in the North Fork, and have achieved an unprecedented retirement of over 250,000 acres of leases at no cost to U.S. taxpayers.

Our senators’ hard work continues to pay off. Their legislation to protect the North Fork of the Flathead from energy extraction and hard rock mining (S.

3075) has advanced to the floor of the U.S. Senate. This legislation stands a good chance of becoming law before the end of the year.

And, just last month, the United Nations report on the visit last year by a science team to evaluate the potential impacts of mining on the Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park was released. It declares how important the transboundary Flathead area is and that coal mining would degrade the Peace Park, a World Heritage Site. The report affirms the importance of the Schweitzer-Campbell agreement and the passage of S. 3075.

These successes have happened because local citizens want to protect clean water, Glacier Park and Flathead Lake. Local businesses, communities, elected officials and outdoorsmen and women understand that protecting clean water and Glacier make good environmental and economic sense.

But our job as a community to protect these treasures remains unfinished. It is critical that a U.S.-Canadian agreement to protect the Transboundary Flathead region be completed at the federal level.

Our actions today will ensure that future generations have the same opportunity to experience the natural wonders of Glacier National Park, the Flathead River and Flathead Lake. By working together, we will protect the legacy of the park, our famous waters and wildlife, and special way of life.

Dave Hadden Director Headwaters Montana Robin Steinkraus Executive Director Flathead Lakers Will Hammerquist Program Manager National Parks Conservation Association’s Glacier Field Office Clarification: In last week’s cover story about health inspection reports, a sidebar noted seven critical violations at Fiesta en Jalisco, but didn’t specify the location. The story referred to the Fiesta en Jalisco inside Rowdy’s Cabin on N. Reserve Street. The Health Department found one critical violation for “bare hand contact with tortillas” at the Fiesta en Jalisco on Brooks Street during a Jan. 28, 2009, inspection, as well as one for “cold potentially hazardous food not adequately temperature controlled” during a Feb. 12, 2009, follow-up inspection. Restaurants outside of Missoula County were not included in the Independent’s coverage.

etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, August 18

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by Chad Harder

Mayor John Engen appears on CNBC’s “Street Signs with Erin Burnett” to debunk Moody’s prediction that Missoula is one of 22 cities at risk of a doubledip recession. The Moody’s review pointed to declines in the timber industry, but Engen says, “We are pretty accustomed to dealing with that and we’ve diversified.”

• Thursday, August 19 Donald W. Coffman, 37, is charged with felony DUI and criminal endangerment after crashing into a Geo Metro near Mullan Road on Wednesday. Law enforcement says Coffman had a blood alcohol level of .156. The charge marks Coffman’s fourth DUI. When arrested, he was on the waiting list for an alcohol treatment program.

• Friday, August 20 Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say they plan to file a motion with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the Aug. 5 U.S. District Court ruling that put wolves in Montana and Idaho back on the endangered species list.

• Saturday, August 21 A Saint Bernard, a golden retriever and a Great Dane walk into a tent…No joke, it’s just PetFest.

The event brings big dogs, yappy lap dogs, caged kittens and one spiky lizard to Caras Park to celebrate pets, showcase the newest pet products and educate the public on issues about adoption and owner responsibilities.

• Sunday, August 22 Total Fest IX wraps up early this morning after Jeff Ament’s old-school hardcore band Deranged Diction plays at the Badlander to a sardine-packed crowd.

The 2 a.m. mass exodus marks the end of the annual indie rock showcase, which this year packed 48 different bands into three nights of performances.

• Monday, August 23 The Missoula City Council votes unanimously to adopt an emergency ordinance doubling permit fees paid by companies transporting large loads through town. The move comes as ExxonMobil lobbies the Montana Department of Transportation for permission to transport super-sized rigs over Lolo Pass and through Missoula on the way to Canadian oil fields.

• Tuesday, August 24 A legislative committee charged with harnessing the state’s booming medical marijuana industry votes 7–1 to initiate a draft bill. The proposed legislation spells out regulatory changes such as requiring two doctors to sign off on a cannabis recommendation and restricting local governments from prohibiting marijuana.

University of Montana caterers prepare taco fixings for the Faculty-Staff Picnic Tuesday morning, an annual welcome-back event funded by the President’s Office. At least two professors referred to the Mexican buffet as their “annual raise.”

Willard Commemorating “Momma” Willard Alternative High School teacher Donna “Momma” Spearman never turned on the overhead light in her classroom. Instead, the white-haired English teacher who wore Birkenstocks to work opted for lamps and Christmas lights.

Spearman also drew upon unusual strategies to spark creativity within her students. For example, she asked students—many of whom had walked away from mainstream curriculum before landing at Willard—to read a book and create an art project reflecting its theme. On a recent morning, every nook in the well-loved teacher’s classroom is filled with those art projects. A mobile hangs from an orange string. It reads, “Demons were angels that fell from the top.” Beneath the mobile sits a little blue doll, arms bound and a hood covering its head. A watercolor sun beams down from the wall.

As her peers gear up for fall semester, Spearman’s classroom is dark. She died August 15,

at age 71. The loss is prompting former students, coworkers and friends to celebrate her legacy.

“I’m pretty sure she was a fairy godmother,” says former student Ruthie Dada. “She had this little twinkle in her eye. She was fucking incredible.”

Spearman spent decades working in alternative education. During the past 10 years, her classroom at Willard provided a refuge for hundreds of teenagers, like Dada, who struggled in a traditional high school setting.

“She was always there to listen to you,” Dada says. “She would actually take the time to ask you how you were doing.”

Memories like that shape Spearman’s legacy.

Willard art teacher Gwen Hoppe says she can’t count how many times students told her that Spearman was their favorite faculty member. A scrapbook created to commemorate her life at Willard is already beginning to fill with photos and stories chronicling the teacher’s successes.

“She had a big heart. And she had a soft heart.

And she understood, I would say, the ‘alternative student,’” Hoppe says.

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That’s why it’s so hard for some to let her go.

“I hope they don’t touch her room,” Dada says.

Jessica Mayrer

Bars Bidding on history The Trail’s End Bar on West Broadway finally reached the end of its own trail last week as nostalgic old barflies picked over the remnants of a classic local dive bar.

Trail’s End owner Mike Grunow put 155 items from the bar up for auction, including tables, chairs, light fixtures and a host of neon beer signs. The result was what Randy Kearns, co-owner of Gardner’s Auction Service, describes as a lively and successful liquidation sale.

“There was some nostalgia there,” Kearns says.

“A little bit of history…A lot of the old guys showed up just to reminisce about the good old days.”

Many of those memories, Kearns found, revolved around the bar’s original owner, Sammy Thompson, a car enthusiast and local celebrity who opened the Trail’s End back in the 1960s.

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Thompson’s old bumper pool table, in good condition, wasn’t the highest selling item in the auction, Kearns says, but it certainly generated more personal interest than the kitchen’s meat slicer.

“The guys that were there could remember exactly where it sat in the old bar,” Kearns says. “[The Trail’s End] seemed like it was probably a pretty cool place.”

As historic a drinker’s staple as the Trail’s End has been, Grunow says he’s had a full liquidation in the back of his mind “for a while.” Grunow owns the adjacent Osprey Nest Liquor Store, Lounge and Casino as well as Lolo Creek Steakhouse, but has long-standing ideas for improving the Trail’s End location.

“We’ve got some other plans for that property, and we were probably a little behind schedule in what we had planned to do with it because of the economy, but we’re kinda moving in that direction,” Grunow says, declining to elaborate on those plans. “At this point, [an auction] was just something that was ultimately going to happen anyway.”

One piece of the Trail’s End legacy continues to generate buyer interest.

Kearns fielded several requests during the auction from folks hoping to buy the iconic bar sign facing West Broadway. He told them what Grunow told him: that piece of history ain’t for sale.

“It’s older than the hills,” Grunow says.

“It’ll take an act of God to get it out of there at this point.”

Alex Sakariassen

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Wallock believes being Roselle’s “friend” violated the first condition of Coronado’s supervision— not associating with activists who have a history of violence or condoning violence, including but not limited to those involved with Earth First!, the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.

“I sent him a friend request because someone had suggested that I friend him,” Roselle says from West Virginia, where he’s working to stop mountaintop removal operations, “and given that I’ve known Rod for quite a while, I did. I guess he hit the accept button.”

Facebook Guilt by association Animal rights and environmental activist Rod Coronado finds himself in federal prison for becoming a “friend” with part-time Missoula resident and Earth First! co-founder Mike Roselle on Facebook.

In a federal court document dated July 14, 2010, U.S. Probation Officer Rhonda J. Wallock claimed that Coronado, convicted of felony conspiracy in 2006, violated the special conditions of his court-ordered supervision.

“In monitoring Mr. Coronado’s Facebook account,” Wallock wrote, “this officer found Michael Roselle to be a ‘friend’ of Mr. Coronado. According to FBI intelligence and a criminal history investigation of Michael Roselle, he is a well-known environmental activist who has a history of condoning direct action and violence as a means of protest or demonstration.”

Coronado also violated the terms of his supervision by using a computer unauthorized and unmonitored by Wallock.

Wallock wrote: “This officer found Facebook posts from March 14, April 27, and May 3, 2010, showing Mr. Coronado utilized a computer or computer related device to post information on Facebook. According to computer monitoring records, Mr. Coronado’s monitored computer had no data recorded from February 8 to May 10, 2010.

In March 2010, Mr. Coronado advised this officer that his computer had crashed and that he was no longer using or accessing the monitored computer.”

On August 3, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney, of the Western District of Michigan, sentenced Coronado to four months in prison.

“Guilt by association, that’s not really part of our

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legal system,” Roselle says. “This is a flagrant constitutional violation, if you ask me. And then it really brings up the question, What is an ‘association’?”

Matthew Frank

Bitterroot Fulbright files turn up more The seemingly mundane race for Ravalli County Attorney took an interesting turn in early August when Republican candidate William Fulbright came forward with detailed records of his long-standing battle with bankruptcy. He reportedly released the documents in the interests of transparency and to dispel rumors in advance of the November election.

According to court records, Fulbright entered Chapter 7 in August 2003 after 10 years of fighting the Federal Student Loan Commission over the capitalizing of interest on his student loans.

Fulbright—who currently serves as a deputy county attorney under his political opponent, incumbent George Corn—owed $47,095 in principal and $42,461 in interest as of October 2004. Fulbright disclosed the debts in an interview with the Ravalli Republic in early August.

But the information contained in Fulbright’s bankruptcy schedule also sheds considerable light on his history as a practicing attorney. The documents he released to the public list a number of professional liability claims from his years as a lawyer in California. Records with the San Joaquin County Superior Court show that then-Sacramento resident Dee Gomez sued Fulbright for legal malpractice in 2002, securing a claim of $250,392. In 2001, Monica R. Larkin (also a Sacramento resident at the time) secured a malpractice claim from Fulbright totaling $55,370.

The San Joaquin court also lists a professional negligence case filed in 1998 against Fulbright by Alan A. Cheney, though no related claim appears in the bankruptcy schedule. He first registered with the State Bar of California in 1988.

Fulbright relocated to Montana from California in the late 1990s and qualified with the State Bar of Montana in May 1999. His campaign website says Fulbright received the Montana Prosecutor of the Year Award in 2007.

Fulbright did not answer repeated calls from the Independent regarding his campaign or his bankruptcy status, and has not returned messages left by voicemail and e-mail.

Alex Sakariassen

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Montana workers killed on the job in 2009, according to figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week. Montana now ranks as the worst state for jobsite fatalities in the nation.

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Late August in Missoula is synonymous with University of Montana football practices (and football player arrests), an influx of freshmen looking for fake IDs and hundreds of students displaced by the growing demand for more oncampus housing.

For the last 20 years, it’s also been a time for UM President George Dennison to hold court during his annual “State of the University” address. Last year was supposed to be Dennison’s last hurrah, but with his planned Aug. 15 retirement date come and gone, he’s now preparing to give his second “final” address on Aug. 27—a coda befitting the man who still is king.

As students begin to fill UM’s classrooms, the Montana University System continues its search for Dennison’s successor. Campus interviews with the final candidates won’t begin for another few weeks, meaning Dennison’s still neck-deep in challenges like the sudden lack of stimulus funding and the obvious need for additional student housing.

“I’m still president,” Dennison says. “I still have those responsibilities and I’ve always been one to tell it like it is.”

Dennison’s willingness to throw himself into yet another to-do list is hardly out of character. While the specifics of his address will have to wait until after press time, we have it on high authority—Dennison himself— that the administration’s priorities this academic year are to prepare for the 2011 Legislature and to adjust for the mounting financial shortfalls the university will contend with through at least 2015. On top of that Dennison says the College of Technology is in dire need of a larger facility, a project that will further sap UM’s dwindling fiscal resources.

Funny. We remember just a few months back when the bureaucratic talk lifted and we glimpsed a Dennison primed to reenter the classroom as a teacher, not an administrator. He spoke of mining the Mansfield Library archives and putting together a history of UM in book form.

He even rocked out during a campus fundraiser in March, although the chosen Ray Charles cover proved challenging.

Yet King George seems unshaken by the temporary interruption of his retirement. He admits that he’d hoped the campus interviews with his potential replacements would’ve taken place already, but he’s prepared to serve for as many weeks—or months—as it takes. After 20 years, what’s a little overtime?

“Retirement will come,” Dennison says.

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Building up Developer eyes blighted Intermountain Lumber site

by Matthew Frank

banks. MRA issued what Assistant Director Chris Behan describes as a “comfort letter.”

McLeod may be guarded, but others are giddy about the project’s prospects.

“What we know here is that we have a developer that is local to Missoula, understands this community, and has already developed property and made it work,” says Dan Kemmis, an MRA board member and former Missoula mayor. The Farran Group developed Copper Run Apartments on Great Northern Avenue and Canyon River in East Missoula. “So on that basis, I think there’s reason to be optimistic about this.”

Says MRA’s Behan: “They’re very serious developers and they wouldn’t have brought it this far without being extremely serious and thinking that they can put it all together.”

The design includes seven residential buildings, two commercial buildings, a clubhouse and a new road, Milwaukee Way, bisecting the site and connecting Catlin and Russell streets. McLeod says his group is exploring the cost effectiveness of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and Photo by Chad Harder NAHB (National Association of Home The Intermountain Lumber site on Russell Street has sat vacant for years, but Builders) green building standards, a local development group is trying to transform the parcel into the kind of but at minimum will incorporate mixed-use neighborhood the city has long envisioned. A huge hurdle stands Energy Star appliances, zero VOC in its way: money. paints and carpeting, and light-colMissoula’s most traveled thoroughfares. multifamily rental or cooperative housing. ored roofing to reflect heat. They’re also The Missoula Housing Authority (MHA) Farran Group principal Jim McLeod, wary considering a community garden and a purchased the property in 2003, and earli- of discussing the project publicly until its car-share program. er this year it opened the $6 million Garden financing is nailed down, says his group What the proposal doesn’t include is District, a low-income rental housing devel- will know by the end of the year whether an underground parking garage, which opment on the property’s southwest cor- they’ve secured a loan through HUD’s Behan calls “the development’s only downner. But attempts to transform the parcel’s highly competitive program. It’s far from side.” But there’s a good reason why: Its larger street-front portion into a mixed-use assured, he says. cost might’ve been what sank MHA’s initial That’s one of two monetary moving proposal. neighborhood have failed.

Now another developer is about to pieces. The other is whether MRA will “We’re going to end up with more help fund the project with tax increment asphalt here than we’d hoped,” Behan says, try again.

On August 11, representatives of the financing, or TIF, a commonly used finan- “but they’ve done a pretty darn good job of Farran Group, a local real estate investment cial tool that allows cities to leverage a dis- masking it from the general public. We try and development company, presented to trict’s future tax revenue to pay for to be as efficient with land as possible, and parking lots are inefficient, but I think the Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s groundwork today.

“The important key here is what this they’ve done the best they can.”

(MRA) Board of Commissioners a $17.4 Should the Farran Group receive million proposal that would fill the site site will do to the tax base…,” McLeod with 196 market-rate apartment homes, says. “There’s a real benefit to having the financing, McLeod says construction could begin in late spring or early summer 2011.

13,000 square feet of retail space fronting private-public partnership on this.”

The TIF funding would total $952,000 Russell Street, and land for future MHA “These are just such challenging ecohousing and office facilities. The Farran and cover public aspects of the project, like nomic times that I’d be hesitant to predict Group and the MHA signed a buy-sell site demolition, road improvements, sewer that this will happen in the near future,” agreement last November, contingent on mains, storm drains and landscaping. Part Kemmis says. “But I very much hope that obtaining project financing—the greatest of the purpose of last week’s presentation either this proposal or something very much to the MRA board was for the Farran Group like it will, before very much longer, transhurdle the Farran Group still faces.

“One of the things we’re very happy to obtain preliminary confirmation that form that very important inner-city site.” about,” says MHA Director Lori Davidson, such improvements would be eligible for “is that without any prompting on our part TIF funding, an assurance requested by the mfrank@missoulanews.com

Nearly 20 years ago, well before the Intermountain Lumber site on Russell Street finally shuttered in 2002, the city of Missoula identified those 12 acres as a potential industrial blight in need of redevelopment.

The parcel became part of the city’s second Urban Renewal District in 1991.

Despite the city’s foresight, the Intermountain Lumber site has mostly remained a patch of bare and broken asphalt inside twisted fencing along one of

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they’ve come up with a site plan that really closely resembles what our original intentions for the property were. So we’re very pleased with what they’re proposing.”

Last week, the Farran Group submitted an application for nearly $13 million in financial underwriting through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program that insures mortgage loans to facilitate the new construction or substantial rehabilitation of

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Gravel gone awry Knife River operation creates dust-up with DEQ, city

by Jessica Mayrer

Many mornings, earth-crushing machines wake Gary Botchek inside his Gunsight Court home by 5:30. Dust from the nearby open cut mine, which is currently operated by Knife River Corp., coats everything on Botchek’s property. Since moving to the Fort Missoula neighborhood more than two decades ago, he’s grown accustomed to the drawbacks of being so close to the facility. But he still doesn’t like it.

“We’ve been affected for 22 years by their operation—the dust, the noise and everything else,” Botchek says. “You deal with it.”

Actually, city and state officials aren’t so sure Botchek and other neighbors should

33 acres it’s currently permitted to mine. In addition, the company aims to continue excavating gravel at the site for the next year and a half, meaning more work—and money—will be necessary to ensure the land can be transformed into a park.

“It is ultimately important to me that this become an asset to the community, not a liability,” says Missoula Parks and Recreation Director Donna Gaukler.

Gaukler contacted DEQ last year hoping to better understand what kind of cleanup the oversight agency would require of Knife River. That inquiry triggered DEQ’s site inspection. Once the agency found the mine operating well

David Zinke, Knife River’s vice president and general manager, says when Knife River assumed control of the mine, previous operators had already outgrown the permitted area. As for the cleanup, the company is now beginning the reclamation process and has every intention of complying with DEQ’s requirements, as well as its commitments to the city.

Ultimately, Zinke says when Knife River packs up, the property will be made suitable for wildlife habitat. With additional work and money invested by the city, he says it could potentially be suitable for parklands, as well.

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Knife River’s gravel mining operation on the Bitterroot River spans roughly three times the area it is permitted for. The company is asking the DEQ for permission to continue mining the property for the next year and a half, before handing the land over to the city.

simply “deal with it.” New concerns over Knife River’s operations—including the realization that it’s already mining nearly three times more acres than it’s permitted to—have called into question both the site’s expansion and its eventual transfer to the city.

In 2002, Knife River’s predecessor, JTL Group Inc., signed off on an agreement with the city of Missoula to gift the mining operation’s 86.5 acres to the municipal parks system. After signing off on the deal, city officials set to work drawing out a blueprint for a recreational utopia atop the former gravel operation, complete with a boat dock, pier, picnic area and a nature trail.

Knife River’s riverfront parcel is now squarely incorporated into the Fort Missoula Master Plan, which aims to eventually bring together a patchwork of land to create a 246-acre outdoor paradise.

Now, stakeholders are unsure whether the company will leave its land in suitable condition for a riverfront park when it closes the facility in December 2012.

According to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Knife River’s existing operation is vastly larger than the

beyond its permit, DEQ forced Knife River to amend its permit to account for existing operations and mining yet to occur.

Through that process, the agency is also asking Knife River to clarify exactly how it intends to leave the property.

“What this department can do is require that they provide a plan of reclamation consistent with the Open Cut Mining Act,” says Chris Cronin, DEQ’s open cut mining supervisor.

Montana’s Open Cut Mining Act states the land must be returned to “productive use.” Cronin says that definition may or may not be consistent with the city’s park plans.

After DEQ ordered Knife River to update its permit, the company submitted an application to the agency March 31, elaborating on its future plans. That document also sent up red flags among city officials and neighbors like Botchek, who worry about Knife River’s intention to leave the property with wildlife ponds and grassland vegetation. JTL Group originally agreed to help transform the land into a park.

“It certainly also concerns me, in that it changed,” Gaukler says.

is to donate the property to the city,” Zinke says. “Our intent is to make it a safe facility.”

In the meantime, he says the property still belongs to Knife River and the company aims to maximize its investment.

“We have to make sure we get our useful life—the value—out of the property,” Zinke says.

Through the DEQ’s permit amendment process, neighbors may formally request a public meeting through the agency. If 30 percent of Knife River’s Fort Missoula neighbors—those from within a half-mile radius—submit a request in writing to DEQ before Sept. 13, the agency will schedule a time for the public to comment on Knife River’s application to amend its permit.

“We definitely want to encourage the public’s input,” Cronin says.

As for Botchek, he hopes his neighbors will join him in making sure the land is properly passed on to future generations.

“I want the DEQ to hold their feet to the fire,” Botchek says. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Put it in “Park” Idaho judge curbs contentious high-and-wide loads Concerned citizens, business owners and recreationists were dancing in the streets this week when Idaho District Judge John Bradbury issued a ruling that overturns the plan to ship oversize loads of oil equipment up narrow, twisting roads through Idaho and Montana. In what is undoubtedly the first, but not the last, lawsuit against this hairbrained idea, the scales of justice have tilted, for once, against the power of the multinational oil conglomerates.

The plan proposed by ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil would turn Highway 12, which is a federally designated Wild and Scenic Highway, into a permanent industrial corridor. While it would impact tens of thousands of residents and visitors, the sole beneficiaries would be the oil companies who seek to trim transportation costs by shipping the enormous equipment from Korea and Japan, where it is manufactured, up the Columbia River to the Port of Lewistown. From there, it would be loaded onto huge, multi-axle trucks to move the 300-ton loads up the winding road that follows the Clearwater and Lochsa rivers up Lolo Pass and into Montana.

The monster loads would then follow the serpentine road down to Lolo, along the Bitterroot River to Missoula, and then up the Blackfoot River. Exxon’s equipment would follow the rural two-lanes of the Rocky Mountain Front to Alberta. The ConocoPhillips loads would take similar rural roadways to Laurel’s refineries.

While the plan sparked fierce resistance from those who live, work and recreate on the river corridors, Idaho Gov. “Butch” Otter and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer earned “Lapdogs of Industry” awards for cheerleading the project onward, ignoring their own citizenry and lauding the millions of dollars the proposals would supposedly generate.

Both governors, having already drawn the conclusion that the project was a done deal, abdicated leadership and left it up to their respective departments of transportation to mollify the angry citizens. By law, such projects in Montana require an analysis of potential environmental effects. But instead of doing a full-blown environmental impact statement, Schweitzer assured Montanans that a minimal environmental assessment would suffice since this was a “one-time deal.” Idaho, which has no statute requiring environmental review, simply ignored the very real possibility of the damages that could occur during the transportation of the huge loads up narrow river corridors and over treacherous mountain passes, and issued ConocoPhillips a permit.

The comment period for Montana’s minimal environmental assessment drew thousands of responses from all over the

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state, nation and world. But Jim Lynch, the director of Montana’s Department of Transportation, haughtily announced that since 6,000 of those responses came as form letters from the Natural Resources Defense Council, they would be counted as a single comment, further enraging concerned citizens.

stunning “This court victory should be a wakeup call to both Schweitzer and the Montana Department of Transportation that these narrow rural roads are wholly inadequate for use as industrial

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corridors.

The issue came to a head when three brave Idahoans—Linwood Laughy, his wife Borg Hendrickson and Peter Grubb, owner of the River Dance Lodge—took the Idaho Department of Transportation (IDT) to court. In an initial victory, Judge Bradbury refused to throw the suit out as requested by the state agency and ordered a hearing on Monday of this week. By late Tuesday afternoon, Bradbury issued his decision— and it’s a doozy.

In his intelligent and thoughtful ruling (available at http://www.lmtribune.com/ filehub/linked/ORDER-Laugh1282694010.pdf ), Bradbury sided with virtually every point contested by the plaintiffs where public safety, convenience and potential problems were concerned. As for the IDT, well, Bradbury gave them credit for doing a thorough job of determining the impacts of the heavy loads on highways and bridges, but slammed the agency because “its failure to address the ‘inevitable’ accident or breakdown that could shut down Highway 12 for days or weeks overlooks the quintessential disaster

and its effects on the users of Highway 12 that Emmert [the shipping company] itself forecasts as possible.”

In a replay of the recent BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf, the shipping company acknowledged that the roadway could collapse, equipment could break down or the loads could wind up falling into the Lochsa River. To retrieve such an enormous weight from the narrow river valley would require a 500-ton crane, which needs at least a 45-by-45-foot pad to operate. Not only didn’t the agency have a plan for such contingencies, there are very few areas along the long route that are wide enough to accommodate such equipment. And Idaho’s own regulations require any such over-size load permits to limit traffic blockages to 10 minutes or less—a requirement the agency simply ignored and on which the judge harshly, but correctly, based much of his opinion.

Considering there’s only one road down the river corridor for residents or visitors to use in the case of medical emergencies, road blockages are not merely inconveniences, but hold very real life and death consequences. As plaintiff Hendrickson wrote of her own experience: “Early one morning about three years ago I went into anaphylactic shock. If my husband hadn’t been able to get me to the Clearwater Valley Emergency Room very quickly, I could have died. Waiting 15 minutes or more for ExxonMobil or ConocoPhilips to clear their wide loads from the highway might have been fatal for me.”

“This is the Mouse that Roared, David and Goliath and Avatar all rolled into one,” said plaintiff Laughy of the decision, adding: “We must remember that the thousands of citizens involved in this effort to protect their personal and family safety, their businesses and their lifestyles, are confronting some of the largest international corporations in the world.”

This stunning court victory should be a wake-up call to both Schweitzer and the Montana Department of Transportation that these narrow rural roads are wholly inadequate for use as industrial corridors. Instead of spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars in court battles to defend the profit-driven demands of multinational oil conglomerates, Schweitzer and the department should do the right thing to protect Montanans and their environment and summarily deny the permits.

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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Righteous gluttony Foraging fills the soul more than trip to the market

by Alan Kesselheim

In the produce section of the grocery store the other day, I saw apricots on sale for 99 cents a pound. They sat in a bin between grapes from Chile and cherries from Montana’s Flathead Valley. I don’t know where the apricots came from. I selected six and put them in the shopping cart, but I was thinking what a sterile exercise it was.

Less than a week earlier I had camped on a sand beach along the lower Salmon River in Idaho. It was our first night out, and somebody noticed apricot trees on the rocky bench above our tents. The fruit was ripe. Three of the kids went up with a big cook pot and filled it over the top in five minutes. They brought it back and set it on the table, this free, luscious bounty.

Everyone gorged. I’ll bet I ate 30 apricots in an hour, easy.

It made me think about how we live, making weekly runs to the store where food is laid out, packaged, refined, modified, some of it so altered that it hardly qualifies as food, all of it brought in by way of labyrinthine transportation networks and convoluted business transactions. It made me think of the way all creatures, save humans in developed countries, live; and how, not so long ago, we used to live.

I thought of eagles gorging on salmon carcasses along Alaskan rivers until they are too heavy to fly. Blue whales gulping down clouds of plankton by the ton. Fish roiling the surface of a Montana river during a caddis hatch. Wolves following herds of caribou on the tundra, picking off calves and weak adults, their bellies sagging to the ground.

Elk grazing the lush green spring grass until their coats glisten in the sun. A ruby-throated hummingbird moving from columbine to columbine in an alpine meadow, sucking nectar with the ferocity of a metabolism that demands its body weight in food several times each day.

That’s what it felt like to eat one sunwarm apricot after another with the Salmon River charging past. It’s what, I imagine, it felt like to spear salmon out of the Columbia when the water surged with fish beyond counting and baskets brimmed with their bodies. What it felt like to stand in the carnage of bison below a jump, and to wade into the butchery fueled by a fierce exulta-

often “More we are too preoccupied with the busyness of life, and the work of hunting and gathering money,

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to notice.

tion of wealth and gratitude. What it felt like to gather the seasonal harvest of fruits and roots and vegetables, to cure them and store them and eat them until you could eat no more.

That surfeit joy is so intense because the anguish and desperation of its opposite is equally intense. When winter weeks drag on past the end of supplies. When elk paw through the snow for brown, withered grass. When fish lie in torpor under thick layers of ice, hearts barely beating. When the stores of caribou meat are long gone and the bodies of your sons and daughters grow gaunt and listless. When the bear

emerges from its winter den, hunger an insistent ache.

I remember watching a black bear feeding on alder catkins on the shores of Lake Athabasca one May. The bear reared up in front of a stand of shrubbery, waded forward into an embrace with a group of alders twenty feet tall. It wrestled the armload of vegetation to the ground, stood on top of it.

Through binoculars, I watched the bear’s mobile, pink tongue ravish the buds and catkins, gleaning the food in an efficient, almost brutal assault. Again and again the bear tackled sections of shrubs, took them down, ate them clean. The harvest was languid and efficient and voracious, the same way that same bear would take on patches of blueberries and cranberries in the fall, or the carcass of a moose, or a nest of ants in a rotten log.

In my town, every fall, there are apple trees everywhere that drop fruit to the ground where it rots away. There are plum trees weighed down with fruit that withers and dies. Sometimes we get motivated to press cider or make jam from the neighborhood. More often we are too preoccupied with the busyness of life, and the work of hunting and gathering money, to notice.

Instead we go to the store at the end of the week, and stand in front of the choices, making our selections, eating in that steady moderate way that has come to be our habit, and forgetting the hot ecstasy of connection to the earth and its seasons, that joy of biting into one luscious apricot after another, throwing the pits over our shoulders, the nourishment of the harvest warm as fire inside.

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Thanks, from Garden City Harvest to the community supporters who helped make our annual Farm Party a success.

UM Environmental Studies Students • Volunteers • Garden City Harvest Board Betty’s Divine • Big Dipper Ice Cream • Boyle, Deveny & Meyer • Butterfly Herbs • Gateway Printing • Hellgate Cyclery Hide & Sole • Jack Wade and Lambros Real Estate • Jay Straw • Lifeline Farm • Mann Mortgage Missoula Bicycle Works • Office City • Peak Health and Wellness Center • Selvedge Studio • Tipus Chai Two Sisters Catering • Virginia Tribe Professional Facilitator • WGM Group

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Get a glimpse of what makes a home truly “green” when Lentz Construction, Energetechs and Montana Energy Services presents the “Real Green Home Remodel” educational open house, which runs from 9 AM–1 PM at a house located at 313 Woodworth St. Free. E-mail Andy at andy@energetechs.com.

AUGUST 28

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 Staples Inc., 2501 Brooks St. 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.

Souvenir glass with 10 beer samples from Northwest Breweries, bands, food, & fun. Help support the SNOW Bus! ADULTS: $15 in advance - $20 at the door (must present ID) LOCATION: Depot Park Whitefish (North end of Central Ave) TICKETS: 406-862-2900 or 406-862-3501

Party it up for conservation during the Flathead Land Trust’s 25th anniversary party, which features a dinner buffet, a presentation on the conservation organization’s noteworthy projects, as well as a concert by BrassWerks, from 6–9 PM at the pavilion of the Rebecca Farm, 1385 Farm To Market Road outside of Kalispell. $35 per person/$250 for a reserved table of eight. Visit flatheadlandtrust.org for tickets and call 752-8293.

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MONDAY AUGUST 30 Join in on a discussion about what Social Security means during the Social Security at 75 Forum, which features comments from John Melcher, Pat Williams, Mayor John Engen and others, and begins at 10:30 AM at the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free.

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

Party it up with a sustainable institution during the Missoula Urban Demonstration (MUD) Project’s annual Garden Party, which features local food, brews, live music from the Mason Jar String Band and others, and runs from 5–11 PM at MUD’s headquarters, 629 Phillips St. $20 family/$15 per person/$10 members.

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Let’s face it: Many of us live in Missoula because we like it.

We love that we have a thriving downtown, a strong arts scene and a plethora of trails for walking and biking. Not only that, but many of us enjoy the fact that we can seclude ourselves in the beauty of nature with just a 15-minute drive.

Obviously, the reasons we choose to call this place home are numerous.

This week, former Missoula Mayor Daniel Kemmis plans to explore the links between a city’s livability and sustainability. If by chance you’re unfamiliar with Kemmis, here’s a primer: Besides his former stint as mayor, he’s also served as a state legislator, and is currently a senior

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.

fellow at the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy. Kemmis also wrote three books that touch on topics including community and place, political participation and land use.

Kemmis’ extensive depth of knowledge on these subjects puts him on solid ground discussing this place we call home.

–Ira Sather-Olson Daniel Kemmis presents his lecture, “Community Livability and the Path to Sustainability,” on Wednesday, Sept. 1, at 7:10 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 543-5323.

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

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

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

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.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 Cap it during the Cap the Rate Campaign Kick-off Rally, a rally for Initiative-164—also called the payday loan initiative—that features comments from state Sen. Carol Williams, Mayor John Engen and others, and begins at noon at the Missoula County Courthouse. Free.

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

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2 Help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas during a fundraiser for the garden that features a live and silent auction, music from Joan Zen, as well as refreshments, from 6:30–8:30 PM at The River Rising Bakery, 337 Main St. in Hamilton. $10 suggested donation. Visit ewambuddhagarden.org.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also e-mail entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police were able to capture a woman suspected of robbing two banks in Butte County, Calif., after she locked herself out of her getaway car. Witnesses said Laura Jane Murray, 48, tried to borrow a tire iron to smash the window, but when Davis police showed up, she began using her hand to try to smash the window.

Two uniformed police officers were ordering at the register at a Starbucks in New Westminster, British Columbia, when a man cut in front of them, threw a drink at the employee and demanded cash. The officers “looked at each other in astonishment,” Sgt. Bruce Carrie said, and promptly arrested the 43-year-old suspect.

IN THE DOGHOUSE - Utah authorities said Ronald Charles Dallas, 32, faces charges for sending letters to his estranged wife’s cat. Dallas was ordered not to contact his wife, who is the alleged victim in a domestic violence case against him, but prosecutors said he mailed 11 letters to the cat and a neighbor while in jail, containing requests that the wife not testify against him. The new charges against Dallas include violating a protective order and tampering with a witness.

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Missoula adventurers Colin Chisholm, left, and Chris Spurgeon hike to a remote mountain hut during a ski trip in 2007, one of many such trips the two took together over their nine-year

friendship. Chisholm launched a citizen search and rescue effort in mid-June when Spurgeon went missing on Lolo Peak, and was among the four friends who found Spurgeon’s body.

Photo courtesy of Colin Chisholm

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n Thursday, June 17, Missoula adventurer Colin Chisholm woke around 7:30 a.m. with eight messages in his cell phone’s voicemail box. Most were from friends alerting him that his frequent backcountry partner, Chris Spurgeon, had been reported missing at 1 a.m. after failing to show up for work. One message came from the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Department asking Chisholm if he had any leads on Spurgeon’s whereabouts.

Chisholm had an inkling of where his friend might be, and he quickly drove his car toward Lolo Peak with plans to conduct his own search.

On his way to Mormon Peak Road, Chisholm called in friends he knew could travel fast in the backcountry to join him in his attempt to find Spurgeon. Chisholm had some idea where the missing man might be after the two had discussed only days earlier a possible Monday ski trip up Lolo Peak to a line above One Horse Lake they’d yet to descend. He had two reasons to hurry to the trailhead: the line was difficult to reach, and he wanted to beat the inevitable red tape waiting for him.

Earlier that morning, the Sheriff ’s Department had

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paged out volunteers with the county’s Search and Rescue (SAR) unit. Chisholm anticipated delays, and knew SAR would have doubts about his group work-

shown up, different sheriff vehicles. It was starting to turn into that nightmare Search and Rescue scene I was trying to avoid.”

“The reputation of Search and Rescue around here is such that most climbers and skiers around here will say, ‘If I ever get hurt in the backcountry, call my friends. Don’t call Search and Rescue.’”

—Colin Chisholm, avid backcountry adventurer

ing independently of the official mission.

“Everything came together at the trailhead,” Chisholm recalls. “The search and rescue van had

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The trailhead buzzed with activity that morning as SAR volunteers scanned maps of the area and gathered snowshoes for everyone assigned to the

search effort. Late season snow still covered much of the terrain higher up, and the forecast called for high winds and several inches of new snow over the course of the day. They were conditions Chisholm was accustomed to, but as he discussed the details of where Spurgeon might be with SAR and the Sheriff ’s Department, he began to doubt whether the unit was adequately prepared for the conditions it might face on the mountain.

“They’re nice people, good people, they just weren’t sure what to do,” Chisholm says. “They had me show them on a map where Chris was, and they started to get it when I showed them on the map where this was and how long it was going to take to get there. I told them it was going to take a moderately fit person six to eight hours to get to where Chris and I will go in three. [I told them] ‘Especially if you guys don’t have skis, you’re not getting there today.’”

The sheriff ’s chaplain tried to talk Chisholm out of conducting his own search, but eventually relented. Chisholm was given a radio and a brief tutorial on contacting the Incident Command Post.

Then he headed up the trail, with seven friends from Missoula not far behind.

Chisholm didn’t see another SAR volunteer again over the course of the two-day mission. Roughly 24 hours later, at 9 a.m. on June 18, he and three others from Missoula’s extreme outdoors community found Spurgeon’s body on a talus slope in the Lantern Lake Couloir off the northwest side of Lolo Peak. He’d died in an avalanche days earlier, according to a formal investigation conducted in late June. When the group radioed the news to Incident Command, SAR volunteers had only advanced up the trail an hour since resuming their efforts that morning.

“The reputation of Search and Rescue around here is such that most climbers and skiers around here will say, ‘If I ever get hurt in the backcountry, call my friends. Don’t call Search and Rescue,’” Chisholm says. “That’s how I feel. I don’t want Search and Rescue to be called. I want a chopper if I need a chopper…but I don’t want those guys on the ground. I want my friends coming ’cause they’ll get it done.”

Chisholm recounts all this not long after the incident. He’s quick to point out it’s not a jab at the volunteers who selflessly donate their time, money and energy to helping those stranded off the beaten path in Missoula County. Many of the volunteers possess their own valuable skill sets, he says, and they mean well. But Chisholm believes the

problems on Lolo Peak—the snowshoes, the late starts and a number of other minor problems with the effort to find Spurgeon— add up to something major: Missoula County SAR, for whatever reason, simply isn’t suited to the situations Chisholm and his fellow hardcore recreationists seek out.

That’s a troubling reality, and factors into a larger issue SAR admits it is working to address.

“People are going farther back these days and getting themselves into worse situations than they used to because they can,” says Missoula County Sheriff ’s Senior Deputy Bob Parcell, a coordinator and 27-year veteran with SAR. “They’re going back, they’ve got good equipment and sometimes their equipment outpaces what they can actually do.

They get back there and—boom—they’re in trouble.”

Earlier this summer, Parcell responded to an early morning page from the Missoula County Sheriff ’s Department’s Seeley Lake office regarding an injury near Turquoise Lake, high in the Mission Mountains in the Flathead National Forest. Several men had hiked in for a bachelor party, and one had impaled his lower leg on a stave. Missoula County SAR was activated immediately,

despite the early hour, to offer assistance. The wound did not sound fatal, Parcell says, but SAR volunteers had to hike several hours in the dark to reach the victim. Once there, it was apparent he needed to be evacuated via helicopter. “[His condition was] not life threatening, but he’s stuck in there and he might go into shock,” Parcell says. “So our guys walked in all night, had beautiful weather, beautiful clear skies. Just as they get to him and start to work with him, the clouds came over the Missions and it just dumps on them all day long. The helicopters can’t get in under the clouds, it was fogged in, you name it. They spent all night and all into the next day there.

Life Flight couldn’t land.”

The weather finally broke for a window of about 20 minutes, just enough time for a helicopter from Malmstrom Air Force Base equipped with a hoist to extract the man. Had SAR been forced to carry him out on a litter— or had his wound become life-threatening— Parcell believes the situation would have grown much worse.

“That would have been a major undertaking,” he says. “We’re talking many, many miles back, and it’s a real challenge getting them out.”

Parcell uses the incident to illustrate how local units, despite increasingly extreme or remote situations, can still handle much of

what comes their way. Missoula County has three separate SAR units—two based in Missoula and one based in Seeley Lake—who remain on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All of the volunteers answer to three sheriff ’s deputies, like Parcell, who serve as SAR coordinators and take charge of missions as incident commanders. Those deputies in turn answer to Missoula County Sheriff Mike McMeekin, who by statute acts as head administrator for SAR and himself serves as incident commander at times.

SAR volunteers undergo hours of intense training each year in emergency medical practices, high- and low-angle rope rescues and man-tracking exercises. SAR Volunteer Chief Chris Froines, a Missoula attorney by day, says the organization’s total hours of training and field work can reach as much as 5,000 a year.

SAR’s full compliment of volunteers is currently 24.

“It’s quite a task just coordinating a monthly training for everyone,” Froines says.

“If we have ropes classes or swiftwater training or avalanche classes, we have to coordinate all that with the people that are putting those on. Just the administrative part of it takes a lot of time. I would say we put in somewhere between five and 10 hours for every hour that we search…It’s not like people come in and all they do is search, ’cause everybody wants to do that.”

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Left: Missoula County Search and Rescue Volunteer Chief Chris Froines says that, while volunteers regularly practice the skills needed to aid injured recreationists, few of the unit’s missions actually put that training to use.

Below: Search and Rescue volunteers conduct a practice probe line along with National Ski Patrol volunteers at Snowbowl.

Photos courtesy of Missoula County Sea rch and Rescue

However, as backcountry enthusiasts use increasingly advanced equipment to push deeper and deeper into western Montana’s rugged landscape, SAR has struggled to keep up. As an organization comprised predominantly of local citizen volunteers, its resources are not limitless.

Parcell estimates he works between 10 and 15 SAR missions a year with the county’s Seeley Lake unit. The two units based in Missoula deal with nearly twice as many missions, he says. Most of the situations Parcell sees involve lost hunters in the Mission Mountains, but he’s quick to add that concern over backcountry avalanches and the growing reliance on helicopters and high-cost equipment has forced the county to continuously upgrade its operations.

McMeekin agrees.

“The units train every month, so it is a process of continual improvement,” McMeekin says. “We continue to work toward better integration of standard incident management principles. One of the most significant modifications in recent years has been to better prepare for responses involving extreme recreationists since those practices are on the increase.”

Yet the Spurgeon mission suggests those improvements have not proved entirely successful. Chris Gibisch—one of the four skiers who found Spurgeon’s body—sums up his reaction to the SAR operation as “expected disappointment,” and he and Chisholm balk at the notion that snowshoes are a preferred SAR tool for winter rescue. To move fast in the backcountry, they say, skis are the most effective mode of transportation. Regular skiers and

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climbers know strength and speed are hard to come by without adequate experience and equipment.

“Chris Spurgeon was one of the best backcountry skiers in the state,” says Jeff Shapiro, a Missoula climber, professional hang glider pilot and friend of Spurgeon’s who assisted the citizen search. “I mean, the guy has won 50-mile ultrathons and taken part in adventure all over the world. There weren’t that many folks stronger, so [if] he gets himself in trouble, do you think that these guys that are packing 50 pounds on their backs with three compasses just in case and a handheld flashlight and a set of snowshoes are going to do anything for him? Most of us, quite frankly, rely on ourselves or our friends simply because we don’t think there’s necessarily anyone else who’s qualified to do so. I don’t want anybody risking their own safety for me.”

The grassroots search and rescue effort executed by Spurgeon’s friends in June contrasts greatly with the official mission conducted by SAR. Timing alone reveals how efficiently Chisholm, Gibisch, Brian Story, and numerous others worked on Lolo Peak. While the seven skiers with Chisholm scouted the areas around One Horse and Lantern lakes that Thursday, about a dozen others were busy setting up a base camp on Carlton Ridge with enough food and supplies to last five people two days. The plan was to spend the night on the mountain and gain a significant advantage the following morning.

Comparatively, SAR called off its mission that night with plans to reconvene at the trailhead the following morning.

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“We had our own strategy to deal with it, because we weren’t trusting Search and Rescue,” says Chisholm, who wound up returning to Missoula Thursday night but got an early start on Friday. “We essentially kept a presence on the mountain for Chris. Search and Rescue shut down their operations at 8 or 9 o’clock on Thursday. Friday morning, I was heading back up to Lolo Peak at about 4:30 a.m., trying to get a hold of Search and Rescue on their phones and radio and couldn’t. Turns out their rendezvous for Friday morning was 8 o’clock. To me, if there’s still someone possibly alive out there, why in the world are you starting at 8 o’clock in the morning? It just didn’t make any sense to me at all.”

Chisholm was among the four friends who eventually found Spurgeon in the Lantern Lake Couloir around 9 a.m. Spurgeon, they discovered, had died when a wet avalanche carried him over a talus slope at the base of the couloir. The group contacted SAR to inform Incident Command of their discovery and supplied GPS coordinates for the location so a helicopter could fly in to extract the body. By Chisholm’s account, the weather was calm enough for an aerial approach from the northwest. But six hours passed before air support finally arrived. Poor weather moved in, covering the summit of Lolo Peak in clouds. Those on the ground had already assessed the avalanche danger as high, which ruled out the possibility of a helicopter landing anywhere near the scene.

McMeekin and Froines blame the lengthy delay on two factors. First, due to the dangers inherent on the mountain that day, the Sheriff ’s Department requested a chopper from

Malmstrom fly in to extract Spurgeon’s body.

Second, McMeekin called in Steve Karkanen, an expert from the U.S. Forest Service’s West Central Avalanche Center, to conduct an avalanche assessment from a different helicopter.

The latter, to many, proved the most troubling component to the entire operation.

“I actually took a little bit of heat for making an assessment from the air, which is something you cannot do,” Karkanen says. “I think [SAR] realized that, and I think what Mike [McMeekin] was looking for was a general overview of what the situation was up there. I don’t think anybody had had the opportunity to fly up there yet from the organization.”

The call to Karkanen inevitably stalled the recovery effort by several hours, as he had to secure a helicopter from Minuteman Aviation that fit the regulations the avalanche center requires for employee safety. Karkanen’s chopper and the Malmstrom aircraft—carrying McMeekin and Missoula County Coroner Mike Dominick—didn’t take off from the Incident Command Post on Tom McClay’s property until shortly after 2:30 p.m. Then, Karkanen’s initial assessment from the helicopter and the Sheriff ’s Department’s opinion of the weather conditions contradicted what the skiers on the ground had been reporting all afternoon.

“You couldn’t help but get the feeling that, ‘Okay, they heard what we said but they don’t really give a shit,’” says Gibisch, a respiratory therapist and member of Missoula-based Aerie Backcountry Medicine. “Then they’d come in, take a look for themselves and realize and we’d be like, ‘Yeah, we told you this 20 minutes ago.’”

Karkanen says he was fortunate to communicate briefly with Chisholm and his friends and gather a more accurate description of the potential for an avalanche—an assessment that ruled out any hope of finding a safe landing spot near the scene. Karkanen had heard of the skiers by reputation and trusted their ability to guide that portion of the operation.

“From the air, it looked like everything that had the opportunity to slide had already slid out,” Karkanen says. “Of course, those guys were on the ground right there so I had no way of knowing what the conditions of the older snowpack were. They were dealing with not only the new snow that had slid out in that chute already, but also the old snow which was pretty wet because it had a lot of rain saturation on it from the previous weather we’d been getting that week.”

Spurgeon was hoisted to the Malmstrom helicopter sometime after 3 p.m., about six hours after his body was discovered. Those with SAR and the Sheriff ’s Department agree that without the involvement of numerous backcountry recreationists, the search alone could have dragged on for days.

“Who knows whether they could have spotted him down there?”

Froines agrees. “So it’s impossible to tell how long it would have taken.”

In his official report to the avalanche center on June 24, Karkanen put the value of the citizen contributions more bluntly, and addressed the role Spurgeon’s friends played in keeping SAR volunteers from entering a situation many agree they simply weren’t prepared for.

“The victim’s friends played a major role in finding him,” his report states. “He would not have been found in an air search and a ground search would have been very difficult and labor intensive exposing many people to further risk.”

To those who succeeded where SAR failed, Karkanen’s comment only strengthens their opinion that the county is not properly equipped to make good on its promise for rescue.

“I feel like Search and Rescue misrepresents itself to this community,” Gibisch says.

“People need to be aware that you can’t go out in the backcountry and get hurt and hope [SAR] finds you, because there’s a good chance they won’t.”

Ravalli County Search and Rescue is very familiar with the public criticism that accompanies high-profile missions. In early December 2008, hiker Max Haldeman called Ravalli County 911 around 2 p.m. to report that he and another hiker, Lisa Jones, had fallen hundreds of feet off the northeast side of

St. Mary’s Peak. He told dispatchers that Jones was unconscious and that he had a broken leg. The Ravalli County Sheriff ’s Department paged out the valley’s SAR unit immediately, and volunteers were at the trailhead only an hour later.

“At that time everybody involved was under the impression that these people were just a little ways off the trail and had gotten hurt,” says Mark Butler, a 13-year volunteer with Ravalli County SAR and acting vice president of the organization’s board of directors.

“Both the fire department and Search and Rescue felt, because of the way it was dispatched, that these guys were just a little ways off the trail about halfway down. It wasn’t until the fire department was about

many people said this same thing, ‘I can hike to the summit of St. Mary’s in an hour and a half. Why did it take you guys seven hours to get to the bodies?’” Butler says.

Ravalli County SAR took serious heat from the public over its execution of the St. Mary’s incident, so Butler says he understands the stress Missoula County must be facing over the perceived problems with the Spurgeon mission. That’s why SAR usually doesn’t care to know what the public—and, more specifically, the extreme recreating community—thinks of its more complex operations.

“Regardless of how a mission goes, people sitting down in the valley in the comfort of their own homes always have their own

“People are going farther back these days and getting themselves into worse situations than they used to because they can.”

—Missoula County Sheriff ’s Senior Deputy Bob Parcell

halfway up there…and could not find these people that people started realizing this was way more involved than just hiking up and finding them.”

The search took hours. GPS coordinates obtained from the cell phone call didn’t correspond with the terrain Haldeman described to dispatchers. Two helicopters circled the area trying to spot the hikers from the air, but Butler remembers the weather turning bad as the evening wore on. Snow began to fall and the sun set and still SAR was unsure where to look.

“We just bushwhacked as close to a traverse as we could into that location,” Butler says, explaining that the hikers were in a secluded area nearly 1,000 feet below the summit. “There was three feet of snow on the ground, it was dark, we weren’t on the trail and we didn’t really know exactly where we were going…When you’re hiking around in the boulders and stuff, on cliffs and ice in the dark, it takes a lot of time to move in that kind of terrain—especially if you’re searching for somebody. That’s why it took us six or seven hours to find them.”

Life Flight personnel equipped with night vision were finally able to locate a light—the LED screen of Haldeman’s cell phone—and guide rescuers to the location.

Both hikers were dead when Butler got there.

“A lot of direct public reaction we got was people saying, and you’d be surprised how

opinion of how it should have really happened,” Butler says. “So I’m very familiar with being right there in the heat of things and knowing how it happened and hearing people’s comments on how they feel it should of happened. Having been there, there’s no way it could happen that way but you can’t explain that to people.”

Despite the way things played out on St. Mary’s Peak, Chisholm says many local outdoors enthusiasts believe Ravalli County SAR is now a highly efficient unit. He has a friend who joined its ranks within the last few years, and knows of less-publicized missions that proved successful.

Butler says the unit likely garnered its recent reputation after an organizational change that started more than 10 years ago.

Before that, Ravalli County SAR had no real standards or guidelines for skills and equipment, and opinions on how SAR should operate changed as a new board was voted in every few years. Now the unit includes between 30 and 40 members and is certified with the Mountain Rescue Association, a national group aimed at increasing the level of training for and communication between different volunteer rescue organizations across the country. Ravalli County SAR is occasionally asked to participate in missions in neighboring counties; in fact, McMeekin requested its assistance in the search for Spurgeon, though Spurgeon’s body was

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found before their volunteers gained much ground.

Butler says Ravalli County has a leg up over many other SAR operations in the region based on the increased availability of extreme environments and the sheer number of specialized missions they conduct on a regular basis.

“We’re fortunate, because of the terrain we’re in, that a lot of the stuff you have to do to certify is stuff we have a fairly regular amount of exposure to during real missions,” he says. “Low-angle and high-angle rescue stuff, we’ve done quite a few of those in this county. There’s a vehicle over the edge seems like once a year off of either Skalkaho or somewhere where we have to set up lowangle or high-angle rescue. And every year, too, we have something up in one of the climbing areas. There are organizations in other counties that never really do those in their regular dayto-day operations, so it’s more challenging for them to certify.”

Butler also credits much of the unit’s success in meeting the increased demands of recreationists to Sheriff Chris Hoffman’s hands-off approach. Hoffman and his deputies page SAR when necessary, but their contributions to a mission typically end at crowd control and information gathering. That low level of interference from the department gives SAR more room to do what it is specially trained to do, Butler says.

“They’re not involved in our decisionmaking process or the operation,” Butler says.

“They’re kind of doing their own stuff. They’re either trying to track down who knows who was missing or gathering information, dealing with crowd control…So we just keep the sheriff updated. If it’s a long, drawn-out thing they’ll usually swing by from time to time to check how things are going. The sheriff has told us as long as we keep doing as good as a job as we’ve always done, he has no reason to change that. His guys aren’t trained to run technical or river or search missions.”

Missoula County SAR runs on a much tighter leash. Sheriff McMeekin prefers to remain active in the organization’s operations, both administratively and in the field.

He has often served as incident commander on missions, and while SAR doesn’t admit to having openly butted heads with the sheriff over the issue, Volunteer Chief Froines says a lighter hand would likely make operations on the ground more efficient.

For example, Froines points to another SAR call from June involving a drowned man in Rock Creek. Volunteers collaborated with the Granite County Sheriff ’s Department on the operation, which was left almost entirely in the volunteers’ hands. Though they were dealing with a predetermined fatality, they managed to retrieve the man’s body within an hour. In Froines’ words, the search went “great.”

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“We train with our guys, we don’t train with any of the sheriff ’s guys,” Froines says.

“So we know what we’re doing, but the sheriff ’s deputies and the sheriff himself, they don’t come to training typically. It would be my preference to have us be in charge of the operations. But the sheriff is in charge of operations by statute. In some places…the sheriff is either hands on or hands off. Ravalli County, their sheriff is hands off and I think they like that. Here, it varies.”

For that reason, Chisholm cuts the SAR volunteers on the Spurgeon mission a lot of slack and aims much of his criticism directly at the sheriff. McMeekin’s request that Karkanen conduct an avalanche assessment from the air seemed absurd, Chisholm says, and the men on the ground under the Sheriff ’s Department’s direction appeared directionless.

“I felt sorry for the Search and Rescue foot-soldiers that were standing around up there,” Chisholm says. “They looked just helpless. I felt so sorry for them. They want to help, and they know they can’t because they know they don’t have what it takes to get there. They probably don’t have the right training. They probably are under this command structure that doesn’t allow them to do what they’d like to do.”

The solution to both issues—the outdoors community’s lack of faith in SAR’s abilities and SAR’s struggle to meet that community’s needs— may seem as simple as welcoming individuals like Chisholm into the unit. But the very character traits that make many backcountry enthusiasts so conditioned to the environment also make them an awkward fit for command structure.

“I feel like kind of an ass knowing I’ve got the capabilities to try to get in there and help [victims],” Gibisch says. “But with everything else going on in life, do I want to dedicate time to this type of thing? I think that’s what’s so difficult, because how do you answer this? How do you have a really solid Search and Rescue team that Missoula County can rely on? This isn’t something you can train for. For everyone that showed up that I saw on [Lolo Peak], this is a way of life.”

The extreme situations SAR finds itself in, while on the rise, are still fairly infrequent compared to other scenarios like lost hikers.

Missoula County deals more with simple rescues in lower timbered elevations than with searches deep in the backcountry, Froines says.

Those aren’t the kind of missions that would really get a seasoned skier or climber interested in joining SAR. “A lot of these individuals that are skiers and climbers and backcountry enthusiasts, they tend to be the type of people who don’t like to take orders from others,” Chisholm says.

“They’re not necessarily going to work well under a Sheriff McMeekin. So in some ways there’s this inherent catch-22 about it.”

So SAR is left to its own devices in the push to meet growing demand for extreme recreation. McMeekin says the greatest challenge before the organization is recruitment.

Without new batches of volunteers and a continued emphasis on training, SAR will be stretched ever thinner.

“We still need to continue training, we need to continue to improve our training and enhance it,” Parcell says. “A lot of these guys have been around as long as I have or longer and they’re as old as I am or older. They’ve seen everything there is, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t train and use technical advances.”

Contrary to the views of seasoned backcountry users like Chisholm, Froines isn’t quite willing to accept that SAR is being physically or geographically outpaced. He says volunteers with the organization can go anywhere the recreating public can in the interests of offering assistance. However, Froines admits there are times when extreme recreationists get themselves into situations that are simply too dangerous for SAR to respond to. The sheriff has the ultimate say in whether SAR becomes involved in a call, but safety for volunteers is the organization’s number one concern.

“We work at the pleasure of the Sheriff ’s Office, so we don’t make those decisions,” Froines says. “If the sheriff thinks they’re in a place we should try and help them, then we will. But only to the limits of our capabilities.”

SAR’s conduct on the Spurgeon mission had a profound impact on the area’s recreating community as the summer wore on. Chisholm began compiling a list of backcountry users he knew could handle themselves competently on such an operation—names, phone numbers, all the information he and others might need to activate their own search and rescue in the future. The intent of this casual move among friends is to end the reliance on the official SAR operation, for the safety of both stranded backcountry peers and county volunteers.

“There was a large contingent who felt we had the skills, we can mobilize, so why fix it if it ain’t broken?” Chisholm says. “Let’s just keep Search and Rescue out of it and do our own thing. Let’s be grassroots about it and have a list of people to call and have some kind of plan so there’s at least a chain of command so you have at least one person who’s kind of leading things. We’re basically coming up with our own list and our own sort of grassroots—I wouldn’t even call it search and rescue—emergency list you can call so it doesn’t get too bureaucratic. It doesn’t get trapped within the system, it’s not dependent on state funding and it’s not dependent on the sheriff ’s blessing.”

Many would argue that the list already exists in the attitudes of that community.

There’s always been an unspoken agreement among friends, Shapiro says, that SAR be kept out of the equation.

“I applaud the fact that these guys are willing to be involved in that sort of thing.”

Shapiro says of SAR. “But I absolutely question the level of skill, the level of experience involved.

“I promise you,” he adds, “the last thing anybody’s going to do is call Search and Rescue for me.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Aztec tomatillo stew FLASHINTHEPAN I feel sorry for tomatillos, the way I once felt bad for the last kid picked for the kickball team at recess.

They languish on otherwise empty farmers’ market tables at the end of the morning, often destined for the compost pile, because tomatillos are nobody’s favorite fruit.

They’re so tart the only people willing to eat them are the culinary equivalents of polar-bear swimming club members. And few people seem to know how to cook with them. The tomatillo remains an outcast, watching from the sidelines while the more popular fruits of summer twirl on the dance floor.

Once in a while a bowl of green salsa gets made; more often they rot in the fridge before you get around to it.

If only more people were exposed to my chile verde recipe, tomatillos would quickly become in short supply.

Once, a batch of this spicy tomatillo stew got dumped on the floor. This wasn’t a floor that was clean enough to eat off of. But unmentionable liberties were taken with the five-second rule as we scooped it with spatulas and into bowls, from which we ate like fiends.

Tomatillos look like paper lanterns stretched around extra-large light bulbs.

A member of the nightshade family, like tomatoes, some people mistakenly assume tomatillo is Spanish for “little tomato” (that would be “tomatito”). The word tomatillo comes from the Aztec “miltomatl,” which means, appropriately, “round and plump with paper.”

Mesoamerican habitants have been enjoying tomatillos since at least 800 B.C., and my chile verde dates back to those early times. It’s made principally of ingredients prevalent in early Central America: tomatillos, chiles and meat. Pork is typically used, but most any meat will do—it works great with extra-tough deer cuts, like shank, that have been braised three to four hours at 300 degrees, melting the cartilage into creamy gelatin.

The tomatillo tartness penetrates the animal parts it’s cooked with, revealing savory and tender

by ARI LeVAUX

Add these braised chunks to an oiled pan, and after it starts frying add chopped onion and chopped garlic. Take a moment to savor the odor of hot brown meat and raw onion cooking together.

Sprinkle with salt and sample.

Season the meat with 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper, two teaspoons of garlic powder, and a teaspoon of cumin powder. When the onions are translucent, add a quart of chicken stock to the pan. Simmer for half an hour.

With the meat under control, it’s time for the peppers. Any and all varieties should be considered for this task, and the more variety the better.

Poblanos, jalapeños, bell peppers, dried red chile, Jimmy Nardellos, senoritas, concha de toros, Bulgarian fish peppers—whatever capsicum you’ve got, chop or crumble (in the case of dried) into the mix, removing the seeds and membranes of the hot ones as you see fit, given your audience.

Slice a pound of tomatillos in half and liquefy, adding a cup of cilantro and two garlic cloves. Add this potent puree to the meat and peppers, both of which should be half-dissolved by now. Simmer for another hour or two on low heat, seasoning with salt and pepper, stirring frequently, and adding water or stock as necessary. When you’re ready to be done cooking, stop adding water and allow to thicken a bit. Serve with tortillas or rice.

There’s no way around the fact that a good pot of chile verde takes time. But while the cook time is long, the prep time is short. Once it’s cooking it’s easy to keep it cooking for hours more, Photo by Ari LeVaux adding water when necessary, and I’ve to develop a satisfyingly golden-brown crisp. For only noticed improvement with longer cooking. extra-tough cuts, start by oven-browning the whole Whether it’s used with a succulent piece of pork or roast until it gets a shiny shell, then remove, cool, on a slow-cooked shank, chile verde is a dish worth and cube. After your meat is nicely browned, braise in waiting for. It’s a dish worth eating off a dirty floor. water and wine with bay leaves and salt, tightly cov- And even if Microsoft applications label tomatillo as ered at 300 degrees, until the meat softens, adding a misspelled word, this ancient fruit has a place in today’s kitchen. more water and wine as necessary. secrets you never knew your meat even had.

Meanwhile, the tomatillo becomes transformed into a surprisingly rich and edible version of itself.

To serve five people, start by browning one and a half pounds of meat, cut into inch-or-smaller cubes.

Most people assume meat should be browned in a pan with oil, but I prefer browning below the broiler.

There’s less splatter, less pan-cleaning, and it’s easier

LISTINGS $…Under $5 $–$$…$5–$15 $$–$$$…$15 and over Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice’s: a Missoula’s staple; serving strong coffee and baked goods in the heart of the Hip Strip since 1978. Stop by and see us at the Clark Fork River Market. We’ll be there bright and early on Saturdays beginning May 8th from 8AM to 1PM. If you miss the market, we’re open every day 6AM to 8PM. Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts.

All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

Black Cat Bake Shop 2000 West Broadway (next to Noodles Express) • 542-9043 Come try Missoula's newest coffee house & bakery. Try our signature buttery morning buns, scones, cinnamon rolls, huckleberry coffee cake, & organic artisan breads.

We also offer a variety of cakes, French pastries, & full coffee menu. (Banquet room available for morning meetings.) Tues Sat. $-$$ Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio.

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

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

The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 38 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an exten-

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www.thinkfft.com 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Delivery Hours: M-F • 11-2 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm (Breakfast ‘til Noon)

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm (Breakfast all day)

Great Food No Attitude.

531 S. Higgins

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Spice is nice!

Grilled Flank Steak Marinated and topped with chimichurri, an Argentine herb sauce made from parsley, garlic, oregano, and pink peppercorns. $17.00

Open for lunch M-F 11-2 Dinner served Tues-Sat 5-9

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Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve

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

Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Doc's Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius.

Family Dental Group Southgate Mall 541-2886 The best way to find a dentist is to ask friends or family if they have a dentist they like. Our community has a lot of great clinical dentists. If you really like your dentist as a person, you are probably going to get a lot more out of your experience as patient.

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

WE DELIVER on campus and to the area between Beckwith, Higgins & 5th Street. Open Mon-Thurs 7am-8pm, Fri & Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Front Street Pasta & Wraps 247 W. Front Street 728-6655 Can't decide? Front Street Pasta and Wraps has something to satisfy every craving. We have everything from giant wraps to wok tossed dishes. Spicy peanut sauce goes great with just about everything. Vegetarian friendly menu is great for the nonmeat eater. And now you can enjoy a cold beer or a glass of wine with your meal. So step off the beaten path of Higgins and

ride into Front Street Pasta and Wraps. Just next to the Carousel on West Front Street. Open M-F, 10am-8pm. $ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table.

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. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch 11:30-2PM and dinner 5PM-close. $-$$

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Get Low (R) Nightly at 7 & 9 Sun at 1 & 3 The Kids are All Right Nightly at 7 Sun at 1

FULL BAR AVAILABLE 131 S. Higgins Ave.

Cyrus (R) Nightly at 9 Sun at 3

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HAPPIESTHOUR Missoula Airport Restaurant and Lounge Atmosphere: Fake ferns, Griz gear and flags above the bar that say, “Welcome to Missoula.”

The interior decorator won’t win any awards.

But from a local’s perspective, the Airport Lounge is a perfect spot for daydreaming. We like putting on a pair of flipflops and a flower print shirt before heading there. Dressed like a vacationing tourist, this bar offers a prime view of Missoula International Airport’s tarmac. It’s a perfect spot to sip a fruity drink and watch planes take off, all the while imagining that we’re about to fly away on an epic tropical vacation.

make sure everybody is taken care of before takeoff. Local brews like Cold Smoke and Scape Goat are popular for the out-oftowners, too. “They love the local beer,” Visquez says. “Moose Drool, I would say, is the most popular.” Like most airports, though, drinks are pricey. Moose Drool costs $4.25 and a whiskey and Coke runs $5.

If you’re hungry: The Airport Restaurant and Lounge serves up typical Americana cuisine, including club sandwiches with tater tots, burgers and fries, and bacon and eggs.

Who you’re drinking with: Folks lugging carry-on bags, honeymooning couples making out in the corner and families filling up before taking off.

Where to find it: Take Broadway west 2.6 miles from Reserve Street. Missoula International Airport is on the left. The lounge is in the terminal.

—Jessica Mayrer

What you’re drinking: The Airport Lounge offers a full bar. Whiskey and Coke is a favorite, says bartender Rocio Visquez, who, on a recent Wednesday afternoon, hustles to

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

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 food, continued Last week I asked you all whether it’s fair to characterize the Slow Food movement as a pleasure-based movement that doesn’t accomplish much beyond table talk about how the world could be better.

Graham Roy of Missoula has trod in many Slow Food footsteps across Italy, and based on these experiences he writes that Slow Food values “should be the inspiration for changing the way we view food production in the United States and many other places.

“I visited farms and small operators where some of the most revered Italian foods were produced. I saw oak barrels that were 100 years old containing aged balsamic vinegar. I walked in damp cellars, where de-boned hams wrapped in a pig’s bladder hung from the ceiling molding until they were cured. I watched workers at a cheese plant pack skimmed milk curd into forms that would age into grana padano. I entered a shop in Alba where the barny-musty smell of recently collected white truffles filled the room.

The common theme that inspires the production

of all of these foods is that they take advantage of local conditions, and have been practiced and perfected for generations.

“Missoula is in culinary infancy compared to the long traditions of food production in Italy, home of the 100-year balsamic vinegar,” continues Roy. “Where farmers adapt to local conditions here, they produce great foods. Farmers in Dixon grow fantastic melons, and their counterparts in Paradise produce amazing peaches. Our traditions are not as old as Italy’s, but we can learn from traditional production techniques to produce local delicacies of our own. I long for the return of Howe’s Dairy in Hamilton, which churned ice cream from local milk, and today could produce specialty cheeses as well. While everyone is in Turino this year enjoying tastes from afar, I’ll be staying put enjoying the full, beefy flavor of local grass fed beef from our farmers’ market.”

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

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If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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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 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.

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.

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.

Enjoy an old-school tragedy when Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents a performance of Julius Caesar, which begins at 6 PM at River Park in Hamilton. Free.

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Keep your shades on when The Beach Boys play Ogren-Allegiance Park Thu., Aug. 26, at 7 PM. $40 reserved seating/$30 general admission.

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.

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.

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.

These boys need three spankings each: Missoula’s Dead Hipster Dance Party celebrates its third year of existence with a end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 27, 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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party filled to the well drink with hip-hop, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hitting the speakers at 9 PM at the Badlander. $3.

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.

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.

DJs Kris Moon and Jerry Abstract make your brain dance when they play an array of electronic music at the Top Hat at 10 PM. $3.

(See Scope in this issue.)

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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 a showing at the Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St., from noon–6 PM. Free. Call 721-0591.

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 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

Expect something large and in charge when Wapikiya Records and Felony Records present the fourth annual Big F’n Party, which features sets by Cool Nutz, Illmaculate, Frodie, Dice, OverTime, Young Jay, Koshir, B Mune and Skeptical, Pallas Athena, and Prime 1, from 6–10 PM in the parking lot of Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. $5.

Phoenix, Ariz.’s The Sammus Theory rocks you harder than a hurricane when they play hard rock with Seattle’s Lacero and Maklak at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 7 PM. $5/$10 for those under age 21.

Tom Catmull makes sure you never get cat scratch fever from catfish when he plays a

McElderry and Rosco Wuestewald play acoustic music at 8 PM at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. $5 donation. Call 830-3296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

Odyssey and Lars Pointer take your hand through the ether when they perform rock and folk music at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-thehat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

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.

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Get a glimpse of what makes a home truly “green” when Lentz Construction, Energetechs and Montana Energy Services presents the “Real Green Home Remodel” educational open house, which runs from 9 AM–1 PM at a house located at 313 Woodworth St. Free. E-mail Andy at andy@energetechs.com.

Young Missoulians who perform ballet are hereby invited to audition for the Great Russian Nutcracker and Swan Lake, with auditions for the Great Russian Nutcracker beginning at 9 AM, followed by Swan Lake auditions at 1 PM, all at the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre School, 2704 Brooks St. Accepted applicants will perform on Nov. 21 in either ballets. Call Charlene Campbell at 549-5155.

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.

Party it up with a sustainable institution during the Missoula Urban Demonstration (MUD) Project’s annual Garden Party, which features local food, brews, live music from the Mason Jar String Band and others, and runs from 5–11 PM at MUD’s headquarters, 629 Phillips St. $20 family/$15 per person/$10 members. Call 7217513 and visit mudproject.org.

Help out your homeless furry friends during the eighth annual Bone Ball, a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Western Montana that features dinner, drinks, silent/live auctions and a plethora of pet-related activities starting at 5 PM at Caras Park. $40 per person/$300 for a table of eight. Also, you can bring your cat or dog to the event at no cost. Call 549-HSWM for tickets and visit myhswm.org.

When Copper Was King makes the ghost of Marcus Daly tapdance when it plays the Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St. in Stevensville, from 5:30–8 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

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

Get intimate with a duke and a queen when Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which begins at 6 PM at the Double Arrow Resort, two miles south of Seeley Lake on Double Arrow Road off Hwy. 83. Call 243-5590 and visit montana.edu/shakespeare.

Reverend Slanky deems you mayor of funkytown when they play funk and soul at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5.

Pop and lock to an 8-bit rhythm when Los Angeles’ Virtual Boy mixes up electronica, glitch-hop and other styles when it plays the Top Hat at 9 PM. $10. Washington’s Resident Anti-Hero opens.

The Wild Coyotes don’t want you to go insane in the membrane when it plays classic rock and country at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Caress the calloused extremities of some dudes in the know when The Workers play a mix of Americana, rock and bluegrass at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Don’t just go around giving people the heimlich maneuver when Universal Choke Sign plays metal at Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 10:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

Bob Dylan caused quite a stir in the summer of 1965 when he reached for an electric guitar and played a short, fully plugged-in set at the Newport Folk Festival with a band.

Folk purists cried foul, and some members of the crowd actually booed the legend.

Dylan, now 69, caused a much different stir when, 23 years later, he started what’s been dubbed “The Never Ending Tour.” Since June 1988, the “poet laureate of rock ‘n’ roll” has played roughly 100 shows a year, often in venWHO: Bob Dylan and ues like amusement parks and minor league John Mellencamp stadiums. While some fans turned their noses up at the family-friendly sites as a sign of WHERE: Ogren-Allegiance Park Dylan’s possible Crazy Heart-like demise, the musician embraced them and played the venWHEN: Tue., Aug. 31, at 6:30 PM ues to his advantage. For example, this week’s HOW MUCH: $55 Missoula show is free for anyone under 14 as long as they’re accompanied by a ticket-holding adult. It’s a perfect opportunity to introduce yet another generation to Dylan’s music—and another chance for Dylan to keep his long-time fans on their toes once again.

—Skylar Browning

solo set at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, at 7 PM. Free.

Kick your heels up with your GLBTIQ friends during the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center’s Back to School Bash, which features gay and lesbian hip-hop music starting at 8 PM, followed by performances by the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana at 9 PM, and hot tunes by DJ Kris Moon ‘til closing time, all at the Palace. $5.

It’s an all out acoustic jam out with fermented grape juice on tap when Isaac

Be the king of your own hill when The Fabulous Country Kings play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 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.

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

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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 a showing at the Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St., from 10 AM–4 PM. Free. Call 721-0591.

Tap into your roots with music, food and a host of other activities when the 2010 River City Roots Festival takes root in downtown Missoula on West Main Street with a juried art show at 10 AM, followed by music that runs all day starting at 12:30 PM with headliners including The Infamous String Dusters, Robert Earl Keen and others. Free. Visit rivercityrootsfestival.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Gamers get their fix during MisCon Summer Game Day, where attendees play games that others bring—or they can bring their own game for others to play—from 10 AM–10 PM in Rooms 330 and 331 of the University Center. Free, all ages, and family friendly. E-mail Stu at games@miscon.org.

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 “Mandala Creations” with Beth Jaffe. Free. Donations are appreciated but not expected. Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org.

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

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Staples Inc., 2501 Brooks St. 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.

nightlife Ride the proverbial pony when Hellgate Rodeo plays the Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St. in Stevensville, from 5:30–8 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

No witches will be harmed when Boulder, Colo.’s Salem plays a mix of Afro-Cuban, jazz, hip-hop and funk at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT.

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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.

Get intimate with the Queen of the Fairies when Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which begins at 6 PM at Palmer Park in Charlo, off Hwy. 212. Free.

Get tripped out when adventurer and explorer Jon Turk presents slides and reads from his book The Raven’s Gift: A Scientist, A Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness, at 7 PM at the Grizzly

Claw Trading Co., 3187 Hwy. 83 in Seeley Lake. Free. Call 677-5251.

Kick your heels up with some oldschool country boys when the Mission Mountain Wood Band plays a show at 7 PM at the Flathead County Fairgrounds, 265 N. Meridian Road in Kalispell. $30, with tickets at all Coffee Traders locations, online at griztix.com and by calling 1-888-6668262. Special guest Coaltrain opens.

The Bitterroot Double Reeds get wild with their reeds when they perform a UM faculty and guest artist series concert with Mika Inouye, at 7:30 PM at the Music Recital Hall, in the UM Music Building. $10/$5 seniors and students. Call 243-6880.

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Dance peacefully with your inner spiritual self when The Dances of Universal Peace Dance Team meets for sacred movement, song and story at the First Christian Church in Hamilton, 328 Fairgrounds Road, at 7:30 PM. $3 donation requested.

Call Star at 363-4026.

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 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under.

Visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets or call 375-9050.

Be the king of your own hill when The Fabulous Country Kings play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Step away from the oil slick and bust a two-step move to The City Slickers when it plays from 8–11 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Call 543-7154.

Bruce Threlkeld keeps earsplitting frequencies quarantined when he plays acoustic music at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome.

Call 741-2361.

Expect Christian Bale to be on his best behavior when the Missoula Outdoor Cinema presents its last screening of the summer with The Dark Knight, at 8:21 PM on the lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 and visit missoulaoutdoorcinema.org.

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.

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.

The Wild Coyotes don’t want you to go insane in the membrane when it plays classic rock and country at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Squirt some binary juice on your roots during the River City Roots Festival After Party, which features Kid Syndrome, Inevitable Thought, as well as Cadence DJing an array of electronic music starting at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

The Lil’ Smokies smoke up all your smelling salts when it plays bluegrass at 9 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Party Trained lets you hopscotch with some butterscotch when it plays variety tunes at 9 PM at the Lumberjack Saloon, off Hwy. 12 and one mile up Graves Creek Road near Lolo. Free. Visit lumberjacksaloon.com.

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

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.

Keep an eye out for buzzed pedestrians when Playing in Traffic rocks a set at Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2.

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Get rootsy with food, music and a number of other activities when the 2010 River City Roots Festival finishes its final day in downtown

Missoula on West Main Street beginning with a juried art show at 10 AM, and slipping into music all day starting at 11:15 AM with bands including Sol Driven Train, The Gourds and Tom Catmull.

Free. Visit rivercityrootsfestival.com.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

You’re gonna 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 2 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.

If you suffer from pain, or you’re a friend or family member of a pain sufferer, join others in a supportive environment during a meeting of the Missoula Pain Support Group from 2–4 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. This month centers on the topic “Picking up the Pieces: Planning for the Future.” Call Nicole Dunn for more info at 327-8408.

nightlife See if you have what it takes to rock out with the tribe when the UM School of Theatre & Dance presents community auditions for Hair, which run from 5–7 PM at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. Free to audition.

Those interested in auditioning should prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue, and be prepared to sing at least 16 bars of a rock/pop song. Participants are also asked to try to bring a copy of sheet music for the song they’ll sing. Call Erin at 243-4488.

Keep the roots music flowing during the second annual River City Grass Bash, a River City Roots Festival after-party that features sets by Bangers and Hash, Off in the Woods, and others, and begins around 7 PM at the Top Hat. 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.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 9:30 PM. Free. This week: Jazz from the Freemole Quartet and DJs Gary Stein and Ryan Wendel.

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Join in on a discussion about what Social Security means during the Social Security at 75 Forum, which features comments from John Melcher, Pat Williams, Mayor John Engen and others, and begins at 10:30 AM at the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free.

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 a showing at the Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St., from noon–6 PM. Free. Call 721-0591.

nightlife The Hamilton Skatepark working group is currently looking for citizens interested in supporting the creation of a skatepark in Ravalli County—specifically, those who would like to solicit local support, contacting potential donors, and networking with local skaters— and is hosting a meeting on the matter at 7 PM at Hamilton’s City Hall, 223 S. Second St. Free. Call Tom at 375-9996.

Community Livability and the Path to Sustainability When: Wednesday, September 1st • 7:10 to 8:30 pm Where: Gallagher Business Building, Room 122 University of Montana As we struggle to understand and address the current recession, discussions of prosperity, community livability and sustainability are common. Come explore the connections between them.

Questions: 406-543-5323 education@sbcmontana.org SPONSORED BY: Missoula Federal Credit Union

Co Hosted by: UM EVST Department MEDIA SPONSOR: Cherry Creek Radio

Vintage jazz vocals and a squeeze box go hand in hand with your adult beverage of choice when Lori Conner sings while accordion player Dick Skultin plays some tunes at 7 PM at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100. Free.

Witness the dexterity of a piano tickler from the Windy City when jazz pianist Ron Perrillo performs as the Ron Perrillo Trio at 7 PM at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

Go ahead and drive that train high on cocaine when South Carolina’s Sol Driven Train barrels through to play roots, jam and Americana music at 9 PM at the Top Hat. $2–$4 cover.

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Kick off your week with a drink, some free pool and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Monday with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace. Free. This week features special guest host Mikee Sev. Have a drink and take a load off in the company of your fellow laborers during the Badlander’s Service Industry Night, which runs this and every Mon. and includes drink specials for service industry workers starting at 9 PM. Free. Also, if you’ve got an iPod, bring it in and they’ll play it.

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.

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malia 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.

Get intimate with the King of Fairies when Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which begins at 6 PM at UM’s Oval. Free. Call 243-5590 and visit montana.edu/shakespeare. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Keep it orderly when We Are Change and Justice Productions presents a screening of Invisible Empire, which “exposes the New World Order,” with a screening at 6 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

Everybody must get tangled up in blue with Uncle Bob when Bob Dylan plays Ogren Park at Allegiance Field with John Mellencamp and openers the Dough Rollers at 6:30 PM. $55.

Get tickets at Rockin Rudy’s or online at ticketfly.com.

Take part in collective thoughts and actions for healing and enlightenment at the Healers’ Gathering Meeting, which takes

place the last Tue. of each month at 6:30 PM at the Eagles Lodge meeting room, 2420 South Ave. W. Free. Call 273-2871.

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.

Witness the dexterity of a piano tickler from the Windy City when jazz pianist Ron Perrillo performs as the Ron Perrillo Trio at 7 PM at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

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

Ready? What is the largest and most populous country in the world that is only comprised of islands? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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.

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

If Bobby the Hobo didn’t totally fill your old-timey fix, you best bust a move to the Caleb Klauder Country Band, who play honky tonk at 9 PM at the Top Hat. $8.

Locals Broken Valley Roadshow open. (See Noise in this issue.)

Keep those expletives in check when Wapikiya Records presents the Dressed to Get FXXXED Party, which features hip-hop/rap performances by Koshir, Young Jay, Mista Snipe, DJ Dice, OverTime and Frodie, and begins at 9 PM at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free.

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Cap it during the Cap the Rate Campaign Kick-off Rally, a rally for Initiative-164—also called the payday loan initiative—that features comments from state Sen. Carol Williams, Mayor John Engen and others, and begins at noon at the Missoula County Courthouse.

Free.

SPOTLIGHT tap the root Like many of you, my first exposure to The Gourds was its hilarious, countrified take on Snoop Doggy Dogg’s gangsta rap party anthem “Gin and Juice.” At the time, I thought it was an ironic joke, albeit one that sounded pretty darn good. Turns out, these Austin, Texas-bred alt country and bluegrass boys are jokesters but, when it comes to playing music, they don’t mess around. On their most recent release, titled Haymaker!, the group pushes a tried, true and infectious take on American roots music with lyrics that hit on fossils, country girls, lack of sleep, and everything in between. After 16 years of tearing it up, the band has developed somewhat of a cult following here in

WHAT: River City Roots Festival WHEN: Sat., Aug. 28, 10 AM–10:30 PM; Sun., Aug. 29, 10 AM–7 PM WHERE: West Main Street, just off Higgins Avenue HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: Visit rivercityrootsfestival.com for a complete schedule

Photo courtesy of John Carrico

Missoula. Actually, I think it’s safe to say we’re a city filled with Gourds-heads.

The Gourds will strum it up here on Sunday during the River City Roots Festival, the annual two-day party in the heart of downtown that offers free tunes, a juried art show, various activities for kids, local grub, as well as a race for runners and walkers. Besides our stringy friends from Austin, the fest features award-winning bluegrass from Nashville’s The Infamous String Dusters, dusty country from Texan Robert Earl Keen, plus sets by local favorites Broken Valley Roadshow and Tom Catmull, among other slated performers. It’s an excellent introduction for those looking to tap into roots music, and for others, it’s one hell of a family-friendly party.

—Ira Sather-Olson

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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.

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.

Suck down an Afro-Cuban, jazz, hip-hop and funk smoothie when Boulder, Co.’s Salem plays with The Risan Project at 9 PM at the Top Hat. $5.

THURSDAY Television breakdance party. Los Angeles’ Virtual Boy plays electronic music at the Top Hat Fri., Aug. 27, at 9 PM with openers Resident Anti-Hero. $10.

nightlife Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Nor thside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week.

Visit kettlehouse.com.

Tom Catmull and Johnny 2 Bones give your toupee a reason to stay put when they play the Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St. in Stevensville, from 5:30–8 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

This has nothing to with Italian food: Montana Shakespeare in the Parks continues with a performance of Julius Caesar, which begins at 6 PM at UM’s Oval. Free.

Call 243-5590 and visit montana.edu/shakespeare.

Enjoy a night of Southern fried blues from some seasoned songsmiths when The Black Crowes play with openers Jackie Greene and Truth & Salvage Company at Ryan Creek Meadows, 24 miles west of Missoula off of I-90 Exit 130, at 6 PM. $39.50 plus fees.

Visit ticketfly.com for tickets and visit ryancreekmeadows.com for directions. (See Noise in this issue.)

Let former Missoula mayor Daniel Kemmis help connect the dots between prosperity, community livability and sustainability during “Community Livability and the Path to Sustainability,” a lecture that begins at 7:10 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 5435323 and visit sustainablebusinesscouncil.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

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.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: Indonesia is the world’s largest island-based country in the world, and is comprised of 17,508 islands.

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

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

Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Paint it Black”

by The Rolling Stones (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife John Schiever doesn’t plan to impersonate the smooth moves of MacGyver when he plays acoustic

Get vibrant with images of wildflowers and local landscapes when Whitefish’s Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, 305 Baker Ave., presents From the Ground Up, a collection of acrylics on canvas by artist Andrea Brew featured during a Whitefish Gallery Nights reception from 6–9 PM at the gallery. Free. Call 863-ARTS and visit whitefishgallerynights.org for a full list of participating galleries.

Help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas during a fundraiser for the garden that features a live and silent auction, music from Joan Zen, as well as refreshments, from 6:30–8:30 PM at The River Rising Bakery, 337 Main St. in Hamilton. $10 suggested donation. Visit ewambuddhagarden.org.

Get a glimpse into a not-so-awesome mining project when The Peace & Justice Film Series presents a screening of H2Oil, which is a documentary on the Alberta Tar Sands, with the film starting at 7 PM at the University Center Theater. Free, with a discussion following the film. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Watch one man retrace the path of the legendary 1968 expedition to Patagonia by climbers Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins’ during a screening of 180° South:

Conquerors of the Useless, which screens at 7 PM at the theater in UM’s Urey Underground Lecture Hall. $10/$8 advance at the Trail Head.

Local folk rocker David Boone lets his axe rule the night when he plays a solo set of acoustic music at 7:30 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. $10.

Let some Southerners guide you toward Orion when Atlanta’s The Constellations bring it hot with a set of hip-hop mixed with rock at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Locals Luau Cinder open.

Pasedena, Calif.’s FuzZ gets you buzzin’ with a heady concoction of instrumental hip-hop, dubstep, electro and other electronic styles when he plays the Top Hat at 9 P M. $10. Colorado’s The Acidophiles open.

Cure that case of the critter jitters with a serving of Cabin Fever, when it plays at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

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

Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he

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plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.

If you haven’t had the chance to check out Missoula’s Dead Hipster Dance Party, you ought to get yourself down to the Badlander to bust a move on Thu., Aug. 26. That’s because the dance party—which is, by far, the biggest in town—turns three. It ought to be a raucous party, guaranteed. Specifically, you can expect it to be filled to the gills with sweaty souls dancing to

music that veers from floor burning electro-house to old school hip-hop. Also, from what I’ve been told by one of the Dead Hipster DJs, this celebration signals a shift in their musical approach. So expect this duo to step up their game in the next year, along with their track selection. As for now, hit me up with word of your next heel-kicking soiree by kindly sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 27 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.”

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It’s funny how William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream reads much like a modern day soap opera. I mean, it’s got all the soapy elements of one: A bunch of overlapping love interests, deception and dudes threatening to duke it out over a lady.

Shakespeare sure knew how to stir the dramatic love pot. Now, some 400 years after the play was written, it’s considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies and one of his most performed plays.

If you’re unfamiliar with it, here’s a simple rundown: It follows two couples in Athens, Greece, their love and lack of love for each other, and the problems that develop from a trip to an enchanted forest. Along the way, people get dosed with love potion, and a man’s noggin is transformed into a donkey’s head, among other plot twists.

WHAT: A Midsummer Night’s Dream WHO: Montana Shakespeare in the Parks WHERE: University of Montana’s Oval WHEN: Tue., Aug. 31, at 6 PM HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: Visit www2.montana.edu/shakespeare Our state’s longstanding Shakespeare theater troupe, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, stops by UM’s Oval this week to offer its take on the classic tale. It ought to be one heck of a visual feast. Director Joel Jahnke—who also serves as artistic director for the organization—plans to present two distinct worlds to viewers throughout the play.

Specifically, the “real world” of Athens will look monochromatic, while the forest will feature vivid colors and wildly ornate costumes. In fact, characters in the forest ought to look similar to this picture, which features, from left, Christopher Peltier as the mischievous character Puck and Mark Kuntz as Oberon, the King of Fairies.

So bring a blanket and something to snack on, and if you dig what you see on Tuesday night, carve out some time on Wednesday for another fix of Shakespeare when the group performs the tragedy Julius Caesar.

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If you’re all about pushing your bike pedals to the max with gorgeous mountain ranges and vast ranchlands in your vista, I’ve got a cycling offer on the horizon that you won’t want to refuse. In about a month, on Sat., Sept. 18 to be exact, you can bike your heart out for up to 112 miles during Cycle for the Symphony, a bike ride that starts and ends in Philipsburg and whisks you north through the Pintler Scenic Loop, over to Drummond and then on to Deer Lodge, Anaconda and Georgetown Lake. Of course, if a 112-mile jaunt on your two-wheeled friend sounds too daunting, you can also opt for an 85-mile, 50-mile or 25-mile ride, too. Essentially, your legs, and your spokes, are the limit. This ride also doubles as a fundraiser for the Missoula Symphony Orchestra, costs $120, and requires you to also fundraise $50. So start your training engine and click to missoulasymphony.org to sign up. Call 721-3194.

And now, we move back to the present. On Fri., Aug. 27, you can join the few and the proud, who work hard and play hard in the northern reaches of our fair state when you join the final volunteer trip of the summer in the Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area with UM’s Wilderness Institute. This week’s jaunt runs until Sun., Aug. 29, and takes you up Krinklehorn Pass, and, as with previous outings, mapping and monitoring weeds, and taking inventory of campsites, roads, trails and wildlife is what’s in store. Free. RSVP by visiting www.cfc.umt.edu/wi or by calling 243-5361.

Or you could bag some peaks during the Rocky Mountaineers’ sixth annual Glacier Classic, a weekend outing in Glacier National Park that’s overflowing with climbs and hikes and runs from Fri., Aug. 27–Sun., Aug. 29. It’s free, but you should chip in to camp with these mountaineers at the Apgar Camground. RSVP with Forest Dean by calling him at 240-7612 or by e-mailing him at mtnear1@gmail.com and visit rockymountaineers.com for a list of hikes.

Parents who want to run wild and shed some pounds can hit two goals with one class during Run Wild Missoula’s Running Class for Parents, which is open to moms and dads who are eager to train for the Pumpkin Run 5k in October. It begins at 5:30 PM Fri., Aug. 27, and continues each and every Friday until the run on Oct. 16, all at

Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. $50/$25 Run Wild Missoula members. Visit runwildmissoula.org to RSVP. Those aching for another way to give back to Gaia should prepare to get dirty when the Northern Rockies Chapter of Wildlands Restoration Volunteers presents the Heart Lake Campground Restoration Project, which occurs during the day on Sat., Aug. 28, at the lake, located by the Montana/Idaho border near Superior. Once you’re there, you’ll install a pit toilet and repair trails, among other projects. It’s free, but you must register in order to go, so visit wlrv.org/nrockies to sign-up, or email Graham at graham@wlrv.org.

Also, a handful of people will be going up on Friday night to camp out at the lake, so if you’ve got the time, feel free to join ‘em.

Get high without the use of your noxious weed supply on Sat., Aug. 28, when the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club hosts the Trapper Peak Day Hike, a strenuous, nine-mile roundtrip jaunt in the Bitterroots that’s fit for hardcore hikers. The hike itself takes you 3,800 feet up in elevation, so expect eye candy in the form of astonishing views of the surrounding Bitterroot mountain range. Free. The trip is limited to 12 people, so RSVP quickly by e-mailing Mary at mowens320@gmail.com.

Then again, why not show off your sweet cycling shorts during the Leverich Canyon Crank Up!, a mountain bike race on Sat., Aug. 28, that’s between 20 and 5 miles in length (depending on your race class) and occurs in the Gallatin National Forest just outside of Bozeman. Registration is $35 and occurs the day of the race at 8 AM in the Leverich Canyon. Visit teammuleterro.com for directions and a map of the course.

Let your soles take control during the Pine Needle Stampede,

a 5k and 10k race that begins at 9 AM on Sat., Aug. 28, at the Rendezvous Trail System near West Yellowstone. $20, with pre-registration due Fri., Aug. 27. Visit freeheelandwheel.com for a registration form and directions, or register on race day from 7:30-8:30 AM at the Rendezvous Trailhead Building.

Another option to be a super steward occurs Sat., Aug. 28, when Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks hosts the Lower Clark Fork River cleanup, which starts at 9 AM at the Cyr Fishing Access Site, 30 miles west of Missoula off I-90 exit 70. Once there, you’ll pick up trash along the riverbank and surrounding land. Afterwards, stick around for a free dinner. Call 542-5500.

Tap into your running roots on Sun., Aug. 29, during Run Wild Missoula’s River City Roots Four Mile Run/Walk, a race that coincides with the 2010 River City Roots Festival and begins at 11 AM at the XXXX’s on North Higgins Avenue. Once you take off, you’ll run from Alder Street up through the Duncan Drive area, and then make your way back to town through Greenough Park, finishing up on Main Street. $25, with registration from 8:30-10 AM the day of the race near the XXXX’s. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

Finish your week on Thu., Sept. 2, by getting global with a moving picture during a screening of 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless, a film that follows a man who retraces the path of the legendary 1968 expedition to Patagonia by climbers Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins. It screens at 7 PM, at the theater in UM’s Urey Photo by Chad Harder Underground Lecture Hall, and costs $10 at the door or $8 advance at the Trail Head. The screening also serves as benefit for the Montana Patagonia Chapter of the Partners of the Americas.

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Smooth operator Electronic pioneer Kris Moon keeps Missoula bumping

by Erika Fredrickson

Growing up in Sidney, Mont., DJ Kris Moon’s music experience involved taping Casey Kasem’s Top 40 and surfing through radio stations for anything with a good beat. His radio mostly picked up North Dakota stations bombarding the air with a steady rotation of the most popular hair bands of the time, including Guns N’ Roses.

“When my stepbrother and I got our first walkmans, he bought Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction and I bought Young MC’s Bust a Move,” says Moon. “That was where my path started to diverge. I listened to his tapes,

too, but then I went from there to Public Enemy and anything I could find like that wasn’t on the radio.”

In 1990, Moon moved to Seattle to finish high school just as the city’s grunge scene was on the cusp of becoming a national craze. But his most impressionable moment came when he attended his first rave. He says he was blown away by people dancing with wild abandon to music that appeared to be spouting from an elevated DJ booth in the upper corner of the club.

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Laptop Battle, a now annual event that pits 16 DJs in a single elimination tournament for making the best electronic music. Moon would often fly national winners to Seattle to compete in battles, and he developed a handbook for promoters wanting to start up battles in their own cities nationwide and overseas.

“When you’re talking about getting 16 laptop contestants on stage, that’s 16 connections—it’s potentially a technical nightmare,” says Moon. “It’s a huge production.”

When it comes to his own music, Moon has been guided by technology. The turntable system that first attracted him to electronic music seems to be a dying art as more DJs latch onto laptops to deliver music. Moon says there are pros and cons to switching from one to the other. Instead of lugging around crates with hundreds of records a DJ can now fill the laptop with MP3s.

“In the past if you wanted to play a gig you had a crate with, at the most, 100 records,” he says. “Now, I’ve got 15,000. I would have to spend hours loading in that many crates of records to equal what’s on my laptop.”

Moon still uses turntables, though now the records he uses don’t contain music, but rather encrypted info that controls MP3s on his laptop. It’s a hybrid system, bridging the gap between new and old technology.

“I take pride in playing turntables a little bit because, of course, once you reduce it to just the laptop—it’s not to say you’re not doing anything, but sometimes it feels that way,” he says. “I’m not bitter about it. A lot of DJs are and it’s definitely a point of contention.”

Moon’s Laptop Battle idea actually sprouted from the sense that laptop shows needed to be livened up.

“It takes a special type of person to be a performer,” he says. “I’m not dissing on those who are more like studio producers than performers; you can’t blame them for wanting to play their stuff live.

But there’s definitely a feeling that the music is great but there isn’t much vitality to the stage show.”

In the early 2000s, local promoters Chris Henry and Aaron Bolton (now part owners of the Badlander and Palace venues) started flying Moon in to put on DJ Kris Moon built his shows in and around Missoula. In 2008, Moon electronic music career moved to Missoula permanently. He wanted to be in Seattle, helping spearhead the city’s back in Montana’s landscape, he says, even if it meant annual Laptop Battle moving from a city with a larger electronic scene. He and playing various got a job buying music for Ear Candy Music and he different clubs for 15 has a Saturday night show at the Badlander that tends years before moving to Missoula in 2008. to fill up when school’s in. “Dubstep is what the kids like right now,” he says. In general, he leads a pretty Photo by Chad Harder low profile despite all he’s accomplished.

“Every aspect of the electronic music culture and Fifteen years later, Moon has become one of the most respected DJs in the Northwest. He spent years as one of business he’s been top notch at,” says Henry. “That’s rare.

Seattle’s core techno DJs during a time when electronic And that he doesn’t have an ego about it is icing on the music was just finding popularity in nightclubs across the cake. He should have a cult following by now. He should city. In 2006, he won Seattle’s Battle of the Megamixes have crowds of sweaty, hot girls screaming for him.” with a set that included 17 records in 10 minutes.

Kris Moon plays the Top Hat Thursday, Aug. 26, Moon also started gaining a reputation for organizing. at 10 PM, with Jerry Abstract. $3. Moon plays the He accrued three years as the educational coordinator for Badlander every Saturday at 9 PM with Monty Decibel Festival (starting at its inception in 2004), which Carlo. Free. included hosting electronic music clinics and setting up discussion panels. He also helped spearhead Seattle’s efredrickson@missoulanews.com had absolutely no idea what was going on,” says Moon. “I couldn’t figure out how this music was going all night long, so seamlessly. After following Mudhoney, Nirvana and Pearl Jam around for the last few years it was suddenly like, ‘What the hell is this?’ My interest was piqued.”

Moon immediately ordered a pair of 30-pound turntables and a mixer. It took years for him to build a solid record collection, during which time he also worked hard to master the technique of blending and mixing vinyl on turntables for a live audience.

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Caleb Klauder Country Band Western Country Quicksilver Productions

Portland musician Caleb Klauder has always been a bit of a traditionalist. From his early 1990s band Calobo to the active Foghorn String Band, his projects often whisper—and sometimes shout—suggestions of venerable musical traditions.

The same holds true for the newly released Western Country. The album shows signs beyond the obvious CD or MP3 format of being recorded in the past century. Expect, for instance, some electric instrumentation and rock rhythms. Otherwise, that strong traditionalist backbone still supports the album’s meaty vitals.

Western Country mixes Klauder’s own material with covers of signature songs from classic artists like Ray Price

Robert Earl Keen The Rose Hotel Lost Highway

Music-wise, “Americana” is the word of the summer. As much as I love America—I’ve already planted a crisis garden and purchased several gold doubloons—to me, “Americana” suggests a generic mish-mash of watered down parts, the sum of which only adds up to “Ameri.”

On The Rose Hotel, Robert Earl Keen captures the good and the “whatevs” of this purported genre. The good: Keen’s spiffy tribute to Levon Helm on “The Man Behind the Drums” sports a catchy sway-along chorus

The Black Crowes Croweology Silver Arrow Records

As a part-time member of the Black Crowes’ vast audience, I can confidently predict that true disciples will devour Croweology, a sprawling two-disc renovation of already-released material. But if you’re a limited devotee or a complete neophyte who doesn’t know Crowes from Yardbirds, the album risks constructing an aural brick wall with its two-hour bulk.

To its credit, Croweology is a well-conceived, considerate parting gift to fans before the band breaks up for a second indefinite hiatus. Where some widely successful bands would simply crap out a greatest hits compilation from their back catalogue, the Black Crowes have lovingly retooled a glut of secondary numbers, adding a few hit singles like “Remedy” for flavor. To further distin-

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Soft rock is supposed to be easy background noise to a candlelit pasta dinner after which sweet lovemaking happens in front of a fireplace. For those of us who want to hurl at the thought of such clichés, “soft rock” as a label is an insult. Then again, I get suckered in by equally earnest love songs if they’re sung by Sam Cooke or Barry White. So, what’s the difference? It depends on delivery.

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and the Carter Family. Far from fashioning an inconsistent album, Klauder pays respect to his musical heroes while proving he can carry their legacy with capable hands.

The album’s lyrical content moves smoothly from emotional highs to dreary lows. Biblical allusions and everyday woes are enunciated through the artistry of Klauder’s honky-tonk retinue. Despite the band’s proficiency, however, Klauder’s vulnerable singing emerges as a singular presence. It manifests as a world-weary curmudgeon, subsisting on a lonely Saturday night routine of cigarettes and barroom booze before rising early for church on Sunday. (Cameron Rasmusson) Caleb Klauder plays the Top Hat Tuesday, August 31, at 9 PM, with Broken Valley Roadshow opening. $8.

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and dope-as-all-get-out banjo playing, which is outstanding throughout. The high point is Greg Brown’s “Laughing River,” a duet featuring Brown’s low warble that exists solely to make me sad and, here, Keen’s vocal rasp matches Brown’s morosity.

The whatevs: “10,000 Chinese Walk into a Bar,” a joke song about jokes. Like most jokes, once you hear the punch line interest wanes. No worries, Keen keeps ’em comin’. On “Wireless in Heaven” he asks for a “mocha latte ginger jasmine tea” and wonders, “Is there wireless in heaven? Do I need a password to log in when I go?”

Who doesn’t love Starbuck’s and Internet jokes in 2010?

I checked out of the Rose Hotel now and again, but the comfortable beds and banjos brought me back.

(Jason McMackin) Robert Earl Keen plays the River City Roots Festival on West Main Street Saturday, Aug. 28, at 8:30 PM. Free. guish the collection, the band largely dumped electric instruments from the repertoire. The songs convert surprisingly well to the unplugged sound, and in many cases actually improve.

But an 18-minute “Ballad in Urgency” and “Wiser Time” medley doesn’t evoke an embarrassing emotional or physical reaction. Croweology is more a chore than a pleasure to absorb in one sitting. It’s like a decadent dessert: Sweet-tooths will happily consume it, but for some, the full serving is just a bit too much.

(Cameron Rasmusson) The Black Crowes play Ryan Creek Meadows Wednesday, Sept. 1, at 6 PM, with Jackie Greene and Truth & Salvage Company. $39.50 advance at Rockin Rudy’s or ticketfly.com.

Seattle band Brad has got a little bit of the puke-factor and a little bit of soul. The band, which made its debut album in 1993, includes Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard. Best Friends? was recorded in 2006, but released this month, and it’s got some Pearl Jam moments giving its otherwise treacle tone some grit.

Songs like “Believe in Yourself,” with the line, “Never you be afraid. Hey now little angel you’re always gonna be safe,” are just as silly as you can imagine. But others, with equally appalling titles like “Every Whisper” and “One Love Remaining,” don’t suffer from the same cheesiness. Parts of this album put out enough attitude and soulful 1970sstyled guitar to worm their way into the brain and, subsequently, into a cynical heart. (Erika Fredrickson)

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The term “off the grid” can mean many things: persed across 100 square miles; the Dillo Hour, a kind refusal to partake in a nation’s power or water distribu- of rustic currency given for an hour of labor; and a man tion source, political nonconformity, religious self-suf- in upstate New York called the “Sultan of Scrounge” for ficiency, an escape from financial chaos or simple para- obvious reasons, one of which involves “papercrete”, a noia. As in the case of Thoreau, it can denote “a life of resilient concrete poured from recycled paper waste.

The gift economy, a major facet of the Burning simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust,” in which a person drops out of civilization, away from its Man Festival, has supplanted the “doomed” market existential excesses and crises. And, perhaps forecast- economy to hordes of off-gridders, while smoking pot is a strong incentive to hundreds ing the urge to flee the grid, Walt more. Visiting the notorious Whitman wrote, “The secret of Emerald Triangle, the author making the best person: It is to makes the not-quite-startling disgrow in the open air and to eat covery that marijuana sales domand sleep with the earth.” inate the “glocal” community, In Off the Grid, British docwith minor criminals, Russian umentary filmmaker, journalist mafia and gun-toting Mexican and amateur land reformer Nick drug kingpins taking advantage Rosen intends the phrase to of the latent state drug laws to cover a large miscellany of the transform the area into someback-to-nature population as he thing like a balkanized country chronicles the lives of disparate within a country. The dark and desperate people so far off perimeter of survivalism is also grid they’re on another grid altofairly represented, filled with gether. From a former vice presiobsessed, drug-addled lunatics, dent of Urban Outfitters who 9/11 truthers, stubborn conspiraquit her job to be a virtual cy theorists, paranoid libertarirecluse, to a Mennonite ans—the vast, neurotic catalog of machine-tool producer with a those who are convinced that civyearly revenue of $4 million, Off the Grid ilization is collapsing.

Rosen conducts an inquiry into Nick Rosen Unfortunately there are conthe burgeoning outcry for more paperback, Penguin 304 pages, $15 tradictions and prejudices that space and less interference. make Off the Grid intolerable “Most of the people I met on my tour of America,” he writes, “are losing faith in the non-fiction and sometimes worse environmentalist grid…They don’t feel a sufficient advantage to being commentary because of its aloofness from the psychological motives of the off-grid citizenry. The book inside the fabric of society.”

Off the Grid is an adequate peek into the psyche of strives to be too many things at once: quirky guidethe “new survivalists,” a robust movement whose book, survival manual, autobiography—and yet it never unnoticed adherents—spurred by mortgage night- reaches fully into any one genre to be particularly mares, unemployment and societal unease—are informative.

Instead of being inspiring it poses as inspirational, becoming more numerous and outspoken about what they see as a grave “legitimation crisis” in American pol- hounding the reader with an oppressive voice that is itics. Well-stocked with the necessities for surviving and too loud and insistent to have anything remarkable to documenting his cross-country odyssey (laptop, cell say about this remarkable American sub-culture. phone, digital camera, etc.) all tucked compactly in a Although passionate about these individuals who rucksack, along with an endless cache of quotes from embody Thoreau’s idealized seclusion, Rosen is smug Walden, Rosen interviews the overlooked of America, and preachy toward those who do not. There is far too the urban homesteaders, nature zealots and obscure much Nick Rosen to achieve any sort of broad purview.

Additionally, Rosen’s research is often cursory, as multi-millionaires, who, as of 2007, were collectively numbered at 300,000 households in the United States witnessed by the number of times he attempts to interalone. After a highly selective analysis of the corrupt view someone, finds that the person is unavailable and practices of General Electric and its kin, Rosen turns to quickly abandons the enterprise. Mentioning a group the alternatives of the system—power co-ops, micro- of young anarchist land reformers, he hastily remarks grids, solar panels, wood burning stoves and compost- that he spent the night with them in the woods and fails ing toilets, and the difficulties of maintaining each one. to detail anything concerning the ostensibly fascinating Rosen divides his time between a bevy of contrast- encounter. Mostly, it’s his heavy-handed, humorless ing interviewees, such as Davia Derringer, a woman tone that severely undermines any virtue of the book’s who lives trailer-bound in distressed poverty, and eco- ambition, with much of his attention fixated on insubarchitect Mike Reynolds, the man who has built more stantial characteristics of the land and its inhabitants. off-grid residences than any other as the founder of Had Rosen simply allowed his off-grid colonists to Earthship Co., which constructs dwellings completely speak without interruption, the book could have been out of recycled tires. He explores the unconnected a success on every level. town of Big Bend, Tex., where the American Legion is the only bar for 40 miles and whose citizens live disarts@missoulanews.com

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Mommy dearest Slapstick stars keep it dark in Cyrus

by Dave Loos

By my rough count, there can’t be more than eight speaking roles in Cyrus, including three women from the movie’s second scene who are never heard from again and an inconsequential secondary character who hovers in the background. What we’re left with is a tiny four-person ensemble film that looks and sounds a lot like the dialogue-heavy home movies of a stranger.

doting mother does make for a cute couple, and the stalking is what leads to the first meeting between Cyrus and John.

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Everything about Cyrus feels fragile. Even though it’s far from a thriller, I found myself on edge through large portions of the film, worried that such a small fabric of actors and settings wouldn’t be able to maintain dramatic charm, even for a relatively short 90 minutes.

It’s strange to watch a film and feel like you are holding your breath. Then again, Cyrus is a very dark comedy starring two actors known for their slapstick roles. The fear that the film will tumble from its tightrope is a legitimate concern.

Those concerns are only heightened in a characterdriven movie like this, where one over-the-top scene or even a single flat joke can cause a disastrous domino effect. Even a combined six Oscar nominations among the film’s four players guarantees nothing. And while “delicate” may be an odd word to describe anything involving Jonah Hill, here it is more than apt.

Hill plays the eponymous Cyrus, an emotionally needy 21-year-old man-child who still lives with his single mother, Molly (Marisa Tomei). Their relationship is unusual on a number of levels, each one a bit more uncomfortable than the next. By the time it’s established that Cyrus addresses Molly by her real name, that mother and son take daily play dates to the park and that they see nothing odd about wrestling together in public, we are hardly surprised when Cyrus nonchalantly enters the bathroom while Mom is in the shower.

But John—Molly’s new love interest—is very surprised. A 40-something, semi-employed, self-deprecating loner, John (John C. Reilly) meets Molly at a party after being dragged there by his ex-wife Jamie (Catherine Keener) and her fiancé. Yes, seven years after their divorce, John’s closest friend and confidant remains his former wife.

A small suspension of reality is required here if we are to believe that this relationship evolves into more than a one-night stand, and that Molly fails to see red flags when John follows her home on day three. But the combination of the self-described “Shrek” and the

new side to Hill in his first real semi-serious role, and his early conversations with John ooze with subtle sarcasm. John is pretty sure—but not certain—that Cyrus is screwing with him. That uncertainty prevents John from telling Molly his suspicions, but doesn’t prevent Cyrus from stealing shoes, faking panic attacks during intimate moments and playing his mother and her boyfriend against each other. Both actors deserve applause here for reeling in their large personalities.

Their restraint is one of the film’s great strengths.

Reilly is nearly perfect playing a needy man who must keep his guard up. This isn’t Reilly’s first serious role (he played serious smaller roles in 2005’s Dark Water and 2004’s The Aviator) but it’s the first time in a while that he hasn’t played Will Ferrell’s sidekick or a similar slapstick character like Dewey Cox in Walk Hard. It’s a welcome change. Reilly’s facial expressions as he sizes up Cyrus are as good as any of his dialogue.

The film’s style is amateurish by design. The majority of the scenes are shot with a shaky hand-held camera with quick cuts and grainier-than-normal footage. It adds a layer of intimacy that works well in a film where half of the dialogue seems to take place on couches and in beds. My ultra-hip friends tell me that the word for what I’m describing is “mumblecore.” I won’t pretend to have ever heard the term before last week, but it denotes a genre of independent films known for their quickly filmed, low-budget, character-driven dramas that often star no-name actors and are set in the director’s apartment. Last year’s Humpday and 2002’s Funny Ha Ha are the two often-cited examples.

There’s bound to be a backlash now that big stars like Hill, Tomei and Reilly have infiltrated the subculture. So be it. The movie stands on its own—no matter what the label. If mumblecore is to go mainstream, let Cyrus lead the way.

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Scope OPENING THIS WEEK AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION Sam Worthington gets a 3-D makeover as an exMarine whose alien body and human mind is sent to pillage a new planet for its resources. This new, “enhanced” edition features eight extra minutes of unseen footage. Carmike 10: 3:45 and 7:25, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at noon and an additional Fri. show at 11 PM. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 1, 4:30 and 8.

BARBIE: A FASHION FAIRYTALE Isn’t this a reality show on the E! network? Village 6: 1 only Sat.–Sun. GET LOW Robert Duvall goes for an Oscar in this quirky tale of a backwoods nomad who wants to throw his own funeral party. Also stars Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

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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?

Village 6: 7:05, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 9 only, with no 9 shows on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 2:40 and 7:25, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Tue. at 4 and 9:40.

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 10: 6:05 and 9, with an additional Fri. show at midnight and additional Fri.-Sun. shows at noon and 3. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 3:15, 6:10 and 9:10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 12:15. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:30 with an additional

THE LAST EXORCISM A documentary crew films a retiring evangelical minister’s attempt to rid a young girl of a demonic curse much like Missoula County tried to rid the fairgrounds of a free Sunday church service.

Carmike 10: 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 with an additional Fri. show at midnight and additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05 and 9:25 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Tue. at 1:25, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:25.

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two teenaged children have tracked down their biological father, Mark Ruffalo. How exactly Ruffalo inserts himself into the family’s life causes grief for everyone involved. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7, with a Sun. matinee at 1.

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: 7 and 10, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 4:15.

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: 4:10, 7 and 9:35 with an additional Fri. show at midnight and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at

NOW PLAYING CYRUS A critically acclaimed, socially awkward dramedy about every vengeful way Jonah Hill can torpedo the budding romance between his hot mom, Marisa Tomei, and former loser John C. Reilly. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 9, with a Sun. matinee at 3.

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: 4:15, 7 and 9:30, with an additional Fri. show at midnight and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:10. Village 6 in 2-D: 7, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 7 only, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Tue. at 1:50, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30.

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS In this remake of a French farce, rising executive

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

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

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 5 and 9:55 and Mon.–Tue. at 4:15 and 9:40.

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: 4:30, 7:20 and 9:45 with an additional Fri. show at 12:10 AM and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.-Tue. at 1:10, 4, 7:10 and 9:40, with an additional Fri.-Sat. show at midnight.

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

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SUCK This vampire comedy about a rock band that tours across America and Canada probably won’t suck as much as other vampire films, thanks to cameos from vampire slayer Malcolm McDowell and other pale-faced dudes like Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins and funny guy Dave Foley. Carmike 10: Thu. only at 7 and 9:30.

TAKERS Musician Chris Brown is most famous for physically beating his former girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, before the 2009 Grammy Awards. Now, he stars as a different kind of bad guy in this action-packed heist film, which also stars Matt Dillon, Idris Elba (Stringer Bell from “The Wire”) and Hayden Christensen (aka Anakin Skywalker). Village 6: 7:15 and 9:50, with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:35 and 4:20.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Tue. at 1:05, 3:50, 7:05 and 9:30.

and Mon.–Tue. at 1:10 and 7:15.

Someone needs her coffee. The Last Exorcism opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15.

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: 4:30, 7:30 and 10, with an additional Fri. show at 12:15 AM and an additional Fri.-Sun. show at 1:30. 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, 2:30, 5, 7:30 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Tue. at 1, 3:30, 7:15 and 9:45. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7:15 and 9:15.

INCEPTION Director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight and Memento) offers up a strong cup of surrealism in this sci-fi thriller that follows subconscious secret stealer Leonardo DiCaprio as he tries to clear his bad rep with a Herculean task—to plant thoughts into people instead of ripping them off. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 10, with an additional Fri.-Sun. show at 1.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 3:10, 6:15 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Tue. 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

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1:20, 4:05, 6:50 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Tue. at 1:20, 4, 6:50 and 9:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9:05.

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: 4, 7:15 and 9:45 with an additional Fri. show at midnight and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. 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.–Tue. at 1:20, 3:55, 7:25 and 9:45.

SALT Just a few weeks after the U.S. government captured a real-life crew of clandestine Cold War-style Russian spies, Angelina Jolie conveniently stars in this big budget thriller as a CIA operative accused of being a Cold War-style Russian spy. Village 6: 9:45, with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 4:15.

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 ex-boyfriends to score. Village 6: 7:10 and 9:50, with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:35 and 4:20.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 2:30 and 7:25, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight

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. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 5 and 9:45 and Mon.–Tue. at 1:25 and 7:10.

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: 7 and 9:15, with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4. 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.–Tue. 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.

Capsule reviews by Skylar Browning and Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Aug. 27. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm.

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

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In the wake of a rejection, a persistent man might ask a woman out a second time, but you went straight to persistently creepy: bringing roses (in a vase!) and a love letter—a level of romantic effort that’s appropriate when you’ve been dating for six months and have developed deep feelings for each other. Note the words “each other,” and the fact that the only interest this woman has shown is in having you sit in another waitress’ section (ideally, one in the northern Yukon).

Okay, your feelings for her are growing stronger every day—including the feeling that what she wants is beyond irrelevant. Think about how unhappy you’re making this waitress. You’re robbing her of her peace of mind, and if you start going back, maybe even her ability to pay her bills. I get that you have the hots for her, but you don’t even know this woman. What could you possibly have said in that letter you wrote, “I love the way you look when you bring me extra salad dressing”?

Now, maybe you’re afraid of the risks involved in having a real relation-

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You are overdue for a relationship— with a cognitive behavioral therapist, the kind that helps you understand and correct deep irrationalities in thinking and behavior. You’re also way overdue for a breakup with your imaginary girlfriend. No need to say any goodbyes!

Just give her the wordless gift of no more you. Permanently. Because, as you note, life’s too short… to spend a chunk of it in jail, after you not only ignore her feelings but those of the judge that you need to stay 500 yards away from her at all times.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Why should you work harder than everyone else? Why is it up to you to pick up the slack when others are suffering from outbreaks of laziness and incompetence? And why should you be the fearless leader who is focused on fixing the glitches and smoothing over the rough patches when no one else seems to care whether things fall apart? I’ll tell you why, Aries: because it’s the Karmic Correction phase of your long-term cycle—a time when you can atone for past mistakes, pay off old debts, and make up for less-than-conscientious moves you got away with once upon a time.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “What is the source of our first suffering?” wrote philosopher Gaston Bachelard. “It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.” Luckily for you, Taurus, the cosmic rhythms are aligned in such a way as to free you from at least some of that old suffering in the coming weeks. I expect that you will have more power than usual to say what you’ve never been able to say and express a part of you that has been buried too long.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than 2,000 people have climbed to the top of Mt. Everest, and 12 men have walked on the moon. But only two humans have ever ventured to the lowest spot on our planet. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Donald Walsh rode in a bathyscaphe all the way down to the Mariana Trench, which is almost seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Gemini, is to move in their direction, metaphorically speaking. In my astrological opinion, ascending and soaring shouldn’t be on your agenda. It’s time to dive into the mysterious depths.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I propose that we do to Mercury what astronomers did to Pluto in 2006: demote it. After all, it’s smaller than both Saturn’s moon Titan and Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.

Who wants to bestow the majestic title of “planet” on such a piddling peewee? In fact, let’s make the change now, just in time for Mercury’s retrograde phase, which began recently. That way we won’t have to get all riled up about the supposedly disruptive effects this aspect portends. How could a barren runt like Mercury stir up any kind of meaningful ruckus? I hereby declare you free and clear of the whole Mercury retrograde superstition. Please proceed on the assumption that the period between now and September 12 will be an excellent time to deepen and refine your communication with anyone you care about.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A Chinese company reached out to me by email today. “Dear Sir,” the message began, “As the leading professional conveyor belt manufacturers in Shanghai, we present to you our very best sincere regards, desiring to find out if there is a chance for us to be your top-rate conveyor belt supplier.” I wrote back, thanking them for their friendly inquiry. I said that personally I didn’t have any need of conveyor belts right now, but I told them I would check with my Leo readers to see if they might. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you see, you’re entering a time when it makes sense to expand and refine your approach to work. It’ll be a good time, for example, to get more efficient and step up production. So how about it? Do you need any conveyor belts?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Our sun doesn’t really have a name. The word “sun” is a generic term that can refer to any of trillions of stars. So I’d like to propose that you come up with a name for it.

It could be a nickname or a title, like “Big Singer” or “Aurora Rex” or “Joy Shouter” or “Renaldo.” I hope this exercise will get you in the mood to find names for a whole host of other under-identified things in your life, like the mysterious feelings that are swirling around inside you right now, and your longings for experiences that don’t exist yet, and your dreams about the elusive blessings you want so bad.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The odometer will turn over soon, metaphorically speaking. The big supply of the stuff you stocked up on a while back is about to run out. The lessons you began studying a year ago have been completed, at least for now, and you’re not yet ready for the next round of teachings. These are just some of the indicators that suggest you should set aside time for reflection and evaluation. The world may come pounding at your door, demanding that you make a dramatic declaration or take decisive action, but in my opinion you should stall. You need to steep in this pregnant pause.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most discussions on TV news shows involve so-called experts shouting simplistic opinions at each other. They may provide some meager entertainment value, but are rarely enlightening. In contrast to these paltry spectacles were the salons at Paris’s Cafe Guerbois in 1869. A group of hard-working artists and writers gathered there to inspire each other. The painter Claude Monet wrote that their discussions “sharpened one’s wits, encouraged frank and impartial inquiry, and provided enthusiasm that kept us going for weeks… One always came away feeling more involved, more determined, and thinking more clearly and distinctly.” That’s the kind of dynamic interaction you should seek out in abundance, Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the movies I’ve seen that depict battle scenes from hundreds of years ago, every army has numerous soldiers whose job it is to carry festive flags and pennants. If this is an accurate depiction of history, what does it mean? That powerful symbols were crucial to inspiring the troops’ heroic efforts? That touches of color and beauty lifted their morale? That they were more inclined to do their best if inspired to imagine they were participating in an epic story?

Whether or not my theories apply to what actually happened back then, they apply to you now. As you go forth to fight for what you believe in, bring your equivalent of an evocative emblem.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Using a radio telescope, astronomers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have been scanning the center of the galaxy. They’re looking for evidence of amino acids that could be the building blocks of life. So far their hunt has been inconclusive. In my opinion, though, they’ve stumbled upon an even more appealing discovery: The huge dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, they say, tastes like raspberries and smells like rum. That’s the kind of switcheroo I predict for you in the upcoming weeks, Capricorn. You may not locate the smoking gun you’re hoping to find, but in the process of searching I bet you’ll hook up with something even better.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Each one of us is a blend of life and death. In the most literal sense, our bodies always contain old cells that are dying and new cells that are emerging as replacements. From a more metaphorical perspective, our familiar ways of seeing and thinking and feeling are constantly atrophying, even as fresh modes emerge. Both losing and winning are woven into every day; sinking down and rising up; shrinking and expanding. In any given phase of our lives, one or the other polarity is usually more pronounced. But for you in the foreseeable future, Aquarius, they will be evenly balanced. Welcome to the Season of Rot and Regeneration.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Allure magazine sought out Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, the women who wrote the book Perfumes: The A to Z Guide. “What are the sexiest-smelling perfumes of all time?” they asked. Turin and Sanchez said Chinatown was at the top of their list. Their explanation: “If wearing Opium is like walking around with a bullhorn shouting, ‘Come and get it!’, Chinatown is like discreetly whispering the same thing.” The Chinatown approach is what I recommend for you in the coming weeks, Pisces.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning &Grants has received a floodplain application from Lois Welch represented by FSR to work within the Rattlesnake Creek floodplain. The project is located at 2321 Wylie Ave and includes the removal of a 32’ long wood retaining wall..

Copies of the full applications are available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall.

Written comments from anyone interested in City floodplain permit application # 11-02 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., September 10, 2010.

Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-09-16 Department No. 4 Judge Douglas G. Harkin Related Cause Nos. DN-0917, DN-09-18, DN-09-19, DN-09-20 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) FOR Real Estate Negotiation Services Notice to Engineering Consultants: Notice is hereby given that Missoula County Public Works will receive written Qualifications for consultant services to negotiate right of way acquisition for the Petty Creek Road Project.

Statements of Qualifications are to be submitted to: Missoula County Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 and must be postmarked by 10 a.m. on September 6, 2010. The selected consultant will assist the County with the acquisition of right of way in accordance with the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acqusition Policies Act of 1970. Background: The Western Federal Lands Division of the Federal Highway Administration plans to reconstruct a 12.5 mile segment of Petty Creek Road as part of the Forest Highways Program. As part of the project, and in partnership with the Western Federal Lands Division, Missoula County is required to acquire the necessary rights of way

and temporary construction permits to proceed with the reconstruction.

There are approximately 84 parcels that need to be acquired. Proposal Content and Format: 1.. Project Approach: Provide a narrative of how your firm will accomplish the work.

You must demonstrate unique capabilities, innovative approaches, technical skills and systems, or special methodologies to accomplish the work efficiently and to a high standard. Specifically list any work for which you do not have in-house capability, and name the firm you propose to subcontract for that work. Provide a systematic and methodical description as to how the scope of work will be accomplished in language suitable for inclusion in a legal contract.

Particular emphasis will be placed on each firm’s past experience in proactively, objectively and fairly working with property owners. 2.. General Experience: Include a summary of the consultant’s experience and qualifications with projects (dates, description, locations, and references) similar to this type of project. Emphasis should be given to projects performed from the local area office using staff nominated as available for this project.

List specific experience in the acquisition of public rights of way in accordance with federal guidelines. Please note any experience that will ensure this project is developed in the timeline specified. The consultant will be expected to provide services for all phases of the acquisition process including the necessary surveys and documentation to assist property owners. 3. Experience of Key Personnel: Identify the location of the office where the work will be performed and the names and resumes of the key supervisors and staff to be committed to the project. For each of

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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) 258-4780.

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

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

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.

The City of Missoula Design Review Board will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine Street, Missoula, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the following application: 1. A request from Mr. Lee Cox for Special Signs; Review by the Design Review Board, Chapter 20.75.100B.2, Signs as Part of Building for Montana Club Restaurant. The subject property is located at 4561 N. Reserve St. and is legally described as TRACT 2A OF COS 5594, Section 6, T13N, R19W in Missoula County (See Map W).

Project files may be seen at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants at 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Your attendance and your comments are welcome and encouraged. Please send e-mails to hkinnear@co.missoula.mt.us or call 258-3612.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

the key personnel, identity their areas of responsibility and the percentage of their time dedicated to the project.

Outline each individual’s experience in negotiating right of way on projects involving federal aid. Please note that key personnel will be named in the contract and any change will be subject to approval of the Director of Public Works. Proposal Evaluation: Selection of the consultant will be made by a three to five person team selected by the Missoula County Director of Public Works. If needed, questions may be directed to respondents to clarify proposals. Criteria for selecting the consultant include: Points 1.. Professional qualifications, past performance and references: 0 – 30. 2. Clarity of consultant’s response and understanding of the Local Entity’s project requirements:. 0 – 25.

3. Demonstrated Experience in R/W Acquisition: 0 – 35. 4. Local familiarity and availability to project: 0 – 10 Maximum Points 100 The selection committee reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Upon notification the consultant selected, based upon the evaluation criteria, will submit a proposed cost estimate, fee schedule, and a “not to exceed” estimate for all phases of the project with subtotals for each phase.

Negotiations will then be undertaken to reach a fair and amicable agreement. If such an agreement cannot be reached, the negotiations will be terminated and negotiations will be undertaken with the next highest ranked consultant. Submission Instructions: Five copies of consultant’s written proposal shall be submitted to the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT, 59808 on or before 10:00 a.m., local time on Monday, September 6, 2010.

Envelopes shall be clearly marked “Petty Creek Road – Right of Way Negotiations Statement of Qualifications. Questions regarding the project should be directed to Gregory Robertson, P.E., AICP by calling (406) 258-4818 or by e-mail at groberts@co.missoula.mt.us. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state statutes governing procurement of professional services.

Accordingly, Missoula County reserves the right to negotiate an agreement for this project based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

INVITATION TO BIDDERS BIDS will be received by Larchmont Golf Course until September 13, 2010 at 12:00 pm; and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud at 12:01 pm on. September 13, 2010. Each BID must be submitted in a sealed envelope, addressed to Bill Galiher, Larchmont Golf Course, 3200 Fort Missoula Rd., Missoula, Montana 59804. Each sealed envelope containing a BID must be plainly marked on the outside as “Proposals for Larchmont Golf Course Pump System Improvements” and the envelope should bear on the outside the name of the BIDDER, his or her address, and his or her license number. If forwarded by mail, the sealed envelope containing the BID must be enclosed in another envelope addressed to: Larchmont Golf Course, 3200 Fort Missoula Rd., Missoula, Montana 59804. All BIDS shall be submitted on the form provided with the Contract Documents.

Contract documents may be secured from: The Land Group, Inc. at 462 E. Shore Dr., Eagle, Idaho 83616. All blank spaces for BID prices must be filled in, in ink or typewritten, and the BID form must be fully completed and executed when submitted. Only one copy of the BID form is required.

The OWNER may waive any informalities or minor defects or reject any and all BIDS. Any Bid may be withdrawn prior to the above scheduled time for the opening of BIDS or authorized postponement thereof.

Any BID received after the time and

date specified shall not be considered.

No BIDDER may withdraw a BID within seven days after the actual date of the opening thereof. Should there be reasons why the contact cannot be awarded with the specified period, the time may be extended by mutual agreement between the OWNER and the BIDDER. Each bidder will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor. BIDDERS must satisfy themselves of the accuracy of the estimated quantities in the BID Schedule by examination of the site and a review of the drawings and specifications, including ADDENDA. After BIDS have been submitted, the BIDDER shall not assert that there was a misunderstanding concerning the quantities of work or of the nature of the work to be done. The OWNER shall provide to BIDDERS prior to BIDDING, all information that is pertinent to the project being BID. The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS contain the provisions required for the construction of the project. Information obtained from an officer, agent, or employee of the OWNER, or any other person shall not affect the risks or obligations assumed by the CONTRACTOR or relieve him or her from fulfilling any of the conditions of the contract. Each BID must be accompanied by a BID guarantee bond payable to the OWNER for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the BID. As soon as the BID prices have been compared, the OWNER will return the bonds of all except the lowest responsible BIDDERS. When the contact is executed the bonds of the two remaining unsuccessful BIDDERS will be returned. The BID BOND of the successful BIDDER will be retained until the PAYMENT BOND and the PERFORMANCE BOND have been executed and approved, after which it will be returned. A certified check may be used in lieu of a BID BOND. No oral interpretations will be made to any BIDDER as to the meaning of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS or any part thereof. Every request for such an interpretation shall be made in writing to the Architect/Engineer.

Any inquiry received ten (10) or more days prior to the date fixed for opening of BIDS will be given consideration. Every interpretation made to a BIDDER will be in the form of an ADDENDUM to the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, and when issued, will be on file in the office of the OWNER and the office of the ENGINEER or ARCHITECT at least four (4) days before BIDS are opened. In addition, all ADDENDA will be mailed to each person holding CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, but it shall be the BIDDER’S responsibility to make inquiry as to the ADDENDA issued. All such ADDENDA shall become part of the CONTRACT and all BIDDERS shall be bound by such ADDENDA. It shall be the responsibility of the BIDDER to obtain such ADDENDA prior to submitting his or her proposal. A PERFORMANCE BOND and a PAYMENT BOND, each in the amount of 100 percent (100%) of the contract price (with a corporate surety approved by the GRANTEE) will be required to ensure faithful performance of the contract. Attorneys-in-fact who sign BID BONDS or PAYMENT BONDS and PERFORMANCE BONDS must file with each BOND a certified and effective dated copy of their power of attorney. The party to whom the contract is awarded will be required to execute the CONTRACT and obtain the PERFORMANCE BOND and PAYMENT BOND within ten (10) calendar days from the date when NOTICE OF AWARD is delivered to the BIDDER. The NOTICE OF AWARD shall be accompanied by the necessary contract and BOND forms.

In case of failure of the BIDDER to execute the CONTRACT, the OWNER may at his or her option consider the BIDDER in default, in which case the BID BOND accompanying the proposal shall become the property of the GRANTEE. Within ten (10) days of receipt of acceptable PERFORMANCE BOND, PAYMENT BOND and CONTRACT

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signed by the Party to whom the CONTRACT was awarded, the OWNER shall sign the CONTRACT and return to such party an executed duplicate of the CONTRACT. Should the OWNER not execute the CONTRACT within such period, the BIDDER may by written notice withdraw his or her signed CONTRACT. Such notice of withdrawal shall be effective upon receipt of notice by the OWNER. The NOTICE TO PROCEED is scheduled for September 14, 2009. SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION is scheduled for December 31, 2009. Should construction be interrupted by the OWNER and or weather, a time extension agreed upon by OWNER and CONTRACTOR may be granted. The OWNER may make such investigations as he or she deems necessary to determine the ability of the BIDDER to perform the work, and the BIDDER shall furnish to the OWNER all such information and data for this purpose as the GRANTEE may request.

The OWNER reserves the right to reject any BID if the evidence submitted by, or investigation of, such BIDDER fails to satisfy the OWNER that such BIDDER is properly qualified to carry out the obligations of the CONTRACT and to complete the work contemplated therein. A conditional or qualified BID will not be accepted.

Award will be made to the lowest responsible BIDDER. All applicable laws, ordinances and the rules and regulations of all authorities have jurisdiction over construction of the project throughout the term of the CONTRACT. Each BIDDER is responsible for inspecting the site and for reading and being thoroughly familiar with the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS. The failure or omission of any BIDDER to do any of the foregoing shall in no way relieve any BIDDER from any obligation to his or her BID. The OWNER reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive irregularities, to evaluate the bids submitted and to accept the proposal which best serves the interest of the OWNER. The ARCHITECT is: Greg Baer, Irrigation Consultant The Land Group, Inc. 462 E. Shore Dr. Eagle, Idaho 83616 Ph. (208) 939-4041. Fax. (208) 9394445. The OWNER is: Larchmont Golf Course 3200 W. Fort Missoula Rd, Missoula, Montana 59804 Ph. (406) 721-4416 Fax. (406) 721-4435 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No 1 Cause No DP 10 119 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GERTRUDE A. McCOLLUM, a/k/a Trudie A. McCollum, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DONALD L. McCOLLUM, SR., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of August, 2010. /s/ Donald L. McCollum, Sr., Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. 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 abovenamed Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHRISTOPHER KEITH VICK, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 5th day of August, 2010. /s/ Christopher Keith Vick, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV- 10 412 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION AMERICAN GENERAL

FINANCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiff, v.s LARAMIE LOEWEN,, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT LARAMIE LOEWEN: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed 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 Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) 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 Complaint. This action is brought to collect a debt owed by the Defendant to Plaintiff, and to repossess and sell collateral pledged

by Defendant to Plaintiff to secure payment of a loan. Possession and title to a 1996 Toyota Tacoma vehicle is involved in this action. WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL this 18th day of August,, 2010. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST, Clerk of Court ((SEAL)) By: Susie Wall Deputy Clerk Timothy C. Fox GOUGH, SHANAHAN, JOHNSON & WATERMAN, PLLP 33 South. Last Chance Gulch P.O. Box 1715 Helena, Montana 59624- 1715 (406) 442 8560 Attorneys for Plaintiff 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 ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed 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 Cause No. DR-10-572 Department No. 3 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION AND ORDER TO ATTEND MANDATORY PARENTING PLAN ORIENTATION In re the Parenting of Kaydin C. Bristle, Minor Child, Samantha Bristle, Petitioner, and Ricky G. Bristle, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: YOU, THE RESPONDENT, ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you with this Summons, and to file your answer and serve a copy of your answer upon the Petitioner within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. Pursuant to Family Law Section 40-4-226 MCA, the Judges of the Fourth Judicial District have determined that “it is in the best interest of the child” that the parties involved in the dissolution of marriage, the establishment of a Parenting Plan or the amendment of a Parenting Plan (including child support or other actions) attend a PARENTING PLAN ORIENTATION program. This orientation, a free service of the Court, is mandatory for both parents. Information pertaining to your Orientation is as follows: Date: Thursday, September 16th, 2010. Time: 4:30 p.m.

(Orientation will conclude by 6:00 p.m.

Location: Courtroom #3 Third Floor County Courthouse (Old Part of Bldg.) 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana. A District Court Judge or Standing Master will preside over this Orientation along with other facilitators. Your Decree of Final Dissolution or Final Parenting Order will not be entered until you attend this orientation. Therefore, failure to attend this orientation could result in the delay of your Final Parenting Order. DATED this 16th day of August, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Bobbi Hainline, 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 abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims 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 abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to 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. 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 abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patrick E. Duffy, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Tiimothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of June, 2010. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-10-1103 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE IN RE THE NAME CHANGE OF CHAD COLLIN LANDRY, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Chad Collin Landry, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Chad Collin Landry to Chad Collin Ireland, and the petition of the name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 5th day of October, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, in courtroom number 2S. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 19th day of August, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk of Court

PUBLIC NOTICES EXHIBIT B • NOTICE OF BOND SALE • $3,325,000 Open Space General Obligation Bonds, Series 2010 Missoula County, Montana NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners (the “Board”) of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”), will receive sealed bids for the purchase of $3,325,000 Open Space General Obligation Bonds, Series 2010 (the “Series 2010 Bonds”) in the Accounting Office, 1st floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, or bids for the purchase of the Series 2010 Bonds will be received by the County by electronic transmission through Parity™, in either case until 10:00 a.m., M.T., on September 14, 2010. The bids will be opened or accessed and tabulated and presented to the Board at its meeting at 10:30 a.m., M.T., on the same day, in the Commissioners Chambers in the Courthouse.

The Series 2010 Bonds will be issued for the purpose of preserving open space and managing for growth in Missoula County and paying costs associated with the sale and issuance of the Series 2010 Bonds. The Series 2010 Bonds will be issuable in the denominations of $5,000 or any integral multiple thereof of single maturities, and will mature on July 1, subject to redemption as hereinafter described, in the following years and amounts (unless combined into one or more term bonds): Year

Principal Amount

Year

Principal Amount

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

$15,000 75,000 175,000 45,000 50,000 50,000 45,000 75,000 225,000

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028

$235,000 250,000 260,000 275,000 280,000 295,000 310,000 325,000 340,000

Bidders will have the option of combining the Series 2010 Bonds maturing from and after 2011 through and including 2019 and from and after 2020 through and including 2028 into one or more terms bonds. If any Series 2010 Bonds are issued as term bonds, such term bonds will be subject to annual mandatory sinking fund redemption in the principal amount set forth in the foregoing schedule on each July 1, concluding no later than 2028, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount of such Series 2010 Bonds or portions thereof to be redeemed with interest accrued thereon and payable on January 1 and July 1 to the redemption date, in installments and in the same amounts and on the same dates as the Series 2010 Bonds would have matured if they were not included in a term bond.

The Series 2010 Bonds will be issued in “book entry” only form.

The Series 2010 Bonds shall be issuable as fully registered bonds only, shall bear an original issue date of September 28, 2010, and shall bear interest payable semiannually on January 1 and July 1 of each year, commencing January 1, 2011, to the registered owners of the Series 2010 Bonds as such appear in the bond register as of the close of business on the 15th day (whether or not a business day) of the immediately preceding month. No interest rate may exceed five and seventy-five hundredths percent (5.75%) per annum, the difference between the highest and lowest rates of interest shall not exceed four and one-half percent (4.50%) per annum. Each rate must be expressed in an integral multiple of 1/8 or 1/20 of 1%. No supplemental or “B” coupons or additional interest certificates are permitted. The Series 2010 Bonds with stated maturities on or after July 1, 2020 will be subject to redemption on July 1, 2019, and any day thereafter, at the option of the County, in whole or in part, and if in part from such stated maturities and in such principal amounts as the County may designate in writing to the Registrar (or, if no designation is made, in inverse order of maturities and within a stated maturity in $5,000 principal amounts selected by the Registrar by lot or other manner it deems fair), at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof to be redeemed plus interest accrued to the redemption date, without premium.

The County will designate the Series 2010 Bonds as “qualified tax-exempt obligations” within the meaning of Section 265(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

The Series 2010 Bonds will be sold for not less than $3,325,000 with accrued interest on the principal amount of the Series 2010 Bonds to the date of their delivery. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to sell the Series 2010 Bonds at private sale.

A good faith deposit in the form of money, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft drawn and issued by a federally chartered or state chartered bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or a financial surety bond in the sum of $66,500 payable to the order of Missoula County, Montana, is required for each bid to be considered, as further specified in the Official Terms and Conditions of Sale.

Copies of the Official Terms and Conditions of Sale and additional information may be obtained from the County’s Financial Advisor, D.A. Davidson & Co., 8 Third Street North, Great Falls, Montana 59401, (406) 791-7210.

Prospective bidders should consult the Official Terms and Conditions of Sale and the Preliminary Official Statement for a detailed description of the Series 2010 Bonds, the security therefor, and the form of legal opinion proposed to be rendered by Dorsey & Whitney LLP, of Missoula, Montana, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, as bond counsel. To the extent any instructions or directions set forth in ParityTM conflict with this Notice of Bond Sale, the terms of this Notice of Bond Sale shall control. For further information about ParityTM, potential bidders may contact the Financial Advisor, D.A. Davidson & Co. at (406) 791-7210 (Aaron Rudio), or ParityTM at (212) 8495021. In the event of a malfunction in the electronic bidding process, bidders may submit their bids by sealed bid including facsimile transmission to the County’s Chief Financial Officer Andrew Czorny, at facsimile number (406) 721-4043 (phone (406) 258-4919) or to D.A. Davidson & Co. (Financial Advisor) at (406) 791-7315.

Dated: August 18, 2010.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS /s/Vickie Zeier County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer Missoula County, Montana montanaheadwall.comMissoula Independent Classifieds Page C7 August 26 – September 2, 2010

PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-10-56 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DENA MUELLER, 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 months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representatives, Dylan Mueller or Van Mueller, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of August, 2010. /s/ Dylan Mueller, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-10-411 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. JACKY MEYER, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF EARL PRUYN, MINOTT PRUYN, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE ESTATE OF BERTHA PRUYN, JUDY M. GRUNOW AND JANICE N. MCKINNEY, AS TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF NORMAN E. THYFAULT, Plaintiffs, v.

GRIZZLY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY and GEORGE R. BAILEY IV, Defendents.

THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this SUMMONS, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint to Foreclose Real Property. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of foreclosing the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 4 of Certificate of Survey No. 2876, located in the S1/2SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana LESS that portion conveyed to Montana Department of Transportation in Book 504 of Micro at Page 906, records of Missoula County, Montana. AND Tract 1-A of Certificate of Survey No. 2002, located in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

Dated this 17th day of August, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court (SEAL) By: Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk 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 ABOVENAMED 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 SHERIFF’S SALE Stephen S. Ellis, M.D., P.C. et al., PLAINTIFFS vs.

Rick Howell et al., DEFENDANTS, Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Mineral County Cause No. DV 09-64 TO BE SOLD at Sheriff’s Sale on the 29th day of September, 2010, at 10 o’clock a.m., at the Mineral County Courthouse, located at 300 River Street, Superior, Montana, the following real property: The following patented mining claims located in Mineral County, Montana, and commonly designated as lying within Sections 27 and 28: EUREKA, M.S. 6881; ETHEL, M.S. 6882; AMADOR, M.S. 6883; FORTY-NINE, M.S. 6884; BUCKHORN, M.S. 6885; IRON CAP, M.S. 6886, all located in Township 16 North, Range 27 West, P.M.M., Mineral County, Montana. Deed Reference: Drawer 2 of Deeds, Card No. 5468. Parcel No. Reference: 151500 This sale is to be to the highest bidder, for cash, to satisfy a judgment of $216,908.50, together with interest accruing at 14.5%, from April 2, 2010, and continuing until the date of sale, together with associated costs, fees and attorneys fees. This sale is being held in accordance with MCA 25-13-

704(1), upon Writ of Execution entered in the Mineral County District Court Cause No. DV 09-64, and issued July 22, 2010.

DATED this 18th day of August, 2010. /s/ Mike Johnson, UNDER-SHERIFF Mineral County Sheriff’s Office.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200733230, Bk 811, Pg 102, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael L. Padrotti and Traci L. Padrotti, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 of 44 Ranch, Phases 1 and 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 24, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $343,710.17. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $311,224.72, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.72393) 1002.150878-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/25/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200602127, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Scott W. Reagan and Erin M. Reagan was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 135 of Pleasant View Homes No. 2, Phase IV, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for NHEL Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-WF1.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 24, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $164,976.86. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $152,620.68, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance

and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 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 re-recorded 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 non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the ref-

erence. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.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 (“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 non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.09011) 1002.141031-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/27/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200512679, Bk 753, Pg 623, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Eric J. Zarn, Connie Zarn, as Joint Tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for American Home Mortgage was Beneficiary and Stewart Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 3 in Block 2 of West View Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Book 851 of Micro Records at Page 386, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 07/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 1, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $168,711.15. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $154,146.27, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow install-

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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 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.08462) 1002.139086-FEI 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, Pg2043. 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 asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such

portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.Dated: June 4, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On June 4, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota.

Commission expires: 02/23/2013.

Quantum V. Higginbotham 41873.080 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 12, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 29 of Hammond Addition No. 3, A Platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Leslie Largay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006 and Recorded December 13, 2006 in Book 788, Page 1168 under Document Number 200631899. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC Bank, National Association as successor by merger to National City Bank. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,930.21, beginning June 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 19, 2010 is $674,367.73 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $41,572.90, late charges in the amount of $330.16, escrow advances of $3,262.10, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,963.67, plus accruing interest at the rate of $108.55 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 4, 2010 Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097. Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On June 4, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said

County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota. Commission expires: 02/23/2013. National City Mortgage V Largay/leslie 41716.141 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 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 asis, 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 22, 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 1 IN BLOCK 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SUR-

PUBLIC NOTICES VEY NO. 3680, LOCATED IN SECTION 21, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. KARMEN ANDERSON, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH MORTGAGE SERVICES, as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED ON JUNE 9, 2005 AND RECORDED ON JUNE 9, 2005 IN BOOK 754, PAGE 261, UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200513956. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH 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 $724.29, 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 28, 2010 is $83,107.63 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $5,578.46, late charges in the amount of $485.82, escrow advances of $2,792.03, and other fees and expenses advanced of $134.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.23 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 asis, 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 14, 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 14, 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 41392.657 Phh Mortgage V. Anderson/karmen NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 22, 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: A tract of land located in the Southwest onequarter of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 36, Township 14 North, Range 21 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the center of Section 36, Township 14 North, Range 21 West; thence due East on and along the North boundary of Missoula County Route #16 for 330.0 feet; thence North and parallel to the center of section line of said Section 36 for 860.0 feet; thence due West for 330.0 feet to the center of section line for said Section 36; thence South on and along the center of section line for said Section 36 for 860.0 feet to the point of beginning, as shown as Tract A on Deed Exhibit 3836 LESS AND EXCEPT-

ING THEREFROM that portion conveyed

by Warranty Deed to the Frenchtown Irrigation District recorded in Book 120 of Deed Records at Page 157 Recording Reference in Book 172 at Page 68 Micro Records Marcia L Seymour, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WMC Mortgage Corp, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 22, 2002 and recorded August 28, 2002 at 4:18 o’clock P.M., in Book 687, Page 1031, under Document No. 200224636. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the registered holders of GSAMP Trust 2002-HE, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series, 2002-HE. 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 $1,096.88, beginning March 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 June 1, 2010 is $120,347.66 principal, interest at the rate of 7.875% now totaling $3,152.49, late charges in the amount of $143.34, escrow advances of $114.75, expenses advanced of $1669.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.33 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale 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 14, 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 14, 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 Ocwen V Seymour 41495.356 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 22, 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 7 IN BLOCK 7 OF WEST RIVERSIDE ADDITION NO.1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. LESTER A BETTS AND CHERICE R BETTS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH MORTGAGE SERVICES, as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED ON MAY 26, 2005 AND RECORDED ON

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r MAY 31, 2005 IN BOOK 753, PAGE 875 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200512931.

The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation fka PHH MORTGAGE SERVICES. 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 $847.77, beginning March 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 July 10, 2010 is $131,876.97 principal, interest at the rate of 6.000% now totaling $3,446.88, late charges in the amount of $127.14, escrow advances of $839.30, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $394.61, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.68 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 14, 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 14, 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 41392.651 Phh Mortgage V Betts/lester & Cherice NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 25, 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 3 OF MART ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. MICHAEL ANNE LEPOLE, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Home123 Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated January 13, 2006 and Recorded January 18, 2006 in Book 767, Page 1149, under Document No. 200601319. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2006-NC1, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-NC1. 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 $1,213.28, beginning August 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 July 02, 2010 is $164,744.47 principal, interest at the rate of 7.65% now totaling $12,672.06, late charges in the amount of $181.98, escrow advances of $5847.82, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $1249.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.53 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. 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 16, 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 Chase Home Finance V Lepole 41954.440 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 25, 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 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. A.P.N.: 0497003 Eugene Karl Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to

secure an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 1998 and recorded May 13, 1998 at 3:58 o’clock P.M. in Book 541, Page 0296, as Document No. 9812132.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,109.48, beginning January 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 10, 2010 is $97,135.05 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00% now totaling $14,809.79, late charges in the amount of $141.75, escrow advances of $3,469.43, suspense balance of $-233.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $4107.72, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.67 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, 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 16, 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 16, 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 Aurora/schafer

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HOME IMPROVEMENT

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Look to Hoyt Homes, Inc, Qualified, Experienced, Green Building Professional, Certified Lead Renovator, testimonials available. Hoythomes.com or 7285642

CHILDCARE

MOVING & HAULING

Tweet Dreams Childcare in East Missoula is now accepting enrollment.

FT/PT, 5am5:30pm, Monday-Friday. State pay accepted. 549-5727

Vigilante Storage - 4050 W. Broadway-Fenced, lighted, 24hour camera surveillance & resident Caretaker. Indoor ranging from 4’x5” to 20’x30’x18’ & outdoor storage. GATEWEST 728-7333

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PAINTING

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana

541-7387 ANTONIO

Antonio is a big, handsome fellow with a glossy coat, a big smile, and the cutest bobtail you've ever seen! He's longing for a home with more space than his kennel at the shelter, and he hopes to be there SOON!

549-3934 ROO

BLAKE

Blake is full of energy and hoping for a home where he'll have lots of things to do. Give him a job, and he'll be happy forever! Of course, he'd appreciate a lot of love and affection too. All that would be perfect.

Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MTSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays

HOBBS

Hobbs is friendly and smart, which we think is a great combination except when he figures out how to open his outside kennel so he can go visit with the other dogs!

Put a latch on your gate, and you'll be able to enjoy him all the time.

2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd Clark Fork River Market

TOBY

Toby gets along so well with other cats that he usually is allowed to visit with everyone else when we clean the cat room each day. He's a truly mellow fellow who also thinks people are pretty great!

Roo-berry as I like to call her has come so far since her arrival.

She came in a shy, very scared, but obviously very special little lady. Now we get the biggest smiles and even kisses when she sees us! Roo needs a patient, adults-only home where she will finally have the security she needs to blossom.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

BIGFOOT

No, he doesn't look like Sasquatch, but he has some of the biggest feet we've ever seen! That's what you notice about him first, but his mellow personality and friendly manner are actually more important.

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

www.missoulafoodbank.org For more info, please call 549-0543

Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.

C H I L LY

Chilly is getting really discouraged in his quest for a new family.

No one seems to notice this quiet, handsome guy, so he's still languishing in a cage in our cat room.

This boy deserves a really good home!

MERCEDES

Mercedes first won us over with her sad story, but quickly gave us so much more to love!

She's undergone two knee surgeries just to be passed from home to home. Amazingly, none of that has brought her down!

BRUTUS

Before coming to the shelter, Brutus and his doggy friend, and his two kitty housemates, were living in a tent with their owner. Needless to say, things have been a bit strange for Brutus lately.

He's more than ready to move back into a home with some stability and love.

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

HERMAN

Herman is a little 11week-old kitten, with endless spirit. Since he was tiny, he has been a force of nature, zipping and bouncing about fearlessly. He isn't afraid of anything, and promises to bring your family a lifetime of fun!

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NORMA JEAN

Look at how beautiful this cat is; it's obvious how she got her name. She has beautiful blue eyes, and the softest, shiniest white coat, with very unique markings.

She knows she's gorgeous and chooses to live like a princess. Now she's just patiently waiting for her “prince,” someone to come rescue her from the shelter.

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ABBY

Abby has too much life experience to be spending her retirement in a shelter.

She makes the best of it by spending her days lounging on our deck, requesting a steady stream of attention and room service, but of course that doesn't compare to the comforts of home.

237 Blaine • 542-0077

These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4710 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.

COCO

In her desperate attempt to seek refuge from the raindrops that pelted her malnourished body, Coco found herself underneath the only source of shelter in sight—an old box on the ground next to an overflowing garbage bin. Her matted fur was dripping with dirty rainwater, and she was very vocal about her discomfort.

MOO

Life has not been easy for Moo. She spent two years in isolation.

Someone came in weekly and cleaned her litter box and gave her fresh water, but that was the extent of any interaction. When her person finally ended her own life, Moo came to AniMeals.

THE COUNT

He is the most interesting cat in the world. He has dashing good looks, but is somewhat humble and soft-spoken. Everything you have heard about him is true. Other cats aspire to be him. His charm is so contagious, vaccines were created for it. He has led mysterious expeditions that he refuses to talk about.

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

www.missoulafoodbank.org

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For more info, please call 549-0543

105 Ravalli St Suite G, Stevensville, MT 59870 406.777.2141

Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.

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Still a mystery

By Brint Wahlberg, 2010 MOR President A nationally recognized speaker and business consultant was in Missoula recently to provide an update to the Missoula Organization of REALTORS® on what is happening with the real estate segment of the economy, with consumers, and with the real estate industry. A few quick facts: • From its peak of more than 7 million units sold, the current housing market is approaching (at about 4.8 million units) the sustainable level of just over 5 million units. The number taking advantage of loan restructuring has leveled off.

• Consumers are all about lifestyle, relationships, and transparency. They are using social media and mobile apps to achieve each in increasing numbers.

Shadow inventory is a new buzz-word and indicates properties that could be on the market depending on many variables. The number is an unknown factor that could affect both prices and market activity. This shadow inventory will affect each market differently and in ways that is not fully predictable yet.

The information about the market is probably the least relevant.

Those waiting for a market that resembles anything with which they were familiar in the past will be sorely disappointed. The key is to understand today’s reality and make the best decisions possible based on the best information available. Here are a few things to think about in the Missoula market: • This might be a good time for people to “move up” as prices remain steady for homes on the starter end of the scale and may be decreasing on the move-up end.

• More people are choosing to rent. There are good options for investors to consider investment properties while interest rates are low and the pool of renters is high.

• Tools such as ”contract for deed” and ”lease-purchase” may provide options for addressing financing concerns.

• Sellers facing foreclosure or who are severely behind on their mortgage payments may have more options than it seems and need to explore those options sooner rather than later.

• 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 Car Garage • Quiet street in Target Range • Gas fireplace, newer flooring • Fenced yd & landscaping

• Elegant 2bd/2ba condo • Main level living, garden & river views • Hardwood floors - It's a Must See • Compares to $400,000 condos!

MLS# 10005520

2070 Cooper St. #212

Loubelle Wissler

406-240-0753

lwissler@missoulahomes.com

PRICE REDUCED

NEW LISTING

FEATURED LISTING

$189,900

• Today’s transactions require patience and perseverance by all parties involved. Last-second delays in the closing are not uncommon and should be planned for.

There are some song lyrics that express perhaps better than anything else the reality for those now making decisions about real estate transactions: “Yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery.” For those who are willing to give up either a comparison between now and before or a forecast between now and later, there are opportunities, there are options, and there are resources.

One key is to take action based on information that is pertinent and relevant in the Missoula market. The other key is to identify real estate professionals in the local market who know and understand that information. They are the ones who live and work in the community. They make an investment in the community – in the neighborhood – each time they successfully partner with individual consumers to achieve their real estate goals.

$212,900 MLS# 10005768

2181 Amity Missoula

• Remodeled home, 6 acres • Along the banks of Boulder Creek • Acreage is well-maintained • Fencing and outbuildings

$250,000 MLS# 10001460

24 Boulder Creek Rd. Hall, MT

240-SOLD (7653)

Tom Rue (406) 691-6900

pat@properties2000.com • www.properties2000.com

true@blackfoot.net • www.pintlarterritories.com

Pat McCormick

RE/MAX Realty Consultants LLC

Contact Jeff Ellis • sales associate O: 406-203-4143 • C: 406-529-5087

Models open 11:30 - 5pm • Thurs-Mon; by appointment only Tues & Wed.

Walk to restaurants, shops, & theater.

FHA & VA Financing Available

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RENTALS APARTMENTS 118 West Alder- Historic Park Place Hotel at the heart of downtown –Secured entry, Studio units now offering newly remodeled loft style living with great views, coin-ops and flat rate for gas heat. Rent $525-$595.

Contact PPM for rent specials.

721-8990 2027 Sussex, 2-bedroom, 2nd floor, by the mall, built-ins, $575, GCPM, 549-6106, gcpm-mt.com

tional deposit/ documents.

Contact PPM for rent specials.

721-8990 3714 W. Central #4 $650 2bd/1ba, Target range, hk-ups, carport, Pet? Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

DUPLEXES Downtown Apartment 1 Bedroom Apt in a duplex, downtown, 2 blocks off Higgins, offstreet parking spot, $600/mo or $550 with no pet. 728-4514.

HOUSES

COMMERCIAL

1360 Dickinson- 3 bed 1.5 bath Duplex - $1200/$1200 dep.

G/S paid. D/W, washer/dryer, patio & storage. Pet on approval. Gatewest 728-7333

725 W. Central: Single room office “L” shaped Heat, A/C,

2039 10th: 2-bedroom, basement den, dishwasher, hookups, pets OK, garage w/power, $1025, GCPM, 549-6106, gcpm-mt.com

1&2

Downtown Studio office storage warehouse available, various sizes & prices. Contact 239-2206.

UTILITIES PAID Close to U & downtown

Management Services, Inc. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7

Bedroom FURNISHED, partially furnished or unfurnished

549-7711 Check our website! www.alpharealestate.com Jane's

2405 Leo – D $675 Heat Paid!!!

2bd/1ba, DW, coin-ops, offstreet parking. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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3320 Great Northern Apartments-Rent $495-$575 up to 2 cats considered w/ addi-

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

FIDELITY 251- 4707 1 BD 109 Johnson $465/mo.

2 BD APT Uncle Robert Ln $620/mo.

3 BD House 123 Hearth Ct. $1120/mo.

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RENTAL WANTED Returning student seeking garage studio/study space. U District preferred. 880-2307

MHA Management An affiliation of the Missoula Housing Authority 330 N. 1st St. W. 3 BR-$930 plus $975 deposit all utilities paid 149 W. Broadway 1 BR $450 +$475 deposit/heat paid 2BR $550+$575 deposit/heat paid

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226 S. Catlin 2 bedroom-$575 plus $600 deposit

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3245 Home Harvest Loop 2 bedroom-$660 all utilities included plus $685 deposit

Gene Thompson president

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ROOMMATES

4 BD House 2036 13th St. $1320/mo.

422 Madison • 549-6106 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

utilities paid. 2 Blocks north of Sentinel High School, X street Bancroft. Move in Special GATEWEST 728-7333

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Seniors/disabled persons only: 1225 34th St.-1 bedroom-$525 plus $550 deposit 1225 34th St. 2 bedroom-$625 plus $650 deposit Some restrictions apply.

For more information contact MHA Management at 549-4113

Grizzly Property Management, Inc. "Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

1601 South Ave West • 542-2060 grizzlypm.com

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 10250 Valley Grove Dr., Lolo MLS#902264 - $289,000 Beautiful 2 bed, 2 bath, artsy log home on 1.84 acres 5 minutes from Missoula - Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

2 Bed, 1.5 bath adorable home completely remodeled. Seller will put a wall up in the bonus room upstairs to make into a 3rd bedroom. $145,000 MLS # 10002211. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com 2663 Stratford, Target Range MLS#907889 - $212,000 Well maintained 3 bed, 2 bath ranch with fenced yard. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 car garage. Great horse property on 15 acres. Large kitchen and dinning area overlooking meadow and pond. Double garage has apartment with sepa-

rate door on back side that rents for $525 per month. $319,900, MLS# 10004041. 19655 Mullan Rd. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. Montana Preferred Properties.

3322 B Connery Way MLS#908163 - $191,000 Unique 3 level condo. 2 bedrooms, plus loft & 3 bath. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. On acre west of Frenchtown. Main bathroom remodeled. Gorgeous yard w/ small pond. $230,000 MLS #907392. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com

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.

3 bed, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage.

Huge living room. New tile floors, and roof. Comes w/ garden & fruit trees. $275,000 MLS #10004073.

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

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 4322 Capy Ln. - MLS#904419 $435,000 Wonderful executive style 4 bed, 4 bath home on 1 acre lot. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816.

Attractive townhome on Clark Fork River, close to trails. Newly painted interior, new flooring, end unit! 2 Bed, 1.5 Bath, Garage and Basement. 1401

Cedar St. #17, Missoula. $127,100. MLS#10001861.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507

close to walking trails, parks, wilderness area, Rattlesnake Creek. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

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

BRAND NEW 3 bedroom home ready to move in. Priced in the mid $160,000’s. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906.

Beautiful 3br/3ba home in a beautiful setting in desirable Lincoln Woods neighborhood

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

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REAL ESTATE 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, www.1018Third. info $174,900 546-4797 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 sch ools, shopping, & services. 421 Burlington Avenue. $249,000.

543-0761/396-1095.

No agents, please.

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 East Missoula land & home 2BRM 1BA mobile $79,000 AREA REALTY 406587-0053 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, #1 & #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 @ 239-6696, Text

Mindy8 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS SETTING ON 16.5 ACRES. Beautifully updated 3 Bdr/2 Bath Potomac area home. Great floor plan, large deck and covered porch, very private and quiet setting, tons of wildlife, trees and pasture. $239,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy15 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS TARGET RANGE HOME ON 0.94 ACRES. 5 Bdr/3 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. Close to schools, shopping, and the Bitterroot River. $469,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com Hillview Acres - MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Acreage in

Helena area. Zoned for cemetery. Anne Jablonski - Wind ermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Huge Price Reduction Lot 1 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905530 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for $160,000 2.87 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Huge Price Reduction Lot 2 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905531 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for $160,000 2.25 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 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 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 Moving to Missoula? Research is what I do. Email me your wish list, we’ll look high and low for your new place.

Celia Grohmann, Broker, Banana Belt Realty, celia@montana.com.

NHN Applegate & Prarie Rd., Helena - MLS#809493 -

$2,500,000 - Great investment to get in at the very beginning of a cemetery development. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Nice, 2bdrm, 2 bonus rooms, fireplace, family room, walkoutdaylight 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 PUT IN - Peaceful 3bed/2bath treetop retreat, nestled in the woods on 11.64 acres on Cedar Ridge, 15 minutes from downtown. 9625 Cedar Ridge Rd. 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 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 Seller Motivated! 3 acres fenced & ready for horses. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, modular home on a permanent foundation. 24x18 outbuilding, beautiful views. 499 Grandview, Stevensville. Price reduced to $170,000. MLS# 10002488.

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

Montana Preferred Properties.

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

RICE TEAM

The Realtor® Who Speaks Your Language

Rochelle Glasgow

544-7507

370.7689

Janet Rice • 240-3932

glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

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6107 Brusett - Gorgeous Martz Built Home!

• 4 bed, 3 bath, 3 car garage • Vaulted ceilings, fenced back yard • Large family room w/ wet bar •Landscaped yard w/ sprinklers • $299,900 • MLS # 10005422

53 Brookside • 2 bed, 2 bath, beautiful condo • Cathedral ceilings and plenty of natural light • Large kitchen, spacious living room • Master bath w/ walk-in closet & deep soaking tub • $325,000 • MLS # 10000721

1375 Woodhill Court • 2 bed, 1 bath, charming home • River access and wetland frontage • Mountain views from back deck • 10 minute drive from Missoula • $195,000 • MLS # 10004174

979 Eaton • 4 bed, 2 bath, 1 car garage • Centrally located home • Large living room & family room in daylight basement • $174,900 • MLS # 10004809

Lara Dorman Realtor GRI

406.531.5582 laradorman@aol.com

GREAT INCOME PROPERTY

PRICE REDUCED $349,900 MLS # 10004880 Lovely property with 360 views on 3.22 acres in Bitterroot Valley. Trees, landscaping, multiple decks and large SHOP, plus 4 bed 3 bath home. Did I say SHOP?

$379,900 • MLS# 10004704 234 Edith, Missoula owner financing available This charming 6-plex is across the street from the Orange Street Food Farm, parks, and within easy biking or walking to the University and downtown. You can't beat the location. Very nice neighborhood and well maintained units. Low vacancy rate.

AFFORDABLE LIVING CLOSE TO U

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MLS#'s 10004276 / 10004273 / 10004274 Priced starting at $143,900 Assume Contract for Deed! Buy one condo or all three!

You can't beat this price and live so close to downtown, WALKING distance to the university, Dairy Queen, Caras Park, Bonner Park! These sweet condo's are nestled in the perfect location for all Missoula has to offer. Very well maintained: new windows, new hot water heater, new roof, u/g sprinklers.

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Robin Rice • 240-6503

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

514 W. Spruce St. • $269,000 1920’s era house has been revamped while retaining all of its original charm. Updated electrical, plumbing, handicapped accessible bath, security alarm, offstreet parking, underground sprinklers, and air conditioning in harmony with original bullseye woodwork, mahogany flooring, high ceilings, and all right downtown on West Spruce. Zoned B2-2 for a variety of commercial or residential uses. MLS#10001940

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

Brand new carpet just installed. Come take a look!

Mary Mar ry R E A LT O R ® , B r ok er 406-544-2125 • mmarry@bigsky.net

www.marysellsmissoula.com

REAL ESTATE

Spacious, light-filled Upper Rattlesnake Home, 2 Fireplaces, 2 Bedrooms & 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths, a really nice big backyard with patio. #8 Columbine 3278787 porticorealestate.com SPECTACULAR BITTERROOT VIEWS. Gorgeous 3 Bdr/2 Bath Stevensville area home on 10 acres. High ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, fireplace, spacious master bedroom, deck with hot tub, and much more.

10005008 $65,000 559 Speedway next door 802908 $112,500 1400 Burns Unit #3 10005053 $117,900 2200 Garland #34 907112 $119,000 17467 W Nine Mile 10005937 $127,000 1401 Cedar Street #1 10005438 $127,000 1401 Cedar Street #5 10002054 $127,000 1401 Cedar Street Unit 12 10004276 $143,900 201 North Ave. West 10000109 $158,500 605 College Street 10005007 $159,500 559 Speedway 10004274 $159,900 2001 Lester 10005014 $165,000 1951 S 12th W 10004059 $189,900 214 Ridgeway Drive 10002538 $189,900 2419 Wyoming 10004117 $195,000 966 Discovery Way 906997 $215,000 810 Swan Lane 907520 $229,900 135 Kensington

$489,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy19 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3 bed 2 bath home Centrally Located. Priced under appraisal at $165,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906

OFFERS. They are motivated to sell! 11815 Bench Rd, Missoula. $449,000. MLS# 10001348.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507

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

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

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

10005400 $249,900 4220 South Avenue West 10000629 $274,900 8 Columbine Rd 10005829 $283,000 11574 Stolen Rock 10003473 $295,500 433 Plymouth 10001866 $309,900 231 S Grove St 10001830 $309,900 231 S Grove Street 10001829 $349,500 211 S Grove Street 10005416 $367,000 9625 Cedar Ridge Rd 10001637 $369,900 909 Herbert 10003626 $379,500 3900 Fox Farm 10004704 $379,900 234 Edith 10004485 $399,000 140 S 4th Street W #5 10004058 $449,500 18815 Remount Rd 803924 $535,000 2348 River Road 10005052 $569,000 124 Edge Drive 10005734 $599,000 XXX Private Road 10001831 $679,500 211 & 231 S Grove Street

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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

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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

PRICE REDUCED! Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson.

Meadow with trees & pasture.

Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. $174,900.

MLS#906774. 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@

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 available: 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

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

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL REAL ESTATE LENDING WITH A CONSCIENCE. Private funding for secured legitimate “Non-Bankable” Loans with substantial equity. Cash for “Seller Held” contracts and mortgages. Creative Finance & Investments, LLC, 619 SW Higgins, Ste 0, Missoula, MT. 59803. 800999-4809 MT. Lic #000203

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