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Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk What will your end times look like? ........................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Party disorder, processing SNAP, and finding bear cubs new homes ............................6 Etc. About those Marriott TIF requests…..................................................................................7 News Think bodycam footage adds to transparency? It’s not that simple.....................................8 News The county wants a new open space bond. How’d that work out last time? .....................9 Dan Brooks Corey Stapleton isn’t even pretending to do his job..............................................10 Writers on the Range In the face of wildfire, neighborliness lives on ..................................11 Feature How community design can ease the loneliness and angst of aging........................13

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Melissa Stephenson talks addiction, resilience, cars, and her new memoir........17 Books Gwen Florio masters the literary page-turner..................................................18 Art The Brunswick celebrates 40 years with artists past and present .........................19 Film In Damsel, it’s all about the horse ......................................................................20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................21 BrokeAss Gourmet Bite into a tomato burger ................................................................... 22 Happiest Hour Try a very pear-y Perry at Western Cider............................................24 8 Days a Week And on the ninth day there was treason, and it was bad.........................25 Agenda UM’s Nursing Home program goes to Nicaragua.....................................................29 Mountain High The Sentinel Hill Climb — with ice cream! .......................................30

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News of the Weird ......................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................31 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................32 Free Will Astrology .....................................................................................................34 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................37 This Modern World.....................................................................................................34

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by Derek Brouwer

This week’s cover story explores new strategies for improving quality of life for the elderly. How do you envision living in your golden years? What do you do to feel better when you’re lonely?

Tariff Nazis

All these Nazis trying to defend the honor of the Orange One, except they don’t actually understand tariffs (“The Missoula Library’s tariff trouble,” July 12). Or economics. But you know, they don’t need facts, they have Fox News. Madison Ambrose Hall facebook.com/missoulaindependent

The special prosecutor may indict Trump or his associates for obstruction of justice, money laundering, conspiring with a hostile power to attack our elections and perhaps even treason. Many different legal issues involving Trump are likely to come before the Supreme Court, among them whether the president can pardon himself or others if the intent is to obstruct justice,

Nothing? Really?

Tessa Keller: Hopefully with family and not having to worry about money or health care. Out and about: Work out, go for a hike, call up some friends.

Should have kept [the library] reasonably priced. It’s nothing more than a glorified transient hangout. Jim W. Dixon facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Not worth it

Thomas Brady: Probably just working on my hobbies day to day, woodworking or something, trying to stay fit physically and mentally. Get out: Work out or go for a run.

The only way to make going to the University of Montana financially worth it is to major in rapeology with a minor in athletic training so you can get $245,000 settlements (“Brooks: What is Clay Christian trying to hide? And why?” July 12). And they wonder why enrollment numbers keep plummeting. Neil Sauer facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Any day now

Brett Miller: I hope I get to. I’m a PhD student, so I’m hoping I get to be done with school eventually and enjoy retirement. I’d like to just take it easy. Out or in: If I can leave work early enough, I try to get outside. Or I get together with friends and play a board game.

The university administration owes the public, or at least those families, an apology for poor reporting to the police department and trying to deal with things by committee. Not a transparent process. Rose Wilkinson facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Self-dealing

Erica Hitzman: Ideally, in a rocking chair. The walking cure: I go on walks.

Nevin Graves: My golden years will probably be spent like my teacher ancestors before me. I’ll probably be living in Montana or Oregon with my wife wishing we had more or fewer grandchildren. Misery loves company: I think about how comforting it is that just as many people have felt as alone as long as people have had the capacity to feel anything. I take joy in the knowledge of everyone else’s misery, in that they survived it. Asked Wednesday morning at Black Coffee Roasting Co.

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In “Federalist No. 10,” James Madison, the founding father most involved in writing our Constitution, wrote, “No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.” Our legal tradition has long prohibited anyone from appointing their judge before Madison wrote these words, but that is what Trump will be doing if he appoints another Supreme Court justice. Donald Trump is being accused of sexual assault by numerous women, sued for libel, fraud and violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

“The tobacco industry has infiltrated our lives, homes and communities for decades. It’s time it pays its fair share so that 100,000 Montanans can keep their health care, and so folks with disabilities can stay in their homes.” whether the president can be indicted or subpoenaed by the special prosecutor and whether he can fire the special prosecutor. James Comey, Jeff Sessions and others have run afoul of Trump because they were not loyal to him. We can expect that Trump will insist on loyalty from anyone he appoints to the Supreme Court. Because there is every reason to expect Trump to subvert long-standing legal norms by appointing judges loyal to him, he must not be allowed to appoint any judge that will be deciding his case, especially not to the Supreme Court. Wade Sikorski Baker

Smoke tax

Tobacco products have had a devastating effect on my family. The poisons from these products likely led to my lifelong disability; smoke from cigarettes caused me to stop breathing as a young child, and tobacco was likely a contributor to the loss of my mother at a very young age. Despite all of this, funding from Medicaid and related programs supported my medical care as I grew up. I now live independently, work full-time and volunteer in our community. Many people in the disability community are like me: working, volunteering and living independent lives with the support of Medicaid. I’m writing to share my support for the Healthy Montana Initiative, I-185, which will dedicate a percentage of the increased tobacco tax to Montana’s Medicaid program, veterans’ services, smoking prevention and cessation programs and long-term care services for seniors and people with disabilities. The tobacco industry has infiltrated our lives, homes and communities for decades. It’s time it pays its fair share so that 100,000 Montanans can keep their health care, and so folks with disabilities can stay in their homes. Join me in voting Yes on I-185. Justice Ender Missoula

Well played, Trump

The First Secretary General of NATO, British General Hastings Ismay, reportedly said that the purpose of NATO was “to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.” In one week, President Trump has pulled the Americans out, let the Russians in and given Germans no option but to re-arm and become the largest military force in Europe. Good job, Donald. On the 100th anniversary of the end of “The War to End all Wars,” you have let the Germans off their leash. Expect a repeat of 1870, 1914 and 1939 in the coming decade. James Beyer Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, July 11 The 5-month-old child who was found in the woods near Lolo Hot Springs is released from the hospital into protective custody. Francis Crowley, the man accused of abandoning the infant, is charged with felony assault on a minor.

Thursday, July 12 Missoulians Valerie Thompson and Christopher Newrider avoid prosecution for stabbing a Northside man after the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office says it can’t determine who started the altercation.

Friday, July 13 Connor Chilcote, 20, is killed after his motorcycle collides with a concrete barrier on Highway 93 South between Missoula and Lolo. Chilcote was thrown from the cycle. He was not wearing a helmet.

Saturday, July 14 The Missoula Osprey defeat the Idaho Falls Chukars 12–0 in the second no-score loss for the Chukars and the second shutout win for the Osprey this season.

Democrats

Point of disorder

In order to attend last weekend’s state Democratic Party platform convention in Great Falls, Missoula County Democratic Party vice chair Jennifer Cady was granted a modification to an order of protection filed against her on July 6 by Anita Green, the executive board’s state committeewoman. The order of protection alleged that Green feared physical harm from Cady at a recent meeting. As it turned out, the modification wasn’t necessary, since Green resigned just days before the convention, after the central committee voted at its July 10 meeting to suspend her pending a hearing on a petition to remove her from the board. While they only recently spilled into legal action, interpersonal conflicts in the county party resulted in at least one mediation session this summer. “Many of us signed a joint resolution saying, ‘We’re sorry and we won’t do it again,’ and, most importantly, [there is] a new set of rules by which everyone can be held accountable for their actions,” says party chair Dave Kendall. The conflicts also elicited an appearance at the July meeting by state party Executive Director Nancy Keenan, who told the committee, “I’m disappointed and I don’t even know what to do about Missoula.”

The subsequent discussion of the petition to remove Green was contentious. The petition alleges that her attempts to video record board meetings were disruptive, that she threatened other board members and had taken actions that would harm the party. Green, who made history in 2016 as Montana’s first trans delegate to the DNC, disputes those allegations and tells the Indy that she wanted to take video to document the transphobia she experienced at board meetings, where she says her attempts to raise the issue were stifled. “They passed a bylaw [at the July 10 meeting] allowing the secretary to record the meetings, but they were upset with me because I tried to record one of those meetings,” Green says. “I wanted hard proof that the transphobia I experienced was not being dealt with and it was being dismissed.” When Green refused to stop recording a meeting in June, Kendall ended the meeting early. While party meetings are open to the public and take place on county property, the state statute that allows recording of all “public meetings” isn’t clear on whether political party meetings are considered public. During a Saturday discussion about adding trans-supporting language to the state platform, Billings HD 52 candidate Amelia Marquez read a statement from Green addressing her departure

from the county party. Marquez then motioned to remove the language from the platform, saying, “I believe as a trans woman that the Montana Democratic Party hasn’t done their part to protect all gender identities at this time … I do not believe that we should pass this amendment until we truly believe it as the Montana Democratic Party.” Marquez’s motion to remove the language failed on a hand count. Green says it was disheartening that Marquez was overruled. “I thought it was outrageous that all these cisgender people tried to shut down Amelia’s voice when Amelia was the only transgender person at the convention who spoke.” Susan Elizabeth Shepard; additional reporting by Derek Brouwer

Farmers markets

SNAP secure

Most Montana farmers markets won’t be affected by the recent upheaval in the business of processing electronic benefits that’s made national headlines over the last two weeks, but some smaller sellers will be looking for new alternatives. Novo Dia, the only payment processor that was both able to process SNAP benefit payments at farmers markets and compatible with Apple products, announced it will discontinue its service at the end of

Sunday, July 15 Athletes from around the country pound pavement in the annual Missoula Marathon. Local man Mark Messmer wins the men’s marathon, while Great Falls native Keeley Baker wins the women’s.

Monday, July 16 Missoula County increases the fire danger from “moderate” to “high” due to increasing temperatures and drying plant life. An outdoor burning ban continues in Missoula and Ravalli counties.

Tuesday, July 17 The Helena Independent Record reports that Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Billings to stump for U.S. Senate hopeful Matt Rosendale. Pence will speak July 24 at the MetraPark arena at 9:30 a.m.

Please don’t latch my race to this issue. … We will lose these races if we do this.”

——Missoula HD 96 candidate Tom Winter, during a July 13 hearing at the Montana Democratic Party Platform Convention in Great Falls, about a proposal to add support for Medicare-for-all to the party platform. The proposal failed.

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[news] July, impacting 40 percent of the farmers markets in the country. Over the last few years, farmers markets nationwide have offered Double SNAP benefits to great success, drawing new customers to markets and helping benefit recipients get twice as much to spend on fresh food. Processing electronic benefit transfer (EBT) payments at farmers markets requires special equipment and software, so the USDA created the Free SNAP EBT Equipment Program to help markets acquire the expensive systems. Through last year, the program was administered by the nonprofit Farmers Market Coalition. Now the contract belongs to Financial Transaction Management, LLC, a company that was registered in Virginia in October 2017, and about which little information is available. FTM decided to work with payment processor First Data instead of Novo Dia, which resulted in the latter company leaving the market. Food Access Program Manager Kim Gilchrist of Missoula-based Community Food and Agriculture Coalition says a large majority of Montana markets and sellers won’t be affected by the shutdown since they use other systems. The Missoula markets use other services and won’t be affected at all. CFAC is working with the handful of smaller markets that will be. “Our goal is to not have a gap in processing payments, so we’re looking right now into some manual processing options,” Gilchrist says. Meanwhile, Missoula’s Double SNAP program is funded for at least the next couple of years, Gilchrist says, and also won’t be affected. Shay Farmer works for CFAC and is treasurer of and a vendor at the Mission Falls Market in St. Ignatius, which was SNAP certified this spring and got set up to take payments with Novo Dia six weeks ago. “The Mission Falls Market chose this platform to accept payment because it was one of the most convenient tech options. It functioned similar to a ‘Square’ device that hooked into an iPhone or iPad and could accept credit, debit, and SNAP EBT,” Farmer wrote in an email. “Many of the other machines that are available to markets are far less convenient, and rely on phone lines and other seemingly outdated connection methods that are not easy for markets that are typically outside, away from phone lines and internet connection.”

Farmer writes that the Mission Falls Market will likely fall back on some form of manual processing, possibly using paper vouchers, until it can get another system online. Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Grizzlies

Cubs re-homed

On June 5, a vehicle struck a female grizzly on Highway 200 east of Lincoln. The accident left the bear dead and the fate of her three cubs, born in January, a matter of considerable interest at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The agency captured the orphan trio in the days after the collision, but could not hold them at its wildlife rehab facility outside Helena for long. Too young to return to the wild, the cubs faced potential euthanization. The story found its way to Stuart Strahl. Strahl, director of Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo and CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society, has a summer home near Seeley Lake and serves as board chair of the Missoula-based Vital Ground Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to grizzly conservation. To a nature lover with an affinity for bears, he says, “euthanasia is not really an option.” So Strahl put out an “all-points bulletin” through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums alerting accredited facilities of the cubs’ need for a home. Within days, FWP was in contact with Christine Gagnon, director of conservation at the Zoo Sauvage de Saint-Félicien outside Montreal. The facility — which Strahl describes as “more of a wildlife park than a zoo” — had two elderly grizzlies it didn’t expect to live much longer. The cubs would be welcome new blood for an exhibit more than two acres in size. “That habitat looked like the right fit for these cubs,” Strahl says, “and they could be together.”

BY THE NUMBERS

$442,938

Additional tax-increment financing that developers of the Mercantile Residence Inn have requested from the Missoula Redevelopment Agency, citing unanticipated costs and contractor underpayments necessitating worker reimbursement. The project has already received $3,597,844 from MRA. The timing was fortunate. FWP spokesperson Greg Lemon says the cubs could not have been kept much longer, as they were already beginning to habituate to human feeding. The cubs are still at the agency’s rehab facility, Lemon adds, while the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service completes a Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species permit. At that point, specialists from Zoo Sauvage will help prepare and transport the bears. Lemon says there’s been no decision yet whether to transport the cubs by land or by air. Finding a home for orphaned cubs in a time crunch can be tricky. FWP lucked out last year, too, when the Baltimore zoo agreed to take two orphaned grizzly cubs, also from the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. As the bear population continues to expand there and in Yellowstone, Lemon says, conflicts like this one will only increase. “If we don’t get another griz hit this year it’s just going to be dumb luck,” he says. Strahl acknowledges that there’s limited capacity for orphaned cubs at the roughly 350 zoos in the northern U.S. and Canada. Still, institutions like his and Zoo Sauvage recognize the value of those animals in spreading the message of grizzly conservation. “Those bears will be having fun and teaching a generation and a half of kids and families about how to care for them,” Strahl says. Alex Sakariassen

ETC. The Merc redeveloper is back for more money. Last year, Bozeman-based developer Andy Holloran was awarded $3.6 million in tax-increment financing by the Missoula Redevelopment Agency. The public aid, to be carved from future tax revenue the $30 million-plus Marriott hotel is expected to generate, was allocated to offset the cost of deconstructing the Merc, preserving its pharmacy facade and performing other site work. Now Holloran wants another $442,000, a request the MRA board will consider at its July 19 meeting. To be fair, his is only the second-most-offensive TIF request to come before area officials this year. In May, the Bonner bitcoin miners asked the county for $135,000 to pay for fan blades to fix a noise problem their business created. A county TIF board rejected the request even before the Indy reported that mine operators claimed $8.3 million in profit last year. The city MRA board should show the same resolve here. Holloran summarized his request in a letter to the MRA. The gist is that the cost of relocating utility lines and keeping the pharmacy facade upright came in above original estimates. Additionally, contractors hired to deconstruct the historic building somehow paid their workers less than the state prevailing wage — a requirement on projects involving public money. That last bit is particularly perplexing, given that MRA Director Ellen Buchanan, when introducing the 2017 TIF proposal, said prevailing wages already paid during deconstruction had added $100,000 to the project’s cost. The wages shortfall Holloran submitted this week totals $102,000. TIF is intended to spur development in blighted areas. In this case, it’s already served its role. The Mercantile development is half built, and cost overruns are clearly not jeopardizing the project. But allowing developers to doubledip turns TIF into a virtual insurance fund or piggy bank for capitalists all too happy to minimize risk and maximize return. Just a few weeks ago, MRA board members hesitated over whether they could afford to pledge $500,000 to the public library, because the downtown urban renewal district is stretched thin. Buchanan tells the Indy that the additional money for the Merc redevelopment wouldn’t affect the library pledge. But it would leave $442,000 less for future applicants who may actually need the money to start a project downtown. The Merc’s pot has been sweetened enough.

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Their eyes only Former deputy stymies release of bodycam footage by Derek Brouwer

The Montana Law Enforcement That such footage would not be Cops say they love the transparency that body cameras bring to policing. considered a public record in the same Academy currently distributes a model “The use of body cameras, as with the way a 9-1-1 call is may seem counterin- body camera policy, which states that dash cameras, provides law enforcement tuitive, especially given the camera’s “no one shall be allowed to review the a great defense when people accuse us hype as an antidote to disputes that arise recordings except through the process of wrongdoing,” Montana Police Protec- when police shoot citizens. But law en- of a court order.” That’s the process the Missoulian is tive Association Executive Director Jerry forcement groups and civil rights advocates alike have identified a hornet’s nest pursuing. Absent legislation, the county atWilliams told state legislators last year. Except when it doesn’t. Then the of privacy issues posed by the cameras. torney’s office considers the disputed For example: If an officer comes into bodycam footage to be covered by existing footage may never see the light of day. The Missoulian (which, like the your home, should the public be able to law defining “confidential criminal justice information,” deputy county attorney Matt Indy, is owned by Lee Enterprises) is cur- see what the camera captures inside? A growing patchwork of state and Jennings tells the Indy. The law prohibits rently in district court over the newspaper’s effort to obtain, among other local laws place restrictions on the public disclosure during an active investigation and requires the agency to weigh the documents, video clips that show an public’s right to know against privacy arrest conducted by former Misinterests on a case-by-case basis. soula County Sheriff ’s Deputy Doug In court filings, Hartsell’s attorHartsell. Hartsell roughed up a 20neys argue the Missoulian wants year-old man, Brandon Shea, while the records so it can publish “fuarresting him after a domestic inciture sensationalized articles about dent with Shea’s brother. Shea alMr. Hartsell” in the context of Mcleges that while he was handcuffed Dermott’s re-election campaign. face-down on the ground, Hartsell (During the primary race, McDerpulled him up by his chain necklace, mott’s opponents criticized his slammed him into a patrol car, then handling of the incident.) Hartsell tossed him back to the ground and argues that his privacy trumps the kneeled on his back, the Missoulian Do you have a right to see bodycam footage? public’s right to know because he reported. Hartsell’s fellow deputies It’s complicated. was never disciplined for his conraised concerns internally about the release of body camera footage. North duct. Hartsell left the department on deputy’s use of excessive force. The arrest occurred on Nov. 19, Dakota exempts any recording made in a medical retirement before the internal 2017, and Sheriff T.J. McDermott didn’t “private place” from disclosure, while Ore- investigation could conclude, effectively start an internal investigation until Jan- gon allows footage to be made public only ending it, according to the Missoulian. The Missoulian declined to comment on uary, McDermott told the paper. By when “necessary for the public interest.” Montana lawmakers have tried and the pending litigation, while Hartsell atearly February, the Missoulian filed records requests for investigation re- failed to address the issue during the last torney Milt Datsopoulos did not respond ports, memos, letters and body and two legislative sessions. Most recently, in to an email for comment. Hartsell’s pri2017, Rep. Daniel Zolnikov, R-Billings, vacy claim is all that could block release dash cam footage from the incident. Rather than release the documents, introduced a bill that would create a spe- of the footage. The Missoulian submitthe Missoula County Attorney’s Office of- cial commission under the Attorney Gen- ted an affidavit from Shea waiving his prifered instead to put the request to a eral’s office to establish rules about body vacy rights, and a second state judge by suing the paper in district court. camera use and disclosure. His bill died Department of Justice criminal review of The county attorney’s office had in committee after law enforcement Hartsell’s conduct recently concluded. reason to be cautious. For one, Hartsell groups testified against it. The Montana The Missoula County attorney’s office is has threatened to sue the county, court Association of Chiefs of Police, citing “ex- still collecting witness statements before filings allege. Second, the internal re- tremely complicated areas of privacy and deciding whether to charge Hartsell, view was underway, and law enforce- the public’s right to know,” argued that county attorney Kirsten Pabst says. But ment agencies usually withhold the Legislature, not an unelected com- her staffers have made up their minds on materials during an investigation. And mission, should write the law. The Mon- the bodycam question. They’ve asked third, Montana remains one of a shrink- tana Police Protective Association argued the court to release the footage. ing number of states without legislation that local agencies should have the flexibility to create their own policies. addressing bodycam footage. dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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UPCOMING

Return on investment What can Missoula expect from a new open space bond? by Alex Sakariassen

In 2007, Missoula County spent $350,000 on a conservation project in Greenough. That money directly secured a 3,440-acre easement on private ranchland. Indirectly, however, the investment accomplished much more. Via the larger Blackfoot Community Project, the easement was used to leverage protection for another 14,500 acres of adjacent land, much of which is now publicly accessible through the state’s block management program. “The result was incredible,” says Pat O’Herren, chief planning officer for Missoula County. “Not just protection of the ranch area itself, but leveraging money to put an easement on thousands of acres surrounding the ranch that does have block management, that the public does have access to.” The county’s share for those protections came from the 2006 Open Space Bond, a $10 million pot of conservation funding approved by nearly 70 percent of county voters. As of this month, only $640,000 of that bond is left, half earmarked for projects within Missoula’s urban core, and half for projects elsewhere in the county. Which is why, on July 9, Missoula County commissioners agreed to put a new $15 million ask on the ballot. Come Nov. 6, the question will again fall to voters: What is open space worth? Missoula has executed 49 open space projects in the 12 years since the first open space bond passed. The size and scope have varied widely, from the expansive Sunset Hill project in Greenough to a 35-acre conservation easement north of Seeley Lake, for which the county allocated $14,697 of bond funding to cover transaction costs. Each funding application was vetted by a citizen advisory committee and ultimately hinged on approval from the county commission. O’Herren largely chalks up the success of those projects to the private landowners, organizations and state and federal agencies that partnered to make them happen, including Five Valleys Land Trust and the Vital Ground Foun-

dation. The involvement of those entities has made additional funding available from numerous sources including the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the federal Agricultural Land Easements program, nonprofit contributions and private in-kind donations, to name a few. County natural resource specialist Kali Becher says every bond dollar spent has been matched, on average, by $4.60 from other sources. “Many of these are not just a singlefocus project,” Becher adds, listing a host of bond criteria such as water qual-

Missoula County isn’t alone in asking voters for conservation money this fall. City Council this week approved a $500,000 annual mill levy for the ballot to fund stewardship of its own existing open space acquisitions. Voters have twice approved city open space bonds, in 1980 and 1995, with the money going toward acquisitions on Mount Sentinel, Mount Jumbo, the North Hills and the soon-to-open Montana Rail Link Park, which will finally connect central Missoula to the Bitterroot Trail. Additional projects backed by the city’s $5 million

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ity, ag land conservation and protection of riparian areas and wildlife corridors. “That’s why they’ve brought together a variety of funding sources and partners.” Missoula County Parks and Trails Program Manager Lisa Moisey describes the open space bond as a “catalyst for partnerships.” Take the county’s involvement in the 2012 expansion of Travelers’ Rest State Park. In cooperation with Five Valleys Land Trust, Missoula helped secure an additional 24 acres of parkland in Lolo. The total cost of the project was just over $1 million; the county’s share was $300,000. “The addition of that land allowed for significant increases in the trails on that property, which help connectivity,” Moisey says. “Not only trails that serve the visitors and the guests, but it also helps connectivity in the Lolo community.”

share of the 2006 county bond, like the recently opened Barmeyer Trail off Pattee Canyon Drive, require maintenance that isn’t covered by the bond. Open Space Acquisitions Attorney Elizabeth Erickson says the annual cost to maintain those areas is $141 per acre. “Those two efforts together will provide an incredible opportunity to not just continue to acquire land, but take care of what we have,” she says of the 2018 levy and bond requests. Voters’ stakes in these decisions are hardly negligible. The city estimates that its stewardship levy, if passed, would increase property taxes on a home valued at $200,000 by $10.80 per year. In the case of the county bond, the increase would be $13.46 per year. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • July 19–July 26, 2018 [9]

[opinion]

Bad actor Corey Stapleton isn’t even pretending to do his job by Dan Brooks

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[10] Missoula Independent • July 19–July 26, 2018

Everybody loves a conversion story. Saul of Tarsus was on his way to persecute some early Christians when, according to the book of Acts, a vision of the resurrected Jesus knocked him down and made him an apostle. In the Buddhist tradition, Siddhartha Gautama was a prince who, at age 29, witnessed human suffering for the first time and embraced a life of asceticism. LeBron James plays for the Lakers now. These are all moving tales of people reversing their long-held beliefs, but they pale in comparison to what Corey Stapleton did last week. On Wednesday, July 11, our Secretary of State announced that he would appeal a district court’s decision to remove two Green Party candidates from the November ballot. Judge James Reynolds cited incorrect signatures, undated petition entries and petition affidavits submitted by people who hadn’t collected them in his decision that two Green candidates for U.S. Senate had not collected enough valid signatures to qualify. Stapleton did not challenge the judge’s findings so much as the practice of removing candidates from the ballot in general. “Probably most important is [that the order] ignored Montana’s longestablished practice of inclusion in our democracy,” he told Holly Michels of Lee newspapers. “We err on the side of inclusion. We err on that side whether it’s [voter] ID, whether it’s on signatures.” This argument represents a change in Stapleton’s thinking. Last year at this time, he was telling anyone who would listen that the special election had been marred by voter fraud in Missoula County. He didn’t have any evidence at first, but he eventually cited a mail ballot whose signature didn’t match the one on file. Whether this was an instance of deliberate fraud or one member of a household accidentally submitting another’s absentee ballot remains unresolved. The only thing certain is that last summer, Stapleton took signatures very seriously. This summer, on the other hand, he dis-

missed Judge Reynolds’ concerns about Green Party petition signatures as “basically … a technical stand.” What changed? Why are bad signatures a technicality on ballot petitions and a threat to democratic elections in Missoula County? One difference in Stapleton’s assessments lies in whom the signatures in question were likely to benefit.

“Corey Stapleton makes explicit the unspoken flaw in our electoral system: Every few years, we put it under the control of a different party hack.” The removal of Green Party candidates from November’s ballot was good news for Democrats. Because Greens generally run to the left, the two candidates were expected to siphon votes away from Democratic incumbent Jon Tester. Although one of them was a longtime Green Party member, the other had previously been on the payroll of the Montana Republican Party. The suit to remove them, on the other hand, was filed by the Montana Democratic Party. This case is likely to have a significant impact on the tight Senate race between Tester and Republican Matt Rosendale, and Stapleton knows it. Unlike many adults, he makes a habit of saying out loud what people already know. “This has never been a legal case,” he told Michels. “It’s always been a political case.”

First of all, it is a legal case. That’s why it was decided by a judge and not an election. Second, and perhaps more importantly, why Stapleton would make this statement in his capacity as Secretary of State is a mystery. It’s his job to oversee the integrity of Montana’s elections. Telling us all that his decision was motivated by politics and not by his understanding of the rules he is sworn to uphold seems like a lessthan-savvy maneuver. Stapleton’s habit of speaking first and thinking later has drawn attention to how strange it is that Secretary of State is a partisan position. Right after he took office, he argued against mail ballots, not on the grounds that they would lead to fraud, but because they would swing public policy to the left by making it easier for people to vote. In April, he sent out an official email warning voters that “diminished profitability” has made the news unreliable, an argument straight from your uncle’s Facebook page. Stapleton has consistently behaved less as a public servant than as an instrument of his own party’s interests, and he’s been less subtle about it than his predecessors. If you asked Montanans how best to guarantee fair elections, few would say that we should get a high-ranking member of one party to supervise them. Stapleton makes explicit the unspoken flaw in our electoral system: Every few years, we put it under the control of a different party hack. What if we didn’t? If the Secretary of State were more like a judgeship, with candidates who have to campaign, but can’t explicitly declare allegiance to one party, would our elections be more fair? Maybe not, but situations like the one last week would at least look more like legal cases than political ones. Perhaps the appearance of neutrality is always a show. Even by the low standards of his craft, however, Stapleton is a poor actor. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.

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Above and beyond In the face of wildfire, neighborliness lives on by Auden Schendler

Last week, the most searing image from the Lake Christine Fire in Basalt, a town near Aspen in western Colorado, was that of a Chinook chopper diving arcs through smoke to drop water on red runnels of fire racing toward town — headed, in fact, for my neighborhood and my house. Then, with a kind of crazed efficiency, the chopper refilled and attacked again. I seemed to be witnessing more than a display of raw competence and our distinctly American pride of professionalism. The pilot almost worked in a frenzy, cutting deeper through the smoke than safety would dictate to precisely protect power lines and homes. It seemed that this pilot was protecting me, knew me personally, my boy Elias and my daughter Willa, my wife Ellen. I felt that I was watching a human being with purpose and mission in almost a religious sense. I found this sense of personal care everywhere as my family and I evacuated, doing so twice, first from the towering flames and billowing smoke above our house in Basalt, and then again from the place we escaped to, peeling gravel into Mad Max-traffic to flee orange fireballs that exploded downhill in seconds, covering thousands of feet to the valley floor and seeming to set the entire corridor on fire. As my family was among the 500 that escaped, I felt in my reptile brain a visceral fear: I was an animal in a trap being sprung. But I stopped to thank a policeman named Thomas for the exhausting days of work he’s put in fighting the fire. He is our children’s school-safety official, a kindly teddy bear of a man whom I wave to every morning and who smiles every time. He found it hard to talk. After a few minutes, he said, barely in a whisper: “We’re just trying to keep people as safe as we can.” And then without my noticing, he was gone. In part, I think, because we both understood that it was not possible to keep people safe through willpower alone.

This experience made me think of the way the replicant Roy Batty, from the movie Blade Runner, described warfare in space: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched Cbeams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.” Here on Earth it was huge, slow DC-10 slurry bombers flying like fighter jets, lacing perfect firelines

“The images that burn in my memory are that of a firefighter losing his own house while defending someone else’s, and of returning to my own home to find propane tanks and firewood moved from near the house into the street.” at $60,000 a pop, then flying off to do it all again. But the images that burn in my memory are that of a firefighter losing his own house while defending someone else’s, and of returning to my own home to find propane tanks and firewood moved from near the house into the street — evidence of the unknown professionals who had taken on my house chores. (I felt like a fool for not having done that myself.)

This work on my behalf felt intensely personal, as if crews had rearranged throw pillows and repositioned stuffed animals on beds. I returned again to the idea that they were doing more than just a professional job. They were demonstrating an American neighborliness that had seemed lost in the modern era of “me.” In a time when the government seems not to care about anybody at all save the super-rich, when it’s de rigueur to take children from their parents and put them in cages, when hate seems to be the dominant and growing emotion, and where differences among us as Americans are at their peak, here were whole bureaucracies, the full force of state and federal government, acting as if they were not just showing up for work but cradling my family and community in their arms. They executed their jobs with such grit to save us, as if they had not gotten the memo about the new American zeitgeist. The resources were so abundant and so varied — the Red Cross had overwhelming numbers of volunteers, the firefighters so well fed that some said this job would leave them fatter than when they arrived — that even though I am a town councilman in Basalt, I could find few ways to make myself useful. I settled for handing out cold drinks to deputies. Here was the greatest irony of all: Many of the local heroes support the government and our president, who has tilted our nation into new depths of intolerance and division. Ironies abound in any God-blown cataclysm, but as an American and a father and a husband hoping to build and find community in a fracturing world, I’ll embrace it all and give it back, and more, when I am able. Auden Schendler is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is vice president for sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company.

missoulanews.com • July 19–July 26, 2018 [11]

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WANT TO GET AWAY? – Many citizens of the world are weary of the war and strife that seem to be consuming the news, and about 200,000 of them have already signed up to put it all in the rear-view mirror by becoming citizens of Asgardia. This coming-soon colony on the moon is led by Igor Ashurbeyli, a Russian engineer, computer scientist and businessman who was inaugurated as its leader on June 25 in Vienna. Asgardia’s parliament plans to set up “space arks” with artificial gravity in the next 10 to 15 years, where its projected 150 million citizens can live permanently, Reuters reports, and Ashurbeyli hopes settlement on the moon will be complete within 25 years. Asgardia is named after Asgard, a “world in the sky” in Norse mythology. Its leaders hope to attract a population from among the “most creative” in humanity, perhaps using “IQ tests,” according to Ashurbeyli. Best of all: For the time being, becoming a citizen online is free. EWWWWWW! – Susan Allan of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, was driving with her son on May 9, enjoying the beautiful weather with the sunroof open, when they were suddenly hit with a cold material that smelled to them like feces mixed with chlorine. “Like a clean poop smell if that’s possible,” Allan told Vice. “My son threw up, and we had so much in our faces. Both of us, our faces were covered in poop.” Apparently, poop is falling from the sky all over Canada; Transport Canada has received 18 such reports this year. But the government has not issued an explanation for the phenomenon. Allan thinks it is related to airplanes flying overhead and the Canadian government is covering it up. But Transport Canada pooh-poohed her theory and has declined to comment further. OH, FUDGE – KCCI TV in Des Moines, Iowa, reported on June 27 the loss of a tractor-trailer load of chocolate when the truck caught fire near Dexter, Iowa. The trailer, full of chocolate from Hershey, Pennsylvania, was westbound when it experienced brake problems that caused it to ignite. The driver pulled off and was able to detach the trailer from the cab before it caught fire. No injuries were reported, except to the chocolate, which was a total loss. WEIRD SCIENCE – Montgomery, Alabama, resident Kayla Rahn, 30, had been trying for months to lose weight, but instead experienced dramatic weight gain and pain in her stomach. She became out of breath just taking a short walk. Finally, in May, Rahn’s mother took her to the emergency room at Jackson Hospital, where doctors discovered a growth attached to her ovary and removed what turned out to be a 50-pound, benign cyst, reported WSFA 12 News. The cyst resembled a large watermelon in size. “This is one of the largest I have ever seen,” Dr. Gregory Jones told reporters. “We are very excited things went well for her.” LITIGIOUS SOCIETY – In Norman’s Bay, East Sussex, England, Nigel and Sheila Jacklin are studiously keeping their eyes down after being threatened with prosecution if they look at their neighbors’ house — an adjoining property bought five years ago by Dr. Stephane Duckett and Norinne Betjemann. The Jacklins, 26-year residents of the beachfront community, had repeatedly complained to authorities about noisy builders, verbal abuse and light pollution as Duckett and Betjemann turned a former workshop into a weekend retreat. In June, the Sun reported that after police were called into the dispute, the Rother District Council sent the Jacklins a “community protection warning” that defines an “exclusion zone” around Duckett and Betjemann’s home, forcing the Jacklins to take a roundabout route to the beach. Nigel Jacklin said: “We can’t walk to and from the beach or through the village without fear of being prosecuted.” The Jacklins plan to fight the order. WEIRD FOOD – Minor league baseball teams come up with some wacky promotional ideas, and “Sugar Rush Night” at the Erie (Pennsylvania) SeaWolves game on June 23 didn’t disappoint. WNEP TV noted that one highlight was the cotton candy hot dog: a wiener nestled in a cloud of cotton candy, then sprinkled with Nerds candies. Brave SeaWolves fans could top off the meal with a cotton candy ball: ice cream covered with sprinkles and enclosed in cotton candy. Maybe the sugar rush was too much for the players; they lost 5-3 to the Altoona (Pennsylvania) Curve. RECURRING THEME: AIRPORT NUDITY – Travelers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight that had just landed at HartsfieldJackson International Airport in Atlanta on June 26 were startled when a nearly naked man ran up to their plane and jumped onto a wing, then attempted to open an emergency exit. Jhyrin Jones, 19, had scaled a fence topped with razor wire to reach the runway; just minutes before, he had jumped on some parked cars at a nearby construction site and threatened to “kill y’all, I’m going to blow this place up, trust nobody, you better believe me,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A police report indicated Jones “appeared to be under the influence of narcotics.” He was charged with criminal trespass and public indecency, among other things. PERSPECTIVE – An 82-year-old Japanese man who has lived as a naked “hermit” on a deserted island near Taiwan since 1989 has been forced to return to Japan. Masafumi Nagasaki made his way to Sotobanari Island 29 years ago and told Reuters in 2012 that he wished to die there. “Finding a place to die is an important thing to do,” Nagasaki said, “and I’ve decided here is the place for me.” Earlier reports indicated that he at one time had a wife and two children, and he ran a hostess club in Niigata, Japan. “In civilization people treated me like an idiot and made me feel like one. On this island I don’t feel like that,” he said. Nagasaki explained that at first he wore clothes on the island, but a typhoon destroyed his belongings. Alvaro Cerezo, who documents the stories of island castaways, told News.com/au that in April, authorities removed Nagasaki from the island and placed him in government housing in Ishigaki, Japan, because he was ill and weak. “They took him back to civilization and that’s it,” Cerezo said. “They won’t allow him to return.” BRIGHT IDEA – “ARE YOU BLIND IT 25 MPH” is Ron Ward’s in-your-face (and grammatically lacking) attempt to slow down drivers along his street in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ward has been making signs for years, neighbor Patrick Schmidt told FOX 17 in June. Ward claims, “By the time (drivers) hit this here driveway, they’re doing at least 50-55 miles an hour.” He just wants people to follow the Richmond Street speed limit. “Slow down, the whole neighborhood’s got kids,” he said. The City of Grand Rapids, however, has no specific plans for speed monitoring on the street. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com

[12] Missoula Independent • July 19–July 26, 2018

In late 2017, Montana legislators voted to substantially cut funding for mental health care, in response to a budget shortfall. In the wake of the budget cuts, a group of Montana newsrooms, in collaboration with High Country News and the Solutions Journalism Network, explored how communities are preventing the state’s mental health crisis from worsening.

fter graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1986, Bill Thomas started working as the medical director of a small nursing home in central New York. It was a run-of-the-mill institution, “depressing and dispiriting,” he says. He was attending to an elderly resident’s rash one day when she looked up at him and whispered, “I’m so lonely, doctor.” Thomas says he had an epiphany. He realized the residents he was caring for seemed plagued less by medical issues than by boredom, loneliness and helplessness. Thomas met with the nursing home board and suggested that animals

and plants be brought in. Lots of them. All at once. And so cats, dogs, birds and plants were carted into the nursing home in a single day. The burst of life that Thomas witnessed that day served as the first step of changing — or “disrupting” — what he has diagnosed as a failed aging system. What Thomas intuited in the early 1990s is today being affirmed by research. A 2015 study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a leading researcher at Brigham Young University, indicates that loneliness has serious health risks, including associations with demen-

What we found was a rise in informal treatment options: Rather than replacing the mental health workers whose jobs disappeared, communities are building on-the-ground care networks. The effects of that shift on Montana’s mental health system are still emerging. This series is just the beginning of a statewide conversation about what a successful system could look like.

tia and heart disease, and should be considered a public-health issue. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, older people with dementia are more likely to become isolated, and are twice as likely as the general population to experience loneliness, because of the stigma and shame associated with the condition, and because social activities they once enjoyed often become inaccessible to them. Loneliness can multiply their already complicated health risks. Montana is projected to become one of the oldest states in the nation by 2025, ranking no lower than 5th and as high as 3rd in the nation in the percentage of the

state’s population over the age of 65. In other words, in seven years, at least 1 in 4 Montanans will be 65 or older. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Montana can expect to see a 42 percent rise in Alzheimer’s cases by 2050. That projection, compounded by the rising cost of health care and nursing home services and the aging of Baby Boomers in a mostly rural state with fewer resources than higher-population states has put agencies in a panic about how to house seniors and pay for what the Alzheimer’s Association anticipates as a “crisis.” Thomas, now an author and speaker who still lives in New York, and his col-

league, Kavan Peterson, a long-term-care reform advocate and Missoula native, say the financial crisis is a symptom of a broken infrastructure of aging in this country, and a distraction from the real problem. If we can fix the system and reframe the culture of aging, they say, we can solve the cost issue and, more important, alleviate the mental health issues tied to isolation and loneliness that plague each generation’s approach to the end of life. “Everybody likes to frame this as the silver tsunami that’s going to bankrupt the nation,” Peterson says. “And it is a pressing situation. But that’s because

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what we’ve been doing is segregating people and concentrating them in one place, like a nursing home, to deal with it in what we think is an economy of scale that makes it more efficient. But that just makes it more profitable for providers.” Thomas and Peterson are leading voices in a nationwide movement to improve aging, mental health and wellbeing through architecture, community-building and technology. Thomas founded the Eden Alternative, a nonprofit aimed at deinstitutionalizing nursing homes and creating positive environments for “elders,” and a philosophy that has been incorporated into a handful of skilled-nursing facilities in Missoula. And over the past few years, Thomas and his colleagues have seen proof that the approach works. Data from Sherbrooke Community Center, an Eden-inspired nursing home in Saskatchewan, Canada, shows that between 2006 and 2011, psychotic and anxiety-induced events declined, decreasing medication intake for those issues by 30 percent in some cases. Along the way, the ideology has gained traction and funding. Thomas created the Green House Project, which has secured millions of dollars through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Capital Impact Partners, a D.C.-based financial nonprofit, to replace U.S. nursing homes with homelike environments that Thomas calls “Green Houses.” “In the early 2000s, I got the idea, hey, let’s put together a new approach to architecture,” Thomas says. “Instead of a long corridor, how about everybody gets their own room and their own bathroom? Instead of an industrial kitchen, how about there’s a kitchen right there in the house. And people make and share food around a big wooden table. What if the architecture actually supported greater well-being?” In August 2006, a University of Minnesota evaluation compared the residential experience in Green Houses in Tupelo, Mississippi, to that of residents in nursing home environments. Green House residents reported a higher quality of life across the board, including personal dignity and relationships. Thomas and Peterson also run a website called Changing Aging dedicated to replacing bleak notions about growing old with positive narratives. It has been a difficult task. “I’ve been very interested for a long time in the well-being of older people, and how they find happiness and how they lose it, and what the circumstances are around that,” Thomas says. “I’ve tried a bunch of things over my career, and I’m just going to say, I’ve never actually been

loneliness and isolation can take hold, is a failure of architecture. “Ninety-eight percent of homes in America today are not accessible for somebody with any kind of physical disability,” he says. Riverside Crossing, the Chapin-designed neighborhood in Hamilton, is just breaking ground. It’s a housing cooperative community for people 55 and older developed by the Ravalli County Council as successful as I wish to be. And it’s only nursing systems, and it still often has that Large-Scale World. Chapin is especially on Aging and spearheaded by the counlately that I’ve kind of figured out why.” feeling of the place people go to die.” interested in designing multi-genera- cil’s executive director, Paul Travitz. It feaMost recently, Thomas has develtional, all-abilities neighborhoods that ac- tures 51 cottages arranged in pocket oped what he calls a “triple alloy” concommodate the needs of older people, neighborhoods and adhering to shared cept. It focuses on architecture (the built THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT including those with dementia, in a way design principles. The neighborhood environment), culture (our attitudes In June, Peterson and I took the that benefits the whole community. The landscape is designed to accommodate about ourselves and the experience of ferry from Seattle, where he lives, to homes are designed with both privacy and encourage walking and gathering. aging) and technology (the tools we uti- Whidbey Island to visit Ross Chapin, an and common space in mind, inviting “So when we’re putting this together, lize to realize the lives we want to live). innovative architect who has been writ- neighborhood conversation and encour- we’re not saying, well this is where the “To be successful, we actually need ten up in the New York Times, Wall Street aging neighbors to look out for one an- old folks go,” Chapin says. “This will be a to integrate all three,” Thomas says. “If Journal, Sunset magazine and a multi- other. Chapin has designed and built community that won’t look like a retireyou ask me what I’ve learned in the past tude of architecture magazines and three pocket neighborhoods in Langley, ment community, but in fact will be a 25 years, that’s it.” northwestern dailies. Peterson and a quaint tiny town on Whidbey Island. multi-generational community, signifiThe effort to achieve triple-alloy so- Chapin have met just once before, but His Third Street Cottages feature eight cantly oriented to supporting elders.” Also included in Riverside Crossing are two Green House-inspired multi-unit buildings that will offer supportive services and feature 10 small suites and shared living, kitchen and dining spaces. Chapin admits that such supportive living spaces are still difficult to design. “My concern with elder suites is that they look like hospital rooms,” he says. “The questions that I ask when I design are: Would I want to live there, and why? And if I’m living there, how do I have my dignity, but also have access to care.” Peterson finds his greatest challenge in these same questions. “Designing a community where somebody can be safe and live even when they have memory issues is a worthwhile challenge,” he says. “Our argument is, we don’t look at aging as this disaster. We look at it as this opportunity to coursephoto courtesy Kavan Peterson correct for some cultural and community design that was just way out of whack.” Bill Thomas is a leading voice in the movement to change the way people experience aging. He focuses on three

“The solution is not to segregate people. It is not to spend more money on services. The solution is to design better communities where people are valued, what they have to offer is valued.”

solutions: architecture, culture and technology.

lutions has not been easy. Green House projects tend to be expensive to start due to land and materials costs. And by themselves, they don’t address some of the cultural issues that contribute to the isolation of the elderly. Thomas and Peterson wanted to find some way to abolish the nursing-home model altogether. “Green House was initially just an experiment for Bill to prove to the industry that you could actually design something that would meet the regulatory hurdles, but would be a step down from a 100-bed nursing home,” Peterson says. “But it still has the limitations of skilled

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Peterson is interested in how Chapin’s designs might help keep older people integrated in communities and out of nursing homes. Inside Chapin’s office are plans for neighborhoods across the country, including one that’s being built in Hamilton, an hour south of Missoula. The neighborhoods are customized to location. Chapin is most famous for his work on pocket neighborhoods, which are small-scale developments designed to foster community, an approach he documented in his award-winning 2011 book, Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a

houses on two-thirds of an acre, plus a common house, a central garden and a small playground. The carports are tucked away and inconspicuous. The porches face each other, but maintain semi-privacy with porch railings and greenery. “So it’s not just about building,” Chapin says. “It’s not just about, OK, we’re going to create this wonderful building to support elders or to support families. It’s the interstitial spaces between that we engage with, those layers between very private and shared.” Peterson says one reason older people end up in nursing homes, where

CULTURE CHANGE

There’s a video on the Changing Aging website in which Missoula resident Larry Kilka discusses how he learned he had dementia. After a battery of tests, his doctor broke the news. “He said it this way,” Kilka recalls in the video. “He said, ‘I have to tell you that you definitely have [memory] loss. I’d sure hate to be you. Gosh! I’d be freaking out.’ This came out of the mouth of a well-known neurologist in this town.” Kilka and his wife, Linda, ended up meeting Kavan Peterson, the co-founder of Changing Aging. They were inspired by his work on changing common and damaging narratives about aging and, es-

pecially, dementia. They went to work trying to change the culture surrounding dementia in Missoula, but Larry died of a stroke a year after his diagnosis. “He was so excited, and so impassioned about changing everything,” Peterson says. Peterson says he’s searched nationwide for models of dementia-friendly communities and positive-outlook programs to inform his work in Missoula. He landed in Seattle after hearing it was home to some of the nation’s best dementia and aging programs — not just formal networks, but informal groups, too. A network called Dementia Friendly America rates Seattle as a top model, but all you have to do is look at the city-wide plethora of dementia-friendly activities to see how pervasive they are. For instance, there’s a grassroots movement called Momentia, which Peterson has become involved with. It aims to help people with memory loss and their loved ones to stay active in their communities. Momentia activities, which have been developed by people with dementia for people with dementia, are published in a calendar and include Alzheimer’s cafes, cinema outings, garden walks and painting workshops. In addition, Seattle has fostered elder-friendly communities. The Village, for instance, is a network that includes a volunteer program in which young people help older people with, for instance, computers, and end up forging multigenerational friendships together. On a mid-June Tuesday afternoon at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood, a group of people funneled into a gallery where the exhibit Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet was on display. The event felt like any art appreciation class, but it was part of Here:Now, an arts-engagement program for people living with dementia and their caregivers. The Frye also offers a program called Take Me to the Movies where people with memory loss can watch clips from contemporary and classic films and discuss them. There are art classes and a weekly gathering in the museum’s cafe

where people with memory loss and their caregivers drink coffee and eat snacks. Marigrace Becker, who coordinates programming at a memory-care unit in the University of Washington Medical Center, shows up with a banjo and plays songs. The whole room sings along to “She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain.” All of these programs provide inthe-moment experiences. Peterson says such activities signal a change in the way we engage people with memory loss. Caregivers and providers often feel the need to press people with memory loss to recall events, even with seemingly benign questions like, “What did you have for breakfast this morning?” Such questions, Becker says, can be agitating for someone who finds themself continually unable to remember. They lash out. They withdraw. They isolate. They get lonely. These Momentia programs spur caregivers to think of other ways to engage. Instead of “What did you have for breakfast?” they might say, “Hey, look out the window. What do you see right now?” A study conducted by the Frye Museum and the University of Washington School of Medicine examined the ways in which arts programs like Here:Now normalize the way people with dementia and their caregivers feel within their communities. It found that such programs strengthen participants’ self-esteem and sense of belonging and recognition. Mary Jane Knecht, the Frye Museum’s program coordinator, says these activities have developed across Seattle organically, without coordinated direction, but it’s easy to see how they could be duplicated in other communities. Any place with a museum, a community theater, yoga classes or coffee shops could implement a Momentia component. “It’s about working with what you have, not re-creating a whole new system,” she says.

photo courtesy Kavan Peterson

photo by Amy Donovan

TECHNOLOGY

Inside Missoula’s Grizzly Peak, a senior-living and retirement community, Kaley Burke is demonstrating something

TOP: Bill Thomas and Kavan Peterson are working on compact Minka houses — something between a tiny home and a standard house — that combine technology and architecture to enhance the well-being of elders and people with disabilities. MIDDLE: Harvest Home Care, a Missoula-based non-medical home-care agency, focuses on the mental well-being of elders and is run by Seattle-based president Kavan Peterson and, from left, care specialist Shawn Bennett, director Kaley Burke and vice president Jonas LaRance. BOTTOM: Kaley Burke and Bill Thomas showcase the Ohmni telepresence robot, which is being tested as a way to help connect residents at Missoula’s Grizzly Peak, a senior-living and retirement community, with loved ones who live far away.

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called the Ohmni telepresence robot. The robot is 5-foot-3 with a face like an iPad and the ability to turn in circles, traverse the ground (indoors or out) and nod its head. The Ohmni is currently controlled by Thomas, who often deploys the robot to visit residents at Grizzly Peak. Thomas sits at his home computer in central New York, but his face appears on the screen. It’s a concept similar to Skype or FaceTime, but the experience is significantly different, because the robot’s mobility makes it feel like Thomas in the room. “How are you folks doing?” Thomas says, remotely rolling the Ohmni up to a couple of people in the Grizzly Peak dining room. The Ohmni’s outings provide an opportunity for residents to ask Thomas questions about their health, but they’re also a chance to test out the robot’s possibilities. Burke, her brother Kavan Peterson and Jonas LaRance co-own an in-home care company called Harvest Home Care, whose headquarters are housed inside Grizzly Peak. They’ve all been testing technologies that can help decrease social isolation for older people. The aim of the Ohmni is for residents’ friends and family, who might live far away, to be able to log on and experience virtual visits with residents, virtually sharing meals or going on walks with them. Eventually, Burke says, family members could rent a robot on their end, allowing retirement community residents to virtually visit family and even attend weddings and other family functions. “We’re really hoping we can close the gaps on some of those missing moments in your family’s lives who are far away,” Burke says to a small group of residents checking out the robot. “Instead of a phone call, you get them here with you.” “It would be a miracle for me,” one resident says. “I can’t even get my kids on the phone. But I think they might like this.” The robot is one of several technologies being tested through Harvest Home Care. Another is the MAGIC Micro-Visit Button, which is a box that can fit in the palm of a hand featuring a single button linked to WiFi. In most senior-living facilities, residents have to set up regular hours ahead of time if they want personal assistance to go shopping, do laundry or take a walk, and there’s usually a minimum reservation of three hours, for which residents have to pay at least $50. The MAGIC button allows residents to get quick assistance for an activity that might require only 15 minutes. They push the button and a signal is sent to nearby “care partners.” The resident gets

an automated call to confirm the request, and then someone shows up to help them with whatever they need. “We recognized over the years working in the aging field that a lot of people don’t really know what they might need and when they might need it,” Burke says. “So we’ve been playing around with the idea of an on-demand service. It allows you to have more control over when you need something and how much you’re going to spend on it. It’s

“A monitoring system is the dystopic solution,” Peterson says. “The absolute ideal is that if you’re in an emergency situation, there are humans there for you. The solution is not to segregate people. It is not to spend more money on services. The solution is to design better communities where people are valued, what they have to offer is valued, and then, in exchange for that, the community does provide some support and is there to help out.”

tech conferences nationwide, which Peterson and Thomas often attend, all kinds of gadgets are hailed as the next big idea in elderly assistance. Some are benign but ultimately trivial, like a cane with an embedded FM radio. Others, like tracking devices for people with dementia, come with potentially unsettling privacy implications. The obsession with technology as a tool to change and even stop aging could cause harm to older people who are vulnerable to isolation.

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Residents gather in the community space of a pocket neighborhood designed by architect Ross Chapin in the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Washington.

kind of like the concept of Uber for caregivers, except you don’t have to know how to use an app.” On the surface, the MAGIC button seems like a mere convenience. But mental health and well-being is central to its purpose. “What we’re trying to do is provide better access to community,” Burke says. “What a person might need is for someone to make their bed, or they might want to go to Out to Lunch at Caras Park. But what they get is human interaction and companionship when they need it.” Despite their interest in these technologies Thomas and Harvest Home Care are cautious about overselling technology as a remedy for mental health issues. Peterson says the elder-care industry focuses far too often on surveillance, which is meant to keep the elderly safe, but often perpetuates isolation and discourages community.

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For that reason, Peterson says, simple technologies are often the most profound. “The single greatest age-enhancing innovation in human history was invented 700 years ago,” Peterson says. “Eyeglasses. No modern invention has done more to extend the ability of older adults to enjoy life and contribute to society and culture. The only modern equivalent would be to eradicate age-related hearing loss, something we’re not even close to achieving.” Broadband internet access is another technological lifesaver. In rural communities — in Montana and elsewhere — the extension of broadband internet could help change aging culture for the better by giving elders access to amenities like the Ohmni robot. Peterson says the problem is that tech companies aren’t focused on the mental well-being of older people. At

“When we’re talking about mental well-being, technology is very dangerous,” Peterson says. “And I think that the risk of looking at technology, by itself, in an ageist society, without changing the culture of aging or how elders are connected to community, that risks a pretty horrific dystopian future. That’s why the technology has to be looked at in the context of everything else.” The upside of developing simple technologies that benefit an aging population is that they can just as easily be useful to anyone trying to create greater connection with their community. “Is it possible to create cool technology that is basically usable by everybody?” Thomas asks. “I think if the tech industry accepted the challenge of designing for simplicity, in a way that would serve the interests of older people, the tech would be better for people of all ages. The interests and desires and abili-

ties of older people could actually lead us toward better technology for everybody.” In their quest to promote well-being and positive mental health for older people, Thomas and Peterson are now working on a new endeavor: a residence called Minka, a Japanese term for “house of the people.” The compact home is an example of integrated technology and architecture, and features interchangeable parts designed to be user-friendly for everyone, including older people and people with disabilities. “You can pop out a solid wall and insert a new entry or a wall with windows,” Peterson says. “Minka parts, such as a bathroom unit, can be installed inside a home that lacks a ground-floor bathroom, and then uninstalled with minimum remodeling.” It’s also much cheaper than the Green House model. According to Sam Betters, executive director of the Loveland, Colorado, Housing Authority, an early and enthusiastic adopter of the Green House model, its $400 per square foot cost is a big drawback. The Loveland Housing Authority and Thomas and Peterson are working to develop pocket neighborhoods of Minka homes, and exploring the feasibility of building Green House homes using the Minka system. “We think our first Green Houses are great, and we are going to build more,” Betters says. “Minka has technology that we hope can dramatically reduce the cost of construction, which means more people get the benefit of the Green House model.” Thomas and Peterson are also partnering with the University of Southern Indiana, for which they’ve created a demonstration Minka home currently being built on the university’s Evansville campus. It will be a model with which students in geriatric and nursing programs can interact. Placing the Minka house on campus addresses the culture change issue as well. For Peterson, it plants a seed in an environment filled with young people, prompting them to think about the future of aging in new ways. “Facing the stigma of [aging] is without question the hardest part of the work we do,” Peterson says. “Ageism is insidious and pervasive, and it makes culture the most challenging part of the triple alloy. Ultimately, our work will not succeed on a large scale if we cannot combat ageism and change the way people think about aging and the value we put on older people.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[arts]

Motor runnin’ Melissa Stephenson talks addiction, resilience, cars and her new memoir, Driven by Claire Thompson

addict to be able to say: I think I need help, I am willing to go to rehab, is astonishing. I’m sure it was [my mom’s] own denial about her drinking [that led her to say to Matthew]: No, you’re a bad investment. We’re going to practice tough love. I wouldn’t be doing the work I’m doing if I wasn’t a big feelings person who’s prone to ups and downs. I have to be able to feel all those things in order to write stuff that makes other people feel something. But by the time I was in my mid-20s, it was clear, even though I’d had my ups and downs, that I was someone who could pay my bills and do the basics. I always pay attention. I have a lot of close friends who struggle with addiction. I try to check in with those people and at least be there if they’re ready for help. When you’re open and honest and vulnerable, it gives them permission to do that back.

eading Melissa Stephenson’s memoir Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back is like listening to a cool older cousin recount her version of your family history. The Missoula-based author references her own adventures (hitchhiking in Alaska, walking the Appalachian Trail solo) almost as asides, letting them quietly illustrate her strength of character without overtaking the main focus: her relationship with her troubled older brother, Matthew, and what his suicide at 28 revealed about the loved ones he left behind. Driven began as a collection of short prose-poem pieces, now woven into a larger narrative structured around cars: from the Volkswagen Squarebacks of her earliest childhood memories, to the red ’79 Ford F-150 she inherited from Matthew after his death, to the Westfalia van in which she now takes her kids camping. The tight lens of those original scenes makes her story feel both vividly specific — capturing the dynamic of one family in one place and time — and universal. Every family has its special rituals, its particular tragedies, and Stephenson reflects our pain by revealing her own. The growing popularity of memoir as a genre could be linked to our efforts, as a culture, to encourage self-reflection and vulnerability for the sake of mental health — a practice not nearly as widespread when Matthew died in 2000. I talked with Stephenson about some of the themes driving her memoir.

strategic about making sure we had — even if it’s going on a credit card and she wasn’t telling us — at least a few pieces of name-brand clothing, and trying to facilitate sleepovers with doctors’ kids. She wanted to catapult us as much as she could into a higher social class than she felt she had ever been a part of.

You write that your family “bootstrapped our way over the poverty line and into a facsimile of a middle-class lifestyle … Mom had a knack for creating the illusion that we had one hundred dollars for every dollar we spent.” Can you expand on that? Melissa Stephenson: Trying to write about our economic status seemed important, but really hard. Growing up in my hometown, my best friend lived in a trailer park. I felt like I was doing very well for Indiana at the time, to be living in an actual house. My mom was very

Yet striving to achieve all that for you and your brother left your mom alone in the end. She got what she wanted for her family, but what was left for her? MS: I remember being aware, growing up, like, why doesn’t she do anything for herself? What’s her thing? It’s all my ballet recital, and trying to get my brother to stick with a sport. And then once we were gone, she took it very personally. [She] threw everything into being a good mom; I don’t think she thought about her identity outside of that. When I think of my identity, I

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Melissa Stephenson’s Driven offers a vivid story of family.

think of several other things before I think of mom. You found a copy of The Redneck Manifesto among Matthew’s belongings after he died, a book that may have fueled his sense of victimhood, which you refer to as “the anger of a white boy who had been raised like a prince only to discover himself part toad and the story of his unlimited potential a hoax.” How has our current political climate affected your view of this part of his personality? MS: I’m sure that latching onto that book was like telling the pretty story of how the world doesn’t appreciate me. That’s a lot easier than looking within and trying to figure out how you’re responsible for how your life has turned out. Both depression and addiction make your brain a house of mirrors. If we had basic health care resources for

mental health and addiction, how many people would have a chance to detox and have some basic tools for self-awareness? The era that we’re in now really feeds off people not getting health care. It’s to the benefit of the party in power to have a lot of sick and uneducated people to finger-point with them. I wonder if my brother would have fallen prey to some of that. It can sometimes be hard to recognize the line between moodiness and clinical depression, partying versus addiction. Looking back, do you see that line more clearly? MS: Part of why addiction is a family illness is because the whole family is kind of being gaslighted by the addict. The denial becomes a family thing. The sad thing is, near the end of my brother’s life, I didn’t expect to witness the kind of denial from my parents that I did. For an

Your description of watching a woman work on her truck in the Ole’s parking lot on Orange — “she had something beyond wanderlust — a kind of confidence, persistence. She had grit” — captured something I think all of us afflicted with wanderlust strive for. Do you think you’ve achieved that kind of grit now? MS: I do. I think it was always there, but it took some trials for me to trust it. When I lost my brother, that was my worst fear. There is a resilience once you find out the thing that wrecked you didn’t break you, as cheesy as it might sound. I have made it a practice to learn how to do things. Volkswagen van culture is great for that. Every time I take the time to learn how to do something, it builds momentum. It’s a mix of taking the time to learn yourself, asking for help and then just taking a chance. What’s the worst that’s going to happen? You’re probably not going to break it more. Melissa Stephenson reads from Driven at Montgomery Distillery Tue., July 24, at 6 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

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[books]

Just right Gwen Florio masters the literary page-turner by Sarah Aswell

Gwen Florio’s newest novel, Silent Hearts, sat of action, and mini-revelations that build and build unread on my bedside table for a few days, while I to the climax of the story. What begins as an intense was judging it by its cover. To be fair, I was also judg- book ramps up unimaginably toward the end, as ing the title and the back cover copy. When I agreed the four main characters push and pull among to review the book, I had assumed it was the next themselves and against their surroundings. This book isn’t exactly a mystery like many of installment in Florio’s Lola Wick’s mystery series, which are consistently fast, fun reads perfect for hot Florio’s past efforts, but in many ways, it’s written summer days. Instead, I was looking at more than like one. Information is revealed in small bursts, to 300 pages of what at first seemed from the descrip- different characters as well as to the reader, creating tion to be a pretty dry, plodding, serious attempt at the most rare and wonderful beast: the literary literature: a book about two women in disparate page-turner. At the same time, Florio adeptly builds the three central relationcultures struggling to find ships of the book, two bemeaning in the post-9/11 tween the main couples, world. Ugh — I was so done and then the third between reading about people strugthe two women, Liv and gling to find meaning in the Farida. The relationships post-9/11 world. grow and entwine and swirl Then I read the first with each chapter and revechapter and could not put lation. the book down until five But what might be the hours later, when my tired best part of the book — even eyes physically couldn’t conbetter than it’s incredible tinue on until the morning. pace — is Florio’s exploIt’s not only the best book ration of feminism and culI’ve read by a Missoula auture (yes, I know that also thor this year, it’s the best sounds boring, but stay with book I’ve read in 2018. me). Through Liv and Florio isn’t just an ediFarida, the reader is contor at the Missoulian, she’s stantly surprised by the simalso an international jourilarities of the struggles that nalist who has covered stoeach woman faces in her ries on location in job, her relationship, her Afghanistan (as well as other Silent Hearts politics, and her self worth, conflict zones like Iraq and Gwen Florio despite the obvious bigger Somalia). Her knowledge of Hardcover, Atria Books differences. We’re also surthe place and the culture 336 pages, $26 prised, as the book spins forshows, as the book immerses you in the world of its characters — cen- ward, on how exactly they manage to help each trally, in 2001 Kabul. There, we meet a beautiful, other in even the most intense circumstances. educated Pakistani translator, Farida Basra, who has There’s always a worry, when reading books written just been subjected to an arranged marriage to the by Americans about other cultures, that it will be biilliterate son of an opium trafficker and handed a ased, or far too simplified, or (perhaps the worst) sky-blue burka as a less-than-welcoming wedding draped in exoticism. Florio does a commendable present. We also meet Liv and Martin, an American job at approaching her book just right, and she does couple who are escaping the fraught world of aca- it by focusing on these two resilient women, simply demia for any kind of change, and who both imme- struggling to have voices and survive within the diately find themselves over their heads working for constraints of each of their cultures. I was forced to pick up Silent Hearts to write a an NGO overseas in an exhausted country that’s book review — and I couldn’t be happier. Now I look been at war for 30 years. The book follows the trajectory of these two forward to a summer of happily forcing it upon othcomplex couples as they navigate their new lives, ers. Just read the first chapter. That’s all it takes. Gwen Florio reads from Silent Hearts at and if that sounds a bit slow and literary for you, don’t worry. Florio is a master of pacing and plot Montgomery Distillery Tue., July 24, at 6 PM. here, and every chapter of the book, without exception, brings with it beautiful, tiny story arcs, plenty arts@missoulanews.com

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[art]

Creative forces The Brunswick celebrates 40 years with an exhibit of artists past and present by Erika Fredrickson

In Missoula, November and December usher in the season of holiday arts and crafts fairs. On weekends, galleries hang affordable, small-scale art for purchase, and the cidery, breweries and distilleries pack in vendors manning tables filled with artisan jewelry, hand-stitched pillows, wildflower seeds, hand-carved wooden boxes, leather bags and upcycled decor. But back in the mid-1980s, there was pretty much just one place to go for holiday art gifts, and that was the Brunswick Art Studios at the corner of Railroad and Woody streets. For five years it was an almost lawless event. Missoula artist Leslie Van Stavern Millar, who managed the building and later bought it, says all the artists occupying the building’s 10 studios were struggling financially, so she encouraged them to present their sculpture, paintings and ceramics. The public could climb the narrow staircase and amble through the building looking for gifts. It was also a night of entertainment featuring a who’s who of the local arts scene, including Millar and her husband, Max Gilliam. Millar allowed anyone to get up and perform, “as long as it wasn’t X-rated,” she says. And Jay Rummel, the legendary Missoula printmaker and a studio resident, was always up for the task. “He’d be sitting on a stool in his cowboy outfit with Gloria Banister, who accompanied him, which entailed her hitting a tambourine on her hip,” Millar says. “And he’d sing all these folk songs. He wrote one about the Brunswick but he never recorded it. There was a part about the pigeons landing on top of the building and Max putting a horn up there to scare them away.” There was never enough space to fit all the people who showed up, and Millar recalls that even in wind and snow, small crowds gathered on the sidewalk, looking through the window to get a glimpse of the art and performers. Later in the evening, Rummel would host wild parties. “I was kind of the teetotaler,” Millar says. “In the gallery, there was no drinking or smoking, but afterward a mass of people would migrate into Jay’s studio and he would have vodka punch waiting. There was yelling and screaming and playing music all night. It was a pretty funny contrast.” Recently, on Friday, July 13, Millar stood on the sidewalk in front of the Brunswick surrounded by a crowd, many of them peering through the window hoping to catch a glimpse of what was inside. They were all there for an exhibit celebrating the Brunswick’s 40th anniversary, featuring 90 of the nearly 150 artists who have occupied the studios over the decades. Through old rental books and memory, Millar had tracked down several of the artists, some of whom still create art in Missoula, and some who’ve long been gone. She’d asked them to send her any-

thing they wanted that would represent them as artists. “I wasn’t sure what I’d get when I opened the boxes,” she told the crowd, “but I was happy with what I saw.” The exhibit is as funky as the space it occupies. Millar asked for 12x12 inch (or smaller) pieces so as to fit everything into the gallery and adjoining room, so the space is brimming with small paintings and photographs and tiny mixed-media pieces. Among them are David Regan’s set of porcelain hands, titled “Water

amounts to a snapshot of the past 40 years during which the Brunswick has developed its identity. The structure was built as the Brunswick Hotel in 1891 to accommodate rail workers and train passengers. Initially, it housed a street-level saloon, which faced Woody Street, and a dining room on the Railroad Street side. Throughout the years it changed hands until the upper floors were converted to apartments in the 1930s, while the ground

iday shows, so we haven’t done those in a while. That was like, ‘Now you see it, now you don’t.’” The Brunswick now has a venerable reputation within the arts community. Millar says its influence is in evidence all over town. Kia Liszak, executive director of the Zootown Arts Community (which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year), was one of Millar’s art students and toured the halls of the Brunswick as a kid. Shalene Valenzuela, executive

The Brunswick, depicted here in a painting by Frances Switzer, is a storied building of art studios that has helped define Missoula’s art scene for 40 years.

Rights”; Paul Guillemette’s sculpture “Cherokee Buddha TV,” featuring a clay red truck and a blue remote control; and pieces by popular local artists including Theo Ellsworth, Courtney Blazon, Steve Kelly, Nancy Erickson and Stephen Glueckert. Some of the Brunswick artists were writers (or became writers), and their work is also displayed: A table of books including titles by Caroline Patterson and Fred Haefele, for instance, and on the wall a poem by Sheryl Noethe and an excerpt from Megan McNamer’s recent novel Children and Lunatics. There are also tributes to deceased Brunswick artists (“I did not require that they stick to 12x12 pieces,” Millar jokes), including Rummel, whose work is represented by a ceramic plate commissioned by Millar for her daughter, Indigo, on her 21st birthday. There are still more pieces by the children of Brunswick artists, who grew up playing in the building’s hallways. In all, the exhibition

floor cycled through multiple businesses, including a drug store, a barbershop and a series of bars. Millar recalls visiting the building in 1972, when she first moved to Missoula. There was a health food store there, which later became a pawn shop. Millar’s friend, ceramic artist Linda Wachtmeister, and Wachtmeister’s husband, sculptor Bob Streany, bought the building in 1978 and turned it into artist studios. They left Missoula not long afterward and eventually convinced Millar to manage it. She remembers many distinct eras evolving within the building’s walls, including the raucous late ’70s and the holiday-art-show years. “It was just what it was,” she says of the holiday shows. “It was charming. After Jay died, things started shifting. People got busy all around town at Christmas time and there’s so many more options for hol-

director of the Clay Studio of Missoula, has occupied Rummel’s old studio at the Brunswick for 15 years. The building’s history and impact make it an institution that, as Missoula grows and changes, begins to feel exotic and maybe even endangered. “There’s a collective energy there that I think is not easily described,” Millar says. “And that part I don’t think is nostalgic. I think that’s a product of concentrated human work — the best kind of human work, instead of all this nonsense of killing and meanness in the world. And that’s my subtext to the whole exhibit.” The Brunswick 40th anniversary exhibit continues through Aug. 18 at 223 Railroad Street. Visit the Brunswick Artists’ Studios Facebook page for hours and events. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Human folly It’s all about the horse in Damsel by Molly Laich

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July 28 • NooN-10 caras park • FrEE Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson star in Damsel.

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Damsel is a pretty strange motion picture about a series of doltish men wandering around the American frontier in pursuit of a woman who’s smarter than maybe all of them combined. The movie’s written and directed by brothers David and Nathan Zellner, whose previous film includes Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter (2015), about the Japanese woman who went looking for the buried money from the fictional film Fargo. Robert Pattinson stars as a well-off pioneer named Samuel Allibaster, who we first see come up to shore on a rickety sailboat with nothing in tow but an acoustic guitar and a large crate. The crate contains a pretty miniature horse named Butterscotch — OMG, somebody get that horse a drink of water! (I am perhaps inordinately preoccupied with whether the horses in motion pictures are properly fed, rested and hydrated.) The year is 1870 and we’re in the lawless, untamed west. The saloon Samuel first sidles up to only has one thing to drink, and that’s whiskey. Samuel brought Butterscotch along as a present for his recently kidnapped fiancée, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). Here’s the plan: Samuel will track down and murder the kidnapper, propose to Penelope and present the horse in a grand romantic gesture. For the shotgun wedding ceremony to immediately follow, Samuel employs the unwitting service of a drunk preacher named Parson Henry (David Zellner), who we learn is not actually a priest so much as a cowardly drifter looking to latch onto any sinking vessel in his wake. It seems immediately apparent that Samuel’s plan is overly ambitious at best, but just how naively he’s miscalculated the situation is a secret waiting for us just shy of the film’s triumphant halfway mark. The word “damsel” simply means “an unmarried woman” — we tend to implicitly add on the “in distress” clause, but Penelope, it turns out, is neither.

In some ways, Damsel consists of one long camping trip (as was all of life in the American Frontier, when you think about it), punctuated by a series of hapless circumstances and poignant human encounters. It’s that last piece that makes Damsel a worthwhile and slyly humorous story. Each character shares a distinct human folly, although the men tend to fall under what I think is the movie’s basic thesis, the ideas that: One, women are precious, pretty things that need to be saved and, two, men, by virtue of existing, are owed a woman’s love. And dog gonnit, the men in this picture have come to collect. Besides Samuel and the fraud preacher Henry, we encounter along the way the kidnapper himself (whose motives and identity shall remain a mystery), and the kidnapper’s brother, a Davey Crockett type with a fur fox hat and an old-fashioned (or, to be fair to 1870, contemporary) understanding of marriage. Lastly, they meet an Indian who takes a stab at winning Penelope’s heart, but to his credit (and unlike these other dweebs), acts with grace and pragmatism when thwarted. And I’ve got to give credit to the mini horse, Butterscotch, whose implicit charm, unlike some other movie horses this season (looking at you, Lean on Pete) manages to command every scene she’s in. Butterscotch carries a pitiful but important load on her back (a live chicken in a cage!). Her little legs struggle to keep up with the posse, and yet, she persists. In Butterscotch, we get a mostly ornamental but loving thing (just a little nuzzle goes a long way, Pete!), a paradigm of tenderness and nobility. That’s it, I’ve solved the film’s mystery. Spoiler last sentence, reader beware: The only real damsel here is the horse. Damsel opens at the Roxy Fri., July 20. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK THE EQUALIZER 2 He thought his days of being a highly paid government assassin were over, but just when he thought he was out, he has to kill, like, a hundred more goons. Historians take note: This is the first time Denzel Washington has ever made a sequel to any of his films. Rated R. Also stars Pedro Pascal and Melissa Leo. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9. DAMSEL His posse: a drunk preacher and a miniature horse named Butterscotch. His mission: to traverse the Wild West to propose to the love of his life. His problem: She’s just not that into him. Rated R. Stars Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska and David Zellner. Playing at the Roxy. (See Film) MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN If they ever make a third film in this series of musicals powered by the tunes of ABBA, it’s absolutely going to be called Mamma Mia! My My, How Can We Resist You? Rated PG-13. Stars Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Pierce Brosnan’s ridiculous singing voice. Pharaohplex, AMC 12, Southgate 9 SORRY TO BOTHER YOU A down-on-his-luck telemarketer finds the secret to getting ahead at his job just as everyone in his life begins a protest against corporate oppression. Rated R. Stars Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson and Danny Glover. Playing at the Roxy.

NOW PLAYING ALIEN (1979) In space, no one can hear you scream, but if you’re trapped on a spaceship you can sure hear the screams of your shipmates getting eviscerated by an acid-blooded xenomorph. Rated R. Features Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt and H.R. Giger’s masterpiece of monster design. Playing Wed., July 25 at 8 PM and Sun., July 29 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy. 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 and the AMC 12. BEAST (2017) I don’t care how handsome and helpful a stranger is, I’m not making out with him if there’s been a string of unsolved murders targeting local woman. Rated R. Stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James. Playing Thu., July 19 at 8 PM at the Roxy. CHARLOTTE’S WEB (1973) E.B. White’s beloved tale of a spider saving a pig from being made into sausage by making him into a celebrity instead is brought to life in this classic animated film. Rated G. Stars the voices of Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde and Henry Gibson. Playing Thu., July 26 and Sat., July 28 at 2 PM at the Roxy.

“Thank you for calling. Your head injury is very important to us. For concussions, please press 1.” Lakeith Stanfield stars in Sorry to Bother You, opening at the Roxy. DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT After nearly dying in a drunk-driving accident, a paralyzed slacker has to choose between his drinking and his drawing. Rated R. Stars Joaquin Phoenix and Jonah Hill and written and directed by Gus Van Sant. Playing Thu., July 26 at 8 PM at the Roxy. 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 Southgate 9. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy and their families take a much needed holiday. I know Adam Sandler movies are often accused of just being studio-funded vacations for his famous friends, but this is getting ridiculous. Rated PG. Also stars the voices of Selena Gomez, Kevin James and Bozeman’s Sarah Vowell. Playing at the AMC 12, the Pharaohplex 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. 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, the Pharaohplex and the Southgate 9. LOST HIGHWAY (1997) Director David Lynch unfolds this complex tale of a tortured jazz musician and a young mechanic whose stories intersect in a 1990s nightmare. Rated R. Stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette and Gary Busey. Playing Sat., July 21 at 9 PM at the Roxy. LOVE AND BANANAS: AN ELEPHANT STORY Rescuing abused and injured elephants is an unpredictable and life-threatening challenge, but somebody’s gotta do it. Not Rated. Ashley Bell directs this globe-trotting documentary. Playing Mon., July 23 at 7 PM at the Roxy. 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. The acclaimed documentary finishes its record-breaking run at the Roxy Thu., July 19. SKYSCRAPER The director of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story smashes Die Hard and The Towering Inferno together until we give up, realize there are no more original ideas and buy a ticket. Rated PG-13. Stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Neve Campbell and Chin Han. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12. TOTAL RECALL (1990) Why go on an expensive vacation when you can just have the memories of a vacation uploaded into your brain? Well maybe because they’ll mess with the implants that keep you from remembering your life as

a secret agent who has to get their ass to Mars. Rated R. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone and Michael Ironside. Playing Sun., July 22 at 2:30 PM at the Roxy. 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 a Sprite commercial. Rated PG13. Stars Kyrie Irving, Shaquille O’Neal and Reggie Miller. Playing at the AMC 12. WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) The eccentric and secretive owner of a dangerously unsafe candy factory searches for a new heir among a group of rotten children. I’m still mad he didn’t choose the one from Montana. Rated G. Stars Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum and Julie Dawn Cole. Playing Thu., July 19 and Sat., July 21 at 2 PM at the Roxy. 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! Rated PG-13. 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. RBG’s 8-week run makes it the longest running movie to play at the Roxy since its reopening.

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JULY

COFFEE SPECIAL

Colombia Supreme

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COOL

COFFEE ICE CREAMS

Italian Roast

$10.95/lb.

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

IN OUR COFFEE BAR

BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

Tomato burgers by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

Something magical happens when tiny tomatoes are cooked whole. Their skins become soft and their insides become incredibly juicy and sweet. When bitten into, they release a nectar that tastes like a bite of a fresh-off-the-vine tomato in the peak of its season. I learned this when I first made tomato-studded frittata. In this burger recipe, I employ the same technique by tucking whole grape tomatoes into ¼ pound beef burgers along with herbs, olive oil and fresh garlic. The resulting burger features an incredible combination of charred tomatoes on the outside and ready-to-burst tomatoes on the inside. I serve these without buns, and with the addition of a generous smear of creamy goat cheese and a shower of fresh herbs. Good aioli or mayonnaise would also be lovely, as would a crusty sourdough roll.

1 handful fresh cilantro, basil, flat-leaf parsley or chives, chopped 1 pint small cherry or grape tomatoes, destemmed and left whole DIRECTIONS Lightly brush a grill or grill pan with olive oil and pre-heat over medium-high heat. In a mixing bowl, place 1 tbsp olive oil, the beef, garlic, salt, pepper and chopped herbs. Use your hands to combine well. Form the beef into 4 patties. Press 8 to 10 tomatoes into each patty, sealing the meat around the tomatoes as much as possible. Grill the burgers to desired done-ness on both sides. The patties may be somewhat delicate because of the tomatoes, and a few tomatoes may even fall out. This is fine, just serve each burger along with the tomatoes that fell out.

Serves 4 INGREDIENTS extra virgin olive oil 1 lb lean ground beef 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1/2 tsp each salt and freshly ground black pepper

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BrokeAss Gourmet caters to folks who want to live the high life on the cheap, with delicious recipes that are always under $20. Gabi Moskowitz is the blog’s editor in chief and author of The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook and Pizza Dough: 100 Delicious Unexpected Recipes.

[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 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. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 46 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Chameleon Mobile Kitchen Sinclair Kwik Stop 505 Highton St. East Missoula 214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, rice & noodle bowls, and daily specials. We are fully equipped and self-contained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pick-up. Online menu available at chameleonmobilekitchen.com. $-$$

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. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza and calzones, rice and noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive and antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of house-made breakfast, lunch and dinner entreés. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula's favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm. $-$$ 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 $-$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $$$

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Perry at Western Cider

HAPPIEST HOUR

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! $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily, local and regional micro brews, fine wines and signature cocktails. Vegetarian and glutenfree menu available, plus takeout and delivery daily. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$

photo by Michael Siebert

What you’re drinking: Cider isn’t only made from apples, you know. Pear-based cider, called “perry,” is created from the same fermentation process, but yields something a little sweeter and with slightly less alcohol. The taste: Even as someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy most alcoholic drinks, I almost always enjoy cider. Western Cider’s myriad menu options are all delectable and varying degrees of crisp. The perry, though, is sweeter than most anything else on the menu. There’s minimal alcohol burn, due to what Western Cider describes as the presence of non-fermentable sugars. It’s like a glass of Martinelli’s for grownups, in the best way.

ABV: The perry’s alcohol content is also lower than more traditional ciders, at a comfortable 5.7 percent. This writer has a remarkably low alcohol tolerance, and one glass of this stuff resulted — thankfully — in only the faintest of buzzes. It’s perfect for when refreshment is more important than inebriation. How much: $6 for an 8 oz. glass. Where to get it: Western Cider is located at 501 N. California Street. —Michael Siebert 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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SAT | 8 PM

Trampled by Turtles plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater Sat., July 21. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $32.50–$37.50.

SUN | 7:30 PM

Media Jeweler plays the ZACC Below Sun., July 22 at 7:30 PM. $6.

THU | 8 PM

Musical comedian Michael Glatzmaier performs at Monk's Thu., July 19. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5.

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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Barbie Boulds and Jean Petersen sign The Big Sky Bounty Cookbook, their new book of Montana recipes. Fact & Fiction. 4 PM–6 PM. 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. What do you have in a cinnamon whiskey? Sample classic American whiskeys from across the country at a tasting at the Golden

Rose. $25 for full tasting/$15 for three. 5 PM–8 PM. 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 Missoula’s favorite evening music and food festival continues with Russ Nasset & the Revelators playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free. Jessica Lechner provides the tunes at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Globetrotting multi-instrumentalist Brian Ernst plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM.

New York’s Bellows play Free Cycles along with Izaak Opatz, Fantasy Suite and Cairns. 6 PM. $5.

South Dakota singer-songwriter Anthony Tripp plays Kulture Kava Lounge. 7 PM. Free.

Summer Squares, the summertime square dance series, continues at Moon-Randolph Homestead. This month do-si-do to the music of the Beet Tops. 6 PM. Free.

Billings poet Tami Haaland reads from her new book What Does Not Return at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM.

Don’t be a rotary dingo, come have a blast at Poetry Bingo. The Montana Book Festival hosts an evening of fun and poetry at Western Cider. 6 PM–9 PM. Free. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at

Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM. Austin’s singer-songwriter extraordinaire Bob Schneider plays the Top Hat with local support from Zepeda. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $20/$18 advance.

Musical improv comedian Michael Glatzmaier performs at Monk’s Bar with Deece Casillas and Sarah Aswell. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5.

My DJ name can only be pronounced with a mouth full of circuit boards. Join the Missoula

Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

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Friday The 17th Annual Jadyn Fred Golf Scramble kicks off at the Larchmont Golf Course with a shotgun start at 8 AM. $150/$600 team. All proceeds go to provide financial support to children with serious illness. The Illest Festival Ever returns to Clinton, Montana for three days of music and camping. Music from Overtime and the Blue Collar Band, Tory North, Austin Martin and more. Visit illumniup.com for more info and a full schedule of performances. $15/$25 for the full weekend. The 9th annual Big Sky BBQ features music, beer, food and games. Basically everything you need to celebrate the summer. Caras Park. All proceeds benefit Montana Food Bank. 4 PM–9 PM. Radius Gallery hosts dual opening receptions for Wild:Blue, Ivy and Amy Brakeman Livezey’s exploration of Montana’s open spaces and a group pottery exhibit focused on the saddest color. 5 PM– 7 PM. He’s not wrong, you know. Roy Scranton reads from We’re Doomed, Now What, his new book of essays on climate change at Fact & Fiction. 5:30 PM.

nightlife Michael Shaw & the Wildfires provide the bluegrass tunes at Highlander Beer Taphouse. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

James McMurtry plays the Top Hat Fri., July 20. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $20/$18 advance. Night Blooming Jasmine provides the tunes at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Seattle’s Smokey Brights and [brackets] play Monk’s with local support from Mass FM and Mag-

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pies. 9 PM. $5. This month’s I’ll House You features guest DJ Cadence Miles joining DJ Hotpantz on the decks. The Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Americana stalwart James McMurtry plays the Top Hat along with Bonnie Whitmore. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $20/$18 advance. If another Dust Bowl hits, those

folks are toast. Idle Ranch Hands play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Gold! Gold, I tell you! Paydirt plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9:30 PM.

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Saturday 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.

The Illest Festival Ever continues in Clinton, MT. Visit illumniup.com for more info and a full schedule of performances. $15/$25 for the full weekend.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Explore Montana’s rock and roll history with music archivist Dave Martens. Learn about how Lost Sounds Montana preserves, archives and makes accessible the music from Big Sky Country’s past. Missoula Public Library. 11 AM–12:30 PM. Author Peter Stark reads from Young Washington, his new book about a flailing young solider who would go on to lead America to

independence. Shakespeare & Co. 1 PM. Celebrate a decade of Missoula’s artistic community at the Zootown Arts Community Center’s 10th Birthday Bash at the NorthwestWestside Block Party. Music, food, beer and more. 3 PM–9 PM.

nightlife Happy Jessica Eve, everyone! Jessica Eve plays Imagine Nation. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Crazy Dog Band provides the soundtrack at Draught Works. What would a sane dog do? 6 PM–8 PM. Free. George & Jami unite for a night of music at Ten Spoon Vineyard. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. This was always my favorite

Gloom card. Trampled by Turtles plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8 PM. $32.50–$37.50. New York’s Duomuzi Theater brings its two-person re-imagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear to Ten Spoon Winery. Come Out of the Storm starts at 8 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. What’s the word? Take a nostalgic trip back to the 1950s with John Travolta and Olivia NewtonJohn in Grease at Missoula Outdoor Cinema. The movie starts at

approximately 9:20 PM at Headstart School. Free, but donations encouraged. Champagne & Linen host the inaugural Pride Party at Monk’s. Dance the night away with DJ Squirmi and Missoula’s LGBTQI+ community. Doors at 9:30 PM. The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Sunrise Saloon for your dancing pleasure. 9:30 PM. Free. Britt Arnesen and Her Bluegrass Boys provide the hard-driving soundtrack at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. Old Red Coyote delivers country rock with a New Age twist to the VFW. 10 PM. Free. Do you mean Charlie or Martin? The Sheen plays the Top Hat along with Tiny Plastic Stars. 10:15 PM. Free.

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Sunday 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. Thanks for nothing, Belgium. American Outlaws Missoula hosts the first round of the

Gamers Cup, a 32 person, single-elimination FIFA ‘18 tournament on the Xbox One. The Thomas Meagher Bar. 2 PM–5 PM. $5 to compete. Get a clue. It’s not taboo to want to play board games while sipping beer at the Iron Griz. Take a risk at Beer & Board Games every Sunday in July. 3 PM–6 PM. Free.

nightlife Mike and Olga play Draught Works from 5 PM–7 PM. Free. Indulge your inner Lisa Simpson with live jazz and a glass of craft beer on the river every Sunday at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Connecticut yankee Jeff Przech

provides the Americana soundtrack at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Portland’s synthwave troubadours Fringe Class and Los Angeles’s Media Jeweler play the ZACC Below with local support from Charcoal Squids and Wrinkles. 7:30 PM. $6.

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM. Get Set Go, I Give Up, John Brownell and S.A. Bach unite for an evening of music at the VFW. 9 PM. Free.

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Monday 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.

nightlife Doug Funnie was really into this band in college. The Beet Tops play Western Cider from 5:30 PM–7:30 PM. Free. Colorado’s Tejon Street Corner Thieves provide the Americana soundtrack at Imagine Nation. 6 PM–9 PM. Free. Prepare a couple of songs

and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Cash for Junkers provides the soundtrack at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM–10 PM. Free. Kiwi psych-rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22. Motown on Mondays puts the s-o-u-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.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra plays the Top Hat Mon., July 23. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22.

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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.

Gwen Florio and Melissa Stephenson celebrate the release of their new books with a publication party at Montgomery Distillery. 6 PM. Olympia’s Blood Orphans play VonCommon Studio with local support from FUULS and Share. 6 PM–9 PM. Donations. Join the REI Outdoor School for a bike maintenance class at the Highlander Taphouse every Tues-

day this summer. It’s a demonstration class, so no need to bring your bike. 6 PM. RSVP at rei.com.

The Kilted Man, performs classic Celtic tunes at Missoula Public Library. 6:30 PM. Free.

All kids out of the pool! Adult Night at Splash Montana lets you party like a kid, without your kids there to ruin it like always. 6 PM– 9 PM.

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.

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day at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What baseball legend was fined $250 for spitting on Boston fans on this date in 1958? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife. 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.

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Wednesday Out to Lunch features the live music of local favorites plus a variety of food and drink from more than 20 venders in the riverfront setting of Caras Park. This week catch the music of Bob Wire. 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 Animal Wonders Inc. 5 PM–8 PM. A group bike ride from Free Cycles to Lolo Peak Brewing takes you down the Bitterroot Trail to a nice cold beer. The ride leaves Free Cycles at 5 PM. Free.

nightlife Bay Area ramblers Smith & Tegio play Great Burn Brewing. 6 PM. Free.

It’s Christmas in July! Author Leslie Budewitz reads from her new mystery, As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. Can I get an amen? See established and newbie comedians at Revival Stand-up Comedy Open Mic at the Badlander. This month’s headliner is comedic wrecking ball Duane Raider. Sign up at 7, show at 7:30 PM. The Badlander. Free. Strike up the band! The Missoula City Band Summer Concert Series features special musical performances in the open-air of the Bonner Park Bandshell. 8 PM. Free. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Helena-based rocker Rod Morrison provides the tunes at Imagine Nation. 6 PM. Free.

Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free.

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: Ted Williams

I really hope its the indie-rock band and not the horrible illness. Susto invades the Top Hat along with Liz Cooper & The Stampede. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance.

Liz Cooper plays the Top Hat Wed., July 25. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance.

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Thursday Take your chance to dance at the Red Ants Pants Music Festival in White Sulphur Springs. Dwight Yoakam, Shovels and Rope, Pam Tillis and more perform. Visit redantspantsmusicfestival.com for a full lineup and ticketing. $60/day or $160 for all three. Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. The Northern Rockies Heritage Center hosts Montana Birds: Tough Enough to Stay or Tough Enough to Leave? with wildlife

ecologist Sherry Ritter. 7 PM. Free.

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Missoula’s favorite evening music and food festival continues with The Riverside playing at Downtown ToNight. Enjoy local food and local tunes at Caras Park between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Free.

Taste and compare a variety of Colombian black and green teas at Lake Missoula Tea Co.’s Monthly Teas Tasting. 6 PM. Free.

Fort Missoula Regional Park’s Phase II Grand Opening highlights the new softball complex, tennis courts, concession stand and more. Come for the ribbon cutting ceremony at 6 PM, followed by a party until 10 PM.

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The Matt Stivers Trio plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Argentinian singer-songwriter Juan M. Soria plays Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8:30 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

Four of Missoula’s pioneer songwriters unite for an evening of music. Catch Susan Gibson, Tom Catmull, Jenn Adams and John Floridis at the Roxy. 7:30 PM. $18/$15 advance. Jordan Lane performs at the Top Hat’s Acoustic Avenue series. 8 PM. Free. My DJ name can only be pronounced with a mouth full of circuit boards. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM.

Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ T-Rex 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. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost.

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It's high time we updated that old expression about how a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane across the globe. This has always smacked of anti-butterfly bias. Yes, it's nice to have a saying that easily shorthands how small actions can have big consequences, but let’s not put the creation of a destructive force of nature on the flapping shoulders of a whole species. I propose that we change it to something more positive. Perhaps something like “a Missoulian dancing the Bachata can provide healthcare in Nicaragua.” That has a ring to it, right? Early next year a group of Missoula College nursing students will travel to the Central American country on a volunteer medical trip. For one week, the team will provide medical care at three public clinics as well as make its way to

the homes of people unable to travel to these healthcare facilities. The nurses in-training will provide physical examinations and vaccinations for malaria, the Zika virus and screen for HIV/AIDS, diabetes and tuberculosis. As part of their fundraising goals, the Dark Horse Bar offers up an evening of Latin music and dance as a fundraiser for the trip. All funds raised at this event will go to to cover travel expenses for the students and medical expenses for the people of El Tranzedor. —Charley Macorn

The UM Nursing Program's Nicaragua Fundraiser starts at 7 PM at the Dark Horse Sat., July 21. Free Bachata lessons start at 8:30 PM. Donations.

THURSDAY, JULY 19

SUNDAY, JULY 22

Brain Injury Alliance of Montana gives out free helmets for all ages before the start of the Osprey game. Ogren Park at Allegiance Field. 6 PM.

The Missoula County Democrats Annual Summer Picnic invites the whole family for fun and food. Bonner Park. 5 PM–7 PM.

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. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Community Dialogues Series continues. Learn how fellowship recipients have worked to promote health, urban planning and more in their home countries. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 5:30 PM.

SATURDAY, JULY 21 Raise funds for a group of student nurses traveling to Nicaragua with a night of Latin music and dance at the Dark Horse. 8:30 PM. Donations.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 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 Animal Wonders Inc. 5 PM– 8 PM.

THURSDAY, JULY 26 The Jason Baker Team hosts a fundraiser for Montana Wounded Warriors at the Highlander Beer Taphouse. 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 The most recognizable part of the Missoula skyline is Mount Sentinel, the peak and ridgeline that forms the backdrop of the valley. If you’ve lived in Missoula for any length of time, you’ve hiked the M. It’s possible that you’ve continued past the switchbacks and ascended to the peak. But have you ever tried doing it as fast as possible? You might be wondering what makes someone wake up at the crack of dawn to join a bunch of nut jobs in a quad-burning, lung-searing activity. “It’s just pure pain from the get-go,” says last year’s winner, Mike Foote. Maybe not a convincing statement, but what do you expect? The Sentinel Hill Climb has long been a staple of Missoula’s racing calendar and routinely

THURSDAY, JULY 19 Punish your core in the great outdoors at Pilates in the Park. This week take your exercise mat and $3 to Greenough Park. 6 PM.

SATURDAY, JULY 21 Join Five Valleys Audubon Society for a beginner bird walk to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge every third Saturday. 10 AM–12 PM.

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fills its cap of 250 participants. Racers run, walk or hike the 1.9 miles up the “M” trail, and then along the northwest ridge to finish at the pinnacle of Mount Sentinel. For such a short race, the nearly 2,000 feet of elevation gain packs a punch. New this year is a kid’s race, but the lucky youths only have to make it to the “M” At the bottom, all finishers receive custom mugs filled with Big Dipper ice cream. That’s worth a few dozen minutes of pain, right? —by Micah Drew The Sentinel Hill Climb starts Sat., July 21, at 8 AM. $25/$30 on race day. Kids Fun Run $5.

Fork Coalition. A volunteer training session takes place at 6 PM at the Madison Street footbridge. Greet the sun under the sun at Yoga in the Park. This week bring your mat and $3 to Franklin Park. 6 PM–7 PM.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 Group ride from Free Cycles to Lolo Peak Brewing Company where a portion from every beer sold will go back to support Free Cycles. 6 PM–9 PM.

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I got ghosted — dumped by a guy who just disappeared on me, no explanation — after three months of lovey-dovey dating. Clearly, he isn’t a great person, yet I’m unable to stop thinking about him and wondering why he left. How do I accept that it’s over so I can start dating again?

—Plagued It’s hard on the ego to learn why somebody’s leaving you, but it beats needing a Ouija board. It’s the mystery that’s causing the problem. Typically, when rotten things happen to us, our feel-bad emotions (like anger and sadness) rise up — driving us to take a wiser course of action the next time so we’ll keep those bad feelings from popping by again:“Wassup? Got any beer?” Knowing the wiser course starts with knowing what to avoid. But all you’ve got is a terrible itch — the itch of uncertainty about why this guy vanished — and little hope of yanking him in to give you answers:“Wanted/Reward — exboyfriend who ghosted me, last seen on 3/11/2018 carrying the remains of my dignity in a green reusable bag.” However, you can probably dupe your mind into believing it has the answer. Research by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga suggests our mind is quick to create stories to fill in and make sense out of incomplete information — and then we tend to go right ahead and believe our stories. To take advantage of this, imagine a possible reason the guy vamoosed on you — and then just decide to accept it as THE reason. What might also help is transforming your thoughts of the guy into a material object — a piece of garbage, in fact — and throwing it away. And yes, I get that this sounds absurd, but there’s a growing area of social science research — embodied cognition — that finds taking action is a highly efficient way to change our feelings. Accordingly, social psychologist Pablo Brinol had research participants write a negative thought on a piece of paper and then rip the paper up and throw it into a nearby trash can.This actually led to participants “mentally disposing” of their disturbing thinking to a great degree. Should the guy sneak back into your thoughts, don’t worry; just widen the shot. Shift your focus from him to yourself — looking at how you maybe crossed your fingers that you had a keeper instead of seeing whether that actually was the case. Understanding what you should do differently is the first step toward expanding the male companionship in your life — amusing as it can be to spend your nights watching your current partner get loaded on

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My husband and I are both 70, and we have a good, satisfying sex life. I found out recently that he masturbates now and then. I was puzzled and hurt, but he said he just doesn’t want to bother me all the time. Should I be worried that he’s masturbating?

—In The Dark You really want your husband to hit you up for some sex whenever the urge strikes him? Imagine the call: “Hi, honey ... I’m in the golf course bathroom. How quickly can you get down here?” As long as your husband isn’t ditching sex with you for his knuckle-love sessions, his masturbating isn’t something you should take personally. People masturbate because they’re bored, they’re tense, they can’t sleep or their phone needs to recharge before they can continue their Facebook flame war over whether Saved by the Bell was a vehicle for the Illuminati. Also, there are times when a person just wants to get off solo — maybe because they’re short on time and maybe because they’re low on emotional energy (and their hand doesn’t get miffy if they don’t cuddle it afterward and tell it it’s beautiful). Still, maybe you’re thinking, “Well, why can’t he just wait till I’m around?” And it’s understandable that you’d think that — maybe because you’re just fine with waiting. And if you are, that may be because you’re a woman. It turns out that there are sex differences in sexual desire. Social psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, surveying piles of studies, explain that men tend to have a far stronger sex drive, with “more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women.”That’s surely why it’s primarily men (and probably single men) who show up in emergency rooms with embarrassing sex-forone-related injuries — like wiener-in-the-vacuum-cleaner lacerations. (Since penis-in-vagina sex is fun, why not penis-in-the-Shop-Vac?!) So, back to your question: Should you be worried that he’s masturbating? No, you should be celebrating! Bake his penis a cake! (That’s what we do for people who are still alive at 70. Why not for their sex parts?)

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION Cause No. CV-18884-LT Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Plaintiff, vs. Kenneth E Oliver and any person in possession, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, KENNETH E OLIVER: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action relates to an eviction and subsequent possession upon the following described real property in the County of Missoula: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6085, a tract of land located in the S 1/2S1/2 of Section 8, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. WITNESS my hand and seal of said

Court, this Dated this ____ day of June 2018. /s/ Clerk of the Justice Court 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.: DP-18-152 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

ESTATE OF WILLIAM ROGER MILLER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above� named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 KRISTINE K. HANDLEY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above� entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of June, 2018. /s/ Kristine K. Handley Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representative /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-18-179 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: LARRY J. KLIKA, Deceased. NO-

TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Linda L. Klika 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 Linda L. Klika, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 10th day of July, 2018. GEISZLER STEELE, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Cause No.: DP-18-160 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: JOANNE C. BRAIDA, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nicole N. Braida 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 Nicole N. Braida, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 9th day of July, 2018. GEISZLER STEELE, PC /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY SUMMONS CIVIL NUMBER: DV-18-324 HONORABLE: Leslie Halligan Finance of America Reverse LLC, Plaintiff, v. Heirs and Devisees of the Estate of William D. Tomich; Heirs and Devisees of the Estate of Joan C. Tomich; United States of America, by and through Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Does 1-10, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA, TO HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM D. TOMICH, HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF THE ESTATE

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.” Whenever that quote appears on the internet, it’s falsely attributed to painter Frida Kahlo. In fact, it was originally composed by poet Marty McConnell. In any case, I’ll recommend that you heed it in the coming weeks.You really do need to focus on associating with allies who see the mysterious and lyrical best in you. I will also suggest that you get inspired by a line that Frida Kahlo actually wrote: “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.” (If you don’t know what a bourbon biscuit is, I’ll tell you: chocolate buttercream stuffed between two thin rectangular chocolate biscuits.) TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s what author Franz Kafka wrote in his diary on August 2, 1914: “Germany has declared war on Russia. I went swimming in the afternoon.” We could possibly interpret his nonchalance about world events to be a sign of callous self-absorption. But I recommend that you cultivate a similar attitude in the coming weeks. In accordance with astrological omens, you have the right and the need to shelter yourself from the vulgar insanity of politics and the pathological mediocrity of mainstream culture. So feel free to spend extra time focusing on your own well-being. (P.S.: Kafka’s biographer says swimming served this role for him. It enabled him to access deep unconscious reserves of pleasurable power that renewed his spirit.) GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Am I delusional to advise a perky, talkative Gemini like yourself to enhance your communication skills? How dare I even hint that you’re not quite perfect at a skill you were obviously born to excel at? But that’s exactly what I’m here to convey.The coming weeks will be a favorable time to take inventory of how you could more fully develop your natural ability to exchange information. You’ll be in robust alignment with cosmic rhythms if you take action to refine the way you express your own messages and receive and respond to other people’s messages. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Self-described skeptics sometimes say to me, “How can any intelligent person believe in astrology? You must be suffering from a brain dysfunction if you imagine that the movements of planets can reveal any useful clues about our lives.” If the “skeptic” is truly open-minded, as an authentic skeptic should be, I offer a mini-lecture to correct his misunderstandings. If he’s not (which is the usual case), I say that I don’t need to “believe” in astrology; I use astrology because it works. For instance, I have a working hypothesis that Cancerians like myself enjoy better-than-average insight and luck with money every year from late July through the month of August. It’s irrelevant whether there’s a “scientific” theory to explain why this might be. I simply undertake efforts to improve my financial situation at this time, and I’m often successful.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are some of the fine gifts you’re eligible for and even likely to receive during the next four weeks: a more constructive and fluid relationship with obsession; a panoramic look at what lies below the tip of the metaphorical iceberg; a tear-jerking joyride that cracks open your sleeping sense of wonder; erasure of at least 20 percent of your self-doubt; vivid demonstrations of the excitement available from slowing down and taking your sweet time; and a surprising and useful truth delivered to your soul by your body.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): During the last three months of 2018, I suspect you will dismantle or outgrow a foundation. Why? So as to prepare the way for building or finding a new foundation in 2019. From next January onward, I predict you will re-imagine the meaning of home. You’ll grow fresh roots and come to novel conclusions about the influences that enable you to feel secure and stable. The reason I’m revealing these clues ahead of time is because now is a good time to get a foreshadowing of how to proceed.You can glean insights on where to begin your work.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A reader asked Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle, “How does one become more sensual?” I’ll ask you to meditate on the same question. Why? Because it’s a good time to enrich and deepen your sensuality. For inspiration, here are some ideas that blend my words with Cardelle’s: “Laugh easily and freely. Tune in to the rhythm of your holy animal body as you walk. Sing songs that remind you why you’re here on earth. Give yourself the luxury of reading books that thrill your imagination and fill you with fresh questions. Eat food with your fingers. Allow sweet melancholy to snake through you. Listen innocently to people, being warm-hearted and slyly wild. Soak up colors with your eager eyes. Whisper grateful prayers to the sun as you exult in its gifts.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If people aren’t laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.” So says bodybuilder Kai Greene. I don’t know if I would personally make such a brazen declaration, but I do think it’s worth considering — especially for you right now. You’re entering into the Big Bold Vision time of your astrological cycle. It’s a phase when you’ll be wise to boost the intensity of your hopes for yourself, and get closer to knowing the ultimate form of what you want, and be daring enough to imagine the most sublime possible outcomes for your future. If you do all that with the proper chutzpah, some people may indeed laugh at your audacity. That’s OK!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This mini-chapter in your epic life story is symbolically ruled by the fluttering flights of butterflies, the whirring hum of hummingbird wings, the soft cool light of fireflies and the dawn dances of seahorses. To take maximum advantage of the blessings life will tease you with in the coming weeks, I suggest you align yourself with phenomena like those.You will tend to be alert and receptive in just the right ways if you cultivate a love of fragile marvels, subtle beauty and amazing grace.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I swear the astrological omens are telling me to tell you that you have license to make the following requests: 1. People from your past who say they’d like to be part of your future have to prove their earnestness by forgiving your debts to them and asking your forgiveness for their debts to you. 2. People who are pushing for you to be influenced by them must agree to be influenced by you. 3. People who want to deepen their collaborations with you must promise to deepen their commitment to wrestling with their own darkness. 4. People who say they care for you must prove their love in a small but meaningful way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You will never find an advertisement for Nike or Apple within the sacred vessel of this horoscope column. But you may come across plugs for soul-nourishing commodities like creative freedom, psychosexual bliss and playful generosity. Like everyone else, I’m a salesperson — although I believe that the wares I peddle are unambiguously good for you. In this spirit, I invite you to hone your own sales pitch. It’s an excellent time to interest people in the fine products and ideas and services that you have to offer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you do me a favor, please? Would you do your friends and loved ones and the whole world a favor? Don’t pretend you’re less powerful and beautiful than you are. Don’t downplay or neglect the magic you have at your disposal. Don’t act as if your unique genius is nothing special. OK? Are you willing to grant us these small indulgences? Your specific talents, perspectives and gifts are indispensable right now. The rest of us need you to be bold and brazen about expressing them.

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP OF JOAN C TOMICH, AND DOES 1-10: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the above entitled Court. A copy of same is served upon you. You must file your written answer with the above entitled Court and serve a copy upon the Plaintiff, or Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the last day this Summons is published, exclusive of the last day of publication. FAILURE TO APPEAR AND ANSWER will allow judgment to be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is to foreclose a deed of trust upon the following described real property in the County of Missoula, State of Montana. The real property has an address of 20700 Old Highway 93, Florence, MT 59833, and is more particularly described as follows: Lot 3 in Block 1 of Carlton Tracts Amended Plat No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. A $70.00 filing fee must accompany the answer at the time of filing. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP 18- 184 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the matter of the estate of TOM GARNET FURCHT, a/k/a TOMM FURCHT, Deceased. 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 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 SHANE ROGER LESLIE FURCHT, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above� entitled Court. DATED this 12th day of July, 2018 /s/ Shane Roger Leslie Furcht Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representative /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-18-172 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDIE NADINE FOX, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Decedent. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CANDACE MARIE EVANS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Johnson, Berg & Saxby, PLLP, PO Box 3038, Kalispell, Montana 59903-3038, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 19th day of

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.

TINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVENAMED 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. 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 CON-

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. No. 4 Cause No. DP-18-173 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: ALFRED S. TULLY Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives 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 sent via certified mail, return receipt requested, to Paul B. Tully and Kevin L. S. Tully, c/o Worden Thane P.C., 321 W. Broadway St., Ste. 300, Missoula, MT 59802-4142, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of June, 2018. ESTATE OF ALFRED S. TULLY /s/ Paul B. Tully, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Kevin

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP L. S. Tully, Co-Personal Representative /s/ WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Co-Personal Representatives William E. McCarthy 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 October 26, 2018, 09:00 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 29 of Willow Ridge Townhouses, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as 111 Willow Ridge Court, Missoula, MT 59803. George E. Clark and Gloria J. Clark, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for American Brokers Conduit, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on January 24, 2007, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on January 30, 2007 as Instrument No. 200702494, in Book 791, at Page 515, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2007-2 Assignment Dated: May 3, 2018 Assignment Recorded: May 7, 2018 Assignment Recording Information: as

Instrument No. 201807121, in Book 996, at Page 337, 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 23, 2018 as Instrument No. 201808254, in Book 997, at Page 70, 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 $29,012.56, interest in the sum of $4,649.87, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $394.66 for a total amount owing of $34,057.09, 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

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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 6th day of July, 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. 51594

Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 6, 2009, and recorded on April 13, 2009 as Book 837 Page 305 Document No. 200908269. The beneficial interest is currently held by Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is currently the Trustee. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments beginning February 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. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 01, 2018 is $240,834.84 principal, interest totaling $15,052.20 late charges in the amount of $293.99, escrow advances of $4,184.09, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,097.04,

plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immedi-

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 29, 2018, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 22 of MALLARD ESTATES, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Lynn Startin and Dennis R Startin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for PHH Mortgage Corporation d/b/a PHH Mortgage

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP ately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses

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actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 13, 2018. /s/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho County of Bingham On this 13 day of April, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, per-

sonally appeared Kaitlin Ann Gotch, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Rae Albert Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 9-6-2022 LoanCare, LLC vs Startin 103753-1 RIVERSIDE SELF STORAGE Will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent. SILENT AUCTION Begins at 11AM Thursday, July 19th, ends at 11:30AM - 3645 Clark Fork Way Missoula, MT 59808. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, and other household goods. Buyers bid for en-

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Uncle Robert Ln #7 Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed/1 Bath $825/Month

Our goal is to spread recognition of NARPM and its members as the ethical leaders in the field of property managment

Visit our website at

westernmontana.narpm.org

251- 4707

Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home. Finalist

Finalist

39378 W. Post Creek Road 4 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2+ Car Garage 50+ Acres

Mission Valley Home

7000

"Let us tend your den"

3 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2+ Car Garage 3,000 Total Sq Ft

NEW CONSTRUCTION

FIDELITY

Grizzly Property Management, Inc.

2205 South Avenue West 542-2060• grizzlypm.com

Basement Apt w/ lots of light and separate entry, large bedroom, walk in closet & W/D hkps. S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333

Borders NWF Lands 4 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2,500 sq ft

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

leeza@mainstreetmissoula.com

fidelityproperty.com

GardenCity

Property Management 422 Madison • 549-6106

For available rentals: gcpm-mt.com

Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing Since 1971

www.gatewestrentals.com

Place your classified ad at 317 S. Orange, by phone 543-6609x115 or via email: classified@missoulanews.com [36] Missoula Independent • July 19–July 26, 2018

JONESIN’

REAL ESTATE HOMES 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! 406-5319811

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

CROSSWORDS By Matt Jones

MANUFACTURED HOMES

Sandy Beach & Launch Site. Older home on property. $1.25 million. Let's go fishing. Call Joy Earls! 406-5319811

2012-2013 Champion Modular Mobile Homes. 14’x45’ 2Bedroom, 2bath. Most are furnished & appliances. A/C, 2x6 Walls. Built for extreme weather! From $21,900-$24,900. Call (406) 249-2048

APPROVED Subdivision on Waldo Road in Missoula. Are you an entrepreneur? This is your opportunity! Perfect for building small homes or modulars. 61 lots on Frontage Road. Call Joy Earls! 406-531-9811 Historic 2 story round log cabin shell, 20’X20’. Built 1885. Tongue and groove flooring. Logs numbered for authentic reassembly. Great condition. Contact annie.cfry@yahoo.com

12205 Lewis & Clark Dr

$203,000

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

Charming 3 bedroom home with room for animals and toys! Open floor plan with a large living room and kitchen. Fenced yard. MLS# 21805470

Clark Fork River Frontage with 2 building sites!! Montana Dream! 24 acres,

Call Matt Rosbarsky at (406) 360-9023 for more information

"Urban Sprawl"--this town needs more room! ACROSS

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

1 Childhood illness with swollen glands 6 Goes on and on 11 Some NFL All-Pros 14 Actor Ulrich 15 Tibet's neighbor 16 Questionable Twitter poster, perhaps 17 They read a lot of stories out loud 19 Historical division 20 French vineyard classification 21 Feeling not-so-great 22 Be blustery 23 Ruler who lost her head in 1793 28 St. crosser 29 Cone or Cat preceder 30 Ripken of the Orioles 31 Stamp for an incoming pkg. 33 Football broadcaster Collinsworth 36 Purplish flower 40 Food and wine publication that went completely online in 2009 43 Cosmetician Lauder

44 Orange-roofed chain, familiarly 45 Nefarious 46 Genesis craft 48 "You've Got Mail" company 50 Addams Family cousin 51 Phrase often seen after a married or professional name 57 Passable 58 Battery option 59 Nest egg, initially 60 Cleveland player, for short 61 Got out, or followed the same path as the theme answers? 66 Gibbon, for one 67 Tooth type 68 Spine-tingling 69 Pot top 70 Goes after flies 71 Bottom-of-the-bottle stuff

DOWN

1 Web portal with a butterfly logo 2 Plucked instrument 3 "Give me some kitten food" 4 Joe of "Home Alone" 5 Long looks 6 Party org. gathering last held in 2016 in Philadelphia 7 Take another swing at 8 Speed skater ___ Anton Ohno 9 Flavor for some knots? 10 Mercedes roadsters 11 Orange character from the '80s who appears in "Wreck-It Ralph" 12 Sacha Baron Cohen character

13 Music festival area 18 Subtle meaning 22 English-speaking country of Central America 23 Selma's sister 24 Some Chevy hatchbacks 25 Director's option 26 Part of WNW 27 "The Lion King" heroine 32 Fanciful 34 "As I see it," in a text 35 He cohosts "America's Game" 37 Bon Jovi's "___ on a Prayer" 38 Novelist Loos 39 Boston team, briefly 41 Paltry 42 Any of the kids searching for OneEyed Willy in a 1985 flick 47 Onetime capital of Poland 49 Domineered, with "over" 51 Like the main point 52 Giraffe relative with striped legs 53 Was delirious 54 Undefeated boxer Ali 55 Pester with barks 56 Word after smart or mineral 61 Text type 62 7, on a rotary phone 63 Cinnabar, e.g. 64 Costume shop purchase 65 "Castlevania" platform

Place your classified ad at 317 S. Orange, by phone 543-6609x115 or via email: classified@missoulanews.com missoulanews.com • July 19–July 26, 2018 [37]

REAL ESTATE JUST LISTED!!

JUST LISTED!!

Montana Dream Property

Country Farm Setup

TRACT UNDER CON

3335 CONNERY WAY

2316 NORTH AVENUE WEST

23595 MULLAN ROAD

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

CLARK FORK RIVER FRONTAGESANDY BEACH 2 BUILDING SITES-24 ACRES EASY ACCESS $1.25 MILLION

RANCHETTE IN THE LUSH NINE MILE VALLEY 2400 SF. HOME ON 5 ACRES $357,500

1310 Bridgecourt Way @ $235,000 3 bed 2 bath Townhome in cute Bridgecourt Village with single car garage & private yard MLS # 21808578 See www.MoveMontana.com for more details

350 Speedway, E. Missoula. $49,900

Alley Lot, Utilities on Site. Unzoned. Duplex Ready.

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker

Real Estate With Real Experience

pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653)

Properties2000.com

Place your classified ad at 317 S. Orange, by phone 543-6609x115 or via email: classified@missoulanews.com [38] Missoula Independent • July 19–July 26, 2018

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 fun-loving and active family.

GYPSY• Gypsy is a 4 year old female German Shepherd. This sweet girl has spent her younger years in a travelling band of fortune tellers, but now she's ready to settle down and grow some roots. Gyspy loves people all of all ages, but could use a bit of advice in the way of manners. She is really hoping her future holds a family where she won't have to share any attention with other pets. BEAR• Bear is a 7 year old male Chocolate Lab. This big goofball loves to play and gets along well with other dogs. Fetch is his favorite game, and his attention cannot be broken when he sees a tennis ball. Bear is a very tolerant dog, allowing some rather poor play manners to go unchecked from his playmates. This loveable Lab would do best in a home that has room to move.

237 Blaine rockinrudy.com

630 S. Higgins 728-0777

208 East Main 728-7980

HOBBS• Hobbs is a 5 year old male black and white Tuxedo cat. He is a bit shy upon first greeting him. Once he's gotten used to you, Hobbs is a very sweet boy who loves receiving attention. Hobbs would prefer a quiet home. This classy boy is always ready for the most sophisticated occasion with his very handsome tuxedo markings and his distinguished white mustache. 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

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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

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

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 KIKI• Kiki is an indoor kitty who loves to chatter at the outdoor world! You might find her saying hello to the birds and squirrels at the window or chasing around one of her favorite toys! Come meet this beloved girl during our open hours, Wed-Fri 1-6pm and Sat-Sun 12-5pm! CRICKET• A big beautiful woman with a big beautiful heart! Cricket is a sweet cat that loves to snooze and lounge around with her people. She comes from a quiet home, and is friendly with kids, and new people. Cricket would like to be the only cat in your life and have all of your attention! Come visit Cricket during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

1450 W. Broadway St. • 406-728-0022

HERA• Hera, the queen of gods, is the per-

fect 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!

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

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 Sat-Sun 125pm! 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, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

Missoula 406-626-1500 william@rideglaw.com

Garry Kerr Dept. of Anthropology University of Montana

JAKE• This boy is one active lovebug! Jake's looking for someone to show him the ropes and give him a gentle introduction to the rest of the world! His favorite thing is to play with other dogs - and even played with a ferret in his previous home! He is quite the snuggler and can't wait to get out and exercise! Come meet this handsome guy during our open hours, Wed-Fri 1-6pm and Sat-Sun 12-5pm! missoulanews.com • July 19–July 26, 2018 [39]