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nside Cover Story Most of the Montanans who killed a wolf during last year’s inaugural hunting season viewed the shooting more as predator control than as a true “hunting” experience. But the stage has been set for a change.

Among the wolf hunters is a small but growing conCover illustration by Kou Moua stituency that sees the animals neither as the sacred burning heart of nature nor as mangy and murderous vermin that deserve extermination. Instead, they view wolves as wild game animals, a quarry worthy of respect— maybe, someday, even protection ...........................................................................14

News Letters Tester’s forest bill, political endorsements (and attacks) .............................4 The Week in Review Wolf hunt quota, graduation and wildfires.............................6 Briefs Un-speedy trial, marijuana on the rez, and Big Sky on the big screen...........6 Etc. Make way for the big rig parade..........................................................................7 Up Front Blackfoot corridor renewal mired in controversy......................................8 Ochenski The Land Board brazenly oversteps its power........................................10 Writers on the Range Bees tell us how little we know of nature ..........................11 Agenda The Missoula Writing Collaborative’s spring soiree....................................12

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday morning near the intersection of Broadway and Higgins.

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Q:

Assurances are here

This week Hal Herring writes that the best way to maintain a healthy population of wolves in Montana is to hunt them. Do you agree?

Follow-up: How has wolf reintroduction impacted you?

Kalyn DesRosier: I think hunting is instrumental in managing the population so long as the hunters are working together with the scientists and have a common goal. Easy for you to say: It hasn’t. I don’t have a family with a career in agriculture.

Dale Jones: I don’t like the hunting of animals of any kind—unless they’re attacking people. Canine compassion: Not at all, but I’m glad they did it.

Former Congressman Pat Williams said it well at the panel discussion concerning Sen. Tester’s forest bill on April 8. “This is the first [wilderness] meeting in 30 years where there weren’t pickets outside and 400 people in the room,” he said.

The fact that this bill creates new political space for Montanans to converse, and more importantly, to advance actual solutions for public land management is reason enough for some people to get behind Sen. Tester. Others however, have needed some assurance that logging measures won’t have negative consequences on the ground or that the Forest Service won’t be trumped by local initiatives.

Those assurances are arriving. At the panel discussion on April 8, Tracy StoneManning made it clear that “mechanical treatment” would be defined in the legislation before it passed. That’s been a major concern of some critics and a small stumbling block in the way of progress. Thank goodness it’s being addressed alongside other concerns.

All Montanans should recognize that we can ill afford to fail on this one. A collaborative effort like this one is uncommon and may not be easy to conjure again if this bill is stalled.

Nathan Kimpell Missoula

Let the endorsements begin For the past eight years, Beth Baker and I have served on a committee in Helena to increase access to justice for all Montanans, regardless of income.

Beth has volunteered hundreds of hours to this cause, despite her busy law practice. In her 25 years of legal experience, Beth has handled more than three dozen cases before the Montana Supreme Court and federal appellate courts.

Without question, Beth possesses the qualities required to sit on Montana’s Supreme Court—a deep respect for the constitution, comprehensive knowledge of the law and independent thinking.

Beth knows that the law matters—that the Supreme Court’s decisions impact the daily lives of all Montanans. She is dedicated to the idea of public service,

Nate Talley: I wouldn’t kill a wolf. I think killing for sport is ridiculous. Population control is one thing, but I don’t get doing it for sport. Witness to wildness: If they hadn’t been reintroduced I wouldn’t have had the experience in Yellowstone where a wolf was running down the middle of the road and we were behind it in our car. It wouldn’t move.

It was cool to be so close.

Glen Williams: I think they should be. We have to get rid of wolves—they’re taking all the ranchers’ cattle. They’re no good.

Darn varmint: Not at all. I’m not a rancher.

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and would make a fine addition to the five men and one woman who currently serve on the court. Please join me in voting for Beth Baker on June 8!

Amy E. Hall Helena

Montana. He’s only spent three years as a working adult in Montana. The rest of his time was spent out of state or still in school.

Does anyone else have trouble taking him seriously?

Jennifer Wagner Billings

Deadline approaching

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Tyler

[Gernant] doesn’t have a stake in Montana. He’s only spent three years as a working adult in Montana. The rest of his time was spent out of state or still in school.

Does anyone else have trouble taking him seriously?

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And the attacks Let me see if I can get this straight.

Tyler Gernant, candidate for U.S. Congress, was born in Montana, and left Montana when he was 4 years old. Then he returned to Montana in 2004 to spend three years in law school. This means that he’s been out of school for three years.

Tyler doesn’t have a stake in

Farmers and ranchers who want to get in on the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) this year have less than a month to apply at their local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office. The CSP rewards farmers, ranchers and forestry producers for maintaining existing conservation practices and for adopting additional practices on cropland, grassland, improved pasture, rangeland, non-industrial private forestland and tribal lands. A supplemental payment will also be made for those willing to adopt resource-conserving crop rotations. This program pays producers for clean water, better soil management, improved habitat, energy efficiency and other natural resource benefits.

The CSP is a continuous sign-up program that has periodic cut-off dates for ranking applications—and June 11 is the deadline for this year. Applications can be filed at your local NRCS office in Bozeman.

The Center for Rural Affairs is also encouraging farmers, ranchers and others to call the Center’s Farm Bill Helpline to learn more about the program and application process as well as to share information on barriers farmers and ranchers encounter during the sign-up.

Potential CSP applicants can call the Farm Bill Helpline at (402) 687-2100 or send an e-mail to tracib@cfra.org.

The CSP has had a tremendous national impact on conservation practices on working lands, with 13 million acres enrolled across the country.

John Crabtree Center for Rural Affairs Omaha, Neb. Correction: A photograph of Sportsman’s Bar that appeared in last week’s “Happiest Hour” column should have been credited to Carter Young. The Indy regrets the error.

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

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by Cathrine L. Walters

A day before Missoula’s new anti-discrimination ordinance takes effect, Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent nixes Not My Bathroom’s third attempt to initiate a citywide vote aiming to overturn it. He says the wording still doesn’t conform to legal requirements.

• Thursday, May 13 The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission votes to increase the wolf quota for this year’s hunting season to 150, 186 or 216 animals, up from last year’s quota of 75. The final number will be decided in July after a public comment period.

• Friday, May 14 University of Montana junior Jason Flemmer wins the javelin title at the 2010 Big Sky Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Ogden, Utah, giving the Griz men’s track and field team its first Big Sky indoor or outdoor champion in three years.

• Saturday, May 15 Sustainability is all the buzz at Missoula’s second annual Garden City Localfest in Caras Park, featuring a host of local bands and Seth Warren’s bio bus “Baby.” At the nearby Brennan’s Wave, kayakers participate in the 12th annual Best in the West kayak competition, with Missoulian Kevin Brown placing first in the men’s.

• Sunday, May 16 Afternoon winds turn a Lolo landowner’s controlled burn into a 10-acre wildfire in Sleeman Gulch off Highway 12, sending up a large cloud of smoke over the Blue Mountain Recreation Area. Crews from Missoula, Florence and Three Mile and a Department of Natural Resources and Conservation helicopter contain the blaze.

• Monday, May 17 In the early morning, Dillon M. Stiles, 18, allegedly enters Frenchies Convenience Store in Frenchtown, brandishes a handgun and demands cash, and his accomplice, Larry J. Walsh, also 18, takes the money.

They abscond in a pickup driven by two 17-year-old males, and soon after all four teenagers are arrested.

• Tuesday, May 18 Firefighters, including the 20-person hand crew from the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, contain a 97-acre wildfire, known as the Hot Boot Fire, northeast of Ovando. The blaze, which ignited Saturday, is believed to be human-caused.

The weather cooperates as more than 3,000 new University of Montana graduates take part in the school’s first commencement ceremony outside on the Oval rather than in the Adams Center. Longtime President George Dennison, retiring in August, gives the commencement address.

Court Un-speedy trial Blaming a backlog at the Missoula Municipal Court, Judge Robert L. Deschamps III this month threw out a case because the defendant didn’t receive a speedy trial.

“The delay…can only be attributed to institutional delay caused by extraordinary case load congestion and lack of judicial resources in the Missoula Municipal Court,” Deschamps wrote in a May 6 opinion.

The case Deschamps refers to involves Edward Crossfield, cited Feb. 13, 2009 for his second DUI and three other charges. State law requires that individuals receive a trial within six months of being charged. In this case, nearly nine months elapsed before the defendant’s attorney requested the case be dropped because the court didn’t meet the deadline.

Municipal Court Administrator Pat Morgan says Crossfield’s case highlights broader challenges.

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plead not guilty anymore,” she says.

Plus, she adds, defendants often don’t show up for court dates, leaving valuable openings in the court’s calendar wasted.

“If a defendant doesn’t show or wants more time,” Morgan says. “then ‘speedy’ goes away.”

That was the case with Crossfield. According to court records, he didn’t show up for a mandatory pretrial hearing scheduled for May 26, 2009. The court sent him notices advising him of subsequent court dates. Those notices came back unopened.

Months elapsed. Then on the day before Crossfield’s Nov. 5 trial, the defendant’s attorney, Scott Shefloe, filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing the court’s violation of the speedy trial rule as legal rationale.

“There was a disagreement as to who was at fault,” Shefloe says.

The case went up the judicial chain to the District Court. Once there, Deschamps acknowledged Crossfield could very well have been gaming the system. Even so, the court had to abide by the law. Deschamps says the court failed to use tools

available to enforce court obligations, like trying defendants even though they are absent or issuing warrants and then clearing the court’s calendar when absconders are brought in.

Morgan says her department is now trying to identify additional timesaving measures. Other than that, they’ll just keep plugging away.

“We do the best we can,” Morgan says. “It’s quite the juggling act.”

Jessica Mayrer

Marijuana Tribes just say no The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal (CSKT) Council’s decision this month to ban medical marijuana on the Flathead Indian Reservation has caregivers sorting through a legal haze.

“Smart caregivers are trying to figure out what the legal nuances are,” says Tom Daubert, founder and director of Patients and Families United, a statewide support group for patients who use medical marijuana.

The ban only applies to tribal members and

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recognized American Indians from other tribes within reservation confines. Once tribal members leave reservation lands, state law applies. That leaves indigenous medical marijuana patients with a legal window.

At least three members of Daubert’s caregiving organization, Montana Cannabis, live on the reservation, and he’s consulting with an attorney to discern if caregivers can legally supply medical marijuana to tribal members outside reservation boundaries.

CSKT spokesman Rob McDonald says caregivers on tribal land providing the drug to tribal members will be subject to criminal prosecution. But once American Indians leave reservation confines CSKT jurisdiction ends. Therefore, if, for instance, an enrolled tribal member with a medical marijuana card purchased the drug in Missoula and used it there, they’d be in the clear.

“I think it’s 100 percent legal,” McDonald says.

Tribal officials say CSKT banned the drug because Montana’s medical marijuana law makes it just too tough to monitor cannabis use on the reservation.

“Anybody in a sense can be a provider,” says CSKT Police Chief Craige Couture of the state law’s language allowing people who aren’t trained in prescribing drugs to grow and distribute marijuana. “That’s kind of scary to me…It’s like, ‘Whoa, hold on here.

We have no controls.’”

The ban also aims to curb drug tourism.

Too often, Couture says, unsavory people come to the Flathead Reservation from other areas to purchase marijuana. To deter that and other unintended consequences that come with legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, he says tribal officials felt compelled to keep it illegal.

“We’re not looking to be mean to people,” Couture says.

Jessica Mayrer

Film Big deals for the Big Sky The description of Animal Planet’s upcoming reality series “Last American Cowboy” sounds like something off the jacket of a Louis L’Amour novel— an “epic adventure” about ranchers braving “freak storms” and “deadly outbreaks of disease.”

The kicker, at least for Montanans? It’s the first television series filmed exclusively in the old home state.

“The original concept was more like the cowboy out on the range getting attacked by bears and wolves and so forth,” says Sten Iversen, manager of

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the Montana Film Office (MFO). “We were like, ‘This isn’t quite as realistic. There are dangers and this is a challenging lifestyle, but if you come out and meet these folks you’ll understand a bit better.’”

Iversen extended that invite to producer Robert Curran of Base Productions, the show’s creator, three years ago. The first season of “Last American Cowboy” begins June 7—the culmination of eight months of shooting on three separate Montana ranches. If the ratings are good, Iversen says, Montana could be hosting a second season.

Since the Big Sky on the Big Screen tax incentive passed in 2005, nearly 500 commercials, television shows and feature films have been lured to Montana.

“Montana is a great equalizer for film,” says Cyndy Andrus, vice president of marketing for the

Bozeman Chamber of Commerce. “We have everything. We have prairies, cowboys, beautiful scenery.

We’re able to offer [film] companies a lot.”

Here’s the draw: A 14 percent tax refund on resident crew and talent salaries, and a 9 percent refund on in-state production expenses. Montana was the tenth state nationwide to pass such an incentive, and 33 other states have since followed.

It’s proven to be a boon for Montana as well.

Between 2005 and 2009, Montana’s film industry revenue totaled $25.4 million, money that Iversen says went mostly to residents hired onto film crews.

“We tend to be able to crew-up entire films with Montana residents,” Iversen says. “Generally the director [and] the producer comes in from out of state…Other than that, we have every position available—hair, makeup, grip, electric.”

And, of course, hardy ranch folk ready to show reality TV how the Big Sky State gets things done.

Alex Sakariassen

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Otter Creek Enviros file suit Last week a handful of environmental groups launched the first legal salvo in their attempt to stop the mining of a half billion tons of coal beneath the Otter Creek Valley in southeastern Montana—an amount that would nearly double the state’s current annual coal production.

On May 12, the Northern Plains Resource Council and the National Wildlife Federation filed suit against the Montana Land Board arguing that the board’s decision in March to lease 570 million tons of coal to Arch Coal, Inc. should have been preceded by adequate environmental review.

Then, on May 13, the Montana Environment Information Center (MEIC) and the Sierra Club filed suit alleging that the board failed to consider the mine’s potential impacts on climate change.

“Our lawsuit and Northern Plains’ lawsuit are essentially arguing on the same constitutional grounds,” says Mike Scott of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. “But we’re arguing that one of the things that needed to be considered before leasing the coal was its potential impacts on climate change.”

Steve Running, University of Montana professor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, calculates the combustion of Otter Creek coal would result in about 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the life of the mine, 50 times Montana’s total current annual emissions.

Attorney Jenny Harbine of Earthjustice, the firm representing the Sierra Club and MEIC, explains that at the core of both lawsuits is an attempt to overturn the Montana Legislature’s decision in 2003 to exempt such leases from Montana Environmental Policy Act review.

“We have challenged that exemption as a violation of the state’s constitutional obligation to protect the environment from unreasonable degradation,” she says.

Harbine says removing the exemption is crucial because the lease stage is when the state has the most authority to avoid or mitigate environmental impacts. It could, for example, attach conditions requiring that coal be sold to carbon-sequestering coal plants.

“If the elected officials on the Land Board are serious about limiting Montana’s contribution to the global warming problem, then those are exactly the kinds of alternatives they should be considering,” Harbine says. “Barring that, they should keep the coal in the ground.”

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Out of 16 local businesses failed alcohol compliance checks by the Missoula Police Department last week. The failure rate has increased since April’s compliance check, when only two of 22 businesses served alcohol to minors.

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How fitting that a barrage of comments on Imperial Oil’s plan to roll enormous oil sands modules through western Montana proved too big to pass through the state’s e-mail system. That’s what happened last week when the Natural Resource Defense Council sent 6,500 messages on behalf of citizens who oppose the proposed yearlong, 300-mile big rig parade between Lolo Pass and the Port of Sweetgrass en route to Alberta.

Unfortunately, the lesson of the “glitch” was lost on the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT).

Despite the fact that hundreds of e-mail comments on the contentious Kearl Module Transportation Project bounced back, and that in general the project has raised more eyebrows than Ooh La Latte, MDT chose not to extend the comment period beyond last Friday, clearing the road for the department to make its decision in the coming weeks.

MDT Director Jim Lynch says the comments he’s read so far are a “mixed bag.” Some don’t buy officials’ repeated denials that the project would create a permanent high-and-wide corridor. And many—including Missoula City Council—asked the department to require Imperial Oil, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, to write a thorough Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

“It isn’t like they’re building a brand new road somewhere,” Lynch tells the Indy of the department’s decision to forego an EIS. “If they were actually going to build a brand new roadway or going to have significant impacts that couldn’t be mitigated within the transportation corridor, then you might be looking at a different document.”

No, Imperial Oil may not be building a new road. But we might not recognize some of our existing ones should MDT allow $22 million worth of highway modifications.

The company would raise or bury utility lines in 572 locations, modify or install 33 traffic structures, modify or build 75 highway turnouts, and trim dozens of trees in Bonner and Choteau. That’s an awfully big investment for what’s supposedly a one-off deal.

Lynch says a decision could be made within 30 days.

The comments hardly seem the most important consideration, not when Gov. Brian Schweitzer boasts of $68 million in economic activity the project would, according to Imperial Oil’s math, bring to the region.

But no amount of money justifies the state rubberstamping this project without appropriate review. And no matter the reassurances, we can’t look past our very justifiable distrust of oil companies. The next glitch could have far bigger consequences.

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Rough waters Delays, uncertainty mire Blackfoot corridor renewal

by Alex Sakariassen

With the summer recreation season coming on fast, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) has yet to renew a historic and much-valued public access agreement with private landowners on the Blackfoot River.

Failure by FWP to meet concerned landowners halfway could leave area hikers, floaters and fishermen up the creek.

The Blackfoot Corridor Agreement, which expired this spring, was originally scheduled for renewal on April 18. But disagreement over new language establishing annual meetings between landowners and

out for lunch on someone’s private property and didn’t realize they’d backed out of the agreement.”

Blackfoot River activist Jerry O’Connell has emerged as the ringleader in what he calls the “Mexican standoff ” with FWP. O’Connell told the Independent in early April that he and others like longtime Blackfoot resident Land Lindbergh were “not going to be the good guys anymore.”

Last month he filed an official appeal to the agency’s new Blackfoot River Recreation Management Plan, which he helped draft,

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A decades-old recreation agreement on the Blackfoot River hangs in limbo at the onset of another busy Missoula summer, as landowners use renewal discussions to highlight their concerns over state management of abuses to private property.

FWP has stretched the debate over three meetings and three drafts in the last two months. Specifically, landowners hope to use annual reviews of management procedures and the option to cancel the agreement as incentive for FWP administrators to address concerns about abuses to private property. Their latest offer is currently under FWP review.

“Are we experiencing some rough roads right now? Maybe so,” says FWP Regional Park Manager Lee Bastian. “But I think that comes with growth, I think that comes with the beautiful resources and great rivers we’ve got in this area. These issues can be a bit challenging to deal with at times, no doubt about it.”

Even if negotiators can’t renew the agreement, access at FWP-owned put-ins and campsites would remain unchanged.

But access to land above the high water mark will essentially disappear.

“We’ve had 30 years of that kind of opportunity up there, so you can imagine how ingrained it is in people’s minds,” says Dick Fichtler, outdoor recreation manager for the Bureau of Land Management, which owns land along the corridor. “Then they find themselves in a jam because they took

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and says his goal was to hold FWP to its promises of resource protection. That appeal was denied. Now he says the corridor agreement is literally the last line of defense.

“Never in the past has there been a threat of not continuing this agreement,” O’Connell says. “But we’re all fed up with it, with the lack of effort on FWP to take significant steps.”

O’Connell’s complaints echo along the Blackfoot with folks like Gloria Roark, a participant in the agreement since its establishment in 1976. Though Roark isn’t taking part in the latest renewal discussions, she’s grown increasingly concerned by the level of abuse along her property. Someone walked away from a canoe a few years back, she says, leaving it washed up on the shore.

“We’ve tried to accommodate the public for years and years, and we were actually way ahead of letting the public use land along the river,” Roark says. “But there’s a lot of trash and abuse.”

And the same annual problems are starting anew, like camping on private property and toilet paper blooms. Juanita Vero, owner of the E Bar L Ranch, saw an illegal campfire on her property near Sunset Hill just last Saturday. While she

understands the agency is strapped, Vero hopes to see FWP better educate the public on resource respect.

“I get frustrated with the lack of education or sense of responsibility that the general recreating public has,” Vero says. “It’s not that they’re being malicious, it’s just that they don’t know any better.”

Vero’s patience for the situation remains relatively intact. But she understands the frustrations with FWP are much greater for those like O’Connell and Lindbergh who have owned property on the river for 20 or more years and are still waiting for solutions.

“It would be really disappointing, for all of us, if we couldn’t make it work,” Vero says of the agreement. “And yes, it might be getting to that point where something has to happen.”

O’Connell says he’s had no update on the agreement’s progress since landowners last met with FWP officials three weeks ago.

According to Roger Semler, FWP assistant administrator, the agency is reviewing the latest draft and preparing its own response.

He remains optimistic that the agreement will be renewed before the peak recreation period in late summer. However, renewal is ultimately up to the individual landowners listed on the document.

The uncertain future of the agreement is, by extension, a concern for local businesses that depend on the river. Kienan Slate, co-owner of the Missoula-based 10,000 Waves Raft and Kayak Adventures, says he’d still be able to run clients down stream, but the inability to access private property would make the Blackfoot less navigable. At the same time, though, he sympathizes with landowners.

“How would you like somebody to go to your yard and chop down a tree?” Slate asks. “You’d be upset too. I know exactly where these guys come from.”

But those hoping to freely recreate along the river aren’t the only ones with something to lose. Landowners would no longer have FWP rangers and wardens protecting their property, as guaranteed in the agreement. Considering that, Slate believes those landowners “would be nuts” to abandon it.

Still, Slate puts some of the responsibility on the recreating public to take the heat off the agency.

“If they aren’t aware of [the agreement], they can lose these things,” Slate says. “They think it’s all FWP property, and it’s not...That’s private land. You’re not messing with the state.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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All Carmen has to do is look up at you with those sad, big, brown eyes and you can't help but want to love and keep her safe. She hasn't always been treated so nice, and consequently she takes some time to trust.

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Strange play The Land Board brazenly oversteps its power This week the Montana Board of Land Commissioners, known as the Land Board, pulled what may be a first for the state.

Comprised of the top five statewide elected officials, the Board primarily oversees management of the state’s school trust lands.

Now, however, the Board has decided it has the power to appropriate tens of millions of dollars. Only one problem: The power to appropriate state funds is constitutionally granted to the Legislature—and the Legislature was left out of the picture.

This strange tale begins some years back when the state launched a lawsuit against the owners of hydroelectric dams on Montana’s major rivers. For a century, Montana Power Company (MPC) churned out the electrons and profits from the cheapest source of energy around—water running downhill. After stuffing a deregulation bill through the Legislature in 1997, however, MPC sold its dams and coal-fired power plants to an out-of-state mega-corporation, Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL). Without skipping a beat, PPL decided that the days of regulated power—which gave Montanans the sixth cheapest power in the nation—were over. They would charge what the market could bear. Too bad for Montanans.

In politics, as in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, albeit often long delayed. Since the out-of-state corporation decided to rip off Montanans (we now pay the highest electric rates in the region), former Attorney General Mike McGrath decided to fight back. He filed a lawsuit alleging that PPL and others who own large dams on Montana’s navigable rivers owed the state rent for the use of the riverbeds where their dams are located.

The idea isn’t outlandish. Farmers and ranchers pay rent to lease state lands for crops and grazing. Cabin owners pay rent for the state lands on which their cabins are located. Basically, if you use state lands, even if just for bird watching or hiking, you pay for that use and the proceeds go to fund education and state institutions. The dam owners, however, were a conspicuous exception to that rule.

To make a long, complex story a lot shorter, McGrath won in District Court and PPL appealed that decision to the Montana Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the state. The price of the back rent, plus interest, came to a healthy $41 million, which PPL is now legally obligated to pay the state. The corporation hasn’t made the payment yet, however, because it may decide to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nonetheless, Gov. Brian Schweitzer decided that the money PPL owed could be spent—or at least obligated to be spent

when and if it came in—to purchase tens of thousands of acres of land formerly owned

by Plum Creek Timber Co. and now owned by the Nature Conservancy, which very much wants to recoup its investment from the $500 million Montana Legacy Project.

But here’s where it gets very weird.

The Land Board has very limited authority to spend state funds. Primarily, they get to decide what to sell and buy through the

The Land “ Board has decided it has the power to appropriate millions of dollars.

Only one problem: The power to appropriate state funds is constitutionally granted to the Legislature—and the Legislature was left out of the picture.

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land banking program, which operates as a revolving pool of funds that come from selling isolated state parcels and using the proceeds to purchase other lands that are more easily and profitably managed. The program has statutory sidebars set by the Legislature, but comes nowhere near giving the Board the authority to spend $41 million dollars on a land purchase.

Now, in a rushed maneuver that reeks of political intrigue, Schweitzer and his fellow commissioners voted unanimously to approve a resolution authorizing the use of PPL rent money to buy Plum Creek’s former holdings. The highly controversial move has left plenty of legislators and oth-

ers scratching their heads.

The Legislature’s chief legal counsel, Greg Petesch, questioned the Land Board’s authority to appropriate the money in a communication to the state attorney who advises the Land Board. Petesch exhaustively outlined the legal background of court decisions that basically say the power to appropriate almost all state funds is held by the Legislature alone. Cutting to the chase, Petesch bluntly writes: “I do not understand how this is ‘nonstate money’. If you could please explain to me how this is not ‘state money’ I would greatly appreciate it.”

In a memo, this one to Rep. Llew Jones and Sen. Carol Williams, Legislative Fiscal Analyst Barb Smith echoes Petesh’s concerns, writing: “Initial review indicates that the resolution misclassifies these funds as non-state funds and inappropriately avoids the need for a legislative appropriation of the approximately $41 million awarded by the Court. Non-state funds, as defined in statute, are those funds from a non-state source that are restricted by law or agreement, such as a contract, trust agreement or donation.”

Unfortunately, Smith’s May 13th e-mail came up with the same result as Petesch’s: “As of this writing no response has been received,” Smith wrote. Nor had any response been received when the Land Board voted this week.

It is no secret that Schweitzer has had an often-stormy relationship with the Legislature. It is also no secret that our form of government has three distinct branches for a purpose—to provide checks and balances. It is likewise no secret that the 2011 legislative session will be tight on money and might decide the $41 million would be better spent on education than buying the former Plum Creek lands.

Whether the Land Board’s rushed effort to pass the resolution with virtually no time for public review or comment will be challenged in court remains unknown.

But one thing seems certain: It is a serious digression from the way Montana’s government has operated throughout the state’s history. That no response from the executive branch has been offered to the Legislature’s questions is definitely not a good sign. And that other Land Board members, like Attorney General Steve Bullock, for instance, didn’t delay the process until its constitutionality was fully clarified is simply inexcusable.

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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World of wonder Bee discovery underscores how little we know of nature

by Ray Ring

You are on a mission to catch and identify wild bees that pollinate rare desert plants. You must sneak up and net your quarry without breaking delicate wings and flowers. Then you transfer the netted bees to cyanide-laced “kill jars” that swiftly end the struggle and keep them in good condition. Then you pack the dead bees in your luggage and fly home to your lab in Utah.

At least that’s what you do if you’re on David Tanner’s research team. For several years, Tanner, a Utah State University postdoctoral student, and two other graduate students have been studying complex beeplant relationships and assisting habitat restoration in an oasis called the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge near Pahrump, Nev. They generated some excitement in April by announcing that they had discovered two new species—tiny but spectacular bees in the Perdita genus, each a tenth of an inch long with iridescent blue-green thoraxes and orange-yellow-striped abdomens.

The discoveries, netted by master’s degree candidate Catherine Clark and verified by a federal bee expert in April, “underscore how little we know about the natural world,” Tanner says.

The resulting flurry of headlines around the West implied that such discoveries were unusual, but they’re not. In recent years, researchers have discovered a new species of Indian paintbrush plant in Washington, a new bacteria with “special light-harvesting antennae” in Yellowstone National Park’s thermal pools, a new “ice beetle” in California’s Trinity Alps, new mosses in Yosemite National Park, a “giant” fairy shrimp three inches long that eats smaller shrimp in seasonal desert pools in Idaho, a new finch and a new primrose in Idaho’s mountains, a new fern and a new phlox on wealthy conservationist Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, “the

first known gilled underwater mushrooms in the world” in Oregon’s Rogue River, a new alpine fungus in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, new species of moths in Colorado and Arizona mountain ranges, and a new fungus in Wyoming cow pies— and those are just the stories that have appeared in mainstream news.

The resulting “ flurry of headlines around the West implied that such discoveries were unusual, but

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they’re not.

Such discoveries are made every day around the world: 20,000 new species are identified by taxonomists each year, according to Popular Science. The American West is a notable hotspot for exploring that biodiversity. Though not on a par with Indonesia and the Amazon, the region contains some of our nation’s most diverse ecosystems in national parks, wildlife refuges and other public land as well as many conservation-oriented ranches.

Most of the discoveries get no publicity beyond scientific circles. Yet every one is important, not only intrinsically but also in practical terms. Each species has evolved to be somewhat different, with potentially new ways of living and coping with stresses.

Medicines, better fuels and other break-

throughs have been developed from studying new species. Research on native bees, for instance, has become particularly important as domestic honeybees—pollinators of most crops—have been slammed by hordes of mites, colony collapse and other troubles. Recently, some native bees have been harnessed for crop pollination, and researchers are working on expanding such uses of the natives.

James Pitts, a Utah State assistant biology professor who oversees Tanner’s and Clark’s work, has himself discovered hundreds of species of velvet ants, a type of wasp. He’s studying their genetics to learn how climate change thousands of years ago affected species diversity. That could help us predict how the current climate trend will shake out and help determine carbon policies, he says.

At the same time, we’re also facing an extinction crisis, as thousands of species wink out every year, on a pace that’s thought to be increasing. The actual number remains a guess, as is our crystal-ball assessment of the total number of species on the planet right now. According to twotime Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, “Estimates run from an improbably low 5 million [total species] to as high as a 100 million [including all the] small organisms, like bacteria and nematode ground worms.”

Meanwhile, each newly discovered species advances our overall understanding of the whole world and what’s at risk. The researchers often emphasize a basic message: We need to protect our wild and semiwild areas, because we still don’t know what’s out there. Conservation is our insurance policy against our ignorance.

Ray Ring is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the magazine’s senior editor in Bozeman.

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Considering that we live in a literary hotbed of sorts, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the next Maile Meloy or Richard Hugo could be lurking in the halls of our public schools. The Missoula Writing Collaborative is doing its part to help find those budding writers and foster their talents.

Since 1994, professional writers with the collaborative have taught creative writing courses in local and regional classrooms, as well as at afterschool programs and youth homes. This year, its teachers include a host of local literary figures including David Cates and Sheryl Noethe. And, according to its estimates, the collaborative has quite an impressive reach—it instructs 1,500 schoolchildren per year.

You can do your part to help keep the prose of

Missoula’s youth flowing when the organization hosts its spring fundraiser this weekend. Besides a silent/live auction, the benevolent soiree features a scrumptious antipasti dinner along with dessert and wine. You’ll also get to soak in the jazzy sounds of David Horgan and Beth Lo, and hear a few stories courtesy of author James Lee Burke.

Whether you’re a seasoned writer or not, I’d consider this an excellent way to help promising scribes thrive.

–Ira Sather-Olson

THURSDAY MAY 20

Homeless Network, which meets this and every Mon. at 10 AM in the small conference room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Mary Alice at 880-1210.

The Poverello Center, 535 Ryman St., hosts its Poverello Center General Board of Directors Meeting from 5:15–7:15 PM at the Pov. Free to attend. Call 728-1809.

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.wordpress.com.

FRIDAY MAY 21 Families can get help narrowing their search for quality child care with Child Care Assistance, which is offered by Child Care Resources from 8 AM–5 PM Mon.–Fri. at its office, 127 E. Main St. Ste. 314. Free.

Call 728-6446 and visit childcareresources.org.

Keep the constitution of your younglin’ as strong as steel during Healthy Lives Under Five Day, which offers kids ages five and under free health services including developmental screenings, immunization records review, as well as the chance to sign up for lowcost health coverage, from 10 AM–6:30 PM at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Call Jessica at 549-6413.

SATURDAY MAY 22 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

Celebrate conservation when you head to the Five Valleys Land Trust Annual Banquet and Auction, which begins at 5:30 PM at the Northstar Hangar at the Missoula International Airport, 5225 Hwy 10 W. $50 per person. Visit fvlt.org and call 549-0755.

SUNDAY MAY 23 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP.

MONDAY MAY 24 Those interested in issues pertaining to the homeless population are invited to a meeting of the Montana

The Missoula Writing Collaborative Spring Soiree is Sunday, May 23, from 6–8:30 PM at Caffe Dolce, 500 Brooks St. $40. Call 549-3348 and visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org.

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

Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.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 alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY MAY 25 Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656.

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.

THURSDAY MAY 27 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.wordpress.com.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also 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 - A sheriff’s deputy in Okaloosa County, Fla., arrested a 27-year-old driver after pulling her over for an improper taillight because she couldn’t spell her name. She said she was Coronica Jackson, but spelled it C-o-r-i-c-a. Her passenger nudged her, and she re-spelled it C-o-r-n-a-i-c-a. Then the passenger told the deputy it was C-o-r-o-n-i-c-a. He checked the name in his computer, but the photo didn’t match that of the driver, so he asked her to sign her name.

She wrote “Coninani Junise,” which was nowhere close to that in the computer system.

Police investigating a burglary at a drug store in Tulsa, Okla., said a surveillance video showed the suspect moving a ladder around inside trying to get out. Each time he climbed into the ceiling, however, he fell though. He climbed the ladder and fell through the ceiling six times before making his getaway on the seventh try.

PRIVATIZATION FOLLIES - Italian contractors helping train Afghan police recruits solved the mystery of why the trainees couldn’t shoot straight while being taught by U.S. government contractors.

The Italians noticed the Americans, who were paid $6 billion to train the Afghans, had never adjusted the sights on their AK-47s and M-16s. During the eight years contractors from DynCorp International were allegedly training recruits, the death rate for Afghan police officers rose from about two dozen a month to around 125. “We’re paying somebody to teach these people to shoot these weapons, and nobody ever bothered to check their sights?” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who chaired Senate committee investigating contractor oversights. “It is an unbelievable, incompetent story.”

BUM BOMB - A California Highway Patrol officer who questioned Steven Ferrini, 60, for parking illegally at 4:30 a.m. found drugs and arrested him. A subsequent search found “a suspicious wire, with an on-off switch” in the man’s front pocket leading to his anal cavity, according to a police report. When “the subject began to explain his knowledge of explosives and bomb-making,” officers called the El Dorado County Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team and evacuated the South Lake Tahoe office. The bomb squad determined the device was not a bomb but an anal vibrator.

PROBLEM SOLVED - The Japanese automation firm Super Faiths has developed recycling machines that turn used diapers, mostly those used by incontinent adults, into fuel for biomass boilers and stoves. The SFD Recycle System machines can handle up to 1,102 pounds of diapers a day. They automatically shred, dry and sterilize used disposable diapers and turn them into bacteria-free material for making fuel pellets, which can be used to help heat roads, homes or water.

OBVIOUS CHOICE - Authorities said the executive director of the Chicago area’s commuter rail service committed suicide by stepping in front of one of his agency’s trains. Phil Pagano, 60, who headed Metra for 20 years, was on paid administrative leave at the time because of allegations he received an unapproved $56,000 bonus. McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren said a train engineer saw Pagano on the tracks facing the train and applied the emergency brakes but wasn’t able to stop in time.

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LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT - Authorities in Indonesia’s Papua announced that applicants to join the police or military would be rejected if they’ve had their organs artificially enhanced. Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto said that unnaturally large penises cause “hindrance during training.”

A sexologist quoted by the Jakarta Globe said Papuans often wrap their penis with leaves from the gatal-gatal (itchy) tree so that it swells up “like it has been stung by a bee.”

TO SERVE MAN - An Australian publisher had to destroy copies of a cookbook because a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper. “When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up,” Bob Sessions of Penguin Group Australia said, “but proofreading a cookbook is an extremely difficult task.”

FETISHES ON PARADE - Police who arrested Sherwin Shayegan on a drug warrant in Tualatin, Ore., said the convicted felon had befriended student athletes and offered them money to give him piggyback rides. “We received communication from several schools that this individual had talked his way into their locker room, had pictures taken, had a ball autographed, had gone out to the parking lot and got piggyback rides from some of the players,” said Tom Welter, executive director of the Oregon School Activities Association. Detectives in Bonney Lake, Wash., said Shayegan also made friends with a football player there, “gave him a manila envelope full of odd amounts of money, then jumped on his back and told him he wanted a piggyback ride.”

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CRAPPY DISGUISE - A convenience-store clerk told police in Lincoln, Neb., that a man who tried to rob the store with a knife had toilet paper wrapped around his head to conceal his identity.

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he hide from the wolf Carl Lewis shot stretches 7 feet, 9 inches long, the back and ruff as black as a Montana midnight, easing along the legs and flanks to a color that Lewis likens to that of a blue roan horse. Lewis shot the big radio-collared alpha male on his ranch, high on the east side of the Big Hole Valley, last fall.

“I really wanted to get a wolf this year,” he says, “because we have to live around them, and I wanted to see a few less around our place.”

Lewis and his family saw wolves 22 different

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times on their ranch during the past summer, so he knew where to start hunting. “I went out that morning on a fresh snow, and saw no tracks at all. Got up to the top of the ridge, though, and there he was.”

Lewis shot the wolf from 400 yards with his .338, the rifle he normally uses for elk hunting. Three days later, his son Tanner got a wolf of his own.

Montana’s first-ever wolf season was viewed with horror by many environmental groups, and by many people who have celebrated the charismatic predator’s return to the Northern Rockies. The hunt

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was simply too much, too soon, they said; it would kill off the alpha males and females that are the primary breeders and break the slowly building matrix of genetic diversity that is key to the long-term health of the returning populations. They predicted that leaderless wolf packs would go after even more livestock, leading to more wolf-killing by the federal Wildlife Services. The wolves’ positive effects on the ecosystem—keeping coyote numbers in check, scattering elk that were overgrazing their winter ranges—could be reversed.

But even if those fears proved true, the sheer success of wolf reintroduction made a hunt inevitable, sooner or later. With more than 1,645 wolves in the region and at least 95 breeding pairs, the program had exceeded its original goals of at least 300 wolves, with 30 breeding pairs, every year for over seven years. The population was expanding faster than anyone, even the region’s leading predator biologists, could have predicted. Many Montana big-game hunters thought that a tipping point had been reached.

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“We always knew there would have to be management of wolves,” says Carolyn Sime, statewide wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. “Or people would just start killing them. The question was whether that management would be through the tried-and-true method of hunting, or through government control only, paying the shooters with the helicopters. We wanted the same model that has given us some of our biggest conservation successes with other wildlife.”

As Montana’s wolf hunt closed in November, the human element—the pro-wolf, anti-wolf anger that has been so much a part of wolf restoration in the West—shifted, almost imperceptibly. True, the hunt’s critics remained outraged, while those who want wolves eliminated altogether were dismayed that so many were still alive. True, most successful wolf hunters shot their quarry while deer and elk hunting, and most of them, according to interviews, viewed the shooting more as predator control than as a true “hunting” experience. But the stage has been set for a change.

Foremost, the federal government is no longer making the rules. The state of Montana is. But more importantly, among the wolf hunters is a small but growing constituency that sees the animals neither as the sacred burning heart of nature, something to be worshipped from afar, nor as mangy and murderous vermin that deserve extermination. Instead, they view wolves as wild game animals, a quarry worthy of respect—maybe, someday, even protection.

Judging from the past, it is this constituency that will ensure the survival of the gray wolf into the 21st century.

“When it comes to big animals with big teeth that eat big things, you have a lot of things to balance out,” says Sime. “If you can’t develop a broad-based constituency of support for the species on the landscape where the people live with them, then the long-term viability of that species is not good.”

Montana’s wolf season opened in the backcountry on Sept. 15, and in the rest of the state’s current wolf country—roughly from the Canadian border west of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, south to the Idaho line and east to Yellowstone National Park—on Oct. 25. According to state game officials, 15,603 hunters bought wolf tags, including 89 non-residents who paid $350 for the privilege (a resident tag was only $19), bringing in a total of over $325,000.

The first day of the hunt was hard on wolves that had never been hunted before: Ten were killed. An average of 20 wolves per week were killed after that.

The wolf season closed on Nov. 16, a few days ahead of schedule; hunters had killed 72 wolves out of the 75-wolf quota set by state wildlife biologists, and the quota was about to be surpassed.

Seven of the slain wolves wore radio collars, putting a dent in research efforts. Still, most people involved in wolf restoration saw the Montana hunt as a success.

“We were on the right track with our quota system,” says Sime. “Until recently, there’s been only two points on the line—from one side, we got ‘kill them all,’ from the other side, ‘protect them all.’

Well, only two points on the line won’t work.”

hunters killed 309 of them in 2008. The big cats still inhabit most of their original habitat—success from a biodiversity standpoint.

Sime believes that those who oppose the wolf season are playing a dangerous game.

“You can have wolves as game animals, and hunters who pay to hunt them, or you go with Wildlife Services, and have the taxpayers pay for the control,” she says.

“It’s time for us—hunters, biologists, all of us— to recognize that wolves aren’t killing the wildlife.

Wolves are wildlife.”

—Carolyn Sime, statewide wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Sime hopes that the hunting season will “mature the constituency for wolves,” inspiring a new generation of hunters who admire and advocate for wolves as game animals. That model worked for mountain lions. Why shouldn’t it work for wolves?

From 1872 to 1962, there was a bounty on lions, followed by open season until 1971, when they were finally reclassified as big game. Since then, lion hunters have matured greatly. Whenever deer hunters say more lions need to be killed, lion hunters demand in turn that lions be protected. Montana currently has anywhere from 1,800 to 2,200 mountain lions, and

Wildlife Services is the federal agency tasked with killing “nuisance” animals, including everything from feral dogs that attack people, to coyotes that threaten livestock, to birds that hang out around airports. Federal shooters killed about 145 wolves in Montana last year, out of an estimated population of 524.

George Killebrew, an electrician by trade, is a longtime Bitterroot resident. Born in Mississippi, Killebrew is proud of being part Cherokee. His ancestry, he says, makes him reluctant to hunt wolves or other predators: “My upbringing tells me

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Carolyn Sime, statewide wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says she knew there would always have to be management of wolves. “The question,” she says, “was whether that management would be through the tried-and-true method of hunting, or through government control only, paying the shooters with the helicopters. We wanted the same model that has given us some of our biggest conservation successes with other wildlife.”

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that maybe these animals are my ancestors, coming back to help us out.” But as wolf packs expanded, both around his home near Darby and in most of his hunting country, he bought a wolf tag.

“We just really depend on an elk every year,” he says, “and we just couldn’t seem to find them anymore. Three years ago, we’d see a wolf track or two every once in a while, but this past year, there were tracks everywhere we went…but no elk.”

Wolf howls near their home made Killebrew and his wife uneasy about the safety of their Brittany dogs. On an early morning elk hunt to a favorite spot on the west side of the Bitterroots, Killebrew spotted a single set of wolf tracks along a ridge-top trail.

Then he saw the wolf. “She was coming in at about 150 yards, and when she turned broadside, I shot her,” he says.

Even though Killebrew was using a full-size elk cartridge—a .300 Winchester Magnum—the wounded wolf turned and ran. So he shot again, and that time she went down. “At that second shot, she let out a bloodcurdling howl,” he says. He does not regret killing her. “There’s just too many of them now.

They need to have some fear of people, too.”

Like Killebrew, many big-game hunters are convinced that rapidly growing wolf packs have devastated Montana’s elk herds, preventing hunters from filling their freezers and outfitters from guiding clients to a decent bull. In the Bitterroot, this view is partly right, partly wrong, says state wildlife biologist Craig Jourdonnais, who frequently flies the Bitterroot country, counting elk and deer on their winter ranges. He says that elk numbers in the state remain healthy overall, but that the cow-to-calf ratio in some areas is low, partly because of wolves.

“That’s definitely a red flag for us,” he says.

Whenever the cow-to-calf ratio falls too low, the state has to put a halt to antlerless elk hunting. And that, of course, is bad for meat hunters, who tend to blame wolf predation for their empty freezers and higher food bills. Jourdonnais says wolves are not the only reason for the diminished herds, though.

“We have so many changes in the Bitterroot,” he explains. “A new predator on the ground. All those wildfires. Knapweed taking over, and the chopping up of prime winter range for subdivisions. You might say that we do have a lot of wolves in this valley, and not all of ’em are the four-legged kind. If you are hoping to hunt the same way you did 30 years ago, you are going to be disappointed.”

And if you’re hoping to hunt the way you did 10 years ago north and west of Yellowstone, you might not even recognize the place. The northern Yellowstone elk herd, once a mighty, and fantastically destructive, 22,000 strong, is down to around 6,600 animals. Cow-calf ratios in the region are at record lows. Hunters and outfitters are furious. But biologists, while concerned, take a different view.

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to our objective,” says Sime. “There was nothing sustainable at all about 22,000 elk there.”

Sime adds, “We have some kick-butt Montana wildlife managers still saying, ‘Wolves are impacting our wildlife.’ Then they’ll shift, and say, ‘Well, they are impacting elk numbers.’ I say, ‘Where is that happening?’ They can never point to the place. It’s time for us—hunters, biologists, all of us—to recognize that wolves aren’t killing the wildlife. Wolves are wildlife.”

Once a sustainable wolf hunt exists, more hunters, and more landowners who have to live with wolves, may begin viewing the animal as just another member of the pantheon of wild animals that need protection and restoration in a world of burgeoning humanity. Wolf reintroduction was possible in large part because generations of hunters provided license money to restore deer and elk herds and preserve habitat. That same support, even at a much lower level (predator hunting has never been as popular as hunting animals valued as meat), could help give the wolf a place on the landscape forever.

What would a successful wolf hunt look like?

Perhaps something like the hunt that Mike Ross, a wildlife biologist and wolf management specialist for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, went on this fall in the backcountry of the Upper Gallatin River.

“I’m 48 years old, and I’ve been hunting since I was 9, and I’ve never had a more exciting day of hunting in my life,” Ross says.

Ross had a coveted permit, one of only five issued, drawn by lottery to hunt bull elk in what may be the world’s best elk country.

“My girlfriend, Colleen, and I saw some pretty good bulls, but I was looking for at least a 340 (Boone and Crockett),” he says. “We heard wolves howling in the morning, and after lunch…10 wolves came out on an open ridge, flopped down in the sun, kind of belly-up. Colleen said, ‘Let’s go after them.’”

The two hunters crossed the river and climbed up to where they could see across to the ridge. “But they were gone,” Ross says. The wolf pack was hidden in a patch of timber above

Ross howled again, and a big male wolf stepped from the timber above them. “He moved around us, and when he came out in the open, I shot him.” The 6-year-old male wolf was black and weighed 117 pounds. Ross remains awed by the experience.

“If you went out there a hundred times and tried to do something like this, you couldn’t do it,” he says. “It was hunting, you know, where everything comes together all of a sudden. I think those wolves were in a competitive situation with another pack, and they came in like coming into a gang fight. I’ll never forget it.”

Ross says that he “got quite a bit of flak for shooting a wolf, people saying I exploited my job. I don’t want anybody to think that. I was out hunting, I had a wolf tag, and we got into them. That’s all.”

On the map showing legal wolf kills from the 2009 season, there’s a dense cluster of dots on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park. It marks the spot where nine wolves died at the hands of hunters on the high, windswept Buffalo Plateau, a world away from the wolf-livestock conflicts of the Madison Valley or the Bitterroot’s frenetic urban interfaces. Some of the slain wolves had starred in documentaries made in the park, intimate records of their wild and dangerous lives set to soaring music. The collared alpha male of the much-chronicled Cottonwood Pack was killed, along with his collared mate, known to researchers as Number 527, and her daughter, Number 716, known to park wolf-watchers as Dark Female.

That broke the hearts of many wolf lovers—the Los Angeles Times wrote a sort of eulogy to 527, as did Laurie Lyman, a blogger for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Lyman called for a buffer them when Ross “howled them up.”

“The woods just opened up,” Ross says, “howls everywhere, coming down on us, just wild, and I thought for a second, ‘How many bullets do we have?’ Then there were wolves below us, too.”

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zone around the park to protect wolves that spend most of their lives inside park boundaries.

Defenders of Wildlife and a host of other environmental groups had already taken their anger at the hunt to the courts, suing to get the wolf back on the endangered species list. Mike Leahy of Defenders points out that between them, hunters and federal shooters wiped out more than half of Montana’s wolves in 2009. His organization would like to see 450 wolves in each of the three states before delisting occurs.

“I know that asking for more wolves on the land is controversial,” says Leahy. “They are a polarizing animal. But what we’d really like to see is for them to be managed as native wildlife, and we don’t manage any other native wildlife down to the edge of extinction every year.”

The lawsuit is pending.

Biologists who study wolves on the ground seem to have a more nuanced view. State game officials shut down the hunt on the northern border of Yellowstone on Oct. 26, just as hunters exceeded by one the area’s quota of 12 animals. For Doug Smith, the park’s chief wolf biologist, the loss of the collared alphas and four out of 10 members of the Cottonwood Pack was a tremendous blow.

“It put a big hole in our research,” Smith says.

He’d like to see Montana’s wolf hunt “tweaked,” given how quickly the quota was filled from near the park boundaries. Many other biologists agree.

“You basically fill up your quota with wolves in the backcountry, and then no one can hunt the wolves that you really might want to remove, out on private lands, the ones that may be involved in livestock conflicts,” Smith says.

Hunters, too, complained that quotas were filled too early, preventing them from hunting wolves during the general big-game season in some places. Montana plans to hold another wolf hunt next year, and some of the suggested “tweaks” might be applied. Ken McDonald, a

wildlife division administrator for the state, told a reporter, “Again, keep in mind that this was only Montana’s first year of wolf hunting.

It’s still a learning experience for everyone involved.”

No one knows how the hunt will affect the survivors’ behavior and prospects.

“You shoot four out of 10 in a pack, what will they do? Nobody knows,” says Smith. “We know that disperser wolves (those that pioneer new territory and start new packs) usually come from large, stable packs, and dispersers are the ones that provide genetic connectivity and eventually

keep the animals off the endangered species list. The Cottonwood Pack probably won’t be pumping out any dispersers. They are going to stay home, regroup somehow.”

But even after the loss of 527 and Dark Female, and faced with the task of capturing and re-collaring new wolves in the Cottonwood Pack, Smith still supports the way Montana wildlife managers structured the first wolf season.

“I thought they did a good job with it,” he says. “It was very controlled. I respectfully disagree with those people who feel that the long-term survival of the wolf is enhanced by protecting them from hunting.”

For Carolyn Sime, the questions posed by wolf restoration have been as much about human values and perception as they have been about the wolves themselves.

“We have hunters, who have been the greatest advocates for restoring basic stuff like deer and elk, but then it comes to wolves, and they want to get rid of them,” she says. “We have the animal rights people, some of whom seem to feel that no wolves should die—ever. Or that if a wolf had killed 527, it would have been okay, but a man with a gun? Unacceptable. I’m hoping that eventually, those who occupy the two extremes will discredit themselves.”

She cautions that the anti-wolf-hunting groups may unintentionally prove to be the roadblock to restoring the wolf, or even any other endangered species, to more states in the West.

“If they want to set the bar so high—more wolves on the landscape than the people who live there can stand, then no other state will take on what Montana has taken on. Never. Why would they?”

This article originally appeared in High Country News. Hal Herring is a contributing editor at Field and Stream magazine and has written for HCN since 1997. He lives with his family in Augusta.

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Some food companies have found a way to cast their processed foods as organic without going through the inconvenience of using certified organic ingredients in their products. By incorporating “organic” into their names, some companies have been able to display the magic word on the packaging of food products that are not in fact certified organic.

The Cornucopia Institute, an organic watchdog group, recently brought attention to the deception by filing complaints with the National Organic Standards Board and the Federal Trade Commission.

The alleged infractions run the spectrum from blatant misrepresentation, in the case of Oskri Organics, to stretching the limits of evolving definitions of organic, in the case of a surprise entry in Cornucopia’s list of shame: the much-loved Newman’s Own Organics.

Some of Oskri Organics’ products contain no certified organic ingredients at all. Nonetheless, the company has been able to display the money word front and center on its packaging, simply because it’s part of the company’s name.

Organic Bistro sells frozen entrees made with organic vegetables, grains and oils, but many of the meals also include non-organic chicken and turkey. A glance at the ingredient list would convince most people that Organic Bistro meals are cleaner and probably healthier than most other frozen food entrées out there. But of all the ingredients, meat is arguably the most important in terms of human and environmental health. Not coincidentally, meat would also account for the lion’s share of the cost of using organic ingredients.

The letter and spirit of organic law say the only permissible reason for using non-organic ingredients in certified organic processed food is if that ingredient is not available in certified organic form.

“There is certainly no shortage of organic chicken or organic turkey,” says Cornucopia’s Mark Kastel. “By using conventional ingredients to cut costs, yet displaying the word ‘organic’ so prominently in their packages, Organic Bistro is unfairly competing with truly organic companies that commit to sourcing organic meat.”

It’s also unfair to consumers who see the name Organic Bistro and assume the chicken dinner in the box is organic.

One of the driving forces behind the creation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Organic Program was the economic interest of corporate

food companies that wanted to cash in on the tremendous consumer demand for organic food. These corporations wanted to know what they had to do in order to sell their food as organic. After a lengthy period of wrangling over the rules, USDA organic seals were finally placed on the products that earned organic certification.

Since those lines were drawn, they’ve been vigorously contested. Much of the friction has been over corporate attempts to soften the laws and make it cheaper to certify products as organic. But endruns around certification standards via strategic company names are a dangerous precedent that until now has slipped through the regulatory cracks.

Newman’s Own Inc., the parent company of Newman’s Own Organics, has an enigmatic slogan plastered at the top center of its webpage. It reads: “Shameless exploitation in pursuit of the common good.”

I was going to offer a free T-shirt to whoever could parse the meaning of this slogan, but a company spokesperson got back to me and explained that it refers to exploiting the famous Newman name to sell product for money that’s then given to charity— amounting to more than $285 million since 1982.

According to Cornucopia, Newman’s Own Organics—now a separate company—seems to be shamelessly exploiting the word “organic” to help sell products that are not, in fact, certified organic.

Cornucopia’s beef with Newman’s Own Organics boils down to the difference between two types of certifications, both of which are bestowed by USDA-accredited organic inspectors. The “Certified Organic” label means a processed food contains at least 95 percent certified organic ingredients, with the remaining percentage being unavailable in

organic form. The “Made with Organic Ingredients” label means at least 70 percent of the ingredients are certified organic, with no stipulation that the nonorganic ingredients be unavailable in organic form.

While the difference between 70 percent and 95 percent isn’t earth-shattering, it’s significant that a cheaper non-organic percentage can be presented, by semantic sleight of hand, as the real thing. “Made with Organic Ingredients” is a weak alternative that hangs onto the organic name like a parasite.

The Newman’s Own Organics product line includes both “Certified Organic” products and those “Made with Organic Ingredients.” Cornucopia believes the company should either switch to a 95 percent-plus certified organic product line, or change its name. “[The regulations] specify that 70 percent organic products cannot ‘represent’ themselves as organic. If Newman’s Own Organics cannot legally use the term ‘organic’ or represent its 70 percent organic products as organic, we do not believe they should be able to use the ‘Newman’s Own Organics’ company name on the front packaging,” explained Charlotte Vallaeys, Farm and Policy Analyst with Cornucopia, via e-mail.

“Country Choice Organics has a ginger cookie, and they use organic ginger,” she continued. “The Newman’s Own Organics Ginger-O cookie is similar, but uses non-organic ginger. If they’re going to represent themselves as organic by selling Ginger-O’s under the Newman’s Own Organics brand and compete with companies that actually use organic ginger in organic ginger cookies, we believe they should use organic ginger.”

According to Vallaeys, USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) is currently evaluating the use of “organic” in company names for “made with” products and will issue guidance in due course. And, she says, the NOP is also investigating some Newman’s Own Organics advertising practices that appear to go beyond the shameless exploitation of a legal gray area.

In one particularly egregious example, a product description on the website waxes: “When organic peanut butter meets organic chocolate, the results are Newman’s Own Organics Peanut Butter Cups.”

But the ingredients list shows they contain nonorganic peanut butter and non-organic flour.

Now that’s getting a little shameless.

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HAPPIESTHOUR Town and Country Lounge Who you’re drinking with: On a recent afternoon, George Franks. It’s his 72nd birthday and he’s perched at the end of the bar having a few vodka cranberries, as he has for decades. “I’ve only been coming here for 30 years,” Franks says.

Who you’re drinking with, besides George: The place gets packed in the afternoon and early evening as working people pile in. It’s primarily a blue-collar crowd—men in NASCAR jackets with white hair who smoke cigarettes in the parking lot, or locals from the neighborhood, including the trailer park across the street. The place gets even busier at the beginning of the month, says bartender Katie McDowell.

“Generally, the first of the month is pretty steady, because people are getting their paychecks.”

Ambiance: Patsy Cline plays on the jukebox, there’s a pool table, and some keno and poker machines. Televisions are everywhere broadcasting sports. The bar also offers a shrine to Budweiser, from the red and white racecar hanging above the bar to posters and neon signs on the walls.

What you’re drinking: “We do sell a lot of beer here,” says McDowell, a T&C vet for 17

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years. “But we sell a lot of frou-frou drinks, too—for a working man’s bar.”

Claim to fame: A whole lot of good people, according to Franks. “Everybody looks out for everybody else.”

How to find it: 1616 S. Third Street W., less than one block off Russell Street and a stone’s throw from the Good Food Store.

—Jessica Mayrer 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 allnatural, 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. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

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! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$

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ASKARI Who’s thirsty?

Dear Flash, I’ve heard that some people drink their own urine for its medicinal properties. Is this true? What could be medicinal about human waste?

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Urine is not exactly human waste; that would be feces. Urine is more like leftovers of the stuff that’s in your blood. It’s sterile, and isn’t poisonous.

Whether it’s actually good for you is another question.

Fifteen years ago in Portland, Ore., I listened to a talk by Ken Kesey that covered a range of topics, including pee drinking, which he explained was practiced by a sect of monks somewhere in Asia. Kesey said it was something about overcoming taboos, and that if you can drink your own piss you can do anything. There was more to it, and I don’t remember the rest, but it was enough to compel me to pee into a cup the next morning and take a swig.

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Nothing changed. I still can’t do anything, and I forgot about that experience as quickly as I could.

Urine therapy is practiced all over the world, as I learned by visiting the website of the 5th World Congress of Urotherapy. The site has a running slide show of picturesque waterfalls. Supposedly, drinking your first pee of the morning gives your body something like a taste of its own medicine, with an assortment of hormones, antibodies, enzymes and other biomolecules that help start your day off right. A side branch of pee drinking is massaging with urine, which is supposedly preferable because it’s absorbed more quickly through the skin.

Also worthy of note, one of the world’s best cage fighters, Lyoto Machida, drinks his own pee every morning. And he kicks ass.

So there you have it. It won’t hurt you, it’s free, and maybe it will cure what ails you.

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.

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.

Get a dose of artistic pleasure this and every third Thu. during the Dana Gallery’s Third Thursdays, which features the exhibit Second Annual Celebration of Missoula Artists Show on display for your perusal from 5–8 PM at the gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-3154.

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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.wordpress.com.

Bob Wire would rather not take shots of castor oil when he plays country at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363–PINT. Swap seeds, stories and nibble on some potluck foods during the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project’s first MUD Mingle of the season, which includes a seed swap and runs from 6–9 PM at MUD, 629 Phillips St. Free. Bring a potluck dish to share, as well as

He’s fine, he just needs his go-go gadget juice. Local actor Raker Wilson stars in Animus, a film directed by Hasalyn Harris and Logan Modine that screens during The Spring Film Showcase Fri., May 21, from 6–10 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $5/$3 students.

At Long Last the third book in Stieg Larsson’s trilogy

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end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 21, 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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your own plates, cups and utensils. Call 7217513 and visit mudproject.ning.com.

The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents its Art 4 All Project: MAM CAM, a project where you can check out a small video camera at the museum and record yourself or a friend talking about pieces you like the most at the MAM. The videos will then be collected and shown in the museum’s upcoming Art 4 All exhibit. Free. Gallery hours are: Wed.–Fri. from 10 AM–5 PM and Sat.–Sun. from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 728-0447.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

Keep the constitution of your younglin’ as strong as steel during Healthy Lives Under Five Day, which offers kids ages five and under free health services including developmental screenings, immunization records review, as well as the chance to sign up for lowcost health coverage, from 10 AM–6:30 PM at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Call Jessica at 549-6413.

She’s what you’d call a seasoned hippie: Author Star Jameson reads and signs her new book Medicine Rock—a memoir describing communal living, sexual experimentation and other cultural themes of the 1970s—starting at 7 PM at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup Wildlife Lecture Series continues with a talk by Julie Chapman titled “From the Field to the Gallery: How Wildlife Painting is Created,” which starts at 7 PM at the Alberton Town Hall, 701 Railroad Ave. Free. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

Create something dramatic out of nothing during the Open Field Artists’ Theatre Lab, a theater workshop that occurs this and every Thu., Sun. and Mon. at 7 PM at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W. Free. E-mail openfieldartists@gmail.com.

Don’t expect to be speaking in ebonics when Brian Jameson offers a devotional singing program with live music and gentle direction at 7:15 PM at Hamilton’s Common Ground Center, 258 Roosevelt Lane. $3 donation requested. Call 363-4026.

A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

Soak up a tale of a servant who’s a little too eager to offer up his services when the Sentinel High School Drama Department presents its rendition of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Margaret Johnson Theatre at Sentinel High, 901 South Ave. W. $6/$5 students and seniors. Call Katie at 728-2400 Ext. 7065.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four. Call 883-9212 or email portpolsonplayers@centurytel.net to make reservations.

Members of Seattle’s Reptet never overdress the part when they play experimentally leaning jazz Thu., May 20, at 10 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. The Barenaked Ladies expose you to their instruments of choice when they play alt pop rock at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $37.50, with advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Hijackers rip it up with indie rockers The Magpies and garage rockers Rooster Sauce (who play their final Missoula show), at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

Bowling and karaoke go together like scratching on a chalkboard and peaceful sounds during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING.

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.

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

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

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during Combat Karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

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

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

Shoulder pads not required: An evening of local rocking rock awaits when The New

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

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.

Seattle’s Reptet wants you to dance like you’ve got ants in your pants when they play jazz with an experimental touch at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Snatch up a used garden hoe or whatever other item warms your heart during the Darby Garage-a-rama, a garage sale/bake sale fundraiser for the Darby Library which begins at 8 AM at the Darby Community Clubhouse, 106 N. Main St. Free to attend. Visit darbylibrary.net.

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Freedom toast not included. Celebrating Conservatism presents the Liberty Convention 2010, which features speeches by conservative luminaries like Richard Mack, Chuck Baldwin, Schaeffer Cox and others and begins with registration at 10 AM at UM’s Adams Center. $15. Activities run throughout the day with talks starting at 6 PM. The convention meets again on Sat. Visit ravallibell.com for a complete schedule. Call 360-5534.

Prosciutto and provolone probably won’t be served when Vincenza Scarpaci hosts a presentation and signs copies of Journey of the Italians in America, at 3:30 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

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

nightlife 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, a new downtown dance venue in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free. Enter from the southwest basement entrance.

Local talent hits the silver screen during The Spring Film Showcase, which features films produced by Missoula high schoolers at 5 PM, followed with films by UM undergrads, grads and faculty from 6–10 PM, all at the Wilma Theatre. $5/$3 students. Visit aloneinaforest.com.

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Gypsy jazz goes hand in hand with fermented spirits when El 3-OH!, featuring members of Cash for Junkers, plays the Ten Spoon Winery Tasting Room, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free.

Get to know your local rollergirl when the Hellgate Rollergirls host an open house that features a meat/veggie barbecue, sides, beer, and a chance to check out their practice space and watch them practice from 6–9 PM at their headquarters, 812 Toole St. Free. Families welcome.

E-mail hellgaterollergirls@gmail.com Witness the fruits of kinesthetic movement during the Montana Model Dance Education Project’s Celebration of Dance in MCPS, a performance featuring elementary, middle school and high school students sharing examples of classroom dance experiences from 6:30–7:30 PM in the auditorium of Hellgate High School, 900 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Karen Kaufmann at 243-2870.

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

Find out what it means to huck a frisbee or give it a corkscrew grip during the Missoula Ultimate Frisbee Federation Fundraiser, which features carnival games, dinner/drinks, dancing and a silent auction starting at 7 PM at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. $10. Call John at 3601086 and visit missoulaultimate.com.

You don’t wanna eat this fiber: River’s Mist Gallery of Fine Art, 317 Main St. in Stevensville, presents a gallery talk with Heidi Zielinski on Fiber into Art, which begins at 7 PM at the gallery. Free. Call 777-0520.

New York City trumpeter Jim Rotondi toots it up with accompaniment from David Morgenroth, Mike Freemole and Brad Edwards during another

installment of DalyJazz, which starts at 7 PM at 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

Soak up a tale of a servant who’s a little too eager to offer up his services when the Sentinel High School Drama Department presents its rendition of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Margaret Johnson Theatre at Sentinel High, 901 South Ave. W. $6/$5 students and seniors. Call Katie at 7282400 Ext. 7065.

A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

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If your favorite reggae band is comprised of white dudes with dreads who sing the praises of jah, herb and “one love,” I’d consider putting down your peace pipe for a sec to track down an album by Toots and the Maytals. Why, you ask? Because these guys basically helped build the musical foundation for all contemporary reggae and ska groups.

In fact, this Kingston, Jamaica-based reggae, ska, gospel and rock group is about as old-school as you can get. They first broke onto the scene in the early WHAT: Toots and the Maytals WHEN: Sat., May 22, at 8 PM WHERE: The Wilma Theatre HOW MUCH: $25/$23 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com

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1960s—around the same time The Wailers were born. Frontman Fredrick “Toots” Hibbert (pictured) met Henry “Raleigh” Gordon and Nathaniel “Jerry” McCarthy, and the trio decided to start jamming as a ska outfit under the name of The Maytals. And after a name change, a couple hiatuses, several bands covering their tunes (like The Clash and Sublime), and countless successful releases later, they’re still at it.

These days, Toots and Co. have injected a liberal amount of influences into their repertoire, especially with their latest release Flip and Twist, which proficiently mines the groovier depths of genres like blues, hip-hop and soul.

When Hibbert and his cohorts hit the Wilma this week, I’d expect a touch of the new peppered with several servings of the old. So stir it up, and prepare to get lit up with some irie vibes from these Jamaican legends.

—Ira Sather-Olson

history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@centurytel.net to make reservations.

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

They keep it mellow, but not yellow.

Locals David Boone, Chris Cunningham and John Floridis perform intimate acoustic guitar music starting at 8 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s, the DDC or brownpapertickets.com.

Zeppo germinates the seeds of a surrealistic rainbow when they crank out blues and R&B jams at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Steven Prunty quells the aspirations of monarchists when he plays a solo set the Raven Bar and Grill in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 8 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

When in doubt, consult the Rooster Sauce. Hot Salsa Nights keeps your toes begging for more when the salsa dance party starts at 8 PM at the Elks Club, 112 N. Pattee St. $7, with free dances lessons at 8:30 PM. The Voodoo Horseshoes just want you to put on that cloven shaped shoe when they play roots and rock 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.

The Country Kings keep your string beans away from a slaughterhouse when they play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hiphop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-5678.

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

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

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

Portland, Ore.’s Nice Nice brings plenty of nice noise with a mixture of post-rock, electronics and lots of experimentation when they play the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Dog Shredder, Deny the Dinosaur and Palace of Buddies open.

They keep your booty outta the trash: The Palace hosts the last installment of Robotrash, a dance party featuring DJs Kris Moon and Tak45 playing techno, tech-house and everything in between starting at 9 PM. $3.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment

The Lifers offer up your DNA sliding scale fee when they Florence’s High Spirits Club Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

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Dangerous decides to walk over that mound of crushed glass when they play rock at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Swyl lets your body language dictate how much you can freak the funk when they play funk and rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Keep a safe distance from that tub of lactose when Butter churns out Americana and folk with fellow folksters Wartime Blues, at 10 PM at Sean Kelly’s. Cover TBA.

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Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

Run, walk, and run some more duri n g t h e 2 4 th a n n u a l E v a r o Mountain Challenge 5k and 10k Run and Walk, which begins with registration at 8:30 AM at milepost 7, off of Hwy. 93 N. near Evaro.

Races follow at 9:30 and 10 AM. $10/$8 if registration received by Thu., May 20. T-shirts are $12/$11 advance. Register early by visiting racemontana.com.

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

Keep that credit card at bay: Missoula’s homeWORD presents its “Financial Fitness” workshop, which aims for you to effectively manage and understand your finances with a full day course from 9 AM–6 PM at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 303. $10 per per-

son. Register by visiting homeword.org and call 532-HOME. Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “May Mobiles” with Beth Jaffe. Free, but donations are appreciated but not expected. Register by calling 5495329 or visit livingartofmontana.org.

Just make sure to examine every nook and cranny during a tour and gallery talk for David Nash’s sculpture Crack and Warp Column, which is lead by Jose Chavez and begins at noon at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

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Gillian Browne, certified Soul Coach, presents the “Creating a Vision Board” Workshop, where participants define goals and create what they want in life with use of a vision board, with the workshop running from 1–5 PM at Stevensville’s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St. $20, pre-registration recommended.

Call Gillian at 599-3950.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 2 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

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Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@century tel.net to make reservations.

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.

Enjoy an evening with a shaman and sundancer as he reveals the deep roots of his imagination and art during a screening of Sundancing With the Muse, Heyoka Merrifield’s Sacred Art Story, a documentary by local filmmaker Jason Gutzmer with a screening at 5 PM, and again at 7 PM, at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $7 suggested donation.

Celebrate conservation when you head to the Five Valleys Land Tr u s t A n n u a l B a n q u e t a n d Auction, which begins at 5:30 PM at the Northstar Hangar at the Missoula International Airport, 5225 Hwy 10 W. $50 per person. Visit fvlt.org and call 549-0755.

Joan Zen separates the spiritual wheat from the chaff when she plays a mix of soul, reggae and jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Jazz makes the pad thai go down smooth when IZA Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave., presents free live jazz from a rotating cast of local musicians at 6:30 PM this and every Sat. at the restaurant. Call 830-3237.

New York City trumpeter Jim Rotondi toots it up with accompaniment from David Morgenroth, Mike Freemole and Brad Edwards during another installment of DalyJazz, which starts at 7 PM at 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

Israelis and Palestinians who just want their conflict to peacefully end hit the screen during a screening of Encounter Point, which begins at 7 PM at the Whitefish Middle School Auditorium, 600 E. Second St. Free.

Call Josh at 250-9432.

The Discount Quartet with Jim Rogers on piano gives your mullet a reason to keep the party in the back when they play jazz at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., from 7–9 PM. Free.

Soak up a tale of a servant who’s a little too eager to offer up his services when the Sentinel High School Drama Department presents its rendition of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Margaret Johnson Theatre at Sentinel High, 901 South Ave. W. $6/$5 students and seniors. Call Katie at 7282400 Ext. 7065.

A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana

Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

Dance peacefully with your inner spiritual self when Dances of Universal Peace meets for sacred movement, song and story at the First Christian Church in Hamilton, 328 Fairgrounds Rd., at 7:30 PM. Donations requested. Call Star at 363-4026.

Tap into modern dance during the Garden City Ballet’s “Connections in Choreography,” a dance concert featuring performances by the Garden City Ballet Company and others of work by Bebe Miller, Amy Ragsdale, Nicholas Young and other choreographers starting at 7:30 PM, at the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $10/$5 children and students with ID, with advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s. Call 240-6042.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@century tel.net to make reservations.

The Country Kings keep your string beans away from a slaughterhouse when they play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Sick Pony doesn’t really want you to chug that codeine cough syrup when they play a mix of bluegrass, indie and rock at the Raven Bar and Grill in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 8 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

Kingston, Jamaica’s Toots and the Maytals just might let you try their irie eyedrops when they play reggae, ska, soul and rock at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $25/$23 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and online at ticketfly.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Country bumpkins and rural dudes named Curly are never barred from shaking a tail during a Missoula Senior Center Saturday night dance with The City Slickers, which runs from 8–11 PM at the center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Call 543-7154.

John Patrick Williams smashes the glass ceiling with his tried and true axe when the singer/songwriter plays the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome.

Call 741-2361.

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

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

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

DJ Bionic keeps the remixes and mash-ups flowing while you shake it when he plays at 9 PM at The Underground, a new downtown dance venue in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free.

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They’re more about funking you up than starting a political controversy.

Bellingham, Wash.’s Acorn Project brings the jam and rock with heaps of funk when they play the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Airstream Safari open.

Quit singing alone: Florence’s Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 93 N., presents a Karaoke Singing Contest with Charlotte starting at 9:30 PM. Call 273-9992.

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The Whiskey Rebellion indicates that a quick swim in oily water probably isn’t a good idea when they play outlaw country at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Zoo City isn’t so interested in playing songs about Billings, or Fresno, when they play rock at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

The Lil’ Smokies insist that a smokey version of the hokey pokey is what it’s all about when they play Americana/bluegrass at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Get a taste of local food at a lower price and learn more about a participatory business model when you check out the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s Sunday Public Shop, a chance to shop at the co-op before you join from 10 AM–5 PM at the co-op, 1500 Burns St. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome to shop three times before becoming a member. Call 728-2369 and visit missoulacommunitymarket.org.

Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 1–5 PM this and every Sun. at the New Park parking lot, between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park pavillion. Free to attend. Call 549-8382.

Celebrate some tail shaking with a cultural twist during a Polynesian Dance Performance by UM Western’s Polynesian Club, which begins at 2 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5/free children age 10 and under.

This performance coincides with Missoula’s celebration of New Zealand Days. Visit missoulacultural.org.

He’s the ultimate peacemaker: The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center/ Missoula Peace Quilters present their 2010 Peacemaker of the year award celebration, which honors local resident John Mitchell Baugh with a celebration from 2–4 PM at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free, includes coffee and cake. Call 543-3955 and visit jrpc.org.

If you suffer from pain, join others who understand your plight 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 “Exploring Our Inner Strengths–Who We Are Underneath the Pain.” Call Nicole Dunn for more info at 327-8408.

The Montana A Cappella Society keeps belting them out during its spring concert with the Very Special Adults Choir from Missoula at 3 PM at Corvallis’ United Methodist Church, on Eastside Highway at Cemetery Road. Donations appreciated, with refreshments to follow.

Call Don at 369-0706 and visit montanaacappella.org.

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If your chakras have been a little backed up lately, clear ‘em out during Table Time with Alternative Healers, an intuitive healing and energy balancing workshop from 4:30–6:30 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Call Janit at 207-7358.

nightlife Steven Purnty gives his axe permission to wail when he plays a solo set at the Raven Bar and Grill in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 5 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

Just when you thought there weren’t enough farmers’ markets, along comes the Target Range Community Farmers’ Market, which features an array of local products and runs from 10 AM–1 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 10 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free. Interested vendors should call Todd at 531-0877.

The Missoula Cultural Council continues its celebration of New Zealand Days with a Gala Dinner titled “Celebrate New Zealand,” which includes a New Zealand cuisine catered by the Silk Road, as well as a dance performance and a social hour starting at 5 PM at the Hawthorn Suites Banquet Room, 5145 Airway Boulevard. $38.

Seating is limited, so RSVP by calling 532-3250 or by visiting missoulacultural.org.

Yet another opportunity to buy local fruits and veggies, as well as arts and crafts hits Missoula during the

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He’ll be your private breakdancer. Heyoka Merrifield stars in Sundancing With the Muse, Heyoka Merrifield’s Sacred Art Story, a film by Jason Gutzmer that screens Sat., May 22, at 5 PM and again at 7 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $7 suggested donation.

Soiree, a fundraiser for the nonprofit that features live/silent auctions, food, drinks, music by Beth Lo and David Horgan and other entertainment, from 6–8:30 PM at Caffe Dolce, 500 Brooks St. $40. Call 5493348 and visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Create something dramatic out of nothing during the Open Field Artists’ Theatre Lab, a theater workshop that occurs this and every Thu., Sun. and Mon. at 7 PM at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W. Free. E-mail openfieldartists@gmail.com.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry.

See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@centurytel.net to make reservations.

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

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

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Those interested in issues pertaining to the homeless population are invited to a meeting of the Montana Homeless Network, which meets this and every Mon. at 10 AM in the small conference room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Mary Alice at 880-1210.

nightlife Help make the wish of an ill child come true by becoming a volunteer for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which hosts a volunteer training starting at 6 PM at a TBA location today. Free. RSVP and get directions to the training by contacting Jeni Miller at 800-304-9474 or by e-mailing her at volunteer@nwwishes.org. Visit northwestwishes.org.

You can support summer bereavement camps for kids when you head to the Tamarack Grief Resource Center’s second annual “A Taste to Remember Benefit Dinner,” which features five courses courtesy of chefs from the Silk Road, Blue Canyon Restaurant and other Missoula restaurants and begins at 6 PM at The Ranch Club, 8500 Mullan Road. $150 couple/$80 per person/$1000 for a sponsor table of ten. RSVP by calling 541-8472. Visit tamarackgriefresourcecenter.org.

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

Charlie Hopkins quenches your thirst for the non-distorted when he plays acoustic blues with a touch of folk at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

Create something dramatic out of nothing during the Open Field Artists’ Theatre Lab, a theater workshop that occurs this and every Thu., Sun. and Mon. at 7 PM at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W. Free. Email openfieldartists@gmail.com.

Alcohol and bowling go hand over foot during Monday Madness at Five Valley’s Bowl, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which features $1 bowling after 9 PM as well as $1.25 Coors Light cans this and every Mon. at the bowling center. Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

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

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

Get down like a rolling stone. The Badlander hosts a Bob Dylan birthday party/costume party with musicians playing Dylan tunes and other revelry starting at 9 PM. Free.

Local musicians are welcome to come and play Dylan covers. Also, dressing in costume as a Dylan song or album is encouraged, but don’t dress up as “Tangled Up in Blue.” Just don’t.

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

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

The Daly Mansion brings back the old school during an organizational meeting for those interested in acting as characters during Daly Days in July, with the meeting beginning at 6 PM in the trophy room of the mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton. Free. Open to men, women and children who want to portray characters from 1880–1940. RSVP by calling April at 363-6004 Ext. 3.

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. This month: An open discussion on the planetary energy shift and its side effects. 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.

Ednor “Bob Wire� Therriault is all about guiding you to the world’s largest purple spoon when he hosts a release party for his book Montana Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, at 7 PM at Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 549-9010. (See Books in this issue.)

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 name is given to any work of religious art that depicts baby Jesus with his mother? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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

Javier Ryan and Special Peoples aim to massage your brain stem when they play what’s likely to be hip-hop at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Kids ought to expect the unexpected during Preschool Story Time at the children’s corner of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, when storyteller Peggie Oury presents “Surprise!� from 10:30–11:30 AM. Free. Call 363-1670.

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

Keep those cluckers from escaping during the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project’s Backyard Chickens workshop, which covers coop design, construction tips, feed and bedding requirements starting at 6:30 PM at MUD’s headquarters, 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 members.

Advance registration required by calling 721-7513 or visiting mudproject.ning.com.

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

Call 542-1471.

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Copper Belt Museum keeps the chemicals out of your calamari when the acoustic duo plays at 8 PM at Kalispell’s North Bay Grille, 139 First Ave. W. Free. Call 755-4441.

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Don’t expect an earful of distortion when Salt Lake City’s Bramble plays folk while Minneapolis’ Raccoon Raccoon plays emotive tunes featuring cello and guitar at 8 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $5. Locals Bird’s Mile Home, Cassandra and Pony Canon open.

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: Works of religious art that depict baby Jesus with his mama are named “Madonna and Child.�

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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.

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Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Everybody Must Get Stoned�

by Bob Dylan (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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Green Sickness will not make you sick, nor make you drink green bile, when they play metal and rock at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Actors’ Theatre’s staged reading of Descartes a la Mode, a new play

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Josiah Wolf (the former drummer for WHY?) lets you ride that dreamy bubble of indie folk mixed with pop when he plays the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Orange Shades and Tyson Ballew open. (See Noise in this issue.)

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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.

Come see the

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

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A sagacious wordsmith hits the stage when Providence, Rhode Island’s Sage Francis makes his return to Missoula for a night of hiphop soaked in indie rock/folk influences with backup support from the band Free Moral Agents, at 9 PM at the Palace. $15, with advance tickets at Ear Candy. Tourmate B. Dolan opens. (See Noise in this issue.)

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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.

homeWORD invites the public

High Voltage cranks the insanity up a few volts when they rock it with hard rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

to a community design charrette for Solstice, a new mixed-use development with affordable housing, scheduled to break ground fall 2010.

THURSDAY

When: Thursday, June 3, 6:30-9:30pm Where: Broadway Inn Conference Center (1609 W Broadway)

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If you’re a fan of Ralph Nader, this guy will make your day. Author and columnist Bob Sullivan holds a Q&A session and signs copies of Stop Getting Ripped Off at 4 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 728-2881.

If you have questions, contact Julie at 532-4663 x19 or julie@homeword.org

nightlife He will blow your mind: The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) presents Trimpin Members Reception, a MAM members-only event which features a performance by Seattle sculptor/sound artist Trimpin—who creates experimental music out of modified instruments— starting at 5 PM at the MAM, 335 N. Pattee St. Call Kay at 728-0447 Ext. 227 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org/support.

May 21, 22, & 23

Volunteers raise the roof for a DIY art institution when the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., hosts a volunteer orientation from 5–6 PM at the center. Free.

Call 549-7555.

Kalispell 10am-7pm, Red Lion Hotel 20 N. Main

May 25, 26 & 27 Missoula 10am-7pm Wingate Inn 5252 Airway Blvd. in Missoula

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Celebrate those who have made our community a more sustainable place during the Missoula Sustainable Business Council’s “Sustainable Practices in Action Panel Discussion and Sixth Annual Sustainability Awards,” which begins at 5:30 PM at the Stensrud Building, 314 N. First St. W. Free. RSVP by e-mailing Susan at education@sbcmontana.org. Visit sbcmontana.org and call 824-7336.

Libby’s Pete Mason gives freemasons one more reason to be cryptic when he plays folk and Americana at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Refine your creative side during The Creative Moment, a class taught by local artist Katie Ludwick where you’ll blend up and synthesize writing, drawing, object exploration, and works on paper to create an idea smoothie to boost your creative potential from 6–8 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $10. Call 549-7555 to register.

Tell fertilizer to bugger off during “What is Permaculture?,” a talk with Permaculture designer Paul Wheaton which covers how to

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grow your favorite garden plants without the use of fertilizer, sprays, or irrigation, and starts at 6:30 PM in the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

E-mail info@ediblemissoula.com and visit permies.com.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

He’ll amaze you. The Missoula Art Museum presents its Distinguished Artist Lecture and Film Screening of Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, a doc which follows the work and life of sculptor/musician Trimpin—who composes experimental music from instruments he invented and modified—starting at 7 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $5/free Missoula Art Museum members and students with ID. RSVP by calling 728-0447.

A high school teacher struggles as he presents René Descartes Meditations to students during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s staged reading of Descartes a la Mode, a new play by Thomas Michael Campbell with a reading at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$5 students. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

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

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during Combat Karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

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

He bounces beats like he’ll bounce you outta the bar if you get too rowdy. The Palace presents a DJ set of reggae, dancehall and hip-hop

by Jamaican native Supa J, aka the Badlander/Palace’s bouncer Jimmy, starting at 9 PM. Free.

The Mike Bader Blues Band injects rays of indigo into your dome when they play blues at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.

If you need a good musical cleansing this week, be sure to check out Portland, Ore.’s Nice Nice on Fri., May 21, at the Badlander. I’ve just started listening to this two-piece, and quite simply, they rock it. If you dig post-rock mixed with electronic buzzes and a little bit of noise here and there, grab your earplugs and get thee to the front of the stage come Friday night.

Before then, though, keep my inbox brimming by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 21, 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.”

While a 110-mile or 85-mile bike ride might seem daunting to some of us—myself included—many of you probably get a little buzz when envisioning yourself leisurely pedaling it up for several hours among your cycling buddies. And I’m guessing if you add western Montana’s beautiful landscapes into the mix, several of you start swooning. Well, maybe not. But if you have a bicycling itch to scratch this week, I’ve got just the thing for you.

On Sat., May 22, that group of fierce pedal pushers known as Missoulians on Bicycles (MOBI) hits the road for the 40th annual Tour of the Swan River Valley West ride, a hefty twoday jaunt, which is either 110-miles or 85-miles—depending on whatever suits your seat and legs. The 110-mile ride departs at 7 AM, May 22, from UM’s campus, while the 85-mile ride departs from Potomac likely an hour or two later (you’ll be departing from a breakfast joint in Potomac, where riders on the 110-mile ride are chowing down.) From Potomac, you’ll glide up through the Swan Valley with quick stops for lunch and snacks, and you’ll eventually hit your breaks in Swan Lake for camaraderie and a night’s rest. On Sun., May 23, you’ll ride back down to Potomac and Missoula. The trip costs $115, and you need to be a member of the organization in order to ride, so click to missoulabike.org/tosrv-w-information for specific info and to download a registration form, or to register online. Also, note that a check-in meeting occurs Fri., May 21, at 6 PM, and Sat., May 22, at 6 AM, both a UM’s Miller Hall. Call Tim at 250-7228.

With that on your docket, let’s go back a day to Fri., May 21.

Those of you who enjoy scaling boulders can join Shawn Bennett with the Rocky Mountaineers for a Kootenai Canyon Rock Climbing trip in the Bitterroots. Free. Bennett doesn’t yet have a departure time, but he indicates the jaunt is open to anyone interested in getting into the sport. Give him a ring at 493-4892 to finalize plans. Visit rockymountaineers.com.

Or stick around and dust off your party hat to live it up with some disc throwers during the Missoula Ultimate Frisbee Federation’s Fundraiser, which starts at 7 PM at the American Legion Hall, 825

for registration received by Thu., May 20. T-shirts are also available for $12/$11 advance. Register early by visiting racemontana.com or by emailing evarocommcenter@blackfoot.net.

Alternately, learn how to pack something other than your medical pipe on Sat., May 22, during the second annual Packing and Equestrian Skills Expo, which runs from 10 AM–5 PM at the Missoula Equestrian Park, 3500 North Ave. W. Free. The fair offers a host of activities including basic horse handling safety, a packing demo

by Smoke Elser—a packing God of sorts—plus demos on riding skills.

Visit bchmt.org/missoula to download a schedule and call 531-2455.

Your rugrat aiming to be a butt kickin’ rugby player gets the good word from the pros on Sat., May 22, during a Touch Rugby Clinic with the Missoula Maggots, which begins with a youth rugby clinic at 11 AM at the Fort Missoula Rugby Pitch, just west of the South Ave. parking lot. Free. Clinics for high schoolers also begin at the same time. Call Ashby Kinch at 721-2227 and visit missoulacultural.org/sistercities/new_zealand_day.htm.

On Sun., May 23, get your hike on when Julie Kahl of the Rocky Mountaineers leads a hike near the Miller Creek Logging Roads. Free. The time to meet is TBA, so contact Julie at jawkal@hotmail.com to get the final word, and visit rockymountaineers.com for trip updates.

Ease your Monday blues with the sensual sights and smells of wildflowers on Mon., May 24, when the Clark Fork Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society meets for an evening walk with Annie Garde up Pattee Canyon at 6:30 PM. Free. Meet at the Pattee Canyon trailhead parking lot at 6:30 PM, or carpool by meeting at 6:10 PM at the northwest corner of the UM’s Adams Center parking lot. Expect to be delighted as Garde points you in the direction of an abundant array of flowers like blue camas and arrowleaf balsamroot. Visit mtnativeplants.org.

Photo by Chad Harder Finally we conclude with an event tailored for kayak hounds and fitness freaks that I mentioned last week. It’s the Deep Bay $50/$25 Run Wild Missoula members. The idea behind the class is Kayak and Fitness Symposium, which runs Fri., May 28–Mon., to prepare you for the Hellgate Village 5k, which occurs July 10. So May 31 at the Deep Bay Resort in Lakeside. If offers you the chance lace up and click to runwildmissoula.org. to enroll in sea kayak basics to advance skills courses, as well as a slew If you’re already well versed in pushing your legs and lungs to the of fitness and yoga workshops. E-mail bobbie@glacierseakayak.com limit, skip that class and get to the 24th annual Evaro Mountain for pricing or call 862-9010.

Challenge 5k and 10k Run and Walk, which begins Sat., May 22, Ready, set, pedal! with registration at 8:30 AM at milepost 7, off Hwy. 93 near Evaro. The calendar@missoulanews.com 10k race/walk follows at 9:30 AM, and the 5k begins at 10. $10/$8 Ronan St. $10. The soiree includes carnival games, dinner, drinks, dancing and a silent auction. And here’s something else you should know: The nonprofit wants to help build disc sports throughout Missoula, so if you’ve ever played a game of ultimate, I’d say you ought to check this out. Visit missoulaultimate.com and call John at 360-1086.

But just remember to keep an eye on how much punch you drink so you can rise early Sat., May 22, to learn the finer points of breaking a sweat and breathing deep during Run Wild Missoula’s Beginner Runner Class, which meets at 8 AM every Sat. and 6:30 AM every Wed. for eight weeks at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave.

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Reflecting on the end of an era as Crystal Video closes its doors

by Andy Smetanka

I would have broken my embargo on VHS tapes to I like the other video store I go to, but in the dozens would give just about anything to almost get in a fistfight of times I’ve rented movies there I’ve never had a conver- over Peter Greenaway with a video store clerk. “Say some- buy the copy of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls I once sation with an employee about a movie. It’s weird: They thing!” I want to yell at these clerk-droids at the other rented and took with me to Finland for six months, but have these racks right up front with rows of “employee place, practically yanking my wallet out of my pocket to that one went missing years ago. Almost as sad as the store’s actual closing was the shelf of DVD cases with picks” by name, but no one wears name tags so you get at my driver’s license.

You’d think I would have planned better for my final missing or damaged contents: grim evidence of how wouldn’t know with whom to share the secret handshake of the fellow closeted Joan Crawford enthusiast even if trip to Crystal—drawn up a mental list, even—especially people mistreat libraries. One of these orphaned cases they weren’t always in such an unsmiling hurry to see your considering I went through the trouble of sneaking in was for Die Nibelungen. I always wondered how someearly on the first day of the big sale. But I didn’t. I seri- one who would actually rent that movie could be so disdriver’s license.

I don’t think I’ve ever rented a movie from Crystal ously couldn’t think of anything I wanted, although in respectful.

I started getting depressed, so I made my purchases Video without having a movie conversation. You could retrospect I should have started taking mental notes count on spending time there: It was not a video store for the hurried or lazy browser, or the attention-deficient. Except for new releases, most of the DVDs were displayed spine-out so you really had to either know what you were looking for or commit to a sore neck surveying these thin strips of information at a slant while moving up and down the rows.

Plenty of time to bump elbows.

Video libraries are unique in that they leave a certain record of your consumption, if we must call it that, in a way that retail places don’t. At other retail places you generally don’t return what you’ve bought after using it, in some cases to buy it again five or 10 years later. At Crystal Video, I could revisit past Photo by Cathrine L. Walters eras of movie watching, past areas of intense interest, and actually Crystal Video owner Jace Laakso stacks DVDs as people stand in line to buy out the store’s inventory. The 23-year-old indet o u c h t h e v e r y s a m e pendent video store located on South Higgins shut its doors for good last week due to economic hardship. videotapes I first picked up 15 or 20 years ago. I felt such proprietary satisfaction when I noticed the beatific look that had started to and left without soaking in any more of the “atmoscome over Tim’s face recently when we both knew I had phere”—the very thing I’d professed to be after when I for having conquered whole sections of it.

It’s normally bad form in customer service for a clerk late fees and that he was just letting them slide. That waved my flimsy press credentials earlier—than I had to. to comment or editorialize on a customer’s purchases, but didn’t bode well, but I didn’t speak up, either. Again, The doors had barely opened to the public and already at the Crystal you wanted the editorializing, and the rec- what I wouldn’t do now to hear Darth Vader booming : people were barking questions over both my shoulders at ommendations, the interaction. And what a gallery of col- “I have you now!” one last time. Star Wars will never be a flustered Jace Laakso as he sat furiously pecking numbers into his computer: Is this shelf for sale? Is that shelf orful characters sat behind that checkout counter over the the same.

I had made up my mind, however, not to so much for sale? Can I have some tape to put my name on it? years! Katie Kleinhesselink, the video store dreamboat of I turned to leave, pushing through what now every movie nerd’s dreams. Carson something or other, as glance at the videocassettes. It was hard, I tell you, the insufferable hipster brat who had actually been to film walking past those rows of forlorn VHS titles: like being seemed to me a pack of ravenous jackals: not somber at a dog pound with two thousand puppies, only some cinephiles come to pay their respects, but scavengers school and never let you forget it.

And not to forget Aaron Taylor, perhaps the ultimate of these puppies I’ve literally known for half my life. with bared teeth and wildly searching eyes, greedy for video clerk, whose bewildering profusion of voluble opin- Really, though, I’m conflicted about the whole idea of any bargain just because it is. “Dear God,” I thought. ions usually followed you out the door as you were leav- “owning” movies, so I picked up a fistful of kid things, a “Here they’re selling off the cathedral, and these people ing. Dealing with Aaron could be downright exasperating few VHS tapes someone had asked me to look out for are wondering if there’s any warm Tab for the communon those occasions when you just wanted to get home and (requiring intense concentration not to notice anything ion glasses.”

Well, the hell with it then. Netflix here I come. watch your movies, without the banter, certainly without on either side), and a very few things for myself. the added fistful of Captain Beefheart and Japanese Nothing special, nothing impossible to find elsewhere, noisecore recommendations into the bargain. Now I and really nothing really meaningful to me. arts@missoulanews.com

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Josiah Wolf Jet Lag Anticon

Jet Lag is like a cemetery in spring. It’s pretty and serene, but under the shiny folk pop lies the broken evidence of dead relationships. The first solo full-length by Josiah Wolf (drummer from WHY?) tries hard to unearth the pieces, stringing them together in gap-filled narratives that end up being ethereal in all their metaphors.

But the imagery and sentiments tend to be hit or miss.

Songs start out well enough, like in “The Opposite of Breathing” where Wolf strums and sings, “It’s just a February sense. I can hear your little voice inside my head, saying now it’s time for change.” But it’s something like bad poetry when he clunkily continues with,

The Magpies pica pica self-released

Despite obvious talent and ambition, The Magpies have remained as elusive around here as our feathered friend—scientific name Pica pica—is ubiquitous. The trio’s most recent album, pica pica, is also its best, and it is a year old. I can say that missing this was a very unfortunate oversight, but the fact that pica pica is only now being reviewed in these pages has to do with the group’s geographical preferences. Now

Sage Francis Li(f)e

Anti Records

Sage Francis has always defied the conventions of hip-hop, but this time he’s really thrown a wrench into its gears. While the lyrics and beats on Li( f )e are rooted in the genre, the musicality bears a scant resemblance. It’s mostly a mix of indie rock/folk and punk featuring guest songwriters from a range of groups like Califone and Calexico, and it’s a remarkably fresh fusion that fits well with Francis’ rhymes, which are rife with colorful images, sarcastic observations and exquisite narrative.

Francis hones his eye for detail in the lush indie folk tune “Little Houdini,” which follows the true story of Christopher Daniel Gay—a man who kept escaping

Robbie Fulks Happy

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Robbie Fulks had Happy in the can over eight years ago. But the Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 tribute album wasn’t ready to see the light of day considering Jackson’s little boy scandals at the time. Its recent release—years after the scandals and following Jackson’s death—makes it feel more in the context of the music itself and not as much clouded by the personal debacles of “the man in the mirror.”

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“I’ve frozen my assets! I’ve got nothing to give right now.” Or in “Gravity Defied” where smart drumming and curious instrumentation are out-weighed by over-the-top rhyming and a wavering falsetto.

Wolf has a good sound, in general. You hear it in the background and it evokes the aftermath of a breakup perfectly—especially the nostalgic, what-if part.

If you listen too closely, the darker images of planes and rainy gravestones lose their mysterious allure. Maybe its because there are no moments of clear crisis to give the landscape depth. (Erika Fredrickson) Josiah Wolf plays the Palace Tuesday, May 25, at 9 PM with The Orange Shades and Tyson Ballew. $5.

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claiming Missoula as home, they’ve spent more time in the past few years making movies in Havre than making music in the Garden City. Citizens of Great Falls and Bozeman are probably more familiar with this band’s particular genius. That should change. Guitarist Tolan Harber and bassist Samantha Pollington share vocals with the same energy and chemistry that made X the best band in Los Angeles. It comes as no surprise that Harber and Pollington are married, and couple-driven art punk acts like X and Sonic Youth are obvious influences, but the catchiest songs on pica pica also call to mind ’80s alt-pop acts like the B52s. I’m calling this the album of the summer, and I don’t care if you heard it last summer. Listen again. (Ali Gadbow) The Magpies play the Palace Thursday, May 20, at 9 PM with Rooster Sauce and The New Hijackers. $5.

incarceration in order to see his ailing parents. On “Diamonds and Pearls,” he digs his poetic teeth into people who lie, while a morose groove featuring string instruments perfectly complements the dark mood. Other tracks dart between iconoclastic thoughts on religion and politics, to ruminations of his life. It’s all totally absorbing, though it takes awhile to sink in. But it’s worth every minute.

Francis has always been ahead of most in the indie rap pack, but with Li( f )e, he’s in a league of his own.

(Ira Sather-Olson) Sage Francis plays the Palace Wednesday, May 26, at 9 PM with Free Moral Agents and B. Dolan. $15 advance at Ear Candy.

Fulks can be a tough singer-songwriter to wrap your head around. He’s got an exuberant sharp wit that sometimes comes off as sarcastic and, other times, scarily manic. For that reason it’s easy to mistake this album for irony. It’s not. Even when he’s joking around, Fulks doesn’t take covering MJ lightly.

Fulks plays with Motown motifs and dabbles in extremely experimental, avant garde realms—not the most fun tracks to listen to, but intriguing nonetheless.

“Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” is disguised in plucky bluegrass. “The Girl Is Mine” serves as a modern day duet between Fulks and singer Nora O’Connor.

But it’s in songs like “Man in the Mirror”—a gorgeous folk rock interpretation—when Fulks pairs his signature folk oddities with MJ’s laid-bare honesty that Happy really soars. (Erika Fredrickson)

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Off road Therriault’s new book maps Montana oddities

by Erika Fredrickson

Montana road trips often include sidetracks to some obviously curious places: The Berkeley Pit in Butte, for instance, or the Lewis and Clark Caverns in Three Forks. But how about the giant 14-foot purple spoon in East Glacier, or the Miracle of America Museum in Polson, which sports a two-headed calf?

Ednor Therriault (aka Bob Wire), local blogger, musician and occasional writer for the Indy, logged 8,000 miles in six months to dig up the weirdest places and happenings across the state for his recently published book, Montana Curiosities: Quirky characters, roadside oddities and other offbeat stuff. We spoke with Therriault about the story behind the book, mutated animals and running on fumes.

Therriault: Probably the single most interesting character is Chuck Ringer, an artist in Joliet. His Ski God is the subject of the book’s entry, but I got to tour his studio and look at everything he’s been working on. The man is truly out there, living the bohemian life and making a good income. I was jealous. He’s built a lifesized spaceship, complete with aliens. The spaceship looks pretty wild, but the aliens are right on the money.

He and I both have a dog named Houdini.

Indy: Anyone else?

Therriault: There was Tony Brown, former mayor of Troy, owner of the Club Bar there. Once traded the back bar for a Mercedes. He’s a world-class raconteur, and he’s currently running for Indy: How did you end up county commissioner, on on this quest? the platform of sending all Therriault: My family took a women to nursing school. three-week cross-country His chapter didn’t make the trip because I’ve always cut, but I had a wild night wanted to do that old-school with him in Troy. Also, sevNational Lampoon vacation, eral local characters blew pile-in-the-station-wagon my wig back with their thing. We drove to North crazy personalities and wild Carolina and back. We saw A two-headed calf at the Stockett Bar in stories. Some of them gravestones and eight Stockett, Mont., is one of the many oddi- include Larry Evans, Uncle national parks and all the ties featured in Ednor Therriault’s B i l l S t o i a n o f f, B r u c e tourist stuff. But we also saw Montana Curiosities.

Micklus, Tom Webster, Eric the world’s biggest bottle of ketchup and goofy stuff “Fingers” Ray, Preston Miller and Dave Chappell. like that. So I wrote this series for my New West blog about the trip. Then I get an e-mail about writing a Indy: What unexpected things happened to you in book from Allen Jones from Globe Pequot who used to your travels? be the books editor at New West.

Therriault: I started seeing signs near Great Falls for a “fart show.” I was really intrigued, but then I realized— Indy: What were some of the most surprising curiosi- when I put on my glasses—that the signs were indicatties you found? ing Fort Shaw. Also, I recently saw the D River in Therriault: There was the bear park in West Glacier. I Lincoln City, Oregon. That’s the one that issued a chalwas expecting something zoo-like, but not quite so lenge to the Guinness Book of World Records, claiming phony. It was just like Jurassic Park with the electric to be shorter than the Roe River in Great Falls. The D fence going around and the big concrete pond the River is nothing but a bulldozed ditch that connects bears hang out in. And the bears might as well be gold- Devil’s Lake to the Pacific, and collects trash and diesel en retrievers. The lady in the booth was more threaten- fuel. I piss on the D River. ing than the bears.

Indy: Anything bad happen?

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In a notorious 2005 essay on Ben Stiller, New of men. Stiller’s wank-in-the-bank maneuver before his Yorker critic David Denby described the actor as “the date with Cameron Diaz in There’s Something About latest, and crudest, version of the urban Jewish male on Mary represents an especially shocking onscreen the make,” citing Woody Allen and Richard Dreyfus as breach of the Sixth Brommandment: “Thou shalt not antecedents. With a sort of Pyrrhic determination to strippeth male sexuality of its mystery nor admitteth of ruin his remaining credibility, he goes on to disparage premature ejaculation.”

But it all contributes to a likeably annoying, if Stiller’s facial features, his comedian parents and comes within a whisker of saying outright that Jews sometimes overly ingratiating, but also gently self-depshouldn’t pursue blond women. He’s right about one recating comic presence. In his more serious roles, thing: We do like Ben Stiller to be neurotic and uncom- though—and he’s got a juicy one in Greenberg, directfortable in his comedy, whether that’s a Jewish thing or ed by Noah Baumbach—it’s hard to get past Stiller’s not. A lot of his comedy derives from painful attempts hyper self-awareness. You simply think, “So that’s what to fit in—at parties, with his WASP-y in-laws, with the he acts like when he’s trying not to be himself.” And cool crowd. There’s that great scene in Meet the Parents sometimes the material lets him down, even when it’s where Focker is trying to act cool with his girlfriend’s teenage brother, and the best he can muster is a hilariously irrelevant “Noooo doubt” that only shows how fossilized in some possibly imagined personal cool phase his idea of cool really is.

We all know the awkwardness of fumbling through a “cool” handshake and mispronouncing shibboleths in cool company, if not getting caught in a lie about milking a cat. This is what makes Stiller so eminently relatable as a comic actor: We can see our best intentions and our most pathetic tenRocky mountain oysters? Sounds exotic. dencies in his weaselly efforts to join the crowd, to be liked, in his stereotypical wimpiness, written by longtime friends and collaborators. The Royal Tenenbaums had Stiller trapped between comehis disseminating and occasional outright cowardice.

Or at least we men can, and the warier among us dy and drama, and Wes Anderson-style drama to boot, sometimes feel as though Stiller, like Jud Apatow, is sell- which is to say drama with nothing really at stake. ing the secrets of men to the highest bidder. Ever since Nowhere to go: pacing in his cage like Rilke’s panther There’s Something About Mary, there’s been a New in a red tracksuit.

Frequent collaborators Baumbach and Anderson Male Realism to comedy dialogue, and one fears that giving away too many secrets of men will hasten our have a lot in common, namely a fixation on hyper-articdownfall by supplying the very blueprints for the female ulate but terminally self-absorbed characters. But they differ decisively on the matter of sex. In Anderson’s rarsiege and investiture of our last few male outposts.

Which, one hastens to add, get fewer all the time efied world sex exists only in dialogue, where some as one drifts farther from the male brorbit of one’s misapprehension about it is generally presented as the twenties and into the universe of fatherhood, with crudest evidence of intellectual precociousness ever less free time and ever more responsibility. This matched by lack of adult experience in characters like adds a certain harsh taste of the real to Stiller’s recent Rushmore’s Max Fisher. Among Baumbach’s movies modern-dad roles, in which his portrayal of the sex is sudden and graphic, but at the same time clumEvolved Father cowering on the shrinking preserve of sy, depressing and equally irrelevant.

In Greenberg, Stiller plays an irritable house-sitter his former freedom resonates with the suppressed feelings all fathers surely have, whether they admit it with unresolvable feelings for his brother’s personal or not, of feeling locked in—trapped. Not long ago, a assistant (a wonderful Greta Gerwig). There’s more to (married, Swedish) friend of mine suggested that the movie than that, but not much: Greenberg is Swedish women, having domesticated Swedish men almost entirely character-driven, and for once it’s the so successfully, are tired of them and craving the old few moments of broad humor instead of calculated excitement of male chauvinism. Looking around at my seriousness that seem tacked-on. The scene where old bandmates and drinking buddies now slung with Stiller’s Greenberg snorts cocaine with a roomful of diaper bags and baby carriers, I sometimes fear for young people like his future brother-in-law in Meet the Parents is funny, but having discovered this new America as well.

When I say outposts of maledom, though, I’m not Stiller—and his performance in Greenberg is a quiet talking about half-assed parenting, nor do I mean sort of revelation—we find ourselves wishing the old exclusive fraternities and good-ol-boy networks. I’m one would take the old schtick elsewhere.

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with a marriage that’s going stale. In an attempt to inject a little spice into their lives Carrell decides to take Fey to an upscale restaurant, only to find out they’ve become the targets of some seriously corrupt cops. Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:20, 7 and 9:30.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25, 4, 6:50

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:15 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 6:10, 7:10 and 9:10 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 1:45, 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:45 and 9:35. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 6:50 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.-Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:15.

JUST WRIGHT Queen Latifah keeps it real as a physical therapist who can’t find a guy who wants to be more than just buddies. That might change after rapper Common—who’s a pro b-baller—blows out his knee and counts on Latifah to be his queen of recovery. Carmike 10: 1:45, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:40.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.-Sun. at 4:40 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 4:15 and 9:20.

LETTERS TO JULIET Amanda Seyfried tours the Italian town where Romeo and Juliet is set, and happens to stumble across a group of people who answer love letters left on a wall for Juliet. For some reason, she decides to join in on the action—and in the process, Seyfried helps Vanessa Redgrave hook up with her long lost Italian stallion, and ignites her own flame with Christopher Egan. Carmike 10: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 and 9:50. Village 6: 4:20, 7 and 9:30 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

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 12:45, 3:20, 6:40 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:20, 6:40 and 9:15. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

OCEANS Narrator Pierce Brosnan helps you dive deep into this documentary that utilizes spellbinding cinematography to chronicle Earth’s oceans and its inhabitants. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:35, 2:40 and 7:15 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30 and 7:15.

“This town isn’t big enough for the both of our hairstyles.” MacGruber opens Friday at the Village 6.

MACGRUBER Will Forte, his mullet and his deadly extremities come out of retirement after a nuke happy Val Kilmer steals a warhead and threatens to flush humanity—Washington D.C., to be exact—down the toilet. Village 6: 5:30, 7:45 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 and 9:30.

SHREK: THE FINAL CHAPTER Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy get CGI and 3-D treatment as voiceovers in the final installment of this series that finds Shrek navigating a puzzling world after making a bum deal with Rumpelstiltskin. Carmike 10: 1:15, 1:45, 2:10, 3:45, 4:30, 4:45, 6:15, 6:50, 7:30, 8:45, 9:15 and 9:55. Village 6 in 2-D: 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at noon and 2:25.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.-Sun. at noon, 12:30, 1, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 7:30, 8, 8:30 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10, 10:30 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 1:30, 2, 3:30, 4, 4:30, 6, 7, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 and 9:45. Mountain

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ured face and all, as he revels in terrorizing a gaggle of Elm Street residents—including Kyle Gallner and Katie Cassidy—in their dreams, and eventually, in reality. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 9:45 only with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

and 9 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

THE BACK-UP PLAN Jennifer Lopez is eager to settle down and have kids but can’t seem to find the right dude to be her mate, so she opts to get preggers via artificial insemination. Oddly enough, the day the procedure occurs is also when she meets Alex O’Loughlin—a single guy who just might make the cut as a baby’s daddy. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:20 and 7:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON This 3-D animated flick follows Hiccup, a scrawny Viking teen who was brought up to mercilessly slay dragons. But things change when he befriends a “different” dragon that makes him realize they aren’t so evil after all. Carmike 10 in 2-D: 1:30, 4:15 and 7:05. Village 6 in 2-D: 4:30 and 7:30 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:30, 3:55, 6:35 and 8:55.

CLASH OF THE TITANS Sam Worthington (Perseus), the Greek warrior and son of Liam Neeson (Zeus) decides to wage battle against demons and freakish beasts in his quest to defeat the hellraising ways of Ralph Fiennes (Hades). Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:15, 4:05, 6:45 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

DATE NIGHT Steve Carrell and Tina Fey are suburbanite parents

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Greenberg Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7 and 9, with no shows Fri. and Sat., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

IRON MAN 2 Robert Downey Jr. returns as Iron Man, the wellliked industrialist with a few metallic tricks up his sleeve. This time around, however, Downey Jr.’s got the government pleading for his technological secrets, and dudes like Mickey Rourke after his head. Carmike 10: 1:15, 1:45, 4:10, 4:35, 7, 7:30 and 9:50. Village 6: 4:10, 7 and 9:50 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:15.

ROBIN HOOD Arrows soar and a despotic sheriff gets his just deserts in this adaptation of the classic tale that features Russell Crowe as Robin Hood, and Matthew MacFadyen as the oh so corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham. Carmike 10: 12:30, 3:40, 7 and 10:05. Village 6: 7 and 10:05 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 12:30 and 3:40. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 1:05, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:25 and 9:25 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:30 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:25 and 9:25. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 6:45 and 9:20.

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There’s much sneering about game playing as a form of deception, but it’s more of a social intelligence test—a way of signaling people that you’re worth having or hiring. In a job interview, it probably means showing up in a dress and heels instead of your bra and underwear and clown shoes. In dating, “playing a game of letting the man call” is how you avoid playing the game of begging him to call after he loses interest. You know this, but you diss game playing to give yourself a pass to do what you know doesn’t work, but works for you in the moment: throwing your-

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This hoohah about who you supposedly were to him in a past life only helps distract you from how you keep coming back in this one: as a bug under a man’s shoe. Do the work to fill the empty places in yourself so you won’t continue these desperate attempts to plug them with a boyfriend. Only when you’re okay alone are you fit to start looking for company. At that point, “playing the game” will come naturally. You won’t have guys calling at the last minute because you’ll seem like a girl who’d be busy—too busy having self-respect to make like Domino’s and have yourself delivered. Forget whether a guy’s into astrology; it’s whether you have dignity that determines your fate with him—not the fact that you were both born when Capricorn was in 7-Eleven.

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Summit Health is looking for medical professionals to do health screenings in Missoula Montana. MA’s $15 Phlebotomist $19 LPN $22 RN $25. Call Apryl at 248-4161613 or email your resume to aroberson@summithealth.com.

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Eternal Springs, a new healing center opening this month in Missoula, is looking for instructors for a wide variety of classes. We have 1000 sq. feet of space in a great location downtown, next to the Higgins bridge.

The center is a collective of individuals who want to work together as a team in a business with a soul.

Classes are registered through the center; you will be an independent contractor.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): All of us have gaps in our education. You and I and everyone else alive have dank pockets of ignorance that diminish our humanity and musty pits of naivete that prevent us from seeing truths that are obvious to others. We all lack certain skills that hold us back from being more fulfilled in our chosen fields. That’s the bad news, Aries. The good news is that the gaps in your education will be up for review in the coming weeks—which means that it’ll be an excellent time to make plans to fill them. Here’s a good way to get started: Be aggressive in identifying the things that you don’t even know you don’t know.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You don’t have to answer to anybody this week, Taurus. You don’t have to defend yourself, explain yourself, or compromise yourself. I mean, you can do those things if you want to be super extra nice, but there won’t be any hell to pay if you don’t. It’s one of those rare times when you have more power than usual to shape the world in accordance with your vision of what the world should be. I’ll go so far as to say that the world needs you to be very assertive in imposing your will on the flow of events. Just one caveat: Mix a generous dose of compassion in with your authoritative actions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When Paul McCartney first got the inspiration to write the song “Yesterday,” he had the melody and rhythm but couldn’t get a feel for what the lyrics should be.

For a while, as he was waiting for the missing words to pop into his brain, he used nonsense stand-in phrases. The dummy version of the first line was “Scrambled eggs, oh my dear, you have such lovely legs.” This approach could be useful for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. As you create a fresh approach or novel departure in your own life, you might want to show the patience McCartney did. Be willing to keep moving ahead even though you don’t have the full revelation quite yet.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suspect you’re going to feel a bit constrained in the coming weeks, Cancerian—maybe even imprisoned. I suggest you make the best of it. Rather than feeling sorry for yourself and spiraling down into a dark night of the soul, try this: Imagine that you’re a resourceful hermit who’s temporarily under house arrest in an elegant chalet with all the amenities.

Regard this “incarceration” as a chance to start work on a masterpiece, or upgrade your meditation practice, or read a book you’ve needed an excuse to lose yourself in. Believe it or not, your “deprivation” could be one of the best things that has happened to you in a while.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I won’t be surprised if people begin to compete for your attention.

There may even be some pushing and shoving as they jostle to get closer to you. At the very least, you can expect a flurry of requests for your time and energy. What’s this all about? Well, your worth seems to be rising. Either your usefulness is flat-out increasing or else those who’ve underestimated you in the past are finally tuning in to what they’ve been missing. So here’s my question and concern: Will you get so seduced by what everyone asks you to give them that you lose sight of what you really want to give them? I suspect there will be a difference.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m not saying that you should create a superhero identity for yourself and embark on a campaign to combat injustice. But if you’ve ever wondered whether the life of a costumed crusader is right for you, it’s an excellent time to experiment. Your courage will be expanding in the coming weeks. Your craving for adventure will be strong, too. Even more importantly, your hunger to do good deeds that reach beyond your own self-interest will be growing. Interested?

Check out the Superhero Supply website to get yourself operational. It’s at www.superherosupplies.com.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): All 26 of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories about Tarzan are set in Africa, but he never once visited that continent. And Bram Stoker didn’t feel the need to travel to the Transylvanian region of Romania in order to write about it in his novel Dracula. But I don’t recommend this approach to you in the coming weeks, Libra. If you want to cultivate something new in your life by drawing on an exotic influence, I think you should immerse yourself in that exotic influence, at least for a while. If you want to tap into the inspiration available through an unfamiliar source, you need to actually be in the presence of that unfamiliar source.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Why would you choose this bright, sunny moment to descend into the dark places and explore the fermenting mysteries? What renegade impulse would move you to turn away from the predictable pleasures and easy solutions, and instead go off in quest of more complex joys and wilder answers? Here’s what I have to say about that: I think you long to be free of transitory wishes and fleeting dreams for a while so that you can get back into alignment with your deeper purposes. You need to take a break from the simple obsessions of your grayish, poker-faced ego, and re-attune yourself to the call of your freaky, evergreen soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sufi holy man Ibn ‘Ata Allah was speaking about prayer when he said the following: “If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.” While I don’t claim to be able to perfectly decipher the will of the divine, my astrological research suggests that you will soon get a definitive answer to a question you’ve been asking for a long time. It may come softly and quietly, though, and from a direction you don’t expect, and with a nuance or two that’ll test your reflexes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Is Fast Food Too Tempting?” read a headline in The Week magazine. The accompanying article discussed whether people have the right to blame and even sue McDonald’s and Burger King for their health problems. In my opinion, we might as well add other allegedly appealing poisons to the discussion. “Is heroin too tempting?” “Is cheating on your lover or spouse too tempting?” “Is watching TV five hours a day too tempting?” I hope you’re seeing where I’m going with this, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be a good time to take personal responsibility for any supposedly fun activity you’re doing that warps your character or saps your energy. It’s prime time to end your relationship with stuff that’s bad for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The mind loves order, the heart loves chaos, and the gut loves action,” says my astrological colleague Antero Alli. The ideal situation is to honor each of these needs, keeping them in a dynamic balance. But now and then, it’s healthy to emphasize one over the other two. According to my astrological analysis, you’re entering one of those times when the heart’s longing for chaos should get top priority. But if you do choose to go this way, please promise me one thing: Do your best to tilt toward the fascinating, rejuvenating kind of chaos and tilt away from the disorienting, demoralizing kind.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When people are truly dehydrated, the impulse that tells them they’re thirsty shuts down. That’s why they may not know they’re suffering from a lack of water.

In a metaphorically similar way, Pisces, you have been deprived so long of a certain kind of emotional sustenance that you don’t realize what you’re missing. See if you can find out what it is, and then make measured (non-desperate!) plans to get a big, strong influx of it. The cosmic rhythms will be on your side in this effort!

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

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, HEREBY NOTIFIES MISSOULA COUNTY TAX PAYERS THAT THE FIRST HALF OF 2010 MOBILE HOME TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON JUNE 30, 2010. UNLESS 2010 TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME, THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT, WILL ACCRUE INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH AND WILL BE ASSESSED A 2% PENALTY FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID, ,.IF YOU INTEND TO PROTEST YOUR TAXES, YOU MUST MAKE PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE AND MUST INCLUDE A LETTER OF PROTEST WITH YOUR PAYMENT. THE LETTER OF PROTEST MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, PROPERTY DESCRIPTION, GROUNDS FOR PROTEST AND THE AMOUNT YOU ARE PROTESTING PURSUANT TO MCA § 15-1-402. /s/ VICKIE M. ZEIER MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT BITTERROOT VALLEY BANK d/b/a CLARK FORK VALLEY BANK, Plaintiff, vs. BLAIR A. GUEST and CLINT CALDWELL, Defendants, And BLAIR A. GUEST, Counterclaimant, vs. BITTERROOT VALLEY BANK d/b/a CLARK FORK VALLEY BANK, Counter–Defendant. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 10th day of June A.D., 2010, at Ten o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 5156 located in the Southwest one-quarter of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

TOGETHER WITH Ingress and Egress over the existing private road and utility easement as found in Memorandum of Private Utility and Road Easements recorded in Book 627

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Micro Records, Page 1948. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 20th day of May A.D., 2010. /s/ MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN, Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Invitation To Bid Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808, until 10:00 am., Tuesday, June 16, 2010, at which time bids will be opened and read in the Public Works Conference Room for the purpose of constructing a walkway and bicycle path, approximately 0.7 miles in length, adjacent to Riverview Road near Seeley Lake Montana, from Hwy 83 to tie into the first bridge. The project will involve earthwork excavation and embankment, crushed sub-base and base rock, asphalt surfacing, topsoil and seeding. All work is to be performed in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and plans and specifications on file in the Office of the Bids Department, Missoula County Public Works Office, Missoula, Montana and shall be performed under the supervision of the CTEP Liason or his designated representative. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Office of Public Works at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana.

THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE

REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for work on Riverview Road Path – Seeley Lake, Control Number 5906 SOLICITATION NO. 1006-01” and addressed to: Missoula County Bids Department, Missoula County Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT LEGALADVERTISEMENT Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, in the City of Missoula, Montana until 10:00 A.M., June 3, 2010, at which time bids will be opened and read in the conference room, for the purpose of providing 3500 (three thousand five hundred) cubic yards of 3/4 inch minus crushed gravel and 7000 (seven thousand) cubic yards of 3 inch minus crushed gravel. All work is to be performed in accordance with the specifications on file in the Public Works Department, and shall be performed under the supervision of the County Engineer or his designated representative. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula Montana, 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana.

THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Bid for 3/4” and 3” Crushed Gravel” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. June 3, 2010 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County Public Works, for the purpose of purchasing of Ten Thousand Five Hundred (10,500) Tons of 3/4” Asphaltic Plant Mix.. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808.. A performance bond will be required.. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the contract.. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids.. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Asphaltic Plant Mix – 2010” and addressed to: Public Works Division 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 By order of the Board of County Commissioners this 17th Day of May, 2010 /s/ Greg Robertson Director of Public Works MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Missoula and the Missoula County Commissioners will hold a joint public hearing on Monday, June 7, 2010 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on a proposal to contribute $25,000 towards the Bonner School District purchase of a 102 acre parcel for open space purposes using proceeds from the 2006 Open Space Bond. The parcel is located east of and adjacent to the Bonner School, known as the Bonner Hill, Missoula County, MT. For further information contact Jackie Corday, at 552-6267. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of hearing. Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. If anyone attending this meeting needs special

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PUBLIC NOTICES assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 552-6078. The City of Missoula will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula County Tax Appeal Board will be in session from July 1 through December 31,2010 for the business of hearing appeals. Any taxpayer who disagrees with the appraised value may file an appeal with the Missoula County Tax Appeal Board on or before the first Monday in June or 30 days from the receipt of the Notice of Classification, or Notice to Change Valuation (assessment notice), whichever is later. It is possible that not all taxpayers will receive an assessment notice. If you have not received a notice of classification and appraisal, consider the first Monday in June as the deadline to file an appeal. Appeal forms are available at the Department of Revenue’s Office, 2681 Palmer, Suite I, Missoula, 59808 or you can download the form from www.mt.gov/doa/stab. Appeals must be submitted to the Missoula County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Missoula County Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD L. BUNCH, Deceased. Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-58 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DONALD L. BUNCH, JR., 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 May,, 2010. Donald L. Bunch, Jr., Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DA-10-28 NOTICE OF HEARING TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS AND AWARD OF TEMPORARY CUSTODY IN RE THE ADOPTION OF E.J.G., a Minor Child.

NOTICE is hereby given that Petitioners, Steven and Nicole Mott, have filed a petition with this Court to terminate the parental rights

of Katie Irene Garding, a U.S. citizen and Gonzalez Garcia, a citizen of Mexico, to the minor child, E.J.G. born on May 9, 2010, at Community Medical Center in Missoula, Montana and award temporary custody to the Petitioners. NOW, therefore, notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the matter that a hearing on the petition will be held at the Courthouse in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, on June 10, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in the above-named Court at which time objections to said Petition will be heard. DATED this 17th day of May, 2010. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Linda Osorio St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-10-67 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN G. BACKER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James E. Florin, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 12th day of May, 2010. /s/ James E. Florin, Personal Reprsentative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-10-653 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Tate Aaron Presser, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Tate Aaron Presser to Tate Aaron Etches.

The hearing will be on June 16, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: May 13, 2010 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court (SEAL) By: Bobbi Hainlline, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-10-49 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ADA M. STEVENS, a/k/a Ada Mae Stevens, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Robin L. Poire has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent, Ada M. Stevens, 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 Robin L. Poire, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o John Spangler Law Offices, P.O. Box 567, Superior, Montana, 59872, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 30th day of April, 2010. /s/ Robin L. Poire, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY

Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-10-55 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LARRY K. HALDER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Bonnie Halder, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 30th day of April, 2010. /s/ Bonnie Halder, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-10-54 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT J. HEINLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lisa M. Heinle 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 be mailed to Lisa M. Heinle, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 818 West Central Avenue, Ste. 1, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of May, 2010. CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE /s/ Kyle D. Cunningham, Attorney for Personal Representative, Lisa M. Heinle MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-10-649 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF SCOTT GARNER MCDONALD, TO CHANGE HIS NAME TO SCOTT GARNER COONEY. Notice is hereby given that Petitioner, Scott Garner McDonald, has filed a petition with this Court for permission to change his name from Scott Garner McDonald to Scott Garner Cooney.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the matter that a hearing on the petition will be held at the courthouse in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, on the 22nd day of June, 2010 at 1:30 p.m., at which time objections to the petition will be heard. Any person desiring to object to the granting of the petition may do so by filing said objection in writing with the clerk of said court no later than the time set for hearing. DATED this 13th day of May, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Cour (SEAL) By: Angela M. Phillips, Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/17/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200612400, Bk 775, Pg 363, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John M. Brazier III a married man as

his sole and separate estate 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: Tract A8-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 2534 located in the Southwest one-quarter of Section 10, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Bk 841, Pg 732, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to E*Trade Bank. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 25, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $637,863.25. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $565,000.00, 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 August 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.04078) 1002.125866-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/08/99, recorded as Instrument No. BK 568, PG 2221, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Richard A. Sandefur and Wendy L. Sandefur, husband and wife was Grantor, North America Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 of Huson Heights, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200704460, Book 792 Page 735, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 22, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $109,117.42. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $98,623.37, 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 August 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed

at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.06728) 1002.135536-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/03/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200425691, Bk 739, Pg 669, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark A. Bennett and Mona L. Bennett was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for WMC Mortgage Corp. was Beneficiary and Mark E. Noennig was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Mark E. Noennig as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 8A of Certificate of Survey No. 3277, a tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 8, Township 13 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for ACE Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust Series 2004-HE3 Asset Backed PassThrough Certificates. 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 appli-

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 40. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting May 24, 2010 by appt only by calling 541-7919.

Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to May 27, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

cable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 25, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $121,782.69. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $118,640.71, 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 August 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and except-

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 45, 147, 227, 278, 336, 480, and 568.

Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, May 24, 2010 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Thursday, May 27, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All sales are final.

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

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.12440) 1002.151964-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/14/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200724009, Bk 805, Pg 1015, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael C. Coulter, a married 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 13 in Block 1 of Linda Vista Ninth Supplement, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 20 of Plats at Page 56. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 1, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $330,547.70. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $315,316.69, 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 August 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# 7023.71878) 1002.152790-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/14/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200309749, Bk. 701, Pg. 1527, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Debra A. Gesel and Martin A. Gesel, wife and husband was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Webster Bank was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Co. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Co. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 13-A in Parcel ‘D’ of Hillside Homes No. 1, Supplemental Plat ‘A’, 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 Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because

of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 3, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $128,632.49.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $123,069.39, 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 August 11, 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# 7037.05511) 1002.152904-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/15/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803721, Bk 813, pg 816, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Camson N. Adenuga, 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: Unit E-4 of Grandvue Village, according to the Declaration under the Unit Ownership Act recorded as Document No. 443148 on March 27, 1979, located on Lots 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Block 2, Hillside Homes No. 1, according to the official plat thereof as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana.

Together with an undivided 1/20 interest in the common elements appertaining to the above described unit and the limited common elements appurtenant thereto as set forth in the Declaration. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 30, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $143,015.83.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $139,268.44, 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 August 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

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are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.72609) 1002.152802-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/08/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200613760, Book 776, Page 568, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Lindsey Doe, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 44A of Cook’s Addition, Block 1, Lots 40 through 45, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 5, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $153,448.28.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $136,231.84, 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 July 15, 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# 7023.01566) 1002.114050-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 19, 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 22 of Williams Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

GLEN BAUER, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to David R Chisholm, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to U. S. Bank N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated March 14, 2003 and Recorded March 19, 2003 under Document # 200309251 Bk-701, Pg1029. The beneficial interest is currently held

by US Bank, NA. 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 $710.03, beginning September 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 February 22, 2010 is $87,015.01 principal, interest at the rate of 5.95% now totaling $2,886.58, late charges in the amount of $171.72, escrow advances of $434.08, and other fees and expenses advanced of $119.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.18 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described prop-

erty 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: March 10, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On March 10, 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3572308 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 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 and 8 in Block G of Car Line Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat hereof. Robert Gee, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 10, 2006 and recorded April 18, 2006 in Book 772, Page 1922 under Document No. 200608673. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $832.49, beginning May 11, 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 February 9, 2010 is $159,837.67 principal, interest at the rate of 6.2500% now totaling $3,548.92, late charges in the amount of $374.58, escrow advances of $1,680.84, suspense balance of $-610.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,359.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an 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 bank-

ruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 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: THE WEST 60 FEET OF THE EAST 187 _ FEET OF THE NORTH ONEHALF OF BLOCK 10 IN HOMEVALE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS AT PAGE 35. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 228 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1805. Mona L Munson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American Home Mortgage Acceptance, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 06, 2005 and Recorded on April 11, 2005 under Document # 200508158. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2005-2, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-2.

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 $1,610.30, beginning October 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 January 27, 2010 is $251,650.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.125% now totaling $6,278.02, late charges in the amount of $128.44 and other fees and expenses advanced of $150.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.23 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 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.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 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 6 of Spring Hills Addition No. 6, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof KAREL A MORALES, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 8, 2007 and Recorded in Book 799, Page 329 under Document No. 200714796. The beneficial interest is currently held by MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife 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 $1,636.58, 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 March 01, 2010 is $232,944.24 principal, interest at the rate of 6.8750% now totaling $10,676.64, late charges

PUBLIC NOTICES in the amount of $520.42, escrow advances of $1,015.06, and other fees and expenses advanced of $262.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $44.49 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 AIM ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 12, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 12, 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 ASAP# 3572196 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 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 11 OF RAVENWOOD HILLS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Jon G. Kearns and Marlies P. Borchers, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 04, 2008 and Recorded on September 10, 2008 under Document # 200821009, in Bk-826, Pg-193. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,318.00, beginning October 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 March 1, 2010 is $291,578.88 principal, interest at the rate of 6.0% now totaling $8,723.95, late charges in the amount of $741.76 and other fees and expenses advanced of $520.24, plus accruing interest at the rate of $47.93 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 lim-

itation, 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: March 12, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On March 12, 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 ASAP# 3572205 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 1 OF SUNSET WEST, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MOUNTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ROBERT E ERBAUGH, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community BankMissoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 21, 2005 and recorded on March 25, 2005 in BK-749 pg-1020, document # 200506666. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc..

Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $837.91, beginning November 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 9, 2010 is $100,271.02 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $2,583.67, late charges in the amount of $126.56, escrow advances of $298.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $20.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.14 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. IN INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE Dated March 12, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 12, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and

SERVICES 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 ASAP# 3572218 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 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: Tract 4-A of Certificate of Survey No. 1692, located in the Northeast quarter (NE1/4) of Section 21, Township 19 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Daniel J Martin and M Katherine Stillwell-Martin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 9, 2006 and recorded on March 10, 2006 at 4:16 o’clock P.M., in Book 770, Page 434, under Document No. 200605440. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank, National Association as trustee for WAMU Mortgage Pass Through Certificate for WMALT Series 2006-5 Trust. 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 $1174.10, beginning July 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 January 27, 2010 is $155,293.02 principal, interest at the rate of 7.50% now totaling $7,655.62, late charges in the amount of $339.71, escrow advances of $1,064.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $112.95, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.91 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: February 8, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3531702 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 28, 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: Certificate of Survey No. 224A, a tract of land located in and being a portion of Lot 27 of DINSMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES NO. 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof STEPHANIE KIMMI KUCERA AND TROY SCOTT KUCERA, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 10, 2007 and Recorded January 16, 2007 in Book 790, Page 780, under Document No. 200701242. The beneficial interest is currently held by US BANK, NA. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,094.68, 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 February 28, 2010 is $279,761.56 principal, interest at the rate of 6.7500% now totaling $12,412.52, late charges in the amount of $562.32, escrow advances of $1,140.14 and other fees and expenses advanced of $239.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $51.74 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: February 17, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 2/17/10, 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. NICOLE SCHAFER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 3/28/11 ASAP# 3544049 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 28, 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: TAX PARCEL NUMBER: 3186005 LAND SITUATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA LOT 4 IN BLOCK 7 OF

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PUBLIC NOTICES MULLAN TRAIL-PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. John Fillner, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 29, 2005 and Recorded on October 06, 2005 under Document # 200526390, in Bk-761, Pg-1160.

The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank, FSB. 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 $1,357.42, beginning October 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 obliga-

tion as of March 1, 2010 is $176,635.75 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $5,188.68, late charges in the amount of $230.72, escrow advances of $244.79, and other fees and expenses advanced of $159.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.43 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: February 17, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On February 17, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3544112 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 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 12 OF RAVENWOOD HILLS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Brandon M Dwyer and Pamela A Dwyer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 26, 2006 and Recorded on July 31, 2006 under Document # 200619107, in Bk-779, Pg1598. The beneficial interest is currently held

by Citibank, N.A. as Trustee for American Home Mortgage Assets Trust 2006-4 Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-4. 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 $1473.61, 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 March 1, 2010 is $416,646.42 principal, interest at the rate of 4.21% now totaling $10,471.32, late charges in the amount of $529.28, escrow advances of $977.30 and other fees and expenses advanced of $130.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.89 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 obliga-

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Neighborhoods Matter The Missoula Organization of REALTORS® has recently launched a new LiveMissoula! website that is a “Celebration of Neighborhoods.” Great communities are made up of great neighborhoods. There is a lot to celebrate in Missoula’s neighborhoods. They are diverse and unique and all contribute to the fabric of the community and the lifestyles of the people who live there.

So it is not surprising, then, that short sales and foreclosures are topics of discussion. “Distressed sales,” as they are sometimes described, can impact a neighborhood if the home is vacant, uncared for or, worse, vandalized before a transaction can take place. Besides all of the usual decisions and emotions involved in any transaction, sellers who may be faced with the possibility of a distressed sale have the added burden of understanding the intricacies of these special circumstances: • When is a short sale preferable over foreclosure?

• What happens with a short sale or foreclosure if there is a second mortgage?

• How does the market information in different neighborhoods, and in different price ranges, serve as a guide for making decisions?

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There can be a lot of confusion about rules and interpretations. To make matters even more challenging, what was true about lending yesterday, or even earlier today, may have already changed. But there are resources to help. The Missoula Organization of REALTORS® has conducted several training sessions on short sales. Lenders are able to track the changes every day and analyze each individual situation for the best financing option. If ever there was a time to enlist the assistance of a professional in all aspects of the transaction, a potential short sale or foreclosure is the time.

True, foreclosures and short sales are not as prevalent in the Missoula market as they are in some places in the country with foreclosures accounting for less than 1% of the total sales in 2009. The fact that the median price has held fairly steady and the days on market have not significantly increased overall indicates that there is still a healthy market outside of short sales and foreclosures. But as one member described it, it’s a beauty contest out there. The most successful sellers are the ones who offer a property that has been well-maintained, that is priced right, and that maximizes the features that are attractive to buyers. That brings us back to neighborhoods.

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PUBLIC NOTICES tion 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: 2/19/10 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 2/19/10, 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. NICOLE SCHAFER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 3/28/11 ASAP# 3544808 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of

Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 3 of Certificate of Survey No. 2876. Less and excepting all that portion conveyed to the Montana Department of Transportation in Bargain and Sale Deed recorded May 8, 1997 in Book 504 of Micro at Page 906. Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 827, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1390, Document No. 200921945, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exer-

cised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1 ,450 ,000 .00, plus interest at the prime rate of interest, totaling $208, 256. 25, for a total amount due of $1 ,658 ,256 .25 as of April 27, 2010, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 28th day of April, 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss .County of Missoula On this 28th day of May, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 (SEAL)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:15 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 1A of Certificate of Survey No. 2002..

Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 826, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1391, Document No. 200921946, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due.. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exer-

cised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1 ,450 ,000 .00, plus interest at the prime rate of interest, totaling $208 ,256. 25, for a total amount due of $1 ,658, 256. 25 as of April 27, 2010, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice.. DATED 28th day of April 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss .County of Missoula On this 28th day of April, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written... /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 (SEAL)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:30 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 888, being a portion of the Southwest Quarter of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 828, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1392, Document No. 200921947, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exer-

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Older Home with Vintage charm in wildly sought after Missoula neighborhood. 3 bdrm, 2 bth, beautiful floors. This charmer has incredible possibilities. 321 Tremont 3278787 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 Price Reduced—Buyer’s Incentive....call for details!!! 3 Bd/ 2 Bth home w/ open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, views of Bitterroots. 1 Mile S. of Florence, views all around. Porch swing. Hot tub, and storage shed are all included. 333 Martin Lane. $239,000 MLS# 10000160 Joy Earls@windermere.com 531-9811 PRICE REDUCED! 3 bed 2 bath townhouse West Missoula.

ONLY $159,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906 Really cute craftsman style, 3Bdr, 1Ba home priced to sell. This home has all the charm of the 20s and original floors. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great room, open floor plan, double garage, unobstructed views of the Bitterroot Mountains, great yard. $219,900.

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SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walk-in closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $184,900. Prudential Montana.

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nside Cover Story Most of the Montanans who killed a wolf during last year’s inaugural hunting season viewed the shooting more as predator control than as a true “hunting” experience. But the stage has been set for a change.

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News Letters Tester’s forest bill, political endorsements (and attacks) .............................4 The Week in Review Wolf hunt quota, graduation and wildfires.............................6 Briefs Un-speedy trial, marijuana on the rez, and Big Sky on the big screen...........6 Etc. Make way for the big rig parade..........................................................................7 Up Front Blackfoot corridor renewal mired in controversy......................................8 Ochenski The Land Board brazenly oversteps its power........................................10 Writers on the Range Bees tell us how little we know of nature ..........................11 Agenda The Missoula Writing Collaborative’s spring soiree....................................12

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Asked Tuesday morning near the intersection of Broadway and Higgins.

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Assurances are here

This week Hal Herring writes that the best way to maintain a healthy population of wolves in Montana is to hunt them. Do you agree?

Follow-up: How has wolf reintroduction impacted you?

Kalyn DesRosier: I think hunting is instrumental in managing the population so long as the hunters are working together with the scientists and have a common goal. Easy for you to say: It hasn’t. I don’t have a family with a career in agriculture.

Dale Jones: I don’t like the hunting of animals of any kind—unless they’re attacking people. Canine compassion: Not at all, but I’m glad they did it.

Former Congressman Pat Williams said it well at the panel discussion concerning Sen. Tester’s forest bill on April 8. “This is the first [wilderness] meeting in 30 years where there weren’t pickets outside and 400 people in the room,” he said.

The fact that this bill creates new political space for Montanans to converse, and more importantly, to advance actual solutions for public land management is reason enough for some people to get behind Sen. Tester. Others however, have needed some assurance that logging measures won’t have negative consequences on the ground or that the Forest Service won’t be trumped by local initiatives.

Those assurances are arriving. At the panel discussion on April 8, Tracy StoneManning made it clear that “mechanical treatment” would be defined in the legislation before it passed. That’s been a major concern of some critics and a small stumbling block in the way of progress. Thank goodness it’s being addressed alongside other concerns.

All Montanans should recognize that we can ill afford to fail on this one. A collaborative effort like this one is uncommon and may not be easy to conjure again if this bill is stalled.

Nathan Kimpell Missoula

Let the endorsements begin For the past eight years, Beth Baker and I have served on a committee in Helena to increase access to justice for all Montanans, regardless of income.

Beth has volunteered hundreds of hours to this cause, despite her busy law practice. In her 25 years of legal experience, Beth has handled more than three dozen cases before the Montana Supreme Court and federal appellate courts.

Without question, Beth possesses the qualities required to sit on Montana’s Supreme Court—a deep respect for the constitution, comprehensive knowledge of the law and independent thinking.

Beth knows that the law matters—that the Supreme Court’s decisions impact the daily lives of all Montanans. She is dedicated to the idea of public service,

Nate Talley: I wouldn’t kill a wolf. I think killing for sport is ridiculous. Population control is one thing, but I don’t get doing it for sport. Witness to wildness: If they hadn’t been reintroduced I wouldn’t have had the experience in Yellowstone where a wolf was running down the middle of the road and we were behind it in our car. It wouldn’t move.

It was cool to be so close.

Glen Williams: I think they should be. We have to get rid of wolves—they’re taking all the ranchers’ cattle. They’re no good.

Darn varmint: Not at all. I’m not a rancher.

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and would make a fine addition to the five men and one woman who currently serve on the court. Please join me in voting for Beth Baker on June 8!

Amy E. Hall Helena

Montana. He’s only spent three years as a working adult in Montana. The rest of his time was spent out of state or still in school.

Does anyone else have trouble taking him seriously?

Jennifer Wagner Billings

Deadline approaching

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Tyler

[Gernant] doesn’t have a stake in Montana. He’s only spent three years as a working adult in Montana. The rest of his time was spent out of state or still in school.

Does anyone else have trouble taking him seriously?

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And the attacks Let me see if I can get this straight.

Tyler Gernant, candidate for U.S. Congress, was born in Montana, and left Montana when he was 4 years old. Then he returned to Montana in 2004 to spend three years in law school. This means that he’s been out of school for three years.

Tyler doesn’t have a stake in

Farmers and ranchers who want to get in on the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) this year have less than a month to apply at their local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office. The CSP rewards farmers, ranchers and forestry producers for maintaining existing conservation practices and for adopting additional practices on cropland, grassland, improved pasture, rangeland, non-industrial private forestland and tribal lands. A supplemental payment will also be made for those willing to adopt resource-conserving crop rotations. This program pays producers for clean water, better soil management, improved habitat, energy efficiency and other natural resource benefits.

The CSP is a continuous sign-up program that has periodic cut-off dates for ranking applications—and June 11 is the deadline for this year. Applications can be filed at your local NRCS office in Bozeman.

The Center for Rural Affairs is also encouraging farmers, ranchers and others to call the Center’s Farm Bill Helpline to learn more about the program and application process as well as to share information on barriers farmers and ranchers encounter during the sign-up.

Potential CSP applicants can call the Farm Bill Helpline at (402) 687-2100 or send an e-mail to tracib@cfra.org.

The CSP has had a tremendous national impact on conservation practices on working lands, with 13 million acres enrolled across the country.

John Crabtree Center for Rural Affairs Omaha, Neb. Correction: A photograph of Sportsman’s Bar that appeared in last week’s “Happiest Hour” column should have been credited to Carter Young. The Indy regrets the error.

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A day before Missoula’s new anti-discrimination ordinance takes effect, Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent nixes Not My Bathroom’s third attempt to initiate a citywide vote aiming to overturn it. He says the wording still doesn’t conform to legal requirements.

• Thursday, May 13 The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission votes to increase the wolf quota for this year’s hunting season to 150, 186 or 216 animals, up from last year’s quota of 75. The final number will be decided in July after a public comment period.

• Friday, May 14 University of Montana junior Jason Flemmer wins the javelin title at the 2010 Big Sky Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Ogden, Utah, giving the Griz men’s track and field team its first Big Sky indoor or outdoor champion in three years.

• Saturday, May 15 Sustainability is all the buzz at Missoula’s second annual Garden City Localfest in Caras Park, featuring a host of local bands and Seth Warren’s bio bus “Baby.” At the nearby Brennan’s Wave, kayakers participate in the 12th annual Best in the West kayak competition, with Missoulian Kevin Brown placing first in the men’s.

• Sunday, May 16 Afternoon winds turn a Lolo landowner’s controlled burn into a 10-acre wildfire in Sleeman Gulch off Highway 12, sending up a large cloud of smoke over the Blue Mountain Recreation Area. Crews from Missoula, Florence and Three Mile and a Department of Natural Resources and Conservation helicopter contain the blaze.

• Monday, May 17 In the early morning, Dillon M. Stiles, 18, allegedly enters Frenchies Convenience Store in Frenchtown, brandishes a handgun and demands cash, and his accomplice, Larry J. Walsh, also 18, takes the money.

They abscond in a pickup driven by two 17-year-old males, and soon after all four teenagers are arrested.

• Tuesday, May 18 Firefighters, including the 20-person hand crew from the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, contain a 97-acre wildfire, known as the Hot Boot Fire, northeast of Ovando. The blaze, which ignited Saturday, is believed to be human-caused.

The weather cooperates as more than 3,000 new University of Montana graduates take part in the school’s first commencement ceremony outside on the Oval rather than in the Adams Center. Longtime President George Dennison, retiring in August, gives the commencement address.

Court Un-speedy trial Blaming a backlog at the Missoula Municipal Court, Judge Robert L. Deschamps III this month threw out a case because the defendant didn’t receive a speedy trial.

“The delay…can only be attributed to institutional delay caused by extraordinary case load congestion and lack of judicial resources in the Missoula Municipal Court,” Deschamps wrote in a May 6 opinion.

The case Deschamps refers to involves Edward Crossfield, cited Feb. 13, 2009 for his second DUI and three other charges. State law requires that individuals receive a trial within six months of being charged. In this case, nearly nine months elapsed before the defendant’s attorney requested the case be dropped because the court didn’t meet the deadline.

Municipal Court Administrator Pat Morgan says Crossfield’s case highlights broader challenges.

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plead not guilty anymore,” she says.

Plus, she adds, defendants often don’t show up for court dates, leaving valuable openings in the court’s calendar wasted.

“If a defendant doesn’t show or wants more time,” Morgan says. “then ‘speedy’ goes away.”

That was the case with Crossfield. According to court records, he didn’t show up for a mandatory pretrial hearing scheduled for May 26, 2009. The court sent him notices advising him of subsequent court dates. Those notices came back unopened.

Months elapsed. Then on the day before Crossfield’s Nov. 5 trial, the defendant’s attorney, Scott Shefloe, filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing the court’s violation of the speedy trial rule as legal rationale.

“There was a disagreement as to who was at fault,” Shefloe says.

The case went up the judicial chain to the District Court. Once there, Deschamps acknowledged Crossfield could very well have been gaming the system. Even so, the court had to abide by the law. Deschamps says the court failed to use tools

available to enforce court obligations, like trying defendants even though they are absent or issuing warrants and then clearing the court’s calendar when absconders are brought in.

Morgan says her department is now trying to identify additional timesaving measures. Other than that, they’ll just keep plugging away.

“We do the best we can,” Morgan says. “It’s quite the juggling act.”

Jessica Mayrer

Marijuana Tribes just say no The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal (CSKT) Council’s decision this month to ban medical marijuana on the Flathead Indian Reservation has caregivers sorting through a legal haze.

“Smart caregivers are trying to figure out what the legal nuances are,” says Tom Daubert, founder and director of Patients and Families United, a statewide support group for patients who use medical marijuana.

The ban only applies to tribal members and

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recognized American Indians from other tribes within reservation confines. Once tribal members leave reservation lands, state law applies. That leaves indigenous medical marijuana patients with a legal window.

At least three members of Daubert’s caregiving organization, Montana Cannabis, live on the reservation, and he’s consulting with an attorney to discern if caregivers can legally supply medical marijuana to tribal members outside reservation boundaries.

CSKT spokesman Rob McDonald says caregivers on tribal land providing the drug to tribal members will be subject to criminal prosecution. But once American Indians leave reservation confines CSKT jurisdiction ends. Therefore, if, for instance, an enrolled tribal member with a medical marijuana card purchased the drug in Missoula and used it there, they’d be in the clear.

“I think it’s 100 percent legal,” McDonald says.

Tribal officials say CSKT banned the drug because Montana’s medical marijuana law makes it just too tough to monitor cannabis use on the reservation.

“Anybody in a sense can be a provider,” says CSKT Police Chief Craige Couture of the state law’s language allowing people who aren’t trained in prescribing drugs to grow and distribute marijuana. “That’s kind of scary to me…It’s like, ‘Whoa, hold on here.

We have no controls.’”

The ban also aims to curb drug tourism.

Too often, Couture says, unsavory people come to the Flathead Reservation from other areas to purchase marijuana. To deter that and other unintended consequences that come with legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, he says tribal officials felt compelled to keep it illegal.

“We’re not looking to be mean to people,” Couture says.

Jessica Mayrer

Film Big deals for the Big Sky The description of Animal Planet’s upcoming reality series “Last American Cowboy” sounds like something off the jacket of a Louis L’Amour novel— an “epic adventure” about ranchers braving “freak storms” and “deadly outbreaks of disease.”

The kicker, at least for Montanans? It’s the first television series filmed exclusively in the old home state.

“The original concept was more like the cowboy out on the range getting attacked by bears and wolves and so forth,” says Sten Iversen, manager of

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the Montana Film Office (MFO). “We were like, ‘This isn’t quite as realistic. There are dangers and this is a challenging lifestyle, but if you come out and meet these folks you’ll understand a bit better.’”

Iversen extended that invite to producer Robert Curran of Base Productions, the show’s creator, three years ago. The first season of “Last American Cowboy” begins June 7—the culmination of eight months of shooting on three separate Montana ranches. If the ratings are good, Iversen says, Montana could be hosting a second season.

Since the Big Sky on the Big Screen tax incentive passed in 2005, nearly 500 commercials, television shows and feature films have been lured to Montana.

“Montana is a great equalizer for film,” says Cyndy Andrus, vice president of marketing for the

Bozeman Chamber of Commerce. “We have everything. We have prairies, cowboys, beautiful scenery.

We’re able to offer [film] companies a lot.”

Here’s the draw: A 14 percent tax refund on resident crew and talent salaries, and a 9 percent refund on in-state production expenses. Montana was the tenth state nationwide to pass such an incentive, and 33 other states have since followed.

It’s proven to be a boon for Montana as well.

Between 2005 and 2009, Montana’s film industry revenue totaled $25.4 million, money that Iversen says went mostly to residents hired onto film crews.

“We tend to be able to crew-up entire films with Montana residents,” Iversen says. “Generally the director [and] the producer comes in from out of state…Other than that, we have every position available—hair, makeup, grip, electric.”

And, of course, hardy ranch folk ready to show reality TV how the Big Sky State gets things done.

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Otter Creek Enviros file suit Last week a handful of environmental groups launched the first legal salvo in their attempt to stop the mining of a half billion tons of coal beneath the Otter Creek Valley in southeastern Montana—an amount that would nearly double the state’s current annual coal production.

On May 12, the Northern Plains Resource Council and the National Wildlife Federation filed suit against the Montana Land Board arguing that the board’s decision in March to lease 570 million tons of coal to Arch Coal, Inc. should have been preceded by adequate environmental review.

Then, on May 13, the Montana Environment Information Center (MEIC) and the Sierra Club filed suit alleging that the board failed to consider the mine’s potential impacts on climate change.

“Our lawsuit and Northern Plains’ lawsuit are essentially arguing on the same constitutional grounds,” says Mike Scott of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign. “But we’re arguing that one of the things that needed to be considered before leasing the coal was its potential impacts on climate change.”

Steve Running, University of Montana professor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, calculates the combustion of Otter Creek coal would result in about 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the life of the mine, 50 times Montana’s total current annual emissions.

Attorney Jenny Harbine of Earthjustice, the firm representing the Sierra Club and MEIC, explains that at the core of both lawsuits is an attempt to overturn the Montana Legislature’s decision in 2003 to exempt such leases from Montana Environmental Policy Act review.

“We have challenged that exemption as a violation of the state’s constitutional obligation to protect the environment from unreasonable degradation,” she says.

Harbine says removing the exemption is crucial because the lease stage is when the state has the most authority to avoid or mitigate environmental impacts. It could, for example, attach conditions requiring that coal be sold to carbon-sequestering coal plants.

“If the elected officials on the Land Board are serious about limiting Montana’s contribution to the global warming problem, then those are exactly the kinds of alternatives they should be considering,” Harbine says. “Barring that, they should keep the coal in the ground.”

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Out of 16 local businesses failed alcohol compliance checks by the Missoula Police Department last week. The failure rate has increased since April’s compliance check, when only two of 22 businesses served alcohol to minors.

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How fitting that a barrage of comments on Imperial Oil’s plan to roll enormous oil sands modules through western Montana proved too big to pass through the state’s e-mail system. That’s what happened last week when the Natural Resource Defense Council sent 6,500 messages on behalf of citizens who oppose the proposed yearlong, 300-mile big rig parade between Lolo Pass and the Port of Sweetgrass en route to Alberta.

Unfortunately, the lesson of the “glitch” was lost on the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT).

Despite the fact that hundreds of e-mail comments on the contentious Kearl Module Transportation Project bounced back, and that in general the project has raised more eyebrows than Ooh La Latte, MDT chose not to extend the comment period beyond last Friday, clearing the road for the department to make its decision in the coming weeks.

MDT Director Jim Lynch says the comments he’s read so far are a “mixed bag.” Some don’t buy officials’ repeated denials that the project would create a permanent high-and-wide corridor. And many—including Missoula City Council—asked the department to require Imperial Oil, an ExxonMobil subsidiary, to write a thorough Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).

“It isn’t like they’re building a brand new road somewhere,” Lynch tells the Indy of the department’s decision to forego an EIS. “If they were actually going to build a brand new roadway or going to have significant impacts that couldn’t be mitigated within the transportation corridor, then you might be looking at a different document.”

No, Imperial Oil may not be building a new road. But we might not recognize some of our existing ones should MDT allow $22 million worth of highway modifications.

The company would raise or bury utility lines in 572 locations, modify or install 33 traffic structures, modify or build 75 highway turnouts, and trim dozens of trees in Bonner and Choteau. That’s an awfully big investment for what’s supposedly a one-off deal.

Lynch says a decision could be made within 30 days.

The comments hardly seem the most important consideration, not when Gov. Brian Schweitzer boasts of $68 million in economic activity the project would, according to Imperial Oil’s math, bring to the region.

But no amount of money justifies the state rubberstamping this project without appropriate review. And no matter the reassurances, we can’t look past our very justifiable distrust of oil companies. The next glitch could have far bigger consequences.

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Rough waters Delays, uncertainty mire Blackfoot corridor renewal

by Alex Sakariassen

With the summer recreation season coming on fast, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) has yet to renew a historic and much-valued public access agreement with private landowners on the Blackfoot River.

Failure by FWP to meet concerned landowners halfway could leave area hikers, floaters and fishermen up the creek.

The Blackfoot Corridor Agreement, which expired this spring, was originally scheduled for renewal on April 18. But disagreement over new language establishing annual meetings between landowners and

out for lunch on someone’s private property and didn’t realize they’d backed out of the agreement.”

Blackfoot River activist Jerry O’Connell has emerged as the ringleader in what he calls the “Mexican standoff ” with FWP. O’Connell told the Independent in early April that he and others like longtime Blackfoot resident Land Lindbergh were “not going to be the good guys anymore.”

Last month he filed an official appeal to the agency’s new Blackfoot River Recreation Management Plan, which he helped draft,

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A decades-old recreation agreement on the Blackfoot River hangs in limbo at the onset of another busy Missoula summer, as landowners use renewal discussions to highlight their concerns over state management of abuses to private property.

FWP has stretched the debate over three meetings and three drafts in the last two months. Specifically, landowners hope to use annual reviews of management procedures and the option to cancel the agreement as incentive for FWP administrators to address concerns about abuses to private property. Their latest offer is currently under FWP review.

“Are we experiencing some rough roads right now? Maybe so,” says FWP Regional Park Manager Lee Bastian. “But I think that comes with growth, I think that comes with the beautiful resources and great rivers we’ve got in this area. These issues can be a bit challenging to deal with at times, no doubt about it.”

Even if negotiators can’t renew the agreement, access at FWP-owned put-ins and campsites would remain unchanged.

But access to land above the high water mark will essentially disappear.

“We’ve had 30 years of that kind of opportunity up there, so you can imagine how ingrained it is in people’s minds,” says Dick Fichtler, outdoor recreation manager for the Bureau of Land Management, which owns land along the corridor. “Then they find themselves in a jam because they took

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and says his goal was to hold FWP to its promises of resource protection. That appeal was denied. Now he says the corridor agreement is literally the last line of defense.

“Never in the past has there been a threat of not continuing this agreement,” O’Connell says. “But we’re all fed up with it, with the lack of effort on FWP to take significant steps.”

O’Connell’s complaints echo along the Blackfoot with folks like Gloria Roark, a participant in the agreement since its establishment in 1976. Though Roark isn’t taking part in the latest renewal discussions, she’s grown increasingly concerned by the level of abuse along her property. Someone walked away from a canoe a few years back, she says, leaving it washed up on the shore.

“We’ve tried to accommodate the public for years and years, and we were actually way ahead of letting the public use land along the river,” Roark says. “But there’s a lot of trash and abuse.”

And the same annual problems are starting anew, like camping on private property and toilet paper blooms. Juanita Vero, owner of the E Bar L Ranch, saw an illegal campfire on her property near Sunset Hill just last Saturday. While she

understands the agency is strapped, Vero hopes to see FWP better educate the public on resource respect.

“I get frustrated with the lack of education or sense of responsibility that the general recreating public has,” Vero says. “It’s not that they’re being malicious, it’s just that they don’t know any better.”

Vero’s patience for the situation remains relatively intact. But she understands the frustrations with FWP are much greater for those like O’Connell and Lindbergh who have owned property on the river for 20 or more years and are still waiting for solutions.

“It would be really disappointing, for all of us, if we couldn’t make it work,” Vero says of the agreement. “And yes, it might be getting to that point where something has to happen.”

O’Connell says he’s had no update on the agreement’s progress since landowners last met with FWP officials three weeks ago.

According to Roger Semler, FWP assistant administrator, the agency is reviewing the latest draft and preparing its own response.

He remains optimistic that the agreement will be renewed before the peak recreation period in late summer. However, renewal is ultimately up to the individual landowners listed on the document.

The uncertain future of the agreement is, by extension, a concern for local businesses that depend on the river. Kienan Slate, co-owner of the Missoula-based 10,000 Waves Raft and Kayak Adventures, says he’d still be able to run clients down stream, but the inability to access private property would make the Blackfoot less navigable. At the same time, though, he sympathizes with landowners.

“How would you like somebody to go to your yard and chop down a tree?” Slate asks. “You’d be upset too. I know exactly where these guys come from.”

But those hoping to freely recreate along the river aren’t the only ones with something to lose. Landowners would no longer have FWP rangers and wardens protecting their property, as guaranteed in the agreement. Considering that, Slate believes those landowners “would be nuts” to abandon it.

Still, Slate puts some of the responsibility on the recreating public to take the heat off the agency.

“If they aren’t aware of [the agreement], they can lose these things,” Slate says. “They think it’s all FWP property, and it’s not...That’s private land. You’re not messing with the state.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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This lovely lady was adopted two years ago, but she came back when her owner had to move in with friends.

That meant too many cats in the household, so Taylor is now looking for a real forever home (and she would prefer to be an only cat again).

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Boots was left behind when his owner moved away, and it took several weeks for a neighbor to be able to win his trust so he could be brought to the safety of the shelter.

This sweet, shy guy is certainly ready for a new home now.

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Daisy is a sweet, mellow cat practically all the time. However, she really doesn't like other cats, and we see a completely different side of her when she gets too close to one. However, she loves people and would be perfect for a one-cat home.

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If Winnie likes you, she's a loving, happy, purring creature.

However, she's cautious with new people, and it takes a while for her to show her true, sweet personality. A patient new owner would gain a wonderful pet by taking Winnie home.

Kicker's story will touch anyone's heart, especially those with a soft spot for Beagles. He was brought to us after his owner passed away–the person he had spent his entire life with, his best friend. In spite of his sadness he manages to be extra sweet and even takes care of our young Beagle Duncan.

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Huey's former owner must have seen the movie "Super Size Me" and thought it was a guide for feeding his cat. Huey tips the scale at 22 pounds and definitely needs to trim down, but we must admit that he's one big hunk of sweet, loving feline.

CARMEN

All Carmen has to do is look up at you with those sad, big, brown eyes and you can't help but want to love and keep her safe. She hasn't always been treated so nice, and consequently she takes some time to trust.

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They found her living in an alley. She had made a nest in an old abandoned couch where she hoped to have her babies. Three days after her arrival at AniMeals, Emma had four beautiful kittens. She was such a good mama that she even became a surrogate to two other abandoned kitties.

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Strange play The Land Board brazenly oversteps its power This week the Montana Board of Land Commissioners, known as the Land Board, pulled what may be a first for the state.

Comprised of the top five statewide elected officials, the Board primarily oversees management of the state’s school trust lands.

Now, however, the Board has decided it has the power to appropriate tens of millions of dollars. Only one problem: The power to appropriate state funds is constitutionally granted to the Legislature—and the Legislature was left out of the picture.

This strange tale begins some years back when the state launched a lawsuit against the owners of hydroelectric dams on Montana’s major rivers. For a century, Montana Power Company (MPC) churned out the electrons and profits from the cheapest source of energy around—water running downhill. After stuffing a deregulation bill through the Legislature in 1997, however, MPC sold its dams and coal-fired power plants to an out-of-state mega-corporation, Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL). Without skipping a beat, PPL decided that the days of regulated power—which gave Montanans the sixth cheapest power in the nation—were over. They would charge what the market could bear. Too bad for Montanans.

In politics, as in physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, albeit often long delayed. Since the out-of-state corporation decided to rip off Montanans (we now pay the highest electric rates in the region), former Attorney General Mike McGrath decided to fight back. He filed a lawsuit alleging that PPL and others who own large dams on Montana’s navigable rivers owed the state rent for the use of the riverbeds where their dams are located.

The idea isn’t outlandish. Farmers and ranchers pay rent to lease state lands for crops and grazing. Cabin owners pay rent for the state lands on which their cabins are located. Basically, if you use state lands, even if just for bird watching or hiking, you pay for that use and the proceeds go to fund education and state institutions. The dam owners, however, were a conspicuous exception to that rule.

To make a long, complex story a lot shorter, McGrath won in District Court and PPL appealed that decision to the Montana Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the state. The price of the back rent, plus interest, came to a healthy $41 million, which PPL is now legally obligated to pay the state. The corporation hasn’t made the payment yet, however, because it may decide to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Nonetheless, Gov. Brian Schweitzer decided that the money PPL owed could be spent—or at least obligated to be spent

when and if it came in—to purchase tens of thousands of acres of land formerly owned

by Plum Creek Timber Co. and now owned by the Nature Conservancy, which very much wants to recoup its investment from the $500 million Montana Legacy Project.

But here’s where it gets very weird.

The Land Board has very limited authority to spend state funds. Primarily, they get to decide what to sell and buy through the

The Land “ Board has decided it has the power to appropriate millions of dollars.

Only one problem: The power to appropriate state funds is constitutionally granted to the Legislature—and the Legislature was left out of the picture.

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land banking program, which operates as a revolving pool of funds that come from selling isolated state parcels and using the proceeds to purchase other lands that are more easily and profitably managed. The program has statutory sidebars set by the Legislature, but comes nowhere near giving the Board the authority to spend $41 million dollars on a land purchase.

Now, in a rushed maneuver that reeks of political intrigue, Schweitzer and his fellow commissioners voted unanimously to approve a resolution authorizing the use of PPL rent money to buy Plum Creek’s former holdings. The highly controversial move has left plenty of legislators and oth-

ers scratching their heads.

The Legislature’s chief legal counsel, Greg Petesch, questioned the Land Board’s authority to appropriate the money in a communication to the state attorney who advises the Land Board. Petesch exhaustively outlined the legal background of court decisions that basically say the power to appropriate almost all state funds is held by the Legislature alone. Cutting to the chase, Petesch bluntly writes: “I do not understand how this is ‘nonstate money’. If you could please explain to me how this is not ‘state money’ I would greatly appreciate it.”

In a memo, this one to Rep. Llew Jones and Sen. Carol Williams, Legislative Fiscal Analyst Barb Smith echoes Petesh’s concerns, writing: “Initial review indicates that the resolution misclassifies these funds as non-state funds and inappropriately avoids the need for a legislative appropriation of the approximately $41 million awarded by the Court. Non-state funds, as defined in statute, are those funds from a non-state source that are restricted by law or agreement, such as a contract, trust agreement or donation.”

Unfortunately, Smith’s May 13th e-mail came up with the same result as Petesch’s: “As of this writing no response has been received,” Smith wrote. Nor had any response been received when the Land Board voted this week.

It is no secret that Schweitzer has had an often-stormy relationship with the Legislature. It is also no secret that our form of government has three distinct branches for a purpose—to provide checks and balances. It is likewise no secret that the 2011 legislative session will be tight on money and might decide the $41 million would be better spent on education than buying the former Plum Creek lands.

Whether the Land Board’s rushed effort to pass the resolution with virtually no time for public review or comment will be challenged in court remains unknown.

But one thing seems certain: It is a serious digression from the way Montana’s government has operated throughout the state’s history. That no response from the executive branch has been offered to the Legislature’s questions is definitely not a good sign. And that other Land Board members, like Attorney General Steve Bullock, for instance, didn’t delay the process until its constitutionality was fully clarified is simply inexcusable.

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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World of wonder Bee discovery underscores how little we know of nature

by Ray Ring

You are on a mission to catch and identify wild bees that pollinate rare desert plants. You must sneak up and net your quarry without breaking delicate wings and flowers. Then you transfer the netted bees to cyanide-laced “kill jars” that swiftly end the struggle and keep them in good condition. Then you pack the dead bees in your luggage and fly home to your lab in Utah.

At least that’s what you do if you’re on David Tanner’s research team. For several years, Tanner, a Utah State University postdoctoral student, and two other graduate students have been studying complex beeplant relationships and assisting habitat restoration in an oasis called the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge near Pahrump, Nev. They generated some excitement in April by announcing that they had discovered two new species—tiny but spectacular bees in the Perdita genus, each a tenth of an inch long with iridescent blue-green thoraxes and orange-yellow-striped abdomens.

The discoveries, netted by master’s degree candidate Catherine Clark and verified by a federal bee expert in April, “underscore how little we know about the natural world,” Tanner says.

The resulting flurry of headlines around the West implied that such discoveries were unusual, but they’re not. In recent years, researchers have discovered a new species of Indian paintbrush plant in Washington, a new bacteria with “special light-harvesting antennae” in Yellowstone National Park’s thermal pools, a new “ice beetle” in California’s Trinity Alps, new mosses in Yosemite National Park, a “giant” fairy shrimp three inches long that eats smaller shrimp in seasonal desert pools in Idaho, a new finch and a new primrose in Idaho’s mountains, a new fern and a new phlox on wealthy conservationist Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico, “the

first known gilled underwater mushrooms in the world” in Oregon’s Rogue River, a new alpine fungus in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, new species of moths in Colorado and Arizona mountain ranges, and a new fungus in Wyoming cow pies— and those are just the stories that have appeared in mainstream news.

The resulting “ flurry of headlines around the West implied that such discoveries were unusual, but

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they’re not.

Such discoveries are made every day around the world: 20,000 new species are identified by taxonomists each year, according to Popular Science. The American West is a notable hotspot for exploring that biodiversity. Though not on a par with Indonesia and the Amazon, the region contains some of our nation’s most diverse ecosystems in national parks, wildlife refuges and other public land as well as many conservation-oriented ranches.

Most of the discoveries get no publicity beyond scientific circles. Yet every one is important, not only intrinsically but also in practical terms. Each species has evolved to be somewhat different, with potentially new ways of living and coping with stresses.

Medicines, better fuels and other break-

throughs have been developed from studying new species. Research on native bees, for instance, has become particularly important as domestic honeybees—pollinators of most crops—have been slammed by hordes of mites, colony collapse and other troubles. Recently, some native bees have been harnessed for crop pollination, and researchers are working on expanding such uses of the natives.

James Pitts, a Utah State assistant biology professor who oversees Tanner’s and Clark’s work, has himself discovered hundreds of species of velvet ants, a type of wasp. He’s studying their genetics to learn how climate change thousands of years ago affected species diversity. That could help us predict how the current climate trend will shake out and help determine carbon policies, he says.

At the same time, we’re also facing an extinction crisis, as thousands of species wink out every year, on a pace that’s thought to be increasing. The actual number remains a guess, as is our crystal-ball assessment of the total number of species on the planet right now. According to twotime Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, “Estimates run from an improbably low 5 million [total species] to as high as a 100 million [including all the] small organisms, like bacteria and nematode ground worms.”

Meanwhile, each newly discovered species advances our overall understanding of the whole world and what’s at risk. The researchers often emphasize a basic message: We need to protect our wild and semiwild areas, because we still don’t know what’s out there. Conservation is our insurance policy against our ignorance.

Ray Ring is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the magazine’s senior editor in Bozeman.

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Considering that we live in a literary hotbed of sorts, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the next Maile Meloy or Richard Hugo could be lurking in the halls of our public schools. The Missoula Writing Collaborative is doing its part to help find those budding writers and foster their talents.

Since 1994, professional writers with the collaborative have taught creative writing courses in local and regional classrooms, as well as at afterschool programs and youth homes. This year, its teachers include a host of local literary figures including David Cates and Sheryl Noethe. And, according to its estimates, the collaborative has quite an impressive reach—it instructs 1,500 schoolchildren per year.

You can do your part to help keep the prose of

Missoula’s youth flowing when the organization hosts its spring fundraiser this weekend. Besides a silent/live auction, the benevolent soiree features a scrumptious antipasti dinner along with dessert and wine. You’ll also get to soak in the jazzy sounds of David Horgan and Beth Lo, and hear a few stories courtesy of author James Lee Burke.

Whether you’re a seasoned writer or not, I’d consider this an excellent way to help promising scribes thrive.

–Ira Sather-Olson

THURSDAY MAY 20

Homeless Network, which meets this and every Mon. at 10 AM in the small conference room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Mary Alice at 880-1210.

The Poverello Center, 535 Ryman St., hosts its Poverello Center General Board of Directors Meeting from 5:15–7:15 PM at the Pov. Free to attend. Call 728-1809.

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.wordpress.com.

FRIDAY MAY 21 Families can get help narrowing their search for quality child care with Child Care Assistance, which is offered by Child Care Resources from 8 AM–5 PM Mon.–Fri. at its office, 127 E. Main St. Ste. 314. Free.

Call 728-6446 and visit childcareresources.org.

Keep the constitution of your younglin’ as strong as steel during Healthy Lives Under Five Day, which offers kids ages five and under free health services including developmental screenings, immunization records review, as well as the chance to sign up for lowcost health coverage, from 10 AM–6:30 PM at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Call Jessica at 549-6413.

SATURDAY MAY 22 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

Celebrate conservation when you head to the Five Valleys Land Trust Annual Banquet and Auction, which begins at 5:30 PM at the Northstar Hangar at the Missoula International Airport, 5225 Hwy 10 W. $50 per person. Visit fvlt.org and call 549-0755.

SUNDAY MAY 23 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP.

MONDAY MAY 24 Those interested in issues pertaining to the homeless population are invited to a meeting of the Montana

The Missoula Writing Collaborative Spring Soiree is Sunday, May 23, from 6–8:30 PM at Caffe Dolce, 500 Brooks St. $40. Call 549-3348 and visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org.

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

Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.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 alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY MAY 25 Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656.

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.

THURSDAY MAY 27 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.wordpress.com.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also 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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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - A sheriff’s deputy in Okaloosa County, Fla., arrested a 27-year-old driver after pulling her over for an improper taillight because she couldn’t spell her name. She said she was Coronica Jackson, but spelled it C-o-r-i-c-a. Her passenger nudged her, and she re-spelled it C-o-r-n-a-i-c-a. Then the passenger told the deputy it was C-o-r-o-n-i-c-a. He checked the name in his computer, but the photo didn’t match that of the driver, so he asked her to sign her name.

She wrote “Coninani Junise,” which was nowhere close to that in the computer system.

Police investigating a burglary at a drug store in Tulsa, Okla., said a surveillance video showed the suspect moving a ladder around inside trying to get out. Each time he climbed into the ceiling, however, he fell though. He climbed the ladder and fell through the ceiling six times before making his getaway on the seventh try.

PRIVATIZATION FOLLIES - Italian contractors helping train Afghan police recruits solved the mystery of why the trainees couldn’t shoot straight while being taught by U.S. government contractors.

The Italians noticed the Americans, who were paid $6 billion to train the Afghans, had never adjusted the sights on their AK-47s and M-16s. During the eight years contractors from DynCorp International were allegedly training recruits, the death rate for Afghan police officers rose from about two dozen a month to around 125. “We’re paying somebody to teach these people to shoot these weapons, and nobody ever bothered to check their sights?” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who chaired Senate committee investigating contractor oversights. “It is an unbelievable, incompetent story.”

BUM BOMB - A California Highway Patrol officer who questioned Steven Ferrini, 60, for parking illegally at 4:30 a.m. found drugs and arrested him. A subsequent search found “a suspicious wire, with an on-off switch” in the man’s front pocket leading to his anal cavity, according to a police report. When “the subject began to explain his knowledge of explosives and bomb-making,” officers called the El Dorado County Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team and evacuated the South Lake Tahoe office. The bomb squad determined the device was not a bomb but an anal vibrator.

PROBLEM SOLVED - The Japanese automation firm Super Faiths has developed recycling machines that turn used diapers, mostly those used by incontinent adults, into fuel for biomass boilers and stoves. The SFD Recycle System machines can handle up to 1,102 pounds of diapers a day. They automatically shred, dry and sterilize used disposable diapers and turn them into bacteria-free material for making fuel pellets, which can be used to help heat roads, homes or water.

OBVIOUS CHOICE - Authorities said the executive director of the Chicago area’s commuter rail service committed suicide by stepping in front of one of his agency’s trains. Phil Pagano, 60, who headed Metra for 20 years, was on paid administrative leave at the time because of allegations he received an unapproved $56,000 bonus. McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren said a train engineer saw Pagano on the tracks facing the train and applied the emergency brakes but wasn’t able to stop in time.

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LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT - Authorities in Indonesia’s Papua announced that applicants to join the police or military would be rejected if they’ve had their organs artificially enhanced. Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto said that unnaturally large penises cause “hindrance during training.”

A sexologist quoted by the Jakarta Globe said Papuans often wrap their penis with leaves from the gatal-gatal (itchy) tree so that it swells up “like it has been stung by a bee.”

TO SERVE MAN - An Australian publisher had to destroy copies of a cookbook because a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper. “When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up,” Bob Sessions of Penguin Group Australia said, “but proofreading a cookbook is an extremely difficult task.”

FETISHES ON PARADE - Police who arrested Sherwin Shayegan on a drug warrant in Tualatin, Ore., said the convicted felon had befriended student athletes and offered them money to give him piggyback rides. “We received communication from several schools that this individual had talked his way into their locker room, had pictures taken, had a ball autographed, had gone out to the parking lot and got piggyback rides from some of the players,” said Tom Welter, executive director of the Oregon School Activities Association. Detectives in Bonney Lake, Wash., said Shayegan also made friends with a football player there, “gave him a manila envelope full of odd amounts of money, then jumped on his back and told him he wanted a piggyback ride.”

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A 27-year-old Oklahoma City man told police he was sexually assaulted by a man he met online while seeking a “friend” who shares his “fetish for flatulence.” After exchanging phone numbers and text messages with graphic sexual questions, the victim said he agreed to meet the man because he agreed to “fart for me.”

CRAPPY DISGUISE - A convenience-store clerk told police in Lincoln, Neb., that a man who tried to rob the store with a knife had toilet paper wrapped around his head to conceal his identity.

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by Hal Herring

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he hide from the wolf Carl Lewis shot stretches 7 feet, 9 inches long, the back and ruff as black as a Montana midnight, easing along the legs and flanks to a color that Lewis likens to that of a blue roan horse. Lewis shot the big radio-collared alpha male on his ranch, high on the east side of the Big Hole Valley, last fall.

“I really wanted to get a wolf this year,” he says, “because we have to live around them, and I wanted to see a few less around our place.”

Lewis and his family saw wolves 22 different

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times on their ranch during the past summer, so he knew where to start hunting. “I went out that morning on a fresh snow, and saw no tracks at all. Got up to the top of the ridge, though, and there he was.”

Lewis shot the wolf from 400 yards with his .338, the rifle he normally uses for elk hunting. Three days later, his son Tanner got a wolf of his own.

Montana’s first-ever wolf season was viewed with horror by many environmental groups, and by many people who have celebrated the charismatic predator’s return to the Northern Rockies. The hunt

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was simply too much, too soon, they said; it would kill off the alpha males and females that are the primary breeders and break the slowly building matrix of genetic diversity that is key to the long-term health of the returning populations. They predicted that leaderless wolf packs would go after even more livestock, leading to more wolf-killing by the federal Wildlife Services. The wolves’ positive effects on the ecosystem—keeping coyote numbers in check, scattering elk that were overgrazing their winter ranges—could be reversed.

But even if those fears proved true, the sheer success of wolf reintroduction made a hunt inevitable, sooner or later. With more than 1,645 wolves in the region and at least 95 breeding pairs, the program had exceeded its original goals of at least 300 wolves, with 30 breeding pairs, every year for over seven years. The population was expanding faster than anyone, even the region’s leading predator biologists, could have predicted. Many Montana big-game hunters thought that a tipping point had been reached.

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“We always knew there would have to be management of wolves,” says Carolyn Sime, statewide wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. “Or people would just start killing them. The question was whether that management would be through the tried-and-true method of hunting, or through government control only, paying the shooters with the helicopters. We wanted the same model that has given us some of our biggest conservation successes with other wildlife.”

As Montana’s wolf hunt closed in November, the human element—the pro-wolf, anti-wolf anger that has been so much a part of wolf restoration in the West—shifted, almost imperceptibly. True, the hunt’s critics remained outraged, while those who want wolves eliminated altogether were dismayed that so many were still alive. True, most successful wolf hunters shot their quarry while deer and elk hunting, and most of them, according to interviews, viewed the shooting more as predator control than as a true “hunting” experience. But the stage has been set for a change.

Foremost, the federal government is no longer making the rules. The state of Montana is. But more importantly, among the wolf hunters is a small but growing constituency that sees the animals neither as the sacred burning heart of nature, something to be worshipped from afar, nor as mangy and murderous vermin that deserve extermination. Instead, they view wolves as wild game animals, a quarry worthy of respect—maybe, someday, even protection.

Judging from the past, it is this constituency that will ensure the survival of the gray wolf into the 21st century.

“When it comes to big animals with big teeth that eat big things, you have a lot of things to balance out,” says Sime. “If you can’t develop a broad-based constituency of support for the species on the landscape where the people live with them, then the long-term viability of that species is not good.”

Montana’s wolf season opened in the backcountry on Sept. 15, and in the rest of the state’s current wolf country—roughly from the Canadian border west of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, south to the Idaho line and east to Yellowstone National Park—on Oct. 25. According to state game officials, 15,603 hunters bought wolf tags, including 89 non-residents who paid $350 for the privilege (a resident tag was only $19), bringing in a total of over $325,000.

The first day of the hunt was hard on wolves that had never been hunted before: Ten were killed. An average of 20 wolves per week were killed after that.

The wolf season closed on Nov. 16, a few days ahead of schedule; hunters had killed 72 wolves out of the 75-wolf quota set by state wildlife biologists, and the quota was about to be surpassed.

Seven of the slain wolves wore radio collars, putting a dent in research efforts. Still, most people involved in wolf restoration saw the Montana hunt as a success.

“We were on the right track with our quota system,” says Sime. “Until recently, there’s been only two points on the line—from one side, we got ‘kill them all,’ from the other side, ‘protect them all.’

Well, only two points on the line won’t work.”

hunters killed 309 of them in 2008. The big cats still inhabit most of their original habitat—success from a biodiversity standpoint.

Sime believes that those who oppose the wolf season are playing a dangerous game.

“You can have wolves as game animals, and hunters who pay to hunt them, or you go with Wildlife Services, and have the taxpayers pay for the control,” she says.

“It’s time for us—hunters, biologists, all of us— to recognize that wolves aren’t killing the wildlife.

Wolves are wildlife.”

—Carolyn Sime, statewide wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Sime hopes that the hunting season will “mature the constituency for wolves,” inspiring a new generation of hunters who admire and advocate for wolves as game animals. That model worked for mountain lions. Why shouldn’t it work for wolves?

From 1872 to 1962, there was a bounty on lions, followed by open season until 1971, when they were finally reclassified as big game. Since then, lion hunters have matured greatly. Whenever deer hunters say more lions need to be killed, lion hunters demand in turn that lions be protected. Montana currently has anywhere from 1,800 to 2,200 mountain lions, and

Wildlife Services is the federal agency tasked with killing “nuisance” animals, including everything from feral dogs that attack people, to coyotes that threaten livestock, to birds that hang out around airports. Federal shooters killed about 145 wolves in Montana last year, out of an estimated population of 524.

George Killebrew, an electrician by trade, is a longtime Bitterroot resident. Born in Mississippi, Killebrew is proud of being part Cherokee. His ancestry, he says, makes him reluctant to hunt wolves or other predators: “My upbringing tells me

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Carolyn Sime, statewide wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says she knew there would always have to be management of wolves. “The question,” she says, “was whether that management would be through the tried-and-true method of hunting, or through government control only, paying the shooters with the helicopters. We wanted the same model that has given us some of our biggest conservation successes with other wildlife.”

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that maybe these animals are my ancestors, coming back to help us out.” But as wolf packs expanded, both around his home near Darby and in most of his hunting country, he bought a wolf tag.

“We just really depend on an elk every year,” he says, “and we just couldn’t seem to find them anymore. Three years ago, we’d see a wolf track or two every once in a while, but this past year, there were tracks everywhere we went…but no elk.”

Wolf howls near their home made Killebrew and his wife uneasy about the safety of their Brittany dogs. On an early morning elk hunt to a favorite spot on the west side of the Bitterroots, Killebrew spotted a single set of wolf tracks along a ridge-top trail.

Then he saw the wolf. “She was coming in at about 150 yards, and when she turned broadside, I shot her,” he says.

Even though Killebrew was using a full-size elk cartridge—a .300 Winchester Magnum—the wounded wolf turned and ran. So he shot again, and that time she went down. “At that second shot, she let out a bloodcurdling howl,” he says. He does not regret killing her. “There’s just too many of them now.

They need to have some fear of people, too.”

Like Killebrew, many big-game hunters are convinced that rapidly growing wolf packs have devastated Montana’s elk herds, preventing hunters from filling their freezers and outfitters from guiding clients to a decent bull. In the Bitterroot, this view is partly right, partly wrong, says state wildlife biologist Craig Jourdonnais, who frequently flies the Bitterroot country, counting elk and deer on their winter ranges. He says that elk numbers in the state remain healthy overall, but that the cow-to-calf ratio in some areas is low, partly because of wolves.

“That’s definitely a red flag for us,” he says.

Whenever the cow-to-calf ratio falls too low, the state has to put a halt to antlerless elk hunting. And that, of course, is bad for meat hunters, who tend to blame wolf predation for their empty freezers and higher food bills. Jourdonnais says wolves are not the only reason for the diminished herds, though.

“We have so many changes in the Bitterroot,” he explains. “A new predator on the ground. All those wildfires. Knapweed taking over, and the chopping up of prime winter range for subdivisions. You might say that we do have a lot of wolves in this valley, and not all of ’em are the four-legged kind. If you are hoping to hunt the same way you did 30 years ago, you are going to be disappointed.”

And if you’re hoping to hunt the way you did 10 years ago north and west of Yellowstone, you might not even recognize the place. The northern Yellowstone elk herd, once a mighty, and fantastically destructive, 22,000 strong, is down to around 6,600 animals. Cow-calf ratios in the region are at record lows. Hunters and outfitters are furious. But biologists, while concerned, take a different view.

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to our objective,” says Sime. “There was nothing sustainable at all about 22,000 elk there.”

Sime adds, “We have some kick-butt Montana wildlife managers still saying, ‘Wolves are impacting our wildlife.’ Then they’ll shift, and say, ‘Well, they are impacting elk numbers.’ I say, ‘Where is that happening?’ They can never point to the place. It’s time for us—hunters, biologists, all of us—to recognize that wolves aren’t killing the wildlife. Wolves are wildlife.”

Once a sustainable wolf hunt exists, more hunters, and more landowners who have to live with wolves, may begin viewing the animal as just another member of the pantheon of wild animals that need protection and restoration in a world of burgeoning humanity. Wolf reintroduction was possible in large part because generations of hunters provided license money to restore deer and elk herds and preserve habitat. That same support, even at a much lower level (predator hunting has never been as popular as hunting animals valued as meat), could help give the wolf a place on the landscape forever.

What would a successful wolf hunt look like?

Perhaps something like the hunt that Mike Ross, a wildlife biologist and wolf management specialist for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, went on this fall in the backcountry of the Upper Gallatin River.

“I’m 48 years old, and I’ve been hunting since I was 9, and I’ve never had a more exciting day of hunting in my life,” Ross says.

Ross had a coveted permit, one of only five issued, drawn by lottery to hunt bull elk in what may be the world’s best elk country.

“My girlfriend, Colleen, and I saw some pretty good bulls, but I was looking for at least a 340 (Boone and Crockett),” he says. “We heard wolves howling in the morning, and after lunch…10 wolves came out on an open ridge, flopped down in the sun, kind of belly-up. Colleen said, ‘Let’s go after them.’”

The two hunters crossed the river and climbed up to where they could see across to the ridge. “But they were gone,” Ross says. The wolf pack was hidden in a patch of timber above

Ross howled again, and a big male wolf stepped from the timber above them. “He moved around us, and when he came out in the open, I shot him.” The 6-year-old male wolf was black and weighed 117 pounds. Ross remains awed by the experience.

“If you went out there a hundred times and tried to do something like this, you couldn’t do it,” he says. “It was hunting, you know, where everything comes together all of a sudden. I think those wolves were in a competitive situation with another pack, and they came in like coming into a gang fight. I’ll never forget it.”

Ross says that he “got quite a bit of flak for shooting a wolf, people saying I exploited my job. I don’t want anybody to think that. I was out hunting, I had a wolf tag, and we got into them. That’s all.”

On the map showing legal wolf kills from the 2009 season, there’s a dense cluster of dots on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park. It marks the spot where nine wolves died at the hands of hunters on the high, windswept Buffalo Plateau, a world away from the wolf-livestock conflicts of the Madison Valley or the Bitterroot’s frenetic urban interfaces. Some of the slain wolves had starred in documentaries made in the park, intimate records of their wild and dangerous lives set to soaring music. The collared alpha male of the much-chronicled Cottonwood Pack was killed, along with his collared mate, known to researchers as Number 527, and her daughter, Number 716, known to park wolf-watchers as Dark Female.

That broke the hearts of many wolf lovers—the Los Angeles Times wrote a sort of eulogy to 527, as did Laurie Lyman, a blogger for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Lyman called for a buffer them when Ross “howled them up.”

“The woods just opened up,” Ross says, “howls everywhere, coming down on us, just wild, and I thought for a second, ‘How many bullets do we have?’ Then there were wolves below us, too.”

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zone around the park to protect wolves that spend most of their lives inside park boundaries.

Defenders of Wildlife and a host of other environmental groups had already taken their anger at the hunt to the courts, suing to get the wolf back on the endangered species list. Mike Leahy of Defenders points out that between them, hunters and federal shooters wiped out more than half of Montana’s wolves in 2009. His organization would like to see 450 wolves in each of the three states before delisting occurs.

“I know that asking for more wolves on the land is controversial,” says Leahy. “They are a polarizing animal. But what we’d really like to see is for them to be managed as native wildlife, and we don’t manage any other native wildlife down to the edge of extinction every year.”

The lawsuit is pending.

Biologists who study wolves on the ground seem to have a more nuanced view. State game officials shut down the hunt on the northern border of Yellowstone on Oct. 26, just as hunters exceeded by one the area’s quota of 12 animals. For Doug Smith, the park’s chief wolf biologist, the loss of the collared alphas and four out of 10 members of the Cottonwood Pack was a tremendous blow.

“It put a big hole in our research,” Smith says.

He’d like to see Montana’s wolf hunt “tweaked,” given how quickly the quota was filled from near the park boundaries. Many other biologists agree.

“You basically fill up your quota with wolves in the backcountry, and then no one can hunt the wolves that you really might want to remove, out on private lands, the ones that may be involved in livestock conflicts,” Smith says.

Hunters, too, complained that quotas were filled too early, preventing them from hunting wolves during the general big-game season in some places. Montana plans to hold another wolf hunt next year, and some of the suggested “tweaks” might be applied. Ken McDonald, a

wildlife division administrator for the state, told a reporter, “Again, keep in mind that this was only Montana’s first year of wolf hunting.

It’s still a learning experience for everyone involved.”

No one knows how the hunt will affect the survivors’ behavior and prospects.

“You shoot four out of 10 in a pack, what will they do? Nobody knows,” says Smith. “We know that disperser wolves (those that pioneer new territory and start new packs) usually come from large, stable packs, and dispersers are the ones that provide genetic connectivity and eventually

keep the animals off the endangered species list. The Cottonwood Pack probably won’t be pumping out any dispersers. They are going to stay home, regroup somehow.”

But even after the loss of 527 and Dark Female, and faced with the task of capturing and re-collaring new wolves in the Cottonwood Pack, Smith still supports the way Montana wildlife managers structured the first wolf season.

“I thought they did a good job with it,” he says. “It was very controlled. I respectfully disagree with those people who feel that the long-term survival of the wolf is enhanced by protecting them from hunting.”

For Carolyn Sime, the questions posed by wolf restoration have been as much about human values and perception as they have been about the wolves themselves.

“We have hunters, who have been the greatest advocates for restoring basic stuff like deer and elk, but then it comes to wolves, and they want to get rid of them,” she says. “We have the animal rights people, some of whom seem to feel that no wolves should die—ever. Or that if a wolf had killed 527, it would have been okay, but a man with a gun? Unacceptable. I’m hoping that eventually, those who occupy the two extremes will discredit themselves.”

She cautions that the anti-wolf-hunting groups may unintentionally prove to be the roadblock to restoring the wolf, or even any other endangered species, to more states in the West.

“If they want to set the bar so high—more wolves on the landscape than the people who live there can stand, then no other state will take on what Montana has taken on. Never. Why would they?”

This article originally appeared in High Country News. Hal Herring is a contributing editor at Field and Stream magazine and has written for HCN since 1997. He lives with his family in Augusta.

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Some food companies have found a way to cast their processed foods as organic without going through the inconvenience of using certified organic ingredients in their products. By incorporating “organic” into their names, some companies have been able to display the magic word on the packaging of food products that are not in fact certified organic.

The Cornucopia Institute, an organic watchdog group, recently brought attention to the deception by filing complaints with the National Organic Standards Board and the Federal Trade Commission.

The alleged infractions run the spectrum from blatant misrepresentation, in the case of Oskri Organics, to stretching the limits of evolving definitions of organic, in the case of a surprise entry in Cornucopia’s list of shame: the much-loved Newman’s Own Organics.

Some of Oskri Organics’ products contain no certified organic ingredients at all. Nonetheless, the company has been able to display the money word front and center on its packaging, simply because it’s part of the company’s name.

Organic Bistro sells frozen entrees made with organic vegetables, grains and oils, but many of the meals also include non-organic chicken and turkey. A glance at the ingredient list would convince most people that Organic Bistro meals are cleaner and probably healthier than most other frozen food entrées out there. But of all the ingredients, meat is arguably the most important in terms of human and environmental health. Not coincidentally, meat would also account for the lion’s share of the cost of using organic ingredients.

The letter and spirit of organic law say the only permissible reason for using non-organic ingredients in certified organic processed food is if that ingredient is not available in certified organic form.

“There is certainly no shortage of organic chicken or organic turkey,” says Cornucopia’s Mark Kastel. “By using conventional ingredients to cut costs, yet displaying the word ‘organic’ so prominently in their packages, Organic Bistro is unfairly competing with truly organic companies that commit to sourcing organic meat.”

It’s also unfair to consumers who see the name Organic Bistro and assume the chicken dinner in the box is organic.

One of the driving forces behind the creation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Organic Program was the economic interest of corporate

food companies that wanted to cash in on the tremendous consumer demand for organic food. These corporations wanted to know what they had to do in order to sell their food as organic. After a lengthy period of wrangling over the rules, USDA organic seals were finally placed on the products that earned organic certification.

Since those lines were drawn, they’ve been vigorously contested. Much of the friction has been over corporate attempts to soften the laws and make it cheaper to certify products as organic. But endruns around certification standards via strategic company names are a dangerous precedent that until now has slipped through the regulatory cracks.

Newman’s Own Inc., the parent company of Newman’s Own Organics, has an enigmatic slogan plastered at the top center of its webpage. It reads: “Shameless exploitation in pursuit of the common good.”

I was going to offer a free T-shirt to whoever could parse the meaning of this slogan, but a company spokesperson got back to me and explained that it refers to exploiting the famous Newman name to sell product for money that’s then given to charity— amounting to more than $285 million since 1982.

According to Cornucopia, Newman’s Own Organics—now a separate company—seems to be shamelessly exploiting the word “organic” to help sell products that are not, in fact, certified organic.

Cornucopia’s beef with Newman’s Own Organics boils down to the difference between two types of certifications, both of which are bestowed by USDA-accredited organic inspectors. The “Certified Organic” label means a processed food contains at least 95 percent certified organic ingredients, with the remaining percentage being unavailable in

organic form. The “Made with Organic Ingredients” label means at least 70 percent of the ingredients are certified organic, with no stipulation that the nonorganic ingredients be unavailable in organic form.

While the difference between 70 percent and 95 percent isn’t earth-shattering, it’s significant that a cheaper non-organic percentage can be presented, by semantic sleight of hand, as the real thing. “Made with Organic Ingredients” is a weak alternative that hangs onto the organic name like a parasite.

The Newman’s Own Organics product line includes both “Certified Organic” products and those “Made with Organic Ingredients.” Cornucopia believes the company should either switch to a 95 percent-plus certified organic product line, or change its name. “[The regulations] specify that 70 percent organic products cannot ‘represent’ themselves as organic. If Newman’s Own Organics cannot legally use the term ‘organic’ or represent its 70 percent organic products as organic, we do not believe they should be able to use the ‘Newman’s Own Organics’ company name on the front packaging,” explained Charlotte Vallaeys, Farm and Policy Analyst with Cornucopia, via e-mail.

“Country Choice Organics has a ginger cookie, and they use organic ginger,” she continued. “The Newman’s Own Organics Ginger-O cookie is similar, but uses non-organic ginger. If they’re going to represent themselves as organic by selling Ginger-O’s under the Newman’s Own Organics brand and compete with companies that actually use organic ginger in organic ginger cookies, we believe they should use organic ginger.”

According to Vallaeys, USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) is currently evaluating the use of “organic” in company names for “made with” products and will issue guidance in due course. And, she says, the NOP is also investigating some Newman’s Own Organics advertising practices that appear to go beyond the shameless exploitation of a legal gray area.

In one particularly egregious example, a product description on the website waxes: “When organic peanut butter meets organic chocolate, the results are Newman’s Own Organics Peanut Butter Cups.”

But the ingredients list shows they contain nonorganic peanut butter and non-organic flour.

Now that’s getting a little shameless.

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HAPPIESTHOUR Town and Country Lounge Who you’re drinking with: On a recent afternoon, George Franks. It’s his 72nd birthday and he’s perched at the end of the bar having a few vodka cranberries, as he has for decades. “I’ve only been coming here for 30 years,” Franks says.

Who you’re drinking with, besides George: The place gets packed in the afternoon and early evening as working people pile in. It’s primarily a blue-collar crowd—men in NASCAR jackets with white hair who smoke cigarettes in the parking lot, or locals from the neighborhood, including the trailer park across the street. The place gets even busier at the beginning of the month, says bartender Katie McDowell.

“Generally, the first of the month is pretty steady, because people are getting their paychecks.”

Ambiance: Patsy Cline plays on the jukebox, there’s a pool table, and some keno and poker machines. Televisions are everywhere broadcasting sports. The bar also offers a shrine to Budweiser, from the red and white racecar hanging above the bar to posters and neon signs on the walls.

What you’re drinking: “We do sell a lot of beer here,” says McDowell, a T&C vet for 17

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years. “But we sell a lot of frou-frou drinks, too—for a working man’s bar.”

Claim to fame: A whole lot of good people, according to Franks. “Everybody looks out for everybody else.”

How to find it: 1616 S. Third Street W., less than one block off Russell Street and a stone’s throw from the Good Food Store.

—Jessica Mayrer 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 allnatural, 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. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

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! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$

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Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. • 549-2790 Share a meal on our park side patio or within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues.-Sat. 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.

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549-7979. $$–$$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana. Certified Organic Wines, No Added Sulfites. Tasting Room Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Before you visit, consider: "Come on, drink up, Lewis. We have thinking to do." Chief Inspector Morse, Cambridge, UK $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Monday Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$

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Dear Flash, I’ve heard that some people drink their own urine for its medicinal properties. Is this true? What could be medicinal about human waste?

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Urine is not exactly human waste; that would be feces. Urine is more like leftovers of the stuff that’s in your blood. It’s sterile, and isn’t poisonous.

Whether it’s actually good for you is another question.

Fifteen years ago in Portland, Ore., I listened to a talk by Ken Kesey that covered a range of topics, including pee drinking, which he explained was practiced by a sect of monks somewhere in Asia. Kesey said it was something about overcoming taboos, and that if you can drink your own piss you can do anything. There was more to it, and I don’t remember the rest, but it was enough to compel me to pee into a cup the next morning and take a swig.

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Nothing changed. I still can’t do anything, and I forgot about that experience as quickly as I could.

Urine therapy is practiced all over the world, as I learned by visiting the website of the 5th World Congress of Urotherapy. The site has a running slide show of picturesque waterfalls. Supposedly, drinking your first pee of the morning gives your body something like a taste of its own medicine, with an assortment of hormones, antibodies, enzymes and other biomolecules that help start your day off right. A side branch of pee drinking is massaging with urine, which is supposedly preferable because it’s absorbed more quickly through the skin.

Also worthy of note, one of the world’s best cage fighters, Lyoto Machida, drinks his own pee every morning. And he kicks ass.

So there you have it. It won’t hurt you, it’s free, and maybe it will cure what ails you.

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.

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.

Get a dose of artistic pleasure this and every third Thu. during the Dana Gallery’s Third Thursdays, which features the exhibit Second Annual Celebration of Missoula Artists Show on display for your perusal from 5–8 PM at the gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-3154.

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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.wordpress.com.

Bob Wire would rather not take shots of castor oil when he plays country at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363–PINT. Swap seeds, stories and nibble on some potluck foods during the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project’s first MUD Mingle of the season, which includes a seed swap and runs from 6–9 PM at MUD, 629 Phillips St. Free. Bring a potluck dish to share, as well as

He’s fine, he just needs his go-go gadget juice. Local actor Raker Wilson stars in Animus, a film directed by Hasalyn Harris and Logan Modine that screens during The Spring Film Showcase Fri., May 21, from 6–10 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $5/$3 students.

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end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 21, 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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your own plates, cups and utensils. Call 7217513 and visit mudproject.ning.com.

The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents its Art 4 All Project: MAM CAM, a project where you can check out a small video camera at the museum and record yourself or a friend talking about pieces you like the most at the MAM. The videos will then be collected and shown in the museum’s upcoming Art 4 All exhibit. Free. Gallery hours are: Wed.–Fri. from 10 AM–5 PM and Sat.–Sun. from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 728-0447.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

Keep the constitution of your younglin’ as strong as steel during Healthy Lives Under Five Day, which offers kids ages five and under free health services including developmental screenings, immunization records review, as well as the chance to sign up for lowcost health coverage, from 10 AM–6:30 PM at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Call Jessica at 549-6413.

She’s what you’d call a seasoned hippie: Author Star Jameson reads and signs her new book Medicine Rock—a memoir describing communal living, sexual experimentation and other cultural themes of the 1970s—starting at 7 PM at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup Wildlife Lecture Series continues with a talk by Julie Chapman titled “From the Field to the Gallery: How Wildlife Painting is Created,” which starts at 7 PM at the Alberton Town Hall, 701 Railroad Ave. Free. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

Create something dramatic out of nothing during the Open Field Artists’ Theatre Lab, a theater workshop that occurs this and every Thu., Sun. and Mon. at 7 PM at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W. Free. E-mail openfieldartists@gmail.com.

Don’t expect to be speaking in ebonics when Brian Jameson offers a devotional singing program with live music and gentle direction at 7:15 PM at Hamilton’s Common Ground Center, 258 Roosevelt Lane. $3 donation requested. Call 363-4026.

A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

Soak up a tale of a servant who’s a little too eager to offer up his services when the Sentinel High School Drama Department presents its rendition of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Margaret Johnson Theatre at Sentinel High, 901 South Ave. W. $6/$5 students and seniors. Call Katie at 728-2400 Ext. 7065.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four. Call 883-9212 or email portpolsonplayers@centurytel.net to make reservations.

Members of Seattle’s Reptet never overdress the part when they play experimentally leaning jazz Thu., May 20, at 10 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. The Barenaked Ladies expose you to their instruments of choice when they play alt pop rock at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $37.50, with advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Hijackers rip it up with indie rockers The Magpies and garage rockers Rooster Sauce (who play their final Missoula show), at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

Bowling and karaoke go together like scratching on a chalkboard and peaceful sounds during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING.

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.

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

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

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during Combat Karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

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

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

Shoulder pads not required: An evening of local rocking rock awaits when The New

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

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.

Seattle’s Reptet wants you to dance like you’ve got ants in your pants when they play jazz with an experimental touch at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Snatch up a used garden hoe or whatever other item warms your heart during the Darby Garage-a-rama, a garage sale/bake sale fundraiser for the Darby Library which begins at 8 AM at the Darby Community Clubhouse, 106 N. Main St. Free to attend. Visit darbylibrary.net.

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Freedom toast not included. Celebrating Conservatism presents the Liberty Convention 2010, which features speeches by conservative luminaries like Richard Mack, Chuck Baldwin, Schaeffer Cox and others and begins with registration at 10 AM at UM’s Adams Center. $15. Activities run throughout the day with talks starting at 6 PM. The convention meets again on Sat. Visit ravallibell.com for a complete schedule. Call 360-5534.

Prosciutto and provolone probably won’t be served when Vincenza Scarpaci hosts a presentation and signs copies of Journey of the Italians in America, at 3:30 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

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

nightlife 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, a new downtown dance venue in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free. Enter from the southwest basement entrance.

Local talent hits the silver screen during The Spring Film Showcase, which features films produced by Missoula high schoolers at 5 PM, followed with films by UM undergrads, grads and faculty from 6–10 PM, all at the Wilma Theatre. $5/$3 students. Visit aloneinaforest.com.

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Gypsy jazz goes hand in hand with fermented spirits when El 3-OH!, featuring members of Cash for Junkers, plays the Ten Spoon Winery Tasting Room, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free.

Get to know your local rollergirl when the Hellgate Rollergirls host an open house that features a meat/veggie barbecue, sides, beer, and a chance to check out their practice space and watch them practice from 6–9 PM at their headquarters, 812 Toole St. Free. Families welcome.

E-mail hellgaterollergirls@gmail.com Witness the fruits of kinesthetic movement during the Montana Model Dance Education Project’s Celebration of Dance in MCPS, a performance featuring elementary, middle school and high school students sharing examples of classroom dance experiences from 6:30–7:30 PM in the auditorium of Hellgate High School, 900 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Karen Kaufmann at 243-2870.

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

Find out what it means to huck a frisbee or give it a corkscrew grip during the Missoula Ultimate Frisbee Federation Fundraiser, which features carnival games, dinner/drinks, dancing and a silent auction starting at 7 PM at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. $10. Call John at 3601086 and visit missoulaultimate.com.

You don’t wanna eat this fiber: River’s Mist Gallery of Fine Art, 317 Main St. in Stevensville, presents a gallery talk with Heidi Zielinski on Fiber into Art, which begins at 7 PM at the gallery. Free. Call 777-0520.

New York City trumpeter Jim Rotondi toots it up with accompaniment from David Morgenroth, Mike Freemole and Brad Edwards during another

installment of DalyJazz, which starts at 7 PM at 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

Soak up a tale of a servant who’s a little too eager to offer up his services when the Sentinel High School Drama Department presents its rendition of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Margaret Johnson Theatre at Sentinel High, 901 South Ave. W. $6/$5 students and seniors. Call Katie at 7282400 Ext. 7065.

A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

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If your favorite reggae band is comprised of white dudes with dreads who sing the praises of jah, herb and “one love,” I’d consider putting down your peace pipe for a sec to track down an album by Toots and the Maytals. Why, you ask? Because these guys basically helped build the musical foundation for all contemporary reggae and ska groups.

In fact, this Kingston, Jamaica-based reggae, ska, gospel and rock group is about as old-school as you can get. They first broke onto the scene in the early WHAT: Toots and the Maytals WHEN: Sat., May 22, at 8 PM WHERE: The Wilma Theatre HOW MUCH: $25/$23 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com

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1960s—around the same time The Wailers were born. Frontman Fredrick “Toots” Hibbert (pictured) met Henry “Raleigh” Gordon and Nathaniel “Jerry” McCarthy, and the trio decided to start jamming as a ska outfit under the name of The Maytals. And after a name change, a couple hiatuses, several bands covering their tunes (like The Clash and Sublime), and countless successful releases later, they’re still at it.

These days, Toots and Co. have injected a liberal amount of influences into their repertoire, especially with their latest release Flip and Twist, which proficiently mines the groovier depths of genres like blues, hip-hop and soul.

When Hibbert and his cohorts hit the Wilma this week, I’d expect a touch of the new peppered with several servings of the old. So stir it up, and prepare to get lit up with some irie vibes from these Jamaican legends.

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history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@centurytel.net to make reservations.

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

They keep it mellow, but not yellow.

Locals David Boone, Chris Cunningham and John Floridis perform intimate acoustic guitar music starting at 8 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 advance at Rockin Rudy’s, the DDC or brownpapertickets.com.

Zeppo germinates the seeds of a surrealistic rainbow when they crank out blues and R&B jams at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Steven Prunty quells the aspirations of monarchists when he plays a solo set the Raven Bar and Grill in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 8 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

When in doubt, consult the Rooster Sauce. Hot Salsa Nights keeps your toes begging for more when the salsa dance party starts at 8 PM at the Elks Club, 112 N. Pattee St. $7, with free dances lessons at 8:30 PM. The Voodoo Horseshoes just want you to put on that cloven shaped shoe when they play roots and rock 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.

The Country Kings keep your string beans away from a slaughterhouse when they play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hiphop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-5678.

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

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

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

Portland, Ore.’s Nice Nice brings plenty of nice noise with a mixture of post-rock, electronics and lots of experimentation when they play the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Dog Shredder, Deny the Dinosaur and Palace of Buddies open.

They keep your booty outta the trash: The Palace hosts the last installment of Robotrash, a dance party featuring DJs Kris Moon and Tak45 playing techno, tech-house and everything in between starting at 9 PM. $3.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment

The Lifers offer up your DNA sliding scale fee when they Florence’s High Spirits Club Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

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Dangerous decides to walk over that mound of crushed glass when they play rock at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Swyl lets your body language dictate how much you can freak the funk when they play funk and rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Keep a safe distance from that tub of lactose when Butter churns out Americana and folk with fellow folksters Wartime Blues, at 10 PM at Sean Kelly’s. Cover TBA.

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Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

Run, walk, and run some more duri n g t h e 2 4 th a n n u a l E v a r o Mountain Challenge 5k and 10k Run and Walk, which begins with registration at 8:30 AM at milepost 7, off of Hwy. 93 N. near Evaro.

Races follow at 9:30 and 10 AM. $10/$8 if registration received by Thu., May 20. T-shirts are $12/$11 advance. Register early by visiting racemontana.com.

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

Keep that credit card at bay: Missoula’s homeWORD presents its “Financial Fitness” workshop, which aims for you to effectively manage and understand your finances with a full day course from 9 AM–6 PM at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 303. $10 per per-

son. Register by visiting homeword.org and call 532-HOME. Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “May Mobiles” with Beth Jaffe. Free, but donations are appreciated but not expected. Register by calling 5495329 or visit livingartofmontana.org.

Just make sure to examine every nook and cranny during a tour and gallery talk for David Nash’s sculpture Crack and Warp Column, which is lead by Jose Chavez and begins at noon at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

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Gillian Browne, certified Soul Coach, presents the “Creating a Vision Board” Workshop, where participants define goals and create what they want in life with use of a vision board, with the workshop running from 1–5 PM at Stevensville’s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St. $20, pre-registration recommended.

Call Gillian at 599-3950.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 2 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

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Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@century tel.net to make reservations.

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.

Enjoy an evening with a shaman and sundancer as he reveals the deep roots of his imagination and art during a screening of Sundancing With the Muse, Heyoka Merrifield’s Sacred Art Story, a documentary by local filmmaker Jason Gutzmer with a screening at 5 PM, and again at 7 PM, at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $7 suggested donation.

Celebrate conservation when you head to the Five Valleys Land Tr u s t A n n u a l B a n q u e t a n d Auction, which begins at 5:30 PM at the Northstar Hangar at the Missoula International Airport, 5225 Hwy 10 W. $50 per person. Visit fvlt.org and call 549-0755.

Joan Zen separates the spiritual wheat from the chaff when she plays a mix of soul, reggae and jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Jazz makes the pad thai go down smooth when IZA Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave., presents free live jazz from a rotating cast of local musicians at 6:30 PM this and every Sat. at the restaurant. Call 830-3237.

New York City trumpeter Jim Rotondi toots it up with accompaniment from David Morgenroth, Mike Freemole and Brad Edwards during another installment of DalyJazz, which starts at 7 PM at 240 Daly Ave. $25, includes dinner and drinks. RSVP required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com.

Israelis and Palestinians who just want their conflict to peacefully end hit the screen during a screening of Encounter Point, which begins at 7 PM at the Whitefish Middle School Auditorium, 600 E. Second St. Free.

Call Josh at 250-9432.

The Discount Quartet with Jim Rogers on piano gives your mullet a reason to keep the party in the back when they play jazz at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., from 7–9 PM. Free.

Soak up a tale of a servant who’s a little too eager to offer up his services when the Sentinel High School Drama Department presents its rendition of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Margaret Johnson Theatre at Sentinel High, 901 South Ave. W. $6/$5 students and seniors. Call Katie at 7282400 Ext. 7065.

A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana

Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

Dance peacefully with your inner spiritual self when Dances of Universal Peace meets for sacred movement, song and story at the First Christian Church in Hamilton, 328 Fairgrounds Rd., at 7:30 PM. Donations requested. Call Star at 363-4026.

Tap into modern dance during the Garden City Ballet’s “Connections in Choreography,” a dance concert featuring performances by the Garden City Ballet Company and others of work by Bebe Miller, Amy Ragsdale, Nicholas Young and other choreographers starting at 7:30 PM, at the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $10/$5 children and students with ID, with advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s. Call 240-6042.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@century tel.net to make reservations.

The Country Kings keep your string beans away from a slaughterhouse when they play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Sick Pony doesn’t really want you to chug that codeine cough syrup when they play a mix of bluegrass, indie and rock at the Raven Bar and Grill in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 8 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

Kingston, Jamaica’s Toots and the Maytals just might let you try their irie eyedrops when they play reggae, ska, soul and rock at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $25/$23 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and online at ticketfly.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Country bumpkins and rural dudes named Curly are never barred from shaking a tail during a Missoula Senior Center Saturday night dance with The City Slickers, which runs from 8–11 PM at the center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Call 543-7154.

John Patrick Williams smashes the glass ceiling with his tried and true axe when the singer/songwriter plays the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome.

Call 741-2361.

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

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

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

DJ Bionic keeps the remixes and mash-ups flowing while you shake it when he plays at 9 PM at The Underground, a new downtown dance venue in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free.

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They’re more about funking you up than starting a political controversy.

Bellingham, Wash.’s Acorn Project brings the jam and rock with heaps of funk when they play the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Airstream Safari open.

Quit singing alone: Florence’s Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 93 N., presents a Karaoke Singing Contest with Charlotte starting at 9:30 PM. Call 273-9992.

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The Whiskey Rebellion indicates that a quick swim in oily water probably isn’t a good idea when they play outlaw country at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Zoo City isn’t so interested in playing songs about Billings, or Fresno, when they play rock at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

The Lil’ Smokies insist that a smokey version of the hokey pokey is what it’s all about when they play Americana/bluegrass at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Get a taste of local food at a lower price and learn more about a participatory business model when you check out the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s Sunday Public Shop, a chance to shop at the co-op before you join from 10 AM–5 PM at the co-op, 1500 Burns St. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome to shop three times before becoming a member. Call 728-2369 and visit missoulacommunitymarket.org.

Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 1–5 PM this and every Sun. at the New Park parking lot, between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park pavillion. Free to attend. Call 549-8382.

Celebrate some tail shaking with a cultural twist during a Polynesian Dance Performance by UM Western’s Polynesian Club, which begins at 2 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5/free children age 10 and under.

This performance coincides with Missoula’s celebration of New Zealand Days. Visit missoulacultural.org.

He’s the ultimate peacemaker: The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center/ Missoula Peace Quilters present their 2010 Peacemaker of the year award celebration, which honors local resident John Mitchell Baugh with a celebration from 2–4 PM at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free, includes coffee and cake. Call 543-3955 and visit jrpc.org.

If you suffer from pain, join others who understand your plight 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 “Exploring Our Inner Strengths–Who We Are Underneath the Pain.” Call Nicole Dunn for more info at 327-8408.

The Montana A Cappella Society keeps belting them out during its spring concert with the Very Special Adults Choir from Missoula at 3 PM at Corvallis’ United Methodist Church, on Eastside Highway at Cemetery Road. Donations appreciated, with refreshments to follow.

Call Don at 369-0706 and visit montanaacappella.org.

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If your chakras have been a little backed up lately, clear ‘em out during Table Time with Alternative Healers, an intuitive healing and energy balancing workshop from 4:30–6:30 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Call Janit at 207-7358.

nightlife Steven Purnty gives his axe permission to wail when he plays a solo set at the Raven Bar and Grill in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 5 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

Just when you thought there weren’t enough farmers’ markets, along comes the Target Range Community Farmers’ Market, which features an array of local products and runs from 10 AM–1 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 10 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free. Interested vendors should call Todd at 531-0877.

The Missoula Cultural Council continues its celebration of New Zealand Days with a Gala Dinner titled “Celebrate New Zealand,” which includes a New Zealand cuisine catered by the Silk Road, as well as a dance performance and a social hour starting at 5 PM at the Hawthorn Suites Banquet Room, 5145 Airway Boulevard. $38.

Seating is limited, so RSVP by calling 532-3250 or by visiting missoulacultural.org.

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He’ll be your private breakdancer. Heyoka Merrifield stars in Sundancing With the Muse, Heyoka Merrifield’s Sacred Art Story, a film by Jason Gutzmer that screens Sat., May 22, at 5 PM and again at 7 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $7 suggested donation.

Soiree, a fundraiser for the nonprofit that features live/silent auctions, food, drinks, music by Beth Lo and David Horgan and other entertainment, from 6–8:30 PM at Caffe Dolce, 500 Brooks St. $40. Call 5493348 and visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Create something dramatic out of nothing during the Open Field Artists’ Theatre Lab, a theater workshop that occurs this and every Thu., Sun. and Mon. at 7 PM at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W. Free. E-mail openfieldartists@gmail.com.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry.

See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

History and musicality hit the stage during the Port Polson Players’ centennial musical Valley Full of Diamonds, which presents 100 years of Mission Valley and Polson history in musical form with a performance at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $14/$13 students and seniors/$48 family of four.

Call 883-9212 or e-mail portpolsonplayers@centurytel.net to make reservations.

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

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

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Those interested in issues pertaining to the homeless population are invited to a meeting of the Montana Homeless Network, which meets this and every Mon. at 10 AM in the small conference room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Mary Alice at 880-1210.

nightlife Help make the wish of an ill child come true by becoming a volunteer for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which hosts a volunteer training starting at 6 PM at a TBA location today. Free. RSVP and get directions to the training by contacting Jeni Miller at 800-304-9474 or by e-mailing her at volunteer@nwwishes.org. Visit northwestwishes.org.

You can support summer bereavement camps for kids when you head to the Tamarack Grief Resource Center’s second annual “A Taste to Remember Benefit Dinner,” which features five courses courtesy of chefs from the Silk Road, Blue Canyon Restaurant and other Missoula restaurants and begins at 6 PM at The Ranch Club, 8500 Mullan Road. $150 couple/$80 per person/$1000 for a sponsor table of ten. RSVP by calling 541-8472. Visit tamarackgriefresourcecenter.org.

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

Charlie Hopkins quenches your thirst for the non-distorted when he plays acoustic blues with a touch of folk at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

Create something dramatic out of nothing during the Open Field Artists’ Theatre Lab, a theater workshop that occurs this and every Thu., Sun. and Mon. at 7 PM at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W. Free. Email openfieldartists@gmail.com.

Alcohol and bowling go hand over foot during Monday Madness at Five Valley’s Bowl, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which features $1 bowling after 9 PM as well as $1.25 Coors Light cans this and every Mon. at the bowling center. Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

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

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

Get down like a rolling stone. The Badlander hosts a Bob Dylan birthday party/costume party with musicians playing Dylan tunes and other revelry starting at 9 PM. Free.

Local musicians are welcome to come and play Dylan covers. Also, dressing in costume as a Dylan song or album is encouraged, but don’t dress up as “Tangled Up in Blue.” Just don’t.

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

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

The Daly Mansion brings back the old school during an organizational meeting for those interested in acting as characters during Daly Days in July, with the meeting beginning at 6 PM in the trophy room of the mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton. Free. Open to men, women and children who want to portray characters from 1880â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1940. RSVP by calling April at 363-6004 Ext. 3.

Take part in collective thoughts and actions for healing and enlightenment at the Healersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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. This month: An open discussion on the planetary energy shift and its side effects. 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 Innâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. E-mail terillovet@hotmail.com.

Ednor â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bob Wireâ&#x20AC;? Therriault is all about guiding you to the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest purple spoon when he hosts a release party for his book Montana Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, at 7 PM at Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 549-9010. (See Books in this issue.)

Sean Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

Ready? What name is given to any work of religious art that depicts baby Jesus with his mother? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nightlife section.)

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

Javier Ryan and Special Peoples aim to massage your brain stem when they play whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to be hip-hop at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Kids ought to expect the unexpected during Preschool Story Time at the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corner of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, when storyteller Peggie Oury presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surprise!â&#x20AC;? from 10:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11:30 AM. Free. Call 363-1670.

nightlife If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Jokerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 6:30 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

Keep those cluckers from escaping during the Missoula Urban Demonstration Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Backyard Chickens workshop, which covers coop design, construction tips, feed and bedding requirements starting at 6:30 PM at MUDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headquarters, 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 members.

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Hump day isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just for binge drinking anymore. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a day for playing games of chance with other likeminded booze lovers when Sean Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free.

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Copper Belt Museum keeps the chemicals out of your calamari when the acoustic duo plays at 8 PM at Kalispellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Bay Grille, 139 First Ave. W. Free. Call 755-4441.

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect an earful of distortion when Salt Lake Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bramble plays folk while Minneapolisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Raccoon Raccoon plays emotive tunes featuring cello and guitar at 8 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $5. Locals Birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mile Home, Cassandra and Pony Canon open.

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 Pickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trivia question: Works of religious art that depict baby Jesus with his mama are named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madonna and Child.â&#x20AC;?

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The tenets of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hosts Ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free.

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Be sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody Must Get Stonedâ&#x20AC;?

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Green Sickness will not make you sick, nor make you drink green bile, when they play metal and rock at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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Nature and complex metaphor collide when poet Jennifer Boyden reads and signs copies of The Mouths of Grazing Things, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction in the UC Bookstore.

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Josiah Wolf (the former drummer for WHY?) lets you ride that dreamy bubble of indie folk mixed with pop when he plays the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Orange Shades and Tyson Ballew open. (See Noise in this issue.)

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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.

Come see the

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

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A sagacious wordsmith hits the stage when Providence, Rhode Island’s Sage Francis makes his return to Missoula for a night of hiphop soaked in indie rock/folk influences with backup support from the band Free Moral Agents, at 9 PM at the Palace. $15, with advance tickets at Ear Candy. Tourmate B. Dolan opens. (See Noise in this issue.)

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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.

homeWORD invites the public

High Voltage cranks the insanity up a few volts when they rock it with hard rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

to a community design charrette for Solstice, a new mixed-use development with affordable housing, scheduled to break ground fall 2010.

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When: Thursday, June 3, 6:30-9:30pm Where: Broadway Inn Conference Center (1609 W Broadway)

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If you’re a fan of Ralph Nader, this guy will make your day. Author and columnist Bob Sullivan holds a Q&A session and signs copies of Stop Getting Ripped Off at 4 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 728-2881.

If you have questions, contact Julie at 532-4663 x19 or julie@homeword.org

nightlife He will blow your mind: The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) presents Trimpin Members Reception, a MAM members-only event which features a performance by Seattle sculptor/sound artist Trimpin—who creates experimental music out of modified instruments— starting at 5 PM at the MAM, 335 N. Pattee St. Call Kay at 728-0447 Ext. 227 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org/support.

May 21, 22, & 23

Volunteers raise the roof for a DIY art institution when the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., hosts a volunteer orientation from 5–6 PM at the center. Free.

Call 549-7555.

Kalispell 10am-7pm, Red Lion Hotel 20 N. Main

May 25, 26 & 27 Missoula 10am-7pm Wingate Inn 5252 Airway Blvd. in Missoula

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Celebrate those who have made our community a more sustainable place during the Missoula Sustainable Business Council’s “Sustainable Practices in Action Panel Discussion and Sixth Annual Sustainability Awards,” which begins at 5:30 PM at the Stensrud Building, 314 N. First St. W. Free. RSVP by e-mailing Susan at education@sbcmontana.org. Visit sbcmontana.org and call 824-7336.

Libby’s Pete Mason gives freemasons one more reason to be cryptic when he plays folk and Americana at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Refine your creative side during The Creative Moment, a class taught by local artist Katie Ludwick where you’ll blend up and synthesize writing, drawing, object exploration, and works on paper to create an idea smoothie to boost your creative potential from 6–8 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $10. Call 549-7555 to register.

Tell fertilizer to bugger off during “What is Permaculture?,” a talk with Permaculture designer Paul Wheaton which covers how to

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grow your favorite garden plants without the use of fertilizer, sprays, or irrigation, and starts at 6:30 PM in the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

E-mail info@ediblemissoula.com and visit permies.com.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

He’ll amaze you. The Missoula Art Museum presents its Distinguished Artist Lecture and Film Screening of Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, a doc which follows the work and life of sculptor/musician Trimpin—who composes experimental music from instruments he invented and modified—starting at 7 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $5/free Missoula Art Museum members and students with ID. RSVP by calling 728-0447.

A high school teacher struggles as he presents René Descartes Meditations to students during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s staged reading of Descartes a la Mode, a new play by Thomas Michael Campbell with a reading at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$5 students. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

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

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during Combat Karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

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

He bounces beats like he’ll bounce you outta the bar if you get too rowdy. The Palace presents a DJ set of reggae, dancehall and hip-hop

by Jamaican native Supa J, aka the Badlander/Palace’s bouncer Jimmy, starting at 9 PM. Free.

The Mike Bader Blues Band injects rays of indigo into your dome when they play blues at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.

If you need a good musical cleansing this week, be sure to check out Portland, Ore.’s Nice Nice on Fri., May 21, at the Badlander. I’ve just started listening to this two-piece, and quite simply, they rock it. If you dig post-rock mixed with electronic buzzes and a little bit of noise here and there, grab your earplugs and get thee to the front of the stage come Friday night.

Before then, though, keep my inbox brimming by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 21, 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.”

While a 110-mile or 85-mile bike ride might seem daunting to some of us—myself included—many of you probably get a little buzz when envisioning yourself leisurely pedaling it up for several hours among your cycling buddies. And I’m guessing if you add western Montana’s beautiful landscapes into the mix, several of you start swooning. Well, maybe not. But if you have a bicycling itch to scratch this week, I’ve got just the thing for you.

On Sat., May 22, that group of fierce pedal pushers known as Missoulians on Bicycles (MOBI) hits the road for the 40th annual Tour of the Swan River Valley West ride, a hefty twoday jaunt, which is either 110-miles or 85-miles—depending on whatever suits your seat and legs. The 110-mile ride departs at 7 AM, May 22, from UM’s campus, while the 85-mile ride departs from Potomac likely an hour or two later (you’ll be departing from a breakfast joint in Potomac, where riders on the 110-mile ride are chowing down.) From Potomac, you’ll glide up through the Swan Valley with quick stops for lunch and snacks, and you’ll eventually hit your breaks in Swan Lake for camaraderie and a night’s rest. On Sun., May 23, you’ll ride back down to Potomac and Missoula. The trip costs $115, and you need to be a member of the organization in order to ride, so click to missoulabike.org/tosrv-w-information for specific info and to download a registration form, or to register online. Also, note that a check-in meeting occurs Fri., May 21, at 6 PM, and Sat., May 22, at 6 AM, both a UM’s Miller Hall. Call Tim at 250-7228.

With that on your docket, let’s go back a day to Fri., May 21.

Those of you who enjoy scaling boulders can join Shawn Bennett with the Rocky Mountaineers for a Kootenai Canyon Rock Climbing trip in the Bitterroots. Free. Bennett doesn’t yet have a departure time, but he indicates the jaunt is open to anyone interested in getting into the sport. Give him a ring at 493-4892 to finalize plans. Visit rockymountaineers.com.

Or stick around and dust off your party hat to live it up with some disc throwers during the Missoula Ultimate Frisbee Federation’s Fundraiser, which starts at 7 PM at the American Legion Hall, 825

for registration received by Thu., May 20. T-shirts are also available for $12/$11 advance. Register early by visiting racemontana.com or by emailing evarocommcenter@blackfoot.net.

Alternately, learn how to pack something other than your medical pipe on Sat., May 22, during the second annual Packing and Equestrian Skills Expo, which runs from 10 AM–5 PM at the Missoula Equestrian Park, 3500 North Ave. W. Free. The fair offers a host of activities including basic horse handling safety, a packing demo

by Smoke Elser—a packing God of sorts—plus demos on riding skills.

Visit bchmt.org/missoula to download a schedule and call 531-2455.

Your rugrat aiming to be a butt kickin’ rugby player gets the good word from the pros on Sat., May 22, during a Touch Rugby Clinic with the Missoula Maggots, which begins with a youth rugby clinic at 11 AM at the Fort Missoula Rugby Pitch, just west of the South Ave. parking lot. Free. Clinics for high schoolers also begin at the same time. Call Ashby Kinch at 721-2227 and visit missoulacultural.org/sistercities/new_zealand_day.htm.

On Sun., May 23, get your hike on when Julie Kahl of the Rocky Mountaineers leads a hike near the Miller Creek Logging Roads. Free. The time to meet is TBA, so contact Julie at jawkal@hotmail.com to get the final word, and visit rockymountaineers.com for trip updates.

Ease your Monday blues with the sensual sights and smells of wildflowers on Mon., May 24, when the Clark Fork Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society meets for an evening walk with Annie Garde up Pattee Canyon at 6:30 PM. Free. Meet at the Pattee Canyon trailhead parking lot at 6:30 PM, or carpool by meeting at 6:10 PM at the northwest corner of the UM’s Adams Center parking lot. Expect to be delighted as Garde points you in the direction of an abundant array of flowers like blue camas and arrowleaf balsamroot. Visit mtnativeplants.org.

Photo by Chad Harder Finally we conclude with an event tailored for kayak hounds and fitness freaks that I mentioned last week. It’s the Deep Bay $50/$25 Run Wild Missoula members. The idea behind the class is Kayak and Fitness Symposium, which runs Fri., May 28–Mon., to prepare you for the Hellgate Village 5k, which occurs July 10. So May 31 at the Deep Bay Resort in Lakeside. If offers you the chance lace up and click to runwildmissoula.org. to enroll in sea kayak basics to advance skills courses, as well as a slew If you’re already well versed in pushing your legs and lungs to the of fitness and yoga workshops. E-mail bobbie@glacierseakayak.com limit, skip that class and get to the 24th annual Evaro Mountain for pricing or call 862-9010.

Challenge 5k and 10k Run and Walk, which begins Sat., May 22, Ready, set, pedal! with registration at 8:30 AM at milepost 7, off Hwy. 93 near Evaro. The calendar@missoulanews.com 10k race/walk follows at 9:30 AM, and the 5k begins at 10. $10/$8 Ronan St. $10. The soiree includes carnival games, dinner, drinks, dancing and a silent auction. And here’s something else you should know: The nonprofit wants to help build disc sports throughout Missoula, so if you’ve ever played a game of ultimate, I’d say you ought to check this out. Visit missoulaultimate.com and call John at 360-1086.

But just remember to keep an eye on how much punch you drink so you can rise early Sat., May 22, to learn the finer points of breaking a sweat and breathing deep during Run Wild Missoula’s Beginner Runner Class, which meets at 8 AM every Sat. and 6:30 AM every Wed. for eight weeks at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave.

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Reflecting on the end of an era as Crystal Video closes its doors

by Andy Smetanka

I would have broken my embargo on VHS tapes to I like the other video store I go to, but in the dozens would give just about anything to almost get in a fistfight of times I’ve rented movies there I’ve never had a conver- over Peter Greenaway with a video store clerk. “Say some- buy the copy of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls I once sation with an employee about a movie. It’s weird: They thing!” I want to yell at these clerk-droids at the other rented and took with me to Finland for six months, but have these racks right up front with rows of “employee place, practically yanking my wallet out of my pocket to that one went missing years ago. Almost as sad as the store’s actual closing was the shelf of DVD cases with picks” by name, but no one wears name tags so you get at my driver’s license.

You’d think I would have planned better for my final missing or damaged contents: grim evidence of how wouldn’t know with whom to share the secret handshake of the fellow closeted Joan Crawford enthusiast even if trip to Crystal—drawn up a mental list, even—especially people mistreat libraries. One of these orphaned cases they weren’t always in such an unsmiling hurry to see your considering I went through the trouble of sneaking in was for Die Nibelungen. I always wondered how someearly on the first day of the big sale. But I didn’t. I seri- one who would actually rent that movie could be so disdriver’s license.

I don’t think I’ve ever rented a movie from Crystal ously couldn’t think of anything I wanted, although in respectful.

I started getting depressed, so I made my purchases Video without having a movie conversation. You could retrospect I should have started taking mental notes count on spending time there: It was not a video store for the hurried or lazy browser, or the attention-deficient. Except for new releases, most of the DVDs were displayed spine-out so you really had to either know what you were looking for or commit to a sore neck surveying these thin strips of information at a slant while moving up and down the rows.

Plenty of time to bump elbows.

Video libraries are unique in that they leave a certain record of your consumption, if we must call it that, in a way that retail places don’t. At other retail places you generally don’t return what you’ve bought after using it, in some cases to buy it again five or 10 years later. At Crystal Video, I could revisit past Photo by Cathrine L. Walters eras of movie watching, past areas of intense interest, and actually Crystal Video owner Jace Laakso stacks DVDs as people stand in line to buy out the store’s inventory. The 23-year-old indet o u c h t h e v e r y s a m e pendent video store located on South Higgins shut its doors for good last week due to economic hardship. videotapes I first picked up 15 or 20 years ago. I felt such proprietary satisfaction when I noticed the beatific look that had started to and left without soaking in any more of the “atmoscome over Tim’s face recently when we both knew I had phere”—the very thing I’d professed to be after when I for having conquered whole sections of it.

It’s normally bad form in customer service for a clerk late fees and that he was just letting them slide. That waved my flimsy press credentials earlier—than I had to. to comment or editorialize on a customer’s purchases, but didn’t bode well, but I didn’t speak up, either. Again, The doors had barely opened to the public and already at the Crystal you wanted the editorializing, and the rec- what I wouldn’t do now to hear Darth Vader booming : people were barking questions over both my shoulders at ommendations, the interaction. And what a gallery of col- “I have you now!” one last time. Star Wars will never be a flustered Jace Laakso as he sat furiously pecking numbers into his computer: Is this shelf for sale? Is that shelf orful characters sat behind that checkout counter over the the same.

I had made up my mind, however, not to so much for sale? Can I have some tape to put my name on it? years! Katie Kleinhesselink, the video store dreamboat of I turned to leave, pushing through what now every movie nerd’s dreams. Carson something or other, as glance at the videocassettes. It was hard, I tell you, the insufferable hipster brat who had actually been to film walking past those rows of forlorn VHS titles: like being seemed to me a pack of ravenous jackals: not somber at a dog pound with two thousand puppies, only some cinephiles come to pay their respects, but scavengers school and never let you forget it.

And not to forget Aaron Taylor, perhaps the ultimate of these puppies I’ve literally known for half my life. with bared teeth and wildly searching eyes, greedy for video clerk, whose bewildering profusion of voluble opin- Really, though, I’m conflicted about the whole idea of any bargain just because it is. “Dear God,” I thought. ions usually followed you out the door as you were leav- “owning” movies, so I picked up a fistful of kid things, a “Here they’re selling off the cathedral, and these people ing. Dealing with Aaron could be downright exasperating few VHS tapes someone had asked me to look out for are wondering if there’s any warm Tab for the communon those occasions when you just wanted to get home and (requiring intense concentration not to notice anything ion glasses.”

Well, the hell with it then. Netflix here I come. watch your movies, without the banter, certainly without on either side), and a very few things for myself. the added fistful of Captain Beefheart and Japanese Nothing special, nothing impossible to find elsewhere, noisecore recommendations into the bargain. Now I and really nothing really meaningful to me. arts@missoulanews.com

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Josiah Wolf Jet Lag Anticon

Jet Lag is like a cemetery in spring. It’s pretty and serene, but under the shiny folk pop lies the broken evidence of dead relationships. The first solo full-length by Josiah Wolf (drummer from WHY?) tries hard to unearth the pieces, stringing them together in gap-filled narratives that end up being ethereal in all their metaphors.

But the imagery and sentiments tend to be hit or miss.

Songs start out well enough, like in “The Opposite of Breathing” where Wolf strums and sings, “It’s just a February sense. I can hear your little voice inside my head, saying now it’s time for change.” But it’s something like bad poetry when he clunkily continues with,

The Magpies pica pica self-released

Despite obvious talent and ambition, The Magpies have remained as elusive around here as our feathered friend—scientific name Pica pica—is ubiquitous. The trio’s most recent album, pica pica, is also its best, and it is a year old. I can say that missing this was a very unfortunate oversight, but the fact that pica pica is only now being reviewed in these pages has to do with the group’s geographical preferences. Now

Sage Francis Li(f)e

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Sage Francis has always defied the conventions of hip-hop, but this time he’s really thrown a wrench into its gears. While the lyrics and beats on Li( f )e are rooted in the genre, the musicality bears a scant resemblance. It’s mostly a mix of indie rock/folk and punk featuring guest songwriters from a range of groups like Califone and Calexico, and it’s a remarkably fresh fusion that fits well with Francis’ rhymes, which are rife with colorful images, sarcastic observations and exquisite narrative.

Francis hones his eye for detail in the lush indie folk tune “Little Houdini,” which follows the true story of Christopher Daniel Gay—a man who kept escaping

Robbie Fulks Happy

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Robbie Fulks had Happy in the can over eight years ago. But the Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 tribute album wasn’t ready to see the light of day considering Jackson’s little boy scandals at the time. Its recent release—years after the scandals and following Jackson’s death—makes it feel more in the context of the music itself and not as much clouded by the personal debacles of “the man in the mirror.”

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“I’ve frozen my assets! I’ve got nothing to give right now.” Or in “Gravity Defied” where smart drumming and curious instrumentation are out-weighed by over-the-top rhyming and a wavering falsetto.

Wolf has a good sound, in general. You hear it in the background and it evokes the aftermath of a breakup perfectly—especially the nostalgic, what-if part.

If you listen too closely, the darker images of planes and rainy gravestones lose their mysterious allure. Maybe its because there are no moments of clear crisis to give the landscape depth. (Erika Fredrickson) Josiah Wolf plays the Palace Tuesday, May 25, at 9 PM with The Orange Shades and Tyson Ballew. $5.

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claiming Missoula as home, they’ve spent more time in the past few years making movies in Havre than making music in the Garden City. Citizens of Great Falls and Bozeman are probably more familiar with this band’s particular genius. That should change. Guitarist Tolan Harber and bassist Samantha Pollington share vocals with the same energy and chemistry that made X the best band in Los Angeles. It comes as no surprise that Harber and Pollington are married, and couple-driven art punk acts like X and Sonic Youth are obvious influences, but the catchiest songs on pica pica also call to mind ’80s alt-pop acts like the B52s. I’m calling this the album of the summer, and I don’t care if you heard it last summer. Listen again. (Ali Gadbow) The Magpies play the Palace Thursday, May 20, at 9 PM with Rooster Sauce and The New Hijackers. $5.

incarceration in order to see his ailing parents. On “Diamonds and Pearls,” he digs his poetic teeth into people who lie, while a morose groove featuring string instruments perfectly complements the dark mood. Other tracks dart between iconoclastic thoughts on religion and politics, to ruminations of his life. It’s all totally absorbing, though it takes awhile to sink in. But it’s worth every minute.

Francis has always been ahead of most in the indie rap pack, but with Li( f )e, he’s in a league of his own.

(Ira Sather-Olson) Sage Francis plays the Palace Wednesday, May 26, at 9 PM with Free Moral Agents and B. Dolan. $15 advance at Ear Candy.

Fulks can be a tough singer-songwriter to wrap your head around. He’s got an exuberant sharp wit that sometimes comes off as sarcastic and, other times, scarily manic. For that reason it’s easy to mistake this album for irony. It’s not. Even when he’s joking around, Fulks doesn’t take covering MJ lightly.

Fulks plays with Motown motifs and dabbles in extremely experimental, avant garde realms—not the most fun tracks to listen to, but intriguing nonetheless.

“Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” is disguised in plucky bluegrass. “The Girl Is Mine” serves as a modern day duet between Fulks and singer Nora O’Connor.

But it’s in songs like “Man in the Mirror”—a gorgeous folk rock interpretation—when Fulks pairs his signature folk oddities with MJ’s laid-bare honesty that Happy really soars. (Erika Fredrickson)

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Off road Therriault’s new book maps Montana oddities

by Erika Fredrickson

Montana road trips often include sidetracks to some obviously curious places: The Berkeley Pit in Butte, for instance, or the Lewis and Clark Caverns in Three Forks. But how about the giant 14-foot purple spoon in East Glacier, or the Miracle of America Museum in Polson, which sports a two-headed calf?

Ednor Therriault (aka Bob Wire), local blogger, musician and occasional writer for the Indy, logged 8,000 miles in six months to dig up the weirdest places and happenings across the state for his recently published book, Montana Curiosities: Quirky characters, roadside oddities and other offbeat stuff. We spoke with Therriault about the story behind the book, mutated animals and running on fumes.

Therriault: Probably the single most interesting character is Chuck Ringer, an artist in Joliet. His Ski God is the subject of the book’s entry, but I got to tour his studio and look at everything he’s been working on. The man is truly out there, living the bohemian life and making a good income. I was jealous. He’s built a lifesized spaceship, complete with aliens. The spaceship looks pretty wild, but the aliens are right on the money.

He and I both have a dog named Houdini.

Indy: Anyone else?

Therriault: There was Tony Brown, former mayor of Troy, owner of the Club Bar there. Once traded the back bar for a Mercedes. He’s a world-class raconteur, and he’s currently running for Indy: How did you end up county commissioner, on on this quest? the platform of sending all Therriault: My family took a women to nursing school. three-week cross-country His chapter didn’t make the trip because I’ve always cut, but I had a wild night wanted to do that old-school with him in Troy. Also, sevNational Lampoon vacation, eral local characters blew pile-in-the-station-wagon my wig back with their thing. We drove to North crazy personalities and wild Carolina and back. We saw A two-headed calf at the Stockett Bar in stories. Some of them gravestones and eight Stockett, Mont., is one of the many oddi- include Larry Evans, Uncle national parks and all the ties featured in Ednor Therriault’s B i l l S t o i a n o f f, B r u c e tourist stuff. But we also saw Montana Curiosities.

Micklus, Tom Webster, Eric the world’s biggest bottle of ketchup and goofy stuff “Fingers” Ray, Preston Miller and Dave Chappell. like that. So I wrote this series for my New West blog about the trip. Then I get an e-mail about writing a Indy: What unexpected things happened to you in book from Allen Jones from Globe Pequot who used to your travels? be the books editor at New West.

Therriault: I started seeing signs near Great Falls for a “fart show.” I was really intrigued, but then I realized— Indy: What were some of the most surprising curiosi- when I put on my glasses—that the signs were indicatties you found? ing Fort Shaw. Also, I recently saw the D River in Therriault: There was the bear park in West Glacier. I Lincoln City, Oregon. That’s the one that issued a chalwas expecting something zoo-like, but not quite so lenge to the Guinness Book of World Records, claiming phony. It was just like Jurassic Park with the electric to be shorter than the Roe River in Great Falls. The D fence going around and the big concrete pond the River is nothing but a bulldozed ditch that connects bears hang out in. And the bears might as well be gold- Devil’s Lake to the Pacific, and collects trash and diesel en retrievers. The lady in the booth was more threaten- fuel. I piss on the D River. ing than the bears.

Indy: Anything bad happen?

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In a notorious 2005 essay on Ben Stiller, New of men. Stiller’s wank-in-the-bank maneuver before his Yorker critic David Denby described the actor as “the date with Cameron Diaz in There’s Something About latest, and crudest, version of the urban Jewish male on Mary represents an especially shocking onscreen the make,” citing Woody Allen and Richard Dreyfus as breach of the Sixth Brommandment: “Thou shalt not antecedents. With a sort of Pyrrhic determination to strippeth male sexuality of its mystery nor admitteth of ruin his remaining credibility, he goes on to disparage premature ejaculation.”

But it all contributes to a likeably annoying, if Stiller’s facial features, his comedian parents and comes within a whisker of saying outright that Jews sometimes overly ingratiating, but also gently self-depshouldn’t pursue blond women. He’s right about one recating comic presence. In his more serious roles, thing: We do like Ben Stiller to be neurotic and uncom- though—and he’s got a juicy one in Greenberg, directfortable in his comedy, whether that’s a Jewish thing or ed by Noah Baumbach—it’s hard to get past Stiller’s not. A lot of his comedy derives from painful attempts hyper self-awareness. You simply think, “So that’s what to fit in—at parties, with his WASP-y in-laws, with the he acts like when he’s trying not to be himself.” And cool crowd. There’s that great scene in Meet the Parents sometimes the material lets him down, even when it’s where Focker is trying to act cool with his girlfriend’s teenage brother, and the best he can muster is a hilariously irrelevant “Noooo doubt” that only shows how fossilized in some possibly imagined personal cool phase his idea of cool really is.

We all know the awkwardness of fumbling through a “cool” handshake and mispronouncing shibboleths in cool company, if not getting caught in a lie about milking a cat. This is what makes Stiller so eminently relatable as a comic actor: We can see our best intentions and our most pathetic tenRocky mountain oysters? Sounds exotic. dencies in his weaselly efforts to join the crowd, to be liked, in his stereotypical wimpiness, written by longtime friends and collaborators. The Royal Tenenbaums had Stiller trapped between comehis disseminating and occasional outright cowardice.

Or at least we men can, and the warier among us dy and drama, and Wes Anderson-style drama to boot, sometimes feel as though Stiller, like Jud Apatow, is sell- which is to say drama with nothing really at stake. ing the secrets of men to the highest bidder. Ever since Nowhere to go: pacing in his cage like Rilke’s panther There’s Something About Mary, there’s been a New in a red tracksuit.

Frequent collaborators Baumbach and Anderson Male Realism to comedy dialogue, and one fears that giving away too many secrets of men will hasten our have a lot in common, namely a fixation on hyper-articdownfall by supplying the very blueprints for the female ulate but terminally self-absorbed characters. But they differ decisively on the matter of sex. In Anderson’s rarsiege and investiture of our last few male outposts.

Which, one hastens to add, get fewer all the time efied world sex exists only in dialogue, where some as one drifts farther from the male brorbit of one’s misapprehension about it is generally presented as the twenties and into the universe of fatherhood, with crudest evidence of intellectual precociousness ever less free time and ever more responsibility. This matched by lack of adult experience in characters like adds a certain harsh taste of the real to Stiller’s recent Rushmore’s Max Fisher. Among Baumbach’s movies modern-dad roles, in which his portrayal of the sex is sudden and graphic, but at the same time clumEvolved Father cowering on the shrinking preserve of sy, depressing and equally irrelevant.

In Greenberg, Stiller plays an irritable house-sitter his former freedom resonates with the suppressed feelings all fathers surely have, whether they admit it with unresolvable feelings for his brother’s personal or not, of feeling locked in—trapped. Not long ago, a assistant (a wonderful Greta Gerwig). There’s more to (married, Swedish) friend of mine suggested that the movie than that, but not much: Greenberg is Swedish women, having domesticated Swedish men almost entirely character-driven, and for once it’s the so successfully, are tired of them and craving the old few moments of broad humor instead of calculated excitement of male chauvinism. Looking around at my seriousness that seem tacked-on. The scene where old bandmates and drinking buddies now slung with Stiller’s Greenberg snorts cocaine with a roomful of diaper bags and baby carriers, I sometimes fear for young people like his future brother-in-law in Meet the Parents is funny, but having discovered this new America as well.

When I say outposts of maledom, though, I’m not Stiller—and his performance in Greenberg is a quiet talking about half-assed parenting, nor do I mean sort of revelation—we find ourselves wishing the old exclusive fraternities and good-ol-boy networks. I’m one would take the old schtick elsewhere.

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with a marriage that’s going stale. In an attempt to inject a little spice into their lives Carrell decides to take Fey to an upscale restaurant, only to find out they’ve become the targets of some seriously corrupt cops. Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:20, 7 and 9:30.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25, 4, 6:50

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:15 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 6:10, 7:10 and 9:10 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 1:45, 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:45 and 9:35. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 6:50 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.-Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:15.

JUST WRIGHT Queen Latifah keeps it real as a physical therapist who can’t find a guy who wants to be more than just buddies. That might change after rapper Common—who’s a pro b-baller—blows out his knee and counts on Latifah to be his queen of recovery. Carmike 10: 1:45, 4:15, 7:10 and 9:40.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.-Sun. at 4:40 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 4:15 and 9:20.

LETTERS TO JULIET Amanda Seyfried tours the Italian town where Romeo and Juliet is set, and happens to stumble across a group of people who answer love letters left on a wall for Juliet. For some reason, she decides to join in on the action—and in the process, Seyfried helps Vanessa Redgrave hook up with her long lost Italian stallion, and ignites her own flame with Christopher Egan. Carmike 10: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20 and 9:50. Village 6: 4:20, 7 and 9:30 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

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 12:45, 3:20, 6:40 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:20, 6:40 and 9:15. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

OCEANS Narrator Pierce Brosnan helps you dive deep into this documentary that utilizes spellbinding cinematography to chronicle Earth’s oceans and its inhabitants. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:35, 2:40 and 7:15 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30 and 7:15.

“This town isn’t big enough for the both of our hairstyles.” MacGruber opens Friday at the Village 6.

MACGRUBER Will Forte, his mullet and his deadly extremities come out of retirement after a nuke happy Val Kilmer steals a warhead and threatens to flush humanity—Washington D.C., to be exact—down the toilet. Village 6: 5:30, 7:45 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 and 9:30.

SHREK: THE FINAL CHAPTER Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy get CGI and 3-D treatment as voiceovers in the final installment of this series that finds Shrek navigating a puzzling world after making a bum deal with Rumpelstiltskin. Carmike 10: 1:15, 1:45, 2:10, 3:45, 4:30, 4:45, 6:15, 6:50, 7:30, 8:45, 9:15 and 9:55. Village 6 in 2-D: 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at noon and 2:25.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.-Sun. at noon, 12:30, 1, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 7:30, 8, 8:30 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10, 10:30 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 1:30, 2, 3:30, 4, 4:30, 6, 7, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 and 9:45. Mountain

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ured face and all, as he revels in terrorizing a gaggle of Elm Street residents—including Kyle Gallner and Katie Cassidy—in their dreams, and eventually, in reality. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 9:45 only with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

and 9 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

THE BACK-UP PLAN Jennifer Lopez is eager to settle down and have kids but can’t seem to find the right dude to be her mate, so she opts to get preggers via artificial insemination. Oddly enough, the day the procedure occurs is also when she meets Alex O’Loughlin—a single guy who just might make the cut as a baby’s daddy. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:20 and 7:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON This 3-D animated flick follows Hiccup, a scrawny Viking teen who was brought up to mercilessly slay dragons. But things change when he befriends a “different” dragon that makes him realize they aren’t so evil after all. Carmike 10 in 2-D: 1:30, 4:15 and 7:05. Village 6 in 2-D: 4:30 and 7:30 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:30, 3:55, 6:35 and 8:55.

CLASH OF THE TITANS Sam Worthington (Perseus), the Greek warrior and son of Liam Neeson (Zeus) decides to wage battle against demons and freakish beasts in his quest to defeat the hellraising ways of Ralph Fiennes (Hades). Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:15, 4:05, 6:45 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

DATE NIGHT Steve Carrell and Tina Fey are suburbanite parents

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Greenberg Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7 and 9, with no shows Fri. and Sat., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

IRON MAN 2 Robert Downey Jr. returns as Iron Man, the wellliked industrialist with a few metallic tricks up his sleeve. This time around, however, Downey Jr.’s got the government pleading for his technological secrets, and dudes like Mickey Rourke after his head. Carmike 10: 1:15, 1:45, 4:10, 4:35, 7, 7:30 and 9:50. Village 6: 4:10, 7 and 9:50 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:15.

ROBIN HOOD Arrows soar and a despotic sheriff gets his just deserts in this adaptation of the classic tale that features Russell Crowe as Robin Hood, and Matthew MacFadyen as the oh so corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham. Carmike 10: 12:30, 3:40, 7 and 10:05. Village 6: 7 and 10:05 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 12:30 and 3:40. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 1:05, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:25 and 9:25 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:30 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:25 and 9:25. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 6:45 and 9:20.

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There’s much sneering about game playing as a form of deception, but it’s more of a social intelligence test—a way of signaling people that you’re worth having or hiring. In a job interview, it probably means showing up in a dress and heels instead of your bra and underwear and clown shoes. In dating, “playing a game of letting the man call” is how you avoid playing the game of begging him to call after he loses interest. You know this, but you diss game playing to give yourself a pass to do what you know doesn’t work, but works for you in the moment: throwing your-

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This hoohah about who you supposedly were to him in a past life only helps distract you from how you keep coming back in this one: as a bug under a man’s shoe. Do the work to fill the empty places in yourself so you won’t continue these desperate attempts to plug them with a boyfriend. Only when you’re okay alone are you fit to start looking for company. At that point, “playing the game” will come naturally. You won’t have guys calling at the last minute because you’ll seem like a girl who’d be busy—too busy having self-respect to make like Domino’s and have yourself delivered. Forget whether a guy’s into astrology; it’s whether you have dignity that determines your fate with him—not the fact that you were both born when Capricorn was in 7-Eleven.

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Summit Health is looking for medical professionals to do health screenings in Missoula Montana. MA’s $15 Phlebotomist $19 LPN $22 RN $25. Call Apryl at 248-4161613 or email your resume to aroberson@summithealth.com.

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Eternal Springs, a new healing center opening this month in Missoula, is looking for instructors for a wide variety of classes. We have 1000 sq. feet of space in a great location downtown, next to the Higgins bridge.

The center is a collective of individuals who want to work together as a team in a business with a soul.

Classes are registered through the center; you will be an independent contractor.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): All of us have gaps in our education. You and I and everyone else alive have dank pockets of ignorance that diminish our humanity and musty pits of naivete that prevent us from seeing truths that are obvious to others. We all lack certain skills that hold us back from being more fulfilled in our chosen fields. That’s the bad news, Aries. The good news is that the gaps in your education will be up for review in the coming weeks—which means that it’ll be an excellent time to make plans to fill them. Here’s a good way to get started: Be aggressive in identifying the things that you don’t even know you don’t know.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You don’t have to answer to anybody this week, Taurus. You don’t have to defend yourself, explain yourself, or compromise yourself. I mean, you can do those things if you want to be super extra nice, but there won’t be any hell to pay if you don’t. It’s one of those rare times when you have more power than usual to shape the world in accordance with your vision of what the world should be. I’ll go so far as to say that the world needs you to be very assertive in imposing your will on the flow of events. Just one caveat: Mix a generous dose of compassion in with your authoritative actions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When Paul McCartney first got the inspiration to write the song “Yesterday,” he had the melody and rhythm but couldn’t get a feel for what the lyrics should be.

For a while, as he was waiting for the missing words to pop into his brain, he used nonsense stand-in phrases. The dummy version of the first line was “Scrambled eggs, oh my dear, you have such lovely legs.” This approach could be useful for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. As you create a fresh approach or novel departure in your own life, you might want to show the patience McCartney did. Be willing to keep moving ahead even though you don’t have the full revelation quite yet.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suspect you’re going to feel a bit constrained in the coming weeks, Cancerian—maybe even imprisoned. I suggest you make the best of it. Rather than feeling sorry for yourself and spiraling down into a dark night of the soul, try this: Imagine that you’re a resourceful hermit who’s temporarily under house arrest in an elegant chalet with all the amenities.

Regard this “incarceration” as a chance to start work on a masterpiece, or upgrade your meditation practice, or read a book you’ve needed an excuse to lose yourself in. Believe it or not, your “deprivation” could be one of the best things that has happened to you in a while.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I won’t be surprised if people begin to compete for your attention.

There may even be some pushing and shoving as they jostle to get closer to you. At the very least, you can expect a flurry of requests for your time and energy. What’s this all about? Well, your worth seems to be rising. Either your usefulness is flat-out increasing or else those who’ve underestimated you in the past are finally tuning in to what they’ve been missing. So here’s my question and concern: Will you get so seduced by what everyone asks you to give them that you lose sight of what you really want to give them? I suspect there will be a difference.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m not saying that you should create a superhero identity for yourself and embark on a campaign to combat injustice. But if you’ve ever wondered whether the life of a costumed crusader is right for you, it’s an excellent time to experiment. Your courage will be expanding in the coming weeks. Your craving for adventure will be strong, too. Even more importantly, your hunger to do good deeds that reach beyond your own self-interest will be growing. Interested?

Check out the Superhero Supply website to get yourself operational. It’s at www.superherosupplies.com.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): All 26 of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories about Tarzan are set in Africa, but he never once visited that continent. And Bram Stoker didn’t feel the need to travel to the Transylvanian region of Romania in order to write about it in his novel Dracula. But I don’t recommend this approach to you in the coming weeks, Libra. If you want to cultivate something new in your life by drawing on an exotic influence, I think you should immerse yourself in that exotic influence, at least for a while. If you want to tap into the inspiration available through an unfamiliar source, you need to actually be in the presence of that unfamiliar source.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Why would you choose this bright, sunny moment to descend into the dark places and explore the fermenting mysteries? What renegade impulse would move you to turn away from the predictable pleasures and easy solutions, and instead go off in quest of more complex joys and wilder answers? Here’s what I have to say about that: I think you long to be free of transitory wishes and fleeting dreams for a while so that you can get back into alignment with your deeper purposes. You need to take a break from the simple obsessions of your grayish, poker-faced ego, and re-attune yourself to the call of your freaky, evergreen soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sufi holy man Ibn ‘Ata Allah was speaking about prayer when he said the following: “If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.” While I don’t claim to be able to perfectly decipher the will of the divine, my astrological research suggests that you will soon get a definitive answer to a question you’ve been asking for a long time. It may come softly and quietly, though, and from a direction you don’t expect, and with a nuance or two that’ll test your reflexes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Is Fast Food Too Tempting?” read a headline in The Week magazine. The accompanying article discussed whether people have the right to blame and even sue McDonald’s and Burger King for their health problems. In my opinion, we might as well add other allegedly appealing poisons to the discussion. “Is heroin too tempting?” “Is cheating on your lover or spouse too tempting?” “Is watching TV five hours a day too tempting?” I hope you’re seeing where I’m going with this, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be a good time to take personal responsibility for any supposedly fun activity you’re doing that warps your character or saps your energy. It’s prime time to end your relationship with stuff that’s bad for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The mind loves order, the heart loves chaos, and the gut loves action,” says my astrological colleague Antero Alli. The ideal situation is to honor each of these needs, keeping them in a dynamic balance. But now and then, it’s healthy to emphasize one over the other two. According to my astrological analysis, you’re entering one of those times when the heart’s longing for chaos should get top priority. But if you do choose to go this way, please promise me one thing: Do your best to tilt toward the fascinating, rejuvenating kind of chaos and tilt away from the disorienting, demoralizing kind.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When people are truly dehydrated, the impulse that tells them they’re thirsty shuts down. That’s why they may not know they’re suffering from a lack of water.

In a metaphorically similar way, Pisces, you have been deprived so long of a certain kind of emotional sustenance that you don’t realize what you’re missing. See if you can find out what it is, and then make measured (non-desperate!) plans to get a big, strong influx of it. The cosmic rhythms will be on your side in this effort!

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

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, HEREBY NOTIFIES MISSOULA COUNTY TAX PAYERS THAT THE FIRST HALF OF 2010 MOBILE HOME TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON JUNE 30, 2010. UNLESS 2010 TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME, THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT, WILL ACCRUE INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH AND WILL BE ASSESSED A 2% PENALTY FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID, ,.IF YOU INTEND TO PROTEST YOUR TAXES, YOU MUST MAKE PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE AND MUST INCLUDE A LETTER OF PROTEST WITH YOUR PAYMENT. THE LETTER OF PROTEST MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, PROPERTY DESCRIPTION, GROUNDS FOR PROTEST AND THE AMOUNT YOU ARE PROTESTING PURSUANT TO MCA § 15-1-402. /s/ VICKIE M. ZEIER MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT BITTERROOT VALLEY BANK d/b/a CLARK FORK VALLEY BANK, Plaintiff, vs. BLAIR A. GUEST and CLINT CALDWELL, Defendants, And BLAIR A. GUEST, Counterclaimant, vs. BITTERROOT VALLEY BANK d/b/a CLARK FORK VALLEY BANK, Counter–Defendant. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 10th day of June A.D., 2010, at Ten o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 5156 located in the Southwest one-quarter of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

TOGETHER WITH Ingress and Egress over the existing private road and utility easement as found in Memorandum of Private Utility and Road Easements recorded in Book 627

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Micro Records, Page 1948. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 20th day of May A.D., 2010. /s/ MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN, Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Invitation To Bid Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808, until 10:00 am., Tuesday, June 16, 2010, at which time bids will be opened and read in the Public Works Conference Room for the purpose of constructing a walkway and bicycle path, approximately 0.7 miles in length, adjacent to Riverview Road near Seeley Lake Montana, from Hwy 83 to tie into the first bridge. The project will involve earthwork excavation and embankment, crushed sub-base and base rock, asphalt surfacing, topsoil and seeding. All work is to be performed in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and plans and specifications on file in the Office of the Bids Department, Missoula County Public Works Office, Missoula, Montana and shall be performed under the supervision of the CTEP Liason or his designated representative. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Office of Public Works at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana.

THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE

REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for work on Riverview Road Path – Seeley Lake, Control Number 5906 SOLICITATION NO. 1006-01” and addressed to: Missoula County Bids Department, Missoula County Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT LEGALADVERTISEMENT Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, in the City of Missoula, Montana until 10:00 A.M., June 3, 2010, at which time bids will be opened and read in the conference room, for the purpose of providing 3500 (three thousand five hundred) cubic yards of 3/4 inch minus crushed gravel and 7000 (seven thousand) cubic yards of 3 inch minus crushed gravel. All work is to be performed in accordance with the specifications on file in the Public Works Department, and shall be performed under the supervision of the County Engineer or his designated representative. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula Montana, 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana.

THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Bid for 3/4” and 3” Crushed Gravel” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. June 3, 2010 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County Public Works, for the purpose of purchasing of Ten Thousand Five Hundred (10,500) Tons of 3/4” Asphaltic Plant Mix.. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808.. A performance bond will be required.. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the contract.. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids.. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Asphaltic Plant Mix – 2010” and addressed to: Public Works Division 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 By order of the Board of County Commissioners this 17th Day of May, 2010 /s/ Greg Robertson Director of Public Works MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Missoula and the Missoula County Commissioners will hold a joint public hearing on Monday, June 7, 2010 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on a proposal to contribute $25,000 towards the Bonner School District purchase of a 102 acre parcel for open space purposes using proceeds from the 2006 Open Space Bond. The parcel is located east of and adjacent to the Bonner School, known as the Bonner Hill, Missoula County, MT. For further information contact Jackie Corday, at 552-6267. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of hearing. Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. If anyone attending this meeting needs special

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PUBLIC NOTICES assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 552-6078. The City of Missoula will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula County Tax Appeal Board will be in session from July 1 through December 31,2010 for the business of hearing appeals. Any taxpayer who disagrees with the appraised value may file an appeal with the Missoula County Tax Appeal Board on or before the first Monday in June or 30 days from the receipt of the Notice of Classification, or Notice to Change Valuation (assessment notice), whichever is later. It is possible that not all taxpayers will receive an assessment notice. If you have not received a notice of classification and appraisal, consider the first Monday in June as the deadline to file an appeal. Appeal forms are available at the Department of Revenue’s Office, 2681 Palmer, Suite I, Missoula, 59808 or you can download the form from www.mt.gov/doa/stab. Appeals must be submitted to the Missoula County Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Missoula County Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONALD L. BUNCH, Deceased. Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-58 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DONALD L. BUNCH, JR., 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 May,, 2010. Donald L. Bunch, Jr., Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause No. DA-10-28 NOTICE OF HEARING TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS AND AWARD OF TEMPORARY CUSTODY IN RE THE ADOPTION OF E.J.G., a Minor Child.

NOTICE is hereby given that Petitioners, Steven and Nicole Mott, have filed a petition with this Court to terminate the parental rights

of Katie Irene Garding, a U.S. citizen and Gonzalez Garcia, a citizen of Mexico, to the minor child, E.J.G. born on May 9, 2010, at Community Medical Center in Missoula, Montana and award temporary custody to the Petitioners. NOW, therefore, notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the matter that a hearing on the petition will be held at the Courthouse in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, on June 10, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in the above-named Court at which time objections to said Petition will be heard. DATED this 17th day of May, 2010. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Linda Osorio St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-10-67 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN G. BACKER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James E. Florin, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 12th day of May, 2010. /s/ James E. Florin, Personal Reprsentative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-10-653 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Tate Aaron Presser, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Tate Aaron Presser to Tate Aaron Etches.

The hearing will be on June 16, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: May 13, 2010 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court (SEAL) By: Bobbi Hainlline, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-10-49 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ADA M. STEVENS, a/k/a Ada Mae Stevens, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Robin L. Poire has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent, Ada M. Stevens, 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 Robin L. Poire, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o John Spangler Law Offices, P.O. Box 567, Superior, Montana, 59872, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 30th day of April, 2010. /s/ Robin L. Poire, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY

Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-10-55 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LARRY K. HALDER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Bonnie Halder, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 30th day of April, 2010. /s/ Bonnie Halder, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-10-54 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT J. HEINLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lisa M. Heinle 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 be mailed to Lisa M. Heinle, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 818 West Central Avenue, Ste. 1, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of May, 2010. CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE /s/ Kyle D. Cunningham, Attorney for Personal Representative, Lisa M. Heinle MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-10-649 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF SCOTT GARNER MCDONALD, TO CHANGE HIS NAME TO SCOTT GARNER COONEY. Notice is hereby given that Petitioner, Scott Garner McDonald, has filed a petition with this Court for permission to change his name from Scott Garner McDonald to Scott Garner Cooney.

NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given to all persons interested in the matter that a hearing on the petition will be held at the courthouse in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, on the 22nd day of June, 2010 at 1:30 p.m., at which time objections to the petition will be heard. Any person desiring to object to the granting of the petition may do so by filing said objection in writing with the clerk of said court no later than the time set for hearing. DATED this 13th day of May, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Cour (SEAL) By: Angela M. Phillips, Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/17/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200612400, Bk 775, Pg 363, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John M. Brazier III a married man as

his sole and separate estate 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: Tract A8-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 2534 located in the Southwest one-quarter of Section 10, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Bk 841, Pg 732, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to E*Trade Bank. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 25, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $637,863.25. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $565,000.00, 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 August 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.04078) 1002.125866-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/08/99, recorded as Instrument No. BK 568, PG 2221, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Richard A. Sandefur and Wendy L. Sandefur, husband and wife was Grantor, North America Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 of Huson Heights, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200704460, Book 792 Page 735, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 22, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $109,117.42. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $98,623.37, 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 August 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed

at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.06728) 1002.135536-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/03/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200425691, Bk 739, Pg 669, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark A. Bennett and Mona L. Bennett was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for WMC Mortgage Corp. was Beneficiary and Mark E. Noennig was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Mark E. Noennig as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 8A of Certificate of Survey No. 3277, a tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 8, Township 13 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for ACE Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust Series 2004-HE3 Asset Backed PassThrough Certificates. 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 appli-

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 40. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting May 24, 2010 by appt only by calling 541-7919.

Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to May 27, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

cable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 25, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $121,782.69. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $118,640.71, 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 August 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and except-

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 45, 147, 227, 278, 336, 480, and 568.

Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, May 24, 2010 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Thursday, May 27, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All sales are final.

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

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.12440) 1002.151964-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/14/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200724009, Bk 805, Pg 1015, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael C. Coulter, a married 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 13 in Block 1 of Linda Vista Ninth Supplement, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 20 of Plats at Page 56. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 1, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $330,547.70. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $315,316.69, 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 August 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# 7023.71878) 1002.152790-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/14/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200309749, Bk. 701, Pg. 1527, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Debra A. Gesel and Martin A. Gesel, wife and husband was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Webster Bank was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Co. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Co. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 13-A in Parcel ‘D’ of Hillside Homes No. 1, Supplemental Plat ‘A’, 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 Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because

of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 3, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $128,632.49.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $123,069.39, 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 August 11, 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# 7037.05511) 1002.152904-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/15/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803721, Bk 813, pg 816, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Camson N. Adenuga, 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: Unit E-4 of Grandvue Village, according to the Declaration under the Unit Ownership Act recorded as Document No. 443148 on March 27, 1979, located on Lots 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Block 2, Hillside Homes No. 1, according to the official plat thereof as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana.

Together with an undivided 1/20 interest in the common elements appertaining to the above described unit and the limited common elements appurtenant thereto as set forth in the Declaration. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 30, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $143,015.83.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $139,268.44, 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 August 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

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are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.72609) 1002.152802-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/08/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200613760, Book 776, Page 568, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Lindsey Doe, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 44A of Cook’s Addition, Block 1, Lots 40 through 45, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 5, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $153,448.28.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $136,231.84, 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 July 15, 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# 7023.01566) 1002.114050-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 19, 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 22 of Williams Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

GLEN BAUER, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to David R Chisholm, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to U. S. Bank N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated March 14, 2003 and Recorded March 19, 2003 under Document # 200309251 Bk-701, Pg1029. The beneficial interest is currently held

by US Bank, NA. 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 $710.03, beginning September 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 February 22, 2010 is $87,015.01 principal, interest at the rate of 5.95% now totaling $2,886.58, late charges in the amount of $171.72, escrow advances of $434.08, and other fees and expenses advanced of $119.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.18 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described prop-

erty 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: March 10, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On March 10, 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3572308 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 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 and 8 in Block G of Car Line Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat hereof. Robert Gee, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 10, 2006 and recorded April 18, 2006 in Book 772, Page 1922 under Document No. 200608673. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $832.49, beginning May 11, 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 February 9, 2010 is $159,837.67 principal, interest at the rate of 6.2500% now totaling $3,548.92, late charges in the amount of $374.58, escrow advances of $1,680.84, suspense balance of $-610.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,359.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an 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 bank-

ruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 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: THE WEST 60 FEET OF THE EAST 187 _ FEET OF THE NORTH ONEHALF OF BLOCK 10 IN HOMEVALE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS AT PAGE 35. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 228 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1805. Mona L Munson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American Home Mortgage Acceptance, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 06, 2005 and Recorded on April 11, 2005 under Document # 200508158. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2005-2, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2005-2.

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 $1,610.30, beginning October 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 January 27, 2010 is $251,650.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.125% now totaling $6,278.02, late charges in the amount of $128.44 and other fees and expenses advanced of $150.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.23 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 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.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 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 6 of Spring Hills Addition No. 6, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof KAREL A MORALES, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 8, 2007 and Recorded in Book 799, Page 329 under Document No. 200714796. The beneficial interest is currently held by MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife 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 $1,636.58, 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 March 01, 2010 is $232,944.24 principal, interest at the rate of 6.8750% now totaling $10,676.64, late charges

PUBLIC NOTICES in the amount of $520.42, escrow advances of $1,015.06, and other fees and expenses advanced of $262.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $44.49 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 AIM ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 12, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 12, 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 ASAP# 3572196 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 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 11 OF RAVENWOOD HILLS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Jon G. Kearns and Marlies P. Borchers, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 04, 2008 and Recorded on September 10, 2008 under Document # 200821009, in Bk-826, Pg-193. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,318.00, beginning October 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 March 1, 2010 is $291,578.88 principal, interest at the rate of 6.0% now totaling $8,723.95, late charges in the amount of $741.76 and other fees and expenses advanced of $520.24, plus accruing interest at the rate of $47.93 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 lim-

itation, 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: March 12, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On March 12, 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 ASAP# 3572205 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 1 OF SUNSET WEST, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MOUNTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ROBERT E ERBAUGH, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community BankMissoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 21, 2005 and recorded on March 25, 2005 in BK-749 pg-1020, document # 200506666. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc..

Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $837.91, beginning November 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 9, 2010 is $100,271.02 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $2,583.67, late charges in the amount of $126.56, escrow advances of $298.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $20.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.14 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. IN INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE Dated March 12, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 12, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and

SERVICES 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 ASAP# 3572218 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010, 06/03/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 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: Tract 4-A of Certificate of Survey No. 1692, located in the Northeast quarter (NE1/4) of Section 21, Township 19 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Daniel J Martin and M Katherine Stillwell-Martin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 9, 2006 and recorded on March 10, 2006 at 4:16 o’clock P.M., in Book 770, Page 434, under Document No. 200605440. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank, National Association as trustee for WAMU Mortgage Pass Through Certificate for WMALT Series 2006-5 Trust. 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 $1174.10, beginning July 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 January 27, 2010 is $155,293.02 principal, interest at the rate of 7.50% now totaling $7,655.62, late charges in the amount of $339.71, escrow advances of $1,064.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $112.95, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.91 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: February 8, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3531702 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010, 05/27/2010

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 28, 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: Certificate of Survey No. 224A, a tract of land located in and being a portion of Lot 27 of DINSMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES NO. 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof STEPHANIE KIMMI KUCERA AND TROY SCOTT KUCERA, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 10, 2007 and Recorded January 16, 2007 in Book 790, Page 780, under Document No. 200701242. The beneficial interest is currently held by US BANK, NA. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,094.68, 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 February 28, 2010 is $279,761.56 principal, interest at the rate of 6.7500% now totaling $12,412.52, late charges in the amount of $562.32, escrow advances of $1,140.14 and other fees and expenses advanced of $239.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $51.74 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: February 17, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 2/17/10, 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. NICOLE SCHAFER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 3/28/11 ASAP# 3544049 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 28, 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: TAX PARCEL NUMBER: 3186005 LAND SITUATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA LOT 4 IN BLOCK 7 OF

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PUBLIC NOTICES MULLAN TRAIL-PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. John Fillner, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 29, 2005 and Recorded on October 06, 2005 under Document # 200526390, in Bk-761, Pg-1160.

The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank, FSB. 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 $1,357.42, beginning October 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 obliga-

tion as of March 1, 2010 is $176,635.75 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $5,188.68, late charges in the amount of $230.72, escrow advances of $244.79, and other fees and expenses advanced of $159.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.43 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: February 17, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On February 17, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3544112 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 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 12 OF RAVENWOOD HILLS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Brandon M Dwyer and Pamela A Dwyer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 26, 2006 and Recorded on July 31, 2006 under Document # 200619107, in Bk-779, Pg1598. The beneficial interest is currently held

by Citibank, N.A. as Trustee for American Home Mortgage Assets Trust 2006-4 Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-4. 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 $1473.61, 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 March 1, 2010 is $416,646.42 principal, interest at the rate of 4.21% now totaling $10,471.32, late charges in the amount of $529.28, escrow advances of $977.30 and other fees and expenses advanced of $130.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.89 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 obliga-

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Neighborhoods Matter The Missoula Organization of REALTORS® has recently launched a new LiveMissoula! website that is a “Celebration of Neighborhoods.” Great communities are made up of great neighborhoods. There is a lot to celebrate in Missoula’s neighborhoods. They are diverse and unique and all contribute to the fabric of the community and the lifestyles of the people who live there.

So it is not surprising, then, that short sales and foreclosures are topics of discussion. “Distressed sales,” as they are sometimes described, can impact a neighborhood if the home is vacant, uncared for or, worse, vandalized before a transaction can take place. Besides all of the usual decisions and emotions involved in any transaction, sellers who may be faced with the possibility of a distressed sale have the added burden of understanding the intricacies of these special circumstances: • When is a short sale preferable over foreclosure?

• What happens with a short sale or foreclosure if there is a second mortgage?

• How does the market information in different neighborhoods, and in different price ranges, serve as a guide for making decisions?

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There can be a lot of confusion about rules and interpretations. To make matters even more challenging, what was true about lending yesterday, or even earlier today, may have already changed. But there are resources to help. The Missoula Organization of REALTORS® has conducted several training sessions on short sales. Lenders are able to track the changes every day and analyze each individual situation for the best financing option. If ever there was a time to enlist the assistance of a professional in all aspects of the transaction, a potential short sale or foreclosure is the time.

True, foreclosures and short sales are not as prevalent in the Missoula market as they are in some places in the country with foreclosures accounting for less than 1% of the total sales in 2009. The fact that the median price has held fairly steady and the days on market have not significantly increased overall indicates that there is still a healthy market outside of short sales and foreclosures. But as one member described it, it’s a beauty contest out there. The most successful sellers are the ones who offer a property that has been well-maintained, that is priced right, and that maximizes the features that are attractive to buyers. That brings us back to neighborhoods.

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PUBLIC NOTICES tion 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: 2/19/10 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 2/19/10, 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. NICOLE SCHAFER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 3/28/11 ASAP# 3544808 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of

Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 3 of Certificate of Survey No. 2876. Less and excepting all that portion conveyed to the Montana Department of Transportation in Bargain and Sale Deed recorded May 8, 1997 in Book 504 of Micro at Page 906. Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 827, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1390, Document No. 200921945, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exer-

cised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1 ,450 ,000 .00, plus interest at the prime rate of interest, totaling $208, 256. 25, for a total amount due of $1 ,658 ,256 .25 as of April 27, 2010, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 28th day of April, 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss .County of Missoula On this 28th day of May, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 (SEAL)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:15 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 1A of Certificate of Survey No. 2002..

Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 826, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1391, Document No. 200921946, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due.. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exer-

cised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1 ,450 ,000 .00, plus interest at the prime rate of interest, totaling $208 ,256. 25, for a total amount due of $1 ,658, 256. 25 as of April 27, 2010, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice.. DATED 28th day of April 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss .County of Missoula On this 28th day of April, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written... /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 (SEAL)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:30 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 888, being a portion of the Southwest Quarter of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 828, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1392, Document No. 200921947, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exer-

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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 5 acres & a 4 bedroom home on a branch of the Clark Fork on Third Street minutes from downtown! .

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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.

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MLS#903596. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 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 NORTHSIDE BUNGALOW WITH A GARAGE/SHOP. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, great location close to Downtown, large fenced back yard, and much more. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com NORTHSIDE DUPLEX IN A GREAT LOCATION. 2 Bdr/1 Bath/1 Bonus on main level + 1 Bdr/1 Bath/1 Bonus on 2nd floor, 2 lots, fenced yard, off-street parking, zoned multi-family. $150,000.

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Older Home with Vintage charm in wildly sought after Missoula neighborhood. 3 bdrm, 2 bth, beautiful floors. This charmer has incredible possibilities. 321 Tremont 3278787 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 Price Reduced—Buyer’s Incentive....call for details!!! 3 Bd/ 2 Bth home w/ open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, views of Bitterroots. 1 Mile S. of Florence, views all around. Porch swing. Hot tub, and storage shed are all included. 333 Martin Lane. $239,000 MLS# 10000160 Joy Earls@windermere.com 531-9811 PRICE REDUCED! 3 bed 2 bath townhouse West Missoula.

ONLY $159,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906 Really cute craftsman style, 3Bdr, 1Ba home priced to sell. This home has all the charm of the 20s and original floors. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great room, open floor plan, double garage, unobstructed views of the Bitterroot Mountains, great yard. $219,900.

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SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walk-in closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $184,900. Prudential Montana.

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