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News Voices/Letters Megaloads and mountain bikes .........................................................4 The Week in Review Blast at Bernice’s, REAL ID and crude oil.................................6 Briefs Stensrud Playhouse, same-sex marriage and hurling ..........................................6 Etc. Jon Tester’s new chairmanship................................................................................7 News Looking back at the legacy of Pat and Don Simmons...........................................8 News DOJ, Van Valkenburg trade accusations over sexual assault cases........................9 Opinion Is this the best Republicans can do in attacking Walsh? ................................10 Opinion Searching for common ground in the wilderness debate .............................11 Feature The damage done in a former boom town .....................................................14

Arts & Entertainment Arts NextDoorPrisonHotel gives old films a new sound .............................................18 Music Bryan Ramirez finds freedom in soundtracks....................................................19 Theater Circle Mirror reflects awkward truths ............................................................20 Film Grant Hart talks about Hüsker Dü, Milton and Montana ....................................21 Film RoboCop reboot entertains almost like the first time ..........................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................23 Flash in the Pan Secrets to winter salad......................................................................24 Happiest Hour Winter BrewFest. ................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Don’t drink the water..........................................................................27 Mountain High Pond Hockey Classic ..........................................................................37 Agenda Rally for the Rail Line ......................................................................................38

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Street Talk..............................................................................................................4 In Other News......................................................................................................12 Classifieds ..........................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...........................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y.............................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle...............................................................................................C-7 Camp Sleepover .................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...........................................................................................C-11

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[voices]

Off course

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, Feb. 18, on N. Higgins Avenue.

The Missoula County Attorney’s Office and U.S. Department of Justice are engaged in a pretty big fight over how sexual assault cases are handled. Which side do you think is right?

Follow-up: What’s your favorite heavyweight battle?

Mike Tassie: I think there was a need for an investigation. I think the Missoula Police Department and the University of Montana and Van Valkenburg were not doing due diligence in sexual assault cases or taking the allegations seriously. It was enough to warrant an inquiry and that’s why the feds stepped in. It’s elementary: Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty, Holmes’ nemesis. He was equally as brilliant but far more deviant.

Twilly Cannon: I tend to side with Missoula and the county attorney because I followed all the incidents and didn’t see anything improper. Range war: The Buffalo Field Campaign vs. the Montana Department of Livestock. The BFC are fighting a good fight trying to save some of the last genetically pure bison in North America.

Minot Maser: I’d have to see the brief that’s been filed by the county. It’s a legitimate argument if the case law is legit, but even if the county wins, and if there are legitimate issues that exist, then the county should address them. Cat and mouse: The Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote or Tom and Jerry. They were always duking it out.

Luke Allgeyer: I kind of agree with the DOJ but I think it’s a difficult situation.

Sexual assault is a difficult thing to prosecute because of the nature of the crime and it can come down to he said, she said.

In this case I think there needs to be better investigations to handle the sexual assault incidences. Superior hero: I’m not much of a comic book reader, but as far as the battle between DC Comics and Marvel Comics, I think that Marvel is way cooler because of Spider-Man.

Shan Guisinger: I think there have been problems with the way sexual assaults have been prosecuted in Missoula at several levels, and I wish the county attorney would cooperate with the DOJ. Pro-choice: Roe vs. Wade.

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Regarding the recent opinion piece by Howie Wolke (see “Slippery slope, Feb. 13), Mr. Wolke may have expertise in hiking and outfitting but his statements illustrate that he knows nothing about mountain biking. He cannot decide whether we mountain bikers are actually road bikers (“Lycra-clad speedsters”) or downhill racers (“Let’s face it: Mountain bikers need all that protective gear because they’re not always in control.”) In fact, we are neither. We are simply outdoor adventurers who enjoy traveling at a bit faster pace than most hikers.

I’m no expert cyclist, but I ride my mountain bike about 2,000 miles a year, mostly on singletrack trails at an aggressive pace, and I cannot remember the last time I rode off the trail or crashed (“Bikers often veer off-trail just to keep from crashing.”).

Mr. Wolke should stick to writing about subjects in which he has some knowledge.

Mark Reinsel Missoula

women allies of ours were cited or arrested that time, rather than just one? That is why I must fill in the major gaps.

As stated in the press release, it was our intention to enter Reserve Street together in front of the megaloads and halt the movement of this tar sands-bound equipment however long we could by leading ourselves and our non-Indian allies in a traditional round dance, which is a form of prayer and a symbol of unity, in the middle of the street.

We aimed to do this while carrying our signs in opposition to the tar sands and the megaloads and for the development of non-fossil

“I cannot remember the last time I rode off the trail or

More to the story As one of the planners and participants in both of the January megaload protests mentioned in your recent article (see “Leading by example,” Jan. 30), I feel that it is important that I fill in just a couple of key pieces of information about our protest actions that were left out of the article.

I should begin by thanking the Independent for covering the events at all. The members of Indian People’s Action who made up the bulk of both the organizing committee and the actual participants in these events, along with our allies from Blue Skies Campaign, and the Idaho, Spokane and Northern Rockies chapters of Rising Tide, sent out a detailed press release to all local media outlets before each event, explaining what we were going to do and why.

Although two Missoula TV stations covered the first protest on Jan. 22, the Independent was the only media outlet represented at the much larger and more successful protest on Jan. 24. But who can tell what was accomplished at the second protest from reading this article, except that three dear elder

crashed.”

fuel alternative energy sources. We were also acting on behalf of our indigenous brothers and sisters in the First Nations communities in Alberta who have been affected most directly and severely from the contamination of their water, air and wild natural food sources, although we also expressed that all life on Earth is being deeply affected and endangered by this filthy and completely unnecessary business. We say “unnecessary” because if just one-fifth of the amount of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and gas) presently harvested and already on reserve were used, it would make the atmosphere unsustainable and unsalvageable by as early as possibly 10 to 15 years from now.

Our leaders in Indian People’s Action decided in advance of the protest action that

our group would not get arrested, but instead would very slowly obey the police order to disperse after the round dance. We decided that because we knew that we were trying to organize and mobilize many people from Native tribal communities all over Montana who had never engaged in massive, non-violent resistance actions before, and as anybody who is familiar with such activism knows, it takes both training and experience to engage non-violently with people who approach you attempting to stop your actions with force. It is not something that people just do naturally.

As your article stated, we had about 40plus people in the Tuesday night action. But rather than saying “many from the Indian People’s Action group,” it would have been more accurate to say “most.” We made up about 30 of the 40 in attendance. Indians made up about 60 of the near 70 people who participated on Thursday night, but your article does not mention anybody being there at all except our dear and much appreciated three elder women allies. You mention nothing about our round dance and holding up the megaload for 12 minutes, followed by a short speech from one of our Anishinabe members, Charles Walking Child, which held up the load for another few minutes.

During this whole experience—from the planning that began during the first week of December, through the long wait for the loads to arrive, and then during the actions themselves—many, mostly young, Native American people learned much about the issues facing our planet and became first-time public activists for the Earth. They will be back, again and again, in greater and greater numbers, as long as all life on Earth cries out against this most grave injustice, corruption and destruction. That was our primary success in these actions, along with educating the public through what actually did get covered by the media and what the bystanders read on our signs and in our leaflets that we handed out. We look forward to seeing you out in the streets again for as long as this struggle continues.

George Price Indian People’s Action Dixon

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Slippery slope,” Feb. 13

Pedal pincher

Lone rider

Horses, dogs vs. bikes

“Why not add a wilderness restoration tax to the price of each mountain bike? Or require a wilderness bike license for those who want to bike in a wilderness area? Far too many bikers have a self-righteous sense of entitlement when it comes to public property, so the best way to reach them is via their pocketbook.”

Posted Feb. 13 at 11:53 a.m.

“Yes, I do ride and hike my bike in the backcountry and I backpack as well. Guess what the number one thing I don’t like to see in the backcountry: OTHER PEOPLE. Hey, at least I admit it. I could take this kind of article a little more seriously and be a little less frustrated if it came from someone who didn’t earn their money from the backcountry.”

Posted Feb. 13 at 3:13 p.m.

“Let’s be frank: Horses (and dogs!) damage wilderness trails and fauna like nothing else. I’ve been hiking and biking the mountains of western Montana for over 25 years. Many times I have seen the damage caused by horse traffic and the opportunity it creates for water erosion. The idea that a mountain bike is more ‘invasive’ than a horse is simply absurd to anyone who knows and cares about the truth.”

Posted Feb. 14 at 7:40 a.m.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, February 12 Emergency crews respond to an early morning explosion that shatters windows in the apartments above Bernice’s Bakery.

Nobody is injured and police continue to investigate the cause of the blast.

Thursday, February 13 Rep. Steve Daines announces he will introduce legislation to repeal portions of the REAL ID Act, which sets national standards for a driver’s licenses. Other Montana officials, including former Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Gov. Steve Bullock, also oppose increased federal control of the licenses.

Friday, February 14 The FBI adds fugitive Kevin Briggs, 28, to its “most wanted” list. After threatening to rape a female acquaintance in early February, Briggs escaped from police custody in Bozeman and travelled to Missoula, where it’s believed he boarded a bus to Spokane at the local Greyhound station.

Saturday, February 15 The 11th annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival kicks off at the Wilma Theatre with the first of more than 125 local screenings.

The weeklong event gets an added treat the following day when a local resident pops the question to his girlfriend via a specially produced movie trailer.

Sunday, February 16 Thomas Podivinsky of Canada dies after falling into a tree well while skiing at Whitefish Mountain Resort. Podivinsky, 48, is the second skier to die in a tree well at the resort this winter and the fourth since 2010.

Monday, February 17 The Missoula Police Department initiates an investigation after a 19-year-old University of Montana student reports being raped in her dorm room by an 18-year-old male in the early morning hours.

Tuesday, February 18 The Associated Press releases a study that documents the rising risk of oil spills along railroads transporting crude oil from the Bakken formation in eastern Montana and western North Dakota. Since 2008, four oil trains have derailed and ignited while carrying crude from the Bakken.

Unseasonably warm temperatures create a large puddle in front of Draught Works Brewery, on Feb. 13, prompting brewer Peter Landman to slip on a gold jumpsuit and strap on a snowboard for a rope-tow through the elements.

LGBT

Fox attacks gay marriage Montana Attorney General Tim Fox went out of his way last month to cause trouble for gay couples when he signed a legal brief that invoked the specter of legalized polygamy, out-of-wedlock birth and general moral dissolution to drum up opposition to same-sex marriage.

The first-term Republican signed the brief in support of Nevada officials defending themselves against a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage. In the brief, Fox and 10 other attorneys general offered a litany of reasons why marriage equality is detrimental to society.

They argued, for instance, that the “consequences of altering the traditional definition of marriage could be so severe as to lead to ‘an increased percentage of out-of-wedlock children’” and to more instances of single-parent families. They also claimed that same-sex marriage could lead to the legalization of polygamy.

“Once the link between marriage and responsible procreation is severed—not simply stretched, but severed—and the commonsense idea that children are optimally raised in traditional intact families rejected, there is no fundamental reason for government to prefer couples

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to groups of three or more,” wrote Fox and his peers.

On Feb. 10, however, Nevada officials changed course. Due to a rapidly changing legal landscape, they announced that they would no longer defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Nevada’s decision left Fox and his fellow conservative attorneys general in an awkward and isolated position, but Fox still stands by the brief.

“The State’s position hasn’t changed because Montana’s constitution hasn’t changed,” wrote Fox’s spokesman John Barnes in an email.

Gay rights supporters in Montana say Fox’s stance belittles the LGBT community.

“I think it is disappointing that an elected official from Montana would sign on to a document that is so dismissive and belittling to so many families across the state,” says Jamee Greer, organizing director of the Montana Human Rights Network. “The primary targets were same-sex couples and their families, but this brief goes far beyond, arguing that lesbian, gay and bi Montanans should be locked out of the state institution that offers access to critical benefits and protections.”

Greer says that the brief broadly disparages non-traditional families like single parents raising children and couples who have adopted children.

Montana lawmakers voted for a similar same-sex

marriage ban and added it as an amendment to the state constitution in 2004. In July 2013, the ACLU of Montana filed a lawsuit challenging the amendment’s constitutionality. The outcome of that suit remains to be seen.

Jimmy Tobias

Public lands

Trapping ban, take two A group of anti-trapping activists is back in action with a new ballot initiative that seeks to ban trapping on all public lands in Montana. Trap Free Montana Public Lands, the citizen’s group behind the effort, must gather 24,175 signatures by the end of May in order to put Initiative 169 on the November ballot.

A similar initiative campaign in 2010 came within 1,500 signatures of qualifying for the ballot, but failed in the end. KC York, chair of Trap Free Montana Public Lands, is optimistic about the initiative’s prospects this year. She worries, however, that some may try to mislead voters about her organization’s intent.

“Our opponents try to argue that [the initiative] is a stepping stone to eliminate hunting and fishing next,” she says. “Fishing and hunting are protected under our constitutions. It is a right to harvest wild

[news] fish and wild game that is protected under the constitution. Trapping is not.”

In fact, she says the original ballot measure statement contained a sentence that addressed the issue directly: “[Initiative 169] does not apply to the taking of wildlife with firearms, fishing equipment or archery equipment.” Montana Attorney General Tim Fox, while reviewing the initiative, decided to remove that language.

“We strive to keep the statements focused on what the measures actually do, not what they don’t do,” explained Montana Department of Justice spokesman John Barnes in a written statement.

York calls the initiative moderate and notes its exceptions for trapping that contributes to scientific research and other public goods.

“I-169 only affects trapping and only on public lands. According to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, nearly 65 percent of the state is held in private ownership,” York says. “ ... Our initiative is fair, reasonable and good for Montana.”

Nevertheless, trappers are organizing against the measure.

“Obviously we are in opposition to it,” says Toby Walrath, president of the Montana Trappers Association. “This particular ballot initiative is trying to limit the use of one small group of individuals, namely trappers, and we don’t want to see similar limitations spread to other groups who use public lands.”

Jimmy Tobias

bright study at UM. He already knew of the Cascade Hurling League, which lists nine clubs in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. But he was surprised Montana didn’t field a single squad, particularly given Butte’s strong Irish heritage.

“It’s Ireland’s national game,” Waldron says. “It’s a shame that not more people know about it.”

One word to UM Irish Studies director Traolach O’Riordain got the ball rolling. After only six practices, the hurling club traveled to Portland for a league tournament, finishing three and one.

Like Waldron, Barry says he’s “always had a hurl in my hand.” The same doesn’t hold true for most of the club’s now 25 to 30 members. Laine Lyles used to compete in football, softball and crew. She had trouble building the nerve to even leave her car at the first practice. Now she’s hooked.

Sports

The church of hurling Naoise Waldron’s Irish brogue echoes through the Schreiber Gym as he walks a dozen University of Montana students through a hand-pass technique common in hurling. The students come from all over—Montana, Louisiana, France, Austria—and make up the bulk of the first-ever hurling team in the state. Most had never played before. For Waldron, though, hurling is almost a religion.

“Where I come from, Kilkenny, it’s basically all we do,” Waldron says. “If you ever mention you’re from Kilkenny and you didn’t play hurling, people would think you’re weird. It’d be like being from Texas and not playing football.”

Hurling is tough to describe, a battle the club has been fighting since Waldron founded it last September.

Players use their hands and J-shaped sticks, or hurls, to advance a baseball-sized ball toward a goal. Dublin native and club member Brian Barry says the easiest way to learn about the centuries-old sport is to “look it up.”

The club’s origins stem largely from Waldron’s unwillingness to give up hurling during his year-long Ful-

“It’s super intense, it’s fast,” Lyles says. “You’ve got to be smart to be good at it.”

The team is now raising funds to compete in the national championships in New York this May, aided in part by proceeds from the weekly bingo night Waldron heads at Sean Kelly’s. The team also confirmed last week that it will host a regional game in Washington-Grizzly Stadium April 19.

“It’s going to be on our home turf,” Lyles says, “and we’re really going to bring it.”

Alex Sakariassen

Real estate

Stensrud Building sold The past few weeks have been emotional ones for Mark Kersting. After devoting 14 years to restoring and caring for the historic Stensrud Building on Missoula’s

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Northside, he agreed earlier this winter to sell it to local buyers who plan on transforming the 6,000-foot structure into a playhouse.

“Just the last two months have been an incredible amount of stress and heartache,” Kersting says. “And in a way the building seemed to be revolting with my leaving, because things started going wrong, which they had never in the past done so.”

The Stensrud’s boiler crashed last month, for example, leaving a watery mess that led to a timeconsuming fix. The project prompted Kersting to postpone the closing date until this week.

To Kersting’s relief, everything finally came together on Feb. 18, the day that veteran theater performer Jackie Stermitz purchased the building.

When the Independent caught up with Stermitz shortly after she closed the deal, she eagerly shared her long list of ambitious plans for the old structure, now renamed the Stensrud Playhouse.

“I feel great,” Stermitz said. “I have lot of work to do.”

Stermitz is a long-time Montanan who, during a stint in Los Angeles, fell in love with improvisational acting. After she and her husband returned to Montana three and half years ago, she began brainstorming ways to incorporate her fondness for performance into Missoula’s cultural landscape.

“I was thinking, well, what does Missoula need?

Well, Missoula doesn’t have improv comedy shows and it doesn’t have dinner theater,” she says. “The Stensrud came up, and I was like, this is the perfect venue.”

In March, Stermitz plans to roll out what will be regular acting and comedy writing classes, beginning with a two-day intensive workshop led by Guy Stevenson. The Los Angeles-based writer and actor has contributed to “MAD TV” and appeared in television shows like “Punk’D,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Parks and Recreation,” and teaches at the Los Angeles-based Groundlings theater and school.

The Stensrud Playhouse will also host weekend murder mystery dinner theater performances and Friday night improv and sketch comedy shows.

While neither Kersting nor Stermitz would release the Stensrud’s sale price, Kersting told the Independent in 2013 that the property last appraised at $700,000.

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. It’s been just over seven years since Sen. Jon Tester defeated Republican incumbent Conrad Burns in a close 2006 general election. Roughly 2,600 votes separated the two, and Tester credited much of his victory to an outpouring of support from voters in Indian Country. He wasted little time in reciprocating. The first bill he co-sponsored in Congress sought federal recognition for Montana’s Little Shell Tribe, and many of his staunchest political stances since have centered on Native American issues.

Now it appears Tester will wield an even stronger hand in crafting and pushing such policy.

Last week, Tester inherited the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs during a congressional game of musical chairs prompted

by Sen. Max Baucus’ exit from office. The announcement came just a few weeks after the rollout of Tester’s latest effort in Indian Country, a bill to establish a grant program supporting Native language education programs nationwide. The measure asks for $5 million in federal funding for 2015.

“Working together, we will expand economic opportunities, create safer communities, stronger health care systems, and responsibly manage the natural resources that are so abundant in Indian Country,” Tester said in a statement regarding his new position. “And while we won’t get it done in a day, I have full confidence in our ability to make big strides for all Native Americans.”

Tester has repeatedly come out swinging on Native issues over the years, fighting to improve education, infrastructure and low-income housing opportunities. Just last year he pushed legislation to secure Indian Health Service funding one year in advance, a response to the nearly 5-percent sequester-inflicted reduction for mental health services like suicide prevention. He’s also repeatedly held President Barack Obama’s feet to the fire regarding federal funding commitments to tribes that have come under threat during tense budget negotiations in Washington, D.C. Much of this touches on the very problems Montana’s tribal leaders raised last fall during a Missoula listening session hosted by Tester and Sen. Maria Cantwell.

For all that he’s fought for, Tester still has plenty to prove. The Little Shell are still fighting for federal recognition. Funding and services for all reservations remain an annual battle. And tribal leaders are staunch opponents to one of Tester’s biggest priorities, the Keystone XL pipeline. But the senator’s chairmanship offers the best vantage point to revisit old issues that continue to languish, and tackle new challenges sure to rise.

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End of an era Looking back at the legacy of Pat and Don Simmons

by Alex Sakariassen

Back in 2002, in an attempt to build a bridge between University of Montana students and neighboring homeowners, a small group of locals pulled together an informal ice cream social along University Avenue. The relationship between campus denizens and nearby residents had always been tense. The gathering proved an effective salve, likely due to the dedication of a couple fondly referred to as Missoula’s grandparents: Pat and Don Simmons.

nity. For Singer, who co-founded Forward Montana in 2004 and now lives in Portland, Ore., they were a calming and familiar presence at the young progressive group’s first legitimate fundraiser at the Catalyst. Even those unfamiliar with their local work recognized them as the parents of famous actor J.K. Simmons. For students at UM, Pat and Don were the people to turn to for guidance and reassurance.

“Everyone knows Pat and Don for their

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Pat Simmons, right, passed away earlier this month, leaving behind a legacy of support and mentorship for young leaders like Missoula City Councilwoman Emily Bentley, left. “She was the first person I met with when I decided to run for office,” Bentley says, “to seek her advice and support.”

It was during an organizing meeting for one of the socials that Matt Singer, a student at the time, first met the duo. He was struck

by Don’s giant grin and the “twinkle in his eye.” Pat maintained a quieter presence by comparison, but the two complemented each other perfectly. Singer remembers Don arguing passionately in favor of building a stronger community in the University District. The speech was distinctly civic in nature, but the Simmonses couldn’t help spinning a political pun.

“The thing that was sort of classic Pat and Don Simmons was they referred to this organizing committee as the Ice Cream Socialists,” Singer says. “They just always had their way of being about community but never forgetting their political selves either.”

Missoula mourned Don Simmons’ death in July 2012. Earlier this month, on Feb. 8, Pat also passed away, marking an end to a local era.

Pat and Don represented different things to different people in the commu-

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work supporting Missoula’s downtown and its arts community, but I will remember them most for helping young folks, including my son Shon,” says U. S. Sen. Jon Tester. “Pat and Don were ‘surrogate parents’ for many Montana students, encouraging them to get involved in their communities. They were good people who worked to make Missoula a better place, and they will be missed.”

Pat worked with the Montana Arts Council and served for years as executive director of the Missoula Downtown Association during the organization’s infancy. She also served on the boards of dozens of groups, including Headwaters Dance Company, the Flagship Program and A Carousel for Missoula. She volunteered with United Way and the Missoula Symphony, and was a longstanding member of the Missoula Police Commission. MDA’s weekly Out to Lunch program in Caras Park? Pat’s idea.

Her work often happened alongside Don’s own extensive volunteer and profes-

sional efforts. The former chair of the UM music department also served as a board member at United Way, the Missoula Symphony and the Five Valleys Memorial Society, among others. As Missoula City Councilman Jason Wiener puts it, Pat and Don played such a role in shaping Missoula that the city is in many ways a “reflection of their work.”

“What was striking for me was that they were people with such profoundly deep roots in the community, but who were always willing to embrace ways in which the town was changing for the better,” Wiener says. “You don’t always get those two things.”

Politically, the Simmons seemed capable of swinging an election with a single endorsement. Mayor John Engen calls it the “Simmons bump,” a powerful vote of confidence that city officials, state lawmakers and even Tester can attest to.

“Frankly, you could never meet a candidate, never have a candidate knock on your door, never read a lick of information about that candidate, but if they had the Pat and Don seal of approval, you knew they were good people of integrity who were going to do their best to do the right thing for this place,” Engen says.

The community’s respect for the couple could be seen following Don’s death in 2012. After a heartfelt memorial in UM’s music building, civic leaders and community members lined up in droves inside the University Center ballroom to offer Pat their condolences. So large was the crowd that the Simmonses’ son David assumed the role of bouncer, pausing the queue occasionally to give Pat a chance to eat.

A community memorial for Pat will take place April 19 at noon in the UM Music Recital Hall. The Simmons family has encouraged donations over flowers, specifically to the United Way, the Poverello Center or a music education scholarship established in Don’s name. The sentiment is yet another nod to the lasting impact the couple have left in Missoula.

“Pat and Don Simmons in Missoula were the best example that I had in my life of what beloved community means,” Singer says. “You don’t have to give up fighting for your principles in order to live alongside your neighbor, and you also don’t have to reject neighbors who you disagree with in order to fight for your principles. You can smile at everyone and be friendly and love your city, and you can also fight to make it a place you want it to be.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Heavyweight fight DOJ, Van Valkenburg trade barbs over sexual assault cases

by Jessica Mayrer

assault prosecution rate. Between 2008 and 2012, MPD referred 85 sexual assault cases to the prosecutor’s office. County attorneys filed charges in 14 of those, equating to a total of less than 17 percent.

Van Valkenburg says those numbers are “on par” with other communities. The University of Kentucky Center for Research on Assault Against Women notes that prosecution rates nationally hover between 14 percent and 18 percent.

Jenny Daniel, who advocates on behalf of sexual and domestic violence victims as the city-county’s JUST Response program coordinator, agrees that a 17-percent prosecution rate, though it can be disheartening to victims, is the norm. “I don’t think that Missoula is so unusual,” she says.

Van Valkenburg believes the DOJ’s accusations are a direct response to his lawsuit. On Feb. 11, just three days before the DOJ released its letter, Van Valkenburg asked a federal court judge to order the federal government to photo by Cathrine L. Walters cease its investigation of the Missoula County AttorMissoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg says the U.S. Department of Justice is ney’s Office. He argued the “making stuff up” when it comes to criticism of his office.

DOJ has no authority to quite expect the high-profile kick in the had just one day earlier filled a prescription scrutinize an elected county prosecutor.

“They are obviously retaliating because teeth delivered Feb. 14 in a letter stating for Xanax. “Nonetheless,” the letter states, that, after a 10-month investigation, the DOJ “MCAO declined to charge the case, citing I filed a complaint for declaratory judgment in federal court,” Van Valkenburg says. had found “substantial evidence” suggesting insufficient evidence.”

Only by reading the letter’s footnotes “They are not good people who are making county prosecutors discriminate against female sexual-assault victims and that the does one learn that no drugs were found these claims.”

Van Valkenburg says he is not backing county’s shortcomings put “all women in in the alleged victim’s system. The DOJ goes on to suggest “there are indications off his lawsuit because of one thinly veiled Missoula at risk.”

“Our investigation indicates that an in- that this may have been due to a false-neg- attempt to make his office look bad. stitutionalized indifference to crimes of sex- ative test caused by setting the toxicology Amid the back and forth between Van ual violence, coupled with bias against the levels too high.”

Valkenburg and the DOJ, victim advocates Van Valkenburg says allegations from like Daniel are simply trying to do their jobs. women who represent the overwhelming majority of victims of sexual assault, handi- the mother of a 5-year-old girl who was al- Daniel says during her 10 years of service, caps the County Attorney’s Office’s ability legedly sexually assaulted by an adolescent she’s seen no evidence of widespread insento protect victims of crime effectively or han- boy are similarly weak. In that instance, the sitivity in the county attorney’s office. Instead, dle sexual assault cases fairly,” Assistant At- DOJ wrote that a county prosecutor told the she believes universally low prosecution rates torney General Jocelyn Samuels and U.S. mother “boys will be boys” when explaining are part of a broader problem dealing with Attorney Michael Cotter wrote in the letter. why the perpetrator was only sentenced to sexual assault cases in general.

The story garnered national headlines two years of community service. Van Valken“We’re really running up against sociwith damning stories by Mother Jones, the burg calls it an unverified accusation. etal views,” she says, “because so many of “They don’t in any way rely on stuff that [the cases] that have been taken to the New York Daily News and Jezebel, among others. But after taking a few days to review would actually prove their case in court,” jury haven’t been convicted, and they are the DOJ’s claims, Van Valkenburg, who he says. “They rely on hearsay that is uncor- really pretty open-and-shut cases, in my learned about the letter at the beginning of roborated. Really, there is no evidence.” opinion.”

The DOJ also alleges that the Missoula a vacation in Hawaii, provided a more deCounty Attorney’s Office has a low sexual tailed rebuttal. jmayrer@missoulanews.com Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg knew the other shoe would eventually drop in his public tussle with the U.S. Department of Justice over how to handle sexual assault cases. He said as much to the Missoula County commissioners before filing a lawsuit against the DOJ for overstepping its jurisdiction, noting, “They will try to do something to embarrass us, to make us worried ...” But Van Valkenburg didn’t

“It’s nonsense,” Van Valkenburg says.

“These people are making stuff up.”

Van Valkenburg says a good illustration of how the DOJ is twisting the facts comes from an incident in which a woman claimed to be drugged prior to being sexually assaulted. In that case, prosecutors received video footage supporting allegations that a perpetrator slipped something into the woman’s drink. The DOJ notes that the man

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[opinion]

Swing and miss Is this the best Republicans can do in attacking Walsh?

by Dan Brooks

If you have watched a YouTube video lately—I haven’t, since I understand the Bible to forbid cats from playing musical instruments—you have probably seen the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s ad “Pulling the Strings.” The 30-second spot depicts Montana’s newly appointed senator, John Walsh, as a literal puppet of Harry Reid and Barack Obama.

“Harry Reid and Barack Obama are pulling the strings in Montana,” the voiceover says, “setting up the next act for the hand-picked candidate John Walsh. Obama and Reid are going around Montanans, clearing the stage for Walsh to be appointed to the Senate.”

It’s an odd piece of election-season rhetoric for several reasons. First of all, Walsh was appointed by Gov. Steve Bullock, not Obama. Surely Obama and Reid had some say in his selection, but to criticize the man appointed to replace a Democratic senator made ambassador by a Democratic president for being a Democrat is like criticizing the Honda dealer for trying to put you in a Civic.

That’s just how the game is played.

It’s particularly strange that the NRSC chose Walsh’s party connection to Obama as the central message of its ad, because there are plenty of other ways to attack the new senator from Montana. In some ways, Walsh is a mudslinger’s dream.

Before he was chosen to replace Max Baucus, Walsh had no experience in legislative politics at the state or federal level. He served as lieutenant governor for just more than a year. Before Bullock made him a member of the world’s greatest deliberative body, Walsh spent pretty much his entire adult life in the Montana Army National Guard, and his record there was not stellar.

If Walsh is a puppet, then the president has been operating him with his off hand.

In 2010, a report of the Army Inspector General concluded that Walsh had used his position as adjutant general for private gain by pressuring his subordinates to join the

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National Guard Association of the United States, a congressional lobbying organization. According to the Inspector General, Walsh was trying to increase NGAUS membership to bolster his candidacy for vice president of the group.

As ethical scandals go, that’s not very exciting, and Walsh maintains that he and the IG simply disagreed in their interpretation of the rules. Still, it’s a much stickier hunk of mud than the observation that he belongs to the same party as the president.

“The NRSC decided that merely connecting Walsh to Obama would make us kick our smell-hounds and spit tobacco at the screen.”

So, too, was the 2011 federal audit that found the Montana Department of Military Affairs was carelessly managing its relationships with government contractors. The department did not have a system in place to track the status of contracts; it couldn’t even say how many contractors it had engaged.

Brigadier General Walsh was at the center of that fiasco, but “Pulling the Strings” only briefly mentions it amid a 10-second series of decontextualized headlines.

The ad invests most of its 30 seconds in the puppet metaphor, cynically criticizing the very act of appointing a replacement senator.

Bullock picks a career guardsman with a spotty record and no legislative experience, and the best the NRSC can come up with is

that “Obama and Reid are going around Montanans” by not holding a special election nine months before the regular one.

Frankly, I thought our negative politics were better than that. As a Senate appointment, Walsh has many flaws, but getting appointed is not one of them. That the ad would make so much of his scandalous membership in the same political party as the people who picked him tells us something about the NRSC. Specifically, their production department is not above half-assing a spot for a regional market they don’t know much about.

Anyone familiar with Montana politics could put together a substantive attack ad about Walsh, but apparently no such person sits on the Republicans’ Hill committee. It seems the NRSC saw Montana’s red complexion and decided that merely connecting Walsh to Obama would make us kick our smellhounds and spit tobacco at the screen.

Their hackwork also suggests how much our fetid national discourse has swamped state and local politics. The Montana race for U.S. Senate is interesting right now, and Walsh is a vexed appointment who offers plenty of opportunities for argument—even if that argument must take the form of attack ads. But the NRSC’s attack ad doesn’t invite us to consider anything interesting. It asks us to forget about state issues so we can join in a federal-level conflict between the parties.

Walsh’s appointment isn’t the next act in the epic struggle between Obama and the Republican Party; it’s a decision that determines how our interests will be represented at the national level. Calling him a puppet of Obama cheapens our stake in our own politics. Sen. Walsh matters, but he matters a lot more to the people of Montana than he does to the president.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and lying at combatblog.net. His column appears every other week in the Independent.

[opinion]

Rock star Searching for common ground in the wilderness debate

by Gabriel Furshong

Growing up in Montana, I was surrounded by wilderness. Yet I never set foot in a designated wilderness area until I was 14 and assigned to study earth science with a teacher named Dan O’Leary.

He was a passionate rock hound and a tough grader; even the smartest kids struggled to pass his class. While the students across the hall watched episodes of “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” the ones in Mr. O’Leary’s class could be overheard comparing minerals by porosity and density. His field trips were always adventures. We’d hike to abandoned stamp mills near mines or to crystaldigs in places known only to Mr. O’Leary and his cantankerous cousin, Red. But these excursions were nothing compared to the trips that he led every summer into the 1.5-million-acre Bob Marshall Wilderness. Tales of these five-day marches seemed too fantastic to be believed, but I believed every one, and in the summer after my eighth grade year, I signed up for a spelunking adventure deep in the heart of “the Bob.” First, we had to learn how to climb, so for several weeks in July, we gathered inside the cavernous auditorium of the middle school where we practiced ascending and rappelling from rigging above the stage.

When we finally boarded a yellow school bus for the four-hour ride to the trailhead, we felt like Eagle Scouts under the tutelage of Indiana Jones.

The trip lived up to its billing. We summited Silvertip Peak, developed blisters the size of silver dollars, and were nearly crushed inside a shallow cave when a massive ice column collapsed at my touch. That trip, I got hooked on the outdoors.

A decade later, I signed up for my first real job as a community organizer for the Montana Wilderness Association and relocated to Choteau, population 1,600, on

the Rocky Mountain Front. There, I quickly learned about the decades of tension that accompany questions of wilderness conservation in Montana. I saw ranchers trembling with frustration as they described getting “burnt out” by the 1988 Cave Creek fire, which began in the Scapegoat Wilderness. I heard a tired hope in the voices of wilderness outfitters who had put their businesses on the line to protest oil and gas development throughout the

“I love wilderness,” he responded, a smile spreading across his face, “but I hate environmentalists.” ’80s and ’90s. As I listened, I sometimes wondered where Mr. O’Leary, the wilderness lover and mining buff, would plant his flag in this tricky conversation.

After a year on the job, I had a chance to ask him. He had traded in his chalkdusted Dockers for a pair of cutoff jean shorts and was pounding up a local trail at a feverish pace. “I’ve seen your name in the paper,” he bellowed, shaking my hand, when we met on the trail. “You took a job with the greenies!”

Suddenly, I had an idea where he might land on the wilderness question, but I po-

litely reminded him who had set me on this path. “I love wilderness,” he responded, a smile spreading across his face, “but I hate environmentalists.”

For me, that memorable exchange suggests a new set of compass points for a state that has failed to designate a single new wilderness area in 30 years, the longest such span in the country. We need to find that sweet spot where a meaningful conservation agenda overlaps with the state’s long history of dependence on extractive industries.

Somehow, we’ve got to bridge the gap.

Thousands of people across Montana have come to the same conclusion over the last several years, including members of our congressional delegation, who have sponsored two wilderness bills recently, the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act and the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act. These bills are the products of uncommon partnerships, the former between timber companies and conservation groups, and the latter between ranchers and sportsmen and women. Both bills maintain an approval rating among Montana citizens of greater than 70 percent.

As the nation begins to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act this year, parties are being planned across Montana— in logging towns like Libby and Seeley Lake as well as urban centers like Missoula and Bozeman. It’s been five years since I ran into Mr. O’Leary, but I think I’m going to invite him out to join the festivities. I’m not sure whether he’ll accept, but when the bands begin to play, I expect to see a bunch of wilderness lovers like him swapping tall tales with a lot of “environmentalists” like me.

After all, he helped inspire my love of wild country in the West.

Gabriel Furshong is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He lives in Missoula.

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[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - British authorities said habitual burglar Daniel Severn, 27, got his foot caught while climbing through a bathroom window of a house in Howden and wound up hanging upside down over the toilet for an hour and a half. He was found by homeowner Richard Wilson, whose wife took a photograph of Severn before her husband called police. Severn admitted trying to burglarize the residence and explained he tried to call police himself to come rescue him, but he dropped the phone into the toilet.

“It would be funny,” Judge Amanda Rippon told Severn after sentencing him to 28 months in jail, “if it were not such a serious offense.” (Britain’s Daily Telegraph) Surveillance cameras recorded Joshua M. Pemble, 23, stealing a security camera system at a Wal-Mart store in Joliet, Ill. When store security employees tried to stop Pemble after he exited the store, police Capt.

Tab Jensen said he took off running but was arrested nearby and charged with shoplifting. Jensen said a charge of unauthorized use of a handicapped parking space was added after security footage showed Pemble parking in one “without a placard in his vehicle.” (Joliet’s The Herald News)

MISTAKEN IDENTITY - Sculptor Robert S. Davison is suing the U.S. government for copyright infringement because the U.S. Postal Service used his sculpture of the Statue of Liberty on a stamp, instead of the original statue in New York Harbor, without his permission. Davison’s replica welcomes visitors to the Las Vegas casino hotel New York New York. Davison’s attorneys contend that the post office chose their client’s image, which appeared on more than 5 billion forever stamps printed in 2011, because it was more “freshfaced” and “sultry” than the original. (Associated Press) GANGNAM STYLE - South Korean teenagers who can’t afford plastic surgery are turning to do-it-yourself cosmetic enhancements, using cheap tools bought online. Instead of double-eyelid surgery to give them a “Hollywood look,” for example, some teens wear glasses, costing $5 to $20, that force their eyes to stay open without blinking. Another popular item is a $6 jaw roller intended to push the jaw line into a petite, oval form. Another device promises to raise the nose bridge to give a pointed nose. It’s painful but costs only $2. “We want to become pretty without spending all the money,” 17-year-old Na said, explaining that she and her friends started ordering online after seeing Korean talk show guests demonstrate various gadgets. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, South Koreans are the world’s most cosmetically enhanced people. (GlobalPost) WHEN THE OWNER’S MANUAL ISN’T ENOUGH - Truck driver Jeffrey Glossop, 58, was transporting a 58-ton vintage battle tank but couldn’t climb a hill outside Gold Beach, Ore., so he decided to unload the tank and drive it up the hill. Glossop had never driven a tank, but “he had the manual, so he thought he could do it,” State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings said. The tank slipped out of gear, however, then rolled back down the hill and crashed through a guardrail. Glossop tried again, crossing over the damaged guardrail and heading back up the hill. The tank again slipped out of gear, rolled down an embankment and came to rest in a stand of trees. The tank wasn’t damaged, but Glossop was cited for reckless driving. (Portland’s The Oregonian)

MOONLIGHTING BY DAY - University of Colorado Denver officials placed cultural diversity coordinator Resa Cooper-Morning, 54, on administrative leave while they investigated reports that she operated a phone sex business during the hours she was working at the school. Her website, “msresa.com” features numerous nude, provocative photos of Cooper-Morning, and a phone sex component invited callers to talk dirty with her Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until late at night. Her university work hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. After Cooper-Morning was placed on leave, the website stated that she was available for phone sex weekdays only after 3 p.m. (Denver’s KCNC-TV) DRINKING-CLASS HERO - A pilot program in the Netherlands that hires alcoholics to collect litter and do other light work in Amsterdam pays them with beer. The 20 men must show up at 9 a.m. three days a week. They start with two beers, work all morning, eat lunch, get two more beers, do an afternoon shift that ends with a beer and sometimes a bonus beer. Besides the beer, participants receive a meal, tobacco and $13 cash, a lot of which, the men admit, goes to buy more beer. Amsterdam East District Mayor Fatima Elatik defended the program, which the city operates with the nonprofit Rainbow Group Foundation, declaring, “I am giving the people a sense of perspective, even a sense of belonging. … We validate them, and we don’t ostracize our people.” Insisting that the program’s goal is to get alcoholics to stop drinking and move back to mainstream society, Rainbow leader Gerrie Holterman said beer was the obvious choice because it’s easy for the sponsors to regulate the men’s consumption.” (Associated Press) PUNCTUATION FOLLIES - England’s Cambridge City Council voted to ban apostrophes from street names, insisting that the change will clarify addresses for emergency services. “It was decided potential confusion over incorrectly punctuated street names meant we wouldn’t use punctuation any more,” council officer Nick Milne explained, pointing out that the move follows guidelines prescribed by the National Land and Property Gazetteer, where all new street names are registered. “Our understanding was that many data users including the emergency services make no reference at all as to whether an apostrophe is used or not.” The council’s new policy affects only new street names and also bans street names that would be “difficult to pronounce or awkward to spell,” as well as names that “could give offense” or “encourage defacing of nameplates.” (Cambridge News) BIG BREAK FOR WHITE-COLLAR CRIME - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has changed its mission, according to national security lawyer Kel McClanahan, who said he noticed the change in December while reviewing a Freedom of Information Act request from the agency. The FBI fact sheet previously stated, “The primary function of the FBI is law enforcement.” Now, McClanahan told Foreign Policy, “The primary function of the FBI is national security.” FBI official Paul Bresson clarified that the agency’s mission “changed after 9/11,” and the number of FBI agents dedicated to counterterrorism doubled between 2001 and 2009. As the FBI focus shifted to counterterrorism, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported a sharp drop in the number of white-collar criminal cases investigated. (MSNBC)

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A Montana community braces for the next oil boom while still dealing with the devastating effects of the last one. story and photos by Kelly Conde

It started with rust. In the toilet. On the shower stall. Helen Ricker saw the orange stains and wondered what was causing them. Her water came from a well, from an aquifer that had always been good. So she drank the water anyway. Beneath the ground, the diluted edges of a large groundwater contamination were seeping by in a slow, gravity-fed progression. Little by little, Ricker’s water got worse.

The water stained her white sheets when she washed them and turned her white socks orange.

Every time she filled the sink to do dishes, the water’s surface shimmered with an iridescent sheen. Residual grease covered her plates long after soap washed away the night’s meal. Then the water started to stink.

A sulfurous stench rose from the toilet in the bathroom and cascaded out of her faucets. Ricker stopped drinking her water.

Ricker lives on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation three miles north of the town of Poplar, on the desolate BIA Road 75. Her home lies two miles southwest of the East Poplar oilfields, a large expanse crisscrossed with rutted dirt roads and spotted with blue,

yellow and black oil pumps bobbing up and down like plastic drinking birds from a novelty store. The oilfield is not as productive as it used to be. But that soon may change.

The Fort Peck Indian Reservation is on the western edge of the Williston Basin. Beneath the reservation and expanding east into North Dakota is the shale-rich Bakken formation. In the past, the oil and gas in this particular rock was untappable.

But recent advances in oil and gas drilling technology have provided a way to break the Bakken’s grasp on what is now known as the largest continuous deposit of natural gas and oil in the U.S. The once humble farming town of Williston, N.D., which is at the center of the Bakken reservoir, is now bursting at the seams with oil workers from all over the U.S. Though Poplar is only 97 miles west of Williston, things are still very quiet there. Hotels have vacancies, and restaurants have empty tables. But many believe that a new oil boom is on its way.

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Fort Peck experienced its first oil and gas boom in the 1950s. Then, like now in Williston, men and huge machines descended upon the rolling land north of Poplar. Oil wells speckled the area. The East Poplar oilfield was tapped first, and regulated later.

On the outskirts of Poplar, groups of thin-walled houses popped up—shantytowns nicknamed after their parent oil company.

Today, the skeleton of “Murphyville” remains as one of many reminders of the boom. A more jarring reminder, however, is below the surface. The oil rush of the 1950s led to thick plumes of contaminated groundwater. Fifty years later, the era still haunts people like Ricker who have been living on bottled water for the past three decades. So while many on the reservation prepare for a new oil boom, Ricker and her neighbors are still living with the consequences of the last one.

Ricker, 72, lives with her husband, George, in a house perched above the meandering Poplar River.

The view from their house is one of overwhelming sky and rolling hills cut by deep ravines. In the distance are the profiles of numerous oil wells. Ricker has dark shoulder-length hair streaked lightly with gray. When relaxed, her face sags under the weight of the years, of raising her children and grandchildren, of losing one son to cancer, of surviving breast cancer herself.

But then she smiles and time and tension slip away.

Ricker is three-quarters Sioux and an enrolled member of the affiliated Fort Peck tribes. She grew up in the vast country off Road 75, on land held in trust by the federal government for the Sioux and Assiniboine people. Her current residence is only a quarter mile away from her childhood home. A lot has changed since she was young.

As a child, Ricker filled buckets with well water from the single pump in her yard to wash clothes or do dishes. Ask anyone who lived in or around Poplar at the time and they will say the same thing: the water off Road 75 had a special quality. It was cold, clean and sweet.

That is rare in northeastern Montana. Spend some time in this open, lonely land and know that

rivers and streams run slow and muddy. Aquifers are shallow. The water from the tap tastes of too many minerals and not enough time out of the sun.

But the quality of the water off Road 75 was enough to lure people from Poplar and beyond to several bubbling springs or to the well of a family or friend.

“We had good water,” Ricker says. “People used to come from town with jars and jugs and ask if they could get our water because it was so nice and cold.”

for cutting through the oily film left on her dishes.

She stopped buying white clothing, towels or bedding. When her granddaughter was a toddler and started reacting to the water, Ricker hauled water for bathing as well.

This way of life became the norm. Ricker and her family were resigned to it.

“They came in and took the oil and then they left a contamination,” she says. “It was really hard, but we thad no other choice. We just had to deal with it the best we could.”

Madison is tall and has a dominating presence.

She has a degree in petroleum engineering and is married to a local cowboy. She speaks with grit and isn’t prone to hesitation. So when presented with a fizzy, salty sample of drinking water, she did something about it.

Madison called the U.S. Geological Survey, which was already in the area assessing water resources for the tribe.

That sample added to mounting evidence obtained by the USGS that pointed to a major problem

“They came in and took the oil and then they left a contamination. It was really hard, but we had no other choice. We just had to deal with it the best we could.”

—Helen Ricker

When Ricker and her husband moved back to the country in 1971 after a time in Poplar, the water was still good. But less than two years later, it began to change. The oilfields had been around for 20 years at that point, and their presence was beginning to show.

The cool, clear water of Ricker’s childhood turned the color of urine. Its sweet taste was replaced with a strong chemical flavor.

“When I poured water to wash dishes you could tell there was oil in it,” she says. “Pretty soon after that it started to have a bad odor like rotten eggs.”

Ricker reported all of this first to the tribe and then to the Indian Health Service with no reaction.

So she learned to deal with her water.

She and her family hauled drinking water from town. She learned that Dawn dish soap worked best

It took nearly 20 years after Ricker first saw the rust in her bathroom before anyone decided to do more than just deal with the water.

Deb Madison was just starting her career as the environmental manager for the Fort Peck tribe’s Office of Environmental Protection in 1987 when talk of contamination reached her desk in Poplar. Water tasted salty. It didn’t freeze in the wintertime. It had an odd color. Finally, a resident who lived down the road from Ricker and on the edge of the oilfields brought in a sample from his well. Salt was not the only issue.

“It was fizzy,” Madison says. “And we were like ‘Wow, what the hell?’”

below the surface and launched a decade-long scientific investigation into the groundwater surrounding the oilfields. What the USGS eventually discovered was a massive groundwater contamination.

Somewhere between nine and 60 billion gallons of drinking water are tainted—more than enough to provide each person in Montana with adequate drinking water for life. “That’s a lot of water,” Madison says.

The contamination extends, patchwork-style, under 40 square miles of land surrounding Road 75.

There are areas where the contamination is more concentrated and areas where is it diluted. There are point sources, and more diffuse sources, and as water and contaminants migrate, they seep into one another. Because of this, it is all but impossible to know how far it reaches or to pin the contamination on just one oil company or one source.

Murphy Oil Corporation first discovered oil beneath the fields east of Road 75 in early 1952. Murphy is now a multibillion-dollar international company that is primarily involved in offshore drilling. But it earned its first dollars on the Fort Peck Reservation drilling 35 active wells within the first three years.

Soon after the initial discovery of oil, other companies came until the field was spotted with wells.

These oil wells ran over 5,000 feet deep. When oil is extracted from this depth, hot, extremely salty water comes with it. For millions of years, water and oil intermixed underground. At the surface when they are separated the wastewater still has remnants of oil in it and a host of dissolved minerals.

Today’s regulations require oil companies to dispose of the wastewater in an environmentally safe way. In the 1950s, however, the oil companies had no such requirements.

“In the early days the water produced from the East Poplar oilfields was just dumped into open unlined pits,” says Nathan Wiser, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist who worked extensively in the oilfields.

According to the EPA, at least 42 million gallons of wastewater were dumped into unlined pits in or around the East Poplar oilfield between 1952 and 1955.

“It seems incredible that this was allowed, but it was,” Wiser says.

What is now the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation began requiring responsible wastewater disposal in 1955, but it was all but ignored. In a public hearing held in Helena in 1961, a representative for the oil company C.C. Thomas defended the 42,000 gallons of wastewater his company was dumping daily onto the ground by claiming it “was not hurting anyone.”

Today’s groundwater contamination proves otherwise. The potency of the wastewater dumped over 50 years ago was enough to render any well water in its presence completely undrinkable today. Yet discarded wastewater was not the only contributing factor.

An abandoned production well, inherited by Pioneer Natural Resources, also added to the mess. The well was plugged in 1984, but the cement sealing between the pipe and the earth loosened. Subsurface pressure forced oil and water back up the plugged well bore and through the gaps between cement and pipe and into the shallow groundwater. The leaks formed a concentrated plume of hot, oil-stained water. This well is located a half mile away from the residents of Road 75.

Though old wastewater caused a more widespread contamination, it was this plume that caused the most problems for the residents. And in the old East Poplar fields, abandoned wells are not monitored, so it is unknown how many more are leaking.

BIA Road 75

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This is why, even with Madison and the USGS searching for answers, it took years to find any.

After contacting the Goetz law firm, Martell went door-to-door, to the houses on Road 75.

“I contacted the families on the road and asked if they would be interested in doing something about the water. It kind of took off from there,” Martell says.

Fourteen families agreed to take action and in 1998, they filed a federal lawsuit against three oil companies: Murphy Exploration and Production company, Pioneer Natural Resources, and Samson Hydrocarbons. The plaintiffs alleged that the oil companies had destroyed the value of their

their tap water can be exposed to it in many different ways because it exists as both a liquid and a gas. They can ingest it or inhale it. It can soak through their skin when they shower or wash their hands.

Most of those living off Road 75 had quit drinking their well water long before EPA found benzene. Yet they had little choice but to use it for washing clothes and themselves. They were still exposed to it daily.

For how long, no one is sure.

Though the incidents of cancer seem abnormally high among the residents—Ricker suffered from

According to Martell, the EPA’s involvement bolstered the families’ lawsuit.

“It gave us a big hammer,” Martell says. “Oil companies had to deal with our lawsuit and had to deal with EPA’s federal action. It just emphasized that the EPA wasn’t going away and neither were we.”

It took another two years, but in 2002, the families finally reached a settlement with the oil companies. The companies agreed to continue to provide the families with bottled water, but more importantly they agreed to build a pipeline connecting the affected homes to the city of Poplar’s water supply.

The companies also agreed to pay each family around $63,000 in damages plus another $5,000 to replace the pipes in their houses, which were corroded by the excessively salty water.

Water would continue to be delivered to all the families for 10 years or until they had safe, reliable drinking water running from their faucets.

After more than 20 years of stress, the residents of Road 75 could do their laundry, wash their dishes and stand under hot running water without the worry of side effects. Being connected to Poplar’s supply seemed to have finally solved their water problems.

In a brightly lit conference room in the USGS building in Helena, Joanna Thamke flips through maps of the contamination on her laptop. Thamke has thick blonde hair, wears thin-wired glasses and speaks with a slow, careful rhythm. Within the borders of her multicolored maps lay the answers: where exactly the contamination is, whom it is affecting, who is responsible. Like Madison, Thamke has been working on the contamination since its discovery in the late 1980s. It is her research that has slowly pieced together the scientific story behind the mess.

Thamke’s first step was to identify characteristics that were unique to the contamination. She found that the wastewater has high levels of chloride ion, which is what makes the water so salty, and a high concentration of dissolved solids.

This helped her track the wastewater through the aquifer. But it was Thamke’s discovery of a unique chemical signature within the wastewater that allowed her to do so with precision.

The wastewater that caused the pollution came from a formation over 5,000 feet below the Deb Madison speeds north along a paved road surface that was created more than 300 million that runs parallel to the East Poplar oilfields. To years ago. This rock formed at the bottom of an the west, snow-covered fields are dotted with the ancient ocean. And within its chemical makeup dark profiles of oil wells. Madison slows and turns are signatures of a different place and time. When down an unsigned dirt road that leads into the the waters of this formation are pulled to the heart of the oilfields. surface, their chemistry is unique to the surroundMadison knows her way around the rutted ing environment. roads that cut through the fields. Along with repThamke, with USGS geochemist Zell Peterresenting the tribe through the years of scientific man, discovered that within the ancient waters of investigation and mitigation surrounding the polthe East Poplar oilfields there exists an unusual lution, Madison oversees all injection well permits chemical ratio that is nowhere else in the area’s and monitoring on the reservation. There isn’t groundwater. Like a fingerprint at a crime scene, much about the issue that Madison isn’t involved the presence of this isotopic combination points in. Even so, she says as she navigates the car past to the source of the contamination. a cluster of nodding well pumps, the call from the “It’s perhaps one of the more sensitive tools Poplar dialysis center complaining of dirty water that can detect small changes in contamination,” came as a surprise.

Thamke says.

In summer 2009, employees of the Verne E. This tool is reflected in Thamke’s maps. The Gibbs dialysis center notice a change in Poplar’s maps display the contamination the way a handwater. The center’s high-tech purification system print is displayed on those heat-sensitive T-shirts clogged easily. Filters had to be changed every coufrom the early 1990s. Bright pink indicates areas ple of days rather than monthly. And when they where the contamination is most concentrated. were changed, they came out looking like they had Then red. Then orange. Then green. been dipped in chocolate pudding. When the probAs simple as the maps look, it took time to collem didn’t cease, the center called Madison. lect the data. Years and years of drilling small wells, It was obvious that the contamination would taking samples, analyzing. Meanwhile, the resieventually seep the three miles to Poplar. All water dents of Road 75 spent those years ignoring orange paths, above and below ground, ran towards the stains, hauling water, waiting. three municipal wells that supplied Poplar with In 1998, as Thamke moved further and further from the heart of the oilfields only to discover Environmental manager Deb Madison has been monitoring the groundwater contamination since drinking water. But it was nearly impossible to predict the rate the contamination was moving with more and more contaminated water, the residents 1987. Residents still receive bottled water delivered by oil companies. complete accuracy. Though the terrain around of Road 75 took matters into their own hands. property and requested an alternative source of breast cancer, as did her sister, and three of her neigh- Poplar is a monotony of rolling hills and lazy rivers, bors—so many environmental factors can cause can- the earth beneath the surface is extremely complex. drinking water.

“You always have to put the money part in,” cer that there is no way to prove it was from the Still, most predictions were optimistically far in the Rene Martell works as an attorney for the tribe. Martell says. “This was a contingency lawsuit so the contamination. But neither has there been an inves- future.

Madison knew the contamination had reached He is a quiet man with shaggy hair and big glasses. attorneys would get paid if we won. But what we tigation in the area to look specifically for health probPoplar sooner than anyone expected when she lems related to benzene exposure.

Martell is married to Helen Ricker’s sister and lives wanted was a (water) pipeline.”

Still, the discovery of benzene in the groundwa- tested the water from the dialysis center and found it As the suit was underway, a toxicologist, up the road. Like Ricker, Martell and his wife struginvited by Deb Madison, made a discovery that ter changed everything. A year after the residents filed contained high levels of chloride, a contamination gled with their water for years. Martell found that the their lawsuit, the EPA administered an emergency indicator. orange tint of the water clung to his skin long after upped the ante.

In December 2010, shortly after Madison’s dis“We found benzene,” Madison says. “Well, ben- order under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. The he finished showering.

“You’d start seeing it on your fingernails and your zene kind of changed everything because now we def- same oil companies that were being sued were now covery, the EPA issued another order naming the required by the order to provide a gallon of drinking same three oil companies responsible. The compainitely had a human health effect.” legs,” Martell says.

Significant exposure to benzene has been linked water per person, per day, to 23 families living off nies were required to sample Poplar’s water supply Through his job, Martell knew of a Bozeman law monthly, and, depending on the level of contaminafirm that might take on a water contamination case. to various types of cancer. Someone with benzene in Road 75.

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tion, provide treated or bottled water to the residents of Poplar and submit an aquifer remediation plan.

The companies immediately appealed the order, stating that there was no evidence to prove that the contamination had reached Poplar.

Michael Jacobs, geologist for Pioneer Natural Resources, says, “There is no evidence to date to show the city wells have or will ever be impacted by the contamination. The contamination has not found its way to Poplar’s water supply wells.”

Murphy Exploration and Production and Samson Hydrocarbons declined to comment for this story.

The USGS and the EPA say the evidence was in the water. Poplar’s water contained all the signs of having oil-produced wastewater in it: high chloride levels, high total dissolved solids concentration and the presence of the unique chemical combination.

There was one glaring problem: even if the companies agreed to pay the city to find a new water source, all the clean groundwater was directly in the path of the moving contamination.

Poplar needed to extend far beyond the reach of the contamination for a water source, an endeavor that would take more money than the oil companies would pay and more time than the contamination was going to give it.

To Tom Escarcega, the waters of the Fort Peck reservation are sick—not only those touched by the East Poplar oil activity, but all water running beneath the northeastern corner of Montana.

“The groundwater is pretty much contaminated in this area,” says Escarcega, who used to work as the tribe’s water resources administrator. “You can’t drink it, and some of the time you can’t even cook with it.

It’s pretty bad.”

Due to the shallow aquifer, even without the oil activity the water is tainted by agricultural practices.

Eighty percent of private water supplies on the reservation have nitrate levels above safe drinking water standards. In 1992, Escarcega sought to change this by flying with the tribal chairman to Billings to speak with the Bureau of Reclamation about funding a water treatment plant.

Then Montana U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns heard about the proposal and decided to make the project regional, and in 1994 the first funds were secured.

The ultimate goal of the project, dubbed the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System, is to provide treated water from the Missouri River to the entire northeast corner of Montana. For Escarcega, who is now the Rural Water System’s project manager, it is a way to cleanse the sick waters of the reservation.

“With the treatment plant we are trying to re-purify, almost like a dialysis,” Escarcega says.

To date, Congress has provided the Rural Water System with more than $300 million. In August 2012, the large pumps in the Missouri River were switched on and the first drops ran the two miles to the newly built Rural Water treatment plant, a huge, twinkling box rooted on the side of the road between Poplar and the nearby town of Wolf Point.

For this reason, the Fort Peck tribal council believes that the $320,000 settlement was not nearly enough to pay for the damage the oil companies caused.

“We still have the water plume there,” Fort Peck Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure says. “It has destroyed our groundwater; $320,000 isn’t going to cover that.”

And it seems nothing will fix the problems along Road 75.

“All this talk on the oil boom, as far as I’m concerned they can lock our highways up.

I don’t want that coming in on my land.

Not after what we’ve seen historically.”

—Helen Ricker

Inside the plant, layers of filtration systems and cleansing processes, all gravity fed, turned the muddy waters of the Missouri into something clean and sweet. The bubbling water spoke of new prospects.

To Nathan Wiser of the EPA, it was a way out. As science was moving litigation between the EPA and the oil companies toward mediation, the Rural Water System flickered as a solution.

In March 2012, the companies came to an agreement. They would pay $320,000 to connect the city of Poplar to the Rural Water system. The companies were no longer required to submit a clean-up plan. On top of saving Poplar from contaminated water, the Rural Water system, it seems, would set the oil companies free of any obligation for remediation.

In September 2012, just one month after the water treatment plant opened and at least three years after the fingers of the contamination first touched Poplar’s water supply, the entire city was connected to the Rural Water line. Clean water ran from faucets again. Poplar’s water was saved.

But the water line couldn’t fix everything.

Because of the contamination, there is an embargo on new water well permits in the area.

Much of the land north of Poplar is held in trust by the federal government for the Fort Peck affiliated tribes. Without water, this land is all but uninhabitable.

On a cold morning last January, Shane Halverson, the Public Works director for the City of Poplar, received a call from someone living off Road 75. They had no running water. Again. Halverson left to check the pipeline. That morning’s problem had a simple fix: a switch needed to be turned on. Other days, the fix isn’t so easy.

Construction of the 10-mile water pipeline was completed in 2005. But the relief felt by those living off Road 75, those who had been living on bottled water for so long, was short-lived. Within a year of its completion, the line started breaking regularly—between 20 and 30 times annually.

The problem was different every time. The plastic line would freeze and break, or pressure from the water pump would force a leak. With each break, most of the families on the line went without running water. Some breaks took days to fix, others took weeks. Eight years later, the pipeline still has problems. The country residents now live with a nagging uncertainty. They are never sure when they will have water and when they will not.

Halverson blames the pipeline problems on its construction. Before working for the city, he worked as a quality-assurance engineer and in pipeline construction.

“The quality assurance was poor to say the least,” Halverson says.

According to Halverson, the quality assurance report noted various problems in construction that were never addressed. Mistakes were made, but never corrected. The pipeline was haphazardly put into the ground. It wasn’t bedded properly. It wasn’t tested for weaknesses.

“There are places out there that they put damaged pipe in the ground. It was noted in the quality report that the pipe was damaged and they put it in anyway,” Halverson says. “And it’s never going to be right.

That’s the thing about putting pipe in the ground. If you don’t do it right the first time, you are always going to have trouble with it. Always, always, always.”

The same morning Halverson was out fixing the line again, Helen Ricker was readjusting her morning schedule to the whim of her faucet. Though the 10year warranty on the settlement made with the oil companies has expired, the companies still deliver bottled water to all houses–a sign that nothing is completely fixed. On this morning, Ricker took water from one of the delivered five-gallon jugs and heated it on the stove. It would be enough for her granddaughter to take a sponge bath before high school.

There is an ongoing search for federal funds to rebuild that pipeline after all efforts to force the oil companies to do it failed. Maybe within two years, or three, reconstruction can begin. But for now, the people on Road 75 are stuck. They have used up all their options.

Ricker feels duped.

“The non-Indians came in here, drilled for the oil and we were told that it would be taken care of correctly and cleaned up correctly and we believed that,” she says.

No matter what benefits another oil boom would bring to the reservation, no matter what new regulations and technology exist to ensure that the land remains unscarred, Ricker hopes that the oil boom that is swarming North Dakota won’t make its way west.

“All this talk on the oil boom, as far as I’m concerned they can lock our highways up,” Ricker says.

“I don’t want that coming in on my land. Not after what we’ve seen historically.”

Ricker is one of few who feel this way. The Bakken oil reserve brings the prospect of new jobs and opportunity to a land where there are few. Many in the area welcome that, though those still dealing with the scars of the last boom remain wary.

“It’s a kind of a two-edged sword,” Deb Madison says. “It will be great to have money flowing and jobs, but it’s going to be a challenge to stay ahead of it. Because it’s fast and furious and it doesn’t wait for anybody.” editor@missoulanews.com

In September 2012, the Rural Water System finally extended to the city of Poplar.

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[arts]

Silent treatment

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few months ago Ryan Bundy took the stage at the Crystal Theatre to celebrate the release of his stunning anti-folk album Crow’s Share. Though he’d recorded the collection of songs himself, the live show required more than just him to bring the full sound to life. For that purpose, he tapped John Sporman and Travis Yost, aka NextDoorPrisonHotel. The night of the show, the duo flanked him on stage, each pulling from a stable of instruments including keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, saw and various pedals, loopers and processors. The resulting textures and moods formed a fascinating fusion: three parts moonshine-folk and one part experimental noise. Center stage, Bundy gave a strong, charismatic performance, but Sporman and Yost were just as enthralling to watch. Sporman bent the singing saw to let each note resonate against the walls of the theater. Yost rustled the strings on his guitar to make static and whispered indiscernibly into the mic for several minutes, letting the sound of his voice loop eerily into Bundy’s choruses. They played the role of backup band, but played by their own rules. It’s a fine line to walk.

“We’re pretty good at not stepping on the story or stepping on each other’s toes,” Sporman says.

“We’re total parts guys so we’d rather do a part than a solo.”

You can’t throw a guitar pick in this town and not hit Sporman and Yost. Over the years they’ve been connected with bands like Stellarondo, The Cold Hard Cash Show, Grandfatherglen, American Falcon, the New Hijackers, the John Floridis Trio and Dawns, spanning Americana to classic rock to pop. Their highest profile band is Tom Catmull’s Radio Static

(spawned from Tom Catmull and the Clerics). But more recently, they’ve invested heavily in NextDoorPrisonHotel, which has become a prominent force in the arts scene. Most notably, NDPH spent the last six months as resident musicians live-scoring silent films at the Roxy Theater.

There’s a resurgence in live-scoring films across the country. It’s still more obscure than micro-spirits and kickball leagues among the cultured-and-hip, but it resonates in the same way. In Missoula, the revived Roxy has brought in decent crowds for its “Twin Peaks” nights, mini-festivals and arthouse films. But, with one sold-out show and others that nearly reached capacity, it’s NDPH that has drawn some of the theater’s biggest crowds.

The first time NDPH played to a live audience was three years ago at the Wilma for the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival when it live-scored the 1927 classic Berlin: Symphony of a Great City. At that time, the group was composed of Sporman and cello/saw extraordinaire Bethany Joyce. The festival, under the direction of Mike Steinberg, who now serves as director of the Roxy, had already built a reputation for bringing musicians such as the Alloy Orchestra and Yo La Tengo, making NDPH’s invitation a coup for the local band. ( Yost’s band, Stellarondo, scored a film that night, too.) None of the musicians from either band had played to a film before. It was a huge undertaking and there were a few moments where it didn’t quite mesh, where the execution felt uncertain.

But people loved it for all the moments it came together just right.

“It was a humongous success,” Sporman says. “So, of course, that snags a guy like me. Can I do that again?”

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After the Wilma show, he and Joyce scored a handful of films at the Crystal Theatre and joined Missoula’s Bare Bait Dance Company as its ensemble-inresidence. Joyce left NDPH a year into the project, and Yost took her place to make the newest incarnation, which has continued to hone the art of marrying sound to screen in innovative, imaginative ways.

For the Roxy, Sporman and Yost have scored short stop-motion films by Ladislas Starevich and The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a silhouette animation.

Their upcoming performance on Thu., Feb. 27, accompanies two half-hour films, 1936’s The Plow That Broke the Plains and 1938’s The River, both by Pare Lorentz about agriculture’s affects on the landscape.

To create the score, Yost and Sporman break down each film into musical themes—sometimes based on a character, sometimes a particular scene. They compose the piece together, rehearse once a week and map out what they’re going to do via flowsheets and chord charts. Live, they rely on knowing how each other works. “We don’t have to talk about what the other one is going to do,” Sporman says.

That familiarity allows NDPH to experiment more with certain projects. For instance, last Halloween, NDPH decided to put a twist on their score for the 1922 vampire film Nosferatu. Previous music for the shadowy German-Expressionist story has played to the tension and horror of Count Orlock stalking a young woman, but NDPH composed music that provided a more sympathetic edge to the vampire’s desires.“We treated it as more of a love story,” Yost says. “We made the final scene triumphant—when he doesn’t bite her and he dies—whereas in the original it’s very minor [key] and diminished. That was fun to switch it.”

During The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the musicians kept a cohesive flow of sound going throughout the show, using loopers and analog delays, even when they weren’t actually playing an instrument. One thing they’ve found is that experimenting with silence is a challenge. “Silence, for what we’re doing, has to be placed extremely carefully, otherwise people are like, ‘Why aren’t they making noise?’” Sporman says. “Otherwise it could be distracting as opposed to being powerful.”

As with the Ryan Bundy show, the film scoring process puts Sporman and Yost in a strange position of being only halfway in the spotlight. People have come to watch a movie, but equally or more so, to hear a kind of musical tightrope act. That puts some pressure on the musicians who, if you spend enough time talking to them, clearly have workhorse standards for themselves. “You have to keep it fresh,” Sporman says. “You kind of can’t sound like shit.”

That’s not to say NDPH doesn’t make mistakes.

They do, but they’ve learned how to turn a misstep into something that makes the piece better.

“Yes, we have high standards,” Yost says. “Yes, we’re searching for a higher level of performance. But that said, a mistake made might become the way it’s played for the rest of the time. Sometimes my imperfections can create sadness for six months, but sometimes my imperfections can create awesome.”

NextDoorPrisonHotel scores The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River Thu., Feb. 27, at 8 PM. Roxy Theater. $10. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

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Bryan Ramirez finds freedom in soundtracks

by Erika Fredrickson

There’s a scene in Ken Burns’ PBS series “Jazz” that just kills Missoula musician Bryan Ramirez. It’s when Branford Marsalis calls experimental pianist Cecil Taylor a hack. “He’s totally dissing on Cecil, calling what he does bullshit,” Ramirez says. “It was like getting kicked in the nuts. I couldn’t believe he was saying that. I was heartbroken!”

It’s that moment that sticks out for Ramirez almost more than any other part because it pours salt into an already big wound. Experimental artists, especially noise musicians like Ramirez, get that kind of dismissive reaction all the time. They’re seen as pretentious or it’s assumed they don’t know how to play their instruments.

“Experimental” is seen as inaccessible, like poetry. Say the word and people look ready to flee.

Ramirez might be one of the best ambassadors for experimental/noise projects because he’s so disarming. He laughs easily and sometimes mischievously. He doesn’t take himself so seriously, though he’s serious about what he does. “I’m used to people not liking it,” he says.

‘That’s fine. But for me, it’s like the ultimate freedom.”

Ramirez is best known for Ex-Cocaine, which he started with Michigan-based musician Michael Casler.

The duo’s albums, Keep America Mellow and Siltbreeze, each sold several hundred copies to experimental-philes around the world. It helped that Ramirez had initial fans like Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and John Olson of Wolf Eyes, who helped get the word out about the music. (Olson and Ramirez also played together in Universal Indians back in the early 1990s.) But looking through reviews from obscure experimental fansites, it’s clear that once the music was out there, listeners liked what they heard.

The interest in Ex-Cocaine has steered fans to Ramirez’s label, Killertree, and helped expose some of his other bands, including one called Poor School, which is composed of Ramirez on guitar, John Niekrasz on drums and Nathan Hoyme on sax.

Poor School knows how to put on a show. The musicians have played Missoula’s Total Fest a couple times to awed crowds that normally wouldn’t pay money for something described as “experimental.”

Niekrasz convulses on the drums like a possessed marionette and Ramirez on guitar sometimes tosses himself into the crowd to be tumbled around. In late 2006, Ex-Cocaine played the noise-infused No Fun Fest in Brooklyn, N. Y. Moore was in the crowd and Ramirez says that sometime in the haze of partying, they exchanged recordings. Moore got a hold of him a few weeks later to gush about Poor School, and he ended up putting out the band’s 2008 album, The Holy Master, on his Ecstatic Peace label.

“And that’s when people started taking me seriously around here,” Ramirez says, laughing. “Everyone just thought I was messing around and being a jerk or something. But I hate being coherent—no, that’s not it—it’s just that I’ve been doing it for so long I can’t be coherent.”

Ramirez recently took his experimental sound into the film world. Freeload, a documentary about modern-day train hoppers made by Missoula filmmakers and University of Montana grads, makes its Montana premiere this week at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The director, Daniel Skaggs, also happened to be an Ex-Cocaine and Poor School fan, and he asked Ramirez to do the soundtrack. Ramirez agreed, as long as he could do it his way. In a behind-

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the-scenes video about Freeload, Ramirez, with sunglasses on, drives in his car while talking about his vision for the documentary. At one point he turns to the camera and says with just a hint of defiance, “There’s not going to be an acoustic guitar and a harmonica. I mean, all respects to Woody Guthrie but I’m not going to be playing one of his covers.”

Still, if you know Ramirez’s work, you might be surprised by the end result. Whereas Poor School and Ex-Cocaine shows force you into a relationship with the music, the Freeload score does what it’s supposed to do by adding grit and tone without drowning out the story. The soundtrack includes new music from Poor School, Ex-Cocaine and Atrocity Singers, another band Ramirez started with Hoyme, a duet with musician Jeff Dunn, as well as some solo pieces from Ramirez. The reverb and drums give the passing of a train a grunge effect rather the nostalgia that a Guthrie song might. It’s part of what makes the film feel less like a romantic take on hobo life and more like a realistic portrait.

Ramirez’s experience with Freeload has piqued his interest in film scoring, and he’s looking to head down that track if the opportunity arises. In the meantime, he’s started a band called Chemical Lawns that he says sounds like Neil Young backed by Television. And he’s slowly recording another Ex-Cocaine album to send out into the world for all the experimental enthusiasts, Branford Marsalis be damned.

“Experimental music is the most perfect form of expression without being bound to anything, without any expectancy,” he says. “I love it because it’s the ultimate high. It’s religious. It really is.”

Bryan Ramirez releases the Freeload soundtrack the week of Feb. 24. Visit killertree.com. The documentary screens at the Wilma Fri., Feb. 21, at 7:30 PM as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Visit bigskyfilmfestival.org.

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[film]

Beasts of burden Grant Hart talks about Hüsker Dü, Milton and the song that’s not about Montana

by Josh Vanek

If you were a person remotely interested in underground music in the 1990s, it was impossible to not know the Twin Cities punk group Hüsker Dü. Typically, some hacky combination of “seminal,” “’80s hardcore legends” and “SST Records’” preceded the words “Hüsker Dü” back then. Spin magazine likely had to spell-check the band’s name approximately 36.8 times per issue. By the mid-’90s, “Hüsker Dü” had become more adjective than noun and downright unavoidable as a rock writer’s reference point.

It’s a fascinating band for a number of reasons, the first being the enduring quality of its catalog. The songs just blaze like nothing else, played at breakneck speed and somehow as aggressive as they were melodic.

Fights between members of Hüsker Dü were legendary and public, as was their drug/drink intake. But the band had an amazing dynamic, with two strong vocalists—Bob Mould and Grant Hart—and a distinct sound that still stands out.

Hart, the man behind the drums and roughly half the band’s songs (plus all the excellent album and poster art), is the subject of a new documentary, Every Everything: The Music, Life and Times of Grant Hart.

The persisting story about Hüsker Dü’s 1987 breakup has always been blamed by Mould and others on Hart’s drug use, and the film lets Hart address that sore spot.

But it also gives Hart a platform to spin stories about the old days as well as talk about current music projects. The film screens Saturday, Feb. 22, as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and is followed by a live performance by Hart. We caught up with him in advance of his night in Missoula.

would be to go on YouTube and read the comments.

Say if there’s a piece of Hüsker Dü footage there. The viciousness and the authority that people bring to something so stupid as the comments section on YouTube is what makes me want to be transparent. I’d rather have them hear it from my mouth, and have them have the responsibility of figuring it out, like “Does this sound logical?” “Well I guess it is.” Rather than having some goofball make up things out of whole cloth and just slander you.

of chaos. And essentially the Big Bang. Milton himself was a friend of Galileo. And all this time that I’m constructing The Argument, I’m trying to channel Milton, more than, “Okay, so I need a song that represents the angels rising up from the lake of fire…” If I took this thing on linearly it would have been a 10-record set.

What I decided to do was to start at both ends [of the story] and work toward the middle, filling little pieces in as inspiration comes. Under the guideline that every song that’s folded into the big project needs to be able to stand on its own as a pop song—and as an A-side. I

You’ve talked about a Hüsker Dü reunion only if the band wasn’t paid, and avoided doing old material in favor of a new set.

GH: I’m heavily influenced philosophically by Marcel Duchamp. I like the idea of always doing something that is not expected. Give people more than they expect, but give them what they don’t expect.

Would you consider those your terms for a reunion show?

So this new film Every Everything is out. Are you noticing some new folks learning about you and your art?

Grant Hart: Well, the number of requests I’ve gotten for film-festival-related shows is—there’s nothing to compare it to because this [is] the first real action that I’ve gotten because of film. There’s no measuring stick for that. Especially since I also released the double [LP, The Argument] this year, which got a lot of interest going as well. I think between the film and the double album, one hand has scrubbed the other one pretty well.

It’s a little awkward, getting used to being the fellow on the easel, rather than the fellow behind the easel. I tell people that this is not my creative output.

It is about me, but I am the subject. But Gorman [Bechard, director of Every Everything] is the auteur here. It’s about my life, my creative output, whatever.

I don’t want to become Grant Hart in the documentary.

I want to be the Grant Hart that goes beyond the documentary and still continues to do what I do to thrive.

You’ve always been transparent about your life, and have had this unguarded sense about what’s on your mind, what you are about, what you have done.

GH: If I was a machinist or a pattern maker I wouldn’t be in the public eye, and I would probably have a different relationship toward privacy and what that meant. I would probably just keep mum about everything. But since there is that terrible amount of speculation [about Hüsker Dü]—the best example

Grant Hart, drummer for legendary hardcore band Hüsker Dü, is the subject of a new film that screens as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

And I think with the Hüsker Dü breakup everybody’s got an opinion and— GH: Well, that’s the thing. I mean, I was hatcheted when the band broke up. I mean, people were like “Is he alive? Is he dead?” It’s like, “no.” “Katy, bar the door!

It’s a guy in a rock band who’s been exposed for taking drugs.”

And that drum has been beaten by [Bob Mould], who years later talks about his own addictions. Well, after that, the attention has been shifted from the art to the personal lifestyle. And this is talking about back then. I love and respect Bob, but he’s a bit of a sociopath.

Tell me about some of the process that went into The Argument, which is based on Milton’s Paradise Lost.

GH: There’s so much of Paradise Lost that deals with earth and the heavens, and everything coming out

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did not want to put it in such a way that the listeners would have to go out and read Paradise Lost in order to know what was going on with the record.

Was that a precondition the label put on it?

GH: [laughs] Yeah! A number of people have [read the book], as a result of it. That makes me feel good, as the son of a teacher.

Okay. I have a Montana-related question to tie this into the local audience— GH: It was Bob who wrote the song “Big Sky” [from the album Land Speed].

Bob wrote it? Probably not about Montana?

GH: Um, “Big sky, black and white… shove that tape deck up your ass?” Does that sound like Montana to you? It doesn’t sound like it to me.

GH: I find it to be so unlikely that I can make flip statements like “as long as we weren’t paid…” The fact of the matter is that there are two members of the band that don’t share those sentiments. And if it was actually going to be happening in front of me, I think I would shift my weight between two feet, and put my hands in front of me, and bow my head and say, “All right, I’ll take some money for it.” Hearing lately about how much [money] The Replacements are turning down from people, it’s amazing what the potential is out there. If some good can come out of it, without any bad coming out of it, then… but I know the nature of the beast. And I enjoy my freedom and my independence.

Every Everything screens at the Wilma Sat., Feb. 22, at 8:30 PM followed by a performance from Grant Hart. Go to bigskyfilmfest.org for more info.

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Real world Circle Mirror reflects awkward truths

by Josh Wagner

Photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Leah Joki, center, stars in Montana Rep’s Circle Mirror Transformation.

A few years ago I tried out for—and got—a role in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, as the character Sebastian. I was just starting to write and produce plays at the time, so I wanted to know firsthand what kind of horrors I was putting my actors through. What I learned? The acting world is even crazier than I suspected. Before rehearsals we ran through a series of warm-up exercises: tongue twisters, improvisational games and drills of movement and sound where we stood in a circle and acted like crazy people. I remember thinking that if someone walked in they’d take us for a bunch of kindergarteners at play. It was awkward, but at the same time, the unrestrained absurdity in the company of strangers pushed us all through to a sense of belonging. The games began to feel like a set of Masonic initiation rites that no one outside the temple was allowed to see.

Montana Rep’s production of Circle Mirror Transformation, a play by New England writer Annie Baker, brings that behind-the-scenes experience to center stage, telling the story of an amateur acting class whose characters hold their inner lives close to the chest. Information is revealed oh-so-gradually.

The production is held in the intimate space of the Downtown Dance Collective and the story is told in small, realistic moments with conversation both mundane and profound, all of which gives the audience an eerie sense of spying through cracks in the wall.

But this is more than a peep show. Circle Mirror Transformation celebrates awkwardness—an experience as obstructive to getting to know new people as it is to people who have known each other for years but can’t articulate their emotions. Most of us encounter the awkward every day, and this play puts that space under a microscope.

For a show that zeros in on silence and confusion, that refuses to pander to short attention spans, Circle moves at a surprisingly brisk pace. All the scenes are short, and though some of them feel incomplete, when the production hits it right, it flies out of the park. Highlights include one of the cutest ask-you-out-on-a-date moments I’ve ever seen. And the breakthrough exercise scenes, where the characters’ “real lives” and performances overlap, generate a resonating emotional presence.

Most of the credit for this show’s success belongs to the cast, as Baker’s script could easily have fallen flat in the wrong hands. The actors capture a tightrope tension between outward behavior and a chaotic inner life. Marty, (Leah Joki) the acting instructor, smolders with frustration while attempting to stay patient and in control. James (Mike Verdon), Marty’s husband, balances passion, responsibility, selfishness and disappointment behind a veneer of dutiful grace that is almost heartbreaking when it cracks. Then there’s Schultz ( Jeremy Sher), a gawky, quirky, lost soul trying desperately to keep it together. Theresa (Salina Chatlain) wrestles flawlessly with the downsides of being an object of desire while struggling with her memories of a toxic relationship. Lauren (Elizabeth Bennett) is a 16-year-old aspiring actress who spends most of the story charming us with attitude as she reacts to the neurosis of the adults around her. If nothing else, you will get a glimpse into the weird world and rituals of actors at work.

Director Sam Williamson has skillfully wrangled an overwhelmingly minimalist script into a fully realized, confident production. There’s no set to speak of, just a few props and the DDC’s wood floor and mirrored wall. The sparseness speaks to the difficulty people often have expressing what they really feel, when everything hangs unsaid in the air.

There’s one long moment of emptiness during the show, where the actors leave the stage but the lights don’t go out. It’s a beautiful imposition of that sense of not knowing what to do, where your mind spins like mad trying to decide how to act, how to fill the space.

And then there’s the ending. I could criticize Baker for creating a brilliant, transcendent moment and then over-explaining it, but I’m trying really hard to let it go, because I loved how it made me feel— chills from head to toe.

Circle Mirror Transformation continues at the Downtown Dance Collective Fri., Feb. 21, through Sun., Feb. 23, at 7:30 PM nightly with a 2 PM matinee on Sat. $15/$10 students.

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these are the good old days.

Halfway there RoboCop entertains almost like the first time

by Molly Laich

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In order to enjoy the new RoboCop movie, you have to psych yourself up a little. Forget about your bleak knowledge that whatever they come up with could never be as good as the original. The 1987 version features gratuitous violence, biting satire and a vicious lack of sentimentality. It’s a product of the Golden Era of 1980s cinema that simply can’t be improved upon. Nevertheless, Brazilian director José Padilha gives the reboot his best shot, and hey, it’s not the worst.

The action begins in the year 2028 in Tehran, where an evil corporation named OmniCorp has successfully launched an army of robotic, humanoid-looking drones into the street with the capability of expertly discerning “threats” from “non-threats” by scanning their pupils. Things are going great overseas, so why not bring these heartless killing machines to the United States to serve on our police forces?

Michael Keaton plays Raymond Sellers, one of several corporate villains. We first meet him making his case to Congress that mechanical cops are better than fleshy ones, because they don’t tire, hesitate or feel bad. But the American people are on the fence. People are still into violence in the year 2028, but there’s a new premium on remorse, apparently, so OmniCorp decides they need to find a way to put a man inside the machine. Where better to conduct the experiment than the closest place the U.S. has to the third world: Detroit.

Cut to Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), a nice cop working the mean streets with a loyal partner (Michael K. Williams) and a family at home. Who could forget the scene in the original when Murphy is blown to bits by maniacal street thugs? But the reboot is PG-13, so in this version he lamely gets too close to a car explosion. There’s not much left of Murphy but some torso, a dangling hand and a head, making him the experiment’s perfect candidate.

Gary Oldman plays Dr. Dennett Norton, a man of dubious integrity in charge of outfitting RoboCop’s suit and making all the money people happy. Murphy is with Norton when he first wakes up and discovers in horror that most of his body has been replaced with

menacing hardware. He panics and takes off running, which is touching and scary (I had the same reaction after dropping acid once). I found myself inordinately preoccupied with the fact that the RoboCop suit has no genitals. Nobody mentions this, not even to make a sophomoric dick joke. How will this affect his marriage?

In 1987, RoboCop wakes up as a fully functional killing machine with Isaac Asimov-inspired directives: protect the innocent, kill bad guys, some other secret agenda—you know the drill. He doesn’t remember his family and in the three months since his shooting, they had the good sense to leave him for dead and move on. The first movie has no love interests and no cute little kid at home to pull on RoboCop’s heartstrings.

Cutting out the family is the lean, gutsy choice and part of what makes the first RoboCop so great. But they can’t just make the same movie twice, so the new movie flips it around and now his wife and kid are around nagging him to be himself and remember his humanity and come home and hang out with them and stuff.

Jackie Earle Haley plays a military man who for seemingly no reason doesn’t like guys who are half machine, and he and RoboCop go out into the field for training exercises that seem a lot like laser tag. “You’re lucky I didn’t have my gun set to kill,” somebody says three-quarters into the film, a line that would have been helpful a lot earlier on as I couldn’t understand how people kept getting shot but not dying.

Murphy starts out with all his faculties intact, but luckily for everyone involved still seems pretty gung-ho about law enforcement. Still, his emotions are messy and get in the way. They start tweaking his dopamine levels for optimum performance, but how long can they keep the real Alex Murphy suppressed?

The new RoboCop is about half as good as the original, which, for lack of other options in the dim months of winter cinema, makes it totally worth seeing.

RoboCop continues at the Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

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OPENING THIS WEEK 3 DAYS TO KILL A Secret Service agent can take an experimental drug to cure his disease, if only he can complete one assignment in a designated amount of time. Three days, most likely. Starring Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld and Connie Nielsen.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

ABOUT LAST NIGHT This modern update to the David Mamet play follows the ups and downs of two couples trying to make it work. Starring Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy and Regina Hall. Rated R. Carmike 12.

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN It's the best of midlife crises, and the worst of midlife crises when married-with-several-children Charles Dickens falls in love with a hot young thang. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones and Kristin Scott Thomas. Rated R. Wilma.

LAMB OF GOD’S AS THE PALACES BURN Find out what happened after Lamb of God lead singer Randy Blythe was arrested and charged with manslaughter while on tour in the Czech Republic in 2012. Not rated. Screening at Carmike 12 on Feb. 27 at 7 PM. POMPEII John Snow, I mean, ahem, Kit Harington stars as a gladiator trying to save his beloved from marrying a dirtbag senator. Spoiler alert: the volcano blows up and covers the whole town. Also starring Emily Browning and Kiefer Sutherland.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12

NOW PLAYING BARBIE: THE PEARL PRINCESS In the 27th animated Barbie movie, I’m guessing she deals with menopause and Ken’s mid-life crisis. Starring the voices of Kelly Sheridan and Katie Crown. Rated G. Carmike 12.

ENDLESS LOVE Teenagers with suspiciously good skin seek to bone each other, despite parental disapproval. If you can figure out what makes this movie remotely unique, you tell me. Starring Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer and Bruce Greenwood. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharoahplex, Showboat.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS A singer-songwriter dude in 1961 Greenwich Village wears neck scarves and tries to make it big. I think I saw this before on the Your Dad, the Original Hipster blog. Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman. Rated R. Wilma.

THE LEGO MOVIE The toys you grew up stepping on now star in an action-packed animated adventure to stop

My, what a rock-hard, chiseled set of acting skills you have. Pompeii opens Friday at Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the Lego world together. Brought to you by the “Clone High” writers, and starring the voices of Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks and Craig Berry. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

THE MONUMENTS MEN FDR directs an unlikely platoon of handsome men to rescue classic art pieces from the Nazis in WWII Germany. Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

makes on us. Starring Joel Kinnaman, Douglas Urbanski and Abbie Cornish. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. (See Film.)

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.

RIDE ALONG A smart-alec security guard tags along with his fiance’s cop brother, but he could be in for more than he bargained. Starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Tika Sumpter. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12.

WINTER’S TALE Colin Farrell is a roustabout who changes his ways when he discovers he can make the woman he loves come back to life, in a centuryspanning tale set in a fictional version of New York City. Also starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Russell Crowe. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

ROBOCOP Half-man. Half-cop. All action. Hollywood continues with its prime directive of inflicting re-

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com 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 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603..

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Secrets to winter salad

by Ari LeVaux One November afternoon, long after the autumn frosts began their nightly visits to Missoula, I faced a decision: Head for a certain deer stash and wait for the fading light of dusk to coax a yummy animal in my general direction or glean from a patch of collard greens and kale.

The owner of the patch of greens was ready to be done farming for the year, and with the season’s final farmers market already long gone, she had no way to sell her greens. The best part is that after a few autumn frosts, the greens were sweeter than they were all summer.

She had invited me to come take all the greens I wanted, and warned me that I better do it quick before she plowed the patch into the ground.

I decided that while I really wanted to go post up for a chance at some meat, this sunny afternoon might be my last, and most pleasant, opportunity to put away massive amounts of greens. And unlike the deer, for which I’d already been hunting unsuccessfully for weeks, these greens were a sure thing.

In 20 minutes I had about 50 pounds of greens— more edible weight than I could hope to get from an average-sized deer. And the harvest was so quick that I still had time to go hunting, albeit unsuccessfully.

Given the steady stream of data suggesting leafy vegetables are about the best thing you could possibly eat, it makes sense to invest in some good, local greens in autumn, and stash them away for use until the new leaves of spring emerge.

I brought home my greens that November, boiled a big kettle of water, and blanched them in small enough batches that the water kept boiling. After about two minutes per batch, I fished them out with a slotted spoon and then plunged them in a cold waterbath to stop the cooking and fix a bright green color in the leaves. Four months after those leaves were drained and frozen in freezer bags, they were still bright green.

My default method of cooking greens is to use olive oil with garlic and soy sauce. But lately I’ve been on a winter salads kick.

Although they’ve been blanched, thawed leaves can be treated as if they were raw. And these same salads can be made with raw greens from the store, if you have to purchase them.

To make a winter salad from kale, collards or chard, cut the thick stem out of the leaf ’s center, and

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then slice the leaves thinly before tossing in the dressing of your choice. You’ll notice an immediate difference from typical salads.

The standard American salad follows a tired formula—some bland variety of lettuce (think iceberg), maybe some onions (but not too much lest they affect our sterile breath) and, of course, red things that look like tomatoes.

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m sick of fresh tomatoes in winter. The widespread sense of entitlement to these cardboard impostors is a microcosm for everything that’s wrong with our food system.

Winter tomatoes embody the exploitation of human laborers, the toll that vast monocultures take on the environment, and the emissions associated with production and shipment of food around the country.

The one thing they don’t embody is flavor.

In a well-balanced salad made with fresh ingredients, tomatoes add a burst of sweetness and acid, some contrast and diversity to the other components.

But winter’s flavorless tomatoes don’t do that.

Currants and raisins soaked overnight in white balsamic vinegar can fulfill the function of tomatoes.

They hold their own in a salad of unthawed greens dressed in soy sauce and rice vinegar, and tossed with pine nuts or sunflower seeds.

Fresh onions also add a zing to your winter salad, and they’re just as easy to store deep into winter.

For an Asian-style option, toss your thawed leaves in two parts soy sauce, one part rice or cider vinegar, one part olive oil, and then sprinkle liberally with gomasio, a Japanese seasoning made from sesame seeds and salt.

For a Mediterranean twist, toss your leaves with balsamic vinegar, salt, feta, toasted pine nuts and sundried tomatoes that have been marinated in olive oil.

If you serve any of these salads alongside meat, or any other rich food, the fiber in the greens will help push the heavy stuff through, and clean your pipes like an intestinal Brillo pad. And these salads are a reminder that the fresh greens of summer are getting closer each day. Next summer, just remember to put more away.

This column originally appeared March 19, 2009.

Ari LeVaux will return to Flash in the Pan next week.

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Winter BrewFest HAPPIEST HOUR What you’ll find: This year’s festival promises more than 40 local and regional brews, with a few nationals making an appearance. “It’s more beers than we’ve had in the past—the number keeps creeping up,” says Ellen Buchanan, who chairs the Winter BrewFest for the Downtown Association. Of course, all of Missoula’s breweries will be there, and you can expect a solid representation of the state’s brewers and distributors.

What’s new: Among the freshman frothies are Bitter Root’s Citra IPA, a Winter Spiced Double Haul from Kettlehouse, a Prickly Pear Pale Ale from Lewis and Clark in Helena and Big Sky’s All Souls Imperial Saison.

Who you’re drinking with: A cross-section of the entire town. Young and old, hip and square, bro and shmo—beer is our uniting element. You’ll also spend some time with that guy who gets his beer, takes a step back and plants.

That’s okay. Most of us can relate.

What else is new: Remember feeling a little crowded last year? So does Buchanan. She

says the organizers will have the tarp walls of the Caras Park pavilion rolled up on the side facing the river to make room for the party. Beer tables will return to the middle, as opposed to the side tents that jammed up last year’s event like bad rush hour traffic. It’s winter, of course, so the heaters and fire barrels will return. “I would like to have the weather we had last year, but a little bit of cold weather won’t keep Missoula from drinking beer,” Buchanan says. As of Tuesday, the forecast called for a high of 34 and low of 18, with a 40percent chance of snow. It also called for a 100percent chance of buzzing.

The beery details: Winter BrewFest taps the kegs at Caras Park Fri., Feb. 21, at 5 PM and runs until 10. $12 gets you a 7-ounce glass and two drink tokens, and further imbibing costs $1 a token.

—Brooks Johnson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges?

Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am-2am. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6?

Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails.

Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers!

Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers

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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. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadwa 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces inhouse so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an allencompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

Romaines 3075 N. Reserve Suite N 406-317-1829 www.romainessalads.com We provide you with the convenience of delicious salads, sandwiches and soups. Our salads include over 30 wholesome ingredients. Our homemade soups change with the season as different ingredients become available. If hearty sandwiches are your favorite, then visit Romaines for one of our braised meat sandwiches.

We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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Go ahead and linger in Tortoise pose for a while at Yoga For You, which encourages folks to go at their own pace while following a recording of instructor Rodney Yee. Missoula Public Library. Thursdays at 4:30 PM.

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THURSDAYFEB20 Seattle musician Micah Wyatt plays tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Holy underpants, Batman, more than 130 intriguing, heartbreaking, funny and weird documentaries are on tap for this year’s Big Sky Film Festival, at venues including the Wilma, Crystal and Top Hat. Check out bigskyfilmfest.org for passes and schedule.

Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3 years old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Take your boots off before the Lunch Re-Boot Yoga with Mary Hanson, with breathing, stretching and relaxing poses. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays 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 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Painting Fun with Susie Risho invites kids ages 7–12 to learn basic composition and color mixing with tempera and acrylic paint. Projects include weather paintings, real and fantasy creatures and circular mandala designs. Missoula Art Museum. Thursdays through Feb. 20 from 3– 4:30 PM. $50/$45 for members. Call 728-0447 or email reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org.

No plate like home. Greensky Bluegrass plays the Top Hat Wed., Feb. 26 at 7 PM. $22/$18 advance.

Soon-to-be mommas can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Thu. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card. Drop-ins welcome. Call 360-1521.

Taste a little bit of traditional Japanese art and culture (and food, hell yeah) at the opening reception for the traveling exhibit, The Japanese Woodblock Print: An Extension of the Impermanent. Japanese cuisine, ikebana and a traditional shamisen performance are all on tap. Meloy and Paxson Galleries in the PARTV Center. 5-7 PM. Free.

Get rolling on that resolution to be more rad with the four-week adult beginners’ class at Aikido of Missoula, 208 E. Main St. The course introduces Aikido principles, basic techniques, breath awareness and self-defense. Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-5:45 PM, through March 6. Call 549-8387 or visit AikidoMissoula.com to learn more.

Get crafty with the Japanese stab-book binding class at the Vespiary Book Restoration and Bindery, 1221 Helen Ave. No previous experience needed. 5:30 PM. $35, register at Eventzilla or at the Vespiary, all forms of payment accepted.

After the revolution, we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where its Sewing Lounge goes from 6 to 8 PM. $9–10/hour. Call 541-7171.

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.

Hold on to your chair and don’t step on no snakes when Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 68:30 PM. No cover.

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 are 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.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Davina and the Vagabonds heat up the joint with jazz, blues and rootsy tunes at Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. 8 PM. $13/$10 in advance.

Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

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[calendar] 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.

Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with Big Sky Pool Party in the Cabana starting at 5 PM, singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.

Our former calendar editor can lick his elbow, and watch him do it when Julie Bug and Northern Exposure play the Sunrise Saloon, on the corner of Strand and Regent. 9 PM. No cover.

American Falcon swoops in to drop another Thursday night residency on your head, along with Copilot Eyedrops and Darshan Pulse.

VFW. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. No cover.

Willing and certainly able to spin your eyes out, DJ Abilities womps with Bad Tenants and locals Co-dependents, M-AD and Tonsofun at the Palace at 9 PM. 18 and over. $8.

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.

Montana World Affairs Council presents:

10th Annual Academic WorldQuest A High School Global Affairs Competition Emceed by Mayor John Engen

Tuesday, February 25th • 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM University Center Ballroom • 3rd floor of the UC Admission: Free and open to the public Come for part or stay for the whole evening For more information call 406-728-3328 or visit www.montanaworldaffairs.org Thank You to Our Generous Sponsors

Allegiance – Dirk and Kim Visser Humanities Montana National Endowment for the Humanities S.G. Long and Company

The University of Montana Plum Creek Good Food Store First Interstate Bank The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center Max and Betty Swanson Foundation

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FRIDAYFEB21 It’s the last day to get in the last word for the Missoula Public Library’s 6th Annual Writing Contest.

Bring your stuff in by 5 PM to the library or its branches; go to missoulapubliclibrary.org for more info.

Holy underpants, Batman, more than 130 intriguing, heartbreaking, funny and weird documentaries are on tap for this year’s Big Sky Film Festival, at venues including the Wilma, Crystal and Top Hat. Check out bigskyfilmfest.org for passes and schedule.

Muzikata gets your toes tapping in all different directions at the Union at 9 PM. No cover.

Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 5417240.

Learn about the K-8 independent school down the street when Director Robyn Gaddy hosts Sussex Live! from 9-10:30 AM. Call 5498327 for more info.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3 years

old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Sleep with the nightlight on after hearing novelist Jess Walter’s lecture, “Thrilling, Death-Defying Adventures in Point of View” at 12:10-1 PM in McGill Hall Room 210 on campus. He will also read fiction at 7 PM in the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall. Free.

The Women’s Circle Group Acupuncture at Mountain Sage Acupuncture Clinic, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 1, focuses on women’s health issues and sounds comfy and nice. 2– 5 PM, last appointment at 4 PM. Sliding scale treatments $20-40 with a first time administration fee of $10.

Call (503) 593-7073.

Teens go toward the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Teen Writers Group, which meets every Fri. at 3:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Spark some creativity after the bell rings with the Young Artists After School Program, where kids can learn art fundamentals, history and techniques while using several media.

ZACC. Ages 6-11 on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:15-5:30 PM. Ages 12-16 on Fridays from 3:455:30 PM. $12/$10 for members. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Let chocolate melt in your mouth while writers melt in your hand (or, um, something) during the 18th annual

[calendar] Chocolate and Authors Party. You’ll hang out, sip coffee and tea and enjoy sweet treats while meeting with authors. Includes a raffle, too, and door prizes awarded hourly. North Valley Public Library in Stevensville. 4 PM. $5 donation requested. Visit northvalleylibrary.org.

nightlife Keep toasting to stay toasty at the Winter Brewfest, which features more than 30 craft beers on tap at Caras Park, starting at 5 PM. $12 gets you a taster glass and two beer tokens; additional tokens $1.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM. No cover. Feb. 21 features Leon Young.

Share a pie or have a single slice with Singles of Missoula Social at the Pizza Hut on Brooks Street, 7-8 PM. Free, if you won’t be eating.

Your paramour will appreciate your thriftiness at the Cheap Date Night, where the Missoula Public Library screens a free, recently released motion picture. Doors open at 6:45 PM and close at 7:15. Enter from the Front Street side of the building. Free.

Montana Rep presents Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, about five people who discover new things about themselves in an eclectic acting class. Performances at Down-

might win a prize. Starts at 9 PM, free to sing. 17025 US Highway 93 North.

DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free.

Crack some suds and dig the mellow kicks at Thunderground, a 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.

Steel yourself for a super time when supergroup Mass FM (feat. members of Bacon and Egg, Volumen, Victory Smokes and Spirithole)

Put the “awe” back in awesome at the Radical Reels Film Tour, which brings gorgeous ski, boarding, climbing, kayaking and biking films to the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road. 7 PM. $15/$5 for kids 10 and under/$10 in advance.

Proceeds benefit the BEAR outdoor youth mentoring program. Tickets at Chapter One, Bob Wards and Rockin Rudy’s in Missoula.

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.

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Don’t yell out your ex-girlfriend’s name during Hump Day Bingo with Bob at the Lucky Strike Casino.

Prizes for winners. Beware: $5 minifishbowls served all day. Bingo starts at 6:30 PM.

You’re a cheap date, not a cheapskate. The Missoula Public Library hosts another installment of its cheap date movie night, which starts at 7 PM sharp at the library, 301 E. Main St. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Free. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.

John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406721-2416 or just show up.

The 406 Band has got all the right dance numbers while you make all the right moves on that chemistry undergrad at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM to close. No cover.

You take the old, you take the new, you take ‘em both and there you have Charla Bauman strumming up HigherGround Brewing in Hamilton from 6-8 PM. Free.

Little Red Riding Hood will tussle with witches, pirates, fairies and more at Bitterroot Gymnastics annual Acrotainment, an exposition of dance, acrobatics, tumbling and stunts. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Feb. 21-22 at 6:30 PM, plus 3 PM matinee on Sat., Feb. 22. $16 per person/group rates available. Visit bittgym.com.

From Alaska to Spokanistan, the indie-electro whizzes of Lavoy play a free show at the Palace starting at 9 PM. No cover.

Feed your ears to help feed the town when a loud and hard benefit for the Missoula Food Bank takes over the VFW. Con/Sequence plays its last show, along with Vera, Shramana, Swamp Ritual and Zebulon Kosted. Get there at 9 PM sharp. $3/$5 for ages 18-20.

The Meloy and Paxson galleries in the PARTV Center host a reception for The Japanese Woodblock Print: An Extension of the Impermanent Thu., Feb. 20 from 5 to 7 PM.

town Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St, Feb. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 PM, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 15 and 22 at 2 PM. $15/$10 for students.

(See Theater.)

The stars are bright, through all the night—oops, wrong state. Hamilton Players present the classic musical Oklahoma! at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 2 PM. $15/$8.

Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733.

debuts at the monthly Weird Missoula showcase, along with Mountain Shark, Jacob Milstein and Ali Satterlee.

VFW, 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. $3.

Greenstar gets down and jammy at Sean Kelly’s, along with Jordan Lane and Friends. 9 PM. No cover.

Bring John Stamos to make it a full one when I’ll House You takes over the Badlander with Bozeman’s Poppa Chachi and locals Hotpantz and Mike Stolin starting at 9 PM. Free.

Holy underpants, Batman, more than 130 intriguing, heartbreaking, funny and weird documentaries are on tap for this year’s Big Sky Film Festival, at venues including the Wilma, Crystal and Top Hat. Check out bigskyfilmfest.org for passes and schedule.

Show Anne Hathaway who the real Fantine is when Missoula Community Theatre holds autditions for its production of Les Miserables. Girls and boys 10-12 are welcome 10 AM-noon Saturday; Adults 18 and over are invited 12:30-4:30 PM Sunday, both at MCT Center for the Performing Arts at 200 N. Adams St. Call 728-1911 for more info.

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[calendar] Bring out your ragtime gal when pianist Scott Kirby lights up the Stevensville Playhouse, 319 Main St., at 7 PM. Josh Farmer opens the show, and a meet and greet will be held at the Hamilton House in Victor from 4-6 PM. $10.

Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9 AM to 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

Tap into the power of plants with the Herbal Foundation Root Program, a series of classes offering in-depth study of herbal medicine. Topics include aromatherapy, first aid, nutrition,

gardening, medicine making and much more. Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. Meets on the fourth Saturday of every month through August at 9 AM. $525. Call 274-2009 or email gp@herbsmt.com to learn more.

Get musical while finding your flow when Brian Baty leads a live music Vinyasa yoga class, which features music

by Nathan Zavalney, this and every Sat. from 9:30–10:45 AM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10 dropin/$8 students drop-in, with various prices for punch-card holders. Call 5814093 or visit yogainmissoula.com.

The future is rad when Cait Finley hosts the MakerSpace Open 3D Printing Session at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., from 10 AM-Noon.

Get out of town, but first stop at the mall, when the Western Montana Travel Expo takes over Southgate Mall from 10 AM to 6 PM with prizes, presentations and travel pros on hand. Free.

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Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-BOOK. Peek in on some old-school text messaging when Philip Burgess presents “Penny Postcards and Prairie Flowers,� a story of women homesteaders, using historic postcards from his great-aunts. Traveler’s Rest State Park. 11 AM. $4/free for members and children under 18.

UM professor David Moore reads That Dream Shall Have a Name, an analysis of the Native American literary heritage, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 1-3 PM.

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tasting room, which runs from 4–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Call 549-8703. Visit tenspoon.com.

The Workers take over when you’ve left for the day with countrabilly musicality at Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. No cover.

Host your own ale-guzzling classic when Mendelssohn plays tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Get your buzz on with Aran Buzzas at Blacksmith Brewing from 6-8 PM. 114 Main St. in Stevensville. Free.

Dial in a chill frequency when Tom Catmull and Radio Static play the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

Little Red Riding Hood will tussle with witches, pirates, fairies and more at Bitterroot Gymnastics annual Acrotainment, an exposition of dance, acrobatics, tumbling and stunts. MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Feb. 21-22 at 6:30 PM, plus 3 PM matinee on Sat., Feb. 22. $16 per person/group rates available. Visit bittgym.com.

Get all itchy with Britchy at 6:30 PM at the Walking Moustache, 206 W. Main St. No cover.

The Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio, with Pete Hand on bass and Jodi Marshall on keys, classes up the joint at Finn and Porter, inside the Doubletree at 100 Madison Street. 7-9 PM. No cover.

Montana Rep presents Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, about five people who discover new things about themselves in an eclectic acting class. Performances at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St, Feb. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 PM, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 15 and 22 at 2 PM. $15/$10 for students. (See Theater.)

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bad boy I’m sorry to see that the domain hotbadguys.com, a site I distinctly recall visiting in my wayward youth, now leads to some random Japanese site. Bummer. It was a great site, with pictures and rankings of movie and TV characters by hotness and badness (of the fictional kind; I don’t think it featured actors who were jerks in real life). I only bring it up because I’m sure that hotbadguys.com would give actor Tom Hiddleston high marks, particularly for his appearance as the troublesome Norse Coriolanus god Loki in the Thor and Avengers movies. Loki would be way more interesting to hang out with than stodgy ole Thor. Plus, there’s those fantastic cheekbones and those purty eyes.

Where was I? Ahem. Hiddleston puts his classically trained talents to the role of the intriguingly troublesome Caius Marcius Coriolanus, a talented, principled military leader with contempt for the rioting lower classes. London’s National Theatre Live production of Coriolanus screens at the Roxy Theater on Feb. 25, sponsored by MT Live.

Shakespearean scholars say Coriolanus might have been more likable to the snotty upper classes WHAT: National Theatre Live’s Coriolanus WHEN: Tue., Feb. 25, at 7:30 PM WHERE: Roxy Theater HOW MUCH: $11–$16 MORE INFO: mtlive.org

Glacier Symphony strings up a favorite when they play Antonin Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 3 PM, both at the Flathead High Performance Hall in Kalispell, 644 Foruth Ave. W. Children up to 12 free, adults start at $15.

Get hot to trot with the Missoula Tango’s dance, on the fourth Saturday of every month at Red Bird. 7:30 to 10 PM. No cover, with impromptu lessons for beginners. Learn more at tangomissoula.com.

Rev your engines, hunty, at the ISCSM Annual College of Monarchs Drag Show at the Palace at 8 PM, with guests from throughout the northwest and DJ Tygerlily. 18-plus. $5.

The stars are bright, through all the night—oops, wrong state. Hamilton Players present the classic musical Oklahoma! at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 2 PM. $15/$8.

Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733.

You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty

in Elizabethan England, but in these more democratic times, he comes off as a jerk. Coriolanus isn’t one of Shakespeare’s better known works, perhaps because its protagonist doesn’t tidily fit into hero or villain categories. Choosing a teen heartthrob for the star was a pretty smart move on the part of National Theatre Live, as Hiddleston has drawn an extra crowd to the show. Stuffy Shakespeare nerds have been confused to walk into packed showings full of excited teen girls; one reviewer wrote in the Texas paper Theater Jones that “the crowd giggled though the screening at the oddest times and persistently. They watched Hiddleston from a very different perspective than mine. If you attend a screening and find a huge crowd of young ladies (mostly) in the audience, be aware of their viewing context and vocal enthusiasm, neither having much to do with the Shakespeare play.”

I, for one, am all in favor of a hottie drawing people to a complex political play they might not have seen otherwise. I bet whoever ran hotbadguys.com would agree.

—Kate Whittle

Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. Now free.

May all be revealed to you when Russ Nasset & The Revelators rock the Union at 9 PM. No cover.

DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free.

The 406 Band has got all the right dance numbers while you make all the right moves on that chemistry undergrad at the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM to close. No cover.

The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays.

7000 Graves Creek Road. 9 PM.

Missoula’s own rapscallions, The Hasslers, take over the Top Hat to party down at 10 PM. No cover.

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SUNDAYFEB23 Salsa to Cuba without even getting your feet wet at this shindig to benefit a Big Sky High School trip.

Instructors will help teach you the moves, or you can rest your two left feet and have drinks and appetizers.

Plus, there’s raffles and auctions. Loft of Missoula. 6 PM. $15. Call 5292022 or email sklise@bresnan.net to learn more.

Holy underpants, Batman, more than 130 intriguing, heartbreaking, funny and weird documentaries are on tap for this year’s Big Sky Film Festival, at venues including the Wilma, Crystal and Top Hat. Check out bigskyfilmfest.org for passes and schedule.

Catch new thoughts with the Science of Mind Community during a Sunday service via the internet when Rev. Kathianne Lewis spreads a spiritual message at the Carriage House in Hamilton, 310 N. Fourth St., at 10 AM every Sun. Free. Call Barb at 375-9996.

Show Anne Hathaway who the real Fantine is when Missoula Community Theatre holds autditions for its production of Les Miserables. Girls and boys 10-12 are welcome 10 AMnoon Saturday; Adults 18 and over are invited 12:30-4:30 PM Sunday, both at MCT Center for the Performing Arts at 200 N. Adams St. Call 7281911 for more info.

Dance the cabin fever blues away when the Golden Age Club hosts dances on the first, third and fifth Sun-

day afternoons through March, an alcohol-free event with potluck snacks during breaks. 727 Fifth St. in Hamilton. 1-4 PM. $3.

Let the squeezebox take you home when the 5 Valley Accordion Association plays with all sorts of strings at the Hamilton Eagles Lodge, 125 N. Second St., from 1-4 PM. $3 members, $4 nonmembers.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-BOOK. Meet the rest of your previously fictional oompah band at the Tuba

& Euphonium Festival at the Music Recital Hall on campus at 2 PM. $11.

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Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their acoustic instrument. Music includes old-time country, bluegrass, swing, cowboy, folk and old standards. Feel free to just sit a spell and listen, too.

For more information, call John at 381-2483. Free.

The stars are bright, through all the night—oops, wrong state. Hamilton Players present the classic musical Oklahoma! at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. Friday and Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 2 PM. $15/$8.

The non-instructed Open Figure Drawing afternoon invites artists ages 18 and older to draw from a live model. Missoula Art Museum. 3-5 PM. Register by calling 406-728-0447, or visit missoulaartmuseum.org. $7/$5 for members.

Get all ground up when Phoenix’s Jared and The Mill bring folk stylings to the Top Hat at 8 PM. $8.

Glacier Symphony strings up a favorite when they play Antonin Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 3 PM, both at the Flathead High Performance Hall in Kalispell, 644 Foruth Ave. W. Children up to 12 free, adults start at $15.

It’ll be a rare good time when Blue Moon plays Draught Works Brewery,

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Prenatal massage for expectant moms is not only possible, but is safe and essential for circulation, flexibility, and well-being.

[calendar] 915 Toole Ave., from 5-7 PM. No cover.

Local and luscious, it’s time for Wintergreens, a winter meal with a pie and cake auction at the Historic Florence Hotel, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Dinner is $18 for adults and $10 for kids 2-10, all starting at 5:30 PM. Talk to Genevieve, genevieve@gardencityharvest.org, for more info.

Bob Wills is still the king of Western swing, but our very own Western Union is looking to commit some regicide and make some fine old Western swing tunes for you all to dance by at the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. 6 PM. $5.

Explore the idea of open intelligence and the peace, happiness and skillfulness that exists within you during the Balanced View open meeting, which runs every Sun. from 6-7 PM in the meeting room of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free, but donations accepted. Enter from the back entrance. Visit greatfreedom.org for more info.

Montana Rep presents Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, about five people who discover new things about themselves in an eclectic acting class. Performances at Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St, Feb. 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 PM, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 15 and 22 at 2 PM. $15/$10 for students. (See Theater.)

Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz.

Free.

Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. $3 Fireball specials. Call 721-1798.

Stoopin’ to new levels. LA’s 12th Planet, Protohype, Antiserum, Spl and Steady perform at the Palace Thu., Feb. 27. Doors at 9 PM, 18-plus show. $12.

MONDAYFEB24 The paranoids were all right, but now what? Dan Wagner’s “Big Data in Electoral Politics and Beyond: Revealing the Science of Political Science” should answer some questions in the first Big Data Lecture Series talk. 7 PM at the Montana Theatre, PAR/TV Building. Free.

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.

Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25.

Spark some creativity after the bell rings with the Young Artists After School Program, where kids can learn art fundamentals, history and techniques while using several media. ZACC. Ages 6-11

on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:15-5:30 PM. Ages 12-16 on Fridays from 3:45-5:30 PM. $12/$10 for members. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

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.

Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Let’s get physical, physical, at the Zumba Fitness Classes at Lolo School’s upper gym. Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30 PM. $2/free for Lolo residents. Register by calling Kathy at 273-0451.

Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.

Nashville-honed, Montana-made singer-songwriter Kristi Neumann

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[calendar] plays Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 7-10 PM. No cover.

Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of practice. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org.

Rock the mic when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse.

Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.

Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call Joey at 406-229-0488 to get yourself a spot.

TUESDAYFEB25 Go ahead and take your love to town when the Ruby Jewel Band plays bluegrass and Baptist choir-influenced tunes at the Top Hat. 8 PM. Dance cuz everybody’s watching at the American Cabaret Style bellydance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. This class is great for beginners and experienced dancers alike. 6–7 PM. Visit madronadance.wordpress.com.

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You’ll be seeing stars at Bingo on Broadway, with cash prizes, $3 Sam Adams pints and food specials.

Broadway Inn, 1609 W. Broadway St. 8 PM. $6 buy-in.

Shake off your case of the Tuesdays with some South Dakotans named Saul. The rock goes down at the Badlander and starts at 10 PM with $3 Montgomery drinks.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3 years old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula.

11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best.

All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-5:45 PM, through March 6. Call 549-8387 or visit AikidoMissoula.com to learn more.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30 to 8 PM. Free.

Call 327-0900.

Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center.

The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM twostep and 8 PM country cha-cha.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.

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.

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Environmental Studies instructor Rosalyn LaPier presents “Soyiitapi: The Place of Water in the Blackfeet Universe,” as part of the Western Rivers Community Lecture Series.

University Center Theater, 7-8:30 PM. Q&A included.

Get rolling on that resolution to be more rad with the four-week adult beginners’ class at Aikido of Missoula, 208 E. Main St. The course introduces Aikido principles, basic techniques, breath awareness and self-defense.

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Hig-

[calendar] gins Ave. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10, $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.

Take down the Athenian hegemony but pass on the hemlock tea at the Socrates Cafe, in which facilitator Kris Bayer encourages philosophical discussion. Bitterroot Public Library. 7-9 PM. Director of Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Gloria Flora presents “Human Spirit and Wilderness: A Personal Story of Wilderness Passion,” as part of the weekly wilderness lecture series at the Gallagher Business Building. 7:10-8:30 PM. The National Theatre Live presents Shakespeare’s intense political drama Coriolanus, starring Tom Hiddleston. The Met: Live in HD broadcasts at the Roxy Theater at 7:30 PM on Feb. 25. $16/$14 for seniors/$11 for students. Visit mtlive.org for tickets.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: What are Missoula’s two sister cities? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Declare who is Lord Smartypants of Them All and get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials. Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. The Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition hosts the Musician Showcase at Stage 112, inside the Elk’s at 112 Pattee St., an evening of tuneful live tuneage made by locals for locals. 8–11 PM. Free. 18 plus.

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.

WEDNESDAYFEB26 Don’t run in screaming “Stella!” when Missoula’s Stellarondo and Washington’s The Pine Hearts melt your hearts at the Roxy at 8 PM. $10.

Fiction writers of any persuasion—yes, even you, hobbit slashfic nerds—are invited to the ZACC’s new workshop, designed to be a safe and constructive space for participants.

Limited to 10 students, so call the ZACC at 549-7555 to register.

Spark some creativity after the bell rings with the Young Artists After School Program, where kids can learn art fundamentals, history and techniques while using several media.

ZACC. Ages 6-11 on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3:15-5:30 PM. Ages 12-16 on Fridays from 3:455:30 PM. $12/$10 for members. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

W. 4-6 PM. No cost. To learn more, check out butterfly-transitions.webs.com or call Evelyn at 207-1370.

nightlife Bring your hoops and pogo sticks et al. when the Milkcrate Mechanic brings you House and Trance Night with Mike Stolin, Nick Hiatt and others at the Palace starting at 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 PBR pitchers.

Yoga for Chronic Pain with Dena Saedi will use gentle poses, mindful meditation and other techniques to lesson long-term suffering for issues like back pain, fibromyalgia and arthritis. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent. Ongoing class is Wednesdays from 5-6 PM. $40 for six weeks, but a prerequisite private session with Dena is $50.

Let’s get physical, physical, at the Zumba Fitness Classes at Lolo School’s upper gym. Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30 PM. $2/free for Lolo residents. Register by calling Kathy at 273-0451.

Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. Feb. 12 features the Trio Noir.

Ride your Vespa while vested to learn from the owner of The Vespiary about how you can best care for your books at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 6 PM. Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the T’ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Wednesdays from 6:30—7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.

Win $50 by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 8 PM, plus specials on wings, pizza, domestic pitchers and $7 Harvest Moon pitchers.

It’ll be like the great East Coast/West Coast gangsta rap battle, only with bolo ties during the West Coast Beginning Swing Dance Class at the Sunrise Saloon. 7-8:30 PM. $5 per person.

Greensky Bluegrass turns your world upside down with their pro-

gressive bluegrass at the Top Hat at 7 PM. $22/$18 advance.

Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.

If you think your Prince falsetto is good, that’s what matters, dear. Now go forth and rule the school at the Badlander’s Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $6 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots. Free.

Red Solo cup, I fill you up. Let’s have a party at Stage 112’s Solo Cup Wednesdays with live music and/or DJs. One American dollar, plus $3 cup fee, gets you a 32-ounce cup of beer or well drink. Uff-da. 9 PM. 21-plus.

(Trivia Answer: Neckargemünd, Germany, and Palmerston North, New Zealand.)

THURSDAYFEB27 American Falcon gathers all the hot chicks into the nest for the last installment of the Thursday night residency, along with Thee Hounds and Magpies. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. No cover.

Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music, storytelling and singing program for babes from birth to 3 years old at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Take your boots off before the Lunch Re-Boot Yoga with Mary Hanson, with breathing, stretching and relaxing poses. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays 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

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Stop on by for a mini session of the Body Code natural healing system at Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St.

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[calendar] and media. ZACC. 2:15-5 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Soon-to-be mommas can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Thu. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card. Drop-ins welcome. Call 360-1521.

Go ahead and linger in Tortoise pose for a while at Yoga For You, which encourages folks to go at their own pace while following a recording of instructor Rodney Yee. Missoula Public Library. Thursdays at 4:30 PM.

nightlife Let David Bowie be your style guide for the reception for Under Pressure, collector Jordan Schnitzer’s exhibit of the largest private print collection in the country. Missoula Art Museum. 5 PM. Free.

Get rolling on that resolution to be more rad with the four-week adult beginners’ class at Aikido of Missoula, 208 E. Main St. The course

The one and only Merle Haggard plays the Dennison Theatre, hot damn. Doors at 7, show at 8 PM. $49.50-$64.50. Tickets at GrizTix.com.

All ages.

Open up a time capsule at the Roxy with screenings of 1936’s “The Plow that Broke the Plains,” a New Deal documentary, and 1938’s “The River,” on the importance of the Mississippi. Both movies accompanied by NextDoorPrisonhotel. $10, starting at 8 PM. You’re up all night to get lucky with Trivial Beersuit at Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., starting at 8 PM every Thursday. $50 bar tab for first, $25 for second.

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.

Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with Big Sky Pool Party in the Cabana starting at 5 PM, singing and

Talk to the hand. Seattle rock/soul band Down North plays the Top Hat Thu., Feb. 27 at 10 PM. No cover.

introduces Aikido principles, basic techniques, breath awareness and self-defense. Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:30-5:45 PM, through March 6. Call 549-8387 or visit AikidoMissoula.com to learn more.

I’d advise against wearing your nicest white shirt when Gil and the Spills play Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Acoustic tunester Carter Freeman plays the belly fiddle while you shake, rattle and roll at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton from 6-8:30 PM. No cover.

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 are now two levels: beginning two-step from 6:45 to 7:30, intermediate twostep from 7:45 to 8:30. Live band starting at 9.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Dance your way to a free mind and an open body at Missoula’s Ecstatic Dance. Inner Harmony Yoga. 8 PM. $8. Visit turningthewheel.org.

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prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special.

1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.

You can wear any color, so long as it’s black when Cold Hard Cash Show plays the Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM. No cover.

The inversion tricks everyone into thinking we’re in LA when the Smog City Tour brings 12th Planet, Protohype, Antiserum, Spl and Steady for some West Coast bass at the Palace.

Doors at 9 PM, 18-plus show. $12.

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.

Move in the right direction when Seattlebased alt soul/rock outfit Down North plays the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.

Big shout-out to Guest Calendar Editor Caleficent for subbing this week. If anything went wrong, blame him. Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at 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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MOUNTAIN HIGH

I

was pretty good at hockey back in the ’90s. I had the dexterity and endurance to withstand hours of practice and games, and I almost took the Hartford Whalers to the Stanley Cup for three consecutive years. Of course that was on the Super Nintendo, and I can barely skate, but I still have enough knowledge of the game to get fun out of watching it. Which is why the inaugural Montana Pond Hockey Classic seemed to call out to me, like a Canadian dropping his gloves.

Dubbed the largest pond hockey tournament in the West, the three-day event features an appearance

by Hall of Famer Lanny McDonald and a sighting of Lord Stanley’s Chalice, all the way back from Sochi.

Check-in starts Thursday, and the action heats up Friday at 8 a.m., with a beer garden provided by Tama-

rack Brewing from 9 a.m.–6 p.m. every night. There will be clinics and presentations throughout the weekend, and hopefully enough broken teeth to seduce the tooth fairy. All skill levels are welcome, which hopefully includes some sort of Nintendo class. So whether you want to get incendiary on the ice or scream from the side, get up to Flathead Lake.

—Brooks Johnson

The inaugural Montana Pond Hockey Classic kicks off with registration and a welcoming party at Tamarack Brewing Company in Lakeside Thu., Feb. 20 from 5–10 PM, followed by competition Feb. 21–23. For schedule and more details, visit pondhockeyclassic.com/montana to learn more.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21 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 22 Here’s just the ticket to cure cabin fever: Currents Aquatic Center’s outdoor rec team hosts Snowshoe Adventure and Hot Spring Soak junkets on Feb. 8, Feb. 22 and March 15. You’ll head up Lolo Pass and learn stuff like ascending and descending, reading topo maps, using GPS units and properly traversing snow banks. One must always properly traverse their snow banks. Afterward, you’ll stop at Lolo Hot Springs for a hot soak. To learn more, contact rec specialist Meg at 406-552-6271.

‘Tis time once again for the annual Snowbowl Cup Gelande Championship, wherein people braver than your calendar editor compete in ski jumping up to 200 feet. Registration all day at Snowbowl Lodge on Friday, amateur and pro competition starting at noon on Saturday and continuing through Sunday. Non-skier admission is $3. Visit alpineskijumping.com 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.

Missoula Children and Nature Network invites the whole family to an introductory snowshoeing junket on Lolo Pass. 9:30 AM-3 PM. Free, but you must call and register with Alex at 406-531-4615.

Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory Street.

All kids must have an adult with ‘em.

Prove what a fast land mammal you are at the 35th Annual Snow Joke footrace, brought to you

by BSORE. The race takes a 13.1-mile lap around Seeley Lake on plowed roads. Start and finish is at the grade school gym. Registration starts at 8:45,

race at 11 AM. $15/$5 for ages 20 and under. Held regardless of weather.

Keep the wilderness your cathedral by celebrating with the Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation’s eight annual Winter Gathering. A silent auction, food and drink and music by Opus II all starts at 6 p.m. at the Hamilton City Hall, 223 S. Secont St.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23 The 2014 Special Olympics State Winter Games kick off today in Whitefish, with a parade of athletes and opening ceremonies downtown at 3 p.m. Qualifying heats and final heats run Monday and Tuesday, respectively. Visit somt.org to learn more.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25 Get your yak on, but preserve your progeny with Open Kayak at Currents Aquatics, 600 Cregg Lane, on Tuesdays from 8-10 PM. Normal fees apply. Call 721-PARK for more info.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26 Earn your carbonated calories with a Beer Run presented by Run Wild Missoula with libations following at Sean Kelly’s. Show up at the pub at 6 PM. Free.

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.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup Lecture Series kicks off today at Historic Ninemile Ranger Station, 20325 Remount Road, Huson. Jared W. Oyler will give the inaugural talk with “Climate in the Northern Rockies: 1 Year and 10 Year Variability and Climate Change.” 7 PM. Free. Call 626-0071 for more info.

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[community]

Zootown Improv presents

IMPROV INTENSIVE (ACTING AND SKETCH WRITING) MARCH 1 & 2 with

GUY STEVENSON

of the famous LA Groundlings (Will Ferrell, Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy) Guy has written for MAD TV. His acts have appeared on Punk’d, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parks and Rec and more!

This training is open to everyone but mandatory for those interested in auditioning for Zootown Improv on March 3 + 4. Zootown will perform year-round.

Visit www.facebook.com/stensrudplayhouse for registration info. Space is limited!

Before I was a responsible, law-abiding professional, I would often take to the pedestrian bridge over the stockyards and throw back a few. Sitting over the straightest grade of rail in town, you could see an entire two-mile train stretched out right below you. More often than not, it was overflowing with the stuff that fills the bad kids’ stockings and lights many a Christmas tree. You know, old King Coal. My activist tendencies have been dulled by a touch of pragmatism and a need for objectivity, but I can still tell you when something just smells. The increased mining in Wyoming and other places

east, coupled with increased demand abroad and new Pacific ports, may find coal-packed trains squeezing their way through Hellgate Canyon with impossible frequency. Say goodbye to reviving the Hiawatha Amtrak line, to say the least.

But you already know all of this. And so do the folks holding the Stop The Coal Train Strain: Rally for Rail Line Justice. Whatever your views on coal, there’s a dialogue a’happenin’ on the Courthouse Lawn, with speakers and march to the rail at Madison Street to get coal exports on Missoula's mind.

Well you know what I think: When I sit on that walkway in 10 years, I hope I don't end up drinking ash with my ales.

—Brooks Johnson The Stop the Coal Train Strain: Rally for Rail Line Justice meets Sat., Feb. 22 at 2 PM on the Missoula County Courthouse lawn, with speakers including Dave Strohmaier and Vanessa Braided Hair, followed by a march to the rail crossing on Madison Street.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20 Get in gear for the mid-term election fever (what, no?) when MSU political sci professor David Parker presents “Within the Margin of Error: Why Campaigns Still Matter” as part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series. University Center Room 332. 11:30 AM-12:30 PM. The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon1 PM. Visit elementpt.com.

I sense the lecture will spark discussion when fire policy expert Tom Zimmerman chats about “Wildland Fire Management: Are We Doing Enough?” University Center Room 331. 4 PM. We can probably expect frank talk from Northwest Connections Director Melanie Parker’s “Collaboration: Why it Sucks and Why I Still Believe in it,” part of the conservation social science seminar series. Forestry Building Room 301. 4:10-5 PM. Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

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.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 21 YWCA continues its Community Social Justice Lecture Series with “Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Hinduism” by UM’s Dr. Ruth Vanita at the YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, from noon to 1 PM. Free. Contact msanderson@wycaofmissoula.org for more info.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22 Y’all are invited to “freeze your can for GAN” during the GAN Warriors Polar Plunge, which supports three brothers dealing with giant axonal neu-

ropathy, a terminal disease. Event includes silent auction, raffle prizes and chili feed. Hieronymus Park in Hamilton. $35 to plunge, free to attend.

Register at pushmein.com.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 24 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. Dr. Nancy Fitch discusses “Global HIV/AIDS” as part of the Global Health in the Global South: Montana’s Mountains Beyond Mountains series.

Gallagher Business Building Room 106. 6:307:30 PM.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25 Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.

Help your kiddos understand their feels after attending with the Understanding Emotional Intelligence workshop for parents, sponsored by the Children’s Museum of Missoula. Hosted at Chief Charlo Elementary, 5600 Longview Drive. 6-8 PM. Childcare is free. Register at childrensmuseummissoula.org or call 721-7690.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26 Keep up with what’s up in Missoula County at a County Commission public meeting at 1:30 p.m. at the Administration Building, 199 W. Pine St., Room B14.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations are at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month.

Enter through the alley door. 7 PM. RSVP required prior to the orientation by emailing info@missoulatimebank.org, and visit missoulatimebank.org.

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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Sponsored by GCS “Big Data in Electoral Politics and Beyond: Revealing the Science of Political Science” 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 24 UM Montana Theatre, Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center Free and open to the public

Dan Wagner, CEO and founder of Civis Analytics, will kick off UM’s Big Data Lecture Series. In 2012, Wagner and his team of big data scientists revolutionized electoral politics by applying big data technology to the Obama re-election campaign. In his lecture, he will describe how big data analytics benefit government, corporations, academia and politics.

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COWER RANGERS I read your recent columns about guys who are too shy to ask women out. You seem to think it's okay for women to make quick judgments about a shy man's worth because his shyness is their first impression. Well, a man shouldn't have to be loud, obnoxious, and "in your face."

These women, with their snap judgments, don't consider that there might be something really good under the surface of a shy guy and could miss out on a nice relationship. For instance, when I was younger and really shy, I had a huge crush on a girl but figured she was way out of my league.

One day, we crossed paths unexpectedly and talked for a few minutes. I decided right then that I had to know "yes" or "no" and get it behind me. I mustered everything I had and asked her out as confidently as I could. She said yes, and we dated for over two years. Had she dismissed me just because I was shy, we both would have missed out.

—Formerly Shy Guy A guy doesn't have to be loud, obnoxious, and "in your face" to succeed with women, but he can't be "in a fetal position behind furniture."

Typically, you get what you want in life by asking for it. I don't think this is "okay" or not okay; it's just how life works. When a guy sees a woman he wants, that's his moment to hit on her, meaning do his best to chat her up and then follow through and ask her out. He might wish he could just sit there silently while she looks for "something really good under the surface"—getting his credit report and references from his neighbors, his grandmother, and his third-grade teacher, Mrs. DeMattia—but that's not going to happen.

And think about it; would you recommend that getting a job should work in the same way? No need to send in a resume or cover letter or sell anybody on your merits in an interview. You would just hide under your bed, and the employers would sense what a great person you are and send out a search party.

Hilariously, you follow up your complaint about how life "should" work for shy guys with a great example of how it can work—once they stop waiting for a woman to club them like a baby seal and drag them home. As you showed, a guy doesn't have to be fearless to ask a woman out.

He just needs to decide not to give in to his fears in the moment and then get to work fixing what's broken in himself. (In a

shy guy, this is self-esteem that's really "what other people think of me"-esteem and the paralyzing fear of rejection that ensues.) The cool thing is, a guy doesn't have to become some Mr. Smooth to get the girl. He can even be kind of awkward. People admire courage, even when it maybe stammers a little. Of course, a guy won't always get the girl just because he tries, but trying and striking out will only leave him with a temporary boo-boo on his ego instead of the internal injuries he'd get from tucking his tail between his legs so fast that he bruises his spleen.

CALLUSED IN WONDERLAND I live in a warm climate, and the girl I'm dating walks around barefoot everywhere and her soles are really black and callused. I've jokingly dropped hints like "Jeez, it looks like you just stamped out a fire!" but she just laughs. She's a really great girl, but when I glance at her feet, my attraction takes a serious nosedive.

—Defeeted On the bright side, if you ever lose her in a mall, finding her should just be a matter of following the trail of black paw prints. Sympathetic friends will offer helpful suggestions, like that you should get her a pedicure (which will solve absolutely nothing) or do something "sexy" like washing her feet for her before bedtime—an activity that's got to be about as libido-boosting as power-washing bird poop off your roof. You're likelier to get what you want (periodic daily footbaths? feet encased in Saran wrap?) if you make a sweet, direct request instead of just dashing off jokes about it. But while asking might sway a partner to curb an icky habit like absentminded nose-picking, chances are your girlfriend isn't randomly going barefoot; she's probably into it. Ultimately, you'll probably need to figure out where you (and your libido) draw the line. Sure, it's a shame to break up over this, but the reality is, one man's "Okay, whatever" is another's "Yick. Lemme outta here." If you're thinking dirty thoughts in bed, it shouldn't mean fantasizing that your girlfriend's ankles would come with mudflaps.

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Job# 10028039 RESEARCH ASSISTANT III, MSUCARC Moccasin, MT. $13.248/hr, one year appointment. High school or higher education with some experience in agriculture. Submit application: 52583 US Hwy 87, Moccasin, MT 59462. email: cchen@montana.edu, Phone: 406423-5421. Montana State University-Bozeman is an AA/ADA/EEO/Vet Pref Employer SERVICE ATTENDANT/ FUEL LANE ATTENDANT MURALT PLAZA CAFE is looking to hire a dependable, hard working, long-term SERVICE ATTENDANT/FUEL LANE ATTENDANT. Individual must have a valid MT driver’s license - employer will discuss any issues on DMV report.

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Professional appearance and demeanor with outgoing personality and ability to communicate effectively with variety of personalities from different disciplines a must, Work experience with front desk (receptionist) duties, solid computer skills and hands on experience of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and Power Point. Some experience with data entry helpful. DUTIES: Respond to station management administrative requests for correspondence and reporting. Will order inventory and be responsible for general office and printer supplies. Process and distribute mail.

Manage cell phone contract, support accounting department by reconciling logs, preparing reports, processing invoices and other light accounting duties as assigned Maintain portions of stations FCC public access files and make available to public. Provide administrative support to traffic/sales, assist Marketing Director with various community programs, answer phones and greet and provide customer service to station visitors and staff, DAYS/HOURS: M-F, 8:30a-5:30p WAGES: $21,000-23,000 DOE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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Our employees understand the value of building strong relationships and the power of positive personal interactions. We are passionately committed to protecting the dreams of our clients and are currently looking for a dynamic new team member who shares this passion! As a Branch Manager for AAA MountainWest your primary responsibilities will center on employee and business development.

You will provide leadership and direction for our travel, insurance and membership teams while meeting financial goals, managing the daily operations of the branch and ensuring high quality service for our clients and members. This includes conducting regular sales meetings and well-structured coaching sessions to provide balanced feedback with actionable items to branch employees that ensure individual and branch success. Furthermore, you will act as a representative of AAA by working directly with our clients and members in the community and in our branch. A minimum of five years insurance industry experience One year AAA product, customer service and sales experience preferred Two years management experience preferred Bachelor’s Degree in related field or Associate’s degree and 2 years related experience/training CTA, CTC, CISR or CIC Designation preferred Visit www.mountainwest.aaa.com/careers for details. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10028068 CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED FOR LOCAL HAULS • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 Parts Supervisor - Truck Centers WESTERN STATES EQUIPMENT COMPANY. This position is responsible for supervising assigned parts area and personnel.

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SKILLED LABOR MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR The position requires a current State of Montana driver’s license and the applicant will be required to obtain a low boiler operator’s license within the first 90 days of employment. Knowledge of technical maintenance work including carpentry, plumbing, electrical wiring operations; thorough knowledge of HVAC operation, boiler operation and repair of generators.

Knowledge and ability to read/interpret blueprints, diagrams & sketches. Working knowledge of cleaning products/equipment. Must have 3 years experience as building operator or technician. DUTIES: Inspect facility for cleanliness, safety hazards & needed repairs, trouble shoot problems & repairs equip that supports various building operational systems. Develop ongoing preventive maintenance program & maintain related records; monitor operation & maintenance of HVAC, boilers, cooling towers & other related computerized operating sys-

tems. Supervise 2 workers: Train, direct, oversee, evaluate and discipline as needed. $33,750.00 Yearly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10028007 SEEKING PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS for auto transport company.

Class A CDL required. Experience preferred but not required.

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HEALTH CAREERS CBPRS A growing Mental Health Facility in Missoula is seeking a qualified applicant for CBPRS. Applicant will be working with adults with Severe Mentally Disabling Illnesses. Applicant will work with a treatment team, attend staff meetings, and write a progress note for each client contact to identify how the client is responding to services.

Applicant will also complete all assigned training’s and tasks. Applicant will also, annually obtain a certificate in the therapeutic de-escalation of crisis situations to ensure the protection and safety of the client and self. You will be required to work with the client at the client’s

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Job# 10028074 PART TIME - CNA CAREGiver HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE is looking for the right people to make a difference in the life of a senior today. A CNA is not required, but is helpful. Competitive wages, training provided, Must be able to lift, push or pull 25 pounds, and must be able to bend, sit, stand, walk and use stairs If you have any questions please call Tony at 406.523.9909 Monday - Friday 8:00AM to 5:00PM or Stop by the office located at 400 Expressway Suite C, Missoula MT. $9.00 $12.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10028055

PART TIME - Home Health Aid CAREGiver HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE is looking for the right people to make a difference in the life of a senior today. A CNA is not required, but is helpful.

Competitive wages, training provided, Must be able to lift, push or pull 25 pounds, and must be able to bend, sit, stand, walk and use stairs If you have any questions please call Tony at 406.523.9909 Monday - Friday 8:00AM to 5:00PM or Stop by the office located at 400 Expressway Suite C, Missoula MT. $9.00 - $12.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10028058 PART TIME - PCA CAREGiver HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE is looking for the right people to make a difference in the life of a senior today. A CNA is not required, but is helpful. Competitive wages, training provided, Must be able to lift, push or pull 25 pounds, and must be able to bend, sit, stand, walk and use stairs If you have any questions please call Tony at 406.523.9909 Monday - Friday 8:00AM to 5:00PM or Stop by the office located at 400 Expressway Suite C, Missoula MT. $9.00 $12.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10028057 Part Time CAREGiver Do you think that our Veterans deserve the utmost respect? Are you someone that likes to reminisce about days gone by? Do you like helping others in need? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then this is the job for you! We are looking for a few compassionate, dedicated, caring individuals to help Veterans in our community. Jobs duties may include; meal preparation, light housekeeping, companionship, personal care, and lending an ear to some great stories! Our selection process includes an interview process, reference checks, and an all-inclusive background check.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The renowned Lakota medicine man Sitting Bull (1831-1890) wasn't born with that name. For the first years of his life he was known as Jumping Badger. His father renamed him when he was a teenager after he demonstrated exceptional courage in battle. I'd like to see you consider a similar transition in the coming months, Gemini. You're due to add some gravitas to your approach. The tides of destiny are calling you to move more deliberately and take greater care with the details. Are you willing to experiment with being solid and stable? The more willing you are to assume added responsibility, the more interesting that responsibility is likely to be.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The English noun "offing" refers to the farthest reach of the ocean that is still visible as you stand on the beach. It's a good symbol for something that is at a distance from you and yet still within view. I suggest that you take a long thoughtful look at the metaphorical offing that's visible from where you stand. You'll be wise to identify what's looming for you in the future so you can start working to ensure you will get the best possible version of it.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A large plaster Buddha statue was housed at a modest temple in Bangkok, Thailand from 1935 to 1955. No one knew its age or origins. In May of 1955, workers were struggling to move the heavy ten-foot icon to a new building on the temple grounds when it accidentally broke free of the ropes that secured it. As it hit the ground, a chunk of plaster fell off, revealing a sheen of gold beneath.

Religious leaders authorized the removal of the remaining plaster surface. Hidden inside was a solid gold Buddha that is today worth $250 million dollars. Research later revealed that the plaster had been applied by 18th-century monks to prevent the statue from being looted. I foresee a comparable sequence unfolding in the coming weeks for you, Leo. What will it take to free a valuable resource that's concealed within a cheap veneer?

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Holistic health teacher Deepak Chopra suggests that we all periodically make this statement: "Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. I relinquish all regrets, grievances, and resentments, and choose the miracle." Is that too New Age for you, Virgo?

I hope you can drop any prejudices you might have about it and simply make it your own. It's the precise formula you need to spin this week's events in the right direction—working for you rather than against you.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the savannas of Africa, waterholes are crucial for life. During the rainy season, there are enough to go around for every animal species to drink and bathe in comfortably. But the dry season shrinks the size and number of the waterholes. The impala may have to share with the hippopotamus, the giraffe with the warthog. Let's use this as a metaphor to speculate about your future. I'm guessing that the dry season will soon be arriving in your part of the world. The waterholes may dwindle. But that could ultimately prove to be a lucky development, because it will bring you into contact with interesting life forms you might not have otherwise met. Unexpected new alliances could emerge.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall muses on the crucial role that imagination plays in our lives. "[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two thousand of them per day," he says. "In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours—one-third of our lives on earth—spinning fantasies." I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because you are entering a phase when your daydreams can serve you well. They're more likely than usual to be creative, productive, and useful. Monitor them closely.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Eighth Symphony in a mere two months during the summer of 1943. He worked on it in an old henhouse on a former chicken farm. The location helped relax him, allowing him to work with extra intensity.

I wish you could find a retreat like that for yourself sometime soon, Sagittarius. I think you would benefit from going off by yourself to a sanctuary and having some nice long talks with your ancestors, the spirits of nature, and your deepest self. If that's not practical right now, what would be the next best thing you could do?

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Is there one simple thing you could do to bring a bit more freedom into your life? An elegant rebellion against an oppressive circumstance? A compassionate breakaway from a poignant encumbrance? A flash of unpredictable behavior that would help you escape a puzzling compromise? I'm not talking about a huge, dramatic move that would completely sever you from all of your burdens and limitations. I'm imagining a small step you could take to get a taste of spaciousness and a hint of greater fluidity. That's your assignment in the coming week.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There are 15,074 lakes in Wisconsin, but more than 9,000 of them have never been officially named. That's strange to me. In my view, everything is worthy of the love that is bestowed by giving it a name. I have named every tree and bush in my yard, as well as each egret that frequents the creek flowing by my house. I understand that at the Findhorn community in northern Scotland, people even give names to their cars and toasters and washing machines. According to researchers in the UK, cows that have names are happier: They produce more milk. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to name at least some of the unnamed things in your world. It's an excellent time to cultivate a closer, warmer personal relationship with absolutely everything.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In Arthurian legend, Camelot was the castle where King Arthur held court and ruled his kingdom. It housed the Round Table, where Arthur's knights congregated for important events. Until recently, I had always imagined that the table was relatively small and the number of knights few. But then I discovered that several old stories say there was enough room for 150 knights. It wasn't an exclusive, elitist group. I suspect you will experience a similar evolution, Taurus. You may be wishing you could become part of a certain circle, but assume it's too exclusive or selective to welcome you as a member. I suspect it's more receptive and inclusive than you think.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): A woman from New Mexico wrote to tell me that after reading my horoscopes for three years in the Santa Fe Reporter, she had decided to stop. "I changed my beliefs," she said. "I no longer resonate with your philosophy." On the one hand, I was sad that I had lost a reader. On the other hand, I admired her for being able to transform her beliefs, and also for taking practical action to enforce her shift in perspective. That's the kind of purposeful metamorphosis I recommend for you, Aries. What ideas are you ready to shed? What theories no longer explain the nature of life to your satisfaction? Be ruthless in cutting away the thoughts that no longer work for you.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): From 2010 to 2012, Eric Garcetti worked as an actor on the TV cop shows The Closer and its spin-off series Major Crimes. He played the mayor of Los Angeles.

Then in 2013, he ran for the office of L.A.'s mayor in real life, and won. It was a spectacular example of Kurt Vonnegut's suggestion that we tend to become what we pretend to be. Your assignment Pisces, is to make good use of this principle. I invite you to experiment with pretending to be the person you would like to turn into.

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PUBLIC NOTICES IN THE CHILDREN’S COURT OF THE TRIBAL COURT OF THE CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RSERVATION CASE NO. 14-024-CP SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE MATTER OF, P.H. JR., Child in Need of Care. THE CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES SEND GREETING TO: ALIDA GARFIELD, biological mother of the above-referenced child: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear at the Tribal Court, Pablo, MT (Phone number 675-2700 ext.

1110) at a Hearing on a Petition for Declaration of Child in Need of Care Hearing, scheduled to take place on March 19, 2014 at 9:30 A.M. Petitioner, CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES, on behalf of Tribal Social Services, P.O. Box 278, Pablo, MT 59855, is petitioning for Declaration of Child in Need of Care of the above-named child, named in the Petition, born April 30, 1996. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that failure to appear at the hearing will constitute a denial of interest in the child, which denial may result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in a judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 12th day of February, 2014. /s/ Cara Croft, Clerk of the Tribal Court, PO Box 278, Pablo, MT 59855 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-13-234 Dept. No. 4 Honorable Karen S. Townsend, Presiding.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL A. HANSEN, 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 Kelly F. Hansen, 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 3rd day of February 2014. /s/ Kelly F. Hansen, 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-14-13 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of VERNON E. UNDERWOOD, 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 be either mailed to Bonnie Briggs, the personal representative, return receipt requested, c/o Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP, Attorneys at Law, PO Box 1178, Kalispell, Montana 59901-1178, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 30th day of January, 2014. /s/ Bonnie Briggs, Personal Representative.

Personal Representative’s Attorneys: Hash, O’Brien, Biby & Murray, PLLP By: /s/ C. Mark Hash MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-14-42 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson SUMMONS CHAD L. CHESNUT and VALERIE L. CHESNUT; JASON SPAID and LORI JEAN SPAID; GLEN A. BABCOCK and WENDY L. GARRETT BABCOCK; and RICHARD A. JOHNSTON, Plaintiffs, vs. MISSOULA MANAGEMENT COMPANY EMPLOYEES PROFIT SHARING

TRUST, a liquidated or dissolved trust; and all other persons unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the real property described in this Complaint, or any part thereof, adverse to Plaintiffs’ ownership, or any cloud upon Plaintiffs’ title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, inchoate or accrued, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: MISSOULA MANAGEMENT COMPANY EMPLOYEES PROFIT SHARING TRUST, A LIQUIDATED OR DISSOLVED TRUST; AND ALL OTHER PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, OR INTEREST IN, OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON, THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THIS COMPLAINT, OR ANY PART THEREOF, ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP, OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, INCHOATE OR ACCRUED. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiffs’ attorney within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: Tract 9A of Certificate of Survey No. 4528, records of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. and Tract 9B of Certificate of Survey No. 4528, records of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. and Tracts 10A and 10B of Certificate of Survey No. 3248, records of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. and Tract 7, as depicted on Deed Exhibit 3930, more specifically described as follows: A tract of land in the SE1/4 NW1/4, NE1/4 SW1/4 AND NW1/4 SE1/4 SECTION 1, T.15N., R.23W., Principal Meridian, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Center ¼ corner of Section 1, T.15N., R.23W., Principal Meridian, Montana; thence S89°45’47”E, 1248.43 feet along the E-W mid-line of Section 1; thence S35°50’42”W, 966.59 feet to a point on the northerly right-ofway limit of Ninemile Road; thence N54°09’18”W, 1,090.00 feet along said limit; thence along a 930.00 ft. radius curve to the right and said limit an arc distance of 166.89 feet; thence N43°52’23”W, 162.73 feet along said limit; thence N46°07’37”E, 607.23 feet to a point on the N-S mid-line of Section 1; thence S00°14’03”E, 497.09 feet along said N-S mid-line to the C1/4 corner and point of beginning, containing 17.741 acres more or less, being surveyed, monumented and subject to easements as shown on this attached exhibit, and Portion D of Certificate of Survey No. 3247.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 14th day of January, 2014. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST Clerk of the District Court (SEAL) By /s/ Heather Olean Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-14-48 Dept. No. 4 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Christopher Patrick Lim, Petitioner. This is a notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Christopher Patrick Lim to Tristen Christopher Valentino. The hearing will be on 3/11/2014 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 1/27/2014 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MINERAL 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 above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said 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 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 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Case. No. DV14-25 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 Blumenthal 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 Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-14-16 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH BURNS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said 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 Linda Ault, Judith Andrews and James Burns, Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 598079199, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. We declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 31st day of January, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Linda Ault /s/ Judith Andrews /s/ James Burns BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. c/o Boone Karlberg, PC P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Linda Ault, Judith Andrews and James Burns, Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-13-253 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY M. MONAGHAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Tina Asby Hansen, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 28th day of January, 2014, at Missoula, Montana /s/ Tina Asby Hansen BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Tina Asby Hansen MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Hon. Karen S. Townsend Probate No. DP14-18 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES EDWARD NUANEZ, 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 Suzanne M. Nuanez, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 5th day of February, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Suzanne M. Nuanez BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ James A. Bowditch P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys

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for Suzanne M. Nuanez, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-11 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of MARGARET A. CORSON, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-captioned estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be mailed to JOANN BACHELLER, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, i care of her attorney, Amanda Beckers Sowden of Karell Dyre Haney PLLP, 175 North 27th Street, Suite 1303, Billings, Montana 59101, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED: January 30, 2014. /s/ Joann Bacheller, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-17 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ORLENA MARIE CHILDS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Alese Yvonne Moore, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 11th day of February, 2014 /s/ Alese Yvonne Moore, Personal Representative.

NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated February 6, 2003 Grantor: Lei Ann Cross 199 Cross Country Rd. Polson MT 59860 Lei Ann Cross 17600 Hwy. 93 North Missoula MT 59808 Original Trustee: First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. PO Box 549 Missoula MT 59806-0549 Original Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula 1704 Dearborn Missoula MT 59806 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 Date & Place of Recordation: Original recorded February 6, 2003 in Book 698 of Micro Records at Page 1312, records of the Clerk & Recorder of Missoula County, Missoula, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 15th day of April, 2014, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway Side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: A tract of land located in the E ½ of Section 23 and the W ½ of Section 24, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, M.P.M., Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Section 24; thence S.00° 01’E., along the West line of said Section 24, 3798.38 feet to the true point of beginning; thence S.68° 07’10”E., 337.82 feet to the Northwesterly right-of-way line of the Northern Pacific Railway; thence S.43° 33’20” W., along said railway right-of-way line, 165.15 feet; thence N.66° 11’30—”;W., 411.11 feet to the Southeasterly right-ofway line of U.S. Highway No. 93 on a non-tangent curve (radial) line through said point bears S.75° 43’30”E.; thence Northeasterly along said Highway rightof-way line and said non-tangent curve, being concave to the Northwest and having a radius of 2945.0 feet, 94.3 feet to a point on a tangent line; thence N.12° 26’20”E., along said Highway right-ofway line, 46.95 feet; thence S.68°07’10”E., 155.74 feet to the true point of beginning. LESS AND EXCEPTING that portion deeded to the State of Montana recorded in Book 666 of Micro Records at page 1060. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of Four Hundred Forty Six and 10/100 Dollars ($446.10) for the months of June, 2013 through November, 2013; together with

late charges in the amount of One Hundred Thirty Three and 60/100 Dollars ($133.60); together with other charges in the amount of Forty-Seven and No/100 Dollars ($47.00). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Thirty Six Thousand Seventy-Eight and 92/100 Dollars ($36,078.92), plus interest thereon at the rate of 8.0% from and after the 10th day of June, 2013 to October 30, 2013, in the amount of One Thousand Four Hundred Thrity One and 29/100ths Dollars ($1,431.29), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Seven and 90/100 Dollars ($7.90), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 2nd day of December, 2013. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, PLLP PO Box 7909 Missoula MT 59807-7909 STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 2nd day of December, 2013, by Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Jill S. Malone Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 10/30/2014 2.13.14, 2.20.14, 2.27.14 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as Successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAMES OF THE GRANTOR, TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE DEED OF TRUST, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER ARE: Grantor: GMP, LLC (the “Grantor”) Original Trustee: WESTERN TITLE & ESCROW (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: FIRST INTERSTATE BANK (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: GMP, LLC THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tracts 2 and 3 of Certificate of Survey No. 5496, located in the SW1/4 of Section 35, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 6418 Mormon Creek, RD, Lolo, MT 59847. The Real Property tax identification number is 3029106 & 1121103.

RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Montana Deed of Trust dated February 24, 2006, and recorded February 27, 2006, under Recording No. 200604404, Book 769, Page 866, records of Missoula County, Montana. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of the monthly principal and interest payments due under the Promissory Note dated February 24, 2006, which is secured by the Deed of Trust; and, failure to maintain insurance, as required by the loan documents. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF JANUARY 13, 2014 ARE: Principal: $ 893,033.37 Interest: $49,655.19 Late fees: $ 0 The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantor or successor in interest to the Grantor. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: June 6, 2014 Time: 11:00 a.m. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

DATED: January 17, 2014. /s/ Benjamin P. Hursh Benjamin P. Hursh, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on January 17th 2014, by Benjamin P. Hursh, as Trustee. /s/ Sierra C. Stief (SEAL) Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula,

MT My commission expires: Sept. 19, 2016 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/23/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200621607 Book 781 Page 1021, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Lloyd A. Carrell was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC, Its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Western Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 5, Bellevue Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 4 of plats at page 26 1/2 on file and of record in the Office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201224932, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. 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 08/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 17, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $177,217.62.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $169,737.87, 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 28, 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# 7037.104437) 1002.262253-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/04/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200827010 B:830 P: 598, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Jerry P Kelly, and Angelia J Kelly, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Charles J. Peterson was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 3 of Doerr Subdivision, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201204488 B: 890 P: 1165, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP succes-

sor by merger to Wilshire Credit Corporation, on behalf of the Wilshire Mortgage Loan Trust 1997-2. 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 08/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 24, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was 657,418.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $618,421.34, 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 May 2, 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# 7021.17931) 1002.262292-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/17/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200608980 BK 772 Pg 2229, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Betty C. Melton was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The East one-half of Lot 16 and all of Lot 17 in Block 118 of Town Company’s Addition, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Plat of Record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 17. Recording Reference: Book 435 of Micro Records at Page 1373. 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 death and is grounds for acceleration on the Deed of Trust under paragraph 9 (a) (i) A borrower dies and the Property is not the principal residence of at least one surviving Borrower. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due in full. As of December 30, 2013, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $163,380.26. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,176.16, 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 May 12, 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 asis, 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# 7023.108101) 1002.262819-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 24, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 7 OF KELLY ISLAND ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISON IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Michael J Riska and Vicki L Riska, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 12, 2009 and recorded March 17, 2009 in Book 835, Page 692 under Document No. 200905858. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. 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 $2,152.90, beginning August 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 11, 2013 is $375,559.71 principal, interest at the rate of 5.125% now totaling $28,285.63, late charges in the amount of $1,507.10, escrow advances of $5,361.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,564.82, plus accruing interest at the rate of $53.47 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 asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public

proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: November 13, 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 13th day of November, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Guild v Riska 41291.450 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 24, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situatec in Missoula County, Montana: ALL OF LOT 1 AND THE EAST 1 FOOT OF LOT 2 IN BLOCK 13 OF LOW’S ADDITION TO MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL MAP OR PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS AT PAGE 81 NOW ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 718 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1173 Heather Nichols and Mike Nichols, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 10, 2008 and recorded June 10, 2008 in Book 820 Page 495 under Document No 200812917. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $983.42, beginning August 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 December 7, 2013 is $127,098.27 principal, interest at the rate of 2.000% now totaling $1,100.94, late charges in the amount of $345.89, escrow advances of $-1,055.54 and other fees and expenses advanced of $134.68, plus accruing interest at the rate of $6.96 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default oc-

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s curred 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: November 15, 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 15th day of November, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public State Idaho County Bingham Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 CitiMortgage v Nichols 42011.863

fault occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Deed of Trust, together with Trustee’s and attorney’s fees. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Dated: January 27, 2014 First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee By: Lisa J. Tornabine ASSISTANT SECRETARY First American Title Company of Montana, Inc c/o TRUSTEE CORPS 17100 Gillette Ave, Irvine, CA 92614 949-252-8300 FOR SALE INFORMATION CONTACT: (714) 573-1965, Website for Trustee’s Sale Information: HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. may be acting as a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. P1080543 2/6, 2/13, 02/20/2014

Trustee Sale No. MT08000006-13-1 APN: 5811614 Title Order No.: 8379127 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Trustee will, on May 30, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Deed of Trust, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charges by the Trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the County Courthouse, 200 Weat Broadway, Missoula, MT First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. is the duly appointed Successor Trustee under and pursuant to the Deed of Trust in which Tanya N. Gonzales and Robert M. Gonzales, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Flathead County Title Company as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Beneficiary of said Deed of Trust which is dated August 31, 2005 and was recorded on November 18, 2005 as Instrument No. 200530699, in Book 764 , on Page 683, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located at 101 COLONY CT, MISSOULA, MT 59803 and being more fully described as follows: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 3 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO.6, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The beneficial interest under said Deed of Trust and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by VOLT Asset Holdings Trust XVI. The Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Promissory Note (“Note”) secured by said Deed of Trust due to Grantor’s failure to timely 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 July 1, 2009 installment payment and all monthly Installment payments due thereafter. By reason of said default, the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. Said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $134,764.14, together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.12500% per annum from June 1, 2009, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the Beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust. Due to the defaults stated above, the Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Deed of Trust reinstated by making payment to the Beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no de-

Trustee Sale Number: 12-02359-3 Loan Number: 0195008719 APN: 5900174 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 9, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 9200 SHARPTAIL DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT ANN KRISTINE GUNDERSON, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MONTANA MORTGAGE COMPANY, A MONTANA CORPORATION, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of August 26, 2004, and recorded on August 31, 2004 in Film No. 738 at Page 1618 under Document No. 200424963, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated August 16, 2012 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of January 15, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from April 1,2012 and which payments total: $23,641.12: Late charges: $1,266.34 Net Other Fees: $415.00 Advances: $3,167.23 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $117,694.59 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 6.37500% per annum from March 1, 2012, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

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 aforesaid 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 theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 Dated

January 29, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature AFTER RECORDING RETURN TO: Fidelity National Title Insurance Company 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1081963 2/13, 2/20, 02/27/2014 Trustee Sale Number: 14-00014-5 Loan Number: 0203300124 APN: 1527107 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on June 9, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: The Land referred to in this Guarantee is situated in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, and is described as follows: Lot 13 and the West 23.5 Feet of Lot 14 in Block 62 of SCHOOL ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 613 of Micro Records at Page 1056. More commonly known as: 1324 DEFOE STREET, MISSOULA, MT CHARLES R. ABELL & KAREN R. ABELL, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIPL, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR MANN MORTGAGE LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of October 30, 2006, and recorded on October 30, 2006 in Film No. 786 at Page 347 under Document No. 200628154, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”).

The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, NA (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated January 17, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana.

There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of January 30, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2013 and which payments total: $7,650.00: Late charges: $183.60 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $171,194.87 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 6.50000% per annum from August 1, 2013, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. 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 in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. 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 aforesaid 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 theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYPERLINK “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED: January 30, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature AFTER RECORDING RETURN TO: Fidelity National Title Insurance Company 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1081966 2/13, 2/20, 02/27/2014

"We've Got Clout"–yes, that's right, out.

by Matt Jones

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1 ___ fly (baseball play) 4 Junkies 11 Took a chair 14 Elec. text-reading method (hidden in SOCRATES) 15 Store that sells golf balls 16 One of the five W's 17 Where to hold your hands while guiding a horse?

20 Muppet friend of Rosie 21 ___ buco (Italian veal dish) 22 Actress Meg or Jennifer 23 Slumber 25 Nintendo princess 26 Acted like the "Supermassive Black Hole" band?

32 Cray or pay ender 33 Jai alai balls 34 "All in favor" word 37 Treater's pickup 38 Make trivial objections 39 Actor Chaney 40 AARP group 41 Laugh-worthy 43 Big klutz 44 "I couldn't be there--I had to sell my steam press" and others?

46 "Funeral Blues" poet W.H. ___ 50 Volks ender 51 Play a mean guitar 52 Put your hands together 56 Word before mail or monger 57 Shaw or Lange, no faking?

60 Sweeping under site 61 Deal incentives 62 Paddle's cousin 63 Startled sounds 64 Fortitude 65 Abbr. in an apt. classified

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1 Sensitive areas 2 Lacking the basic structure of life 3 "Law & Order" settings 4 Bee-related prefix 5 007's first film foe 6 Four-footed furry friends 7 AOL and NetZero, for two 8 Jimmy of shoes 9 How-___ 10 Canines with puffy tails 11 Sty food 12 "Get ___ of yourself!"

13 Harding who made headlines in 1994 18 Gallagher who didn't smash melons 19 0-0, say 24 High school assembly goal 27 Designer's concern 28 Davy Crockett died defending it, with "the" 29 "___ On Up" ("The Jeffersons" theme) 30 New York State Thruway city 31 Course with lettuce 34 Everglades critter 35 Really ramped-up response to "Ready?"

36 Electrical ___ 41 Grate remainder 42 Murphy has one 45 "If I Only Had the Nerve" singer Bert 46 "The Jetsons" dog 47 "I'm listening" 48 Barrel scrapings 49 Mental picture?

52 Largest island on the Caribbean 53 "The Grey" star Neeson 54 Prefix with matter 55 Ball-___ hammer 58 Drift boat attachment 59 "My Life ___ Dog" (1985 film)

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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $550, Downtown, coin-op laundry, storage, offstreet parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1000 Rollins: 2 Bedroom, NEW CARPET, Slant Street, On-site Laundry, Heat Paid, $650. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1-YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!!

1017 Rodgers: 1 Bedroom, Deckarea, Storage, On-site Laundry, Free cable until June 1st, Cat OK, $525. GARDEN CITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 549-6106; 1YEAR COSTCO MEMBERSHIP!!

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paint, laundry on-site with a free bus pass for $625. Contact Colin Woodrow, 406-549-4112 x112, cwoodrow@missoulahousing.org 1885 Mount Ave. #2. 1 bed/1 bath, shared yard, storage, central location. $550. RENT INCENTIVE! Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1951 E. Broadway. 3 bed/3 bath, Cobbletstone condo on the river!

Single garage, W/D included. $1300. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bedroom, 1 bath $615, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath $695, quiet culde-sac, DW, coin-op laundry, offstreet parking, H/W/S/G paid.

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720 Turner “A”. 3 bed/1.5 bath, HEAT PAID, W/D hookups, pet? $900. RENT INCENTIVE. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 735 W. Sussex #3. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, HEAT PAID, coinops on site. $700. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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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 Gold Dust; 2-bedroom, ADA Accessible (504), polished concrete and radiant heat floors, rooftop gardens, & free bus pass for $691 all utilities included. Contact Matty Reed, 406-549-4113 x130, mreed@missoulahousing.org Lenox; studio located in great historic brick building downtown. All utilities paid and comes with a bus pass for $525. Contact Matty Reed, 406-549-4113 x130, mreed@missoulahousing.org

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Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-273-6034

1309 Linnea Lane. 4 bed/2.5 bath, newer home, central location, single garage, small yard, pet? $1300.

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ROOM FOR RENT, 3 miles west of Mullan Road, $350. Travel trailer space, $350. 5490515/548-1717

DUPLEXES 1708 Scott St. “A”. 1 bed/1 bath, shared yard, all utilities included, pet? $625. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 3909 Buckley Place 2 bed/1 bath, single garage, W/D hookups, shared yard. $725. RENT INCENTIVE. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

7520 Zaugg: 1+1 Bedroom House, TRIPLE CAR GARAGE/SHOP, Two story, Near Bonner, Cat OK!, $690.

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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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MANUFACTURED HOMES

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REAL ESTATE HOMES 1308 Jackson. 3 bed, 1 bath in Lower Rattlesnake. One block from Greeenough Park & Rattlesnake Creek. $289,900.

Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $309,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath splitlevel in Upper Rattlesnake. Private lower level for mother-in-law apartment. $339,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 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 2550 Pattee Canyon. 3 bed, 2.5 bath on 8 acres. Gourmet kitchen, deck, patio, 2 car garage. $480,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range.

Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $239,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 29203 Old Hwy 10 West. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 3.39 acres on the Clark Fork River. $539,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $298,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on almost 5 Target Range acres bordering DNRC land. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com 3024 Elms Park Drive. 2 bed, 2 bath with 2 bonus rooms, gas fireplace, deck & single garage. $254,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambroera.com 3501 Paxson.4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement, fenced yard & garage.

$225,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $190,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 511 Spanish Peaks. 4 bed, 3 bath Mansion Heights home with 3 car garage. $769,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 532-9229 tory@montana.com 524 Spanish Peaks Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath Mansion Heights home with 3 car garage near park & common area. $549,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 5454 Canyon River Drive. 6 bed, 4 bath with 3 car garage on Canyon River Golf Course. $550,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com 606 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $255,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270. glasgow@montana.com 722 South 6th West. 1 bed, 1 bath with attic loft & fenced backyard.

1920’s charm! $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 756 Angler’s Bend. 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car gargage on East Missoula golf course. $465,332. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 5329229 tory@montana.com Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek. 4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $865,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355, milyardhomes@yahoo.com

CONDOS/TOW NHOMES 505 California. 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand-alone near Riverfront Trail.

No HOA fees. $289,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

1790 Dukes. 3 bed, 2 bath in Katoonah Lodges, a 55+ community.

Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate, 532-9229 tory@montana.com 2424 McIntosh Loop. Bright & airy 2 bed, 2 bath in 55+ community.

Ramp, patio and single garage. $129,000. Vickie Honzel, Lammbros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

LAND 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. 2407653 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

20 acres, Butler Creek. View of Snowbowl Ski Resort. Utilities in place, septic approved. $200,000.

Call Pat Delaney 239-3995 53.5 acres overlooking Missoula.

Utilities in place, septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5402 Canyon River Road. Canyon River Golf Course Lot. 15,901 sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros

ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com East Missoula Lot At 559 Speedway (Next Door) $55,000.

4,800 square feet. Mature trees, sewer available. KD: 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $156,000. 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 5465816. 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 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #307. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 5465816 annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. 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

I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com. Visit my website at www.on93.com Lot 42 Jeff Drive. To be built 2 bed, 2 bath Hoyt home in Linda Vista with 3 car garage. $369,500. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229. tory@montana.com

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REAL ESTATE NHN Frontage Road, Alberton. 2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 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 Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40+ acre parcel with Mission Mountain views. $199,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

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

NHN Old Freight Road. Approximately 11 acres with Mission Mountain Views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Rock Creek Acreage. 20 acres adjacent to Forest Service land. #349,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

OUT OF TOWN

@ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

1333 Juniper, Alberton. 5 bed, 3 bath on nearly 20 acres bordered

by National Forest. $725,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 5329229 tory@montana.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

210 Red Fox Road, Lolo. 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres along Bitterroot River. $480,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

3416 Lupine, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath log-sided home with wraparound deck & Bitterroot views. $249,900. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com

3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer

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, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $575,500. 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. Pru-

dential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres. Great mountain views. $335,000. Vickie

Garrison, MT- Cozy 3 bedroom home on 1.3 acres with double garage, greenhouse and large yard, $134,500. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522 River Access 17430 Six-Mile, $285,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 JESSE• Jesse is a lively young dog who loves people. In fact, he loves them so much that he needs secure confinement to keep him from touring the neighborhood to make new friends and find new playmates. He has good instincts; he just needs a family that will keep him safe and make him happy.

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TRUFFLE•Truffle looks like a grumpy old lady, but she actually has a wonderful personality, and she's so lively that she certainly never acts old! She does need some minor eye surgery that Animal Control will get done just as soon as we know she has a loving home for her recovery period.

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PRINCESS•Princess is certainly as special as royalty, but she never puts on airs! She's a high-energy dog who would South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 enjoy belonging to a family that has an 2330 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) active lifestyle. Then she could join in Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 the fun and participate in all the activi- 3708 North Reserve Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) ties. She'd love that!

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ADELE•She's big, she's beautiful, and she has quite a voice; of course we named her Adele! She also has just about the most interesting markings we've seen on a Siamese X, as well as slightly-crossed blue eyes and extra toes on every paw.

This is one special lady!

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FANCY•This lovely Himalayan X has wonderful seal point coloring, as well as just about the softest coat you'll find on a cat. She's quite vocal, especially when asking to be let out of her cage, and she's also very friendly with people. You'd never be lonely with Fancy around!

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MISTY•Misty is a longer-haired dilute torti, which means she has a soft, smooth coat of wonderful pastel colors.

She's a very quiet, sedate lady and would certainly be more of a lap-sitter than a curtain-climber! She'd be a pleasant, lowmaintenance addition to your household.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 BOSCO• Bosco is just one big love bug!

This six-year-old shar-pei/lab mix has a sweet, expressive face, and a fondness for tennis balls. He also loves his brother, Dice. The two of them found themselves at the shelter after their owner passed away, and now they are both looking for a nice new family to take them in.

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ALOHA• Aloha is a very special and loving lady who was transferred to us from another shelter. She is currently staying with a foster family who gives her prescription food to make sure her sensitive belly doesn't get upset, but she would really love a home of her own.

STUBBY• Stubby-tail Stubby is a

SADIE•Sadie is a one-and-a-half year old lab mix who can't wait to go home with a new family! She has the endurance to run and play all day, and hopes her new people will take her on all kinds of adventures.

Sadie is very smart, too, and loves learning new things. She is housebroken, friendly, and has an adorable face.

pretty green-eyed senior girl looking for a comfortable retirement home with a person who doesn't mind giving her occasional brushes and lots of pets. Stubby came into our shelter in January 2013, and while we love her, we think she'd prefer a home setting.

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nothing more than to be adopted together!

These sweet, shy, green-eyed adults have spent their entire lives together, and clearly love each other. Doesn't your house need a pair of beautiful black kitties? They think they're make the perfect late-Valentine's Day addition to any home. Maybe yours?

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brindle shepherd mix and his best friend Sheila, a 12-year-old Beagle-Shar Pei mix came into our shelter after their owner passed away. These two are truly the best of friends - it's been said that Kodiak loves toys, treats, and Sheila. Sheila loves naps, getting pets, and Kodiak.

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