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News

Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Keeping up with the council members?..................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Aiding addicts, appealing protective orders, and crunching cans .................................6 Etc. The lines in the road ............................................................................................................7 News News you can use at UM’s new Media Lab ............................................................................8 News Ballot initiatives — and how they get there — under fire......................................................9 Dan Brooks Just say no to legal recreational weed......................................................................10 Feature Fort Peck tribes say Keystone XL threatens their water. Is anyone listening?...........12

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Five artist couples talk the best and worst of collaboration for Lovers ...............17 Music Micah Schnabel, LVL Up, Sophie Beaton...........................................................18 Books The complex shadows of Zan Bockes’ Alibi for Stolen Light...........................19 Film The Miseducation of Cameron Post resists stereotypes......................................20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................21 Market Report The chile hatch............................................................................................22 Happiest Hour A Steel Reserve goodbye....................................................................24 8 Days a Week We’ve lost that summer feeling .................................................................25 Agenda Missoula Area Central Labor Council picnic .............................................................29 Mountain High Doggie Dash Expo and Fun Run.......................................................30

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STREET TALK

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by Derek Brouwer

On Monday, Missoula City Council approved an annual budget that includes cost-of-living pay raises for councilmembers and the mayor. One of the dozens of residents who testified told council that a majority of citizens would not support the raises. Do you think local elected leaders deserve a raise? When’s the last time you got a pay raise?

Daniel Norton: Well, if it’s proportional to how much prices go up, everybody deserves that. That’s how the economy should work. Good work: In July.

Dave Remmen: I’d ask the mayor if he thinks I deserve more than $10 an hour for the work that I do. Does he think him working every day a year is worth $70,000 more than me? That’d be my question to him. And hard to do: I’ve been doing seasonal work, so that’s kind of hard to answer.

Bikes off

After reading an article about people wanting to have mountain bike access to designated Wilderness such as the Bob Marshall, it brought me back to why I left my native state of Colorado years ago (“Writers on the Range: An argument for mountain bikes in the wilderness,” Aug. 16). All the wild places I grew up with were slowly being sterilized by the ever-increasing demand from motorized folks. I moved to Alaska and saw every type of motorized and mountain bike abuse with no responsibility or total ignorance of what they were doing to the country. Wilderness country is about foot traffic and pack animals if you can afford the land, feed, training, etc. involved, which hard-earned wilderness folks do with love of the backcountry. It is not about making it easier. Bikes have no business ever in any wilderness. Bicyclists have thousands of miles of country they can ride in without destroying wilderness country that great people set aside for future generations, before all this modernization. Let bikes in, then dirt bikes, then ATVs. The list goes on, and in the end you have nothing but a noisy, overcrowded place that once was a wilderness. Reread the definition of the Wilderness Designation and learn a few things about why it was created! John Kloote Potomac

Gun sense

Niqole Morris: Sure. I just think that the cost of living has gotten pretty ridiculous. So I’m sure as a city worker that they don’t make that much already, less than the people think. Earned it: In April, but it was performance-based, so it wasn’t a cost-of-living raise.

Stephen Scranton: Honestly, I haven’t been paying enough attention to answer that one credibly. If they’re going to get a cost- of-living increase, I’d like to get one, too. Anticipating the follow-up: April. It was just the yearly increase.

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I am truly amazed at the veracity and determination of these teenagers from Florida and Texas in addressing gun control. They have composure well beyond their age and are clearly more articulate and more focused than our president. In my day, the Vietnam protesters were college students, not high schoolers. Those high school seniors have graduated and will be voting in November. They know about all that sleazy internet marketing and Russian hacking, while Grandma still doesn’t realize she was tricked on her Facebook page. Staunch defenders of the second amendment, the NRA has developed a historical fallacy for the definition of “regulated.” Now, we all know what regulation means, don’t we? And it doesn’t resemble the militia we see today. However, to actually eliminate these “regulated militias” and eliminate the second amendment would require a 75 percent majority vote of both houses of Congress and approval by 38 of the 50 states. The odds of that are zero, obviously. And no one advocates the confiscation of guns anyway. This confiscation theory by the NRA

is ludicrous, so get over it folks. That cannot happen by law or constitutional amendment, period. How about this brainstorm of arming teachers? Pistols have an effective range of 45 yards. An AR15 is accurate at 450 yards. So, a pistol is like taking a knife to a gunfight and even a trained pro has little chance of stopping a few minutes of chaotic firing from an automatic weapon. I

“Bikes have no business ever in any wilderness. Bicyclists have thousands of miles of country they can ride in without destroying wilderness country that great people set aside for future generations, before all this modernization.” confess that my high school dream was to steal the unguarded answers to the science test, and I imagine the modern truant’s dream would be to steal the teacher’s gun. Leave your name and opinion for these folks, please. Sen. Steve Daines, 406-245-6822, and Rep. Greg Gianforte, 202-225-3211. Doug Kikkert Clinton

Smoke signals

We need to call it like it is: Climate change is real, it’s happening, and it’s already hurting Montanans. Just a couple of weeks ago, Glacier National Park set an all-time heat record and an uncontrolled wildfire ripped across Howe Ridge, burning historic homes and endangering hikers, campers and firefighters. A week later, Missoula broke its record for the most consecutive days without rain. Fire is a normal part of our landscape, but we need to look around and realize that this — the extreme temperatures, extreme drought and extreme smoke — is not

normal. And it’s only going to get worse if we continue to ignore the problem. It’s far past time for national action on climate change. I’m disappointed that the Trump administration repealed the clean power plan, and I’m even more disappointed that so many of Montana’s politicians supported the move. At a time when we’re all choking on smoke, how can they justify this huge step backwards? James Walter Missoula

How to vote

GOP dark money would have us believe that Jon Tester and Kathleen Williams are puppets of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, who would like to have Montana overrun with fearsome gang members from Mexico. Let’s take a closer look. First, Jon Tester votes for Montanans. If he believes a bill is bad for Montanans, he will vote against it. Case in point: his vote against stricter banking regulations, which brought ire from Dems around the country, but which Jon did because he believed passage would harm small Montana banks. Second, Kathleen Williams — unlike Greg Gianforte — actually has a legislative record to be proud of after three terms in the Montana House. Also unlike GG, who votes party all the way, Kathleen voted for her constituents, reached across the aisle to work with Republicans, and got things done. Don’t believe me? Check out her website. Finally, the fear mongering over immigrants from Mexico is nothing short of ludicrous in a state about as far away from that border as you can get. According to statistics compiled by the American Immigration Council, in fact, only about 2 percent of Montanans are immigrants — and 26.7 percent of them are from Canada. Scary! Also, ask any cherry or sugar beet farmer you know about Mexican immigrants and their contribution to their harvests and Montana’s economy. Amazing how they can get so much accomplished in a given day when they’re also out wreaking havoc. The Montanans I know do not like to be manipulated. Matt Rosendale and Greg Gianforte think they can scare you into voting for them. Show them they’re wrong. Find the real — not alternative — facts about the candidates. Vote for integrity, public lands, public education, fair taxation, sensible health care and decent treatment of veterans. Vote for Jon Tester and Kathleen Williams. Mary DeNevi Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, August 22 Missoula City Council member Jesse Ramos proposes $2.3 million in budget cuts during a morning council meeting. His 19 budget amendments are voted down by all other council members after several hours of discussion.

Thursday, August 23 A high-speed chase that began in downtown Missoula ends in Idaho on Highway 12. The Spokane-based driver was pulled over during a traffic stop in Missoula, fled the scene and eventually crashed his vehicle after running over a spike strip deployed by Idaho State Police.

Friday, August 24 Missoula police release images of vehicles suspected of vandalizing a new rainbow crosswalk near the Missoula Art Museum. Multiple motorcycles can be seen peeling out on the crosswalk in a witness-recorded video.

Saturday, August 25 Several Missoula children spend the day showing support for the LGBTQ community by making chalk drawings and writing supportive messages near the recently vandalized rainbow crosswalk.

Union Gospel Mission

A center for women

Living in a car with three children, ages 6 to 9, was hard enough. Sabrina Ketron was pregnant, too. She didn’t know how she’d manage once her fourth child arrived, so she decided last summer to look for help. Ketron went first to the YWCA, but says she wasn’t eligible for its program because her homelessness stemmed from addiction, rather than from domestic violence. She was referred to the Union Gospel Mission’s Women and Children’s Center, which at the time provided emergency housing for women with addictions. She stayed there until April, when she was well enough to move into her own place. Today, Ketron is an assistant director of outreach for UGM, and the center where she got help has been redesigned to serve more women like her. The Christian mission reopened the center Aug. 27 as a long-term residential program for women with drug addictions. Located on Mullan Road near Council Grove State Park, the center will provide a place for up to 16 women to complete yearlong, faith-based treatment while living with their children. The first four women moved in Monday. Many medical treatment programs can’t accom-

modate children, creating a barrier for mothers looking to get clean. UGM sees keeping mothers and children together, or reuniting them, as crucial to recovery. “When they separate you from your child, you lose all hope,” DeNae Hammonds, the center’s director, says. The center, a ranch-style home, is nestled next to a field, with a fenced backyard that includes a children’s play area and patio with grill. UGM remodeled the facility over the summer. It now provides dorm-style sleeping quarters with bunk beds, a classroom that will host GED classes and common living areas. Hammonds is a former client herself, from the days when the center was an emergency shelter. At the time, women and their children were shuttled into town every morning, which Hammonds later recognized as unsafe for some homeless women in winter months. UGM’s residential treatment comes at no cost to residents, though they also work at the mission’s thrift store in exchange for store credit. UGM Executive Director Don Evans says the mission decided to convert the facility into a long-term treatment in an effort to better serve clients. The program is modeled on the Genesis Process, a Christian approach to addiction recovery that cultivates a “Bib-

lical and neurochemical understanding” of self-destructive behavior. Evans says the program includes regular Bible study, but that “no service is held back because you didn’t pray or submit to what we live.” Evans says a Seattle residential program similar to UGM’s new program reports that 86 percent of clients who complete it remain sober two years later. In Missoula, Ketron is going on one year sober. She says she could now get a “real job” outside the organization that helped her recover, but that she still benefits from the “support system” she’s found at the mission. Derek Brouwer

Fandom

Schlosser appeals ban

The fallout from Bobby Hauck’s return to coaching football at the University of Montana has reached Missoula District Court, though the case has nothing to do with the program. It’s about the fans. Hauck supporter Mike Schlosser is appealing a June order of protection granted to fellow Griz fan Lisa Davey, who posted a petition opposing Hauck’s hiring last November. In response to the petition, Schlosser posted Davey’s personal information and a meme that Judge Kathleen Jenks said

Sunday, August 26 Montgomery Distillery owner Ryan Montgomery sets a new record at the Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Trials with a motorcycle fueled by a byproduct of vodka distillation. Montgomery reached 113 mph, besting the previous modified-bike record of 97 mph.

Monday, August 27 Construction begins on a $2.7 million expansion of Missoula’s Ronald McDonald House, doubling the size of the current facility and adding eight family suites for children and teenagers in need of low-cost medical care.

Tuesday, August 28 A City Council meeting that began Monday evening ends at 2:30 Tuesday morning with the city budget approved. The new budget raises property taxes by 3.85 percent, and was approved on a 9–1 vote.

Senator John McCain was a hero in war and in Congress. His moral courage, his perseverance, and his ability to work with all those who wanted to advance the values of the American people will never be forgotten and will continue to guide us through challenging times.” ——Gov. Steve Bullock, in an Aug. 27 proclamation ordering all flags in Montana to be flown at half-staff through Sept. 2.

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[news] constituted a threat in her decision to grant the protective order, which requires Schlosser to maintain a distance of 1,500 feet from Davey and forbids Schlosser from posting online about Davey in any context whatsoever. The University of Montana also banned Schlosser from campus after some of his posts on a Griz fan message board he managed became public. But in March, the Twitter account Schlosser had been known to use (and which he later said he auctioned off online) tweeted photos from a Griz basketball game, tagging UM Athletic Director Kent Haslam. Davey says she realized that even if the campus ban was in effect, she personally didn’t have a way to enforce it. “It did propel [me] into getting the full order of protection from the court,” Davey says. She says she hasn’t seen any instance of Schlosser violating the order by posting about her online, but is concerned that his appeal means he’s “feeling limited” by the order. “His decision makes me worried that he wants to be here, or continue to follow me online or stalk me that way, or harass me.” Haslam says he was made aware of the tweets at the March game and reported them to UM’s chief of police. He says that he’s unaware of any attempts by Schlosser to amend or appeal his campus ban. Schlosser’s attorney, Nick Brooke, declined to comment for this story, and Schlosser did not respond to a request for comment. Schlosser’s appeal claims that the prohibition on posting online violates his First Amendment rights, and frames his tweets and message board postings as protected political speech targeted at Davey, who, he says, is a public figure in the local conversation and controversy surrounding Hauck’s rehiring. That echoes the defense being mounted in federal court in Missoula by attorneys for Andrew Anglin, publisher of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, who is being sued for damages by Whitefish realtor Tanya Gersh. Motions by Anglin’s attorneys to dismiss the case have argued that Gersh’s local activism made her a public figure, and that Anglin’s posting of her personal information was protected speech. So far, those motions have failed, and the case is scheduled to go to trial in January. So long as he’s banned from the university,

Schlosser can’t attend Griz home games this year. Davey plans to attend with her partner, a season ticket holder, but she hasn’t changed her mind about Hauck. “I still feel strongly that it was a mistake. Obviously they’ve made that choice, and so then you move on and wait and see how things go, but from a PR standpoint I think it was a horrible choice.” Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Tariff time

Beer can crunch

The nation’s craft beer industry went on high alert this spring. The Trump administration had just announced a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports, which the Brewers Association and other industry groups warned could trigger a rise in the price of cans. In a March 4 report, the national Beer Institute estimated the tariff would cost beer producers more than $246 million and result in the loss of 20,300 American jobs. Nearly three months after the tariff went into effect, some Missoula brewers do note an increase in what they’re paying for aluminum cans. What’s less clear is how much of that increase can be blamed on the tariff. Draught Works co-owner Paul Marshall says the price the Westside brewery pays each month for a truckload of cans (or 6,400 cases) has gone up roughly $1,000, from $16,000 to about $17,000. But that increase kicked in late last year, well before the tariff was implemented. Marshall acknowledges that talk about the tariffs may have begun affecting pricing at that point, but he can’t say for sure. The uncertainty is in large part due to the complexity of the aluminum market, in which rising prices could be the result of numerous factors. For example, the Midwest Premium — a per-pound transaction fee paid by all American aluminum users and set by the company S&P Global Platts — was already on the rise before Trump announced the tar-

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Pizza deliveries to the Aug. 27 meeting of Missoula City Council, where more than 100 residents packed the chambers to protest a 3.8 percent hike in city property taxes. iff. And CNBC reported in April that aluminum suppliers in the southeast U.S. had been stockpiling for years, though that activity increased sharply ahead of the president’s proclamation. At Big Sky Brewing, purchasing manager Kevin Keeter says he noted an initial 10 percent increase in can prices this year, which has since dropped to 7 percent over what Big Sky paid in the fourth quarter of 2017. He estimates that amounts to a 47- or 48-cent rise in Big Sky’s per-case costs for aluminum. The brewery is on track to package 80,000 to 84,000 cases of cans this year. Like Marshall, Keeter says the increase could be due to a number of factors other than the tariff, including rising demand among smaller craft brewers for aluminum packaging. “There’s a lot of talk in the industry [that] some craft brewers are not getting cans when they need them and the lead times are getting really long,” Keeter says. “We haven’t experienced that.” Keeter is confident that aluminum prices will level off soon, as seasonal demand for cans and “jitters” sparked by the tariff announcement subside. That would be welcome news for small brewers. As Marshall points out, any increased cost for materials like cans or hops flow through him to the consumer. But in a market like Missoula, Draught Works can only pass along so much. “We’re a premium craft beer,” Marshall says, “but I don’t want to price myself like some of the breweries out of California who come in and no one buys their beer because it’s so expensive.” Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Imagine the moment those riders resolved to burn rubber over a patch of rainbow paint. Bystander video showed the act itself — one of several, anyway — in which six sportbikes skidded through the rainbow crosswalk installed this month next to the downtown art park by Empower Montana, an LGBTQ advocacy group. If there’d been footage of the riders suiting up, of them flipping up their license plates to evade identification, then we could see the precise moment they became cowards. The pathetic little act of vandalism was repeated during the following week, if not by men, then by individuals who spent their money to buy motorcycles and oversized trucks designed to signal masculinity. The tire marks easily could have transformed the crosswalk into another symbolic battleground, which is arguably Missoulians’ favorite kind of fight. And the Aug. 27 ribbon-cutting ceremony was already ripe for cynical dismissal as just another invented occasion for a who’s who of Missoula to preach inclusion to the choir. But the vandalism has helped justify the crosswalk’s installation. The ribbon cutting, which drew hundreds on a rainy day, began with an Oula performance, included a poetry reading and was capped by a group sing-along to a corny “queer-camp” jingle. There were rainbow balloons, flags and umbrellas. The ribbon was rainbow, too. Yes, the who’s who were there, including Mayor John Engen, who sponsored one of the colors on the crosswalk to honor a personal friend who is gay. Engen took on the duty of alluding to the earlier vandalism, saying, “you can burn rubber on this, but if you do,” a resident will call his office the next morning with an offer to scrub it off. “While some colored asphalt may seem meaningless to some,” said Spencer Czech, a youth programs specialist with Empower Montana, “the colors represent the community of support that made this all a possibility.” Julia Burkhart, a UM student, read an original poem that noted the limits of symbolic gestures: “There’s no gold under this rainbow unless we keep working.” Empower Montana pushed for the city’s non-discrimination ordinance, which other Montana cities have since debated or adopted. During the event, Empower’s youth programs director, Claire Michelson, wondered aloud if other Montana cities will follow Missoula’s latest gesture. Eventually, they probably will.

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News you can use UM’s journalism school readies to launch a laboratory by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

Anne Bailey is walking through a room full of cubicles and desktop computers in Don Anderson Hall. The space in the University of Montana’s School of Journalism is empty of students right now, but Bailey is beginning the work of transforming it into the Montana Media Lab. The lab is the school’s bid to make itself Missoula’s go-to resource for local nonprofits, businesses and other members of the public to learn journalism skills that they can use to communicate with their audiences. Bailey’s hiring, announced in May after a lengthy search for the lab’s inaugural director, means a homecoming for the UM masters’ graduate and 2017 Pollner professor. She owns a home here and has returned between stints working around the country and the world, including long-term projects in Africa and teaching at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Maine and the Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute in Tennessee. Aside from her strong ties to the school and city, Bailey stood out during the hiring process in part because she’d been able to fund and produce educational projects around the world herself, says Gita Saedi Kiely, the journalism school’s director of development. Bailey created citizen-journalism programs to teach video production in the Congo and in Tunisia, using crowdfunding to buy equipment that she toted overseas in suitcases. “She had an idea and she made it happen in a foreign country without obvious funders and partners, and she built all of it,” Saedi Kiely says. Bailey is just moving in to her fourth-floor office, where the remains of some pro-Kaimin graffiti are still legible on the walls, which she says will be painted soon. Her job right now consists of lots of meetings and preparation for the lab’s initial offerings, which she says will launch in the spring semester with evening and weekend classes open to anyone. The public will have access to equipment and instructors teaching skills from podcasting and video production to journalism ethics and media literacy, Bailey says. Whether and what

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the lab will charge for such access is still being worked out. “I think the bigger vision is this kind of two-part thing of getting people in the community to be able to use skills to tell stories that they want to tell in whatever format, and to be able to get the journalism students at the university to get involved in helping do trainings,” Bailey says. Discussions about starting a lab began soon after the 2014 hiring of jour-

“I want to reach out to general people in the community, but also small businesses, NGOs,” Bailey says. “I want them to be able to get the skill sets so that they can create small videos they put on their social media sites. Or people in the community who want to know how to do a podcast can do a podcast.” Another benefit to having a publicfacing educational resource will be the opportunity to teach media literacy to a wider audience, Saedi Kiely says. “I

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Director Anne Bailey in one of the production rooms in Don Anderson Hall. Audio production will be one of the offerings of UM’s new Media Lab.

nalism dean Larry Abramson, who says it was originally conceptualized as a place for students to experiment, but morphed in recognition of constant change in the profession. “Part of the original idea was that the journalism school cannot continue to focus exclusively on graduating career journalists,” Abramson says. Expanding the school’s mission to include a public component — which will be funded with private money and grants — has resonated with donors, Saedi Kiely says. “We’ve talked to funders across the state and across the country who are just really interested in building this kind of arm from a journalism school into a community,” she says. “What’s so exciting about this lab is that it is going to be an outward-facing lab that will bring non-journalists into the school.”

think we really have the potential to be a part of building a more media-literate civic society,” she says. Abramson says he hopes the lab’s offerings will make the journalistic process more transparent to the general public. “I get people all the time asking, ‘Can’t you discuss the journalism process more openly?’” Abramson says. The university at large has struggled to tell its story effectively, judging by enrollment numbers. As an institution, it might benefit from some experimentation, Bailey says. “If there ever was a time, now’s the time to do really innovative projects,” she says. “I don’t think it’s a time to be cautious or stick with the old guard. Try new things, be creative. And that’s what I want to do.” sshepard@missoulanews.com

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Taking initiative Constitutional challenges swirl around ballot measures

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As for the letter calling for the reOn Aug. 21, a Montana-based firm professional signature gatherers providcalled the Guardian Group sent a letter to ing false home addresses to the state moval of I-185, supporters of the initiaSecretary of State Corey Stapleton re- and inducing citizens into unknowingly tive denounced that demand as an questing the immediate removal of a citi- signing more than one petition. In a re- attempted disruption of the citizens’ inizen’s initiative from the November ballot. sponse to Pierce’s May lawsuit, Attorney tiative process by shadowy groups. The firm made its case by arguing that I- General Tim Fox’s office characterized Kathy Weber-Bates, a spokesperson for the Healthy Montana Initiative, told 185, which proposes a $2-per-pack in- those activities as “widespread fraud.” Pierce, who founded the Montana MTN News last week that “Without crease on cigarette taxes to fund Medicaid expansion and other state services, is tan- Cannabis Industry Association and has knowing exactly who is behind this eftamount to an earmarked appropriation been routinely involved in ballot peti- fort and where this dark money comes from, it’s hard for anyone to know and as such constitutes a “clear viotheir true motives.” The Guardian lation of the Montana Constitution.” Group, which describes itself onThe letter, obtained by the line as a private litigation consultIndy last week, is one of the latest ing firm, has not reported any volleys in a months-long battle over political expenditures to the state. the proposed tobacco tax increase. Similar dark-money suspicions Proponents have argued that the prompted the Healthy Montana Inimeasure, led by the Healthy Montiative to file a campaign practice tana Initiative, would prevent complaint in early June against an 100,000 Montanans from losing Ohio-based consulting firm and the coverage when Medicaid expansion tobacco-industry-funded group sunsets in 2019, and would bolster Montanans Against Tax Hikes. The funding for veterans’ services, complaint alleges that undisclosed smoking prevention and long-term sources were used to fund robocare for the elderly and disabled. calls and polls testing anti-I-185 Opponents have attacked I-185 as messaging. a costly, deceptive and permanent Pierce is quick to distance the burden on all taxpayers, smokers photo by Sarah Daisy Lindmark Guardian Group from other oppoand nonsmokers alike. But last week’s demand of Sta- A private firm is asking that I-185 be re- nents of I-185. The firm isn’t opposed pleton also fits into a broader narra- moved from the 2018 ballot, arguing that al- to the initiative’s “concept” at all, he locating new tax revenues is a job reserved says, and would like to see Montana tive of vexation over Montana’s ballot for the Legislature. get rid of tobacco products altoinitiative process. Nathan Pierce, the gether. Its only complaint, he says, is signatory on the Guardian Group’s letter, also filed suit against the state on tions and legislative lobbying, acknowl- the language appropriating such tax funds May 9 in an effort to strike down restric- edges that some “bad players” engaged to specific state programs — an authority tions placed on signature gatherers in ini- in questionable activity in the past. How- the Guardian Group believes is constitutiative campaigns. Pierce was joined in ever, he disagrees with how the Legisla- tionally the province of lawmakers. “If it doesn’t make it to the ballot that suit by the Montana Coalition for ture chose to handle the situation. “We sort of saw that as just a knee-jerk and the voters don’t get to vote on it,” Rights, Montanans for Citizen Voting and Good Neighbors for Montana, all of which reaction,” Pierce tells the Indy, “but it lim- Pierce says, “we thoroughly believe that tried unsuccessfully to get separate meas- ited constitutionally allowable activities the Legislature will come up with a comwithin the state as far as signature gather- mon-sense solution and has a pretty ures on the ballot this year. Those groups have taken issue with ing and the overall initiative process. So good template in place that was created a law, passed by the 2007 Legislature we felt it was proper to challenge that to by this ballot measure that would help guide them.” with bipartisan support, that requires bring that in line with the constitution.” According to MTN News, StaplePierce adds that he’d like to see the signature gatherers to be Montana residents and bars them from being paid upcoming Legislature tackle a more “de- ton’s office responded to the letter last based on the number of signatures they tailed reform” of restrictions on signa- week by stating that I-185 will remain on acquire. Then-Sen. Carol Williams, D- ture gatherers in Montana so that the the November ballot. Missoula, sponsored the law in re- state isn’t consistently exposed to litigasponse to activity in 2006 that included tion on the issue. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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missoulanews.com • August 30–September 6, 2018 [9]

[opinion]

Fatten the pot? Just say no to legal recreational weed by Dan Brooks

Last week, the Montana Department of Revenue announced that taxes on sales of medical marijuana generated $1.34 million in revenue during fiscal year 2018. The state took in another $450,000 in July, reflecting taxes collected during the fourth quarter of the year. Those big final months suggest that sales are still growing, presumably because more providers and better administration are making it easier for patients to get medicine. Sorry — I should have put “medicine” in quotes. We all know that medical marijuana isn’t really medicine, and the only “condition” it treats is accurately hearing the music of Sublime. Nobody knows anyone who actually has glaucoma. If Crohn’s Disease were real, it would be named after a professional athlete instead of a medieval witch. I sympathize with people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder but, by definition, their problems are behind them. And although I am willing to concede that people on hospice exist, I think we can agree that they should spend their final days reflecting on family and patriotism, not getting borked and watching old episodes of Matlock. Medical marijuana is a scam, is what I’m saying here, and I’ve always been against it. Previous columns in which I expressed support for the program were ironic. Now that I know we can make money off of it, though, I view the suffering of veterans and AIDS patients in a different light. Readers who have not yet gotten their cards may remember last fall, when a special session of the Legislature responded to projected revenue shortfalls by cutting more than $70 million from the state budget. (Those shortfalls weren’t as bad as expected, and about $45 million in funding was restored at the end of the fiscal year — a subject for another, more boring column.) Among the more controversial cuts was a 3 percent reduction in Medicaid reimbursements paid to nursing homes — which, according to the estimate in a lawsuit by the Montana Health Care Association, cost providers about $3 million.

[10] Missoula Independent • August 30–September 6, 2018

The 4 percent tax on medical marijuana generated enough revenue last year to cover more than half of that $3 million. At $40 for an “eighth” — marijuana-user slang for an eighth of an ounce, clinically known as a lid — the tax cost patients $1.60. That’s not nothing, but it’s relatively insignificant when you consider that the average cardholder spends 90 times that amount on ice cream each month.

“While the average adult dies within 10 days of trying their first marijuana cigarette, a machine gambler can play for hours every night and live to a ripe old age.” The best part is, they don’t remember paying it. What we’re looking at here is as close to free money as you can get, taken from the pockets of unwashed hippies and pumped straight into grandma. Considering that fewer than 26,000 patients have generated $1.8 million for the state, it’s tempting to conclude that we should legalize marijuana for everybody, and tax that potential base of nearly a million consumers. That would be a huge mistake. Sure, it would generate revenues that we could use to fund better schools, safer roads and even much-needed tax relief for our struggling class of homeowners. It would effectively destroy the

black market for marijuana, saving state and local law enforcement agencies whatever resources they’re now expending to investigate, apprehend and prosecute grass pushers. It might even cut down on abuse and exploitation of the medical marijuana program. But the mewling potheads who repeat these arguments between violent coughs are forgetting one thing: Letting other people get high is morally wrong. As citizens of a free and democratic state, we have a responsibility to keep each other from vice. Make no mistake: Marijuana is a vice. Back when it was legal, in the 1960s, it damaged the brains of youths across America, trapping them in a state of permanent adolescence that has left them riding motorcycles and listening to classic rock well into their seventies. We cannot let that happen to another generation. No, whatever the potential tax benefits, marijuana is too dangerous for recreational use. If Montanans want to get “high,” they can enjoy the natural rush that comes from raising a family, working hard at a good job or joining the Army. They can also drink alcohol and play video poker. These wholesome pleasures should be enough for anybody — and best of all, they’re perfectly safe. While the average adult dies within 10 days of trying their first marijuana cigarette, a machine gambler can play for hours every night and live to a ripe old age. Let us not be tempted by the millionplus dollars the state has brought in during its first year of taxing medical marijuana. Given the percentage of patients who actually need it — zero, by my estimate — it amounts to a tax on bullshit, and that is fine. But we must resist the temptation to legalize the devil’s dandelion and open the choomgates of widespread use. Let us fight back the evil of recreational marijuana and keep Montana the way it is now: drunk, broke and driving home over poorly maintained roads. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.

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MMM, TASTES LIKE CHICKEN – In Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Aug. 17, a friendly game at Southers Marsh Golf Club turned ugly when Derek Harkins, 46, and an unnamed 57-year-old man got into a brawl on the 18th hole. But you gotta hand it to Harkins: The Patriot Ledger reported that he pointedly ended the fight by biting off the other man’s finger up to the knuckle, according to Plymouth Police Chief Michael Botieri. The victim, from Marshfield, was taken to the hospital, but his finger could not be reattached. Harkins was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and battery, mayhem and disturbing the peace. UNDIGNIFIED DEATH – The happiest place on Earth couldn’t work its magic on Aug. 15 when a worker at nearby Harvest Power fell into a vat of oil and grease from Walt Disney World. The plant in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, recycles the resort’s food waste, then converts it into renewable energy and fertilizer. John Korody, 61, and another worker were emptying the contents of a semi-truck into a vat when Korody slipped on a grate and fell into the vat. His co-worker tried to pull him out, but the fumes overtook them both, and Korody slid farther in, according to the Washington Post. The Reedy Creek Fire Department responded, but Korody was pronounced dead at the scene. SMOOTH REACTION – Debbie L. McCulley, 57, of Salem, Virginia, has been banned from all future Floyd County High School sporting events but, on the bright side, her indecent exposure case may eventually be dropped, following an incident area lawyers are calling “moon over Floyd.” McCulley’s husband, Mark, is the JV softball coach for Glenvar High School, and the charges resulted from Debbie’s unusual reaction to her husband’s team’s loss to Floyd County in May. She “stood on or close to the pitcher’s mound and pulled down her pants with her right hand to expose her right butt cheek,” according to Floyd County Sheriff’s Deputy G.H. Scott. But Debbie told the officer that her husband had confronted the opposing coach after the game, and she was afraid he would be “attacked,” so she was trying to divert attention from the two men. The Roanoke Times reported that Debbie wrote a letter of apology and will be performing community service. Chris Robinson of the Virginia High School League noted that crowd behavior at games is “probably leaning a little bit in the wrong direction.” WEIRD SCIENCE – United Press International reported that a 42-year-old British woman saw her eye doctor after experiencing swelling and drooping of her eyelid earlier this year. After performing an MRI, doctors discovered a cyst and performed surgery, during which they found a hard contact lens embedded in the eyelid. It turns out that the patient had suffered a blow to the eye 28 years ago and had assumed the lens fell out. She experienced no symptoms until the recent discomfort. ANNOYING – After 16 years, neighbors of “Eva N.” in Sturovo, Slovakia, have gotten relief from her particular brand of torment, reported the BBC. From morning until night, the woman had played a fourminute aria from Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” over and over, with her speakers on full blast. “The whole street is suffering,” complained one resident. At first, the music-lover played the music to drown out a neighbor’s barking dog, but continued the practice until Aug. 6, when she was arrested for harassment and malicious persecution. If found guilty, she could face between six months and three years in prison. A pothole in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, got a new life as a vegetable garden this summer after area residents grew weary of waiting for the city to repair it. The hole, which is several feet deep, had been expanding for months, neighbors said. So they filled it with tomato plants, which are now ripening and getting so tall they require wire cages for support. Now, “It’s sort of, like, become the community garden,” resident Bryan Link told CBC Radio. Finally, Mayor John Tory has agreed to not only fill the pothole, but to move the tomato plants to a community garden. UNEXPECTED HAZARD – An unnamed Irish teenager’s hiking outing became fodder for any number of bad punsters after the boy was hit by a falling sheep while walking in Northern Ireland’s Mourne Mountains. The sheep fell from a crag on Aug. 17 and landed on the boy, who was treated for potential injuries to his head, neck, back, abdomen and leg. “It is believed the sheep was uninjured and left the scene unaided,” reported Metro News. Punny comments on a social media post made by the Mourne Mountain Rescue Team included: “Mutton been looking where he was going, I bet he’s feeling a little sheepish now” and “Ewe want to be careful on the mountains!!” OOPS – Pennsylvania State Police told Lehigh Valley Live that Evan T. Kasick, 52, of Upper Milford Township, was injured on Aug. 16 when he wrecked his motorcycle — in his own driveway. Kasick sped into his driveway around 7:30 p.m. and struck a concrete barrier, causing him to be thrown from the Honda bike. He was taken to an area hospital with undisclosed injuries, and police issued a ticket for driving at an unsafe speed. In his driveway. COMPELLING EXPLANATION – Near Mason City, Iowa, on Aug. 20, the Iowa State Patrol pulled over a Ferrari 488 Spider that was clocked going 137 mph during a rainstorm. “Not a great idea to drive this fast in the rain,” the trooper posted on Facebook with a photo of the radar readout. The unnamed driver, however, wasn’t fazed; she thought she was going “around 100.” Fox News reported that if ticketed in a 70-mph zone (the highest speed limit in Iowa), her fine would be $335. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com

missoulanews.com • August 30–September 6, 2018 [11]

ance Four Star drives west at 70 miles per hour using his knees to work the steering wheel as he watches Montana Sen. Jon Tester’s Indian Country Facebook town hall on his wife’s smartphone, the video starting and stopping as the cellular signal goes in and out on the 40mile drive from the middle of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation to its border. There aren’t many jobs on this 2-million-acre reservation in Montana’s northeast corner, and Four Star is brushing up on Tester’s policy positions before an interview for a job on the Democrat’s reelection campaign, which is in its last hundred days. As a U.S. Army veteran, Four Star supports Tester’s work reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs, but disagrees with Tester on one major issue: “‘Will you stop the pipelines from entering Montana?’” Four Star reads

aloud from the comment section of the Facebook stream. The phone loses signal again before Four Star can see if the question is answered, but the senator’s position is no mystery. Just like every other top politician in the state, Democrat and Republican, state and federal, Tester supports construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which is slated to cross the Missouri River a quarter mile upriver of Fort Peck’s southwestern border when construction begins next year. “We’re just outnumbered and outmoneyed,” Four Star says, guiding his Ford F-150 along U.S. Route 2 as it parallels the bulbous petroleum train cars regularly traversing the BNSF rail line. The tanker convoys arrive empty at the Bakken oil patch just to the east and the Alberta tar sands far to the north, and leave full for refineries and export terminals.

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Four Star fears that if any of the trains rolling through the tribal seat of Poplar or the reservation’s largest town of Wolf Point ever derailed, it could blow up the entire town — a point pipeline supporters also make. But to Four Star, the Keystone XL pipeline is no less threatening to his community than crude oil traveling through by train. Four Star is the chairman of the Fort Peck Assiniboine Council, which is separate from — and predates — the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribal Executive Board that is recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as the reservation’s elected governing body. Fort Peck is a two-tribe reservation, and the Sioux also have a non-governing council. Canadian pipeline company TransCanada plans for Keystone XL to cross beneath the riverbed of the Missouri River about a quarter mile upstream of the confluence with the Milk River, the

reservation’s southwestern border. Two miles upriver of the proposed crossing site is the mile-long spillway of the Fort Peck Dam. The spillway itself functions as a safety valve to rapidly release water from the fifth largest reservoir in America when it gets dangerously high. Seventy miles downriver, on the reservation, is the intake plant for the Assiniboine & Sioux Rural Water Supply System, a $300 million congressionally mandated drinking water treatment and supply network built after oil drilling turned much of the tribe’s aquifer north of Poplar saline and carcinogenic. Two agricultural water intakes are farther upriver, between the intake and the proposed pipeline. The big concern for local pipeline opponents like Four Star is a doomsday scenario in which heavy snowpack and spring rains fill the reservoir to its capacity, which would mandate a huge release of water from the dam to

prevent it from failing. That torrent of water flowing out of the spillway would scour the riverbed downstream, and that scouring could damage or rupture the pipeline, releasing diluted tar sands bitumen into the river. In 2010, a pipeline owned by Canadian pipeline company Enbridge, Inc. spilled more than 1 million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A National Transportation Safety Board investigation of that incident found that diluted bitumen breaks down into its constituent chemicals, including benzene, a known carcinogen, when spilled into a river. If a spill like that were to happen in the Missouri River, those toxic chemicals could be sucked into the Fort Peck water network’s intake, which could wreck the system, require an emergency shutoff or poison the tribes’ drinking water a second time.

In a 2013 letter to the State Department reviewing the draft environmental impact statement for Keystone XL, the EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance referenced the dangers exposed by the Kalamazoo diluted bitumen spill, particularly benzene, and recommended that the EIS reflect the additional risks present in diluted bitumen spills. The fear that such a spill could result from a massive release of water

runs clear and clean, visibly teeming with waterfowl and fish, including, not so visibly, some of the last remaining pallid sturgeon, living fossils that survived the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs only to face the threat of extinction from the dams destroying their habitat. The remote Montana portion of the Keystone XL pipeline hasn’t attracted the attention aimed at the Nebraska section, or other proposed pipelines including Enbridge’s Line 3 in Minnesota, the

around graders and excavators. A new bridge is being built over the railway to connect U.S. 2 to Highway 117, which continues south toward the Missouri River. A few miles south of Nashua, Four Star turns off Highway 117 into a network of farm roads, passing the New Deal boomtowns-turned-ghost towns that once housed the workers who built the Fort Peck Dam during the Great Depression. President Franklin Delano Roo-

Chairman of the Fort Peck Assiniboine Council Lance Four Star watches an Indian Country town hall with U.S. Sen. Jon Tester while driving through Wolf Point on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Four Star is applying for a job on the Tester campaign and supports the senator’s policies — except his approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

from the reservoir isn’t unfounded. Such a release happened in 2011 during record-high runoff and caused more than $200 million in damage to the spillway. TransCanada has repeatedly said the proposed 36-inch pipeline will be stateof-the-art and will never break, but the company hasn’t convinced the plaintiffs suing the U.S. departments of State and Interior in Great Falls’ Missouri River Courthouse more than 300 miles upstream. Four Star speaks of when the pipeline breaks, not if. “Unless you take [the pipeline] out, at some point … it’s going to erode. It will leak,” he says. It’s easy to think in a geological time scale in the traditional Assiniboine wintering grounds, where the floodplains meet the highland valleys where tyrannosauruses once roamed, now submerged beneath the reservoir. This section of the Missouri River

Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana, or the Trans Mountain pipeline in western Canada. Data analysis by the Washington Post in February found that three towns on or adjacent to the reservation — Glasgow, Scobey and Wolf Point — are the first, second and third most remote small towns in America. Just to the south, Circle is the farthest town in the nation from a Starbucks. “Up here in northeast Montana, we’re the farthest from everything, and I like that,” Four Star says.

THE CROSSING

Leaving the reservation, Four Star weaves his truck between road crews widening the main thoroughfare of the no-stoplight town of Nashua from two lanes to four — twice the width of the HiLine’s U.S. Route 2. The road, Montana Highway 117, is patrolled by pilot cars guiding convoys

ing site Four Star has been to, or opposed. He traveled in 2016 to the Standing Rock demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline as part of a veterans contingent. That was the second time Four Star was gassed by the government, he says. The first time was in Army chemical warfare training. Four Star says he took an oath when he enlisted in the Army to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign

117, on the northern side of its intersection with Mdu Road, which he knows because he helped TransCanada install the water line to that property. Kirkland says he doesn’t know whether the man camp will be good or bad for Kirkland Ranch Estates. In 2008, skyrocketing oil prices spurred a fracking boom in the Bakken Formation on Fort Peck’s eastern border that saw tens of thousands of workers, mostly single men, housed in hastily con-

Kirkland Ranch Estates, an unbuilt housing development in Nashua near the pipeline crossing, is rumored to be the site of a future man camp for pipeline workers. Property developer Jed Kirkland says that’s not true, and that the man camp is going in a mile north.

sevelt saw the earthen dam — the largest ever built at the time, and second-largest today — as a solution to unemployment as much as a tool for flood control and power generation. The Fort Peck Dam isn’t a sheer concrete cliff like stereotypical dams. It’s essentially a 250-foot-high pile of dirt about two miles long and half a mile wide. FDR said here 84 years ago that the style probably took more manpower and labor hours than other dam designs, which was the point, since one of the primary purposes for building it was to put people to work. TransCanada has promised the pipeline will bring jobs for locals, but Four Star doesn’t believe the company. Standing on the riverbank where the Keystone XL pipeline is due to cross beneath the Missouri, Four Star examines photos of recently released TransCanada maps shared by a member of the tribal executive board. This isn’t the first oil pipeline cross-

and domestic, and that Keystone XL fits the bill. Keystone XL doesn’t threaten just living members of the tribes, but also burial grounds to the west of the reservation, as well as teepee rings and other sacred archeological sites, he says. For Four Star, it’s the equivalent of building a pipeline through the Vatican. “We’re not in the way of the pipeline. The pipeline is in the way of us,” he says. Six miles up the Missouri from the Milk River confluence is Kirkland Ranch Estates, a planned housing development of 91 residential plots, three commercial plots and a golf course. All that’s been built so far are roads. Four Star says it’s rumored the houses won’t go in, and instead the land will be the site of a man camp to house the workers who will build Keystone XL. Jed Kirkland, the property’s developer, says that’s not true. Kirkland says the man camp will be located a little more than a mile north on

structed trailer towns. Fueled by long hours, high wages and nothing but prairie in every direction, man camps became centers of drugs and sexual violence, which have affected Native women in disproportionately high numbers. Four Star says meth didn’t get really bad on the reservation until that neighboring boom. “TransCanada says the workers coming in are of a different breed,” Four Star says. “Drug-tested and with families.” He doesn’t believe them. “They also say the tar sands float,” he says, repeating a common joke among Keystone XL opponents. Four Star is suspicious of any promises of safety from oil companies after the Kalamazoo pipeline spill. While the oil traveling from the Bakken is a light, sweet crude easily pumped from wells and through pipelines, the tar-sands-derived crude of northern Alberta that Keystone XL would carry is viscous.

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Before tar sands crude can be pumped through a pipeline, it first has to be clawed out of cliff walls with bucket excavators, then heated to extract the heavy oil known as bitumen. Bitumen is too thick to be pumped through a pipeline, so it has to be mixed with other hydrocarbons to thin it out, producing diluted bitumen. TransCanada says that if Keystone XL ruptured, diluted bitumen would simply float away on the Missouri, bypassing the underwater intakes of the tribes’ water system. The plaintiffs suing the feds over Keystone XL’s environmental impact statement allege that the company’s claim is based on an oil spill model tailored to conventional crude oil, not tar-sands crude. In comments on a draft EIS in 2013, TransCanada briefly contradicts its public stance that diluted bitumen floats. “If oil does remain on the water surface for a sufficient time, without being cleaned up, there is the potential for some oil to sink,” TransCanada wrote. Unlike in laboratory settings, when diluted bitumen spilled in Kalamazoo, its components separated, and the bitumen sank to the riverbed. That’s why Four Star is worried when TransCanada says the man camps aren’t a threat to the reservation.

ously organized blockades against convoys hauling tar-sands equipment through the state to Alberta. Cheek says drugs and sexual violence have been a problem on the reservation for a long time, but that she doesn’t remember things being nearly this bad growing up. She says a couple of her cousins are addicted to meth, which she says flows onto the reservation from the Bakken oil field man camps, alongside sexually transmitted diseases and human trafficking. For more than a year, anti-pipeline activists have marched from one end of

hind in town, handing out fliers, and were surrounded by locals shouting threats. “‘Go Trump! Let the pipeline through! Let’s scalp and kill these Indians!’” Cheek says they yelled. “That really scared me.” She and the other marchers jumped into one of the march’s support vehicles and caught up with the other activists south of town. As the march continued, Cheek and Four Star say, they were shadowed and circled by truck-driving locals who heckled the marchers whenever they stopped for prayers at water cross-

ing Keystone XL, the tribes are not party to the lawsuit opposing the pipeline. Instead, for the past year, they have attempted to negotiate with TransCanada to reroute the pipeline. Protesters have scared off TransCanada representatives from public meetings with the executive board, which has led to closed meetings, giving ammunition to activists who accuse the tribal government of collaborating with the pipeline company. According to public notices that TransCanada published in eastern Montana newspapers in 2008, two other

THE ACTIVISTS

According to a confidential email from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks chief of law enforcement David Loewen to FWP wardens and leadership, Nashua won’t be the only man camp. Loewen says man camps are also expected to appear in the towns of Circle, 50 miles south of the Missouri, 50 miles up the Milk River in Hinsdale, and more than 100 miles to the southeast in Baker, where an oil on-ramp will be built for Bakken oil. TransCanada says the Hinsdale camp alone is expected to house 800 workers. “Although man-camps bring a certain degree of law enforcement challenges, the primary enforcement focus is protest activity,” Loewen said in the email. The email was released to the Montana ACLU as part of a campaign of statewide public disclosure requests the organization hopes will map police surveillance of Native Americans and environmentalists ahead of an anticipated Standing Rock-style protest against the pipeline Angeline Cheek is a Fort Peck tribal member who went to Standing Rock in the fall of 2016 and an activist with Indian People’s Action, a Montana-based indigenous-rights group that has previ-

Anti-pipeline activist Angeline Cheek says Keystone XL doesn’t just threaten the tribes’ drinking water, but tribal members as well, due to the lawlessness man camps planned nearby would bring to the reservation. Cheek says prayer marches across the reservation have been met with threats from armed ranchers and farmers from nearby white communities.

the reservation to the other to raise awareness of the threat Keystone XL poses to the network from which most of the surrounding off-reservation communities also get their drinking water. Last April, a 60-mile march was held on Montana Highway 13 from the Canadian border north of the reservation south to the Missouri River. The first community the marchers passed through is the predominantly white town of Scobey, which sits in the middle of a 25mile strip of farm and ranch land between Canada and the Fort Peck Reservation. Even with ACLU observers present, by all accounts the atmosphere was tense. Cheek says that just south of the Canadian border marchers encountered gun-holding farmers who followed the marchers to Scobey in their cars. Cheek says she and another marcher lagged be-

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ings. Cheek says the hecklers followed the march nine miles onto the reservation before turning back. Cheek says she saw full gun racks on the trucks’ rear windows. ACLU Legal Director Alex Rate confirmed the aggressive comments, but could not confirm the presence of guns. “The reservation is a concentration camp, and now we’re going to be surrounded by man camps. It’s like being surrounded by the KKK,” Cheek says. Cheek says the tribal government hasn’t prepared for the violence that pipeline construction could bring to the reservation if the pipeline isn’t stopped by the lawsuit in Great Falls.

THE TRIBES

Although the Fort Peck executive board passed a resolution in 2015 oppos-

routes were proposed downstream of Fort Peck’s water intake. One would have crossed the reservation, with the other cutting east above the reservation’s northern border before turning south, “avoiding BIA lands,” as a 2009 TransCanada document stated. TransCanada finally chose the shortest route, the pipeline’s current path, which crosses the Missouri below the Fort Peck Dam spillway and upriver of the water intake. It is unlikely that TransCanada could easily change the route even if the company wanted to. When the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) denied TransCanada’s preferred pipeline route through the state’s western Sand Hills last December, plaintiffs latched on to the fact that the alternative route the Nebraska PSC approved hadn’t been studied in the EIS approved by the feds.

On July 30, the State Department released a draft environmental assessment of the current Nebraska route that forecasts a negligible environmental impact. On Aug. 15, Judge Brian Morris ruled that the draft assessment wasn’t enough, and that the State Department must file a supplement to the EIS that considers the new Nebraska portion of the route, which the 2014 EIS did not cover. Morris has yet to rule on the wider aspects of the case. Referenced in the Nebraska draft assessment was an unattached TransCanada risk assessment of the pipeline’s Missouri River crossing site near Fort Peck that the company submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency in charge of granting river-crossing permits. While publication of the federal government’s Nebraska assessment was announced in the Federal Register and posted to the State Department’s Keystone XL website, TransCanada’s Missouri River risk assessment was published exclusively on the pipeline company’s website sometime in July with no announcement. It’s a document the Fort Peck tribes have been searching for. “I don’t think this is worth the paper it’s written on,” Fort Peck executive board Chairman Floyd Azure says, throwing the 111-page risk assessment down on his desk in the sprawling tribal government complex on the outskirts of Poplar. The risk assessment is dated July 31, 2017. Azure says the tribes have been asking TransCanada to see it for more than a year. Azure says the company refused to provide the document, saying that doing so would violate federal law. TransCanada did not respond to multiple requests for an interview regarding Keystone XL. Azure says the tribes finally received a copy on July 27 this year — nearly a year after the assessment was written — from Gov. Steve Bullock’s office. Ronja Abel, a spokeswoman for Bullock’s office, told Montana Free Press in an email that she downloaded the document from TransCanada’s Keystone XL website after it was recently posted. The plaintiffs suing to stop the pipeline didn’t have a copy until Aug. 7, when MTFP sent it to them. Azure is furious, because despite years of public comment, court testimony, letters to state and federal governments, protests, news reporting, and even a personal letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the risk assessment makes no mention of Fort Peck’s water network, the reservation or the tribes.

“I’ve just got no confidence in them at this point,” Azure says. “We’re basically an afterthought.” The Fort Peck tribes have treaty rights to the waters of the Missouri River, the center of which constitutes the reservation’s southern border. Azure says the tribes should have been consulted for the risk assessment, considering that they’re the ones at risk, and that the state and the Bureau of Indian Affairs should have told TransCanada to talk with the tribal government. “If there’s a spill, it’s going to be on our land and in our water,” Azure says, motioning to his coffee mug. “And it don’t float.” Azure says that if the pipeline is built, there will be Standing Rock-style protests in northeast Montana. He says he doesn’t want to see that, but because the pipeline doesn’t touch tribal land, he’s powerless to stop construction, making protest inevitable. He says the only way to stop a mass protest is a legal injunction on pipeline construction, as the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit upriver in Great Falls are seeking. “I’m pushing for a lawsuit. I want it, and I want those guys [the tribal executive board] to go along with it,” he says. Azure says that even without disruptive anti-pipeline “troublemakers” present at meetings with TransCanada, it quickly became apparent there would be no concessions, such as routing the pipeline downriver of the water network intake. “It wasn’t a negotiation. They just told us what they were going to do,” he says. Finally getting the risk assessment last month and seeing that it didn’t mention the risk to the tribes was the last straw for Azure. He says he plans to ask the executive board to vote on joining the federal lawsuit to stop the pipeline, though it’s unclear whether that’s possible, considering that oral arguments have been made and the parties are awaiting Morris’ ruling. Azure says he also wants to sue TransCanada for negligence.

THE PIPELINE

Fort Peck Dam operations manager Darin McMurry watches two fishermen in a walleye boat in a bay carved into the Bearpaw Shale at the bottom of the dam’s mile-long spillway. Compared to the shale, which formed millions of years ago and crumbles like sand despite looking like rock, the bay is young. It formed in 2011 when a heavy snowpack in the Rockies melted and combined with record spring rains behind the dam.

To prevent a catastrophic domino collapse of the six Missouri River mainstem dams holding back the third-, fourth-, fifth- and eleventh-largest reservoirs in America, which could have cleaved the nation in two with cataclysmic flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers decision-makers who run the dams from their base in Omaha, Nebraska, opened the spillways. The Fort Peck Dam spillway maxed out in 2011 at 52,000 cubic feet of water per second rushing through its 16 fully opened gates. McMurry says the floodwaters accelerated to 45 miles per hour

In addition to carving the bay at the bottom of the spillway, the 2011 floodwaters scoured the riverbed downstream, though McMurry says the Corps doesn’t know the full extent. A recently released TransCanada analysis of the spillway’s scouring threat to the pipeline states that even if the spillway released at its maximum output of 350,000 cfs, the flow would scour only 21.7 feet down into the riverbed, with the pipeline still safe at 53 feet below the riverbed. In the case of such flooding, the analysis says, “the devastation will be im-

stone XL must also cross), spilling 63,000 gallons of crude. Like the Missouri River crossing risk assessment, the scouring analysis doesn’t mention the tribes, the reservation or the threat a pipeline spill poses to the drinking water network. “If that spill ever happens, they say we’ve got a day or two before it hits us,” says Sandra White Eagle, program director of the Assiniboine & Sioux Rural Water Supply System. “But we figure we’ve got a couple hours,” she says. White Eagle says it takes 7 to 12 min-

Members of the Tribal Executive Board of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes meet on Thursday, Aug. 2 in the council chambers of the administration building in Poplar. Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure said he plans to ask the board to take legal action against the federal government over the threat the Keystone XL pipeline’s Missouri River crossing poses to Fort Peck’s $300 million drinking water network.

rushing down the concrete spillway, crashed into the riverbed 225 feet below and carved out the bay, nearly undermining the entire structure, which required tens of millions of dollars in repairs. “I don’t want to have a year like that again,” McMurry says. He doesn’t want to, but he probably will. As of Aug. 1, the spillway was open and expelling a relative trickle of 5,000 cubic feet of water per second, which crashes into a new concrete extension on the sides and bottom of the spillway lip, preventing the bay from growing. It’s only the sixth time in the dam’s 78-year operating history that the spillway has been opened, the first being in 1975, which set the previous release record of 35,000 cfs. McMurry has seen half of those openings since he began working at the dam in the 1990s.

mense on or near the floodplain for the entire length of the river. However, design of pipeline valves would withstand the potential inundation and flows of such a massive flood event.” Pipeline opponents have yet to weigh in on TransCanada’s conclusions, but are skeptical of studies paid for by oil companies that determine oil projects to be safe, such as lab results showing that tar sands bitumen floats. McMurry says the spillway’s maximum output is 230,000 cfs, and cannot speak to where TransCanada got the 350,000 figure. There’s precedent in Montana for river scouring breaking oil pipelines, which TransCanada says is why the company plans to bury Keystone XL so deep. River scouring from the 2011 flood broke an oil pipeline buried only a few feet beneath the Yellowstone River (which Key-

utes for water to travel from the intake on the Missouri to the water treatment plant at the intersection of U.S. Route 2 and Montana Highway 13 between Wolf Point and Poplar. White Eagle says she’s always wanted to run her own water treatment plant, having completed a wastewater treatment program at Montana State University-Northern and worked at plants in Great Falls and Chinook. When she applied for a similar job at Wolf Point, she says, the bosses said she was qualified, “but we’re really looking for a male.” White Eagle, who worked 20 years for the Fort Peck office of Environmental Protection, says she worked to get the reservation up to EPA water-quality standards. She ran a boat collecting river samples beneath cottonwood trees old enough to have been seen by Lewis and Clark when they camped just downriver

from Keystone XL’s proposed crossing site. She was promoted earlier this year to run the water network. The $300 million water network was mandated by Congress in 2000 after decades of oil production north of Poplar left the local aquifer contaminated with carcinogenic compounds and saltier than the sea. The families that drew their water from the area drank bottled water for years until a water line was routed north from Poplar. The tribal seat was hooked into the water network only about a year before a toxic plume reached the town’s groundwater. At the Fort Peck water treatment plant, Missouri River water goes through a multi-step process including chemical treatment, coagulation, flocculation, maturation, sedimentation, clarification and disinfection. On average, the plant pumps out 3,000 gallons of clean drinking water per minute, but on days when the temperature is over 100 degrees, White Eagle stays as late as 8 p.m. monitoring water use as it rises in order to keep output steady. Her husband brings her supper. “When [the pipeline] breaks, we’re dead in the water,” White Eagle says. If a pipeline spill shut down the water network, White Eagle says, the communities on and around the Fort Peck Reservation that rely on it would be without water until they could reconnect to whichever old groundwater systems aren’t polluted by the toxic plume. She says Poplar could draw from a backup well far to the west of town, but that’s their last reserve of clean water. White Eagle says 60 to 80 percent of the water the plant produces goes to the Dry Prairie Rural Water Supply System, an off-reservation partner network that provides water for many of the nearby white communities. Nashua began receiving water from the plant in March, and negotiations are underway to extend the network to Scobey, where, White Eagle says, you can smell hydrogen sulfide — a foul-smelling gas — when you flush the toilet. When the network is complete, it will serve 30,000 people in northeast Montana.

THE GOVERNMENT

In December 2012, Montana’s outgoing Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, chaired his final meeting of the Montana Land Board, a panel of the state’s top five elected executive officials. The all-Democrat board was voting on selling easements to TransCanada for Keystone XL to cross Montana’s rivers, but first had to face public comment. The four other officials on the board

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were Montana’s then-Attorney General Steve Bullock (now the governor), Secretary of State Linda McCulloch, State Auditor Monica Lindeen and Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, the first Indian woman in the country to be elected to a statewide executive position. Critics, including the Montana Environmental Information Center and Northern Plains Resource Council, said it was irresponsible for the board to consider selling the easements before TransCanada had done safety assessments, and premature considering that

It’s not clear why TransCanada’s recently published Missouri River safety assessments don’t mention the Fort Peck tribes’ drinking water. According to the EIS, TransCanada has known for years that the pipeline poses a threat to the reservation. The tribes have sent multiple letters to successive U.S. secretaries of state, and the State Department admitted knowledge of the water intake and network years ago in the pipeline’s environmental impact statement, though its knowledge was incomplete. The “affected environment” section of the environmental impact statement,

ence of upstream barriers such as dams, as well as the downstream distance between proposed project waterbody crossings and these intakes,” the statement reads. While there are multiple dams between Pine Ridge and the proposed pipeline crossing in Montana, there are none between Fort Peck’s water intake and the site, and the environmental impact statement doesn’t mention any other type of barrier. According to the environmental impact statement’s “environmental consequences” section, spill impacts to the water networks and their intakes could

The proposed site where the Keystone XL pipeline would cross beneath the Missouri River is less than two miles downstream of the outflow of the Fort Peck Dam spillway.

federal approval for the project hadn’t yet been granted. When the environmentalists said the board had a responsibility to review the environmental threats posed by Keystone XL, particularly the crossing downstream of the dam spillway, Schweitzer replied that the board merely handled the money, and that the Montana Department of Environmental Quality was responsible for environmental concerns. MDEQ had already approved Keystone XL nine months earlier. MDEQ Director Tom Livers said last year that the threat posed by Keystone XL to the water network was “not identified as an issue during scoping, in public comments or in the tribal consultation process.” The Land Board voted 5-0 to approve the sale of easements to TransCanada for $741,000 without discussion of the Fort Peck tribes’ drinking water.

published in 2014, notes that the Assiniboine & Sioux Rural Water Supply System is 77 river miles downstream of the proposed Missouri River crossing, “and replaces previous groundwater supplies that are no longer in use,” omitting the fact that much of that groundwater was contaminated by oil extraction, necessitating construction of the Assiniboine Sioux Rural Water Supply System (ASRWSS). In the statement’s public comment section, the State Department addressed how “potential impacts to tribal surface water systems [are] assessed,” mentioning both the ASRWSS and the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply System downriver on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. “The possibility of a spill reaching the intakes for tribal water systems are exceptionally remote due to the pres-

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pipelines spilling oil into sources of drinking water. Another shallow Yellowstone River oil pipeline was cracked open by an ice jam in January 2015, spilling an estimated 30,000 gallons of crude into the river and contaminating the drinking water of some 5,000 people in the downriver town of Glendive. The month after the Glendive spill, the Fort Peck executive board unanimously passed a resolution opposing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline because of the threat it posed to the water network.

tana Land Board in 2012 about the dam spillway threat and a victim of the 2015 Yellowstone River oil spill. While the Fort Peck executive board did not join the lawsuit, Bill Whitehead, chairman of the board that runs the water network, is a named plaintiff, though not in his official capacity. The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration came to a completely opposite conclusion using the same data as the Obama administration (data it says were already biased in favor of the pipeline), ignoring fatal flaws in the environmental assessment, such as the

The section of the Missouri River where the Keystone XL pipeline is planned to cross teems with life. Part of the lawsuit seeking to prevent construction claims the government did not adequately address threats to local endangered species like whooping cranes and pallid sturgeon.

include “the temporary loss of supply during spill response and cleanup.” The document also states the possibility of a spill reaching the tribal water networks is remote, but the explanation given is that “a distance of at least 10 miles downstream from the proposed pipeline was recommended for the identification of sensitive resources that could be affected by a release from the proposed pipeline,” and that the tribal water networks are “significantly beyond the proposed Project impact assessment buffer.” Simply put, the tribes’ water supplies are outside of the environmental impact statement’s 10-mile line, and therefore were not considered threatened, despite the fact that the EIS states in the same paragraph that a pipeline spill could shut them down. Eastern Montana is no stranger to

When President Barack Obama directed the State Department to reject Keystone XL later that year, the reason given wasn’t the threat of spills, but rather that the United States had to take the lead on combating global warming four weeks ahead of the Paris climate change conference. When President Donald Trump resurrected the pipeline in 2017, within days of taking office, his decision was based on the same environmental impact statement available to the previous administration. It took environmental and indigenousrights groups only a couple of months to put together a lawsuit challenging what they described as Trump’s “rubber-stamping” of the pipeline. That lawsuit was filed in federal court in Montana, the state where the Canadian pipeline enters the United States. Plaintiffs include local environmental groups that warned the Mon-

threat posed to the Fort Peck reservation’s water, pallid sturgeon and endangered whooping crane migratory paths, as well as the pipeline’s contribution to climate change. Both parties expect that District Judge Brian Morris will issue a full ruling on the lawsuit by the end of the year. If Morris rules in favor of the plaintiffs and blocks the pipeline, most observers expect the Trump administration to appeal the decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. If Morris’ decision survives an appeal there, the case would likely end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, where, as TransCanada’s lead attorney Peter Steenland has pointed out, environmental lawsuits go to die. This story was first published by the Montana Free Press at montanafreepress.org.

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Art of love Five artist couples talk best and worst of collaboration ahead of new Lovers exhibit by Sarah Aswell

enny Fawcett and Tom Helgerson were too swept up in their wedding to remember to include a wedding cake — so they’ll be making up for it at the opening reception of Lovers, the University of Montana Gallery of Visual Arts’ fall exhibition. The couple is planning a four-tier meal-within-a-cake that insanely mixes sweet and savory layers — for example, one tier is a pound cake made with “the neighbor’s pears picked from our side of the fence,” while another layer is a cake sandwich that includes pumpernickel, watercress, pickles and lox. The pair is one of 19 couples collaborating for the art show curated by gallery director and artist Jack Metcalf. And like each of the other couples, they are artists who happen to be in love with each other. Both are members of the band, Shahs, and both are chefs, with Helgerson working as a sous chef at Burns St. Bistro while Fawcett owns the special event bakery, Poppy. Sometimes they collaborate and sometimes they don’t, but it’s impossible for the art of one to exist completely independently of the art of the other. In advance of the show, the Indy asked some of the other featured couples to provide a peak into what they’re collaborating on and share the best and worst parts of being artists who are together. Artists: Josh Quick (comic artist) and Tricia Opstad (painter/dancer) Project: We each wrote the words to a comic strip that the other is drawing. Quick: The best is connecting with Tricia in a space where we can get weird with one another. The worst is when the energy in our house gets stagnant from no creative projects occurring. Opstad: I am constantly around creativity. [Josh] creates with abandon, for the pure joy of it. On the other hand, Josh is an artist in almost everything he does without even thinking about it. Sometimes that irritates the hell out of me. For example, he doesn’t clean out his pockets and they go in the wash and then there's a wad of gum melted to my favorite pair of pants and underwear.

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Lovers, a new exhibit at the UM Gallery of Visual Arts, features five couples including, from left, Jenny Fawcett and Tom Helgerson.

Artists: Joy French (dancer) and Jeff Medley (actor): Project: An installation piece that’s an elaboration on something we’ve done for years around the house. She’ll start falling over and expect me to catch her. ... Medley: Best: I get to see how a piece develops and takes shape. Then, getting to watch her in performance and watching others watch. Worst: If we both have a show in rehearsal or performance, especially now that we’re juggling a baby/toddler, we might not see each other for a while. And Joy pours herself into her work and performances and comes home spent. I’ll be in a sensual, celebratory mood and she’ll have left everything on the stage. French: There’s a certain visibility we both have as performers that can be hard, but also I love how connected we are to our community. On the inside of our relationship, we are always juggling our artistic lives with our personal ones. But in the end, I love going to see Jeff perform.

Artists: Cassidy Tucker and Parker Beckley Project: We’re working on video and a small 3D installation. It focuses on the divide between technology and reality. Tucker and Beckley: The best is the support we give each other creatively. We are able to bounce ideas off each other and receive thoughtful feedback. The worst is that regardless of art or not, it’s still a relationship and arguments might happen. We’re pretty good about fighting about little things and then letting them go easily. Another thing is that money fluctuates and if you’re an artist, it can be difficult. Artists: Caroline Keyes (musician) and Nate Biehl (musician/writer/graphic design) Project: We’re going to kick off the evening with 30 minutes of love songs. This may be the most challenging request we’ve ever agreed to fill. Biehl: The best part is the freedom to be authentic about my maladaptive obsession with music and sound. In almost any “normal” situation, I’m forced to deny my true nature and focus on other

things. I’m so grateful to be able to talk shop in obsessive detail with the person I’m closest to. The worst part is determining whether they are giving you authentic feedback on your work or they are just sweet-talking you so you’ll put down your guitar and take them out on a date. Keyes: Artsy sex! Just kidding. Communication. Feedback. Healthy sense of competition. Speaking a similar language. Inspiration. Support. Complementary skill sets. Always having something to passionately discuss. Worst: When performing as a duo, if one of us feels uncomfortable for any reason, the other often picks up on the discomfort vibe and will involuntarily create a narrative about where the discomfort is coming from. Artists: Caitlin Hofmeister ( filmmaker/writer) and Lauren Tyler Norby (comic artist/writer) Project: Our project is about conversations and how they can be both disconnected and even more deeply connected than you ever would have thought. We will be playing with audio, mixing narratives that both listen to and

overpower each other, [and] drawing. Hofmeister: Best part: He challenges me and encourages me. He sees my creativity as just part of my being, how I function in the world, and not some cute quirk or annoying hangup. Plus, I learn so much from him and he shares his supplies with me. Lauren’s tireless. He inspires me to not limit myself to one or two mediums, and to always make time to create. Norby: I love seeing the way Caitlin thinks. When she’s expressing herself creatively I get to see a side of her that isn’t always on the surface. It’s very exciting to me, and I feel special getting to be one of the first people to see the things she makes. She inspires me to think deeper and work harder. Hofmeister and Norby: Worst Part: Neither of us has enough money to bankroll the both of us. Lovers opens at the UM Gallery of Visual Arts Thu., Sept. 6, with an opening reception from 5 to 8 PM. Regular gallery hours are 11 AM to 4 PM, Mon.–Thu. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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Micah Schnabel covers a wide range of social, political and basic life issues in his music: poverty, political corruption, abuse, religion, childhood nostalgia, existential dread — you name it. With the wrong narrator, it’d be a recipe for disaster, and an annoying one at that. I’ve been cornered in a bar by that one dude who wants to enlighten me about how America is going down the toilet and here’s why — and that’s no fun. Fortunately, the Columbus, Ohio, singer-songwriter (known for his work in the pop-punk band Two Cow Garage) doesn’t make us listen to painfully obvious observations on the world. Even if you’re an expert on social ills, you haven’t heard them packaged how Schnabel does it. His lyrics are full of entertaining details delivered with unapologetic firmness and some humility to balance it out. On the title track of his most recent album, Your New Norman Rockwell (Last Chance Records), he talk-sings about “grown

adults sitting in the front seats of ’89 Chevy Corsicas, crushing up prescription pills and snorting them through pink tampon applicators,” and about his childhood “in rural slums with an education given to me by high school sports coaches, child molester priests and the internet.” I’m not always a fan of spoken-word political folk, but Schnabel is charming, in part because he isn’t exactly a doomsdayer. His observations are dark, but also funny and sometimes hopeful, like at the end of Your New Norman Rockwell when he says, “But I’m trying to be better — and I’d love to have you on my side.” (Erika Fredrickson) Micah Schnabel plays a show at the Sawmill underneath the Scott Street Bridge Mon., Sept. 3, at 6 PM, along with JW Teller and Travis Yost. Includes a pop-up show by artist Vanessa Jean Speckman. $10 suggested donation.

LVL Up, Return to Love If you missed Camp Daze last weekend, don’t fret. Even though it was the music festival’s final year, the organizers have booked a few extra shows in the coming weeks, including the band LVL Up. The group began playing music on the SUNY Purchase campus in 2011 and are currently on what they say is their last-ever tour. They have some punk rock sensibilities and pull from psych-folk influences like Neutral Milk Hotel and the ambient style of Mount Eerie, all of which adds to their wandering, emo-pop sound. The raspy vocals are full of angst, and a nostalgic style that seems set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with moody guitar to match. Plenty of reverb and distortion gives them a lo-fi sound that bops between destructive and dancey. They have

a penchant for catchy lyrics, like in “Annie’s a Witch,” off their sophomore album Hoodwink’d, where they sing, “One more day to make some money honey. To get used to the truth, so I set a spell and hexed my tunes.” LVL Up’s latest album Return to Love has chaotic momentum. “Hidden Driver,” works through the frustration of searching for a kind of divine creativity using the sound of a victorious synth. Their 2018 single, “Orchard,” which will be on their final album, has the feeling of a goodbye kiss: hopeful for new beginnings and marked by the bittersweetness of moving on. (Noelle Huser) LVL UP plays the Union Ballroom Tue., Sept. 4, at 6 PM, with local openers Fantasy Suite and More/Better. $12/$10 in advance.

Sophie Beaton, Finally One of the great things about the time we live in is Bandcamp — and I don’t get paid to shill for them either. The music company is a good example of the internet’s democratizing potential. In the case of Sophie Beaton, a 14-yearold from Missoula, her music coexists on the same platform as musicians further into their careers and with much larger fan bases. Unlike most streaming services, the lion’s share of song sales go directly to artists. You can listen to full albums several times, and ultimately it’s your decision to purchase or not. And, you can search by city, state and

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genre. If you’re a music fan, especially of independent music, Bandcamp represents a treasure trove of stuff to explore and learn about. And that’s how I found this record. Beaton’s Finally is as strong and poised as any solid first release I can think of. It’s a four-song EP, and like all EPs with good tracks, it feels like it’s over too soon. Beaton’s voice reminds me a little bit of Liz Phair’s — strong and clear and with a little bit of lilt. My favorite track is “My List,” whose ukulele backbone and vocal melodies make for a really compelling listen. ( Josh Vanek)

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Three-quarters elation The complex shadows of Zan Bockes’ Alibi for Stolen Light by Erika Fredrickson

In the author’s biography section of her new poetry book, Alibi for Stolen Light, Zan Bockes describes her birth like this: “I escaped the womb in 1958 in a little log hospital in Nuremberg Germany. My mother called my birth ‘One of the Nuremberg Trials.’” When I met up with Bockes recently to talk about the book, she was equally wry in person, describing Omaha, Nebraska, where her family later moved, as “a great place to grow up, but not worth visiting,” and her family as having “a lifetime subscription” of issues. But Bockes isn’t just a quipper. She’s measured and thoughtful in her responses, a writer who can turn the concepts behind her humor into stunning verse. In her poem “The Birth of Sound,” she describes her birth in another way, one that gives the Nuremberg comment emotional depth: “I made a sound that echoed across the tiled walls and drained the room of air. My mother told me about the sound — tried to approximate it years later in the nursing home where she died … halfmoan, half-cry, part cough, part scream, half dreamshattered-by-explosion … part wartime bravery, part peacetime coo … one quarter devastation, on three-quarters elation. …” The sound was brief and like any other baby’s cry, she notes, but Bockes’ attention to it gives it beautiful gravity, like the way Shakespeare’s “All the World’s a Stage” speech seems to hover over the heartbreaking wonder of life’s most common experiences. Alibi for Stolen Light does that kind of quiet but wrenching work in almost every poem. The scenarios are even particular to Missoula, as in “Winter Light on Orange Street,” where she describes being warmed by the thought of people she loves even as the water that slips by under the bridge looks like “the artist’s rendition of nothing or as close as he can get.” Or in “One Afternoon in Harold’s Club,” where she plays off Richard Hugo’s famous poem about the same bar (which closed a few years ago). “You could love here, not the lovely goat in plexiglass nor the elk shot in the middle of a joke, but honest drunks,” Hugo wrote. In her poem, Bockes responds to some of the same imagery, including the bar’s taxidermied goat. It’s been 40 years since Hugo’s poem came out, and Bockes’ poem captures some of the same colorful aspects of the bar. Her fondness for the place is complicated by a sense that she’s intruding on someone else’s territory. “The goat offers a sly smile,” she writes, but later the goat’s eyes “flame with accusation. Why have you come here? What do you want?” Bockes got her undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska and attended classes at the

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Zan Bockes’ short stories and poems feature characters on the fringe.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She came to Missoula in 1987 to get her MFA at the University of Montana’s creative writing program, where she focused on short story writing. She’s open about the fact that since she was 19, she’s struggled with bipolar disorder, and that it’s only in the last seven or so years that she’s felt like it wasn’t a fight. “It boggles my mind, because for so many years I wasn’t able to work, I wasn’t able to go to school, I didn’t have any friends,” she says. “I was horribly unstable, in and out of the hospital. But I feel like I’ve come out on the other side of it in terms of recovery. Some of it is — I don’t know — luck. Some of it is good medication. And then just practicing good self-care.” Her short stories often feature characters on the fringe, some with mental illnesses. The collection she’s working on now begins with a story called “The Evening Place,” told from the point of view of

a homeless man who encounters a social worker. And the collection ends with a story called “The Other Side,” told through the social worker’s eyes. “I like writing about people who are on the edge, not easily understood and kind of a funnel for emotions,” she says. “And I’ve seen myself that way, but I think a lot of people do.” One of Bockes’ strengths is her ability to empathize. Even in her poems, which can be raw and bloody, she seems to take on different points of view that keep any of it from becoming self-indulgently horrific. As in the title of her book, there is plenty of light. Her 2013 poetry book, Caught in Passing, is all about the deaths of her parents, and the poems pull in all directions, laying out a map of the way an imperfect family summons pain, fear, love and comfort, sometimes all at once. Despite her family’s “lifetime subscription of issues,” Bockes doesn’t boil anything down to a single feeling.

“It was basically pretty good,” she says. “I really had a good childhood, and it took me a long time to realize how good it was.” In popular culture and in the minds of aspiring writers, mental illness is often tied to creative writing as if the two must go hand in hand. And people have sometimes asked Bockes if being bipolar feeds her creativity. But Bockes isn’t one to romanticize such things. This is a gray area, too, and one that she has a sense of humor about. “In a way, it does feed it,” she says, smiling. “I always say mania is great for rough drafts. So you’ve got that. But in terms of actually producing something and sticking with a project long enough to get through it, it takes another type of sanity. Everybody out there has a quirkiness to them. We’re all just learning to live.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[20] Missoula Independent • August 30–September 6, 2018

True to life Cameron Post skips the easy stereotypes by Sarah Aswell

* The Miseducation of Cameron Post stars, from left, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane and Chloë Grace Moretz.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post might be set in 1993, but it’s a coming-of-age story for our time. The 90-minute movie, which was based on the successful YA novel by University of Montana creative writing grad Emily Danforth, pairs a simple plot with a complex cast of characters, resulting in a viewing experience that feels real, moving and emotional, if maybe over a bit too soon. The movie may not be as great as the book (are they ever?) but it certainly succeeds in capturing its thoughtfulness, sharpness and earnestness. As the title suggests, the film centers on Cameron Post, an eleventh-grader who is swiftly sent off to God’s Promise “conversion camp” boarding school after she’s found in the back seat of a car with her secret girlfriend after prom. As Post (played brilliantly by Chloë Grace Moretz) navigates her new surroundings, she grapples to find her place in the world and swings perilously between honest attempts at rejecting her sexuality and embracing who she really is. The movie succeeds so well because of what it resists. First and foremost, it resists black and white characters who are exactly sure of who they are and what they think — which would be easy in the case of this story, in which gay teens are being brainwashed to rid themselves of their “SSA” (same sex attraction). Not only is each teen given a well-rounded personality (even those with just a few lines escape any sort of stereotyping), but the people who run the camp are treated humanely, too. Headmistress Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) and her brother Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.) seem sincerely interested in “saving” the kids, and Rick, who was himself “converted,” has plenty of moments of open conflict about what he’s doing, even if some just involve a change of expression. The movie also resists defining its characters by their characteristics. The kids aren’t their sexualities. The administrators and teachers aren’t their reli-

gions. An example: One of Post’s few friends at the camp, Jane (Sasha Lane), has a prosthetic leg that is only mentioned because it’s used to carry contraband. Post’s roommate Erin (Emily Skeggs) could have easily slipped into the role of the sports-loving butch lesbian, but her careful treatment by the story is one of the film’s biggest surprises. At the same time, Post resists being a period piece. The movie gives a few subtle nods to the early ’90s, especially in terms of the soundtrack, but it doesn’t waste time or energy on nostalgia. And why, the movie subtly asks, would we be nostalgic about the year of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the time period when we were on high AIDS alert and more than a decade away from gay marriage? Finally, the movie resists being a love story. While the inciting incident of the film is the separation of two star-crossed lovers, one of the most moving aspects of the story is when, in a moment of desperation, Post rushes to secretly pick up the phone, and it’s not to call her ex-girlfriend. In the end, this is a movie about a thoughtful, empathetic, smart girl trying to understand why what she understands about herself isn’t flush with what the world is telling her about herself. It’s a story that’s been told in the queer community many times before, but perhaps not with as much graciousness, regard and respect — and it certainly hasn’t been so thoughtfully told for a teen audience. Throughout the film, I found myself wishing that it had existed when I was in high school — but the good news is that it exists now. Montana Book Festival screens The Miseducation of Cameron Post at The Roxy Thu., Aug. 30, at 7 PM, followed by a Q&A with novelist Emily Danforth. $20. The film continues regular screenings Aug. 31 through Sept. 6. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] The cowards at the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9 are actively ducking my phone calls. Visit amctheatres.com for a updated listings.

OPENING THIS WEEK MADELINE’S MADELINE She was a shoo-in to get the lead role in this theater piece. The character dresses just like her, talks just like her and holds a hot iron to her mother’s face just like her. Wait a minute. Not Rated. Stars Helena Howard, Molly Parker and Miranda July. Playing Fri., Aug. 31 through Sun., Sept. 2 at 8 PM at the Roxy. THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST Sent to a gay conversion camp after getting caught in the backseat of a car with a girl on prom night, a young woman forms a tight community with her fellow outcasts while dealing with dubious “de-gaying” methods. Not Rated. Opening Thu., Aug. 30 at 7 PM at the Roxy, followed by a Q&A with author Emily M. Danforth. (See Film)

NOW PLAYING ALPHA When exactly did dogs first become humanity’s best friend? According to the codirector of Menace II Society, it was 20,000 years ago when one of our ancestors gave an injured wolf some water. Rated PG-13. Stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Natassia Malthe and Jens Hulten. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. A.X.L. A boy and his robot dog team up to battle back against an evil conspiracy. God, I hope this is a sequel to Alpha. Rated PG. Stars Alex Neustaedter, Becky G and Thomas Jane. Playing at the AMC 12. BLACKkKLANSMAN It’s the early 1970s and the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department is determined to make a name for himself. What better way than by infiltrating and exposing the Ku Klux Klan? What could possibly go wrong? Rated R. Stars John David Washington, Adam Driver and Topher Grace. Playing at the Roxy. CHRISTOPHER ROBIN The little boy from Winnie-the-Pooh is all grown up and seriously lacking in imagination. But when his old stuffed animal friends from the Hundred Acre Wood show up to help out, we’re all reduced to blubbering messes in the theater. Rated PG. Stars Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell and beloved character actor Piglet. Playing at the Pharaohplex and the AMC 12. CRAZY RICH ASIANS A Chinese-American economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore to attend his best friend’s wedding only to be thrust into the lives of Asia’s rich and famous. Rated PG-13. Stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh. Playing at the AMC 12, the Southgate 9 and the Pharaohplex. DARK MONEY This made-in-Montana doc follows journalist John S. Adams as he works to expose the real-life impacts of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. Not Rated. Directed by Kimberly Reed. Playing at the Roxy. DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) Fight the power! The hottest day of the year explodes into violence in this powerful and controversial portrait of racial tensions in urban

“We’re here for the Spirited Away screening?” Helena Howard stars in Madeline’s Madeline, opening at the Roxy. neighborhoods. Rated R. Stars one of the greatest ensemble casts ever assembled for a motion picture. Playing Sat., Sept. 1 at 9 PM at the Roxy.

what we’re in for by this point. Rated PG-13. Stars Sinoceratops, Barynoyx, Stygimoloch and Chris Pratt. Playing at the Southgate 9.

EIGHTH GRADE Middle school is that magical time when your body is changing, your mind is changing and absolutely everything you do will make you cringe in embarrassment as an adult for as long as you live. Rated R. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton and Emily Robinson. Playing at the Roxy.

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. Playing at the Southgate 9.

THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS Jim Henson’s son tries his hand at directing an adultorientated puppet movie in this gross-out murder mystery that makes you wish you were watching Meet the Feebles instead. Rated R. Stars Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph and Joel McHale. Playing at the Southgate 9.

THE MEG Human fist Jason Statham fights a giant prehistoric shark in a theatrical film that’s surprisingly isn’t a Syfy Channel Original Movie. Rated PG-13 because the studio cut out all the good deaths. Also stars Rainn Wilson and Ruby Rose. Playing at the Southgate 9, the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

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 Southgate 9.

MILE 22 Iko Uwais from The Raid and The Raid 2 teams up with Mark Wahlberg from Daddy’s Home and Daddy’s Home 2 to battle terrorists. Rated R. Also stars John Malkovich and Rowdy Ronda Rousey. Playing at the the Southgate 9 and the AMC 12.

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.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE–FALLOUT Tom Cruise returns as 56-year-old secret agent Ethan Hunt to do his own stunts in the sixth film in this long-running franchise. This time Hunt and his team are on the run after a mission goes bad. Isn’t that the plot to the last five movies? Rated PG-13. Also stars Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett and Henry Cavill. Playing at the Pharaohplex, the AMC 12 and the Southgate 9

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM It’s the fifth Jurassic Park movie. I think we all know

THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) It might not be easy being green, but it’s way

harder to drive across country with your craziest friends in the hopes of becoming a big-time movie star. Stars Jim Henson, Frank Oz and Charles Durning. Playing Thu., Aug. 30 and Sat., Sept. 1 at 2 PM at the Roxy. PRINCESS MONONKE (1997) Sure you love the environment, but do you love it enough to battle a demonic boar-god even though you’re certainly going to get squished? Rated PG-13. The voices of Billy Cruddup, Claire Danes and Billy Bob Thorton star in Hayao Miyazaki’s box office juggernaut. Playing Sun., Sept. 2 at 2 PM at the Roxy. SLENDER MAN Usually when people say that the Internet has created a monster, they’re talking about the current president, and not this well-dressed meme-gonewild. Rated PG-13, because of course it is. Featuring Joey King, Javier Botet and the director of I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex. SPIRITED AWAY (2001) Moving to a new city is always hard, but you’ve got to make the best of it. Otherwise you might end up in a world ruled by gods, witches and ghosts. Also your parents might get polymorphed into nightmare pigs. Rated PG. The voices of Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden and John Ratzenberger star in Hayao Miyazaki’s critical darling. Playing Wed., Sept 5 at 8 PM and Sun., Sept 9 at 2 PM 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.

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The chile hatch by Ari LeVaux

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Last Saturday at the Clark Fork Market, on a patch of blacktop behind his produce stand, Brian Wirak of Harlequin Produce was quietly and fragrantly making my dreams come true. Roasting green chile is a smell that can be detected in small dilutions. As a shark can smell a drop of blood from a great distance, I caught a whiff of that roasting green chile from blocks away. I knew it was going to be a good day. In New Mexico, where I lived for seven years, one can get green chile on a fast-food burger, a bushel of roasted green chile outside Walmart and a full-on aromatherapy session at the farmers market. The annual roasting of green chiles turns every parking lot into a potential mecca for one of New Mexico’s favorite pastimes, and I will forever be triggered by that smell. I immediately knew what I would be doing for the rest of the market, and began mentally flipping through the vendors of hot food. I would be purchasing a serving of some greasy omnivorous goodness atop which to place the roasted green chile that I would also be purchasing. Wirak was cycling several types of green chile through the roaster, which directed four propane

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flames at a spinning steel-mesh drum in which the chiles tumbled and blistered. There were Anaheims, poblanos and a New Mexico variety from Hatch. The ones from Hatch smelled best, so I bought a sack of those and ate one with a gravy-drenched burger of Hot Springs beef. It was perfect. I felt like a princess who finally found her prince. The rest of the market was a blur. There were lots of tomatoes. In fact I went on a tomato binge, buying cherry tomatoes from numerous vendors. My home is now packed with bowls and platters full of tomatoes of all hues, a sweet acidic ocean of bite-sized edible gems. And I do clearly remember a dude carrying around a stem from a Brussels sprout plant laden with untrimmed sprouts. There was a smugness to his swagger that reminded me of my old dog Way, who would carry oversized sticks down narrow trails, prancing like a boss. Kind of like me and my sack of green chiles, come to think of it. If you have tips on local markets worth covering, send them to editor@missoulanews.com.

[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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Steel thyself

HAPPIEST HOUR What I’m drinking: Steel Reserve, a high-gravity lager with an 8.1 percent ABV. Why: Punk rock and cheap booze have gone hand-in-hand presumably since the beginning of time. As a teenager in my hometown of Billings, I played in at least a half-dozen bands, and consequently spent a lot of time around alcohol. I almost uniformly avoided partaking. But as the old saying goes, there’s a time and place for everything: college. I moved to Missoula four years ago, a freshfaced high school graduate with aspirations of becoming a journalist. And almost immediately my best friend and I assembled a band. We played scores of shows, playing a frenetic and occasionally obnoxious blend of hardcore and noise rock. I met some of my best friends at those shows. I also learned to enjoy alcohol. Missoula is a craft beer town, but I’ve never seen the appeal. Instead, I gained a deep love of malt liquor, which older punks drank frequently. My show-going peers were more than happy to procure tall cans of Schlitz, glass 40s and whatever my heart desired. My time in Missoula has been rocky. I have gone through many personal changes, struggling intensely with issues of gender identity and expression. But some of my fondest memories here were punctuated with a can of the cheap stuff — most often, Steel Reserve. I remember sneaking sips from a can wrapped in a jacket on walks downtown, nursing the pineapple-flavored variant while cranking out essays in a friend’s dorm room, shotgunning them, dumping them in the sink the morning after a house party. Little moments, ingrained deep in my memory. It’s not that I romanticize alcohol. I never even really loved drinking, and largely don’t bother anymore (except when it’s my turn to write Happiest Hour). But the essence of Steel Reserve is scorched into my being.

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! $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily, local and regional micro brews, fine wines and signature cocktails. Vegetarian and glutenfree menu available, plus takeout and delivery daily. $$-$$$

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Even the sight of a can calls to mind moments (some trivial, some not) that I’ll likely remember for the rest of my life. Gaston Bachelard, the French philosopher, once said, “In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.” It is not the image of the M trail or any other Missoula landmark that inspires fond reflection in me. It’s this plain silver can. It calls to mind sweaty nights on stage, screaming my guts out. It reminds me of specific alleys, streets and backyards. This is my final piece for the Indy, where my worst writing habits were beaten out of me in the past year. It’s also the last thing I’ll write in Missoula before I leave for the East Coast. I chose to write about a shitty highgravity beer not because its taste is exceptional, but because it will always remind me of the place I called home for so long. Now it’s time to have new adventures with new beverages. —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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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. $$-$$$ 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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Whitey Morgan plays the Top Hat Sat., Sept. 1. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20. photo courtesy Marc Nader

FRI | 8 PM

Monsterwatch plays the Union Ballroom Fri., Aug. 31. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $6.

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Dinosaur Jr. plays the Wilma Fri., Aug. 31. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28/$25 advance.

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Thursday Olney, Montana’s own Tim Helnore plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Crazy Dog plays its acoustic rock covers at the Still Room. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

Joan Zen provides the funk and soul soundtrack at the final Downtown ToNight of the year. Local food, local tunes and a beer garden in Caras Park. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM.

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

Whistling Andy Distilling hosts a tasting of the Spirit a Sperry, a new huckleberry-flavored vodka. Stone of Accord. 4 PM–7 PM. Free.

Join Missoula Art Museum for a curator-led art discussion paired with sommelier-selected wines. Wine Palette starts at 5:30 PM. $80/$30 MAM members.

Cash for Junkers plays the Top Hat’s Acoustic Avenue series. 8 PM. Free.

Science writer David Quammen reads from The Tangled Tree, his new book about horizontal gene transfer at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM–9 PM. Free.

Travel nurse, bike tourist and writer Mary Ann Thomas speaks about her experiences biking across

Michael Shaw & the Wildfires provide the bluegrass soundtrack at the Old Post Pub. 8 PM. Free.

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.

My DJ name is shared between DJs across the globe. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM.

That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight, singing every Thursday at Rocking Karaoke with Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

India from the Himalayas to Kerala as a queer woman and the daughter of Indian immigrant parents. Free Cycles. 8 PM–11 PM.

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Friday Travis Yost provides the tunes at Montana Distillery from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Rock legends Dinosaur Jr. play the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $28/$25 advance. Seattle garage punks Monsterwatch plays the Union Ballroom with local support from Powerplant, Tomb Toad and Crypticollider. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $6. NightLiner provides the tunes for your dancing pleasure at the Eagles. 8 PM. Free. Ole Red Coyote, Violent Little Fish and Fine Lightening unite for a night of music at Monk’s. 9 PM. $2.

Missoula’s late night party series centered around art, music and expression returns to Missoula Winery and Event Center. Bohemia kicks off at 9 PM. Donations. Roll a dexterity save! DJ T-Rex is on deck for Trap Night at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. Is this another Game of Thrones reference I don’t get? String quintet Dead Winter Carpenters play the Top Hat. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10:15. $5. Band in Motion keeps on moving at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Twenty-one! Time to pay off that bookie! Double Down Band plays the Sunrise Saloon at 9 PM. Free.

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Dead Winter Carpenters plays the Top Hat Fri., Aug. 31. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10:15. $5.

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Saturday Stock up on farm-direct food every Saturday at the Clark Fork Market. Vendors from across Western Montana converge in the Riverside Parking Lot next to Caras Park. 8 AM–1 PM. Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels. 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.

Celebrating its 20th year, the Missoula People’s Market features an amazing assortment of artists, crafts and community. W. Pine and Higgins. 9 AM. Free. Get your weekend started with a round of disc golf at Granite Peak Folf Course. 10 AM. Free. Visit lolohotsprings.com for more info and registration. Follow up an hour-long, all-levels yoga class with a cold beer at Great Burn Brewing’s Namaste and Have a Beer. 11 AM. $10. You either spelled October kind of wrong or September super wrong.

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Bayern Brewing celebrates Oktoberfest with brats, beer and live music by the S-Bahn Band. 5 PM– 8 PM. Folk troubadour Christy Hays plays Imagine Nation Brewing. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. The Ron Meisnner Trio plays Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Settle the island of Catan at Caturdays at Ever Green Game & Hobby. 7 PM–10 PM. Free, but you have to promise not to make any ‘wood for sheep’ jokes. The Montana Grizzly football sea-

son kicks off with a playoff rematch against the N. Iowa Panthers, which we can all agree is a worse football team because they’re from a different city. 7 PM. Visit grixtix.com for more info and full 2018 schedule. $46–$53. Gov’t Mule plays Big Sky Brewing Company along with Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights and The Magpie Salute. Can’t beat that! Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7 PM. $50/$38 advance. Country rebel Whitey Morgan plays the Top Hat along with Tennessee Jet. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $20.

NightLiner provides the tunes for your dancing pleasure at the Eagles. 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. Do you like your rock shaken, not stirred? Moneypenny plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free. The Lolo Creek Band floods into the Sunrise Saloon for your dancing pleasure. 9:30 PM. Free.

Sunday Brunch at the Brewery features cocktails, beer mimosas and the best foods to eat between meals. Draught Works. 10 AM–2 PM.

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.

Biers & Brunch at Bayern Brewing brings breakfast and brews every Sunday. 11 AM– 2 PM. Tom Catmull provides the soundtrack at Rumour Restaurant. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Goo goo g’joob. Tara Lynn Walrus plays Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free. Bongo solo! Bring an instrument to FreeSessions, an improvised jam session to promote healthy collaboration between Missoula’s musicians. Imagine Nation Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

Remember the reason for the season. Celebrate Labor Day with a picnic at Bonner Park, sponsored by the Missoula Area Central Labor Council. 1 PM–5 PM. Free. Micah Schnabel plays a special concert at the Sawmill under the Scott Street Bridge with local support form Travis Yost and J.W. Teller. Also featuring artwork by Vanessa Jean Speckman, A Concert at the Sawmill starts at 6 PM. $10. BYOB Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Hip-hop innovators Blackalicious plays the Top Hat with local support from Tonsofun and Wormwood. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22/$20 advance. 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.

Spotlight If only there was a famous expression about how the contents of a book are often more exciting and interesting than what might be portrayed on the cover. Then it would be easy to tell people intimidated by science writer David Quammen's new book to quit complaining and start reading. Sure The Tangled Tree covers some big topics, but that doesn't mean it's a slog, reserved for only the stuffiest academics. The quality of Quammen's writing, thanks to his accessible and approachable prose, clearly shines through subject matter that might normally WHAT: The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life WHO: David Quammen WHEN: Thu., Aug. 30 at 7 PM WHERE: Fact and Fiction Books HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: davidquammen.com

Blackalicious plays the Top Hat Mon., Sept 3. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $22/$20 advance.

Treeline make your eyes glaze over. See, while we all get our DNA from our parents, the same way they got theirs from their own parents, and so on and so forth up the tree of life to the very top, DNA can also transfer horizontally! It's rare, but thanks to genetic parasites such as viruses, mutated after infecting non-human creatures, we carry DNA from weasels, orangutans and whole menagerie of lifeforms. This might not seem like the most exciting thesis, but Quammen's writing and research could very well change our understanding of evolution as we know it. And yes, that sounds heavy and potentially game-changing for the world of science, but the story of how we got to this place is as thrilling as any book, regardless of covers. —Charley Macorn

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The Highlander Beer Taphouse hosts the most Missoula event imaginable. Buzzed Yoga lets you practice your flow while enjoying cold beer. Bring photo identification and $10 every Sunday this summer. 11 AM.

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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. Singer-songwriter J.W. Teller provides the tunes at the Still Room from 6 PM–8 PM. 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. I just need to kill three more goblins. Camp Daze presents a special performance by LVL UP at the Union Ballroom with local support from Fantasy Suite and Share. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7:30 PM. $12/$10 advance.

Blondie plays the KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $45–$55. Men from Mars are admitted, but only if they promise to refrain from eating all the cars and guitars at the venue. 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. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: Whistleblower Mark Felt was better known by what pseudonym? Answer in tomorrow’s event listings.

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Wednesday 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 pound a brew for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. 5 PM–8 PM.

Death to the Xenos! Unleash your armies at Retrofix’s Wednesday War Games. Warhammer, Hordes and more. 6 PM–10 PM. Free. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answer-

ing trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Deep Throat That’s what we’re going to be call-

ing the next generation, too. Cold War Kids play the Wilma along with daysormay. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.50–$35. Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at

the Badlander. 9:30 PM. No cover. Every Wednesday is Beer Bingo at the Thomas Meagher Bar. Win cash prizes along with beer and liquor giveaways. 8 PM. Free.

Cold War Kids plays the Wilma Wed., Sept. 5. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $27.50–$35.

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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4.

Good Old Fashioned plays a mixture of old-time bluegrass, folk, country and blues at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

UM’s Gallery of Visual Arts hosts an opening reception for Lovers, a group exhibit featuring work by teams of artists. 5 PM–8 PM.

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

Professor of Art MaryAnn Bonjorni presents a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition Horse. Montana Museum of Art & Culture. 5:15 PM. Free.

postpartum storytelling showcase of local mothers sharing their hilarious, heartbreaking and true stories of parenthood. The Roxy. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $25/$21 advance.

Local supergroup Westfork plays the Top Hat’s Acoustic Avenue series. 8 PM. Free.

My DJ name is shared between DJs across the globe. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM.

Melissa Bangs hosts Momedy, a

Listen, Montana is lots of things,

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okay? Montana is Country plays the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free. That’s me in the corner. That’s me in the spotlight, singing every Thursday at Rocking Karaoke with Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free. Kris Moon hosts a night of volcanic party action featuring himself, DJ TRex and a rotating cast of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to Missoula’s HomeGrown Comedy Stand-up Open Mic at the Union Club. Signup at 9:30 PM, show at 10. Free. 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. Or be like Blondie and Call Me.

Agenda THURSDAY, AUGUST 30

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

Open Aid Alliance hosts a free BBQ to honor and memorialize the people we have lost on International Overdose Awareness Day. 1 PM–5 PM.

HuHot Mongolian Grill hosts a fundraiser for the Missoula Out of Darkness Community Walk. Twenty percent of sales go to support suicide prevention. 4 PM–9 PM.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 Thanks for making sure our dumb kids grow up to be functioning adults, even though you're not paid nearly enough. Teacher Recognition Day at Imagine Nation salutes our local teachers with a discount on your first beer and speakers talking about the world of education. 2 PM–8 PM. For well over a hundred years, Labor Day has served as the unofficial end of summer. But despite being a stalwart part of our calendar for years, the origins of the holiday are still shrouded in mystery. Some point to a September 5, 1882 parade organized by the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor as the holiday’s geniuses, while others point to a proposal from American Federation of Labor Vice President P.J. McGuire in spring of that same year as the commemoration’s source. Whatever its origins, Labor Day has stood to commemorate the work of the generations of workers who came before. Without it, we would still be working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, in exchange for sacks of potatoes. I know that sounds terrible,

but, on the bright side, at least your children would be there working with you. The ones who hadn’t died in a lathe explosion, that is. The Missoula Area Central Labor Council’s annual Labor Day picnic returns to Bonner Park with free food, free ice cream and free beer (while supplies last, obviously) and live music performed by local union members. Celebrate what has come before, and prepare for what’s coming next. —Charley Macorn The 2018 MACLC picnic takes place Mon., Sept 3 from 1 PM to 5 PM at Bonner Park.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 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. Remember the reason for the season. Celebrate Labor Day with a picnic at Bonner Park, sponsored by the Missoula Area Central Labor Council. 1 PM–5 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 pound a brew for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. 5 PM–8 PM. Join the Keligreen team for the premiere of their Kickstarter video at the Roxy. Help the team combat single-use plastics. Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. Bring a clean 16 oz container and get free laundry soap.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Climate Smart's Monthly Meetup lets you be the change you want to see in the world. This week learn about renewable energy. Imagine Nation. 5 PM. Free.

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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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30

Mountain High

Travel nurse, bike tourist and writer Mary Ann Thomas speaks about her experiences biking across India from the Himalayas to Kerala as a queer woman and the daughter of Indian immigrant parents. Free Cycles. 8 PM–11 PM.

Full disclosure: I do not and have never owned a dog. I grew up with paradoxical parents — my father works as a wildlife veterinarian and my mother, on principle, dislikes animals unless they are in the wild. Despite that, my family managed to have many pets when I was younger. There were two turtles (in rehab after being run over), a llama (don’t ask me why), the parrot with half a beak (she yelled everytime we opened a door), and numerous fish. The final pet we owned was a cat named Snickers, which we got when I was 3-years-old after, legend has it, I locked myself in my dad’s truck until my parents agreed to let me keep it. Snickers was a fat, happy cat, and I was a young, carefree cat owner until the day I came home from school to find that my mom, tired of taking care of him, had gifted Snickers to a friend. I wasn’t heartbroken. I learned I am very content not owning pets, and instead spend (minimal) time taking care of my plants — they shed a lot less. For those out there who do have canine pals, what better way to celebrate that than a fun run and day long expo dedicated to your furry friend? The Doggy Dash expo will have an agility course, groomer, trainers, pets up for adoption, run runs and more! —Micah Drew

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 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. Cabela's Labor Day Festival features an archery range, seminars on the newest outdoor goodies and free funnel cakes. What more could you want? Visit cabelas.com for more information. 12 PM.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Cabela's Labor Day Festival continues. Visit cabelas.com for more info. 12 PM.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Take a Labor Day Hike on Lost Lake Trail with Christ the King Parish. 8:30 AM. 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. Tie flies with the friendly folks from IflyFishMontana and the Missoulian Angler at Bugs and Beers night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Materials provided to the first dozen people to join. 6 PM. Free.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

The Seventh Annual Doggie Dash Expo and Fun Run takes place at Fort Missoula, Sat., Sept. 8, at 10 AM.

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.

For tickets, visit the MSO Hub in downtown Missoula, call 543-3300 or go to

MissoulaOsprey.com. Tuesday, September 4

Wednesday September 5 vs. Helena Brewers

Farewell to the Helena Brewers!

BIKE TO THE BALLPARK!

NONPROFIT WEDNESDAY, FEATURING THE ZACC!

WE WIN “U” WIN NIGHT!

vs. Helena Brewers

2-for-1 tickets for anyone who bikes to the game.

Every Wednesday a local nonprofit is featured, where they have the opportunity to raise money through ticket and beverage sales.

Thursday, September 6

If the Osprey win, all fans who stay for the entirety of the game will be given a ticket voucher good for a free GA ticket, redeemable for a 2018 GA playoff ticket (if applicable) or a Sun - Tues 2019 regular season home game.

Sponsored by U104.5

Gates 6:30; Game time 7:05

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I’m a 41-year-old married lesbian. My wife and I used to work from home together. She recently got an important job, and she’s now gone all day, five days a week. I’m happy for her, and this is good for us in the long run, but I’m really sad and lonely.

—Isolated Avoid any temptation to kidnap strangers lingering in your building’s lobby. “Are you going to cut me up and put me in your freezer?” the terrified UPS man will ask. You: “Uh, I thought we’d just hang out and have coffee, but whatever works for you.” Healthier (and less felonious) forms of coping start with unpacking what loneliness is. The late neuroscientist John Cacioppo explained loneliness as a painful feeling of “disconnection” from others. He differentiated loneliness — the aching longing for human connection — from a desire for solitude, “the pleasures of sometimes being by yourself.” And he and his wife and research partner, psychologist Stephanie Cacioppo, noted that loneliness has been associated with serious negative effects on not just emotional well-being but also physical health — including an increased risk of heart attacks. (It seems heartbreak isn’t just a metaphor.) However, as you’re staring gloomily into the void (the indentation in the couch where your wife used to sit during the day), it might help to understand that our emotions are actually our watchdogs. They rise up in us to motivate us to engage in the sort of behaviors — like connecting with other people — that would help us survive and pass on our genes. For example, we humans evolved to be cooperators — interdependent — which is to say we’re “people who need people.” Take author Henry David Thoreau, an icon for hermitude and self-sufficiency who put in big chunks of alone time out by Walden Pond. What few people realize, notes Thoreau expert Elizabeth Witherell, is that he was also a huge people person. In fact, Thoreau wrote in Walden, “I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way.” As for you, it’s possible that some of the feelbad you’re experiencing is the discomfort we often feel about change. But chances are, you’d feel a good bit better if you could replace at least some of the level of daily human engagement you’re used to. You could, for example, go out to a coffee shop for part of your

workday — the same coffee shop every day so you can connect with other regulars there.You could also invite work-at-home friends over to your place to be coworkers. Volunteer work could be helpful, too. No, it isn’t the same as having your wife there with you all day. But it should dial down your separation distress — perhaps even substantially. This should allow you to let your wife know you really missed her — but maybe just with a sexy kiss at the door. No guilt tripping, sadwifeface, or going man’s best friend-style — spending your day shredding all the paper products in the house with your teeth and then moving on to the drywall.

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How do you know when a man’s “I love you” is for real? I’ve had men express their love to me with great sincerity, only to vanish not long afterward. Are all men this fickle? Manipulative?

—Upset Why does a man say “I love you”? Sometimes because “Look, a ferret in a top hat!” doesn’t do much to get a woman into bed. To parse whether a man’s “I love you” is just the later-in-the-relationship version of “You related to Yoda? Because yodalicious,” you need to consider context.The exact same statement can have different meanings depending on the context — the situation, the circumstances in which it’s made. Not surprisingly, research by evolutionary social psychologist Joshua Ackerman and his colleagues suggests that men’s I-love-yous “are likely to be more sincere (i.e., less colored by the goal of attaining initial sexual access) after sex has occurred.”They also find that men, on average, start thinking about “confessing love” 97 days into a relationship — so just over three months. Of course, an individual man may know sooner or take longer. All in all, the best lie detector you probably have is context — racking up a good bit of time and experiences with a man and seeing how well the walk matches the talk. You might even wait till the three-month benchmark before concluding that the I-love-yous are likely to be for real — and aren’t, say, the best possible air bag for what might come shortly afterward: “I got you a little something on my work trip. It requires a short course of antibiotics.”

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HIRING SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. Starting wage $19.36 per hour with benefits. Post certification is a plus. Daniels County Sheriff, (406) 487-2691 or (406) 783-7100. Sales Assistant: LC Staffing Missoula is working with a manufacturer to hire a long-term Sales Assistant. The Sales Assistant will be working as a support person for the three-person sales team; this position will report directly to the vice president of sales. Successful candidates thrive in a fast-paced, resultsdriven department and help with daily issues that come up along with tackling weekly tasks. This position has an opportunity to lead to a direct sales position with excellent performance. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32346.

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EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS AVAILABLESEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO Must Have: Valid driver license, No history of neglect, abuse or exploitation Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT. 59801 or online at www.orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EEO/AA-M/F/disability/ protected veteran status.

Residential Carpenter: LC Staffing Missoula is now hiring a long-term Lead Carpenter for new and remodeled homes in Missoula Valley. This person will be responsible for general carpentry duties. Position starts at $16.00 per hour and up! For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32383.

HEALTH Dental Assistant: LC Staffing Missoula is working with local endodontic clinic to recruit for a long-term Dental Assistant. This career position is in a fastpaced and high-tech environment; candidates must have current X-Ray certification and 1-2 years of experience as a Dental Assistant for consid-

MARKETPLACE AUCTIONS EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units 51,52,186,442 &566 Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, September 3 2018. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, September 6 2018 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final Montana Street Storage will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): #24, #M, #N & #O. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds,

other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 8/30/18 by appt only by calling 880-4677. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at Montana Street, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 9/6/2018 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale, All Sales final. NOTICE OF SALE In accordance with Montana state law: Gilly’s Rentals will sell the contents belonging to: Autumn Heinz: September 8, 2018. Please see auction at Storagetreasures.com or call (406) 239-8104.

Summit Property Management will auction to the highest bidder the contents of abandoned storage units, due to delinquent storage rent. A silent auction will be held Wednesday September 5thth at 11:00 am, at 2115 S

3rd St W. Buyers will bid for the entire contents of the unit. No personal checks accepted. The winning bid must have payment in cashier’s check or money order to the Summit Property office by 5 pm. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. Phone 406-5493929

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP MONTANA 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY SUMMONS Civil Number: DV18-776 Ditech Financial LLC, Plaintiff, v. Steven A. Ball and Twila M. Ball, and Does 1-10, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA, TWILA M. BALL: 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 repossess a manufactured home described as: 1994 West TL HS used manufactured home, having Title number W735110 and VIN number 4794017N9922 located at 32230 Piney Meadow, Huson, MT 59846. A $70.00 filing fee must accompany the answer at the time of filing.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DV-18-417 SUMMONS FIRST COMMERCE, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. KRISTINE IHLI; CB1, INC.; d/b/a CBM COLLECTIONS; and COLLECTION BUREAU SERVICES, INC., Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: KRISTINE IHLI 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 twentyone (21) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: Lots 24 and 25 of Bear Creek Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 6th day of April, 2018. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST Clerk of the District Court Deputy Clerk

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. 1 DV-18-1126 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Christi Lee Page, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitionaer, Christi Lee Page, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Christi Lee Page to Christi Lee Baird, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 26th day of September, 2018, at 11:00 A.M., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT, 59802, in courtroom number 1. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 15th day of August, 2018. /s/ Shirley Faust Clerk of Court

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-18-164 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: DONALD WALTER JOHNSON, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sheree Bombard 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 be mailed to the above-named attorney, as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, and filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 31st day of July, 2018. JONES & COOK ATTORNEYS AT LAW /s/

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-18-207 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JAY SAGE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Julie C. Sage and James W. Sage have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Julie C. Sage and James W. Sage, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, P.O. Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 7th day of August, 2018. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C. 2625 Dearborn, Suite 102B P.O. Box 8234 Missoula, MT 59807-8234 BY: /s/ Dan G. Cederberg Attorneys for the Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-18-218 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: RONALD D. WOLLAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joan N. Wollan has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jones & Associates, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2625 Dearborn Avenue, Suite 102A, Missoula, Montana 59804, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 20th day of August, 2018. /s/ Joan N. Wollan, Personal Representative /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 2 Cause No.: DP-18-209

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JACQUELIN IVANOVITCH, 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 TARA IVANOVITCH, 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 13th day of August, 2018. /s/ Tara Ivanovitch, Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for Tara Ivanovitch, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 3 Cause No.: DP-18-214 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: TAYLOR RAY ALFORD, a/k/a Taylor R. Alford, 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 Melissa S. Peterson, 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 15th day of August, 2018. /s/ Melissa S. Peterson Personal Representative Bjornson Jones Mungas, PLLC By: /s/ Elizabeth A. Clark Attorneys for Melissa S. Peterson, Personal Representative NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-aSpace in the amounts listed below(plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc. 1242/Gary Jiron/$268/furniture. 1250/Chad Wolfe/$251/carrier. 2 2 6 0 / A m y Winebrenner/$197/misc. 3302/Sara Hughes/$259/furniture. 3312/Pauline Pacheco/$173/misc. 3370/Shandel Weeks/$341/furniture. SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT

www.gardnersauction.com SALE DATE/TIME: Wed, Sept. 12, 2018 @ 4:30 PM (check website for details) TERMS: Public sale to the highest bidder. Sold “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”. Cash or certified funds. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on December 13, 2018, 11:00 AM at the main entrance of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, State of Montana: The following described premises in Missoula County, Montana, to wit: Lot 4 in Block 5 of Elms Addition No. 4, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. More commonly known as 420 SW Higgins Avenue, Missoula, MT 59803. Christine L. Staggs, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Lawyer’s Title Insurance Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GMAC Mortgage, LLC dba ditech, its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on March 14, 2008, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on April 1, 2008 as Instrument No. 200807134, in Book 816, at Page

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, our heroine encounters a talking caterpillar as he smokes a hookah on top of a tall mushroom. “Who are you?” he asks her. Alice is honest: “I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” She says this with uneasiness. In the last few hours, she has twice been shrunken down to a tiny size and twice grown as big as a giant. All these transformations have unnerved her. In contrast to Alice, I’m hoping you’ll have a positive attitude about your upcoming shifts and mutations, Aries. From what I can tell, your journey through the Season of Metamorphosis should be mostly fun and educational. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Juan Villarino has hitchhiked over 2,350 times in 90 countries. His free rides have carried him over 100,000 miles. He has kept detailed records, so he’s able to say with confidence that Iraq is the best place to catch a lift. Average wait time there is seven minutes. Jordan and Romania are good, too, with nine- and twelve-minute waits, respectively. In telling you about his success, I don’t mean to suggest that now is a favorable time to hitchhike. But I do want you to know that the coming weeks will be prime time to solicit favors, garner gifts and make yourself available for metaphorical equivalents of free rides.You’re extra magnetic and attractive. How could anyone could resist providing you with the blessings you need and deserve? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): One of the big stories of 2018 concerns your effort to escape from a starcrossed trick of fate — to fix a long-running tweak that has subtly undermined your lust for life. How successful will you be in this heroic quest? That will hinge in part on your faith in the new power you’ve been developing. Another factor that will determine the outcome is your ability to identify and gain access to a resource that is virtually magical even though it appears nondescript. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that a key plot twist in this story will soon unfold. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Potential new allies are seeking entrance to your domain. Existing allies aspire to be closer to you. I’m worried you may be a bit overwhelmed; that you might not exercise sufficient discrimination. I therefore urge you to ask yourself these questions about each candidate. 1. Does this person understand what it means to respect your boundaries? 2. What are his or her motivations for wanting contact with you? 3. Do you truly value and need the gifts each person has to give you? 4. Everyone in the world has a dark side. Can you intuit the nature of each person’s dark side? Is it tolerable? Is it interesting?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While a young man, the future Roman leader Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Sicilian pirates. They proposed a ransom of 620 kilograms of silver. Caesar was incensed at the small size of the ransom — he believed he was worth more — and demanded that his captors raise the sum to 1,550 kilograms. I’d love to see you unleash that kind of bravado in the coming weeks, Leo — preferably without getting yourself kidnapped. In my opinion, it’s crucial that you know how valuable you are, and make sure everyone else knows, as well. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran loved the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. “Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure,” he testified, adding, “Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure.” I invite you to emulate Cioran’s passionate clarity, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to identify people and things that consistently invigorate your excitement about your destiny. Maybe you have just one shining exemplar, like Cioran, or maybe you have more. Home in on the phenomena that in your mind embody the glory of creation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I foresee the withering of a hope or the disappearance of a prop or the loss of leverage. This ending may initially make you feel melancholy, but I bet it will ultimately prove beneficent — and maybe lead you to resources that were previously unavailable. Here are rituals you could perform that may help you catalyze the specific kind of relief and release you need: 1. Wander around a graveyard and sing songs you love. 2. Tie one end of a string around your ankle and the other end around an object that symbolizes an influence you want to banish from your life. Then cut the string and bury the object. 3. Say this ten times: “The end makes the beginning possible.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart,” wrote Oscar Wilde. I’ll translate that into a more complete version: “If a person of any gender treats life artistically, their brain is their heart.” This truth will be especially applicable for you in the coming weeks. You’ll be wise to treat your life artistically. You’ll thrive by using your heart as your brain. So I advise you to wield your intelligence with love. Understand that your most incisive insights will come when you’re feeling empathy and seeking intimacy. As you crystallize clear visions about the future, make sure they are generously suffused with ideas about how you and your people can enhance your joie de vivre.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “My tastes are simple,” testified Sagittarian politician Winston Churchill. “I am easily satisfied with the best.” I propose that we make that your motto for now. While it may not be a sound idea to demand only the finest of everything all the time, I think it will be wise for you to do so during the next three weeks.You will have a mandate to resist trifles and insist on excellence. Luckily, this should motivate you to raise your own standards and expect the very best from yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Russian playwright Anton Chekhov articulated a principle he felt was essential to telling a good story: If you say early in your tale that there’s a rifle hanging on the wall, that rifle must eventually be used. “If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there,” declared Chekhov. We might wish that real life unfolded with such clear dramatic purpose. To have our future so well-foreshadowed would make it easier to plan our actions. But that’s not often the case. Many elements pop up in our personal stories that ultimately serve no purpose. Except now, that is, for you Capricorns. I suspect that in the next six weeks, plot twists will be telegraphed in advance.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Would it be fun to roast marshmallows on long sticks over scorching volcanic vents? I suppose. Would it be safe? No! Aside from the possibility that you could get burned, the sulfuric acid in the vapors would make the cooked marshmallows taste terrible, and might cause them to explode. So I advise you to refrain from adventures like that. On the other hand, I will love it if you cultivate a playful spirit as you contemplate serious decisions. I’m in favor of you keeping a blithe attitude as you navigate your way through tricky maneuvers. I hope you’ll be jaunty in the midst of rumbling commotions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): People will be thinking about you more than usual, and with greater intensity. Allies and acquaintances will be revising their opinions and understandings about you, mostly in favorable ways, although not always. Loved ones and not-so-loved ones will also be reworking their images of you, coming to altered conclusions about what you mean to them and what your purpose is. Given these developments, I suggest that you be proactive about expressing your best intentions and displaying your finest attributes. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP tion is the principal sum of $264,566.29, interest in the sum of $9,094.24, escrow advances of $9,754.23, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $-653.86 for a total amount owing of $282,760.90, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed, without any representation or warranty, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Beneficiary, the entire amount then due under the Deed of Trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust with Successor Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In the event that all defaults are cured the foreclosure will be dismissed and the foreclosure sale will be canceled. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason. In the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the Trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be 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 7th day of August, 2018. /s/ 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. 52820 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at a Trustee’s Sale on January 14, 2019, 10:30 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 5A of Knowles Addition, Block 45, Lots 5A and 6A, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. More commonly known as 202 Hickory Street, Missoula, MT 59801. Claire Phinney and Deanna Phinney, 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 Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., its successors and assigns, by Deed of Trust on July 30, 2009, and filed for record in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder in Missoula County, State of Montana, on July 31, 2009 as Instrument No. 200919042, in Book 844, at Page 1285, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Ditech Financial LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Assignment Dated: March 19, 2018 Assignment Recorded: March 19, 2018 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201804135, in Book 994, at Page 151, All in the records of the County Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana Benjamin J. Mann is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, on May 25, 2018 as Instrument No. 201808416, in Book 997, at Page 232, 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 October 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 $133,452.80, interest in the sum of $7,006.30, escrow advances of $4,877.42, other amounts due and payable in the amount of $963.10 for a total amount owing of $146,299.62, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other fees and costs that may be incurred or advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale, and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed, without any representation or warranty, including warranty of title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The Grantor, successor in interest to the Grantor, or any other person having an interest in the property, has the right, at any time prior to the Trustee’s Sale, to pay to the Beneficiary, or the successor in interest to the Benefici-

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PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP ary, 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 20th day of August, 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. 52342 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 20, 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 1 in Block 1

of Donovan Creek Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Also: A tract of land in the SE1/4 NW1/4 of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, Montana Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana, particularly described by meets and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point in the existing Northeasterly 180 foot right-of-way line of Montana State Highway Project No. FAP 131-B(5), which said point bears N.34°00È., a distance of 180 feet from Engineer`s Station 184+69.0 on center line of said Montana State Highway project No. FAP 131-B(5) and which said point of beginning is North 3,674.5 feet and West 3,421.4 feet from the Southeast corner of said Section 17; thence, S.56°00È., along said existing Northeasterly right-of-way line, a distance of 200 feet; thence, S34°00`W., a distance of 100 feet; thence, N.56°00`W., a distance of 200 feet; thence, N.34°00È., a distance of 100 feet to the said point of beginning, shown as Tract 2 of Deed Exhibit No. 2687. Deed Reference: Book 125 of Micro Records at Page 1053. More accurately described as: Lot 1 in Block 1 of Donovan Creek Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Also: A tract of land in the SE1/4 NW1/4 of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, Montana Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana, particularly described by meets and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point in the existing Northeasterly 180 foot rightof-way line of Montana State Highway Project No. FAP 131-B(5), which said point bears N.34°00È., a distance of 180 feet from Engineer`s Station 184+69.0 on center line of said Montana State Highway

project No. FAP 131-B(5) and which said point of beginning is North 3,674.5 feet and West 3,421.4 feet from the Southeast corner of said Section 17; thence, S.56°00`E., along said existing Northeasterly right-of-way line, a distance of 200 feet; thence, S34°00`W., a distance of 100 feet; thence, N.56°00`W., a distance of 200 feet; thence, N.34°00`E., a distance of 100 feet to the true point of beginning, shown as Tract 2 of Deed Exhibit No. 2687. Deed Reference is in Book 554 at Page 972 Micro Records. Ruben S Schwab, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Rocky Mountain Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 8, 2009, and recorded on May 13, 2009 as Book 839, Page 393, Document No. 200911155. The beneficial interest is currently held by Dubuque Bank and Trust Company. 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 November 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 July 30, 2018 is $110,400.06 principal, interest totaling $4,310.44, late charges in the amount of $137.68, escrow advances of $1,991.76 and other fees and expenses advanced of $120.00, 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

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become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 7, 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 7th day of August, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally 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 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 11, 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 15 of Cheyenne Lane, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, ac-

cording to the official recorded plat thereof. Nathan Michaels and Allison Lawrence, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American Federal Savings Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 16, 2014, and recorded on July 16, 2014 as Book 931 Page 102 Document No. 201409979. The beneficial interest is currently held by Branch Banking and Trust Company. 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 March 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 25, 2018 is $202,555.97 principal, interest totaling $9,361.31 late charges in the amount of $197.05, escrow advances of $3,085.10, suspense balance of $211.23 and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,210.30, 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 immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale

may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 24, 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 24th day of May, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally 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 BB&T Mortgage vs Allison Lawrence Nathan Michaels 104919-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 16, 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 3 in Block 2 of El-Mar Estates Phase II, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Randall M Kilgore, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American Federal Savings Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 29, 2014, and recorded on September 2, 2014 as Book 933 Page 916 Document No. 201413593. The beneficial interest is currently held by J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION CORP. 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 November 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 5, 2018 is $182,139.37 principal, interest totaling $3,489.99 late charges in the amount of $215.46, escrow advances of $750.68, suspense balance of $-0.02 and other fees and expenses advanced of $422.24, 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,

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: May 22, 2018 /s/ Rae Albert 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 22nd day of May, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, 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/ Kaitlin Ann Gotch Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/29/2022 Carrington Mortgage Services vs Randall M Kilgore 105224-1 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 30, 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: A tract of land located in the S1/2 of Section 10, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 9K of Certificate of Survey No. 1923. Mary B. Pielaet, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to First American Title Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as

Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 20, 2002, and recorded on February 25, 2002 in Book 677, Page 1150, as Document No. 200205206. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company. 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 August 1, 2017, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 3, 2018 is $121,146.67 principal, interest totaling $4,064.75, late charges in the amount of $214.24, escrow advances of $1,290.84, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,085.24, 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 immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the

grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: June 22, 2018. /s/ Rae Albert 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 22nd day of June, 2018, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Rae Albert, known 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

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44 Jill who played Captain Stubing's daughter on "The Love Boat" 47 Bald baby? 48 In better health 49 Midsection muscles 52 IX's opposite, on a clock face 53 YA fantasy hero who combats No.1 56 Frazier's "Thrilla in Manila" opponent 59 Horse race pace, sometimes 60 ___ Lama 61 "___ Artist's Studio" (Christina Rossetti poem) 62 "You and ___ going to get along" 63 Cheeses in red wax 64 Semiprecious stone used in cameos 65 Not barefoot 66 "GymnopÈdies" composer Erik 67 "The Untouchables" agent Eliot

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13 Mandy and Dudley, for two 21 Place that's not fun to be stuck inside with mosquitos 22 Pizzeria in "Do the Right Thing" 24 Diesel who got to say "I am Groot" in multiple languages 27 Calif. winter setting 28 Blackjack card 29 Gas used in light tubes 30 "Aladdin" character 32 Former Boston Bruin Bobby 33 "___ if I can help it!" 34 Tic ___ (candy brand) 37 Moore who won an Oscar for "Still Alice" 38 Perjure oneself 39 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel 40 Came down pretty hard 41 "First, do no ___" 42 Racetrack boundary 43 Special effects that look real but aren't, briefly 44 Start of many a "Jeopardy!" response 45 Palindromic Reno casino founder William 46 Bull-themed tequila brand 49 Carne ___ 50 A sharp equivalent 51 "Likewise" 54 "Beware the ___ of March" 55 Sagacious 57 Ruffles rival 58 "Listen Like Thieves" band 61 Charged atom

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 BRUNO•

Bruno is a 2 year old male Boxer mix. He loves to go for walks, enjoys playing in the yard, and frequently wears a goofy smile. He knows how to sit on command and is working on understanding othaer tricks. He enthusiastically plays fetch and tug-of-war. This is an all around fun-loving guy, ready for any adventure. Bruno gets along well with most dogs but would need a cat-free home.

SADIE• Sadie is a 1 year old female Pit Bull. Her play behavior has been described as goofy, loving, and a total class clown. She loves to zoom around the yard with a big smile and tongue lolling. This sweet girl loves to go for walks and will politely asks for your affection if she thinks you're safe. It can take her a little time to trust new people, especially men. PRINCESS• Princess is an 11 year old female Lab mix. She is a very calm and gentle older lady. Princess has great manners and greets people and animals very maturely. She is good with all dogs, both large and small. She especially likes male dogs. Princess gets along well with cats and kids of all ages. She is looking for a forever home to help her live the best golden years a dog could hope for.

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SHAY AND MISHA• Shay and Misha came to Missoula Animal Control together when they were surrendered by their owner. Shay is a 7 year old male. Misha is a 5 year old female. We would love to find these two social felines a forever home together, as they are very bonded to one another. Misha and Shay both love to give headbutts and kisses. CADE•Cade is a 1 1/2 year old male brown tabby. When he came to the shelter, he was very skittish and fearful, prefering to spend his days hiding in a box. Now, Cade is very comfortable in the cat room. He is often at the front of his kennel, waiting to be let out. He gets along well with other cats. When a cranky cat approaches, Cade calmly removes himself from the confrontation.

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CAPRICA• Caprica is an 8 year old female Calico/Tabby. Caprica loves people and is very accepting of any attention she can get. She loves to be brushed, held, petted, and even tolerates being bathed! One thing Caprica does not tolerate is other cats. She is very upset by any feline attention, and is rather vocal about it. Other cats can't even look at her without her screaming her annoyance.

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!

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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!

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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!

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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 • August 30–September 6, 2018 [39]