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News

Voices The readers write .................................................................................................4 Street Talk Driven to distraction.....................................................................................4 The Week in Review The news of the day—one day at a time ......................................6 Briefs Smoking out kids, regulating rentals, and the return of the Greens ...................6 Etc. Do all Republicans hate democracy, or is it just Jeff Essmann? ...............................7 News Saving the Merc, one pixel at a time......................................................................8 News Missoula’s Russian-election connection ................................................................9 Opinion How dumb does Steve Daines think we are? .................................................10 Opinion Happy birthday, Wallace Stegner....................................................................11 Feature Can wildlife managers lead elk to the hunt?....................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Need an escape from the trauma of Trump? May we suggest laughing at death? ......18 Music The tenacious EDM of Enzymes .........................................................................19 Books Into the darkness of Kevin Canty’s The Underworld.........................................20 Film Racism gets the horror treatment in Get Out .......................................................21 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................22 Resistance Kitchen Turning red state blueberry muffins ............................................23 Happiest Hour Western Cider gets canned..................................................................25 8 Days a Week Pretty sure we lost a night in there somewhere ..................................26 Agenda Karaoke for a Cause stands with Planned Parenthood ....................................33 Mountain High Ready, Set, Slow… .............................................................................34

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News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology.....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

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by Erika Fredrickson and Derek Brouwer

Asked Sunday, Feb. 26, at Bayern Brewing.

In this week’s arts feature, the author reflects on how she turned to the dark charms of murder podcasts to distract herself from national politics. When you need to distract yourself, how do you do it? Follow-up: What’s your favorite podcast, radio program or television show?

John Fleming: I try to distract myself, but I find myself going on news sites and it just brings me down. I drink a couple of beers, ride my bike, play music. And I watch baseball. Disappearing act: I’ve only listened to one podcast in my life and it was In the Dark, about Jacob Wetterling. I grew up back there where he’s from and I remember when he disappeared, so it was really interesting to listen to that.

Adelaide Every: Turning off the news. And I’ve been getting into crosswords. It’s a good way to prime the mind. Criminal mind: I’m a truecrime podcast junkie, but my favorite is Sword and Scale. The production is really well done and the host, Mike Boudet, mixes in historical clips and interviews, and the music is fantastic.

Gina Morrill-Olson: We watch public television every single day. You can get BBC News and German news and others—a truly world view. Meter boost: I’ve never listened to a podcast, but I always listen to NPR’s Writer’s Almanac. I’ve got to have my poem every morning.

Nicole Auer: I’m a law student, and one of the classes I’m required to take is on politics. When I need to distract myself I do school work or go to the bar. And I tell my barmates I don’t want to talk politics. Scientific method: RadioLab. I like how there’s a variety of topics they talk about, and I like the science aspect of it.

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Boom-town blues After I read the article regarding the Riverfront Triangle project (“On the Riverfront,” Feb. 23), I wrote to the City Council, the mayor and the Missoula Redevelopment Agency to shame them for once again putting profit over people. I am so tired of seeing the council and the mayor falling all over themselves to cater to developers and spend our tax dollars on projects that give developers free rein.

I’ve never seen a developer keep promises that aren’t officially required (e.g., promises to build sidewalks and community parks in residential developments). They do nothing that isn’t contractually required, and even then they weasel out of commitments via indefinite delays. Yet city and county officials continue to fall for it, saying we have to trust them. Why on earth should we trust them?

Why can’t we have a city commitment to supporting unions instead of empty lip service?

Missoula’s problem is hardly not enough development. Our problem is high housing costs and low wages. So why do local leaders support development that does nothing to address what ought to be the overriding concern? I assume they are afraid the developer will take its ball and go home, along with the supposed jobs. If so, so be it! Missoula citizens are not desperate for more development and the handful of lousy jobs it brings, we are desperate for affordable housing and living wages. Why is that not the priority?

I assume it’s too late to cancel the Riverfront Triangle project or renegotiate the terms. Over the years I have become more and more disgusted watching these developers call the shots while our elected leaders roll over. I have contacted our local labor groups to show my support for their efforts, and I will encourage my friends to do the same.

It may be too late to put the brakes on this project, but I and other Missoula citizens can still make some noise.

Who’s in?

Gwen McKenna Missoula

Scraping by This is such a joke (“On the Riverfront,” Feb. 23). Missoula needs to support the people that already live here with real job opportunities, not 500 low-paying jobs that will cost Missoulians even more money in taxes. Why is the city financing mall renovations, expo centers and parking garages when the average person in Missoula can barely scrape by? It has become

very evident that our mayor is only concerned about filling his own pockets and has no concern for the people of Missoula.

Rebekah Barsotti posted at facebook.com /missoulaindependent

Watch the money flow Released now or later (“Show us the money,” Feb. 23), voters are going to be in for severe sticker shock.

Matthew Neer posted at facebook.com /missoulaindependent

“Why is the city financing mall renovations, expo centers and parking garages when the average person in Missoula can barely scrape by?”

Best for last The last paragraph is the best (“Show us the money,” Feb. 23)! The mayor estimated the legal process would cost $400,000! To think that the Carlyle Group would roll over on an asset grab so easily was either completely naive, incompetent or a complete lie to coerce public support. Legal fees were off (just for the city) by a factor of at least 20!

Tony Cate posted at facebook.com /missoulaindependent

No privacy Absolutely b.s. (“Show us the money,” Feb. 23). It is a public entity and as such there should be nothing private!

Adam Pummill posted at facebook.com /missoulaindependent

Following orders?

I called his office and they claim this is standard procedure that all representatives follow (“Did Ryan Zinke go AWOL?,” Feb. 16). Funny, Jeff Sessions didn’t quit voting!

Ian Chechet posted at facebook.com /missoulaindependent

Money for nothing Yet surely he’s still collecting his congressional paycheck (“Did Ryan Zinke go AWOL?,” Feb. 16). What has he done to earn $20,021 since Jan. 5? (Members are paid $174,000 per year.)

Emilie Ritter Saunders posted at facebook.com /missoulaindependent

Who hates snowflakes?

He’s putting together his plan to start utilizing and harvesting our natural resources, and drafting legislation to do away with frivolous lawsuits by enviro-terrorists (“Did Ryan Zinke go AWOL?,” Feb. 16). The snowflakes are going to freak out after he gets confirmed!

Kris Wosepka posted at facebook.com /missoulaindependent

Ignore Daines Sen. Daines’ outlandish demand that Sen. Tester immediately endorse Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court justice is an insult to my intelligence. Isn’t Daines the same senator who refused to give Obama’s nominee even an interview for nine months? Isn’t Daines part of the party that, before the November election, threatened to never seat a Clinton nominee if she won? He is. Did I hear Daines chastising his fellow Republicans for such trash talk? I did not. How does this blatant hypocrisy work? Does he think we’re stupid? Or that we suffer from short-term memory loss? Sen. Tester is a patriot, not a puppet. I trust him to represent me.

That means careful vetting of any nominee. There hasn’t even been a hearing yet. And, thanks to Daines and his fellows, we’ve been without a full Supreme Court for more than 11 months. He obviously didn’t think having a full court was important when the shoe was on the other foot. Daines forfeited all moral right to make any comments about Tester’s decisions concerning Supreme Court justices. There is no reason for Tester to pay any attention to him. Neither should we.

Pat Tucker Hamilton

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Wednesday, Feb. 22 The Missoula Fire Department sends 24 firefighters to Cooley Street to douse flames engulfing a trailer home, which was unoccupied at the time. Authorities later say the destroyed structure was a “known meth house.”

Thursday, Feb. 23 Billings radio station KCTR suspends longtime “Breakfast Flakes” show host Paul Mushaben for making racist comments about Native Americans. Some Billings residents celebrate the comeuppance of the DJ, who’s spent years making homophobic, racist and sexist jokes.

Friday, Feb. 24 The Missoula Parking Commission unveils a new pay-by-phone parking app, freeing people with disabilities and the general populace from fumbling with quarters and credit cards on street corners.

Green Party back at it More than 10 years after the Montana Green Party last held a convention, the party meets in Missoula this month with renewed enthusiasm. Party organizer Danielle Breck, who will graduate from the University of Montana this May with a degree in philosophy, says that in light of last year’s election, she and other Greens feel they have more to offer progressives than Democrats do.

“We think it’s super-important that we have the progressive voice be heard,” Breck says. “Even Democrats that have made it into the state Legislature, they’re moderate, and we don’t really feel like they represent us and our ideals.”

Breck says anyone is welcome to join the convention’s workshops and discussion of a new party platform, which hasn’t been updated since 2007. She says she expects military drones and government surveillance to be hot topics. Breck is also excited that 2016 Green Party

presidential candidate Jill Stein will Skype into the conference for a Q&A session.

But despite Stein’s top billing, Breck says the party’s sights are set on local races. For too long, she says, third parties have invested too much attention on the top of the ticket. She wants to see Greens start from the bottom by targeting the state legislature and nonpartisan local races—even city council and school board seats.

“Absolutely, that’s where we need to work right now,” Breck says. “National campaigns are really difficult, they take a lot of money. But statewide, Montana’s got excited progressives right now, and lots of excited people wanting to make change.”

Breck says it’s unlikely that the Green Party will front a candidate for this spring’s special election to replace Rep. Ryan Zinke, who was confirmed March 1 as Secretary of the Interior. Instead, she says, the party is preparing for next year’s midterm races. The Green Party already has its first 2018 candidate in Jordan Roether, a 24-year-old Great Falls resident who says he

intends to file to run for the state House. Roether cites Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid for president as his first big political awakening.

“I’d rather take my energy I’ve been putting toward causes and put that on the state level to get change made,” Roether says.

In the past, Green Party candidates have faced uphill battles in local races. Polson’s Cheryl Wolfe ran as a Green Party candidate for House District 11 in 2010, losing to Republican Janna Taylor by more than 2,000 votes. Wolfe tried again in 2012 and didn’t garner enough signatures to get on the ballot. “[The two-party system] is a difficult system to overcome,” Wolfe says. “But what gives me hope is the fact that we have never, and will never, take corporate donations.”

The Montana Green Party convention takes place March 4 at the Payne Family Native American Center on the UM campus.

Kate Whittle

Saturday, Feb. 25 The fifth annual and final Missoula Rock Lotto benefit brings local musicians together for raucous tributes to Prince, Madonna and Janet Jackson, and ultimately raises more than $10,000 for kids’ rock camps at the ZACC.

Sunday, Feb. 26 In other fire news, Highway 200 East is closed down for three hours after an electrical fire sparks in a home’s basement. The family evacuates and Missoula Rural Fire District firefighters successfully rescue a pet dog and two cats.

Monday, Feb. 27 Logjam Presents announces the first act to play the new KettleHouse Amphitheater in Bonner in July: Ween. To which one Indy staffer—a relative newcomer to Missoula— responds, “What is Ween?”

Tuesday, Feb. 28 Work on the Madison Street bridge repair is 25 percent finished, according to contractor Frontier West. A press release notes that workers “remain on schedule despite extreme schedule!”

What are the administration’s plans to increase security on the Canadian border, and does the administration have any plans to build a wall there?”

—NBC Montana reporter Laurel Staples to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, via Skype, during a Feb. 23 press briefing. Spicer did not mention a wall in his response.

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[news] To airbnb, or not to airbnb?

Lege tackles vacation-rentals During the past year or so, Montana communities have increasingly tried to gain some semblance of control over the booming vacation rental market. Bozeman city commissioners approved a six-month ban on new permits for vacation rentals last August. In October, the Missoula City Council passed an ordinance tacking registration fees onto such properties. And in December, Kalispell capped the ratio of short-term rentals to housing stock at 2 percent within the city.

Despite that flurry of activity, however, lodgings listed through popular websites like Airbnb and VRBO still occupy a murky area under state law. Technically speaking, says Sen. Tom Facey, D-Missoula, vacation rentals fall under the auspices of the Landlord Tenant Act, but are typically treated more like hotels or motels. The question of how to regulate this emerging industry—and who should do the regulating—is big enough that it’s now hit the Montana Legislature. One bill, from Sen. Dee Brown, R-Hungry Horse, would require short-term rental owners to pay the state’s 7-percent “bedâ€? tax, which already applies to hotels. Another bill, from Facey, seeks to clarify how these rentals are defined and place their regulation in the hands of local governments. “As a whole, we’re moving from brick-and-mortar types of businesses ‌ to this internet business,â€? Facey says. “How do we facilitate that and offer guidance for those on both sides of the transaction?â€?

Facey adds that his Senate Bill 251 would also clarify the Missoula ordinance’s constitutional legality. He introduced the bill at the request of Missoula City Council members Gwen Jones and Emily Bentley, both of whom were particularly active in the ordinance discussion last fall. Jones traveled to Helena to testify in support of SB 251 in late February and, based on the different issues faced by different communities, she echoes Facey’s assertion that regulation of VRBO-style rentals is most logically left to city officials.

But Facey’s bill isn’t without critics. John Sinrud of the Montana Landlords Association believes SB 251 leaves too many questions unanswered, potentially to the detriment of non-vacation rental owners statewide. He argues that the bill, as written, could allow cities to regulate short-term lodgings like college dorms. Sinrud also says the way the bill defines vacation rentals isn’t specific enough to exclude rentals that should rightly fall under the Landlord Tenant Act.

“It opens everything up to not being defined and will give way too much non-clarity in regards to who’s responsible for what,� he says. “When they include ‘home’ in there, or a room rented on behalf of an owner, well, does that mean a property manager?�

Sinrud would prefer the Legislature examine the issue in-depth during the interim before the 2019 session.

In the meantime, SB 251 shows no signs of slowing—it passed through committee last week on an 8-0 vote. For Missoula, at least, Jones feels the time is right to address an industry that has “caught on like wildfire.� “By being proactive we can steer it in the direction we want to, instead of trying to change expectations later on.�

Alex Sakariassen

Stink of the children

Fuming at cigar club “Palpably uncomfortable� is how Raurie Birch describes the smoke-filled air during her recent visits to the Children’s Museum Missoula, where she regularly takes her 22-month-old daughter. The culprit is a private cigar smokers’ club, Fool’s End, that opened on the floor beneath the museum last October. Since then, Birch says, stogie fumes have soiled an important resource for local families. “To go in there and have that smell and feel like you’re going to Charlie B’s is frankly outrageous,� she says. [For the record, smoking hasn’t been allowed inside Charlie B’s for years.]

Heeding some two dozen complaints like Birch’s, the City-County Board of Health is trying to step in.

In a Feb. 22 court filing, the health board asked a judge to snuff out the cigar club in a case that will test whether members-only smokers lounges run afoul of Montana’s 2009 ban against smoking indoors in public places.

Information about Fool’s End, the only business of its kind in the state, is hard to come by. (A man who identified himself as an owner, but refused to provide his name, declined to speak with the Indy). An attorney for the club has described it in letters to public officials as a haven for cigar aficionados to smoke together. Members pay a $900 “initiation fee� and undergo an interview.

They use personal codes to access the club, which consists of a room decorated with area rugs, end tables

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It’s an emergency! Didn’t you hear? State Sen. Steve Fitzpatrick, R-Great Falls, wants the upcoming special election to fill Ryan Zinke’s seat in Congress to be conducted by all-mail ballot.

To our liberal readers: Don’t get worked up just yet. Despite the big, bad “R� after the sponsor’s name, Senate Bill 305 isn’t meant to suppress Democratic votes, just save Montana counties the $500,000 expense of opening the polls for a special election.

And that’s exactly why Montana GOP Chairman Jeff Essmann is freaking out. A few days after SB 305 was introduced, Essmann issued an “emergency chairman’s report� highlighting the “long term negative impact� mail ballot elections would have on Republican candidates. Why? Mail-in elections make voting easier, and “lower propensity voters� tend to lean blue.

That’s never been a particularly convincing rationale for adding red tape to the democratic process, so Essmann is also trotting out the old voter-fraud boogeyman, arguing that mail-in elections enable Democratic organizers to pressure people into voting by going door-to-door collecting ballots. Essmann similarly used the fact that Montana Women’s March organizers are advocating the bill as proof that “George Soros-backed groups are organizing to manipulate our special election.� He didn’t appear to realize that, by his standard, the very report he was typing was an elaborate exercise in election manipulation.

Essmann essentially forced his party’s elected representatives to weigh the in-vogue panic over voter fraud against their principled commitment to fiscal conservatism. Perhaps he can be excused for expecting fellow party leaders to fall on the side of fake news, given their behavior during the presidential election, but his disingenuous alarmism didn’t actually go over very well. The bill cleared the GOP-controlled senate with 37 yays to only 13 nays.

Of course, Essmann is paid to be a partisan hack. But he was joined in his crusade by new Secretary of State Corey Stapleton, who sought to persuade Senate Republicans by arguing that allmail elections are a slippery slope to legalized weed. “Is that what you want?� The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported Stapleton asking, “because that’s what you’re going to get.�

It’s the kind of logic that makes you want to throw your hands up and just write-in “legal weed� for Congress. Just please don’t, because that’s how people like Stapleton get elected.

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and leather and wooden chairs. The club itself has no employees, though the owners have a license to sell tobacco products.

These details may be crucial in determining whether Fool’s End qualifies as an “enclosed public space� or a “place of work� under the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act. City-county health officials take the stance that even though Fool’s End is members only, the facility is still part of an office building that shares a ventilation system. “It’s almost impossible to keep smoke from moving from one part of a building into another,� says Environmental Health Director Shannon Therriault.

One of Fool’s End’s partners, Don Gaumer, said in a letter to the health board that the club conducted months of due diligence before opening and has taken steps to be “considerate� of adjacent tenants. At the time of the club’s opening, one of those tenants was Gaumer’s wife, Claire Olivier, who was then the executive director of the Children’s Museum. Olivier resigned from the Museum in November, a few weeks after the health department received its first complaints from a museum patron. Museum board chair Isaac Kantor says he doesn’t believe Olivier’s departure was related to the cigar smoke issue.

Fumes in the museum haven’t been as harsh since Fool’s End upgraded its ventilation system, among other steps, according to Birch.

Gaumer pointed out that the club held a tasting event in December where members and their guests lit more than 150 cigars in less than two hours, and no other tenants complained.

Regardless, health officials say, Fool’s End needs to go. In addition to seeking a judgment regarding the Indoor Air Act, the health board also wants a judge to declare the club a public nuisance. “The fact that it’s a children’s museum makes it more important, because children are more affected by secondhand smoke,� Therriault says.

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Forever in pixels On its way down, Merc gets a virtual resurrection

by Derek Brouwer

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Three-dimensional imaging has taken Missoula’s Ryan Darling into mine shafts and Radio City Music Hall. Last fall, he was hired to scan the Missoula Mercantile building before it is demolished.

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A deconstruction crew recently began tearing down the Missoula Mercantile to make way for a new Marriott hotel, a process that amounts to what “Save the Merc” campaigners lament as the slow-motion erasure of a cornerstone of the city’s history.

But before the dismantlement commenced, the Merc was indeed saved for posterity—in digital form, at least. The downtown landmark survives as a three-dimensional rendering, produced using a laser scanning technology that academic researchers and preservationists are increasingly turning to as a means of documenting old buildings before they disappear.

Ryan Darling, the Missoula man who created the scan for the new hotel’s architects, uses his laptop to click through the digital model on a recent morning at Market on Front. Darling’s virtual tour begins in the alley next to Uptown Diner before, with the tap of finger, he plunges underground. He zooms through the Merc’s unfinished basement, each crack in the old bricks visible in relief. A change in the viewing mode illuminates graffiti tagged on a pillar. The virtual Merc on the screen, Darling says, is accurate to within six millimeters of the physical structure still visible across the street from the coffeeshop.

It took Darling about a week of work and a few long nights to produce the Merc renderings using the terrestrial light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, scanner he

bought 14 years ago. At the time, he was working for his father’s surveying company in Tucson, Arizona, and 3D scanning was emerging as a new tool in the field. Since then, LiDAR has taken him into 5,000-footdeep mineshafts and on naval vessels. Last year, Darling was hired as director of 3D laser scanning for DWP Live, an event production company based in Nashville. The company specializes in projecting elaborate animation shows onto buildings and, for instance, programming a laser-projected dragon to snake through the colonnades at Caesars Palace Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis—a project that requires precise measurements of 3D space.

Preservationists have also taken interest in how laser scanning can help document artifacts. Kelly Dixon, an archaeologist at the University of Montana, employed a LiDAR specialist a few years ago to catalog Coloma ghost town near Garnet, where abandoned cabins were beginning to collapse under the weight of snow. Recording the cabins by hand would have taken years, but the scans quickly captured their dimensions “down to the size of a nailhead.”

“Not only does 3D scanning make our jobs more efficient when it comes to a large artifact like a building, but it also gives us more details, things we might have missed,” she says.

Those details are important to researchers, but Dixon says virtual renderings

can also offer the general public, particularly digital-savvy youth, a new way to connect with the past. She points to the tombs of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, which anyone can tour in 3D from their home, via the Theban Mapping Project.

Darling says the Denver-based architects of the Marriott commissioned his work chiefly for design purposes, particularly as they seek to integrate the pharmacy portion of the Merc into the future hotel. HomeBase Montana developer Andy Holloran says he’s been speaking with officials from the city and the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula about ways to incorporate Darling’s imaging into the new building.

The Merc is the second Missoula building Darling has documented. He previously scanned the Heyfron House, a few blocks east on Front Street, as a demonstration for a UM researcher who is cataloguing the building before it’s demolished to make way for student housing. He muses about scanning more of Montana’s ghosts towns, just for fun, if he can find the time.

“I’m hoping we can start to document a lot of our history here in this way,” Darling says.

Dixon sees the technology as an “emblem of the future” for research and preservation. “Although,” she adds, “there’s nothing like the real thing.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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The Russian connection Former intelligence officer calls for investigation

by Alex Sakariassen

When U.S. intelligence officials released on Jan. 6 a declassified report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Julie Sirrs was already familiar with the threads of the story. Like so many others, she’d begun tuning into the drumbeat of political hacking and leaked campaign emails last summer, weeks before anyone publicly implicated Russia. The report largely confirmed what nameless sources had been telling national news outlets for months, but Sirrs was astonished at the level of detail that intelligence officials opted to release for public consumption.

“They came out and said it was clear that the Russians weren’t doing this just to sort of generally undermine faith in our Democratic system, but were really trying to defeat Hillary Clinton and trying to get Trump elected,” Sirrs says. “The fact that they were willing to come out and say that surprised me, because usually declass intel assessments are pretty watered down. I thought, ‘Wow, this actually said something.’”

The report’s contents reinforced Sirr’s concern that a foreign government had attempted to undermine American democracy, an act she considers “more of an existential threat to the United States than ISIS or anything comparable.” So late last month she joined several other people from Missoula and Bozeman with past ties to the military and intelligence communities in penning a letter to Sens. Jon Tester and Steve Daines requesting an “independent, thorough investigation” of the operations allegedly ordered

by Vladimir Putin.

It’s been nearly 20 years since Sirrs left her job as a military intelligence analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency, where her work primarily focused on developing threats in Afghanistan. These days her Missoula life doesn’t cross over into politics very often, and she doesn’t go into much detail about her background in the intelligence community, preferring to let a Google search do the talking. A lengthy 2004 story by the online news outlet Observer credits Sirrs as being the “first intelligence officer to report on the significance of Osama bin Laden moving his terrorist operation from the Sudan into Afghanistan.”

Russia is partly the reason Sirrs joined the intelligence community in the first place.

Her interest in the Middle East started with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. And while she’s miles removed from her former line of work today (she’s an attorney with the Missoula law firm Boone Karlberg), her sensitivity to the ramifications of Russia’s “hostile action” is enhanced by past experience. Foreign meddling in U.S. elections—as well as those in other Western countries like Britain—could not only destabilize military and trade alliances, Sirrs says, but ultimately cause nations to “turn inward.”

tially cause a result that doesn’t really reflect the will of the people, and maybe pushing an agenda that’s maybe not in America’s interests—Montanans are probably more sensitive to that than other states that don’t seem to be as energized on that issue, “ Sirrs says, Russia’s purported actions may also speak to the growing debate over the electoral college system. “I think to approach the electoral college from a national security perspective is kind of new,” Sirrs says, but in an era of cyber warfare, the ability to target key swing states could make elections even more vulnerable.

photo courtesy Julie Sirrs

Julie Sirrs, pictured here on a research mission to Afghanistan in the 1990s, is pressing Montana’s senators to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. She’s joined in that effort by veteran and former state lawmaker Andrew Person, among others.

“It could show terrorist organizations, for example, that if they can develop a sort of cyber warfare capability, that they could interfere in countries in perhaps the most damaging way.”

Montanans are no strangers to outside influence in elections, a fact Sirrs believes makes the state’s voters particularly attuned to the Russian narrative. As evidence, she points to the influx of dark money in Montana politics and the outrage sparked in 2014 when researchers from Stanford and Dartmouth circulated fliers in a Montana Supreme Court race as part of a political science study. The researchers later apologized for any interference they may have caused in the election.

“This concern that outside actors can come in and manipulate elections and poten-

Before Sirrs and her fellow signatories sent their congressional plea last month, Sen. Tester was already pressuring the Senate Homeland Security Committee to launch a full investigation into the Russian allegations.

In an interview with the Indy, Tester stressed the need for such an investigation to be conducted “very transparently.” Only when we know all the facts, Tester said, can we begin developing strategies to prevent such interference in the future.

“This really can have some real negative effects on our form of government,” Tester concluded, “and I’ll be damned if under my watch I’m going to sit back and let Putin do things to this country that are negative to our way of life.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Acting the part How dumb does Steve Daines think Montanans are?

by Dan Brooks

As a freshman senator, Steve Daines lives in a state of constant terror. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, RKentucky, wakes him with a fire extinguisher every morning. In the Senate cafeteria, Daines has to eat whatever Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, puts on his tray, like Coke with chili in it or even a worm. And whenever a senior senator yells “push-ups,” Daines has to either do 20 or chug a beer.

He always does the push-ups. Maintaining his quiet dignity while staying in the good graces of his colleagues is no easy feat. And manning his position at the bottom of the Republican totem pole has occasionally required him to compromise.

It happened last month, when he was presiding over the Senate confirmation hearings for Attorney General Jeff Sessions and McConnell invoked the obscure Senate Rule 19 to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts. Rule 19 forbids senators from impugning the character of other senators on the floor.

Warren had quoted a letter that Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986, in which the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. complained that Sessions had the wrong temperament for the judiciary.

Given that they were debating Sessions’ fitness for office, it seemed odd to forbid senators from questioning Sessions’ character. But Daines dutifully gaveled down Warren, looking like a man with a shake who had just been handed an important baby. He was not about to argue with the majority leader over a point of parliamentary procedure.

But then he had to come home.

Congress went into recess, and Daines left the room he shares with Tom “The Bomb” Cotton, R-Arkansas, in the Senate dormitory to return to Montana. Traditionally, members use this recess to talk to their constituents about what’s going on in Washington. Daines was scheduled to address the state Legislature on Tuesday of last week, but he canceled his appearance at the last minute.

Maybe it had to do with the hundreds of protesters who gathered at the

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capitol to boo him. Demonstrators traveled to Helena to express their objections to his treatment of Warren, his vote to confirm Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos—after the heiress and her family contributed $48,000 to his campaign—and the potential rollback of the Affordable Care Act, which threatens to leave thousands of Montanans without health insurance.

“Daines picked an odd moment to pander to Montanans. He had just flown in from Washington and contorted his schedule to avoid them.”

Daines added to this list of grievances by rescheduling his capitol appearance for the next day. His office issued a statement saying that Daines “welcomes the opinions of everyone from the Treasure State,” continuing the bland refusal to address concrete ideas that has been the hallmark of its communications strategy. The next day, the senator took to Twitter. “Montanans can do a better job than D.C. bureaucrats who’ve never driven a pick-up and have a hard time finding Montana on a map,” he wrote.

First of all, I drive a pickup, and I can tell you I am not qualified to govern anything. Second, Daines picked an odd moment to pander to Montanans.

He had just flown in from Washington and contorted his schedule to avoid them. It was probably not the time to present himself as a salt-of-the-earth type vexed by D.C. bureaucrats. But he kept at it. The next day, he tweeted a cellphone video from Big Sandy.

“Greetings from Big Sandy, Montana,” he said, gesturing to a sheet of ice as wind blew across the microphone. “Jon Tester’s hometown—getting all over Montana, on our way to Havre.”

Daines was unable to visit his own hometown of Nilbog, owing to the phase of the moon. He gets points for audacity, however, by acting as though he was traveling the state’s back roads in search of constituent opinions just 48 hours after he stood up hundreds of constituents in Helena.

Another kind of politician might have treated those protesters as an audience. Daines is not that kind. He is a party man, as his recent behavior has amply demonstrated, and that’s his prerogative. It’s a rare freshman senator who would contradict his majority leader’s interpretation of Senate rules or buck his party on cabinet confirmations. But he should not pretend to be some rootin’ tootin’ country boy fed up with Washington, D.C. He’s done too much tooting and not enough rooting for my taste. Montanans know the difference between driving a pickup and protecting federal lands, between stopping for a picture in Big Sandy and actually engaging with constituents. Daines is a senator now, and he has to serve more than one master. We can’t blame him for toeing the party line. But he shouldn’t pretend he’s doing anything else. Even in Big Sandy, they’ve seen that act before.

Dan Brooks write about people, politics, culture and playing to the hayseeds at combatblog.net.

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Happy 108th birthday, Wallace Stegner

by Matthew D. Stewart

Wallace Stegner lived through almost the entire 20th century and wrote his way through more than half of it. His fan mail started with a trickle in the 1930s, opened up to a flow in 1943, after the publication of The Big Rock Candy Mountain, and then rushed like the rivers he loved until his death on April 13, 1993. Many letters came on his birthday, Feb. 18. Today, they are preserved with the rest of his papers at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.

The letters arrived by plane from Kenya, Japan and England, and by hand from Los Altos Hills, California, where Stegner and his family lived when they were not traveling or spending the summer at their cabin in Vermont. Book clubs from across the nation wrote to Stegner, from the Literary Ladies of Hyde Park, Vermont, to a Vietnam veterans’ book club in New York City that enclosed 25 copies of Angle of Repose with a request for Stegner’s signature on all of them because the book had “left a deep-seated impression” on all 25 members of the club.

Many letters asked for autographs, some confessed love, and one was written by a couple on their honeymoon. A British fan of Stegner’s Women on the Wall included this brief review of the book: “I think it is lovely, so do my friends, we all hope you make masses of money, and pay no tax.” Among the thousands of letters that readers wrote, the theme that recurs over and over again is that Stegner respected his readers, their lives and the places they inhabited.

Most profoundly, he was capable of writing about heartbreak without succumbing to nihilism. His characters suffered real pain, and many of them failed. But Stegner’s characters sometimes went beyond the failures, if only by one step, and he never fell into cheap sentiment.

As a woman wrote after finishing Crossing to Safety: “It ha-s something to do with

bonds and frailties, a sense of place and events unfolding, and above all, endurance.”

Stegner respected those who fell into the abyss and saw it for what it was, but endured nonetheless.

Stegner also told hard truths to his readers—particularly his readers in the West— about the region’s past and present. Decades

“Stegner could criticize the West from within. In the words of a man who wrote to him in 1978, he could ‘handle the region’s culture without condescending to it.’” before the “New Western Historians,” several of whom acknowledged his influence and corresponded with him, Stegner brought serious and critical attention to the settling of the West. He could criticize the region from within. In the words of a man who wrote to him in 1978, he could “handle the region’s culture without condescending to it.”

As one of his most famous readers, his friend and former student Wendell Berry, put

it in his 1990 collection of essays, What are People For?, Stegner was a regional writer “who not only (wrote) about his region but also (did) his best to protect it, by writing and in other ways, from its would-be exploiters and destroyers.” Berry contrasted Stegner with the “industrialists of letters” who mine “one’s province for whatever can be got out of it in the way of ‘raw material’ for stories and novels.”

A woman from Montana told Stegner, “Somehow I have a sense of the land from reading your book that I have not found in a long time, and the urge to tell you that looking back to the years when I was an unprepossessing small girl suffering some of the same mental tortures that you seemed to, I figuratively wave to you across the prairie miles that lay between us. You have used your background well—the prairie and I are proud of you.”

If wisdom is simply pulling back the curtain to reveal a howling empty wasteland, 20th century fiction was full of such debilitating wisdom. Stegner was generally agnostic about any ultimate reality, but refused doubt as an excuse for selfish despair. There were too many people who had fallen in love with the land, and who counted on him; there were too many places that were threatened and fragile. In one of his most famous phrases, he described the West as the “geography of hope.” Letter after letter thanked Stegner for his sympathy, but also for his thoughtful nudge to move past the pain and live.

Matthew D. Stewart is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). He received an M.A. in American studies from the University of Wyoming and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history at Syracuse University.history at Syracuse University.

Friday, March 3rd University of Montana Foreign Language Day Enriching the lives of Montanans through exposure to other languages and cultures is central to what makes the MICFF tick, and UM’s Foreign Language Day does just that. Join us at 3:00pm at the University of Montana UC Theater for a screening of School of Babel. This acclaimed film that explores what it’s like to be young person whose family has moved to a new country. Seen through the eyes of the students at a school dedicated to helping young immigrants learn the language skills they need to be accepted in their new country.

Friday, March 3rd Shakespeare and Company First Friday Showing Join us for a First Friday Event. Will be showing an eclectic mix films for kids of all ages.

Screening Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm Film Shorts Saturday, March 4th Missoula Public Library The learning and fun roll on the next day at the Missoula Public Library’s large meeting room. We will be showing a mix of great international films for young children as well a short French film appropriate for all ages.

Screening Times: 1:00pm - 2:00 pm: Young Children, No Subtitles 2:15pm - 2:45 pm: Short Film for All Ages 3:00pm - 4:00 pm: Young Children, No Subtitles Saturday, March 11th Roxy Theater Join us for the 7th Annual Montana International Children’s Film Festival. We will be showing an amazing mix of films from 17 different countries for kids of all ages at the Roxy Theater on Saturday March 11th.

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U-S-A! U-S-A! – Although discouraging the marriage of children in developing nations has been U.S. foreign policy for years, a data-collecting watchdog group in America disclosed in February that 27 U.S. states have no minimum marriage ages and estimates that an average of almost 25,000 children age 15 and under are permitted to marry every year (“estimates” because some states do not keep records by age). Child marriage is often allowed in the U.S. if parents approve, although no such exemption is made in foreign policy, largely to curb developing nations’ “family honor” marriages—which often wreck girls’ chances for self-actualizing.

(However, “family honor” is still, in some states, the basis for allowing U.S. child marriages, such as with “shotgun” weddings.)

COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS – Creative: (1) Glenn Schloeffel, vice president of the Central Bucks school board in a Philadelphia suburb, recommended that science books be viewed skeptically on “climate change” because teenage “depression” rates have been increasing. Surely, he said, one factor depressing students is reading all that alarming climate-change data. (2) Seattle’s Real Estate Services rental agency has informed the family of the late Dennis Hanel that it would not return Hanel’s security deposit following his January death because Hanel had not given the lease-required “notice” giving up his apartment. (He had cancer, but died of a heart attack. Washington state law requires only that the landlord provide an explanation why it is keeping the deposit.)

RUNAWAY MATH – John Haskew, who told investigators that he was “self-taught on the banking industry,” evidently thought he might succeed making bogus wire transfers to himself from a large (unidentified) national bank, in the amount of $7 billion. He pleaded guilty in February in Lakeland, Florida. (He said he thought he “deserved” the money.)

Katherine Kempson, 49, deciding to pay “cash” for a $1.2 million home, forged (according to York County, Pennsylvania, deputies) a “proof of funds” letter from the Members 1st credit union. Home sales are, of course, highly regulated formalities, and several attempted “closings” were halted when her money kept not showing up. One deputy told a reporter, “I’m guessing that she probably didn’t think it through.”

The highest bail amount ever ordered in America—$4 billion for murder suspect Antonio Willis—was briefly in play in Killeen, Texas, in February, set by Bell County’s elected Justice of the Peace Claudia Brown. Bail was reduced 10 days later to $150,000 by a district court judge, prompting Brown to acknowledge that she set the “$4 billion” to call attention to Texas’ lack of bail standards, which especially punishes indigent arrestees with little hope of raising even modest amounts when accused of minor crimes.

WAIT, WHAT? – Researchers including Rice University biochemist John Olson revealed in a February journal article that one reason a man avoided anemia even though he had a gene mutation that weakened his hemoglobin was because he has been a tobacco smoker—that the carbon monoxide from smoke had been therapeutic. His daughter, with the same gene mutation, did develop anemia since she never smoked (although Olson suggested other ways besides smoking to strengthen hemoglobin, such as by massive vitamin C).

Several death-penalty states continue to be frustrated by whether their lethal-injection “cocktails” make death so painful as to be unconstitutionally “cruel,” and Arizona’s latest “solution,” announced as a Department of Corrections protocol, is for the condemned to supply their own (presumably less unpleasant) drugs. (There was immediate objection, noting that such drugs might only be available by black market—and questioning whether the government can legally force someone to kill himself.)

PEOPLE WITH UNDERDEVELOPED CONSCIENCES – Just before Christmas, Tammy Strickland, 38, was arrested in Polk County, Florida, and charged with stealing 100 toys from a Toys for Tots collection box.

Judith Permar, 56, who was found dead, stuck in a clothing donation drop-off box in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, in February (a result, police said, of trying to “steal” items), had driven to the box in her Hummer.

RECENT ALARMING HEADLINES – “America’s Top Fortune Cookie Writer Is Quitting Because of Writer’s Block” (Time magazine, 2-3-2017). “Vaginal Pain Helps Exonerate Man Accused of Murder” (Miami Herald, 2-8-2017) (emergency medical technicians treating his sister corroborated his alibi). “Dresden Protest Against Anti-Islam Pegida Group Banned Over Snowball Fight Fears” (The Independent (London), 1-24-2017) (previously in Dresden, Germany, religious-freedom demonstrators chose “tossing snowballs” as appropriate for ridiculing Pegida).

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raig Jourdonnais spots the elk herd within minutes of driving onto the MPG Ranch in the Bitterroot Valley south of Missoula. It’s a blustery December morning and the fresh-fallen snow on the mountainside provides a stark contrast to the animals’ two-tone tawny coats. He pauses to watch the 200-plus herd for a moment, then eases his pickup into gear to get a closer look. Elk are a familiar sight for the wildlife biologist and former game warden. He currently works for the MPG, managing the hunters the landowners allow in, as well as the elk when they’re on the 10,000-acre ranch.

Elk are thriving in parts of the West, and many states have areas where the populations surpass wildlife managers’ goals. Warmer-than-average winters during the past 30 years, combined with good forage and safe havens, mean that more

calves survive to breeding age. In Montana, elk numbers grew from 65,000 in 1990 to 160,000 in 2015, despite the reintroduction of wolves. Hunting is the main tool for keeping elk in check, but as large ranches once open to hunting are sold to people who may prefer watching wildlife to hunting it, this management tool is becoming less effective, while elk numbers continue to grow.

That’s frustrating for Montana hunters, most of whom fail to harvest their yearly elk for a variety of reasons. It’s also frustrating to longtime ranchers who allow hunting: The elk move to safer havens during the five-week big game rifle season, and then return to nibble ranchers’ haystacks for the rest of the winter.

“Elk, more than any other big game animal I have ever managed, are sensitive to predation,” Jourdonnais says, a wry grin crossing his tanned face. “They can

find refuge from hunters, whether it’s security-based, like heavily forested terrain, or on private property that offers safety.”

To reduce elk numbers, in 2016, Montana wildlife managers instituted the longest and largest hunting season ever offered in the state—“shoulder seasons” running from August 2016 to February 2017, flanking the regular five-week rifle season in October and November, in about one-third of its hunting districts.

That will work, though, only if the elk are on property where they can be hunted.

During the shoulder seasons, that’s mainly private ranches. “If you have five properties and four are wide-open for hunting and one is limited, the elk will find out where that boundary is,” says Jourdonnais.

In the 1600s, an estimated 10 million elk roamed the North American continent.

Their numbers plummeted with unregu-

lated hunting, competition for grass from domestic livestock and habitat destruction. By the 1890s, there were fewer than 100,000 elk. Their numbers rebounded through wildlife management efforts, growing to more than 1 million by 2009.

That rebound is a success story, and yet too many elk can cause problems. In Yellowstone National Park, they damaged river bottoms by stripping away the willows, aspen and cottonwoods, until reintroduced wolves curbed their numbers. In Wyoming, burgeoning herds crowd into artificial winter feeding grounds, spreading diseases like brucellosis and, potentially, chronic wasting disease (see sidebar).

Elk also eat hay and grass intended for cattle. Bill Galt’s family-owned 248,000-acre ranch in central Montana makes him one of the state’s largest private landowners, and the ranch shelters thousands of elk. He’s willing to share the

photo by Chad Harder

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photo courtesy Craig Jourdonnais

A helicopter chases elk to radio-collar them in order to help improve management in the north Sapphire Mountains and the rest of Montana. The North Sapphire Elk Research Project collected information on elk movements and habitat use, forage quality and other factors that potentially affect elk distribution and migratory behavior.

land, but notes that it comes with a price.

He fences pastures in a “rest and rotate” manner, grazing cattle on a pasture one year, then fencing it off the next year to give the grass a chance to grow back. But, he says, “The elk do the exact opposite, and fences don’t work for elk.”

Wildlife managers balance science with the cooperation of ranchers like Galt, along with hunters and the general public, in deciding how many elk should roam the landscape. It’s not always easy. Ben Lamb, a longtime hunter, wildlife advocate and veteran lobbyist for the Wildlife Federation describes Montana’s situation as “a toxic stew of private land rights, the commercialization of wildlife, public access and climate change.”

He ticks off the issues on his fingers.

Family ranches are sold to out-of-state corporations, so hunters no longer develop trusting relationships with ranch owners, and fewer hunters are allowed on the land without paying for the privilege. But if private lands are opened only to paying hunters, that puts a monetary value on elk, essentially privatizing the public wildlife. Meanwhile, hotter, drier summers lead to more intense wildfires, which change forage conditions on public lands, limit food and drive animals to private irrigated fields. And politicians who lack wildlife-management experience institute laws that tie biologists’ hands.

One such political action in Montana in 2003 required wildlife managers to

meet elk population goals in each hunting district. They tried a variety of tactics, including special hunts, but the population continued to rise. Today, that means the state’s elk population needs to be reduced by about 29,000. As in other Western states, says Kelly Proffitt, a biologist and wildlife researcher with Fish, Wildlife and Parks, “hunting is essentially the tool the agency uses to move populations up or down to reach those objective levels.”

But 85 percent of Montana hunters with elk tags don’t fill them. The elk may be on private land where they can’t be shot, or the hunters may be using all-terrain vehicles, which tend to spook the animals, rather than hiking into the backcountry. Even in the best situations,

In Montana, elk numbers grew from 65,000 in 1990 to 160,000 in 2015, despite the reintroduction of wolves.

Hunting is the main tool for keeping elk in check.

photo by Chad Harder

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“If you have five properties and four are wide-open for hunting and one is limited, the elk will find out where that boundary is.” getting an elk isn’t easy. “Elk are smart.

They’re an intelligent game animal that knows the country,” says John Vore, Montana’s game management bureau chief.

In 2015, wildlife managers tried a new shoulder season plan in five hunting districts where populations were too high.

It was considered a success, with an additional 643 elk taken during the extra season and the dispersal of large herds. In

2016, wildlife managers increased the number of hunting districts participating to 43 of the state’s 138.

Montana’s shoulder-season hunts are mainly on private property where landowners already have allowed some type of public access during the regular season. Those landowners can set limits on who can hunt on their property and how many elk they can harvest. The rub is that for the shoulder

season to work, the elk have to stay on those properties. But landowners can’t use artificial means, like salt blocks or fences, to encourage elk to stay. So managers try to trick the elk by hunting in one area but not another, then switching it up. Hunt some days, and not on others. Make the elk think the season is over when it’s not. “The best way to hunt elk is with the least amount of pressure,” Galt says.

On the MPG, as on many of the state’s large ranches, elk wander on and off the unfenced property at will—and they seem to know when hunters are after them, says Jourdonnais. Radio collaring, used in a Fish, Wildlife and Parks study a few years ago, showed that the night before the general big game rifle-hunting season opened, the elk moved from the MPG Ranch to a neighboring one, where little, if any, hunting takes place. Elk experts theorize that the increase in humans gearing up for hunting season—scouting game

trails, setting up camps, sighting in rifles— alerts the animals to upcoming danger, prompting their move to safe havens.

Elk, like humans, are incredibly adaptive, and they often respond differently to similar situations. Proffitt says the elk appear to perform a risk analysis. A study in the mid-2000s in south-central Montana’s Madison Valley revealed that elk stayed on public lands there during archery season.

Yet in the nearby Paradise Valley, archery season triggered the movement of elk to private lands where they can’t be pursued.

It’s hard to make broad generalizations about the reasons behind the different behaviors, Proffitt notes. “Some herds don’t have refuge areas as an option. Bulls just hole up somewhere and are less tied to forage (than cows with young). Weather is a big driving factor also in elk.”

The shoulder season is meant to add a bit of unpredictability. Vore says it’s too soon to know the results. Hunters aren’t

The Trouble with Wyoming Concern about the spread of disease into Montana’s elk populations prompted several conservation organizations to take a rare step last month. Speaking before the state Senate Fish and Game Committee, the Montana Wildlife Federation and Montana Audubon threw their weight behind a resolution urging Wyoming to halt a decades-old practice of artificially feeding wild elk. Normally these groups wouldn’t advocate pushing policy changes on other states, as their representatives acknowledged. But they regard the potential impacts to Montana wildlife and livestock as too serious to ignore.

Senate Resolution 8 comes courtesy of Sen. Mike Phillips, D-Bozeman, in direct response to those fears. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department currently operates 22 feeding sites in broad tracts south of Yellowstone National Park. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service controls one more. It’s a longstanding practice ostensibly intended to help offset winter range losses with hay trucks and alfalfa seed, and it has strong support among sportsmen and private landowners.

“It may be, above all else, an illustration of the power of the status quo,” Phillips said during the Feb. 23 hearing. “Once you start doing something, sometimes it’s hard to quit.”

Part of the justification for the resolution is chronic wasting disease (CWD), a neurodegenerative affliction that causes emaciation, abnormal behavior and death in elk, deer and moose. It hasn’t reached Montana yet, nor photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife have elk at the Wyoming feed sites shown any sign of it, Wild elk feed at Wyoming’s National Elk Refuge. as Ken McDonald, chief of wildlife for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, informed the committee. However, as Joe Perry with the the Indy, with a brucellosis infection rate of around 50 percent. “CWD is the Montana Sportsmen Alliance testified, the disease’s spread to Montana is “not coming storm. Brucellosis is the storm that’s here.”

Phillips’ resolution sailed through committee and the full Senate with unana question of if— this is a question of when.” Given that more than 20,000 elk congregate at Wyoming’s feeding sites, conditions for the disease to spread imous support. Whether its passage will result in any tangible change remains to be seen. Phillips concedes that Wyoming may “turn a blind eye” to Montana’s quickly are in place.

Ben Lamb, a lobbyist for the Montana Wildlife Federation and National request. Federal officials may be more amenable, but as Lamb points out, FWS Wildlife Federation, understands the concern about CWD. What he considers a controls only one of the 23 feed sites in question. “My professional response,” more immediate threat from Wyoming, however, is the continued prevalence Lamb says of the resolution, “is I doubt this will do much to shift the debate.”

—Alex Sakariassen of brucellosis. Those feedgrounds are a “self-replicating pool of disease,” he tells

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Elk experts theorize that the increase in humans gearing up for hunting season—scouting game trails, setting up camps, sighting in rifles—alerts the animals to upcoming danger, prompting their move to safe havens. surveyed until after the season ends on Feb. 15. Anecdotally, though, he’s hearing that this winter’s deep snow made it difficult for hunters to reach any elk, and some landowners have not been cooperating.

Jourdonnais’ assessment in early February is more blunt: The shoulder season was a bust, thanks mainly to bad weather. “We had 50 to 60 elk hunters out in the deep snow at 22 below zero. It was tough to be out there.”

Plus, most of the elk left the MPG Ranch during the shoulder season. They seemed to have learned that if they move near towns and subdivisions, they won’t be shot.

As Jourdonnais descended the mountainside on the MPG Ranch back in early December, he noticed what proved to be

an omen—something had spooked the elk herd, which moved like an undulating wave up and over the ridgetop, headed toward someone else’s property. He notes that unless elk population issues are addressed at a landscape level—not just ranch by ranch—even the shoulder season won’t be enough, because the elk will still figure out safe havens. “The key, to me, in elk management is all about not being predictable. You have to keep them guessing.

If you establish a pattern, you’re done.”

This story was originally published in High Country News. Eve Byron writes from Helena, and often covers natural resource topics.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

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Great escapes How to deal with the trauma of Trump? By laughing at death.

by Tess Fahlgren

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ast summer’s primary election was cathartic. At once madcap and heinous, it was almost fun. Many Americans, myself included, dove headlong into political news. The websites, newspapers, podcasts, television shows— we filled our heads and our time with the most current news cycle, believing we would be rewarded in November with our first female president.

But we were wrong. After Trump was elected, during Stephen Colbert’s election night special, actor Jeff Goldblum lamented to the host, “I’m in shock …

But I’m trying my best to navigate. Look.

Horrible things will happen to me. To all of us.” To which Colbert replied, “That’s the happiest thought I can think of! Perhaps something worse than this will happen to me one day!”

In that spirit, I went looking for something worse.

Hiding from the tailspin of American democracy, I filled my ears with stories of murder. I found them on true-crime and horror podcasts. First thing in the morning: murder. Last thing at night: murder.

I finally learned what the big deal was with the JonBenet Ramsey case, and followed it up with four straight hours on the Japanese death cult Aum Shinrikyo. I carried on this way for months because, honestly, Trump ordering a travel ban on seven Middle Eastern countries was more horrifying than listening to three hours of Richard Speck murdering eight young nurses in Chicago in 1966.

It turns out I’m not alone. Something strange is happening on the iTunes Top Ten Comedy Podcast list. While the list contains plenty of what you’d expect (sitdown interviews with comedians such as Joe Rogan and Marc Maron, along with NPR’s dependable Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me), two of the 10 podcasts are, strangely, all about murder.

Coming in third on the list is My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, two comedians from Los Angeles who share a love of true crime. For every episode, each woman brings a researched murder story to share with the other. Strict accuracy is not their goal (most of their research comes from

Murderpedia.org ). Instead, listeners are treated to a fun, conversational, bloodsoaked gossip sesh. The women use their aural stage to critique the justice system and rattle off perfect soundbites of advice, such as “Fuck politeness,” and “You’re in a cult, call your dad,” most of which can be purchased cross-stitched onto a pillow by one of the pair’s many Etsy store-owning fans.

The Last Podcast on the Left is 10th on the iTunes list. Hosted by Marcus Parks with comedians Ben Kissel and Henry Zebrowski, the podcast covers cryptozoology, ghosts, witches, political conspiracies and lots of alien abductions, but it’s at its

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best with its multi-episode coverage of serial killers. Parks, the brains of the group, does exhaustive research on even the lightest subject (say, fairies) and he doesn’t skimp on the darker stuff, either (Dahmer’s sex zombies, anyone?). The comedians’ friendship is the backbone of their dynamic, and they strike a balance between slightly offensive banter and sensitivity to their subjects. When I realized all the men on this podcast are feminists and discovered Parks’ side-project podcast about mental health, I was hooked.

These podcasts offer more than crime and even more than humor. Hardstark and Kilgariff ’s warm, friendly conversa-

tion is like listening to your favorite aunts dish in the next room. Kissel and Zebrowski’s dynamic is endearing and sweet while being off-the-wall ridiculous. Listening to them feels like eavesdropping on the nerdy kids at the next lunch table. You don’t always know what they’re talking about, but they’re excited about it, and that makes you excited, too.

So why are we drawn to these dark topics? Jordan Peele, creator of the new horror film Get Out, said in a recent interview with NPR’s Code Switch, “Horror is one of the best ways we as a society face our demons and face our fears.” On My Favorite Murder, Kilgariff and Hardstark

often discuss how their obsession with true crime stems from their anxieties about death. To them, harnessing this information can teach how to act in dangerous situations. But while I do glean life lessons from my murder podcasts, fear of death isn’t what draws me to them. My fears stem not from death, but from our shocking new political reality. Having lived in Obama’s America since I was 18, I didn’t know what was possible. With every episode, the horrific stories remind me that our world is far from perfect, and the hosts are kind enough to help me recognize that bleak fact while making me laugh out loud.

While my favorite murder podcasts are comedic, other Americans are distracting themselves with straightforward true crime. Podcasts such as Serial, Criminal and The Serial Killer Podcast are hugely popular. Though the podcast platform is relatively new, the crime-as-entertainment phenomenon isn’t. The true crime genre has existed for well over a hundred years, and its popularity boomed during the Vietnam War with Truman Capote’s publication of In Cold Blood, an in-depth look at a small-town murder in Kansas. Capote’s dedication to detail captivated the public, and his nonfiction novel is second in the true-crime genre only to Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry’s telling of the Charles Manson story in Helter Skelter, which is still the No. 1 best-selling true crime book of all time. Both books were shocking in their meticulous coverage of heinous murders, and both arrived just as Americans were able, for the first time, to see the horrors of war in real time on television. As with today’s onslaught of morbidly appalling news coverage, Americans in that era took their terror and channeled it into an obsession with crime.

The hosts of The Last Podcast on the Left and My Favorite Murder become the good mood in our back pocket, tugging on our anger and funneling it someplace new. It’s as if murder, in this strange new world, is the only thing that makes sense anymore. arts@missoulanews.com

[music]

Tenacious EDM Enzymes’ electronic dance revolution

by Erika Fredrickson

Dylan Valley, aka Enzymes, releases his new album, Mind’s Eye, this week.

Dylan Valley, aka Enzymes, grew up on his parents’ Pink Floyd and Peter Tosh records, but his first sonic crush was on electronic music. In high school he discovered electronic artists like the Orb and Aphex Twin, and in 2000, a few years after he graduated, he bought some turntables and began experimenting with mixing records.

“I listened to them over and over and tried to figure out what would go together, what the puzzle pieces were to create the best picture,” he says.

“Knowing your records was important.”

In the 1990s, Missoula was an electronic music desert. The Badlander—not yet a bar, but a private house in the Lower Rattlesnake—was one venue among just a few hosting shows featuring local electronic DJs, along with an occasional touring DJ. For most local electronic music fans, like Valley, it paid off to drive to Seattle or to the Shambhala music festival in British Columbia to catch big acts and participate in raves. By the turn of the millennium, more Missoula venues began catering to the genre. Valley had his first show on New Year’s Eve 2001 in a space called the Red Light Green Room, located in the basement of the Wilma (where Scotty’s Table is now).

“I knew what songs were good, but I didn’t know how to blend them,” he says now. “But, whatever. The crowd seemed to enjoy it. I pretended I knew what I was doing. It was awesome—the feeling of rocking this crowd. That was good inspiration for me to keep doing it, even though I didn’t know anything at the time.”

During the years Valley first started making music, dubstep and trap were just emerging in the underground scene, and not even a blip on the mainstream’s radar. Hip-hop had a relatively wider audience and for five years, Valley made beats for a hip-hop group called the Inhumans, which he started with his brother, Austin, and another emcee, Kyle McAfee. They gained in-town traction (and up to 10

members), often serving as the sole hip-hop group at shows with punk and rock lineups. In 2009, four months after the group moved to Portland to find a larger audience, it disbanded. In the meantime, Valley says, dubstep had finally arrived in Missoula and electronic music was higher profile than ever, which gave him a reason to move back—now with a laptop and turntables—and start his solo project, Enzymes.

In the years since, Valley has established himself as a DJ and producer who can pack a dance floor in a music scene now dominated by electronic music. His new record, Mind’s Eye, showcases three electronic music dance subgenres: glitch hop, dubstep and drumand-bass. It samples less obvious clips from popular and classic songs, like Tag Team’s “Whoomp (There It Is),” and lines like “I’m your huckleberry,” from the movie Tombstone. It features local emcee Dar and beat collaborations with Bozeman producer Twiggy Smalls.

EDM has become so commercialized that producers like Enzymes have to differentiate themselves from the soulless cookie-cutter approach of McDonald’s commercials. During live sets, Valley often blends or remixes oldies like Otis Day and the Knights, Smokey Robinson, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke.

Mind’s Eye pulls in pop-culture threads but also original sounds. It straddles the line between experimentation and something you can break a sweat to.

Dancing is always the goal, Valley says.

“I don’t like doing downtempo stuff,” he says.

“I’m not an early sunrise DJ. I’ve thought about creating some more mellow sunrise sets, but from the heart, what I really want to create—what I’m feeling— is the late-night heavy bass.”

Enzymes plays an album release show at the Palace Fri., March 3, at 9 PM, along with PNUT BUTR. No cover. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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The summer I was 7, my parents moved from a of the community in a way that recalls one of my favorite two-story house on the wrong side of the park to a novels, The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks, a story one-story bungalow on the park’s better side. It was about a tragic school bus accident, which is also told a calculated move, intended to give my brother and using rotating third-person limited point-of-view. This me a step up from the blue-collar lives of our Indiana structure allows the reader a bird’s-eye view of events relatives. My dad unloaded my pet bunny from the while keeping us grounded in the specific. As the moving van on a hot July afternoon, and I brought tragedy unravels, each character’s story bleeds into the him some water. Moments later, he began to scream. next. I binge-read The Underworld, staying up late to That scream came back to me as I read the opening find out what would become of these characters.

I’ve known grief before, though never on such a pages of Kevin Canty’s new novel, The Underworld.

If you’re brave enough to read past the rabbit dying large scale. Based on his descriptions, I’d guess Canty has known grief as well. Ann, “. . . in the first chapter—a harbinger of walks like she’s mad at the ground.” things to come—you’ll be rewarded David’s father describes everyone as with a brisk, smart, evocative story that sleepwalkers. Life in the first days feels uncannily relevant to the current after the tragedy is an “in-between” state of our union. As I read, I had to that survivors fill with drinking, sex, remind myself that the Missoula auviolence, despair and more drinking. thor and faculty member in the UniOne thing I’ve learned from versity of Montana’s creative writing grief is that destruction leads to conprogram had no crystal ball when he struction, and post-fire life in Silverwrote this book, no way to predict ton is no exception. I read through how divided our country now is. the ending of this book at record I’ll admit I’d been craving a book pace to discover how these characthat would act as a literary escape ters would navigate the in-between. hatch from this reality to another, the It was gratifying to see hints of way the series Stranger Things drew growth and a brighter future in the me into the fascinating tale of the seeds of their last actions.

Upside Down last summer. While The Underworld Kevin Canty More so than any other artform, The Underworld sticks to realism, it W.W. Norton & Company fiction allows us to stand in the explores dark territory in a similarly 256 pages, $24.59 shoes of others. If these characters thrilling fashion, tricking you into reflecting on the things that keep you up at night by lived in the here-and now, I’d be more likely having drawing you into the problems of others. Problems read this book to commiserate with them over beers articulated with insight and wrapped in riveting de- instead of engaging in pointless political arguments scriptions. Problems that outweigh your own (I hope). on social media. The Underworld reminds me that, The Underworld is set in and around Silverton, for the most part, we all want the same thing—honest Idaho, circa 1972. The mine where most of the local work in exchange for a sustainable life that won’t cost men work is a literal underworld. After a fire sweeps us a lung or a liver before our gray hairs come in. through the mine, grief becomes a figurative under- Reading deepens our capacity for compassion, which makes it an antidote to what divides us. world, which survivors are left to navigate alone.

But that’s not the only reason to read The UnderThe story, I’m guessing, is inspired by a fire that broke out in 1972 in the Sunshine Mine, located be- world. Read it for the velocity of the story. Read it to estween Kellogg and Wallace. The details line up: A fire cape your own long winter and let your problems shrink ravages the mine on what should have been a normal in comparison. Read it to hang out in a world created workday. Ninety-one men died and 83 men survived, by a fiction master whose sentences are lessons in economy and precision. Read it if you are one of those (like the last two rescued days after the fire started.

The book is told in the voices of three main char- me) who made it out. Read it if you’re one who stayed. acters. David is a college student in Missoula, dragged Read it if you’re somewhere in the middle. Because the home after the tragedy. Ann is a young miner’s wife in-between is often the hardest place to be, like being whose ambivalence about motherhood, marriage and trapped underground without a ladder. Canty reminds small-town life is amplified by grief. And Lyle is a long- us that we all emerge, one way or another, changed.

Kevin Canty reads from The Underworld at time miner whose vocation and drinking drove off the one woman he loved years ago. He keeps drink- Fact & Fiction Tue., March 7, at 7 PM. ing and mining because it’s all he knows.

Canty’s use of multiple narrators captures the ethos arts@missoulanews.com

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Real nightmares Racism gets the horror treatment in Get Out

by Molly Laich

Allison Williams and Daniel Kaluuya star in Get Out.

Allow me a little rant about the withered state of things: Nobody wants to put on their shoes and go to the cinema anymore! We just had the Oscars last weekend, right? Every year I bribe my friends into watching the show with me by plying them with food and booze. I practically force them at gunpoint to fill out an Oscar ballot, and always I cringe at their constant refrain: “I haven’t seen any of these movies.” Constantly, I fear that cinema will go extinct and it makes me lose my mind. It’s not that people aren’t seeing movies—they’re just waiting to stream them at home, alone, in the safe confines of their living rooms.

The latest horror-comedy, Get Out, makes a great case for the importance of movie theaters. This is a film that celebrates so many staples of the genre that came before, that understands how it feels to be emotionally invested in the story onscreen and, armed with that knowledge, delivers an out-of-the-park audience experience. Not since a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show have I seen a crowd get so worked up.

This is Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner meets Six Flags’ Kingda Ka roller coaster after surviving a car wreck while winning the lottery.

Jordan Peele makes his directing and writing debut with Get Out. His previous work includes the sketch comedy show Key & Peele. In last year’s comedy Keanu, Peele played a recently dumped movieloving stoner whose will to live is revived by an adorable kitten. “What happened?” Key asks. Peele takes a huge bong hit in front of posters for New Jack City and Heat and says, “She said my life wasn’t going anywhere.” [Exhales a cloud of smoke.] “What the fuck does that even mean?” I like to imagine an intertextual world wherein Peele’s stoner persona in Keanu filters his heartbreak into making Get Out. The film stars Daniel Kaluuya (Black Mirror) as Chris Washington, and it’s a mesmerizing perform-

ance. He’s been dating Rose Armitage (Allison Williams of Girls) for five months now and it’s time for Chris to meet Rose’s family. They don’t know he’s black, but it’s fine, Rose insists. “My dad would have voted for Obama a third time if he could.”

Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford play Rose’s parents with painful accuracy as wealthy liberals who hilariously fall over themselves to demonstrate to Chris that—despite their creepy, robotic black servants—they’re not racist. Reading the many ways that white critics like myself have tried to artfully write about the racism in this film could make a spin-off comedy all its own. Rather than belabor the film’s social and political relevance, this feels more to me like a masterful take on the fish-out-ofwater horror scenario mixed with playful satire, where our protagonist finds himself as the “other,” consumed with paranoia and fear in a world where nothing is as it seems.

Get Out is bizarrely funny (helped in large part by the comic relief of Lil Rel Howery) but it functions first and foremost as a pitch-perfect thriller. With expert pacing, Peele’s script builds on an impending sense of dread, which makes for a third act that’s something more than cathartic—it’s downright exultant.

When it comes to jump scares, I’ve noticed that film fans are bitterly divided on the subject. Some purists dismiss them entirely as a cheap trick, but I love them every time. Any film that can make me scream without touching me has won my affection, even if only for that moment. Are the jump scares in Get Out clever, self-referential winks at the audience, manipulative ploys or a sly amalgamation of both?

That’s an interpretation every filmgoer has to arrive at on her own.

Get Out continues at the Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] in the world of Lego. Rated PG. Stars the voice talents of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK BEFORE I FALL A teenager finds herself reliving the day of her death again and again. A teenager finds herself reliving the day of her death again and again. A teenager finds herself reliving the day of her death again and again. Rated PG-13. Stars Zoey Deutch, Elena Kampouris and Diego Boneta.

Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

LION Twenty five years after getting lost on a train and being taken thousands of miles away from his family, a man seeks out his lost home with the help of Google Earth. Rated PG-13. Stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman. Playing at the Roxy.

LOGAN He’s the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t very nice. In the near future, Marvel Comics’ resident berserker has to pull himself up by his bootstraps to protect a young girl with very familiar claws. Rated R. Stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH There’s a starman waiting in the sky. He’d like to come and meet us because his planet is dying from a lack of water and that really sucks.

Rated R. Stars David Bowie, Rip Torn and Candy Clark. Playing Sat., March 4 at 8 PM at the Roxy.

MOONLIGHT The Roxy screens the 2017 Academy Awardwinner for Best Picture. Rated R. Stars Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris and Janelle Monáe. Fri., March 3 at 5:30 PM and 8 PM, Sat., March 4 at 2:15 PM and 5:30 PM and Sun., March 5 at 2:15 PM, 5:30 PM and 8 PM.

THE SHACK Spiraling into a deep depression following his daughter’s murder, a man sets off on a quest to find God. Literally, I mean. He’s going to find God in Octavia Spencer’s garage. Rated PG-13.

Also stars Sam Worthington, Alice Braga and Aviv Alush. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

NOW PLAYING FIFTY SHADES DARKER America’s love affair with rich creeps with spanking fetishes continues. Rated R. Stars Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Hugh Dancy. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

FIST FIGHT You’d think being a mild-mannered high school English teacher would excuse you from having to fight a fire axe-wielding teacher from across the hall after class. This is probably Betsy Devos’ fault somehow. Rated R. Stars Charlie Day, Ice Cube and Kumail Nanjiani. Playing at the Pharaohplex.

GET OUT Chris is pretty worried about visiting his girlfriend’s parents due to his uncertainty about how they’ll react to their daughter’s interracial

Fool me once, shame on you, Wolverine movie. Fool me twice, shame on me. Please don’t screw me over again. Logan opens at the Missoula AMC 12 and Pharaohplex.

relationship. That and their neighborhood has a sinister history of young black men disappearing. Rated R. Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams and Stephen Root star in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

THE GREAT WALL The only thing stopping an army of alien monsters from invading medieval China is Matt Damon. Wait, really? Rated PG-13. Also stars Willem Dafoe and Jing Tian. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

HIDDEN FIGURES You think you’re underappreciated at work?

These African-American women did the calculations that put John Glenn in orbit while they worked at a segregated facility. Rated PG. Stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Author James Baldwin left behind 30 pages of manuscript about the deaths of his close friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. when he died. Now filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book Baldwin never finished on screen. Rated PG-13. Playing at the Roxy.

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 A retired super-assassin is dragged back into the life of international crime in this sequel to the coolest action movie of the last decade. I just hope no one messes with his puppy. Rated R. Stars Keanu Reeves, Ruby Rose and a thousand head shots. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12 and the Pharaohplex.

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. . . tie in! Gotham’s caped crusader goes toe to toe with the Joker

ROCK DOG Instead of being the next village guard for a group of fun-loving sheep, this wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff heads to the big city to become a rock star.

What at timeless story. Rated PG. Stars the voices talent of Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard and J.K. Simmons. Playing at the Missoula AMC 12.

ROCKY A mush-mouthed pugilist gets the opportunity of the lifetime when the current boxing champ plucks him from obscurity for a title bout. Three movies later and his brother-in-law marries a robot. Rated PG. Stars Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers and Burgess Meredith. Playing at the Roxy Wed., March 8 at 7 PM. Capsule reviews by Charley Macorn.

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.

[dish]

Turning red state blueberry muffins

by Jacob Jones Martinez

RESISTANCE KITCHEN

Since Nov. 8, I’ve been fighting off what I like to call the dark place. I go through cycles of Despair Anger Inspiration Hope, which gives in to Despair and it all starts over again. If I’m not careful, that despair can go deeper and darker and I suddenly realize it’s been two months and I’ve not actually done anything.

So when I begin to feel the clutches of hopelessness and powerlessness, I bring my daughters into the kitchen and we bake. One is 9 years old and is incredibly helpful. The other is 3 and incredibly enthusiastic.

Rather than giving in to the cycle of fear and frustration of having a fascist president, or having to throw away blueberries, we made muffins. I’ll admit they’re basically cupcakes because there’s so much sugar in them, and more on top, but they’re not frosted and there’s fruit inside, so I’m calling them muffins. My grandmother taught me that cooking and baking for someone is how you show them you care, so start with yourself and make yourself these muffins.

When we’re done, the kitchen and the children are covered in flour, but I have a little more hope for our future and a little more faith in humanity. At least until the next ridiculously fucked-up thing happens. We use a dairy milk alternative and have made them substituting flax seed and water for eggs with excellent results, but follow your spirit.

2 teaspoons baking powder cup vegetable oil 1 egg (or substitute) cup milk 1 cup fresh blueberries Topping: ½ cup white sugar cup all-purpose flour ¼ cup butter, cubed 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

INGREDIENTS Muffins: 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup white sugar ½ teaspoon salt

Resistance Kitchen is a blog about food, rage and politics at resistancekitchen.tumblr.com. This is a guest post from Jacob Jones Martinez, who rides bikes and makes things in southern Arizona and can be found on Twitter @jakem.

DIRECTIONS Preheat your oven to 400 F. and prep your muffin pan with grease or liners.

Combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a bowl. Stir with a whisk. Put the vegetable oil in a measuring cup. Add the egg and enough milk to fill it to the 1 cup line. Mix wet with dry ingredients. Fold in the blueberries. Fill muffin cups to the top.

Now prepare the topping. Mix sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in the butter cubes with knives, a fork, or even your fingers. Sprinkle the mixture on your muffins liberally. Or better yet, radically.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until done.

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[dish]

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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 44 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

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BERNICE'S IS GOING MODERATELY MAD IN MARCH!! Every day: Yes! Every day, Bernice's will feature a new item to try. "Boosting creativity is just part of the fun!" say owners Christine & Marco Littig. Savory Scone, Bees Knees, Lemon Pecan Bread, Moroccan Chicken Salad, Monkey Bread, Vegetarian Chili and more. Stop by and try something new. In addition, 2-4-1 espresso beverages! What?

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Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store!

Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking.

Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot.

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins 541-4541 Whether it’s coffee or cocoa, water, beer or wine, or even a tea pot, French press or mobile mug, Liquid Planet offers the best beverage offerings this side of Neptune. Missoula’s largest espresso and beverage bar, along with fresh and delicious breakfast and lunch options from breakfast burritos and pastries to paninis and soups. Peruse our global selection of 1,000 wines, 400 beers and sodas, 150 teas, 30 locally roasted coffees, and a myriad of super cool beverage accessories and gifts. Find us on facebook at /BestofBeverage. Open daily 7:30am to 9pm.

Liquid Planet Grille 540 Daly 540-4209 (corner of Arthur & Daly across from the U of M) MisSOULa’s BEST new restaurant of 2015, the Liquid Planet Grille, offers the same unique Liquid Planet espresso and beverage bar you’ve come to expect, with breakfast served all day long! Sit outside and try the stuffed french toast or our handmade granola or a delicious Montana Melt, accompanied with MisSOULa’s best fries and wings, with over 20 salts, seasonings and sauces!

Open 7am-8pm daily. Find us on Facebook at /LiquidPlanetGrille. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ 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 KoreanJapanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with King Crab, Beef Filet with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Fresh Northwest Fish, Seasonally Inspired Specials, House Made Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list, local beer on draft. Reservations recommended. Visit us on Facebook or go to Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating.

Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town.

Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

Western Cider

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What you’re drinking: Poor Farmer Classic cider or Poor Farmer Hopped, the two varieties recently released in cans. If you’re accustomed to Angry Orchard, expect something quite different. The Poor Farmer Classic is dry, crisp and tangy enough to make your mouth pucker just a smidgen. The Hopped version features a nice floral aroma and flavor, sans any IPA-style bitterness, courtesy of hops grown in Whitefish. Co-owner Matthew LaRubbio says cider can be just as versatile as beer: “You stop drinking beer with pizza and you start drinking cider with pizza and you go, of course! Why do I want to drink a loaf of bread and eat a loaf of bread?”

Where you’re drinking it: Not the Western Cider taproom on California Street—not yet, anyway. In coming weeks (the owners say later this month, hopefully) the taproom will open with the capacity to seat 100 people inside. Charcuterie and other fancy snacks will be available alongside your cider.

Know your farmer: The Western Cider guys are pretty serious about cider. Co-owner Mike Billingsley bought a small acreage in the Bitterroot and planted apple trees more than six years ago with the express intent of launch-

ing a cidery. (His distinctively mustachioed visage inspired the artwork for the Poor Farmer logo.) Billingsley teamed up with his buddies LaRubbio and Jon Clarenbach two years ago to launch the cidery, and brought on Oregon winemaker Erik Brasher back in November to oversee the fermentation.

How ’bout them apples: Western Cider’s canned ciders are made with juice from the Pacific Northwest. But in coming months, the cidery plans to release “estate” vintages made with the Bitterroot-grown varietals.

Varieties on the way: Besides the Poor Farmer mainstays, look for more special short-run styles such Champagne bubblies and whiskey-barrel-aged peach. We tried the Aronia Rose cider, made with sour aronia berries that lend a wine-like tannic finish.

Where to find it: Purchase Poor Farmer sixers for $11 at locally owned grocery stores including Orange Street Food Farm, Good Food Store and Missoula Fresh Markets, as well as Worden’s and Missoula Wine Market downtown. Check out the Dram Shop and the Rhino for ciders on tap.

—Kate Whittle

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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WED | 8 PM | ADAMS CENTER Sir Elton John plays the Adams Center Wed., March 8 at 8 PM. $49-$392.

TUE | 8 PM | DENNISON THEATRE Altan brings its traditional Irish music from the Emerald Isle to the Dennison Theatre Tue., March 7 at 8 PM. $26.

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MON | 8 PM | WILMA Composer and ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro plays the Wilma Mon., March 6. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$25 advance.

FRI & SAT | 8 PM | WILMA Umphrey’s McGee plays Fri., March 3 and Sat., March 4 at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$27 advance.

THU | 3/9 | 10 PM | TOP HAT The Sextones play the Top Hat Lounge Thu., March 9. 10 PM. Free.

THU | 3/9 | 9 PM | MONK’S Ghetto Funk producer and singer Megan Hamilton celebrates the release of her new album with a party at Monk’s Thu., March 9 at 9 PM. $5.

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David Hiltner, the founder and executive director of Red Lodge Clay Center, gets in the hot seat at Radius Gallery’s 10 Questions forum. 1 PM. Free.

nightlife Matt Cosca plays at Draught Works Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free.

Celebrate Lou Reed’s 75th birthday with a bash at the Union Club. 7 PM–9 PM. Free.

All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM. Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.

Singer-songwriter Martin Sexton plays at the Top Hat Lounge.

Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. $29/$25 advance.

Ghost Carrot Records kicks off its residency at the VFW with Oakland’s Preening and locals Father Deer and Ocelot Wizard.

9 PM. Free.

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Stevensville celebrates the first Friday of each month with music, food and art. For more info visit mainstreetstevensville.com.

A girls youth group, ARIELS, meets every first Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, from 3:30-6 PM. Check out summitilc.org.

nightlife Bring an instrument or just kick back and enjoy the tunes at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.

Bob Wire plays original tunes and headsnapping covers at Bandit Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

Enjoy food from over 30 local restaurants, breweries, distilleries and wineries with Montana Food

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Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust! Take a foray into fencing with a free class at Missoula Fencing Association, 1134 Longstaff. 6:30 PM–7:30 PM. Wear gym shoes and clothes.

Umphrey’s McGee plays two nights at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $30/$27 advance.

Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder reads his nonfiction at a special reading at the Dell Brown Room in UM’s Turner Hall. 7 PM. Free.

Zootown Improv returns to the Badlander for an evening of frenetic comedy. 7 PM. Free.

A trio of half siblings warily come together when their dad’s current

girlfriend reaches out to let them know he’s in the hospital in Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center.

7:30 PM. $16/$14 students.

Windy City native Wei Zhongle blows into the VFW for a night of fuzzy weirdo pop. I have no idea what that sounds like, but, living in Missoula, I have a good idea. 9 PM. $5.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood comes to life with a stage production of Charles Dickens’ great unfinished work. With over 350 possible endings even Inspector Bucket couldn’t get a handle on this one. The Hamilton Playhouse.

8 PM. $15.

Blistered Earth touts itself as the ultimate tribute to Metallica. My ultimate tribute to Metallica involves pretending St. Anger never happened. The Dark Horse.

9:30 PM. $5.

Bohemia, the new late night warehouse party series at MASC Studios, kicks off with DJs, dancers, aerialists and fire spinners. 9 PM– 3:30 AM. 18-plus. $8.

Enzymes and PNUT BUTR celebrate the release of their new albums with a party at the Palace. 9 PM. Free. (See Music.)

Cash for Junkers plays at the Union Club. 9:30 PM. Free.

The Ryan Larsen Band rides into the Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM. Free.

Electro-funk jam band Moth finds itself drawn to the bright lights of the Top Hat for the official Umphrey’s Afterparty at the Top Hat. 11 PM. Free.

First Friday Ric Gendron, LeAnn Boyd, Crista Ann Ames and Doug Turman. Four artists with four different styles from acrylics to frescos to oils to sculpture assemble at Radius Gallery. Just as the prophecy foretold. 4 PM–8 PM.

Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Bernice’s Bakery hosts Erik H. Nelson’s Wild Canvas with an opening reception. 5 PM–8 PM.

Knock knock? Who’s there? Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy open mic at the Union Club. Sign up at 9:30 PM. Show at 10 PM. Free.

FrontierSpace hosts Laura Bigger’s exphibit Elements, exploring the relationship between humans, animals and the ecosystem with an opening reception. 5 PM–9 PM.

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There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

Bank Network’s annual fundraiser.

Neptune Aviation. 6 PM–9 PM. $55.

Glacier Sotheby’s International Realty hosts the photography of Janelle Coleman. 5 PM–8 PM. Bathing Beauties Beads hosts an opening reception for Hailey Schofield’s

printmaking, silks creening and pen and ink tribute to the mountains. 5 PM–8 PM.

Clyde Coffee hosts an opening reception for Jo Costello’s large canvas prints of neglected automobiles. 5 PM–8 PM.

Zootown Arts Community Center gives you a sneak peek at the pieces you’ll featured at its upcoming fifth annual Mini Benefit Show. 5 PM–8 PM.

La Stella Blu displays a flock of papier-mâché birds made by the students of Rattlesnake Elementary. 5 PM–8 PM.

A photography exhibit featuring work by The Fine Grain Group opens at the Loft. 5 PM–8 PM. Betty’s Divine hosts the pop art of Montana-based artist Jennifer Kinville. 5 PM–8 PM.

Betty's Divine hosts the pop art of Montanabased artist Jennifer Kinville Fri., March 3. 5 PM–8 PM.

Join artist B.MartiNez for a night without tv, soundbites or media clips with an art exhibition at Sushi Hana.

5 PM–9 PM.

Gecko Designs exhibits the inspirational and perplexing paintings of Terah Hibbard. 5 PM–8 PM. Enjoy the abstract dream paintings on unconventional canvas of artist Xua while musician Tanner Bray creates some old time Appalachian folk tunes at Lake Missoula Tea Company. 6 PM–9 PM.

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These aren’t the bowls I normally expect to find in Missoula. The Artists’ Shop hosts the hand-carved wooden bowls and vases of Joseph Thompson. 5 PM–8 PM. Missoula Art Museum hosts an opening reception for Seattle-based artist Ryan Feddersen’s interactive installation exhibit Resistance. 5 PM–8 PM. E3 Convergence Gallery hosts an opening reception for Michael Dinning’s The Beat of Life. Cheree Burton provides the music. 5 PM–9 PM.

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Gallery 709 in Montana Art and Framing hosts a reception for the 50 new oil paintings of our National Parks by Teresa Garland Warner and Elene Weege. 5 PM–9 PM. Will Richards exhibition of modern rake lamps with upcycled composite shades opens with a reception at 4 Ravens Gallery. 5 PM–8 PM. Gallery Night at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices features the work of artist Thomas H. Boelman.

5 PM–8 PM. The Loose Moose hosts the abstract art of Kelly Art. 5:30 PM–8:30 PM. The Clay Studio of Missoula’s March exhibition features the work of studio potter and sculptor Sue Tirrell. 5:30 PM–9 PM. A collection of vintage bikes on display from two Missoula collectors highlight Missoula Bicycle Works’ First Friday. 6 PM–9 PM. Shakespeare & Co. hosts a preview short films screening at the upcoming International Children’s Film Festival. 6:30 PM–8 PM. $5 suggested donation.

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Saturday Get your fresh produce and farmdirect goodies when Stage 112 hosts the Missoula Valley Winter Market from 9 AM–1 PM. Blackfoot River Outfitters hosts its annual fly fishing gear swap and open house. 9 AM–3 PM. This was my favorite skill from the Psionic’s Handbook. Learn to use the power of your mind with a class on self-hypnosis at Inner Workings Resources. 10 AM–4 PM. $65 Missoula Art Museum exhibiting artist Ryan Feddersen talks with educator and historian Julie Cajune. 11 AM–12 PM. You guys are screwed if I can play as Donkey Kong. KBGA Radiothon hosts a Super Smash Bros. tournament. WiiU/3DS starts at 12 PM, Melee at 4 PM. $5 entry, $5 a game.

Missoula Public Library hosts the International Children’s Festival’s screening of films for all ages. 1 PM–5 PM. Free.

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Melissa Ross’s play Thinner Than Water continues. A trio of half siblings warily comes together when their dad’s current girlfriend reaches out to let them know he’s in the hospital. The Masquer Theatre, PARTV Center. 2 PM. $16/$14 students.

nightlife Lochwood brings its hard driving Bluegrass to Blacksmith Brewing Company. 6 PM–8 PM. Free.

I once bought a car from a man named Rich Henry. Poor Henry plays Draught Works. 6 PM–8 PM Guys? We still have three years.

The Daly Mansion’s Roarin’ ‘20s Gala puts you back in the Jazz Age with live music and dance contests. 7 PM–11 PM. $35.

KBGA College Radio celebrates the end of its annual fundraiser Radiothon by throwing a party at the Palace with Glass Spiders, Shakewell, The Skurfs and Rooster Sauce. 8. $8/$6 advance. 18plus.

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prominent voices in Tracy Kidder’s first book was and not very well received. His explo- contemporary nonfiction. ration of serial killer Juan Kidder has built an impressive Corona's 1971 murders of catalogue as a writer over the last 25 people was massacred by crit- 30-plus years, including his ics and ignored by readers. newest release, where he returns Kidder himself has been vocal about his disappointment and WHO: Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder hatred of the book over the WHEN: Fri., March 3, at 7 PM years. He dis- WHERE: Dell Brown Room in UM’s Turner Hall liked it so much he personally HOW MUCH: Free purchased the rights from the MORE INFO: tracykidder.com publisher to keep the book from ever being reprinted. It is completely absent to that computer world with A from his official website. Then Truck Full of Money. In contrast to his second book won the the hardware that drove his Pulitzer Prize and the National Pulitzer Prize winner, his new Book Award. That's quite the book focuses on the software, turnaround, isn't it? The Soul of a philanthropy and bipolar disorNew Machine, a nonfiction ac- der of computer programmer Paul count of fresh-faced college English. Kidder accomplished all graduates tasked with creating this, even with a real stinker of a an experimental, next-generation first book. This is why people tell computer for the Data General you to never give up.

Corporation, established Kidder as one of the most important — Charley Macorn

Odyssey of the Stars honors jazz educator and Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival founder Lance Boyd with a night of music at the Dennison Theater. 7:30 PM. $125 for two tickets.

Step out with the Missoula Folklore Society Contra Dances at the Union Hall. $9/$6 for members.

8 PM–11 PM. Wake up and see Brothers Comatose at the Top Hat Lounge. Doors at 8:30 PM, show at 9 PM. $10.

Monk’s hosts MCs and DJs. Talus Orion, Maadmoney Dee, Elair, Keenote and Foreshadow perform. $5 18-20/ $3 21-plus. 9 PM. DJ Kris Moon completely disrespects the adverb with the Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. $5.

Idle Ranch Hands plays at the Union Club while I have to brand a thousand head of cattle by myself. 9:30 PM. Free.

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Sunday Join the Sons of Norway for a pancake breakfast at the Normanden Lodge. 5795 US-93. 9 AM. $7.

Dana Fitz Gale reads from her collection of short stories Spells for Victory and Courage at Fact and Fiction. 1:30 PM. Free.

Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannelboard pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library. Free.

The Elks Lodge hosts the 3rd annual Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament fundraiser for the Missoula Downtown Foundation. $100 registration to play, $5 to watch. Call 406543-4238 for more info.

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Tuesday nightlife If you want the truth behind everything that’s going on, meet the Captain Wilson Conspiracy at Draught Works. 5 PM–7 PM. Free.

Every Sunday, Imagine Nation hosts Jazzination, the perfect excuse to indulge your inner Lisa Simpson. 5 PM–8 PM. Free.

Open mic at Lolo Hot Springs’ Bear Cave Bar and Grill offers cool prizes like cabin stays, bar tabs and hot springs passes, plus drink specials.7 PM. No cover.

Every Sunday is “Sunday Funday” at the Badlander. Play cornhole, beer pong and other games, have drinks and forget tomorrow is Monday. 9 PM.

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Prepare a couple of songs and bring your talent to Open Mic Night at Imagine Nation Brewing. Sign up when you get there. Every Monday from 6–8 PM. Bingo at the VFW: The easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main. 6:30 PM. $12 buy-in.

Caroline Keys, Jeff Turman and Gibson Hartwell play the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7 PM– 10 PM. Free.

Holy crap, look at those fingers go. Composer and ukelele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro plays the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $35/$25 advance.

Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10/$35 for four classes.

Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.

Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters helps you improve your public speaking skills at ALPS in the Florence Building, noon–1 PM. Free.

Visit shootinthebull.info for details.

Bigger instruments are for jerks. Learn the skills to play the ukulele with a class at Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center. 7 PM. $84.

Therapeutic yoga helps you whether you’re recovering from, or living with an illness or injury. Tuesdays at the Learning Center at Red Willow. $40 for four weeks, $50 prereq screening required. 4 PM–5 PM. Call 406-721-0033 for more info.

Missoula Art Museum welcomes Molly Murphy-Adams for the Jim and Jane Dew Visiting Artist Lecture. 7 PM. Free.

nightlife The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.

Monday nightlife

Give blood and get a free scoop of ice cream at the Red Cross Blood Drive at Big Dipper Ice Cream. Visit redcrossblood.org and use the code bigdipper to schedule an appointment. 9 AM.

Learn intercultural communication skills with a free seminar from the renowned Dr. Udo Fluck at the Roxy Theatre. Make friends worldwide without leaving Missoula! 7 PM– 9 PM. Aaron “B-Rocks” Broxterman hosts karaoke night at the Dark Horse Bar. 9 PM. Free.

Every Monday DJ Sol spins funk, soul, reggae and hip-hop at the Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. Free.

21-plus.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu.

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I never thought this would be a class that would be so appealing to me. Whether you’re recovering from a back injury or just need to develop a strong and healthy back to prevent future issues, Core Studio at Alpine Physical Therapy offers the class for you. 5:30 PM–6:30 PM. $104.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, 6–8 PM every Tuesday.

All ages.

Learn the two-step and more at country dance lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–9 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

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

The US is the second highest producer of lettuce in the world. #LettuceFacts. Lettuce plays the Wilma. #LettuceTheBandFacts.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. $27/$22 advance.

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent at the Badlander, 7 PM– 10 PM. To sign up, email michael.avery @live.com.

Kevin Canty reads and signs copies of The Underworld at Fact and Fiction. I wonder if he’s Team Lycans? 7 PM. Altan brings its traditional Irish music from the Emerald Isle to the Dennison Theatre. 8 PM. $26.

Grab your partner, thin or fat, promenade to the Top Hat. Live out your wildest do-sido fantasies with a free square dance at the Top Hat. 8 PM. Step up your factoid game at Quizzoula trivia night, every Tuesday at the VFW. 8:30 PM. Free. Our trivia question for this week: Kevin Peter Hall was cast as the original Predator after what action star quit the production after only two days? Answer in tomorrow’s Nightlife.

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Wednesday Cultivate your inner Ebert with the classic flicks showing at Missoula Public Library’s free matinee, every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 2 PM, except holidays. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or pop your head in their lobby to see what’s playing.

nightlife This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets—share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.

Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Trivia answer: Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Got two left feet? Well, throw them away and head down to Sunrise Saloon for beginners’ dance lessons. 7 PM. $5.

UM Theatre and Dance’s annual concert celebrates the culminating choreographic work of students, faculty and guest artists.

The Montana Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20.

His middle name is Hercules. No really, you

can go look that up. Sir Elton John plays the Adams Center. 8 PM. $49-$392.

Sing your heart out, get drunk and raise some much needed moolah for Planned Parenthood. Karaoke for a Cause at the Badlander kicks off at 8 PM.

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Get up onstage at VFW’s open mic, with a different host each week. Half-price whiskey might help loosen up those nerves. 8 PM. Free.

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.

Make the move from singing in the shower to a live audience at the Eagles Lodge karaoke night. $50 to the best singer.

8:30–10:30 PM. No cover.

Kraptastic Karaoke indulges your need to croon, belt and warble at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special.

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Thursday Release some stress during tai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class.

Visit openway.org.

Week 2 of Ghost Carrot Record’s Resdiency at the VFW features Lucky Penny, Wojtek, Father Deer and Botanicals III. 9 PM. Free.

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Kris Moon hosts and curates a night of volcanic party action featuring himself and a rotating cast of local DJs every Thursday at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Djebe Community Drum and Dance is a class on the dance and drum traditions from many countries. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. every Thursday from 6–7 PM. $5 donation.

Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club meets the second Thursday of each month.

Community Room, 6 PM–7:30 PM. Free and open to the public.

Lochwood plays Draught Works Brewery. 6 PM–8 PM. Say “yes and” to a free improv workshop every Thursday at BASE. Free and open to all abilities, levels and interests. 725 W. Alder. 6:30 PM–8 PM. All those late nights watching gameshow reruns are finally paying off. Get cash toward your bar tab when you win first place at trivia at the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30– 10 PM. UM Theatre and Dance’s annual concert celebrates the culminating choreographic work of students, faculty and guest artists. The Montana Theatre, PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $20.

Ghetto Funk’s official U.S. ambassador Megan Hamilton celebrates the release of her new album with a party at Monk’s. 9 PM. $5.

Start spreading the news! There’s karaoke today! You don’t need to be a veteran of the Great White Way to sing your heart out at the Broadway Bar. 9:30 PM. Free.

With countless helpful resources for homeowners and prospective home buyers, Homestead proves to be Missoula's main user-friendly real-estate publication.

The Sextones plays the Top Hat Lounge. 10 PM. Free.

We want to know about your event! Submit to calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost.

Send snail mail to Cal-eesi, Mother of Calendars c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. Or submit your events online at missoulanews.bigskypress.com. Would people mind if I changed 8 Days a Week's title to Yoga, Beer and Other Stuff?

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Agenda The Badlander's Karaoke for a Cause donates all tips earned by the brave crooners who take the stage, plus $1 from drink specials, to Planned Parenthood of Montana. Despite this being an amazing way to support a worthy organization, it's still understandable that karaoke can be intimidating for some people. For the wallflowers of the world who still want to give back, Agenda proudly presents the three go-to karaoke jams that make even the most nervous greenhorns into a karaoke superstar.

“Just a Friend” by Biz Markie. The Clown Prince of Hip Hop's 1989 tribute to being dumped has everything the first time karaoke singer needs. From the catchy, off-key hook that sounds better the worse you sing it, to the rambling talk-singing of late '80s rap, this song doesn't care how well you sing, only that you do. Pro Tip: Take advantage of pauses in the song to criticize the system of inequality that puts unrealistic sexual expectations on women.

“The Monster Mash” by Boris Pickett and the

THURSDAY MARCH 2 The first rule of Feminist Fight Club is you should really tell all of your friends because it it an open, supportive space for all women to talk about their experiences. Room 225 at the University Center. 6 PM–7:30 PM.

Cryptkeepers. Who needs to sing when you can do a half-way decent scary voice? Pickett created a No. 1 Billboard 100 jam about devilish dance crazes by doing an impression of actor and Grammy-award winner Boris Karloff. You can do the same. Pro Tip: The further away from Halloween you get, the funnier this song is at karaoke.

“Tubthumping” by Chumbawumba. This anarchist tribute to getting so drunk in a bar you embarrass yourself is a perfect song to sing in a bar full of drunk people embarrassing themselves. Plus, who’s going to be down on you for singing a song about falling down but still getting up? Pro Tip: If you run into trouble, just turn the microphone out toward the crowd. They'll know what to do..

— Charley Macorn Karaoke for a Cause: I Stand With Planned Parenthood starts at 8 PM at the Badlander. Free, but bring cash for the tip jar.

St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

Learn intercultural communication skills with a free seminar from the renowned Dr. Udo Fluck at the Roxy Theatre. Make friends worldwide without leaving Missoula! 7 PM–9 PM.

FRIDAY MARCH 3

TUESDAY MARCH 7

The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins bridge from 12:15–12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

Yoga is one of the most beneficial complimentary therapies for neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts Therapteutic Yoga for Neurological Health every Tuesday. $40 for four classes. Prereq screening required. Call 406-7210033 for more info.

A girls youth group, ARIELS, meets every first Friday of the month at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins, from 3:30-6 PM. Check out summitilc.org.

Enjoy food from over 30 local restaurants, breweries, distilleries and wineries with Montana Food Bank Network’s annual fundraiser. Neptune Aviation. 6 PM–9 PM. $55.

SATURDAY MARCH 4 Carolyn Fopp hosts a two hour presentation on spiritual life and an esoteric interpretation of the antichrist at Open Way. 7 PM–9 PM. Donations welcome.

MONDAY MARCH 6 Thinking about applying to the Peace Corps? A workshop about the application process is held in room 330 of the University Center. 12 PM–1 PM. Call 406-243-2839 for more info.

The Missoula Vet Center hosts T’ai Chi for Veterans with Michael Norvelle every Monday from 3 PM– 4 PM. Free for veterans.

Veterans for Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine

The Blind Low Vision Support Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at Summit Independent Living. Meetings are held from 1PM–2:30 PM. The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30–6:30 PM at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Donations accepted.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 If you or your loved ones are looking for an Alzheimer’s support group, join Summit Independent, 700 Higgins Ave., every second Wednesday of the month for their meetings from noon–2 PM. Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development celebrates 30 years with a benefit luncheon at the Doubletree Hotel. You go, girl. RSVP at 406-543-3550.

Nonviolent Communication Practice Group facilitated by Patrick Marsolek every Wednesday at Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 12–1 PM. Email info@patrickmarsolek.com or 406-443-3439 for more information.

Sing your heart out, get drunk and raise some much needed moolah for Planned Parenthood. Karaoke for a Cause at the Badlander kicks off at 8 PM.

THURSDAY MARCH 9 The Learning Center at Red Willow hosts a free meditation class for veterans at the Missoula Vet Center. 1 PM. Call 406-721-4918 for more info and registration.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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MOUNTAIN HIGH reventative Action Utilizing Soft Exercise (PAUSE), an organization dedicated to low impact exercise and taking your time in a hectic world, hosts what is being billed as the slowest race in the world. A casual, free 1K starting under the Higgins Bridge that encourages racers to take their time, smell the roses and not be so concerned about where they place. PAUSE, however, has a long way to go to upset the current holder of the world's slowest race; the 1912 Olympic marathon.

Shiso Kanaguri, who was heavily favored to take home the gold, wasn't used to running in the uncharacteristically blistering hot weather of Sweden. Weighed down by the oppressive heat, Kanaguri passed out in the street, and was rescued by a kind Swedish family. They nursed him back to health, and put him on the next plane home to Japan, all without telling anyone in charge.

Kanaguri’s status was listed as “did not finish” and “missing” until 1967 when he was invited to return

to Stockholm by the Olympic committee. Kanaguri made one lap around the Olympic Stadium and officially finished the marathon with a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds. Not only does this stand as the slowest race in history, it is also the only marathon where one of the runners started the race single, but ended it married with six children and 10 grandchildren.

PAUSE has quite a ways to go to snatch this title, but if Shiso Kanaguri has taught us anything, it's that if you believe in yourself, you can be the slowest of all time.

— Charley Macorn Registration for Ready, Set, Slow starts Fri., March 3 at 5 PM in the Boone and Crocket Club Parking Lot. $5 gets you a commemorative racing bib.

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FRIDAY MARCH 3 See crickets fed to big fuzzy spiders at tarantula feeding at the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, every Friday at 4 PM. $4 admission.

I treat every race I’m a part of this way. The Ready, Set, Slow 1K challenges you to take your time, smell the roses and avoid coming in first place. The Race starts under the Higgins Bridge

by Boone and Crocket Parking. Registration at 5 PM, race at 6 PM. $5 donation suggested.

SATURDAY MARCH 4 You’ll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Run, which starts at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

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Blackfoot River Outfitters hosts its annual fly fishing gear swap and open house. 9 AM–3 PM. The Montana Natural History Center presents activities for kids every Saturday. Free with admission to Center. 2 PM.

MONDAY MARCH 6 Spend Monday morning exploring before enjoying a hot beverage with Missoula Movers Coffee Walks. This week, explore Mt. Sentinel.

Meet at Currents Aquatics Center. 9 AM-12 PM. $5.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 Be on the look out for Snorks. Clark Fork Coaltion hosts a happy hour presentation on invasive aquatic species and the threat they pose. 140 S 4th St. 5:15 PM. Free.

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By Amy Alkon YOU DESERVE A BREAKUP TODAY I really appreciated your recent column about people who go through with getting married when they know deep down that they’re making a mistake. I’m reminded of the common societal admonishment against being a “quitter.” There’s this notion that you’re some kind of loser if you quit anything—even when logic tells you that you should bow out. This sort of absurd anti-logic is used (with the “marriage takes work” notion) to intimidate people into remaining in marriages that are total failures, which prolongs everyone’s suffering.

—Been There Ideally, “till death do us part” doesn’t lead to daydreams involving a shovel and a tarp.

Granted, there are people in miserable marriages who stay together— sometimes because they believe that a man with horns and a tail would end up chasing them around with a flaming pitchfork if they split up and married somebody else. Others, in humdrum but not ugly or toxic marriages, stay together—admirably—for their kids’ sake.

But many unhappy couples—with no pitter-pattering little feet but the schnauzer’s—don’t split up or are seriously slow to do it out of this notion that quitting is for losers.

I’m not suggesting that couples should scurry off to divorce court at the first sight of a cloud on the marital horizon. But there’s a cost-benefit analysis to be done. Couples need to consider whether it’s actually possible to work to make their marriage succeed or whether that would take their being two totally different and actually compatible people.

As for what “succeeding” in marriage means, let’s be honest: In modern society, we have a luxury we never did before—marrying for love and happiness. We then expect that these will continue to some reasonable (or sometimes unreasonable) degree. In previous centuries, sometimes you lucked out and got love in the marital package. But, as marriage historian Stephanie Coontz points out, for “thousands of years”— until the late 18th century—“marriage was more about property and politics than personal satisfaction.” Two people would get “betrothed” to each other as a way of brokering peace between nations or getting the money to keep land in the family (“marriage is between a man and a potato farm”).

These days, however, if continents or children won’t be ravaged by a couple’s

breaking up, maybe there’s no reason to be answering the question “Grandma, how’d you and Grandpa make it work?” with “We didn’t. I just stayed till he died.”

Even so, human psychology doesn’t make it easy to extricate ourselves. Research by psychologist Elliot Aronson finds that we are prone to “self-justification”—believing whatever puts us in the best light. In other words, we are natural-born spin doctors, driven to protect both our ego and our public persona— to the point where our knee-jerk response when we fail at something is pretending we haven’t, to ourselves and everybody else.

There is a psychological tool you can use to combat this. It’s “self-compassion”—basically, when you’re going through a hard time, treating yourself as kindly as you’d treat someone else who’s struggling. Psychologist Kristin Neff, who studies self-compassion, finds that an essential element of this is seeing your “common humanity”—meaning viewing yourself as part of a whole population of flawed, fallible humans.

This might help you look charitably on the concept of the “starter marriage.” This is a first marriage for a very young couple without kids or many assets that ends in divorce in five years or less. (These are people who went into marriage not knowing themselves or their partner all that well and not really understanding what marriage requires.)

Still, older people, upon hearing about this newfangled “get out of jail free” card, will often grumble the marital version of “When I was your age, I crawled 20 miles to school over broken glass!” (“Um, thanks, Aunt Bessie, but I learn just fine when Mom drops me off in her Tesla.”)

But consider that this “starter marriage” concept is actually very helpful— right in line with the notion from self-compassion that you’re not alone in making mistakes. Understanding this can help you view your failures less as shameful embarrassments and more as learning experiences that you can use to make better choices in the future. Seeing failures in this more compassionate, positive light could also help you be a bit faster to admit when you’ve screwed up so you can move on. This is certainly preferable to just sitting there glumly mired in your bad choices like a little kid who peed his pants—and has to stay in those wet pants for the next 50 years, at which point somebody will throw him a big anniversary party to celebrate.

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Accounting Assistant Large manufacturer specializing in designing and producing commercial aquatics equipment is in need of an Accounting Assistant. If you are outgoing, adaptable and like to work in a fast-paced, changing and growing office environment with strong work ethics, we want you!

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Upon satisfactory completion of 500 hours as a Temp-to-Hire, we offer an excellent compensation and benefits package. $12.00$14.00 /DOE. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran.

Full job listing at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39198 Breakfast Attendant MUST have valid driver’s license due to the occasional need to drive airport guest shuttle. Drug testing is required. Will prepare items for the breakfast bar, ensure that food is available and keep the area clean. Must have excellent organizational skills. Specific work days will be discussed at the interview. $9.00-$9.50/hr depending on ex-

perience, paid vacation and Aflac offered. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10266025 Dry Cleaner Busy full time position pressing clothing for a locally owned Missoula Business. $11/hour. Be a detail oriented, multitasker. Be able to differentiate colors. Sort articles to be cleaned by fabric type, color and cleaning technique.

Load clothing into laundry and dry-cleaning machines. Iron or press articles, fabrics, and furs.

Training will be provided. Fast paced environment with daily goals. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 28035 Forestry Workers To produce bareroot and containerized seedlings. No directly related experience is required but graduation from high school and three months experience in nursery, horticultural, farm, ranch or other outdoor work. A high level of fitness is required with the proven ability to repeatedly lift 65 pounds and perform strenuous and repet-

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

Trinity Technology Group seeks professional & career oriented individuals for

itive tasks. The recruitment is for short-term work not to exceed 90 work days. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10270136 Furniture Installer For busy office supply company to perform all aspects of systems furniture installation or disassembly at customer sites. Loads and offloads trucks, safely uses equipment and vehicles. Experience putting furniture together not required but helpful.

Will train on our products after hire. Need to have valid driver’s license with good driving record, and be able to lift 75 pounds. Full time M-F 8 am to 5 pm. Starting pay $13.00 + per hour plus depending on experience. Must be willing to work overtime periodically and work out of town 4 or 5 times a year. Required pre-employment drug and alcohol screening. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10270149 GFS Cashier Duties include processing customer purchases quickly and accurately, balancing a cash drawer and providing excellent customer service. We have a part time position available. Pay starts at $9.84 per hour and increases to $10.23 per hour after six months. Benefits include paid vacation, 20% discount on store purchases, Paid Holidays, 401K and Employee Assistance Program. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10270174 NEED A JOB? Let NELSON PERSONNEL help in your job search!

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and FT positions available, day or swing shift. Wage $11.00. Full job listing at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39192 Quality Assurance Large manufacturer jof commercial aquatics equipment is in need of a Quality Assurance and Inventory Supervisor. Requires experience in inventory management, quality control and implementation of safety program. Familiarity with SAGE MAS 100. Advanced experience with Microsoft Office. Proven leadership skills with stellar written/verbal communication skills We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package. Occasional evening, weekend, and holiday work and occasional travel required. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran. Full job listing at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39207

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Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10266157 Laboratory Technician Exciting opportunity to join a leading provider in consulting, engineering, and technical services throughout Montana and worldwide. Diverse company with expertise in science, research, engineering, construction, and information technology. Must have mathematical aptitude. Background in science with emphasis in

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SKILLED LABOR Auto Electrical Tech Metalworks of Montana is looking to hire a low voltage electrician/assembly worker. Job duties include: Fabricate brackets/harnesses to install aftermarket electrical components. Loom building/wiring. Assembly of electrical, metal and other components. MUST have a roll around tool box and own tools. Must pass pre-employment drug screening and background check Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10269866

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Lumber Grader Local Lumber Company seeking a Temp-to-Hire Grader Operator. Will turn boards ranging from 6 - 20’ in length, 4 - 15” in width, and up to 2” thick, often turning 5000 to 10000, per day. Must be able to grade to within 5% average. Must be able to stand 8 hours a day, lift up to 50#’s repetitively, twist, turn and set up a grade stamper and lug loader. Light computer work required. Upon satisfactory completion of 500 hours as a Temp-to-Hire, the Client Company offers a comprehensive benefit package. Pre-employment screening required. $14.00-$18.00 DOE. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran. Full job listing at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27171Health Careers

RN Hospice Case Manager Responsible for skilled nursing care and admissions for hospice clients.

Coordinate services to ensure continuity of care, conduct assessments, plan and implement care with the help of an interdisciplinary team. Participate in rotating on-call, holiday, and weekend coverage. Full-time, generally during weekday business hours. Requirements: Montana RN license, valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, auto insurance, reliable access to the internet, general competence with computers. Recent grads welcome! Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10269449

SALES Internet/TV Eagle Satellite is looking for some highly motivated sales reps to sell high speed Internet & TV. We are looking for both full time and part time employees.

Requires evening and weekend work - if you cannot work from 49 weekdays and you cannot work Saturday and Sunday please do not apply. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10266077 Marketing Manager The ideal candidate will have a BA/BS in Marketing or related field, 3+ years related work experience,

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flicting deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Experience in ADA aquatic equipment preferred. Full job listing at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 39258

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HEALTH CARE Dentist Missoula County is seeking a DENTIST in Seeley Lake with a degree of D.D.S. or D.M.D. from an accredited dental school and current license to practice dentistry in Montana. Must be eligible for malpractice/liability coverage.

Will provide comprehensive and emergency dental care for Partnership Health Center patients.

Provides basic and emergency care for Missoula County Detention Facility inmates as required.

Adheres to all standards and requirements pertaining to HIPAA and JCAHO and PHC peer review process. Participates in training volunteers and staff. Maintains record keeping and reports. May attend Partnership Health Center Board meetings as needed. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10270096

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Missoula Aging Services Care Coordinator for Veteran Directed Home and Community Based Services (VD-HCBS). Starting wage range for this part-time, benefited, non-exempt position is $13.76 to $16.37 per hour, depending upon experience. Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM. May be occasional weekend or evening events each year. Use of a personal vehicle and travel throughout Missoula and Ravalli Counties is required. Occasional travel outside of Missoula may also be required for training & other purposes. Reimbursement is provided. You must maintain a valid MT driver’s license and vehicle insurance. Full

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Temporary Baker Outstanding opportunity for the right person with professional baking experience. If you are interested in a temporary position, UM Bakery is hiring a full-time, temporary baker to begin work on March 6th and work until mid-May. Rate of pay DOE. Please contact Deb Hill at (406) 243-5160 for details.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that you will have earned the title of Master Composter no later than March 26. Not necessarily because you will have packed your food scraps, wilted flowers, coffee grounds and shredded newspapers in, say, a deluxe dual-chamber tumbling compost bin. But rather because you will have dealt efficiently with the rotting emotions, tattered habits, decrepit melodramas and trivial nonsense that has accumulated; you will have worked hard to transform all that crap into metaphorical fertilizer for your future growth. Time to get started!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a good time for you to wield your emotional intelligence with leadership and flair. The people you care about need more of your sensitive influence. Any posse or tribe you’re part of will benefit from your thoughtful intervention. So get out there and build up the group morale, Taurus. Assert your healing ideals with panache. Tamp down the insidious power of peer pressure and fashionable nonsense.You have a mandate to wake up sleepy allies and activate the dormant potential of collective efforts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were ever in your life going to be awarded an honorary PhD from a top university, it would happen in the next few weeks. If there were even a remote possibility that you would someday be given one of those MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grants, now would be the time. Likewise if you had any hopes of being selected as one of “The World’s Sexiest Chameleons” or “The Fastest, Sweetest Talkers on Earth” or “The Planet’s Most Virtuoso Vacillators,” the moment has arrived. And even if none of those things happen, I’m still pretty sure that your reputation and status will be on the rise.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22):You’re wandering into places you’ve always thought you should be wary of or skeptical about. Good for you! As long as you protect your innocence, I encourage you to keep exploring. To my delight, you have also been fantasizing about accomplishments that used to be offlimits. Again, I say: Good for you! As long as you don’t overreach, I invite you to dream boldly, even brazenly. And since you seem to be in the mood for big thinking, here are other revolutionary activities to consider: dissolving nonessential wishes; transcending shrunken expectations; escaping the boring past; busting irrelevant taboos.vailable, you’ll be inspired to escape formalities and needless rules that have kept you overly tame.

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“I’ll tell you my secret,” Nathan told me. “I’m a bad father. I didn’t work very hard on raising my kids. And now they never let me forget it.” In the coming weeks and months, Leo, I recommend that you pursue my approach in your chosen field, not Nathan’s. Aim for high-quality intensity rather than scattershot quantity.

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her poem “Not Anyone Who Says,”Virgo writer Mary Oliver looks down on people who declare, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love.” She disparages c VIRGO the passion of anyone who asserts, “I’m going to choose slowly.” Instead she champions those who

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enough to open yourself to massive outbreaks of educational delight and natural highs? Some of you may not be prepared. You may prefer to remain ensconced in your protective sheath of cool cynicism. But if you think you can bear the shock of unprecedented exaltation and jubilation, then go ahead and risk it. Experiment with the unruly happiness of the Bliss Blitz.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book The Horologicon, Mark Forsyth gathered “obscure but necessary” words that he dug out of old dictionaries. One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you right now. It’s “snudge,” a verb that means to walk around with a pensive look on your face, appearing to be busy or in the midst of productive activity, when in fact you’re just goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1. It’s important for your mental and physical health that you do a lot of nothing; that you bless yourself with a healing supply of refreshing emptiness. 2. It’s important for your mental and physical health that you do this on the sly as much as possible; that you avoid being judged or criticized for it by others.

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yours will be 333. Your sacred password will be “quirky plucky.” The cartoon characters with whom you will have most in common are Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. The place where you’re most likely to encounter a crucial teaching is a threshold or thrift shop. Your colors of destiny will be flecked and dappled. (P.S.: I suspect that an as-yet-undiscovered talisman of power is crammed in a drawer full of junk.)

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “You’re a different human being to everybody you meet,” says novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Now is an excellent time to contemplate the intricacies and implications of that amazing truth—and start taking better advantage of how much freedom it gives you. Say the following statements out loud and see how they feel: 1. “My identity isn’t as narrowly circumscribed as I think it is.” 2. “I know at least 200 people, so there must be at least 200 facets to my character.” 3. “I am too complicated to be completely comprehended by any one person.” 4. “Consistency is overrated.”

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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-17-36 Dept. 3 Judge John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of DELORYSE CONNER, 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 be mailed to First Interstate Bank, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Dirk A. Williams, Crowley Fleck PLLP, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

Dated this 17th day of February, 2017. First Interstate Bank Personal Representative of the Estate of Deloryse Conner, Deceased. /s/ Brett Weber,Vic President and Regional Trust Manager CROWLEY FLECK PLLP Attorneys for the Personal Representative By: /s/ Dirk A.Williams Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-1712 Dept. No. 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name

Change of Kelcey Jeanne Crocker, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Kelcey Jeanne Crocker to Kelcey Jeanne Sgrenci. The hearing will be on 3/29/2017 at 1:30 p.m.The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/22/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk Montana Fourth Judicial District Court Missoula County Cause No.: DV-17156 Dept. No. 1 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Niki Alis Johnson, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Niki Alis Johnson to Niki Alis Norway. The hearing will be on 3/29/2017 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/22/2017 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk of Court

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return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to RICHARD HUGHES KUSCHEL, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Goodrich & Reely, PLLC, 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2017 /s/ Richard Hughes Kuschel, Personal Representative GOODRICH & REELY, PLLC 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite

201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP17-19 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL VICTOR KRIEG, 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 GEORGE MORSE AKA GEORGE W. MORSE, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct.

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January, 2017. /s/ George W. Morse, Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ H. Stephen Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP17-33 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUANITA J. WATTERS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed

Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All person 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 Kelly A. Hale, 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 abovenamed Court. Dated this

10th day of February, 2017. /s/ Kelly A. Hale, Personal Representative By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV17-164 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE OF ADULT In the Matter of the Name Change of STEPHEN LAWRENCE PENROD, II, Petitioner.

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PUBLIC NOTICES titioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from STEPHEN LAWRENCE PENROD, II, to OSCAR KRISTIAN GREY, and the petition will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 4th day of April, 2017 at 3:00 p.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse for the Fourth Judicial District.

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 23rd day of February, 2017. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-17-40

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID B. TAWNEY, JR., Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following described personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds.

Proceeds from the public sale for said personal property shall be applied to the debt owed to Rent-a-Space in the amounts listed below (plus as yet undetermined amounts to conduct the sale): Space/Name/$$$/Desc 6132/Ashley Amen/$574/fan 132/Anna Bruckmeier/$402/misc SALE LOCATION: Gardner’s Auction Service, 4810 Hwy 93 S, Missoula, MT

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All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 46, 141. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, Toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 3/20/2017 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to at 3/23/17 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer’s bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale.

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50 Cobra ___ ("The Karate Kid" dojo) 53 Bother 55 "Sure thing" 56 Author of "A Series of Unfortunate Kravitzes"?

60 "The Thin Man" canine 61 English actor McKellen 62 Engine buildup 66 Reminder of an old wound 67 Long stories about hosting audio-visual dance parties?

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publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHARLES E. EISEMAN, JR., the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Worden Thane P.C., P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806-4747, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21 day of February, 2017. /s/ CHARLES E. EISEMAN, JR. c/o Worden Thane P.C. P.O. Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 598064747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Gail M. Haviland, Esq.

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 Dustin W. Cowart, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Mon-

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15 Carriage Way. 4 bed, 3 bath on two levels in Rattlesnake. Fenced backyard & double garage. $450,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com 18.6 acre building lot in Sleeman Creek, Lolo. $129,900. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1845 South 9th West. Updated triplex with 4 bed, 2 bath upper unit and two 1 bed apartments in basement. $470,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

Pinnacle Townhomes. Modern 3 bed, 2.5 bath with private fenced yard & double garage on Charlo Street. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

HOMES For Sale 2- 16x80 mobile homes in great condition $35,000 delivered and set up within 150 miles of Billings. 406-259-4663

LAND FOR SALE NHN Weber Butte Trail. 60 acre ranch in Corvallis with sweeping Bitterroot views. $675,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@ sgmail.com

2550 Latigo. 4 bed, 3 bath with gas fireplace, jetted tub and 2 car garage. $369,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 239-8350 shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

NW Montana Real Estate. Several large acreage parcels. Company owned. Bordered by National Forest. Timber. Water. Tungstenholdings.com. (406)293-3714

More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ • @ HOME Montana Properties • (406) 214-4016 • Jay.Getz@Outlook.com • www.HOMEMTP.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Clinton home on 1.5 acres. $300,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park home. $270,900. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Huson home on 5.5 acres. $425,500. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, River Road home. $304,900. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

COMMERCIAL Holland Lake Lodge. Lodge with restaurant, gift shop & Montana liquor license on 12 acres of USFS land. $5,000,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com

“You gotta love where you live!”

I

bring 25 years of real estate experience, knowledge of financing, honesty and integrity to my business to help buyers and sellers make sound decisions for their future.

My career in real estate is a lifestyle for me, rather than a job that I go to everyday. I balance my life with my love of the outdoors that includes hiking, canoeing, camping, backpacking and skiing. Here in Montana we love the seasons and utilize them to the fullest. We are truly lucky to live in a beautiful place and an amazing town!

My motto for my clients is “You gotta love where you live!” And Missoula offers all the requirements to love where you live.

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

www.rochelleglasgow.com

Rochelle Glasgow Office: 406.728.8270 Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com

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

Maryland is a 5-year-old female Boxer mix. She is a very stoic lady that understands several commands. Maryland definitely lacks a silly bone and listens to commands with a regal, authoritative attitude. This girl takes life seriously, and if she doesn't think you're serious, she'll give you the cold shoulder.

Maryland would do best as an only pet.

829-WOOF

875 Wyoming

BODIE•Bodie is a 2-year-old male Pit Bull. He

is a very loving and playful boy. Bodie loves to go for walks and play in the yard. His favorite toys are stuffed animals and tennis balls. Bodie would love a home with a fenced yard, or someone who can take him on long walks daily. Bodie just wants to be loved.

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ALFREDO• Alfredo is a 3-5-year-old male orange Tabby. He is the life of any party and most alluring entertainer you could ever hope for. Alfredo does not know what it means to be ignored, and he will go to no end to make sure he receives his much deserved affection.

Alfredo loves to play, and everything becomes a toy.

CYPRESS• Cypress is a 2-5-year-old male black cat. He is an outgoing and playful young guy with a very sweet and cuddly disposition.

One moment he'll be chasing feathers, climbing in the toy bin, hunting for the catnip stash, and digging in the food bin. The next moment, he'll be snuggled up in your lap, purring his contentment, and rubbing his head against you.

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Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.

DORA• Dora is an 8-year-old female brown Tabby/Tortie. Dora has a neurological condition that causes her to walk a bit wobbly. Other than that, she is healthy and happy. Dora, nicknamed DUI, will live a long, healthy life, however uncoordinated she may be. Because of this condition, she does need to be an indoor only cat. Dora is very loving, is quick to purr when she's getting affection, and loves to play.

ABERDEEN• Aberdeen is a 2-year-old female Pit Bull mix. She is a very sweet and submissive gal. She has an easy smile and is eager to please. Aberdeen loves belly rubs and head pats. She doesn't seem to know what toys are, so a family that can help her discover the fun of a tennis ball or tug toy would be a wish come true!

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 LUCKY• Lucky is a solid chunk of love! This

squat, handsome man is loyal, active, and eager!

He thinks he’s a lap dog, and is happiest when he’s with his people! Lucky would love an adult family who could take him on lots of adventures!

Lucky has gotten along with smaller dogs, but he needs a home without cats. Is today your Lucky day? Call 406.549.3934.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

NANETTE• Beautiful Nanette is an older lady who would happily sit in your lap or by your side whenever you come home. She's a loving girl is quite the looker! This senior lady will give you all the love you need & more! Need another reason to stop by the Humane Society? Sat. March 4, 8am-12pm, at the shelter we’re having a garage sale benefitting Montana pets! See you there!

KATIE PENNY• This cattle dog cross LOVES to be around her people. She greets visitors with a big wagging tail and will jump up when asked or sit nicely for treats! Katie Penny is 3-years-old, a great age to continue learning about the world without the puppy phase! Katie is picky about her dog friends, so she’d love a family who could be patient with introductions. http://myhswm.org.

FURBY• This rare British Short Hair gal is a total lap cat. Beautiful, sweet, and itching to find a cozy lap to purr upon, Furby is ready to find her forever home! She has lived with other cats, and her adoption fee is reduced to help her find her forever home! Visit http://myhswm.org for more info!

ANNABELLE• Annabelle is a unique-looking Plott Hound who is personable, friendly, and an easy-going girl. Annabelle loves to be active, enjoys dog friends, and is working on her manners! Annabelle would prefer a home without cats. Stop in this Saturday to the Humane Society garage sale, March 4 from 8am-12pm, then stay to fall in love with Annabelle!

CINNAMON• Cinnamon is a young, 8month-old torti who is looking for a quiet home where she can rule the roost! This sweetie can be a bit skittish at first, but once she trusts you (canned food helps!), this beauty is all purrs!

Thinking of sugar and spice and everything nice?

Visit Cinnamon at the Humane Society Wed-Fri, 1-6pm, or Sat-Sun, 12pm-5pm!

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509 Hastings • $329,900

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker

Wonderful 2 bed, 2 bath U area home with 2 Real Estate With Real Experience bonus rooms in basement. Hardwood floors, pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653) fenced backyard & single garage.

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Homes:

1263 Dakota – 3 Bed/2 Bath Stellar Location- right next to Milwaukee Bike and Walk Trail, Near Silver Park and Ogren Field! .............................................................................$225,000 9 Main St – St. Regis- Sweet 2 bedroom, 1 bath in St. Regis on 4 lots.

Fully fenced. Adjacent to park, baseball fields and pond. ..........................................................................................$130,000 1645 S 6th St – First floor living in Central Missoula for a Great Price.

Well cared for 2 Bed/ 1 Bath Home near Good Food Store .........................................................................................$197,000 1126 Taylor St. – Amazing location! This cozy house is in a quiet location nearly at the end of a dead-end dirt road just 5 minutes from downtown..................................................................$348,000 2301 Hilda Ave – Beautiful University area home with lovely character. .................................................................$385,000 2128 Burlington – Great floor plan, enormous yard and great location...................................................................$215,000 301 Woodworth – Three bedroom/three bath, built in 1939 and same owners for 50 years!

Great potential with this University home....................................................................................................................$409,000 412 W Artemos – Truly amazing Mid-Century Modern home in Pattee Canyon.

Three bedrooms, one full bath and one 3/4 bath.........................................................................................................$409,000

Townhomes/Condos:

Uptown Flats #303 Third Floor South Facing 1 Bed 1 Bath......................................................................................$159,710 1401 Cedar St #13 This is your chance to own an amazing home in Clark Fork Commons....................................$145,000

For Lease: 255 South Russell St- LEASE SPACE IN THE SOURCE HEALTH CLUB .....Modified gross lease of $21 sqf/year/$2,660/month Featured: 1263 Dakota – 3 Bed/2 Bath Stellar Location- right next to Milwaukee Bike and Walk Trail, Near Silver Park and Ogren Field! $225,000

412 W Artemos – Truly amazing Mid-Century Modern home in Pattee Canyon. Three bedrooms, one full bath and one 3/4 bath $417,000 PRICE REDUCED $409,000

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Amazing 2.52 acre parcel in Orchard Homes! This flat parcel has great views, frontage on an irrigation fed pond, and city sewer is close. If you're needing a little more room for gardens, animals, a shop, or all the above, come take a look. $174,900

Call Matt at 360-9023 for more information