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Voices The readers write .............................................................................................................4 Street Talk Public lands and you................................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day, one day at a time..................................................6 Briefs Death on the water, banking on weed, and decisions on griz.......................................6 Etc. Tester’s game plan................................................................................................................7 News Hamilton man facing immigration sentencing......................................................................9 Dan Brooks Greg Gianforte and necessary ignorance ................................................................10 Writers on the Range Zinke lets corporations profit off national parks ...................................11 Feature You’ve heard the public lands rhetoric. Find out what it really means. ...................13

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Arts The real problem with Louis CK’s return.............................................................17 Music Hermina Jean, Lake Street Dive, Citric Dummies .............................................18 Books The stories hidden in Cathy Weber’s witchy fores ...........................................19 Film The stench of Peppermint ...................................................................................20 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................21 BrokeAss Gourmet Green chile burgers .............................................................................24 Happiest Hour A Mustard Seed martini .....................................................................26 8 Days a Week And on Monday, they rested .....................................................................27 Agenda Out of the Darkness: Voices in Hope.........................................................................33 Mountain High Missoula in Motion’s Walk and Roll Week.........................................34

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by Susan Elizabeth Shepard

This week the Indy cover story explores the debate surrounding public lands management and protection. Is management of public lands likely to be an issue motivating your vote in the upcoming November election? When and where did you last recreate on public lands in Montana?

Wet Steel

My god, that’s worse than drinking Colt 45 beer, locally called “Green Death” (“Happiest Hour: Steel Thyself,” Aug. 30). My brother fell out of a boat he was driving while pulling a water skier on that stuff once. Richard Brodowy facebook.com/missoulaindependent

back on the streets because the jail is full. I know some of them, I’ve gotten to know some of them, and just that was enough to make me reconsider what is really worth my attention. People need to open their eyes and be more curious about what’s going on around them, but I guess it doesn’t matter if we go from work to home and back and our cycle is never

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Rachel Gross: Yes, definitely. Did you know he was related to Aaron? Gosh, it’s been two days. Two days ago. We were in the Bitterroot at the Fred Burr trail.

Stephen Hodgdon: Yes, and it seems like one of the few issues where who you put into office can have a direct correlation on what’s going to happen in the next couple months and years ahead. Don’t blame you: I was in the Scapegoat Wilderness this weekend.

Tyson Dupuis: I haven’t really thought about it. I’m from the reservation, so it’s a little bit different there than in this area. The Indians want to protect their lands and they want to be conservationists while still trying to allow development on a sustainable level. Staying in is good, too: I’m embarrassed because I don’t get out that much.

Chris Aguilar: I think public lands definitely need to be protected, and so it definitely has a big influence on the way I vote, because it’s something that I want to see preserved and respected. Not today, but close enough: Yesterday. I was out camping on public lands yesterday near St. Regis.

Caitlin Aguilar: Yes. Public lands are obviously for everyone, and I hate seeing [companies] monopolizing and making money off them. That’s not OK. Some of us have to work: It’s been a minute. I serve tables, so summers and weekends are the time to be working. It’s incredible seeing people come from all over the world to see our public lands.

I still drink Steel. I actually prefer the flavor and it’s just a better buzz. Shawn Leonhardt facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Satire’s no joke

I love good satire more than anyone, but this is too much (“Just say no to legal recreational weed,” Aug. 29). Taking real-life medical conditions and dragging them through the mud (even as a joke) to prove a point isn’t funny. Keaton Foley facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Don’t hold breath

I have enjoyed this satire piece. I think I am going to frame it and hope that someday the future will see what perfect execution of satire is. Lee Graham facebook.com/missoulaindependent

“I don’t hate the rainbow in concept. I hate the community having its priorities twisted so poorly.”

Aiming for asshat

I’m sure the guy who wrote this was trying desperately to be funny, but instead wound up being a asshat. Jake Hill facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Priority: crosswalk

This has been in the news forever (“Etc: Who fears rainbows?” Aug. 30). Out of literally everything else going on, we choose this topic to stay on for a week and longer. Alright. I don’t hate the rainbow in concept. I hate the community having its priorities twisted so poorly. If you’ve spent even a moment speaking with or experiencing the people on Missoula’s streets, maybe you’d care about the mental-health crisis or affordable housing or the fact that Missoula just releases violent people

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disturbed. And maybe there is a cute crosswalk on the way that makes us feel fuzzy inside. Lena Hirsch facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Just ‘women’?

You know, I can’t understand a certain group’s utter inability to not be able to go on with their lives and let others go on with theirs. They are like a pack of gossipy, angry old women who roam around just looking for things to get self-righteous about and get their lacy knickers in a twist. They can’t just live life. They have to be in an outrage over every new thing. Over anything remotely different.

Reminds me of every new fad. They hate it. It’s the end of civilization. Then about 10 years after everyone else has moved on, they decide it’s cool or they will wear it or accept it. So sad. Louise McMillin facebook.com/missoulaindependent

Courtesy on wheels

Regarding bike etiquette in the Rattlesnake Recreational Area: On too many hikes lately, my companions and I have been startled by bikers careening down the trails, giving absolutely no warning as they speed up to within 6 inches of us before stopping, sometimes rapidly sliding up behind us in a startling spray of rock and dirt. What gives? In my biking days I announced my presence behind hikers or slower bikers by first slowing down and then using my “outdoor voice” to state clearly, “Biker on the left,” or another appropriate warning — not loud enough to frighten people, just forceful enough to let them know of my presence. Bikers, please keep in mind the following: Hikers do not have eyes in the back of their heads. Hikers are making noise talking to each other and crunching gravel and leaves underfoot, and not necessarily aware of a biker’s virtually silent approach. A bell is not easily heard as the forest tends to soak up the sound. Ask any hiker who thought the sound of a bell would keep bears at bay. Most hikers are not out to aggravate you. They will move off the trail to let you by once they know you want to pass. Keep in mind, though, that older hikers may be hard of hearing and even if you think you have announced your presence effectively, they still may not move off the trail as quickly as you would like. There will be times when you will have to dismount and walk your bike as you approach the hikers. So what? You spend a few minutes on foot walking downhill past the hikers — no big deal. You can easily resume your fast downhill ride on the other side. Linda Holtom Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW Wednesday, August 29 Hellgate High’s Ella DeGrandpre and Ian Curtis sweep the girls’ and boys’ divisions, respectively, at the Missoula Coaches Invite cross-country meet at Missoula Equestrian Park.

Thursday, August 30 U.S. congressional candidate Kathleen Williams releases an ad attacking Rep. Greg Gianforte for his earlier recorded claim that someone named Noah built an ark when he was 600 years old.

Friday, August 31 Griz RB Jeremy Calhoun is suspended for two games due to his alleged involvement in an assault outside of Stockman’s in May and a disorderly conduct citation in June.

Saturday, September 1 Griz fans rejoice as prodigal coach Bobby Hauck leads the team to a 26–0 halftime lead over Northern Iowa. Excitement withers during the second half, but UM hangs on to win its season opener 26–23.

Banking on weed

Requesting clarity

Montana’s top banking official, alongside counterparts in 12 other states, signed a letter on Aug. 24 asking Congressional leaders to normalize banking regulations regarding medical and recreational marijuana, which is still illegal under federal law. The letter, penned by Robin Wiessmann, Pennsylvania’s secretary of banking and securities, asks Congress to provide clearer regulations than the patchwork currently in place. Current U.S. Department of the Treasury regulations are based on U.S. Department of Justice guidelines established under the Obama administration that have since been revoked by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Commissioner of the Montana Division of Banking and Financial Services Melanie Hall says Weissmann reached out to her and regulators in other states that have some form of legalized medical marijuana. Hall says banks were originally willing to work with Montana’s legal cannabusinesses after Montana voters legalized medical marijuana in 2004, but a spate of federal raids and legislative repeal efforts spooked the market into collapse, and bankers pulled out too. Montana’s medical marijuana pro-

gram has since bounced back, generating $1.8 million in tax revenue since new regulations started coming online last year. But bankers, fearful of federal crackdown, have yet to return, and so the industry remains cash-only Some states, like Washington, which generates billions of dollars with recreational marijuana, have gotten that money off the street by pledging to back state-chartered banks and credit unions against federal intrusion. Hall says that hasn’t happened in Montana yet because the medical market is relatively small, and therefore less risky. The Montana banking industry, also, is small enough that Hall says she can talk one-on-one with banks interested in learning about legal marijuana’s banking regulations. “We don’t discourage it. We don’t encourage it,” she says. “We put the decision in their hands.” She says five to 10 Montana banks have shown interest in the industry, but that none have yet taken the plunge and accepted deposits from cannabusinesses — at least knowingly. Data released by the Montana Department of Revenue detailing how providers pay the excise tax on sales shows that not all providers pay the state in hard cash. Some pay with personal checks, money orders or other means, proving that some bank accounts do hold cannabusiness dollars.

“Someone is banking it,” Hall says. An informal July survey by Montana’s Credit Unions President Tracie Kenyon found only one credit union holding a cannabusiness account, meaning it is likely Montana banks hold medical marijuana money unaware. Banks that knowingly hold cannabusiness money are required for oversight purposes to self-report to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to ensure compliance with federal guidelines. FinCEN began tracking the number of banks holding cannabusiness money after recreational legalization began in 2014, and the number tops 400 as of April. FinCEN denied a FOIA request by the Independent for an accounting of how many such banks are in Montana. Hunter Pauli

Don’t shoot

Griz hunts blocked

Staff at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department worked late into the night Aug. 30 notifying a list of 13 hunters that the state’s inaugural grizzly hunt was, temporarily, off. Communications Director Renny MacKay says 12 of those hunters had been issued licenses for a hunt area set to open Sept. 1. The other was first on the

Sunday, September 2 Missoula’s 25th annual Germanfest fills Caras Park with music, funny hats and bier.

Monday, September 3 Activists take over the 24-hour picket line in Three Forks so that union workers who have been locked out of their jobs at a talc mill since August can have Labor Day off.

Tuesday, September 4 Ninja Mike’s opens its crowdfund-supported breakfast stand inside the downtown Mountain Line transfer center.

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[news] list for six other areas nearer Yellowstone National Park set to open Sept. 15. “We’d told them before that that we may be calling them because there could be a change,” MacKay says. That flurry of calls came on the heels of a fourhour court hearing in Missoula challenging the delisting of Yellowstone grizzlies, and the granting — at 5:05 p.m. — of a last-minute restraining order by federal judge Dana Christensen blocking hunts in Wyoming and Idaho for 14 days. One plaintiff, the nonprofit WildEarth Guardians, characterized the order as a “stay of execution.” The fact that grizzly hunters were poised to head into the field gave last week’s hearing an air of urgency. But even with the hunts temporarily halted, grizzly deaths in the Northern Rockies have still been making news. The week prior to the hearing in Christensen’s court, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reported the deaths of two more grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, which is next in line for delisting. One bear, a female, was killed in a vehicle collision, the tenth such death in that ecosystem this year. The number of NCDE grizzlies killed or lethally removed by agencies in 2018 now stands at 30, five more than the annual average. In Yellowstone, the number hit 35 on Aug. 30. The alarming rate of deaths in the NCDE has amplified the concern voiced in court last week that Yellowstone delisting failed to take into account impacts on remnant populations in other ecosystems. Christensen spoke directly to that issue in granting the restraining order, citing a 2017 legal decision that found federal officials who delisted gray wolves in the Western Great Lakes had failed to consider delisting’s “legal and functional impact” on the remaining wolf population. Christensen further noted that plaintiffs in the grizzly case had “submitted substantial documentation of potential harm to the species.” “There is simply no need to rush into a grizzly bear hunt, with potentially devastating consequences for this iconic species, when the merits of that hunt are being reviewed in federal court,” Western Environmental Law Center attorney Matthew Bishop said in a statement following Christensen’s decision.

At press time, Christensen had yet to rule on the combined legal challenges to delisting heard last week. Depending on his decision, Wyoming’s hunt could be back on this fall, or off for good. Alex Sakariassen

Boating

Rough waters

All anyone had to do was see the Clark Fork in June to know this wasn’t a normal year for Montana rivers, and extended exposure to a river running at daunting 100-year levels might be one reason the Missoula area went relatively unscathed in a summer that saw an abnormally high 11 boating deaths on Montana waters, compared to three in 2017 and five in 2016. “I really feel like we have an educated group of recreationists for the most part around Missoula, and I think they made good choices,” says Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 2 River Recreation Manager Christine Oschell. “I was happy to see people stayed off the water when every agency was putting out messages to stay off the water.” The Clark Fork did account for one boating fatality in June, when a 70-year-old man died after his drift boat capsized near Turah. Three fatalities resulted from two accidents on the Jefferson River, three from an accident on Bighorn Lake, and one each from separate accidents on the Smith, Yellowstone, Rock Creek in Granite County and Rock Creek in Carbon County. “I’ve gone through our boat accident statistics every way I could possibly think of, trying to find that sort of commonality that we could use to then adjust our program to focus on that,” says Phil Kilbreath, FWP’s state boating law administrator. Kilbreath says there are lots of variables, but the overwhelming common factor is that non-motorized watercraft are involved in 70 to 80 percent of fatalities. Of this year’s fatal accidents, all but the

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Campaign rallies held in Montana this summer by President Donald Trump, including a July visit to Great Falls and a scheduled Sept. 6 appearance in Billings. Bighorn Lake incident involved non-motorized boats. The obvious safety measures are wearing life jackets, taking boating-safety classes and not mixing alcohol and operating a watercraft, Kilbreath says. “Carefully consider where you’re going and the conditions you’re going in. High water — and we had a lot of high water this year — ended up being quite a bit of a contributing factor,” he says. While the official cause of death is usually listed as drowning, Kilbreath says, the root cause is often cold water immersion, which impairs movement and cognition and can happen quickly even in 60 degree water. Kilbreath says he plans to emphasize enforcement of life jacket requirements on non-motorized watercraft in coming years. Oschell says that when people travel and find water conditions less than ideal, they may be hesitant to cancel a long-planned trip, whereas locals more familiar with water patterns have a better idea of when to stay off the water. She says that Region 2 had many more calls about river safety than normal this year. “We had a lot of calls saying, ‘What do you guys think? This is different,’” Oschell says. “That’s exactly what [people] should do.” This year was the deadliest on Montana waterways since 2008, which saw 14 deaths. “Personally, every time I see a year like this, it sucks, because I’d like to think some of these, or all of these, were preventable,” Kilbreath says. Susan Elizabeth Shepard

ETC. Apparently Trump’s June rally in Great Falls wasn’t enough. In late August, he announced his imminent return for a Sept. 6 event in Billings. Don’t be fooled by his palsy-walsy appeals to Montana values. Trump’s interest is solely in our Senate race. These appearances have had an undeniable effect on Sen. Jon Tester’s reelection bid. Trump stumped in June for Tester’s Republican opponent, Matt Rosendale. In the face of the conservative boost, Tester has adopted what may be the only strategy left to a Democrat in a Trump-era red state: Offend no one. On Sept. 4, Tester’s campaign announced the formation of a group called Republicans for Tester. The gist, based on media reports, is that the Republican Party has lost its way, leaving Tester more in line with traditional Republican values — supporting veterans, small business and farmers. One member of the group calls Tester a “prairie populist.” Not a bad line if you’re combating attacks that Tester is a liberal elite. This isn’t Tester’s first attempt this year to broaden his appeal among Republicans. He’s been notably guarded about the president. Ahead of the Great Falls rally, Tester even took out full-page newspaper ads welcoming Trump to Montana and thanking him for signing 16 bills associated with Tester. What Tester’s strategy apparently fails to consider is how his fence-riding will register with his Democratic base. On Sept. 5, the Montana ACLU and Montana Human Rights Network chastised the senator for not acting to curb aggressive immigration enforcement in his home state. And despite widespread calls for Democratic lawmakers to block Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, all Tester has said is that he looks forward to meeting Kavanaugh, and that he’s supported the majority of Trump’s judicial nominations. Let’s be clear: Tester has never been a progressive. He’s rankled the left and he’s rankled the right. Perhaps his 2018 campaign is highlighting — in neon — the centrist he’s always been. Or maybe it’s that he’s facing his toughest electoral challenge yet, scrambling to squeeze votes from the right while hoping a blue wave will bring out the left. Which strategy prevails, and which is wise, are questions that should frame how Montanans watch his campaign as the days tick down to Nov. 6.

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UPCOMING

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Hamilton resident of nine years to be sentenced

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Homeland Security Investigations agents out of Kalispell refused to show a warrant when they entered a Hamilton residence without permission in March, says the daughter of a Montana man up for sentencing on illegal re-entry charges. Roberto Cruz Cisneros, 45, was arrested by HSI, the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), at his home early in the morning of March 21, and has since been awaiting court dates in the Missoula County Detention Center; the overcrowded Cascade County Detention Center, where he and other inmates slept on the floor; and the Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby, according to his oldest daughter, Fatima Cruz. Cruz told the Indy that the agents refused her repeated requests to see the warrant for his arrest. The entire family was home — Cruz and her 2-year-old daughter, four younger siblings, and mother and father — when HSI agents knocked on their door around 6 a.m. An agent told Cruz he was seeking the owner of a truck outside. The truck belonged to her mother, Cruz told him. Then the agent said he was looking for Roberto and asked if they could come inside, because it was so cold. “And I’m like, ‘Yes, it’s really cold outside,’ so as soon as I said, ‘yes, it’s really cold,’ they pushed the door and they opened it. So I didn’t tell them, ‘Yes, you can come in,” Cruz says. The agent told her they were going to take her father with them. “[I said], ‘Well, by law you have to show me your paperwork. You have to show me that you have the warrant.’” The agent refused to do so, she says, and then other HSI agents went through the house, shining flashlights into every room, including her parents’ bedroom, where her 6-month-old sister was sleeping. Then agents handcuffed her father. “[The agent] said, ‘Everything’s going to be OK, we’re just going to take him to Helena. Everything’s going to be fine. He’s going to give you a call,’ pretty much making it seem really easy,” she says. “I reply to the officer, ‘No, none of this is going to be easy anymore, it’s going to be super-hard, and you have no idea.’”

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working on farms and in construction. She says that since the 2016 presidential election, there has been a marked increase in comments at her father’s workplaces and in public about immigration. “You see people wearing their hats, and that’s when more people were more open about it and saying more stuff about it. Even at school, they told my sister on the bus that she should go back, and she didn’t want to go to school after that, and they just called her names.” After her father was deported for a second time, in 1999, Cruz says that she, her younger sister and their mother joined him in the western coastal Mexican

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ijuana possession and DUI in Utah when he was 21 and 22, respectively. No other crimes are mentioned in court records. The affidavit says that a Hamilton police officer, Michael Eldridge, tipped off ICE to Cruz Cisneros’ presence after stopping a vehicle in which Cruz Cisneros was a passenger. The officer asked the driver and Cruz Cisneros for identification, but the affidavit does not reference whether there was any reason to do so. The warrant that Cruz says she was never shown was signed by Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch on the same day that agents arrived before dawn to arrest her father. There is no time stamp on the warrant. Cruz is now working two jobs: days at reception in the ER at Hamilton’s Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital and nights at the Hamilton Fiesta en Jalisco restaurant, to support her family now that it’s lost the income Cruz Cisneros brought in

state of Jalisco for 10 years until returning to Utah, where the girls had been born, so they could learn English in the country of the children’s birth. Cruz Cisneros hadn’t initially intended to join them in Utah, but eventually decided the family should be reunited and tried to enter the U.S. through Arizona in 2011. Before he could cross, though, she says he was kidnapped and held for ransom. Cruz says she remembers her mother crying all the time, worrying about when she’d hear from Roberto. He was able to pay and rejoin the family. Now Cruz has to explain to her younger siblings why their father is gone. “The kids keep asking, ‘When is he going to come back? Why was he taken away?’” she says. “And those are things that kids don’t understand, and I think that’s what hits us the most.” sshepard@missoulanews.com

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Know no evil Gianforte sticks his head in Trump’s sand by Dan Brooks

Those of us who follow the exploits of that famous president we all know and love, Donald Trump, were concerned earlier this month when his longtime attorney pleaded guilty to eight counts of fraud and campaign finance violations. Six of those counts had to do with banks and the IRS — organizations it’s totally ethical to defraud, because they’ll be fine regardless. When Michael Cohen admitted that he paid off two women who had affairs with Trump in order to influence the 2016 election, however, it was a bombshell. The American people are not going to be fine regardless, and we have enough problems without some fixer paying to keep what happens out of the news. Cohen admitted that he paid Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal hundreds of thousands of dollars in the months before the election, in exchange for their silence about affairs they conducted with Trump. Cohen said he knew these payments were illegal and that he made them at Trump’s direction. Does this mean that Trump broke the law? Does it mean he lied when he denied knowledge of Cohen’s actions? These are serious questions whose answers have not been fully explored. The only thing certain is that Greg Gianforte doesn’t know anything about them. When Nicky Ouellet interviewed Rep. Gianforte for Montana Public Radio last week, she asked if Cohen’s admission meant Trump had committed a crime. It was the kind of direct question that is safe to ask our congressman over the phone. Kudos to Rep. Gianforte for not throwing his handset to the ground and punching it several times before going into hiding. Despite this progress, though, his answer was less than satisfying. “You know, I don’t, I’m not familiar with the specifics on that,” he said. “I do know that, you know, President Trump is putting America first and I’m pleased to work with him.” When Ouellet asked what specifics were missing, given that Cohen had pleaded guilty to committing a crime at the president’s instructions, Gianforte responded that he was “fo-

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cused on making sure the American dream stays alive for Montanans.” It’s good that Gianforte is keeping the American dream alive, but might that project also involve following the American news? One would think that the richest man in the House of Representatives would have time to read the paper. We must conclude that this ignorance from our man in Washington is not an accident. It’s a choice.

“Obviously, Trump is not as bad as Hitler. With his routine lying and documented participation in a criminal conspiracy, he is at worst a Nixon, and probably a mere Warren G. Harding.” That choice shows that Rep. Gianforte is a man of keen judgment and high moral character. We know that he has been an ardent supporter of the president and his agenda ever since Trump won Montana by 20 points. Gianforte is dedicated to Trump’s policy of “putting America first,” as he told Ouellet. This practice is a welcome change from that of previous presidents, who prioritized France. But what if supporting Trump’s goals also means becoming complicit in various crimes? It happened to Cohen, and he’s a lawyer — the most ethical profession there is. If an officer of the court

could not escape the vortex of criminality swirling around the Trump administration, might it also envelop a violent millionaire? Gianforte has hit on the perfect solution to this problem: ignorance. You can’t be wrong if you have no idea what you’re doing. Our representative knows that Trump is putting America first, keeping the dream alive and putting money back into the pockets of hard-working Montanans. These empty phrases convey no information about what’s going on in Washington or the world, so they are precisely all Gianforte needs to know. By enthusiastically supporting the president while being careful not to learn what he has done, Gianforte ensures that he remains morally pure. He’s like one of the millions of Germans who supported Hitler: innocent. Obviously, Trump is not as bad as Hitler. With his routine lying and documented participation in a criminal conspiracy, he is at worst a Nixon, and probably a mere Warren G. Harding. But the important thing is that Gianforte will be remembered as fondly as those politicians who blindly supported Nixon and Harding no matter what they did. The only other explanation is that he’s lying. Maybe, when Gianforte told Ouellet that he didn’t know about the Cohen case or Trump’s involvement in it, he was just trying to get out of the question. But that would mean that he tried to deceive the people of Montana for his own political gain. I just don’t believe Rep. Gianforte would do that. He’s only done it once before, and he probably learned his lesson. It’s been more than a year since he’s assaulted a reporter, and he respects journalism’s role in bringing important information to the public. I commend Rep. Gianforte for avoiding that information himself. As a loyal supporter of President Trump, the last thing our congressman wants to do is learn a bunch of stuff about him. Dan Brooks is on Twitter at @DangerBrooks.

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A smudge too far? Zinke is letting corporations profit off our national parks by Greg Zimmerman

What if I told you that a multibillion-dollar company decided to trademark the name of one of America’s most prized national parks? And that the company then sued the United States to defend its purported trademark? And that to top it all off, that company has been invited into the inner circle of government by a now-indicted member of Congress, meeting in private with a Cabinet secretary and also sitting on a government advisory panel? You’d probably reply that it all sounds outrageous, and that, if it’s true, it’s a genuinely shocking example of a corrupt presidential administration. Unfortunately, it’s true. This story begins in 2015, when Delaware North, a New York-based hospitality and concessions business, lost the contract to run Yosemite National Park’s hotels, restaurants and gift shops. The company had held the contract for more than two decades, during which time it quietly trademarked names and images associated with iconic landmarks inside Yosemite, including the Ahwahnee Hotel, a national historic landmark, the likeness of Half Dome, and even the phrase “Yosemite National Park.” Rather than refocusing its expansive concessions business after losing the Yosemite contract, the company decided to take the U.S. government — and by extension the American public — to federal claims court, demanding $50 million for its surreptitiously acquired trademarks. The National Park Service, of course, maintains the trademarks aren’t valid. Even if they were, they would be worth no more than $3.5 million. A review of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database indicates that Delaware North is unique among concessionaires in holding trademarks to America’s parks. The litigation between the National Park Service and Delaware North remains far from resolved, but, in the meantime, the National Park Service was forced to rename historic landmarks inside the national park. Now the Calvin

Coolidge-era Ahwahnee Hotel is the Majestic Yosemite Hotel, the Wawona Hotel is Big Trees Lodge, and Curry Village is Half Dome Village. Despite Delaware North’s questionable business practices and the company’s ongoing legal fight with the U.S. government, it is no pariah in President Donald Trump’s Washington. The Trump administration has welcomed

“A company this greedy, whose founders are cashing in by fleecing American taxpayers and our prized public lands, should not be welcomed in the halls of power.” Delaware North with open arms, granting the company’s executives an audience at the highest levels of government. When Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke announced his “Made in America” Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee, included in the list of 15 members was Jerry Jacobs Jr., the billionaire co-CEO of Delaware North. Jacobs Jr. joins a group of business executives and industry lobbyists tasked with expanding so-called public-private partnerships in national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges and other American publicly owned lands. Delaware North’s presence on the

“Made in America” Outdoor Recreation Advisory Committee is not an isolated incident. Last month, CNN reported that Zinke held a private meeting with three executives from Delaware North, including Jacobs Jr., along with New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins. Collins, whom federal prosecutors have charged with insider trading, counts Delaware North as his largest campaign contributor during his congressional career. Likely realizing the unfortunate optics of the Zinke-Delaware North meeting, the Interior Department went to great lengths to conceal the names of the participants on the secretary’s official schedules. But when briefing materials of the meeting were released through a Freedom of Information Act request, the true purpose of the meeting was there in black and white. It was “for company executives to provide an overview from Delaware North regarding how the Park Service works with concessionaires.” A company this greedy, whose founders are cashing in by fleecing American taxpayers and our prized public lands, should not be welcomed in the halls of power. But we have come to expect this kind of behavior from members of Trump’s cabinet, Zinke included. In less than two years on the job, Zinke has thrown open the doors to campaign donors, family business friends and the executives of the very corporations he is supposed to be regulating. All the while, he has consistently ignored input from the American public, as well as from pretty much anyone who isn’t a potential donor. Now under the cloud of more than a dozen investigations, Zinke might have become so besmirched that even Trump finds him too much to stomach. Greg Zimmerman is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News. He is the deputy director at the Center for Western Priorities, a public-lands policy organization based in Denver, Colorado.

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UNUSUAL HOBBY – Social media have given us the dubious opportunity to document all manner of celebratory, mournful, hilarious and contemplative events. And so they have opened the door to fame for “Paul Flart” (real name: Doug), a 31-year-old hospital security guard who took to Instagram in March to share with the world his “sphincter sirens.” Flart spent a lot of time sitting around at the front desk with nothing to do, but, he noticed, “The lobby has really great acoustics, and naturally, we all fart. One day I ripped a rather nice one and got really good sound from it, so the next time it happened I recorded it and sent it to my group chat.” Those lucky friends encouraged him to go viral and helped him choose his Insta handle, Paul Flart. Today, he’s racked up more than 20,000 followers, according to Vice. Unfortunately, hospital management isn’t among them, and on Aug. 23, Flart was fired from his job. But he’s not deflated; he plans to expand his reach: “We can do Paul Flart on vacation, you know, throw in like a Hawaiian shirt and a hat ... and then just fart around Florida.” GOVERNMENT IN ACTION – The public works department in San Francisco gets, on average, 65 calls EVERY DAY with complaints about feces on the sidewalk. Public works director Mohammed Nuru and the city’s mayor, London Breed, put their heads together and came up with a solution: the Poop Patrol. In mid-September, five public works employees with a steam cleaner will begin scouring poop “hot spots,” such as the Civic Center, Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, during the afternoons to clean up what nature has left behind. (Another team also cleans overnight.) Officials told the San Francisco Chronicle that the waste comes from dogs and people, and the mayor recently allotted about $1 million for new public restrooms. “I just want the city to be clean,” Mayor Breed said, “and I want to make sure we’re providing the resources so that it can be.” BRIGHT IDEA – As his trial got underway on Aug. 22, Chinese University of Hong Kong associate professor Khaw Kim-sun pleaded not guilty to a breathtaking murder plot. Prosecutors say that in 2015, Khaw filled a yoga ball with carbon monoxide, then left it in the trunk of his wife’s car, where it slowly leaked the noxious gas and killed his wife and their 16-year-old daughter. The BBC reported that Khaw was angry because his wife wouldn’t divorce him so that he could be with a student with whom he was having an affair. When colleagues caught Khaw filling the ball, he said he was going to use it to kill rabbits, but in his statement to police, he said the gas was to kill rats in his home. He is charged with two counts of murder. Jeffrey Tomerlin, 45, was charged with assault on Aug. 19 after he hurled a soft, fluffy, edible weapon at his ex-girlfriend. When Tomerlin saw his ex in a car with her new boyfriend, he walked up to her window and threw a biscuit at her face. He also charged the car, banging on it and saying he would kill them, reported WKRN, earning additional charges of public intoxication and vandalism. It was not clear whether the biscuit damaged the ex-girlfriend’s face. FLORIDA. SAYS IT ALL – On Aug. 20, the Miami Herald endorsed Republican Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, who was running to replace Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to represent a district that includes parts of Miami and Miami Beach. (She lost her primary bid on Aug. 28.) Rodriguez Aguilera has been a city official and a business executive, the Herald noted, but conceded, “We realize that Rodriguez Aguilera is an unusual candidate.” Before she was a candidate, Rodriguez Aguilera appeared on Spanish-language television programs to talk about her experience of being abducted by aliens when she was 7 years old. Three beings, two women and a man who reminded her of Jesus Christ, spoke to her “telepathically” and took her aboard their spaceship. Inside, she saw “round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship,” and she said she has communicated with them several times since then. However, editorial page editor Nancy Ancrum didn’t think Rodriguez Aguilera’s beliefs or past experiences compromised her as an effective public servant. “Here’s why we chose her: She’s not crazy,” Ancrum told the Washington Post. “I don’t think we went off the rails here.” THE METH MADE ME DO IT – Mason Tackett of Floyd County, Kentucky, told WYMT that neighbors called him on Aug. 26 to say his cousin, Phillip Hagans, was carrying items out of Tackett’s house. When Tackett returned home, he said, “It looked like he was packing up for a yard sale when he come out.” Hagans was “lying, throwing his hands, saying stuff like, ‘I didn’t do it. I didn’t do it.’ ... He did pull a gun on me,” Tackett said. But what he really couldn’t understand was Hagans’ choice of items to steal: a cheese grater, an empty Lysol bottle and soap. “Who steals a cheese grater?” Tackett asked. “He stole my soap. Who steals soap? ... Must have been a bad batch (of methamphetamine) around here ’cause Floyd County has gone crazy in the last four days.” Hagans was charged with receiving stolen property and being a convicted felon with a firearm. SORRY YOU MISSED IT – At least one competitor dressed up as Donald Trump at the World Gravy Wrestling Championships in Lancashire, England, on Aug. 27. As grapplers slipped and slid in the slimy mess, even the referee got toppled a few times. United Press International reported that both men and women participated to support the East Lancashire Hospice. Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com

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ast spring, a billboard appeared in the Bitterroot Valley. It featured six pissed-off-looking locals and a demand aimed at Ravalli County’s five-member commission: “Respect public lands.” The same photo and message were duplicated on yard signs distributed throughout the county by a group of citizens calling themselves Our Land, Our Legacy. Four months later, the commission asked At-

torney General Tim Fox to investigate the campaign’s funding sources. This contention was the direct result of a bill introduced in Congress on Dec. 7, 2017, by Sen. Steve Daines. The Protect Public Use of Public Lands Act called for the release of nearly 500,000 acres of federally protected lands in Montana. Daines rationalized the release of these lands, comprising five of the seven Forest Service-managed

Wilderness Study Areas ( WSAs) in Montana, by claiming that 40 years of “D.C. paralysis” had frozen access for motorized and mechanized users including snowmobilers and mountain bikers. “It’s time,” Daines said, “to keep public lands in public hands.” Ravalli County’s support for the bill, which calls for the release of two WSAs adjacent to the Bitterroot, was immediate. In fact, a letter of support signed by

four of the commissioners (and dated Sept. 15, 2017), accompanied Daines’ rollout, triggering complaints that the commission had neglected to engage public input prior to drafting its position. Hence the billboards, the yard signs and, when the commission finally convened a public hearing on the issue in February, a turnout so large it prompted a last-minute venue change to the Ravalli County Fairgrounds.

Daines’ proposal has underscored a continuing divide on public lands management in the West. Historically the line has been drawn between those who want greater resource extraction and development on public lands and those who want to preserve their wildness. The line has grown blurier with time, as large-scale wildfires have heightened calls for forest thinning and timber harvest, and booming interest in

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The Sapphire Wilderness Study Area, southwest of Missoula, would be removed from WSA status under a bill introduced by Sen. Steve Daines last year.

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outdoor recreation — currently a $7-billion-a-year industry in Montana — has intensified. The WSA issue, focused on lands set aside by Congress in 1977 for studies of their wilderness potential while still managed as de facto designated wilderness, has bled into the 2018 midterm election campaigns thanks to twin proposals by Rep. Greg Gianforte. In March, Gianforte introduced one bill mirroring Daines’ and another seeking the release of 24 additional WSAs overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Democrats and conservationists have routinely criticized Gianforte for pitching these blanket policies without first holding a single public debate back home. A survey of 500 registered Montana voters commissioned by the University of Montana in May found that 57 percent of poll respondents supported maintaining WSAs as-is (among respondents who identified as Republicans, support was 40 percent). The prospect of widespread WSA releases in Montana is the latest issue driving the public lands debate in the state. Forest plan revisions, land transfer agendas, checkerboard ownership — all these and more have spurred numerous public rallies, campaign ads and advocacy messaging in recent years. In August, Trout Unlimited announced a national September-long celebration of public lands to educate people on key issues and urge them to contact their lawmakers and advocate protection of “our outdoor traditions.” Even outdoor retailers are pushing back against controversial management decisions with bold language and multi-pronged campaigns. REI led a 2015 effort to lobby Congress and flex the muscle of the Outdoor Industry Association in the name of more robust funding for public lands. And last year, Patagonia famously accused President Trump of stealing public land by radically reducing two national monuments in Utah. Patagonia continues to maintain a website advocating the protection of public lands. Recognizing growing sentiment on the issue, candidates and groups have used public lands as an avenue of attack, transforming a complex issue into an oversimplified partisan wedge. Montana’s 2016 gubernatorial race was largely dominated by Gianforte’s past dispute with the state over stream access through his Bozeman property, an albatross that followed the Republican into his 2017 congressional campaign and appeared to lose relevance only after Gianforte assaulted a reporter on Election Day eve. As indicated in a recent survey by the Center for Western Priorities, public lands have become a primary motivator

among Western state voters, Republicans and Democrats alike. Yet politicization has made the debate seem deceptively black-and-white. It’s not. With the midterm election less than eight weeks away, it’s a good time to clear the fog of public lands rhetoric.

aines’ phrase “keep public lands in public hands” landed with a smack of irony last year. Though he meant it to

threat idly. In February, the Montana Wilderness Association (MWA), Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and several other groups hosted a rally in the Capitol rotunda in Helena. Hundreds showed up to oppose what they saw as an assault on federally managed lands in Montana. Gov. Steve Bullock delivered an impassioned speech. The rallying cry? “Keep public lands in public hands.” Fielder attempted to assuage fears that a transfer to state ownership

tana’s budget woes. As real as the threat had seemed just a few years before, public expressions of lands transfer sentiment in Montana have subsided. Sen. Jon Tester notes a shift in the rhetoric, with proponents of defederalizing public lands now focusing on more limited proposals: shared management or control of federal lands with state and local governments. The concept is often pitched as a way to cut through D.C. bureaucracy or ensure that local voices are heard. Tester

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State Rep. Brad Tschida, R-Missoula, shares his thoughts on WSA release during an Aug. 15 roundtable convened by Democratic congressional candidate Kathleen Williams. Tschida says public lands can accommodate myriad uses, including timber harvest, mineral extraction and recreation.

reflect lack of access to WSAs for certain user groups, the exact phrase had first been coined by staunch opponents of his WSA release bill in a much different fight three years earlier. Lands transfer was one of the defining controversies of the 2015 Montana Legislature. Originating in Utah, the lands transfer movement leaned on the Enabling Acts that created each state to argue that federal lands in the West should be transferred to state ownership. In Montana, its champions were Sen. Jennifer Fielder, R-Thompson Falls, and Rep. Kerry White, R-Bozeman. The two requested a string of bills ahead of the session that would have set the stage for such a transfer, including an interim study of its feasibility. Six months earlier, in summer 2014, the Montana Republican Party had officially adopted lands transfer as a plank in the state party platform. Though some in the Republican caucuses saw the proposal as ridiculous on its face, conservationists did not take the

would result in widespread sell-offs of public land to the private sector (and an open invitation to rampant resource development), introducing a bill to bar any such sales. But the public’s hackles had been raised, and when a similar slate of bill draft requests cropped up in 2017, more than 1,000 people gathered in the capitol for a second opposition rally. “Those rallies really helped demonstrate how passionately Montanans support public lands,” says Kayje Booker, state policy director for MWA. “And I think it was a wake-up call to elected leaders of all kinds in Montana that that was an issue that was going to motivate people and that people cared deeply about, and that it wasn’t a good idea for anybody to be pushing transfer and privatization.” In early 2016, Fielder was named CEO of the Utah-based American Lands Council — the primary driver of the lands transfer movement in the West — but the agenda took a backseat in 2017 to Mon-

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sees it as a “backdoor attempt” by lands transfer proponents. “Everybody agrees local government is the closest government to the people, and it’s the best,” Tester tells the Indy. “But the truth is, they don’t have the money, so they’d have to sell it, and when they’re sold, the fishing hole’s gone, the hunting spot’s gone, the good place to hike is gone.” Opposition to lands transfer galvanized the conservation movement and drew attention to the debate about public land management. But Booker says more is required of elected officials than simply supporting the continued publicness of public lands. That’s the “lowest bar” you could set for supporting public lands, she says, and blurs what it means to champion public lands. “I think the WSA bill is helping sharpen that conversation to understand what we mean when we say someone supports public lands, and that is more than just saying that they want them to exist,” Booker says.

ometimes, when Brad Tschida ventures up Blue Mountain, hunting for deer or grouse, a motorcyclist will fly past him. Those moments aggravate him, and when he’s able to stop them on the trail, he’ll explain that motorized use in the area is not allowed. Sometimes, he says, they’ll spin the bike around and take off, spitting up gravel in their wake. It’s not that he’s against motorcycles on public lands, just that he feels they should stick to areas designated for their use. “I want them to be able to ride,” Tschida says, “because if they don’t, they’ll continue to trespass or egress onto things they shouldn’t be on.” Tschida is running for his third term as the Republican lawmaker in Missoula’s House District 97. He counts Rep. Kerry White as a “good buddy” and says Republicans have been miscast as wanting to sell off public lands. He is, though, a proponent of more state involvement in the management of federal lands. “I proposed that in my first term,” Tschida says. Specifically, Tschida says he supports state co-management of certain lands with federal agencies for a time, to determine whether adequate revenue can be generated from timber harvests, mineral exploration and other uses to allow the state to manage them long-term. Though he’s had one knee replacement and is scheduled for a second in November, Tschida still gets outdoors as far and as often as he can. But his mobility is limited, as is the mobility of many people seeking to enjoy Montana’s public lands. He sees restrictions on motorized and mechanized use — not just in WSAs but in portions of national forests where the Forest Service has closed roads — as an obstacle for people who can’t backpack long distances or don’t have the knowledge and resources to go in on a horse. “There are places I’d like to take my grandkids into that I can’t, because they’re not able to walk the distance that they would need to walk, and there’s gates up that prevent us from getting as close [to backcountry areas] as we used to get,” Tschida says. “It’s unfortunate. We need to take a look at the fact that 22,000 miles of roads on federal lands — not wilderness areas, federal lands — have been closed off.” The argument that federal lands have been “closed off,” or that the public has been “locked out,” is key among WSA release proponents. The number Tschida cites — 22,000 miles of roads — was also referenced in a December 2017 letter to the Billings Gazette by Terry Anderson, a senior fellow and former president of

the Property and Environment Research Center. The 38-year-old Bozeman-based center is dedicated to what it calls “free market environmentalism,” and Anderson’s letter advocated more local collaboration regarding trail access to Forest Service lands. Anderson is also on the board of the Montana Outdoors Coalition, which has promoted a report from a D.C.-based dark money group denouncing the Montana Wilderness Association and others as “Green Decoys,” i.e., front groups for “radical” environmentalist agendas. That report triggered the Ravalli County Commission’s August letter to Attorney General Fox seeking an investigation of several Montana-based conservation nonprofits. The closure of Forest Service roads has become a rallying cry among people seeking greater public lands access for motorized users. Republican state lawmakers passed a joint resolution in 2015 to investigate the closure and retirement of federal forest roads, and in June, Gianforte cited the subsequent findings of the Legislature’s Environmental Quality Council — that nearly 22,000 miles of federal forest roads have been closed since the 1990s — in chairing a meeting of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee. “The Forest Service is under pressure to close and decommission thousands of miles of forest service managed trails and roads,” Gianforte told the subcommittee. “Burdensome regulations, inconsistent policies, lack of proper maintenance and the constant threat of litigation all contribute to these road closures.” Gianforte went on to characterize the closures as a hindrance not only to access for hunters, campers and hikers, but to efforts to combat catastrophic wildfires. Kerry White was among those Gianforte invited to testify. Some conservationists don’t buy the argument that efforts to reverse road closures are about restoring recreational access. In response to the June hearing, Keith Hammer, chair of the Kalispellbased nonprofit Swan View Coalition, told Montana Public Radio that Gianforte’s real motive isn’t expanding recreational access, but rather expanding access to logging trucks into “every corner” of national forests. The phrase “locked up” has become widely used in the public lands debate, but its meaning varies depending on whom you’re talking to. It served as the title of a 2017 report by the nonprofit Montana Wildlife Federation that, in contrast to Gianforte’s usage, focused on illegal road closures by private entities and the resultant loss of access to nearly 2

million acres of state and federal land in Montana. Based on her own recreational experience, Hannah Nikonow doesn’t buy the “locked out” message as it’s been presented by Gianforte and others. She’s a Missoula-based board member of the nonprofit Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and regularly visits some of the WSAs that Daines and Gianforte want to release in the name of public access. “They aren’t just hard-to-get-to

prompted Christensen to issue a followup rule on Aug. 15 once again closing both WSAs to mechanized use. That back-and-forth is an example of what Daines means when he talks about the public being “locked out” of the WSAs he would release. In the aftermath of Christensen’s August decision, Daines says anyone would consider such a judicial ruling “extreme.” “What we need to do is we need to turn this back to the ongoing forest man-

sage spread by some politicians and the restrictions he sees to public lands access. Illegal road and trail closures by private individuals and local governments, lack of respect by private landowners for public easements, checkerboarded land ownership — these, he says, have a tangible impact on Montanans’ ability to recreate outdoors. The solution he advocates lies not in congressional hearings or blanket designations, but in collaborative, grassroots agreements among the

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Conservationist Jake Kreilick, left, and Ben Horan with Mountain Bike Missoula participated in Williams’ roundtable. Each advocated protecting wild places, but a bill from Sen. Jon Tester has the two on opposite sides of recreational access in the Blackfoot River drainage.

places of rock and ice,” Nikonow says. “I went morel picking in the Sapphire WSA with a 2-year-old this year and we walked up into the WSA from a road. They’re not locked-up places like some representatives have characterized them.”

hree years ago, the Bitterroot National Forest closed more than 100 miles of trail to motorized and mountain bike use on the Blue Joint and Sapphire WSAs, on the southwest and northeast fringes of the Bitterroot Valley, respectively. The decision generated consternation among those users, ultimately leading to a legal challenge by cyclists this summer. U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula upheld the Bitterroot forest’s travel plan decision in July with one caveat: that a public hearing on continued mountain bike access in the areas be held. Forest officials opted to open portions of the two areas to cycling during the hearing process, a move that

agement planning process,” he says, in defense of his WSA bill. “The public would be able to have a say in the process at that point. The irony is this bill would improve the public process.” Even as Christensen ruled this summer, volunteers with the Bitterroot Backcountry Cyclists were busy clearing trails in the Blue Joint. The uncertainty of continued access in these two WSAs is consistent with what Ben Horan, of the nonprofit cycling group Mountain Bike Missoula, says is commonplace for backcountry cyclists. Despite rapid growth in the mountain biking community and breakthroughs in trail building, Horan believes Montana has been slow to embrace mountain biking and its advocates. “Mountain bikers every year see closures to existing mountain bike access without new opportunities elsewhere,” he says. “We see net loss to trail access every single year, and that’s a problem.” Horan draws a sharp distinction, however, between the “locked out” mes-

people living, working and playing on the landscape. By way of example, Horan points to Sen. Tester’s Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, a bill introduced last year that would designate new wilderness additions to the Bob Marshall Complex and guarantee backcountry access for snowmobilers in the Otatsy Lake area northwest of Lincoln. Tester’s legislation was the result of roughly a decade of work by the Montana Wilderness Association, Pyramid Lumber, the off-highway vehicle group Blue Ribbon Coalition and a host of area businesses, ranchers and outfitters to reach a compromise on land use in the Blackfoot Valley. Horan and Mountain Bike Missoula spent years pushing for the inclusion of a special-use area for mountain bikers in Spread Creek, just upstream from the popular Monture Creek trailhead. That persistence paid off. “We really want to have a seat at the table in these conversations,” Horan says. “We feel pretty strongly that the BCSA provides a strong model for the best way

forward in developing durable, lasting, effective land-use protections.” Horan adds that, in the face of climate change and policies that threaten to strip existing public lands protections, it’s never been more important to protect large landscapes in Montana. That means maintaining healthy ecosystems, he says, and providing linkage corridors for wildlife. Yet the Spread Creek portion of Tester’s bill has put local mountain bikers at loggerheads with conservationists who espouse the very same values. Wildlife advocates have criticized the BCSA for placing a mountain bike area within core grizzly bear habitat. Wilderness proponents agree, saying the bill places mechanized use too close to the Bob Marshall boundary. Jake Kreilick serves as the restoration coordination for the Missoula-based forest advocacy nonprofit WildWest Institute. He’s also a member of the Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizen Task Force, a coalition of conservationists that coalesced several years ago around upcoming forest plan revisions for Missoula’s three nearby national forests. The group fought heavily against commercial logging in the main stem of the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area, and continues to defend roadless areas and core habitat for threatened species. Kreilick says the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act is an example of “cutting the baby in half and then cutting it again,” and views the bill’s provisions as an opening of key expanses of primitive wildland to accommodate new “social and recreational demands.” “People are afraid to ask for what the land really needs, and that’s largely a political calculus,” Kreilick says. “It’s not a social calculus, it’s not an economic calculus, it’s certainly not a scientific calculus.” Tester’s bill is indicative, Kreilick says, of how the pressures exerted on public lands have evolved. In the 1990s, he says, the debate was largely about logging and mineral extraction. But with more people moving to Montana — and, subsequently, more people playing outdoors — it’s as though the timber wars have been replaced with the “recreation wars.” Though the push to accommodate more recreational users has led to some disagreement within the conservation world, Kreilick is optimistic that people introduced to the public lands debate via recreational interests will be receptive to his task force’s science-centric mission. The real challenge, for the task force at least, is in spreading the word about that mission without straying too far into the latest political controversy. “Our job is going to be to talk about it all, not just to talk about the WSAs,”

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Kreilick says. “It’s also going to be to really stay focused on protecting the best and that’s going to mean continually hammering on the roadless areas, continually hammering on the important corridors.”

winning campaign issue. That’s how the Center for Western Priorities characterized the political power of public lands this July. To back its assertion, the Colorado nonprofit released the results of a poll of Western-state voters revealing that 54 percent of Montanans will only vote for a candidate who shares their public lands values, and that 75 percent are motivated to vote when they feel those values are threatened. The poll also supports Kreilick’s belief that “in this climate of Trump,” conservationists will find friendlier audiences, as well as Nikonow’s insis-

tence that an educated, informed electorate is key to ensuring strong protections for places treasured by hunters, anglers and scores of other public land users. It’s imperative that the public looks past the rhetoric, Nikonow says, to carefully examine “what is being proposed and, with these attacks, what are they actually targeting, and not just voting with party lines.” As further evidence of the interest in public lands, on Aug. 15, about 60 people packed into a conference room in the University of Montana’s University Center to talk about WSAs. The roundtable, hosted by Democratic U.S. House candidate Kathleen Williams, featured six panelists, including Horan and Kreilick. Williams stopped just short of sharing her take on the release bills pitched by Daines and her 2018 opponent, Gianforte, instead allowing conservationists,

business representatives, off-highway-vehicle users and the audience to drive the debate. Some felt the bills posed a significant threat to public lands in Montana. Others argued it was high time the government reached a definitive decision on WSAs that have hung in a wilderness limbo for more than four decades. Mike Jeffords, president of the Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association, took issue with what he called “falsehoods” spread by critics of motorized public lands use, and claimed that increased motorized access could be an economic boon for the Bitterroot. It was exactly the sort of conversation that the people interviewed for this piece — from Daines and Tschida, who maintain that resource extraction and primitive recreation can be accommodated equally, to Kreilick, who values science and natural processes above all —

unanimously agreed they’d like to see: robust, multi-faceted and, for the most part, civil. And yet, across the state in Lewistown, Gianforte had convened a last-minute, invite-only discussion of his own that same morning, giving the Missoula conversation an unavoidably politicized feel. This is the sad reality of the public lands debate in an election year. Just as Republicans have painted Tester and Williams as being in lock-step with a liberal agenda personified by U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrats have attacked Gianforte and Testerchallenger Matt Rosendale as enemies of public lands. In June, the Montana Democratic Party released a video splicing together clips of Rosendale in 2014 advocating for the transfer of control and management of federal lands to the states. Rosendale, who currently serves

as state auditor, responded that he’s since grasped Montana’s distaste for that agenda. The portion of his campaign website dedicated to the issue ends with this promise: “As your next U.S. Senator, our public lands will always stay in public hands.” That’s become easy enough to say in Montana. But given the opportunity to foster more public access this February, Rosendale balked, voting as a member of the state Land Board to indefinitely delay action on a conservation easement in eastern Montana that would have opened 15,000 acres — including 5,000 acres of landlocked public land — to hunters and hikers. In June, Gov. Steve Bullock side-stepped Rosendale and the rest of the board and approved the easement anyway. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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The Bitterroot Creek Wilderness Study Area, located in northeast Montana, is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and would be released from WSA status along with 23 others under a bill from Rep. Greg Gianforte.

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[arts]

Beyond #MeToo The real problem with Louis CK’s return to the stage by Sarah Aswell

fter Louis CK’s recent surprise stand-up set at the Comedy Cellar in the West Village, there was the expected public outcry: How dare he return just nine months after admitting to multiple acts of sexual misconduct, over multiple years, involving multiple women whose careers were derailed by his actions? How did he have the gall to walk into the most famous comedy club in New York, step onto the stage and deliver a set as if nothing had happened? I was upset, too. As a small-time stand-up comedian in Missoula, I had been a huge fan of Louis CK before he admitted the allegations were true. I had hoped that he would, at the very least, handle his actions with the honesty and self-reflection that seemed to be a core part of his brand. I had hoped that he would give a real apology, share how he processed his wrongdoing, and take action to make amends. Instead, he seemed to have learned nothing. He returned to the scene without comment, did not mention his misdeeds in his material and didn’t even give his first audience a warning that he’d be performing. But as I learned more about the night of his return, mostly through a Vulture article that interviewed audience members, I realized that I knew exactly how he had the gall to get back on stage: The owner of the club allowed it, the promoter allowed it and the audience allowed it. What garnered national headlines as a shocking return to comedy was, in many ways, a normal night at a big club — there were no women in the lineup, there was an “aggressive” male audience and the women who were there sat silently because of the unwelcoming atmosphere. Although I was initially surprised that he walked on to an “ovation,” it started to make a lot of sense. The culture of the stand-up scene that allowed Louis CK to abuse women for so long was still gleefully intact, #MeToo movement or not. After I posted my thoughts on Twitter, my theory was reinforced as men took

to their keyboard with vigor to tell me that, “THERE IS NO PROBLEM IN COMEDY,” and “U must not be familiar AT ALL with comedy shows,” and, of course, “Women are extremely not funny at all.” Plus the classic: “You are a total cunt.” Two guys had the bright idea that I stop complaining about comedy culture, get off my butt and promote my own show (I actually promote two shows a month in Missoula) so that women could have their safe space. “Why dont u go and get a bunch of female comedians and host a ladies night comedy show,” one of them wrote. “U won’t have to worry about hearing somethin that offends u.” I wish that these men could hear just one session of the women and non-binary comedy workshop that I host each month. Not only to discover that women are, in fact, extremely funny, but to hear the stories of why each woman is there and the barriers that have prevented her from performing in the past. You can

probably guess the most common ones (“My husband/boyfriend doesn’t think I’m funny”), but the two that really kill me are, “I’ve never heard stand-up that’s like the stand-up I want to do,” and “No one wants to hear what I have to say.” The reason women aren’t trying stand-up is because most stand-up narratives don’t come from people like them, so they think they won’t fit in. And because audiences often reflect who’s on stage, they’re kind of right. A woman telling jokes about her period isn’t going to kill like a man telling jokes about his dick if the audience is filled with men expecting to hear stories from men. In fact, she’ll get heckled for it (this is not theoretical; it’s happened to me). Promoters and comedians need to be fighting for and encouraging more diverse voices on stage if we want to grow and diversify comedy audiences. They also have to ensure that they feel safe enough to tell their own stories. Until then, Louis CK gets the standing ovation.

comic makes the audience or other comedians feel uncomfortable or unsafe. For example, last year at the Union Club, a man relentlessly made fun of the disabled. Howard let him have his say, but quickly ran to the back of the room to find floater Michael Beers, one of the funniest stand-ups in town, who happens to have a disability. Beers got on stage and effortlessly ripped the offensive comic apart — and had the crowd rolling. It resulted in the other comedian never stepping on stage again, and it also educated the audience while making them laugh. The system works because the promoter is on the side of the comedians and the audience — and because he lets the comedians defend themselves through their own comedy. He also lets the audience decide for themselves, knowing that at this point in the scene’s evolution, the audience reflects Missoula’s pool of comedians: diverse and growing. No, it doesn’t fix everything in the scene — assholes still appear, and I’ve felt unsafe performillustration by Lauren Tyler Norby ing at shows even a few miles outHere’s the good news: I know for a side of Missoula — but it’s a start toward fact that healthy comedy culture can exist, more comedian accountability and hapbecause something pretty close to that is pier, more educated audiences. It’s also happening in Missoula. I haven’t been on protection against long-term problem coa lineup here in over a year that wasn’t di- medians who can sour an entire scene. Louis CK’s return is gross, but his reverse, and, at least in town, I’ve never been afraid for my safety, either due to an audi- ception at the club was grosser. No, he ence or a colleague. That’s all because of hasn’t learned his lessons yet, but neither John Howard, who started Homegrown has the greater comedy community. If we Comedy seven years ago. Not only has he had, the promoter would have resisted, built a comedy scene in Missoula from the the other comedians on the line-up ground up, he’s also made sure that it’s would have responded and the audience safe and welcoming every step of the way. would have had none of it. The next step I called him to ask how he’s doing it. of the #MeToo movement isn’t to make “The only thing I always say is no sure offenders feel enough sustained hate speech,” he says. “Other than that, shame to stay away. It’s to create a new it’s about making everyone comfortable. culture that doesn’t welcome them back We’ve had some assholes who have with open arms — and that didn’t miss shown up, and I’ve learned you just have them, anyway. Sarah Aswell hosts a comedy to address it right away. We can’t make workshop for women and non-binary that the norm.” To address issues right away, folk at the Badlander every last Howard has developed a “floater” system Wednesday of the month at 6 PM. Free. for open mics, where he reserves the best comics for emergencies when another arts@missoulanews.com

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[music] Hermina Jean, Hot Grey There’s a dreamlike quality to Hermina Jean’s music that makes it easy to listen to. Its warm tones and her clear, lilting vocals go down as smoothly as warm tea on a cool September evening. That quality, though, initially belies the complex emotions and delicious tension built into her tunes. But it doesn’t take long for those darker, more complicated elements to become apparent, like tiny splinters inflaming the skin. On her new EP, Hot Grey, the Missoula musician (listeners might recall her previous band, Butter) captures imperfect characters that seem to pull each other close even as they push each other away. It explores the confusion of thinking you’ve let go only to find, years later, that you haven’t. The opener, “Sea Floor,” is the strongest song, featuring layers of grungy rock riffs and a violin that oscillates between sweet and distorted. In the chorus, Her-

mina Jean sings, “I don’t want to be like you, I don’t want to do like you do” with a measured firmness that rejects the appearance of anger (though you could guess it’s under the surface) and a loungey affect that isn’t quite sultry. Hot Grey features back-up from Missoula stalwarts Jenny Fawcett, Ryan Scott, Martin McCain, Gabe Sweeney, Travis Yost and Gibson Hartwell, themselves known from local bands Shahs, Idle Ranch Hands, Wartime Blues and Best Westerns. But it’s Hermina Jean who rules this EP with her rich songwriting and delivery, which is what gives this album edge even in its quietest moments. (Erika Fredrickson) Hermina Jean plays an EP release show at the Roxy Sun., Sept. 9, from 8 to 11 PM, with openers Marshall Dorothy Granger and Writ Large and art from Nate Biehl and Jack Metcalf. $5 suggested donation.

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Well-played hardcore and punk music is like a 2.0 version of rock and roll. Squares tend to think there’s something easy or simple about punk, but when you find the good bands, you realize that it takes real chops to play fast, write interesting music and play with at least two other people. Good punk is all about economy, chemistry and some ability — or at least a willingness to practice. Citric Dummies is that kind of punk. The band reminds me of Flamin’ Groovies, DMZ and Teengenerate in its vibe — a kind of compact garage rock marked by fast, frenetic guitar. And, while sort of dumb, it’s not dumb in the fundamentally terrible way of Punk (with a capital “P”) groups like NOFX

or Bad Religion. (Bad Religion, interestingly enough, released a single called “The Kids Are Alt Right” in June — just a month after the much more independent Citric Dummies released its album.) Citric Dummies’ brand of dumb is more of an affectation, kind of like the Ramones or Dictators. The best thing about The Kids Are Alt Right is when the band members sing directly along to the guitar part, syncing the vocals with the up and down strumming, essentially adding another layer to the guitar part (Insert Elvis Costello quote here, right?). I love this kind of frantic energy and when a band can pull it off, it’s a thing of beauty. ( Josh Vanek)

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Bird call Hidden stories in Cathy Weber’s witchy forest by Erika Fredrickson

photo by Erika Fredrickson

Cathy Weber’s Understory/Overstory features ceramic birds and aspens sourced from the artist’s property.

Cathy Weber’s installation at the Missoula Art Museum looks like an enchanted, witchy forest straight out of a Brothers Grimm fairytale: Dozens of bare aspens appear to spring from the gallery floor and flocks of black ceramic birds perch all over the claw-like branches. The title of the piece, Understory/Overstory, refers to the relationship between upper and lower forest vegetation, but it’s also a reference to stories that are hidden and stories that are acknowledged — an idea that Weber’s been exploring since she was a child. Weber grew up in Michigan and Indiana in a family of artists and entertainers. While attending Catholic School in the 1960s, she recalls, little girls were expected to desire occupations as nuns or nurses or teachers, but she didn’t buy into it. “I was going to be an artist, always,” she says. “I was terribly serious and terribly devoted to it.” Her mother was a mezzo soprano singer and actor, her sister immersed herself in theater; Weber has one brother who’s been a career ballet dancer while another brother owns a recording studio. Her family also was enamored with the outdoors and outdoor labor. Her grandparents were farmers and her mother, a self-described shaman, took her children for long walks through the woods. “So there was a built-in orientation to the natural world,” Weber says. When she was a Girl Scout Brownie, Weber saw a slideshow about the Girl Scout National Center West, a large tract of land just outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in the Big Horn Mountains where girl scouts from all over the world convened to fish, hike and ride horses. “My goal in life was to get a job there and move to Wyoming,” she says. And she did. Starting at age 19 she worked as a backpack instructor and returned to the center each summer for the next 10 years. She ended up in Montana after meeting a friend who had

bought land in Dillon and wanted help building a house there. Weber jumped at the chance for another adventure, moved to Dillon, and stayed. Weber started out as a painter, but began making non-species-specific ceramic birds 12 years ago, and she found that people were drawn to them. She created Understory/Overstory to address birds and trees as metaphors, but she was most interested in the responses they elicited from viewers. One person who discovered personal meaning in Understory/Overstory is Weber’s sister, Dreya, an aerial choreographer, actor and dancer in Los Angeles. Dreya had been writing a spoken-word piece when she saw photographs of Weber’s installation and noticed a connection between the two projects. “Dreya has a 10-minute vignette in her onewoman show that addresses our mother’s [shamanism] and her relationship to trees,” Weber says. Dreya had also traced their mother’s family history back to a few small towns in Germany, where, in the 1620s and 1630s, witch trials had resulted in numbers of women being burned at the stake. Though the witch narrative wasn’t Weber’s motivation for the installation, she has embraced it as part of its story and invited Dreya to perform her 10-minute piece at MAM on First Friday and Saturday morning. “Not everyone’s art is about a relationship with the viewer, but I’m very very interested in it,” Weber says. “I can honestly say I have no idea why people are drawn to trees and birds, except that in terms of iconography and the human condition, these seem to be important objects. I’m loving the response I’ve had from people so far.” MAM hosts an opening reception for Understory/Overstory Fri., Sept. 7, from 5 to 8 PM, with an artist talk by Cathy Weber at 7 PM followed by a spoken-word performance by Dreya Weber. arts@missoulanews.com

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Epic fail Peppermint’s thrills can’t cover the stench by Molly Laich

Jennifer Garner stars in Peppermint.

In Peppermint, action director Pierre Morel (The Gunman, Taken) delivers a dumb, ugly revenge story, the likes of which can be only slightly redeemed by its commitment to violence. Jennifer Garner stars as working mom Riley North, whom we first meet with her 10-year-old daughter, Carly, in a humiliating retreat back to their car in a strip-mall parking lot after being caught up in a Girl Scout cookie turf war with a shrill, villainous L.A. mom. ( You’ve seen this scene before: judgment, PTA meetings, high heels, blah blah blah.) Meanwhile, Riley’s husband, Chris, struggles to make ends meet as a mechanic, as evidenced by him looking down at a pile of bills and sighing. Then Chris’s coworker approaches to suggest they pull off a quick, one-time robbery of the city’s most prominent drug lords. “Think about your daughter,” the coworker says. Right. The evening reaches its first bland crescendo when Riley comes home after a long shift at the bank, expecting that they’ve won the neighborhood over with their daughter’s triumphant 10th birthday party and instead finds her entire family murdered by the Mexican drug cartel! (Unfortunately, I’m kidding. That comes later.) The first tragedy is that nobody showed up to Carly’s party, which we are meant to interpret as emblematic of the family’s other failures to keep up with the Joneses, I guess? “Things are going to get better,” Chris whispers in Riley’s ear, but how the birthday party fail and the apparent cataclysm of a two-income household intersect remains unclear. Anyway, Chris calls his friend and says the robbery is off, the family goes to a nearby Christmas carnival, the kid orders peppermint ice cream (hey, it’s the title of the movie), and then, on the way back to the car, in a drive-by shooting perpetrated

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by a couple of Mexican thugs with tattoos on their faces, father and daughter are gunned down in slow motion. Now the rampage of bloody revenge against every last man responsible can commence. These first scenes are empirically terrible, but things pick up a bit once we cut to five years later — an interim presumably filled with soul searching and cage fighting that I think we all would like to have seen, but never mind. Riley is now living in a van on L.A.’s skid row, where she plots her revenge campaign and also serves as a guardian angel to the city’s neglected homeless population. From here, the story follows a classic construction of Riley versus a bunch of Mexicans, intercut with a police force conflicted by the task of arresting a vigilante out for righteous justice, who, we are told, has “a lot of support on social media.” To reiterate, nothing that happens in this movie is particularly original, thrilling or good. Many people might point to the nearly all-Mexican body count, but I think the real racism comes from the film’s implicit assumption that this white woman’s pain is the grief to end all grief. Sure, other lives have been destroyed by the Mexican cartel, but Riley loved her family the most! Garner is a Neutrogena/Capital One card spokeswoman first and foremost, and her work here never really transcends the dimples. It’s a poorly written role, but also she sucks. Still, some of screenwriter Chad St. John’s dialogue and gaping police procedural inaccuracies are so outlandishly bad that we are moderately entertained. Cop 1: “It’s the FBI, they wanna talk to us.” Cop 2: “The Feds?” Some of the best comedies are written by people who didn’t know they wrote a comedy. Peppermint opens at the AMC Fri., Sept. 7. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] If you work at the AMC 12 or the Southgate 9, would you please give me a call? You’re not in trouble. I just want to make sure everyone is still employed there. Everybody else can visit amctheatres.com for updated listings.

OPENING THIS WEEK THE NUN Why is it that Catholicism is the only religion that ever seems to be represented in horror films? Heads up, this is the fifth installment in The Conjuring series. Rated R. Stars Taissa Farmiga, Bonnie Aarons and Demian Bichir. Playing at the Pharohplex. PEPPERMINT After her family's murderer walks free thanks to a crooked legal system, this woman takes matters into her own hands in a bloody wave of vigilante vengeance. Rated R. Stars Jennifer Garner, Tyson Ritter and Cailey Fleming. Opens in wide release Fri., Sept. 7. (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. AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) FEED ME A STRAY CAT. Rated R. Stars Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe and the music of Huey Lewis and the News. Playing Sat., Sept. 8 at 9 PM at the Roxy. 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. BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME (2012) Was this band tempting fate when they called themselves Big Star? How about when they named their first album #1 Record? Whatever the case, the story of the greatest rock band you've never heard of comes to life in this musical documentary. Rated PG13. Directed by Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori. Playing Thu., Sept. 13 at 8 PM 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

I’ve got a sinking suspicion that there’s not a single dybbuk anywhere in this whole movie. The Nun opens at the Pharaohplex. 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. FREE WILLY (1993) Sentenced to work at the theme park he vandalized, a maladjusted orphan instead steals a young Orca whale from greedy capitalists. This kid is going to have one heck of a rap sheet. Rated PG. Stars Jason James Richter, Lori Petty and Keiko the whale, who ironically died after being freed from captivity in real life. Playing Sat., Sept. 8 at 2 PM at the Roxy. 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. 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. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004) Age is really just a number. Especially if a witch's curse turned you into a crone. At least you'll be able to find work cleaning a truly mobile home. Rated PG. Stars the voices of Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale and Lauren Bacall. Playing Wed., Sept. 12 at 8 PM and Sun., Sept. 16 at 2 PM at the Roxy. 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 Boze-

man's Sarah Vowell. Playing at the AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

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JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM It's the fifth Jurassic Park movie. I think we all know what we're in for by this point. Rated PG-13. Stars Sinoceratops, Barynoyx, Stygimoloch and Chris Pratt. Playing at the Southgate 9.

SEABISCUIT (2003) A down-and-out trainer, a half-blind jockey and a struggling horse learn that when it comes to racing, it's not the size of the horse in the fight that matters, it's the size of the fight in the horse. Rated PG-13. Stars Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Elizabeth Banks. Playing Mon., Sept. 10 at 7 PM 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 MEG Human fist Jason Statham fights a giant prehistoric shark in a theatrical film that's surprisingly not 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. 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. 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. Playing at the Roxy. 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.

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 Sun., Sept 9 at 2 PM at the Roxy. TOM OF FINLAND (2017) His drawings of chaps who like chaps wearing chaps made him a celebrated hero and an outlaw across the world, but Touko Laaksonen's influence on 20th century gay culture made him the O.G. leather daddy. Not Rated. Stars Pekka Stang, Seumas F. Sargent and Lauri Tilkanen. Playing Thu., Sept. 13 at 7 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. I sure do miss the Carmike.

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by Gabi Moskowitz

BROKEASS GOURMET

One of the coolest things about being a blogger is that companies send you all kinds of cool stuff. I have a strict policy that I won't write about something unless I think it’s really, actually cool, so I find myself saying “no, thanks,” a lot. But every now and then a company reaches out and I am reminded of how awesome this aspect of blogging is. One such email was from none other than the Tourism Department of the City of Santa Fe. They were wondering if I might like some free green Hatch chilies to cook with? Why yes. Yes, I would. I first fell in love with green Hatch chilies in 2012, when Evan and I spent a romantic week in New Mexico. They’re medium-spicy with just hint of sweetness, and they get roasted to bring out a lovely smoky flavor. They can be found in every New Mexican restaurant, especially in omnipresent green chile stew. Also popular in New Mexico is the green chile burger, often topped with cheese. There are several variations of it, some including bacon, pickled jalapeños and caramelized onions. I’m a big fan, so I decided to make my own version. Instead of topping the burger with green chiles, I found that infusing the meat with chopped Hatch chilies, a healthy dose of garlic and a little red onion was the best way to get intense flavor throughout the burger (and it also means that you don’t have to worry about toppings slipping off or squishing out and overloading the bun). I kept my meat mix simple, so as to really focus on the chile flavor. Just a little garlic, onions, salt and pepper got added to the ground beef. I like my burger patties on the round, thick end of the spectrum for maximum juiciness, rather than flat and thin. Go with whatever you like. This was our first grill night of the season. The smells and sounds were unbelievable.

After about 4 minutes, I gave them a flip. I served them topped with some homemade guacamole, alongside some oven sweet potato fries and kale salad with a perky apple cider vinaigrette. Hello there, grill season. I am so, so ready for you. Serves 4 INGREDIENTS 3 large roasted green chiles (preferably Hatch), chopped (1/2 cup, with seeds) 2 tablespoons chopped red onion (about 1/8 medium onion) 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 pound ground beef (80/20 or 85/15) 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper fresh guacamole (optional) DIRECTIONS Combine all ingredients (except guacamole) in a bowl. Form into 1/4 pound patties Lightly grease a grill or cast iron pan and heat to medium-high. Grill for 4 to 5 minutes per side until slightly charred on the outside and cooked mostly through. Serve topped with the guacamole, if using, either plain or on a toasted bun.

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

[dish] Bernice’s Bakery 190 S Third St W 728-135 A Missoula gem since 1978, now serving lunch seven days a week from 11 - 4pm. Featured items: scratch-made soups, salads, sandwiches and more. Bernice's is known for its scrumptious desserts including cupcakes, pastries, cookies, and cakes. Gluten-free and vegan options available. A must-have for the coffee lover in your life? A bag of Bernice's signature blend locally roasted with love. Check us out on Facebook, Instagram or visit our website at www.bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am 10:30pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 46 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Chameleon Mobile Kitchen Sinclair Kwik Stop 505 Highton St. East Missoula

214-1372 Our menu features slow-roasted meats and fresh seasonal veggies paired with diverse sauces and salsas made from scratch. Tacos, burritos, hot sandwiches, rice & noodle bowls, and daily specials. We are fully equipped and self-contained for on-site public and private events and offer drop-off catering. Call ahead for pick-up. Online menu available at chameleonmobilekitchen.com. $-$$

,Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza and calzones, rice and noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive and antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of house-made breakfast, lunch and dinner entreés. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula's favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $$$

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A Mustard Seed martini

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Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ Mo’ Dogs 617 S. Higgins Ave. 926-1094 mo-dogs.com Mo’ Dogs – Missoula’s premier Gourmet Sausage and Specialty Hot Dog Restaurant. From our Old Fashioned Frank to our tropical “Aloha” or traditional “Chicago” we have something for everyone. Our sauces, slaws and all-meat Angus Chili are house-made daily. Missoula Family owned and operated – we look forward to seeing you! $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily, local and regional micro brews, fine wines and signature cocktails. Vegetarian and glutenfree menu available, plus takeout and delivery daily. $$-$$$ Nara Japanese/ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy its warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer, Wine and Sake. $$-$$$

photo by Derek Brouwer

What you’re drinking: A martini made with fresh grapefruit and basil leaves. It’s the first drink on the menu and, according to staff, the restaurant’s best.

been purchased just a few hours earlier at Lucky’s Market across the mall. The grapefruit pulp adds a bit of texture without getting in the way.

What’s in it: Well, as the name suggests and the above photo shows, it’s made with a thick wedge of grapefruit muddled with four basil leaves. Your bartender adds simple syrup and two shots of Deep Eddy vodka, then shakes and strains it. The grapefruit wedge gets plopped back into the glass for serving.

What’s the ambiance like? The lights are dim, the bar is broad and impressive, you’re drinking a martini with your egg rolls and, on this particular afternoon, Uncle Kracker and Nickelback make appearances on the Spotify playlist.

Does it live up to the hype? I haven’t tried every cocktail on the menu, so I can’t confirm the Grapefruit Basil is tops, but it sets a high bar. The vodka, syrup and grapefruit seem to mellow each other, which allows the basil to pierce through. It helps that the basil is fresh. The leaves used to make mine had

The details: Taste the Grapefruit Basil martini at Mustard Seed Asian Cafe, 2901 Brooks St. $8.75. —Derek Brouwer Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

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Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reserva-

tions, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$ Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Tia’s Big Sky 1016 W. Broadway 317-1817 tiasbigsky.com We make locally sourced Mexican food from scratch. We specialize in organic marinated Mexican street chicken (rotisserie style) fresh handmade tortillas, traditional and fusion tamales, tacos, pozole and so much more. Most items on our menu are gluten free and we offer many vegetarian and vegan options. We also have traditional Mexican deserts, as well as drinks. Much of our produce is grown for us organically by Kari our in house farmer! Eat real food at Tia’s! Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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SAT | 8 PM

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit play the KettleHouse Amphitheater Sat., Sept. 8. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $37.50–$52.50.

MON | 8 PM

Patrick Sweany plays the Badlander Mon., Sept. 10. 8 PM. $10.

FRI | 10:15 PM

The Dusty Pockets play the Top Hat Fri., Sept. 7 at 10:15 PM. Free.

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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. UM’s Gallery of Visual Arts hosts an opening reception for Lovers, a group exhibit featuring work from teams of artists. 5 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. Good Old Fashioned plays a mix-

ture of old-time bluegrass, folk, country and blues at Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

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

Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM.

Melissa Bangs hosts Momedy, a 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.

The Glad Scientist, a “FutureArt Technologist” performs a virtual reality exploration of sound at Wave & Circuit with acelowman. Doors at 7:30 PM, music at 8. $7.

Mix a glass of red with the bluesy jazz of Chuck Florence, Pete Hand and Jim Driscoll at Plonk Wine Bar. 8 PM–11 PM. Free.

You can only pronounce my DJ name with a mouth full of peanut butter. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM. Listen, Montana is lots of things, okay? Montana is Country returns to the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 PM. Free.

of local DJs projecting a curated lineup of music videos on the walls every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 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 T-Rex and a rotating cast

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.

and short films followed by an art show from Gavin McClure. The Roxy. 8 PM.

Reed Feldman and John August provide the soulful gloves at Michi Ramen Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Guest DJ Chaddabox joins Mark Myriad on the decks for another Drop Culture Dance Party. The Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Singer-songwriter J.W. Teller takes a tour of Americana at the VFW. 9 PM. Free.

The Dusty Pockets pay tribute to Little Feat and the Allman Brothers at the Top Hat. 10:15 PM. Free.

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Friday The name’s Bond. Jane Bond. The Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana hosts its 24th coronation with a 007-themed drag weekend at Ruby’s Inn and Convention Center. Visit Facebook for a full list of events and registration. The Third Annual Montana State Hemp & Cannabis Festival returns to Lolo Hot Springs. Music, vendors, workshops and more. Dope! Visit montanahempfest.com for more info and ticketing. $20–$80. Next year it will finally be old enough to drink. The 20th Annual Maverick Brewfest brings Montana’s best microbrews to Caras Park. 4 PM–10 PM. $10. Norwell hosts a listening party for the band’s debut album, There is Nothing That Cannot Happen to Someone, at Primal Practice Chiropractic. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Acoustic jukebox duo The Status Crowes provide the tunes at Market on Front. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. Galleries, business and restaurants throughout downtown Missoula open their doors for the monthly First Friday Art Walk. Visit artsmissoula.org for more info and previews of opening exhibits. 5 PM–9 PM. (See Sidebar) Missoula Urban Demonstration Project hosts its annual Garden Party. Featuring beer, music and dinner from Two Crows Tacos, the party runs from 6 PM to 10 PM at the MUD site. $13–$20. Helena’s 710 Ashbury plays a tribute to the Grateful Dead at the Old Post’s First Friday celebration. 6:30 PM–1:30 AM. Free.

The Status Crowes play Market on Front Fri., Sept 7. 5 PM–8 PM. Free. The 2018 Great Bear Apple Drive kicks off with a party at Western Cider. Sample the third batch from last year’s drive and enjoy the music of Westfork. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Protest Kids, Motorhome and Jupiter Beat unite for a night of music at Free Cycles. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. Donations. John Roberts y Pan Blanco bring live salsa, cumbia and funk to the Dark Horse Bar. Dance lessons at 8 PM, show at 9. Free.

Herbalist and writer Spencre McGowan reads from her new book, Blotto Botany, at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free. The kings and queens of the Imperial Sovereign Court of the State of Montana host their 24th coronation with a weekend party at Ruby’s Inn and Convention Center. Life is a drag, so get your tickets early. $25/$55 for out of staters. Montana Film Festival unveils its 2018 lineup of brand new feature

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Mudslide Charley rushes into the Union Club for a night of music. 9:30 PM. Free.

First Friday Noteworthy Paper & Press's Maker's Showcase features the claywork of Candice Haster. 5 PM– 8 PM.

Montana Summer, paintings of Big Sky Country by Kelsey Walsh, are displayed at La Stella Blu. 5 PM–8 PM.

Parkscapes, the plein air oil paintings of Teresa Garland Warner, opens at 4 Ravens Gallery. 5 PM– 8 PM.

The Downtown Dharma Center reopens with a First Friday celebration with Tibetan lama Geshe Thubten Phelgye. 5 PM–8 PM. 500 N. Higgins #208.

Betty's Divine's Please Don't Tell My Dad show returns with more NSFW art. 5 PM–8 PM.

Local artists sell their best works at Cool Art Club at Compass Barber Shop. 5 PM–8 PM.

Engel & Völkers Western Frontier hosts the photography of Jay Cross and the wire designs of Danny Iverson. 5 PM–8 PM.

Our Vanishing Future: Photographs and Illustrations brings together the work of nine wildlife photographers and drawings from K–12 artists. Murphy/Jubb Fine Art. 210 N. Higgins. Suite 300.

Christa Carelton’s if I repeat it enough times will it go away? opens at FrontierSpace Fri., Sept. 7. 5 PM–9 PM. Missoula Historic Preservation and Unseen Missoula showcase original sign artwork from more than 50 of Missoula's most iconic business. Hammond Arcade. 5 PM–8 PM. Bernice's Bakery hosts an opening for Thomas H. Boelman's Season by Season. 5 PM–8 PM. Roleplaying game illustrator D.L. Johnson presents It Came From The Sky, a fantastic world of skybeasts, interstellar travelers and horrifying monsters at Gecko Designs. 5 PM–8 PM. VonCommon Studios' group show features work by the art collective at Radius Gallery's Sidecar gallery. 5 PM–8 PM. FrontierSpace opens a gallery of prints from Christa Carleton's if I repeat it enough times, will it go away? 5 PM–9 PM. Radius Gallery pairs the work of designers Ty Best and Becky Broeder with the artwork of a dozen artists to create Design/Desire. 4 PM–8 PM. Vanessa Smith displays her photography at Hunter Bay Coffee. 5 PM–8 PM. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices hosts ARchiTectural Design Process, an interactive display collected by the Missoula Architecture + Design Group. 5 PM–8 PM. Bathing Beauties Beads wel-

comes the handmade jewelry of Tooth and Talon's Bridget Miller. 5 PM–9 PM. Montana Natural History Center hosts Kalon Baughan's Trail Camera Photography: Blending Photography and Art with Science. 4:30 PM–6:30 PM.

Understory/Overstory, Cathy Weber's first foray into largescale installations, opens at Missoula Art Museum. 5 PM–8 PM. Gallery talk at 7 PM. Gallery 709 hosts Natural Encounters, Elloie Jeter's pastels and Bob Phinney's monoprints. 5 PM–9 PM. Purewest displays the photography of Bruce Gardner. 5 PM–8 PM. The Clay Studio of Missoula hosts an opening reception for touched, the ceramic works of Chris Drobnock. 5:30 PM–9 PM. I felt that way about the incredible Mr. Limpet. Enamored by a Fish, a photography exhibition by Creekside Media, opens at the Dram Shop. 5 PM–7 PM.

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I Am, an exhibit of masks and the stories behind them, opens at Living Art of Montana. 5 PM– 8:30 PM. Lake Missoula Tea Company hosts the vibrant photography of South Korea of Winter Ramos and the music of Lindsey Stormo. 5 PM–8 PM.

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Saturday Do you know your farmer? Missoula Farmers Market features hot coffee, sweet treats and fresh, locally grown veggies. Circle Square by the XXXX. 8 AM– 12:30 PM. Free. Stock up on farm-direct food every Saturday at the Clark Fork Market. Vendors from across Western Montana converge in the Riverside Parking Lot next to Caras Park. 8 AM–1 PM. Need a little inspiration to get out of bed on the weekend? Come join Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday morning runs at the Runner’s Edge at 8 AM. Open to all skill levels.

and more. 115 University Ave. 9 AM–3 PM.

lolohotsprings.com for more info and registration.

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.

The Third Annual Montana State Hemp & Cannabis Festival continues at Lolo Hot Springs. Visit montanahempfest.com for more info and ticketing

The 7th Annual Doggie Dash 5K Fun Run at Fort Missoula Regional Park lets you and your fourlegged friend race together before enjoying a free pet expo. 10 AM. Visit missoulaparks.org to register.

Commemorate the 213th anniversary of the Corps of Discovery’s arrival at Travelers’ Rest with a series of short films about our connection to the legendary Expedition. 12 PM. Visit travelersrest.org for more info

NamasDay, Montana’s second annual yoga festival, returns to MASC Studios. Doors at 9 AM, stretching at 10 AM. Visit namasdayofyoga.com for more info and registration. $50–$175.

Ready, set, gross! The Dirty Dash takes you on a muddy and messy 5K run at the Flying H Stables. Visit thedirtydash.com for more info and registration. 9 AM. $45.

Gwendolyn Nix signs copies of her new book Falling Dawn: Celestial Scripts at Fact & Fiction’s Saturday Sidewalk Signing. 10 AM.

Missoula Weavers Guild hosts the Plaid Llama sale. Get your hands on special high-fiber yarn, fabric

Get your weekend started with a round of disc golf at Granite Peak Folf Course. 10 AM. Free. Visit

Singer-songwriter Michelle Rivers plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. One last thing to tie up. The Loose String Band plays Highlander Beer Taphouse. 6 PM–8 PM. Free. Is that metric or what? Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit play the KettleHouse Amphitheater along with Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 8. $37.50–$52.50.

Spotlight As a lifelong devotee to tabletop roleplaying games, I've always loved looking through the rulebooks' art. Sure there are gamers out there that prefer the crunchier parts of the game–the rules, the statistics, the annotated charts full of unpronounceable polearms– but for me, the interior art has always been the best way to get a feel for a game. Are you fighting your way through an army of aberrant mind flayers in the unexplored caverns of the Underdark? Are your intergalactic peacekeepers battling three-headed warlords? Whatever game you play, and whatever adventure you go on, the interior artwork shows you the kind of stories you can tell, making it far more approachable and understandable than another THAC0 chart. Professional RPG illustrator D.L. Johnson, whose work has appeared in Arkham Country, Scarlet Heroes, and one my personal favorites, Trail of Cthulhu, unleashes the worlds of his imagination this First Friday with It Came from the Sky! featuring skybeasts, alien intelligences and creatures from beyond time. See the best part of RPG rulebooks without having to do all that math. —Charley Macorn WHO: D.L. Johnson WHAT: It Came from the Sky! WHERE: Gecko Designs WHEN: Fri., Sept. 7 at 5 PM MORE INFO: mutantsofgathox.blogspot.com

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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. Missoula Outdoor Cinema finishes up another season with a screening of Hollywood’s love letter to the Garden City. A River Runs Through It starts at approximately 8 PM at Headstart School. Free, but donations encouraged. 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. Idle Ranch Hands play the Union Club while my herd is starving to death. Typical. 9:30 PM. Free. Is this Batman and Superman’s band? World’s Finest plays the Top Hat at 10:15 PM. Free.

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Sunday of roots reggae at Imagine Nation Brewing. 5:30 PM–8 PM. Free.

Walk and Roll Missoula hosts a week of activities dedicated to declogging our roadways, keeping our air clean and staying in shape. Visit missoulainmotion.com for more info and a full schedule of events.

Carla Green Jazz provides the soundtrack at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. You were a better Incredible Hulk than Eric Bana. The Ed Norton Big Band plays Sunday Swing at the Downtown Dance Collective. 6 PM–8 PM. $10.

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

The Cigarette Girls’ Sunday Nightcap finishes up the weekend with an evening of burlesque, drag and music at the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $5.

Two wheels good, four wheels bad! Missoula’s largest group bike ride returns. Bikeapalooza takes you on a 6-mile familyfriendly loop with the City of Missoula Bike Ambassadors. Meet at the XXXXs at 11 AM.

The Hermina Jean Band celebrates the release of its new EP with a party at the Roxy with the Marshall Dorothy Granger Band, Writ Large and art from Nate Biehl and Jack Metcalf. 8 PM. $5.

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. Biers & Brunch at Bayern Brewing brings breakfast foods and brews every Sunday. 11 AM–2 PM. The Third Annual Montana State Hemp & Cannabis Festival continues at Lolo Hot Springs. Visit montanahempfest.com for more info and ticketing. Greet the sun under the sun with Missoula in Motion and Inner Har-

The Ed Norton Big Band plays Sunday Swing at Downtown Dance Collective Sun., Sept 9. 6 PM–8 PM. $10. mony Yoga at a free yoga class on Higgins Bridge. 12 PM. Free.

Ave. between the XXXXs and 5th. 12 PM–4 PM. Free.

More than 50 organizations and thousands of people converge for Sunday Streets Missoula. Higgins

Commemorate the 213th anniversary of the Corps of Discovery’s arrival at Travelers’ Rest with a se-

ries of short films about our connection to the legendary Expedition. 12 PM. Visit travelersrest.org for more info. Yabba Griffiths provides a night

Comedian Eliza Oh is heading to Austin to follow her dreams of doing comedy while drenched in sweat. Before she embarks on her new adventure, however, some of the funniest comedians in the city are sending her off with a noholds-barred roast at the Badlander. 8 PM. Free. Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

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Vanity Plate plays the ZACC Below Mon., Sept. 10. Doors at 7, show at 7:30 PM. $5.

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.

Plate and North Dakota’s Free Truman are joined by local rockers Letter B and Thin Truk at the ZACC Below. Doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30. $5.

Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Every Monday from 6–8 PM.

Larry Hirshberg provides the tunes at Red Bird Wine Bar from 7 PM– 10 PM. Free.

The University of Montana’s President’s Lecture series kicks off the season with New York Times columnist David Brooks speaking about ”The Cultural Revolution We Need.” The Wilma. Doors at 6:30 PM, lecture at 7:30. Free. 1NDYRLZ!

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Nashville blues artist Patrick Sweany plays the Badlander. 8 PM. $10. Motown on Mondays puts the s-ou-l back into Missoula. Resident DJs Smokey Rose and Mark Myriad curate a night of your favorite Motor City hits at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

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Tuesday Every Tuesday is Walk With a Doc Day at Grizzly Peak. A health professional discusses their speciality while walking with the group. 9 AM–10 AM. Free. Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue bring their Voodoo Threauxdown Tour to the KettleHouse Amphitheater. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $35–$45. 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.

Cheryl Heser reads from her new book Walking at the Speed of Light at Fact & Fiction. 7 PM. The only thing I want to know the answer to is why we don’t call it the Meagher Beagher. Trivia Night at Thomas Meagher Bar lets you show off that big stupid intellect of yours. 8 PM. Free. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. This week’s trivia question: What small rhythm and blues music label was the first to release a Beatles single in the United States? Answer in tomorrow’s event listings.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue play the KettleHouse Amphitheater Tue., Sept. 11. Doors at 5:30 PM, show at 7. $35–$45.

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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 Climate Smart Missoula. 5 PM–8 PM. CBS ”60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan is the guest speaker at the 2018 Chamber of Commerce Banquet at Hilton Garden Inn. 5:30 PM. Visit missoulacham-

ber.com to reserve your spot. $125/$100 for members. Lake Street Dive plays the Wilma along with Robert Finley. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $34–$38. Every ticket gets you a free copy of their new album Free Yourself Up. Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by answering trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the

Broadway Sports Bar and Grill. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Vee-Jay Records. 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.

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Thursday Missoula Insectarium feeds live crickets to one of its hungry predators at 3:30 PM every Thursday. $4. Ovando provides the tunes at Draught Works from 6 PM–8 PM. Free. NAMI Missoula and Project tomorrow host Voices of Hope, a reading of poetry and prose to shine light on suicide prevention. Visit namimissoula.org for more info. The Public House. 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free.

Lake Street Dive plays the Wilma Wed., Sept. 12. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $34–$38.

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

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DJ Hamms and the Infragible Kyle bring Wormwood, Perfect Blue and the Western States to the VFW for a benefit for Missoula Community Radio. 8 PM. $5. You can only pronounce my DJ name with a mouth full of peanut butter. Join the Missoula Open Decks Society for an evening of music. Bring your gear and your dancing shoes to the VFW at 7 PM. British producer and DJ Chris Lake performs at the Top Hat. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9. $18/$16 advance. Daniel Kosel provides the bootscootin’ tunes at the Sunrise Saloon. 8:30 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. 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. We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost.

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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.

The People's Climate March starts at 11 AM in Anderson Park before rallying its way across the Higgins Bridge.

YWCA Missoula GUTS! Program is looking for volunteers to help facilitate groups for girls ages 9 to 13 this fall. A volunteer orientation takes place at the YWCA Missoula. 5:30 PM– 8:30 PM.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 The 6th Annual Bikers Against Bullies Celebrity Ride starts at 9 AM at Grizzly Harley-Davidson. $20. Though we're well known for outdoor recreation and breathtaking landscapes, Montana's battle with mental illness has reached epidemic proportions. Since 1999, Montana's suicide rate has risen by 38 percent, eclipsing national averages and making the Last Best Place the state with the highest suicide rates in the country. Montana's propensity toward heavy drinking, its embarrassment of guns and a sparse population living in a giant state all contribute to this tragic problem. But experts agree that the number one thing someone can do to prevent suicide is to reach out and get help. This obviously made more sense before budget cuts gutted Montana's mental health infrastructure. National Alliance of Mental Illness Mis-

soula, an organization that provides support, education and advocacy for those affected by mental illness, marks Project Tomorrow's Suicide Prevention Week with Out of the Darkness: Voices in Hope. In order to bring attention to Montana's struggle, local authors read poetry and prose centered on the depression and despair that so many in our community feel. —Charley Macorn Out of the Darkness: Voices in Hope takes place at the Public House Thu., Sept. 13 from 6:30 PM–8:30 PM. Free. Visit namimissoula.org for more information.

The Missoula Walk to Defeat ALS starts at 10 AM at McCormick Park. Visit alsa.org for more information and registration. Did you know Montana is number three in the nation for head injuries? Knock that number down at Lids for Kids. Karl Tyler Chevrolet hands out free helmets for the kiddos while supplies last. 10 AM. Imagine Nation hosts the Humane Society of Western Montana for an adoption event from 12 PM to 3 PM.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 YWCA Missoula GUTS! Program is looking for volunteers to help facilitate groups for girls ages 9 to 13 this fall. A volunteer orientation takes place at the YWCA Missoula. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. Learn about cannabinoids, terpenes and what qualifies patients for a Montana medical marijuana card at Medical Cannabis 101 at Garden Mother. 6 PM–8 PM. RSVP at gardenmother.com.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 One Less Car Day is a community-wide initiative to get as many people to travel using a sustainable mode of transportation. Visit missoulainmotion.com/onelesscar for more information.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 NAMI Missoula and Project Tomorrow host Voices of Hope, a reading of poetry and prose to shine light on suicide prevention. Visit namimissoula.org for more info. The Public House. 6:30 PM–8:30 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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Mountain High For the last 27 years, Missoula in Motion's Walk & Roll Week has encouraged residents of the Garden City to get around in the healthiest and most fun ways possible. This year's annual celebration of traveling by bike, bus and foot features several events that are good for your heart and good for the environment. Things kick off with Bikeapalooza, a 6-mile fun ride through Missoula. Following the start of the bike ride, Sunday Streets Missoula blocks off Higgins Avenue from the XXXXs to 5th Street to make room for free classes from Fuel Fitness, Inner Harmony and Pure Barre as well as live music and kid's activities. Meanwhile, Mis-

soula's People's Climate March makes its way from Anderson Park to the XXXXs. The rest of the week features bicycle maintenance workshops, Free Cycles Climate Ride and a bike tour of local buildings designed by renowned architect A.J. Gibson. —Charley Macorn

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

loop with the City of Missoula Bike Ambassadors. Meet at the XXXXs at 11 AM.

Montana Natural History Center hosts Kalon Baughan's Trail Camera Photography: Blending Photography and Art with Science. 4:30 PM– 6:30 PM.

Enamored by a Fish, a photography exhibition by Creekside Media, opens at the Dram Shop. 5 PM–7 PM.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Join the Watershed Education Network for a water monitoring training. Learn how you can protect our waters. Greenough Park. 12 PM–4 PM. RSVP to water@montanawtershed.org with your boot size.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Walk and Roll Missoula hosts a week of activities dedicated to declogging our roadways, keeping our air clean and staying in shape. Visit missoulainmotion.com for more info and a full schedule of events. Missoula's largest group bike ride returns. Bikeapalooza takes you on a 6-mile family-friendly

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Missoula in Motion's Walk & Roll Week kicks off Sun., Sept 9 on Higgins Ave. Bridge. 11 AM–4 PM. Visit missoulainmotion.com/walkandroll for a complete list of events and more info.

Greet the sun under the sun with Missoula in Motion and Inner Harmony Yoga at a free yoga class on Higgins Bridge. 12 PM. Free.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Greet the sun under the sun at Yoga in the Park. This week bring your mat and $3 to Greenough Park. 6 PM–7 PM.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Bugs, Beer and BBQ. What more could you want? WestSlope Chapter Trout Unlimited bug experts Amy and Deb talk about aquatic bugs, how to find them, and how to match them with flies. Greenough Park. 6 PM–9 PM.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Join the Watershed Education Network for a water monitoring training. Learn how you can protect our waters. Greenough Park. 3:30 PM– 7:30 PM. RSVP to water@montanawtershed.org with your boot size.

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My friend was dying to tell her new boyfriend she loves him but waited till he said it first. She, in fact, makes that a rule. Now I have a new boyfriend. Should I just shamelessly own my feelings --— that is, tell him I love him? Or should I follow my friend’s lead?

—Hating Waiting We have this notion that it’s really romantic for a couple to say “I love you” pronto: “The moment he/she sat down at the bus stop next to me, I just knew!” In reality, “love at first sight” tends to come with some issues, such as the failure to weed out any insta-beloveds who kiss like big-lipped fish. Your desire to go all blurtypants on the guy likewise seems romantic — until you consider the psychological mechanics behind it. Chances are, you’re in a state of psychological tension — all fired up with suspense at how the guy will respond — and only by telling him will you finally get relief. (It’s basically the emotional version of really, really needing to pee.) Research on sex differences in “parental investment” by evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers suggests that it’s probably a bad idea for you, as a woman, to go first with the ILY. Trivers explains that in species like ours, in which females get stuck with the burden of parental care (should sex lead to the creation of toddlers), they evolved to vet males for ability and willingness to invest — more than that initial teaspoonful of sperm, that is. Men coevolved to expect this — to expect to have to prove themselves to women to get sex. In short, men chase; women choose. Sure, there are couples out there in which the woman chased and things ended up just fine. But those evolved differences in male and female psychology are still driving us — even now, in our world of smartphones, facial recognition software and, before long, family vacations in flying minivans. In other words, you’re taking a risk by tossing out the ILY first — possibly causing the guy to want you less than if you let him take the lead in ILY blurtations. And hi, feminists! I can hear the flicking of your lighters as you ready your pitchforks and hay. But the way I see it, what should be feminist is acknowledging what seems to be the optimal approach for women per research on human psychology. Despite the risks, you may decide to be that rebel gazelle that chases the lion. If so, why not go all the way? Pull out your man’s chair for him in restaurants. Put your jacket over his

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My fianceé dumped me three months ago. I was devastated, but I’ve come to realize that we shouldn’t be together. Now she keeps pressing for us to meet, saying there’s stuff she needs to “process.” I was finally starting to get over her, but should I just go?

—Torn Getting together with your ex-fianceé after you’ve finally started to move on is like being just out of rehab and reconnecting with a friend: “What could be the harm? A nice pastrami on rye with my old heroin dealer!” Your brain, like an air-conditioned Miami mansion, is “expensive” to run, so it tries to go on autopilot (basically non-think mode) whenever possible. When you repeatedly take a certain action — like turning to a certain person for love, attention and comforting — that action becomes more and more automatic. On a neural level, this plays out with a bunch of individual brain cells (neurons) that “wire together,” as neuroscientist Carla Shatz puts it. This happens after individual neurons each fire off a chemical messenger — a neurotransmitter — that another neuron catches and absorbs. The more a person repeats the same action — and the more a group of neurons does the same fire-off-and-catch sequence — the faster they get at it. Eventually, these neurons become what I like to describe as a “thinkpack” — conserving mental energy through bypassing the conscious thought department and robotically defaulting to whatever action worked for the person in the past. Right now, the last thing you need is to stall your recovery process — the weakening over time of those entrenched neural pathways — by getting the band (Ramon and The Neurons) back together. If you feel bad about saying no to seeing her, consider how she’s prioritizing her need to “process” over your continued recovery. Aww ... how loving! (“It’s not you; it’s me — and how my crappy new insurance no longer covers therapy.”)

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SKILLED LABOR HVAC Installer: LC Staffing Missoula is partnering with a locally-owned HVAC company to hire a long-term HVAC Installer. The HVAC Installer is a comfort controller and will work with heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. This person will install, repair, replace and maintain HVAC systems for homes and businesses in many different types of buildings. The HVAC Installer will use a wide array of tools to keep the systems working optimally to make buildings cool in the summer and warm in the winter. For a full job description, please visit our website at www.lcstaffing.com and refer to order #32393

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE MARIE A. ANDERSEN, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Cause No.: CV-2018-2029-LT SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION ACCESS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, Plaintiff, v. BOBBIE K. NIX, et al., Defendant. TO: Bobbie K. Nix 1901 Maple St. Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr and Matthew A. McKeon, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought by Plaintiff will be taken against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 29th day of August, 2018. /s/ By: Hon. Marie A. Andersen 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 ABOVENAMED 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. No. 3 Probate No. DP-18-227 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF IAN SAYER WHITE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sayre White has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Sayre White, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Sally Johnson, Johnson Law Firm, 234 East Pine Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 31st day of August, 2018. /s/ Sally Johnson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 4 Case No.: DP-18-221 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: BECKY LYNN EIKER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 KELLY M. DRISCOLL, attorney for the Personal Represen-

tative, return receipt requested, at 521 N. Orange Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 28th day of August, 2018. /s/ Marlenea Robinson, Personal Representative 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. 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

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now is an excellent time to feel and explore and understand and even appreciate your sadness.To get you in the mood, here’s a list of sadnesses from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer: sadness of the could-have-been; sadness of being misunderstood; sadness of having too many options; sadness of being smart; sadness of awkward conversations; sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things; sadness of going unnoticed; sadness of domesticated birds; sadness of arousal being an unordinary physical state; sadness of wanting sadness. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have any feral qualities lurking deep down inside you? Have you ever felt a mad yearning to communicate using howls and yips instead of words? When you’re alone, do you sometimes dispense with your utensils and scoop the food off your plate with your fingers? Have you dreamed of running through a damp meadow under the full moon for the sheer ecstasy of it? Do you on occasion experience such strong erotic urges that you feel like you could weave your body and soul together with the color green or the sound of a rain-soaked river or the moon rising over the hills? I ask these questions,Taurus, because now is an excellent time to draw on the instinctual wisdom of your feral qualities. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Close some doors today,” writes novelist Paulo Coelho. “Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” I endorse his advice for your use, Gemini. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wise to practice the rough but fine art of saying NO. It’s time for you to make crisp decisions about where you belong and where you don’t; about where your future fulfillment is likely to thrive and where it won’t; about which relationships deserve your sage intimacy and which tend to push you in the direction of mediocrity. CANCER (June 21-July 22): To casual observers you may seem to be an amorphous hodgepodge, or a simmering mess of semi-interesting confusion, or an amiable dabbler headed in too many directions at once. But in my opinion, casual observers would be wrong in that assessment. What’s closer to the symbolic truth about you is an image described by poet Carolyn Forché: grapes that are ripening in the fog. Here’s another image that resonates with your current state: sea turtle eggs gestating beneath the sand on a misty ocean beach. One further metaphor for you: the bright yellow flowers of the evening primrose plant, which only bloom at night.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I want to make sure that the groove you’re in doesn’t devolve into a rut. So I’ll ask you unexpected questions to spur your imagination in unpredictable directions. Ready? 1. How would you describe the untapped riches in the shadowy part of your personality? 2. Is there a rare object you’d like to own because it would foster your feeling that the world has magic and miracles? 3. Imagine the perfect party you’d love to attend and how it might change your life for the better. 4. What bird most reminds you of yourself? 5. What’s your most evocative and inspiring taboo daydream? 6. In your past, were there ever experiences that made you cry for joy in ways that felt almost orgasmic? How might you attract or induce a catharsis like that sometime soon? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): By volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world. But where does it originate? Scientists have squabbled about that issue for over 300 years. Everyone agrees the source is in southwestern Peru. But is it the Apurímac River? The Marañón? The Mantaro? There are good arguments in favor of each. Let’s use this question as a poetic subtext as we wonder and meditate about the origin of your life force, Virgo. As is the case for the Amazon, your source has long been mysterious. But I suspect that’s going to change during the next 14 months. And the clarification process begins soon.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Warsan Shire was a child, she immigrated to the UK with her Somalian parents. Now she’s a renowned poet who writes vividly about refugees, immigrants and other marginalized people.To provide support and inspiration for the part of you that feels like an exile or fugitive or displaced person, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I offer you two quotes by Shire. 1. “I belong deeply to myself.” 2. “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself — what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Once in a while came a moment when everything seemed to have something to say to you.” So says a character in Alice Munro’s short story “Jakarta.” Now I’m using that message as the key theme of your horoscope. Why? Because you’re at the peak of your ability to be reached, to be touched, to be communicated with. You’re willing to be keenly receptive. You’re strong enough to be deeply influenced. Is it because you’re so firmly anchored in your understanding and acceptance of who you are?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1928, novelist Virginia Woolf wrote a letter to her friend Saxon Sidney Turner. “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading,” she confided, “since one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” My usual inclination is to counsel you Sagittarians to focus on one or two important matters rather than on a multitude of semi-important matters. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I’m departing from tradition to suggest you adopt Woolf ’s approach to books as your approach to everything. Your life in the coming weeks should be less like an acoustic ballad and more like a symphony for 35 instruments.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not many goats can climb trees, but there are daredevils in Morocco that do. They go in quest of the delicious olive-like berries that grow on argan trees. The branches on which they perch may be 30 feet off the ground. I’m naming them as your power creature for the coming weeks. I think you’re ready to ascend higher in search of goodies.You have the soulful agility necessary to transcend your previous level of accomplishment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): From 49-45 BC, civil war wracked the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar led forces representing the common people against armies fighting for the aristocracy’s interests. In 45 BC, Caesar brought a contingent of soldiers to Roman territory in North Africa, intent on launching a campaign against the enemy. As the general disembarked from his ship, he accidentally slipped and fell. Thinking fast, he exclaimed, “Africa, I have tight hold of you!” and clasped the ground, thus implying he had lowered himself on purpose in a ritual gesture of conquest. In this way, he converted an apparent bad omen into a positive one. And indeed, he won the ensuing battle, which was the turning point that led to ultimate victory and the war’s end. That’s good role modeling for you right now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Below are sweet words I’ve borrowed from poets I love. I invite you to use them to communicate with anyone who is primed to become more lyrically intimate with you.The time is right for you to reach out! 1. “You look like a sea of gems.” –Qahar Aasi 2. “I love you with what in me is unfinished.” –Robert Bly 3. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born.” –E. E. Cummings 4. “Tell me the most exquisite truths you know.” –Barry Hannah 5. “It’s very rare to know you, very strange and wonderful.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. “When you smile like that you are as beautiful as all my secrets.” –Anne Carson 7. Everything you say is “like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.” –Sylvia Plath Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

PUBLIC NOTICESMNAXLP 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 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-18215 Dept. 1 Hon. Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL KANYON, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Thomas Edward Keane, Jr., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at Snyder Law Office, P.C., P.O. Box 717, Bigfork, MT 59911, or be filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED August 28, 2018 /s/ Randall A. Snyder SNYDER LAW OFFICE, P.C. P. O. Box 717 Bigfork, Montana 59911 (406) 8374383 Counsel for Personal Representative 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 Insur-

ance 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 0310, of Official Records. The Deed of Trust was assigned for value as follows: Assignee: Green Tree Servicing LLC Assignment Dated: August 27, 2013 Assignment Recorded: September 9, 2013 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 201318030, in Book 919, at Page 196, Assignee: GMAC Mortgage LLC Assignment Dated: December 12, 2008 Assignment Recorded: December 18, 2008 Assignment Recording Information: as Instrument No. 200827497, in Book 830, at Page 1085, 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 June 26, 2018 as Instrument No. 201810459, in Book 998,

at Page 875, 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 January 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 $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 ex-

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP penses 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, whereis 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 plat-

ted 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

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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, whereis 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 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 131B(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 right-ofway 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 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 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES MNAXLP 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 subdivi-

sion in Missoula County, Montana, according 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 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: 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

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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.

RENTALS APARTMENT RENTALS 1 Bed, 1 Bath, $675, Trail Street, Behind Good Food Store, Spacious units w/ D/W, off street parking, coin op laundry. Heat/W/S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333. 1 Bed, 1 Bath, Russell & Stoddard, $700, Newer complex with D/W, wood laminate floors, balcony, open kitchen, walk in closet, on site laundry and off street parking. Heat/W/S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 1315 E. Broadway #3 1bd/1.5 ba, close to U and downtown, coin-ops on site, pet?... $750 Grizzly Property Management 542-2026 1565 Grant St. “C” studio/1ba, double garage, central location, w/d, a/c... $695 Grizzly Property Management 542-2026 2 Bed, 1 Bath, Burton & Broadway, $900, Large 2 bedroom w/ views of river, newer appliances, balcony, coin-

2 Bed, 1 Bath, $795, North Russell, coin op laundry, off street parking & storage. Heat/W/S/G Paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333 210 Grant St. #4 2bd/1ba, close to trails and the Good Food Store, w/d hkups, dw ... $850 Grizzly Property Management 542-2026 446 Washington St. 1bd/1ba, downtown, coin-ops, cat? ... $750 Grizzly Property Management 542-2026 612 Gerald 1bd/1ba, near University, hardwood floors, cat? ... $695 Grizzly Property Management 5422026

DUPLEXES 1120 Whitaker “A” 2bd/2ba, on Highlands Golf Course, single garage, all utils pd ... $1400 Grizzly Property Management 542-2026

1957 E. Broadway 3bd/3ba, single garage, on river, w/d hkups, dw ...

2 Bed, 1 Bath, (House), $1,100, Toole Ave., Study, Sun porch, mud room, D/W, W/D hookups, finished basement, garage & fenced yard. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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, 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: 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

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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.

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.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 Garry Kerr Dept. of Anthropology University of Montana

HERA• Hera, the queen of gods, is the perfect name for this mighty cat. Regal, glorious and loving, Hera is looking for someone's home to take reign of. She loves attention, but on her own terms. She will be a majestic, amazing cat in your home. Come meet this lovely lady during our open hours, Wed-Fri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

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male 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 annoy-

tiny pair with a big personality! These two love to snuggle up with their person and play with toys! Max prefers stuffed animals and Rex is all about anything that squeeks! They are used to an active household and love to go for walks, fetch, and Max is even up for a swim! Come meet this adorable couple during our open hours, WedFri from 1-6pm and Sat-Sun from 12-5pm!

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