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nside Cover Story Whatever pleasures await the coldwater swimmer—and they are incomparable, even, at times, transcendent—reaching them entails a certain amount of discomfort. Every swim begins with a double leap—the physical act of plunging into the Cover photo by Michael Darter water, the mental act of deliberately submitting to pain. Edwin Dobb, 60, takes that double leap regularly...............................................................................................14

News Letters Gulf oil spill and Tester’s forest bill ..............................................................4 The Week in Review Planes, trains and Goldman Sachs ..........................................6 Briefs Ultimate Frisbee, semi-pro football and pot clouds........................................6 Etc. Salcido Center starts to look for new downtown home.....................................7 Up Front State puts $16.6 million land deal on fast track ........................................8 Ochenski Access to guns doesn’t replace diminished freedoms ..............................9 Writers on the Range Something must be done to thin wild horse herds............10 Agenda Fourth of July festivities...............................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Terms of confusion.......................................................................17 Happiest Hour Kim Ryan.........................................................................................18 Ask Ari Grabbing garlic ............................................................................................19 8 Days a Week Just getting our toes wet ...............................................................20 Mountain High Firecracker 1776 1.1-mile run/walk...............................................29 Scope Why Goatsilk’s artists want to give you a free iPad.......................................30 Noise Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Bill Mize, DM Stith and Typhoon..........................31 Books Kevin Canty takes a new look at Missoula in Everything .............................32 Film Twilight’s teenage melodrama is so, like, hard to escape ...............................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................34

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STREET TALK

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by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked in front of the Army/Navy Store on Higgins Avenue Tuesday afternoon.

Q:

What are your plans for the Fourth of July weekend?

Follow: How, if at all, do you flaunt your American pride?

Javier Ryan: I’m going to Troy Fest, a music festival in Troy, Montana. Me and my friends are playing in it. Free spirit: By living freely, all the time.

Travis Barstad: I’m going to Baghdad. I’m a contractor…an Arabic linguist. Revealing: I wear my American flag Speedo!

Susan Bordner: I’m having friends in from out of town and we’re going up to Flathead Lake. Plate-riotism: I have a license plate cover that is an American flag. I’ve had it for years.

Book flap material I’m writing in response to Christina Nealson’s piece on our responsibility for the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (see “Oil and water,” June 10, 2010). Her call to action resonated with me, and I was reminded that one of the best actions we can take is to use our voice for the spread of information, be it inspiring, useful, informative or challenging.

I want to tell you about a friend of mine who lives on Whidbey Island. His name is Kurt Hoelting, and he fishes commercially and guides sea kayaking and meditation trips in southeast Alaska. He also teaches meditation to American veterans and others around the world. Yeah, interesting guy. A couple of years ago, Kurt took an online test to measure his carbon footprint. He is a mindful person, and does his part to recycle, use public transport and so on. Kurt thought his carbon footprint would be low, but he was surprised to find that it was something like three times the national average because of one huge factor: air travel.

This discovery inspired Kurt to stay home. In fact, he got out a map and with a compass, penciled a 100 km circle around his home. He made a vow not to leave that circle for one year, and to travel within it only by use of foot, pedal, paddle or public transportation. He worried that his experiment would feel confining, but found rather quickly that the world around him—his own backyard—blossomed before his eyes, as he started truly seeing the place he calls home.

In the shadow of our most recent fossil fuel disaster, a question begs to be answered, or at least examined: Can’t we do better than this? Knowing Kurt has given me the gift of inspiration—to do better, to live better, to be a better human. I want to pass that gift on by sharing his story, which was just published by Da Capo Press, and titled The Circumference of Home. If you decide to publish this, I thank you for the opportunity to share this information with your readers. If not, I thank you for at least publishing Christina Nealson’s provocative essay.

Ginny Mahar Missoula

Spill protection As I watch the unfolding environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I can’t help but make comparisons to my own experiences dealing with the 1996 toxic train derailment near Alberton, where 133 tons of spent oil and chlorine were spilled into the Clark Fork Canyon. Both the Montana train derailment and the oil spill Tess Carlson: I’m going to a barbecue with my family, lighting off fireworks and eating lots of pie.

Two-piece flag: I wear my red, white and blue bathing suit.

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in the Gulf represent corporate chemical disasters that mushroomed beyond the industries’ worst-case scenarios. Both spills disrupted lives, invoking the need for the now infamous claims process.

Similar to people living along the Gulf of Mexico, my life was totally upended in 1996 by the spill near my home. I remember all too well those slick, well-intentioned words from men with fresh haircuts, wearing new suits, soothing us—the crowd of flannel shirts—about our inconveniences in terms of time and money. Of

I also “ recall sitting across from a red-faced claims adjuster inside a billowing tent in Alberton, wondering what the future may hold.

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course, they never mentioned chemical injury, chronic illness or disability. I also recall sitting across from a red-faced claims adjuster inside a billowing tent in Alberton, wondering what the future may hold.

Where will I live and how? Will I still be able to wield an ax, plant a garden, walk with friends, track an elk?

Every chemical disaster forces its victims to put a price on their own lives in a far different way than a natural disaster. We all have the option to buy flood insurance, but none of us can purchase home, health or life insurance to protect us from toxic trespass; we are all at risk. The reality is, for people who have inadvertently been caught in the wake of a chemical disaster, life will be reduced to dollars and cents, because that is how justice is administered in America. Once the chemicals spew into the environment you lose the luxury of

measuring your life in terms of intangibles.

It is equally true that no corporation has the power to remake the environment once it is polluted. All of BP’s money cannot buy us a clean Gulf of Mexico.

Therefore, everything tainted by oil in and along the Gulf of Mexico has become a corporate liability for BP. This is why now, more than ever, it is imperative that we take action to protect our lives and our environment from the threat of toxic trespasses. In October of this year current chemical security legislation is set to expire. The U.S. Senate has the opportunity to pass an even better bill than the House passed in 2009. Here in Montana we are fortunate. Sen. Tester is a member of the Appropriations Sub committee on Homeland Security. Sen. Baucus is a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee. Both committees will shape future legislation that has the potential to protect our nation from chemical disasters. Our senators will play a key role in melding the laws that could determine how we handle the next breach in an oil well or chlorine railcar. So, this summer, why not reach out and let them know exactly how important a clean, chemical free Montana is to you.

Lucinda Hodges Missoula

Best ideas stick There are a number of under-valued and overlooked provisions of Sen. Tester’s forest bill. One of the provisions that merits much more attention is the requirement that the U.S. Forest Service design timber and restoration projects through collaborative processes.

There’s an important phrase that reoccurs throughout the legislation: “in coordination with applicable advisory committees.” This phrase is repeated often because the legislation would require the Forest Service to work with local collaborative groups when designing projects, assessing their feasibility, monitoring the work of all parties involved, and determining whether the expected outcomes have been realized.

The lands concerned in Tester’s bill are national lands and the Forest Service has the final say, which is as it should be.

But these lands are also public lands and I’m thrilled to see Tester fighting to make sure the public has a voice in the planning and execution of the forestry provisions of this bill even after it passes.

As the bill continues to change, we should be grateful that some of the best ideas are still in there.

Neil Bennett Missoula

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

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, June 23

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by Cathrine L. Walters

A rockslide derails a Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train about 30 miles west of Libby, knocking 16 of the train’s 88 cars off the track and shutting down a major shipping route until Friday. No one is hurt in the accident.

• Thursday, June 24 A Flathead County jury finds 48-year-old Evergreen resident Baron Foster guilty of murdering 42-yearold neighbor Michelle Miller. Foster allegedly fired twice at Miller with a 9mm handgun during an argument. Sentencing is slated to occur in August. Foster faces 110 years to life in prison.

• Friday, June 25 Goldman Sachs agrees to buy back more than $25 million worth of investments from Montanans and pay a $75,000 fine into the state’s general fund as part of a national settlement negotiated by regulators. The buyback resolves allegations that Goldman Sachs intentionally misled customers into believing that high-risk securities were safe investments.

• Saturday, June 26 The Missoula Osprey dominate the Billings Mustangs for six innings, tallying a 10–0 lead in front of more than 3,000 baseball fans at Ogren-Allegiance Park.

The Mustangs rally with five runs in the ninth, but Missoula holds on for a 10–9 victory.

• Sunday, June 27 A slurry bomber from Missoula-based Neptune Aviation slides off a Broomfield, Colo., runway, smashing through a fence before stopping against a slope near a parking lot. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office reports both the pilot and co-pilot are okay after the crash landing.

• Monday, June 28 Police arrest John Gordon Briscoe, a 72-year-old transient, just minutes after he allegedly stabs a male Poverello Center staffer in the back at the Ryman Street homeless shelter. The victim is treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.

• Tuesday, June 29 Emergency responders continue searching for two Missoula men and two reporters for the Daily Inter Lake after the single-engine airplane the four were flying in went missing Sunday afternoon. Seven fixed wing aircraft, two helicopters and four boats are deployed in and around the National Bison Range and along the Flathead River.

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Missoula filmmakers John D. Nilles and Josh Wagner begin shooting their first feature-length film, Saving for the Day, behind Bernice’s Bakery Monday evening. Nilles and Wagner have collaborated on shorter projects in the past, including 2008’s Cowboy Reckoning.

Crime Homeless moms robbed Residents of Mountain Home Montana, a shelter for homeless young mothers and their children who are often fleeing violent situations, have been victims of theft twice in the past three weeks.

“The thing that I feel so bad about is we are their safety net,” says Mountain Home Executive Director Gypsy Ray. “And now the place that they feel safe in isn’t safe.”

Women and girls aged 16–24 seeking shelter at Mountain Home frequently have minimal belongings. For instance, Ray says it’s not unusual for moms to show up with only a garbage bag containing all of their possessions. After often arriving on the heels of a series of physical and emotional assaults, losses are felt acutely.

“They’re hurt yet again,” Ray says. “They’re victims yet again.”

The first incident took place June 9 or June 10 when five cars were broken into. Belongings stolen included jumper cables, a change jar and a check

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slated to pay a Mountain Home resident’s GED exam costs.

Those items were valued at a little over $500, says Sgt. Bob Bouchee from the Missoula Police Department.

The second incident took place June 21 or June 22 when two strollers valued at between $60 and $100 each were stolen.

“They were taken from the front porch,” Bouchee says.

Police have no leads on who committed the crimes.

Mountain Home, which relies heavily on donations, replaced one stroller. But with little cash on hand, one resident is now without.

“They certainly don’t have the resources to buy new ones,” Ray says.

Ray says she’s never witnessed anything like this during her 10 years working at the shelter. She attributes the recent criminal acts to a vulnerability exposed by Mountain Home’s current expansion.

Usually, residents and staffers park their cars in a fenced area and personal belongings like strollers

are kept in a garage. Those items were moved to the front of the South Avenue shelter to make way for construction.

Jessica Mayrer

Marijuana Stoking the fire The Hamilton City Council recently addressed a new twist on Montana’s medical marijuana regulatory conundrum: How do municipal governments deal with large amounts of cannabis smoke produced within city confines?

Councilman Al Mitchell broached the issue during a June 15 meeting. In an audio file obtained by the Indy, he told the council that a concerned constituent approached him that morning to complain about a neighbor burning significant amounts of cannabis trimmings, sending smoke billowing onto the constituent’s front porch.

“I don’t know if this is an enforcement issue or something to send to council,” Mitchell said as he introduced the non-agenda item. While Mitchell said the whistleblower was clearly annoyed, the

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councilman didn’t seem to mind.

“I found it rather relaxing,” he quipped.

Hamilton enacted an interim zoning ordinance in March that spells out where caregivers are allowed to sell medical marijuana. The newest legal question drew apparent frustration from the city’s police chief, Ryan Oster, who muttered under his breath, “I’m tired of the medical marijuana issue,” before formally addressing the council.

Even so, Oster dutifully evaluated existing legal tools that can be used to curb cannabis emissions.

The city’s recently revised burning ordinance leaves the door open to recreational fires, he said. But, he added, “I don’t see how you could say that’s legitimate for, you know, roasting hot dogs.”

On the other hand, Oster pointed out that burning that much marijuana could be deemed a public nuisance.

“I don’t think you have the right to give your neighbor the munchies,” he said.

C o u n c i l w o m a n Ly n e t t e Helgeland took a stricter stand on the topic.

“What they are doing is they are medicating their neighbors without their consent,” she said. “It crosses some pretty severe ethical and legal boundaries. You know, no one could make me take a pill against my will. If somebody did that, it would be assault.”

When contacted after the meeting, Oster told the Indy that he hasn’t heard of another case like this. But the foundation of the complaint, he said, is common.

“I think what it comes down to, as a lot of issues do, is be respectful of your neighbors,” he said.

Jessica Mayrer

Ultimate Flycoons take on the world Missoula’s expert ultimate Frisbee team, the Mental Toss Flycoons, might want to learn the phrase “mistri sveta.”

That’s Czech for “world champion,” which is what the Flycoons will be by the end of next week should the team prevail at the World Flying Disc Federation’s World Ultimate Club Championships in Prague, Czech Republic.

It’s not that far-fetched to think a team from Montana with a name based on a Frank Zappa tune could pull it off. The Flycoons are currently the thirdranked co-ed team in the world, won a national

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championship in 2008, and nearly repeated last year.

It’s their first shot at a world championship since the team formed in 2003.

John O’Connor, the Flycoon’s de facto coach and manager, says his squad is feeling “very good” about its chances, partly because of the players’ intense training regime.

“It’s not professional and everybody has other things going on in their lives,” O’Connor says. “But they do commit an awful lot of time to training.

There’s individual training. There’s team training.

There’s team practice. Most people on the team started a workout regimen over the last year that culminated in a lot of sprint workouts and a lot of weights. It’s been a lot of personal commitment for everybody.”

A total of 28 Flycoons players (only seven are on the field at a time) are headed overseas for the tournament, which runs July 3—10. The team’s sponsor, Seattle-based Five Ulitmate, is providing snazzy new uniforms emblazoned with a Montana mountain scene.

How will the team celebrate if it wins?

“What’s the standard remark? Go to Disneyland?

I don’t know,” O’Connor says. “If the team is fortunate enough to persevere and gets rewarded with a win, I’m sure we’ll have a big celebration when we get back to Missoula.”

But the entire team won’t return to Missoula for a while. Many will spend time after the tournament sight seeing, which has some Flycoons brushing up on their Czech.

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“Everybody’s at least trying to pronounce the city correctly,” O’Connor says.

Matthew Frank

BY THE NUMBERS

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Sports Maulers owner goes long Spring is no longer Michael Burks’ off-season.

The owner of Missoula’s minor league hockey team, the Maulers, announced this week he purchased the Missoula Phoenix, a semi-professional team in the Rocky Mountain Football League AA Northern Conference. Burks officially took over for former Phoenix owner John Velk on June 30.

The final cost of the exchange remains confidential, but Burks is open about his initial improvements to the Phoenix image, including a complete overhaul of the team’s website and a home-field switch from Washington-Grizzly Stadium to Loyola Sacred Heart High School. Burks says the Phoenix coaching staff and player roster will remain unchanged.

Velk first singled Burks out as a potential buyer three weeks ago, when the two bumped into each other at Outback Steakhouse. According to Burks, Velk made his intentions of stepping down as owner known and asked Burks if he would step up. The Maulers owner was hesitant at first, but agreed after about a week of negotiations.

“I wanted whoever owned it to bring it to the next level,” Burks says. “A lot of people had no idea that the Missoula Phoenix existed, and what I wanted to do is make it like the Maulers. For the months of April, May and June, it’ll be Phoenix season.”

Velk believes he made the right choice in approaching Burks for the position. He’s already made a success of the Maulers through skillful marketing, Velk says, and appears the best chance the Phoenix have of increasing their local clout.

“I sought out Mike because I thought it would dovetail well with the Maulers,” Velk says. “He’s already got an administration in place for promoting an athletic team with the Maulers. He’s got sales staff, he’s got announcers, and he’s got the wherewithal.”

Velk originally intended to leave the Phoenix behind for good. However, voices with both sides of the purchase have expressed an interest in seeing his participation continue.

“They’re trying to lobby me to be the announcer for the team,” Velk says. “I might do it, I might not.”

Alex Sakariassen

Total cost, in millions, of Crandall Arambula’s preferred improvement plan for the Western Montana Fairgrounds. The consulting firm presented the plan to the Missoula County Commission on June 23.

etc.

Homeless shelters rouse the same sort of NIMBYism associated with landfills and power plants. Almost all agree they’re needed, but few want to bear the burdens they bring.

In Missoula, evidence of the challenges inherent to helping the homeless hit the newspapers all the time. The most recent example occurred Monday, when a client at Missoula’s Poverello Center, the state’s largest homeless shelter, allegedly stabbed a staff member. The incident certainly isn’t typical, but it is in line with the all too common violence transients have committed—or been the victims of—in recent months.

Such challenges are why downtown’s First Baptist Church decided to no longer house the Salcido Center, a daytime drop-in facility run by the Pov. The church informed the organization a few weeks ago that it’s terminating the lease at the end of the year. The center serves the chronic homeless and those with mental illnesses and/or chemical dependencies—in other words, the people in most need.

Pastor Curtis Privette says the church made the decision because it has been “a little overwhelmed” since the Salcido Center opened in 2008.

“Certainly serving downtown Missoula’s poorest is part of our mission,” Privette says, “but it’s not our only mission.

It’s the Poverello Center’s only mission, but it’s not our only mission. And so after two years of it we feel like doing it for another year would distract us from other things.”

Privette says the arrangement—the Pov pays about $2,500 a month to use the church’s basement—was intended to be a short-term solution.

Now the Pov, already maxed out at its primary location on Ryman Street, finds itself searching for a new space to house the 45 people served every day at the Salcido Center.

“We’re hoping that other churches or other folks who have places to rent in the urban core will come forward to allow us to move those 45 guys come January 1,” says Ellie Hill, the Poverello Center’s executive director. “But we’re thinking that that’s probably pretty unlikely.

“It’s now a community decision how we want this to be handled,” she continues. “The Poverello Center did not create poverty and homelessness in the city of Missoula, nor are we the lone organization that can provide a solution.”

Unfortunately, the same incidents Hill says show the need for more services for the homeless—like Monday’s stabbing—are the ones that make most anyone reluctant to provide them.

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The Natural Resource Damage fit, and we have the opportunity in work- the opportunity to acquire it and retain our Program (NRDP) last week opted to fast- ing with the NRDP to put something main goal with the property, which is to preserve it,” Lane says. track a $16.6 million grant request from together now.”

If approved, FWP’s request will repreThe Spotted Dog tracts were formerly Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) for a land acquisition deal on the Spotted Dog owned by the Rock Creek Cattle Company, sent the largest single grant to date culled complex northeast of Deer Lodge, launch- a historic ranch with holdings throughout from a Clark Fork River restoration fund ing the June application into a 45-day pub- the Deer Lodge area, but the company sold established by the state’s legal settlement lic comment period and exempting it from to YT Timber several years ago to allow log- with the Atlantic Richfield Company the NRDP’s normal grant process cycle. It’s ging on the forested portions of the prop- (ARCO) in 1999.

“To this point, our expenditures have an unprecedented rush for the program, erty. Rock Creek has an option to repurnot exceeded the interest revand could prompt the enues to the program,” says NRDP to dip deeper into a Carol Fox, restoration proClark Fork River restoration gram chief for the NRDP. “But fund than ever before. what we’re looking at The rush comes largely is…we’re at the point where from a recent rash of interwe could be getting into the est in the property from the corpus with all these requests private sector. The 27,497 that are occurring.” acres in question—currently Despite the high cost, the owned by YT Timber LLC, state maintains the Spotted but listed by the NRDP Dog purchase fits with the under the company’s affilioriginal intent of the ARCO ate, RY Timber—have been restoration fund. Schweitzer up for sale for years and offisays that while some of the cials fear the land could money can be used to clean attract offers from parties up the ecological mistakes of interested in future develmining activity in the Upper opment. FWP Regional Clark Fork River Basin, deals Supervisor Mack Long says like the Spotted Dog purthe Spotted Dog could “sell Photo courtsey of Fish Wildlife & Parks chase are intended to replace out from under us in five tracts within the watershed minutes.”

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has applied for a $16.6 “There’s a lot of devel- million grant from the state’s ARCO restoration fund to pur- that have suffered irreversible opable land on that [com- chase more than 27,000 acres of prime habitat near Deer damage.

“Every once in a while, plex], and if somebody ever Lodge, marked in the lower left. The hashed sections are there is an extraordinary wanted to, it could all just those subject to the purchase. opportunity to protect the pergo to subdivisions,” Long says. “Do you just sit back and wait to see chase the land before Nov. 1, 2011, for $9 manent interests of the people of western what happens and run the risk of some- million, says Managing Director Greg Lane. Montana,” Schweitzer says, “and this is one body coming in and picking it up? That’s That option will be enacted to allow the of those opportunities.”

Fox says the Spotted Dog grant request the urgency. All the stars lined up; the company to sell its holdings to the state.

FWP hired Hall-Widdoss and Company has been rushed to public comment alongopportunity’s there to make the request of Missoula to appraise the Spotted Dog side an amendment to the established from the NRD program.”

FWP released its draft environmental property this spring. Compared to the grant procedures. However, the application assessment for the Spotted Dog on June 28, existing $9 million option, the final apprais- will still have to meet all other criteria in the outlining proposed seasonal access for al and $16.6 million grant request seem NRDP’s grant process. After the 45-day pubpublic recreation in the area. Long says the strangely high. Long asserts that’s because lic comment period expires, the Trustee agency has eyed the acreage for the past the agency is required to make an initial Restoration Council and the fund’s advisory council will each review the request and nine years for its sizable elk herd and the offer at fair market value.

“We have to buy at appraised value or subsequent comments before making recsensitive fisheries that feed into the Clark Fork River. A previous grant request near to it, so that’s what we’re operating ommendations to Schweitzer.

“When we spoke to the [NRDP] about through the NRDP fell apart six years ago, on,” Long says.

Lane says he’s seen continuous inter- it, we emphasized that we understood that Long says, but recent backing from FWP Director Joe Maurier and Gov. Brian est from the private sector to purchase the this was something that was outside the Schweitzer gave the plan renewed momen- Spotted Dog complex over the past six to regular process,” says FWP Deputy Director tum. If the purchase is successful, FWP will eight months at price points around $625 Art Noonan, adding that the late applicadesignate the Spotted Dog a wildlife man- an acre—well above the state’s offer. None tion was due to sudden willingness on the of those interests managed to “pull the trig- part of Rock Creek to negotiate. “It had to agement area.

“This is the second largest piece of ger,” he says, so Rock Creek began enter- be because of the choosing of the landowners, not us.” intact habitat west of the Continental taining the offer from FWP. “We’ve had a really good relationship Divide in Montana,” Long says. “It’s got a huge opportunity and lots of public bene- with the state, so [we] wanted to give them asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Friendly fire Access to guns doesn’t replace diminished freedoms This week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision on the scope of Second Amendment rights and this weekend’s celebration of America’s Independence Day bring up the good question of whether having an armed populace means having a free citizenry. Guns are everywhere in this country, but, unfortunately, personal freedoms continue to diminish.

As most folks know, the Supreme Court, on its last day in session prior to its three-month recess, issued a split decision that has been widely regarded as expanding the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”

The case in question concerned the city of Chicago’s 30-year ban on handguns, which plaintiffs said violated the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court overturned a similar ban in the District of Columbia two years ago and laid the groundwork for the latest suit by ruling that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to own and possess guns for self-defense in the home.

Chicago, and its suburb of Oak Park, are said to be the last two remaining municipalities in the nation that continue to enforce a local ban on gun ownership.

The Supreme Court’s decision will likely invalidate those local ordinances by declaring the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution supercedes state statutes, local ordinances and federal laws.

Although the court did not specifically override the municipal ordinances, its ruling sends the case back to the Federal Court of Appeals where the local ordinances will likely be struck down.

Both sides in the issue say the ruling does not, however, completely slam the door on what states or localities can impose in the way of gun control. The most often-used example is the reaction of the District of Columbia’s post-ruling efforts to comply with the Second Amendment, but still limit uncurtailed gun ownership in the District. In that instance, new requirements for handgun owners include a variety of hurdles including fingerprinting, a written test, ballistics test, classroom instruction in gun handling and verified time spent on the range. For what it’s worth, some 800 citizens have now jumped through those hoops to obtain legal handguns.

Justice Alito, writing for the conservative majority, noted that while the Second Amendment overrules local, state and federal laws, it merely “limits their ability to devise solutions to social problems that suit local needs and values.” The dissenting justices, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Stevens

and Breyer, issued individual opinions perhaps best summed up by Stevens, who wrote that the decision “could prove far more destructive—quite literally—to our nation’s communities and to our constitutional infrastructure.”

You could “ put an AK-47 next to your computer, but that won’t stop the federal government from reading your

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e-mails.

Not surprisingly, the entire Montana congressional delegation jumped on board with the majority ruling and lauded the Supreme Court’s decision. Montana’s senior senator, Democrat Max Baucus, called the ruling “a big day for protecting Second Amendment rights,” while Sen. Tester, also a Democrat, hailed it as a “major victory.” “Today, we ensured that law-abiding folks have the same Second Amendment rights no matter where they live in America,” said Tester.

And Montana’s lone representative, Republican Denny Rehberg, not only praised the decision, but took a backhand swing: “Progressive groups will maintain their assault on the Second Amendment and it is important for gun owners to keep up the fight.”

For Montanans, gun advocates like Gary Marbut, of Montana Shooting Sports Association, says it’s more philosophical than theoretical because we have gun ownership enshrined in our state constitution. And that, of course, makes the big hoo-haw raised by Baucus, Tester and Rehberg seem more about political theater than addressing a substantive issue in their own state—which brings us to the question of guns and their relationship to actual freedom.

By any measurement, gun ownership in the United States has skyrocketed since President Bush took office. It took another upturn when President Obama replaced him in the White House. If you accept the

logic—and there are lots of reasons to do so—the left bought guns fearing that Bush and his Republican-controlled Congress were taking Draconian measures, such as the Patriot Act, that would lead to a police state. Conversely, the right bought guns fearing that Obama and his Democratically controlled Congress would leap to ban ownership of certain types of guns, such as so-called “assault weapons,” as had been done under President Clinton.

But here’s the rub. I own guns, as do most of the Montanans I know. It is common for Montanans to have rifles and shotguns for hunting, pistols for selfdefense or popping the occasional pack rat, and a variety of other guns for recreational shooting at the local range. No surprises there.

But how does owning guns protect me from the blatant abuses of freedom and liberty the Patriot Act imposes? One can wave a pistol at the phone, but that won’t remove the illegal, warrantless wire tap. You could put an AK-47 next to your computer, but that won’t stop the federal government from reading your e-mails.

Simply put, guns don’t guarantee freedom.

There will undoubtedly be those who point to the American Revolution and assert that without guns, we’d still be under British rule. They’d be right. Others, of perhaps more left-leaning persuasion, might quote Mao Tse Tung’s famous words: “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.” In both instances, one that inaugurated America’s independent democracy and one that brought China’s Communist Regime to rule, the power of guns established what individuals at those times and places considered freedom—one nation freed from Empire, one from corrupt rulers. In both cases, the argument could be made that while the guns established freedom, in neither case did they preserve it.

It’s easy to remember Sen. Tester’s campaign promise to repeal the Patriot Act. Yet, despite the complete change in control of the White House and Congress from Republican to Democrat, the Patriot Act has been extended and expanded, not repealed. If freedom is the goal on this Independence Day, it’ll take commitment and courage from Congress to get us there, not more theatrical grandstanding about gun ownership.

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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Out to pasture Something must be done to thin wild horse herds

by Jodi Peterson

As a kid growing up in Colorado, I was crazy about wild horses. I read books about mustangs and drew pictures of them. In school, I was thrilled to learn about the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, which was passed in 1971, after “Wild Horse Annie” saw bleeding mustangs being hauled off to slaughter and began a campaign to protect them.

But as I got older, I realized that there was more to the story—a lot more. The Wild Horse Act had noble intentions, but it put our public-land agencies in a nearimpossible position. It charged them with protecting wild free-roaming horses and burros “from capture, branding, harassment, or death,” and said that the animals “are to be considered in the area where presently found as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands.” In other words, if they’re already in an area, they have the right to remain, whether or not the landscape can support them.

In the 40 years since the act passed, it’s become clear that its goal of creating selfsustaining populations of healthy animals has come up against the complex reality of the public lands. Like it or not, federal lands are managed under a multiple-use mandate that requires the balancing of wildlife and livestock, recreation and mineral extraction. Spending nearly $120 million next year just to manage mustangs and burros is hard to justify when the average threatened or endangered species gets just $74,472 per year, according to the conservation writer Ted Williams.

Although this point is often argued, many experts believe that wild horses and burros aren’t even native to the West.

Horses evolved on this continent, then became extinct roughly 12,000 years ago; wild burros originated in North Africa.

Many scientists and conservation groups consider today’s mustangs feral descendants of the domestic horses first brought from Europe in the 16th century. As Steve Torbit, regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation’s Rocky

Mountain office, put it in the Arizona Republic: “From an ecological point of view, they don’t belong here. In many ways, they’re like an exotic weed.”

These feral horses are creating a burden on public lands that are already overused and exploited: The livestock industry

These feral “ horses are creating a burden on public lands that are already over-used

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and exploited.

gets federally subsidized grazing; the mining industry extracts billions of dollars in minerals while paying a tiny fraction of its profit in royalties. The damage that some 37,000 horses do may seem minor in comparison, but it’s damage nonetheless. Even in cattle-free areas, horses have been documented trampling springs and gnawing grass to dirt. Their presence also contributes to harmful impacts on dozens of species of truly native wildlife, from sage grouse to pronghorn to Lahontan trout.

The pressures on public land may be many and reforms are certainly needed, but practically speaking, feral horses are a problem more easily controlled than others.

Meanwhile, the number of wild horses grows by 15 to 20 percent per year, meaning that their population doubles every four years. The only way that the Bureau of Land Management can legally keep horse numbers down is to round up excessive horses and remove them from public land.

But not enough adoptive homes can be

found for those horses; demand has dropped to 3,500 per year, from 5,700 in 2005. The agency ends up holding mustangs in corrals and pastures for years at a time, splitting up family groups and spreading disease.

Is there a solution? Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposes to house some 25,000 animals in preserves in the East and Midwest, funded by $96 million in government dollars and through partnerships with nonprofits. Salazar also wants to sterilize thousands of horses, although costeffective birth control is not yet available.

The idea of thinning the herds in the way we manage other big herbivores—with a public hunting season—is abhorrent to most Americans. A 2005 bill allows mustangs to be sent to slaughter if they’re more than 10 years old or have been passed over for adoption three times, but since there are no longer any horse slaughterhouses in the United States, the animals are forced to undergo long treks to Mexico and Canada.

Predators would help, of course, but the sabre-toothed tigers, dire wolves and shortfaced bears that once kept horse numbers in check died out when their prey did.

Modern-day wolf packs can take horses, but mountain lions just aren’t big enough to do the job.

So no easy answers exist, only the uncomfortable reality that we cannot afford to be anything other than practical. As Veronica Egan, executive director of Great Old Broads for Wilderness, puts it, “The time for public support of expensive lifestyles in the name of romantic historical myths is over.”

Editor’s note: This is the first of two columns debating the issue of wild horses.

Next week Deanne Stillman writes in favor of more protection for the animals.

Jodi Peterson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She is the editor of the magazine in Paonia, Colo.

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As you approach that special day of intense patriotism, take a moment to reflect not on how great of a nation we are, but just how good we have it here. Not convinced? Just look at North Korea. It was recently ranked as one of the “least free” nations in the world by the organization Freedom House. You can’t peacefully assemble in that country, nor can you get news from sources other than state-run media.

So as you ruminate on that, consider spending this Fourth of July living it up, for freedom’s sake. And if by chance you don’t have any plans yet, I’ve got a few options on hand.

I’d begin by heading to the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, which hosts its annual Fourth of July fundraiser/soiree that features six bands, food,

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Help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas when Shanti Yoga Studio, 235 Central Ave. Ste. A in Whitefish, presents two donation-based yoga fundraiser classes featuring cellist Lee Zimmerman with the first class running from 11:30 AM–1:30 PM at the studio. The second class runs from 2–4 PM. Call Jodi at 250-1363.

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

Do your part to help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas during a fundraiser at Whitefish’s The Green Tea House, 415 Second St. E., which begins with a silent auction including traditional Himalayan art at 6 PM. A presentation occurs at 6:30 PM, and is followed with music at 7 from Betsi Morrison and Luke Walrath, as well as tunes by Joan Zen at 8 PM. $10 suggested donation. Call Deanne at 862-5050.

FRIDAY JULY 2 The Missoula County Commissioners office is currently looking for applicants for a variety of board positions. These include: the Health Board, Lolo Community Council, Lolo Sewer & Water Board, and the East Missoula Community Council. Grab an app at the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W. Broadway St., or online at co.missoula.mt.us/ mcbcc/forms.htm. The application deadline is 5 PM Fri., July 9. Call 258-4877.

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

MONDAY JULY 5 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

games and historical demos. Later on, get over to Southgate Mall’s parking lot, so you can finish off the day with song, helicopter landings and a rousing fireworks display. If you want to cap your night off with an unofficial event, maybe head up the South Hills or another elevated vantage point and watch the multitude of other fireworks displays pop up throughout the valley.

–Ira Sather-Olson The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula’s Fourth of July Celebration is from 10 AM–4 PM Sunday, July 4, at the museum. Check our calendar for pricing.

Southgate Mall’s Independence Day celebration begins at 9 PM in the parking lot of the mall and is free.

Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM in the basement classroom number 3 of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 7285818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY JULY 6 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.

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

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

WEDNESDAY JULY 7 Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week. This week’s featured organization is homeWORD. Visit kettlehouse.com.

THURSDAY JULY 8 Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict (and no mediation) by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/ social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.org.

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Authorities investigating a burglary in King County, Wash., found that in addition to a digital camera, laptop computer, iPod and DVD player, the intruder took clean clothes and left behind his soiled underwear, jeans and shoes. Sheriff’s Detective Cary Coblantz said he “specifically requested that the underpants be analyzed for a DNA profile,” which identified a 39year-old man with a long criminal history as the suspect. He was already in jail for several counts of residential burglary but had been out on bail when the underpants burglary occurred.

German authorities reported that robbers who tried to blow up a bank cash machine in Malliss miscalculated and wound up reducing the bank to rubble, completely obliterating its roof and damaging cars and buildings within a 100-yard radius. The only thing left intact was the cash machine.

“Something evidently didn’t work the way the robbers wanted it to,” police official Niels Borgmann said, noting, “The explosion was so big, they had to run away without the money.”

CLASSICAL GAS - A German sewage-treatment plant is saving $1,200 a month by using the music of Mozart to motivate microbes to break down waste faster. “We think the secret is in the vibrations of the music, which penetrate everything—including the water, the sewage and the cells,” said Anton Stucki, chief operator of the Treuenbrietzen plant. “It creates a certain resonance that stimulates the microbes and helps them to work better.” Stucki believes Mozart works because the composer “managed to transpose universal laws of nature into his music.”

NOT SO MUCH FLY AS PLUMMET - Having paid $440 on eBay for a paraglider, Britain’s Roy Dixon, 45, learned to fly it by watching video clips on the Internet. For his maiden flight, he also made the mistake of tethering the paraglider to his car. The flight lasted less than a minute, and he fell 40 feet to the ground, breaking his back in two places. “I went shooting up in the air, then banged down on the ground,” Dixon said from Newcastle General Hospital. “I should have joined a club and got lessons, but I was trying to teach myself and learn from bits I had seen on YouTube,” HOMELAND INSECURITY - Firefighters responding to a fire in Jersey City, N.J., found no one at home in the apartment, where a pot on the stove had boiled dry and cloth inside had ignited. They also found 60 to 80 half-gallon containers of unknown substances and an envelope with President Obama’s name on it, triggering a massive response by Secret Service agents and a hazardous materials unit. When the apartment resident returned, he said he must have forgotten to turn off the stove burner when he walked to the store. The 80-year-old man explained he uses the chemicals to make perfume, which he sells for a living.

DUTY FIRST - David Boruchowitz, a sheriff’s detective in Nye County, Nev., was charged with burglary and assault in an effort to harass candidates for public office after an investigation, which he conducted himself. Boruchowitz, who handles media relations for the sheriff’s office, issued a press release about his arrest, accompanied by his booking photo, that noted his duties include investigating and arresting people who commit crimes, “no matter who they may be.”

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - Police in Austin, Texas, accused Jose Alejandro Romero, 17, of trying to rob a gas station with a caulk gun. Clerk Johnnie Limuel, 68, thought it was a joke, until the robber hit him with the caulk gun. Limuel responded by hitting the robber with a plastic trashcan. According to the police affidavit, Romero fled empty-handed, accompanied by a transgender prostitute.

GOOGLE MAP FOLLIES - The Louisiana Senate unanimously approved a bill that would increase penalties for crimes committed with the aid of a “virtual street-level map.” The Internet-generated maps show the locations or pictures of homes and other buildings. The measure would add at least 10 years to sentences where virtual maps are used to commit acts of terrorism and at least one year in jail for burglary.

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - Police investigating a stabbing at a home in Northport, Ala., said the attack occurred after two men got into an argument over how many championship rings basketball coach Phil Jackson has. The 30-year-old victim required stitches. Jackson, 64, now has 13 championship rings—two as a player and 11 as a coach.

SLICK SOLUTIONS - A scientist proposed protecting the Louisiana wetlands from British Petroleum’s Gulf of Mexico oil slick by having the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers open existing dams to divert more water toward the mouth of the Mississippi River. Calling the river “the biggest tool in the toolbox,” marine scientist G. Paul Kemp, vice president of the National Audubon Society’s Louisiana Coastal Initiative, explained upstream flooding to increase the river’s flow into the Gulf could not only block the inland flow of oil, but also help flush oil that has already collected on the fringes of the marshes.

After Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., urged BP America President Lamar McKay to resign, Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, R-La., suggested a harsher course of action. “In the Asian culture, we do things differently,” the Vietnamese-American lawmaker told McKay. “During the Samurai days, we just give you a knife and ask you to commit hara-kiri.”

SPENDTHRIFT CONSERVATIVES - Critics derided Canada’s government for spending nearly $2 million to build a media center in Toronto for reporters unable to cover the Group of Eight global economic summit in Huntsville, 140 miles to the north, which could accommodate only about 150 of the 3,000 journalists assigned. “This is supposed to be a meeting about dealing with the international debt crisis,” opposition lawmaker Mark Holland said. “We’re supposed to be leading the world in showing austerity, and we invite them to our doorsteps to sit around a $2 million dollar fake lake.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper insisted the lake, which is only a few blocks from Lake Ontario, is really only a reflecting pool intended to promote tourism.

JUSTICE AT ANY PRICE - Now Advanced Metal Technologies in East Spokane, Wash., offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the identity of whoever stole its doormat, worth $20.

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Into the deep end

Edwin Dobb’s First formative swims started in Montana’s lakes and rivers. Now the “openwater” enthusiast, 60, takes to the sea.

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Although I had been swimming on and off since moving from southwest Montana back to San Francisco in mid-January, my new season officially started on April 17th, the day I turned 60. It was a bright afternoon, the sun partially obscured by high thin clouds, gusts churning the surface of Aquatic Park, a humanmade cove bounded by curved piers on the waterfront. That’s where I swim, along with others whose notion of a swell time is plying chilly San Francisco Bay while wearing nothing but a cap and a Speedo. And chilly it was that day—water about 55 degrees, or 30 degrees cooler than the average municipal pool. Whatever pleasures await the cold-water swimmer—and they are incomparable, even, at times, transcendent—reaching them entails a certain amount of discomfort.

Every swim begins with a double leap—the physical act of plunging into the water, the mental act of deliberately submitting to pain.

How long it takes for the body’s internal heat to counteract the penetrating cold varies widely, depending on several factors—metabolism, conditioning, overall acclimation, how hard one swims.

But whether the interim is measured in seconds or minutes, a kind of alchemy is at work, converting the forbidding into the ecstatic. What makes the shift possible is conviction, the belief that eventually the sting will recede, the shock replaced by something that cannot be experienced anywhere else. The longer one is away from cold water, the greater the need for conviction. On that windy afternoon in April, I hadn’t been swimming consistently for months. In mediocre shape and not yet generally acclimated, I didn’t venture far, following a line of buoys anchored a hundred yards from shore.

A full seven minutes passed before the cold loosened its grip.

I completed two laps, then added a few extra buoys, maybe a mile in all. Not bad. Within weeks I’d extend that half-hour inaugural swim into sessions lasting an hour and a half to two hours. I was intent upon that. Leaving the bay wanting to lengthen the swims, wanting to return soon to do so, is how I knew the season had begun. Like any deeply enjoyable activity, distance swimming readily becomes addicting. The high is real. But swimming entails another kind of attraction as well, one whose locus is the medium itself. Since boyhood, I’ve been drawn to water, especially open water—rivers, lakes, seas, and in a visceral way.

Mere contemplation won’t do. The first time I saw the Pacific Ocean, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, I was seized by a desire to taste it, to feel it on my skin, to surrender to it. “Exultation is the going,” as Emily Dickinson wrote, “Of an inland soul to sea.” Though the poem refers to sailors, I know well the going it celebrates. I also know well the hunger for going that haunts some land-born souls.

Immersion doesn’t entirely satisfy this hunger, which then moves outward, fixing on the horizon, an undulating, ever-receding border between endless sea and endless sky. “Past the houses, past the headlands, Into deep eternity!” Playing it safe during my birthday escapade, I looked—rather than swam— across the cove, toward the opening that connects it to the bay as a whole, where sailboats and ferries, tugs and container ships were visible. After I’ve increased my stamina and grown accustomed to

longer stays, I’ll trace successive mile-long circuits, swimming along the interior perimeter. I especially enjoy passing through the opening into the zone where the smaller chop inside the cove mixes with the larger, more energetic chop outside. There I pause and tread water for a spell. Sometimes I tremble slightly, not in response to the cold but in recognition of the wildness of the place, its power, immensity, and indifference to my interests or wellbeing, which is exhilarating, surprisingly enough, but also scary. I gaze at the Bay Bridge; Treasure, Alcatraz and Angel islands; the Golden Gate Bridge and, beyond that, the Marin Headlands. A crazy yet almost irresistible urge takes hold, the same urge that arises whenever I’m in the ocean, with nothing but water in front of me—to swim farther out, and farther still.

We all create experiential maps—singular, emotionally charged geographies in which what holds the world together, giving it form and meaning, is neither calendar time nor geometric space but the lasting impressions certain occasions make upon us.

er to my tastes, referred to swimming as “fornication avec l’onde.” Leave it to a Frenchman to eroticize his encounters with waves, but one would be hard pressed to find a more sensual experience than being virtually naked while enveloped by water, water that’s alive, dynamic, continually changing shape, sometimes gently, other times violently. Of all possible relationships with the natural world, immersion, I believe, is the most intimate—my skin, every inch of it and all at once, caressed by the sea.

That so much of the Pacific Coast is open to the public makes the West particularly well-suited to those seeking such experiences, and I’ve taken advantage of the opportunity at every turn. From Canada to Mexico, my ever-expanding aquatic geography includes dozens of unforgettable spots, their names now incantations, that conjure up some of the most satisfying outdoor experiences of my life: Long Beach, Vancouver Island. Ebey’s Landing, Puget Sound. Sooes Beach, Makah Reservation, Olympic Peninsula. Oregon Dunes. Limantour Spit, Point Reyes National Seashore. El Capitán State Beach, Calif. Punta Rosarito, Bahia Santa Rosalita, Baja.

Whenever I drive coastal highways, I look for promising water. Some days it’s enough to crash through

“Every swim begins with a double leap—the physical act of plunging into the water, the mental act of deliberately Submitting to pain.”

According to these interior bearings, something that occurred, say, 35 years ago and a thousand miles away can possess a stronger presence, and feel closer in every important respect, than what happened yesterday.

My map of the West is noteworthy for its many aquatic benchmarks, starting with formative lake and river swims in Montana. Among the most memorable are nocturnal larks: The moon momentarily suspended in the still surface of a lake; the surrounding silence, so pure that a whisper is the only proper utterance; the water, crystalline by day, now another kind of night, and into whose darkness I let myself sink, slowly, until my lungs can stand it no longer. For sheer excitement, by contrast, it’s difficult to top being propelled downstream in a river, headlong, submerged. From the bank I’d first scout a section, making sure it was free of treacherous snags or boulders. Then I’d walk back upstream, enter the river and slip into the current. Surfacing only to take breaths, I’d remain underwater most of the time, as close as possible to the bottom, gliding by surprisingly placid trout.

As much as I savor freshwater swimming, however, the sea’s allure is stronger, more insistent— more primal. Some explain it simply as sublimated nostalgia for the womb, which probably isn’t entirely wrong, though it fails to account for my aversion to warm water (and by warm, I mean above 70 degrees). Poet Paul Valery, in an interpretation clos-

the breakers, then turn over on my back and float, eyes closed, arms outstretched, on the tilting swells beyond. Other days I swim until I’m exhausted.

Thirty-five years ago and a thousand miles away: Punta Rosarito, north of Guerrero Negro and Scammon’s Lagoon, where every winter West Coast gray whales gather to calve. The trans-peninsular highway was only a year old. Rarely did one see another traveler, and more rarely still another American. Restlessness and curiosity had brought me, my girlfriend, and her two children, ages 4 and 6, halfway down Baja; an appetite for improvisation kept us there. For several weeks, we roamed back and forth between the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez, camping in my VW van. Besides being virtually uninhabited back then, both coasts border one of the harshest deserts on Earth, home to little but rock and cacti, beneath an unforgiving sun—a place of stunning but desolate and sometimes dangerous beauty.

The water also poses risks. One afternoon at Punta Rosarito, after watching sea otters frolic outside the breakers, I swam lazily back to shore. When I reached the shallows, I stood up and walked. I didn’t go far before I felt something knifelike drive into the bottom of my right foot, then just as quickly rip out. I’d stepped on the spine of a stingray that had been resting on the bottom. An uncommon mishap.

Also a painful one, and something I knew nothing about. Fortunately, we’d befriended a couple,

Alfredo and Maria, who owned a café in nearby Rosarito. The kids, alarmed by the trail of blood I’d left behind on the beach, scrambled into the back of the VW while I jumped into the passenger seat. My girlfriend then drove us into town, where Maria added salt and coffee to a pot of water she brought to a boil. Alfredo dipped a compress into the water, then applied it to the puncture, repeating the procedure again and again, slowly drawing out the venom. Ever the thoughtful host, he also produced a bottle of tequila, which we passed back and forth.

The pain soon subsided.

The stingray episode was a much-needed reminder that unarmed and unarmored human beings are among the most vulnerable creatures in the marine environment. The rapture of immersion offers no protection against the sea’s random cruelty. Cultivating an awareness of the various possible hazards certainly is prudent. And, even better, it heightens the experience, though it can also induce panic, which is the gateway to paralysis—and worse.

So far, I’ve been fortunate. I’ve collided with jellyfish, but only the non-stinging and mildly stinging kinds. I’ve been brushed by harbor seals and found myself in the middle of pelican feeding frenzies, but I’ve never been head-butted or bitten by a sea lion.

Currents have driven me off-course, testing both my composure and my endurance, but I’ve never been dragged far from shore by a riptide. The more I swim, to be sure, and the more I investigate new swimming locales, the greater the likelihood that something unwanted will happen. But unpredictability—the possibility of encountering ill-tempered predators, perhaps, or the more common vagaries of abrupt changes in temperature, weather and other conditions—is precisely what makes the sea wild. Lakes are tamer, pools tamer still. In a bathtub, one is master of the universe. But a universe in which I’m master holds little appeal.

Several years ago, I was staying with a friend in a small town on the southeast shore of Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound. Each morning, before sunup, I walked from her house down to the harbor, then stripped to my suit and swam. It was midOctober. The air was brisk, the water cold, maybe 57, 58, but tranquil, and gin-clear. On the second day, still a few blocks from the Sound, I heard a soft but distinct whooshing sound, then another, like blasts of water from a nozzle.

When I reached the beach, I could scarcely believe my luck: Only a couple hundred yards away, three gray whales were quietly surfacing, exhaling, then diving again, their bowed backs glistening in the early light. To say I swam with those magnificent creatures would be an exaggeration. But for an hour or so I was never far from them, and they lingered in that spot. Afterward I learned why: They were feeding on shrimp that inhabit the sandy bottom there.

Evidently, gray whales, migrating south to Baja, frequently detour into Puget Sound. All I knew at the time, however, was that I’d been granted a glimpse of the marvelous—three whales briefly revealing themselves while, in the distance, under a cloudless sky, the sun rose over the snowbound peaks of the Northern Cascades. I’ve enjoyed many solitary daybreak swims but none as moving as this one.

Completely at the mercy of the sea, I experienced the going in its most exulting form, a condition Dickinson called divine intoxication.

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I don’t expect every swim to induce intoxication, but having experienced it, not only on this occasion but several others, has made open water all the more alluring. I plan trips according to swimming prospects, the wilder, the better. On a recent drive from San Diego to Montana, I added several new locations to my Western waters chart, including Panguitch Lake, in the mountains of south-central Utah, and Bear Lake, straddling the Utah-Idaho border, both of which I’d visit again, given the chance.

Last summer, while I was on a month-long assignment in Bristol Bay, Alaska, streams were prominent. The most entertaining was the Naknek River, which winds from Naknek Lake, inside Katmai National Park, toward King Salmon. Within minutes of my having entered the water, a brown bear—the Alaskan euphemism for grizzly—ambled out of the woods and stood up, peering in my direction. Then, more disturbingly, when I turned and headed back to where my truck was parked, the bear shadowed me on the beach, though in a haphazard way, finally pursuing something it spied on the bank. The next day I found another stretch of the Naknek, inside the park, where the only animals to be seen were sockeye salmon migrating upstream to spawn. I swam with them, against the current.

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“Then, more disturbingly, when I turned and headed back to where my truck was parked, the bear shadowed me on the beach, though in a haphazard way, finally pursuing something it spied on the bank.”

In recent years I’ve also participated in organized open-water swims, including some masters competitions, but mostly events sponsored by the South End Rowing Club, one of two 140-year-old aquatic institutions (the other being the Dolphin Club) that share a building at Aquatic Park. But organized doesn’t mean tame, especially at South

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End, where I’m a member. We select days and times when the tides are favorable. We rent boats to ferry us to distant jumping-off points. And we arrange for kayak and Zodiac escorts. But the purpose of the additional support, apart from reducing needless risk, is to make it possible to experience the wildest parts of San Francisco Bay—swim-

ming from the waterfront, say, out to Alcatraz, around the rear of the island, then back to shore; or from the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge to the north; or from Point Bonita Lighthouse, the westernmost spot on the Marin Headlands, on the ocean side of the bridge, back to Aquatic Park. The longing to swim ever farther out remains, an instinctive response that I neither control nor fully comprehend. Even more intense, especially now that I’m 60, is the desire to continue swimming—swimming robustly—for all of my remaining days. In August, I, along with a couple dozen other swimmers, will attempt to circumnavigate Pennock Island, located in the Tongass Narrows off Ketchikan, Alaska. An 8.2-mile circuit.

Water temperature in the high 50s, low 60s. Aqua incognita. Yet another opportunity to surrender to the sea.

Edwin Dobb teaches narrative writing in the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is the co-writer and co-producer of the documentary film Butte, America. He’s also a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.

This article originally appeared in High Country News.

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Terms of confusion FLASHINTHEPAN Whole Foods describes its non-organic chicken, produced in Pennsylvania by Bell & Evans, as “barn roaming.” This pretty term invokes images of frolicking chickens, but all we really know for sure is they’re stuck inside some kind of structure.

According to a Bell & Evans representative, that company doesn’t use “barn roaming” to describe its chickens, so I asked Whole Foods what the phrase means. A representative told me, “There is currently no clear regulatory definition of the term ‘barn roaming.’ We expect our suppliers who use this claim on their products to use a reasonable definition and we expect the claim to be truthful.”

Unfortunately, opportunistic ambiguity is typical with poultry and eggs labeling, where the number of loosely defined marketing terms dwarfs the number of legal terms. Terms like “happy chickens,” “ethical eggs,” “pasture raised,” “naturally nested,” “free roaming” and my personal favorite, “wild hens,” mean whatever the producer or vendor wants them to mean—which is to say they’re meaningless.

It’s tempting to assume “barn roaming” means something like “cage-free,” meaning the chickens are stuck in a barn, but not locked in cages within the barn. This would be something worth bragging about if some commercial meat birds, somewhere, were in fact raised in cages.

Laying hens are often caged, but meat birds aren’t, even in the worst cases of confinement farming. They are, however, often crammed together in a structure, which could be construed as “barn roaming.” If so, KFC and Perdue could use “barn roaming” to describe their chickens as well. In fact, Perdue does label its meat “cage-free.” This is like calling it “chicken meat, from chickens.”

A similar bit of marketing word-play is the all-too common claim that chickens or eggs are produced “with no added hormones*.” The asterisk, mandated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in such claims, calls out a footnote explaining that no hormones are USDA-approved for chickens. Since eggs and meat from hormone-pumped chickens essentially don’t exist, the hormone-free claim is pure smoke and mirrors.

Leslie Kline owns Good Egg Farm in western Montana. Her eggs show an American flag’s worth of red, white and blue hues thanks to the diverse breeds she raises. Her chickens have access to a rotating series of green pastures full of plants and bugs, and spend their days scratching and pecking.

Despite her birds’ constant access to pasture, Kline doesn’t use “pastured” to describe their eggs, “because when they step out their door in the morning they are on bare dirt, and have to make the effort, which not all of them do, to find the pasture.”

Charlotte Vallaeys of the organic food watchdog group Cornucopia believes Kline is being too hard on herself.

“There’s no legal definition [for pastured eggs], as with most labels for eggs other than organic.

However, I don’t agree that it wouldn’t be accurate to call [Kline’s eggs] pastured.”

Unlike Kline, most commercial producers use

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any good-sounding label they can possibly justify— an easy task given the plethora of ill-defined poultry and egg labels. But there are a few terms with specific, legal meanings: Organic means the animals are fed organic grain free of animal products, have access to a rooster (or vice versa, if you’ve ever witnessed chicken sex), and have unspecified access to unspecified outdoor conditions. Beak trimming, in which the point of the beak is cut off so the chickens won’t peck each other, is allowed. If done properly, beak trimming won’t prevent chickens from hunting in the dirt, but if the chickens are given enough personal space there wouldn’t even be a pecking problem.

Natural is a USDA term meaning no extra ingredients or colorants are added, and indicates nothing about the bird’s life.

Chemical-Free is a term prohibited by USDA in this context.

Free-range legally applies only to meat birds, meaning they have unspecified access to unspecified

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outdoor conditions. In the context of eggs, “freerange” has no legal meaning.

One-hundred percent vegetarian doesn’t mean the chickens are vegetarian, only that their feed has no animal products. Chickens will eat insects, worms and any other form of meat they can.

And if they’re allowed outside, they will.

United Egg Producer Certified could be called “Certified Caged.” Each chicken is guaranteed 67 square inches of cage space (an 8.5-by-11 inch piece of paper, by comparison, is 93.5 square inches).

Humanely Raised, a National Chicken Council label for meat birds, presumes that anything short of waterboarding is humane. The chickens can be crowded into dim warehouses with less than a square foot per bird. (See “barn roaming.”)

Certified Humane, American Humane Association Certified, and Animal Welfare Approved are all thirdparty certifiers with no links to industry. They do an earnest job of protecting the well-being of commercial chickens. Flock density is considered in square feet per bird, rather than birds per square foot. Of these, Animal Welfare Approved has the most rigorous standards for guaranteeing chicken happiness.

In 2008 California passed Proposition 2, which restricts egg production from caged hens. A similar law was passed in the European Union. Many California egg factories are considering moves to more cage-friendly states—Nevada, Idaho and Georgia are all wooing them. Kline thinks it’s only a matter of time before the cage ban goes nationwide.

Meanwhile, those Whole Foods “barn roaming” meat birds are still locked inside Pennsylvania warehouse barns. For a factory farm, Bell & Evans has established baseline living conditions that are relatively stress-free and humane. The feed is domestically grown and free of hexane-extracted soy. Consumer Reports named Bell & Evans’ chickens some of the cleanest in the industry. For a factory-farmed bird, those barnroamers may be as good as it gets. They may not be living the dream, but aren’t living the nightmare either.

But if you want meat or eggs from bug and plant-eating chickens that lived some semblance of a natural life, you probably won’t find them at Whole Foods or almost any other supermarket. Try the farmers’ market, your local hippy co-op or seek out family farmers in your area.

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

produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio.

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

Hours: Tavern hours Monday-Saturday 3pm-11pm, Sunday 3pm-10pm . Dining Room hours Monday-Saturday 5pm-10pm, Sunday 4pm-9pm. $$-$$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip.

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wiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$

www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 3pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 3pm Sun 8am - 3pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

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7am - 4pm (Breakfast ‘til Noon)

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Spice is nice!

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 38 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an extensive domestic and Italian wine list. Try our Wednesday all you can eat Spaghetti! Dinner only and take out service available.

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

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New Tapas Menu featuring Tuna Kebob - Tare glazed yakitori tuna kebob with sushi rice and nori strips

Open for lunch M-F 11-2 Dinner served Tues-Sat 5-9 (Tapas served from 5-6:30)

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Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve

by TJ Maxx & Ross • 549-5595 Bright was my face when quickening steps followed my desire for a ColdStone creation; and enjoyed, a dipped waffle bowl, upon whose top shone glorious chocolate and sprinkles, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the shakes, the smoothies, the cookies and, above all, the ice cream cakes, decorated exactly how I wanted them–a vast milky river, stretching in the sun. It was then I realized: It's a Great Day for Ice Cream! $-$$ Doc's Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius. eMpanadas • 728-2030 It’s eMpanada season again at the Clark Fork River Market under the Higgins St. bridge! Bikepowered, baked to perfection, and born of fresh, local ingredients, 10 exquisite varieties of handmade, Argentine-style empanadas await you: Carne de bufalo, lamb, pollo, humita, and more. Saturdays: 8am to 1pm. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. Open Mon-Thurs 7am-3pm, Fri & Sat 8am-3pm, Sun 8am-3pm. $-$$ Front Street Pasta & Wraps 247 W. Front Street • 728-6655 Can't decide? Front Street Pasta and Wraps has something to satisfy every craving. We have everything from giant wraps to wok tossed dishes. Spicy peanut sauce goes great with just about everything. Vegetarian friendly menu is great for the non-meat eater. And now you can enjoy a cold beer or a glass of wine with your meal. So step off the beaten path of Higgins and ride into Front Street Pasta and Wraps. Just next to the Carousel on West Front Street. Open M-F, 10am-8pm. $ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert.

Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Harry Davids 2700 Paxson Street, Suite H • 830-3277 Kicking off in February is LIVE BAND KARAOKE and LADIES NIGHT at Harry David’s every Thursday night at 9:30pm. Drink specials for the Ladies! Part Karaoke / Part Dance night with the band Party Trained, this is your opportunity to sing like a rockstar with a live band backing you up – and it will be every Thursday! If Karaoke is not your thing – no problem the band will be playing in between karaoke songs to keep you on the dance floor!

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave. 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily.

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

Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$

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HAPPIESTHOUR Kim Ryan, Brooks & Browns Her specialty: “It’s all special,” she says. I ordered a gin martini, dirty, and it was excellent.

Po u r i n g d r i n k s s i n c e : Before moving to the bar inside the Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park about a year ago, she worked nine years in Helena at Miller’s Crossing.

What’d she learn in Helena: Politicians talk. Ryan, however, is tight-lipped about the secrets she heard.

Best nights to catch her: Brooks & Browns comes to life for Tuesday’s open mic and trivia on Thursdays, both of which are regular shifts for Ryan. On a recent Tuesday a generous crowd supported a long line of local musicians waiting to test their material. JP Falcon Grady, a Browning native with killer pipes and playing a gorgeous Gibson J-200, got the crowd to join him in a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

Her secret: The regulars lined up at the bar don’t just come for the live music; Ryan has a dedicated following. When asked what it is that keeps

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folks coming back, she quips, “Either my sparkling smile or my smart mouth…Probably the mouth.”

Happy Hour specials: From 4 to 7 p.m. every weekday, well martinis run $4, domestic pitchers $5 and microbrew pitchers $7.

Where to find her: 200 S. Pattee Street, inside the Holiday Inn. —Skylar Browning Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch 11:302PM and dinner 5PM-close. LIVE JAZZ Thursdays FREE $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. • 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on all-natural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case.

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

Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

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Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. • 549-2790 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. $$-$$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions.

Featuring locally produced specials as well as international cuisine and traditional Irish fare. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. • 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 5497979. $$–$$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Enjoy a Rocky Mountain summer high with Albert, vineyard dog, who says “bring a picnic ~ I’ll share.” $$

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Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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ASKARI Grabbing garlic

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Dear Ari, How do I know when it’s time to harvest garlic, and how do I do it?

—Garlic Grasshopper

You want to harvest garlic when it’s still young enough to have a long storage life, which is determined by the number of layers of skin on each bulb. Five or six layers, or wrappers, is ideal for long-term storage. The plant starts with eight or nine, and they disintegrate one-by-one as harvest approaches.

Each wrapper corresponds to one of the plant’s leaves. As the plant nears harvest, the leaves start to dry out, beginning at the tips.

The lower leaves start to dry first. By the time a leaf has dried from the tip all the way to where it connects to the bulb, the corresponding bulb wrapper is toast. Most farmers want to get the garlic out of the ground while there are still five or six leaves that are green where they hit the stem.

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I like to harvest a little earlier, when six or seven leaves are still green at the stem, because I have a special method: When I harvest, I pull downward on the lowest green leaf, which pulls off the corresponding wrapper. This removes the dirty exterior of the bulb and leaves it clean and blinding white. This also ensures that your valuable dirt stays in the garden, where it belongs, and not in your garage, or shed, or wherever it is you cure the garlic. I also wipe the dirt off the roots, but I don’t cut them off.

Curing involves storing your pulled garlic plants in a dry, ventilated area for a few weeks.

This allows the plants to send all their remaining resources into the bulbs. During curing, the plant will shrink and dry but the bulb will continue to swell. After it’s cured you can cut the bulbs off the stem, or if the plants aren’t in the way you can leave the bulbs attached and just cut them off as you need them.

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Help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas when Shanti Yoga Studio, 235 Central Ave. Ste. A in Whitefish, presents two donation-based yoga fundraiser classes featuring cellist Lee Zimmerman with the first class running from 11:30 AM–1:30 PM at the studio. The second class runs from 2–4 PM. Call Jodi at 250-1363.

Celebrate an institution that helps care for local children during the Watson Children’s Shelter’s grand opening at its new location, which runs from 12:15–1 PM at the shelter’s new digs, 4978 Buckhouse Lane. Free to attend.

The organization is also currently looking for community members to purchase household items for the shelter. If interested, visit Shopko, Target or Wal-Mart to peruse the gift registries under the name “Watson Shelter.” Call 549-0058.

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End your afternoon with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when the Missoula Winery (formerly known as The Cellars) hosts its tasting room from 4–7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to attend, but the wine costs you.

Call 830-3296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

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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.

Those in Kalispell get down in downtown during Thursday!Fest, which features food, a beer/wine garden, farmers’ market, arts/crafts, kids’ activities and music by Kenny James Miller Band from 5–7:30 PM on Third St. East, between Main St. and First Ave. E. Free.

Visit downtownkalispell.com.

It’s time for dinner and a summer show with hundreds of your fellow friends during Downtown ToNight, which features food, kids’ activities and music from Reverend Slanky starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 5434238 and visit missouladowntown.com.

Your beer starts here. The All Star Show 2010 at the Dana Gallery features work from 20 different artists, including Rob Schlegel, whose piece “Hopper” appears above. A First Friday opening reception begins at 5 PM on Fri., July 2.

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

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

Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict (and no mediation) by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising

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Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.org. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 2, 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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Even staunch hermits find reason to break free from solitude when artist Marie Hausauer presents The Random Musings of a Hermit, a series of mixed media and acrylics pieces on display during Whitefish Gallery Nights from 6–9 PM at The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, 305 Baker Ave. in Whitefish. Free. Call 863-2787.

The Grant Maledy Trio gives you permission to shoot gumbo out of your nostrils when they play Latin-jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Do your part to help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas during a fundraiser at Whitefish’s The Green Tea House, 415 Second St. E., which begins with a silent auction including traditional Himalayan art at 6 PM. A presentation occurs at 6:30 PM, and is followed with music at 7 from Betsi Morrison and Luke Walrath, as well as tunes by Joan Zen at 8 PM. $10 suggested donation. Call Deanne at 862-5050.

Create something 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.

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

Two sisters, the laundromat they inherited, and a whole lot of singing is bound to go down when Beth Schreiber and Cara Ayres present their musical theater Suds’n Suds, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$8 students and seniors. Get advance tickets by calling 239-1218. Visit taketwopro.com.

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

Andrew Belle serves up a pop salad when he plays his singer/songwriter tunes at the Top Hat at 8 PM. Cover TBA. Just make sure you don’t have blues intolerance: Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. W., keeps the bread flowing and puts blues on tap during Blues and Bread V, a first Thursday event from 8–10 PM featuring blues music by MudSlide Charley, as well as filled sourdough hard rolls for $1. Free to attend. Missoula Food Bank gets 25 cents from every hard roll sold.

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

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

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

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

Brooklyn’s Big Tree keeps the psychedelia vacuum-packed when they play indie folk/psych at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Enjoy a weekend of horseback games, competitions, trail rides and other activities to help benefit LH Ranch’s “Horse Share for Kids’ Sake Program” during a Horseback Weekend, which begins just after 1 PM, and runs each day through July 4, at the ranch, 473 Mullan Trail in Gold Creek. $80 adults/$60 teens/$20 children 12 and under, with other prices for couples and families. RSVP by calling Kate at 288-3430 or by e-mailing horseshare4kidssakekh1969@yahoo.com.

Cure your folk withdrawals with a steady serving of experimental folk, indie and pop folk when DM Stith, Inlets and Silje Nes play the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Nate Hegyi and Travis Sehorn open. (See Noise in this issue.)

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

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.

The Whitefish Theatre Co. Kids present a performance of Go, Dog. Go!, at 3 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. Free. Another performance follows at 7 PM and is part of the “Mission Pawsible” art

TICKETS: www.missoulaosprey.com; 406-543-3300; 412 W. Alder Street, Missoula or at the Ballpark!

exhibit reception, which is $5 and begins with the reception at 6 PM at the center. Call 8625371 and visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

nightlife Call ‘em aesthetic hot shots: The Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave., presents the 2010 All Star Show, which features new works by Robert Moore, Carol Spielman, Davi Nelson, Robert Schlegel, Theodore Waddell, Parvin and Tom Bluemlein and runs from 5–8 PM at the gallery.

Free. Call 721-3154.

A man named Pete gets down with pen and ink when local artist Pete Davies presents pen and ink drawings during a First Friday reception at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free.

She’s the ultimate puppy saver: Author Carol Bradley discusses and signs copies of her book “Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills” at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–7 PM. Free. Call 721-2881.

Kyle Ferris offers the winning First Friday combination of re-used barn wood and found prairiefirewood-shelving, along with soda fired pottery, during an opening reception at Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave., at 5 PM. Free. Includes wine, artisan bread and a keg from the Kettlehouse.

Enhance your irises with some enhanced photography from Pakistan taken during Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan when David P. Jacobson presents his photos during a First Friday opening reception from 5–8 PM at Yellowstone Photo, 321 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 728-7637.

Discover the resilience of Croatians through Larry Javorsky’s photographs of his trip to Croatia during a First Friday opening reception at Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway St., at 5 PM. Free.

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The great tambourine protest. Seattle’s TacocaT packs a wallop when it plays the Badlander Fri., July 2, at 9 PM with The Budgets, Secret Powers and Streetlight People. $5.

Youngsters from the 2010 Gifted Education Conference show off their aesthetic gifts during “Printmaking and Poetry: Reflections on Perspectives,” an exhibit featuring mono-prints and text inspired by local artist Katie Ludwick with a First Friday reception from 5–8 PM at Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. W. Free.

Get high on an artistic fire when the Monte Dolack Gallery, 139 W. Front St., presents Dolack’s newest work commemorating the Big Burn of 1910, with a First Friday opening reception from 5–8 PM at the gallery. Free. Call 549-3248.

Fermented adult beverages and art mix with a dash of awesome when the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier, presents a First Friday opening reception featuring work by Jean-Jacques Myard, Blake Nicolazzo, Christy Green and Joe Jindrich from 5–7 PM at the winery. Free to attend, and kid friendly. Includes wine and food for purchase. Call 830-3296.

This is interactive at its core. The Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St., presents iClaw, an exhibit by former Missoulians Ben Bloch and Caroline Peters that includes paintings, as well as interactive works featuring the use of lasers and an air compressor, with a First Friday opening reception from 5–8 PM at the gallery. Free. (See Scope in this issue.)

Animalia hits the canvas during an opening reception for Animals, a series of acrylic mixed media pieces of animals by the local artist Gould with a First Friday reception at 5 PM at 105 Gallery, 111 W. Front St. near El Cazador. Free.

Tick-tock you don’t stop: Frankie’s Mercantile, 223 W. Front St., presents a series of wooden clocks and other works by Terry McIlrath with a First Friday opening reception at 5 PM at the mercantile. Free.

The queer spirit and body gets aesthetically explored through reclaimed materials, metals, wood, digital printing tech-

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niques, photos and light boxes during Queer Bodies, an exhibit by Susan Reahard that’s featured during a First Friday opening reception at 5 PM at The Western Montana Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 202. Free.

Enjoy some chai tea, learn about class offerings, and absorb Joyce Kirkham’s exhibit Tranquility during a First Friday opening reception at Eternal Springs Healing Center, 180 S. Third St. W., above Meadowsweet Herbs, from 5–9 PM. Free. Call 240-6182.

The stylistic variety in the South Second Street Figure Studio’s gallery of the human form will change everything you know about anatomy, during a First Friday opening reception from 5–9 PM at Montana Art and Framing, 709 Ronan St. Free. Features a host of work from artists including Kalon Baughan, Elizabeth Bass, B r u c e Fo r d , Te r e s a G a r l a n d Warner, Barb Karst and Karen McAlister Shimoda. Call 541-7100.

Bust another move with Missoula’s gang of improvisational movers during “Seeds in the Streets,” a First Friday performance with Turning the Wheel of Missoula which starts with interested participants meeting at 5:15 PM at the XXXXs on N. Higgins Ave. You’ll warm up for 20 minutes with facilitators, and then move through the streets until 7 PM. Wearing solid spring colors is encouraged. Free to participate. Call 830-3285.

These watercolors do not run: Kiana Fecteau presents Flora and Fauna, Wild and Not So Wild, an exhibit of her watercolor, acrylic and oil works presented during a First Friday reception at Stevensville’s River’s Mist Gallery of Fine Art, 317 Main St., from 6–9 PM. Free. Call 777-0520.

Tom Roat seeks to make your First Friday a little bit country, and a little bit everything else with his eclectic set at the North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St. in Stevensville, at 6:30 PM. Free. Call 777-5061.

Trust me, this is gonna be tha bomb.

The FayRay Artist Collective presents F-BOMB, a performance that occurs in the parking lot behind Butterfly Herbs, on the 200 block of Pattee St., and features avant-garde fashion designs made by models, and a narrative you won’t forget, beginning at 6:30 PM. Free.

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

Who sold his first painting ever to Deborah Harry for $200? JeanMichel Basquiat, that’s who. The Big Sky Film Series presents JeanMichael Basquiat: The Radiant Child a film about the graffiti artist who became a cult star in the 1970s on the Lower East Side of New York City at the Wilma Theatre at 7:30 PM. Free.

Two sisters, the laundromat they inherited, and a whole lot of singing is bound to go down when Beth Schreiber and Cara Ayres present their musical theater Suds’n Suds, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$8 students and seniors.

Get advance tickets by calling 2391218. Visit taketwopro.com.

Leap into something hilarious when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of Lovers Leap at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Fiddler on the Roof, with a performance at 8 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Visit big-

forksummerplayhouse.com for tickets and a complete schedule of shows.

Pattee St. Free. Enter from the southwest basement entrance.

Jesse B whispers something sweet into your soul when he plays a blend of whispered vocals and indie folk at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

This is a test, a rockin’ test. The organizers for Total Fest present a Total Test, a rock show that features Seattle’s TacocaT, Billings’ The Budgets, as well as locals Secret Powers and Streetlight People at 9 PM at the Badlander. $5.

Rock out for cancer prevention and awareness during “A Celebration of the Life and Music of Norton Buffalo,” which features a performance

by The Knockouts and a special honorarium by Steve Miller, starting at 8 PM at Kalispell’s Eagles Lodge, 37 First St. W. The $2 Jam Band opens. $25/$20 advance at The Eagles Lodge, Sportsman SkiHaus, Montana Coffee Traders and Mission Mountain Natural Foods. Call 752-7265.

The Jimmy Snow Country Show wants you to keep that devil’s food cake at a safe and comfortable distance when they play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

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.

Bust a smooth move to sizzling hiphop and Top 40 tracks when The Tallest DJ in America spins tunes at 9 PM at The Underground, a new downtown dance venue in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N.

Missoula’s

The Wild Coyotes know that family planning always begins with a heady brew or two when they play country and classic rock at the Talking Bird Saloon in St. Regis, 13 Old Hwy. 10, at 9 PM. Free.

Local country kings Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground helps your eggbeater avoid a beatdown when they play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Ain’t no party like a dance party with a DJ and karaoke, which starts at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. $2. Call 830-3276.

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Your heart, the planet and your farmerneighbors 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.

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.

Joan Zen advises against snorting her smelling salt collection when she plays a mix of soul, reggae, jazz and other styles at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. A nuclear family in 1953 meets menopause and Vienna sausages, among other things, during a performance of David Mills-Low’s Is It Hot?, starting at 7 PM at the Opera

House Theatre in Philipsburg, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

Leap into something hilarious when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of Lovers Leap at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 8839212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

The Jimmy Snow Country Show wants you to keep that devil’s food cake at a safe and comfortable distance when they play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

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.

The Lil’ Smokies let you wade through the curdling cold cream when they play bluegrass at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Loosen up those bondage pants in order to bust a smooth move during Dark Dreams: Darkness Falls, a dance party featuring DJs Critical Bill, Raven Digitalis and HAuLi spinning EBM, gothic, darkwave, Industrial and other music styles at 10 PM at the Palace. $5. Features bellydance performances by The Hypsy Gypsies and Madeline.

FREE Summer Concert Series!

Thursdays Q 5:30-8:30 pm Q Caras Park Live Music, Food & Beer Garden Free Chair Massages and Family Activities!

July 1 Reverend Slanky

soul / funk *US Freestyle Kayak Championships* Kids Activity: Safety Night (Fire, Police & More!)

July 8 Tom Catmull & the Clerics & Secret Powers Missoula Independent’s Best of Missoula Night!

Kids Activity: Bitterroot Gymnastics

Wednesdays Q 11 am-2 pm Q Caras Park July 7

July 14

Odyssey

Big Sky Mudflaps

Kids Activity: spectrUM Science Tent

Kids Activity: spectrUM Science Tent

pop / rock

bluegrass

For more information, call the Missoula Downtown Association at 543.4238 www.missouladowntown.com

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

Miller Creek never jams up the system when they play jam and rock at the Raven Restaurant and Bar in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 8 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

Dan Dubuque slaps your lap with some greasepaint when he plays oneman, soul slap-guitar at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

You won’t fall to pieces: The Hamilton Players present its rendition of Always...Patsy Cline, a musical about the life of the late country singer, with a performance at 8:30 PM in the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $10, with tickets available by calling 375-9050 and by visiting hamiltonplayers.com.

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.

When DJ Sanchez commands the turntables every Sat. at 9 PM at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, nobody’s exempt from the mandatory “dance down the bar” rule. Free. Call 363-6969.

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. Enter from the southwest basement entrance.

Cash for Junkers know you like it shaken and blurred when they play Americana with a swing at 9 PM at the Lumberjack Saloon, off Hwy. 12 and one mile up Graves Creek Road near Lolo. Free.

Direct Miss just wants the warm embrace of your buttery fingers when they play the Palace at 9 PM. $3.

The Wild Coyotes pour some almond milk in your half-and-half when they play country and classic rock at the Dog House in St. Regis, off old Hwy. 10, at 9 PM. Free.

Ain’t no party like a dance party with a DJ and karaoke, which starts at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. $2. Call 830-3276.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery every Sat. at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 5421471 on Sat. after 10 AM to register.

Michael Keaton shows us just how juicy he can be during the Missoula Outdoor Cinema’s screening of Beetlejuice, which kicks off the summer movie fest at 9:33 PM on the lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 and visit missoulaoutdoorcinema.org.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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Happy Fourth of July, all you freedom lovers. Many of your favorite hotspots—including the Badlander and the Missoula Public Library—are closed for the day. So go out and be a real

SPOTLIGHT

sudsy cinema

I’ll confess I’ve had moments of drunken inspiration. Some of my best ideas have been sparked after a couple pints at the pub. Problem is, the insight is fleeting. I can never quite remember what made the idea so special upon the arrival of pesky sobriety.

Twenty fans of New Belgium Brewing, on the other hand, have made something of their sudsy revelations. They created beer-inspired films for the brewery’s “Clips of Faith” short film contest, and now, their work is touring across the nation and hitting cities like Madison, Wisc., pictured here during a recent screening. And because beer-themed films are even better when barley soda is on hand, New Belgium is offering a diverse selection of its “Lips of Faith” brand of brews as an appropriate concession stand treat.

WHAT: Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour WHO: New Belgium Brewing and 20 amateur filmmakers WHERE: Caras Park WHEN: Wednesday, July 7, 8–11 PM PRICE: Free MORE INFO: clipsoffaith.com The tour rolls into Missoula on Wednesday, and New Belgium plans to fill Caras Park with beer stands, food carts and, of course, a big screen for your viewing pleasure. As for the films, they’re all under 10 minutes each, and play at dusk. They range from absurdist comedy to environmental pieces, and portray everything from a Homeric kayak journey in the Pacific Ocean, to the love affair between cyclists

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and their bikes. Filmmaking styles are just as diverse too, with stop motion and computer animation on tap, among other genres.

Besides offering you tasty suds and the chance to witness some slick moving pictures, this tour also has a benevolent aim. All proceeds from beer and merchandise sales go to the Bike/Walk Alliance for Missoula, so you can rest—and drink—easy, knowing your money is financing more than an imminent trip to the restroom.

—Cameron Rasmusson

patriot, or something to that effect.

Whatever that means.

under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.

Get down for freedom’s sake during Missoula’s annual Fourth of July Celebration at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, which features music beginning at 10 AM from the Atones, as well as a welcoming ceremony at 1 PM, along with children’s games, food, history demos and plenty more fun until 4 PM at the museum, Building 322 at Fort Missoula. $5/$3 seniors/$2 students/free children under age 6 and museum members/$15 per family. Call 728-3476.

(See Agenda in this issue.)

nightlife

Let freedom ring with a parade when Charlo celebrates the Fourth of July with a parade starting at 1 PM, at 110 Hwy. 212 in Charlo. Free. Call Tracy at 644-9493.

Leap into something hilarious when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of Lovers Leap at 2 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com.

The Hellgate Corvette Club wants you to know that they’re participating in Seeley Lake’s annual Fourth of July Parade, which begins at 2 PM in Seeley Lake, and is free. A meeting of the club occurs after the parade at a private home. Call Mike at 788-4204 for directions to the house.

You won’t fall to pieces: The Hamilton Players present their rendition of Always...Patsy Cline, a musical about the life of the late country singer, with a performance at 2 PM in the First Interstate Center at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds, 100 Old Corvallis Road in Hamilton. $10, with tickets available by calling 375-9050 and by visiting hamiltonplayers.com.

A doctor finds himself in a delicate situation with his patient during Phillipsburg’s Opera House Theatre production of The Girl in the Freudian Slip, with a performance at 4 PM at the theater, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and

Food and fireworks are America’s favorite way to celebrate Independence Day, and Florence offers just that with their fifth annual Fourth of July Celebration, starting 6:30 at Florence Carlton Park, at the Florence Carlton Loop in Florence. Free. Call 273-0012.

They’re freedom lovers, not freedom haters. Sick Pony celebrates the Fourth of July in style when they play at the Raven Restaurant and Bar in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 8 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

Cowboy balladeer Gary Redman shows you what freedom sounds like when he plays a Fourth of July celebration at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Nothing says we love America more than explosions in the sky, especially during Southgate Mall’s annual Independence Day Celebration and Fireworks, which begins at 9 PM at the Southgate Mall/Bob Ward & Sons Parking lot with remarks, an invocation, helicopter landings, and tunes by the Missoula City Band, and culminates in a massive fireworks display at 10:30 PM. Free.

The Wild Coyotes know that family planning always begins with a heady brew or two when they play country and classic rock at the Talking Bird Saloon in St. Regis, 13 Old Hwy. 10, at 9 PM. Free.

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BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 Kyle Ferris presents re-used barn wood and found-prairiefirewood-shelving, along with soda fired pottery displays.

Wine, a Kettlehouse keg, and fresh-from-the-oven Bernice's Bakery artisan bread (also made by the artist) will enhance your viewing pleasure. True to his renaissance character, Mr. Ferris will also be providing a danceable soundtrack for the evening. An evening not to be missed! 5-8pm BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. Higgins, 728-8780 Join us at Butterfly Herbs for our July First Friday celebration where we will feature Pen and Ink Drawings by Pete Davies.

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ETERNAL SPRINGS HEALING 180 S. 3rd West, 240-6182 Grand Opening 5-9 p.m., Eternal Springs Healing Center, 2nd floor, 180 So. 3rd West. Meet instructors, sip chai, learn about classes, free gifts. See First Friday exhibit Cherry by Jessica Russell. Register to win classes. Paint The Tree of Life mural with Elise Jordan, 1-3 p.m. in the garden below.

HIGHLAND WINDS 1520 S. 7th St. W., 541-7577 Out on a summer art walk? Stop in at Highland Winds Gallery/Art Studio at 1520 S. 7th St. W (just west of Russell).Showing will be Peggy Miller's "A Deva's Lament", a bold new oil/acrylic on canvas. Ms. Miller uses the paint and color to create different textures and impressions. Hours: First Friday's 3-8.

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Elementary, Hawthorne Elementary, Lowell Elementary and C.S. Porter Middle School. Call Valerie Addis at 728-2400 Ext. 3051.

nightlife The Missoula City Band plucks, toots and emanates an assortment of sounds for your pleasure when they practice this and every Mon. until Aug. 9 from 7–9 PM in the band room at Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. Free. Call Gary at 728-2400 Ext. 7041 and visit missoulacityband.org.

Larry Hirshberg doesn’t want you to get too corny with the corn syrup when he plays a set at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, from 7–10 PM. Free.

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

Sick Pony wants you to be a seafaring salt fiend when they play Margarita Monday at the Raven Restaurant and Bar in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 8 PM. Free, with $2 margaritas. Call 837-2836.

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

Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

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

Denver’s Slim Cessna’s Auto Club drags your body from the dusty dregs when they play a mix of Americana and folk at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

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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 Help celebrate the Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday with visiting monks from Mongolia and Bhutan during a chanting ceremony that includes food and a 75-candle offering, and begins at 5 PM at the Ewam Buddhist Center, 34574 White Coyote Road, just north of Arlee.

Free. Call 726-0555 and e-mail admin@ewam.org.

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.

Expect something political, philosophical and likely radical when Richard O. Moore—who co-founded Pacifica Radio—reads and signs copies of his poetry book Writing the Silences, at 6 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Everything, at 7 PM at Shakespeare and 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? This one sounds dirty, but it’s not. Who is deemed a “passion bearer” in Orthodox Christianity? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing

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with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

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

Shake yer booty to some hip-hop and enjoy a drink special or two duri n g H i p - H o p Tu e s d a y w i t h Wapikiya Records, which features DJ B Mune spinning beats starting at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free. Call 830-3276.

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

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Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week. This week’s featured organization is homeWORD. Visit kettlehouse.com.

An old school lyric opera hits the screen in HD during The Met: Live at The Roxy encore screening of Tc h a i k o v s k y ’ s o p e r a E u g e n e Onegin, which begins at 6:30 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $12.50 plus fees at Rockin Rudy’s or online at morrisproductions.org.

Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, lets jazz mix with your fermented grape juice when renowned jazz guitar player John Stowell plays from 7–9 PM at the winery. $10–$5 suggested donation.

Call 549-8703.

“Clips of Faith” Beer and Film Tour, which features an outdoor screening of a number of amateur short films, along with full tasting of New Belgium’s Lips of Faith Beers, from 8–11 PM at Caras Park. Free.

Visit clipsoffaith.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

The Missoula City Band toots it up with special guests Karen Callen and Ken Colson when they perform at Bonner Park, on the corner of Hastings and Ronald Avenues, at 8 PM. Free. Call 728-2400 Ext. 7041 and visit missoulacityband.org.

The Singleton Duo will lure you into a false sense of security before blowing your mind with their blues pop and jazz improv when they play the North Bay Grille, 139 First Ave. W. in Kalispell, at 8 PM. Free. Call 755-4441.

Bring a few shekels (actually, dollars would be best) and get down to some sonorous violin tunes when Israeli violinist Lior Kaminetsky performs at 7:30 PM at Congregation Har Shalom, 3035 S. Russell St. Admission is a free will offering to benefit the synagogue.

Call 549-9595.

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: A “passion bearer” is a person who follows Orthodox Christianity and faces death in a Christ-like manner. Heavy stuff, huh?

These are two of my favorite things: New Belgium Brewing presents the

The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spin-

ning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free.

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

Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Dear Mama” by 2Pac (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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

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

Includes other drink specials as well.

LROCK winds up your nocturnal clock with some hot tunes when the band plays an unspecified genre of music at 9 PM at the Palace. Cover TBA.

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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.

He loves Glacier, more than you’ll ever know. The Hockaday Museum of Art, 302 Second Ave. E. in

Kalispell, presents 100 Years, 100 Days: Photography by Chris Peterson, an exhibit featuring pics of Glacier National Park that Peterson snapped with an opening reception from 5–7 PM at the museum. $10/free members. Call 755-5268 and visit hockadaymuseum.org.

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

Boise, Idaho’s Carter Freeman lets you manhandle the easy chair when he plays folk at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. The Glacier Centennial Program presents its Centennial Film Festival, which features a screening of Glacier Archive Collection at 7 PM at the Lake McDonald Lodge at Glacier National Park. $10/$8 students and seniors. Call 888-7971 and visit glaciercenennial.org.

Get intimate with people you might know during an event where John Engen, Caroline Keys, Diego Javier Steele, Valerie Hedquist and Philip Burgess share personal stories told without notes—for 10 minutes or less—on the theme of “leaving home” starting at 7 PM at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive. Free, but bring your own refreshments.

New York City’s Anna Dagmar keeps her ivory keys eager for more when she plays piano with Missoula folk musician Amy Martin, at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10.

Just be sure to “Smoke Two Joints” in order to practice some “Santeria” when Sublime with Rome—featuring members of Sublime with vocalist/guitarist Rome Ramirez—plays the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $40/$38.50 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com. Dirty Heads opens.

Bowling and karaoke go together like radon and Jell-O during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting

when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptopfueled 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.

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

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

Wave those glowsticks for peace: DJs DRE and Chachi get you to dance in a trance when they spin house and progressive trance music during Youphoric Nights at 10 PM at the Palace. Free.

If you’re looking to enhance your First Friday stroll, consider checking out local artist Susan Reahard’s exhibit Queer Bodies. It’s at The Western Montana Community Center, and combines metals, salvaged wood, bamboo paper and other materials with digital images of people. Conceptually, it explores how our bodies are alike and unalike, regardless of our gender expression or sexual identity. And while I haven’t seen an image of her stuff yet, it sounds pretty darn cool. If you think so too, be sure to peep her work, but before you do that, keep me in the loop of your upcoming art showings, avant-garde poetry readings, or folk punk concerts by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 2 to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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Bring a Glove...Catch the Excitement!

Picture this: You’re miles away from civilization, in the northern stretches of Montana, and you’re surrounded by jutting basins that feature a number of crystal clear lakes. The air smells fresh, clean and piney thanks to all those lodgepoles, Douglas firs and other trees that dot the landscape. Not only that, but you have 89 miles of trails at your disposal. Sounds like an outdoors sanctuary, yes?

It is. And it can be yours to enjoy if you don’t mind a little hard work. Here’s the deal: UM’s Wilderness Institute is looking for volunteers to join its first of seven weed monitoring trips up in the angelic Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area on Fri., July 2, with a trip to Bluebird Basin that runs until Mon., July 5. Once you’re settled into the grandeur of the basin, you’ll get to work by mapping and monitoring weeds, taking inventory of campsites, roads and trails, as well as any and all creatures you see moseying around.

You’ll also get the good word on invasive species and native plants, served up with a side of history on the area and its wildlife. Knowing your way around the woods is certainly a good thing too, but it isn’t required for this trip. I’d RSVP quickly though, so call 243-5361 or visit www.cfc.umt.edu/wi/.

Of course, if the only weed monitoring you partake in is a careful eye on your medical sage supply, then that jaunt might not pique your interest. However, since I know you like to inhale stuff—like, say, air—I have a few options on tap. On Sun., July 4, also known as Independence Day—or as I like to call it, Freedom Toast Day—the Hamilton PTA hosts its annual Fun Run, a 10k, 5k and 1-mile walk/run that begins at the patriot-approved hour of 7 AM for 10k racers. The 5k follows at 8, along with the 1-mile race at 9:30 AM. $30 per person/$20 seniors/$20 for the 1-mile run/walk only. Grab registration forms at Hamilton businesses including Bob Ward & Sons and Canyon’s Athletic Club, or click to www.runmt.com/2010HamiltonPTA Fun Run.pdf for a form. Registration forms can also be dropped off between 4–7 PM on Fri., July 2, at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds. Call Autumn at 544-7255.

for details, and call Keagan at 387-3808 to register. Also note you have to pay a $50 refundable deposit for this multi-day project.

All the ladies in the place are cordially invited to pedal it up with your fellow females when the Montana Dirt Girls hit the Sam Braxton Trails in the Pattee Canyon for a bike ride at 6 PM Tue., July 6. Meet at the top of the canyon, and ready yourself for a sweet ride tailored for beginners. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com.

My two favorite things, beer and film, come together for a grand cause on Wed., July 7, at Caras Park during New Belgium Brewing’s Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour, which runs from 8–11 PM at the park. Free to attend. And here’s how it ties in with the highness of Mountain High: Many of the short films have outdoors themes, running the gamut from kayaking to bicycling. Plus, all beer and merch sales benefit the Bike/Walk Alliance for Missoula. See the “Spotlight” in our calendar section for more details, and visit clipsoffaith.com.

Finish off your week with some avian observation when the Five Valley’s Audubon Society leads a bird watching/camping trip in Glacier National Park, which runs Thu., July 8–Sun., July 11. You’ll explore birds in Many Glacier and Red Eagle Lake, as well as on the Camas Creek and Howe Lake trails, with camping slated for St. Mary Campground on July 8–9 and the Fish Creek Campground on July 10. $10 per person. The trip is limited to 20 people, so RSVP fast by calling Larry at 549-5632 or by e-mailing bwsgenea@onlinemt.com. Participants must also make their own camping reservations too, so ring 1-800-3652267 or visit recreation.gov.

I’ll leave you with a reminder that you still have time to register for CASA of Montana’s Park2Park Montana ride, which runs Sept. 6–10. In case you’re out of the loop, it’s that 400-mile bike ride that takes you from Glacier to Yellowstone national parks. It also serves as a fundraiser for Photo by Cathrine L. Walters CASA, known as Court Appointed Special Advocates—a program of volunteers who advocate in court for abused and The outing, described as “strenuous,” takes you into the heart of the neglected children. Registration is due Thu., July 15, so hop to it Bob, with breathtaking hikes that send you as high as 8,500 feet. As for and visit park2parkmontana.org and call 1-866-863-2272. the trail work, it’ll consist of sawing downed trees, cutting back bushes All right, now go map some weeds and hook me up with a botlike a samurai (well, not exactly), as well as maintaining drainages and tle of that fresh lake water. blocking off trails to reduce that nasty thing known as erosion. If that calendar@missoulanews.com sounds like a knee slapping good time, go to bmwf.org/volunteer.php

Or let freedom ring from your soles up in Polson on Sun., July 4, during the second annual Firecracker 1776 1.1-mile run/walk, which begins with day-of registration at 11:40 AM at St. Joseph Medical Center in Polson, located at 6 13th Ave. E. Free, but you need to bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Polson Food Bank in order to join the race. Call Ed at 261-3334.

After you’ve nursed that post-Fourth of July liberty cabbage hangover, give a nod to stewards like John Muir and sign up on Mon., July 5, for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation’s backpacking/trail work trip in the Scapegoat Wilderness, which runs July 10–17.

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Why Goatsilk artists want to give you a free iPad

by Erika Fredrickson

Besides the iPads, the exhibit includes a first generaWalk into The Brink Gallery this week and you will find a room besieged by Apple iPads, laser lights, an air tion Macintosh computer, on display as a sort of vintage compressor tank and a giant crab claw, plus a variety of piece. Next to it will be a bag of coins that Bloch collected found artifacts, bright lights and popular toys. The hash of over 20 years, adding up to around $260—which just hapdisparate objects is part of an exhibit called iClaw, creat- pens to be about the price of one share in Apple stock. ed by artists Ben Bloch and Caroline Peters. The former Artists Caroline Peters, below, owners of Missoula’s Goatsilk and Ben Bloch open their new Gallery have a reputation for exhibit at The Brink Gallery this eccentric, extremely conceptuweek. The exhibit includes al, often puzzling shows, and iPads and a large crab claw, iClaw is no exception. among other things, and is an attempt to ask questions about The exhibit will juxtapose consumerism and pop culture. mass-produced technology like the iPad alongside homemade devices and original art.

According to the artists, it serves as a commentary on pop culture, marketing, consumerism and desire—and not necessarily a negative commentary. It’s more of an attempt to erase boundaries between functional devices made by Apple and more conventional art objects made by people like Bloch and Peters.

“Most of our work is exploratory,” says Bloch.

“Caroline and I are both interested in art that shows how people behave as opposed to making objects that are nice looking…We don’t make judgments on whether people are good or bad or shallow or deep.”

As an added twist to the consumerist exhibit, Bloch and Peters are giving away one free iPad to each person who buys one of two original paintings at the show. Bloch’s landscape and Peters’ more abstract piece are listed between $1,500 and $2,000 apiece.

“What I’m intrigued by is some people may find more value in the iPad and some people may find more value in the painting,” says Peters. “It But the show isn’t just about abstract ideas of condepends on the person. And we’re saying that both of sumerism and technology—it’s also focused on pop culthose responses are interesting.”

Bloch and Peters specifically chose Apple products to tural notions of entertainment. Some of the other displays be a part of the exhibit. While there may be debate about include a couple of interactive experiments that look as if whether a Mac or PC performs better, Apple’s attention to you’d find them in some sort of backwoods science museaesthetics makes it easier to, say, hang an iPad on a wall um. In one corner of the gallery a painting requires gallery viewers to shine lasers on it, giving it a more completed and call it art.

“I think a lot of the Apple stores are very highly look. In another part of the room sits an air compressor designed and they almost look like galleries,” says Peters. with a glove made from a crab claw attached to it. People “We’re just trying to get people to think about that, how can put the glove on and release air through the compresthings are marketed and what companies do to get a cer- sor and out through the claw, all of which creates a sort of tain image across. And literally the iPad really is in some startling and creepy image and sensation.

“The compressed air causes these mysterious effects ways exactly parallel with a painting because of its shape and the claw itself is kind of sinister,” says Peters. “It’s all and size and proportions.”

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sort of magical, and, hopefully, it will make people slightly afraid but also delighted. I think that’s a neat aspect of entertainment.”

The exhibit will also include part of their last project, titled Killin’ It, an online series of self-help videos “for the 21st century” made in collaboration with another former local, Paul Crik. It’s meant to be funny (something about it recalls the philosophical espousing of Jack Handy on “Saturday Night Live”) but it’s also meant to be sincere. And because its on YouTube and sites like “Ever ything is Terrible,” Killin’ It aims to feed into the viral video phenomenon. The whole idea is that using technology as part of making art, instead of separating the two.

“Galleries would probably be better off showing things that you would never expect to see in an art gallery,” says Bloch. “It’s cool when you change the context, like setting up a gallery as a clothing shop or giving away iPads. And the things that are in galleries should probably make their way more out into the public.

Paintings and murals and sculptures that you find in galleries should be in department stores and supermarkets and Jack in the Box.” The artists admit some people may not like their ideas. After all, embracing pop culture—including viral YouTube videos and commercial technologies like the iPad—often seem like a rejection of our immediate surroundings. But in Goatsilk’s world, nature, pop culture and consumerism aren’t so easy to discern from one another. In fact, they’d prefer viewers quit trying to make such distinctions.

“The deeper we come to understand these things, even those we don’t agree with, we’re not so afraid of them,” says Peters. “And it used to be that artists who were sort of before their time predicted the future. But now everyone knows the future date when the new Apple iPhone is supposed to come out. It’s an interesting strategy by Apple. It’s like the future already exists…waiting to be dropped on us.”

Ben Bloch and Caroline Peter’s iClaw exhibit opens at The Brink Gallery Friday, July 2, with a reception from 5–8 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Buried Behind the Barn Alternative Tenacles

If the gothic and twisted illustrator Edward Gorey started a gospel group, this might be it.

Buried Behind the Barn sounds like music for an evil carnival where gaunt men in black dusters scour the alleys for gullible bystanders to corrupt.

In “Port Authority Band,� Slim Cessna sings the melody as banjo player Munly Munly plucks and talks in the background like a doomsday radio announcer just off frequency. “Angel� is more traditional honky-tonk, though the singers’ overly annunciated style makes the song more shady sideshow than something that would ever appear at the Grand Ole Opry.

Bill Mize

The Angel’s Share A Rose in the Fire Music

The first time I heard Bill Mize play acoustic guitar it was over tinny computer speakers—and it was breathtaking. The part-time Missoula resident (he spends half the year in Tennessee) regularly records sound clips for Greg Boyd’s House of Fine Instruments, a gold mine for rare and exquisitely made guitars. According to employees at the local shop, Mize will spend an inordinate amount of time composing an original tune to play on each guitar he’s asked to sample, then record it so the shop can post it online with

DM Stith

Heavy Ghost Appendices Asthmatic Kitty Records

DM Stith’s falsetto voice is similar to Antony Hegarty’s from Antony and the Johnsons, in the sense that you either like it, or you find it grating like Styrofoam rubbing against itself. While I’m not a fan of Hegarty’s vocals, I’ve warmed up to Stith’s on Heavy Ghost Appendices, a double disc that features a number of cover tunes, as well as remixes and reworked songs off his 2009 debut Heavy Ghost.

Stith’s songs are rooted in indie folk, but they sit on the experimental side of the spectrum. That alone is enough to give it a try. Tracks like “Pigs (featuring the Jefferson Street Band)� weaves clang-y percussion and guitar strumming seamlessly with trumpet, tenor sax

Typhoon

Hunger and Thirst Tender Loving Empire

Listening to this highly recommended 10person (or more) collective from Portland, Ore., it’s hard not to feel they’re destined for bigger things. Currently unsigned and lauded as one of the Pacific Northwest’s better live acts, Hunger and Thirst manages to somehow capture the band’s sprawling soundscapes and package them into one engrossing, thoroughly inventive album.

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There are just a few moments when the band derails from its track. “Thirteen Crimes� begins in slinky coyness but ends up being so showtune-y by the end— and not necessarily in a creepy way—that it no longer fits the bloody subject matter. And then there’s “Earthquake,� which gives off a B-52s vibe with its chorus “she’s my little earthquake,� but that never quite hits the same levels of top-notch songwriting as the rest of the album.

It’s narrative songs like “Shady Lane,� that really catch fire: when melodramatic vocals are rare, never stifling the stormy zest of the dark and mysterious storyline. (Erika Fredrickson) Slim Cessna’s Auto Club plays the Badlander Monday, July 5, at 9 PM. $5.

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its inventory. I know of at least one customer who’s purchased a guitar at Boyd’s in part because of how Mize made it sound.

That attention to detail and dedication to craft comes through on Mize’s latest full-length effort, The Angel’s Share. A collection of originals and covers, these 10 instrumentals offer a perfect showcase for the versatile finger-style guitarist. A cover of Ray Charles’ “What I’d Say� gets the album off to a spunky start, but originals like the lilting title track and the African-tinged “Merciful Heavens� make more of an impression. I could have done without Beth Bramhall’s accordion on the cutesy “Puppy Love,� but found Pete Wasner’s Hammond B-3 perfectly placed on a version of Charlie Rich’s “Feel Like Going Home.�

No matter what Mize’s playing, it’s a treat to hear his full songs under headphones—and not as clips on a computer. (Skylar Browning) and clarinet, while Stith’s obtuse lyrics conjure striking images. Other tunes continue along the same vein, like his cover o f R a n d y N e w m a n’ s “Suzanne,� which uses layered, high-pitched vocal harmonies to great—and creepy—effect.

The second disc is equally alluring, and showcases impressive sound mangling and bangin’ beats from electronic producers like Michna and Bibio. Altogether, this is a patchwork of dense textures and strange lyrics.

It certainly isn’t your run-of-the-mill coffeehouse folk music, and that’s exactly why I dig it. (Ira Sather-Olson) DM Stith plays the Palace Thursday, July 1, at 9 PM with Inlets, Silje Nes, Nate Heg yi and Travis Sehorn. $5. “Starting Over (Bad Habits)� starts things off with a shaker, followed by sparse, broken percussion, then a few ragged strums of electric guitar. “I’ve started a new beginning,� frontman Kyle Morton finally sings. “Suspiciously like the old one, only this time I’m ready.� That slow-brewed introduction then gives way to the band’s signature big sound—horns, strings and vocal harmonies that zigzag into a climactic chorus. It’s an ideal start to an intriguing overall effort.

More than anything, Hunger and Thirst shows a band capable of whipping listeners into a frenzy (the boot-stomping, clap-heavy “Mouth of the Cave� or the catchy “CPR/Claws Pt. 2�) or letting them down softly (the gospel-inspired “Ghost Train�). Whichever way the next song leaned, I was hooked, and wherever Typhoon goes from here, I’ll follow. (Skylar Browning)

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New beginnings Kevin Canty updates Missoula in Everything

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Missoula’s favorite bar, Charlie B’s, no longer thinks waiting in the hospital while Betsy undergoes allows smoking. Even with the city’s rampant growth treatment, “until there was just the one door left, the and acres of housing developments, there’s probably last one. A friendly bartender, a cool drink, a meeting, no better symbol of the changes that have occurred in a woman. I am lonely, RL thought. I am lonely. I was the valley. You could call it “gentrification,” you could born lonely. I am best so.” Only, as it turns out, there call it “evolution,” you could call it, in the case of are more options for RL—options that don’t include Charlie’s, a responsible new state law, but Missoula loneliness.

And unlike past Canty characters, RL has a detailed isn’t the same city it was five years ago, let alone 30.

Likewise, James Crumley’s death marked the end interior life. Where in past work Canty’s prose was minof a Missoula literary tradition. The New York Times imalist and context-heavy, Everything features a called Crumley’s genre “gonzo gumshoe,” a kind of panoply of voices and the rich prose of thought. It’s not style you’d expect “if [Raymond] Chandler and Hunter just the three main characters—RL, June and Layla—but everyone who passes through the S. Thompson had collaborated,” a story, including one memorable genre of hard-boiled detectives chapter told from the point of snorting cocaine, womanizing view of Dorris MacKintyre, a and perpetually drunk in a small sheepherder from Ovando dying “Pacific Northwest” town that was in his daughter’s spare room, a thin disguise for Missoula. watching squirrels play on the Crumley’s hard drinking, spare wire outside his window and economy of style was embodied mulling his grandchildren, so difby Missoula poet Richard Hugo’s ferent from himself: “He couldn’t generation of Garden City writers, help wishing they were different, and one of those inheritors is wishing they were interested. A Kevin Canty, Missoula author and kid who didn’t like killing instructor in the University of gophers. Dorris didn’t even want Montana’s writing program. to understand.”

Canty’s work has always been sparse and severe, a kind of Missoula is also different measuring of despair by recordhere, a far cry from the bar town ing the descent of ordinary peocrawling with crazed hippies of ple. His most recent collection of Crumley’s books. In Everything stories, the excellent Where the it’s a tourist town, and the narMoney Went, described the agony Everything ration revolves around real of failed relationships amid bars Kevin Canty estate, college and family. Even and rehabilitation centers, and hardcover, Nan A. Talese with the rising cost of land and was filled with longing for the 304 pages, $25.95 the loss of the old-timers, unknowable, unreachable perfecCanty’s Missoula is redemptive tion you might call holiness, or and hopeful, even as it mourns you might call love. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver, the beautiful obliteration and hard times of its past.

Canty’s ordinary protagonists’ efforts toward redemp- It’s Missoula, now. tion are invariably futile.

All of this combines to create something refreshing But Canty’s latest novel, Everything, is a departure in comparison with the work of the literary stars of from his usual work.

Missoula’s past. Everything has freed itself from the Everything opens on a river outside Missoula—I’m self-obsession that marks Crumley and Hugo, who guessing the Blackfoot—as RL and June commemorate wrote as if their lives were psychological experiments with whiskey and cigars the birthday of RL’s best friend of self-destruction, fully cut off from interrelations with and June’s former husband, Taylor, who died years ear- family and community. Take Hugo’s poem, “Missoula lier. RL’s daughter, Layla, fishes in a side channel near- Softball Tournament,” dedicated to the “wives, beautiby. June announces that she’s finished living “like he’s ful wives in the stands,” who “now take the interest still here. Like he’s going to walk through the door and they once feigned/oh, long ago, their marriage just everything’s going to be OK.” The declaration kicks off begun.” The women are faceless and interchangeable, the story and the subsequent coupling and uncoupling an amorphous blob of “scrimping” and “anger” of the three with various false interlopers: RL with perched as spectators over their equally faceless husBetsy, a long ago ex-girlfriend with a terminal disease; bands engaged in meaningless acts of amateur athletiJune with former alcoholic and real estate agent cism. Compare that to the fully fleshed-out multitude Howard; and Layla with Edgar, RL’s quiet fishing guide of Canty’s novel—a community of individuals drifting struggling with his own young marriage. against one another—and RL and June and Layla formBut unlike Canty’s previous work, Everything ing a family around a child in a new house tucked on offers a kind of redemption, and a real hope for com- the banks of a river. The house, of course, has solar fort and love. There’s a nod to the past. RL is, after all, panels. a whiskey-drinking fisherman—but his best drinking Kevin Canty reads from Everything Tuesday, buddy is long dead, and he has a daughter and respon- July 6, at 7 PM. Free. sibility. Still, RL romanticizes self-obliteration—“all those hundreds of doors closing, one by one,” he arts@missoulanews.com

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No teeth Teenage melodrama is so, like, hard to escape

by Scott Renshaw

They keep trying, the producers of the Twilight films; you’ve got to give them that. For 2008’s Twilight, they hired Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) to direct, suggesting they were aiming for edgy teen drama. Then they went with Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) for last year’s New Moon, suggesting they were looking for more of an epic action vibe. Now they’ve got David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night) for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, bringing on someone with a background in genuine horror. They keep tinkering with the style of a wildly successful series, looking for whatever it was that seemed to be missing in the previous installment.

There is, however, a small flaw in that logic: It presumes that the real problem isn’t in the stuff a director

might think about Stephenie Meyer as a writer, she has clearly tapped into something primally heart-fluttering in this story.

Yet that story is also fundamentally an adolescent melodrama—teen boy troubles writ large—and melodrama is hard for even the best actors to sell under the most ideal of circumstances. Neither is the case with the Twilight films, where key roles are not packed with subtle, refined talent (Billy Burke’s appealing work as Bella’s dad Charlie being a notable exception).

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can’t change. To the delight of countless Twi-hards, Twi-moms and their allies—and the befuddlement of those who just don’t get the phenomenon—the movies are stuck with Stephenie Meyer’s books as a foundation. And later directors are stuck with casting decisions that don’t increase the odds for creating great cinema. The Twilight movies keep changing the curtains and painting the walls, while living in a house made of balsa wood.

For the uninitiated, we pick up with Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) on the verge of graduating from high school and fulfilling her pledge to the vampire-royalty Volturi that she will be “turned” by Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) into a vampire herself. But there are a few distractions along the way. News reports from nearby Seattle suggest that an army of powerful vampire “newborns” is being formed, possibly under the guidance of the Cullens’ sworn enemy, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard, taking over from Rachelle Lefevre). And there’s the small entanglement of Bella’s werewolf pal Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who’s not prepared to give up on his feelings for Bella despite her professions of eternal connection with Edward.

That romantic triangle is, of course, the cornerstone of the series’ Team Edward vs. Team Jacob appeal, and returning screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg gives it plenty of time and attention. The big moments are pitched directly at the core fans, and those scenes—Edward’s proposal to Bella; Bella and Jacob’s first genuinely romantic moment; a tense truce between Edward and Jacob in a mountaintop tent—do exactly what they set out to do. Whatever else one

welcome spark of energy with his performance in New Moon, but he’s still awfully young to be handling the heartfelt speeches he’s asked to deliver here. And they’re actually masters of restraint compared to hilariously over-the-top stuff like Dakota Fanning’s sneering, icy Volturi Jane, or Peter Facinelli’s tight-lipped eyebrow furrowing as Carlisle Cullen.

But Eclipse truly tips over into unintentional hilarity during a trio of flashback sequences. As we watch a colonial-era conflict between vampires and werewolves, and the period-piece “origins” of Cullen clan members Jasper ( Jackson Rathbone) and Rosalie (Nikkie Reed), we see the series at its most absurdly florid—and Slade’s selection for this assignment makes the least sense. There may be a few scenes of vampire attacks, and one grand 15-minute battle royale between the Cullen/werewolf team and the newborns, but there’s nothing remotely horror-focused about Twilight’s approach to mythological beasts. You might be able to take away Meyer’s purple-bordering-on-indigo prose, but you can’t take away her vision of a chaste gothic bodice-ripper crossed with young-adult angst.

For next year’s adaptation of the series’ final installment, Breaking Dawn, Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) has already been selected to direct.

Maybe this time they’ll be looking to inject some energy by turning the Twilight saga into a musical. Heaven knows at this point, anything is worth a try.

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse continues at the Carmike 10 and Village 6. arts@missoulanews.com

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ing murder, no less—in order to hammer out a wicked crime story. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9:20, with 7 only shows on Sun. and Thu., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:20.

as snoops trying to shed light on the 40-year-old disappearance of a teen. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 9, with no shows Fri., Sun. or Thu., and a Sun. matinee at 3.

6:50 and 9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:20, 3:20, 6:20 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

SESAME WORKSHOP: SUMMER BEACH PARTY It’s time to party it up on the beach—with Sesame Street’s Workshop and PBS Kids—in this animated movie that features appearances by Elmo, Pinky Dinky Doo and a guitar strumming dude named SteveSongs. Village 6: 1 only Sat.–Sun. L

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

Soon enough, they realize that being a boy is much more fun than being an adult with responsibilities. Carmike 10: 1:35, 1:55, 4:05, 4:50, 7,

KNIGHT AND DAY Tom Cruise might be summoning the almighty power of Scientology as a bad boy on the run who picks up Cameron Diaz along the way for an adventure filled with blazing machine guns and high speed car chases, all in the name of avoiding federal party poopers like Peter Sarsgaard. Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45. Village 6: 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:25, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:30 with no 9:30 show on Sun. and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

PLEASE GIVE Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt are looking for some extra leg room in their cramped NYC digs, but their older neighbor isn’t going to budge until she kicks the can in this flick that touches on themes of materialism, doubt and class. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 with Fri. and Thu. shows at 9:20 only, and a Sun. matinee at 1.

TOY STORY 3 The voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and the rest of this 3-D animated pack are at a loss when they find out their buddy Andy is going to college to do “adult stuff.” Thankfully though, this team of toys finds another set of adorers at a daycare. Carmike 10: 1:15, 2:25, 3:45, 4:50, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45 and 9:40. Village 6 in 2-D: 1:30, 4:10, 7 and 9:20.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: noon, 12:30, 1, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 7:30, 8, 8:30 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:30 and midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45 with no 9:45 show on Sun. and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9 with no 9 show on Sun.

Salmon never works as a breath freshener. The Secret in their Eyes opens Friday at the Wilma.

water into ice—due to an insane ability to control all four elements—in order to be the peacemaker in a world where one country, known as Fire, plays the neighborhood bully to the nations of Air, Water and Earth. Oh yeah, this is all in 3D, too. Carmike 10: 1:45, 4:30, 7 and 9:30.

Village 6 in 2-D: noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30 and 10.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:05, 12:35, 2:35, 3:05, 5:05, 5:35, 7:35, 8:05 and 10, with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:30 and midnight.

THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES Make sure you’ve brought your subtitle glasses, and your appreciation for flashback sequences, to this Argentinean thriller about an aspiring writer who taps into some deep dark memories—involv-

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NOW PLAYING THE A-TEAM Old-school television gets a cinematic makeover when four Special Forces soldiers—including Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper—get wrongly set up, then locked up, and then break free. From that point, lots of things explode as they try to track down the dude who screwed them...but you didn’t see that coming, did you? Carmike 10: 1:15, 4:10, 7 and 9:45. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:15, 4:15, 7 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO This adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s book of the same name follows a middle-aged journalist and a tatted up hacker who forge an unlikely alliance

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7:30, 9:30 and 9:55. Village 6: 1:35, 4:05, 7 and 9:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:10, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 5:10, 6:10, 7:40, 8:40 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45 with no 9:45 show on Sun. and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9 with no 9 show on Sun. THE KARATE KID Yet another remake surfaces in this face-lifted plot that features an uncommonly calm and composed Jackie Chan teaching some neck snappin’ kung fu moves to Jaden Smith, a Detroit native and newbie to Beijing, China who aims to bruise up some bullies. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7:05 and 10:05. Village 6: 4, 7:05 and 10:05 with an additional Fri. and Mon–Thu. show at 1. Pharoahplex in Hamilton:

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE Who knows if good things come in threes, all I know is that this third installment of the popular series features more pale faced vamps hungry for blood, some killings in the Emerald City, and an epic—epic—struggle for a lady between a werewolf and a vampire. Carmike 10: 1, 1:30, 2, 3:50, 4:20, 5, 6:40, 7:10, 8, 9:30 and 10. Village 6: 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 and 10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with additional Wed. and Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: noon, 12:30, 1, 3, 3:30, 4, 6, 6:30, 7, 9, 9:30 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:30 with no 9:30 show on Sun. and an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:15 with no 9:15 show on Sun. Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., July 2. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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SPERM WAIL I’m 26, and I’ve been looking at my stepsister’s dating life with a measure of worry. She’s 36, and wants children, but still hasn’t found “the one.” She’s gone from being ultra-picky to swearing she’ll just marry the next guy who doesn’t pick his nose at the dinner table. Wow. Is that what it comes down to for women–eventually having to give up and settle for a guy you’re less than on fire for? It horrifies me to think of being her at some point.

—A Decade To Go Women in their 20s are quick to rule a man out for deep character flaws like wearing Dockers, not knowing that you’re supposed to hate Nickelback and buying vegetables grown by multinational conglomerates instead of two aging hippies.

Some women in their 30s, especially those who wake up with baby rabies at 35, continue to maintain high standards: demanding that a man be straight, single and paroled. Ideally, that is. At 39, they’ll pretty much consider anything with a paycheck and human sperm.

The need to scale back from Prince Charming to Prince No Recent Felony Convictions starts with The List– the long list of demands no mortal man could ever meet. But, the problem isn’t being uberpicky, but remaining uber-picky. Many women in their early-to-mid 20s only think they’re ready for a relationship, so they sabotage every potential one that comes their way. Eventually, they get ready, and then ditch those tiny calipers they’ve been using to determine whether a guy’s nostrils flare at the proper angle. Other women need some hard lessons in what to be picky about. Sometimes, it takes a stint with Paul The Pot Cloud or the cruel Adonis to appreciate the nice guy who calls when he says he will and loves to surprise you, and not by letting you catch him in bed with your two best girlfriends.

Most women seem to get their priorities in order well before they come up against the “enjoy by” date on their eggs. But, as Jessica Grose quipped on Slate, “…Nobody ever went broke underestimating the anxiety women feel about getting married.” Grose is referring to the bestselling Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough by Lori Gottlieb. Gottlieb, most charmingly, finds being single at 40 akin to being in a drunk-driving accident and left comatose and brain-dead. Personally, I find there’s nothing lonelier than feeling completely alone while in a relationship with somebody else.

Of course, that’s easier to say if you don’t want kids. Gottlieb’s advice to women who do? “Settle!” Forget looking for love, passion, or intense connection (aka “zing”); look to set up “infrastructure” for a family, and quick-quick, find a dependable guy with a nice fat salary to be your tool. (Oh, the paycheckstasy!)

Obviously, a 30-year-old woman who wants to have children before her ovaries start laughing at her can’t be as picky as she was at 22, and Gottlieb wisely notes that the search for a husband should be “about finding someone who is enough, as opposed to someone who is everything.” But, both her book and her 2008 valentine to “settling” in The Atlantic are filled with advice like “overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics.” Okay, you can be the one who decorates, but how do you spend your life with a guy when kissing him reminds you of licking a dumpster? (Hmmm, maybe Gottlieb is counting on how marriage is often a cure for sex.)

“Zing” isn’t everything, but you’ll probably have a pretty grim time staying married without it (especially if you have to stick it out for all those years from delivery room to dorm room).

Sure, zing fades–you’re probably not going to light up like you did on the first date the 30,000th time he walks into the living room–but having a base of love, attraction, affection and connection is what helps you not hate him when he’s being so annoying it makes your fillings hurt. (Unfortunately, you can’t just look deep into his retirement account and appreciate how obedient he is at household tasks.)

Beyond all the love stuff, you shouldn’t get together with any man you don’t respect and admire; meaning you need to have the hots for a man not just physically but as a human being. If you want kids, do your best to make that happen, but accept that it might not, and develop yourself, your friendships and your life. If you feel complete without a man, men are more likely to feel incomplete without you. You, in turn, might not have to force yourself into that Gottlieb-style bliss of going from demanding that a guy have hair to demanding that a guy have a head.!”

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

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DISC JOCKEY. Employer is seeking a D.J. to work Monday nights plus do fill in work as needed. Will be working 8 P.M. til close. Pays $8.00 an hour plus tips. Must pass a drug test.

Willing to train right person. #2977858 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 EXCAVATION & GENERAL LABORER. Grading foundations, installing sewer and water service lines, operate compaction equipment. Employee will need to be able to get in and out of trench boxes, good physical condition, have own car to get to job sites, valid drivers license with good driving record and ability to drive manual transmission service truck when necessary. This job is temporary, possibly turning to full-time seasonal depending on jobs we receive. #9946379 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 FAIR TICKET WINDOW CLERKS. Sell tickets to the public and collect money for a variety of events at the annual Western Montana Fair and occasionally for special events. Temporary, part-time August 10 to August 15, 2010. Any training in cashiering or money handling would be helpful. Requires cash handling and balancing experience. Experience cashiering with the public desired. Prior successful experience as a ticket window clerk at the Western Montana Fair preferred. Position closes: July 6, 2010. #2977857 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 FOOD SERVICE COORDINATOR. Service breakfast and banquet functions from 10 to 150 people at Missoula area hotel. Will coordinate all aspects of food service including purchasing, receiving, inventory, food prep, cooking, baking, table service, set up, monitoring food levels, and clean up. Will also be in charge of hiring and supervision of staff, so prior management experience is helpful. Must have at least 1 year previous banquet experience.

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GREAT CAREER OPPORTUNITY in Montana’s service of first choice. Earn more with the skills you have. Learn more of the skills you need. In the Montana Army National Guard, you will build the skills you need for a civilian career, while developing the leadership skills you need to take your career to the next level.

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LEGAL SECRETARY. Three lawyers seek legal secretary for permanent full-time employment. Excellent client contact skills, in person and by telephone, are critical, as is the preservation of client confidentiality. The work also involves typing of letters and court papers based on drafts and edited versions of previously prepared papers; accurate filing skills; the entry of basic information about documents into a case management system; good computer skills; scanning substantial quantities of incoming documents; occasional photocopying; and serving as a barrier against telephone sales calls. #9946423 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

HOUSEKEEPERS. A Missoula motel, near the University of Montana, needs housekeepers to clean rooms including bathrooms, changing linens and making beds. Will also dust furniture and empty wastebaskets.

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PT OFFICE CLERK. Responsible for filing, shredding and office cleaning. Hours can be flexible.

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PROFESSIONAL CASE MANAGERS to work with adults with severe and disabling mental illness. Duties focus on the following: link, refer, educate, advocate, coordinate services, intervene, manage and monitor.

Apply psychological knowledge and understanding to development an Individual Treatment Plan for each client. The CM will set up services, coordinate services, link with other agencies, review treatment plan progress and intervention success, and keep treatment team members informed and involved in the treatment process of each client. case Managers monitor and assist clients with daily living skills including but not limited to, assistance with shopping, monitoring symptoms related to medications, assistance with budgeting, teaching skills that support independence, monitoring health, and monitoring contact with the family members.

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Shift will be Monday-Friday, 9:00am-4:00pm. Pay will depend on experience and qualifications. #2977844 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 GIS TECH. Perform work to support and assist in the development and maintenance of complex databases and the graphic representation of data using geographic information systems(GIS) and other database software. Requires BA/BS degree in cartography, GIS or related field, or certification by a technical school with an emphasis in GIS. Requires 1 year of experience in the fields of cartography or GIS, and experience in GIS data maintenance, map production and graphic representation of data.

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Occasionally requires some physical exertion such as walking over rough, uneven terrain and working outdoors in bad weather conditions. Position closes: July 6, 2010. #2977854 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 Volunteer Coordinator CASA of Missoula is looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to serve 3/4 time to full-time, $12.00/hour, flex benefits provided. For more information please contact LaNette, lanette@casamissoula.org

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Insurance after 6 month probationary period, as well as retirement plan. Will start as seasonal, full-time and could work into permanent job. Schedule to be discussed at interview, business runs Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm #2977859 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance.

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The Partnership for Children is currently seeking a dedicated, caring professional to work as a Treatment Coordinator with latent age children in our family care program. Duties include case coordination, in-home and out-of-home services and administrative responsibilities. If you have a Master's degree working toward licensure OR a Bachelor's Degree in a human services field with 5 years exp. and experience working with SED children, possess knowledge of Attachment Theory and have a working knowledge of social services within the Missoula and outlying communities, then we are looking for you. This is a 30 hour a week, salaried position (.75 FTE).

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): How well are you capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities, Aries? Since we’re halfway through 2010, let’s take an inventory. I’m hoping you’re well underway in the heroic task of conquering your past. It has been and will continue to be prime time for you to wean yourself from unresolvable energy-drains. So exorcise irksome ghosts, please! Pay off ancient debts! Free yourself from memories that don’t serve you! You’re finally ready to graduate from lessons you’ve had to learn and re-learn and re-re-learn. The coming months will bring you even more opportunities to finish up old business that has demanded too much of your time and energy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Now that we’re midway through 2010, it’s time to assess how well you’re taking advantage of this year’s good fortune. So let me ask you, Taurus: Have you been expanding your web of connections? Have you honed and deepened your networking skills? Have you taken bold steps to refine your influence over the way your team or crew or gang is evolving? The first half of the year has been full of encouragement in these areas, and the coming months will be even more so.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Let’s do a check-in on your progress so far in 2010, Cancerian.

The year’s half over, and I’m wondering if you’ve been cashing in on the unique invitations that life has been sending your way. The way I understand it, you’ve been summoned to emerge from your hiding place and go wandering around in exotic and unfamiliar places. Events that in the past may have turned you inward toward thoughts of safety have in recent months nudged you out in the direction of the Great Unknown. Have you been honest enough with yourself to recognize the call to adventure?

Have you been wild and free enough to answer the call? If not, I suggest you find it in yourself to do so.

The next six months will be prime time to head out on a glorious quest.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The year’s half over, Leo. Let’s take an inventory to see whether you’ve been taking maximum advantage of the special opportunities life has been offering you.

Consider these questions: Has the quality of your intimate alliances become especially intense, invigorating and catalytic in recent months? Have you created lots of small miracles with the people you care about most? Have you been willing to risk more to get the most out of togetherness, even if it means dealing with shadowy stuff that makes you uncomfortable? If there has been anything missing from your efforts in these heroic tasks, get to work. Between now and January 2011, you’ll have a mandate to go even deeper than you have since January 2010.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How well have you been attending to 2010’s major themes, Gemini? Since we’re midway through the year, let’s do a check-in. I hope that by now you are at least 15 percent sturdier, stronger and braver than you’ve ever been in your entire life, and at least 20 percent better organized and disciplined. I hope that you have outgrown one of your amateur approaches and claimed a new professional privilege. Now write the following questions on a slip of paper that you will leave taped to your mirror for the next six months. “1. How can I get closer to making my job and my vocation be the same thing? 2. What am I doing to become an even more robust and confident version of myself?”

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How’s that project coming, Scorpio? You know, that assignment the universe gave you at the beginning of 2010 to loosen up, play more and periodically laugh like a tipsy Sagittarius. Have you been taking a sabbatical from the seething complications that in most other years are your rightful specialty? Did you throw some of your emotional baggage off a cliff?

Are you dancing more frequently? I hope you’ve been attending to all of this crucial work, and I trust that you’re primed to do even more of it during the next six months. To take maximum advantage of your appointments with relief and release, you’ll have to be even sweeter and lighter.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE 2009 DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE TAX SALE All 2009 delinquent taxes, including penalties, interest and costs, are now a lien upon the real property upon which those taxes were assessed. Unless the delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs are paid prior to the time of the Treasurer’s tax sale, the county’s lien will be offered for sale. The Treasurer’s tax sale is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Friday, July 16, 2010 in the County Treasurer’s office, first floor, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W Broadway St, Missoula, Montana. A list of all properties on which 2009 taxes are delinquent will be on file at the time of the sale and open for public inspection during business hours 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Penalties, interest and costs will be added to the delinquent taxes upon payment by the owner or purchaser. Before a tax lien can be purchased for assignment, “Proof of Notice” according to MCA 15-17-323 (5) must be presented at the time of purchase. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer Missoula County, Montana MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT 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., Friday July 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 corpora-

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PUBLIC NOTICES tion 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 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING Application for Property Tax Reduction for Commercial or Industrial Real Property Improvements and Personal Property. MISSOULA—The Missoula Board of County Commissioners, Missoula County Public Schools and the Potomac School District will conduct a joint hearing on an application for property tax reduction for commercial or industrial real property improvements and personal property, in accordance with Montana law (15-24-2102, MCA) on two (2) 1995 Timberjack 1270 B Harvesters and one (1) 1996 Timberjack 1210 B Forwarder on behalf of Woodland Restoration, Inc. The joint hearing will be conducted at the County Commissioners regularly scheduled Public Meeting oon Wednesday July 7, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing.

Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 7214043 or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Dale Bickell, Missoula County Chief Administrative Officer at 258-4229. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. DATED THIS 21ST DAY OF JUNE, 2010

MICHAEL M. GEORGE, an individual, GALLATIN VALLEY HEALTH FITNESS GROUP, a Montana Limited Liability Company, KIMBERLY RICHARDSON d/b/a COUNTESS CLEANING, a sole proprietorship, YOUNG’S ELECTRICAL SERVICE, INC., a Montana Corporation, ANDREW BLANCHFORD, d/b/a BLANCHFORD LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS, INC., a Montana Corporation, CONCRETE MATERIALS OF MONTANA, LLC a Montana Limited Liability Company and FIVE STAR EXTERIORS, LLC, a Montana Limited Liability Company, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDENT MICHAEL M. GEORGE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of foreclosing the real property situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: The Northeasterly 22 1/2 feet of Lot 18, all of Lot 19 and Southwesterly one-half of Lot 20 in Block 45 of South Missoula, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof commonly know as 621 Brooks Street, Missoula, Montana 59801. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, the 8th day of June, 2010. (SEAL) /s/ Jennifer Brandon, Gallatin County Clerk of Court By /s/ Paula Cox, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF MISSOULA PROBATE NO.: DP10-84 DEPT NO.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF)) MARY DENISE PETERSON,))Deceased.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Mary Denise Peterson, also known as Mary D. Peterson. All persons having claims against the 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 Elizabeth Ann Gupton, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in c/o Denise Peterson, Attorney at Law, 301 7th Ave. W., Polson, MT 59860, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 11th day of June, 2010. /S/ Elizabeth Ann Gupton—Personal Representative

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER HEREBY NOTIFIES TAXPAYERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY THAT PERSONAL PROPERTY OF 2010 TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON AUGUST 2, 2010.

UNLESS TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT AND WILL DRAW INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID AND 2% WILL BE ADDED TO THE DELINQUENCY TAXES AS A PENALTY.. /s/ VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-10-91 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHARLES L. EIDEL, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Dennis Schneiter 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 (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dennis Schneiter, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Benjamin T. Cory, PO Box 7099, Missoulua, Montana 59807-7099, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

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MONTANA EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, GALLATIN COUNTY Dept. 3 Judge John C. Brown Cause No. DV-09421AX SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONTANA, INC., Plaintiff, vs MAKE MY HOUSE GREEN, LLC, a/k/a IDEA CONSTRUCTION, LLC, A Montana Limited Liability Company, COREY WILLIAMSON, an individual, CALEB J. BEAUDIN, a/k/a CALEB J. BEAUDIN—BDC, an individual,

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-08095 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FLOYD M. CLARK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives 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 Barbara L. Olson and Mark F. Clark, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED June 3, 2010. /s/ Barbara L. Olson, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Floyd M. Clark, deceased. DATED June 3, 2010. /s/ Mark F. Clark, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Floyd M. Clark, deceased MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-10-77 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH V. BUCKHOUSE, 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 WIlliam Moore, 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 27th day of May, 2010. /s/ William Moore, Personal Reprsentative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-69 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOSHUA CLAIRMONT, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karen Prazak 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 first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Tamara White, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Del Post, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 8th day of June, 2010. /s/ Del Post Attorney for Tamara, Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua Clairmont MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-10-64 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOHN A. GAUGHAN, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Terry L. Wolfe, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o SOL & WOLFE Law Firm PLLP at 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED June 9, 2010. /s/ Terry L. Wolfe, Personal Representative, c/o Sol & Wolfe Law Firm, PLLP, 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-10-72 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID LAURANCE STROUP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tht the undersigned has been appointed Special Administrator of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred.

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or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 11th day of June, 2010. THIEL LAW OFFICE, PLLC Attorney for Special Administrator /s/ Saul H. Seyler MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-10-709 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Carol Lee Ridenour-Brown, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Carol Lee Ridenour-Brown to Kelli Carolee Ridenour-Brown. The hearing will be on July 13, 2010 at 1:30pm. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: May 27, 2010 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court (SEAL) By: Cori Oller, Deputy Clerk of Court NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Recorded o 06/14/2010 Trustee Sale No.: MT16000003-10 Loan No.: MT-SLS-090167 Title Order No.: 100029249 Reference is made to that certain Trust Deed made by HEIDI BRUGH, A MARRIED PERSON, as Grantor, to WESTERN TITLE AND ESCROW, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, dated 06/30/2006, and Recorded on 07/03/2006 as DOCUMENT NO. 200616298 Book 778, Page 358. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee on behalf of the holders of the Terwin Mortgage Trust 2006-9HGA, Asset-Backed Certificates, TMTS Series 20069HGA, without recourse. Said Trust Deed encumbers the following described real property situated in said county and state, to-wit: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 18 OF HIGH PARK NO. 1 IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 7 OF PLATS AT PAGE 52 The street address or other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 712 PARKVIEW WAY, MISSOULA, MT 59803 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the above street address or other common designation. Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said Trust Deed; the default for which the foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay when due, the following sums: ALSO, if you have failed to pay taxes on the property, provide insurance on the property or pay other senior liens or encumbrances as required in the note and Deed of Trust, the beneficiary may insist that you do so in order to reinstate your account in good standing. The beneficiary may require as a condition to reinstatement that you provide reliable written evidence that you have paid all senior liens or encumbrances, property taxes, and hazard insurance premiums. These requirements for reinstatement should be confirmed by contacting the undersigned Trustee. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following to wit: The unpaid principal balance of $187,699.95 with interest thereon at the rate of 7.75 from 09/01/2009; plus late charges of $64.92 each month beginning 09/01/2009 and prior accrued late charges until paid; together with title expenses, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney fees incurred herein by reason of said default; and any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein.

WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/20/2010, at the hour of 11:00AM; On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broad way, Missoula, MT. County of MISSOULA State of Montana, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the said described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reason-

able charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Trust Deed, together with trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word “Grantor” includes any successor in interest to the Grantor as will as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, and the words “trustee” and “beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: June 10, 2010 LENDER’S SERVICE TITLE AGENCY INC., AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE By: Gerri Sheppard, Authorized Signor ASAP# 3614234 06/24/2010, 07/01/2010, 07/08/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/19/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200730329, Book 809, Page 230, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Pamela Stanford, a married person and Joseph Stanford, as Joint Tenants 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 1 in Sun Mountain Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200828038; B:831, P:227, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for WFMBS 2008-AR1. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of April 26, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $738,033.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $644,528.75, 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 September 7, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.19348) 1002.106432-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/10/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200500675, Bk 746, Pg 388, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Doreen Ginn, a married woman was Grantor, Argent Mortgage Company, LLC was Beneficiary and Ticor Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Ticor Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel B. of the Amended Subdivision Plat of Lots 1, 2 & 3, Block 13, Butte Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust, 2005-7. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of April 26, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $149,684.00. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $145,422.83, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 3, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.12661) 1002.155687-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/15/98, recorded as Instrument No.

199834018, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David E. Chamberlain, a single person was Grantor, Norwest Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and First Montana Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel E of Certificate of Survey No. 3983, located in the Northwest quarter (NW1/4) of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Less and excepting therefrom any right, title or interest in any minerals, mineral rights or related matters, including but not limited to oil, gas, coal, and other hydrocarbons. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of May 4, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $74,746.49. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $72,311.23, 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 September 13, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.73996) 1002.156751-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/24/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200709948, Bk 795, Pg 1643, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michele NaultRichter and Von Richter as joint tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14 of River Pine Addition Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly install-

PUBLIC NOTICES ments 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 10/28/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 3, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $85,661.50. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $79,808.71, 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 September 13, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.12679) 1002.156716-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/13/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200608400, Bk 772, Pg 1649 and modified on 10/29/06 by Instrument No. 200627460, Bk 772, Pg 1074, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Timothy Wallace and Catherine Johnson was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association was Beneficiary and Wells Fargo Financial National Bank was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Wells Fargo Financial National Bank as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 of Katie Ellen Acres, a platted subdivision in

Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with private access and public utility easement along the North 30 feet of Lot 1 of Katie Ellen Acres. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 11, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $235,725.89. This amount includes

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the outstanding principal balance of $230,249.86, 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 September 20, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.74348) 1002.157595-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200725792, Bk 806, Pg 945, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Aaron Jones was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Primary Capital Advisors LC. was Beneficiary and Title Services of Missoula, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services of Missoula, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Gustafson Addition IV, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of May 13, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $220,698.43. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $210,275.78, 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 September 22, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.74527) 1002.157936-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 10, 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 5 of D&E Homesites, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Tax Map or Parcel ID No. 3392802 ALAN W FUSSELL AND TONYA M FUSSELL, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Insurance, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 27, 2007 and Recorded November 14, 2007 in Book 808, Page 1500 under Document No. 200729863. The beneficial interest is currently held by Beneficial Montana Inc d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,378.26, 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 31, 2010 is $130,148.76 principal, interest at the rate of 12.240% now totaling $17,305.88, late charges in the amount of $344.55, escrow advances of $2,784.50, and other fees and expenses advanced of $237.26, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.64 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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: April 2, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 2, 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 Hsbc V Fussell 41472.441 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 10, 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 B2 of Certificate of Survey No. 2395, located in North onehalf of Section 14, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Brian L Hagestad and Tammy D Schreiber, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Montana Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated January 31, 2008 and Recorded on February 5, 2008 under Document No. 200802582 Bk-812 Pg-1241.

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 $2,499.62, beginning May 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 25, 2010 is $289,176.91 principal, interest at the rate of 7.25% now totaling $22,343.86, late charges in the amount of $1,695.92, escrow advances of $6,253.25, and other fees and expenses advanced of $662.03, plus accruing interest at the rate of $57.44 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: April 2, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 2, 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 Gmac V. Hagstad 41965.224 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 16, 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 FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES SITUATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA TO WIT: LOTS ELEVEN (11) AND TWELVE (12) IN BLOCK SEVEN (7) OF BECK’S HOME ADDITION A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF NOW ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO.: 2018307 Tina K. Thompson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Ins., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 04, 2008 and Recorded on April 23, 2008 under Document # 200809064, in Bk-817, Pg-0842.

The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC Mortgage Services.

Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,200.71, beginning October 9, 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 April 20, 2010 is $114,213.31 principal, interest at the rate of 8.54% now totaling $5,987.77, late charges in the amount of $222.75, escrow advances of $623.40, suspense balance of $-961.77 and other fees and expenses advanced of $66.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.09 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: April 6, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 6, 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 HSBC v Thompson 41472.419 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 16, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 2 OF ALTA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Phyllis J. Bardwell, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Chase Bank USA, N.A, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 6, 2007 and recorded on November 13, 2007, Book 808, Page 1311 as Document No. 200729674.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CHASE HOME FINANCE, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,614.22, 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 April 30, 2010 is $180,908.85 principal, interest at the rate of 8.125% now totaling $8,574.30, late charges in the amount of $409.30, and other fees and expenses advanced of $361.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $40.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against

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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: April 6, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097, Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 6, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Chase V. Bardwell NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 16, 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 25 of Valley Vista, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Randy R. Schwaderer and Lori D. Schwaderer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 3, 2005 and recorded June 8, 2005 in Book 754, Page 12, as Document No. 200513707. 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 $655.67, 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 April 25, 2010 is $168,928.92 principal, interest at the rate of 3.50% now totaling $3,345.03, late charges in the amount of $196.68, escrow advances of $1,467.95, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,838.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.20 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: April 6, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On April 6, 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 Gmac V Schwaderer NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 23, 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 South 60 feet of Lots 9 and 10 ion Block 22 of LOW’S ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Travis R. Jakeway, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 31, 2005 and recorded September 9, 2005 at 4:12 o’clock P.M. in Book 759, Page 1334, as Document No. 200523727. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services, LLC. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $644.58, 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 March 27, 2010 is $119,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50% now totaling $5,063.05, late charges in the amount of $322.30, escrow advances of $656.52, suspense balance of $-368.16 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,407.66, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.19 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: April 14, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss.

County of Stark) On April 14, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Aurora v Jakeway 40990.244

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 23, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9 in Block 1 of Webber Addition, A Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, According to the official recorded plat thereof. Eugene Karl Schafer A/K/A Gene Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer A/K/A Janet L Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to U.S. Bank National Association ND, as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated January 25, 2000 and Recorded February 25, 2000 in Book 864, Page 609 under Document Number 200003673.. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association ND. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $Revolving, beginning January 25, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 14, 2010 is $27,117.67 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25% now totaling $606.06, and other fees and expenses advanced of $432.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $3.90 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: April 14, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss.

County of Stark) On April 14, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Us Bank Home Mortgage V Schafer 41345.112 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 30, 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 2 OF GRINNELL ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF David J. Lopez and Dorothy Lopez, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 14, 2004 and recorded on December 20, 2004 in Book 745, Page 415 as Document No. 200435298. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1, 077.34, beginning October 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been

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The total amount due on this obligation as of May 08, 2010 is $139, 278.93 principal, interest at the rate of 5.625% now totaling $5,344.60, late charges in the amount of $259.02, escrow advances of $617.66, and other fees and expenses advanced of $88.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.46 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: April 20, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss.

County of Stark) On April 20, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson,

Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Phh V. Lopez 41392.642 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 9, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in Lots 5 and 6 of Cobban and Dinsmore’s Orchard Homes, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Southwest corner of said Lot 5; thence East 221.5 feet along the center line of South Third Street to a point; thence North 30.0 feet to a point on the Northerly right of way South Third Street, said point being the true point of beginning; thence North 190.0 feet to a point; thence East 143.0 feet to a point; thence South 190.0 feet to a point on the Northerly right of way line of South Third Street; thence West 143.0 feet along said right of way line to the true point of beginning, all according to the official plat thereof.

RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 315 of Micro at Page 320. Robert D Aaland and Heather C Gamble, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 26, 2008 and Recorded June 27, 2008 in Book 821, Page 1355 as Document No. 200815176. The beneficial interest is currently held

by Flagstar 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 $1,049.94, beginning May 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 22, 2010 is $131,872.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $8,511.18, late charges in the amount of $42.58, escrow advances of $3,234.13, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,473.46, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.94 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: March 31, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On March 31, 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 Flagstar V. Aaland

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9 Gaping holes 15 It's about a quart 16 Type of thermometer 17 What an arrow indicates on e-books 18 Suzuki of the Mariners 19 "Poverty is ___ that obscures the face of greatness" (Kahlil Gibran) 20 Restaurant with a green and red logo 21 More bug-filled 24 Title bee participant in a 2006 movie 25 Make red with blood 27 Part of a Latin boast 28 Goethe play with music

by Beethoven 29 Sea eagle 30 Pluot center 33 "I'm ___ home right now..."

34 Sun. talk 35 Calle ___ 37 Makes a big speech 39 Feudal worker 40 Term limits?

45 Dual-purpose 47 It comes before pi 48 Late 1990s Cadillac model 49 Rental agreement 50 Lose personnel, in military-speak 51 Character from Greek myth associated with golden apples 54 Give in 55 Ayn Rand title word 56 Sprinkle in flour 57 Equals

1 It calls itself "The Broadband Phone Company" 2 Lopsided 3 Irritating sorts 4 ___ Online (long-running MMORPG created by Lord British) 5 Cable ride 6 Airport guess, for short 7 Turkey serving 8 "We ___ Family" 9 Bowling league?

10 Anne of HBO's "Hung" 11 Reach (a goal) 12 Ben and Jerry, for two 13 Singer Faithfull 14 More likely to spill over 22 Seasonal Starbucks drink 23 Unverified 24 Red food coloring source 26 Smidgens 30 A few words from afar 31 Free glass 32 Beat badly 36 Bid 38 Suffering from insomnia 41 Time period that shaped the Great Lakes 42 Sports & Leisure color, in the original Trivial Pursuit 43 Pater ___ ("Our Father" prayer) 44 Golf champ Sam and family 46 Faulty Challenger part 51 Gp. that awards cinematography credits 52 Despite, in poems 53 Radius location

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PUBLIC NOTICES Missoula County RSID 901 Lolo Water District 2009 Drinking Water Quality Report Is my water safe?

We are pleased to report that our drinking water is safe and meets federal and state requirements. This report is a snapshot of last year's water quality. Included are details about where your water comes from, what it contains, and how it compares to standards set by regulatory agencies. We are committed to providing you with information because informed customers are our best allies.

Do I need to take special precautions?

Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immuno-compromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. EPA/Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by Cryptosporidium and other microbial contaminants are available from the Safe Water Drinking Hotline (800-426-4791).

Water Quality Data Table The table below lists all of the drinking water contaminants that we detected from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009. The EPA or the State allows us to monitor for certain contaminants less than once per year because the concentrations of these contaminants do not change frequently, For contaminants that are not monitored yearly, we have reviewed our records back seven years. The presence of contaminants in the water does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk.

Where does my water come from?

Our water source is groundwater from four wells. Three of the wells are located on Glacier Drive and draws from the Bitterroot Aquifer; the fourth well is located along Highway 12 and draws from the Lolo Creek Aquifer.

Source water assessment and its availability.

We have a source water protection plan available from our office that provides more information such as potential sources of contamination.

Why are there contaminants in my drinking water? Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791).

The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity: Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, that may come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations, and wildlife; inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, which can be naturally occurring or result from urban stormwater runoff, industrial, or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining, or farming; pesticides and herbicides, which may come from a variety of sources such as agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and residential uses; organic Chemical Contaminants, including synthetic and volatile organic chemicals, which are by-products of industrial processes and petroleum production, and can also come from gas stations, urban stormwater runoff, and septic systems; and radioactive contaminants, which can be naturally occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining activities. In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, EPA prescribes regulations that limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water which must provide the same protection for public health.

How can I get involved?

We at Lolo Water are on duty around the clock to provide top quality water to every tap. We ask that all our customers help us protect our water sources. Interested citizens can also take an active role in the District by attending the monthly water board meeting. Please call our office at 406-273-2733 if you have any questions.

Additional Information for Lead.

If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated with service lines and home plumbing. Missoula County RSID901 - Lolo Water District is responsible for providing high quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested. Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.

Violations: We are pleased to report our system had no violations.

For more information please contact: Jasen Neese Address: PO Box 476 Lolo, MT 59847 â&#x20AC;˘ (406) 273-2733

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

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

541-7387 JEEPERS

Jeepers is a lovely, large lady who would make a perfect family dog -- no matter how large or small the family might be. She could bond to a single person or be a great companion for children; she just needs a chance to show her stuff!

549-3934 BEAU

CHARLIE

Charlie is a young Australian Shepherd with handsome looks and a lively personality.

He's on the smaller side, so he might fit best into a family with children. We think he's the perfect size to be a kids' dog.

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

CHESTER

Chester was found with a big scrape on his forehead that must have been painful when it happened, but he hasn't let it affect his happy personality. Of course, he'd be even happier if he had a family of his own again!

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

TINA

Tina and her sister Missy have been at the shelter a long time, and they are really looking forward to having a home again. Their adoption fees have been sponsored, so these sweet ladies are the best bargain around!

In his short puppy life, Beau has spent most of his time in recovery.

Now that he's feeling better, he's really hoping his luck will change. Beau's ready to be part of your family. Call the Humane Society @ 549-HSWM for more information on Beau's story, and to find out how you can meet him.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

ORLANDO

Orlando is a laid back dude with a happy outlook on life. He enjoys active times, but he's just as satisfied when he gets to stretch out and relax in the sunshine. However, he would prefer to have some special person to share all the good times.

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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

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

MISSY

Missy is the serious sister, and Tina is the mischievous one. Together they are a dynamic duo who just want to be able to light up some family's life with their affection and playfulness. Their fees have been sponsored, so their adoption would be a bargain!

CHICO

Chico is looking for someone ready to have some fun. He likes playing outside, hiking, swimming, and camping, and he knows the weather is getting nice again. In fact, Chico would love to come along on all your adventures!

MILLIE

Nobody gives you a greeting like Millie! As soon as she sees you coming, her tail and butt begin to wiggle, then her tongue drops and her grin can't help but make you smile. She already thinks she's your best friend, so why not make it official!

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

NORMA JEAN

Norma Jean doesn't look worried, because she knows she'll be home soon. It's adopt-a-cat month at the Humane Society, and this is the last Wednesday to take advantage; young adult cats like Norma Jean are half price!

Flowers for every bride.

Affordable flowers with an artistic flair.

The Flower Bed 2405 McDonald Ave. 721-9233

WOBS

People must be leery of taking on a deaf cat.

That's the only possible explanation for why Wobs is still at the shelter. In five minutes she'll show you there's nothing to be afraid of. Nothing slows her down; in fact the world is her oyster, she just wants someone with her for the ride!

MON - SAT 10-9 • SUN 11-6 721-5140 www.shopsouthgate.com

Improving Lives One Dog & Cat at a Time Missoula’s Unique Alternative for Dog & Cat Supplies

www.gofetchDOG.com - 728-2275 517 S. Higgins • 627 Woody • 3275 N. Reserve Street

YA H T Z E E

No special occasion, Yahtzee always looks this lovely. She has big, bright eyes, and a soft, plush coat, plus she happens to be super sweet too! She likes to snuggle and is looking for her soul mate. Aren't we all?

237 Blaine • 542-0077

These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4710 B E V E R LY

They threw her out of the car and sped off in a cloud of dust and gravel.

Beverly was devastated that her family would do such a thing.

She didn’t know what to do or where to go… and the kids in the neighborhood pelted her with rocks every time they saw her.

GINGER

She had never felt so lost and alone in her entire life. There was death and destruction everywhere.

When the fire broke out they all ran for their lives, but seven of her family members didn’t make it. She walked around in a daze for weeks.

When she was finally rescued, she was suffering terribly from pneumonia.

MAX

How do you define family? Would you move into a place that didn’t allow little boys and leave Johnny behind or give him to someone you didn’t know? Would you give Susie away if you suddenly developed an allergy to her? I wouldn’t. Giving one of them away wouldn’t even be an option.

CLINTON

He tried camping and the whole “survivor” thing… you know… living off the land. Things weren’t going very well and he was losing weight rapidly. It might be fine for a weekend, but not a lifetime. He found his way to a friendly camper who recognized he was out of his league as an outdoorsman.

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

www.missoulafoodbank.org

A Nice Little Bead Store In A Nice Little Town

For more info, please call 549-0543

105 Ravalli St Suite G, Stevensville, MT 59870 406.777.2141

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

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RENTALS PUBLISHER’S NOTICE EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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

APARTMENTS

NO SMOKING/ PETS. GATEWEST 728-7333

118 West Alder- Historic Park Place Hotel at the heart of down town -Studio and 1 bdrm coin-ops and gas heat. $525-$575.

Rent $750 721-8990

2B -3000 Washburn- Newly Remodeled Condo. $825$875-W/S/G paid. D/W, Micro, W/D hkups, gas fireplace, carport. NO SMOKING. GATEWEST 728-7333

1801 Howell #3 2bd/1ba $700 Hk-ups, off-street parking, pets? Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

3320 Great Northern Apartments-Rent $495-$545 up to 2 cats considered w/ additional deposit/ documents. 721-8990

1B -329 E. Front. $525W/S/G paid.

Gas Heat, parking, coin-op laundry.

1&2

Bedroom FURNISHED, partially furnished or unfurnished

518 W. Alder: downtown 1bedroom, unique attic unit, wood floors/built-ins, limited cooking, small dog?, $450, GCPM, 549-6106, gcpm-mt.com

UTILITIES PAID Close to U & downtown www.alpharealestate.com

Hot Springs, MT • $45 & up Vacation Rental/Night/Week/Month

406-546-0404

pets welcome

www.rentangle.com/16406

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901 O’Leary: 2-bedroom, carport, washer/dryer, dishwasher, storage, patio accessible, free cable, $795, GCPM, 549-6106, gcpm-mt.com BRAND NEW APTS NOW OPEN!! 909 Byron 1-2bd/1ba, flat top stove, dw, w/d hkups, storage, A/C, deck, assigned parking, pets poss. $620-$815.

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W/S/G paid. References & lease required. $600/month + $600 deposit. Call 406793-5522 or 370-8939 for appointment

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Check out our website TODAY www.prudentialmissoula.com for available rentals.

MUST LOVE ANIMALS South Hills Condo with room to rent. Beautiful room with great views of Missoula.

House has great amenities, washer dryer, dishwasher, cable, and swamp coolers.

Rent is $400 per month and that includes all utilities, all you need is a phone and internet. I already have 2 cats and a dog, and may accept other pets if they get along with mine. text or call 406370-5078 Jamie

COMMERCIAL

Downtown Studio office storage warehouse space available, various sizes & prices.

Contact 239-2206.

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Roommate needed for 3 bedroom house. Central location, close to bike path, landscaped yard with aspens & wildflowers, hardwood floors, W/D. No smoking or pets. $375 includes utilities. 546-5940

251- 4707

1 BD 107 N. Johnson $425/mo.

1 BD w/ Storage 2026 9th St. #1 $545/mo.

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HOUSES

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950-3150 sqft.

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406-721-8990

BRAND NEW STUDIOS OPENING SOON!!! 2815 Dublin Studio/1ba, flat top stove, microwave, dw, upgraded cabinets, full size w/d, assigned parking and views. $675. Missoula Property Management.

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Jane's Place

825 SW Higgins B5 $705 2bd/1ba, garage, hk-ups, Heat Paid!, & lots of room.

Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

2809 Great Northern Loop • 251-8500 Check out our always in demand rental units at:

www.rentinmissoula.com

330 N. 1st St. W. 2 BR apartment, $650/mo. $650 deposit, All utilities paid 3 BR Apartment, $795/mo. + $800 deposit 307 Woody 2 BR apartment, $575 mo. $575 deposit 149 W. Broadway 1 & 2 BR available now $450-$600 mo. + deposit Some restrictions apply.

For more information contact MHA Management at 549-4113

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Missoula... it’s a lifestyle

By Brint Wahlberg, 2010 MOR President Missoula continues to be named on the “best” lists. I was recently interviewed for an article about the best communities in which to retire. The current edition of the Delta Airlines magazine mentions Missoula in an article about the top fishing spots. And, of course, in only its fourth year, the Missoula Marathon received top honors as best overall marathon. If you didn’t believe it before, it is abundantly clear now—Missoula has been discovered!

According to the 2009 Housing Report, (available at www.missoularealestate.com under Market Trends), rental prices and vacancy rates have remained fairly steady. For homeowners, the single-family detached remains the most popular choice by far, with 295 units sold so far this year. In addition, 60 condos and townhouses have sold, indicating those are important housing options available in the Missoula market as well.

So if all of this notoriety starts people thinking about moving here, what are their housing options? For some, renting is a lifestyle choice, not just a temporary stop on the way to homeownership. For others, they may want the same single-family detached with the yard/garden that they currently have or they may want to leave the home maintenance business for a condo or townhome.

But it’s not just about the housing any more. The housing option is driven as much by lifestyle as it is by the features of the property itself. It’s still about “location, location, location,” but the trend is for buyers to consider what the location says TO them rather than what it says ABOUT them. Is there room for a garden?

Is it near a hiking trail? Can I bike/walk to work, to get groceries, to the art museum or the library? How long will it take me to mow, or do I have to at all?

Income Property

MLS# 10003636

Beverly Kiker

52 W. Magpie Cr Rd Dixon, MT

MLS# 296787

Davina DeShaw 406-531-2173 missionvalleyproperties.com

pat@properties2000.com • www.properties2000.com

NEW PRICE

FEATURED LISTING

• Live large in Hellgate Meadows!

• 5 Bed, 3 Bath, Double Garage • Almost 3000 sqft open floor plan • Privacy fencing & landscaping

MLS# 10004444

$249,000

408 North Ave E. Missoula

240-SOLD (7653)

beverlyk@marsweb.com

2724 Dublin St. Missoula

• Natural, private setting, views of Mission Mtns/valley • 3bd/2ba , overlooks Flathead river • Seasonal creek w/water rights • Great Recreational Location

Pat McCormick

544-0708

$259,000

FEATURED LISTING

• 4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, garage, basement • Deck off master suite, mountain views • Private backyard with deck • Virtually new home with upgrades

$520,000

2223 S 14th St. W Missoula

MLS# 908494

And then explore your neighborhood at www.livemissoula.com. Neighborhoods are places; they are people; they are history and stories. People reading those “best” accolades will find out what we already know…that together we are "Growing a Missoula to Treasure.”

FEATURED LISTING

• 4 city lots, 13,500 sq ft • Zoned multi family • Excellent income property • Prospect of building later

$275,000

Which brings me back to the “best” lists. All of them are connected in some way to lifestyle. Missoula neighborhoods reflect almost 20 distinct lifestyle choices that residents have made and offer many options for those considering moving into any one of the neighborhoods. Missoula may be many things, but “cookie cutter” it is not. So this weekend, as you gather for the fireworks at the Mall, hike to the M, walk the Kim Williams Trail, go fly fishing or finish your training for the Missoula Marathon, check out your surroundings as though you’ve never seen them before.

• Classic University home, 5 bed 2.5 bath • Newly remodeled kitchen & dining room • Living room includes a gas fireplace & original hardwood maple & fir floors • Walk or bike to downtown or University

$449,000 MLS# 908589

504 Eddy Ave Missoula

FEATURED LISTING • Over 900' of Gold Creek frontage • Secluded 20.7 acre timbered parcel • Many recreational opportunities • Convenient to Missoula, Helena and Butte

$229,000 MLS# 10004343

Gold Creek Lakes Ln. Gold Creek, MT

Beverly Kiker

Julie Gardner 532-9233

Tom Rue (406) 691-6900

beverlyk@marsweb.com

jgardner@lambros.com

true@blackfoot.net • www.pintlarterritories.com

544-0708

REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

trees. $349,900 MLS#901764.

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

Montana Preferred Properties.

3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2 car garage.

Great horse property on 15 acres.

Large kitchen and dinning area overlooking meadow and pond.

Double garage has apartment with separate door on back side that rents for $525 per month. $319,900, MLS#10004041.

19655 Mullan Rd. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503.

Montana Preferred Properties.

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

4 Bedroom, cedar home on 11 acres, double garage. Private location with lots of surrounding

$160,000.00 2 Bd, 1 Bth home Corner lot fenced back yard, 20X30 shop and shed.

Charming home built in the 30’s has been completely remodeled in 2010. Original fir and larch floor-

ing, Brand new beautiful kitchen, new appliances, dry stacked bar, tiled laundry, and bath and shower. This home is well worth the time to check out. Call 544-8777 2663 Stratford, Target Range MLS#907889 - $212,000 Well maintained 3 bd, 2 ba. ranch, fenced yard. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 3 bed, 2 bath Potomac area home. Covered deck, fenced acreage and great views. The 28 x32 garage has double doors, attached storage in the back and small car port. RV hookups behind garage. 40x49 Quoncet

shop with 200 amp service, air compressor, snap on car lift, crane, water. $259,900.

MLS#10002960. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

3322 B Connery Way MLS#908163 $191,000 Unique 3 level condo. 2 bedrooms, plus loft & 3 bath. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 333 Knowles street-Missoula.

5B/3BA New: Roof, Furnance, AC, 2 gas FP, 230k. Realtor 239-7588

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 Beautiful 3B/2.5b home, upgraded/remodeled, level corner lot with sm shop & garden shed.

Take a drive…2319 Garland $125K / Realtor 239-7588 Beautiful 3br/3ba home in a beautiful setting in desirable Lincoln Woods neighborhood close to walking trails, parks, wilderness area, Rattlesnake creek. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Beautiful custom built 3 bed, 2 bath home with hardwood floors, radiant heat, tongue & groove wood ceilings, tile countertops.

Very private setting with great views and only 30 minutes from Missoula. $314,900.

MLS#10003067. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

COUNTRY LIVING! 2 bed 2 bath home on large landscaped lot, garden area in rural setting $229,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906

CUTE ROSE PARK/SLANT STREETS NEIGHBORHOOD BUNGALOW. 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. $239,500. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy17 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com EXECUTIVE HOME ON 1.03 ACRES IN THE LOLO CREEK VALLEY. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Main floor master suite, great room, family room & rec room, formal and casual dining rooms, great moun-

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REAL ESTATE tain and valley views. $575,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Fantastic Opportunity for income qualified first time homeowners, great 2bdr. condo along the river, attached single car garage, bonus room, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #12, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com FISH THE BLACKFOOT RIVER FROM YOUR BACK YARD. Beautifully landscaped 4 Bdr/2 Bath home on 1.2 acres on the Blackfoot River just 10-15 minutes from Missoula. Open floor plan, great deck with hot tub overlooking the river and much more.

$475,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy11 to 74362, or visit.. www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS HANDCRAFTED HOME IN 3.3 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Baths, Main floor master suite, great room, gorgeous kitchen, hardwood floors, heated double garage, with guest quarters, and great views. $595,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy8 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS TARGET RANGE HONE ON 0.94 ACRES. 5 Bdr/3 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched

doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. Close to schools, shopping, and the Bitterroot River. $469,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com Great 3bdr house with hardwood floors, fireplace, nice sized kitchen and big backyard with garden space, fruit trees and garage with shop area. 933 Woodford 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

$160,000 2.25 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski Windermere Real Estate 546-5816

Huge Price Reduction Lot 1 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905530 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for $160,000 2.87 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

Immaculate home in great neighborhood. 2 bdrms, 2 bth, family room, sauna, nice yard, Vintage touches, hardwood floors, everything’s in fantastic condition! 135 Kensington 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Huge Price Reduction Lot 2 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905531 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for

Moving to Missoula? Research is what I do. Email me your wish list, we’ll look high and low for your new place. Celia Grohmann, Broker, Banana Belt Realty, celia@montana.com.

NHN Applegate & Prarie Rd., Helena - MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Great investment to get in at the very beginning of a cemetery development. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Nice, 2bdrm, 2 bonus rooms, fireplace, family room, walkoutdaylight basement, spacious home in South Hills close to Chief Charlo, updated kitchen, backyard oasis, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com 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 @ 2396696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com 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

1500 W Broadway, suite A Missoula

On the corner of Broadway and Russell

100%

Shelly Evans 544-8570

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. For the past 4 years.

Give us a Try!

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Hillview Acres - MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Acreage in Helena area. Zoned for cemetery. Anne Jablonski - Winder-mere Real Estate - 546-5816

Jodie Hooker 239-7588 Jerry Hogan 546-7270 Kevin Plumage 240-2009

Janet Rice • 240-3932

Robin Rice • 240-6503

Joy Earls

6605 Kiki Court MLS# 903596 Starting at $299,970

Are you looking for a NEW Home that is all on one level with no steps... wide hallways... and nearly 2000 sf?? Do you like open space to walk your dog or relax or bird watch with shared access on Grant Creek and a tributary of the Clark Fork? Would you like to hop on the new bike/ped path right past this subdivision??

Flathead Lake Views $164,000 This land would be a good alternative energy (sun/wind) lot. An RV hookup is already in place and waiting for your temporary home while you build. Additional acreage available.

Owner financing available

140 Arrowhead Dr. • $220,000 Great opportunity for sweat equity. Large home on a large lot in the Wapikiya area. 3/2 baths, living room AND family room on main floor.

Call me today to look at the plans for this beautiful new home in Riverwalk Estates brought to you by Earls Construction, Inc.

Joy Earls, Broker • 531-9811

joyearls.mywindermere.com Mountain Property 16x40 Cabin, 10.7 acres, spring water, turn key

$90,000

3 contiguous Tracts<< 34.81 acres, creek frontage, flowing spring, off the grid, deer, elk & bear. $82,500

>>10 acre tract, $27,500

1527 S. 4th St. W. • $225,000

Realtor GRI Our Mission at Portico is to honor diversity, build community and create a lifestyle that promotes the health and well-being of our planet.

on 3.22 acres in Bitterroot Valley. Trees, landscaping, multiple decks and large SHOP, plus 4 bed 3 bath home. Did I say SHOP?

Quintessential Missoula! Recycled maple floors, antique bath fixtures, kitchen made for company. Dining room opens onto extensive decking and a gardener's fantasy yard with outbuildings, perrenials, privacy.

Lots of unique touches; Art Deco Vibe.

Downtown Sweetheart

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

912 Defoe • $179,000

Lara Dorman

$390,000 MLS # 10004880 Lovely property with 360 views

3 bedroom two full bath home with GIGANTIC shop/garage.

Brand new carpet just installed. Come take a look!

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

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406.531.5582 laradorman@aol.com Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C14 July 1 – July 8, 2010

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REAL ESTATE

outstanding property. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com PRICE REDUCED! 3 bed 2 bath townhouse West Missoula.

ONLY $159,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906 PRICE REDUCED! 3 acres fenced & ready for horses. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, modular home on a permanent foundation. 24x18 outbuilding, beautiful views. 499 Grandview, Stevensville. $179,000.

MLS# 10002488. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@ bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

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.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy16 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Spacious, light-filled Upper Rattlesnake Home with 2 Fireplaces, 2 Beds & 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths, a really nice big backyard with patio. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

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SPECTACULAR BITTERROOT VIEWS. Gorgeous 3 Bdr/2 Bath Stevensville area home on 10 acres. High ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, fireplace, spacious master bedroom, deck with hot tub, and much more. $489,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy19 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3 bed 2 bath home Centrally Located. Priced under appraisal at $165,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906 Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops and lots of gorgeous wood throughout, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermissoula.com OR call 550-3077 Wonderful 5 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home on large lot with fruit trees and garden area.

Meticulously landscaped with retractable awning over back patio. $233,900.

MLS# 10003652. 3 Kasota, Missoula.

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

Rochelle Glasgow

544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

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Wonderful single level home in quiet neighborhood near Rattlesnake Creek. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. 3624 Creek-wood, Missoula. $279, 900. MLS# 10003714. Pat McCormick, 240SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES .80 Acres close to Turah, level parcel with a Creek. Shop, Power, Septic, Well. Set up for a manufactured home, or build! $125K / Realtor 239-7588 FSBO MODULAR HOME. Permanent foundation on 1/4 acre. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 8x20 shop, backyard. 2055 Chicadee Drive, Missoula. $155,000. 721-2233

LAND FOR SALE 3.5 ACRES BARE LAND ON PETTY CREEK. Gorgeous bare land parcel straddling Petty Creek. Septic, well, and utilities in place. Gorgeous building spot with mountain, creek, and valley views. Custom builder available. $149,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, Text Mindy0 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

COMMERCIAL DARBY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN GREAT DOWNTOWN LOCATION ON MAIN ST. Two main floor retail/professional spaces featuring 10 ft ceilings, storage/back room spaces, and lots of windows plus two second floor residential rentals. Great income potential and priced to sell! $159,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, Text Mindy4 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

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NEW MONTANA LAND BARGAIN. 160 Acres / $189,900, Near Billings. Beautifully treed property w/ access to county road & utilities. Excellent for riding, hunting w/ ideal homesites and gorgeous views. Easy drive to Billings, less than 3 miles to Musselshell River and route 12. Call 888-3613006 or visit www.Western SkiesLand.com for pictures Upper Rattlesnake 3 Bed, 2.5 Bath, double garage w/ Fireplace. 1/2 + acre lot, view of Lolo Peak. $259,000. MLS# 10001969. 4716 Aspen. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

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