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News
Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Eating their words....................................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Closing costs at Colstrip, the rideshare boom, and I-183 falls short .............................6 Etc. Media and violence...............................................................................................................7 News For Missoula’s homeless, vouchers aren’t always the answer ..............................................8 News When a bear bites a biologist, what happens to the bear?....................................................9 Dan Brooks News you can abuse..................................................................................................10 Writers on the Range Native rights carry the day in court ....................................................11 Feature On the Big Hole, signs of climate change are everywhere........................................13
Arts & Entertainment
Arts Nate Biehl’s guide to podcasts for music maniacs ...............................................17 Music Dean Ween Group, Ancient Pools, Iron Cemetery............................................18 Books Rick Bass’ Traveling Feast.................................................................................19 Film American Animals — true, but uninspired ..........................................................20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................21 The Market Report Better late than never...........................................................................22 Happiest Hour Agua fresca at Tia’s Big Sky ................................................................24 8 Days a Week And one day to unbind them....................................................................25 Agenda A master plan for pedestrians.....................................................................................29 Mountain High A fishing clinic in Frenchtown...........................................................30
Exclusives
News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................31 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................32 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................34 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................37
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STREET TALK
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by Michael Siebert
This week we’re reviewing Rick Bass’ new book, The Traveling Feast, in which he recounts cooking dinner for celebrity writers including David Sedaris and Joyce Carol Oates. Who would you most like to have over to your house for dinner? Follow-up: What would you cook for them?
Lissette LaFlesch-Cech: Stephen King. Giallo: Lasagna. I make, like, meatballs and put them in there.
Emma McMullen: Gene Wilder. Just don’t burn it: I can’t make anything, so I guess I would just give him toast.
Ben Anderson: The reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth. A humble meal: I guess we’d have to go on a long walk and have some trail mix.
Be the solution
The childcare crisis the Independent covered last week expertly describes the various problems I’ve seen in our community, both as a mother and a social entrepreneur seeking to change it (“Searching for solutions to Missoula’s childcare crisis,” June 21). However, the story left out a new and innovative solution specifically geared at tackling this crisis across the United States, starting where the situation is most dire: Montana. My co-founder and I experienced a broken childcare system firsthand and were driven to create a better environment for children, parents and educators. MyVyllage is a childcare platform helping bring new providers into the local workforce, giving them the professional tools they need to run a home business, and providing hands-on training in best practices established by top early-childhood education experts. For families, MyVyllage is helping address the overwhelming and unmet need parents have for affordable, quality childcare. The MyVyllage community participates in the Montana STARS program, opening up affordable childcare for underserved communities while supporting providers in the process. By addressing American childcare, we aim to build stronger and more connected communities. With high quality, accessible and affordable childcare, Missoula will become a model for communities across the country. Erica Mackey cofounder and CEO of MyVyllage Missoula
Dream job
Johnny Rae: Barack Obama’s daughter. Rustic: It’d probably be like, shepherd’s pie. Something cheap.
Katrina Martin: Nelson Mandela. From scratch?: This chicken and cheese casserole that I make.
Asked Monday afternoon in the University Center
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This is so disappointing. My 9-yearold daughter thinks of working at the Book Exchange as her high school dream job (“Book Exchange employees quit in numbers,” June 12). I’ve always liked that idea, since it’s in walking distance, and I have always figured [former Book Exchange employee and manager] Stephen [Torrez] would look out for her, since he’s known her since she was a toddler. He always helps her find books that she loves. I’m very sorry he’s no longer there. I have always trusted and supported this local business. I hope they can redeem themselves. They could start by asking Stephen back. The fact that he brought the sexual harassment issue up in a meeting because he knew his coworkers trusted him and were counting on him verifies my gut
feeling about why I would let my daughter work there. I’d feel differently if he weren’t there. Especially reading this. Krispen Nelson Missoula
An inside view
As a family member of a resident in a nursing home and a nurse who has worked in the same skilled nursing facility years later, and as a sister of a res-
“I have always trusted and supported this local business. I hope they can redeem themselves.”
ident of Montana Developmental Center, I would like to say there are many sides to every story (“Institutionalization, eugenics and the legacy of the Boulder River School,” June 7). Thankfully, most of what Ms. Kimball reported in her treatise were incidents that occurred few and far between at MDC. For the many years my brother lived there, he was never abused, and called it home. When he would come home on visits, he was very eager to return after a few days. He wanted to go talk to staff (whom he considered friends) about his visit and he wanted to get back to work (whether it was folding towels, wrapping silverware or sorting recycling). This was a safe place for him, as he did not have to worry about being in a situation that might trigger behavior he was trying to overcome. He had regular therapy sessions and staff who could help him work on his treatment plan 24/7. He had regular medical care and he got to go shopping for many things on his constantly changing “wish list.”
I do believe that so many of the reports coming from outside of MDC are disgruntled people (whom you will find in any walk of life) that do not fairly represent all sides of the issues. As a nurse in this type of situation, one can stretch your time and energy and physical presence and care only so far. No matter that my goal was to treat every resident as I would want someone to treat my parents, it was physically and realistically impossible to do so on many days given the size of the workload. If family members are not willing to be involved and stay in touch with their loved one’s care, regardless of where that care may be rendered, it is a disservice to their loved ones and to the facility staff. Many of the residents of MDC were very difficult or impossible to care for at home (thus the reason for residential care). Granted, having 24/7 caregivers and multiple “hands on deck” does divert some of the problems, but not all problems can be avoided. Things happen, for many reasons. One of which is that with all the budgets cuts, facilities are forced to hire many of the hands-on caregivers at minimum wage. This is a difficult job, and the combination results in a large turnover. As residents from MDC are moving into community group homes, this is still the case. There are many variations to the type of care and amount of care that mentally and behaviorally challenged adults need. One size does not fit all! Some will do great in group homes, others need and will have the greatest chance of achieving their highest quality of life in a residential facility. Please, as you read the article, do not think this was the outcome for the majority of residents at MDC! Sandi Heine Kalispell Our June 28 Best of Missoula issue listed incorrect contact information for several runners-up. Kendra Potter, runner-up for best yoga instructor, operates Sister Moon Wellness (sistermoonwellness.com) and instructs at Hot House Yoga, Downtown Dance Collective and PEAK Health & Wellness. Best religious leader runner-up John Lund is the pastor at Emmaus Campus Ministry, 538 University Ave., 549-7821, ecmum.org. Best physical therapist runner-up Lindsey Flint is at Valley Physical Therapy, 1001 SW Higgins Ave., Suite 205, 7213096, valleyphysicaltherapy.com. The Indy regrets the errors.
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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, June 27 Missoulian Gary Fuller, a Special Olympics Montana board member and athlete, is released from the hospital after being assaulted with a baseball bat earlier in June. His attacker, Paul Ekstedt, is currently in jail for the assault.
Thursday, June 28 Police name Dylan Curtis Conat as the suspect in the June 24 shooting of two teens at Sentinel High School. He is charged with assault with a weapon, and is not in custody as of press time.
Friday, June 29 Following much speculation on social media, President Donald Trump confirms a visit to Great Falls. Trump will campaign for Montana Republicans at the Four Seasons Arena at 4 p.m. on July 5.
Saturday, June 30 Hundreds of Missoulians march from Caras Park to the Missoula County Courthouse to protest the separation of immigrant children from their families. The event was organized by local activist groups, and follows a similar rally held June 20.
Sunday, July 1
The rideshare boom
Uber allies
The Census Bureau released its latest Nonemployer Statistics, from 2016, in June. Nonemployer establishments are businesses that don’t have paid employees. The vast majority are one-person sole proprietorships. This latest round of numbers is all about the boom in ridesharing, according to the agency’s press release. The taxi and limousine service sector, which includes drivers for Uber and Lyft, is the fastestgrowing sector among nonemployer industries, more than doubling between 2015 and 2016. And the county with the single biggest ridesharing boom in the country? Missoula County, which led the nation for rate of growth in counties with 100,000 or more residents. Gallatin and Yellowstone counties landed in the Top 10 as well. There’s a simple explanation for that explosive growth: Before 2016, there were no Uber drivers in the state. How many of the 57 reported nonemployer taxi and limousine services in Missoula County in 2016 might still be driving this year is a harder number to nail down. Anecdotal observation shows no more than 10 drivers available at any one time via the app, and the city doesn’t track the ridesharing market. Missoula’s Business License Coordinator Kristi Craw says that rideshare drivers, like any other sole proprietor, are required to get a business license only if they make $6,000 a year or
more. A search of city business licenses issued since 2016 doesn’t show a single one issued for the purpose of driving for a ridesharing company. And the 2015 state legislation that paved the way for ridesharing companies to do business in Montana expressly forbids local governments from taxing transportation network carriers or imposing “any other operational requirements.” That means no per-ride fee, like Portland’s 50 cent per-ride charge, although the Missoula airport collects a dollar per ride from rideshare drivers, the same as it does from taxi companies, according to deputy airport director Brian Ellestad. Ridesharing showed the most dramatic growth in the county, but it wasn’t the only booming sector. Online wholesalers, crop production support and building inspection services all saw total receipts more than double. Traveler accommodation, the sector that includes Airbnb rentals and other tourist homes, grew from just under $1.3 million to nearly $2.9 million. Uber tells prospective drivers to “get your side hustle on,” and that’s what they seem to do, rather than drive full-time. A white paper published in May by the D.C.-based nonprofit Economic Policy Institute says that “most ride-hailing drivers drive far fewer than 40 hours a week and only for a few months a year.” Presumably it’s their second or third job. Which makes sense. Ridesharing, while having the most impressive boom in participation, showed more modest
earnings growth. In 2014, Missoula County was home to four taxi and limo nonemployer establishments with total receipts of $132,000, or $33,000 each on average. In 2016, when the number of transportation nonemployer establishments in Missoula increased to 57, receipts increased to just $309,000, an average per establishment of $5,421. Susan Elizabeth Shepard
I-183
Falling far short
The Montana Family Foundation-backed initiative to mandate which bathrooms transgender people may use in the name of “locker room privacy” collected fewer than half the signatures needed to qualify for the November ballot — and spent barely any money trying. While the final tallies for ballot initiatives won’t be published by the Montana Secretary of State until later this month, the Billings Gazette reported June 29 that the state has received just over 8,000 signatures for I-183, with the largest counties having submitted all but a few of their petitions. Ballot initiative organizers needed to collect 25,468 signatures by June 20 to qualify. Pro-LGBTQ and civil rights organizations including ACLU of Montana, Planned Parenthood Advocates, Montana Women Vote and others mounted a vigorous opposition campaign, anchored by two
U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale opens a new campaign headquarters in Missoula at 2200 Brooks St. President Trump will speak in support of Rosendale in Great Falls on July 5.
Monday, July 2 Missoulian Robert Wilkes is freed from prison after his 2009 conviction for the killing of his infant son is overturned. Wilkes was accused of shaking the child to death, but consistently maintained his innocence.
Tuesday, July 3 With fire danger rising to “moderate,” Missoula County residents are no longer allowed to burn debris after this date. Temperatures are expected to rise to the 90s.
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[news] legal challenges in state court. The coalition called I-183 a “well-funded, unique attempt to enshrine discrimination into our state Constitution.” Coalition members have racked up $62,800 worth of inkind work to oppose the measure, while the national ACLU gave $100,000 in cash, according to state campaign finance disclosures. The “locker room privacy” campaign, on the other hand, never seemed to get off the ground. Its preliminary signature tally is comparable to the 9,700 signatures submitted by supporters of a 2016 initiative to legalize recreational marijuana. That low-budget campaign was put forth by a man who cycled around the state to gather signatures and attention and did not have the backing of the state cannabis industry. The Montana Family Foundation appears to have fielded a low-budget effort as well. The Montanans for Locker Room Privacy ballot issue committee has disclosed a grand total of $205 in cash contributions, of which $175 came from two donors, plus $3,155 in in-kind contributions by its organizational backer, the Montana Family Foundation, during 2017. On its own campaign finance disclosures, the Foundation, a 501(c)4, did not disclose the $3,155 in-kind contribution, but did list 2018 in-kind contributions toward I-183 totalling $6,400. The pro-I-183 website solicited volunteers to gather signatures, but does not appear to have solicited donations. The campaign’s lack of funding is odd, given that the Family Foundation hosted a Bozeman “launch” event and I-183 fundraiser in October where tickets cost $75 each, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported at the time. The Foundation banquet held in Bozeman the prior year had yielded $18,000 in contributions, federal tax filings indicate. Montana Family Foundation director Jeff Laszloffy did not return an email Tuesday seeking comment. In an interview with MTN News, he blamed I-183’s failure on a court ruling tied to the first ACLU lawsuit that invalidated its initial ballot language. The ruling forced the campaign to abandon “thousands and thousands” of signatures it gathered last summer, Laszloffy said. Derek Brouwer
Colstrip
Closing costs
The final week of June began with another dire report on the future of Colstrip’s coal-fired power plant. Prepared by the Missoula-based Bureau of Business and Economic Research and paid for by the Montana Chamber Foundation, the report states that early shuttering of Units 3 and 4 in 2027 would trigger 16 years of devastating impacts to Montana’s economy, from the loss of more than 3,000 jobs statewide to a $1.2 billion slump in state revenues. And NorthWestern Energy customers would likely see electric rates increase, the report continued, due to the costs of remediation and the necessity of replacing roughly 220 megawatts of capacity. If the report’s image of a Colstrip-free Montana is bleak, the value of keeping it open in the long term is presented as equally unsavory in another study released two days later, on June 27. This one comes from Energy Strategies at the behest of the Sierra Club, and compares the costs of power from Portland-based PacifiCorp’s coal-fired fleet — including its 10 percent ownership of Colstrip Units 3 and 4 — to alternative energy sources. The data reveals that PacifiCorp would pay $1 to $4 less per megawatt hour (MWH) for Utah-produced solar power compared to Colstrip power, and up to $15 less per MWH for Wyoming-produced wind energy. “Solar and wind, combined with battery storage, the price keeps dropping and becoming a straightforward economic decision,” says David Merrill, senior organizing representative for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in Missoula. “Then you have to look at all the other risks for coal-fired electricity — the coal-ash issue, threat of carbon regulations — and it’s just a tightening noose. That creates risk for ratepayers here in Montana.” The Energy Strategies report mirrors data on
BY THE NUMBERS Kilometers walked by four veterans and various family and friends on June 2 during a “ruck march” between Polebridge and Whitefish. The event, promoted by Missoula-based Montanans for National Security, celebrated the 60 parks that make up the national park system.
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NorthWestern electricity rates prepared by the Montana Consumer Counsel in June 2017. In that analysis, the cost of power generated for the utility at Colstrip was more than double what NorthWestern paid for power produced at the Judith Gap wind farm: $73.85 per MWH from 2016 to 2017, versus $30.64. Hydro energy, which constitutes the largest portion of NorthWestern’s supply portfolio at 37 percent, hovered in the middle at $58.17 per MWH. The week ended on a promising note for both clean-energy advocates and Colstrip-related infrastructure: On June 29, Gov. Steve Bullock and the Bonneville Power Administration released a development action plan for renewables. Among the recommended actions is to capitalize on the existing transmission system that ties the Colstrip plant to energy markets in Washington and Oregon. The plan states that the gradual closure of Colstrip units will create more transmission space for Montana-based wind energy, and require only minor investment in minimal upgrades compared to the cost of building new lines. “Once that Colstrip transmission opens up,” Merrill says, “it’s going to be a relatively straightforward process to start moving more renewable power onto that grid, and we’ll be able to export our wind resources to the West Coast markets that are demanding clean energy.” Alex Sakariassen
ETC. On Sunday, “unreleased” audio from a 2016 Greg Gianforte interview with Missoulian editor Kathy Best, city editor Gwen Florio and Lee state reporter Jayme Fraser surfaced in a Medium post titled “Gianforte violent and aggressive toward female journalists.” It made the rounds after the Democratic blog The Montana Post reposted it on July 3. The audio portrays a man who is combative, peevish and agitated under questioning. The “violence” sounded like it was done to a tabletop when Gianforte pounded his fist. The clip isn’t exactly new. The Missoulian originally posted the audio along with a story drawn from the interview, only to later pull it down because, according to an editor’s note, the paper had told the Gianforte campaign the recording would only be used internally. Presumably, a Democratic operative downloaded the file while it was live and held on to it until the day it might come in handy. That day has apparently come. The Post called for anyone who has witnessed Gianforte being verbally or physically assaultive to come forward. More likely, the audio will inspire a dark-money ad against the Republican incumbent. The clip, as well as the infamous audio of Gianforte actually assaulting a Guardian reporter, point to an anger issue that’s clearly relevant to his job performance. In this “fake news” environment, Democrats are understandably tempted to position themselves as champions of a free (and freefrom-assault) press. And it’s true that only one party openly deploys a rhetoric of violence against the media — a dangerous rhetoric that, obviously, we staunchly oppose. But Montana Democrats should think twice before anointing themselves defenders of the press as a campaign strategy. In doing so, they’re taking the Republican bait and accepting Republican terms that define the media as a wedge issue. November’s election shouldn’t be a referendum on voter attitudes toward the press. That’s a cynical — and, again, dangerous — distraction. Gianforte challenger Kathleen Williams seems to sense this. In her cheeky first campaign ad, Williams is offered boxing gloves to defend a reporter, an acknowledgement of the dumbed-down and divisive terms on which Republicans and Democrats alike will be tempted to run this race. She smartly declines, and we thank her. Because the press — as every journalist sooner or later learns — is not the story.
Candace Atwood
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Ready and waiting For Missoula’s homeless, vouchers don’t always help by Derek Brouwer
Ten homeless Missoulians are hold- person can save tens of thousands in be persuaded to participate, either by ing what would seem to be golden tick- public-private expenses, including appeals to their conscience, their pockets to a better life. The federal vouchers healthcare costs, one recent study in etbook or both. “It’s doing well by doing good,” Mcthey’ve been awarded will pay for an Bozeman indicated. But the task is easapartment and provide support services ier identified than accomplished. Private Grath says. “I think that you have to to treat mental illness, disability or ad- landlords in Montana are not required maybe take the initial screening of your dictions that may have contributed to to accept housing vouchers, and those applicant process a little different. But by who do are free to rent to a more qual- and large this is economically sound.” their homelessness. Grizzly Property Management has But they’re still on the street, be- ified applicant, or one who is simpler to found that the program’s “checks and cause in Missoula’s tight housing mar- process, instead. “It’s easy in a market like this to take balances” mitigate other risks, property ket, even a program that guarantees the rent, pays double deposits and covers the easy solution and rent to the first per- manager Dan Williams says. The company has a longstanding relationship property damage isn’t enough to move son you get qualified,” McGrath says. with MHA and currently the city’s most vulnerable rents to a handful of apartment seekers to the voucher recipients among top of some landlords’ apits roughly 400 properties. plication heaps. Some property manA spring campaign by the agers don’t participate. Rent Missoula Housing Authority, Smart, which markets itself which administers the Shelter as renting only to “the most Plus Care voucher program, qualified individuals,” does and other partners fell far not accept vouchers, accordshort of a goal to house 40 ing to its website. Its current voucher recipients in 40 days, photo courtesy Johnny Andrews vacancies include a pair of MHA recently announced. Only 12 were able to secure It takes homeless voucher recipients an average of 62 one-bedroom apartments at days to secure an apartment on the private market. Tim $695 per month, plus a $100 leases during the campaign Lloyd, right, died last year before finding one. move-in incentive. When the period, contributing to a total The program’s generous benefits Indy asked to discuss the topic, a comof 29 households that secured leases durare intended to offset the risks of rent- pany representative replied, “Sorry, I ing the year ending in April. As a result, the Housing Authority ing to an otherwise poorly qualified ap- don’t have time now,” and hung up. Twenty-two new landlords have was unable to spend about $22,000 of an plicant, though McGrath says that some $850,000 annual grant, with the remain- of the perceived risks are actually mis- agreed to accept the vouchers in the der reverting to the U.S. Department of conceptions. MHA rarely has to tap its past year, according to MHA, and McHousing and Urban Development, MHA fund to cover damages to rentals, and Grath doesn’t see a need to mandate admissions and occupancy manager Jim the organization reports a 90 percent re- that the rest do, too. The larger chaltention rate under its permanent sup- lenge, he says, is that voucher recipients McGrath says. are competing with so many other apartIndividuals and families approved portive housing vouchers. Still, the average time between re- ment seekers for too few units. for the program are among the most vulOne Missoula property manager nerable of the hundreds of homeless ceiving a voucher in Missoula and signpeople who reside in Missoula. A year ing a lease is 62 days — more than two who agreed to speak with the Indy ago, members of the coalition behind weeks longer than the delay for Section anonymously underscored the difficulty. the city’s 10-year Plan to End Homeless- 8 recipients, McGrath says. The shortest While his company accepts vouchers, it ness introduced a new referral system, wait was 17 days, and the longest have won’t deviate from its policy of preferring the most qualified applicant for a called coordinated entry, that puts approached 200 days. In more than a dozen states, and given property. clients on one citywide list and priori“That’s what our owners want,” he tizes services by need. One homeless some cities, landlords are either reman who got a voucher through the quired by law or incentivized to accept says. It’s usually not what the homeless new system died of hypothermia last applicants with housing vouchers, acwinter before he could find an apart- cording to the Washington, D.C.-based need. Poverty and Race Research Action Counment, the Indy reported at the time. Housing one chronically homeless cil. Absent such policies, landlords must dbrouwer@missoulanews.com
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Bear reprieve
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FWP administrative rules contain On June 21, Montana Fish, Wildlife curred. According to the WHART team’s and Parks officially closed the book on investigation, neither Kornak nor the broad language on how grizzlies are its investigation of a grizzly bear attack bear heard each other until they were dealt with following human conflicts or in the Cabinet Mountains south of within roughly 12 feet of each other, livestock depredation. Tabish says the Libby. The incident, which occurred likely due to thick vegetation and noise policy is designed to give wildlife manaround 11 a.m. on May 17, left a U.S. from a nearby creek running at high agers flexibility to judge appropriate reFish and Wildlife Services field assistant flow. The bear attacked Kornak, but sponses on a case-by-case basis. The grizzly involved in the May attack with serious injuries and triggered an Tabish says the fact that it left after being immediate response by FWP’s Wildlife sprayed suggests the behavior was not was a 24-year-old male well known to researchers, having been caught and fitted Human Attack Response Team predatory. While flight is one indicator of a with an ear tag transmitter in 2005. That ( WHART) in Region 1. A GoFundMe campaign has since raised more than bear’s behavior, it’s not the only factor transmitter gave FWS just a few months of $45,000 to help the victim, Amber Kor- investigators take into account when de- telemetry data before it fell off, Kasworm says. But hair samples colnak, who suffered two skull lected from rub trees over the fractures and multiple lacerpast 13 years have given the ations to her head, neck agency a good sense of his and back. home range, which Kasworm According to Wayne estimates at roughly 500 Kasworm, team leader for square miles. Genetic data FWS’ Grizzly Bear Recovery has also led FWS to conclude Program in the Cabinet-Yaak that the bear was not reloEcosystem, Kornak is recucated to the Cabinet-Yaak as perating and “doing fine.” photo courtesy Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks part of the agency’s popula“It’s probably going to take a little while yet before When grizzly bears, like this one pictured in northwest tion augmentation program, she can return to work,” Montana, are involved in conflicts, state and federal of- but is one of the original ficials consider a host of factors in deciding whether to denizens of the ecosystem, if Kasworm says. “If she wants remove it. not the sole one left. to, there is a job waiting for “He is an animal that has been very ciding on post-attack actions. The her here.” FWP’s announcement of the inves- WHART team acts almost like a “criminal successful at breeding,” Kasworm adds, tigation’s completion did not address investigative team,” Tabish says, collect- “and in terms of our family tree, he has the two agencies’ plans for the bear, ing evidence from the scene, interview- a genetic relationship to an awful lot of which fled the scene after Kornak de- ing involved parties and conducting the bears that are there now.” Asked whether the size of the ployed her bear spray. Both confirmed follow-up site reviews. WHART teams to the Indy that the bear will not be re- are typically composed of wardens, ecosystem’s population — estimated at bear-management specialists and other about 55 bears divided more or less moved from the population. “If it’s a predatory attack and it ap- biologists. In the case of federally pro- evenly between the Cabinet Mountains pears that a bear reacted aggressively to tected species like grizzlies, investiga- and the Yaak Valley — was a factor in the a human in a way that was more preda- tions include consultation with FWS recent post-attack decision, Tabish and tory than surprise defensive, then our officials. The bear’s age and sex, loca- Kasworm both say it would not have WHART team would respond differently tion, prior conflicts, food habituation changed the outcome had the attack and most likely seek out that bear and and the actions taken by humans all play been deemed predatory. “In small populations where we’re most likely remove that bear, because a role in deciding whether lethal renot dealing with very many bears and we don’t tolerate that behavior with moval is warranted. “We attempt to give adult females — we’re working pretty hard to recover wildlife,” says FWP Region 1 spokesperson Dillon Tabish. “But that was not the reproductive females or young females these populations, I think we would — as much of a chance as possible, de- take that into account as much as we case.” In this instance, Tabish says, the pending on the severity of the event,” could,” Kasworm says. “However, we’re grizzly displayed what the agencies refer Kasworm says. “Males, depending upon not going to be compromising human to as “surprise defensive” behavior. 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By the time you read this column, President Trump will have arrived in Great Falls, where he will speak in support of Republican senate candidate Matt Rosendale. Just kidding! The president will say whatever pops into his head. Probably he’ll talk about tax cuts or making America great again, but it might be about a lady he used to know or how the press is out to get him. He might even treat us to his famous catchphrase, “fake news.” Everyone knows the news is made up, and the people who report it are primarily interested in misleading their readers. It’s the only way to turn a profit. Since 1603 and the publication of history’s first newspaper, The Constant Fish-Wife, we’ve followed the same business model. First, we gather as many credulous morons as possible. Then we sell their names to advertisers, laughing our way to the bank as America burns — metaphorically, of course, except in the case of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which sold a lot of papers. My point is that the news is both fake and lucrative, which is why journalists are always covered in cocaine and sex juices. We used to be, anyway, until President Trump came along. Shortly after he was elected, he declared fake news “the enemy of the people.” Journalists quickly recognized this phrase from the rhetoric of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, so we liked it. Instead of becoming the kind of murderous dictator reporters love, though, Trump has betrayed us by fighting for ordinary people. Isn’t that always the way? Just when this country develops a stable class structure — with journalists at the top, lawyers in the middle, and cops and veterans on the bottom — some do-gooder comes along and wrecks it. As usual, this champion of the common man is a billionaire politician. Journalists would run this country, were it not for the wealthy government officials who protect the public from newspaper reports on what they are
doing. I dream of the day we can leverage our control of the activity Americans love most — reading — to do away with freedom entirely. That vision of total enslavement will remain a happy fantasy, however, as long as the Republican Party is around. They’re the only thing standing between us vampires in the news industry and the hardworking Americans we despise.
“The news is both fake and lucrative, which is why journalists are always covered in cocaine and sex juices.” Consider another defender of the little guy who happens to also be a multimillionaire: Congressman Greg Gianforte. The day before a grateful electorate made him Montana’s delegate to the House of Representatives, Gianforte attacked reporter Ben Jacobs. Then he went into hiding while his PR representatives spread the story that Jacobs attacked him. That would have been fine, but the lackeys of Big Newspaper pulled their usual tricks, such as gathering statements from witnesses, and forced him to apologize. This experience might make an ordinary person hesitate to attack the press, but Gianforte remains undaunted. Last month, he told Eric Whitney of Montana Public Radio that fake news is “a national problem.” These remarks give the reader an idea
of what kind of man it takes to tell everyone the news is fake and that the only people they can trust are millionaires in Congress. Why, then, do I celebrate him? As a journalist, why do I not smear the names Gianforte and Trump at every opportunity, as the members of my coven demand? Although I would like nothing better than to keep deceiving you, the guileless reader, recent events have convinced me that things have gone too far. Last week, 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos attacked the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. Ramos had sued the paper for defamation in 2012, after it reported on his guilty plea in a harassment case, but the judge dismissed his claim when he was unable to say what parts of the Gazette’s reporting were untrue. When he attacked the newsroom with a shotgun and killed five people six years later, some critics suggested that Republicans’ railing against fake news had something to do with it. At long last, do they have no shame? For people to suggest that Ramos was somehow motivated to attack the press, just because the president of the United States told him they were the enemy of the people, is to take the project of journalism to an unconscionable new level. I’m all for fake news, but I draw the line at holding the world’s most powerful billionaire responsible for his statements. When President Trump comes to Great Falls, I hope my colleagues will remember that we’re in the same business he is: just saying whatever. Sure, he’s a Robin Hood type, and we’re more like King John, but we’re both committed to telling people things whether they turn out to be true or not. Even in our differences, we remain united in our refusal to work for a living, and that’s what really matters. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.
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For the win Native rights carry the day in court by Paul VanDevelder
A landmark decision this June from the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the rights of several tribes to hunt, gather and fish on the northwest coast of Washington state, thereby ending a 50-year battle over Native American sovereignty and states’ rights. A narrow reading of this decision would focus primarily on fish counts and what the state of Washington will have to pay to remove close to 2,000 road culverts, impediments to fish migration. But a broader reading shows its real importance: Very few cases have come down the pike with more far-reaching implications for state governments. Thanks to promises made to Northwest tribes in the mid-1850s by Isaac Stevens, Washington’s first territorial governor, no state has a more impressive record of losing legal battles with Indian tribes than Washington does. President Franklin Pierce sent Stevens to the region to negotiate with Native tribes and open the Oregon Territory to white settlement. The legal trickery Stevens used to accomplish those ends has come back to haunt lawmakers for generations. Stevens promised lower Puget Sound tribes the perpetual right to “hunt, gather, and fish in all of the usual and accustomed places.” But he also told a cheering audience of white settlers in Olympia that his real objective was to promise the tribes anything in order to “extinguish, as quickly as possible, their claims to traditional lands so that settlers could be given legal title.” Steven's approach to ethnic cleansing eventually led to war with the Nez Perce, the Umatilla and the Yakama tribes, while some of his other treaties led to century-long battles in federal courts. To their credit, our nation's founders anticipated these conflicts and designated treaties “the supreme law of the land” under Article VI, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constitution. This solemn trustee-guarantor partnership between tribes and the federal government has been the backbone of federal Indian law ever since 1832, when Chief Justice John Marshall's “trust doctrine” made it the federal gov-
ernment’s fiduciary responsibility to safeguard the rights and resources of treaty tribes, trumping all other obligations. Washington’s legal battles began with United States v. Winans in 1905, over the Yakama Nation’s treaty right to hunt, gather and fish in their “usual and accustomed place,” which happened to be owned by white people. Fast-forward to today, and the just-decided culverts case resolves litigation that began almost 50 years ago, when Washington
“The beating heart of this case lies in its willingness to ask if states could be held responsible for safeguarding Native-owned natural resources protected by treaties.” state Attorney General and future Republican Sen. Slade Gorton challenged the scope of the tribes’ fishing rights, hoping to extinguish them forever. As in the Winans case, Washington state’s 1970 lawsuit relied on states’ rights to carry the day. Attorney General Gorton raised three questions about the Stevens treaties. Did they guarantee the tribes a percentage of the annual commercial catch? Are hatchery-bred fish included in that percentage? Finally, did Native rights implicitly include protections from environmental degradation that would render the tribes’ fishing rights useless?
The now-famous 1974 Boldt Decision answered the first question by guaranteeing tribes half of the commercial salmon catch. The second answer was easy: The allocation could not be limited to hatchery-raised fish. The third question was bandied back and forth in courts for decades. In the end, it proved to be the state’s undoing. Washington was counting on the reluctance of lower courts to place the burden of “environmental servitude” on the state. But in 2007, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals clarified that burden by ruling that the Stevens treaties impose “a duty upon the state to refrain from building and operating culverts (thousands of them) … that hinder fish passage and thereby diminish the number of fish that would otherwise be available for tribal harvest.” The cost for removing those culverts and other impediments to fish migration could run into the billions. Headlines in newspapers will doubtless focus on the dollars and the fish counts, but the beating heart of this case lies in its willingness to ask if states could be held responsible for safeguarding Native-owned natural resources protected by treaties. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals answered in the affirmative, and the Supremes let that ruling stand, saying to Washington state, in effect: You should have taken the Boldt Decision seriously and prepared remedies for all these treaty violations before the salmon became a protected species. Don’t blame the tribes for your failure to live up to your obligations. Now, the question no state wants to ask is how will future courts divine the difference between the culverts that stop fish from reaching their breeding beds, and all the dams that do the same thing. Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the author of Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial that Forged a Nation.
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UNDIGNIFIED DEATH – In the northeastern town of Teesside, England, last August, 22-year-old Jordan Easton of Thornaby was at the home of a friend, hanging out in the kitchen, when he boasted that his vest was “stab-proof.” To prove it, he “took hold a knife to demonstrate,” Karin Welsh, Teesside assistant coroner, testified, “and sadly realized it wasn’t the case.” Teesside Live reported Easton was rushed to the hospital, but doctors weren’t able to save him. Detective Superintendent Ted Butcher also testified at Easton’s inquest on June 16 that he found no evidence Easton intended to harm himself and died after “a boisterous act.” Welsh recorded a verdict of “misadventure.”
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PUBLIC SERVANTS – In Putnam County, Florida, the sheriff’s office provides a wide variety of services. So when Douglas Peter Kelly, 49, called the office on June 12 to complain that the methamphetamine he had been sold was fake, officers happily offered to test it for him. Kelly told detectives he had suffered a “violent reaction” after smoking the substance and wanted to sue the dealer if he had been sold the wrong drug. He arrived at the sheriff’s office and “handed detectives a clear, crystal-like substance wrapped in aluminum foil,” the office’s Facebook post explained, according to the Washington Post. It “field-tested positive for methamphetamine.” On the spot, Kelly was arrested and charged with possession of meth. The Facebook post continued: “Remember, our detectives are always ready to assist anyone who believes they were misled in their illegal drug purchase.” WHAT IS ART? – As part of the Dark Mofo art festival, Australian performance artist Mike Parr, 73, entered a steel tomb below busy Macquarie Street in Hobart on June 14, where he meditated, drew and read as traffic flowed overhead for 72 hours until his release on June 17. Parr had water but no food, and oxygen was pumped into the box. His performance was promoted as a “response to 20thcentury totalitarian violence,” according to the Guardian, but the piece didn’t speak to everyone. “I don’t take anything away from it at all,” said Carolyn Bowerman from Townsville. “I’m just amazed that someone would put themselves through this and go to this much effort.” In a previous performance art piece, Parr hacked at a prosthetic arm with an ax before a shocked audience. Over in Melbourne, Australia, customers of the Prahran neighborhood Woolworths store will have to park somewhere else on July 9, as renowned American photographer Spencer Tunick captures thousands of willing nudes in a group shot on the store’s rooftop parking lot. Reuters reported more than 11,000 people registered to disrobe for Tunick, who has done group nudes in other spots around the world. “It’s well and truly oversubscribed,” said John Lotton, director of the Provocare Festival of the Arts in Melbourne. SMOOTH REACTIONS – When Daryl Royal Riedel, 48, was pulled over for suspected drunk driving June 14 by Monroe County (Florida) Sheriff’s Deputy Anthony Lopez, he first drove off, but thought better of it and stopped to face the music. Riedel, who claimed to be scared, then stepped out of his truck with an open can of beer and chugged the contents as Lopez watched. The Associated Press reported that Riedel has four prior DUI arrests and now faces felony DUI, fleeing from a deputy, driving with a suspended license and failure to submit to a breath test. CZECH THIS OUT – Czechoslovakian president Milos Zeman called a press conference on June 14 in Prague, where Zeman instructed two firefighters in protective gear to incinerate a huge pair of red underpants as reporters watched. The underwear had been hoisted during a 2015 protest at Prague Castle, replacing the presidential flag and symbolizing Zeman’s close relationship with Russia and China. Zeman told reporters, according to the Associated Press: “I’m sorry to make you look like little idiots, you really don’t deserve it.” Zeman’s longstanding difficulties with the press include an incident last year when he waved a fake machine gun at them. O.M.G. – Wa Tiba, 54, disappeared on June 14 while tending her vegetable garden on Muna Island in the Southeast Sulawesi province of Indonesia. Her family found only her sandals, a machete and a flashlight in the garden, but just 50 yards away, villagers located a 23-foot-long python with a severely bloated midsection. Fox News reported that when the snake’s belly was cut open, it revealed the woman’s fully intact body inside, still wearing all her clothes. Villager Ayu Kartika said, “Everyone cried and was in shock. ... It looked like a horror movie.” FETISHES – In Auckland, New Zealand, an unnamed 28-year-old man appeared in court June 18 to answer charges of stealing two human toes from the Body Worlds Vital exhibition, a traveling display that features human corpses and organs preserved through plastination. The toes, valued at $5,500 each, have been returned to the exhibition, the New Zealand Herald reported. The toe thief is looking at seven years in prison and two years for interfering with a dead body. HIGH TIMES – Two unnamed employees of the Inn at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont, enjoyed some malted milk ball-type candies left behind by guests on June 13, but they didn’t enjoy the aftermath. The candies were cannabis edibles, and the employees became sick after consuming them. Police arrived to find one of them lying in the parking lot, and both were transferred to the hospital, according to the Associated Press. Recreational use of marijuana becomes legal in Vermont on July 1; police said the guests who left the edibles would not be charged. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com
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nyone who takes fly fishing seriously behaves like a scientist. These anglers are biologists, knowledgeable in what’s eating what, when and how. They are hydrologists, studying riffles and stream flow. They are naturalists, observing clouds and sunlight and the circulation of air as their rods flick back and forth across the big sky. They are, in a sense, climate scientists. And some, but not all, are deeply concerned about the effects of a warming climate on the cold-water species that inhabit blue-ribbon trout streams. But to the extent that they act as climate scientists, partisan politics plays a role in many anglers’ understanding of climate change. Here in Montana, with pristine rivers that are home to some of the best fly fishing in the country, a majority of votes went for President Trump — and climate change is considered by many to be a natural phenomenon beyond human control. Nonetheless, cli-
mate change is having a profound influence on fly fishing, from the timing of insect hatches to the long-term survival of the fish that give this sport its meaning. The classic account of angling in Montana depicted in Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It implanted iconic images in the collective consciousness, and they are not false. But will they survive the century? On an early May day, on the upper reaches of the Big Hole River in southwest Montana, fly fisherman Craig Fellin is in that quiet contemplative state of the experimental scientist as he steps out of his Suburban. Already he is studying the swirl of deep eddies on Grayling Pool, searching for the movement of insects. Before he casts his luck into the river, he shows me how he decides which fly to attach to his rod. First step, he says, is to put “your nose on the water.” Fellin, 71, has a neat swoop of mustache and a calm, deliberate air. He founded the Big Hole Lodge nearly 35
years ago, putting to use a degree in philosophy and a lifetime of fishing, begun during his childhood on family trips to Canada to fish for walleye and pike. He is a Vietnam veteran and a lifelong Republican. He is also convinced that climate change is affecting the pastime and livelihood he loves, from the trout in his backyard to the steelhead he seeks in the Pacific Ocean. What he can’t figure out is where the outspoken conservationists among his fellow conservatives have gone.
SEASONS OF DECEPTION
Like preparing for a sacrament, or a science experiment, Fellin slips on waders, assembles his 9-foot graphite Orvis rod and slips on a vest laden with tools at the ready. Even a nose on the water doesn’t reveal much today — there are few insects active — so he mulls over a fly box that opens like a book, revealing 32 compartments with
tiny transparent spring-loaded doors. He contemplates the array — hooks and feathers spun together with thread and wizardry — and settles on a Parachute Adams dry fly, its light-and-dark body made to mimic an adult mayfly. I watch him as he secures it to his line, cinching off the knot by tugging the line between teeth and fingers. Stepping to the edge of the river, Fellin flips his rod to get just the right momentum on the light line, landing the fly upon the surface and then lifting it up again. He works a spot and then continues upstream. It is a moving meditation. A continuous motion underlain by deep stillness. Not unlike the stillness in the depths of Grayling Pool, where the trout seem to be laying low, ignoring the rush of the current and the temptations offered overhead. After a couple hours, Fellin still has not found his honey hole, that dream spot where the fish are abundant and biting. Today he will not hear the zip of a line when
there’s action on the other end, or hold a slippery creature for a moment before releasing it. “Catch and release” is the common practice here. The sport of fly fishing is not about securing food, but about the thrill of the chase, the skill of the catch and communing for a time in this “Last Best Place,” with snow-capped mountains dropping to lodgepole pine forests and opening to grassland valleys erupting with wildflowers. The trout, Fellin explains, giving up after a couple of hours, mainly bite when the water temperature is between 45 and 65. They are, in a sense, piscatorial Goldilocks. Today the water is too cold, he suspects. It was “an old-fashioned winter,” Fellin says, with record snows. But nowadays the old normal is an anomaly. For the past 30 years, the state has been warming, and at an unusually fast clip. Despite its long, cold winters, Montana’s average temperature in 2016 was 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit above its
Tourism is a substantial part of Montana’s economy, and many people who come here come to fish. The fishing industry brings in some $300 million each year.
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20th century average. That’s double the warming of the planetary average from the same year. Since 1987, when Fellin first opened the Big Hole Lodge, only three years have been cooler than the average temperatures of the last century. The chart of this warming progress is a jagged sawtooth — cold years and warm ones — but trending ever upward. Even this year’s hefty snowpack, which feeds the river much more than the occasional summer rain, no longer assures a good summer of fishing. “It was actually up in the low 70s last week, and we lost 25 percent of our snowpack in one week,” Fellin explains. “Twenty-five percent in one week,” he repeats. “Unbelievable. For April, that’s very unusual.” The ideal scenario is good snowpack followed by a gradual descent into summer, so the meltwater is meted out steadily. This goes for anglers, as well as for Montana’s ranchers and farmers, who fear the droughts associated with climate change, and its firefighters, on the alert for the wildfires that feed on dry conditions. “A long, slow release of mountain water is always preferred, but isn’t always delivered,” says the state’s water supply outlook report. When winter leapfrogs spring straight into summer, the water melts fast and furious and then is gone, leaving the second half of summer parched. While I was fishing with Fellin in southwestern Montana, the Milk River in the north was flooding due to rapid melting, causing the governor to declare a state of emergency. At a weather station near the Big Hole River, nearly 90 percent of the snowpack disappeared in April. So much snow, gone too quickly. And when that cold water is gone, rivers flow low and warm up fast. That is a disaster for cold-water fish. The Big Hole River is feeling the effects most dramatically. Locals call it the “Last Best River,” undammed and wild and gorgeous. It is trout heaven — rainbows with their iridescence, browns covered in spots and the native westslope cutthroat with red slashes along their necks. The river also has mountain whitefish and the very last of the Lower 48’s native streamdwelling fluvial Arctic grayling, sleek and silver with a blue-spotted dorsal fin that flows like a sail. The thousands of fish that ply each mile of river feast upon a succession of stonefly hatches, some as small as dust motes, others the size of your finger. Both predator and prey depend on cold, clear waters for their survival.
Craig Fellin, owner of the Big Hole Lodge, describes himself as a conservative, a conservationist and a “frustrated Republican” who worries about climate change.
conservationist. He speaks of the Republican presidents who signed the Clean Air Act in 1970 (Richard Nixon) and its amendments in 1990 (George H.W. Bush). Though Nixon initially vetoed the Clean Water Act in 1972, overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress overruled
CONSERVE: ‘KEEP, PRESERVE, KEEP INTACT, GUARD’
Fellin is not only a conservative, but also — and maybe even primarily — a
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him. He also established the Environmental Protection Agency. All these efforts helped address pollution in Montana, and all across America. Where have those voices gone? Fellin asks. He doesn’t hear them on Fox News. “Nobody talked about conservation and
the environment” during the last election, says this self-declared “frustrated Republican.” But even his deep concern for the land and waters he loves isn’t enough to sway his vote, which he bases on more than the single issue of climate action. “I voted for Trump,” he says, “for the Repub-
lican ideas of smaller government and less taxes and more pro-business.” Yet despite his party’s refusal to embrace efforts to address climate change, Fellin has kept an open mind. He watches Fox, but also seeks out information from many sources, such as a recent episode of 60 Minutes, where he learned about ocean acidification, another aspect of climate change that impacts fisheries. But an event last year was the clincher for Fellin. A friend invited him to a talk by geologist George Brimhall at the National Exchange Club, a gathering of businesspeople in Butte. Brimhall gave a PowerPoint presentation, and somewhere between talking about Humbug Spires and Butte ore deposits, he focused on climate change. Showing temperature graphs drawn from data reaching back 500 million years, he explained that the climate has always been changing, with distinct warm and cold periods in the past. Natural climate cycle. That made sense to Fellin. But now, Brimhall added, we’re supposed to be on a cooling trajectory, not a warming one, a rapidly warming one. “We should have been heading back into our next ice age,” Brimhall said, but because of our use of fossil fuels, “we stopped nature from doing that.” That was the point that lodged in Fellin’s mind, and it troubles him still. “He showed me that it’s for real,” Fellin says, recalling Brimhall’s talk. Fellin’s reaction to this data was unusual among the people I met along the Big Hole. Others recognize that change is happening — the effects are hard to deny — but these observant anglers come to more predictably modern-day Republican Party platform conclusions about its origins. “There’s always changes, everywhere,” says one of Fellin’s neighbors, Frank Stanchfield, who founded his own fishing outpost, Troutfitters, on the Big Hole River around the same time Fellin opened his lodge. Montana is warmer than it used to be, he tells me: “We used to see 50 below several days every year, and we rarely see 50 below ever, anymore.” But he says a human lifetime is but a blink of the bigger picture. As we sit together on the banks of the Big Hole, Frank clutches an unlit cigar in his hand, placed loosely over his stomach. “I don’t think it’s manmade,” he says. “I don’t think there’s anything we can do to change it ourselves.” On another day, another fly fisherman tells me something similar. “It’s changed, there’s no question about it,” says Jim Hagenbarth, who is also a rancher and, along with Fellin, a founding member of the Big Hole Watershed Committee, which has been working to
improve river conditions since 1995. “It’s Mother Nature,” Jim tells me. “The climate has always changed. I think it’ll swing back the other way.” Even Mark Thompson, the president of the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited in Butte, says climate change isn’t on its agenda. “Our sole purpose for Trout Unlimited is to conserve and protect cold-water fisheries,” he tells me as we cruise in a pickup along MT-43, which winds along the Big Hole River. “A lot of the species, particularly here in Montana, don’t do well with warm water,” he acknowledges, but as for climate change, “it’s not something that’s ever come up. We don’t talk about global warming in our chapter meetings.” Instead they focus on the immediate: creek restoration projects and what can be done on the ground, now. When I ask him if he thinks there’s a role for the federal government to play in reducing carbon emissions, he says “No” before I can finish the question. No matter what those on the banks of the river perceive, the reality of the fish in the water is another thing altogether.
CHANGES IN THE WATER
One way to measure the possible impact climate change is having on the Big Hole is to monitor the health of its fish. That’s the job of Jim Olsen, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks. He tells me that disease outbreaks related to warm waters are on the rise, including a fungus called saprolegnia and a parasite that causes proliferative kidney disease (PKD). Late one afternoon, I catch up with Olsen along the watery willows of Bear Creek, a tributary to the Big Hole, where he is collecting brook trout in a bucket to test in the lab for disease. “We’re seeing changes for sure,” he tells me when I ask him about climate change. “Our spring seems to come a little earlier and fall seems to last a little longer.” Four years ago, two warm weeks in October led to “pretty significant dieoffs” of Big Hole trout, Olsen says. The brown trout were spawning, which put a stress on their bodies that, coupled with the heat, made them unable to fight off the saprolegnia fungus, as they could in cooler water. The population took a dive. Pinning the deaths “exactly on warming temperatures is ...” Olsen starts to say, then pauses, the ever-cautious scientist. He starts again. “I don’t know if we can do that yet. But for certain we’re seeing changes in the fishery in the last five to 10 years.” He explains that the species of fish predominating along the river have shifted dramatically in that time. “Ten years ago, a brown trout in the
“We used to see 50 below several days every year, and we rarely see 50 below ever, anymore,” says Frank Stanchfield, who runs Troutfitters on the Big Hole River. But he doesn't believe humans can influence the climate.
upper end of the Big Hole was rare. It was all brook trout,” Olsen says. “Now we’ve seen that almost completely flipflop.” Brown trout have been in the Big Hole for almost a century, but it’s only
now that they’ve come to dominate. He’s unsurprised by this, given that brown trout can tolerate warmer water than brookies. “I don’t have any other explanation other than temperature.”
If an angler just wants to catch a fish, any fish, then these shifts may not matter much. Many of the fish associated with Montana rivers were introduced only in the last century, when stocking rivers
with fish was as common as stocking cans of Campbell’s soup on grocery shelves. But people have their favorites. Fellin likes the challenge of brown trout. They’re reclusive and hard to catch. Many are fighting for the cutthroat trout, a native trout that Lewis and Clark feasted on when they passed through in 1805. Today, cutthroat are down to 6 percent of their historic range. And then there’s the fluvial Arctic grayling, which was once found across Michigan and Montana. Now, the Big Hole River is their only habitat in the continental United States, with only about 200 breeding pairs. As a cold-water species, they remain abundant in Canada and Alaska, but in Montana they can retreat only so far to higher, cooler elevations if temperature is a pressure on them. Like many species across the planet, there will come a time when there’s nowhere left to go. Luckily, the Big Hole so far has been spared the massive fishkill suffered on the Yellowstone River in 2016, when PKD exacerbated by warm water killed thousands of fish and shut down 100 miles to recreation. But multiple sections of the Big Hole frequently have restrictions or outright closures due to low water flow and warm water during peak fishing season. In the last four years, the upper stretch of
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the Big Hole had hundreds of days when these limitations were in effect. That means less fishing, and more anglers crammed into the river sections that remain open. Region 3 is only 12 percent of the state’s land area, but it provides more than a quarter of the state’s angling opportunities, and that translates to dollars. Tourism is a substantial part of Montana’s economy, and many people who come here come to fish. Two-thirds of Montana’s wildlife management budget comes from fishing and hunting revenue, so anything that makes either activity difficult (or impossible) has an economic impact. The angling industry alone brings in $300 million each year.
RESILIENCE, AND WHEN IT’S NOT ENOUGH
Regardless of their politics, those who fly fish have been acting like conservationists for more than half a century. Decades ago, when fish stocks became thin, the practice of “catch and release” was embraced. In the 1970s, fisheries management switched to supporting habitat instead of stocking.
When severe drought hit in the late 1980s, the governor tasked ranchers and outfitters to come up with a water management plan and, eager to keep the federal government out of their affairs, they did. These efforts have paid off. Cattle are kept off riverbanks to prevent erosion. Willows were planted to stabilize banks, shade the water and create cool hiding spots. And when the water gets too warm, causing fish stress, anglers stay away. If water temperatures hit 73 degrees Fahrenheit over three consecutive days, voluntary “hoot owl” restrictions go into effect, limiting fishing after 2 p.m., when the day is at its warmest and the fish can’t handle the stress of being caught. The best anglers will spend time swishing the fish they catch back and forth in the water to oxygenate its gills before releasing it. But will habitat restoration and hoot owl limitations be enough? Jim Olsen, the fisheries biologist, is not sure. “If climate continues to change and get warmer,” he says, “there may not be anything we can do in these lower reaches, which are warmer and have lower flows.” While currently warming seems
merely to be shifting species around and causing the occasional fishkill, the longterm future looks grim for Montana’s trout population. Studies show that nearly half of all trout habitat in the interior West could be gone in the next 60 years. Brook trout could lose more than three-quarters of their current range. Migratory bull trout could be almost entirely wiped out. By then, the Arctic grayling will have vanished completely from the rivers of the continental United States.
THE SEEN AND UNSEEN OF CLIMATE CHANGE
In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean writes, “All there is to thinking ... is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren’t noticing which makes you see something that isn’t even visible.” How do we connect the links between the seen and the unseen? How do we wrap our heads around something as complex as climate change? Something so immense it can seem unbelievable? In a way, that’s what a fly fisherman like Fellin is doing all the time. As he and
I chat over a picnic lunch on the banks of the Big Hole, he continually scans his surroundings. Finishing his ham sandwich, Fellin spots something, and reaches out to grab it. “Whoa, whoa, here’s a stonefly,” he says, holding it out in his palm. “Isn’t she beautiful?” He identifies it as a golden stonefly, carefully pinching off an ant latched to its hindquarters. He then comments that its appearance is a month early. Around us, the sun is shining brightly. The snow is melting quickly. “That could be a precursor,” he continues, troubled, looking at the creature before letting it go. “Even though it was a cold winter, this is a sign of climate change — that things are warming up sooner,” he says. What it means for the future of fly fishing, and the cold-water species that anglers get such joy pursuing, remains to be seen. Or unseen. As those with rod in hand decide, on the river and at the ballot box. This article was produced by InsideClimate News, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet that covers climate, energy and the environment.
Jim Olsen, a fisheries biologist for Montana’s Fish, Wildlife & Parks department, checks trout in a tributary of the Big Hole River. He’s seen sudden drops in some fish populations in recent years, and says, “I don’t have any other explanation other than temperature.”
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Road to Memphis Podcasts for music maniacs when the guided tour isn’t enough by Nate Biehl
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piano on display in Sun Studio, the Memphis tourist attraction and birthplace of rock and roll, sports a sacred cigar burn. The tour guides at Sun will tell you with pride that Jerry Lee Lewis is responsible for the half-inch deep crater in the ivory between the low E and F keys, and there’s no doubt his vandalism transformed the instrument from a common spinet into a treasured artifact, rather than decreasing the value. Cashing in on the bad behavior of rock stars is almost the mission statement of Disgraceland, one of a handful of music-related podcasts I listened to on a drive from Missoula to Memphis last week. Producer Jake Brennan makes no attempt to conceal the fact that tabloid tales about mayhem and murder are the stated aim of Disgraceland, and episode one is about The Killer himself, strongly suggesting Lewis murdered his 5th wife. Other episodes tell shocking stories of James Brown and Sid Vicious, and Brennan even claims to have dirt that links Beck, Scientology and a number of suicides. True crime is the backbone of some of the most successful podcasts. A blend of true crime and music stories seems like a home run, and I find the stories of Disgraceland hard to turn away from, but the journalist in me requires more veracity than self-identified bullshitter Brennan provides. Veracity is where Cocaine and Rhinestones goes one step further. Cocaine and Rhinestones is a country music history podcast produced by Tyler Mahen Coe. I consider myself a reasonably informed fan, and much of the content Coe produced in season one is new to me. His extensive liner notes at the end of each episode provide ample attribution, enough to give sticklers like me confidence that the stories are more than apocryphal. The episodes take deep dives into the career of an artist or the lifespan of a song, and the results are ultimately very satisfying. I ate up huge swaths of Montana highway listening to stories of the Louvin Brothers and Don Rich.
I also melted away entire states of the Midwest with the help of the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast. Once a month, Liverpool songwriters Simon Barber and Brian O’Connor sit down with a different songwriter to talk about their process and experience as a creative. The list of guests is illustrious, from respected stalwarts like Nick Lowe and Suzanne Vega to contemporary hit maker songwriters like Naughty Boy, who has worked with Beyonce. I made sure to dial up the Johnny Marr episode to soothe my jangled nerves as I drove
through the biggest city I’ve ever attempted behind the wheel. As the roadside ads switched from beef to barbeque, I listened to the Meet the Composer podcast in defiance of the pop country, worship and classic rock options on the radio. Meet the Composer is an hour-long focus on contemporary classical music produced by violist Nadia Sirota, and it feels like a view of high-art music from 30,000 feet. Each episode is itself a composition, an exhilarating dive into the mechanics and theory of contemporary composition
rendered with the dynamic, seamless flow of a show like Radiolab. For the drive back to Missoula, my partner and I have a playlist full of Dr. Portia Sabin’s The Future of What podcast. Sabin, president of the Kill Rock Stars record label, has created a body of work that’s almost a free education for anyone interested in the music business under the hood. Each week she talks with a broad spectrum of professionals, from performers to accountants, to demystify the details of the music industry. As we make our way back across the country to-
ward Missoula’s economic reality, the most recent episode titled “Creative Accounting” looks to be required listening. We got lucky when we toured Sun Studio this trip. Our tour guide knew we were fellow musicians and took us behind the scenes to see the piano The Killer branded. With podcasts, you don’t have to rely on luck. No matter where you are — or where you’re going — the guides in these music podcasts are there to give you an on-demand VIP tour. arts@missoulanews.com
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iniscent of Los Straightjackets, and Dean resurrects “Don’t Let the Moon Catch You Cryin’” from Ween’s 2011 album Caesar Demos, fleshing it out with layered guitars and entirely new lyrics, although the chorus remains unchanged. My favorite track is “Yellow Pontiac,” which sounds uncannily like KISS circa Dressed to Kill, right down to the Ace Frehley licks on lead guitar. But we’re talking Ween-style humor here, and Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons can only wish they could come up with a lyric as great as, “In a fight I would not have your back / ’Cause you drive a fuckin’ ugly yellow Pontiac.” (Ednor Therriault) Dean Ween Group plays the Top Hat Sat., July 7, at 9:30 PM. $30 advance. All ages.
Ancient Pools Ancient Pools has only one song out so far, “Ocean for Ocean,” for which they shot a music video on a VHS tape in a dark room, edited to enhance all the grunge and blemishes of the medium. It’s fitting because the duo’s echoey dream-pop sound melds well with the fuzzy, almost psychedelic visuals that capture a 1980s and 1990s aesthetic. Ancient Pools consists of guitarist/vocalist Anna Jeter and bassist/synth player Kevin Christopher. (Christopher also plays in the Olympia rock quartet Oh, Rose, who opened for Future Islands in Missoula at the Wilma back in mid-2017.) In “Ocean for Ocean,” Christopher’s soft synth is even outdone by Jeter’s smooth melodies and hypnotic,
yearning refrain of “Cannot find it.” Just when you think they might start rocking, they slow down the tempo even more, this time with a drum machine and heavenly rhythmic chords that could probably lull you into a deep REM sleep if you let it. More than anything, I fell in love with the video — the way Jeter leans in to hum and how the camera zooms in on her fingers plucking the pearly guitar. The song barely crests a minute and a half in length, but it somehow feels longer. The droning, earworm chorus sticks with you far beyond the last measure. (Donal Lakatua) Ancient Pools plays the ZACC Below Sat., July 7, at 7:30 PM, along with Whole Milk, Tiny Plastic Stars and Crypticollider. $6.
Iron Cemetery, Iron Cemetery Missoula has its fair share of sludge and doom. Iron Cemetery fills a need for something a few degrees more brutal. The three-piece’s self-titled EP is a blistering amalgamation of death and thrash metal, resulting in a sound that’s as technical as it is made for crushing beers on your forehead. Iron Cemetery plays at face-melting speed, a constant onslaught of blast beats, virtuoso guitar solos and a ferocious growl that calls to mind Behemoth’s Adam Darski on uppers. The lyrics occasionally edge toward silliness — “Jesus Christ/get off your fucking cross” from “Lycanthropy” being one example. But Iron Cemetery is in
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good company in a genre known for lyrical excess, and the wordplay hardly detracts from the riffage. Who needs complex lyricism when the solo on “Hostile Drone” says everything? The production, helmed by Black National Recording’s own Chris Baumann, is top-notch, allowing each instrument to hold ground amid the chaos. This sounds as good on laptop speakers as it does on a sound system, which is awfully good news for metalheads who still bump Deicide cassettes in their aging car stereos. It’s an extremely promising debut from what we can only hope will become a Missoula institution. (Michael Siebert)
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Table talk Rick Bass digs in with our literary heroes by Sarah Aswell
The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the spent in the wrong places — for example, we spend Table with America’s Finest Writers is filled with more time getting to Lorrie Moore’s house than we amazing Easter eggs for book nerds: like the fact that do with Lorrie Moore, while too much time is short story goddess Amy Hempel thinks that some of wasted at the baggage claim in Geneva when what the best writing of her life was for a Manhattan animal we really care about is John Berger living his last shelter, where she would write last-minute appeals years in a remote mountain village. Some of Bass’ for dogs about to be euthanized (until the shelter best sentences, as always, are when he pauses to fired her for bringing in bad publicity). Or that Paris describe a tiny moment, like car tires driving over Review co-found Peter Matthiessen had an enormous pine needles on the way to Gary Snyder’s house, whale skull propped up on his front porch like a but other moments last a bit too long. There’s also a lack of women and people of sculpture. Or that 61-year-old Lorrie Moore (a differcolor in the pages. Many of the ent-but-equal short story goddess) chapters only narrowly avoid can out-party every other author straight white man worship, which who appears in the book. makes some sense considering It’s these details and anecdotes that’s mostly what makes up the that make Rick Bass’ new non-ficold guard of writers. Bass seems tion project so delightful and readpretty conscious of this, and adds able. In many ways, the reader is diversity with a few younger female living through Bass chapter after and queer selections. Still, the book chapter, as he visits each of his litindulges in some antiquated tropes erary heroes one after the other and nostalgia for what has come to and cooks them a meal in their be understood as toxic masculinity. kitchen. It’s what bibliophiles want In Gary Snyder’s chapter, for exammost from their favorite authors: to ple, Bass writes that Jack Kerouac’s be welcomed into those mysterious On the Road is “a boys’ book, and homes, to see their mentors’ desks, more dated yet, a boys’ book in the to break bread with them. The Traveling Feast: Bass is on several missions On the Road and at the 1950s,” yet tries to reminisce with Snyder about the time period and during the book. First and foreTable with America’s Finest Writers lifestyle of that group, though Snymost, it’s to have his mentors meet Rick Bass der himself has obviously moved on his mentees — he brings his pet students and sometimes his daugh- hardcover, Little, Brown and seems much more interested in and Company other topics. The women’s chapters ter, Lowery, on each of his visits feel more glossed over — not with authors — and to bridge the gap between literary generations. Secondly, it’s to enough about their body of work and legacy are say goodbye, as many of his mentors are aging, and covered as the other sections. Hempel is seen too a significant number are dying (by the time of the much as the ex-wife of Gordon Lish, while the road book’s publication, three are dead: Matthiessen, trip to Moore’s house gets more attention than her Denis Johnson, and John Berger). Finally, though, revolutionary work or the fact that she can happily it’s about looking for recurring patterns among drink wine and tell yarns until four in the morning. Still, Bass is so open-hearted, so eager to congreat writers, for finding out “the excellence of not nect with his subjects, that these flaws don’t take just the craft of writing, but the craft of living.” We are quickly whisked away on one trip after an- away from the book. He writes candidly of his fresh other, mostly to remote cabins (is being mostly a her- divorce, his struggle with aging and, of course, his mit a secret to being a great writer? It kind of seems own worries about achieving greatness — both as a so) where we are welcomed — sometimes warmly, writer and a teacher. Even if he doesn’t pull off his sometimes less so — into authors’ lives. I found myself traveling feast perfectly (from his selection of writers hanging on every word of some of my favorites in- to a literal exploding turkey at Tom McGuane’s cluded in the book (besides Hempel, Moore and house), the journey — and the wonderful book-nerd Johnson, some of the standouts in the book include Easter eggs — make it worth the read. Rick Bass reads from The Traveling Feast David Sedaris and Joyce Carol Oates), and picking apart every detail they shared about their writing life. at Fact & Fiction Tue., July 10, at 7 PM. It’s not a perfect volume, though. It suffers, as some of Bass’ writing does, from too much space arts@missoulanews.com
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Failed heist American Animals tracks an uninspired true story by Molly Laich
American Animals is based on a 2004 college campus art heist.
What can I say? American Animals is a stupid, forgettable movie about a bunch of bros who try and fail to steal an expensive piece of art from their university’s library and get caught. Bart Layton directs and writes the picture, which it turns out is, in fact, based on a true story. I say it this way because the movie plays around with what to me has always been an overrated question about how we tell true stories, the line between truth and fiction, lies, exaggeration, elaboration, the question of who can we really trust? But in fact, four boys really did come together to try to steal a piece of art from their school’s campus in Kentucky in 2004, and this is a movie about that heist. Evan Peters plays the group’s adventure-loving, blindly optimistic ringleader, Warren. He, in turn, recruits Spencer, the film’s moral compass, played by Barry Keoghan, whose sleepy face intoxicated me in The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) and whose talent is utterly wasted here. Later, they decide they need more people and pick up Chas (Blake Jenner) and Eric ( Jared Abrahamson). They’ve each got their movie quirks, (Spencer’s a good kid toeing the line between timidity and reason, Eric’s really into fitness), but they have in common a characteristic bro-manship and shallow understanding of the world mistaken for depth that makes them ultimately indistinguishable from one another. Why are we even doing this, you might ask? They are bored by their lives, underwhelmed by the promises of career and family after college and, what the hey? It’s a victimless crime. In between the unfolding drama of planning and execution, Layton cuts to interviews with the real-life players, who are fresh out of prison. (Kind of a spoiler? It’s obvious from the start that they don’t succeed in pulling off the heist, but maybe
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I’ve stolen your hope that these brats are still behind bars. For that, I’m sorry.) The movie’s marketing makes it sound like these kids were steeped in film trivia and thus motivated to pull off the library heist as inspired by stylized capers of the time. That’s a story I’d like to see, but American Animals is surprisingly light on allusions to other films. We get a pretty uninspired reference to the “Why am I Mr. Pink?” scene from Reservoir Dogs, but it’s so lamely written that all it really does is make you wish you were instead watching Reservoir Dogs. (Joe’s 1992 response, “Because you’re a faggot, alright?” would never play in an American motion picture today, but I just want to go on record as saying that this is a perfect joke, the opposite of homophobic, a joke with layers and nuance, a joke the caliber of which American Animals can never touch — but I digress.) To be fair, it is pretty funny when the real-life Spencer says offhandedly in his interview: “Reservoir Dogs is probably my least favorite Quentin Tarantino movie.” It’s mildly amusing to watch how these boys bumble through the planning and execution of their heist, but this is supposed to be a mind-blowing comedy, biopic and sobering morality tale that instead half delivers on all three. We’d have been better off with a breezy Netflix documentary, or better still, stopping short at John Falk’s comprehensive 2007 Vanity Fair article on the subject, “Majoring in Crime.” Again I ask, does the veracity of the particulars of the heist really matter? Is there any drama to be found in the possibility of an unreliable narrator? Or is the movie just wasting time? American Animals opens at the Roxy Fri., June 29. arts@missoulanews.com
[film] The schedules for the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9 were not finalized at press time due to this week’s holiday. Visit amctheatres.com for up-to-date listings.
OPENING THIS WEEK AMERICAN ANIMALS Four friends from Kentucky travel to Transylvania University to steal the rarest book in the school library's collection. Two noteworthy things: 1. There are disappointingly no vampires in this movie. 2. This is based on a true story. Rated. R. Stars Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan and Blake Jenner. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film) ANT-MAN AND THE WASP After Avengers: Infinity War left us on the darkest cliffhanger in the MCU's history, what does Marvel do next? Would you believe a light and breezy action-adventure film starring two size-changing heroes? Rated PG-13. Stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Douglas in a CGI mask. Playing at the Southgate 9, the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12. THE FIRST PURGE When the fourth installment of your successful horror franchise is a prequel, you're definitely going to space in part five. Rated R. Stars Lex Scott Davis, Y'lan Noel and Marisa Tomei. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12.
NOW PLAYING THE BLACK STALLION (1979) Be nice to horses. You never know when you'll need one to save you from a shipwreck. Rated G. Stars Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr and Victor, Montana's Hoyt Axton. Playing at the Roxy Mon., July 9 at 7 PM.
and Ralph Fiennes. Playing Sat., July 7 at 9 PM at the Roxy.
DEADPOOL 2 The sequel to the highest grossing R-rated film of all time brings Marvel's merc with a mouth into a collision course with Cable, a cyborg from the future who isn't played by Dolph Lundgren, as was promised in the last movie. This is completely unacceptable. I want to speak to your supervisor. Rated R. Stars Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin and Ricky Baker. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9.
INCREDIBLES 2 It's been 14 years since we last saw Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl and the rest of the family battle evil on the big screen. Now the family of superheroes returns to face their greatest threat: a market saturated with too many comic book movies. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter and Bozeman's Sarah Vowell. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex.
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) The best kind of friends are the ones you make by leaving a bunch of candy on the dirty ground in your backyard. Stephen Spielberg redefined filmmaking in this classic about an alien who just wants to make a phone call. Rated PG. Stars Henry “Desperation” Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Dee Wallace. Playing Wed., July 11 at 8 PM and Sun., July 15 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy.
INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) A ragtag group of heroes bands together to project the Earth from an extraterrestrial invasion. Good thing they have Will Smith on the welcoming committee. Rated PG-13. Also stars Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum and Brent Spiner. Playing Sun., July 8 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy.
HEARTS BEAT LOUD As he gets ready to shutter his hip record store and send his daughter to college, this dad tries to stay afloat the only way he knows how, by starting a band with his kid. Rated PG-13. Stars Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons and Ted “The Handsome” Danson. Playing at the Roxy. IN BRUGES (2008) Before he won an Oscar for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, director Martin McDonagh brought us this darkly humorous tale of two Irish assassins hiding out in the fairytale-like beauty of Belgium. Rated R. Stars Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson
“If this water wasn’t so cold I would be at least 50-feet taller.” Paul Rudd stars in Ant-Man and the Wasp opening at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex.
JUMANJI (1995) Roll the dice, move your pawn and avoid giant bugs, mischievous monkeys and a lunatic with a rifle. And you thought playing Monopoly with you family was stressful. Rated PG. Stars Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst and Bonnie Hunt. Playing Thu., July 12 and Sat., July 14 at 2 PM at the Roxy. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM It's the fifth Jurassic Park movie. I think we all know what we're in for by this point. Rated PG-13. Stars Sinoceratops, Barynoyx, Stygimoloch and Chris Pratt. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. THE KARATE KID (1984) An old man shows his teenage neighbor how to kick bullies in the head by making him wax his car. Rated
PG. Stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita and the king of Reagan-era bullies, Billy Zabka. Playing at the Roxy Thu., July 5 at and Sat., July 7 at 2 PM. NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD (2005) Shot over the span of two nights, this concert film combines interviews with the music legend with heart-stopping performances. Rated PG. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Playing Thu., July 12 at 8 PM at the Roxy. OCEAN'S 8 Danny Ocean's estranged sister attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City's star-studded annual Met Gala, and she's doing it with a 73 percent smaller crew than her brother. Suck it, George Clooney. Rated PG-13. Stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Rihanna. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. RBG Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. Follow her journey in this mindful documentary. Rated PG. Directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen. Playing at the Roxy. SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO The CIA sends Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin to set off a civil war between rival Mexican drug cartels. I wonder who is going to play the female protagonist that gets forgotten halfway through the movie to make room for men and their dude-pain. Or was that just in the first Sicario? Rated R. Also stars Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away we got a
Star Wars movie every three years. Now we're getting at least two a year, including this prequel about a young Han Solo pulling off a heist. Rated PG-13. Star Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover and Emilia Clarke. Playing at the AMC 12. TAG After playing the same game of tag for 30 years, a group of lifelong friends face the real possibility that they might have to finally grow the hell up. Rated R. Stars Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jon Hamm. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex UNCLE DREW The genius behind those “Whassup?” Budweiser ads brings this touching story about a group of septuagenarians who band together to play basketball in what appears to be Sprite commercial. Rated PG13. Stars Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O'Neal and Reggie Miller. Playing at the AMC 12. WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood because we can finally see this heartfelt and moving documentary about the life of Mr. Rogers! I hope you enjoy crying with a bunch of strangers in the dark! Directed by Morgan Neville. Playing at the Roxy.
Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn. Planning your trip to the local cinema? Get up-todate listings and film times at theroxytheater.org, amctheatres.com and pharaohplex.com to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. For the record, Will Smith clearly says “Welcome to Earth” not “Welcome to Earf” in ID4.
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Better late than never by Ari LeVaux
THE MARKET REPORT
After two weeks of solid gloom, the weather cooperated last Saturday, and everyone had the same idea: Drive in circles around the farmers market, looking for a place to park. The strollers and lattes were out in force, plus a group of anti-ICE protesters who marched through en route to City Hall. It was like a mosh pit, in other words, at the Clark Fork Market. The smart shoppers did their surgical strikes early, or hit the North Higgins market. The action has been getting so hot under the bridge, in fact, that it’s begun to attract leeches. One vendor was outed (and booted) for trying to pass off Washington cherries as local. I learned everything above when I rolled into market around noon, an hour before closing. That’s when the boys and I typically arrive, sliding in when, as they say in Alaska, “the odds are good, but the goods are odd.” I don’t condone bargaining, or asking farmers for deals. Don’t be that guy trying to negotiate the price of a head of broccoli like it’s a new car. These vendors are people with dirt so deeply embedded
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in their fingers it won’t wash out, and they work as hard as they do because they want to feed you. This is no place for scrimping. At the same time, I am open to offers that are mutually beneficial. I didn’t arrive last week looking to score a box of kale, but it was offered at a price I couldn’t refuse. It’s been green-smoothie-thirty here at Market Report Central all week long. By the hour of my leisurely arrival, the tomatoes were long gone, though the buzz was still resonating. Given this week’s hot and sunny forecast, next week’s tomato supply should increase sharply. The same can be said for huckleberries, which made a teasing appearance, and strawberries, which sold out by 10 a.m. Also spotted in the market’s final minutes: peas, carrots, garlic scapes, potatoes, mustard greens, baby bok choy and some rhubarb that only Charlie Brown could love. All it needed was some strawberries and sugar. The Market Report is a periodic account of the previous week’s farmers markets in Missoula. Send tips and story ideas to editor@missoulanews.com.
[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 6am - 8pm daily. A Missoula gem since 1978, now serving lunch seven days a week from 11 - 4pm. Featured items: scratch-made soups, salads, sandwiches and more. Bernice's is known for its scrumptious desserts including cupcakes, pastries, cookies, and cakes. Gluten-free and vegan options available. A must-have for the coffee lover in your life? A bag of Bernice’s signature blend locally roasted with love. Check us out on Facebook, Instagram or visit our website at www.bernicesbakerymt.com. $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 46 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Chameleon Mobile Kitchen Bonner @ 8340 Hwy 200 (old Milltown Market) Wednesdays - Fridays. Seeley @ 3102 Hwy 83 (Boy Scout Rd) Saturdays & Sundays 214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, bowls and pasta. We also offer daily specials, seasonal drinks, and housebaked goods. We are fully equipped and selfcontained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pickup. Online menu available on Google Maps.
Open Tues - Thurs 11:30 am - 10 pm, Fri & Sat 11:30 am - midnight, closed Sunday and Monday. $-$$ 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 in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-toorder sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm. $-$$
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Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:303pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pmclose. $-$$
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Agua fresca at Tia’s Big Sky
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Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ Mo’ Dogs 617 S. Higgins Ave. 926-1094 mo-dogs.com Mo’ Dogs – Missoula’s premier Gourmet Sausage and Specialty Hot Dog Restaurant. From our Old Fashioned Frank to our tropical “Aloha” or traditional “Chicago” we have something for everyone. Our sauces, slaws and all-meat Angus Chili are house-made daily. Missoula Family owned and operated – we look forward to seeing you! $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$
photo Susan Elizabeth Shepard
What you’re drinking: Aguas frescas are those gorgeous, colorful, often fruit-based refreshments served in any taqueria worthy of the name, usually with a metal ladle out of a big glass jar or from a recirculating beverage dispenser. Jamaica (hibiscus flower) agua fresca is one of the most popular flavors, and Tia’s version is a ruby-red liquid in a double-decker cooler. Why you’re drinking it: It’s 58 degrees Fahrenheit outside as of this writing, but soon the sun will be out and you’ll be seeking a cool and delicious beverage. Drinking one of these while relaxing in Tia’s garden seating, maybe while waiting for a taco, is the perfect sunny-day break.
What’s in it: Hibiscus flowers — jamaica in Spanish — make for a tart and bright tea with a flavor similar to cranberry juice. It’s also very high in vitamin C. Tia’s version has a slight cinnamon undertone and just enough sweetness from the piña and agave to temper the astringent hibiscus. Where to get it: Tia’s Big Sky, 1016 W. Broadway St., on the corner of Broadway and Hawthorne. —Susan Elizabeth Shepard Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reserva-
tions, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s! Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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The Dean Ween Group plays the Top Hat Sat., July 7. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30 PM. $30. photo courtesy Mike Adams
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Antonioni plays Ten Spoon Vineyard & Winery Fri., July 6. 6 PM– 9 PM. Free.
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James Lanman plays Bitter Root Brewing Fri., July 6. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Show your pride at Queers & Beers, a monthly gathering of Missoula’s LGBTQ+ community at Imagine Nation Brewing. DJ Jessi Jaymes spins the gayest hits. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Downtown ToNight features live music, good food and a beer garden every Thursday in Caras Park. This week rock out to the music of Close, But No Seger. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Visit missouladowntown.com for more information.
nightlife Take your guitar, violin or voice to perform for your buds at Open Mic night at Green Alternative Dispensary. Stensrud Building. 7 PM–9:30 PM. Multi-instrumentalist John Schiever plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Pinegrass provides the bluegrass soundtrack at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. George Carlton provides the soundtrack at
Ten Spoon Vineyard & Winery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM Author Jack Clinton reads from his new novel Clovis at Shakespeare & Co. It can’t be about my cousin, can it? 7 PM. Mix a glass of red with the bluesy jazz of Chuck Florence, David Horgan and Beth Lo at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.
My DJ name contains a lowercase letter, a capital letter and a number. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM. Folk troubadour Christy Hays plays the Top Hat’s Acoustic Avenue series. 8 PM. Free. Hip-hop collective MT Souls play Monk’s with Izraw and Vokab & Prosper. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30 PM. Free. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.
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Friday nightlife Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ TRex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Stand-up Open Mic at the Union Club. Signup at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free. Ich bin ein Rocker! German hardcore band The Heart’s Intent plays the VFW’s Metal Show with Kids We Used to Know, The Cake is a Lie and Time To Kill. 10 PM. Donations.
Neo-soul crooner James Lanman brings his 100 Days Tour to Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Seattle’s Antonioni plays Ten Spoon Vineyard & Winery with local support from Tiny Plastic Stars and Wrinkles. 6 PM–9 PM. Free. Milltown Damn plays the Old Post’s Outdoor Music Series at 6:30 PM. Free. Tap meets Top. TopHouse provides the tunes at the Highlander Beer Taphouse. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. The Chamber Music Montana Summer Festival, featuring events across Western Montana, kicks off with an opening night extravaganza at Mis-
soula Winery & Event Center. Hear light classical tunes, tangos and more. 7:30 PM. $20/$100 table. Visit chambermusicmt.com for a full schedule of events. Twenty-one! Time to pay off that bookie! Double Down Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM. Free. DJs Mark Myriad and HOLDR are on deck for Drop Culture at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. Free. Mudslide Charley slides into the Union Club for an evening of music. 9:30 PM. Free. Innasci plays the Top Hat along with Shark Buffalo. 10:15 PM. Free.
Top House plays the Highlander Beer Taphouse Fri., July 6. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
First Friday Elements: Woodcuts by Katie Machain opens at Christie’s International Real Estate. 101 Railroad St. W. 5 PM–8 PM.
Radius Gallery hosts a reception for Courtney Blazon, Mel Griffin, Randi O’Brien and Deb Schwartzkopf’s exhibit I would like to be the air. 4 PM–8 PM.
The Artists’ Shop hosts an opening reception for John McGee mixed-media Animals. 5 PM–8 PM.
Explore the seemingly less desirable areas of the rural West at Lake Missoula Tea Co.’s reception for Holly Pilialoha Carlsmith’s Scenes of the West while nomming on teaflavored pies. 5 PM–8 PM.
Jess Tattory’s multimedia exploration of the human body using texture and color opens at La Stella Blu. 5 PM–8 PM.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices hosts a reception for the art of Dennis “Ace” Sloan. 5 PM–8 PM.
Gallery 709 hosts the Saltmine Artist Group for a discussion on contemporary art in Montana. 5 PM–9 PM.
Take a photographic journey from the backyards of Missoula to the backcountry of the Yukon at Jenni Chaffin’s Experiencing Landscapes. Bernice’s Bakery. 5 PM–8 PM.
John McGee’s Animals opens at the Artists’ Shop Fri., July 6. 5 PM–8 PM.
Hunter Bay Coffee hosts the photography of Vanessa Smith. 5 PM–8 PM.
Don’t feel down, Engel & Völkers Western Frontier hosts the artwork of Laura Blue. 5 PM–8 PM.
Blaque Owl Tattoo hosts #inktober2017, the pen and ink illustrations of Jessie Smith. 5 PM–8 PM. (See Spotlight.)
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The Clay Studio of Missoula hosts an opening reception for Shapes, a new exhibit by Andrew Avakian. 5:30 PM–9 PM. Well, I guess I can make it. Please Go to My Art Show, a colorful watercolor exploration of depression, plants and beer by Lily opens at Clyde Coffee. 5 PM–8 PM.
Healing Roots, a collection of pastels, watercolors and acrylic paintings of the natural world by Betsy Beebe opens at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 5 PM–8 PM.
The Loft hosts an opening for the art of Steve Slocumb and Jess Hill. 6 PM–9 PM.
Noteworthy Paper & Press hosts a Maker’s Showcase featuring the ceramics of Courtney Murphy. 5 PM–8 PM.
Bozeman artist Traci Isaly displays their new exhibit ~Under the Big Sky~ at 4 Ravens Gallery. 5 PM–8 PM.
American Made Tattoo hosts the industrial art of The Steampunk Lady. 5 PM–9 PM.
Saturday
The 72nd Annual Missoula Rose Show proves that while every rose may have its thorn, the Garden City’s celebration of gardening has longer staying power than the band Poison. Southgate Mall. Entries accepted between 6 AM and 10 AM. Free. Do you know your farmer? Missoula Farmers Market features hot coffee, sweet treats and fresh, locally grown veggies. Circle Square by the XXXX. 8 AM–12:30 PM. Free. Stock up on farm-direct food every Saturday at the Clark Fork Market. Vendors from across Western Montana converge in the Riverside Parking Lot next to Caras Park. 8 AM–1 PM. Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels. Celebrating its 20th year, the Missoula People’s Market features an amazing assortment of artists, crafts and community. W. Pine and Higgins. 9 AM. Free. Get your weekend started with a round of disc golf at Granite Peak Folf Course. 10 AM. Free. Visit lolohotsprings.com for more info and registration. Author John Kuglin signs copies of his new book Montana’s Dimple Knee Scandal at Fact & Fiction’s Saturday Sidewalk Signing. 10 AM.
nightlife Good crop o’ Josh comin’ in this year, I’ll tell you what. Josh
Farmer plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Mover and shaker John Floridis plays Ten Spoon Vineyard & Winery. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. This is all I could afford on my salary. The Semi Precious Stones mix psychedelic folk with covers of ‘80s hits at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Denver’s surf-jazz vanguards Whole Milk play the ZACC Below with Tiny Plastic Stars, Cypticollider and Olympia’s Ancient Pools. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $6. The Dean Ween Group plays the Top Hat along with the Mike Dillon Band. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30 PM. $30. Mrs. G provides the soundtrack at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with two-for-one Absolut Vodka specials until midnight. I get the name now. Free. Heart Avail, Capital North and Better Daze bring their Breaking all the Rules Tour to Monk’s. 9 PM. Free. TGIGF! Gladys Friday plays the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Watch stars under the stars at Missoula Outdoor Cinema. This week’s offering features Orson Welles in one of his greatest performances. The Third Man starts at approximately 9:30 PM at Headstart School. Free, but donations encouraged.
WHAT: #inktober2017 First Friday reception WHO: Jessie Smith WHERE: Blaque Owl Tattoo WHEN: Fri., July 6 from 5 PM to 8 PM MORE INFO: facebook.com/artistjessiesmith
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Ancient Pools plays the ZACC Below Sat., July 7. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $6.
Jessie Smith first realized her artistic talent in a kindergarten art class. She looked up from her crayon drawing over to the work of the little boy sitting next to her. “Wow,” she thought, “mine is way better than his.” Smith considers this pivotal memory as the genesis of her artistic career. After high school she took a tattoo apprenticeship, but left after three years when she discovered new illustration techniques that rekindled her love for fine art. During October of 2017, Smith participated in Inktober, a yearly internet challenge that tasks artists to create an original pen-and-ink illustration for every day in October. Smith says she learned a lot from the experience. “I think my main takeaway from Inktober was I need to work on my time management skills,” Smith says laughing. “It can be difficult to sit down and draw a piece every day when you’ve been working all day, arguing with your significant other, or being a parent.” At some points, she would have to do two to five illustrations a day just to make sure she kept up with the harsh schedule. Smith's favorite piece from this month-long experiment is “Fat,” a gold speckled toad puffing out their throat as it ribbits. “A lot of artists chose to emphasize body positivity/fat shaming when tackling this prompt,” Smith explains. “But my goal was to personally challenge myself to create pieces that weren't the first thing you thought of.” —Charley Macorn
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The Highlander Beer Taphouse hosts the most Missoula event imaginable. Buzzed Yoga lets you practice your flow while enjoying cold beer. Bring photo identification and $10 every Sunday this summer. 11 AM.
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Get a clue. It’s not taboo to want to play board games while sipping beer at the Iron Griz. Take a
Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imag-
risk at Beer & Board Games every Sunday in July. 3 PM–6 PM. Free.
Singer-songwriter Annalisa Rose plays Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.
ine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. You were a better Incredible Hulk than Eric Bana. The Ed Norton Big Band plays Missoula Winery and Event Center. 6 PM–8 PM. $9. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.
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Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM.
bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.
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The Sun Dogs provide the soundtrack at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–11 PM. Free.
Prepare a couple of songs and
Motown on Mondays puts the s-ou-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
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Tuesday Every Tuesday is Walk With a Doc Day at Grizzly Peak. A health professional discusses their speciality while walking with the group. 9 AM–10 AM. Free. Missoula Farmers Market’s Tuesday Evening Market lets you get your local veggies and farm-direct products without having to wake up early on Saturday. North Higgins by the XXXX.
Partners in Homecare hosts an interactive workshop on the healing power of plants. Grief Gardening starts at 6 PM at Clark Fork Riverside’s Outside Patio. $5 suggested donation. Join the REI Outdoor School for a bike maintenance class at the Highlander Taphouse every Tuesday this summer. It’s a demonstration class, so no need to bring
your bike. 6 PM. RSVP at rei.com. Missoula-based author Rick Bass reads from his new book, The Traveling Feast. Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Free.
nightlife The only thing I want to know the answer to is why we don’t call it the Meagher Beagher. Trivia
Night at Thomas Meagher Bar lets you show off that big stupid intellect of yours. 8 PM. Free. Revival Comedy hosts its first-ever Insult Battle. Some of Missoula’s funniest comedians go head to head in a competition to see who can be the meanest to their friends. The Badlander, you hockey pucks. 8 PM. Free.
the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What Greenpeace boat was sunk by French intelligence agents on this date in 1985? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.
Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at
This next song is about drinking a LaCroix in your Subaru with your dog. Missoula Music Showcase features local singers and songwriters each week at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.
tions in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains. Missoula Art Museum. 7 PM.
Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover.
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Strike up the band! The Missoula City Band Summer Concert Series features the best local bands performing in the open-air of the Bonner Park Bandshell. 8 PM. Free.
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Wednesday Enjoy a hot beverage after a bike ride with Coffee Outside MSLA. Bring your mug to Brennan’s Wave from 7:15 AM–8:15 AM every Wednesday. Free. Visit pedalmissoula.org for more info. Maybe if we play the Clark Fork a song it won't be so angry. Take your musical instrument to Toole Park for an outdoors jam session next to the Missoula's beautiful river. 12 PM–1 PM.Every Wednesday is Community
Out to Lunch features the live music of local favorites plus a variety of food and drink from more than 20 vendors in the riverfront setting of Caras Park. This week catch the music of TopHouse. 11 AM–2 PM. Free. Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company’s Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week quaff a brew for Forward Montana. 5 PM–8 PM. Join Montana Energy Corps members from Home ReSource, the
Clark Fork Coalition and the National Wildlife Federation for an evening of geology, natural history, and forest ecology. Missoula Public Library Large Meeting Room. 7 PM. Free. The Quintet of the Rockies performs A Night in Vienna! Music from Mozart, Brahms, Strauss and more. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Hamilton. 7 PM. $5– $10.
Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Rainbow Warrior
Rick Bass and David James discuss their experiences researching and co-writing their book about the influence of oil corpora-
Chutzpah!, Missoula’s premier klezmer band, plays Free Cycles along with the Americana of West Fork. 7 PM–10 PM. Free.
Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free. Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers plays the Top Hat along with Harrison Whitford. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15.
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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Unseen Missoula takes you on historical guided walking tours through the Garden City’s past. Head to missouladowntown.com to register. 5:30 PM–7:30 PM. $10.
nightlife Béla Fleck & The Flecktones and the Wood Brothers unite for a night of music at KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7:30. $45/$35 advance. Tom Catmull provides the tunes at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Learn the basics of Kizomba at the Summer of Dance at the Downtown Dance Collective. Jennifer Corbin takes you through the
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steps. 6 PM–8 PM. $15. Register online. The Mary Place Trio provides the tunes at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.
ter, a capital letter and a number. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM.
Missoula’s favorite evening Kris Moon hosts a night Music and food festival continof volcanic party action ues with Laney Lou & the Bird Béla Fleck & The Flecktones play the KettleHouse featuring himself, DJ TDogs playing at Downtown Amphitheater Thu., July 12. Doors at 6 PM, show Rex and a rotating cast ToNight. Enjoy local food and at 7:30. $45/$35 advance. of local DJs projecting a local tunes at Caras Park becurated lineup of music at Fort Missoula. 7 PM–9 PM. videos on the walls every Thurstween 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free. Free. day at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at Michael Downs reads from his new Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman BASE. Free and open to all abili- novel, The Strange and True Tale of hosts karaoke night at the Dark ties, levels and interests. 725 W. Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist at Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. How has America’s view of our Poet Isabel Sobral Campos reads We want to know about your first National Park changed in the from her new collection of poems event! Submit to calendar@misthree decades since the 1988 Yel- about the life of Joan of Arc. Fact soulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forlowstone fire? Writer John Clay- & Fiction. 7 PM–9 PM. get to include the date, time, ton explores the the impact of the devastating event at Heritage Hall My DJ name contains a lowercase let- venue and cost.
Agenda THURSDAY, JULY 5 The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Community Dialogue Series continues fellowship recipients from Mexico, Colombia and Cuba discussing their work in urban planning and human resources. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 5:30 PM.
FRIDAY, JULY 6 Support Ronald McDonald house at Food Truck Fridays. Swing by RMHC of Western Montana between 11:30 AM and 2 PM. A portion of lunch sales support local families. In Missoula, we sure do like to complain about our drivers, don’t we? And why wouldn’t we? Have you tried driving in this town? Tourists making the mistake of taking the wrong exit into Missoula at the wrong time find themselves driving bumper-to-bumper through a Mad-Maxian gauntlet full of famously awful drivers, nonsensical roadwork and lying turn signals. And while we all have our own bad Missoula driver stories, one aspect that often gets forgotten while we're screaming out our windows at that idiot in the blue Honda Accord is how our roads, drivers and cars affect the Garden City’s pedestrians. Missoula Transportation Planning is developing a comprehensive pedestrian facilities master plan, and will present the draft plan at a public
open house. The MTP’s aim is to make sure our transportation needs meet the needs of everyone from our drivers to our bicyclists to our pedestrians. This open house provides an opportunity for the citizens of Missoula to ask questions about what can be done to make Missoula a safe and self-sufficient place for drivers and pedestrians alike. —Charley Macorn
Missoula Transportation Planning’s Pedestrian Facilities Master Plan Open House starts on Tue., July 10 at 5:30 PM at City Council Chambers. Free and open to the public.
MONDAY, JULY 9 Sip a fancy cocktail for a cause at Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a local organization. 12 PM–8 PM.
TUESDAY, JULY 10 Every Tuesday is Walk With a Doc Day at Griz-
zly Peak. A health professional discusses their speciality while walking with the group. 9 AM– 10 AM. Free. Want to help Missoula Transportation Planning in developing a master plan for pedestrian facilities in the Garden City? An open house at City Council Chambers lets the public review upcoming plans. 5:30 PM–7:30 PM. Partners in Homecare host an interactive workshop on the healing power of plants. Grief Gardening starts at 6 PM at Clark Fork Riverside's Outside Patio. $5 suggested donation.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11 Every Wednesday is Community UNite at KettleHouse Brewing Company's Northside tap room. A portion of every pint sold goes to support local Missoula causes. This week quaff a brew for Forward Montana. 5 PM–8 PM.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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Mountain High Do you know the difference between jigging a lure and setting the hook? Do you know how to look for the eddies, and drop your line right where you want it? Do the finer differences between lines and reels escape you? Do you know which end of a fishing rod you should hold on to? If you answered no to one of these questions, you must be new to Missoula. But fear not! It’s never too late to start learning the basics of being an angler and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is here to help. After the hectic Fourth of July week and weekend, there will be a free fishing clinic held out in Frenchtown. Montana FWP is hosting an
FRIDAY, JULY 6 The Path Less Pedaled hosts a discussion on bike fishing at Missoula Bicycle Works. 5:30 PM–8 PM. Free.
SATURDAY, JULY 7 Test ride the new KONA mountain bikes at Peak Fitness on Blue Mountain road. BYO helmet and photo identification. Take a tour of historic railroads of the Lower Clark Fork at Frenchtown Pond State Park with authors Bill and Jan Taylor. 7 PM. Free, RSVP on Facebook.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 Ever wanted to try your hand at fishing, but don't know where to start? Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks hosts a free fishing clinic at Frenchtown Pond Sate Park. 3 PM–5 PM.
TUESDAY, JULY 10 Garden City Flyers and Missoula Parks and Rec host Folf in the Parks. This week play 9 holes at Marilyn Park. 5 PM–7 PM. Join the REI Outdoor School for a bike maintenance class at the Highlander Taphouse
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afternoon of relaxing, learning and fishing at Frenchtown Pond State Park. If you have some experience fishing but still have questions about the nuances of angling, there will be answers for you. If you have never picked up a rod, or want your friends or your kids to receive some great instructions to get them started, this is the place for you. You’ll be baiting your barbless hooks and reeling in lunkers in no time. —Micah Drew Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks hosts a Fishing Clinic at Frenchtown Pond State Park on Sun., July 8 at 3 PM. Free.
every Tuesday this summer. It's a demonstration class, so no need to bring your bike. 6 PM. RSVP at rei.com. Greet the sun under the sun at Yoga in the Parks. This week bring your mat and $3 to Silver Park. 6 PM–7 PM.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11 Join Montana Energy Corps members from Home ReSource, the Clark Fork Coalition and the National Wildlife Federation for an evening of geology, natural history, and forest ecology. Missoula Public Library Large Meeting Room. 7 PM. Free.
THURSDAY, JULY 12 Punish your core in the great outdoors with Pilates in the Park. This week bring your exercise mat and $3 to Silver. Park. 6 PM–7 PM. How has America's view of our first National Park changed in the three decades since the 1988 Yellowstone fire? Writer John Clayton explores the the impact of the devastating event at Heritage Hall at Fort Missoula. 7 PM– 9 PM. Free.
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My friend is obsessed with dating models. Of course, because he’s dating mostly based on looks, these relationships rarely last. He says that he’s trying to move up in the business world and that being seen with a beautiful woman makes a difference in how he’s perceived. Wouldn’t businesspeople be more impressed if he could keep a relationship going, even if it were with a plainer woman?
—Discerning Dude The problem with dating largely based on looks is that you tend to end up with the sort of woman who’s frequently hospitalized for several days: “I was thinking so hard I dislocated my shoulder.” However, your friend isn’t wrong; arm candy appears to be the Prada handbag of male competition. Research by social psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues suggests that a man’s being accompanied by a modelicious woman functions as a “hard-to-fake” signal of his status, as beautiful women “have the luxury of discriminating among a plethora of suitors.” In the Winegard team’s experiments, men paired with attractive women were consistently rated as higher in status than the very same men when they were paired with unattractive women. In one part of the study, some men were assigned an attractive female partner. The men were told that they’d be conducting a survey out on campus with her and that they “were to act as if they and their assigned partner were in a happy relationship.” These men were forced to choose between a group of men and a group of women to survey (and thus flaunt their hot female partner to). Interestingly, almost 70 percent of these guys chose to flaunt to other men.This isn’t surprising, considering how, as the researchers note, men are “largely” the ones who determine one another’s status (within a group of men). Of course, a man’s being seen as highstatus by other men is ultimately a path to mo’ better babes — so your friend may basically be getting a twofer by showing off to other dudes. The reality is, once he’s more established, his priority may shift from needing a signal to wanting a partner. At that point, he may come to see the beauty in the sort of woman who has something on her mind — uh, besides a $200 double-process blonde dye job and $600 in hair extensions.
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I’m a straight guy in my 30s with pretty strong body odor. I saw
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—Pepé Le Pew When a woman you meet can’t stop thinking about you, ideally her thought isn’t, “Could there be a small dead animal making its home in his armpit?” Underarm stink comes from a specialized sweat gland.Your body has two kinds of sweat glands, eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine glands are the air conditioners of the body, producing sweat that’s pretty much just salty water to cool us off. Apocrine glands, on the other hand, are scent glands, found mostly in the armpits and groin and around the nipples. And sorry, this is gross: Any smelliness emanating from the apocrine areas comes not from the sweat itself but from bacteria that move in to lunch on it. So — intuitively — it seems like shaving that pit hair (removing it entirely versus just trimming it) would make a difference, giving the bacteria far less of a, um, dining area. Unfortunately, the studies on this are problematic — with too-small sample sizes (meaning too few participants to know whether the findings reflect reality or are simply due to chance). One of the studies was done not by independent researchers working out of a university lab but by five researchers employed by a multinational company that sells razors and shaving products. This doesn’t necessarily mean their results are skeevy. However, a finding like “Let that armpit hair grow wild and free and wave in the wind like summer grain!” is probably not the stuff career advancement is made of at a company selling hair removal products. Also, as you suspect, shaved pits on a straight man (one who isn’t an Olympic swimmer or a serious body builder) may lead women to suspect he is gay or some body-obsessed narcissist. If you do decide to try pit-shaving, in summer heat, you might forgo tank tops and wear shirts with loose short sleeves. And when you’re about to get naked with a woman, see that you pre-allay her fears. Explain that the shaving thing is merely about getting the hideodorousness under control — not getting into a skin-tight dress, a ginormous platinum wig and a 14-foot boa in “don’t f--- with me!” fuchsia.
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Logistics and Freight Assistant: LC Staffing Missoula is working with a delivery service company to hire a longterm Logistics and Freight Assistant. The Freight Assistant will be unloading the freight from the delivery truck to the warehouse, assisting with organizing and cleaning tasks around the warehouse, and helping to unload a semitruck and breaking down of the conveyor system. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31977 Night Auditor: LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a hotel to hire an Accounting Clerk. The Accounting Clerk will maintain property income audit, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll system, and general cashier functions. This person will sort documents and post debits/credits to proper accounts, verify amounts and codes on various forms for accuracy and balance entries and make necessary corrections. The Clerk is responsible for maintaining and making necessary adjustments to records and/or logs such as journals, payroll/time reports, or property records as well as verifying and reconcile simple bank statements or department records. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #31893
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 51,442 &744 Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, July 9 2018. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, July 12 2018 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE LANDEE N. HOLLOWAY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Cause No.: CV-2018-1367 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION SARAH FROHLICH, Plaintiff, v. ARTEMUS BROCK, et al., Defendant. TO: Artemus Brock 11091 El Toro Lane Missoula, MT 59808 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, MT 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 28th day of June, 2018. /s/ Landee N. Holloway MONTANA FOURTH FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 4 Cause No.: DP18-152 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN
RE THE ESTATE OF: RICHARD E. BRANNON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Patricia Gondeiro has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patricia Gondeiro, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 14th day of June, 2018. GEISZLER STEELE, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-18-153 Dept. No.: 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ARNOLD C. WEGHER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Janette M Bradley has been identified by certification as the domiciliary foreign personal representative of the Estate of Arnold C. Wegher. All persons having claims against 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 Janette M. Bradley, Domiciliary Foreign Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Post Law Firm, PLLC., Attn: Del M. Post, 201 W. Main St., Suite 101, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above court. Dated this 13th day of June, 2018. /s/ Del M. Post, Esq. Attorney for Janette M. Bradley MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause No. DP-18-161
NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN W. WHALEN, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim 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 Lisa J. Clark, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 15th day of May, 2018. /s/ Lisa J. Clark, Personal Representative DATED this 30th day of May, 2018 /s/ Don C. St. Peter, ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. No. 1 PROBATE NO. DP-18-69 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: STELLA M. ARMSTRONG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WILLIAM J. ARMSTRONG and TAMMY S. ARMSTRONG, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., 321 W Broadway St., Ste. 300, Missoula, MT 59802-4142, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of March, 2018. /s/ WILLIAM J. ARMSTRONG, Co-Personal Representative
/s/ TAMMY S. ARMSTRONG, Co-Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Co-Personal Representatives /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-18-690 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION EVA M. CURTIS, Plaintiff, v. CURVIN CURTIS, deceased, THE ESTATE OF CURVIN CURTIS, TONY CURTIS, RHONDA REUSCHLING, MICHELLE CURTIS, AND ALL UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTYDESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’s OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty-one (21) days after service of this SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee mudt accompany the answer. This action is brough for the purpose of quieting title the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2, less the West 10
feet, all of Lot 3, and the West 5 feet of Lot 4 in Block 4 of Butte Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plar thereof. Recording Reference: Book 302 of Micro at Page 18580. Dated this 24th day of June, 2018. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-18-158 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: LaVERNE I McDONALD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kathy McDonald has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jones & Associates, PLLC, Attorneys for the Representative, return receipt requested, at 2625 Dearborn Avenue, Ste 102A, Missoula, MT 59804, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 12th day of June, 2018. /s/ Kathy McDonald, Personal Representative of the Estate of LaVerne I McDonald /s/ Kevin S. Jones Attorney for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. No. 3 PROBATE NO. DP-18-157 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: LOUIS C. ERCK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will
be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to ROSE ANN LOCKWOOD, the Personal Representative, return reseipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., 321 W. Broadway St., Ste. 300, Missoula, MT 59802-4142, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of June, 2018. /s/ Rose Ann Lockwood WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M Haviland, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-18-156 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: HELEN B. VAN METER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Stephen Van Meter has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jones & Associates, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2625 Dearborn Avenue, Ste. 120A, Missoula, MT 59804, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 21st day of June, 2018. /s/ Stephen Van Meter Representative of the Estate Helen B. Van Meter /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4, Hon. Karen S. Townsend, Probate No. DP-18-113. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARK J. BOATMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JAMES BOATMAN has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons hav-
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19):Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to an “electric generator” from which flows a “powerful current always ready to shock not only our morality but our very sense of humanity.” In the coming weeks, I encourage you to find a middle ground between Flaubert and Proust. See if you can be moderately exciting, gently provocative and amiably enchanting. My analysis of the cosmic rhythms suggests that such an approach is likely to produce the best long-term results. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You remind me of Jack, the nine-year-old Taurus kid next door, who took up skateboarding on the huge trampoline his two moms put in their backyard. Like him, you seem eager to travel in two different modes at the same time. (And I’m glad to see you’re being safe; you’re not doing the equivalent of, say, having sex in a car or breakdancing on an escalator.) When Jack first began, he had difficulty in coordinating the bouncing with the rolling. But after a while he got good at it. I expect that you, too, will master your complex task. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): From the day you were born, you have been cultivating a knack for mixing and blending. Along the way, you have accomplished mergers that would have been impossible for a lot of other people. Some of your experiments in amalgamation are legendary. If my astrological assessments are accurate, the year 2019 will bring forth some of your all-time most marvelous combinations and unifications. I expect you are even now setting the stage for those future fusions; you are building the foundations that will make them natural and inevitable. What can you do in the coming weeks to further that preparation? CANCER (June 21-July 22): An open letter to Cancerians from Rob Brezsny’s mother, Felice: I want you to know that I played a big role in helping my Cancerian son become the empathetic, creative, thoughtful, crazy character he is today. I nurtured his idiosyncrasies. I made him feel secure and well-loved. My care freed him to develop his unusual ideas and life. So as you read Rob’s horoscopes, remember that there’s part of me inside him. And that part of me is nurturing you just as I once nurtured him. I and he are giving you love for the quirky, distinctive person you actually are, not some fantasy version of you. I and he are helping you feel more secure and well-appreciated. Now I encourage you to cash in on all that support. As Rob has told me, it’s time for you Cancerians to reach new heights in your drive to express your unique self.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The ghost orchid is a rare white wildflower that disappeared from the British countryside around 1986. The nation’s botanists declared it officially extinct in 2005. But four years later, a tenacious amateur located a specimen growing in the West Midlands area.The species wasn’t gone forever, after all. I foresee a comparable revival for you in the coming weeks, Leo. An interesting influence or sweet thing that you imagined to be permanently defunct may return to your life. Be alert!
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Greek poet Sappho described “a sweet-apple turning red high on the tip of the topmost branch.” The apple pickers left it there, she suggested, but not because they missed seeing it. It was just too high. “They couldn’t reach it,” wrote Sappho. Let’s use this scenario as a handy metaphor for your current situation, Virgo. I am assigning you the task of doing whatever is necessary to fetch that glorious, seemingly unobtainable sweet-apple. It may not be easy. You’ll probably need to summon extra ingenuity to reach it, as well as some asyet unguessed form of help. (The Sappho translation is by Julia Dubnoff.)
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there any prize more precious than knowing your calling? Can any other satisfaction compare with the joy of understanding why you’re here on earth? In my view, it’s the supreme blessing: to have discovered the tasks that can ceaselessly educate and impassion you; to do the work or play that enables you to offer your best gifts; to be intimately engaged with an activity that consistently asks you to overcome your limitations and grow into a more complete version of yourself. For some people, their calling is a job: marine biologist, kindergarten teacher, advocate for the homeless. For others, it’s a hobby, like long-distance-running, bird-watching or mountainclimbing. St. Therese of Lisieux said, “My calling is love!” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva said her calling was “To listen to my soul.” Do you know yours, Libra? Now is an excellent time to either discover yours or home in further on its precise nature.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you entertained any high-quality fantasies about faraway treasures lately? Have you delivered inquiring communiqués to any promising beauties who may ultimately offer you treats? Have you made long-distance inquiries about speculative possibilities that could be inclined to travel in your direction from their frontier sanctuaries? Would you consider making some subtle change in yourself so that you’re no longer forcing the call of the wild to wait and wait and wait?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If a down-to-earth spiritual teacher advised you to go on a five-day meditation retreat in a sacred sanctuary, would you instead spend five days carousing with meth addicts in a cheap hotel? If a close friend confessed a secret she had concealed from everyone for years, would you unleash a nervous laugh and change the subject? If you read a horoscope that told you now is a favorable time to cultivate massive amounts of reverence, devotion, respect, gratitude, innocence and awe, would you quickly blank it out of your mind and check your Instagram and Twitter accounts on your phone?
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A typical working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day to focused conversation with each other. And it’s common for a child and parent to engage in meaningful communication for just 20 minutes per week. I bring these sad facts to your attention, Capricorn, because I want to make sure you don’t embody them in the coming weeks. If you hope to attract the best of life’s blessings, you will need to give extra time and energy to the fine art of communing with those you care about.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Allergies, irritants, stings, hypersensitivities: sometimes you can make these annoyances work in your behalf. For example, my allergy to freshly-cut grass meant that when I was a teenager, I never had to waste my Saturday afternoons mowing the lawn in front of my family’s suburban home. And the weird itching that plagued me whenever I got into the vicinity of my first sister’s fiancé: If I had paid attention to it, I wouldn’t have lent him the $350 that he never repaid. So my advice, my itchy friend, is to be thankful for the twitch and the prickle and the pinch. In the coming days, they may offer you tips and clues that could prove valuable.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you somehow growing younger? Your stride seems bouncier and your voice sounds more buoyant.Your thoughts seem fresher and your eyes brighter. I won’t be surprised if you buy yourself new toys or jump in mud puddles. What’s going on? Here’s my guess: you’re no longer willing to sleepwalk your way through the most boring things about being an adult. You may also be ready to wean yourself from certain responsibilities unless you can render them pleasurable at least some of the time. I hope so. It’s time to bring more fun and games into your life. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.
PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP ing 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 JAMES BOATMAN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Darrow Law, P.O. Box 7235, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled court. Dated this 6 day of June, 2018. DARROW LAW, ATTORNEY FOR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE /s/ Benjamin M. Darrow. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-18-163 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JUDITH DRISCOLL MCDONALD a/k/a/ Judy McDonald, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WILLIAM JEREMIAH MCDONALD, III, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of June, 2018. /s/ William Jeremiah McDonald III /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for William Jeremiah McDonald, III, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-18-176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: DAVID M. PHENEGAR a/k/a David Mitchell Phenegar Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WARREN PHENEGAR, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 29th day of June, 2018. /s/ Warren Phenegar, Personal Representative /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for Warren Phenegar, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-18-3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: STANLEY A. HIGH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CONNIE M. HIGH, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 27th day of June, 2018./s/ Connie M. High, Personal Representative /s/ Craig
Mungas Attorneys for Connie M. High, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on November 12, 2018, 11:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 5846, located in the Southeast One-Quarter of Section 8, Township 13 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. More commonly known as 16488 Highway 200 East, aka 16489 Hallgren Lane, Bonner, MT 59823. Jenna Berndt and Tracy Berndt, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Golf Savings Bank, a Washington Stock Savings Bank, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on October 16, 2009, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on October 22, 2009 as Instrument No. 200925490, in Book 849, at Page 738, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC Assignment Dated: September 8, 2016 Assignment Recorded: September 13, 2016 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201616567, in Book 967, at Page 995, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on May 30, 2018 as Instrument No. 201808681, in Book 997, at Page 497, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning September 1, 2016, 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. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of
$157,542.84, interest in the sum of $3,577.54, escrow advances of $1,470.15, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $852.26 for a total amount owing of $163,442.79, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. 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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to 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 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 Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The
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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 25th day of June, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 48782 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on November 2, 2018, 11:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 6 of Lolo Heights, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. More commonly known as 459 Ridgeway Drive, Lolo, MT 59847. Kenneth L. Kern, an unmarried man, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, its successors and assigns , by Deed of Trust on March 13, 2015, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 13, 2015 as Instrument No. 201504283, in Book 941, at Page 766, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as fol-
lows: Assignee: PennyMac Loan Services, LLC Assignment Dated: June 29, 2016 Assignment Recorded: July 1, 2016 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201610757, in Book 963, at Page 785, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on March 23, 2018 as Instrument No. 201804466, in Book 994, at Page 482, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning April 1, 2017, 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. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $198,828.48, interest in the sum of $9,232.64, escrow advances of $4,716.98, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $1,954.16 for a total amount owing of $214,732.26, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. 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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to 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 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 Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be
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the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 8th day of June, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-355-2886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM-5PM (MST) File No. 52176 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on October 18, 2018, 11:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 10 in Block 1 of Graceland Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as 3553 Norman Drive, Missoula, MT 59804. John A. Fahey, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson at Mackkoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Merrill Lynch Credit Corporation, by Deed of Trust on September 6, 2002, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on September 9, 2002 as Instrument No. 200225730, in Book 688, at Page 389, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Bank of America, N.A. Assignment Dated: April 27, 2018 Assignment Recorded: May 3, 2018 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201806999, in Book 996, at Page 215, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on May 25, 2018 as Instrument No. 201808415, in Book 997, at Page 231, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning August 1, 2017, 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. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $59,763.78, interest in the sum of $2,168.30, escrow advances of $2,792.35, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $654.55 for a total amount owing of $65,378.98, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. 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. Benefici-
ary 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, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to 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 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 Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 11th day of June, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-3552886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 52511 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on October 18, 2018, 11:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: Lot 19 in Block 5 of Donovan Creek Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as 16400 Leo Ray Drive, Clinton, MT 59825. David W. Gwynn and Diana L. Gwynn, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on January 23, 2004, and filed for record in
the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on January 29, 2004 as Instrument No. 200402467, in Book 725, at Page 1296, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Green Tree Servicing LLC Assignment Dated: April 22, 2014 Assignment Recorded: May 19, 2014 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201406530, in Book 928, at Page 853, Assignee: Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP Assignment Dated: February 13, 2012 Assignment Recorded: February 21, 2012 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201203262, in Book 889, at Page 1339, Assignee: EverBank Assignment Dated: July 19, 2013 Assignment Recorded: August 12, 2013 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201316164, in Book 917, at Page 1130, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on May 17, 2018 as Instrument No. 201807880, in Book 996, at Page 1096, of Official Records. The Beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to make monthly payments beginning December 1, 2017, 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. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable. The total amount due on this obligation is the principal sum of $83,374.73, interest in the sum of $3,125.73, escrow advances of $2,262.94, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $143.68 for a total amount owing of $88,907.08, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or 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 Grantor. 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
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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to 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 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 Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by pub-
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lic proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. 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. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Successor Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated this 14th day of June, 2018. Benjamin J. Mann, Substitute Trustee 376 East 400 South, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Telephone: 801-3552886 Office Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8AM5PM (MST) File No. 52523 “The major theme of the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is The Environmental Protection Agencies’ (EPA) consumer awareness/ right-to-know
Consumer Confidence Report (CCR). This rule requires all community water systems (CWS) to provide drinking water quality reports to their customers. The following CWS’s are required to give public notice and a way of obtaining a copy of the CCR. We have made copies of these systems’ CCRs available. To obtain a copy of your CCR report, write to: Crisp Water Technologies, Inc, P.O. Box 2525, Missoula, MT 59806-2525.” 2727 W Central Duplexes-829, Amity HOA-3710, Bair Clark-374, Big Pines Trailer Ct.450, Birchwood Duplexes-2537, Bitterroot Gateway-443, Bitterroot Pines-2128, Blue Mountain Tr. Ct. 381, Bonner Housing PWS-467, Branco Court-4568, Buena Vista-378, Carol’s Court-451, Cougar Meadows-4345, Country Side Court-376, Daly Estates HOA-4517, ECO-870, Forest Lounge & Apts.-840, Frenchtown Valley View404, Glessners-405, Goodan/Keil-2393,
Greenland Mobile Home Park-372, Greenwood Trailer Court-449, Hamilton Mobile Village-1079, Harvey’s Mobile Home Park-453, Hawthorn Springs-4516, High Quality H2O “Catrina”-2540, Hollywood-454, Juniper Ct.-3527, Magnolia Estates-4021, Meadowbrook Park-4530, Milltown Community PWS-2464, Milltown WUA Inc.-3088, Missoula Village West-3012, Mobile City Trailer Ct.-646, Montana Trailer Court-3215, North Davis Duplexes-2121, Outpost RV LLC-836, Ponderosa M H P-2131, River Acres Inc.-369, Riverwalk & Dinos Estates-4506, Sawtooth Villa3284, Sorrel Springs HOA-518, Spring Meadows-3630, Sunset Pines-2538, Travois Village Mobile Park-3909, Trestle Creek I & II-4423, Valley Grove-490, Valley West Lolo-444, Wards Cove WUA-3277, Westana Mobile Manor-634, Whitewater Park Assoc.-1865.
1009 Terrace View Dr.
5.5 acres
316 ft. River Frontage 2 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms Double Garage
$579,950 Fly Fisherman’s Paradise
Fully Remodeled Home on 5.5 Low-Bank acres. Enjoy the Expansive Deck or Cozy up Inside in Comfort with the New Kitchen with Birtch Cabinets & Quartz Counters, Complete Bathroom Updates and More.
Brian Beckman 406-546-3877
bryan@mainstreetmissoula.com
39378 W. Post Creek Road 4 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2+ Car Garage 50+ Acres
RENTALS APARTMENT RENTALS
of river, newer appliances, balcony, coin-op laundry, assigned parking. ALL UTILITES PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333
1 bed, 1 bath, $700-$725, S. Russell, newer complex, balcony or deck, A/C, coin-op laundry, storage & off street parking. W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 1 Bed, 1 Bath, $700, Russell & Broadway, Newer complex, wood laminate floors, A/C, walk in closets, balcony, coin op laundry & off street parking. W/S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 2 Bed, 1 Bath, Burton & Broadway, $1,000, Large 2 bedroom w/ views
212 ½ S. 5th St. E 1 bed/1 bath, University area, recent remodel $750. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2306 Hillview Ct. #2 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, W/D hookups, storage $675. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 237 1/2 E. Front St. from “A” to “E” Studio/1 bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coin-ops on site $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 706 Longstaff #3 1 bed/1 bath, Slant Streets, W/D hookups, storage $650.
Downtown, Large bedrooms, A/C, walk
818 Stoddard “C”. 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, W/D hookups, storage $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
in closets, coin op laundry, carport & off street parking. W/S/G paid. NO
Studio & 1 Bed, 1 Bath, Near Good Food Store,$595-$625, Great location, Large Studio w/ separate room or 1 bed, D/W, off street parking, coin op laundry. Heat/W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333
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PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333
$497,000 Mission Valley Home
Custom Built Home & 50+ acres of Rolling Grassy Meadows with views of the Majestic Mission Mountains. Lushly Landscaped Home Site for Private Enjoyment.
Leeza Cameron 406-493-4834
524 S. 5th St. East “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, 2 blocks to U, W/D, DW, all utilities paid $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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915 Defoe St. “A” 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, single garage, W/D, DW $800. Grizzly Property Management 543-2060
9002 La Salle Way
2 Bed, 1 Bath, $795, Great location
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7000
Uncle Robert Ln #7
Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.
Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed/1 Bath $825/Month Visit our website at
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Grant Creek Home & 10+ acres Our goal is to spread recognition of NARPM and its members as the ethical leaders in the field of property managment
251- 4707
Recreationalist's Paradise, Minutes to Town, Snowbowl, Trail Systems, with Abundant Wildlife out your Windows. Great Master Suite, Sauna, Custom wood Tiled Showers, Updated Kitchen and More.
Gia Randono 406-529-0068
giarandono@gmail.com
fidelityproperty.com
GardenCity
11579 Ninebark Way
$438,000
Property Management
3 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2+ Car Garage 3,000 Total Sq Ft
NEW CONSTRUCTION
422 Madison • 549-6106
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Borders NWF Lands 4 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2,500 sq ft
$627,000
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2205 South Avenue West 542-2060• grizzlypm.com
Grizzly Property Management 5422060
Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing Since 1971
www.gatewestrentals.com
Gorgeous New Home. Outstanding Walnut Cabinetry, Granite Tops, Maple Floors, Master Suite, Awesome Tiled Shower Excellent Craftsmanship throughout. A Must See Home.
Jen Slayden 406-370-0300
jen@mainstreetmissoula.com
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CROSSWORDS By Matt Jones
HOMES 23005 Nine Mile Road. Own a ranchette on a branch of the creek. 4BDR/2BA + bonus rooms and den. Sheds and outbuildings with fencing. Call soon or it will be gone! $357,500 Call Joy Earls Real Estate. 406-531-9811
2316 North Avenue West Well Maintained Large Building Lot in Town. 9375 square feet of flat, fenced property to build your home or rental property. Fruit Trees, Fully fenced and well maintained.Great Opportunity at $95,000 Call Joy Earls! 406-531-9811
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Clark Fork River Frontage with 2 building sites!! Montana Dream! 24 acres, Sandy Beach & Launch Site. Older home on property. $1.25 million. Let’s go fishing. Call Joy Earls! 406-531-9811
2012-2013 Champion Modular Mobile Homes. 14’x45’ 2Bedroom, 2bath. Most are furnished & appliances. A/C, 2x6 Walls. Built for extreme weather! From $19,900-$24,900. Call (406) 249-2048
THINKING OF SELLING?? JOY EARLS REAL ESTATE IS THE KEY!! We provide: Full Market Analysis, Staging and Complete Sales Plan. “WE’RE INDEPENDENT LIKE YOU!” Call Joy Earls! 406-531-9811
Northwest Montana – Company owned. Small and large acre parcels. Private. Trees and meadows. National Forest boundaries. Tungstenholdings.com (406) 293-3714
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JUST LISTED! 3335 Connery Way In Pleasant View Subdivision. One level Home-great floor plan. 3 Bed 2 bathmaster suite. $285,000
20579 E Mullan Rd
$238,500
3BD/2BA on 2 separately deeded acres Master bath with Jacuzzi tub. MLS#: 21807842
Call Vickie Amundson at 544-0799 for more information
“You Are Correct”--some well-known pairings. ACROSS
1 "Silicon Valley" co-creator Mike 6 Bacon portion 10 Duck out of sight 14 "News" site with "Area Man" headlines, with "The" 15 Military assistant 16 Cain's brother 17 Sudden shocks 18 Shred 19 Film spool, back when that was still a thing 20 Capital served by Gardermoen Airport 21 Classic Nickelodeon game show with a 2018 reboot 23 Redolence 25 Delivery people made obsolete by refrigeration 26 With 44-Across, getting punished for one's actions 31 Singer/actress Grande 32 Anise-flavored liqueur 33 Z, in New Zealand 36 Wilder's "Young Frankenstein" costar 37 One of the Kardashians
38 Dungeons & Dragons equipment 39 Brewhouse brew 40 Unfavorable audience reaction 42 "I Would Die 4 U" singer 44 See 26-Across 46 Attack 49 No greater than 50 Fleetwood Mac's last Top 10 song 53 NFLer Warren who competed on "Dancing With the Stars" 57 Designer Cassini 58 High-quality 59 Hidden stash 60 "___, Brute?" 61 Ego-driven 62 Disney film set in China 63 Pt. of CBS or CNS 64 Ambulance team, briefly 65 Word that's considered an alternative to the last word of each theme phrase
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1 Mojo ___ ("Powerpuff Girls" villain) 2 Ones, in Juarez 3 Salmon seasoning 4 Overdo it 5 Funny duo? 6 Enlightenment, to Zen Buddhists 7 "In ___ of flowers ..." 8 Just ___ (small amount) 9 Language instruction company with a "Method" 10 Fast-food chain founder Wilber
11 Letter-shaped girder 12 Big name in farm machinery 13 Pompeo of "Grey's Anatomy" 21 She has a singing backpack 22 Canyon effect 24 Relaxation room 26 "Beowulf," for one 27 ___ Mountains (dividers of Europe and Asia) 28 It may be created in a pit 29 Background distraction 30 Candy aisle stuff that's not actually eaten 33 Element in electrodes 34 "Behold!" to Caesar 35 Deejay Rick 37 Bout enders, for short 38 "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" extra 40 Fix eggs, in a way 41 Away for a while 42 Itty littermates 43 Out of commission (abbr.) 44 Tennis racket string material, once 45 Borough for JFK Airport 46 Sunburn-relieving plants 47 Overly sedimental? 48 Rescinds a deletion, in proofreading 51 Claylike soil 52 J.K. Rowling attribute, for short? 54 Rights-defending org. 55 ___ Farm (clothing line founded by Russell Simmons) 56 Phnom ___, Cambodia 59 Network that airs reruns of "Reba"
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REAL ESTATE JUST LISTED!!
JUST LISTED!!
Opportunity in Lolo
Country Farm Setup
3335 CONNERY WAY
2316 NORTH AVENUE WEST
12520 LEWIS & CLARK DRIVE
23005 NINE MILE ROAD
PLEASANT VIEW SUBDIVISION ONE LEVEL HOME-GREAT FLOOR PLAN 3 BED 2 BATH-MASTER SUITE $285,000
FLAT FENCED BUILDING LOT 9375 SF WITH FRUIT TREES $95,000
FINISH W/ YOUR PERSONAL TOUCH GREAT VIEWS OFF MASTER DECK OVER 2 ACRES $285,000
RANCHETTE IN THE LUSH NINE MILE VALLEY 2400 SF. HOME ON 5 ACRES $357,500
1016 Worden Ave. • $255,000 Side by side duplex w/ bsmt 1016 - studio w/ bsmt access and loft 1016 1/2 - 2bd/1ba w/ bsmt access. MLS# 21806368 For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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Rochelle Glasgow
Office: 406.728.8270 Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com
3229 N. Frontage Rd. Garrison $114,900
Wonderful 4.6 acres with Clark River Frontage. Electric, well & septic. Great getaway close to Missoula!
Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker
Real Estate With Real Experience
pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)
Properties2000.com
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 KOTA•
Kota is a 2 year old male American Bulldog mix. This big, goofy boy has a lot of love to give and is always searching for affection! He enjoys chasing tennis balls, but hasn't quite figured out the idea of retrieving them. He is very treat motivated and knows how to sit, lay down, and search for all the stray bits of kibble. Kota is hoping to find himself in a funloving and active family.
MISSY•Missy has beginning stages of kidney disease and needs a home that is familiar with providing for this health issue. Outside of her kidneys, Missy is a healthy and happy cat that is projected to live a long life, making her our shelter's Wonder Woman! Her adoption fee has been sponsored, and we are searching for an adopter that is able to give her a prescription kidney support diet for life
Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MontanaSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays
1450 W. Broadway St. • 406-728-0022
ERWIN• Erwin is a 8 year old male black cat. This handsome and distinguished house panther is an older man who loves the company of people. Like his hero, The Black Panther, Erwin believes himself to be the protector of his kingdom. His Highness has enhanced, superhero abilities in lounging and cuddles. He'd prefer to live in a kingdom with only human subjects.
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 MAX AND REX• Max and Rex are a tiny pair with a big personality! These two love to snuggle up with their person and play with toys! Max prefers stuffed animals and Rex is all about anything that squeeks! They are used to an active household and love to go for walks, fetch, and Max is even up for a swim! Come meet this adorable couple during our open hours, WedFri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm! MAUSER• Mauser is an active man whose favorite activities include anything where he can fetch a stick! Not only is he a big bundle of love, but he is one smart cookie too! Come meet this handsome man Wed-Fri 1-6pm and SatSun 12-5pm! HERA• Hera, the queen of gods, is the perfect name for this mighty cat. Regal, glorious and loving, Hera is looking for someone's home to take reign of. She loves attention, but on her own terms. She will be a majestic, amazing cat in your home. Come meet this lovely lady during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!
Garry Kerr Dept. of Anthropology University of Montana
Missoula 406-626-1500 william@rideglaw.com
1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD
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