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MEET THE 71-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER WHO REFUSED TO MOVE WHEN MEGALOADS ROLLED THROUGH TOWN

FIGHT BREAKS OUT OBAMACARE IS A MESS, REP MAKES MAGIC NEWS THEATER THE OPINION OVER FISH CREEK BUT IS IT WORTH IT? WITH MIRACLE WORKER

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NEWS

MEET THE 71-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER WHO REFUSED TO MOVE WHEN MEGALOADS ROLLED THROUGH TOWN

FIGHT BREAKS OUT OBAMACARE IS A MESS, REP MAKES MAGIC NEWS THEATER THE OPINION OVER FISH CREEK BUT IS IT WORTH IT? WITH MIRACLE WORKER

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cover illustration by Pumpernickel Stewart

News Voices/Letters Charlie B’s, Rep. Ankney and Starbucks ................................................4 The Week in Review Sold-out shows, DOJ and Walsh’s records ..................................6 Briefs Fish Creek, milk and dark money ........................................................................6 Etc. Ballot initiative looks to correct the legislature’s error...........................................7 News 71-year-old grandmother takes a stand against tar sands .....................................8 Opinion Obamacare is a frustrating mess, but is it worth it?.........................................9 Opinion Between a rock and a dry place.....................................................................10 Feature Cat fight: How to deal with Missoula’s feral colonies?....................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts Off the Rack tackles gender issues, “Blurred Lines” .............................................18 Music Catamount, Against Me! and Supersuckers .......................................................19 Dance Springboard launches original dance ...............................................................20 Theater Montana Rep works magic in The Miracle Worker .........................................21 Film Crimson Winter offers atmosphere, not teeth .....................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Bullish on bone broth ......................................................................24 Happiest Hour White Bark Wheat ...............................................................................26 8 Days a Week And still nine lives ...............................................................................27 Mountain High The Freezer Burn 10-Miler.................................................................33 Agenda Missoula Labor Film Festival ...........................................................................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-5 Camp Sleepover .................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11

PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen, Jimmy Tobias COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen MARKETING, PROMOTION & EVENTS COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Jason McMackin, Brad Tyer, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest, Rob Rusignola, Josh Quick, Brooks Johnson

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[voices]

Boos for Charlie’s

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Jan. 28, near the corner of Higgins and Spruce.

Are you a dog person or a cat person?

Follow-up: Missoula has a staggering number of feral cat colonies. How do you think they should be dealt with, if at all?

Tom Davies: I’m both. I had a cat but my wife got me a black chow for my birthday and they became inseparable. My cat Chrissy would drink coffee with me in the morning and beer in the afternoon. Cat fight: The feral colonies are our problem because the humans created it. To me, an animal is like a human being—they have rights, but nobody is standing up for them anymore.

Sean Jenkins: Dog person, but I don’t have one right now. When I was younger I had dogs. Kitty care: They would help with the rodent population, but if they’re a nuisance then they should be dealt with, humanely.

Alla Kirilovich: Neither. I didn’t have pets growing up so adding them to my family now would be a big difference.

And they’re work and cost money.

Clipped: I don’t know. It’s not impacting me personally, but if it was an issue then I don’t think they should be killed. I agree with spaying and neutering.

I used to swear by the name of Charlie B’s. It was a holy place of sorts, a Mecca of good times and stiff pours, boasting a clientele of true grit and worth. In my mind, it had secured its place in the Pantheon of American Dive Bars.

Sadly, it seems those days are over.

Nowadays when I stumble into Charlie’s, my ear drums are bombarded with obnoxious dance club music, a symphony of bump and grind, the noise of the mindless mob. This sordid atmosphere is ill-fitting for a bar of such renown.

It’s interesting that Charlie’s books bands such as Cash For Junkers and Lil’ Smokies—bands that play string-driven American roots music—for their live music nights. Judging by the music the bartenders play on a typical Friday or Saturday night, it seems likely that live music nights will soon feature hipster DJs, fog machines, seizureinducing strobe lights and barrels of ecstasy.

Charlie’s does not need to become the next Am Vets. If its young bartenders feel compelled to assault its bar patrons with their plebeian musical tastes, perhaps they would be better off pouring drinks at Feruqi’s or Bodega’s.

It’s a grievous insult to those with their black and white portraits lining the walls of Charlie’s to have their likenesses associated with this cheap, auto-tuned, synthetic musical garbage. I probably speak for the majority of these people when I say it’s high time this auditory trash is thrown out the back door and into the alley where it belongs.

Merle Haggard asks if the good times are really over for good. Are they, Charlie?

Michael Shaw Greenough

Ankney whiffs As Colstrip’s representative in the Montana House, Duane Ankney no doubt believes that he must do all he can to fur-

Randy Turner: I like them both but don’t have either because I work too much. Claws out: A lot more spaying and neutering, and find homes for some of them. If they are vaccinated and can fend for themselves, then put them back in the wild. They have just as much right to live here as we do.

Scott Nicolarsen: A dog person, but I don’t have one at the moment. The old one died and it’s easier not to have one when I travel. Poor puddy tat: I think you should probably just kill them. I’m a bird person so I’d rather see songbirds instead of a bunch of cats.

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ther the mining and burning of coal, and so he argues in a recent letter in the Independent against the elimination of tax subsidies for the fossil fuel industry in Sen. Max Baucus’ proposed reforms of our nation’s tax laws (see “Letters,” Jan. 23). If Baucus were to do as Ankney desired, he would abandon his responsibil-

“It’s a grievous insult to those with their black and white portraits lining the walls of Charlie’s to have their likenesses associated with this cheap, auto-tuned, synthetic musical garbage.” ity to lead, by failing to address what informed people believe is the largest problem facing our country and world.

Incredibly, Ankney even claims in his guest editorial that there are currently no tax subsidies given specifically to the fossil fuel industry! The respected and conservative Brookings Institution carefully documents the specific tax subsidies written into the current tax code for the fossil fuel industry and concludes that “the U.S. government effectively transfers by way of tax

expenditures more than $4 billion annually from taxpayers to fossil fuel producers.”

I am really sorry that some good-paying jobs and state tax revenue will be lost as we transition from burning fossil fuels to getting our power primarily from nonpolluting renewable sources. I used to make twice what I do now when I was a radio officer on merchant ships. That job vanished as satellite communications made the mandated Morse-code safety system obsolete. Similarly, the smart and good people of Colstrip will survive and adapt to flourish in other endeavors, as I had to do. And if Montana fully exploited its wind resources, we would raise more tax revenue from wind power than we ever could from coal.

The weather extremes we’ve seen in the last decade—the beetle-kill decimation of our pine forests, the storms of unprecedented magnitude on the Gulf and East coasts—are the gentle, opening prelude to the devastation that is coming soon if the leaders of industry and government don’t focus all of their energies on reducing fossil fuel combustion and maximizing both energy efficiency and nonpolluting renewable energy development. Seven billion people relying primarily on fossil fuels have caused the dramatic changes that are occurring in the Earth’s climate due to the loading of the atmosphere with concentrations of greenhouse gases that are higher than they’ve been in many thousands of years. If Baucus does not eliminate tax subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and if he does not create strong tax incentives for the most robust development possible of nonpolluting renewable energy sources, then he will be abandoning his leadership responsibility, and our children and their children will blame him for not acting to stop the devastation of their world, even though science and early catastrophes were clearly portending what needed to be done.

Jonathan Matthews Helena

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “New Starbucks on deck,” Jan. 22

Not kidding “Are you freaking kidding me?!!! I have tried to open a coffee shop in Missoula for over a year and have gotten nothing but bullshit and brush-offs ... I had to stop the spending and give up my plan. As a resident and taxpayer of Missoula for years, I am offended that Starbucks, as a franchise, is given taxpayer monies before locals.”

Posted Jan. 22 at 6:38 p.m.

Location is everything “This Starbucks will be right next to three LOCAL coffee establishments, Loose Caboose, Florence Coffee Company and Liquid Planet inside Book Exchange, all of

whom employ Missoulians. It’s one thing to have Starbucks at either end of Reserve, and I don’t have a problem with that because there aren’t really any nearby coffee shops for that area, but to come this close to downtown AGAIN and right next to three local establishments is a ridiculous decision by the MRA. I’m SURE there are alternate uses for that site instead of inviting out of state corporate greed back into our home turf.”

Posted Jan. 22 at 9:12 p.m.

Money talks “This is such a great idea for that corner! A local business would have a hard time coming up with the required funds

to tear down the existing structure and remodel the entire block and sidewalks. Plus we do not have a Starbucks on that side of town.”

Posted Jan. 23 at 6 p.m.

Buy local “I agree that parts of Missoula could use an update, a little beautification, but I STRONGLY disagree with this idea.

Small town, local coffee places are something I truly love and appreciate about that area. I think throwing in a corporate business organized by out of state agencies is not a proper use of money generated by Missoulians.”

Posted Jan. 23 at 1:48 p.m.

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[news]

WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, January 22 In a notice to the University of Montana campus, President Royce C. Engstrom announces a nearly $6 million shortfall in UM’s current budget. To address the problem, he says the university has put in place a hiring freeze and plans to cut $9 million from its 2015 budget.

Thursday, January 23 Conan O’Brien plugs the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Wilma Theatre before an appearance by Missoula native and stand-up comedian Chris Fairbanks on O’Brien’s late-night TBS talk show.

Friday, January 24 More than 200 people attend “A Feast for the Senses,” the Montana Repertory Theatre’s annual benefit gala. The gala features booze, dinner backstage, swing dancing and a performance of The Miracle Worker, a Tony Award-winning play about Helen Keller.

Saturday, January 25 The Devil Makes Three, a string band trio, plays for a rowdy crowd during a sold-out show at The Wilma. Meanwhile, a block away, indie rock darlings Lord Huron entertain another sold-out crowd at the Top Hat Lounge.

Sunday, January 26 Lt. Gov. John Walsh releases hundreds of records that divulge new details about his career in the Montana National Guard. The Senate candidate came under fire in recent weeks after it was revealed that the U.S. Army investigated and reprimanded him in 2010 for using his military position to promote a private group that lobbies on behalf of National Guard troops.

Monday, January 27 Congressman Steve Daines reports that he raised $1 million during the last quarter of 2013 to support his run for Montana’s open U.S. Senate seat. The influx of cash brings his campaign’s fundraising total to $1.9 million.

Tuesday, January 28 The Missoula County Commissioners agree to give $50,000 to Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg to fund his legal battle against the U.S. Department of Justice, which is seeking to reform the way Van Valkenburg’s office handles local rape cases.

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Food

Crying over spilled milk It’s not often that the National Resource Defense Council and the Montana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association end up on the same side of an issue. But those organizations are both calling upon lawmakers to change a state law that prohibits milk from being sold more than 12 days after pasteurization. The groups argue that the rule is rooted in antiquated science and is wasteful, ultimately driving up prices for consumers.

“There’s nothing I can do with (milk carrying an expired sell-by date), except dump it,” said Earl Allen of Noon’s Food Stores, while addressing state legislators who convened to deliberate the issue last week.

Among the problems with the 34-year-old rule, repeal proponents say, is that advancements in technology now enable milk to stay safe and palatable for as many as 21 days after pasteurization. The NRDC’s Dana Gunders wrote in October that Montana’s rule “demonstrates how ridiculous these laws can be.”

In September, California milk distributor Core-Mark International took the debate to the Montana Supreme Court, arguing that the rule is arbitrary and that the Mon-

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tana Department of Livestock, which is responsible for the regulation, abused its power. The DOL had overruled the recommendations of an independent hearings examiner, who in 2011 found the law “inconsistent with consumer needs and practices today.” The hearings examiner recommended that milk producers be allowed to recommend their own “best if used by” dates.

Repeal proponents argue that waste resulting from the rule is driving up milk prices. A poll conducted by the Independent of Safeway stores in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana found that prices are, in fact, higher in Montana. A gallon of Lucerne-brand milk in Missoula costs $3.79. In Casper, Wyo., the same product runs $3.09. In Lewiston, Idaho, it’s $3.19.

In response to claims that the rule is elevating costs, DOL Executive Officer Christian Mackay says that prices are based on complicated variables that go well beyond sell-by dates. He also noted that repeal proponents have not proven that Montana is wasting more milk than other states.

“How much this 12-day rule really drives the price, I really question,” Mackay says.

The Montana Milk Producers Association, which has intervened in the Core-Mark lawsuit on behalf of the

DOL, argues further that the Core-Mark litigation constitutes an effort to deregulate Montana’s milk market.

Great Falls attorney Mark Meyer, speaking on behalf of Montana Milk Producers, alleges also that Core-Mark, which supplies convenience stores, is behind the legislative push to repeal the law. “They’re the driving force behind this,” Meyers says.

Jessica Mayrer

Politics

Dark money returns So-called “dark money” groups are once again resurfacing to sway Montana voters. The retirement of Sen. Max Baucus from Congress left the field open for the 2014 election, and both parties are vying on a national level to secure a Senate majority. It’s an ideal climate for political nonprofits on either side of the aisle wielding millions in contributions from undisclosed donors.

One such nonprofit, the progressive Americans United for Change, released its “Tea Party Scorecard” in January, a veiled swing at 47 U.S. House Republicans who are up for reelection in 2014. The project rated how often those members voted alongside the Tea

[news] Party, and Montana’s Rep. Steve Daines came away with a score of 88 percent.

“There has been no daylight between Rep. Daines and the Tea Party when it comes to the obsession with repealing, delaying or defunding the Affordable Care Act,” AUFC stated, adding that Daines’ campaign recently won the support of the national Tea Party Express.

The group based much of its scorecard on a string of failed Republican attempts during October’s shutdown to extend piecemeal funding to certain government agencies. Daines ultimately split from the Tea Party when he voted to reopen the government without defunding the ACA. AUFC’s emphasis on Republicans facing reelection seems largely campaign-centric, and it wouldn’t be the first time the group has targeted a Republican Senate candidate in Montana. AUFC ran ads opposing 2012 Senate candidate Denny Rehberg as early as summer 2011.

AUFC does exercise more transparency than other dark money groups, acknowledging that a bulk of its funding comes from labor unions and disclosing the amount it spends on “discussion of the position of public officials who are also candidates for public office” on annual tax filings. But as an “issue advocacy” nonprofit, AUFC—just like its right-leaning nonprofit counterparts—isn’t required to divulge the costs or funding sources of politically charged ads.

AUFC isn’t the only nonprofit with a Montana track record that’s returning this year. Americans for Prosperity spent millions in 2012 attacking Democratic Senate candidates nationwide, including Sen. Jon Tester. AFP doesn’t disclose its donors and, according to tax filings going back to 2009, hasn’t acknowledged any campaign activity. The nonprofit launched a television ad in January thanking Daines for his role in opposing the ACA. Alex Sakariassen

Parks

Fight at Fish Creek Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wants to turn Fish Creek State Park into a first-class tourist destination, but local conservationists question whether the site can handle such increased attention.

On Dec. 20, the agency’s Parks Division released a draft management plan that details its vision for the future of the 5,603-acre park, which is located near Alberton west of Missoula. The state’s proposed developments include 40 to 60 paved RV campsites, a handful of reservation-only cabins for overnight use and several trails for dirt bikes and off-highway vehicles.

Montana Trout Unlimited and other conservation groups argue that the draft management plan would drastically increase pressure on the Fish Creek land-

scape and could threaten the wildlife management area adjacent to the park.

“It is really incredibly inappropriate for the setting, it ignores longtime expectations that people who have been using that area have had for a long, long time and it is just really bad policy,” says Bruce Farling, executive director of Montana Trout Unlimited. “... The Parks Division wants to invite the world to come into Fish Creek and it is bad. It is bad for fish, it is bad for wildlife, it is bad for the public, it is bad for local government, and it is really bad for the landscape.”

Farling says Fish Creek is home to important cut-

throat and bull trout populations that are already experiencing increased angling pressure.

The Parks Division says it has worked with a variety of groups, including the Mineral County Commissioners, who support the plan because it promises economic benefits.

“I want to hit home that [the park] is one-eighth of the total 41,000 acres [at Fish Creek]. We are talking about 5,000 acres,” says Jennifer Lawson, a Montana State Parks spokesperson. “...It is going to continue to be a place where local residents and visitors can continue to enjoy all those outdoors recreation opportunities and more, all while we move forward to help improve Mineral County’s economy.”

The Parks Division will accept public comments on the draft management plan until Feb. 7.

Jimmy Tobias

Tiananmen

Breaking taboo The events of June 4, 1989, remain one of the most taboo subjects inside China. Months of political demonstrations across the country had culminated in a peaceful protest in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Troops acting on orders from the Chinese Communist Party moved in on

BY THE NUMBERS Amount author$50 million ized this week by the Missoula City Council to spend on purchasing the city’s water supply, Mountain Water Co., from the Carlyle Group. the demonstrators, killing hundreds. The Chinese government still bans any public mention of the massacre.

So it came as something of a shock to Steve Levine, a retired University of Montana professor of Chinese history and politics, when he began receiving support last week for his Tiananmen Initiative Project from inside China. Levine launched the project several months ago to encourage organizations worldwide to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, and his online appeal is still gaining signatures.

“I’m planning to contact all of the legislative leaders of the 50 state legislatures in the country asking them to pass resolutions in support of commemorating the June 4 anniversary,” Levine says, “as well as the U.S. Congress.”

The words of appreciation from inside China are what struck Levine most. The website he maintains with Missoula native and Tufts University graduate Chase Maxwell was blocked in China shortly after going up; Levine says he had an American friend in Shanghai repeatedly checking its availability. “I expected that eventually someone would hear about it and the message would spread,” Levine adds. “But I didn’t expect to get signatures from people in China.”

One message in particular stood out: A brief email from Wang Dan, one of the original student leaders of the 1989 demonstrations. Dan was arrested twice after Tiananmen Square and eventually exiled to the U.S. He now teaches at Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. The Taipai Times reported in January that Dan is organizing a 25th anniversary hunger strike.

“I just want [to] let you know how much I appreciate for all you have done for the 25th anniversary of June 4,” Dan wrote to Levine, “and will be glad to be helpful if you need.”

Levine is heartened by the knowledge that people in China are aware of his effort. Missoula will play host to several Tiananmen commemoration events this spring, including an April 9 lecture by Harvard professor Rowena He at UM. But for Levine, the ultimate goal seems partly met already.

“The best outcome,” Levine says, “will be that people in China will know, despite the clampdown on celebrations within China, that the world has not forgotten about what they did.”

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Nick Engelfried, a local freelance writer and environmental organizer, attended a special event at the Missoula Public Library in December in hopes of signing up for the Affordable Care Act. But the volunteers on site explained that he makes too little money to receive subsidized health insurance under the new law.

Even more maddening? As a young adult with no children, he isn’t eligible to receive Medicaid either. Thanks to Montana’s Republican legislature voting against Medicaid expansion last year, Engelfried is one of the 70,000 Montanans who fall into a coverage gap that threatens to undermine the efficacy of health care reform in the state.

“It’s frustrating just because the new health care law is set up so that everybody should be able to be covered now by health care,” he says. “But it is purely because the state of Montana has chosen not to expand Medicaid, not to take the money that is being offered by the federal government, that people like me are still not able to get health coverage.”

To remedy that coverage gap, citizens are taking Medicaid expansion into their own hands. As of Jan. 22, a coalition of labor, advocacy and health organizations filed a revised ballot initiative with the Montana Secretary of State that would allow voters in November’s elections to directly approve Medicaid expansion. The initiative’s organizers need to collect more than 24,000 signatures for it to get on the ballot.

If the Healthy Montana Initiative passes, individuals with income up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line will be eligible for Medicaid coverage. The federal government will foot 100 percent of the bill for the first three years, and then 90 percent of the bill going forward.

“We can’t afford to turn away these federal dollars and send them to other states. These expansion funds are money that Montana taxpayers and providers have actually been paying for since 2008,” says Sarah Howell, director of Montana Women Vote, one of the initiative’s backers. “Expanding Medicaid is our opportunity to bring that money back to the state.”

Citing a report by the Montana Budget and Policy Center, she says that a Medicaid expansion would add more than a billion dollars and roughly 12,000 jobs to the state’s economy each year.

“Providing health insurance to low-income people is good economic policy,” Howell says, “and the bottom line is that it is the right thing to do.”

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[news]

Leading by example 71-year-old grandmother takes a stand against tar sands

by Jessica Mayrer

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Just after midnight on Jan. 22, 71year-old Carol Marsh held a sign that said, “Tar Sands = Disaster,” as she sat in the middle of Reserve Street in a faceoff with law enforcement and a 901,000-pound shipment of oil-processing equipment traveling through Missoula to the Alberta oil sands. Photos of the incident show the Missoula resident dwarfed by uniformed Missoula Police Department officers as she positioned her sign like a shield and refused to budge.

“It became clear to the police that I was not really planning to move,” Marsh says.

Roughly 40 protesters, many from the Indian People’s Action group, gathered alongside Marsh that night, briefly blocking the first of three Omega Morgan megaload shipments scheduled to make way through Missoula this winter. While those protesters yielded to law enforcement, moving out of the street to make way for the big rig, Marsh refused. Her stubbornness got her arrested and earned her headlines for being the only protester taken to jail that night.

In the days following the action, Marsh made national news. An Associated Press report got picked up across the country, and activist websites proclaimed her a heroic matriarch who had stared down an imposing foe.

Last week’s protest in Missoula marks one of the latest skirmishes in a battle waged by environmentalists since 2010, when Imperial Oil announced its intention to move hundreds of oversized loads carrying processing equipment from Port Lewiston, Idaho, via Highway 12 over Lolo Pass and through the Garden City.

Imperial’s announcement set off a flurry of outrage. While those loads never traveled through Missoula, a 2011 shipment

by ConocoPhillips was met by Missoula protesters. Government entities, meanwhile, including the Nez Perce tribe and the Missoula Board of County Commissioners, filed suit to stop the equipment from being transported through their areas of influence. Those efforts achieved some success.

Litigation successfully barred megaloads from traversing Highway 12.

In December, however, Omega Morgan introduced a new route, this time leaving from Umatilla, Ore., and crossing into Montana from Idaho on Highway 93 via Lost Trail Pass. The new round of shipments again mobilized activists, including Marsh.

Marsh says her actions are part of the larger effort to raise awareness about the dangers present in Canadian oil sands.

She emphasizes the point by showing off pictures of her 11-year-old granddaughter.

“People don’t want to believe it,” she says. “The whole physical environment we’re used to is going to change, whether we like it or not.”

Marsh became politically active in the 1960s while organizing to stop the Vietnam War. She went on to wage protests against American involvement in Central America and the Middle East. While those movements were important, she says the fight to stop climate change is the most dire issue she’s ever come up against.

“Climate change is threatening the entire planet,” she says. “And we’re not even beginning to come to grips with it.”

a six-month probation period, warning that the penalties would be more severe if she were to get trouble again.

Anticipating the second megaload’s arrival within days, an undaunted Marsh asked the judge, “What do you think would happen if I did?”

Marsh found out on Jan. 24, when she faced off against the second Omega Morgan shipment. This time, rather than sitting alone, she was joined by two other friends, Claudia S. Brown and Gail Gilman, also both grandmothers.

“I was inspired by Carol,” says Brown, who has also worked for years to raise

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

On Jan. 24, Gail Gilman, left, and Carol Marsh are asked by Missoula Police Officer Ethan Smith to move from the middle of Reserve Street. The women sat in protest of a second Omega Morgan load traveling through Missoula.

A former journalist, Marsh quickly fires off statistics and anecdotes to bolster her argument. Alberta’s oil sands hold the third-largest proven crude oil reserve in the world, next to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

As such, operations there are playing a significant role in the increase of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, a primary cause of global warming. And then, she adds, there’s the immediate impact of the process on the ground. The Alberta oil sands to date sprawl out across more than 50 square miles of toxic waste ponds, stripped land and polluted streams.

According to Alberta Energy, which oversees resource development in the province, the region’s oil production totaled 1.31 million barrels a day in 2008.

That number is expected to hit 3 million barrels in 2018.

“Their plans have them growing to about the size of Florida,” Marsh says.

The day after her arrest, Marsh appeared in court to face disorderly conduct charges. She received a $220 fine, with $110 of it suspended. The judge gave her

awareness about climate change in the Missoula community but never before put herself in a position to be arrested.

The three of them refused to budge and were charged by police.

“I was sent to jail,” Brown says. “I was handcuffed and booked and fingerprinted and spent time in a holding cell—they threw the book at me.”

Police cited all three of them, and the penalties included $160 in fines and surcharges for each woman. As for Marsh, because she violated the terms of her probation, she received a 10-day suspended sentence.

That means if she gets arrested again within the next six months, she’ll serve time in jail.

With yet another load slated to make its way through Missoula in the coming weeks, Marsh says that though she’s scared of jail, she’s prepared to serve time.

“I have been researching what happens when you go to jail,” Marsh says.

“Yeah, it does scare me, but climate change scares me more.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

[opinion]

Medical breakthrough Obamacare is a frustrating mess, but is it worth it?

by Nick Davis

I was one of the many Americans who visited the HealthCare.gov website back on Oct. 1, when it first launched. I got into the site with no problems, and was actually able to create an account, or so I thought. After a couple of attempts to move beyond the account-creation step were met by error messages and frozen pages, I stopped. I was not to be one of the six people who reportedly ran the gauntlet successfully that first day.

No big deal, I figured. This is a hugely complex system with a gazillion moving parts, so I’d give them a while to make adjustments, and I’d come back to get health care for myself, my wife and our 8-yearold son after they smoothed out the process. But as time rolled on and the cutoff date for coverage beginning at the first of the year approached, I was still hearing nightmare stories from people who weren’t able to navigate the site.

So I girded up that last holiday weekend before the deadline, and jumped into the fray. Over Sunday and Monday, I spent roughly seven hours on the website and another three hours on the phone (all on hold, all unrequited). Though I had been able to go through nearly the entire application process online—re-establishing an account, entering household and income information, even browsing and selecting plans—the website would not let me finish the job. I was literally clicking on a button that said “Finish” and every time I did so I would get routed to a page with an error message.

Late that afternoon I read on The New York Times website that the deadline had been extended by one more day, to Dec. 24, Christmas Eve. So I shut down my computer with the hopes of rebooting the next day and clicking that one button to finish the process. But that button behaved no differently the next morning.

Out of desperation, I resolved to achieve a task upon which I had already wasted three hours of hold time. I was going to call the 800 number and wait as long as it took until a human would pick up the other end of the call and rescue me from this purgatory (though the choice of hold music pushed the needle closer to hell).

It took about 75 minutes before a nice lady picked up the phone. My hope that she could simply help me complete the laborious process with a mouse click or two

vanished quickly, as she informed me she could not access my account and that we’d have to start over. Beaten by the process and grateful for human contact, I meekly acquiesced and over the course of the next two hours we rebuilt my entire application. I found it interesting that she was subject to the same crashes and errors that I had experienced, but she did seem to have some sort of magical rebooting ability that kept the delays to a relative minimum.

“I was literally clicking on a button that said ‘Finish’ and every time I did so I would get routed to a page with an error message.”

This is the part where you’d probably expect a withering indictment of government incompetency, a polemic on the inexcusable lack of foresight and the hubris of overreaching. But you’d be wrong.

A couple of years ago the well-paying job I held left for the Midwest, but my wife and I valued our Montana lives more than financial security. We knew that we would be taking a step back in terms of health insurance—the COBRA quote for maintaining the health care plan provided by my employer was greater than our mortgage payment—but we did not anticipate what happened next.

A couple of years earlier, my wife— who ranks among the toughest people I’ve ever met—began experiencing a mysterious set of neurological symptoms. She went through nearly six months of testing but none of the specialists who treated her were able to identify the source.

We applied for a family plan from a well-known insurance company. They denied coverage for my wife, at first citing an incomplete set of medical records. We resubmitted her records—the same, complete

set we had sent the first time—and then they denied her on the basis of a missing, specific test result. When we sent in the test result for the third time—negative, as were all the tests she endured—they denied her on the grounds that some very small percentage of these tests were known to show false negatives. Now, with the perspective that time provides, I can appreciate the cleverness and agility with which they answered the question: Can a condition be pre-existing, even if it’s been aggressively undiagnosed?

So for the last two years, while my son and I have been covered by a bronzelevel plan (because of its crappy benefits, the plan was to be forcibly modified by the Affordable Care Act), my wife has been ineligible for any coverage short of disaster. And as those of you who have been in similar circumstance can attest, the realization that your family is one bad turn away from potential financial ruin is more than uncomfortable. In fact, it’s terrifying.

So when I hung up the phone with the Obamacare representative, the considerable frustration that had plagued me during the enrollment process was immediately and unexpectedly replaced with a massive endorphin surge, the magnitude of which made me realize just how insidiously the ever-present fear of disaster had infiltrated our lives.

For a couple hundred dollars more per month than the plan shared by me and my son, we now had medical coverage for all three of us—my wife and I on a gold plan, meaning we can now actually afford medical care when we need it—as well as dental coverage, which had previously been out of the question.

And yes, the primary reason we were able to upgrade our coverage is due to the tax credits built in to the ACA, which, I suppose, makes us part of the class of “takers” so vilified by a certain stripe of politician and pundit. But here’s the deal: We both work hard, and long. We pay taxes. We employ people. We care enough about our community to devote a fair share of off-time to unpaid civic duties.

So I don’t feel the least bit conflicted about the “handout” that enables the peace of mind now enjoyed by me and my wife. And as for the question of whether that particular peace of mind is our right as Americans, all I can say is that is sure feels like one to me.

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[opinion]

Dam shame One decision that put us between a rock and a dry place

by Paul VanDevelder

As all eyes in the West turn to the skies for relief from 14 years of “megadrought,” as California Gov. Jerry Brown just put it, this is as good a time as any for the region’s states and municipalities to ask: “How did we get caught between a rock and a dry place, and what, if anything, can we do about it now?”

To answer that question, we have to go back to the boom years of America’s dam building. No politician in the West was a bigger believer in the transformative power of impounded water than Arizona’s favorite son, Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was the Bureau of Reclamation’s biggest booster in Congress when the agency proposed mind-boggling water projects to tame the mighty Colorado River.

Never mind that the Hoover Commission, in a report requested by Congress, warned in 1951 that the Bureau of Reclamation would bankrupt the nation with senseless dams and irrigation projects, while holding future generations of Americans hostage to unpaid bills and unintended consequences. Caveats never stopped a federal water agency from building a dam.

At a time when Goldwater and the Bureau of Reclamation were enjoying a Golden Age of water projects, their chief nemesis was an environmental crusader named David Brower. Brower, president of the Sierra Club and founder of the Earth Island Institute, singlehandedly led the fight against building Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. And lost. He called that defeat “the darkest day of my life,” vowed it would never happen again and blamed himself for it until his dying day.

Time and old age have a way of bringing people to their senses. Toward the end of his life, Goldwater took political positions that left most of his libertarian allies scratching their heads in bewilderment. Is Barry going senile? Did somebody poison his soup?

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Goldwater’s public epiphany came about when PBS aired “Cadillac Desert,” a series based on Marc Reisner’s eponymous book. In the third episode, when Goldwater and Reisner were discussing the adjudication of the Colorado River, the silver-haired Goldwater looked out across the sprawling megalopolis of Phoenix and asked, “What have we done to this beautiful desert, our wild rivers? All that dam building on the Colorado, across

“Caveats never stopped a federal water agency from building a dam.” the West, was a big mistake. What in the world were we thinking?”

That admission reverberated across the high mesas of the Southwest like summer thunder. A few months later, when Brower and I talked over lunch, I asked him, “What did you do when Goldwater said it was all a big mistake?”

The Archdruid, as he had been affectionately dubbed by the writer John McPhee, was then in his late 80s but just as fierce as ever. He cackled and then let out an expletive. “I reached for the phone and called (Goldwater) and I said, ‘Barry, let’s do the right thing, help me take out Glen Canyon Dam.’ He said he would!

Then he died a few months later.”

And Brower died a few months after that.

Taking out Glen Canyon Dam would not have altered today’s water crisis in the Southwest, but it would have made a resounding statement. It would have said, “Wild rivers rock.” It would have said, “We should have left well enough alone, we

should have listened to John Wesley Powell in the first place, we should have limited settlement on arid lands.” It would have said, “We shoulda, we shoulda, we shoulda. ...”

We will never see men like Goldwater and Brower again. Nor will we see people like their cohorts, such as Floyd Dominy of the Bureau of Reclamation and the writer Edward Abbey; they were men of a certain time in America that no longer exists.

We can’t go back to that America any more than we can return to the days before the Civil War, or to the Indian Wars, and fix things. We’re stuck with the aftermath of those decisions, many of them poorly informed, unwise or downright bad. And, sadly, as the Hoover Commission warned 63 years ago, the consequences will be with us for generations to come.

The Colorado River, though, is a special case. It has always been a special case; now, more than ever. The drought that grips the Southwest today is the worst in 1,250 years, say some experts, and it shows no sign of releasing its grip. No doubt, the region’s leaders despair over vanishing options. The Bureau of Reclamation has announced it may start rationing water from Lake Mead to downstream states by 2015. And no climate model is predicting rain.

The first state in line to lose water from diminishing reserves is Arizona. Suddenly, those 280 golf courses in the greater Phoenix area—not to mention the tens of thousands of swimming pools— look kind of ridiculous. What in the world were we thinking?

Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He lives in Portland, Ore., and is the author of Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America’s Road to Empire through Indian Territory.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Responding to a complaint that an armed neighbor tried to kick in the door and burglarize a home in Spokane, Wash., police found that suspect Brent Nouwels, 32, had returned to his home and turned off the lights. Officers repeatedly urged Nouwels to surrender peacefully, but he responded by climbing onto the roof and taunting them. Then he suddenly lost his balance on the icy roof and fell to the ground. Nouwels was treated for various injuries before being taken into custody.

(Spokane’s KREM-TV) After four armed men broke into a Los Angeles home, the homeowner saw the suspects on a home surveillance system and called 911. When police and SWAT units arrived, two suspects fled. Two remained in the home and ordered the homeowner to tell police they were victims and, to make their story credible, convinced him to tie them up. The homeowner then ran outside and told police what happened. After the trussed suspects “got tired of waiting,” Officer Norma Eisenman said, “they came out, still tied up, thinking that we were going to believe they were victims also. That’s what you call felony stupid.” (Los Angeles Times) PROPERTY RITES – The Broward (Fla.) Property Appraiser’s Office denied agricultural tax exemptions to 127 properties that it said used a common practice called “rent-a-cow” to qualify. In one case, Corrections Corporation of America, the private company that runs state prisons, paid a land seller $10 a year to keep a few cows on the property so it got the tax break. Broward Property Appraiser Lori Parrish said declassifying the property will save the county $50,000. (Miami’s WPLG-TV) An ambulance responding to a medical call at a home in South Windsor, Conn., couldn’t leave because neighbor Richard Cote was blocking a driveway that the two properties shared. Police asked Cote to move his car, but he ignored them and began reading the newspaper, according to police Lt. Scott Custer, who explained that Cote also yelled and swore at police and EMTs and threatened to have police cars and the ambulance towed. Police finally had enough and arrested Cote. (The Hartford Courant) PERFORMANCE ANXIETY – The more students use their cellphones, the more anxious they become overall and the lower their grades drop, according to researchers at Ohio’s Kent State University, who suggested students who feel constantly obligated to keep in touch with friends experience stress when they’re disconnected. Contrary to previous research that cellphones improve social interaction and reduce feelings of isolation, this study, reported in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, found that students who used their cellphones more were less satisfied and happy than other students, and their grade point averages were lower. (Time) SECURING THE HOMELAND – After Nerf guns caused a lockdown at Missouri State University, school officials announced they were considering a ban on the toys. The incident occurred during a semi-annual campus-wide game of “Humans vs. Zombies.” A professor mistook one of the neon toys for a real gun and called police, resulting in the lockdown. Saying a ban was “an option that we’ll discuss,” Don Clark, head of MSU’s Department of Safety and Transportation, noted that several colleges already have banned Nerf guns. (The Washington Times) PRIVY PERIL – London firefighters have been called to rescue 3,012 people locked in toilets in the past four years. The London Fire Brigade reported that these and other “locked-in” emergency calls cost taxpayers nearly $16,000 but that they’re seldom real emergencies. “Ringing just because you don’t want to pay a locksmith is not good enough,” LFB Third Officer Dave Brown said. (Britain’s London24) DIGITAL CRIME – When Bloomberg TV anchor Matt Miller showed a certificate for $20 in digital currency, known as bitcoins, he inadvertently displayed the digital QR code. A viewer used his smartphone to scan the code and steal the money. (Business Insider) NEW MARKET FOR RING TONES – As electric cars, which typically move soundlessly below 20 mph, add synthetic motor noise to alert blind and inattentive pedestrians, sound engineers are developing sounds with different pitches for different models: “sonorous purring” pitched higher than conventional vehicles for the Mercedes e-Smart city car and “huskier tones” to reflect the power of the company’s $569,600 SLS AMG Coupe Electric Drive. Renault’s Zoe hatchback also offers a choice of car tones: pure, glam and sport. “People expect some exterior noise from a vehicle, because we all grew up with the vroom vroom of combustion engines,” said Christoph Meier, head of powertrain acoustics for Germanbased Daimler. Mercedes mimics a combustion engine by getting louder as the car accelerates, but Ralf Kunkel, head of acoustics at Audi, said, “Simply imitating the sound of a combustion engine was not an option” for the tone he developed for Audi’s new A3 E-tron plug-in hybrid after “we discarded ideas of giving electric vehicles sounds such as birds twittering or leaves rustling.” (The Washington Post) SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – A 20-year-old woman was hospitalized after her 22-year-old husband shot her accidentally while handling his new handgun at their home in Mountainlake Terrace, Wash.

Police Cmdr. Doug Hansen said the husband was trying to put the weapon away in a safe when it fired.

(Associated Press) A 32-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Home Depot store in Brighton, Mich.

Police Chief Tom Wightman said the man, who had a license to carry a concealed weapon, was reaching for his wallet when he triggered the .40-caliber Glock pistol. (Livingston County Daily Press & Argus) Deputies investigating the shooting death of Bruce Fleming, 69, in Deltona, Fla., said they believe the victim was struck by a stray bullet coming from his neighbor's home. Volusia County Sheriff’s Office official Gary Davidson said the neighbor had recently installed a shooting range with a raised berm in his backyard. (Daytona Beach’s WNDB Radio) WHEN PIT BULLS AREN’T ENOUGH – Drug dealers are turning to alligators to protect their stashes, according to law enforcement officials who’ve found the reptiles in raids from coast to coast. “My first thought was we’re definitely not touching it,” a police detective in Anne Arundel County, Md., said after a raid in which officers encountered a 3-foot alligator in a walk-in closet with 5 ounces of marijuana. “It kept hissing, like, ‘Leave me alone.’” Jeffrey Hyson, a professor at Philadelphia’s St. Joseph’s University, suggested that for someone with stuff they’d like to guard, “a pit bull is great, but a gator is even better.”

(The Washington Times)

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Photo courtesy of Alan B. Applebury

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“Holy crud,” says Mary Johnson, an enforcement officer with Missoula Animal Control. “That is a huge cat.

Somebody must be feeding it.”

Johnson is visiting one of Missoula’s countless feral cat colonies. In barns and trailer parks and dilapidated buildings across the region, abandoned cats in huge numbers gather for food, shelter and the promise of procreation. In many cases, human caretakers help sustain the colonies with food, water and protection.

The caretaker at this particular colony asked that its location remain a secret.

Nobody knows exactly how many feral cats currently reside in the greater Missoula area, but experts agree there are a lot. Erin Horner, the shelter attendant at Animal Control, estimates that there are probably 100 feral cat colonies in Missoula County alone. “Those range anywhere from 60 or 70 cats in the largest four or five colonies to eight to 10 cats in smaller colonies,” she says.

Despite their abundance, these colonies often go unnoticed.

“Silence is their best defense,” says Karyn Moltzen, a leading cat advocate and founder of the local nonprofit AniMeals. “They are invisible.”

The black tomcat is a perfect example. As Johnson’s truck idles, the animal slinks into the ramshackle trailer.

Johnson later learns that the cat is a master at avoiding the traps that animal control officials and shelter staff set out to capture and neuter such creatures. As the dominant feline in a colony of eight, the tomcat has likely produced many kittens over the years.

“Cats can have two or three litters a year and they can start reproducing at five months,” says Mariah

Scheskie, the program manager at the Humane Society of Western Montana. “The average litter is four kittens.

They are very prolific.” All it takes is two breeding animals and, as Moltzen says, a colony goes “boom!”

Those booming colonies present an increasing challenge to local officials. Despite their ability to survive and reproduce under difficult circumstances, feral cats are not exactly wild animals, and they are certainly not native to western Montana (nor North America, for that matter).

They require management and pose serious human health problems, such as rabies and the cat-borne parasitic disease toxoplasmosis, as well as environmental problems, like the devastating predation of birds and small mammals.

The American Humane Association reports that there are as many as 86 million household cats and another 50 million feral cats in the United States today. A 2013 report by scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute estimates that free-ranging cats, including ferals, kill between 1.7 and 3.7 billion birds in the continental United States every year. The survey, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, estimates that cats kill another 6.9 to 20.7 million small mammals in the U.S. annually.

“Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for U.S. birds and mammals,” write the report’s authors, adding that “unowned cats” cause the majority of these deaths.

Cats are also vectors for diseases that can afflict humans. “For the past 15 years, cats have been the leading domestic animal with rabies. We see up to 300 cases of rabies in cats each year,” says Cathleen Hanlon, rabies team leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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“… But [toxoplasmosis] is an even more pressing issue than rabies.” Hanlon calls toxoplasmosis “ubiquitous” and “hardy.”

As far as local health officials know, neither disease is a problem in Missoula.

Toxoplasmosis, however, is hard to track. Carried by cats and transmitted through their feces, toxoplasmosis is caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. It can infect humans, travel through their blood stream and lodge in their muscle tissue and brain cells.

“Our most recent survey, a national survey, indicates that about 12 percent of the U.S. population [is infected],” says Jeffrey Jones, a toxoplasmosis expert at the CDC. “…

We estimate that about a million people each year are infected, but again most of those people do not become sick.” He says uncooked meat and cat feces are the two major vectors of the illness and that it often presents itself as asymptomatic. In other words, it is a silent disease.

The disease is associated with birth defects and miscarriages in pregnant women, and behavioral changes and neurological disorders like schizophrenia, especially among the immune deficient. Some have called it the “crazy cat lady syndrome.”

These environmental and health concerns have made feral cats in particular, and outdoor cats in general, the object of growing national concern among conservationists, scientists and health officials. And that concern extends far beyond Missoula.

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niMeals, the “no-kill” animal shelter and food bank, resides in an old warehouse down a side street off West Broadway. The building is filled with cages, and cats seem like they own the place. They roam on desks, under chairs, leaping and purring undisturbed.

In the corner, inside a spacious cage, the shelter’s founder, Moltzen, is laying on the ground spooning a refugee feline, petting it, whispering into its ear. A tall, tanned woman with a crop of dark hair, she returns to her feet and walks into her office, where more cats lounge.

The place is a field hospital in the war against animal abandonment, and Moltzen is its firebrand director. She regards felines as “perfect beings.” She is assertive in her disdain for those who would badmouth ferals and other outdoor cats. She calls the Smithsonian report “ridiculous,” despite the peer-review and the prestigious journal. She dismisses the scientists who, with studies in hand, deem cats one of the leading causes of bird mortality in the country.

“I don’t believe the number the birders are throwing out there,” says Moltzen, who owns seven cats herself. “I know what my cats bring to my door, and it is mice and voles.”

Moltzen’s organization has provided approximately 23 tons of food to feral cat caretakers since 2006, she says. It is also a major proponent of Trap Neuter Release, or TNR, an approach to feral cat management that has come into vogue in recent years. TNR involves luring ferals into traps, spaying or neutering them, and then returning them to the colonies from which they came.

The “R” in TNR drives birders and other conservationists crazy. They say returning ferals to the landscape allows them to continue preying on wildlife and encourages caretakers to subsidize colonies.

“We call TNR ‘trap, neuter, re-abandon’ because that is all you are doing, re-abandoning them,” says Grant Sizemore, the Cats Indoors program officer at the American Bird Conservancy. “Those cats will continue to be outside, they will continue needing to be fed ... You are never going to actually neuter or spay all the cats themselves. It is very impractical.”

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On the topic of TNR’s efficacy, even Applebury admits that spaying and neutering our way out of the feral cat problem would require tremendous commitment. If TNR practitioners miss even a few breeding cats, then colony growth continues.

“I have read studies that say you have to [spay and neuter] 90 percent of them if it is going to work, but I think you have to get all of them,” he says. “…On a total basis, in the whole county, it might not work unless you are really committed.”

So far, Missoula has not shown that level of commitment.

“The biggest problem with Animal Control is that they are just underfunded and they don’t have enough people to manage all these things that they are supposed to manage,” says Missoula Councilman Jon Wilkins, chairman of the Public Safety and Health Committee. “I can’t remember how many wardens they have but I think the number is like six and that covers the city and the county. You can see how that is almost impossible.”

In fact, there are only four Animal Control officers employed by the city and county.

Horner at Animal Control says ferals will always be with us.

“Like Dr. Applebury says, it is always going to be there. As long as you have people dumping breeding cats, we are always going to have wild cats out there,” she says.

“How many? It’s probably sy going to dwindle like it has over rte ou c the years, but I do not think it is to o ph going to go away.”

Bird conservationists cannot abide that fact.

“There shouldn’t be feral cats out there,” says Dick Hutto, a University of Montana bird biologist. “Why do we have feral cats out there?” of

But in Missoula, TNR is standard practice. AniMeals, the Humane Society of Western Montana and Animal Control have all employed the method for a little less than 10 years. Perhaps the bestknown regional practitioner is Alan Applebury, a veterinarian who has devoted his practice and much of his spare time to spaying and neutering pets and abandoned animals in Ravalli County. He says he has used TNR to make tremendous progress reducing the feral population in the Bitterroot Valley.

“What I can tell you is that we started our spay/neuter program about seven years ago. I think they killed about 500 cats a year at the [Bitterroot] shelter back then, and this year they killed none,” Applebury says. He adds that his clinic has spayed or neutered 1,903 feral cats since 2010, half of which were female and most of which were returned to the colonies they came from. If the average litter size is four, and these are an average of 1.5 litters a year, that means he has prevented the birth of roughly 5,700 feral kittens.

“How could this not have a significant impact?” he asks.

Horner considers Applebury a mentor. She helped usher in TNR at Missoula Animal Control nearly 10 years ago, though the agency still relies on colony caretakers and volunteers to trap the cats and bring them in.

“When I started working on this, feral cats would come out your ears. [Animal Control] would have feral cats brought in once a day. Probably, on average, we would see two or three a day,” she says. “Now we only see a couple a month unless we are working with a colony.”

Horner says she does not consider feral cats a problem.

For many who work in animal rescue, feral cats are wild animals playing their part in the ecosystem.

“These are another kind of wild animal living amongst us …” says Horner. “If you see these guys, and you have to work with them, there is no doubt how wild they are.”

The animals’ untamed nature is part of the reason the feral cat conundrum is so hard to solve. Ferals simply do not have the social skills to become a domestic pet. They are cats that can’t be handled. Unless they are kittens, they can’t be adopted.

TNR advocates have a local opponent in Mary Costello, a trained avian ecologist and conservationist who keeps a file on the ecological and health impacts of feral cats at her home office in Trout Creek.

“They are considered an invasive species on a global level. They are not a

natural predator,” she says. “… Given their destructive nature for both mammals and songbirds, why would we want to encourage setting up colonies in our communities?”

Costello cites a report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which lists domestic cats as one of the 100 “worst invasive alien species” in the world.

That is the crux of the conservationist argument against TNR. Even if it cuts down on future population growth, TNR returns neutered cats to the landscape where they prey on wildlife and put human health at risk. Applebury may have spayed 336 ferals cats last year, the argument goes, but most of them went back outside. And even a few cats can do a lot of damage. On its website, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports that an individual free-roaming cat is capable of killing over 1,000 wild animals per year.

In a 2010 letter to the Missoulian, Costello took aim at Missoula’s colonies.

“Instead of reducing the number of unwanted cats, cat colonies often become dumping grounds for yet more cats which in turn need to be trapped and neutered,” she writes.

“This creates an ever-increasing colony that needs perpetual maintenance. Have a cat you don’t want? Just dump it off in a colony to become someone else’s problem.”

Costello’s concern stems from personal experience. When she lived in Missoula, she says she tried to install a bird feeder at her house on multiple occasions but was forced to take it down when neighborhood cats started showing up. Feeder birds like dark-eyed juncos, house sparrows and blue jays are particularly vulnerable to cat predation, according to a Cornell University study.

Those who oppose the practice also point out that pet food corporations are major financiers of TNR. According to tax forms, PetSmart’s philanthropic arm spends more than $17 million a year financing spay/neuter programs across the country, and much of that money goes to promote TNR. Applebury’s Fox Hollow Animal Project, the Humane Society of Western Montana and Missoula Animal Control all received grants from PetSmart charities in recent years to finance their TNR operations.

“Well, I am sure [PetSmart] would argue it is just out of their good hearts, and maybe it is,” says Sizemore of the American Bird Conservancy. “However, there certainly does seem to be an economic interest tied in.

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ack at the cat colony, a man walks quickly toward the parked Animal Control truck. “What are you doing here?” he yells. “What are you guys doing here?”

Officer Johnson steps down from the driver’s seat and informs the man that she is simply showing a couple reporters a feral cat colony. No harm is intended. Johnson has faced fists and two-by-fours and screaming pet owners. She says she is adept at de-escalating conflicts.

The man introduces himself as Jim and asks that his last name and the location of the colony remain secret.

“I just get a little defensive, that’s all,” he says.

Jim explains that he has been protective of his cats ever since someone poisoned them with Prestone a few years back.

The black tomcat, top, is the dominant feline in one of Missoula’s many feral cat colonies. Jim, left, a colony caretaker, provides food to feral cats twice a day.

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One of Jim’s cats sits next to a raw turkey left to feed the colony. Without a caretaker, the average lifespan of a feral cat is less than two years, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

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“Somebody came through here and threw out a pregnant cat and the next thing I know I had kittens running around everywhere. At one time there were 30 out here,” says Jim, who has been taking care of the cats for more than a decade. “… And then someone came down here and decided they wanted to poison them. I would come out here and find two or three a day, dead, just laying right out here.”

He says he has a good guess who did it.

“I told the individual that I would shoot him if I ever caught him and he knows I will do it too because I am one of those PTSD Vietnam veterans,” he says, laughing.

With hot water and cat food in hand, Jim begins to dump chow on the ground around the trailers. He points to a whole raw turkey he brought out a few days before to sustain the hungry creatures. The cats begin to emerge, darting toward the food and darting back into the darkness under and in the trailers.

“These are my kids,” says Jim, who has named all the cats in his colony. He calls the big tomcat Teddy Bear. He says he regularly removes the colony’s kittens to put them up for adoption.

Balding and dressed in veteran regalia, Jim is one of many feral cat caretakers in Missoula. On the other side of the trailer park there is a second colony of nine, which his neighbor feeds and protects. Combined with his eight cats, that’s 17 feral felines in an area the size of a football field.

Moltzen of AniMeals probably knows more about feral cat colonies and their caretakers than anyone else in Missoula County.

She says she is aware of 60 to 70 caretakers in the area. Many of them rely on her organization for cat food, so she knows where the felines live.

“Well you know, there is a city ordinance here where if you feed ’em, you own ’em. People just don’t tell anybody [that they are feeding them],” she says. “I don’t tell anybody where my rescues are, where the cats are that are getting fed. … It’s not that it’s secret, you just don’t want to call attention to it so people aren’t going out there shooting them or poisoning them.”

Caretakers are secretive. Multiple individuals refused to allow the Indy onto their property for fear that their cats could suffer reprisals from the community. These caretakers are a crucial link between the colonies and the organizations that provide spay and neuter services, vaccinations and food.

The poisoning of Jim’s cats, and the conflict that ensued, is reminiscent of a larger controversy. Last year, the debate between bird lovers and feral cat advocates took a nasty turn on a national scale over the use of poison.

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In March 2013, Ted Williams, an established writer for Audubon magazine, authored a column for the Orlando Sentinel in which he identified a certain over-the-counter drug as an effective way to poison feral cats. In the column he also called TNR “dangerous, cruel and illegal” and suggested that trapping and euthanizing cats was a more humane approach.

His column provoked an immediate outrage from feral cat groups. Alley Cat Allies, the premier feral cat advocacy organization in the country and a major proponent of TNR, called for Williams’ termination at Audubon. The magazine later suspended him and in doing so garnered national media attention. Eventually Williams apologized, saying, “I should have explained that this feral-cat poison, if registered, would be applied only by the state and federal wildlife managers who are widely, legally and lethally (but not effectively) controlling feral cats with rifle, shotgun and trap.” He returned to work at Audubon shortly thereafter.

There have been other public conflicts. In 2010, conservation groups, including the American Bird Conservancy and an Audubon chapter, filed a lawsuit in California seeking to put a halt to the use of TNR in Los Angeles, which had adopted the method as its primary approach to feral cat management in 2005. The groups asked a judge to bar the city’s use of TNR until it underwent proper environmental review as mandated under California law. The judge issued an injunction in the plaintiff ’s favor and thereby suspended the city’s program.

Alley Cat Allies responded to the ruling by telling its supporters in Los Angeles to continue practicing TNR. “The bottom line: This case DID NOT make Trap-Neuter-Return illegal in Los Angeles,” wrote Alley Cat Allies on its website. “The ruling only applies to the actions of the Los Angeles city government.”

Since the Smithsonian study came out last summer, Alley Cat Allies has spent a great deal of time trying to portray it as “junk science,” even delivering a petition with 55,000 signatures to Smithsonian in protest of the report.

UM ornithologist Dick Hutto has watched some of these controversies unfold. He says Alley Cat Allies’ aversion to the Smithsonian report is due to a lack of ecological understanding.

“The animal rights side is all about the individual animal and the rights of the individual animal,” he says. “The thing that that side fails to appreciate is that there is an ecological system too, and the system, in my view as an ecologist, is much more important to worry about than any individual animal or plant.”

As for the Smithsonian study, he challenges Alley Cat Allies and other cat advocates to develop their own data.

confinement (read: leashes) when off their owner’s property. Cats are entirely prohibited from running at large in the city. The ordinance imposes stiff fines and even jail time for cat owners who break the rules.

Though Missoula has a solid cat ordinance, it is weak when compared to Aurora’s policies. After all, as Moltzen indicated, many colony caretakers simply ignore the provision that requires those who feed cats to take full legal responsibility for them. And the ordinance does not entirely ban free-roaming cats.

What’s more, the Missoula cat ordinance only applies within city limits. The county does not have the authority to enforce the regulations, according to Carlson.

While education and stricter laws might solve part of the problem, one question remains: What to do with the feral cats that are already sis on Missoula’s streets? On this topic, wareness of Missoula’s feral opinions vary widely.

TNR proponents cat colonies and their impact want to stay the course.

Opponents of remains minimal. the practice offer a variety of solutions, When asked, County Commisfrom rehabilitation and adoption to sioner Jean Curtiss said she did not realexpanding shelter capacity to eradication. ize feral cats had such a big impact on Bottom line: they don’t want the cats wildlife. “I never thought about it being a returned outdoors. huge issue, I guess,” says Curtiss. “It is not a Larry Weeks, chairman of Five Valleys topic we’ve discussed.”

Audubon Society’s education program, says Jim Carlson, director of Missoula Cityhe has participated in a number of TNR Mary Johnson, a local Animal Control County Health Department’s environmental health division, was surprised to learn about officer, observes a feral cat colony drives, even working with Applebury on one occasion. Weeks believes the method cannot the large network of colony caretakers. Even of- within Missoula city limits. work on its own. ficials at the state Audubon Society did not “I guess, if you are going to help the bird know about the abundance of colonies in the population you are going to have to euthanize city. And everyone agreed that there was no those feral cats. I guess I have to agree with public discussion when TNR became the de that idea, because when you turn facto policy at Animal Control. them loose again they just go “I don’t remember any [deback and do what cats do bate],” says Curtiss. and that’s kill birds, mice For Costello, educatand everything else they ing the public and policycan catch,” he says. “… makers about feral cats I worked with that is the first step toward Trap Neuter Release solving the situation. program enough to re“There is a lot of alize that it’s not the soliterature out there, lution. It has to go there is a lot of credible another step, and I think data, and they need to avail that is euthanizing the feral themselves of that informas er cats and educating people who alt tion. It is readily available,” she .W L e have house pets.” n ri says. “They need to really step ath

by C o TNR opponent Costello t back and take a hard look at this. I Pho agrees.

She understands that no think the veterinary community as Karyn Moltzen plays with three cats at the local Anione wants to euthanize any aniwell has a responsibility.”

Meals shelter. She says her organization has provided mal, but she says hard decisions The American Bird Conser- 23 tons of food to cat colony caretakers since 2006. have to be made. vancy is tackling the education “I think the colonies need to be angle. It launched a campaign called Cats Indoors to encourage communities to keep cats, whether feral, eliminated,” says Costello. “The whole process of TNR stray or free-roaming, off the streets. It says indoor cats live longer and should be banned. I think communities should ban the practice, and I think ordinances must be cause less damage than outdoor cats.

Mariah Scheskie of the Humane Society agrees with at least some passed for controlling free-ranging cats.”

For Horner at Animal Control, that scenario is of the organization’s claims.

“The average lifespan for an individual cat, and there are a lot hard to stomach.

“When I started here the only way of dealing with feral cat of numbers out there, is 12 to 18 years,” says Scheskie. “… For an outdoor cat, if they are not being cared for, if they are just sort of colonies in Missoula was to trap them and to euthanize them,” out in a barn, it can be two years, so you know that is a huge number she says. “If you have ever truly seen one of these animals up for people who love their pets, that is a huge reason for them to close, for the most part they are very healthy, they are beautiful, they are bright-eyed, but they just have one downfall and that is keep them indoors.”

Moltzen thinks the Cats Indoors idea is a pipe dream. “Good luck,” that they are completely wild. It is really hard to euthanize one of these animals.” she says. “It will never happen.”

With the “no-kill” movement, as Moltzen calls it, as strong as As part of its campaign, the American Bird Conservancy holds up Aurora, Colo., as an example of a city with progressive cat laws. ever in Missoula, that scenario seems unlikely for now.

In 1994, Aurora began enforcing a cat ordinance that included a jtobias@missoulanews.com mandatory confinement of cats to their owner’s property or physical “Who cares whether it is one, two, three or four billion birds killed each year—it’s a lot,” he says. “What do these other people suggest, would be my question. What data do they have that we could look at to compare with this?”

Despite the national controversy, the feral cat issue has not sparked much conflict in Missoula. In fact, it has barely been discussed in public forums at all, and many caretakers want it that way. They love their feral cats and so, like the cats themselves, they stay silent.

“Come on babies! Come on,” Jim says sweetly, trying to lure the cats out to eat.

When he has emptied his container of food, he walks back to his trailer as the colony disappears into its run-down shelter. A passerby would never know it is there.

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[arts]

To twerk or not to twerk Off the Rack tackles gender stereotypes with a parody of “Blurred Lines”

by Erika Fredrickson

Tahj Kjelland and the Mizzou Booty Crew parody Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” in an attempt to “challenge pop culture stereotypes within the gender paradigm” for the upcoming Off the Rack fashion show.

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fter the Miley Cyrus MTV Video Music Awards debacle last August, a few interesting parodies showed up on YouTube. Mostly, they were revisions of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines (feat. T.I.),” a song that was a significant part of the VMA onstage medley, “We Can’t Stop/Blurred Lines/ Give it 2 U,” wherein Cyrus twerked on stuffed animals and pointed a foam finger at Thicke’s crotch while sticking out her tongue, KISS-style.

(No need to describe it further; we can’t stop remembering it.) One of those videos was created by screenwriter and veteran YouTube parodist Bart Baker, whose version quickly gets to the point by changing Thicke’s intro line, “Everybody get up!” to “This song totally sucks,” while flashing a “#creep” on the screen rather than the original “#thicke.” The next line doesn’t mince words either: “Come over here, if you want to get raped. By a creepy wannabe Timberlake.” Another video, a more academic and playful parody produced by University of Auckland law students and titled “Defined Lines,” begins with “Every bigot shut up!” and offers lines like, “Boy, you’d better quit, all your sexist ways … it’s time to undermine, the masculine confines.”

At Blue Mountain Clinic’s upcoming annual fundraiser, Off the Rack, attendees will be treated to another parody of the song. Hip-hop artist, slam poet, musician and all-around social justice activist Tahj Kjelland wrote the lyrics for this version. And he’s collaborated with several other performers, including the Mizzou Booty Crew, plus his partner, Lynsey Bourke—the clinic’s director of development, outreach and communication— to bring it to the stage. His lyrics match Thicke’s a little more closely than the other parodies do, but he’s shifted them in a way that completely upends the meaning. In-

stead of Thicke’s line, “If you can’t hear what I’m trying to say … maybe I’m going deaf,” he sings, “If I can’t hear what you’re sayin’, then I’m a chauvinist.” In Kjelland’s lyrics, accountability for who’s supposed to be doing the listening—the male singer or the female object—has switched. And replacing Thicke’s “maybe” with a declarative sentence undercuts the idea of a blurred line: a chauvinist is a chauvinist, end of story.

“I’m trying to match everything in the same tonality,” Kjelland says, “but I’m flipping up the words to challenge pop culture’s messages. What are the social engineers trying to say? We know sex sells, but what are the hidden messages? ” Kjelland, 37, also known under the moniker Tahjbo, has been doing hip-hop and spoken word since he was 13. He serves as the slam poetry organizer for the Montana Festival of the Book and plays the bass in local blues band Mudslide Charley. His upcoming album Crosscurrents mixes rap and reggae, features organ and guitar, and shows off his talent for biting social commentary, smooth phrasing and catchy beats and melodies. It’s an imaginative collection that touches on social issues— sweatshop sneakers, for instance—but it’s also music that embraces having a good time. “Fire, fire, loosen up the body now,” he sings on one track. “Higher, higher. Let the flames burn and grow. Open up the soul.”

Having a good time while also addressing social issues is a central feature to Off the Rack. But feminism, among those who don’t pay attention, still has a bad rap for being not fun and not funny, and the “Blurred Lines” parody is yet one more example of how that is a misperception. What’s most interesting about this year’s Off the Rack—which, each year, showcases dance performances,

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spoken word, stand-up comedy and a fashion show featuring condom couture—is that it’s all about blurred lines. Last year’s theme, “Sex in the Zoo: Desire, Choice and Exploration,” felt like a pretty straightforward approach to complex issues, whereas this year’s “Metamorph-o-sex” gives off a mysterious, abstract air. It’s kind of the point. On the OTR posters the word “Meta-morpho-sex” is accompanied by “(v) (pl.),” defining the madeup term as a plural verb. Kjelland says the theme refers to an active effort to embrace the sliding spectrums of sexuality and gender. It’s about how rigid our definitions can be and how fear, not logic, often deems what is appropriate. It’s about what we expect from one gender and not the other. (The Auckland law parody, for instance, which showed scantily clad men, was taken off YouTube for inappropriateness before the creators appealed. Meanwhile, millions of videos with scantily clad women stay safe from scrutiny.) Those layers show exactly how Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke and twerking become part of the OTR conversation. But addressing them in a piece is complicated; even among forward-thinking feminists, the VMA video is still being debated.

“The Miley Cyrus thing, I feel, was an objectification of a woman,” Kjelland says. “And it also was a lot of reaction from people who were saying that she couldn’t do what she did. But then with Robin Thicke, no one really pushed any blame on him and he’s got a wife and kid. And if you break down the lyrics of his song—it’s open for interpretation, but there’s pretty nasty things in there, too.”

Of course, Thicke did end up being judged to a certain extent, hence the parodies. But the questions still remain as to how much Cyrus is in the driver’s seat for

the image she’s projecting: Is she a pawn of the industry or a woman embracing her sexuality? Or both? Not often discussed is the extent to which her overtly sexual performance was any different than any other pop star’s— say, Britney Spears—other than the fact that it was weirder and, for that, perhaps at least more original. And as for Thicke, if we’re going to chastise the man, what about acknowledging every single gross song sung by creepy men starting from Winger’s 1988 hit “Seventeen”—“her daddy says she’s too young, but she’s old enough for me”—up until now?

It’s the kind of gray area that keeps people like Kjelland busy.

“Making this piece has been fun,” he says. “We have had so many discussions. And it’s important. I feel that the next real evolutionary move for us as human beings is the gender movement—to really explore it.”

Meanwhile, Kjelland and the other parodists are still discussing how to execute the piece just right. Kjelland says the piece will embrace the ways in which gender is fluid, and it will incorporate themes of transgender issues and healthy sexuality. But there are still little details to be ironed out: How much twerking is reasonable? And if you do have a twerking Miley Cyrus character in the piece, will it promote progressive thought or feed into the very objectification that the piece is trying to combat?

After all, nuance is essential in a good parody. And walking that blurred line is never an easy feat.

Blue Mountain Clinic presents Off the Rack at the Wilma Theatre Sat., Feb. 1, at 8:30 PM. $25/$15 living lightly. Visit bluemountainclinic.org efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Gray matter Catamount evokes color with sound

photo by Dillon Jenkins

Listening to Catamount makes me think in terms of color. The Missoula band’s new EP, Divebomber, has a sound like a gray sky contrasted with flocks of black birds and a white sun. Sometimes, when the saxophone comes in, you can imagine shiny yellow sun spots flickering through the stark landscape. It’s a winter afternoon on a Sunday in a dirty, piebald city. In other words, there isn’t much variation in the mood of this three-song postrock collection, but it makes an impression that you can dig if you patiently let it wash over you.

You would hear something like this EP if you crosspollinated The Smiths and Beirut. And maybe if you added a DNA strand of Silkworm. There’s a general detachment in Brady Schwertfeger’s vocals that breaks into yearning during the harmonizing choruses. This is music you could dance to in a deadpan, New Wave kind of way; the wisps of electronica and bending riffs keep the tone

from feeling too contemplative.

It’s easy to pick up on the fact that Catamount is made up of music students. Mathy riffs, odd time signatures and general composition reveal a band whose musical education probably began with classical and jazz before the members delved into indie rock. It’s kind of cool to hear a band that’s so learned in composition because it makes you aware of how musicians build songs.

There isn’t much rawness here—and sometimes that’s the pitfall of an academic approach to music. But the EP does create a coherent impressionistic work with just enough depth and color to spark genuine emotion.

(Erika Fredrickson) Catamount plays an EP release show at Free Cycles Fri., Jan. 31, at 8 PM with Three Eared Dog and Hunter and The Gatherers. All ages. $5 suggested donation.

Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues Growing up, the one common musical thread for my group of friends was Against Me! Our early enthusiasm for the Florida band made us sort of apologists for later albums that, in truth, lost the essence of what we loved about the band in the first place—in particular, the past two albums, 2007’s New Wave and 2010’s White Crosses. Those albums were produced to an uncomfortable sheen, and the lighter, poppier sound was a shift in a long swing none of us saw coming, partly because the band’s demos/b-sides, like Total Clarity and Black Crosses, still embraced a rougher edge.

But on Transgender Dysphoria Blues, no apologies are necessary. The band has found a way to make its evolved sound genuinely work. Change is good, in more ways than one. Laura Jane Grace, who up until

recently was Tom Gabel, busts out the usual politics, now more personal than ever. The production is nearly back to the rawness of the early years but Against Me!’s pop sensibilities are in full force, like with the catchy chorus on the title track where Grace sings, “You want them to notice/the ragged ends on your summer dress/You want them to see you like they see any other girl.” The driving punk has been refined to a glorious dance between the contemplative (“Unconditional Love”) and the angry (“Black Me Out.”) It’s the album the band absolutely needed to make, and one that I needed to hear: a nod to the past yet a determined step forward. “Fuckmylife666” sums that idea up nicely: “All things made to be destroyed, all moments meant to pass.” (Brooks Johnson)

Supersuckers, Get the Hell With life so often feeling like an exercise in bouncing from calamity to misadventure, the dedicated rock ’n’ roller needs to be able to cling to a few certainties. One is that the Supersuckers, the self-described Greatest Rock ‘N Roll Band in the World, will deliver regular slabs of boot-to-the-teeth rock. The band has done it again with its latest, Get the Hell, which even offers as a title track what frontman Eddie Spaghetti calls “an anthem for the evacuation,” for those of us who just want to turn our backs on all the b.s. in the world and split.

Supersuckers is a band that doesn’t veer too far

from the formula it established back in 1988. It’s the usual catchy, uptempo rockers about finding and losing love, kicking ass and fucking up. Sometimes all in the same song. Get the Hell isn’t going to win you over if you’ve tried the band on and it didn’t fit, but it’s a great place to start if you want to see what the band’s music is all about. I’ve always found plenty of sweet turns of phrase amid all the tongue-in-cheek swagger of Spaghetti’s lyrics, and learning to sing along for the live show is always a pleasure. With a re-tooled lineup and a fresh batch of tunes, this is a band primed to defend its impressive title. (Chris La Tray)

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Snow whirls amid a flurry of wheeling arms and cian John Sporman, inspired in part by his visit to the legs. A trio of young women, bundled in scarves and Deer Lodge Prison during which he recorded sounds sweaters and snowflake-patterned socks, frolics in the throughout the facility.

Sound also plays an important role in Allison winter weather. Another woman pours boiling water from a tea kettle into a cup of Swiss Miss hot chocolate, Herther’s piece, “Symbiosis,” which is perhaps the and dons layer upon layer of woolen clothes, preparing most viscerally intriguing of the production’s collection. Her abstract soundtrack includes noises such as to brave the elements.

This scene may not sound like what you expect breathing, and what sounds like an amplified, slowedfrom a modern dance piece, but “The Enduring Sea- down mosquito. Herther’s choreography uses stillness son,” by Missoula-based choreographer Jes Mullette, to powerful effect, a creative choice that many choreographers often seem to highlights the narrative poforget as an option. tential that modern dance Dancers in asymmetrical offers through the use of black dresses move props, carefully selected through gestural phrases music and nuanced lightand sweeping duets that ing. It sets a clear mood, evoke ancient druidic similar to the way a short rites, but also feel art film does. Mullette crestrangely futuristic and ated “The Enduring Seasci-fi. We want to know: son” as part of the Bare Are the dancers meant to Bait Dance company’s secbe human? Alien? Aniond-annual Springboard mal? Are they a coven of show, which is a venue for witches, or do they repcompany members—and resent something far occasional guests like more abstract? The work Mullette —to showcase is mildly creepy, but original choreography. compellingly so.

The piece doesn’t tell a Elizabeth Pertis’ complete story, but it clevpiece, “Fewer Dams,” erly depicts the love-hate isn’t as creepy, but also relationship so many of us uses sound and abstrachave with winter. And, as tion. Her score includes a born-and-raised Monpieces by the Vegetable tanan, Mullette knows all Orchestra, which, believe about winter. it or not, creates music Another thing Monsolely out of the sounds tana dancers like Mullette vegetables can make probably know: There’s litwhen turned into instrutle opportunity for modments. (It’s cool, really. ern dancers to create work Trust me.) Her quartet and perform it in this state. Bare Bait’s Springboard features Missoula makes good use of simIt’s a situation that Bare dancer/choreographer Brittany Gaudette. ple costumes—subtle Bait Dance seems to be atphoto courtesy of Jen DeLong blues and grays and tempting to remedy.

Founder and artistic director Joy French formed the greens—and, in keeping with the title, the dancers’ company in 2011 with the goal to create dance in Mon- movements suggest the fluidity and grace of water. It tana, for Montanans. At this annual showcase, budding has been exciting to see pieces by Pertis in both the choreographers within the company have the chance 2013 Springboard show and this year’s (she used the to see their work on stage, in public—an opportunity vegetable music last year, too). The growth and depth many of them have had only once or twice in the past, of her work offer solid evidence that Springboard provides valuable opportunities to prolific choreographers if ever.

This year’s lineup includes an excerpt from in this town. That’s not to say that the production reFrench’s upcoming evening-length work, “Wall City veals all top-tier choreography. Some pieces don’t News,” which takes inspiration from the tradition of stand out. Some fall flat. But when it comes to offering 20th century prison newspapers, and the life of pris- exposure to local choreographers and an opportunity oners during that era. During the piece, French reads to flourish, and when it comes to giving audiences a from an account of a penitentiary track meet, taken taste of brand-new, never-before-seen work, Bare Bait’s from a 1930s San Quentin prison newspaper. Dancers definitely holding up its end of the bargain. wear white tank tops and work pants, and their synBare Bait Dance’s Springboard showcase continchronized movements are reminiscent of those of in- ues at Stage 112 Fri., Jan. 31, and Sat., Feb. 1, at 7 PM mates working or exercising in a yard. They dance with a Sat. matinee at 2 PM. $15/$13 advance at the under the watchful eye of three black-clad wardens, Downtown Dance Collective or ddcmontana.com. who lurk around the edges of the stage. The ambient soundscape was composed by Missoula stalwart musiarts@missoulanews.com

[theater]

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11:30 AM DEPART

Montana Rep’s Miracle Worker grips the senses

NORTH BOUND One thing I’ve come to expect from the Rep is brilliant staging that refuses to rely on glitz or spectacle.

In this case it was also simple and effective: some furniture, a water pump, a dollhouse. The costuming is understated and convincing.

At times, the video projection backdrops integrate nicely into the unity of the piece, but if anything interferes with this production it has to be the extraneous multimedia. More often than not video distracts from the action on stage without adding much to the show’s vision. Most disappointing are the projections that magnify close-up action on stage, such as Sullivan’s attempts to teach Helen sign language. These shots pull focus off the actors and intrude on an otherwise natural and imaginative engagement with the scene. It’s particularly grating in a show that asks us to empathize with a sense-impaired character. Instead of giving us more visual stimulation, what we can’t see and therefore must imagine would be a more appropriate invitation to connect.

In the climactic “Breakfast Scene,” where Sullivan and Helen clash with brutal physicality, director Bernadette Sweeney takes a surprisingly restrained approach, playing the scene in a stop-and-go fashion. The action intensifies through brief tableaus. A pulsing heartbeat accompanies the stillness, along with McRae’s ragged breath. It’s gripping stuff, though I found myself wishing the heartbeat had been 10 times louder. I wanted to feel it in my skin. I wanted to know that I’d be aware of it even if I was deaf myself.

The Miracle Worker keeps a steady rhythm of tension and release until its ebullient conclusion. Rapid and furious, it tumbles to a breaking point. Connections made within the characters shrapnel toward the audience with an impressive combination of rawness and precision. And when Appell’s only smile finally breaks it’s nearly impossible not to transform along with her.

At intermission, local screen and stage writer Roger Hedden told me, “If you cry at the end you know they did it right.”

They did it right.

Montana Rep’s The Miracle Worker continues

8:25 PM ARRIVE

11:50 AM DEPART 12:00 PM DEPART Flag Stop DEPART 2:15 PM DEPART 1:00 PM DEPART 1:25 PM DEPART 2:10 PM DEPART 2:30 PM DEPART 3:10 PM ARRIVE

Evaro 8:05 PM DEPART Arlee 7:55 PM DEPART Ravalli Flag Stop DEPART St. Ignatius 7:40 PM DEPART Pablo 6:40 PM DEPART Polson 6:30 PM DEPART Lakeside 5:45 PM DEPART 5:25 PM DEPART Kalispell 4:45 PM DEPART Whitefish

SOUTH BOUND

Caitlin McRae, left, and Hannah Appell star in Montana Rep’s The Miracle Worker.

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You know you’ve made an impact on the world when there’s an entire category of jokes about you. According to the internet, Helen Keller jokes (most of them pretty stupid) number in the hundreds. I’ve wasted the last hour trying to research the origin of the Helen Keller joke without any luck. That’s how I know a performance has impacted me—when I can’t stop obsessing over ridiculous peripheral aspects to its story.

Every year Montana Repertory Theatre takes a show on the road, and its first stop is Missoula. This year’s tour is William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, a late 1950s classic about deaf and blind child Helen Keller and her precocious young tutor, Annie Sullivan.

Having never seen The Miracle Worker or its 1962 film adaptation starring Patty Duke, I expected something vaguely Hallmark Channel, where education and love would triumph over disability. But the centerpiece of this story is neither the mind nor the heart. The Miracle Worker is about will and people’s struggle in the face of impossible frustration. Sullivan, once blind herself, moves in with the Kellers to try and deal with their nearly feral child, Helen. Everyone is frustrated and all wills are in conflict. Sullivan’s task is less teaching than restraining; the emotions are raw and animalistic, and they stir below the mediating power of language.

As usual, the Rep matches up equity actors with University of Montana students, and they all perform so professionally that it’s hard to tell them apart. Caitlin McRae, as Sullivan, struggles between her fiery personality and her position as a servant in someone’s home.

Hannah Appell inhabits Helen Keller with an eerie and ghostlike presence that’s only disrupted when she explodes into tantrums. Nick Pavelich plays Helen’s brother, James Keller, as wry and hilarious and stiffly on point. Equity actor and UM graduate Lily Gladstone plays Helen’s mother, Kate, emoting every subtle shade of maternal anxiety and gentle obstinacy. And equity actor Jim Gall gives a commanding voice and aura of authenticity to Helen’s father, Captain Arthur Keller.

It’s kind of a dream cast, really.

Though supporting actors Hugh Bickley, Sarina Hart and Therese Diekhans never take much of the spotlight, all three perform exceptionally. One of the most fascinating directorial choices for the production has Hart and Diekhans engaged in continuous background activity peripheral to the main action, which adds another layer to the story and maintains the show’s realism.

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[film]

More bite All look, little feel to Crimson Winter

by Kate Whittle

Red in the face.

In this paranormal-romance-inundated day and age, if you’re going to tell a vampire story, you must consider three important elements. You need to define your particular take on the folklore, establish romantic tension with humans, and maybe most importantly, make it sexy. That last bit is what Crimson Winter excels at, to be sure.

Crimson Winter is the first part in a forthcoming trilogy written and directed by Carroll College alumnus Bryan Ferriter, who also stars in the production. Our hero is the handsome, beefy Elric, a vampire prince who has spent thousands of years hoping that humans and vamps could someday live in harmony. Crimson’s vampires are apparently unharmed by daylight, and seem to survive just fine solely off deer and elk blood, so I don’t see why Elric’s idea can’t work. But he’s almost alone in this admirable pursuit, and for years other humans and his family have worked to thwart him.

As flashbacks explain Elric’s past, including the tragic death of his human girlfriend in the 1700s, the story works up to present-day Helena, where a group of students studying mysterious deer deaths are about to collide with Elric’s enclave of vampires.

The movie was shot over three years on a modest $400,000 budget, and Ferriter’s crew of college students dealt with obstacles like below-zero temperatures, stuntwork injuries and the death of one of the actors, Keith Carlson.

But thanks to Montana’s dramatic scenery, Crimson looks fantastic—all moody, high-contrast cinematography reminiscent of “Game of Thrones.” Helicopter shots sweep above stark, windy landscapes. Dark blood spatters against white snow. Candelight flickers on highcheekboned faces, and characters stride around mountainsides in sharply tailored coats. Muscular dudes and beautiful women gratuitously remove shirts. The use of unusual perspectives and lighting is masterful; Ferriter and his production team, Interwoven Studios, show real talent here.

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Crimson is plenty campy, as you’d expect, and I’m willing to overlook some of the anachronistic props, like Moscow mule mugs. Where it could have really used some help is with plot structure. I wish Ferriter had killed more of his darlings (pun somewhat intended). A good chunk of the first part of the movie isn’t necessary; it’s light on the action and heavy on dramatic, expository dialogue that doesn’t actually tell us much about the world in which these people live. It’s important to establish early on what rules your vampires have to follow—think “True Blood,” and how it did this right in the pilot episode, creating an elaborate mythology to spur ongoing plot twists and turns. I want more details about how the Crimson vamps eat and perpetuate themselves; this is a big part of what’s interesting about retellings of vampire stories.

The story could also use a stronger female presence. I mean, ideally all films would be better at including empowered women, but this is a particular hallmark for paranormal romances, which need to give a largely female fanbase somebody to identify with. Unfortunately, the three or so women in Crimson with major speaking roles serve as little more than spouts of declarative statements or tragically beautiful window dressing, and their only motivations seem to be adoring the heroes. The women in Crimson Winter don’t get to do any of the biting or fighting.

Plot issues aside, this is still an impressive effort from a newbie filmmaker, and it’s at least as engaging as a certain well-known sparkly vampire series. I’m hopeful that the storytelling will improve with the next installments of the trilogy. In the meantime, I’d recommend kicking back with a glass of wine and enjoying Crimson Winter for its eye candy.

Crimson Winter opens at the Roxy Theater Fri., Jan 31. Visit theroxytheater.org.

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OPENING THIS WEEK 12 O’CLOCK BOYS A young Baltimore boy in a crappy neighborhood looks up to a renegade dirtbike gang in director Lotfy Nathan’s hard-hitting documentary. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Theater Jan. 31-Feb. 2, at 7 and 9 PM. THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED This 1926 German flick depicts classic tales of the Arabian Nights using vibrantly colored silhouette animation. The film will be live scored

by Next Door Prison Hotel. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Theater Thu., Jan. 30 at 7 PM. CRIMSON WINTER A hunky vampire lord and his band of outcasts lurking in the forest outside Helena seek to earn a place in the world among humans. Starring Bryan Ferriter, Nick Milodragovich and Kailey Michael Portsmouth. Not rated (but there’s some F-bombs and violence, FYI). Screening at the Roxy Theater Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. (See Film.)

FROZEN SING ALONG Now, the whole family can “Let It Go” with this special sing-along theatrical version of the animated Disney princess flick. Carmike 12.

GROUNDHOG DAY A weatherman lives the same day over and over until he figures out how to not be a jerk. Starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Chris Elliott.

Rated PG. Screening at the Roxy on Sun., Feb. 2 at noon, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 PM. (Clever, right?)

LABOR DAY A single mom decides it would be a great idea to give a scary escaped convict a ride; heartwarming romance somehow ensues. Don’t try this at home, ladies. Starring Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin and Gattlin Griffith. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

LIVE ACTION OSCAR SHORTS The shorts up for Academy Awards include Cavedigger, about sandstone sculptor Ra Paulette, Prison Terminal, about the death of a convict, The Lady In Number 6, a 109-year-old pianist and Holocaust survivor, and Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), a comedic take on motherhood.

Not Rated. Wilma.

OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS: ANIMATION See the animated shorts up for awards this year, including Feral, about a wild boy who tries to learn how to live in civilization, Get A Horse, a never-before-seen 1920s Disney piece featuring Mickey Mouse, and The Missing Scarf, a dark comedy narrated by George Takei. Wilma.

The wheel deal. 12 O’Clock Boys opens Fri., Jan. 31 at the Roxy.

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller are three buddies trying to navigate confusing points in romantic relationships. Also starring Imogen Poots and Mackenzie Davis. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharoahplex.

GRAVITY 3D A space shuttle accident leaves two astronauts untethered in space and struggling to survive in this intense Alfonso Cuarón-directed picture.

Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney and Ed Harris. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

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.

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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, Pharaohplex.

THE NUT JOB An ornery squirrel must get out of his shell to 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.

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.

AMERICAN HUSTLE Sexy, swindling, 70s-fabulous misfits led by a con man get involved with the FBI, in a story megaloosely based on the real Abscam sting operation.

Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper. Rated R. Carmike 12, Entertainer.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Strong-willed broads and dysfunctional family collide in an Oklahoma home. Starring Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney and Julia Roberts.

Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

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.

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 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 Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

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.

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, Pharaohplex.

LONE SURVIVOR Mark Wahlberg stars as Marcus Luttrell, one of the SEAL team members in the botched 2008 Operation Red Wings mission. And David Bowie and Brian Eno wrote the theme song, cool beans. Also starring Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsch. Rated R. Carmike 12, Showboat, Pharaohplex.

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.

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.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit missoulanews.com’s arts section to find up-to-date 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.

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Bullish on bone broth

by Ari LeVaux

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It was noted by Edward Abbey that hunger is the best sauce. Along these lines I can attest that being in a state of total exhaustion makes for the best time to eat broth.

The words “broth” and “stock” are often carelessly interchanged, but there are crucial differences. They’re both mostly water, and both carry the essence of longsimmered bones, meat and veggies. But stock is a culinary foundation that’s used as an ingredient in various dishes and sauces, and doesn’t taste like much on its own. Without salt or fat, stock is the glue behind the glitter of a finished dish. Broth, by contrast, is fully seasoned, ready to consume, and has a rich, incomparably fulfilling flavor. It’s part meal and part medicine. It’s also part spatula, as it once helped scrape me off the floor after an adventure in the mountains of Siberia.

With the sun setting over the mountain range near Lake Baikal, my dad and I knew that we were in for a hellish descent after a day of backcountry skiing with outdated gear. Our friend and guide, Ura, was better equipped. A researcher at the nearby sable preserve, Ura was a quiet beast of a man, a force of nature perfectly tailored to that unforgiving environment, right down to his Siberian ski gear. His skis, called kamoos, were short and wide, with seal skins—peeled from the freshwater seals of Lake Baikal—glued to the bottoms. Instead of ski poles, Ura carried a single angura, an 8-foot staff cut from a birch sapling.

The trip down the mountain was a series of painful face-plants for me and my dad. Ura, by contrast, sailed through the trees, looking positively relaxed on his slow ice breakers. When we finally reached his cabin in the hamlet of Davsha, Dad and I were battered and broken. I huddled by the fireplace, sore, bruised and spent.

That’s when Ura handed me a bowl of beef-bone broth. The thin, salty elixir was simple, but full of warmth and rejuvenation. It was first aid for my own bones, a helping hand that lifted me from the cabin floor and delivered me to the table, where we ate a dinner of fried trout, fried potatoes and a salad of shredded carrots and garlic.

I’ll never know exactly what was in Ura’s broth.

I’ve been trying to replicate it ever since, but my version has never tasted as good. But then, I’ve also rarely been so physically and mentally broken as when I consumed it.

Various vegetable-based broths exist, with mushrooms often being used to add a meaty flavor, but the

FLASH IN THE PAN

most potent broth is made with bones. The marrow, cartilage and other connective tissues deliver protein, minerals like calcium and other body-building nutrients that you can taste and feel when you sip it. The long, slow cooking also frees the amino acid glutamate from its more common bound form. This enhances flavor in the same way that a dash of MSG (monosodium glutamate) would. This flavor is often referred to as “umami.” By the same token, those who fear MSG should be very afraid of bone broth (and stock). If your leftover broth turns to Jello overnight, don’t worry. It’s from the collagen and other proteins from the bones, connective tissues and marrow, which congeal when cool. Upon reheating, the gelatin will melt.

In its simplest form, bone broth need be little more than simmered bones and salt, with the solids removed before serving. That should be enough to peel you off the cabin floor. But for a more sophisticated culinary experience, there are some extra steps worth taking.

Browning the bones first adds additional umami (aka free glutamate) and depth of flavor. I bake them for about two hours at 300 degrees, checking often to make sure they don’t burn. Pros will sometimes carefully coat the hot bones with tomato paste, or even a little ketchup—just a tablespoon or two per batch of bones—for the final half-hour of cooking.

Add the browned bones to a kettle of water and simmer on low. Be sure to add the drippings from the bonebrowning pan, and if necessary deglaze the pan to remove the stubborn yet tasty material stuck to the bottom.

As the bones simmer, add whole carrots and an onion, cut in half, for more fragrance, as I suspect Ura did. Some celery or celery root is recommended as well, as is garlic powder. Cook on low for four to six hours, then turn off the heat and leave the pot, covered, to cool, ideally overnight. Then, strain the bones and veggie chunks.

The steps up to this point can be used to make either stock or broth. In the case of stock, skim the fat, while broth makers can leave it in place, and add salt, pepper and other seasonings.

You might want to pick any good meat off the leftover bones and scoop out any accessible marrow. It makes for a yummy snack, or you can add those meat scraps and marrow back to the broth. At this point you might be crossing the line into soup territory. But as long as it peels you off the floor, it’s probably not worth getting too hung up on semantics.

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White Bark Wheat, canned HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: White Bark Wheat from Stevensville’s Wildwood Brewery, in a can. The brewery started stocking its Bavarianstyle hefeweizen on local shelves around the holidays.

his rough sketches to an artist who turns it into a woodcut-like image, which is then turned over to a designer for color and layout.

Wildwood uses shrink-sleeve labels that adhere to the can, allowing for a more vibrant and detailed look than anything printed directly on aluminum.

Why you’re drinking it: Speaking as someone who’s What’s next: Lueders says not the biggest fan of hefes, he expects to eventually have all White Bark Wheat delivers a of Wildwood’s beers in cans, with surprisingly deep, smooth flathe popular Loquacious Duck up vor with hints of banana and photo by Cathrine L. Walters next. This classic German doppelclove. It has quickly become my favorite pour from Wildwood’s impressive bock is a seasonal favorite in the taproom and packs quite a punch at 8.5 percent alcohol by volume. selection of organic brews.

“I’m waiting on approval for the labels and hope to So, what’s the secret? Brewery founder get it this week,” he says. The Duck would join then Jim Lueders explains that the difference be- join the White Bark Wheat, Ambitious Pale Lager, tween his ale and typical American wheat beers Bodacious Bock and Mystical Stout on local shelves. is in the classic Bavarian brewing style and a Straight to the source: Don’t want to sip special yeast from southern Germany. “People think there are additives or that I use spices to from a can? Visit the brewery at 4018 Highway get that flavor, and I don’t,” he says. “The flavor 93, just north of Stevensville. It’s open every evening between 4 and 8. comes naturally from that special yeast.”

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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. $$-$$$

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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PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

nightlife Three Cornered Jack, the “smart-ass formerly known as Ron Dunbar,” sasses right back atcha at the Top Hat dinner show. 6 PM. Free, all ages.

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.

January 30–February 6, 2014

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. 6-8:30 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. 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. (This has been your regularly scheduled River Runs Through It reference.)

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. Due to popularity, there’s now two levels: beginning two-step from 6:45 to 7:30, intermediate two-step from 7:45 to 8:30. Live band starting at 9.

Be amazed at the feats of Helen Keller after the Montana Repertory Theatre’s rendition of The Miracle Worker. Montana Theatre. Performances Jan. 30–Feb. 1 and Feb. 6-8 at 7:30 PM, plus 2 PM matinee on Feb. 1. $10-$20. Visit montanarep.org. (See Theater.)

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.

Cast of colorful characters. Brooklyn funk band Turkuaz plays the Top Hat Thu., Feb. 6 at 9:30 PM. No cover.

THURSDAYJAN30 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.

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.

Take your boots off before the Lunch Re-Boot Yoga with Mary Hanson, with breathing, stretch-

ing and relaxing poses. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays, Jan. 9March 27, from noon to 12:50 PM. No class on Jan. 23. $40 for six week series/$9 drop-in. Call 721-0033 or email info@redwillowlearning.org.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:15-5

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, 18-plus.

Legendary hip hoppers Nappy Roots play the Palace, along with Codependents, Traff the Wiz and the vertically blessed Tallest DJ in America.

9 PM. $15 plus fees, available at 1111presents.com and Rockin Rudy’s. 18-plus.

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Rumor has it our Former Calendar Editor Calamander will be breakdancing when Julie Bug and Northern Exposure play the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 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.

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Strap on your big-girl undies, hunty, and head out on the town, for tonight is the one and only Panty Rock Drag Show, a raucous genderbending evening that benefits the Women’s Resource Center. Tunes

by DJ Tygerlily. Palace 9 PM. $5/$10 for ages 18-plus.

nightlife The New Hong Kong Chef celebrates Year of the Horse with tasty num-nums for the Chinese New Year.

2009 Brooks St. 5 PM. Some proceeds go toward the Watson’s Children Shelter.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM. No cover. Jan. 31 features tunes from Andrea Harsell and friends.

The Missoula Area Central Labor Council presents the ninth annual Missoula Labor Film Festival, featuring films about the struggle of workers in U.S. and abroad. Screening at the Crystal Theater Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 from 6:30-9:30 PM. (See Agenda.)

On Center Performing Arts presents To Missoula, With Love 2014: Instant Fame, a collection of dance

performance pieces about how social media affects young people, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Fri., Jan. 31 at 7 PM, Sat., Feb. 1 at 2 PM and catered gala followed by performance at 6 PM. $13/$10 for students. $25 for Saturday evening gala.

Choo, choo! All aboard the Symphony Express for the annual Family Concert with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra, a musical sleuthing adventure at the Dennison Theatre. 7 PM. $8. Tickets available at missoulasymphony.org, 721-3194 or at the office at 320 East Main Street.

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 406-214-0097. All ages.

Be amazed at the feats of Helen Keller after the Montana Repertory Theatre’s rendition of The Miracle Worker. Montana Theatre.

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.

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. (This has been your regularly scheduled River Runs Through It reference.)

A local production of the classic play-within-a-play comedy Noises Off comes to the Stevensville Playhouse, with performances on Jan. 2426 and Jan. 31-Feb. 2. Weekend shows are at 7:30 PM, Sundays are 2 PM matinees.

It’ll be one wild evening when Three Eared Dog, Hunter and the Gatherers and Catamount play Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W. It’s Catamount’s EP release, y’all. 8 PM. $5 donation. All ages. (See Music.)

Wild Coyote Band does the bootscoot-boogie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.

Insert your own “Phishhead” joke here for the Phish tribute with Shafty at Stage 112. 9 PM-2 AM. $7/$5 if you bring a ticket from a previous Phish concert or a photo of you and a member of Phish.

T.G.I.F., baby, and if you wanna commune with your inner party vibe, best head on down to see Joan Zen at the Union Club. 9 PM. No cover.

You got no excuse to not get your butt movin’ when Shakewell and Off in the Woods play the Badlander, starting at 9 PM. $5.

I dunno what this “chive on” business is all about, but the Chive On Montana: Unofficial KCCO Party seems all right. DJs include Como Se Va, Kapture, Bass Chasers, Woo, Christian Jackson and Digifreq, plus there’s SoulKandi GoGo dancing and light show. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $2/$5 for ages 18-20. Proceeds support Kendra Fledderman’s battle with leukemia.

Have a cuppa or three when Sophi’s Tea and Boston Tea Party play Sean Kelly’s at 9 PM. No cover.

Crack some suds and dig the mellow kicks at Thunderground, a new dance night with Kris Moon and guests on Fridays in the basement of Stage 112, on the corner of Front and Pattee (aka the old Jolly Corks.) 9 PM. No cover, 21-plus.

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.

[calendar] New York trio Sophistafunk delivers classy grooves as advertised at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. $5.

Cash in all the chips when Paydirt hits the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., for an evening of dancing and general revelry. 9:30 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYFEB01 The Off the Rack: 2014 Metamorphosex fashion show and Blue Mountain Clinic fundraiser busts barriers tonight at the Wilma. 8:30 PM. $25/$15 for living lightly. Check out bluemountainclinic.org to learn more. (See Arts.)

Kick into garage sale-ing season a li’l early with the Giant Garage Sale Fundraiser for an upcoming eighth grade student trip to volunteer in Mexico. Includes household items, sporting goods, furniture, kid’s clothing and much more. Missoula International School, 1100 Harrison St. 8 AM. If you’re passionate about readin’ and writing’, then perhaps you oughta help middle and high school students become better writers. Writing Coaches of Missoula hosts volunteer trainings on Sat., Feb. 1 from 9 AMnoon and Tue., Feb. 4 from 6:30-9:30 PM. To learn more or sign up, email writingcoachesofmissoula@gmail.com.

All that practice you logged at Sir Putt-A-Lot’s Merrie Olde Fun Centre will pay off at the annual Mini Golf Tournament hosted by the Soroptimists at the Eagles Lodge in Hamilton.

9:30 AM. Registration is required at sihamilton.org or by calling Mary Alice at 406-381-1335. $80 for traditional teams/$55 for Caddyshack teams.

Imaginative young writers ages 8-14 are invited to the Missoula Writing Collaborative’s Saturday Creative Writing Workshops, where instructor Micah Fields will lead discussions in the role of winter in inspiring work, occasional outdoor recreational activities and hot cocoa.

Fort Missoula, No. 28, Officer’s Row. No cost. Learn more by calling 5493348 or emailing info@missoula writingcollaborative.org?

Stay true to your root vegetables with the Heirloom Winter Farmers Market, which offers produce, honey, crafts and more, in the Floriculture Building on the Western Montana Fairgrounds. 10 AM-2 PM on Saturdays.

If Spontaneous Music By Children doesn’t sound like a punishment to you, then check out University Village Community Center’s 14th season of monthly sessions for parents and kids to dance and see professional performances. Instruments and snack provided. 10:30 AM, with dancing at 11 and guest musician around 11:20. $3.50 per child, $2 for additional kiddos. Free for parents. Call Jen at 370-0300 to reserve a spot.

The guild that sews together, stays together, so join Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., at Craft Vigilantes, its monthly Modern Quilt Guild for beginners and pros alike. 12–5 PM. $20 (first few sign-ups are free).

Small-town sports, family life and The Boss are big parts of Whitehallbased author Glenn Marx’s new novel, Talk About a Dream. Reading and signing at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., from 1-3 PM.

nightlife Holy cheeseballs, 100 esteemed local artists are on tap at the 42nd Benefit Art Auction and exhibition, a blowout including silent and live auction and raffle. University Center Ballroom, 5 PM. $90 for MAM members/$100 non-members/$900 for a table of 10. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org or call 728-0447.

Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

The Missoula Area Central Labor Council presents the ninth annual Missoula Labor Film Festival, featuring films about the struggle of workers in U.S. and abroad. Screening at the Crystal Theater Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 from 6:30-9:30 PM. 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 406-214-0097. All ages.

Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays the jazzy stuff all sexy-like at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., from 7-9 PM. No cover.

A bunch of ragtag musicians with who-knows-what kind of instruments get together from 7 to 9:30 PM on the first Sat. of every month for the Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree at the Grange Hall, 1436 South First St. in Hamilton. This month there’s Irish tunes, cowboy poetry, jazz and western swing. $3 donations are encouraged. Call Clem at 9614949.

Be amazed at the feats of Helen Keller after the Montana Repertory Theatre’s rendition of The Miracle Worker. Montana Theatre.

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On Center Performing Arts presents To Missoula, With Love 2014: Instant Fame, a collection of dance performance pieces about how social media affects young people, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

Fri., Jan. 31 at 7 PM, Sat., Feb. 1 at 2 PM and catered gala followed by performance at 6 PM. $13/$10 for students. $25 for Saturday evening gala.

Check out the Yost-ess with the most-est when Travis Yost plays the Top Hat dinner show. 6 PM. Free.

It won’t be any trouble at all when The Hasslers play Draught

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[calendar] 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.

Wild Coyote Band does the boot-scoot-boogie at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. 8 PM. No cover.

A local production of the classic play-within-a-play comedy Noises Off comes to the Stevensville Playhouse, with performances on Jan. 31Feb. 2. Weekend shows are at 7:30 PM, Sundays are 2 PM matinees.

The cream of the crop are on tap for the Best of Open Mic Night, featuring Fred Boner, Micah Nielsen, Rashelle Myra, Kayla Hutchin and Ancient Ones. Sean Kelly’s. 8:30 PM. No cover.

The Missoula Folklore Society presents a contra dance with tunes provided by Skippin A Groove upstairs at the Union Hall. Mark Matthews has the call. Beginner workshop from 7:30-8, dancing from 8-11 PM. $9/$6 for members.

Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are like Shabba-Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp, saving rec centers one beat at at time. Get hip to their jamz, hippies. Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. $2.

Rock Lotto comes but once a year, sweetheart, so revv up to party down when eight(ish) bands assembled by random drawing come together to make beautiful (or atrocious) music.

Palace. 9 PM. $5. Proceeds benefit Lost Sounds of Montana. (See Spotlight.)

Cash in all the chips when Paydirt hits the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., for an evening of dancing and general revelry. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Reverend Slanky is breaking out like the measles to Funk the Foundation at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $5.

Some proceeds go toward the Poverello Center.

SUNDAYFEB02 You haven’t seen an Anthony Kiedis nip slip like you’ve seen it on a 17’ HD Screen, so check out the Super Bowl Party at the Top Hat, which includes special sausageheavy menu. Game’s at 4 PM. Free, all ages.

The Family Clay Workshop: My Valentine invites young and old to spend the day together making pottery, which will be fired and glazed and ready for pickup before Valentine’s Day. $35 for adult and child pair, additional adults and kids welcome for $15 each. Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St., unit A. Call 406543-0509 or theclaystudioofmissoula.org to learn about registration.

The Fourth Annual Ice Cream for Breakfast invites kiddos to mow down on pancakes, bacon and an ice cream buffet before burning off the energy with Mismo gymnastics, music from the Whizpops or watching a family friendly movie. Hosted by the Children’s Museum of Missoula. Wilma.

9-11 AM. Donations appreciated.

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Naad Yoga (the Yoga of Sound, dontcha know) practitioner Gurunam Singh offers a workshop with Kundalini mantras, meditations and mudras on Sun., Feb. 2 from 10 AM-1 PM, followed by a kirtan concert on Mon., Feb. 3 from 6:30-8:30 PM. Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St., Ste B. $60/$50 in advance for workshop, $25/$20 in advance for concert. Visit yogainmissoula.com for info and tickets.

Leap into the Year of the Horse in style with the 2014 Chinese New Year Celebration, featuring a talent show, martial arts demonstrations, dancing and good cheer. University Center Ballroom. 1 PM. Free.

Dance the cabin fever blues away when the Golden Age Club hosts dances, an alcohol-free event, with potluck snacks during breaks. 727 Fifth St. in Hamilton. 1-4 PM. $3.

nightlife A local production of the classic play-within-a-play comedy Noises Off comes to the Stevensville Playhouse, with performances on Jan. 2426 and Jan. 31-Feb. 2. Weekend shows are at 7:30 PM, Sundays are 2 PM matinees.

How cool will it be? Just ask Way Cool Music when they play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-7 PM. No cover.

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Don’t worry, there won’t be sharks with laserbeams on their heads, just a lotta bass and a big ole light show when DJ Savoy brings the Get Lazer’d Tour to Stage 112, along with DotEXE. $15/$12 in advance, plus surcharge for minors. Check out stageonetwelve.com. 18-plus.

Show J.J. Abrams who’s boss after the Screenwriting Workshop, a sixweek class where you’ll learn how to format and plot out film scripts. ZACC, 235 N. First St. Mondays from 6-8 PM through Feb. 17. $75. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.org to learn more.

Rasa O’Neill presents Therapeutic Yoga for Wellness and Healing, with gentle stretches, breath work and guided meditation. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent St. Mondays from noon to 1 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in. Ongoing class. Call 721-0033 to learn more.

Naad Yoga (the Yoga of Sound, dontcha know) practitioner Gurunam Singh offers a workshop with Kundalini mantras, meditations and mudras on Sun., Feb. 2 from 10 AM-1 PM, followed by a kirtan concert on Mon., Feb. 3 from 6:30-8:30 PM. Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St., Ste B. $60/$50 in advance for workshop, $25/$20 in advance for concert. Visit yogainmissoula.com for info and tickets.

nightlife Keep your shiz together and for the love of God, quit accidentally yelling the answers at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset ain’t a sommelier, but he’ll play one on TV at the Red Bird Wine Bar. Tunes from 7-10 PM. Free.

It’s fair to say the “Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, PRISM, Edward Snowden and National Security� lecture from Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges should cover some serious ground. Check it out at the UC Ballroom at 8 PM.

TUESDAYFEB04 Dreaming of four walls and a roof to call your own? The Get Ready for Homeownership Class goes through the basics of the oftdaunting process. Solstice Building, 1535 Liberty Lane. Offers Feb. 4, 5 and 6 from 6-9 PM, and Feb. 11 from 6-8 PM. $20/$35 per household, childcare vouchers available.

Learn more at homeword.org.

Take a chill pill with the Relax and Restore lunch-hour stress-reducing meditative series with Michelle Voigt. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Tuesdays through Feb. 11 from 12:10-12:50 PM. $30 for the three-week series. Call 406-731-0033 to learn more.

The After School Art Adventure class invites kids ages 6-11 to check out current exhibits and then dig in to their own projects, like printmaking, paper weaving, fantasy character paintings, drawing and more.

Missoula Art Museum. Runs through Feb. 18, on Tuesdays from 3:45-5:15 PM. $50/$45 for members. Scholarships available, too. Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org for more information.

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we salute you A small-town music scene sometimes gets a whole lot like a high school cafeteria. The goth nerds sit at one table, the punks at another, the metalheads are out smoking in the parking lot, the indie rockers are preening in the bathroom. (Metaphorically, of course.)

But when the cliques are upheaved and rearranged in a melting pot, musical magic can happen. At least, something I’d call magic happened at the inaugural Rock Lotto in February 2013, in which musicians who signed up were randomly assigned into bands and given a few weeks to come up with original songs and play a show.

The event wound up more raucous than many of us anticipated, although I suspect that Rock Lotto founder and coordinator (and former Indy staffer) Jason McMackin knew what he was doing.

WHAT: Rock Lotto II: The Quickening WHEN: Sat., Feb. 1 at 9 PM WHERE: Palace HOW MUCH: $5

Allow me to quote myself from a Missoula Punk News blog post recapping the first Lotto: “When people decide something is truly for kicks and give up ideas of being a ‘serious’ band or whatever, some really rad shit happens. Risks are taken. Union suits are worn. Goofy British accents are used. I, person-

nightlife Tuesday night just got a whole lot more erotic as Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays jazz at Brooks and Browns, inside the Holiday Inn downtown. 6-9 PM. No cover.

Techies are invited to the Google Apps development group with Nik Chaphalkar, which is using Eclipse IDE to build apps for the Android platform.

If any of that makes sense to you, check it out at the Missoula Public Library, ever other Tuesday evening through February. 7-8 PM. Free.

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: Cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine. What other animals purr?

(See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Party down Calamagrostis rubescens-style when Pinegrass plays bluegrass tunes at the Top Hat. 8:30 PM. 21-plus after 9. No cover.

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.

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ally, wouldn’t be averse to each and every one of the bands that played to continue. I should have gotten a Traumaboner shirt.”

And that was just last year, when nobody really understood what this Rock Lotto thing was supposed to be. Now, people get it, and they’re stoked.

Just check out the Rock Lotto II Facebook event, where some bands have already posted promo photos. Excellent names abound, like Tupack Shakers, Mark Heyka Overdrive, Public Anemone and Worf of Wall Street. Subtlecock is already silkscreening shirts.

This year has the added bonus of being for a good cause besides just general amusement. Proceeds go toward Lost Sounds Montana, musician Dave Martens’ project to collect memorabilia and recordings from Montana bands of the 20th century and onward. It’s refreshing to remember all the cool, creative minds who have made our small-town scenes vibrant—and to party down with the people who still are.

—Kate Whittle

Is that my heartbeat, or is that just John Adam Smith’s stomp box? Either way, he plays the Badlander at 9 PM for free, y’all. Plus there’s $3 Montgomery drinks.

Bluegrassy genre-bending Bellingham outfit Polecat plays the Top Hat, along with Lil’ Smokies. 10 PM. $5.

WEDNESDAYFEB05 Consider critters in a new way when Charles Finn reads from his collection Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters, capturing moments of interaction with furry and feathered creatures, at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 6 PM. Free.

night of hot beats at the Palace. Free.

Spring will be here someday, we promise, so get cracking on your gardening goals when the Five Valley Seed Library volunteers host an informational table at the Missoula Public Library about the seed library and planting. 11:30 AM-1 PM.

nightlife Lift some suds for a cause when the Community UNite event raises funds for the UM student group 1,000 New Gardens, which works to install garden beds in Missoula yards. Northside Kettlehouse, 313 N. First St. 5-8 PM. Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. Feb. 5 features the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio.

Ski by day, kick up your bootsto bluegrass by night at the Big Sky Big Grass Festival at Big Sky Resort.

The four-day event features performers like Drew Emmitt, Infamous Stringdusters, Traveling McCourys, Deadly Gentlemen and more. Tickets on sale at bigskyresort.com.

The Fiction Writer’s Workshop invites all aspiring scribes to get together for dynamic, interactive workshopping at the ZACC. Every other week on Wednesday at 6 PM through June 11. Open to everyone ‘cept for UM writing students (and really, they ought to be busy enough as it is). Free.

Here, lemme take a look under the hood for ya at Milkcrate Wednesday, where the Milkcrate Mechanic hosts a

Get back to bass-ics when Canadian dubstep DJ Excision shakes the house, along with Dirtyphonics and

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Now that’s a real knee-slapper. Bellingham’s Polecat plays the Top Hat, along with Lil' Smokies, Tue., Feb. 4 at 10 PM. $5.

Ill.Gates. Wilma. Doors at 7, show at 8 PM. $30/$28.50 in advance. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

The always-enthused jazzy outfit El-3OH! plays Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Know your flora from your fauna to best the competition at the Naturalist Trivia Night, with categories like bird song identification and local geology. Come as a team or join one. Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation. Visit MontanaNaturalist.org.

(Trivia answer: lemurs, guinea pigs, squirrels, rabbits, elephants and gorillas.)

Leon Young warms your heart while stout warms your liver at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM.

THURSDAYFEB06 American Falcon swoops in to knock you out with their thighs for the Thursday night residency, throughout this month at the VFW. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $3/$5 for ages 18-20.

nightlife Technophobes (that’s fear of arts and crafts) might want to steer clear of the reception for Denver artist Sarah Rockett’s Phobic, a multimedia drawing installation exploring how fear is perpetuated in American culture. UM Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social Sciences Building. Artist’s talk at 5:10 PM, followed by reception until 7 PM. The cool cats of Next Door Prison Hotel make like a canary at the Top Hat dinner show.

6 PM. Free, all ages.

Suspense abounds in this year’s captivating family concert – a mystery themed adventure for sleuths of all ages!

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Be amazed at the feats of Helen Keller after the Montana Repertory Theatre’s rendition of The Miracle Worker. Montana Theatre. 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.

Rockin’ Coloradoans the Jaden Carlson Band bring some of that Rocky Mountain chill up to the Palace, along with John Adam Smith. 9 PM. Free.

Brooklyn nine-piece “power funk army” Turkuaz marches its way into your heart at the Top Hat. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Shout-out to Godric, Lord of the Cuddles, who rarely ever tries to puke on my laptop.

Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress by 5 PM on Fridays to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. 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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s someone who is in recovery from a lot of dodgeball-related trauma, I am coming to learn that physical education is not the source of all suffering in the world. Exercise can be rewarding and even enjoyable at times, though this wasn’t something I learned until leaving behind the torments of Cowpie High and taking yoga and dance classes in college. It turns out exercise science in the Western world is a noble art dating back as far as Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.). “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health,” he noted. If only, Hippocrates. We’re still working on that same question today.

There’s plenty of cheerful, energetic folks studying exercise science at the University of Montana’s Health and Human Performances Department, and none of them has ever thrown a dodgeball at my head, bless them. HHP offers classes to majors and non-majors

seeking to learn a new skill, running the gamut from tribal belly dance to weightlifting. And for the cheerful, energetic types who enjoy a long run on a chilly day, Saturday’s Freezer Burn 10-Miler run raises funds for the HHP department’s trip to an exercise science conference. The Freezer Burn jaunts along a fairly quiet course along Miller Creek Road, a change from previous years when it was out at Frenchtown. And after the race, there’s a party and chili feed. I guess that sounds pretty cool.

—Kate Whittle The Freezer Burn 10-Miler, a fundraiser for the Health and Human Performances Department runs a point-to-point course along Miller Creek Road, and includes shuttle from Linda Vista Golf Course to the race start. Sat., Feb. 1 at 9 AM. $50 race day registration. Visit runnersedgemt.com.

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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.

Wilderness and forestry experts Kevin Hood and Andrew Larson present “Can We Keep Wilderness Wild? The Future of Science, Research and Management On Public Lands” as part of the 2014 Wilderness Institute Lecture Series. Gallagher Business Building, Room 122. 7:10-8:30 PM. Visit cfc.umt.edu/wc.

FRIDAY JANUARY 31 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 FEBRUARY 1 The Skin to Win/Randonnee Festival is a classic mountaineering event with hella steep climbs and descents, with divisions for men, women, pro and recreational. Competitors’ meeting Feb. 1 at the Bozeman Public Library at 5:30 PM, festival at Bridger Bowl Ski Area. Visit bridgerbowl.com or call 406-587-2111 to learn more.

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.

No experience is necessary, but bring along your enthusiasm for Cross Country Ski Touring at Lubrecht, hosted by the MORE program. Ages 12 and up are welcome. Bring gear or get your own at a discounted rate; ski instructors will provide info. Departs from the Currents Aquatic Center at 10 AM. $30. Register at Currents.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 5 Get waxed at the Ski and Snowboard Maintenance Class, a one-hour hands-on clinic where you’ll use available tools and wax to learn how to keep your board or skis spiffy. UM Outdoor Program Workbench. $5. Register by the day before. Visit life.umt.edu/crec/outdoor to learn more.

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.

The Missoulians on Bicycles get together to wheel and deal for their monthly meeting hosted

by Adventure Cycles, 150 E. Pine St. 7 PM. Check out missoulabike.org.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6 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. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is more than 100 years old, but labor, poverty and class conflict are as crucial issues in America now as they were when it was published in 1906. Consider, for instance, that one of the largest fast-food strikes in history was on Dec. 5, 2013, when workers went on strike in more than 100 cities.

In an age of everwidening income inequality, many people have to support families on part-time, minimum wage work. People who work for McDonalds, Wendy’s and other big chains are risking their jobs to demand living wages, according to colorlines.com. As I write this, President Obama is pushing for federal workers to earn a $10.10 minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage could reduce poverty rates and increase people’s spending power without necessarily creating extra costs for corporations, if more of their enormous profits would trickle down to the workers. The CEO of YUM! Brands, which owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, made $20.5 million in 2012, while the average worker in one of those stores made $7.50 an hour, according to

a June 2013 piece in The Stranger by economist Kshama Sawant.

You can explore more global work issues at the two-day Missoula Labor Film Festival, put on by the Missoula Area Central Labor Council. Friday’s films include Heist: Who Stole the American Dream, a 2013 documentary about how corporations are chipping away at unions, regulations and taxations to maximize profits. The opening film on Saturday, Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work, demonstrates worker- run factories from San Francisco to Spain. It’s stories like these that offer a hopeful vision of how we can move to a future that’s better for all people.

—Kate Whittle The Missoula Area Central Labor Council presents the ninth annual Missoula Labor Film Festival, featuring films about the struggle of workers in U.S. and abroad. Screening at the Crystal Theater Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 from 6:30-9:30 PM. Suggested donation of $7 for one night/$10 for both.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY JANUARY 31 Today is the last day to register for the Cancer, Courage and Creativity therapeutic workshops for patients and survivors that run from Feb. 6-March 27 at the Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. No cost to register. Call 549-5329.

Give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a nonviolent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 Anyone dealing with illness or loss is invited to the therapeutic “Diamond Fold Book” workshop with Loretta Vizzutti at Living Art of Montana, 725 W. Alder St., No. 17. 10:30 AM-12:30 PM. No charge. Call 5495329 or visit livingartofmontana.org to learn more.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2 This is the kind of mass I can really get behind.

The Missoula Area Secular Society presents its Sunday M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet the first Sun. of every month for lunch at 11:30 AM in the Elbow Room. 1855 Stephens Ave. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

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 406-830-6561.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 3 Sip a fancy soda for a cause 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.

Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

Dr. Tom Bulger presents a li’l ole lecture on “Global Health: The Big Issues” as part of the Global Health in the Global South: Montana’s Mountains Beyond Mountains series. Gallagher Business Building Room 106. 6:30-7:30 PM.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4 Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 5 Ali Fu Jiang Haimiti, an Uyghur grad student at Michigan State, presents “Caucasian, Muslim, and Chinese: Uyghur Culture in China” as part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series. University Center room 333.

12:10-1 PM.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6 The Love Your Joints informational lunches take place at the Arthritis Foundation, 337 Stephens Ave, on Thursdays through Feb. from noon-1 PM. Registration is required, so hop to arthritis.org/montana to learn more.

Honor your connection to the earth and the glorious array of life on it during the Children of the Earth Tribe Song and Chant Circle at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins, enter through back alley door. 7:30-9 PM. Free will offering.

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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By Amy Alkon EAT, PRAY, BARF My girlfriend and I just got back from vacationing in India, where we lived in an ashram (essentially a yoga camp) and she studied yoga and meditation for a month.

Since we've been back, she's been wearing a sari everywhere, which stands out completely here, and she greets everyone by bowing and saying "namaste" (an Indian greeting). She talks constantly to people about spirituality and energy and, to be honest, comes off as totally pretentious. This is all starting to wear on me. Is it shallow of me to be bothered by her new look and attitude when she's feeling so enlightened?

—Downcast Dog When your girlfriend bows and says "namaste" to the bag guy at the supermarket, you have to wonder, are there two yogis in India fist-bumping and greeting each other, "Wassup, home slice?" and "Nuthin, dawg. What's crackalackin with you?"

It's understandable that you feel guilty about being annoyed that your girlfriend has gone Suddenly Swami. If she'd come back from Paris and started marching around in a beret and an Hermes scarf and speaking French to the grocery bagger, you'd probably deem her an obnoxious phony and suspect she has a superiority complex (a shrink term for covering up feelings of inferiority by acting superior). The problem is, we're told we have to "respect" people's spiritual beliefs and practices. We should respect their right to have them, providing they don't involve baby eating or witch burnings, but there's been what British philosopher Simon Blackburn calls "respect creep," the expectation of "more substantial respect"— admiration, approval, and deference. Well, these things are earned; they can't be expected or demanded, and it's no more wrong to have critical thoughts about somebody's spiritual beliefs and expression than about their politics or choice of pizza toppings. So, getting back to your girlfriend, no, she isn't exempt from being considered a pretentious jerk when she signs her credit card slip in Sanskrit.

It also isn't "shallow" to feel that the new her doesn't work for the relatively unchanged you. (As a flamboyant bigmouth, I can tell you that flamboyant bigmouth girls aren't for just any guy.) But you might give this some time. This might just be the yoga 'n' meditation version of somebody excited about losing weight on a new diet and wanting to spread the word, and she may become less affected, preachy, and annoying in a month or two. To help speed the process, you could gently ask her to

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consider whether her clothes and talk might be creating distance between her and other people. A person shows their spiritual growth and attracts others to their path through how they act and treat people. (The saying is "Be the change you want to see in the world," not "Dress as the change.") Sure, Buddha dressed like an Asian monk, but it isn't the monk suit that made the man. (If Buddha were from Milwaukee, he'd be sitting cross-legged in Levi's and a trucker hat.)

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A RUSE BY ANY OTHER NAME I am 23 and like this really cute guy who lives in my building. I think he likes me, too, because he flirts back a bit when I flirt with him, so I've been trying to send stronger signals that I want him to ask me out. I friended him on Facebook and started posting cute photos of myself, and if I'm at the store, I'll buy him something and knock on his door and say, "Hey, I got an extra box of cookies; thought you could use them." I'm thinking of throwing a party and inviting him, but I'll feel dumb if he doesn't come and I threw the party for nothing.

—Impatient Unfortunately, men are more complicated than cats. You can't just tie a beer and a bag of Doritos to the end of a string.

A guy takes note of your existence because your legs give him whiplash, not because you deliver snacks or slip a coupon under his door for a free carwash with every date. You should flirt to let a guy know you're open to being asked out— and stop at that. What makes you attractive, in addition to the physical stuff, is your being a little out of reach, not inserting yourself into his life at every possible social or social media opportunity. The ploys you've been engaging in may not be so overt and aggressive as asking a guy out, but especially in combination, they cross over from indicating interest to screaming desperation. Because a guy can't unhear that scream, your best bet is forgetting this guy, chalking this up to a learning experience, and moving on. And no, that doesn't mean moving on to the plan of covering a big pit with leaves and luring him over to it with some Fig Newtons.

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Bagger Our business is a large grocery retail store specializing in natural and organic foods. If you enjoy working for a local business with strong roots in the community and a friendly staff, we invite you to apply as a bagger. Duties include assisting cashiers in providing prompt, friendly and helpfull customer service by bagging groceries and helping customers. We have one part time schedule available.

Pay starts at $8.12 per hour and increases to $8.44 per hour after six months. Benefits include paid vacation time, 20% employee discount on store purchases, 401K and employee assistance program. Short Term Disability and Life Insurance are also available. Please review job description and schedule on our website.

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DAYS/HOURS: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm, 30 to 40 hours per week. PAY/BENEFITS: $9 to $11/hour depending on qualifications. After 1 year of full time work, will receive medical and vacation time. Holiday pay after 3 months. **CLOSES 1/29/2014* Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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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@mis-

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDIA ARTS A local university seeks an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MEDIA ARTS. QUALIFICATIONS: This job requires an MFA in a related area or equivalent professional experience and a strong professional background in digital design (still image and motion), as well as digital filmmaking (narrative or experimental). Also necessary is the ability to teach the full range of classes in BFA and MFA programs, including post-production, exceptional skills with applicable software including NLE, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects, and demonstrated excellence in online and blended teaching at the college/university level or equivalent experience.

DUTIES: Specific teaching assignments will be determined by the candidate’s experience and expertise. This is a tenure-track position. HOURS / DAYS: Fulltime. Negotiable. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 2986110 COMMERICIAL LOAN PROCESSOR Local bank is seeking a full-time COMMERCIAL LOAN PROCESSOR. *QUALIFICATIONS: A combination of education and experience equivalent to a high school diploma and minimum of year customer service related work experience. Experience in banking and/or loan processing is preferred. Computer operation/use - personal computers and software, including strong working knowledge and demonstrated use of spreadsheet, word processing, Internet and banking computer software. *DUTIES: This position provides administrative support to work unit, in

EMPLOYMENT addition to performing duties associated with loan processing such as preparing and processing approved new loans and renewals.

Excellent benefit package with this full-time position and pay is depending on experience. ***CLOSE DATE: 01/31/14*** Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 2986104 COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER editor/reporter in Hazen, ND. Experience or degree preferred. Excellent community, company (www.bhgnews.com).

Apply at news@bhgnews.com Coordinator Missoula nonprofit is seeking a 1/4 time COORDINATOR for their organization. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have strong interpersonal skills, excellent verbal and communication skills and will demonstrate organization and attention to detail. A familiarity with fiscal management & procedures is also desired. DUTIES: Include event planning, scheduling and coordinating the annual calendar of responsibilities, duties and deadlines, overseeing the production of programs and other print materials, and acting as a liaison between advertisers, donors, guest artists, orchestra and board. The Coordinator is also responsible for budget and ticket management, database maintenance, player contracts, and overseeing the website and social media.

DAYS/HOURS: This is a 1/4 time position with flexible hours but includes some evening and weekend work. WAGE: $9,500 per year depending on experience. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 2986113 Experienced CPA Looking for an experienced CPA with 510 years of experience in a CPA firm. Must have a current CPA license for the State of Montana.

Looking for a good fit for the Missoula location and Hamilton location. Please send all resumes in MS Word format. Only those with relevant experience need apply. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 9986201 Front Office Clerk Office clerk: answer phones, greet customers, build Excel spreadsheets, create invoices on Quickbooks, write letters on Word, look up various car, trailer, and truck parts on the web. File and maintain fax machine. Applicant MUST be a self-starter and be willing to dive in and do the work. Applicant MUST be organized and be able to tackle multiple tasks at once. Applicant should have a strong sense of self with an ability to know how to organize the desk and stick to a plan. We need a person who will make this job their own; a person looking for a career and can move up within the company.

Starting wage is $8 / hr. during training with the possibility of raises as knowledge of the company grows. We need a person with a positive attitude and great work ethic. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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INVITATION TO BID. The St. Mary Rehabilitation Group is seeking a contractor to provide coordination services to implement their Strategic Plan. Please call 406-265-9226 or e-mail mburchard@bearpaw.org for more details Legal Assistant/Paralegal Small, fast-paced law firm seeks a legal assistant/paralegal for long-term employment.

This position requires high proficiency in word processing, internet usage, and basic office skills. Employer is seeking fulltime employment and is willing to provide some training. The hourly wage will depend on the applicant’s skills and experience.

Duties include: typing, back-up telephone answering, filing, client interaction, drafting of correspondence, research, and a multitude of other duties. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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SKILLED LABOR INSTALLER 1 A Missoula communications company is seeking two full time cable INSTALLER 1. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have high school diploma or GED and a valid driver’s license. Applicant should present a professional appearance, be able to complete paperwork in a legible, timely manner and perform all work in a safe manner that is in compliance with safety codes and regulations. Effective oral and written communications skills and previous selling experience is preferred. DUTIES: Will perform new connects, reconnects, disconnects, add outlets, install and/or remove converters, modems etc. Will perform upgrades and downgrades of service, including digital service to company standards. Will take proactive steps to continue education in present and future products, services and technologies. Will learn to support company revenues by selling new products and services. PAY: Competitive salary, dependent on experience: BENEFITS: Excellent benefit package offered. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 2986112

PATIENT SERVICE TECHNICIAN Technician needed to deliver medical equipment to patients’ homes in the Missoula & surrounding areas. QUALIFICATIONS: Must be in good physical condition, have considerable strength & endurance, able to safely lift 80 lbs & move over 100 lbs with assistance & operate motor vehicle in all weather conditions & on all roads. Equipment can be awkward to handle.

Durable medical equipment experience preferred but not required. Must have effective verbal & written communication skills, ability to work with elderly & frail customers & provide excellent customer service. Must be able to organize & plan properly. Requires valid drivers license and good driving record; CDL with HAZMAT is preferred.

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Neat & conservative appearance with hair above collar, no visible tattoos or facial jewelry. Requires high school diploma or equivalent. Background check & drug test will be conducted & must pass. DUTIES: Manage territory to reach service goals & deliver equipment in accordance with industry standards & government regulations. Maintain working knowledge of home medical equipment products & services.

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Job# 2986107 Terminal Supervisor Our Company has an exciting opportunity at our Light Products Petroleum Terminal in Missoula, MT. We are looking for a Terminal Supervisor to oversee and manage terminal operations. You must be self-motivated and detail-oriented with a strong commitment to quality, teambuilding, coaching, training, strategic planning and driving execution.

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to make sound decisions and lead and inspire others are

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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.

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(Must have proof of phlebotomy experience). Applicant must be able to take vitals, blood and urine specimens and be skilled in general phone and computer use. We will train for EKG, drug

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

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By Rob Brezsny

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I'm a big fan of logic and reason, and I urge you to be, too. Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a very good thing. The less stock you put in superstitious head trips and fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be. Having said that, I recommend that you also make playful use of your creative imagination. Relish the comically magical elements of your mysterious fate. Pay attention to your dreams, and indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies, and see yourself as a mythic hero in life's divine drama. Moral of the story: Both the rational and the fantastical approaches are essential to your health. (P.S. But the fantastical needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sorry, Cancerian, you won't be able to transform lead into gold anytime soon. You won't suddenly acquire the wizardly power to heal the sick minds of racists and homophobes and misogynists. Nor will you be able to cast an effective love spell on a sexy someone who has always resisted your charms. That's the bad news. The good news is this: If you focus on performing less spectacular magic, you could accomplish minor miracles. For example, you might diminish an adversary's ability to disturb you. You could welcome into your life a source of love you have ignored or underestimated. And you may be able to discover a secret you hid from yourself a long time ago.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for offering tips on how to spice up one's sex life. Here's an example: "Take a few of your favorite erotically appealing flavor combinations, like peanut butter and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce, and mix up yummy treats all over your lover's body." That sounds crazy to me, and not in a good way. In any case, I recommend that you don't follow advice like that, especially in the coming days. It's true that on some occasions, silliness and messiness have a role to play in building intimacy. But they aren't advisable right now. For best results, be smooth and polished and dashing and deft. Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and graceful risks.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are not as broken as you may think you are. Your wounds aren't as debilitating as you have imagined. And life will prove it to you this week. Or rather, let me put it this way: Life will attempt to prove it to you—and not just in some mild, half-hearted way, either.

The evidence it offers will be robust and unimpeachable. But here's my question, Virgo: Will you be so attached to your pain that you refuse to even see, let alone explore, the dramatic proof you are offered? I hope not!

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kenneth Rexroth wrote a poem called "A Sword in a Cloud of Light."

I want to borrow that image. According to my astrological analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact power you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don't want to get too intellectual about the reasons why, but I will say this: The cloud of light represents your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration. The sword is a metaphor to symbolize the new ferocity you will invoke as you implement the next step of your noble purpose or sacred aspiration.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every autumn, the bird species known as the Clark's Nutcracker prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30,000 pine nuts in 5,000 places over a 15-squaremile area. The amazing thing is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory isn't as prodigious as that, but it's far better than you realize. And I hope you will use it to the hilt in the coming days. Your upcoming decisions will be highly effective if you draw on the wisdom gained from past events—especially those events that foreshadowed the transition you will soon be going through.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Can you imagine what it would be like to live without any hiding and pretending? How would you feel if you could relax into total honesty? What if you were free to say exactly what you mean, unburdened by the fear that telling the truth might lead to awkward complications? Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible for anyone to accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at accomplishing the next best thing in the coming week. For best results, don't try to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75 percent.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It's a favorable time to gather up resources and amass bounty and solicit help and collect lots of inside information. I won't call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what you need in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it's fine if you store up far more than what you can immediately use—because right now is also a favorable time to prepare for future adventures when you will want to call on extraordinary levels of resources, bounty, help, and inside information.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Extravagant wigs became fashionable for a while in 18th-century England. They could soar as high as four feet above a woman's head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair, along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds, and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here's a second-best option: Make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract more of the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic license to be shinier and more charismatic than usual.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics, says that consulting experts may be useless. In his study of Wall Street traders, he found their advice was no better than information obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin. Meanwhile, psychologist Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results. He found that predictions made by political and financial professionals are inferior to wild guesses. So does this mean you should never trust any experts? No. But it's important to approach them with extra skepticism right now. The time has come for you to upgrade your trust in your own intuition.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): On my fifteenth birthday, I finally figured out that eating dairy products was the cause of my chronic respiratory problems. From that day forward, I avoided foods made from cow's milk. My health improved. I kept up this regimen for years. But a month ago, I decided to see if my long-standing taboo still made sense. Just for the fun of it, I gave myself permission to gorge on a tub of organic vanilla yogurt. To my shock, there was no hell to pay. I was free of snot. In the last few weeks, I have feasted regularly on all the creamy goodies I've been missing. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect an equally momentous shift is possible for you. Some taboo you have honored for a long time, some rule you have obeyed as if it were an axiom, is ripe to be broken.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of your anti-role models in the coming weeks is the character that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings in Eminem's tune "Love the Way You Lie." Study the following lyrics, mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine, on psychological, spiritual, and interpersonal levels, you embody the exact opposite of the attitude they express: "You're just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that's all right because I like the way it hurts / You're just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that's all right, because I love the way you lie."

To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations that would tempt you to feel and act like that.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Joan E. Cook LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-1406 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JEAN DAVIS KOICH a/k/a JEAN LORRAINE KOICH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joan Cook 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 above-named as the attorney and the Personal Representative, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 23rd day of January, 2014. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case. No. DV-14-27 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Stephanie Broadhead, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Stephanie Broadhead has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Stephanie Nichole Broadhead to Phoenix Jade Frost-Ulfhamr and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 26th day of February, 2014 at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, in courtroom number 1. At any time before the hearing, objections may be

filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 16th day of January, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court 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 abovenamed 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 Cause No. DP-2014-1 Dept.

No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT CHARLES BROWN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are re-

quired 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 Kenneth Shipman, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 9th day of January, 2014, in Superior, Montana. /s/ Kenneth Shipman, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative 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 KrantzMendler, 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

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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. 1 Ed McLean Case. No. DV-14-25 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Timothy Lee Blumenthal, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Timothy Lee Blu-

menthal has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Timothy Lee Blumenthal to Fenris Forseti Ulfhamr and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 26th day of February, 2014 at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, in courtroom number 1. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 16th day of January, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-9 Dept.

3 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMINATION OF HEIRS AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CODY YUHAS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner Stephanie Potter ("Petitioner") has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy, Determination of Heirs and Appointment of Personal Representative. 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 eh courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula County in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th day of February, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Service of this notice is being made in accordance with the attached Certificate of

Service. DATED this 28th day of January, 2014. REEP, BELL & LAIRD, P.C. /s/ Eric Henkel, Attorneys for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DG-14-6 Dept. 3 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR GUARDIANSHIP OF MINOR CHILD AND PROTECTED PERSON IN THE MATTER OF THE GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP OF EGY, a Minor Child and Protected Person. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Petitioner Stephanie Potter ("Petitioner") has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for Guardianship and Conservatorship of Minor Child and Protected Person.

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 County in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th day of February, 2014, at 9:00 a.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object.

Service of this notice is being made in accordance with the attached Certificate of Service. DATED this 28th day of January, 2014. REEP, BELL & LAIRD, P.C. /s/ Eric Henkel, Attorneys for Petitioner 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 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/20/02, recorded as Instrument No. 200234954, Bk 693, Pg 1065, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kenneth D. Mohler an unmarried man, and Christine F. Waylett an unmarried woman was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company, a Montana Corporation was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 of Wheatgrass Acres, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200632752, Bk 789, Pg 633, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 9, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $130,677.92. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $106,323.88, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s secu-

rity 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 21, 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# 7023.96546) 1002.262042-File No. 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

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by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, 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: 5-26-2015 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, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, 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, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, 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

COPPERSTONE STOR-ALL will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent on February 25th, 2014, at 11:00 am. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc. household goods.

A silent auction will be held Tuesday, February 4th, at 11:00 am at 8700 Roller Coaster Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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31 As of riiiiiiight.....now 32 Z3 or X5 maker 35 Mission of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"?

36 Anatomical eggs 37 NASA astronaut Leroy ___ 40 Minor Arcana card 42 Opening opening?

43 DMV requirement 44 "C'est magnifique!"

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6 Canadian singer/songwriter ___ Naked 7 Baseball's Powell 8 Washing machine cycle 9 Television host Dick 10 Brunch staple 12 "All Quiet on the Western Front" author 13 Scared beyond belief 14 "Am not!" comeback 16 Kid with no commute 18 "Chocolate" dog 21 Temple of films 22 Posted to your blog, say 24 "Moulin Rouge!" director Luhrmann 25 Drink machine freebie 29 Active 32 Little shop 33 AL award won by 7-Down in 1970 34 Never-___ (not even a hasbeen) 35 Anti-heartburn brand 37 Horse sounds 38 Bit of cheer 39 As we go about our days 41 Palindromic trig function 45 Not tons 47 Unable to sense 48 Car that sounds like it's crying 50 Week-___-glance calendar 51 Mangy mongrel

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GATEWEST 728-7333 330 S. 6th St. E.: 2+1 Bedroom, Blocks to the U!, Wood floors, Storage, Cat OK, $900. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!!

508 E. Front: 1+1 Bedroom, Downtown & by the U, Wood floors, Deck, Laundry, Cat OK, $840.

GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!!

735 W. Sussex #3. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, HEAT PAID, coinops 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 2-story, 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

1&2

Bedroom Apts FURNISHED, partially furnished or unfurnished

UTILITIES PAID Close to U & downtown

549-7711 Check our website! www.alpharealestate.com

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, 406-549-4113 x130, mreed@missoulahousing.org NOW LEASING! Mullan Reserve Apartments Rugged yet refined. Secluded yet convenient.

Luxurious yet sustainable. Call for a free tour. 543-0060. 4000 Mullan Road. mullanreserveapartments.com

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

MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park available to

Spaces rent.

W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-273-6034

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

newer home, central location, single garage, small yard, pet? $1300.

Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

817 Monroe. 1 bed/1 bath, Rattlesnake area, W/D hookups, carport $650. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

3 bedroom, 1.5 bath house, $900, vaulted ceilings, W/D in unit, garage, microwave, W/S/G paid.

No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333

HOUSES

808 Hendricksen. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, W/D hookups, yard, pet? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

1309 Linnea Lane. 4 bed/2.5 bath,

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 @ 543-7500, ctoney@missoulahousing.org Russell Square; 2-bedroom in a lovely senior community with a

FIDELITY Management Services, Inc. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7

251-4707 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7 251-4707 111 Johnson 2 Bed Duplex $625/month

Grizzly Property Management, Inc. Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

715 Kensington Ave., Suite 25B 542-2060• grizzlypm.com

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422 Madison • 549-6106 Finalist

For available rentals: www.gcpm-mt.com

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MHA Management manages 10 properties throughout Missoula.

119 N. Johnson 1 Bed Apt. $495/month

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Property Management

"Let us tend your den"

4265 Birdie Ct 2 Bed Apt. $695/month

Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $660/month

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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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No Initial Application Fee Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing 30 years in Call for Current Listings & Services Missoula Email: gatewest@montana.com

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 2225 Missoula. 4 bed, 3 bath on Rattlesnake creek with fireplace, outdoor hot tub & Mt. Jumbo Views. $499,000.

David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.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 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 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 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 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

I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com.

Visit my website at celiagrohmann.point2agent.com RE/MAX All Stars; combining local ownership, experienced agents, and the power of #1 RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-542-8644

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 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

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REAL ESTATE Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $159,900. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.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

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 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 Noxon Reservoir Avista frontage lots near Trout Creek, MT. Red Carpet Realty 728-7262 www.redcarpet-realty.com

OUT OF TOWN 101 W. Granite, Philipsburg.

1915 Craftsman home with

many updates, lots of storage, double lot, a block off main drag. $245,000 Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522

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 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

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 Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

LAND FOR SALE 1265 #B Dakota. Riverfront parcel for to-be-built 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage. $55,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com 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

Beautiful Home On Rattlesnake Creek 4 bed, 3 bath with cathedral ceilings, wood floors, UPTOWN FLATS STARTING AT $149,900 Looking for a Home Away from Home in Missoula, or Investment Property close to downtown and the University?

place. Lovely 2nd floor deck overlooks creek.

$865,000

Call Anne to learn about the great opportunities available in the upscale community of The UPTOWN FLATS.

Anne Jablonski

546-5816

gourmet kitchen, jetted tub and river rock fire-

606 North Ave. W. PORTICO REAL ESTATE

$255,000 • MLS #20136914

annierealtor@gmail.com • movemontana.com

Classic 1950's with refinished hardwood floors,arched doorways and built-ins.

All new windows & new energy-efficient furnace.

Finished basement with family room.

Fenced yard with fruit trees & raised beds.

Double detached garage.

For location and more info, view these and other properties at:

www.rochelleglasgow.com

Rochelle

Missoula Properties Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com

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REAL ESTATE 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

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

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

River Access 20525 Schwartz Creek, Clinton. 3 bed, 2 bath, single level living on 1 acre. Walking distance to river fishing access. $250,000. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments @ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.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.

Visit our website at

fidelityproperty.com

Pat McCormick

$184,900 724B Skyla Court

Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

3 bed, 2 bath low-maintenance home on quiet cul-de-sac near Clark Fork River Fenced backyard & attached double garage

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

Properties2000.com

20525 Schwartz Creek, Clinton $250,000 MLS #20131147 3 bed, 2 bath ranch style on 1 acre near Clark Fork River

406 Aspen View, Polaris $345,000 MLS #20134924 Beautiful 4 bed, 4+ bath, 1 acre just off Pioneer Scenic Byway

Homes 406 Aspen View, Polaris MT. $345,000 2607 View Dr., Many Upgrades $239,000

Homes With Land 2348 River Rd, 2.23 Acres in Town, $535,000 20525 Schwartz Ck, Near River, Clinton $250,000

Land Edgewood 2.8 Acres Near River & Golf $114,000 East Missoula Building Lot With Trees $55,000

Townhomes/Condos 1400 Burns, Cheaper Than Rent, From $79,000 Uptown Flats #306 Third Floor Views! $162,000 Uptown Flats #210 Modern 1 Bed $149,000 1545 Cooley #C Rooms With a View! $128,500

Commercial: 2309 Grant, Building & Land $155,000

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