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IT GLOW: LUKE SMITH NO WINNERS IN OSCAR DARLING NEBRASKA FILM ARTS LET OPINION LIGHTS UP ANIMAL SKULLS WAR ON POVERTY CAPTURES A BIT OF MONTANA
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NEWLY RELEASED REPORT QUESTIONS LOCAL DRUG TASK FORCE’S OPERATIONS, TRAINING
IT GLOW: LUKE SMITH NO WINNERS IN OSCAR DARLING NEBRASKA FILM ARTS LET OPINION LIGHTS UP ANIMAL SKULLS WAR ON POVERTY CAPTURES A BIT OF MONTANA
[2] Missoula Independent • January 23–January 30, 2014
News Voices/Letters Watermelons, stream access and tax code ..........................................4 The Week in Review Wendy’s, Maggie Voisin and MLK.............................................6 Briefs Starbucks, megaloads and owls ...........................................................................6 Etc. REAL ID has a long line of haters.............................................................................7 News Previously classified report questions task force operations................................8 News Plot thickens in Bitterroot treasurer fiasco...........................................................9 Opinion Who’s winning Missoula’s war on poverty?...................................................10 Opinion Gliding along the Yellowstone River while bullets fly ...................................11 Feature When someone goes missing, how long do you keep looking? .....................14
Arts & Entertainment Arts Illuminations from artist Luke Smith ....................................................................18 Music White Denim, Ice Hockey and Run River North ................................................19 Television Secrets of a successful antihero ..................................................................20 Film McConaughey does his finest work in Dallas Buyers Club .................................21 Film Nebraska offers an over-hyped road trip .............................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Wheat berry risotto...........................................................................24 Happiest Hour The Dude Abides ................................................................................26 8 Days a Week June-uary continues ............................................................................27 Mountain High World Skijoring Championships ........................................................33 Agenda Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health...................................................34
Exclusives
Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover .................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11
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[voices]
Bullet proof
STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Monday, Jan. 20, near the corner of Higgins and Broadway. Who’s your favorite television hero or antihero? Follow-up: What current or recent TV show do you most recommend?
Brianna Koepplin-Deutschman: Heisenberg, or Walter White, on “Breaking Bad.” The way he comes up with his street smarts is admirable. Ground round: “Bob’s Burgers.” It’s on Animation Domination about a family that has a burger joint that they live above.
Sean Barry: Tommy Gavin on “Rescue Me.” Dennis Leary is one of my idols. Edutainment: Right now I’m into a lot of educational stuff on the History Channel, like “Ax Men,” and I watch “Wardens” on the Outdoor Channel.
It’s very gratifying to have the “High Court” rule in favor of the vast majority of the Montana public after fully evaluating the very complicated issues dealing with the historic use of prescriptive roads and bridges, which have been used for decades. It is really disheartening for longtime residents to see Montana changed into a playground for the very rich. The large tracks of Montana that the wealthier are buying contain segments of public land, which have some of our best hunting and fishing resources, and the public isn’t welcome. There will be continued attacks on our cherished Stream Access Law by these selfish property owners because they want everything for themselves. The only consolation that Montana residents have is that these greedy individuals will not be able to purchase a place in “The Here After,” nor will they be able to bribe the devil from their fire-proof money belts. Montana has the most bullet-proof stream access law in the nation. Tony Schoonen President Montana Coalition for Stream Access Butte
Fruits, explained
Phil Stauffer: The two brothers on “Property Brothers” … My girlfriend just got HGTV. Their ability to transform and remodel a house appeals to me. Junk in the trunk: “Antiques Roadshow.” It’s always amazing what you can find on there.
Micah Boggs: Adam DeVine and Blake Anderson on “Workaholics.” They do whatever they want. They are adults but smoke weed and get drunk all the time. Comedy central: I’ve been into “Community.” I also like “Scrubs,” “Trailer Park Boys” and “Key & Peele” is pretty funny.
The first time I saw the word “watermelon” used satirically was in a National Review article about a year ago (see “War on watermelons,” Jan. 2). It was used then as a rejoinder to the liberal use of the terms “Uncle Tom,” “Uncle Tomahawk,” “coconut” and “banana” to describe and disparage, respectively, blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans who display a conservative point of view. (Coconuts are brown on the outside, white on the inside, bananas are yellow …) The “watermelon” reference to describe liberal environmentalists who are “green on the outside, red on the inside” seemed a logical, classy and clever retort to the undeniably racist and hurtful terms used earlier in the National Review article, considering it is inspired by ideology rather than skin color. I thought this would be of interest to Independent readers. John German Missoula
Taxing legacy
Leah Wilder: Dr. Gregory House on the show “House.” He’s smart, he’s witty and the kind of person you love to be annoyed with and you still love him. Just when you think he’s a great ass he shows some compassion. Super sleuth: “Sherlock” on the BBC. It’s incredible, absolutely brilliant.
[4] Missoula Independent • January 23–January 30, 2014
Sen. Max Baucus has one major piece of unfinished business he’s scrambling to complete before he officially leaves office. Last year, he took on the mammoth task of completely overhauling our nation’s tax structure—an undertaking that is sorely
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needed to help our economy and create jobs. Moreover, comprehensive tax reform is the senator’s last best chance to repair his legacy after being sullied by his role in crafting Obamacare. Unfortunately, it’s looking like Baucus’s tax legislation might turn out to be another poor mark on his report card and further degrade his popularity.
“These greedy individuals will not be able to purchase a place in ‘The Here After,’ nor will they be able to bribe the devil from their fire-proof money belts.”
A faction of Congressional Democrats is pushing major tax changes aimed squarely at damaging our energy industry. That would have an immediate, negative impact in Montana where our job growth has been dependent, in large part, on the booming oil and gas development in Eastern Montana. But eliminating energy jobs is exactly what environmental groups like the Sierra Club would love to see result from changes to tax policy. We often hear rhetoric about “subsidies” received by traditional fossil fuel companies. Those claims are blatant mistruths. To be perfectly clear, there are no government subsidies for oil and gas producers. Certainly nothing like the government payouts received by companies involved in generating solar or wind power. When D.C. politicians talk about eliminating “subsidies” for oil and gas companies, what they’re really talking about are the type of basic tax deductions that firms in every industry receive to account for the
cost of doing business. The truth is, they’re proposing to single out petroleum producers including those in Montana, by eliminating standard tax practices almost all other manufacturers receives. If that happens, American energy producers will be less competitive and have fewer resources to create new jobs. It would also drive up the cost of energy at all levels. That’s bad for consumers, who will face higher prices for gasoline, electricity and home heating, to name just a few items. It’s also bad for energy-intensive industries, like agriculture and manufacturing. But, again, higher prices for energy is exactly what some environmental groups would love to see. They’d rather Americans pay artificially higher prices in order to make the heavily subsidized alternative energy sources marginally more competitive. The anti-worker, anti-consumer agenda of the environmentalist movement has no place in our tax code. It would distort our economy, inflate prices and ultimately cost us thousands of jobs. But these types of policies are receiving actual credence by some members of Congress, and these policies have worked their way into the legislation discussion drafts being circulated by Baucus and his staff. There is no doubt that tax policies singling out the energy industry would have a disproportionate impact on Montana where energy is such a large part of our export economy. Hamstringing industry is certainly is not the legacy that most of us are hoping Baucus will leave our state. But Baucus still has time to set things right by showing leadership among his Democratic caucus in the Senate. He needs to establish fairness and equity as key tenants of tax reform. He needs to emphasize that tax reform absolutely should not result in some industries gaining at the expense of others as a result of inequitable policies. At the very least, the tone Baucus sets now will be valuable guidance for whoever succeeds him in office. Because energy is such an important area of Montana’s economy, our state’s Congressional representatives will be in a pivotal role to shape energy tax policy as part of the reform package. It’s unfortunate that Baucus has to leave office before he is able to see his final, major policy objective completed. But he still has ample time to have a significant influence on the outcome for tax reform. The senator should make sure Montana’s priorities are protected by supporting fair tax policies across the board and not harming one of our most valuable industries. State Rep. Duane Ankney Colstrip
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missoulanews.com • January 23–January 30, 2014 [5]
[news]
WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Joe Weston
Wednesday, January 15 A Missoula jury awards $3.97 million in damages to Allen Ginn, a former employee at the now-defunct Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. mill in Frenchtown. According to his attorney, Ginn suffered a brain injury and multiple fractures after a loose log struck him at the mill in 2008.
Thursday, January 16 Montana nearly flunks when it comes to emergency room care. In its annual report card, the American College of Emergency Physicians gives the state a “D” for the quality, accessibility, safety and disaster preparedness of its emergency rooms.
Friday, January 17 After a lengthy investigation, the Montana Human Rights Bureau reports that Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen discriminated against former public information officer Jason Johnson for his political activities. Ibsen demoted Johnson after he announced his support for T.J. McDermott, a candidate in the upcoming county sheriff’s race.
Saturday, January 18 With the snow still thick at 7,000 feet, the Bitterroot Mushers and the Montana Mountain Mushers host the seventh annual Darby Dog Derby sled dog races at Lost Trail Pass.
Sunday, January 19 Actress Morgan Smith, better known as “The Wendy’s Girl” in the chain’s advertising campaign, tells her hometown Alabama newspaper, the Cullman Times, that she credits Missoula Children’s Theatre’s touring productions with starting her acting career.
Monday, January 20 More than 100 community members gather under the pavilion at Caras Park to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. After listening to a handful of speakers, the crowd marches to St. Paul Lutheran Church where choir groups perform and Dr. Paul Gordon Lauren presents the keynote address.
Tuesday, January 21 Maggie Voisin, a slopestyle skier from Whitefish, is selected to be a member of the U.S. Olympic team heading to Sochi in February. So far, the 15-year-old athlete is the youngest member of the team.
The first of three oversized loads belonging to a General Electric subsidiary passed through Ravalli County early this week, with a second just one day behind. Shipping company Omega Morgan initially expected the loads to reach Montana in December, but experienced repeated delays. The first megaload is approximately 380 feet long and weighs 450 tons.
St. Pat’s
An abrupt end As St. Patrick Hospital moves forward with its $5 million restructuring plan, stories of layoffs at Missoula’s second largest employer continue to emerge. Char Houska, a registered nurse, spent 21 years as an employee at St. Patrick Hospital before her job disappeared. “I walk in one day, walk down to HR and they say my job was eliminated,” Houska says. “We were told there were layoffs happening and I guess when you are told that you wonder if you will be one of them. You never know who it is going to be.” She says no one told her why she was laid off. Houska served as the breast care coordinator at the hospital, a non-union position. Her duties included providing “breast cancer education and support to newly diagnosed patients,” according to the hospital’s website. She was laid off in mid-October, during breast cancer awareness month. Hospital administrators remain adamant in their refusal to provide detailed information about the continued restructuring. “We won’t be following through with any answers on that,” says JoAnn Hoven, a hospital spokeswoman.
“... We don’t think it is necessarily news.” Even employees at the hospital are often unaware when someone is let go, according to Houska. “They do not give names of who is laid off, they don’t tell the remaining employees who was laid off,” Houska says. “You don’t see someone for a while and you wonder what happened and then you hear through the grapevine.” Houska says she recently applied to two job openings at the hospital, but was not able to obtain work. She still hopes to find a job there. “I don’t know if I will ever get hired back at St. Pat’s but there always is a hope and maybe a chance, and it is definitely not something that I want to give up completely,” she says. According to a November press release, the hospital is “aggressively working to save nearly $5 million” by the end of March 2014. Jimmy Tobias
Development
New Starbucks on deck On Jan. 15, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency agreed to give a Utah-based developer $66,000 to help
it open a new Starbucks location off Brooks Street. If all goes as planned, the Wadsworth Development Group will use $40,800 of the money to demolish the old gas station at the corner of West Central Avenue and Brooks, while $21,000 will go toward new sidewalks and $4,800 to landscaping the right of way. The funds come from a pot of cash set aside through property tax assessments to eradicate blight in central Missoula. In an effort to improve the neighborhood’s overall livability, the Missoula City Council designated the area along Brooks Street an urban renewal district in 2000. MRA Director Ellen Buchanan notes that council’s directive is a work in progress. “If you go up to the ‘M,’ it’s not hard to spot urban renewal district III,” she says. “It’s the big gray blob in the middle of Missoula.” That’s why Buchanan is excited that Wadsworth is coming to town. The new Starbucks, she says, will constitute a vast improvement over the dilapidated gas station that now sits on the half-acre parcel between Taco del Sol and Ruby’s Cafe. “It’s nothing but block walls on three sides,” she says. “It’s not contributing at all to the type of change that we want to see.” Wadsworth’s building design plans call for a 1,920square-foot Starbucks with a drive-thru window and an
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[news] outdoor patio. The total project costs, including land acquisition, are estimated at $1,258,163. While deliberating the merits of Wadsworth’s funding request, MRA noted that the Brooks Street Starbucks is expected to employ 17 people and that five of those positions will be full-time. City coffers, meanwhile, will receive roughly $6,400 in additional annual property tax revenue. Buchanan notes that Starbucks’ anticipated arrival to Brooks Street comes as the city makes gains toward transforming the area into an architecturally attractive environment that’s also increasingly pedestrian and bicycle friendly. MRA made a significant commitment to that effort when agreeing last year to help pay costs associated with construction farther south on Brooks Street of a new Kohl’s department store and Cabela’s Outpost. For that project, the city committed $1.8 million to demolish the former Kmart building, install new sidewalks, landscape and undergo a complete overhaul of the Dore and Brooks intersection. The new Starbucks is expected to open in June. Jessica Mayrer
Holt says there are roughly 6,000 long-eared owls left in the United States, making the species the least populous owl in the country. Because the species is not well known, Holt says they do not garner public attention like larger, more iconic birds. “I think it calls for immediate attention,” says Holt. “If these numbers are even close to being true, then we need to get outside and start doing surveys to try to determine their status.” Jimmy Tobias
Owls
Long odds for long-ears Denver Holt and his team of three wade into a patch of thick brush on a privately owned plot near Missoula’s western boundary. Suddenly, five long-eared owls flush from their roost. Two escape, while the other three fly into a large, soft net that Holt’s team has prepared in advance. For the scientists at the Owl Research Institute, or ORI, this is how the day’s work begins. “It’s crazy,” says Jessica Larson, program coordinator at ORI. “We have more than 1,700 long-eared owls banded on this project. It is one of the largest data sets in the world on long-eared owls.” Holt says it is also the nation’s longest-running study on the species, now in its 28th year. Holt, who founded the Charlo-based ORI in 1987, holds up one of the medium-sized nocturnal birds. Its big round eyes are an iridescent yellow. It weighs half a pound. Two tufts of feathers stick up from its head. It makes a clicking noise as if to indicate impatience. His team measures the owls’ wingspans, weighs them, takes DNA samples, bands them and then lets them go. “Probably the most important thing we have learned is that [the long-eared owl] population is declining,” says Holt. “When we look at the 27 years of data, moving to 28, when we graph it and show the regression lines there is a downward trend.”
Megaloads
The map changes Two of Omega Morgan’s three megaloads finally crossed into Missoula territory this week, en route from Oregon’s Port of Umatilla to the Alberta tar sands. The first sat idle on the side of Highway 93 just north of Lolo Tuesday—its top still caked with snow—after navigating relatively new territory for such oversized shipments: the Bitterroot Valley. Up until last fall, megaload shipping companies like Omega Morgan had attempted to follow the route over Lolo Pass identified but never used by Imperial Oil. But a federal ruling in Idaho last September effectively closed Highway 12 to oversized traffic, and Omega Morgan turned instead to Lost Trail Pass. Those loads have since been repeatedly delayed.
BY THE NUMBERS Fine issued to Mitch Petrie, producer of the television show “Wardens,” after he pleaded guilty last week in federal court to unlawfully filming the show in several of the state’s national forests.
$1,500
“The very first night that we had planned to travel we weren’t able to travel because of protester activity,” says Omega Morgan spokesperson Holly Zander, referring to a Dec. 1 incident at the Port of Umatilla. “They had locked themselves to our truck and we actually had to take part of our truck apart in order to remove them.” Zander adds the majority of the delays have been weather related, with the first load held up earlier this month by winter storms at Lost Trail Pass. Duane Williams at the Montana Department of Transportation says the addition of the Bitterroot to the megaload map hasn’t necessitated any permanent infrastructure upgrades. According to MDT spokeswoman Lori Ryan, the company’s travel plan lists 10 problematic traffic signs throughout the Bitterroot. But unlike past megaload proposals— namely Imperial Oil’s Kearl Module Transportation Plan—Omega Morgan’s plan doesn’t even call for modifications to existing turnouts. “We don’t necessarily have to have a pullout for the truck to meet that 10-minute rule,” Williams says, referring to the state’s 10-minute maximum for traffic delays. “With the traffic control setup, you have leapfrogging flag stations up ahead and then you can in the meantime have the pilot cars bring in the vehicles close to the load and have the vehicle pull into an approach while the load goes right up the road.” Omega Morgan’s first load will now be transferred to a lighter trailer at the old Stimson Mill Site in Bonner before proceeding to the widely recognized route up Highway 200, turning north on Highway 287. However, the second load will continue on without reconfiguration and take another detour from the megaload map, following Highway 200 through Fort Shaw and Sun River before turning onto Highway 89. Williams says the route change was due to the load’s length, and potential problems with traffic signs while turning at Bowman’s Corner. Alex Sakariassen
ETC. In an age of intense partisan division, only a really terrible law can bring opposing sides together. The REAL ID Act, signed by President George W. Bush in 2005, holds that dubious distinction. The law requires any individual applying for a license to verify his or her birth certificate, Social Security number and immigration status with state personnel. Individuals would also be subject to “mandatory facial image capture.” Each state would then be required to keep its residents’ information, including digital copies of personal documents, in a secure database and make that database accessible to all other states. Niki Zupanic, public policy director at Montana ACLU, says the law threatens privacy, opens the door to identity theft and places huge financial burdens on states. “It would be very similar to a national ID card,” says Zupanic. “The storing of documents in a database that people all across the country would be able to access is a major concern.” The new law is scheduled to come into effect in increments. The Department of Homeland Security sent out a notification on Jan. 20 announcing the beginning of the first enforcement phase. By 2016, when enforcement is complete, non-compliant license holders may face additional security checks at airports and could be barred from many federal facilities. There’s no shortage of groups opposing the law: The ACLU, National Governors Association and American Conservative Union have all spoken against it. In addition, 15 states are refusing to enact REAL ID, including Montana. On Jan. 17, Gov. Steve Bullock sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, asking him to allow Montanans to keep their state-issued licenses without penalization. “In 2007, Montana’s legislature voted unanimously to forbid implementation of REAL ID in the State of Montana,” wrote Bullock. “All 150 members of the 60th Montana Legislature agreed that REAL ID implementation is ‘inimical to the security and well-being of the people of Montana, will cause unneeded expense and inconvenience to those people’ … and raises serious questions of states’ rights.” Bullock also mentioned that Montanans are “appropriately concerned with the extensive collection of their personal and private information by the government.” The governor is attentive enough to hear the complaints of his constituents, who enjoy their privacy and wish to protect it. But the federal government, despite its eavesdropping, its satellites, its drones and its databases, doesn’t seem to get the message: People are sick of its snooping.
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[news]
Under fire Newly released report questions task force operations by Jessica Mayrer
In June, a Missoula High Intensity ment would. Despite the assertion in her a byproduct of lingering problems inside Drug Trafficking Task Force operation out- lawsuit that police “promised Plaintiff Juliena the unit. side of the Magic Diamond Casino on Darling to assist in getting a mental health “My concern is that the problems West Broadway resulted in an unarmed evaluation,” Krueger used “coercion,” as they’ve had this past summer (and fall) with suspect being shot. A separate November Rhoades said in court, to compel Peterson those shootings is consistent with the probsting in front of Gold’s Gym on Reserve to cooperate with the task force’s efforts. lems they’ve had all along,” Rhoades said. At best Kreuger’s actions were negli- “The results are more or less as troubling as Street erupted in gunfire, leaving another suspect and an officer wounded. In the gent, Rhoades argued in court. At worst, he they were with Colton.” weeks that followed those incidents, lo- exhibited reckless indifference to Peterson’s While Van Valkenburg is also troubled cals in message boards, news articles and safety. Either way, Rhoades says the family is by the locations of recent stings, his office, meeting rooms questioned the task entitled to financial compensation. after reviewing findings from an external force’s ability to safety do its job. investigation conducted by the Ravalli County Sheriff ’s Department “I am concerned personally into the June incident, found that about the issue of where some of the task force responded approprithese drug sales take place,” says Misately to the situation. Van Valkensoula County Attorney Fred Van burg specifically notes that though Valkenburg, who serves on the task the suspect, Harry Louis Steven Vanforce’s executive board, which helps Pelt, was later found to be unarmed, shape the unit’s policies. “It’s kind of he refused to raise his hands when a scary thing, in terms of the potenordered to by officer Jonathan Stinetial for bystander injury.” ford. Even more frightening for the These concerns—in addition to officer, VanPelt also appeared to be new and previously classified inforreaching for something in the vehimation about local task force operacle when Stineford shot him, Van tions—are again surfacing in a lawsuit Valkenburg says. filed on behalf of the family of 21year-old Colton Peterson, who killed Missoula Police Department Sgt. himself in 2010 at the O’Brien Creek Ed McLean took over as the task force Trailhead. commander in October, assuming leadership responsibility from retiring On Jan. 16, seven attorneys dephoto by Cathrine L. Walters MPD Chief Mark Muir. He echoes Van bated before a federal magistrate in Missoula the merits of a lawsuit, Estate Juliena Darling blames the Missoula High In- Valkenburg when saying that the task of Colton Peterson v. City of Missoula tensity Drug Trafficking Task Force for her force acted appropriately during the reet al. The suit alleges task force mem- son’s suicide. A recently released report cent shootings. McLean says further found significant deficiencies in the local bers caused Peterson’s suicide by pres- unit’s operations, including a lack of training that current leadership is reviewing where best to hold future sting operasuring him to inform on local drug and no policy for dealing with informants. tions. “We have discussed that among dealers. During last week’s hearing, Rhoades attributes Peterson’s suicide in the executive board,” he says. the attorney representing Peterson’s family, Regarding the Peterson suit, McLean Quentin Rhoades, noted that Peterson killed part to the fact that in 2010 the task force had himself just hours after being “dressed no policies and procedures in place regard- says that the pending litigation prohibits him ing the use of confidential informants. To from commenting. Broadly, however, he says down” by Detective David Krueger. “They made risks that already existed bolster his argument, Rhoades submitted the task force is consistently working to iminto the record a 2010 assessment con- prove operations and since 2010 has worse,” Rhoades said. After receiving a tip that Peterson had ducted by the Rocky Mountain High Inten- adopted “a whole new policies and procethreatened someone with a gun over a drug sity Drug Trafficking Task Force that offers an dures manual.” In court last week, Judge Keith Strong debt and that he was growing more mari- up-close look at the Missoula unit’s typically pressed Rhoades on how the task force juana than permitted by his status as a regis- secretive operations. The report found significant deficiencies should have handled the Peterson case. tered caregiver, law enforcement searched “All the time, we see them working up Peterson’s home on July 26, 2010. During in the local task force, including a lack of the search, task force officers found 15 training. The report notes that there’s “no the food chain,” said Strong, referring to law freshly harvested marijuana plants and 14 written task force policy and procedures to enforcement using informants to catch highlarge cannabis plants bearing maturing buds. govern the day-to-day operation” and, most level criminals. “It is repeated literally dozens They also discovered a brass knuckle knife relevant to the Peterson case, “no consis- of times a day in our state.” tency in approval for operational plans or Rhoades responded that it’s exactly beand a snort tube. cause of this frequent practice that there While law enforcement raided the use of an informant.” “There is currently no single supervi- should have been a formal policy in place home, Peterson’s mother, Juliena Darling, told police that her son was acting increas- sory authority responsible for providing daily during Peterson’s interaction with officers. Strong is expected to rule this week on ingly erratic and threatening to kill himself. oversight and managing resources effectively whether the Peterson case will move forward She pleaded with police to arrange for a and efficiently,” the report stated. mental health evaluation. Because her son Rhoades said in an interview after last to a jury trial. was a legal adult, she couldn’t compel him week’s hearing that he believes the recent jmayrer@missoulanews.com to seek help. She hoped that law enforce- officer-involved shootings in Missoula are
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[news] Figurative Modernists: Picasso, Chagall and other Masterpieces from a Private Collection and Modernist Prints October 3, 2013 - February 8, 2014
Hot seat Plot thickens in Bitterroot treasurer fiasco by Alex Sakariassen
Ravalli County Treasurer Valerie Stamey and attorney’s fees, and that the property be endorsed her as the top candidate, citing her “33 years of experience in government fund was expected to give county commissioners sold at public auction. At the time she filed the mortgage, accounting, management and administraan update on Jan. 21 on the disarray that has characterized her office. Instead Stamey read Stamey—who did not return calls to her of- tion” and her “long term goals for herself in from a prepared statement leveling allega- fice or home phone—had already relocated this position.” Linda Isaacs, the treasurer’s office emtions of corruption against commissioners to Montana and was four months into her J.R. Iman and Greg Chilcott as well as three job as food services director for Missoula ployee passed over for Stamey, worked as former treasurer’s office employees. “What County Public Schools. According to MCPS, deputy county treasurer in Lake County for you see in the papers is an orchestrated and she held that job until she resigned March five years and came highly recommended by retired Lake County Treasurer Pat Cookvile campaign to destroy my character,” 18, 2011. Stamey was first considered for Ravalli Hutchin and current treasurer Patti Duford Stamey said, adding that she is requesting “a full investigation by the Federal Bureau of In- County treasurer that same month. The Kugler. The latter even wrote that she would commission instead appointed Chief Deputy “take [Isaacs] back in a heartbeat.” Isaacs revestigation” into her accusations. “I have done nothing illegal,” she said. Treasurer Marie Keeton, who Stamey then signed in October, and the office has since lost two more employees, in“It is time to leave my personal cluding former Ravalli County life alone. I am not a criminal, Treasurer JoAnne Johnson, and I will not be treated as who lost her 2010 reelection one.” bid to Republican Mary HudStamey left the county son-Smith. Hudson-Smith reconference room immediately signed after just six weeks after reading her statement, amid a controversy similar to which did not address the curthe one surrounding Stamey rent status of her office nor renow. cent news about past legal Despite the ongoing fitroubles. asco, Stamey has earned The latest revelation praise for her past work in about Stamey’s backstory Montana. The Montana Food came Jan. 15 when the Bitterphoto by Alex Sakariassen Bank Network’s Food Securoot Star published a story based on legal documents Ravalli County Treasurer Valerie Stamey was scheduled to give rity Council approached from the 13th Judicial Circuit an update on the backlog in her office this week. She instead Stamey in 2010 with a request that MCPS launch a Court in Greenville County, delivered a string of accusations against county officials. BackPack program, a new iniS.C. According to those records, Stamey was sued alongside Discover unsuccessfully challenged in the 2012 Re- tiative at the time to help identify chronically Financial Services in 2010 by Sheriff Law publican primary. Keeton resigned last fall, hungry students and send them home each weekend with bags containing three meals. Firm. The firm claimed it had given Stamey— and Stamey was appointed on a 3-2 vote. “Valerie was enthusiastic about starting According to the Montana Commiswho then went by her maiden name Addis— an $18,149 check made payable to Discover sioner of Political Practices office, Stamey the program,” says Kate Devino, chief policy after she refinanced her home in late 2006. failed to file a financial disclosure report for officer for MFBN. “And she worked with our Stamey proceeded to “phone pay” Discover her 2012 campaign despite having raised former coordinator to roll the program out the full amount using the law firm’s account and spent over $500. When the issue came at several MCPS elementary schools.” Devino says Stamey also helped expand information. She then mailed the check and to the attention of the state office last fall, the payment was duplicated, again from the Stamey was asked to furnish a complete dis- MFBN’s Universal Breakfast in the Classroom closure form. That request was made on initiative in Missoula. According to the minlaw firm’s account. In April 2007, Discover reimbursed Nov. 12, but the office says it has not heard utes from an April 13, 2010, meeting of the MCPS Board of Trustees, First Lady Nancy Stamey $14,721.60. Court records show she from Stamey since. Stamey filed for reelection this month Schweitzer presented Stamey with an award made a partial payment of $750 to Sheriff Law Firm in February 2008. “After this pay- and could now be fined close to $1,500 for for her work with the BackPack program during a ceremony at the State Capitol in Helena. ment, no further payment or attempt to pay past noncompliance. Stamey’s abrupt departure from the Support for Stamey’s appointment last has been initiated by either Discover or fall came largely from members of the Ravalli county conference room Jan. 21 generated Addis,” the suit states. A separate legal proceeding that’s so far County Republican Central Committee, a brief, stunned silence. Officials and citizens escaped media attention shows that in No- where she serves as a precinct captain. alike had packed the space—standing room vember 2007, Stamey filed an $80,000 mort- Emails sent to the commission from various only—under the belief that Stamey would gage on the same home she’d refinanced in committee officers last September touted provide answers. What they got were more 2006. Court records state Stamey failed to Stamey’s “upbeat personality for managing accusations. In the ensuing vacuum, JoAnne meet the stipulations of the mortgage agree- and inspiring the workforce” and her nature Johnson’s sister, LaVonne Miller, stepped forment and, in November 2008, a Greenville as “a good listener.” One committee member ward to offer the first in yet another wave of County judge ordered the property fore- did voice skepticism that Stamey’s involve- rebuttals. “Whatever Val’s trying to pull out closed. The judge further ruled that Stamey ment with the committee appeared to be of the slums,” Miller said, “is not true.” owed Chase Home Finance $87,098.69 for “for political gain,” calling her a precinct capthe remaining mortgage principal, interest tain “in name only.” But the committee itself asakariassen@missoulanews.com
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Battle lines Who’s winning Missoula’s war on poverty? by Dan Brooks
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Missoula’s war on poverty took one step forward and one step back this month. We’ll start with progress: The Westside Neighborhood Association made good on its promise to find a solution not just for itself but for the whole city, submitting a model zoning ordinance that prohibits soup kitchens within 300 feet of any residential area. The Missoula City Council plans to vote that proposal into law next week, after which Westsiders’ long neighborhood nightmare will be over. The Union Gospel Mission will be prevented from buying the old Sweetheart Bakery, and Westside children can once again play next to that icon of safety, an empty warehouse. It was one powerful blow in the fight against poverty, but council can’t seem to follow with the two. After the American Civil Liberties Union successfully challenged a similar ordinance in Boise, Mayor John Engen announced that the city would reconsider its plan to ban panhandling in Missoula’s Business Improvement District. He is missing a golden opportunity. Having made it illegal to help poor people in our residential neighborhoods, we have the chance to keep them from asking us for help downtown. That would solve poverty forever, but the council isn’t going to do it. It’s almost like they don’t care about the deeper problem. Westsiders kept poverty from spreading to their neighborhood by stopping Union Gospel from luring it with sandwiches, but they didn’t address the underlying cause. That’s still lying under bridges as we speak, just waiting for us to get within 20 feet of a business or ATM. That’s the thing about poverty: People don’t realize how easily it can affect them. The cash machine is the very opposite of poverty, yet it has become a magnet for poverty’s worst effects. The downtown storefront, normally an economic dynamo, has become ground zero for the poverty bomb whose fallout is blanketing our city. But even as the ground is blanketed and poverty is bombed, our council shrinks from duty. Engen and the councilors should take a lesson from the Westside Neighbor-
hood Association. They weren’t content with a not-in-my-backyard solution, and now, thanks to their efforts, all of our backyards are safe. But what about our offices, our coffee shops, our bars? You see, I’ve never accepted the cynical argument that charity begins at home. You can’t solve a widespread problem like poverty by limiting your efforts to your own neighborhood. You have to hit poverty where it lives, whether under the Reserve Street bridge or up the Kim Williams Trail.
“You have to show poverty that you won’t take it lying down, or sitting upon a chair, stool or any other object placed on a public sidewalk during the hours between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m.” You have to show poverty that you won’t take it lying down, or sitting upon a chair, stool or any other object placed on a public sidewalk during the hours between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. You have to let poverty know you mean business, as well as public transportation and the entrance to any pedestrian footbridge or tunnel. “Not today, poverty,” you have to say. And you have to keep saying it until poverty goes away—not just out of our neighborhoods, not just away from downtown, but away from Missoula entirely. Possibly all the way to Bozeman.
We’ve come a long way since the WNA and the city council started talking about ways to fight poverty last summer, but we’ve still got a long way to go. We may have solved the problem in our residential neighborhoods, but pockets of poverty remain. For several years now, the Poverello Center has offered housing and job placement services, threatening to release poverinos back into homes and businesses. Anyone who has visited the center’s downtown location has seen the terrible effects of poverty firsthand. It’s a daunting sight, but if we all pitch in as a community and a council, we may never have to look at it again. That’s the dream, isn’t it—to be done with poverty once and for all? Maybe I’m crazy to imagine a town where no one has to step over a body shivering in a doorway or walk past a line of hungry faces. Decent people have tried to end poverty for years, so perhaps I’m foolish to imagine that we can stop seeing it within our lifetimes. But I believe there’s something special about this town. Knock on any door or walk into any downtown shop, and you’ll find a person who lives in a house, who owns a business. They know the threat that poverty presents, and they’ve got the resources and the numbers to fight it. The good news about poverty is that there are still more of us than there are of them. Sure, the problem is persistent, demanding our attention when we’d rather be shopping or having a few drinks with friends, but if we stick together and stay involved, we can make Missoula a city that doesn’t tolerate poverty at all. We didn’t ask for this fight. Poverty seems to be everywhere lately, and the problem isn’t anybody’s fault. The solution, though—what we do about poverty, and what we have done when it’s come knocking at our doors—that’s something we are all responsible for. That part is on all of us. Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and lying at combatblog.net. His column appears every other week in the Independent.
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[10] Missoula Independent • January 23–January 30, 2014
[opinion]
Prayer of the hunt Gliding along the Yellowstone River while bullets fly by Alan Kesselheim
November on the Yellowstone River in Montana. Hemmed in by the Absaroka and Gallatin ranges, we push the paddling envelope in what’s become a tradition. Weeks after people have boats stored for winter, we head onto the ebbing currents, snow already sticking to high peaks, ice in the bucket at dawn, full dark by six. All of that, but also the concussion of firearms reverberating across the valleys, ominous and vibrant. Ruby and I coast into an eddy at the end of a sand spit for lunch. I haven’t spent time with my daughter in months. It is chilly, breezy, gray, half-winter. We wear rubber boots, down jackets, long underwear. Bald eagles hunch on bare branches. A few geese linger. “Too bad Sawyer’s not here,” Ruby juts her chin upriver. A band of mule deer hesitate there. The lead doe drops her head, makes her way down the steep scarp. The rest follow. They drink. They assess us. “He could spear one of them from here,” I say. “’Course, if he were here, bringing that hunting energy, they would never come to drink.” The deer finish, climb delicately up the bank, vanish into the sage. My son’s tag remains unfilled. Ruby and I turn our backs to the wind and share lunch. A rifle booms dully in the distance. The dark river ripples past. I am not anti-hunting. The only meat I consume is game and fish. My two sons hunt. We share in their bounty. I understand the irony at the heart of life: In order to live tomorrow, we kill and consume today. I understand the primal thrill, the stalk, the reading of landscape and sign, the patience required, the vigilance, the effort. The satisfaction of a full freezer. I get it.
And yet, in the gathering dusk of the year, the darker side of that irony is manifest. It reminds me of Twain’s War Prayer, in which he points out that when we pray for our victory in battle, we are also praying for the deaths of other children, the laying waste of other lands, the desolation of other cultures. In our patriotic fervor, in our anthems and pledges and parades, we pray for the grief of others.
“Two bends down a green-winged teal flailed in the current, mortally wounded, brilliant wing color fading.”
Each fall, especially on the rivers, I come face to face with the equivalent prayer for the sporting life. Call it the Prayer of the Hunt. One November, with ice rimming the East Gallatin River, Marypat and I heard the booming of shotguns. And then, around a bend, we saw a blind and an eddy bobbing with duck and goose decoys, and smelled the smoke and powder. The hunters watched us pass in terse silence. Some unbridgeable divide separated us. Two bends down a green-winged teal flailed in the current, mortally wounded, brilliant wing color
fading. One bend further, a mallard, lifeless and bedraggled as a soggy towel. In the distance, the fading drumbeat of shotguns. More birds falling from the sky. Another time, near the Three Forks of the Missouri, our canoe slipped along a gravel bar. Suddenly, there was the smell of death on the breeze. I glanced at the bank. There, propped against a downed cottonwood, a massive, untouched and very dead bull moose. Huge rack, probably 1,500 pounds of meat, but wasted, rotting. The smell faded, but the memory stays sharp to this day. On the Yellowstone, Ruby and I find an island to camp on at dusk. Darkness falls quickly. We cozy next to a small fire, sharing dinner and hot tea. The river slides past, silent and timeless. Ruby tells me about her travels, her plans. I talk to her about my mother’s death. Ruby was in Europe when Mom died. She took it hard. I find myself more emotional than I expected. We are quiet in the dark for a long time, looking into the flames, together with our thoughts. It is midmorning and miles downstream from camp when Ruby points at the shore. A mule deer doe lies on the gravel, nose almost in the river. Something about the posture is unnatural. And why would a deer be lying there like that? We coast near. “It’s dead,” I say. “Shot.” At the sound of my voice, the doe’s eyes shift to us. Nothing else moves. Even the eyes are dull with the coming certainty of death. We drift by, the eyes track us. All day, those failing eyes kept tracking me. Alan Kesselheim is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a writer in Bozeman.
missoulanews.com • January 23–January 30, 2014 [11]
[quirks]
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - A group of young men was robbing a man in San Francisco when, without provocation, one of them pulled out a handgun and fired at the victim. The bullet ricocheted off the victim’s face and struck another robber, Clifton Chatman, 16, whom police pronounced dead at the scene. (San Francisco Chronicle) A woman was leaving work in Oklahoma City when Corneilyus Howeth, 23, jumped into her car and pointed a gun at her. The victim managed to call her brother, who was in a hair salon a few feet away and rushed to help. The gunman forced the two back into the salon and demanded their money. When someone else walked into the salon, witnesses said Howeth pointed the gun at that person, but one of the victims tackled the suspect and hit him with a table leg. After taking the gun from Howeth, the victims stripped him naked, pushed him outside, locked the door and called police. Howeth was arrested after being treated at the hospital for minor injuries. (Oklahoma City’s KWTV-TV)
FIRST THINGS FIRST - A Pakistan International Airlines flight was preparing for an on-time departure from the Lahore airport to New York City when the pilot learned that the airline’s cost-cutting policy limited the in-flight menu to peanuts, chips and cookies. He demanded “sandwiches at any cost,” even though the catering department informed him they had to come from a five-star hotel in town and that getting them would take more than two hours. The pilot insisted. The sandwiches finally arrived, and the flight took off two and a half hours late. PIA official Mashhood Tajwar said the airline considered the delay “serious” and intended taking action “against those responsible for it.” (ABC News) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATIONS - Helen Ann Williams, 44, stabbed a man with a ceramic squirrel when he returned home without beer because the stores were closed, according to sheriff’s deputies in North Charleston, S.C. (Associated Press) Paul Anthony Lajeunesse, 20, told sheriff’s deputies in Citrus County, Fla., that he accidentally broke the leg of a 4-week-old baby after the infant’s maternal grandmother asked him to change the baby’s diaper. He explained that he didn’t intentionally hurt the child but became angry because the request came while he was playing an Xbox game, and he resented the interruption. (Florida’s Citrus Daily)
ANTI-FLOTATION DEVICE - A new submarine built for the Spanish navy turned out to be too heavy and sank when launched. Officials said that the 233-foot Isaac Peral, costing 1.9 billion pounds, was at least 75 tons overweight. Officials indicated that correcting the problem would take two years. (Britain’s Daily Telegraph) SPEAK ENGLISH - During a presentation about proposed traffic improvements in Albuquerque, N.M., project lead engineer Jim Heimann was discussing building a traffic circle when he referred to the “queue” of cars that would form waiting to enter the circle. “This is America,” a woman in the audience yelled. “We don’t say ‘queues’ in America. We say ‘lines.’ We stand in line, we wait in line. We do not queue.” Presenters subsequently abandoned the word “queue” for the remainder of the meeting, although no one objected to repeated use of the British term “roundabout.” (Albuquerque Journal) NEXT STEP: UNIFORMS - After reviewing 200,000 video applications, the Dutch nonprofit Mars One advanced toward its goal of sending 40 volunteers on a one-way trip to the Red Planet in 2025 by narrowing the field of applicants to 1,058. The initial cut separated “those who we feel are physically and mentally adept to become human ambassadors on Mars from those who are obviously taking the missions with much less seriousness,” Mars One co-founder Bas Lansdorp said, including “a couple of applicants” whose videos showed them in the nude. (ABC News) SOLUTION BEGETS NEW PROBLEM - E-cigarettes are causing flat tires because smokers are throwing spent nicotine cartridges out car windows as if they were cigarette butts. “We have seen usually one or two a week puncturing the tire,” said Tony Dewildt, manager of Belle Tire in Bay City, Mich. “They’re made out of metal, so when they slash a tire, they usually leave a pretty big gash in it.” Dewildt pointed out that the puncture usually is too big to repair, requiring victims of e-cigarette cartridges to buy new tires. (Flint’s WNEM-TV) WE HAVE A WIENER - Police arrested Deharra Waters after he ran through a bingo hall in Louisville, Ky., with his pants down yelling “Bingo!” Officers noted that Waters appeared intoxicated but didn’t confirm whether he actually had a Bingo. (United Press International) TRANSPARENT RELATIONSHIP - Seattle police arrested Lydell Coleman, 36, for having sex with a sandwich shop window. According to charging papers, which reported the accounts of two women witnesses, after dropping his pants and mashing himself against the cold glass at Sub Shop, “Coleman was observed making sexual motions on the glass window that were described as ‘humping’ and rubbing his genitals against the window.” (Seattlepi.com) EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG - Far from cave-dwelling primitives who threw stuff everywhere, Neanderthals “were organized and purposeful when it came to domestic space,” according to University of Colorado archaeologist Julien Riel-Salvatore, a member of a team that studied their remains at a cave in northwest Italy. The findings, reported in the Canadian Journal of Archaeology, indicate that Neanderthals divided the cave into different areas for different activities in ways that would be familiar to today’s humans. “The big picture in this study is that we have one more example that Neanderthals used some kind of logic for organizing their living sites,” Riel-Salvatore concluded. (Britain’s The Telegraph) SUSPICION CONFIRMED - Researchers who examined 18 studies of links between sugar-sweetened soft drinks and obesity found that 10 of the 12 studies claiming no connection to the soft-drink industry concluded that sugary drinks were associated with obesity and weight gain. Five of the six that reported receiving funding from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the American Beverage Association insisted there was insufficient evidence for a conclusion. “I wouldn’t say that industry participation alone is enough to dismiss the study’s results in the whole of nutrition research,” lead author Maira Bes-Rastrollo of Spain’s University of Navarra said, “but …” (PLOS Medicine via The New York Times)
[12] Missoula Independent • January 23–January 30, 2014
missoulanews.com • January 23–January 30, 2014 [13]
Barbara Bolick was last seen hiking with a family friend in 2007 at the Bear Creek Overlook Trail in the Bitterroot Range.
[14] Missoula Independent • January 23–January 30, 2014
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The day after the Sloan children reported t’s been six and a half years since Barbara their mother missing, Jake drove from ColBolick left her Corvallis home on a warm orado to the Flathead to find her himself. July morning and never returned, and Upon his arrival, he found her boyfriend, her husband, Carl Bolick, still wakes up in the William Gholson, then 45, living in his middle of the night wondering what happened mother’s home. Jake says Gholson had used to her. his identity to take out several lines of credit “You’re waking up out of a dream,” Carl and charge a new laptop computer. “It was orsays. “And then you get this chilled feeling.” dered in my name,” Jake says, “which I didn’t On a clear day, Carl, 72, can look through order.” his kitchen windows to see the Bitterroot On April 28, law enforcement found Ellen Range overlook where Barbara was last seen Sloan’s silver 2002 Toyota Tundra extended alive. On a recent afternoon, he sits with his cab truck parked in the Barnes and Noble back facing the view as he recalls the days imparking lot on North Reserve Street in Mismediately following his wife’s disappearance, soula. Inside the vehicle was a bag. and the thoughts that still run through his Jake says the bag contained clothes that head. He wonders what he’s missing. He tries seemed completely out of character for his to pinpoint the one piece of the puzzle that no mom. There were five pairs of socks and five one, not the Ravalli County Sheriff ’s Office, shirts that he couldn’t imagine his mother nor private detectives, has found that could liking, alongside her driver’s license and solve the mystery. “There’s just nothing,” Carl a graduation card for him. Jake was slated says. “That’s what’s so perplexing.” to graduate from college the first weekend On July 18, 2007, Barbara set off early in May. for a 2.6-mile trek up to the 7,000-foot eleva“It seemed like somebody packed the bag tion Bear Creek Overlook Trail with a family for her,” Jake says. friend, Jim Ramaker, who was visiting from CalHe started to grasp for answers. He hung ifornia. According to a statement Ramaker promissing person fliers in post offices across vided to police that was obtained by the western Montana and hired a private investiIndependent, Ramaker noticed Barbara missgator. Racking his brain, he looked for Ellen in ing at 11:35 that morning, after the two places that, under normal circumstances, stopped for a snack. would seem bizarre, such as homeless shelters “(I) turned to look at a distant peak off to and mental hospitals. the West for about a minute with my back to Jake even surmised that his mom could her,” he said. “When I turned back to continue have entered the witness protection proheading down, Barb was nowhere to be seen.” gram. Complicating Ellen’s disappearance Ramaker reported Barbara missing to was the fact that on March 3, 2005, federal a U.S. Forest Service supervisor at 2:30 that prosecutors indicted Ellen on four counts of afternoon. photo by Cathrine L. Walters tax fraud. The government alleged that Ellen In the week that followed, helicopters and Ravalli County Search and Rescue volunteers Carl Bolick, now 72, has spent more than six years wondering what could’ve lied on her tax returns, telling the Internal Revenue Service that she had lost hundreds combed the hillsides. They found no sign of happened to his wife. “I don’t have the answers,” he says. “I wish I did.” of thousands of dollars, but instead hid her Barbara—not her clothes, nor the .357 Magnum that her husband, a former Air Force officer, insisted that she settlement that she invested wisely in western Montana real money in an international tax-shelter scheme called Anderestate. “I think she kind of had a knack for understanding what son’s Ark. In the years surrounding Ellen’s disappearance, carry for protection when hiking in the area. During those initial days after Barbara’s disappearance, the made sense,” says her son, Jake Sloan, now 31, from his home Anderson’s Ark’s principals were found guilty of various federal crimes. Bolick home was a hub of activity. Law enforcement, friends and in Denver. Ellen Sloan’s upbringing motivated her to attain financial Jake also explored the idea that someone associated with neighbors came and went. The phone rang. Media clamored for updates. “Then after about three weeks,” Carl recalls, “it started success, her son says. “She came from almost nothing,” Jake Anderson’s Ark harmed her. He refused to believe that she would have walked away on her own. She left her passport beslowing down. And then everybody just kind of fades off into the says. “I don’t even believe that she graduated high school.” Jake was in seventh grade and his sister a freshman in hind. There was $128,000 in cash in her Whitefish bank acsunset, so to speak. And it just got very lonely.” Carl says he couldn’t sleep and didn’t eat. He lost 35 high school when their mother moved them to Montana. count. He figured these were items someone would take if they pounds that summer. He agonized over whether he could have Neither of the kids liked Polson, which prompted Breeyan were going to disappear. If she did just walk away, he adds, “I to return to Colorado. Jake, however, stayed to look out for don’t think that I could ever reconcile with her.” been a better husband, if he had taken Barbara for granted. In his desperate search for clues, Jake kept coming back “You say, ‘Oh my God, why did I do that?” he says. “Why his mother. “I just decided I couldn’t leave my mom up there by her- to Gholson as the prime suspect in his mother’s disappearwasn’t I more attentive?” ance. He pleaded with the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office to scruAs of January 2013, the FBI listed 87,217 active missing self,” he says. “I always felt really protective of her.” Five years later, when Jake returned to Colorado to attend tinize his mom’s boyfriend as a suspect. In October 2004, Lake person cases. The Montana Department of Justice is responsible for 129 of those, including the case of Barbara Bolick. For college, he remained close with his mother, speaking to her County had charged Gholson with felony incest for sexually each name listed on the registry, there is at least one person weekly on the phone. Ellen talked to her daughter, who had assaulting his stepdaughter multiple times while she was between the ages of 12 and 18. Ellen Sloan had posted bail for like Carl, a loved one who is left behind to second-guess and recently had a baby, almost daily. When Jake returned to Colorado from a vacation in Mex- him. ultimately wonder, “When is it time to stop looking?” ico on April 24, 2005, his sister told him that she had been try“It was really difficult to get any level of cooperation from ing unsuccessfully to reach their mother for nearly a week. (Lake County law enforcement),” Jake says. “When they found ÚÚÚ When she disappeared, Ellen Sloan was wearing a neck- That, coupled with the fact that Ellen hadn’t called Jake on his her truck up in Missoula, I said, ‘Well, what do you guys do lace with a heart-shaped pendant that said, “Mom.” It was a birthday the day before, alerted her children that something with the truck now?’ They suggested that I drive it home so it was wrong. didn’t get towed. They didn’t want to look at fingerprints, or Mother’s Day gift from her children years earlier. “It was always the first call I ever got on my birthday, was the position of the seat, or anything like that. They weren’t inIn the early 1990s, Sloan moved to Polson with her two terested in any of that.” children, Jake and Breeyan. A divorce left her with a financial from my mom,” Jake says.
missoulanews.com • January 23–January 30, 2014 [15]
Lake County detective Kim Leibenguth was initially assigned to the Ellen Sloan case. She says that while law enforcement at first did suspect that the woman fled to avoid prosecution, now they’re not so sure. “At first that was true,” Leibenguth says. “Since there’s been no passport (use), no activity on any of her accounts, those types of things, just kind of makes us wonder, you know, maybe she didn’t disappear (of her own volition).” Prior to his hearing on the incest charge, Gholson jumped bail and left the state. Leibenguth says that Lake County never interviewed Gholson about Ellen Sloan’s disappearance. “He took off,” she says.
ÚÚÚ As soon as Barbara Bolick set foot in the Bitterroot Valley, she fell in love with her surroundings. “She said, ‘This is the place I want to be,’” Carl Bolick recalls. In 2001, the couple moved to Corvallis after Carl retired from JP Morgan Chase, where he worked for 17 years, most recently as the assistant director of the firm’s worldwide security operations. Barbara, a natural athlete at 5 feet, 115 pounds, quickly got acquainted with the local hiking trails. Barbara’s fitness—she ran nearly every day—and the fact that she carried a revolver fueled Carl’s disbelief when the Forest Service called to say that she was photo by Cathrine L. Walters missing. “You know what I said, I said, ‘B.S.,’” Carl says. “I thought that if anybody was lost, it would have been her hiking Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman says that the strange circumstances surrounding Barbara Bolick’s disappearance make it unlike any other case he’s seen in 30 years of law enforcement. “It’s something that I don’t companion.” think we go a week without thinking about,” he says. Ramaker, who was dating Carl’s cousin, Donna Biles, and visiting with her submit a polygraph test prior to leaving the The authorities briefly looked to Carl And we want to get to the bottom of it.” from California, said that he searched the as a person if interest. “At one point (a Ravalli County hasn’t ruled out any Bitterroot. “I think that they could have trail repeatedly after Barbara vanished, even Ravalli County investigator) says, ‘Well, you scenario, Hoffman says. Barbara could done more with him early on,” Carl says, blowing a whistle to draw “before he had the opknow darn well what hap- have decided to leave, or her attention. He said that portunity to get in pened,’” Carl recalls. “It maybe she fell and hurt herhe saw two young men touch with a lawyer.” kind of ticked me off. And self, and somehow the hiking near the overlook Carl notes that for I says, ‘All I know is she search and rescue effort that day. They were never three weeks after Barwent hiking on that failed to find her. The Selidentified. bara went missing, Biles Wednesday morning and way-Bitterroot Wilderness By 5 p.m. on the day called to see if there sprawls across some 2,000 she didn’t come back.’” that Barbara disappeared, were new developThen, as now, there square miles. It would be law enforcement initiated ments. When Biles sugwere more questions than impossible to search the enits own search. Carl argested to another family answers, says Ravalli tire terrain. “If you don’t rived to the trailhead that member that Barbara County Sheriff Chris Hoff- feel about that big in that afternoon and remained could have killed herman, who helped orches- country,” Hoffman says, until midnight. “There self, Carl could no trate the search. In the making a pinching sign was no Barbara,” Carl Barbara Bolick longer stomach mainBitterroot Valley, made up with his fingers, “then Ellen Sloan says. “They couldn’t find taining ties with his of a handful of small com- you’re not seeing it for what hide nor hair of her.” cousin and her boyfriend. munities, such an event unnerves every- it is.” That morning Barbara left with only one, even the investigators who worked “It kind of just, you know, broke up As for Ramaker, Hoffman says that the clothes she wore—khaki shorts and a the case, he says. “I would say that (law en- while he was initially a “person of interest,” the family relationship,” he says. pastel blouse. Her new passport, a driver’s forcement) who worked closest with Carl the department “for the most part ruled Of course Barbara was happy, Carl license and $55 in cash remained at home during that time grieved with Carl and the him out.” says. She was learning to pilot a plane and in Corvallis. A few days after Barbara disappeared, had recently taken up skiing. The couple rest of his family,” he says. Carl theorized that an animal could Hoffman, who’s served in law enforce- Ramaker and Biles returned to California, travelled frequently and was scheduled have taken her, but searchers found no ment for 30 years and is finishing his third as they had planned to do prior to the in- that fall to go on a cruise through the Mexsigns of predators. He wondered if some- four-year term as sheriff, says that the cident. ican Rivera. one could have abducted her, but law en- strange circumstances surrounding BarWhen contacted by the Independent, Carl says he doesn’t want to speculate forcement nixed that idea. “I went on the bara’s disappearance make the case stand about Ramaker’s status as a person of in- Biles, who still lives in California, quickly theory for a while,” Carl says, “that maybe out. “It’s something that I don’t think we terest. He does say, however, that he asks if there was any news to report about she could have been kidnapped by some go a week without thinking about,” he says. wishes that the Ravalli County Sheriff ’s De- Barbara. While she has nothing to say backcountry recluse.” “We don’t like mysteries. We like cold facts. partment took Ramaker up on his offer to about her relationship with her cousin, she
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does express frustration about the lack of closure in Barbara’s disappearance. As for Ramaker, he reiterates what he told law enforcement: “I’ve never laid a hand on Barbara,” he says. “I never harmed her in any way.” Ramaker adds that he empathizes with the Bolick family’s loss. He, too, wishes that he knew where Barbara went. After all, it’s not easy being labeled “a person of interest” in a missing person investigation. “I’ve had a cloud over my head since 2007,” Ramaker says.
ÚÚÚ If anyone understands what Carl Bolick, Jake Sloan and other friends and family members of missing persons are going through, it’s Monica Caison. Known as “the searcher,” Caison founded the nonprofit Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons in 1994 to help find those who have disappeared and support their families during the search. Her North Carolina-based nonprofit and its network of unpaid volunteers has helped more than 9,000 families during “what is often the most confusing and desperate times of their lives,” with Caison personally involved much of the time. The CUE Center hotline rings directly to her cellphone. “I don’t really consider it a business,” Caison says. “I consider it a calling.” Since starting CUE, Caison has seen all types of cases, from successful searches to faked disappearances. Those cases that remain unresolved, like Barbara Bolick’s and Ellen Sloan’s, can take a heavy toll on loved ones. Caison says second-guessing among family and friends is completely normal. They often feel confused, desperate, stuck and unable to move on. “A missing person’s family is thrown into this hurricane, if you will, with no tools, no guidance and not even a flashlight,” Caison says. CUE’s goal is to provide the tools and emotional support otherwise lacking. The nonprofit specializes in free search and recovery services, and acts as a counselor of last resort for the loved ones of people with unknown whereabouts. Caison says she has roughly 10,000 volunteers from across the nation who attend CUE-facilitated courses on search and rescue tactics and investigatory skills. The organization accepts between 800 and 1,500 cold cases annually, with some dating back to the 1980s. Most recently, Caison says she had a crew in Blanca, Colo., searching wooded areas for a man named Casey Berry, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances on Valentine’s Day in 2007. Caison estimates that nearly half of her organization’s membership is composed of people who have lost a loved one through circumstances such as homicide, kidnapping or to the unknown. Those personal connections to loss help make CUE members uniquely equipped to provide support and guidance. Many of
them also understand all too well how it in Knoxville, Tenn., and returned to Mon- mom is no longer around,’ to just say that feels when law enforcement calls to report tana. That same year, he was found guilty she’s missing.” Jake is cautious not to downplay the that they have a lead or that remains have of incest and sentenced to 10 years in Monbeen found. Often, those calls are fol- tana Department of Corrections custody. grief that accompanies death. “But losing lowed by another one explaining that the He’s currently incarcerated at the Cross- someone to an unknown is even more tormenting,” he says. lead didn’t pan out or the re“Like, ‘When do you stop mains were not a match. looking?’ Am I doing “Every time a body is “Losing someone to an enough? Am I upset found it’s like a punch in the enough? Am I doing all of gut, because they want it to unknown is even more the right things? Have I exbe theirs, but they don’t,” Caihausted every effort?” son says. “It just jump-starts tormenting (than death). Losing someone to an all of the pain and anguish all unknown reshapes the way over again.” one interacts with the peoLike, when do you stop ple they care about. Carl says ÚÚÚ that losing Barbara leads In the years since Ellen looking? Am I doing enough? him to value now more than Sloan went missing, the only ever his personal relationtime Jake Sloan ever felt Am I upset enough? ships. Two years ago, he hopeful that he had found packed up Barbara’s belongher was when law enforceAm I doing all of the right ings, donating many of them ment called to report that to local charities. In March they’d discovered human rethings? Have I exhausted 2013, he met a woman from mains that could be her, as Post Falls, Idaho, on an onwas the case in 2007. every effort?” line dating website. The two Maybe if her body turned married in November and up, Jake says, Lake County she moved into the Corvallis would be able to compile suf—Jake Sloan, whose mother home. As part of Carl Bolficient evidence for a prosecudisappeared in 2005 ick’s effort to make a fresh tion. “No one wants to get start with his new wife, that phone call that says, Sharon, they’re remodeling ‘Hey, we’ve located the body. the house. We ran DNA tests on it, it’s On a recent blustery day, he looks toyour mom,’” he says. “No one wants to roads Correctional Center in Shelby. As the years go on, Jake says that ward the empty spaces awaiting new applihear that. But it would be such a relief just it gets easier for him to talk about ances not far from newly installed hickory to have a little bit more closure.” Lake County Detective Kim Leibenguth his mother. The discussion, however, flooring in the living room and says that says that she too would like closure. After almost always makes new acquaintances he’s ready to let go of Barbara. “You just resign yourself to the fact investigating Sloan’s 2005 disappearance, uncomfortable. “It’s always a very challenging conver- after a while, she’s gone. And she’s not Leibenguth left her detective position for five years to work as a school resource offi- sation to have with people, when you meet coming back,” Bolick says. “At least, I don’t cer. One year ago, she returned. Leibenguth someone, and they just happen to ask you, think she is.” says that she’s now following up on the ‘Is your mom still in Montana?’ To tell that jmayrer@missoulanews.com Sloan case. In 2006, Gholson was arrested story, it’s a lot different than, ‘Well, my
photo by Cathrine L. Walters
Carl Bolick stands in his backyard and points to the part of the Bitterroot Range where his wife was last seen.
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[arts]
Day-glo dreams Growing Growing Wildflowers Wildflowers in in Skulls Skulls and and other other illuminations illuminations from from artist artist Luke Luke Smith Smith by by Erika Erika Fredrickson Fredrickson
oing into the back of Convergence Gallery is, at first, a little like finding yourself in that Brad Pitt movie, Se7en, where the detectives investigate murders in unlit apartments. It’s dark and you’re armed with a flashlight. Though there are objects glowing in the room, it’s hard to see what they are until you pass the beam of light across them. In this new gallery on Main Street, there are no dead bodies, thank goodness. No serial killers or blood-chilling heads in boxes, either. Instead, the flashlight reveals swirls of blues and greens gleaming around the eye sockets of animal skulls, which sit neatly on tables. A painted bison skull houses the tiny skull of bird inside its nose. Colorful paintings glow on the walls, too, including a bear and a warthog strumming guitars around a campfire, surrounded by pine trees swaying in the wind, under a bright red sky. The flashlight, which is ultraviolet, brings out the brightness of each wispy paint stroke. Like watching a movie in 3D, images seem to bend toward you at times. It takes a moment to look past the flashiness of the glow-in-the-dark paint and really notice all the little details of the paintings. The exhibit, Growing Wildflowers in Skulls, is by Missoula artist Luke Smith. Smith has carved himself a niche using glow-in-the-dark and ultraviolet paint. Despite the gimmicky feel of the concept, Smith says it was a practical decision. Smith often does live painting at festivals down at Caras Park or outside of town. People gather around and watch as he creates a painting onthe-fly or fleshes out an image that he sketched out on the canvas ahead of time. But, as most festivals go—especially music festivals—people only really start getting
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amped up for action just as the sun is setting. “The first time I used the paint was at Love Your Mother Earth Festival,” Smith says. “I realized that after it gets dark outside it’s hard for people to see what I’m doing. I’ll start out with regular paint during the day time and then when it gets dark out I’ll get a black light and [start painting] with the UV paint.” To illuminate his glow-in-the-dark live painting further, Smith sometimes shines a color shifting device on the piece, which emits different kinds of light and changes the colors in the painting. The effect looks cool and trippy, but keeping track of colors adds an extra element of chaos for Smith. “It can be completely insane because the colors change and you have to remember which colors are what,” he says. “Greens will look dark red because the light is either black light or green light or blue light. I’ve been painting on a stage before and lost track of what I was doing and then when I got the painting into regular light I looked at it and I’m like, ‘Oops! What did I do?’” Besides finding a niche in UV and glowing paint, using skulls as a canvas started just a couple of years ago, after Smith found some old cow bones in his grandmother’s shed. They were relics from the ranch she and Smith’s grandfather ran in Dixon. He says he’d seen artwork on skulls before, usually painted on just the face. “I always wondered why they don’t paint the whole skull,” he says. “I asked my grandma if she had some skulls for me and she gave me a few. I started painting them live at festivals. I realized I could just take a piece of rebar or a stick and put them in the
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ground and paint them right there.” It’s not easy to get a steady flow of skulls. Bison skulls, for instance, can cost $200 or more and Smith can’t afford to do that. He depends on friends and acquaintances who offer him skulls from their ranching boneyards or collections. In one example from Growing Wildflowers in Skulls, Smith has painted the skull of a draft horse. The horse once belonged to some friends of his and, after the exhibit ends Jan. 31, it will be returned to the owners, now brightly painted, as a keepsake. Smith’s first experimentation with painting bone also ended up being a personal memento for friends. One weekend, on the friends’ ranch outside of Spokane, he found the top half of a cow skull and decided he wanted to paint it, but wasn’t sure what to do. That night, he partied late with his buddies. He fell asleep under a tree next to a bonfire and woke up surrounded by curious cattle. “I was a little bit frightened,” he says, laughing. “But Roots, their dog, a large border collie, he and his daughters came ripping out of the woods at full speed chasing the cows down the hill and left me in a cloud of dust. I was thinking, ‘What am I going to paint on the skull?’ So I painted Roots and his daughters on it. [My friends] bought that from me. They have it hanging in their new house.” Smith did another painting for the exhibit, one of musician Andy Frasco as he performs at the Top Hat. “He’s got his face smashed down on the piano and he’s laughing like a lunatic and his hair’s going everywhere,” Smith says of the image that inspired his work. He sketched out the piece enough so that it resembled
Frasco, and then painted it with glowing colors and gestural strokes that gave it an animated feel. Smith got his degree in animation and illustration from the Seattle Art Institute, but making glowin-the-dark art on skulls or anything else isn’t something you learn in a higher-education program. Still, he’s found a place for his style. WE Missoula, a nonprofit run by musician Will Peterson, helps other nonprofits put on fundraisers and Smith has done live painting for several of its events. Talking with Smith about his work is a little bit like shining a flashlight on one of his paintings. A he tells it, his pieces often stem from strange, dreamlike stories—like the one where he wakes up surrounded by cattle. When he’s not doing live paintings, he works at his home in the dark under UV lights, sometimes listening to bluegrass, the skull or canvas coming to life with each new glowing stroke. His style could lend itself to abstract art, but in the end, he’s looking for something familiar to emerge. “I start with chaos and eventually form comes out of the chaos,” he says. “I need to make a story. But, in the beginning, it always starts as a fun experiment in my mad science laboratory.” Luke Smith paints live during the International Wildlife Film Festival fundraiser “Sounds Wild” at the Roxy Theater Thu., Jan. 23, 7 to 10 PM. Free, but donations accepted. Smith’s Growing Wildflowers in Skulls continues at the e3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St., through January. arts@missoulanews.com
[music]
No promises White Denim doesn’t play it safe on Corsicana
photo courtesy Mark Seliger
The first track, “At Night in Dreams,” off White Denim’s latest, Corsicana Lemonade, twists and turns, bursting with ideas, wearing influences on its sleeve. It kicks off with an intricate, stop-time guitar riff that sounds like something from a King Crimson record. The galloping drums and power chords beg for airplay on classic rock radio. Vocalist James Petralli is a verbal doppelgänger for The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. The way the song refuses to settle on any one style is representative of the entire album. The number of changes on Corsicana Lemonade—changes in style, guitar tone, tempo, time signature—is staggering, especially since the whole album clocks in at fewer than 40 minutes. That it all works testifies to the inventiveness of the writing and to the high quality musicianship, with the
highest honors going to drummer Josh Block for staying in command through every mutation. His drum parts feel just as schizoid and mercurial as the rest of the music, but they’re always recognizably his—even when the band gets souled out on album closer “A Place to Start.” Giving that title to the last song on the album serves as a sly wink to the listener. Petralli offers an invitation, saying, “If I ever start to change for the worst, show me something real.” But then, with the line, “I’ll do my best to turn it around and get back to you,” he never promises that your reality won’t get thrown into the White Denim blender. (Kevin Dupzyk) White Denim plays the Top Hat Thu., Jan. 30, at 10 PM, along with Skin Flowers. Doors at 9:30 PM. $13/$11 advance.
Ice Hockey, The Way It Is Now If punk rock is all about distilling anger and desperation and joy into a cathartic package, the subgenres that have followed it have attempted the same goal, with different end results. Hardcore broke things down even simpler and louder, while post-hardcore tried to add back in some complexity while keeping the feeling. More recently on the spectrum, screamo appeared, sounding pretty much like its name: Dissonant guitars, screamy vocals, jagged stops and starts. The trouble with pushing music to the limits of abrasiveness is knowing when to draw back. It can be hard to pin down the difference between the excellently rageful and the stuff that’s just obnoxious noise. Like what Justice Potter Stewart said about
pornography, I can’t define it, but I know it when I come across it. Iowa City band Ice Hockey plays some songs on the EP The Way It Is Now that sound like screaming for screaming’s sake. Others—particularly the final track, “Solar Myths and Autumn”— show a little more thoughtful songcraft, pleasingly chunky breakdowns and mournful melodic interludes. The Way It Is Now isn’t something to put on while kicking back in the sun, but it might suit a gray day when you need to let out some pent-up crankiness. (Kate Whittle) Ice Hockey plays the ZACC, along with The Whoopass Girls, Pancakes and Confidence Man, on Thu., Jan. 23, at 8 PM. $5. All ages, no alcohol.
Run River North Run River North’s Bandcamp page describes them as “a group of young Korean folk living in Los Angeles” who are “deeply into music and our maker.” True to that description, the band’s music inhabits the contrast between sunny California pop and somber religious themes. “Fight to Keep,” the lead single from their upcoming debut album, is propelled by a bouncy acoustic guitar motif, steady drumming and, in the lyrics, a struggle to deny base impulses, as in, “What I’ve done in darkness, I must turn away / This mended heart was meant for so much more.” The best musical comparison is probably The Lumineers, though RRN’s conspicuous violin and male-female lead vocals push them closer to an indie
pop sound. But where RRN stands out is in their lyrics, anyway. Songs like “Foxbeard” show interesting turns of phrase, always delivered with sincerity: “She’s building up her kingdom of sticks and stones / I hear the words in between they tend to never hold.” Indeed, RRN’s investment in its own lyrical message is such that the biggest missteps come when the musicians cover other artists’ work—their renditions of The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside” and The Black Keys’ “Only One” both feel oddly detached. Here’s hoping that the debut, which drops next month, is all original material. (Kevin Dupzyk) Run River North opens for Moon Taxi at the Palace Fri., Jan. 24, at 9 PM. Doors at 8. $7.
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[tv]
TV casualty Secrets of a successful antihero by Erika Fredrickson
I remember the first time I tried to explain to my family the premise of “Dexter.” “Well, he’s a serial killer,” I said back in 2007. “But he only kills other serial killers. And he’s actually a really good dad.” Dead silence. Trying to explain “Breaking Bad” or “The Sopranos” also didn’t meet with much enthusiasm. In my desire to underscore the brilliance of the shows, I ended up sounding like I might actually be really into both meth and the mafia. (Not even once!) But things have changed in recent years as more and more television dramas follow these antihero trendsetters. Nobody blinks at morally complex characters like Walter White or Dexter Morgan or Tony Soprano anymore, because mainstream viewers know that they arrive on screen with the promise of a good story to tell. These are protagonists who do the opposite of what’s expected or buck conventional wisdom, yet come out seeming human all the same. They are at once immoral and principled. They’re often brutally violent and quietly compassionate. They make bad decisions in their relationships. They protect who they love. They buy groceries and have moments of self doubt. And it’s not so much that these shows glamorize bad things (mostly “Breaking Bad” made meth seem like a horrible idea) as they take a person who society would normally demonize and portray a level of human strength and fragility to which anyone could personally relate. The problem with Hollywood’s antihero television trend is that now every producer, writer and director thinks they’re smart enough to pull it “Dexter” off. They think all that’s required is a main character who breaks the law for some agreed-upon greater good. But there’s more to it than that. For example, Kerry Washington of ABC’s “Scandal” can’t live up to Glenn Close on DirectTV/FX’s “Damages.” They are both high-powered lawyers who will break the law (or worse) in order to get the outcome they think is right. But Washington’s Olivia Pope clicks around on high heels with a vulnerable prissiness that doesn’t quite answer the question of how she came into such a powerful position. In the first episode she swoons under the obvious manipulation of the president of the United States, while viewers are left to wonder how she could be so shortsighted. Already, it’s hard to get on board with her. Close, as Patty Hewes, also clicks around on high heels, but her odd paranoia and lack of trust in people makes it clear how she got to the top of the food chain. She’s disturbing and magnetic, snake-like one moment and heroic in others. It comes down to delicately layered character development that is far more complicated than some shows are willing to invest in or able to pull off. Future copycats would do well to consider a few crucial elements that have proven effective in creating some of television’s best antiheroes. Start with a vice. The most interesting protagonists have a weakness for something, not someone. Mirielle Enos as Sarah Linden, a kind of antihero in AMC’s “The Killing,” can’t quit tobacco, so she’s often chewing nicotine
gum. It adds an extra layer of anxiety to her character without being expository. The times when the stoic character does break down and light up, we know she’s unraveling. A similar component involves emotional vulnerability. In the BBC’s “Luther,” Idris Elba plays a detective who finds himself in hot water more than once because he’s so sensitive to his enemies (who are often antiheroes themselves). He’s tough, and often takes the law into his own hands, but this particular kryptonite helps to level the playing field and keep viewers hooked. Another key component involves secrets that don’t feel like secrets. Netflix’s “House of Cards” is all about secrets. It’s about Kevin Spacey building an elaborate plan to gain political power by any means necessary. The way he whores around and sells tips to media and does backdoor deals provides the meat of the story, but it’s when he’s at home playing Killzone on his big-screen TV that you get another layer to his character’s psyche.
Deep-seated quirks that show up in the storyline are also highly effective. One of my favorite antiheroes is the BBC’s Sherlock Holmes, and Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock is one of the most thoroughly drawn misfits in contemporary television. His apartment looks like a funhouse with weird wallpaper and antique furniture, and Sherlock treats it like an anarchist squatter’s house, smoking cigarettes in a way that illustrates he might not care if everything went up in flames. He’s also an incredible narcissist, which means that when he shows any sort of care it’s with an agenda in mind—or it’s for Watson, or it’s a joke. He’s a jerk, but you don’t care because he’s damn good at what he does. The most important ingredient to a compelling antihero remains the character’s moral compass. He or she may not follow society’s standards, but they follow an established code that guides who they are and what they do, always. It’s what makes a serial killer like Dexter, who only kills other killers, more interesting than a story about any other serial killer. When he’s faced with scenarios that threaten to break his code, he has to make tough decisions—and they’re ones that in some sick way a viewer can understand because they’ve come this far in the story with him. Fans want him to stick to his code and want him to succeed, and the show’s at its best when the two are not one in the same. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
[film]
Big bad FDA McConaughey does his finest work in Dallas by Colin Boyd
“My bongos are in the back.”
One of the most essential scenes in understanding the transformation of Matthew McConaughey’s career is, as it happens, one of the least essential scenes in Dallas Buyers Club. It’s an innocuous dinner conversation between AIDS patient Ron Woodroof (McConaughey) and his empathetic but largely helpless doctor (Jennifer Garner). Woodroof, a hard-drinking electrician and rodeo hand who could die at virtually any moment, is turning on the charm to thank or sweet-talk the pretty doctor, or just gauge what he still has left. Five or six years ago, scenes like this were what McConaughey was known for—the smooth-talking ladykiller. Some 60 pounds lighter, when he smiles broadly at Garner, we see muscles stretched tight in his gaunt face, muscles he has no occasion to use anywhere else in this film, either physically or emotionally. That is really the shell of McConaughey on display in the Dallas Buyers Club, which is based on real events. He’s not just a handsome face anymore. McConaughey’s been on this path for a couple years, doing very good work in films like Mud and Magic Mike. And though Jared Leto deserves heaps of praise for his own terrific performance as Woodroof ’s transgender business partner, it’s McConaughey who is chopping down the mountains. There’s no question that this is his finest work and one of the signature performances of 2013. What was the trigger that got him to ditch the easy money of bad romantic comedies like Fool’s Gold and Failure to Launch? Outside of The Paperboy—which was a wild missed swing by almost everyone involved, notably Nicole Kidman and director Lee Daniels—McConaughey has been superb for about half a dozen consecutive movies. His previous record was probably, I dunno, one. He needs every ounce of his newfound abilities in Dallas Buyers Club. Woodroof liked booze, cocaine and fast, easy women. In the early 1980s, that was not an uncommon recipe for fun. But Woodroof contracted HIV (the film indicates it was from unprotected sex and not possible intravenous drug use), and by the time it’s diagnosed, he has full-blown AIDS. Woodroof is given 30 days to live, give or take. His doctors put him on AZT, which was then in fast-tracked clinical trials. Unsafe dosages wreaked havoc with already jeopardized immune systems, and Woodroof was no exception. Hospitalized toward the end of his life expectancy, he’s rooming with Rayon (Leto), who is also taking part in the trials. Woodroof ’s
growing defensiveness over suggestions about his own sexuality make their meeting and subsequent relationship pretty rocky. This isn’t a film about patients coping with AIDS or even about looking past your own preconceived notions about people. More than anything, the subject that takes over is Woodroof ’s fight against the Food and Drug Administration. In the mid-1980s, patients waited to die more than they waited for a cure, but Woodroof tried to buck the system. After visiting a clinic in Mexico, where his condition improved during three months of bed rest, he hit upon an idea: Importing vitamins and proteins unapproved by the FDA to combat AIDS. It might do more than just keep Woodroof alive. It could also make him money. Soon, even the thought of profit turns into helping hundreds of people survive. When the FDA is on his trail for selling unapproved substances, he opens a club. Selling memberships at $400 a pop, Woodroof and Rayon give the meds away for free. That doesn’t stop the feds for long, though, and the whole thing paints the FDA in an incredibly negative light—slow to react, uncaring, incompetent and in the pocket of Big Pharma. Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée is in control of the proceedings, easier said than done with this topic. He understands that this is by and large an actor’s exercise, and he avoids the usual pratfalls that accompany a lot of Very Serious Social Movies. AIDS, in fact, is not treated any differently than cancer would be. It’s a killer in this film, not a cause. And while his actors upped their games by dropping significant weight, he doesn’t push that into the spotlight. However, both McConaughey and Leto are downright wraithlike. It hurts to watch them move. Both McConaughey and Leto just received worthy Oscar nominations, but they’ll have to go head-to-head with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in their respective categories. The screenplay gets a tiny bit preachy, clanging that bell about the big, bad FDA, but it’s a minor ripple in an otherwise excellent film. Woodroof ’s final years are a fascinating story that time had forgotten. But largely thanks to McConaughey’s portrayal, that’s not likely to happen again anytime soon. Dallas Buyers Club opens at the Carmike 12 Fri., Jan. 24.
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It’s a decision anyone on a road trip passing through South Dakota to or from Montana has to make for themselves: Do you stop at Mount Rushmore or don’t you? It’s a 30-minute detour from route I-90, but road trips aren’t just about the destination, right? I made the trip with my mother in 2009 and we decided not to stop. I was impatient. It was mid-August and school was starting in two short weeks. I think I had the idea that Mount Rushmore was basically in my backyard now and we’d have hundreds more chances— but that turned out to be wrong. I’ve still never been. I bet if we went, though, I would say that it looks smaller in person. Seems like that’s what everybody says. The father and son in director Alexander Payne’s latest comedy-drama, Nebraska, have a better sense of time’s persistent slipperiness than my mother and I did. They understand that sometimes you have to go out of your way to make memories, so damn it, they make the time to visit the monument. Bruce Dern stars as Woody Grant, whom we first meet as an old man wandering lost down the streets of Billings. Dern has a career spanning decades, but I recognize his face most readily from films like The Burbs and Monster. (He’s the guy who rents out the storage space to Eileen.) Woody thinks he’s going to walk to Lincoln, Neb., to collect his million-dollar prize in one of those mail-order sweepstakes. His son, David Grant, played by “Saturday Night Live” alum Will Forte, takes pity on him and agrees to drive him to the address on the letter. Woody doesn’t trust the mail; he wants to collect the prize money in person. David indulges his father’s whim at the protest of Woody’s long-suffering wife Kate ( June Squibb). “I never knew the son of a bitch wanted to be a millionaire!” she says. “He should have thought about that before and worked for it!” And they have another son, Ross (Bob Odenkirk), an anchor for the local news in Billings who has no time for pointless road trips. The film’s shot in black and white, which at first seems like an insult to Montana’s postcard-worthy landscapes, but in fact it’s the opposite. The lack of color lays bare the far-off mountains and tired gas stations of
Billings and the tiny towns in between. The present seems like the past and the past seems unreal and out of reach. Plus, David drives a Subaru, so they got that detail right. But the movie is called Nebraska, not Montana, so leave they must. As it turns out, Woody comes from a tiny town in Nebraska named Hawthorne. It’s on the way, so they might as well all meet up together for a family reunion in order to explore old ghosts and probably get to the bottom of what’s really motivating Woody’s weird exodus. Kate meets up with them in Hawthorne, and soon rumors of Woody’s big fake winnings have spread among the townspeople. Friends and family are coming out of the woodwork wanting a piece, and from this we learn a lot about Woody’s past and what’s made him the grizzled old drinker he is today. Nebraska has been nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards, along with acting nominations for Dern and Squibb, Best Director for Payne, Best Original Screenplay for Bob Nelson and a nod for cinematography. This is supposed to be a moving, hilarious portrait of a father-son relationship and maybe also a love song to an aging Midwest. I loved the way it looked, and it’s always fun to see Montana in the movies, but overall I think people are seriously overreacting. Watching this film, I felt the malaise one feels on an actual road trip. Call me a stickler for entertainment, but that’s not what a movie should do. I felt like I was being made to endure a beautifully rendered slide show of someone else’s dreary family saga. It’s a black-andwhite movie from a major director with a release date hovering around all the other big players of the year, so it must be good, right? If this movie came out in May, would anyone still be talking about it? As with the sweepstakes, I think most reviewers have been duped. Nebraska continues at the Carmike 12.
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[film] raid Maury’s Nut Store for enough food to get through winter. Anticipate the acorniest of jokes. Featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl and Brendan Fraser. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Showboat, Pharaohplex.
OPENING THIS WEEK DALLAS BUYERS CLUB HIV-positive hustler Ron Woodroof helps AIDS patients get medication in 1985 Dallas. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto. Rated R. Carmike 12. (See Film.) I, FRANKENSTEIN Hey, I know, let’s make Frankenstein sexy! Somewhere, Mary Shelley is cringing in heaven. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.
PHILOMENA A cynical journalist sets out with an elderly woman to help find her long-lost son. Rated PG13. Starring Judi Dench, Steve Coogan and Sophie Kennedy Clark. Wilma.
MAIDENTRIP Dutch teenager Laura Dekker used video and voice recordings to capture her two-year endeavor to become the youngest person to sail around the world solo. Teenagers these days, amirite? Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Jan. 24-26 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM.
RIDE ALONG A smart-alec security gard tags along with his fiance’s cop brother to prove his mettle, but he could be in for more than he bargained. Starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Tika Sumpter. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.
THE ROCKET A young Laotian boy, told he’s bad luck, sets out to prove everyone wrong by competing in the annual Rocket Festival. He meets a friend and a boozy James Brown impersonator along the way. Not rated. Starring Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam and Suthep Po-ngam. Screening at the Roxy Theater Jan. 24-26 at 7 and 9 PM. VERMEER AND MUSIC: THE ART OF LOVE AND LEISURE The National Gallery of London explains how Dutch society and music influenced the classic painter Vermeer, in this edition of Exhibition on Screen. Showing at the Roxy Theater Jan. 28 at 7:30 PM. $11/$10 for seniors/$8 for students and children. Visit mtlive.org for tickets and a trailer.
NOW PLAYING 12 YEARS A SLAVE A free black man is lured by con artist and sold into slavery in the antebellum United States. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams and Michael Fassbender. Rated R. Wilma. ALL IS LOST Robert Redford stars as a stranded sailor at sea who must battle a certain death and his own inner demons. Written and directed by J.C. Chandor. PG-13. Wilma. AMERICAN HUSTLE Sexy, swindling, 70s-fabulous misfits led by a con man get involved with the FBI, in a story mega-loosely based on the real Abscam sting operation. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. Rated R. Carmike 12.
Extreme Makeover: Abdominals Edition. I, Frankenstein opens this week at Carmike 12.
DEVIL’S DUE A newlywed is knocked up after a black-out night on her honeymoon, and soon discovers that this is one sinister hangover. Starring Allison Miller, Zach Gilford and Steffie Grote. Rated R. Carmike 12. FROZEN A Nordic princess endeavors to find her sister and bring her back to their snowy kingdom. A whimsical talking snowman joins in the adventure, too. Starring the voices of Kristen Bell, Josh Gad and Idina Menzel. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 100-percent more hot elf action is on tap in the second installment of the kids-book-turnedgiant-trilogy. Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12. THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Katniss Everdeen and boring ol’ Peeta are back for the second installment of the dystopian teen fantasy. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutch-
erson and Liam Hemsworth. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex, Showboat. JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT High-cheekboned CIA agent (and aren’t they all?) Jack Ryan must thwart a Russian plot to destroy the U.S. economy. Starring Chris Pine, Kevin Costner and Keira Knightley. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Entertainer. LONE SURVIVOR Mark Wahlberg stars as Marcus Luttrell, one of the SEAL team members in the botched 2008 Operation Red Wings Taliban assassination mission. And David Bowie and Brian Eno wrote the theme song, cool beans. Also starring Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsch. Rated R. Carmike 12.
SAVING MR. BANKS Walt Disney coaxes the curmudgeonly P.L. Travers into selling the movie rights to her novel, a little book you may have heard of called Mary Poppins. Starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and Annie Rose Buckley. Rated PG-13. Showboat.
Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit missoulanews.com’s arts section to find up-todate movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.
NEBRASKA A disheveled old boozehound, convinced he’s won the lottery, brings his estranged son along on the trip from Billings to claim the prize in Nebraska. Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte and June Squibb. Rated R. Carmike 12. (See Film.) THE NUT JOB An ornery squirrel must get out of his shell to
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Wheat berry risotto by Ari LeVaux Wheat has had a tough go of it lately. The price is in a multi-year downtrend, perhaps in part because it’s become vilified in many popular dietary paradigms. Wheat is the poster child for high-gluten foods, while foods made from its flour are feared by those on lowcarbohydrate diets. These trends have conspired to fan the anti-wheat flames so hot that the question seems to have moved beyond whether or not wheat is evil, and is now a matter of just how evil it is. If medical tests have confirmed that you have celiac disease or a wheat allergy, then you will indeed be better off waving bye-bye to the amber grain. But otherwise, there is reason to believe that eating whole grain or sprouted wheat, while avoiding wheat flour, might be a viable path forward. Wheat grains, also called berries, have a chewy, almost meaty texture and a nutty taste. Of course, most of the love we have for wheat is for products that are made with its processed flour. The alchemy of baking can produce magical products, and pasta is great too. But from a carbohydrate perspective, there is a massive difference between eating wheat flour and whole wheat kernels. Whole kernels have much more fiber, and in order to break it down the body must expend more energy then it would to digest a similar amount of wheat flour, in which much of the fiber has already been broken down by the milling. The extra energy spent digesting that extra fiber in whole grain wheat cuts into the total net energy gain that the body absorbs, while digesting the same amount of flour yields a greater amount of energy. This concept is encapsulated in a scale called the glycemic index. A food that yields most of its calories to the eater is said to have a high glycemic index, while foods from which relatively few calories end up available are said to have low glycemic indices. Gluten, meanwhile, has become the subject of much research and speculation of late, as evidence grows that gluten sensitivity is more of a continuum than a black and white issue of either having it or not. Some believe that we are all sensitive to gluten to an extent, and that gluten can cause inflammation in many parts of the body, including the brain, which can lead to all sorts of problems beyond the digestive issues associated with celiac disease. According to David Perlmutter, author of the bestselling Grain Brain, the effects of gluten are exacer-
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bated by sugar in the blood stream. Perlmutter has one of the more extreme anti-gluten perspectives you can find. But even if he is correct, his theory still potentially leaves the door open to eating wheat berries, because they don’t cause a spike in blood sugar like a piece of toast will. If you’re interested in dabbling in wheat berries, there are many interesting varieties. Hard wheat has more protein, including gluten. Soft wheat has more starch. Winter wheat is sown in fall in southern regions, spring wheat grows all summer. One particularly interesting kind is the hard spring Khorasan wheat, supposedly an ancient form of wheat native to a region that includes Afghanistan and Iran. It had drifted into obscurity before a U.S. Air Force pilot purchased some grains at a Cairo market, and brought them home to Montana, where it is now grown and marketed as Kamut. The berries are about twice the size of normal wheat, and with a bunch of protein and a low glycemic index. Wheat berries are cooked in water, like rice. Soaking them reduces the cooking time, and initiates the germination process. Even if you cook the soaked grains before any visible signs of sprouting appear, extra nutrients will become available after an overnight soak. Soaking the wheat also cuts the cooking time. Different wheat varieties will have different cooking times, but it boils down to cooking the grains in lightly salted water, in a 1:3 proportion of berry to water, on medium heat with a tight lid, until they’re soft. If the water runs out before that happens, add more. Some people recommend cooking the wheat berries with half an onion, in a single chunk, as well as herbs or spices compatible with what you plan to do next with the berries. Although cooked wheat berries are a bit like rice, especially in appearance, they don’t absorb sauce the same way. Further cooking of the boiled berries in buttery water, a la risotto, can help the flavorings gain entry into the chewy grains. To make a simple wheat berry risotto, soak and cook the wheat berries until soft. Then sauté some goodies in butter or oil, like shrimp and garlic, or mushrooms. Add the cooked grains of wheat and mix it all up, and add sufficient water to barely submerge the contents of the pan. Cook slowly, with the lid on, until the water is gone.
[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway • 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Nothing says Bernice’s like the cold, grey month of January. Come in, sit quietly, or share a table with friends in our warm and cozy dining room. Enjoy a cup of joe, a slice of cake, or a breakfast pastry as the sun beams in through our large glass windows. Want a healthy lunch? Come by in the afternoon and try a salad sampler or Bernice’s own Garlic Hummus Sandwich on our Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Bless you all in 2014! xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ 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. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 84. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 This week at Brooks and Browns...1/24 Tom Catmull 6-9 pm. 1/28 Captain Wilson Conspiracy 6-9 pm. Sunday Funday (Happy Hour all day). Martini MONDAY ($4 select martinis). Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 41 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Dickey’s Barbecue Pit 143 W. Broadway Downtown Missoula • 203.1557 Taste why Dickey’s Barbecue is the world’s best barbecue since 1941! Try our 8 juicy hot pit smoked meats, like our southern pulled pork or our family recipe polish sausage. We even offer 11 homestyle sides, like our creamy cole slaw and fried okra. Don’t forget we’re also your catering experts! Any event, any size – let Dickey’s do the cooking, and you can take the credit. Graduation parties, weddings, office functions, you name it! Dickey’s Barbecue is the perfect catering choice for groups of all sizes – from 10
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to 10,000! Don’t forget-Kids Eat Free Sundays & everyone enjoys FREE ice cream every day! Dickey’s Barbecue. Seriously, Pit Smoked. Open 7 days a week. Offering a full liquor bar. $-$$ 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. $-$$ El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$
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Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 www.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 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Heraldo's Mexican Food 116 Glacier Dr. Lolo, MT 59847 406-203-4060 HeraldosMexicanRestaurant.com Lunch and Dinner. Open 7 Days • Eat-in or Carry-out • Handmade Tamales • Burritos • Chimichangas • Flautas • Fajitas • Combo plates and MORE. See our menu at www.heraldosmexicanrestaurant.com. Order Your Holiday Tamales Now! Also sold year-round. Call for details. $-$$ 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 $-$$
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The Dude Abides HAPPIEST HOUR The scene: Like a Jackie Treehorn beach party, the place was full of characters. Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski lookalikes, spandex-clad nihilists and a bewigged version of the manservant Brandt milled about Montgomery Distillery on Friday, Jan. 17, in preparation for The Dude Abides ’14. The Wilma’s annual screening of The Big Lebowski gave the distillery an opportunity to offer its delicious version of a White Russian at a one-night-only discount. Moviegoers flocked to take advantage of the offer. The beverage: The Dude Abides is Montgomery Distillery’s take on the drink celebrated in the Coen brothers’ cult classic film. The standout ingredient is a homemade coffee liqueur that adds a rich flavor and a little extra kick to El Duderino’s drink of choice. “It is a classic White Russian and we put our spin on it by making our own coffee liqueur,” says bartender Mike Lattanzio. “We make that by using our vodka and Black Coffee Roasting Company’s Mexican coffee. We turn it into a coffee vodka, then add a few ingredients and turn it into a coffee liqueur. We think it really makes the drink shine.” Mix the liqueur with milk, Quicksilver vodka and ice, shake it to a frothy fizz, and your strict drug regimen will be complete. The staple: The Dude Abides, normally $6, went for just $4 on Friday night. If you missed
Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$
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the fun, fear not. The drink is a staple at the distillery. “Any time people drink [The Dude Abides] they are usually drinking it with a smile and they are definitely enjoying their day,” says Lattanzio. “It is one of our top sellers.” The location: Find The Dude Abides at Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front Street. —Jimmy Tobias Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org. The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$
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Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions. Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-214-2659 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 wholesome ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one of our braised meat sandwiches. We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, freshmade waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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Dr. Gilbert Welch presents Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, about recent trends in “early diagnosis.” James E. Todd Building on campus, 7 PM. (See Agenda.) It ain’t the wallflower who gets to take home the cutie, so get out there on the floor for the Country Two-Step dance class with Cathy Clark of NW Country Swing. Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 7-8:30 PM.
January 23–January 30, 2014
THURSDAYJAN23 Go get ‘em, Tiger, at the Sounds Wild! benefit for the International Wildlife Film Festival, featuring Shakewell, Jordan Lane and new local outfit, Taste. Plus, there’ll be live art and a VJ! Roxy Theater. 7-10 PM. Free, all ages, but donations appreciated. The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:15-5 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 611. Call 549-7555 to learn more.
nightlife Sussex School hosts an open house, and peeps are invited to tour the space, meet the staff and learn about its progressive curriculum from 5:30-7:30 PM. 1800 S. Second St. W. Sussex is now enrolling grades K-8, check out sussexschool.org.
“Dude, I bet I could lick my elbow.” Devil Makes Three plays the Wilma Sat., Jan. 25, along with The Brothers Comatose. Doors at 7, show at 8 PM. $20, all ages. Advance tickets sold out.
Put on your power pantsuit before the Missoula Community Theater presents 9 to 5: The Musical, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Performances Jan. 22-25 at 7:30 PM, Sun. Jan. 26 at 6:30 PM, plus Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15$21, tickets at the MCT box office, MCTinc.org or by calling 728-7529. Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Keep yer stick on the ice and head to the ZACC for an all-ages shindig with Illinois hardcore/emoviolence outfit Ice Hockey, Pancakes, Confidence Man and the Whoopass Girls. 235 N. First St. W. 8 PM. $5. No alcohol. (See Music.) During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.
Montana-born, Nashville-honed singersongwriter Kristi Neumann plays the Top Hat dinner show. 6 PM. No cover.
Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with Big Sky Pool Party in the Cabana starting at 5 PM, singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.
Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.
Prepare for ultra-heavy ultra-rock when Bozeman’s Archeron Thodol, Grunt and Mahamawaldi play the VFW, along with Shramana, for week four of Shramanuary. 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. $3, 18-plus.
We’ll all be on a first-name basis when Rick and Phil play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. Free.
Nashville 406 has got the party 4-1-1 at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. No cover.
Singer-songwriter fella Luke Dowler plays his pop tunes with just a little scruff at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover.
Ain’t nothing wrong with a little bump and grind—just be cool and ask first, lovelies. The Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.
See if you can catch Tricky Dick in action when LA trio Crooks on Tape plays weirdo pop music at Stage 112, at the Elk’s at 112 Pattee St. Armaund Hammer, Spencer and The All Hail are showing up to party, too. 7 PM. $12/$10 in advance. Check out stageonetwelve.com.
Georgia’s own laid-back, psych-countryrock outfit Futurebirds play the Top Hat at 10 PM, along with the Hasslers. $8. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and tophatlounge.com.
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Polson. Visit flicpolson.com for schedule and ticket info.
PM matinee on Feb. 1. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org.
Singer-songwriter Ryan Bundy presents his new musical project, crow’s share, along with tunes from Next Door Prison Hotel. Crystal Theatre. 7:30 PM. $5, advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s.
Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 68 PM. No cover. Jan. 24 features tunes from Brent Jameson.
Dance on tabletops and take too many shots, for ‘tis Friday night, and Zeppo MT is playing hot tunes at the Union Club. 9 PM. No cover. (Note: Calapatra the Calendar Mistress does not endorse breaking bar furniture.)
nightlife The Flathead Lake International Cinemafest serves up a smorgasboard of feature, short and documentary films from around the world at the Showboat Theater in
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The 45-plus group Singles of Missoula convenes to party down at Pizza Hut, 3851 Brooks St. from 7-8:30 PM. Food snacks will be provided, y’all. Call Nancy at 251-3330 with any questions. Jump into the year with Bare Bait Dance Company’s Springboard 2014, a production featuring original choreography of experimental pieces. Stage 112. Jan. 24-25, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, at 7 PM, plus 2 PM matinee on Feb. 1. $15/$13 in advance at ddcmontana.com, the Downtown Dance Collective or 406-2140097. All ages. Put on your power pantsuit before the Missoula Community Theater presents 9 to 5: The Musical, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Performances Jan. 22-25 at 7:30 PM, Sun. Jan. 26 at 6:30 PM, plus Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21, tickets at the MCT box office, MCTinc.org or by calling 728-7529. Helen Keller was blind and deaf and still learned more languages than you ever will, but try not to let that get you down after the Montana Repertory Theatre’s rendition of The Miracle Worker. Montana Theatre. Opening gala dinner and show on Jan. 24 at 5:30 PM, $75. Regular performances Jan. 25, Jan. 30–Feb. 1 and Feb. 6-8 at 7:30 PM, plus 2
Tear it up and break it down when the Boxcutters play Sean Kellys, along with Greenstar. 9 PM. No cover. We’ll get a ticket to ride when Nashville-based alt/rock outfit Moon Taxi (who recently appeared on “Conan�) play the Palace, along with Run River North. Doors at 8, show at 9 PM. $7. Celebrate the progress toward sunny days by partying all night at the Imbolc party, with dubstep, electrohouse, techno and trance sets from DJs including Get Down, Justin Slayer, Kris Moon, Ryan D and Seren. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. Free, 21-plus. The Copper Mountain Band digs up some pure country gold for y’all at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. No cover. Lolo Hot Springs Resort hosts the weekly TomBourine Show, plus you can get your soak on and rent a cabin. 9:30 PM. No cover. Bust out your strangest, you Garden City denizens, for the Weird Missoula showcase this eve features Magpies, Boys, Chemical Lawns and Colin “Uriah� Uriah Johnson. VFW. 10 PM. $3. Pop, sock and rock it when dancey funk/R&B outfit Locksaw
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keller instincts Since we’re now a few weeks into the New Year, I suspect that you, like I, might need some motivation to keep up with our resolutions. Reso-what now? Exactly. It’s easy to make big plans and then, faced with obstacles like work, errands, laziness and Netflix, to drop them. Perhaps you’ll find some motivating inspiration in the upcoming Montana Repertory Theatre performances of The Miracle Worker, the classic play by William Gibson about Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Keller, as you might remember from history class, was left blind and deaf after an illness as a toddler, but eventually learned to read and write Hannah Appell, left, and Caitlin McRae start in Montana Rep’s with sign language and Braille—and even The Miracle Worker. how to talk out loud and “hear” people by placing her hands on their lips as they spoke. The pivotal ingly vivid; she describes the world around her as moment when Sullivan finally reached through to the fully as any sighted person could. For her, touch and smell were as powerful as sight and sound. young Keller is the crux of The Miracle Worker. She dealt with a fair amount of crap for her poKeller was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, and also traveled, wrote litical views once she threw her support behind Sobooks and campaigned for women’s suffrage, work- cialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs; ers rights and socialism. Keller’s writing is astonish- newspaper columnists who had once praised her reverted to saying her limited abilities impaired her judgment. “Oh, ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle!” she WHAT: The Miracle Worker wrote of one paper. “Socially blind and deaf, it deWHO: Montana Repertory Theatre fends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafWHEN: Fri., Jan. 24–Sat., 25, Fri., Jan. 31–Sat., ness which we are trying to prevent.” Her radical polFeb. 1, at 7:30 PM nightly, plus 1 PM matinee itics are often left out of retellings of her life. on Feb. 1 WHERE: Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center HOW MUCH: $10-$20
So, if a woman could overcome such astounding limitations to spend her life advocating for the welfare of others, well, I’ll let you make conclusions about what you can achieve.
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Cartel plays the Top Hat, along with Baby and Bukowski. 10 PM. $3.
SATURDAYJAN25 The Authentic Illusionist, aka Jay Owenhouse, brings his very intriguing Dare to Believe magic show—and Bengal tigers, to boot— to the Dennison Theater for performances at 4 and 7 PM. $29-$53. Some proceeds benefit the Rare Species Fund. Tickets available at griztix.com and all GrizTix outlets.
—Kate Whittle ery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-8 PM. Free. “Outlaw jamgrass” outfit Moonshine Mountain plays original tunes at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton from 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Jump into the year with Bare Bait Dance Company’s Springboard 2014, a production featuring original choreography of experimental pieces. Stage 112. Jan. 24-25, Jan.
31-Feb. 1, at 7 PM, plus 2 PM matinee on Feb. 1. $15/$13 in advance at ddcmontana.com, the Downtown Dance Collective or 406-2140097. All ages. Try the java and chickpeas while The Beans n’ Joe Show plays acoustic tunes at the Walking Moustache, 206 W. Main St. 7 PM. No cover. Put on your power pantsuit before the Missoula Community The-
Kick back and let Vernon Finley, of Salish-Kootenai College, tell traditional Kootenai tribal stories at part of the Winter Storytelling Series at Traveler’s Rest State Park. 11 AM. Dennis R. Wilson reads and signs from his book, Zion’s Promise, an examination of the Book of Revelation. Garden of Read’n, 2621 Brooks Street. 1-3 PM.
nightlife The one and only Wartime Blues plays Draught Works Brew-
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[calendar] ater presents 9 to 5: The Musical, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Performances Jan. 22-25 at 7:30 PM, Sun. Jan. 26 at 6:30 PM, plus Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21, tickets at the MCT box office, MCTinc.org or by calling 728-7529. Helen Keller was blind and deaf and still learned more languages than you ever will, but try not to let that get you down after the Montana Repertory Theatre’s rendition of The Miracle Worker. Montana Theatre. Opening gala dinner and show on Jan. 24 at 5:30 PM, $75. Regular performances Jan. 25, Jan. 30–Feb. 1 and Feb. 6-8 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matinee on Feb. 1. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org. It’ll be a redneck sexual experiment when Devil Makes Three plays the Wilma, along with The Brothers Comatose. Doors at 7, show at 8 PM. $20, all ages. Advance tickets sold out. Artsy indie-folk outfit Lord Huron plays the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $16. Advance tickets sold out. The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays. 7000 Graves Creek Road. 9 PM. The Copper Mountain Band digs up some pure country gold for y’all at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. No cover. Cure your Saturday nite fevah when Band in Motion plays dancing tunes at the Union Club. 9 PM. No cover. Voodoo Horseshoes celebrates 10 lucky years with a party at Monk’s Bar, 225 Ryman St., along with Ham Shandy and special guests. 9:30 PM. $5. 21-plus. Let the hootenanny continue when the Hasslers and Monks and Mothers play the Devil Makes Three after-party at the Palace. 10 PM. Free.
SUNDAYJAN26 Yo-de-lay-hee-hoo, find out what it takes to be a world-famous yodeler when Wylie Gustafson performs at SeeleySwan High School in Seeley Lake, as part of Wintefest. 3 PM. $14/$12 for seniors/free for ages 18 and under if accompanied by an adult. Check out alpineartisans.org to learn more.
nightlife The Flathead Lake International Cinemafest serves up a smorgasboard of feature, short and documentary films from around the world at the Showboat Theater in Polson. Visit flicpolson.com for schedule and ticket info. Hot giggity, Sunday night at Flip’s just got wyld. The New Belgium Bike Raffle Drawing includes a chance to win a neato bicycle, of course, plus there’s live music from Wood & Whiskey, Sep7agon and Makin’ Empties. Flipper’s. 8 PM. No cover. Hey, maybe before the show tonight, we could order dinner and then pick it up, pick it up, pick it up! Then let’s head to the Top Hat for the motherlovin’ one and only ska pioneers, The Toasters. 9 PM. $9. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com/events.
MONDAYJAN27 Singer-songwriter and general roustabout Larry Hirshberg promises an evening “nothing short of David Copperfield magic” at Red Bird Wine Bar. 7-10 PM. Free. Here’s your chance to earn super karma points with Food for Fines at Missoula Public Library, where a non-perishable donation for the food bank will get your fines reduced. Anytime during library hours through Feb. 1. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.
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Kids in the hall. Ska legends The Toasters play the Top Hat Sun., Jan. 26 at 8 PM. $9. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, the Top Hat and tophatlounge.com
nightlife The Monday Night Movie at the Top Hat presents Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, one of the shining moments of his career. 7:30 PM. Free, all ages.
TUESDAYJAN28 Up-and-coming outfit False Heather plays the Badlander, along with Leif Christian and Uncle Sam and the Halliburton Blues Band. 9 PM. Free, plus $3 Montgomery gin or vodka special. Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.
nightlife I’ll take my nachos with a dollop of mystery when Captain Wil-
son Conspiracy plays jazz at Brooks and Browns, inside the Holiday Inn downtown. 6-9 PM. No cover. You’ll wanna spruce up good before pyschobilly’s raddest fella, J.D. Wilkes, and his Dirt Daubers play the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $10/$8 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com. All ages. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: What year did dairies starting printing photos of missing children on milk cartons? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.) Declare who is Lord Smartypants of Them All and get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials.
Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. Solo acoustic country fella Eric Barrera plays down-home tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave, this and every Tuesday at at 9 PM. No cover.
WEDNESDAYJAN29 Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. Jan. 29 features the always mysterious Captain Wilson Conspiracy. Calm that monkey mind of yours with the Meditation for Beginners series with Raquel Castellanos, where you’ll delve into mindfulness, compassionate practice and loving kindness. Wednesdays through Feb.
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bar,” sasses right back atcha at the Top Hat dinner show. 6 PM. Free, all ages.
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Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.
The 2011 indie film The Dynamiter, about a struggling 14-year-old Mississippi boy, screens as part of the Foreign and Independent Film Series at the Bitterroot Public Library in Hamilton. 7 PM. The Milkcrate Mechanic scrubs up and presents a Trance and House Night, with DJs Chunkie Moua, Justin Slayer and Logisticalone. Palace. No cover, plus $5 PBR pitchers and free pool. (Trivia answer: 1984. The practice waned in the late ‘80s after pediatricians advised that they unnecessarily worried children.)
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Let a river of Pabst run through it at the Fly Fishing Film Tour, aka F3T, featuring all kinds of fishy eye candy. Wilma Theater. Thu., Jan. 30 at 7 PM and Fri., Jan. 31 at 7:30. $15 at flyfilmtour.com, or $13 at a local fly shop.
Fiddle dee dee, that may require a tetanus shot after Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. Free. Unplug from the day and kick back when The Acousticals play the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover. I’ll take some fava beans and a nice Chianti before Jessie Bier reads and signs the oogie-woogy novel Cannibal. Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM.
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Classy dudes and sassy dames are on tap for Shramanuary: Week Five, in which Shramana, Vera, Boss Fight and False Teeth combine forces to blast us all offa this rock. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. $3, 18plus.
Three Cornered Jack, the “smartass formerly known as Ron Dun-
Legendary hip hoppers Nappy Roots play the Palace, along with
Codependents, Traff the Wiz and the vertically blessed Tallest DJ in America. 9 PM. Tickets $15 plus fees, available at 1111presents.com and Rockin Rudy’s. 18-plus. Rumor has it Former Calendar Editor Calamander is dressing up as 90s-era John Corbett (so fine) before Julie Bug and Northern Exposure play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. No cover. The dress code is Andrew W.K. when Austin pysch-rock band White Denim plays the Top Hat, along with local funmeisters, Skin Flowers. 10 PM. $13/$11 in advance. Tickets at the Top Hat, Rockin Rudy’s and tophatlounge.com. (See Music.) My dad bought an arial dish from the Navarone company and now we get Skatalite TV. Submit events to Calapatra by 5 PM on Fridays to calendar@missoulanews.com to ensure publication in print and online. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit events online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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hen winters are long, cabin fever tends to spur creativity. Just think of the ingenuity someone had in strapping long planks to their feet to better glide down a snowy mountainside. And then, at some point, someone looked at the family dog, got an idea and grabbed some rope. We have the Norwegians to thank for the winter sport of skijoring (originally skikjøring, meaning “ski driving”), in which a person on skis gets pulled around by a dog in harness. It makes for a fast way to get around in winter—and the opportunity for some really epic wipe-outs. I’m most familiar with skijoring by horse, which really ups the ante. Not that one watches skijoring just for wrecks— that’s what NASCAR is for—but more to see the timeless cooperation of human and beast. Okay, and the wrecks. The Whitefish Winter Carnival started including skijoring in the ’60s, according to the Whitefish Skijoring website. Back then, the competition was right on Central Avenue down-
town, but had to be moved to more spacious locations after runaway horses galloped into crowds and a local businessman almost went through a clothing store window. Skijoring had to be dropped in the ’70s when “due to injuries, the Whitefish Winter Carnival organizing committee could no longer place insurance.” The sport was revived for the carnival in 2003 (presumably with more safety precautions) and now the World Skijoring Championships is a big draw for spectators and competitors, boasting a $20,000 purse. That ought to go a long way toward soothing any bruised bottoms. —Kate Whittle The World Skijoring Championships, part of the Whitefish Winter Carnival, begin with opening ceremonies on Sat., Jan. 25 at 11:30 AM, kicking off two days of competition at the Whitefish Municipal Airport grounds. Free to spectate. Visit whitefishskijoring.com.
TAKE THE BUS FRIDAY JANUARY 24 Bitterroot National Forest reps will hang out and discuss how they aim to meet the ideal of “The Most Good for the Most People” as part of the Natural History Lecture Series at Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton. 6 PM. Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s weekly meeting to talk about past glories and upcoming activities at Bigfork’s Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free. Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.
SATURDAY JANUARY 25 Show ‘em what you’re made of at the Whitefish Whiteout, a European Randonee-style race that starts by skinning up the slopes of the mountain and then descending “the most challenging terrain that conditions permit.” Have fun with that, kids! Learn more at skiwhitefish.com. Go Over Seeley’s Creeks and Ridges during the venerated OSCR Cross Country Ski Race, which includes 10K, 25K and 50K portions on a single-loop course with groomed trails. Chili feed and awards ceremony to follow. Visit seeleylakenordic.org. Get out on the ice for a good cause at the Stan Shafer Memorial Ice Fishing Derby, with prizes for
Show ‘em your lung power at the Powderhound Winter Triathlon National Championships, which include a 5K run, 10K mountain bike ride and 5K Nordic ski, all at Homestake Lodge and at elevations above 6,000 feet. Visit homestakelodge.com. You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Be your own powerful ice princess at the Frost Fever Frozen Frolic, the annual 5K along the riverfront trail, departing from McCormick Park. 10 AM. Register at Currents Aquatics Center, or call 7217275 to learn more.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 Get the crew together for the Missoula Alpine Ski Race League, wherein four-person teams (including at least one woman) face off in head-to-head races. Hosted by Snowbowl Wednesday evenings from Jan. 22–March 5 at 7 PM, with final race and party on March 7. Lots of prizes and Big Sky brew gear for the winners. $395 per team. To learn more, contact Jay Rutherford at jay.rutherford@gmail.com.
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THURSDAY JANUARY 30 Evening Yoga for Runners, taught by Missy Adams, meets Thursdays until the end of March at the Runner’s Edge basement classroom, 304 N. Higgins Ave. 6-7 PM. $92/$85 for members. Visit runwildmissoula.org.
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thewilma.com We live in a time of astounding medical advances—and incredibly frustrating health care quandaries. A nationally recognized health care policy expert, Dr. Gilbert Welch, visits Missoula to explain how too much testing can be bad for patients. Welch presented the case that the American health care system is overtreating patients in his 2012 book, Overdiagnosed, co-authored with Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin. A combination of factors, Welch says, often lead to an excessively aggressive approach. Welch points out that news media promotes fear of disease—raise your hand if you’ve ever read about an ailment and decided you have it. Doctors trying to avoid malpractice
lawsuits run batteries of tests to cover every base, and medical supply companies and the pharmaceutical industry propagate the idea that more screenings and more drugs are better. Welch argues that more is not always better, giving examples where early screening for problems like hypertension, prostate and breast cancer proved expensive and didn’t improve patient health outcome in the long run. One of the extraordinarily frustrating parts of this is that, while many people are poorly served by excess treatment, there are many other uninsured people in America who don’t get any treatment at all, or wind up going to the emergency room when a problem gets bad enough to require immediate attention. Anecdotally, I have close friends dealing with basic problems, like untreated cavities, because they work minimum wage jobs and can’t afford insurance. That seems the unkindest cut of all. —Kate Whittle Dr. Gilbert Welch gives a talk about his book, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, at the James E. Todd Building on campus, Thu., Jan. 23, at 7 PM.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY JANUARY 23 Activists against corporate influence assemble for the annual Missoula Moves to Amend meeting, which protests the Citizen’s United decision. Gallagher Business Building, room 123. 7 PM. You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations are at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month. Enter through the alley door. 7 PM. RSVP required prior to the orientation by emailing info@missoulatimebank.org, and visit missoulatimebank.org.
FRIDAY JANUARY 24 Give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free.
SUNDAY JANUARY 26 Citizens who are passionate about the planet are invited to Earth As Lover, Earth As Self, a talking/healing circle hosted at a private Missoula home Sundays at 4 PM. Call Louisa at 406-8306561.
Suspense abounds in this year’s captivating family concert – a mystery themed adventure for sleuths of all ages! Dennison Theatre Tickets: $8 per person. Buy tickets at www.missoulasymphony.org or call 721-3194 or visit us at 320 E. Main Street. SPONSORED BY
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MONDAY JANUARY 27 Toast your elders with the Missoula Aging Services benefit at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St., where the distillery redistributes the wealth. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a different nonprofit or good cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM. Unravel some health care mystery when an Affordable Care Act navigator is on hand for dropin appointments to help folks figure it out. Missoula
Public Library. Mon., Jan. 27 at 3 PM and Tue., Jan. 28 at 6 PM.
TUESDAY JANUARY 28 Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays. Clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn presents a one-day Introduction to Herbal Medicine Making Class, which gives an overview of preparations like teas, infusions and decoctions, syrups, salves and much more. Swan Ecosystem Center, 6887 Hwy 83. 10 AM. $45. Call 754-3137 to learn more. Toast diversity at the Cheers for Charity to benefit the Western Montana Community Center, a gathering place and support network for everyone on the LGBTIQ spectrum, as well as family and allies. Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 5-9 PM. Unravel some health care mystery when an Affordable Care Act navigator is on hand for dropin appointments to help folks figure it out. Missoula Public Library. Mon., Jan. 27 at 3 PM and Tue., Jan. 28 at 6 PM. Lauren Meyer, self-described “friendly neighborhood tea party atheist,” gives a presentation intended to clear up confusion about how one can be both with an informal presentation at the Missoula Public Library. 7 PM. No cost.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 The Community U-Nite donates funds from every pint sold to help pay for Molly Huffman’s cancer treatments. Northside Kettlehouse. 5-8 PM. The Lake County Democrats present a dicussion on Human Rights in Montana with Eldena Bear Don’t Walk, vice chair of the Montana Human Rights Network. Salish Kootenai College Johnny Arlee and Victor Charlo Theatre, 58138 Hwy. 93 in Pablo. Refreshments at 6:30 PM, talk at 7 PM.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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ADVICE GODDESS By Amy Alkon DOWN ON HIS LUXE I've always loved surprising my wife with expensive jewelry and lavish vacations. However, I lost my job, and my new job pays far less. There's barely money for necessities, let alone luxuries. My wife has been very supportive, reassuring me, "I'd love you if you were flat broke," which makes me feel even more of a desire to wow her. But realizing we have no funds for a big trip this year, I suggested a "staycation" (where we'd just stay local and lie around and relax). She agreed to it, but I could tell she was disappointed. I'm worried that the "magic" of our relationship was based in part on the lavish gifts and that we'll lose it now that our resources have dwindled. —Underfunded A staycation doesn't have to be a bummer—provided you don't make it sound like it'll entail your wife's climbing a mountain of dirty laundry while you go sightseeing in the basement. Sure, it's better when living hand to mouth means being fed chocolate-dipped strawberries at a spa in Gstaad. But it wasn't just the lavishness of your gifts that made your wife happy. The money you were able to spend camouflaged what you were really doing to delight her, which was employing the element of surprise. Over time, relationships, like powdered substances available on dodgy street corners, stop providing the buzz they did at first. Neuroscientist Wolfram Schultz found that unpredictable rewards are the most exciting kind for the brain—maybe even three or four times as exciting as expected ones. And research by Sonja Lyubomirsky, who studies happiness, finds that one of the most effective ways to keep a relationship buzzy is by injecting surprise—the novel, the unexpected. (Unexpected good things, that is, not having your partner come home to find you in bed with the cleaning lady.) People think they have to go big on surprise, and this keeps them from doing much that's surprising. But it's the surprise itself that counts, not whether you rented elephants. Recently, I was having a particularly craptastic day—until my boyfriend, who was away on business, told me to look above the molding over my kitchen doorway. Most awesomely, he'd hidden a little bar of my favorite French chocolate there before he left. In other words, don't worry; there should be "magic" aplenty if you just shift your surprise pipeline from, say, Tiffany the store on Fifth Avenue to
ADOPTION Tiffany the postal worker who delivers your mail—including a handwritten love letter you've mailed your wife. Likewise, in staycationing, you just need to go places and do things that are exciting and new. This takes only imagination, the events calendar from the paper, and what you've already shown you have: love for your wife and a desire to make her happy. While you're out there watching the sunset instead of your bank balance, consider that there is an upside to your downturn: finding out that your wife didn't just love you for your money. Of course, there's no telling whether she's just been using you for sex.
THE FLIRT LOCKER My boyfriend of two months doesn't seem insecure. But last week, after we left a party, he said it was humiliating that I was flirting with this good-looking guy in front of all of his friends. That guy is a professional photographer, and I was just asking for some tips. I'm annoyed because I don't think I did anything wrong. —Social Butterfly If you go to a party with your new boyfriend and spend a half-hour mesmerized by another guy, it helps if the guy's wearing a feather boa and size 15 women's shoes. Assuming your boyfriend isn't insecure and you aren't covertly on the prowl, it's the optics that are the problem. A guy's buddies are both supportive and competitive—sometimes looking out for him and sometimes looking for his Achilles' heel so they can poke it with a sharp stick. So, what to you is a totally platonic conversation, to the guys standing across the room with your boyfriend, comes off like you're sitting in some dude's lap and licking his earlobe. The good news is the optics can also be the solution. Engaging in sporadic touchyfeely with your boyfriend—hugging him, kissing or stroking his cheek—can be a sort of ad for "I'm with him, and I plan to continue that." It's bad to let a boyfriend curtail who you are, but it helps to be sensitive to how even innocent extraversion can come off to an audience, especially in the early stages of a relationship. No guy wants to bring around his hot new car and then watch as some other guy gets his fingerprints all over the hood.
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL AFTERSCHOOL COUNSELOR Missoula non-profit is seeking Afterschool Counselors. Requires at least a high school diploma or GED, or 1 to 3 months of related experience and/or training. Must have good communication skills and be able to turn a chaotic situation into a positive functioning activity. Must have experience working with children. CPR and First Aid required or must be obtained within 30 days. Must interact well with youth. Must be available Monday-Friday for listed hours and occasional day camps when public school is not in session. Instruct children in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth needed for primary school in the After School Program. Assist the After School Director in planning, developing and implementing all classroom activities. Ensure children’s social, physical, spiritual and mental development in the program. Provide a quality child care program that reflects a positive image of the organization and its services to the community. $7.90 to 8.25/hour, depending on experience and ability, plus gym membership. Mon-Fri, 2:30pm to 6pm, for approximately 17 ½ hours per week. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985967
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$300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training available. 1-800-965-6520 ext. 278 DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL (DSP) A local employer is seeking both full & part time DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS to work with developmentally disabled adults. Familiarity with the needs of people with developmental disabilities, a high school diploma or GED, and a valid Montana driver’s license are required. Individuals will assist with daily living activities and provide social interaction. Must be able to work 32-40 hours per week. Days and shifts vary. Starting wage is $9.02/hour or higher depending on experience. Outstanding benefit package including health, dental, and retirement. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985959
Flatbed Drivers needed from the Missoula area. Home weekly to Bi-weekly • Top pay • Full benefits • New equipment • 2 years experience required • Clean driving record • Must be present to apply. 406-493-7876 Call 9am-5pm M-F only. PHOTOGRAPHER Employer is seeking to hire a part-time Entry-Level PHOTOGRAPHER. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! Willing to train (family company). Must be patient, computer literate, friendly and have attention to detail. Seeking only those applicants with a strong commitment to work. Must have reliable transportation and valid drivers license. Overnight, statewide travel IS REQUIRED. **Background check will be conducted** Work independently at schools to do set up, photography, collection of payments and paperwork. Monday - Friday, 20-25 hours per week. Late January through Mid April 2014. $9.50 per hour. When traveling you will be reimbursed for the actual cost of gas; PLUS $0.10 per mile for your vehicle use; PLUS your hourly wage. When an overnight stay is required, the employer will reimburse the overnight costs, (Room and food). Closes 01/25/14. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985965 RESIDENTIAL HOUSE CLEANERS ON-CALL RESIDENTIAL HOUSE CLEANERS needed for America’s #1 house cleaning service. No experience needed, employer will train. MUST have reliable transportation, proof of insurance, valid drivers license and a phone or other means of immediate communication. *Background checks and drug tests will be conducted by employer.* Must be neatly groomed with a professional appearance. NO facial piercings or visible tattoos allowed. Cleaning residential homes according to company policy. Work will be scheduled for teams of 2-3 people. Guaranteed 8 hours per week. Must be available Mon-Fri between 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays as requested. ****NOW OFFERING INCENTIVE BONUSES**** Wages start at $8.00/hour, upon completion of training the wages are approximately $10/hour. Advancement opportunities available. Full job description
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PROFESSIONAL ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly newspaper, seeks a professional, highly motivated Advertising Sales Manager. The successful candidate will have responsibility for motivating, coaching and inspiring our dynamic sales team. In addition, you’ll be responsible for handling several house accounts and bringing in new business from local, regional and national accounts. If you’re creative, driven and experienced, we want to talk to you. We’d prefer at least 5 years of ad sales management experience, but we’re open to being convinced that your unique and impressive mix of skills is a good fit for our needs. Please send resume & salary requirements to: lfoland@missoulanews.com or PO Box 8275, Missoula MT 59807. COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER editor/reporter in Hazen, ND. Experience or degree preferred. Excellent community, company (www.bhgnews.com). Apply at news@bhgnews.com Executive Director – Literacy Volunteers of Flathead County Non-Profit Org. PT-2025 hrs per wk/Flex Schedule/PTO Compensation: DOE Candidates should have a passion for literacy, demonstrate exceptional communications and public relations skills. Background in and enthusiasm for fund development and grant writing. Administrative and supervisory experience preferred. Possess effective leadership and organizational abilities. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) as well as Access. Submit resume, cover letter and answer the following by Feb. 7 - Describe how your knowledge, skills and abilities will help you deal with varying viewpoints of volunteers, students and diverse groups of people. Also - Describe your ability to apply for and administer grants and to plan and organize fundraising events. Mail to: Selection Committee LVFC-Ashley Grassa 17 1st Avenue East Kalispell, MT 59901 Or E-
mail: ashley@wvre.us Subject line – Selection Committee Judicial Assistant This position is the primary assistant and staff person for the Standing Master. Responsible for performing all administrative support functions in a professional manner. The assistant will manage the court calendar by scheduling a variety of matters in consultation with the judge and other parties. The 4th Judicial District is a fastpaced environment and the successful applicant must have the ability to multi-task and manage a number of activities. Excellent customer service skills are required as well as solid knowledge of the legal system and legal terminology. Duties also include managing the efficient functioning of the office. Conflict is an inherent part of the position and the successful candidate must be adept at handling different people and issues. Experience with Microsoft Word or Word Perfect is required. A full job description is available from Human Resources at shgrandy@mt.gov. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 9817881 MARKETING AND GRAPHICS PERSON A growing Missoula manufacturing company is seeking to hire a MARKETING AND GRAPHICS DESIGN PERSON. Requires a creative, energetic, experienced individual who displays strong graphic design and communication skills, and thrives in a fast-paced, teamoriented environment. DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: Coordination and distribution of materials to support outside sales and training efforts in North America, International, Schools and tradeshows, updates to existing collateral to support new program functionality and development of new collateral (online and print). Providing concepts and producing print and multimedia content and handling critiques of work from both upper management and colleagues. Work respectfully with others, consistently create diverse range of marketing materials including; advertisements, brochures, logos, postcards, sales materials, web graphics, social media, presentations, etc. Review of distribu-
EMPLOYMENT tors’ catalogs and presenting to distributors catalog revisions and updates in a timely manner. Full time, day shift. $10$13 per hour depending on experience. Position will grow in responsibility and salary if person proves themselves. Full benefit package. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985964 Restaurant Assistant Manager Seeking energetic, motivated individuals for assistant manager at a kitchen focused restaurant. Duties include managing shift, coaching staff, scheduling, training, cash handling, guest service, cooking, food prep and mentoring new employees. Flexible schedule and great pay. Will train person with strong customer service or staff management background. Potential for advancement for top performer. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 9985169
SKILLED LABOR SECURITY OFFICER Graveyard Shift Full-time, MUST pass drug & criminal background checks. Have knowledge of security practices, methods & techniques in a correctional setting, interpersonal communication & conflict resolution. Skill in the use of security equipment & self defense techniques. Ability to physically restrain an individual if necessary. Clean driving record. Work schedule is 11:00 PM until 7:00 AM, Friday thru Tuesday. Starts at $10.50/hr, then $13.00/hr after probationary period. Benefits include ten working days of annual leave, sick leave, and ten days of holiday leave per year. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985971 ZERBE BROTHERS INC., a large New Holland farm equipment dealership in Northeast Montana for 64 years has a full-time position for a Service Technician. Abilities require air conditioning skills, accurately troubleshooting, diagnosing and repairing electrical. Must have knowledge of hydraulics and drive train components as well as hay/forage expertise. Computer skills essential. Zerbe’s offers an excellent benefit package including 401k, profit sharing, health/dental and vision insurance, sick leave and vacation. Exceptional work environment and first class, fully equipped 1ton service trucks. gzerbe@nemont.net Call 406228-4311 ask for Galen.
TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students. SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546
HEALTH CAREERS LPN Requires graduation from a licensed practical nursing program. Requires current license as a practical nurse in the State of Montana. RECENT GRADUATES ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. The work is performed while walking or standing most of the time. The work requires medium range lifting, including supply boxes (20-30 lbs.); assisting patients on and off the examination tables; carrying, lifting and restraining children. Requires the manual dexterity to perform skills such as drawing blood and giving injections. Provides clinical patient care as member of care team in all aspects of serving the patient. Functions as a member of a care team, with a medical provider. Scribes for provider and assists with the patient visit. Assists provider with minor procedures. Schedules follow up appointments. Triages patients, assessing the patients’ needs in person and on the phone. Manages patient flow, ensuring that the clinic appointments are conducted on schedule. Conducts and records initial health interviews and prepares patients for examination. Gathers and records vital signs including temperature, blood pressure, pulse respirations, height and weight, pain scale, etc. Charts interactions with patients. Full time, permanent positions. Work schedules rotate and include evening and weekend hours. $14.15/hr. CLOSES: 01/16/14. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985963 Phlebotomist I Mon- Fri 38pm. Perform a variety of specimen collection techniques from patients in patient service centers, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living locations, and client’s facilities. Additional duties specific to a location may include: reception, collection of billing information, specimen processing and client and customer service duties. Performs a variety of routine blood drawing procedures, to include venipuncture and capillary techniques, using standard equipment such as vacutainer tubes and sleeves, tourniquets,
syringes and butterfly needles. Facilitates the unobserved collection of urine specimens. Greets patients. Interacts directly with patient to obtain information for laboratory records, explain procedures, allay fears, and elicit cooperation. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 9985229 YOGA INSTRUCTOR Missoula family oriented, membership based, non-profit community service agency is seeking a Part-time Yoga Instructor. Must have experience as a yoga instructor. Teach hour-long Yoga classes in a Group Exercise format. Begin as a substitute with the possibility of taking on a regularly scheduled class. Classes are 12:05-12:55pm on Thursday and 10:30-11:30am on Friday, starting January 24th. There is an additional immediate opening on Wednesdays at 5:00pm. Employer can hire 1 or 2 instructors to meet these needs. Total hours available are 3 per week. PAY: $16.88 per class. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985966
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Ability to lift over 75lbs. on a regular basis and have a valid driver license. Customer service, product sales, stocking shelves and displays, mixing paint, and occasionally operating a forklift (employer will train) and making deliveries. Store hours are Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM; Saturday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM; and Sunday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Work days and hours may vary, but the employer is flexible. Individual MUST be willing to work at least 2 weekends per month. PAY: Depending on experience. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985962 PARTS COUNTER PERSON PARTS COUNTER PERSON wanted to provide customers with professional assistance in obtaining needed auto parts. Employer prefers ex-
perience, but is willing to train; will receive training necessary to become proficient in and be designated as store’s sales specialist. Background in mechanics helpful and good communication skills required. Advise customers according to description of malfunction and recommend substitute or modification of parts when replacement is not available. Write up customer orders, make price quotations, take telephone orders, accept payments, handle customer complaints, perform various types of clerical work, assist with inventory, stock shelves and unload incoming stock. Varied hours and days up to 25 hours per week; Monday Sunday between 7:30am 9:00pm. WAGE: Depends on experience and qualifications.
Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2985961 Verizon Wireless Retailer We are looking for people who are passionate about working with others. This is a sales position, with goals and commission, but the true path to success comes with properly serving the customer. We’re more than a retailer. We have a different perspective when it comes to our customers - give them amazing service, selling them everything they need, so they won’t go anywhere else. This sounds simple, and it is, but it takes training (which we provide) and continual practice (which you must do). It also takes
a passion for people and learning, and a positive attitude. We are looking for people who bring energy and positivity to their surroundings, and a willingness to learn. We’ll teach you the rest. Compensation is a base wage, plus a commission. With a compensation that is heavily weighted toward performers, we are looking for those who want to have control over their income through personal production. Benefits include dental insurance, 401k, profit sharing, employee discounts and paid time off. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 9985183
INDUSTRIAL MILLWRIGHT INSTRUCTOR SUPPORTED LIVING COORDINATOR FT position providing coordination and support to adults w/disabilities in a Residential and Community setting. Knowledge of community resources preferred. BA in Human Services or 2 years related experience preferred. M-F: Varied Hours. $13.65/hr. Closes: 1/28/14, 5pm. Supervisory experience preferred, Valid MT Driver’s License, No Record of Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation. Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801 or online: orimt.org. Extensive background checks will be completed. NO RESUMES. EOE.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): At her blog other-wordly.tumblr.com, Yee-Lum Mak defines the Swedish word resfeber this way: "the restless race of the traveler's heart before the journey begins, when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together." You might be experiencing resfeber right now, Gemini. Even if you're not about to depart on a literal trip, I'm guessing you will soon start wandering out on a quest or adventure that will bring your heart and mind closer together. Paradoxically, your explorations will teach you a lot about being better grounded. Bon voyage!
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): How does a monarch butterfly escape its chrysalis when it has finished gestating? Through tiny holes in the skin of the chrysalis, it takes big gulps of air and sends them directly into its digestive system, which expands forcefully. Voila! Its body gets so big it breaks free. When a chick is ready to emerge from inside its egg, it has to work harder than the butterfly. With its beak, it must peck thousands of times at the shell, stopping to rest along the way because the process is so demanding. According to my analysis, Cancerian, you're nearing the final stage before your metaphorical emergence from gestation. Are you more like the butterfly or chick?
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I'm not sure where to go from here. I need help." I encourage you to say those words out loud, Leo. Even if you're not sure you believe they're true, act as if they are. Why? Because I think it would be healthy for you to express uncertainty and ask for assistance. It would relieve you of the oppressive pressure to be a masterful problem-solver. It could free you from the unrealistic notion that you've got to figure everything out by yourself. And this would bring you, as if by magic, interesting offers and inquiries. In other words, if you confess your neediness, you will attract help. Some of it will be useless, but most of it will be useful.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dogs have a superb sense of smell, much better than we humans. But ours isn't bad. We can detect certain odors that have been diluted to one part in five billion. For example, if you were standing next to two Olympic-sized swimming pools, and only one contained a few drops of the chemical ethyl mercaptan, you would know which one it was. I'm now calling on you to exercise that level of sensitivity, Virgo. There's a situation in the early stages of unfolding that would ultimately emanate a big stink if you allowed it to keep developing. There is a second unripe situation, on the other hand, that would eventually yield fragrant blooms. I advise you to either quash or escape from the first, even as you cultivate and treasure the second.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Whatever adventures may flow your way in the coming weeks, Libra, I hope you will appreciate them for what they are: unruly but basically benevolent; disruptive in ways that catalyze welcome transformations; a bit more exciting than you might like, but ultimately pretty fun. Can you thrive on the paradoxes? Can you delight in the unpredictability? I think so. When you look back at these plot twists two months from now, I bet you'll see them as entertaining storylines that enhance the myth of your hero's journey. You'll understand them as tricky gifts that have taught you valuable secrets about your soul's code.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Manufacturing a jelly bean is not a quick, slam-bam process. It's a five-step procedure that takes a week. Each seemingly uncomplicated piece of candy has to be built up layer by layer, with every layer needing time to fully mature. I'm wondering if maybe there's a metaphorically similar kind of work ahead for you, Scorpio. May I speculate? You will have to take your time, proceed carefully, and maintain a close attention to detail as you prepare a simple pleasure.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I understand the appeal of the f-word. It's guttural and expulsive. It's a perverse form of celebration that frees speakers from their inhibitions. But I'm here today to announce that its rebel cachet and vulgar power are extinct. It has decayed into a barren cliche. Its official death-from-oversaturation occurred with the release of the mainstream Hollywood blockbuster "The Wolf of Wall Street." Actors in the film spat out the rhymes-with-cluck word more than 500 times. I hereby nominate you Sagittarians to begin the quest for new ways to invoke rebellious irreverence. What interesting mischief and naughty wordplay might you perpetrate to escape your inhibitions, break taboos that need to be broken, and call other people on their BS and hypocrisy?
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has had a major impact on the development of ideas in the Western world. We can reasonably divide the history of philosophy into two eras: pre-Kantian and post-Kantian. And yet for his whole life, which lasted 79 years, this big thinker never traveled more than ten miles away from Konigsberg, the city where he was born. He followed a precise and methodical routine, attending to his work with meticulous detail. According to my analysis, you Capricorns could have a similar experience in the coming weeks. By sticking close to the tried-and-true rhythms that keep you grounded and healthy, you can generate influential wonders.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Aquarian author Georges Simenon (1903-1989) wrote more than 200 novels under his own name and 300 more under pseudonyms. On average, he finished a new book every 11 days. Half a billion copies of his books are in print. I'm sorry to report that I don't think you will ever be as prolific in your own chosen field as he was in his. However, your productivity could soar to a hefty fraction of Simenon-like levels in 2014—if you're willing to work your ass off. Your luxuriant fruitfulness won't come as easily as his seemed to. But you should be overjoyed that you at least have the potential to be luxuriantly fruitful.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA MONTANA Probate Case No. DP13-244 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Annie M. Magee, 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 the Personal Representative, Thomas Magee, return receipt requested, at 407 Wolfville, Florence, MT 59833, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 3rd day of January, 2014. /s/ Thomas Magee, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-5 Dept. No. 2 Honorable Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM W. ADAMS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joan D. Adams, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of January, 2014. /s/ Joan D. Adams, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorneys for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DP-14-1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS C. MENDLER, Decedent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Darlene Joyce Krantz-Mendler, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of January, 2014. /s/ Darlene Joyce Krantz-Mendler, Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 3rd day of January, 2014. /s/ Darlene Joyce Krantz-Mendler, Personal Representative DATED this 3rd day of January, 2014. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP2013-4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: MARY J. FINLEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that James Streeter 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 James Streeter, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of December, 2013. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 6th day of December, 2013. /s/ James Streeter, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No.
DP-13-251 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LIISA M. PARTAKER, 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 estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Karin Partaker, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. Dated this 19th day of December, 2013. /s/ Karin Partaker, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-13-254 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DONNA BERNICE BURKE DALTON, a/k/a DONNA B. DALTON, 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 estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Gary Dalton, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 31st day of December, 2013. /s/ Gary Dalton, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ William E. McCarthy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-253 NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL, DETERMINATION OF TESTACY AND HEIRS AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY M. MONAGHAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Tina Asby Hansen has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for the formal probate of the Will of Mary M. Monaghan, deceased, for determination of testacy and heirs, and for the appointment of Tina Asby Hansen as Personal Representative of said Will and estate. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 28th day of January, 2014, at the hour of 1:30 o’clock p.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Dated this 2nd day of January, 2014. /s/ Tina Asby Hansen c/o Boone Karlberg PC PO Box 9199 Missoula, MT 59807 PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S ATTORNEY: BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Tina Asby Hansen MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY No. DP-13-249 Judge Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA B. ZIELKE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to KAREN V. HARLAN, the personal representative, return receipt requested, c/o CALTON HAMMAN & WOLFF, P.C., 2075 Central Avenue, Suite 4, Billings, MT 59102-4956, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 26th day of December, 2013. /s/ Karen V. Harlan KAREN V. HARLAN, being first duly sworn, upon oath deposes and says: That she has read the foregoing and that the facts
and matters contained therein are true, accurate and complete to the best of her knowledge and belief. State of California):ss County of San Diego) Subscribed and sworn to before me on this 26th day of December, 2013, Karen V. Harlan proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to the person who appeared before me. /s/ Diana Madalow, Comm. #1995265 Notary Public California, San Diego County Comm. expires October 25, 2016 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-13-252 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF M. JEANE FEVOLD, 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 KAREN L. FEVOLD, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Date: 12/23/2013 Place: Missoula /s/ Karen L. Fevold, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097, Bk. 788, Pg. 366, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew M. Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Kalberg Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201200002 Bk. 887 Pg. 879 Microrecords, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-WF1. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 22, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $604,795.35. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $365,584.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any
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other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.17612) 1002.99556-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/19/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200822676 BK 827 Pg 461, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jack E. Jarvey, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 and the East 20 feet of Lot 6 in Block 16 of Low’s Addition, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 5, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $57,851.87. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $54,283.88, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 15, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.108046) 1002.261460-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT
TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 24, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 24B OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 7, LOTS 23A, 23B, 24A & 24B, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Phil Corbin and Jennifer Corbin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 11, 2003 and recorded January 29, 2004 in Book 725, Page 1382, under Document No. 200402553. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $969.26, beginning June 1, 2013, 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 September 16, 2013 is $124,624.42 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $2,741.45, late charges in the amount of $101.31, escrow advances of $1,081.55 and other fees and expenses advanced of $188.18, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.06 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 18, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On
this 18th day of October, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: 01/19/2018. CitiMortgage V Corbin 41926.175 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 25, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 7 OF RAINBOW BEND ESTATES PHASE TWO, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF LORI L GRANNIS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 7, 2007 and recorded September 12, 2007 in Book 805, Page 795 as Document No. 200723789. The beneficial interest is currently held by FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FNMA”). First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,041.81, beginning February 1, 2013, 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 October 14, 2013 is $362,988.77 principal, interest at the rate of 6.750% now totaling $19,920.25, late charges in the amount of $1,225.08, escrow advances of $1,891.03 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,282.22, plus accruing interest at the rate of $67.13 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be
due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 22, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 22nd day of October, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: 5-262015 Seterus v Grannis 42008.305 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 10, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 6 and the East one-half of Lot 7 in Block 60 of SCHOOL ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Ken Sparks and Kendra Bear, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 27, 2009 and recorded February 2, 2009 in B-832, P-996, under Document No. 200901965. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,201.66, beginning February 1, 2012, 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 December 1, 2013 is $202,867.73 principal, interest at the rate of 5.50000% now totaling $21,385.63, escrow advances of $8,567.79, and other fees and expenses advanced of $7,491.14, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.57 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser
PUBLIC NOTICES 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: October 30, 2013 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 30th day of October, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 GMAC v Bear 41965.715 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 3, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 3 OF AMENDED PLAT OF COUNTRY CLUB ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Brian W. Jones and Kathlyen N. Jones, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group,
Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 14, 2004 and Recorded on January 20, 2004 under Document # 200401525, in Bk-725, Pg-354. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Successor in interest to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,059.29, beginning July 1, 2013, 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 October 24, 2013 is $171,986.37 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $1,363.31, late charges in the amount of $199.01, escrow advances of $448.36, and other fees and expenses advanced of $265.56, plus accruing interest at the rate of $9.42 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following
JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s 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: October 25, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 25th day of October, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Citimortgage Vs. Jones 42011.113 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on February 18, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 2 of El Mar Estates Phase III, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Tax Map or Parcel ID No. 5800146 David Brent McClellan, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to I.R.E. Processing, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana, Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 12, 2004 and recorded October 15, 2004 in Book 741 Page 911 under Document No 200429323. The beneficial interest is
currently held by Beneficial Financial I Inc Successor by Merger to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,460.73, beginning April 18, 2011, 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 October 18, 2013 is $171,955.78 principal, interest at the rate of 8.24% now totaling $37,926.76, and other fees and expenses advanced of $56,358.83, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.82 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses
actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 9, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 9th day of October, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, 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 acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Hsbc Vs. Mcclellan 41472.663
"Don't Look Down" – you'll get nightmares.
by Matt Jones
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 44, 53, 73, 182, 218, 239, 287, 380, 476, 513, and 659. Units contain furniture, clothes, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, January 27, 2014. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.
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1 On the ___ (like a fugitive) 4 Satisfied sounds 8 Slow, sad song 13 Historical period 14 Rorschach test pattern 15 Bakery chain 16 Foil material 17 ___-Honey (chewy candy) 18 First half of a Beatles song title 19 Completely disheveled 22 401(k) relatives 23 Patron saint of sailors 24 8 1/2" x 11" size, briefly 25 Cambridge campus 26 Post-game complaint 31 Subscription charge 34 President Cleveland 36 100 percent 37 Planking, e.g. 38 Chicken ___ king 39 Abbr. on a tow truck 40 The Grim ___ 42 In an even manner 44 Inseparable friends on "Community" 47 Actress Saldana of "Avatar" 48 ___ Maria (coffee-flavored liqueur) 49 East, in Ecuador 53 Liven (up) 54 2013 Eminem hit featuring Rihanna (and inspiration for this puzzle's theme) 57 Lowers (oneself) 59 After-bath attire 60 "I'm down to my last card!" game 61 Tarnish 62 Be positive about 63 What three examples of 54Across are hidden under 64 Sports star's rep 65 "Don't change!" to a printer 66 Sault ___ Marie, Mich.
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1 Leave alone 2 "The Little Mermaid" title character 3 Coated piece of candy 4 "Dancing Queen" group 5 Sacha Baron Cohen alter ego 6 Stuck fabric together, in some craft projects 7 Eric of "Pulp Fiction" 8 "Lost" actor Daniel ___ Kim 9 Left hanging 10 Bringing back, as computer memory 11 Bunch 12 Where buds hang out? 15 Prof's degree 20 "That was a catty remark!" 21 Make a mistake 27 "Wow, that's ___ up, man..." 28 ___ smile (grin) 29 Lewd looker 30 Shout heard over the applause 31 Egypt and Syria, from 1958-61 32 Loathsome person 33 Give all the details 35 2004 Jamie Foxx biopic 38 Concert site in "Gimme Shelter" 41 Looks through a keyhole 43 Peeping pair 45 Degree in mathematics? 46 Country music star ___ Bentley 50 Paycheck pieces 51 Basic principle 52 Carve a canyon 53 Bearded Smurf 54 Airport org. 55 Reed instrument 56 Little salamander 58 Talking Tolkien tree
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448 Washington. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, HEAT PAID, coin-ops on site. $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 508 E. Front: 1+1 Bedroom, Downtown & by the U, Wood floors, Deck, Laundry, Cat OK, $840. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 5496106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!! 735 W. Sussex #3. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, HEAT PAID, coin-ops on site. $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 Equinox; 2-bedroom with tall ceilings, located next to the river, a private deck, lots of storage & free bus pass for $620. Contact Colin Woodrow, 406-549-4112 x112, cwoodrow@missoulahousing.org Fireweed; townhome-style 2story, 2-bedroom with in-unit laundry, & free bus pass for $620. Contact Colin Woodrow, 406-549-4112 x112, cwoodrow@missoulahousing.org
Gold Dust; 2-bedroom, ADA Accessible (504), polished concrete and radiant heat floors, rooftop gardens, & free bus pass for $691 all utilities included. Contact Matty Reed, 406-549-4113 x130, mreed@missoulahousing.org Lenox; studio located in great historic brick building downtown. All utilities paid and comes with a bus pass for $525. Contact Matty Reed, 406-5494113 x130, mreed@missoulahousing.org River Ridge: 1 and 2 bedroom units available for people 55 and older. Amenities include air conditioning, self-cleaning oven, large windows, spacious cabinets, dishwasher and radiant floor heat. All utilities paid with cable offered at a reduced price. Close to shopping and bus line. $589 to $838 per month. Contact Connie @ 5437500, ctoney@missoulahousing.org Russell Square; 2-bedroom in a lovely senior community with a
1&2
Bedroom Apts FURNISHED, partially furnished or unfurnished
UTILITIES PAID Close to U & downtown
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FIDELITY Management Services, Inc. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7
great location, washer/dryer hookups, and a fantastic floor plan for $650 with heat included. Contact Kelly Abbey, 406-549-4113 x127, kabbey@misshoulahousing.org Studio, 1 Bath, room for bedroom but no door, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333
MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park Spaces avail-
able to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-2736034
DUPLEXES 1404 Toole: 2 Bedroom, Downtown, Near laundromat, Huge, Nice condition, Cat OK, $695. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!! 1708 Scott St. “A”. 1 bed/1 bath, shared yard, all utilities included, pet? $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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MHA Management manages 10 properties throughout Missoula.
119 N. Johnson 1 Bed Apt. $495/month Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $660/month
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817 Monroe. 1 bed/1 bath, Rattlesnake area, W/D hookups, carport $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060
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321 W. Spruce #1 2 bed/1 bath, all remodeled, shared yard, downtown. $1000. Grizzly Property Management 5422060
All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.
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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1308 Jackson. 3 bed, 1 bath in Lower Rattlesnake. One block from Greeenough Park & Rattlesnake Creek. $289,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 2225 Missoula. 4 bed, 3 bath on Rattlesnake creek with fireplace, outdoor hot tub & Mt. Jumbo Views. $499,000. David Loewen-
warter, Prudential Montana 2413321 Loewenwarter.com 2550 Pattee Canyon. 3 bed, 2.5 bath on 8 acres. Gourmet kitchen, deck, patio, 2 car garage. $480,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $239,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com
29203 Old Hwy 10 West. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 3.39 acres on the Clark Fork River. $539,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $298,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3024 Elms Park Drive. 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 bonus rooms, gas fireplace, deck & single garage. $254,900. Vickie Honzel, Lam-
bros Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambroera.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $295,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 511 Spanish Peaks. 4 bed, 3 bath Mansion Heights home with 3 car garage. $769,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com
524 Spanish Peaks Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath Mansion Heights home with 3 car garage near park & common area. $549,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 5454 Canyon River Drive. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on Canyon River Golf Course. $550,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 606 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $255,000.
Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 756 Angler’s Bend. 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car gargage on East Missoula golf course. $465,332. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek. 4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $865,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355, milyardhomes@yahoo.com
Lewis & Clark Area Home 839 W Central. $220,000 MLS# 20136229. 2 bedroom, 2 bath. Double detached garage and many other sweet features. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Lot 42 Jeff Drive. To be built 2 bed, 2 bath Hoyt home in Linda Vista with 3 car garage. $369,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229. tory@montana.com
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REAL ESTATE SECLUDED 7+ Acres in NORTH MOIESE AREA! PRIVATE COUNTRY SETTING! Looking for a place for your HOBBY FARM or just want to get away from it all? This could be it! Fruit trees, chicken coop, 2 car garage & 2000+Sqf House! Great value for only $197,000! Can not see neighbors. Breathtaking Mission Mountain Views. Flathead River near by! A must see to appreciate! Call David Passieri @ 406745-8888
CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail. No HOA fees. $289,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 724B Skyla Court. 3 bed, 2 bath on cul-de-sac near Clark Fork River. Fenced backyard and double garage. $184,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com
Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Mis-
soula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
bath with 2 car garage. $55,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
MANUFACTURED HOMES
160 acres in Grant Creek bordered on two sides by Forest Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
1790 Dukes. 3 bed, 2 bath in Katoonah Lodges, a 55+ community. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 2424 McIntosh Loop. Bright & airy 2 bed, 2 bath in 55+ community. Ramp, patio and single garage. $129,000. Vickie Honzel, Lammbros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
LAND 1265 #B Dakota. Riverfront parcel for to-be-built 3 bed, 2
20 Ac of OFF GRID LIVING! ~St. Ignatius~ PRICE REDUCED! 20 beautiful acres of PRIVATE meadow & timber mix in the MISSION MOUNTAINS! Priced @ $89,000. Off grid with NEW access road! Several choice building sites. Seller is anxious & will look at all offers! Contact Mission Valley Properties for more info 406-745-4940 5402 Canyon River Road. Canyon River Golf Course Lot. 15,901 sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate
531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com East Missoula Lot At 559 Speedway (Next Door) $55,000. 4,800 square feet. Mature trees, sewer available. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com NHN Frontage Road, Alberton. 2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40+ acre parcel with Mission Mountain views. $199,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
NHN Old Freight Road. Approximately 11 acres with Mission Mountain Views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $154,500. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321 Loewenwarter.com NHN Ryans Lane Tract B. 103+/treed acres with year-round creek near Evaro Hill. $517,250. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com
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Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com
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FIDELITY Management Services, Inc.
7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7 • 251-4707 Specializes in Residential Property. Serving the Missoula area since 1981.
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Beautiful Home On Rattlesnake Creek 4 bed, 3 bath with cathedral ceilings, wood floors, gourmet kitchen, jetted tub and river rock fireplace. Lovely 2nd floor deck overlooks creek.
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REAL ESTATE Rock Creek Acreage. 20 acres adjacent to Forest Service land. #349,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
OUT OF TOWN
6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3416 Lupine, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided home with wraparound deck & Bitterroot views. $249,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com
1333 Juniper, Alberton. 5 bed, 3 bath on nearly 20 acres bordered by National Forest. $725,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com
4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Clinton area home on 1.6 acres. $298,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $480,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Stevensville area home on 10 acres. $649,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com
Southwest Montana Real Estate for Philipsburg, Montana: Pintlar Territories. Tom Rue. (406) 6916900. true@blackfoot.net. www. pintlarterritories.com
575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres. Great mountain views. $335,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Historic Stevensville home. $239,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-
River Access 20525 Schwartz Creek, Clinton. 3 bed, 2 bath, single level living on 1
505 California Street $289,000
acre. Walking distance to river fishing access. $250,000. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
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• Stand alone 3 bed, 2.5 bath condo • Upper level & finished lower level • Gas fireplace, front porch, single garage & fenced yard • No HOA fees • Fantastic old Missoula neighborhood near Riverfront Trail
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702 College Street, Stevensville • $135,000
2 bed/2 bath w/attached 2 car garage Fireplace in living room. One level living on fenced corner lot. Close to town & parks.
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3 bed, 2 bath low-maintenance home on quiet cul-de-sac near Clark Fork River Fenced backyard & attached double garage
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 CLARA• Clara put on her solemn face for the photographer, but shelter visitors are much more likely to see her looking happy. She's a lovely lady with a strong personality, but she also has very good manners.
SADIE•Sadie was returned to the shelter because her adopter was working such long hours that she didn't have time to give her the love and attention she deserved. This is a sweet, smaller dog who just wants a family.
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METTA•Metta was returned after three years because her family became too busy to spend time with her. She was 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 great with the children, and she's really Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) hoping to find a new home where she can 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) be a real playmate to the kids. Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat)
MOLLY•Molly has a lovely grey and white coat, and her markings are unusual and attractive. She also has a very pleasing personality -- loving, gentle, and interested in everything around her. She'd be a great pet.
To sponsor a pet call 543-6609
MISTY•Misty's longer hair is soft and smooth, and her dilute torti coloring is exquisite. She's so quiet that most cat room visitors walk right by her cage, and that's a real shame. They're missing a lovely lady!
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RANDY•Anyone who thinks cats can't smile has obviously never met Randy! He always has a big smile on his face because he is a really happy fellow. Take him home and let him brighten your life.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 TARA LIPINSKI• Tara Lipinski left California and arrived here in Missoula with the rest of the "Olympic Littles." She are her companions can't wait for new homes here in Montana! Tara is a threeyear-old terrier mix who has the most adorable ears. Come meet her and her Olympic teammates today!
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AUGUSTINE• Augustine is a sweet one-year-old calico who came to the shelter with eight tiny kittens, all of whom have been adopted. It's Augustine's turn now! She's affectionate, outgoing, and thanks to Blue Mountain Vet Clinic, she's spayed and ready to go home today.
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ABBY• Abby is a lovely black-and-white
PADDLEBOARD•Paddleboard is ready for adventure! He's just one of many small dogs currently at HSWM, and they're all looking for new families. Paddleboard says, "I'm just a little guy! Surely you have room in your home and your heart for me?"
girl who has a cute half-mustache! Because she's seven years old, she qualifies for the Seniors for Seniors program - but don't tell her that: She says "Senior? I'm barely middle-aged!" Abby is quiet and shy at first, but she loves pets and head-rubs, and has a sweet, quiet meow.
BANDIT•Bandit is a three-year-old Australian Cattle Dog mix who is looking for a human buddy to hike with! He hopes his new family is active, since he needs to lose a few pounds! He is dapper in his black-and-white spots, but his lopsided ears give him a rakish look too - just how any bandit should look!
SYLVESTER•Sylvester is one handsome fellow, decked out in his finest longhaired tuxedo. He's big and swaggering, and though he likes to spend time by himself, he also has a softer side (just as any gentleman should), and can be loving and affectionate too. Let Mr. Sylvester sweep you off your feet today!
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