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News

Voices/Letters Mountain Water, refugees and trapping..................................................4 The Week in Review Jakers fire, Bullock files and March Against Hate .......................6 Briefs Logging, corner-crossing and Internet speeds .....................................................6 Etc. Apple Valley knows a little something about fighting Liberty Utilities.....................7 News Anti-Muslim protests put refugee advocates on edge ...........................................8 News LGBT community joins together in wake of suicides............................................9 Opinion Shortsighted decision effectively ends marijuana businesses........................10 Opinion A deadly year for fun in the backcountry .......................................................11 Feature Meth is back and it’s stronger than ever..........................................................14

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Arts Max Mahn keeps it casual ......................................................................................18 Music Pale People, Xavier’s School and Danny Barnes ................................................19 Music Timmy’s Organism closes the weird gap............................................................20 Books Collection highlights Rick Bass’ talent for fiction ..............................................21 Film Michael Moore’s latest stacks up the evidence .....................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 What’s Good Here The rise of pop-ups .......................................................................24 Happiest Hour Tapping Fridays at the Dram Shop .....................................................26 8 Days a Week From meth commercials to the Oscars ................................................27 Agenda Chili Cookoff ....................................................................................................34 Mountain High A Map and Compass ...........................................................................35

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Tuesday evening on North Higgins The debate over refugee resettlement in Montana has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks. What do you think of a Missoula group’s efforts to support a local resettlement office?

Followup: If refugees do end up coming to western Montana, what would you recommend they visit first?

Caitlin McCoy: I think it’s wonderful. I don’t know this state really well, but I feel if I was in need of refuge, a small, walkfriendly city would be ideal. Welcome mat: Bikram Yoga Missoula. I’ve been in Missoula 24 hours and it’s a good place to meet community. And after all that traveling, they’d probably need to stretch.

Mark Thorsell: I don’t have a problem with it at all. I actually thought about participating in the march today. After five years of war in Syria, these people need help. Up north: They should visit Glacier National Park, see Montana’s beauty.

Stuart McNabb: I didn’t realize they were doing that. I can’t remember the exact quote but, “Give us your weak, give us your poor.” That’s what we’re all about. Road trip: Depends on what they’re interested in, I guess. Check out either of the national parks. And Lewis and Clark Caverns is always worth checking out.

Hugh Kingery: We have a responsibility to reach out and help people who need our assistance. More vistas: I think Missoula has a reputation for being one of the most welcoming communities, but I think [they should visit] Glacier or some of the other scenery.

ISO honest debate I personally do not have a strong opinion as to whether the city of Missoula takes ownership of Mountain Water. I do have a very strong opinion as to lack of transparency/honesty and the effect on public cynicism.

Mayor Engen recently responded to Liberty Utilities’ full-page advertisements, which claim financial disaster to the city if it takes ownership of the company. Mayor Engen describes the information provided as “propaganda.” I might call Liberty’s claims a public relations attempt or a sales job, but I certainly do not believe them.

The city’s initial cost estimate of the Mountain Water case came to $400,000 for the city’s legal fees, $400,000 for Mountain Water’s legal fees and a total of $4.24 million in total transaction costs. Recently the city’s legal fees alone topped $5 million. Whether through incompetence or propaganda, this low estimated cost sure made starting the process to condemn Mountain Water an easier proposition to sell to Missoulians.

Michael Kulisheck of Harstad Strategic Research testified during the water trial. His company conducted the survey for the city to justify and gain support for its attempt to condemn Mountain Water. Kulisheck’s sworn testimony was that the survey included “spin” questions to attempt to influence Judge Townsend to favor the city. A propaganda attempt?

I grew up in the pre-Nixonian era where I had belief in the establishment, both private companies and the government. In hindsight, I might have been clueless at the time, but it was personally comforting not to be cynical. Even though politically I am in the “anyone but Trump/Sanders” camp, I totally understand why people support them. I hope our local and state officials, both private and governmental, realize the public cynicism is not just coming from the actions in Washington, D.C. To all, let’s strive for a more honest and transparent debate of the issues.

Jim Conkle Missoula

Terrorism at home John Greener: I think it’s front and center, the grassroots, how this country works ... And for god’s sake, get out and vote. The essentials: Probably where they can most find what their basic needs are, if that’s housing, friends, connection ... I don’t think they’re particularly entitled to anything.

A hand up instead of a handout.

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It’s a shame Bitterrooters need to spend time discouraging our Ravalli County commissioners from banning Syrian or indeed any Muslim refugees (see “Fear meets loathing” on page 8). Either a hugely disproportionate and misplaced amount of fear has taken hold of the commissioners or this is shameful political pandering to generate fear, possibly a vicious circle of both. Our commissioners should treat others as they would like to be treated.

There are threats closer to home they could get productively riled about. I read

in the Great Falls Tribune, “And then there are the streets of Hamilton, Montana’s third most dangerous city. In this rough and tumble town ‘residents faced a one in 190 chance of being the victim of violence in 2013.’”

In 1972 I backpacked through Nooristan, a tribal territory in Afghanistan. All the men I met were armed; I was unarmed. I was never assaulted or terrorized. On the contrary, I met some remarkable Muslim and Zoroastrian people who were generous with their shelter, food and engaging curiosity about strangers. Their ability to carve a living off that barren land fascinated me and earned my respect. I’m sure things have changed a lot since then, but the goodness of the moral, independent people I got to know there probably did not change so much.

“Even though politically I am in the ‘anyone but Trump/Sanders’ camp, I totally understand why people support them.”

Afghanistan was targeted for invasion by the U.S., falsely claiming it had been a training ground for the 9/11 terrorism. The Agfhani people have their hands full living a poor life and did not train those terrorists any more than the people of Florida, where the 9/11 Saudi suicide pilots actually did train. Some Afghanis have become refugees, victims of the same terrorists we fear.

In 1978 I moved to the Bitterroot to carve a living off some sandy land. And I began using my First Amendment right of free speech to speak for protection of our environment. I was assaulted and threatened numerous times in attempts to silence me. This, unfortunately, prompted me to begin exercising my Second Amendment right. The Oxford Dictionary defines “terrorism” as the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. For my con-

stitutionally protected efforts to defend our “mother” land I have been, by definition, “terrorized” by white, presumably Christian men here in Ravalli County, but never anywhere else in the many diverse places and cultures I have visited.

I would like to thank the wholesome souls who acted with courage, compassion and religious tolerance by standing up and speaking to support Muslim refugees at the commissioners meeting. You were the uplifting silver lining on the thick black cloud of hate and religious bigotry. Too many people in the crowd who opposed helping refugees were not satisfied simply to speak their piece but booed and verbally harassed people speaking different opinions. I was very saddened to see that anti-democratic behavior aimed at depriving fellow Americans of their free speech. Some self-described “constitutionalists” are patriots of convenience, picking and choosing which parts our founders really meant.

Did we commit “shock and awe” in the Middle East to make the world safe for this version of democracy? Aren’t our endless wars there a big part of the cycle of violent chaos causing refugees to flee the region?

How would a civil and moral, proudly American way forward look?

Larry Campbell Darby

Sorry state of affairs I haven’t felt safe for four months going on a walk with my dogs. So far, 12 dogs have been mutilated in traps around here near their homes. What is so public about public lands? I’m sick of it. Get traps off our public lands. We need some exercise!

Public lands don’t belong to 6,000 trappers. We pay the taxes. The trappers take all the animals they can, and plenty of traps just have a foot left in them, so the poor animals die slowly of infection and starvation. This is not right. What a sorry state of affairs, and our government turns a blind eye. A woman has a heart attack trying to rescue her dogs in traps as her grandkids cry and scream.

Dogs lose their limbs, die, and it’s not addressed. This is a safety issue!

Eagles and deer, moose and elk get strangled in traps and still silence from the fish and game folks. The great horned owl just found dragging a trap in a campground in Turah, that is a felony. But, of course, nothing happens to the trapper. Silence from the fish and game, the governor.

Who runs this place anyway? How do we stop the killing fields?

At least I can sign the I-177 petition by Montanans for Trap-Free Public Lands. They are the only ones paying attention.

Brett Taylor Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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by Joe Weston

Wednesday, Feb. 24 Two Missoula Fire Department crews suppress a fire in the kitchen of Jakers on Brooks Street. The blaze caused about $150,000 in damage, but no one was hurt. Jakers’ staff post on its Facebook page that they hope to be up and running again soon.

Thursday, Feb. 25 Missoula County announces it won a grant to send staff to the national Stepping Up Summit in Washington, D.C. The summit brings counties together to talk about ways to reduce the number of mentally ill people being incarcerated.

Friday, Feb. 26 State health officials announce the first recorded case of Zika virus infection in a Montanan who’d returned from a Zikainfected area. Officials say the disease is most harmful to pregnant women and their fetuses, but otherwise presents in most people as a relatively mild fever.

Saturday, Feb. 27 The much-anticipated men’s basketball matchup between Big Sky leaders Weber State and the University of Montana ends with a scuffle during the post-game handshakes. The Wildcats took sole possession of first place with a 60-54 victory.

Sunday, Feb. 28 After a statewide AMBER alert issued Saturday, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office announces that a missing 4-year-old Wolf Point girl is found alive, just a few miles away from the park where she was allegedly abducted.

Monday, Feb. 29 Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock files for reelection in November. He’ll face off against Republican challenger Greg Gianforte.

Tuesday, Feb. 30 Hundreds gather for the March Against Hate in downtown Missoula as part of a statewide rally in support of Syrian refugees seeking resettlement in the United States.

More than 50 competitors raced down Third Street in Wisdom during the final day of sanctioned ski joring Feb. 28 as part of the Big Hole Valley’s annual Winterfest.

Legacy Project

Timber agreement terminated Roughly two months have passed since The Nature Conservancy and Plum Creek Timber Company terminated an ongoing timber harvest deal struck as part of the groundbreaking Montana Legacy Project.

Details remain hard to come by, with both organizations citing the confidential nature of the so-called fiber supply agreement when asked for specifics. But Dave Hanna, TNC’s Crown of the Continent program director, acknowledges the decision was reached mutually and, as a result, TNC has “no plans for future timber harvest on those lands” in the Swan Valley.

“The rest of the terms and backstory behind that are confidential between us and Plum Creek,” Hanna says.

Word that the agreement is off has spread slowly through the state’s environmental and wood products

communities. In fact, until late February the only public acknowledgment was a two-sentence blurb in a draft decision notice for a timber project on the Swan Lake Ranger District. Some interested parties declined to comment this week due to scant information on the termination. Others, including the nonprofit Alliance for the Wild Rockies, went so far as to issue a Feb. 25 press release lauding the development.

“The bottom line is [this is] very good news for the threatened and endangered species that call these lands home,” wrote Mike Garrity, executive director for the Alliance, “since all commercial logging on these ‘Legacy Lands’ by The Nature Conservancy has stopped. ... The Nature Conservancy should not have been allowed to continue clear-cutting land they no longer owned.”

The 111,740 acres in question were purchased from Plum Creek by TNC back in 2008 and were eventually given to the U.S. Forest Service. However, the

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fiber supply agreement allowed Plum Creek to buy as much as 92 million board feet of timber over the subsequent 10 years. While unable to disclose any specific information, Hanna says TNC has “done a fair amount of harvest” under the agreement. He adds having people and equipment back on those lands also enabled the nonprofit to conduct “stream and road restoration work” and “deal with some invasive weed issues.”

“I would just say that the fiber supply agreement was just one component of the whole Montana Legacy Project that enabled us to protect a huge amount of those former Plum Creek lands for conservation and for public use into the future,” Hanna says.

Tom Ray, Montana resource team leader for Weyerhaeuser, says Plum Creek was still operating as a separate legal entity when the termination decision was made Dec. 31, 2015. Plum Creek completed its merger with Weyerhaeuser in February, leaving the latter to field questions about the agreement. Ray declined to

[news] comment beyond saying TNC has been a “very good” conservation partner.

“We hope that as we continue to look forward, there may be other opportunities to continue to work with The Nature Conservancy,” Ray says.

Alex Sakariassen

Broadband

Fiber plan still loading By the end of a presentation to city and county officials last month, two big questions about Missoula’s broadband future were answered: How much fiber needs to be laid to connect the city’s municipal and economic corridors to high-speed Internet (up to 55 miles), and how much it will cost (up to $9.1 million).

But a third question—who is going to do it?—remained as uncertain as a spinning pinwheel cursor.

“I think that is the big question,” Councilman Bryan von Lossberg said during the Feb. 17 meeting.

City leaders have been mulling a community fiber project since 2012 after local businesses said current options constrained economic growth and required an update. Using a mix of donations and public funds, the Bitterroot Economic Development District then commissioned a master plan for a business-ready, open access network. The plan, as outlined by former BREDD Executive Director Marcy Allen, calls for a nonprofit to install and manage a network that private providers can tap.

Completion of a network blueprint is encouraging to Russ Fletcher, founder of the Montana Associated Technology Roundtables, who sees fiber as a vital piece of infrastructure. He also notes that, to his Silicon Valley state of mind, the pace of progress has been slow.

“I know there are other communities that have started after we did and already have infrastructure in place now,” Fletcher says.

One such community is Bozeman, where the first phase of construction is getting underway. Allen pointed out that once Bozeman’s master plan was assembled, a Bozeman city staffer spent six months getting the project off the ground.

Observers say Missoula needs similar commitment to see the fiber plan through, regardless of where it comes from.

“I still think it’s a function of leadership,” says James Scott, a vice president for First Interstate Bank.

Von Lossberg, who has been pushing for the project on city council, says the various entities have yet to

agree upon who will take responsibility for managing the project.

“We don’t—right at this moment—have a shared vision of how precisely to move this project forward, and I’m going to keep working to try to build that vision,” he says.

The role of taxpayers and current Internet providers who have installed fiber in parts of the city will also need hashing out. Scott says First Interstate is eager to help finance the network’s build-out if planners can demonstrate it will be financially viable. He also wants to see city redevelopment funds put toward the project.

As fiber advocates look for a way forward, Missoula County Public Schools—one of the key entities included in the new master plan—is already staking out on its own. The district can’t afford to wait indefinitely to upgrade its Internet, says technology director Hatton Littman, and it’s currently interviewing three companies who bid to provide fiber. MCPS’s fiber lines could potentially be stitched into a community network in the future, but regardless, Littman hopes construction will begin this summer.

Derek Brouwer

Public Lands

Credits for access Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Alan Charles is hoping for a surge of interest in the coming weeks in a program aimed at increasing access to landlocked tracts of state and federal land. Charles says the Unlocking Public Lands Program, which offers landowners tax credits for allowing public access across private acreage, represents a “substantial opportunity” to open more areas to sportsmen and recreationists. Yet so far only two landowners statewide have opted to participate.

“I know field staff have been working with different landowners over the last six, eight months trying to get information out to them,” says Charles, who administers the program. “I’ve heard through the grapevine, through our staff, that there are a number of people interested in possibly applying.

But I haven’t really received any applications yet.”

The application deadline for 2016 is March 15.

The program originally emerged from the 2013 Mon-

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tana Legislature, when the debate over what’s known as corner-crossing became a primary topic of the session. At first the program only applied to access to state land, but a measure introduced in 2015 by Sen. Jedediah Hinkle, R-Bozeman, expanded the language to include lands managed by federal agencies like the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management as well. Hinkle’s bill more than doubled the amount of public lands eligible for access through the program—more than 3 million acres, according to FWP’s calculations. Tax credit amounts were increased as well, from $500 to $750 per parcel accessed, with a cap of $3,000.

“The program itself, the concept, is very good,” Charles says. “It’s innovative. It’s the only program of its kind I could find anywhere in the nation when I was asked to research initially in 2013.”

Charles isn’t exactly sure why more landowners aren’t applying for the program, which by statute sunsets in 2020. The two enrolled landowners—one near Lewistown, the other near Ryegate—have opened access to four separate landlocked state sections. Perhaps others are choosing to “sit on the fence” and let their neighbors try it first, Charles says.

Joe Perry, cofounder of the Montana Sportsmen Alliance, speculates the program is just not that wellknown. The potential is “huge,” he says, and anything to increase access is “worth a whirl.” That said, Perry wonders how far the program could really go in addressing some of the broader concerns on those lands.

“I don’t think it will be large-scale enough to deal with the number of over-objective [elk] areas that we have,” he says. “[And] the folks that have not been willing to provide access aren’t going to be all that interested in providing it for a tax credit because they’re basically looking at big bucks outfitting it themselves or leasing it to an outfitter.”

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. The end appears nowhere in sight for the city of Missoula’s attempt to acquire the Mountain Water utility. Legal bills just topped $5 million on the city’s side. The Public Service Commission is seeking fines against Liberty Utilities for purchasing Mountain Water without state permission. In April, the Montana Supreme Court hears arguments in an appeal of a district court judge’s eminent domain ruling.

Funny enough, Missoula is in the same boat as the drought-stricken California community of Apple Valley, population 70,000. Apple Valley’s water company is owned by the same corporate parents as Mountain Water. In February, The Carlyle Group sold Apple Valley’s water system, along with Mountain Water, as part of a $327 million deal with Liberty Utilities.

Much like the city of Missoula, Apple Valley says it was denied the opportunity to buy its water utility from Carlyle. Apple Valley leaders also argue that corporate ownership is leading to excessively high rates—and they’ve initiated an eminent domain lawsuit, preparing to argue many of the same points that Missoula did in its eminent domain proceeding last year.

“We’ve seen years and years of increasing rates that have gotten completely out of line with neighboring communities,” says Kathie Martin, public affairs officer for Apple Valley. “Ours is two or three times higher than cities next door to us.”

In a bizarre twist—and one Missoula city staff haven’t yet seen here—Apple Valley has been inundated with more than 70 public record requests since its acquisition fight began in 2011. The deluge has cost the town $80,000 to process, and some requests have resulted in 40 banker boxes of documents arriving at once.

“A small group of citizens is against the town’s efforts to acquire the water company,” Martin says.

“And as they come in, they’re not even looking at the papers that they’ve requested, making few or no copies, and we’re left with the appearance that it’s just time wasting on their part against us.”

Liberty reps deny they encouraged citizens to submit the requests, though some Apple Valley officials suspect as much.

Some of the tactics might be different, but it’s apparent that Apple Valley, much like the city of Missoula, is discovering that obtaining its own water system from corporate owners will be a long slog.

“Our citizens just feel like they’re being beat up,” Martin says.

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Fear meets loathing Anti-Muslim protests put refugee advocates on edge

by Derek Brouwer

A phone call was the first sign of trou- Hamilton school gym—during school sion meeting, reported ABC Fox Montana, and included a link to an anti-refugee article ble for Darby librarian Wendy Campbell. hours—to voice their support.

The small public library at the far end of the “They will come after our women,” from a conservative news website called Bitterroot Valley had scheduled a University conservative pastor Hollis Poe warned, ac- 100percentfedup.com. of Montana professor to speak about Islam cording to the Bitterroot Star. “Fortunately, The real estate group quickly released on March 9 as part of a cultural series on im- in Ravalli County women have weapons.” a statement clarifying it has no position on migration experiences. The caller, a patron, Such opposition has become the main- refugee resettlement. “We didn’t necessarwanted it canceled. stream right-wing position since the Paris ily view [the email] as causing problems, “She said that she was so mad, she terrorist attacks last November, but human but we viewed it as a topic that we didn’t needed to talk to me and tell me how she rights groups have flagged local anti-refugee want to really even approach, because of felt. She was against this Muslim coming to organizers for extremist ties and hateful the code of ethics which says we do offer Darby. She said we were at war with Islam,” overtures. Rachel Carroll Rivas, codirector housing to everybody regardless of where Campbell says. of the Montana Human Rights Network, they come from or their religion,” says The next morning, three Board President Travis Martinez, more concerned patrons who refused to name the staffer showed up at the circulation who sent the email from an ordesk. Campbell gave them ganization account. He did add complaint forms. They took that there isn’t a discriminatory extra copies for their friends. atmosphere in the Bitterroot Two days later the library housing market. board held an emergency Poole says her group initially meeting, ultimately agreeing sought to avoid counter-protests, that longtime Arabic professor but as opposition continues to Samir Bitar’s presentation swell, they decided to partner should continue as planned. with other nonprofits and civil But Campbell says she’s relucrights groups to stage a statewide photo by Derek Brouwer tant to discuss the situation, rally March 1 in hopes it would fearing further escalation of an In response to a swell of anti-refugee activity, supporters show the state’s welcoming side. staged a statewide rally March 1 that drew hundreds to already tense environment.

Poole says many individuals Missoula’s Caras Park.

“There is something buildwho are concerned about refugee ing,” Campbell says. “It’s not a nice thing.” sees similarities to the political tone set by resettlement aren’t motivated by racism or Over the past month, anti-Muslim and presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. hate and she wants to find ways to reach anti-immigrant sentiment has reached fever “The microphone that he’s giving to them. “We want to have these hard converpitch across western Montana, drawing hun- hate speech is reverberating on the ground sations,” she says. dreds to events or protests over the in our state,” she says.

Amid the opposition, it can be hard to prospect that a petition to reopen MonThe vitriolic comments are putting untangle. Karen Sherman, who moved to tana’s only refugee resettlement office could local refugee advocates on edge, particularly Missoula from Texas in 2014, was one of the bring Muslim terrorists to the area. as they and their families begin receiving speakers at the recent Missoula “security” Once local officials threw their support threatening phone calls in the middle of the protest. Sherman says she’s been called “a behind the idea, groups opposed to refugee night, says Mary Poole, founder of Soft Land- southern inbred,” “a bigoted bed-wetter,” resettlement staged “American security” ral- ing Missoula. But more concerning, she and a “Nazi” for her activism, but insists she lies in Missoula and then Helena, where a says, is the possibility that refugees in Mon- doesn’t hate Muslims or refugees. man wielding a gas mask and an American tana might face an unwelcoming climate.

“My only concern is for the safety of the flag stood on the steps of the Capitol and “We’re going to bring people into a American people,” she says. taunted so-called “flag burners” to “come community, and we don’t want to bring Sherman has been quoted by a halfget it,” the Independent Record reported. people into a hostile community more than dozen conservative news sites for her tales of crime and rape in Amarillo, the Texas city she Soon after, a scheduled talk by anti-im- anyone else does,” Poole says.

A recent incident involving the Bitter- says has been overrun by Muslim refugees. migration activist Paul Nachman drew more than 400 in Kalispell. And when root Valley Board of Realtors underscores Asked if she’s ever met a Muslim refugee who Ravalli County commissioners drafted Poole’s concern. A “high level” official within is upstanding, Sherman says she has not. a letter opposing refugee resettlement the board sent an email to every member in Montana, more than 500 crowded a urging them to attend the Ravalli commisdbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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Show of support LGBT community joins together in wake of suicides

by Kate Whittle

On a Saturday afternoon, small though she hopes the emergence of new has been fairly kind in its response to groups wander in and out of the West- resources and more positive media por- Wallack and Edelman’s deaths, but there’s a long way to go before the ern Montana Community Center for trayals might help change that.

“Especially people struggling to know LGBT community feels completely welthe Gender Expansion Project’s Remembrance of Life open house. Some that there’s support out there,” she says. come. Trans people still face challengsit on cozy couch cushions next to dec- “I hate going on the ‘It Gets Better’ cam- ing realities every day.

Kalisto Nanen, for instance, identiorative “LGBT” pillows. Friends grab paign kind of thing, but I definitely undersandwiches from a tray and chat about stand where many of our trans individuals fies as male, but doesn’t feel comfortable undressing in men’s locker rooms everything from “Dr. Who” to football are struggling. I’ve been there myself.” teams to hormone replacement therapy to top surgery.

“It’s a depressing thing, the stuff that’s happening in our community, so it’s nice to be around other people who understand it and know what people go through,” says Mason O’Kiernan, president of the University of Montana LAMBDA LGBT student group. “And it’s nice to support other people too.”

The Feb. 27 open house was one of several events meant photo by Kate Whittle to bring people together in light of Missoula LGBT groups are providing additional support for community members, including this two recent suicides candlelight vigil at UM, after two local transgender people took their lives within the same week. in the local transgenThe Gender Expansion Project offers at the gym. He says he’s planning to der community. On Feb. 17, Jame Wallack took her own life at the age of an ongoing support group for members move to Seattle, where he found more 32. Sam Edelman, an 18-year-old of the trans community and helps connect trans-affirming resources, and hopes to get top surgery done to remove his University of Montana student from people with counseling.

“The services we provide today are breasts. At the open house, he found a Bozeman, died on Feb. 20.

“We haven’t seen two within a week services we’ve been providing for quite sympathetic ear from O’Kiernan and his of each other ever,” says Bree Sutherland, some time—unfortunately they don’t partner, Dustin Satterfield. They’re trying to raise $6,000 for a top surgery for executive director of the Gender Expan- reach everyone,” Sutherland says.

Friends and family can support the O’Kiernan, who came out as a trans man sion Project and a longtime local transgender activist. “That brought a lot of concern LGBT community just by asking simple a few years ago. Satterfield says she not just to members of the Gender Expan- questions, she says, like what pronoun and O’Kiernan didn’t know Wallack or Edelman very well, but they were glad sion Project, but the LGBT community at someone prefers. large and the Western Montana Commu“Validating and recognizing some- for the chance to show support. nity Center, and we needed to formalize one’s preferred name,” she says. “The “It’s nice to have space for us to be a response and tell our community that really, really simple things can make a who we are and be around people who we’re here for them.” huge amount of difference in a trans understand,” Satterfield says.

About half of all transgender people person’s life.” will attempt suicide, Sutherland says, Sutherland says Missoula as a whole kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Ask anyone who knows me how I feel about marijuana and they will tell you I’ve never tried it. Then they will tell you to be cool. The Montana Supreme Court was manifestly uncool last week, when it limited the state’s medical marijuana providers to three patients apiece. Three patients is not a viable business model.

The ruling will effectively close the few dispensaries that survived the legislature’s attempt to roll back legalization of medical marijuana in 2011.

This news means nothing to me because, like I said, I have never tried marijuana. But my friends sometimes smoke it, which is why my jacket, scarf, apartment or position behind the movie theater occasionally smells like “grass.”

When I got to Missoula in 2009, pretty much everything else smelled like this, too. Montana voters passed a ballot initiative that legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes in 2004, but the industry really took off five years later, when the U.S. Department of Justice released a memo suggesting it would not prosecute medical providers. In the year that followed, the number of growers and dispensaries in Montana grew rapidly.

The people I heard talking about it most were electricians who suddenly found themselves with a lot more work, thanks to the demand for grow lights and other greenhouse systems. The boom also created jobs for HVAC contractors, farm and garden suppliers, agricultural workers, dispensary employees, etc.

Realizing that Montana had a growth industry for the first time in decades, the legislature moved quickly to stop it. Gov. Brian Schweitzer vetoed a bill outlawing medical marijuana during the 2011 session, but the legislature passed another one prohibiting providers from accepting money for their products. That bill was declared unconstitutional by District Judge James Reynolds in 2012, but the Montana Supreme Court mostly upheld it last week. Limiting providers to three patients effectively prevents them from operating as businesses.

This ruling is the culmination of a big

mistake. The state had a chance to tax and regulate its most commonly used illicit substance, effectively bringing a huge portion of Montana’s drug trade under government supervision. Medical marijuana was almost certain to drive illegal marijuana out of business, since it was of higher quality than Mexican brick-pack—I am told—and cheaper than imports from northern California and British Columbia.

“Realizing that Montana had a growth industry for the first time in decades, the legislature moved quickly to stop it.”

From a policy standpoint, medical marijuana was a win-win-win: the state got tax revenue, residents got jobs and users got to stop inadvertently smoking DDT and god knows what else. But many state legislators vehemently opposed it, on the grounds that it was creating a black market.

That, right there, is the perspective of the kind of person who becomes a state legislator. Only a politician could imagine that Montanans started buying, selling and smoking marijuana after it was legalized for medical use.

I prefer to spend my weekends sipping aged port and perusing the works of Friedrich Hayek, but many younger people consider marijuana less harmful than alcohol. Particularly in cities, it has gone from stigmatized addiction to party drug to icebreaker. One finds it everywhere, if

not reliably shared then rarely hidden, even from strangers. Sometimes it seems the only social circles in which you do not find casual use of marijuana are among police, chamber of commerce types and people who are running for public office—particularly conservatives.

It is ironic, probably, that Republicans shut down Montana’s medical marijuana industry. Having spent the last 30 years railing against the damages regulation inflicts on our economy, they shut down our fastest-growing sector with the stroke of a pen. It’s understandable that they prefer logging and mining to growing what is, at the federal level, a controlled substance. But it’s disappointing to watch them selectively suspend their zeal for states’ rights and getting the government out of the way of business.

Again, I don’t care, because I’ve never tried pot. I prefer to get high on life or, in international waters, ketamine. But in their unthinking opposition to medical marijuana, conservative lawmakers have shown themselves to be out of touch with their own professed values and those of ordinary Montanans.

Fortunately, we’ve got a Republican candidate for governor who is even now running on a platform of growing Montana businesses and rounding up burdensome regulations. Greg Gianforte should make fully legalizing medical marijuana a plank in his platform. It will return to Montana its only growth industry in recent memory, and it will win him votes among young people who mistrust his social conservatism.

Maybe, if medical marijuana becomes available again, I could try it for my surgically repaired shoulder or my Crohn’s disease or the titanium plate in my hand that hurts every time it rains. It might help. In the meantime, you’ll just have to tell me what marijuana is like by approaching me on the street, especially since my friend left town.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, culture and the importance of being cool at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

High danger A deadly year for fun in the backcountry

by Allen Best

This has been a deadly winter for fun in the backcountry. Through early February, avalanches had killed 24 people in North America, including hikers, climbers, skiers and snowboarders.

Snowmobilers—including the five killed in late January in British Columbia—account for 12 of the 24 deaths.

Every case is different, but a fatality in late January in Colorado is revealing. It was on a day of blue skies at Crested Butte in western Colorado when six local men decided to hop on their snowmobiles.

Mindful of high avalanche danger, they opted for what seemed safer fun on the lower slopes of Ruby Bowl, about 7 miles west of Crested Butte. After building a jump, they used the snowmobiles in yo-yo fashion to ferry skiers and snowboarders up the slope for sliding and jumping.

Located just below tree line, at about 11,000 feet above sea level, the slope seemed tame. Every avalanche book on the planet warns of 30- to 45-degree slopes, and this one was just 20 degrees.

Above their chosen playground, however, the slopes steepened to 32 to 42 degrees. That made all the difference.

In early afternoon, after eight laps, two of the men were riding uphill abreast on a snowmobile. Just as they turned the snowmobile, the avalanche from the steep slope above broke. It wasn’t a large avalanche, but it buried the snowmobile driver up to his shins. His unfortunate passenger, however, was washed downhill 340 feet into a small stand of trees and directly into a tree well.

Others were quickly on the scene.

They were equipped with transceivers, metal shovels and probes, the essential avalanche safety equipment. They picked up the signal of their companion and began digging. First one 6-foot hole, then another. Nothing, but still the signal. Digging just a foot deeper, they found their companion.

All of this had taken a mere 15 minutes. It was still too long. The man died later in a hospital.

Avalanche transceivers, also called beacons, can save lives. But consider this: About 25 percent of all victims die of trauma, not suffocation. In that case, the beacon just helps searchers find the body more easily.

As demonstrated at Crested Butte, time is precious. “Your odds go down immediately with every ticking second, but you see a dramatic rate (of fatalities) after

“About 70 percent of fatal avalanche accidents occur within four days of a prior accident”

about 15 minutes,” says Brian Lazar of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

Colorado has an inland climate, usually featuring a few heavy storms followed by periods of cold. This creates weak, sugary layers of marble-like depth hoar, a recipe for slab avalanches. The January avalanche near Crested Butte had a fracture line that was 3 feet deep.

New technological wrinkles—air bags and Avalungs—have helped, but not that much. The best thing is to avoid an avalanche altogether. Colorado has led the United States in avalanche deaths since 1950, with 270 occurring from then and through last year, followed by Alaska (145), Washington (116), Utah (114) and Montana (108).

California comes in behind them with 66 fatalities, despite having just as many

high mountains and far more people.

Colorado avalanche forecasters report the 10 U.S avalanche deaths in January within a nine-day span were typical in a surprising way: About 70 percent of fatal avalanche accidents occur within four days of a prior accident, according to a 2012 study. In other words, you can go weeks without an avalanche death— and then, wham-bam.

In British Columbia, where 80 percent of Canada’s avalanche fatalities occur, a weekend last month was a wham-bam. Seventeen snowmobilers were caught in a hellacious avalanche on Mount Renshaw, part of a snowmobiling paradise around the small town of McBride. Altogether, five men—all from Alberta, ranging in age from 42 to 55— died. As at Crested Butte, other snowmobilers were quick on the scene with probes, beacons and shovels. As detailed

by Canada’s Globe and Mail, they got to one of the victims within five minutes. It was still too late.

“Heartbreaking” was the reaction of Mary Clayton, communications director for the Canadian Avalanche Centre.

“Clearly, we have a lot of work to do.”

Canadian avalanche professionals typically instruct about 8,000 people annually in safety. Just 10 to 15 percent are snowmobilers. The statistics argue that they need to pay closer attention. For the decade ending in 2014, avalanches killed 54 snowmobilers in Canada as compared to 49 skiers.

Meanwhile, the Canadian Avalanche Centre has shifted its instruction, says Clayton, with instructors now emphasizing terrain rather than the more complicated snow physics. Making safe route choices is a simpler story: Stay off slopes of more than 30 degrees—especially if there’s a steeper slope above.

Allen Best is a contributor to Writers on the Range, an opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He lives in the Denver area and writes about Western environmental issues. Follow him on Twitter at @mountaintownnew.

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CAT CULTURE – Longtime National Symphony cellist David Teie announced in November that his crowdfunding project was hugely successful, freeing him to produce an album of music meaningful to cats. (Cats, for example, relax in response to the earliest sound of their mother’s purring, which Teie clocked at 23 harp notes a second.) Teie’s work, according to an October Washington Post feature, includes examining waveforms of real-time purrs and creating an organ sound to mimic the opening and closing of a cat’s vocal chords. His KickStarter pitch raised so much money that he might also try creating music for bored zoo elephants or stressed-out whales. In tests, cats responded well to Teie’s music, according to a 2015 journal article (but with less curiosity at the Washington cat cafe Crumbs & Whiskers).

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – Amazon.com has riled up Buddhist temples in Japan, according to a January Associated Press dispatch, by offering traveling monks rentable online to conduct funerals and other rituals. The monk would go to a home, grave or funeral home, at fees and upgrades ranging from the equivalent of $300 to about $8,500. (Many of Japan’s 75,000 Buddhist temples are struggling financially and destined to close. Complained a spokesman for the Japan Buddhist Association, what Amazon is facilitating “is allowed in no other country in the world.”)

In February, Gawker.com introduced the semi-serious Lube Crude Index as a poignant indicator of how far the price of oil has fallen. Comparing the world price of a standard 42-gallon barrel of crude (about $31) with that of a 55-gallon barrel of Passion Natural Water-Based Lubricant (retailing as, when packaged in smaller quantities, a sexual aid) shows that “sex lube” is more valuable than crude oil by a factor of 28—a barrel’s worth of the lube recently priced at $1,175 versus crude’s barrel-adjusted $41. As recently as June 2014, the Lube Crude Index was near 1. (Gawker reported that only two actual barrels of Passion Natural could be found and that the price would likely rise further if one of them were sold.)

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Ryan Dailey, 28, was arrested in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in February on several charges after, police said, he beat his mother by pounding her with a Bible. His explanation, police said, was that when he asked her who her soul belonged to, she repeatedly declined to answer.

WHO KNEW? – The much-maligned pigeon was recently found by researchers to be as skilled as humans at distinguishing between slides of benign versus malignant human breast tissue. Writing in the journal PLOS ONE, specialists from the University of Iowa and University of California, Davis lauded the birds’ processing of color, contrast, brightness and image compression, marveling that pigeons see more wavelengths of light than humans, even though their brains are one-thousandth the size. (Birds are already known to distinguish “hostile” humans in celebrated dive-pecking incidents.)

POLICE REPORT — A near-certain robbery of the PNC Bank in Zebulon, North Carolina, on Jan. 28 was prevented, with employees treated to an almost-slapstick scene in which the bank manager kept the suspect outside by winning a tug-of-war for control of the front door. The manager had grabbed the door after noticing an armed, masked man approaching from the parking lot just after the bank opened. (The frustrated perp fled empty-handed, but was at-large.)

Awkward Moments Ahead in Lockup: (1) Joel Sloan, 51, was booked into jail for DUI by a sheriff’s deputy in Birmingham, Alabama, in February. Sloan was dressed head-to-toe as a clown. (No explanation was offered.) (2) Vaughn Tucker, 23, was booked into jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in February on drug charges. He was wearing a T-shirt with large lettering on the front: “I Would Cuddle You So Hard.”

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[12] Missoula Independent • March 3–March 10, 2016

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ot long ago, Montana declared victory in the battle against methamphetamine. In 2008, a report issued by then-Attorney General Mark McGrath’s office celebrated that meth use was waning, as measured by decreasing meth-related treatment admissions, decreasing crime and fewer meth lab seizures. The report attributed widespread public awareness campaigns and targeted law enforcement efforts with its success, and concluded, “With the continued educational and prevention efforts of the Montana Meth Project, it is logical to conclude that meth use will continue to decline and, subsequently, countless new users will be diverted from meth addiction.”

Almost a decade later, that prediction has not come true. By all accounts, meth use is making a comeback.

“Epidemic is an accurate word,” says Missoula Police Det. Sgt. Eddie McLean, who’s been with the department since 1996. Ten years ago, he says, most patrol officers didn’t encounter meth cases in their daily operations. These days, everyone on the force, including many trainees, has dealt with it firsthand. The Missoula County Attorney’s Office notes that meth possession cases have nearly tripled in recent years, from 34 cases in 2013 to 91 cases in 2015.

Ravalli and Flathead County sheriff ’s offices see similar trends. The Montana State Public Defender’s Office reports that abuse and neglect cases related to methamphetamine and heroin use are swamping the office’s caseload, with 21,000 open cases at the end of fiscal year 2014.

“It mystifies me,” McLean says. “I mean, I hear the excuses from drug users, what made them end up trying this … but we are in the social media age, where so much information is available at our fingertips. They know how self-destructive this drug is.”

It turns out that despite millions of public and private dollars spent on warning Montanans to not try meth—“not even once,” as the Montana Meth Project tagline reads—people are still trying meth and getting addicted. Experts say it will take much more than just shocking billboards to truly address the roots of substance abuse in the state.

“NOT AN EASY ANSWER” Law enforcement successfully shut down most of the major in-state meth manufacturers in the early 2000s, but that hasn’t stemmed the tide of high-quality drugs being trafficked into Montana. In 2014, the Montana Highway Patrol seized 18 pounds of meth during 112 arrests.

[14] Missoula Independent • March 3–March 10, 2016

“We’ve done a good job of getting rid of the big in-state labs, but there’s a lot more coming in from super labs in Mexico,” says John Barnes, communications director for Montana Attorney General Tim Fox. “It’s a big concern for us.”

Missoula’s Sgt. McLean adds that he’s seeing methamphetamine of a much higher purity level coming through the state.

“We are on a major corridor of I-90,” he says. “The information that we end up getting when we’re doing our large scale drug investigations is that pound quantities of methamphetamine are either coming into Missoula or passing through Missoula.”

In Missoula, a quarter gram of methamphetamine—roughly enough for one hit—starts at about $10 for the cheapest stuff, according to Bucky, a local meth user who only gave his first name. An eight-ball of crystal methamphetamine, which is about 3.5 grams, runs $250-$300.

“Ten years ago, meth was cheaper,” Bucky claims. “It’s more scarce now.

Though you can find it easier than weed.”

Bucky, 33, suffered a brain aneurysm about five years ago, leaving him partially paralyzed on the left side of his body. He says he was unable to find work after the stroke and currently lives off about $700 per month in disability benefits. He likes to play “Magic: The Gathering” and listen to heavy metal.

Bucky says he was mostly a weed smoker in his 20s and didn’t take to meth until after the stroke. He’s not a big drinker; he used to watch his mother down a quart of liquor a day, but he doesn’t like how booze makes him feel.

He’s also tried heroin, but says he’s wary of the effects of opiate withdrawal. Meth, on the other hand, gives him a boost. He stays up for several days at a time, just walking around town and hanging out with friends.

“It helps me feel more normal,” Bucky explains. “Because I used to be so high energy, I looked like a tweaker when I wasn’t on dope.”

Bucky gets clean needles from the Open Aid Alliance’s syringe exchange program. He usually waits to return his used needles until he can get a ride from his case manager at 3 Rivers Mental Health Center.

“Yeah, you get nervous riding the bus with a cup full of dirty needles in your pocket,” Bucky says.

OAA’s syringe exchange serves mostly opioid and methamphetamine users, according to Executive Director Christa Weathers. The exchange has seen an increase in demand for its services every year since it was founded in 2012, and meth is starting to tick upward, Weathers

says. In 2015, 175 of 311 newly enrolled clients reported meth as their drug of choice. Most users are in their 20s or 30s.

Some kinds of addiction have a single smoking gun, she says, like the clear tie between prescription pill abuse and heroin addiction. But it’s not clear why meth is making such a widespread comeback. “It’s not an easy answer,” Weathers says. “I think it’s really complicated actually.”

When new clients enroll in the syringe exchange, they fill out an intake form with some basic biographical details, including first drug used, age of first use and why they began using. Some clients share similar sentiments as Bucky, writing that they use frequently but don’t feel it’s out of a self-destructive impulse, or that they don’t consider themselves addicted at all.

Others express how much their addiction has cost them in short, terse descriptions that relay a wealth of pain. One began using while homeless in Portland.

A few started smoking meth at parties, until it became a daily habit. One person writes, “Other friends were using it and thought it would be just for fun ... I have practicly [sic] lost everything.”

Most syringe exchange clients report that they began abusing substances while very young, often in middle school, and alcohol was generally their first substance of choice. One client described starting to sneak sips of alcohol at age 4.

Addicts might not always be able to articulate why they make the choices they do, but it’s clear that many are selfmedicating their mental health and trauma-related issues, Weathers says. She applauds the organizations and services that are currently available for drug users, like Recovery Center Missoula, but says more resources are needed. It’s often up to the individual to pay out-ofpocket for their care.

“We’re still lacking in addressing the greater issues,” she says. “Some of those root issues are the reasons people say [they are using]—a lot of really hard, trauma-related things. And then there’s also a lack of treatment facilities when someone is ready to get help.”

Missoula-based meth researcher Tracy Hellem points out there are no FDA-approved treatments for methamphetamine dependence.

“Drug users are so stigmatized and there’s so much stereotype and the effects of meth are just so strong,” Hellem says. “The consequences of meth use are so devastating, and there’s no treatment for it.”

Hellem works at the Montana State University College of Nursing’s satellite Missoula location and is running a pilot

Researcher Tracy Hellem says small doses of creatine, a supplement used by athletes, might help reduce depression in recovering meth addicts by enhancing energy levels. So far, she’s seen promising results in a few patients, but she’s hoping to enroll more participants in her Missoula-based study.

“Ten years ago, meth was cheaper.

It’s more scarce now.

Though you can find it easier than weed.”

photos by Cathrine L. Walters

Brandee Tyree’s mission as an underage substance abuse prevention coordinator is to educate kids about healthy coping mechanisms and avoidance tactics—but also to look at the roots of substance abuse, such as childhood trauma.

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At the Open Aid Alliance Syringe Exchange Program, Stephanie Cole, left, and Christa Weathers say it’s not clear what’s driving the rise in meth addiction.

study that aims to find out whether recovering meth users’ depression can be mitigated with doses of creatine, a common supplement used by athletes for postworkout recovery and muscle-building. So far, results have been promising, though she’d like to get more participants enrolled in the study to get a better idea.

Hellem is also looking at starting a descriptive study just to collect more data on substance abuse in western Montana. The most recent comprehensive report on statewide meth use was published by the Montana Adult Methamphetamine Treatment Coalition in 2009. There’s little current information available about local users besides the rough snapshot provided by the syringe exchange’s numbers, and it would be easier to target the problem if it was more clearly identified.

“I wish Montana was better at keeping track of this kind of data,” she says. “I think in 2009 there was a big report published by the Department of Justice, but I haven’t seen anything more recent. And a lot can change between 2009 and 2015.”

“NOT JUST A TEENAGE ISSUE”

“We have not and we will never win the ‘War on Drugs.’

We have to look upstream. I mean, we have to look at what’s going on long before you’re 12 years old.”

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After overcoming meth addiction and getting out of Montana State Women’s Prison, Terri Griffith went on to study state drug policy for her undergraduate research thesis at the University of Montana.

[16] Missoula Independent • March 3–March 10, 2016

For years, the Montana Meth Project dominated the public discourse about methamphetamine with its aggressive awareness campaigns depicting gruesomely scabbed, dirty meth addicts engaged in acts of violence, robbery and prostitution.

The project was founded by businessman Thomas Siebel in 2005, and it quickly garnered attention with a $5.5 million ad campaign. Famous filmmakers, including Darren Aronofsky and Alejandro González Iñárritu, directed Montana Meth Project TV ads in 2007 and 2008. The commercials were praised by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Affiliated Meth Projects sprung up in other states, including Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming and Hawaii.

But within a few years of its founding, a backlash against the nonprofit was underway. A 2008 study published in Prevention Science determined the Meth Project’s tactics actually led to “increases in the acceptability of using methamphetamine and decreases in the perceived danger of using drugs.” The study also accused the Meth Project of cherry-picking its data to seem more successful, considering that Montana teen meth use, as reported by the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, had already been decreasing since 1999.

In light of the criticism, then-Gov. Brian Schweitzer used his line-item veto to slash public funding to the Meth Project.

Despite the drug’s resurgence within the state in the last few years, the Meth Project continues to claim credit for

spreading awareness about its dangers and reducing first-time use. In 2015, the Montana Meth Project celebrated “10 years of unselling meth.” The project’s current activities are a shadow of its heyday, but it’s still running active social media campaigns and contests, like this year’s “Life or Meth” video submissions competition. It reported about $260,000 in income on its 2014 tax return, almost entirely from private contributions. First Lady Lisa Bullock is listed as a member of its board of directors.

The Montana Meth Project didn’t return the Indy’s requests for an interview, however Executive Director Amy Rue has acknowledged meth’s return. In a November 2015 story in the Flathead Beacon, she’s quoted as telling the paper, “The mission is still the same, we’re driven and motivated to reduce first time meth use among Montana teens.”

Regardless of the nonprofit’s mission, local substance abuse prevention and harm reduction advocates report little to no collaboration with the project, despite their shared interests. At OAA, Weathers says she doesn’t interact with the Meth Project. Hellem says she made some phone calls to the Meth Project while organizing her creatine study, in hopes of working together, but hasn’t yet heard back.

The Montana Meth Project does have an ongoing relationship with members of local law enforcement. Missoula’s Sgt. McLean says he routinely meets with Rue to share information on current trends and educational efforts. “Anything we can do to spread the message,” he says. “And of course she’s up-to-date on our efforts, what we’re seeing, and any information that we get from offenders or what they’re doing.”

At the Missoula Underage Substance Abuse Prevention Program, coordinator Brandee Tyree is careful to say she doesn’t have any comment on the Meth Project one way or another. But she does specify that MUSAP prefers to focus its resources on talking to kids about the four substances most popularly abused by teens, which are alcohol, tobacco, pot and prescription pills.

It’s unrealistic to use shock tactics and simplistic mottos, she says, pointing to the failure of the “Just Say No” campaign prevalent in the 1980s.

“We’re never going to reduce substance abuse in kids by telling them not to do something,” she says. “When you’re 12 years old and drinking, there’s pretty likely a good reason behind that.”

Like Weathers, Tyree sees a link between traumatic childhood experiences and the likelihood that someone will grow up to seek dangerous coping mechanisms.

MUSAP’s parent project, the Missoula Forum for Children & Youth, offers childabuse prevention programs, including kindergarten readiness and respite care.

On the outset, it doesn’t seem directly related to substance abuse, but Tyree takes a broader view.

“We know that when kids have less trauma when they’re little, there’s way less negative outcomes when they’re older, from obesity to suicide to diabetes to alcohol to, definitely, substance abuse,” she says.

Tyree also sees a problem in how American culture coaches kids on avoiding drugs. In her experience, many parents wait to talk to their kids about avoiding drugs or alcohol until their teenage years, by which point it’s very possible that kids have already been exposed to substance use by their peers.

“That would be my golden dream, to shift the community to understand that it’s okay to talk about sex and drugs and rock ’n roll with your 8-year-old,” she says.

“And there are appropriate ways to do that. But emphasizing that this is not just a teenage issue.”

Tyree acknowledges this “golden dream” often runs into a sensitive subject: telling parents how to raise their kids.

“Do I want you telling me how to be a mom? How do we decide what the best way to raise our kids is? I still don’t find in 2016 that it’s an easy public conversation of what you do in your home,” Tyree says.

“So, I think people really care about their kids and the community, but you have to talk about how you live your life to look at these issues. How do you have a public campaign about that? It’s the billion dollar question, really.”

The Montana Meth Project, founded in 2005, made its mark with a shocking and graphic ad campaign. It came under fire after studies showed the Meth Project had cherry-picked its data to seem more successful.

down stuff,” she says. Griffith has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, ADHD and post-traumatic stress syndrome. She says meth helped her focus on tasks and kept the depressive lows at bay—and so she and a group of friends started cooking meth just to keep a steady supply on hand for personal use.

“I always thought I was functional,” she says. “I had a job, I did what I was supposed to do. But I looked at all the collateral damage, and I was like, there’s nothing functional about it. I raised four kids through most of my meth use. All four of my kids were very much exposed to it. They all grew up to be good people in spite of me.”

Griffith was busted for meth manufacture in 2001, at age 40, along with several friends. She recalls that, when she was first arrested, she was lying on her back in a holding cell in the Flathead County jail, her mind racing for hours and hours while she came down from a high and awaited her court appearance. She remembers seeing “train wreck after train wreck” flash before her eyes.

That’s when she decided she needed to simply stop using once and for all. During a four-year sentence in Montana State Women’s Prison, she took chemical dependency courses and dedicated herself to finding a new group of friends and a new purpose in life. After prison, she went

to college and eventually graduated with honors from the University of Montana in 2014 with a degree in social work.

Griffith acknowledges that her recovery and sobriety is almost certainly an anomaly, noting that most of her old meth circle in Kalispell has since returned to drug use. She’s also grateful that she’s been able to recover and be stable, given how much meth use is tied to serious neurological damage. Some long-term meth addicts display symptoms similar to Parkinson’s or type II schizophrenia.

“It eats holes in your brain, for cripes’ sake. I know what it’s made out of,” she says. “I think about it now and I think, okay, you take this poison, this poison,

“A BIGGER PICTURE” Montana Meth Project ad campaigns depict emaciated, hollow-eyed drug users, often with scabs or missing teeth, stooping to terrible acts against their loved ones. One ad reads, “My mom knows I’d never hurt her. But then she got in the way,” and shows a woman sitting bruised and beaten on her kitchen floor.

“I had basically an amphetamine background for 30 years and never really saw anything like that,” says Terri Griffith, a former meth user. “I saw some pretty crappy stuff, but nothing like that.”

Griffith grew up in Wolf Point in the 1970s and began drinking and using drugs at age 10, while dealing with a messy and abusive family life. She eventually moved to the Flathead area and raised a family, all the while dabbling in various substances, typically uppers like cocaine, speed and eventually methamphetamine.

“That was always my favorite, the gofast make you high, instead of the slow-

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Syringe exchange clients typically report a variety of reasons for their substance use, but most often say they were introduced to drugs by friends.

this poison, and mix it all together and then you ingest it. Seriously. We never used Drano, but like, brake fluid, muriatic acid, you know? Now out of it, in hindsight, what was I thinking? I was thinking like an addict.”

She’s proud that she found a new group of friends and successfully rehabilitated her life, but she still deals with the ramifications of being a convicted felon. It’s difficult to find housing and employment, but she was fortunate enough to be close friends with the founder of the Missoula branch of Dress for Success, where she’s currently a volunteer coordinator. She also works as a case manager for a local mental health outpatient treatment service where she helps clients manage their finances.

In college, Griffith wrote her undergraduate thesis on methamphetamine policy. She notes the Montana Meth Project’s initial claims of success were “grossly overrated and overstated,” but does give credit to the project for making the issue so public.

“Like, honestly not very many people hit those absolute extremes. They’re graphic, they got the point across, they’re shocking and they brought awareness,” she says. “So in their own way, they did good.”

She perceives the legal and justice systems’ biggest failures to be focusing too much on any singular substance. She’s observed the trends cycle from meth to prescription abuse to heroin back to meth again.

“There’s a bigger picture out, there is.

I get that this is the thing that’s trending and we do have to focus on it, but we can’t forget about this,” she says. “Meth gets swept under the rug, and it starts creeping its way back from out under the rug.”

All that said, it’s unrealistic to assume substance abuse can be completely eradicated.

“Illegal drug use will never die off, I firmly believe,” Griffith says. “Because there’s always gonna be those that are gonna supply it and those that are gonna demand it.”

At MUSAP, Tyree agrees. She hesitates to put the blame for meth’s return on any one factor.

“I don’t think anybody screwed up. I think we’re products of wanting to feel differently pretty quickly,” she says. “We have not and we will never win the ‘War on Drugs.’ We have to look upstream. I mean, we have to look at what’s going on long before you’re 12 years old.”

In other words, battling methamphetamine will require more than just billboards warning “not even once.” It will require taking a bigger look at cycles of trauma, mental health, addiction and access to services. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Casual style Max Mahn’s graffiti and gig posters put fun above concept

by Erika Fredrickson

M

ax Mahn went to school for art, but he honed his skills on a wall at the California Street footbridge, west of Missoula’s downtown galleries. The favorite spot used by graffiti artists has mostly been preserved, rather than painted over by the city. It’s been a canvas that has provided a relatively sheltered spot for street artists to play.

“I definitely wouldn’t have any of the skills that I have now if that wall didn’t exist,” Mahn says. “It’s a really good way to practice.”

If you ever noticed the big, colorful “Ghetto Gypsy Bus” bumping around town, engulfed in a sound cloud of electronic music and dance-party chaos, you’ll see Mahn’s curvy characters and lettering on the side. He also has a mural in Pie Hole, the new pizza shop downtown, and his work is on the side of another bus—the one parked outside of Real Good Art Space, a gallery where he’ll be showing some of his art this First Friday. His style is inspired by the bubbly tags of European street artists (as opposed to a lot of the classic angular American graffiti you might see on trains around town).

Mahn grew up in a family of artists. His dad is Phil Mahn, a local potter and vice president of Clay Studio of Missoula. His grandfather was a woodworker, his grandmother a water color painter. His cousin works with woodcuts and aquatints and his brother is getting a master’s in painting in Chicago.

With that influence, Mahn’s always been interested in graffiti as an art rather than an act of defiance or destruction.

“People take graffiti in different ways,” he says.

“There are some people who are like, ‘I want to destroy everything and I want to just paint on everything.’

Other people want it to look nice. I’d rather have one nice thing I painted than a hundred shitty things. Destroying shit—that’s never been my mentality.”

One of Mahn’s main passions is gig posters, something one of his UM art professors, Jim Bailey, encouraged him to do. He started out drawing for some friends in a band called Wrinkles. In the last couple of years, he’s taken on posters for some beloved touring bands like Shannon and the Clams, as well as bigger acts such as G. Love and Special Sauce, Heartless Bastards and Yonder Mountain String Band. He’s done event posters for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Montana Book Festival, and he even designed the cover to the Indy’s most recent holiday Gift Guide, complete with giant robots ravaging a Christmas village with fire.

Mahn started his design service, Twin Home Prints, in 2014 and works at Garage Tees, a local screen printing shop. He isn’t prolific yet, but he has fans among the arts community who admire his col-

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Artist Max Mahn shows his gig posters as part of a First Friday exhibit called First Annual Candy Wrapper’s Hippity Hoppity Ball.

orful style. One of those people is Jack Metcalf, the popular local artist, master of quirkiness and owner of Real Good Art Space. Metcalf taught Mahn printmaking his first year in college, and he’s been a supporter of the young artist ever since. Metcalf ’s own exhibits deal with larger, conceptual ideas about art as an experience, but he often does it through mass production of pieces, including screen prints.

“I think graffiti and screen printing are both democratic,” Metcalf says on a recent Saturday as he helps Mahn prepare the studio for the First Friday show.

“In screen printing, you’re making multiples of something for a lot of people. And graffiti is readily available to the public eye.”

Mahn’s posters aren’t necessarily the kind you see flyered up on a billboard outside a convenience store, though. What he makes will often end up for sale on bands’ merchandise tables (he gets a commis-

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sion for them) or, as with the 500 G Love posters he made—which feature a giant rock heart submerged in a shark-infested ocean—used by the band as limited-edition VIP gifts. Sometimes the bands have ideas for how the posters should look, but often, Mahn gets to be the sole creative designer.

“Even if I don’t like the band I’ll listen to their music,” he says. “I’ll hang out—maybe not even draw anything—have a couple of beers and sit there not even thinking of a design, just getting familiar with what they’re going for. Reading interviews with the band helps, too. It’s fun.”

The First Friday show, titled First Annual Candy Wrapper’s Hippity Hoppity Ball, should have that anti-art, democratic flair. It will feature Mahn’s freestyle spray-painted graffiti works and a display of his gig posters, plus live screen printing of his work.

There will also be a performance by rapper Big Dic-

tion, plenty of 40-ounce beers to drink and possibly a basketball hoop for anyone who wants to play. So, “fun” is the key word here. Mahn’s learned a lot from working with other artists such as Metcalf, but he knows that stripping away any pretense of what his art means is when he does his best work.

“I found out I wasn’t really into conceptual art during my school years,” he says. “Gig posters and [graffiti] are a good way to stray away from it but keep a fun medium. It’s less high-brow, more casual. That way I can make something that looks cool rather than think about why it looks cool.”

Max Mahn and Big Diction present the First Annual Candy Wrapper’s Hippity Hoppity Ball at Real Good, 1205 Defoe St. #1, Fri., March 4, from 8 to 10 PM. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Left field Pale People’s portrait of sex, horror and joy On their bandcamp page, Missoula’s Pale People describe their new album as “songs about sex and horror and perversions of Greek myth and impotent rage and luminous joy.”

This is, in fact, a truthful description of Bright Ideas. Pale People’s leader, keyboardist and vocalist Mack Gilcrest, has posted a long story of the band’s origin, which includes Gilcrest trying to transform Chopin’s “Prelude in C Minor (Op. 28, No. 20)” into a punk confessional. But even that detail won’t prepare you for this strange and melodramatic collection.

Bright Ideas sounds like a musical by a madman who is familiar with life’s underbelly and is tender because of it. Gilcrest is an excellent piano player and his vocals are like a classically trained choral singer some-

times channeling David Bowie. With backup from bassist/guitarist Kurt Skrivseth and drummer Brian Tremper, Gilcrest sings about uncomfortable things, but the stories are hard to put your finger on.

In “Toilet Song” he talk-sings, “I can see you waken, ordinary girl/ And you are stumbling towards the toilet, upheaval on its way/ You’ve never felt like this! Oh! Nobody’s ever felt like this!” “Auf Wiedersehen,” a story about partying at a wake, is especially good, while others, like “Mona Lisa,” could use a little restraint. The entire album feels like a weird nightmare.

It makes my skin crawl and it makes me want to keep listening to figure it out. (Erika Fredrickson) Pale People play the Palace with the Fruiting Nobodies and Will Cook Sat., March 5, at 10 PM. Free.

Xavier’s School, Stay Bold or Get Old Missoula’s DIY-showgoers will recall former local musician Tyson Ballew for his band Cat Heaven, solo project Old Shoes and Tummy Rock record label. After he moved to Bellingham, Wash., a few years ago, he started Xavier’s School with four other musicians. The band’s new album, Stay Bold or Get Old, is a Ballew vehicle through and through, with emo pop-punk songs that take aim at personal relationships without pulling any punches.

Ballew might write from a character point-of-view, but a lot of what he sings about is ripped from the headlines of his life. “Dear Dad,” for instance, is a message to his biological father (a GOP Montana state representative). “Dear Dad,” Ballew belts out, “this is the only time I’ll write you/ I want you to know I’m not sad that I don’t know you/ I had a great father/ he’s the one who’ll know my daughters/ while you’ll never get birthday cards, you’ll never get sleepovers.”

The strength of this album is when Ballew finds the line between calling people out on their b.s. and letting a story unfold with specific details, like in “Bulletproof,” where he sings, “Well you have my PJ Harvey CD/ Well you give me reasons to believe you got your hands on my Replacements Let it Be.” A couple of the songs, such as “Underage Surcharge,” seem to focus so much on the message that the artistic elements of the song fall flat. But for the most part, Xavier’s School has created a record that is unapologetic in the tradition of pop-punk but, lyrically, too enjoyable to feel like a preach-fest.

(Erika Fredrickson) Xavier’s School joins Eat Strike, MegaGiant, Ranges, Mido Skip, Scruffager and Buddy Jackson at the ZACC Below Sat., March 5, at 7 PM. $5– $10 donation. All ages.

Danny Barnes, Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later) If Bela Fleck sits comfortably at one end of the banjo spectrum, Danny Barnes is hopping up and down on a stump that holds down the other end. Which is not to say he’s a laggard—last year he won the Steve Martin Prize for excellence in banjo and bluegrass. It’s his quirky songwriting and occasionally unorthodox approach to the instrument that makes him an iconoclast.

“Get It On Down the Line” opens with a nest of dissonant notes that gather into a relaxed, fingerpicked melody in the chorus. It’s a great effect that underscores the question of why life is so tough.

“Get Me Out of Jail” is a great, claw-hammer finger-

popper with some hilarious imagery, including how he keeps his OxyContin stashed in his sock. “Baby, you don’t know me all that well/ Please come and get me out of jail.”

Barnes recorded Got Myself Together in his living room with two mics, a banjo and his whiskey-burnished voice. It’s direct and raw, with no supporting instruments to hide behind. It’s a great soundtrack for sitting in your rocking chair in front of the fire, sipping on a bourbon. (Ednor Therriault) Danny Barnes plays at the Top Hat Sun., March 6. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$12 advance at tophatlounge.com.

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Timmy Vulgar, who played a show in Missoula with his band Human Eye, pictured above, returns March 3 in his new incarnation as Timmy’s Organism.

It all got weird in the mid-2000s when the psychedelics kicked in and Human Eye started playing highconcept psych tunes about alien invasion and a variety of paranoid insect-brain fantasies (or nightmares).

Those themes come with near alarming ease to the Detroit band leader, Timmy Vulgar, aka Timmy Lampinen, who continues to mine a massive pile of would-be Bmovie themes for his songs. During Human Eye’s live performances, Lampinen would often put a large plastic globe on his head and assume the character of some sort of human eye for the show. I’m not sure if it was as an homage to the Residents or just mining similar avant-garde aesthetics, but it added an even wilder vibe to the band’s superb, driving psychedelia.

Human Eye’s recorded output hit six long players and five 7-inches, including 2012’s Third Man Live, which captured a live set from Jack White’s recording studio. That partnership continues with White’s label backing Timmy’s Organism, the band playing Missoula’s ZACC Below this week.

Human Eye’s 2011 They Came from the Sky blew my mind for at least a solid month when KBGA’s Dane Hansen first hipped me to it. The record’s production is completely beautiful, rewarding the eager listener with all kinds of great keyboard flourishes, wild tones and, more than anything, some of the greatest sounding flangey fuzz guitars this side of Hawkwind. It’s a play-it-all-straightthrough-and-cranked-loud kind of record for me, with huge builds and cascading crescendos and liquid sounding guitars, all deployed in an absolutely cohesive way.

Lampinen is a prolific Michigan musician and visual artist whose music goes back as far the late ’90s when the Clone Defects started dumping their excellent middle coast garage blasts onto the world. The Clone Defects capped a relatively short but energetic career with an LP on the great In the Red record label. While more conservative by the standards of what Lampinen’s

groups are doing now, his talent for making fervent and memorable music shined through early with songs like “Shapes of Venus� bringing all the pop genius of protopunks like DMZ and the Real Kids. Similar to Jay Reatard, Lampinen’s always had a great sense of melody and what goes into writing excellent pop songs, with panned vocals, memorable recordings with excellent sounds and players and, most importantly, a wild and great intensity.

Lampinen’s current band, Timmy’s Organism, continues that journey if just slightly back in the direction of rock and roll. The first single released from their new Heartless Heathen record is called “Get Up, Get Out� and channels fellow Michigan dudes like MC5’s Fred “Sonic� Smith and Wayne Kramer. When I play the tune, I am thoroughly positive nothing at all is wrong in underground music. Consequently, another Michigan stalwart (and many-time Missoula visitor), Wolf Eyes have a new record out on White’s same Third Man label and are touring with Timmy’s Organism. Wolf Eyes’ John Olson recently declared noise music to be “dead,� and 2016 finds the band riffing heavily in a world of their own creation called “trip metal.� Mostly, I am a Problem: Mind in Pieces is Wolf Eyes’ most approachable and rock sounding record yet (of their thousand-plus discography). I love that these two pretty different and well-established bands are touring together. It doesn’t mean that Wolf Eyes is going to play the next Goner Fest, but it does give me hope for an underground music scene that pushes conventional wisdom and challenges ridiculous genre silos. My guess is this tour is twisting around plenty of caps, exposing both noise purists and garage purists to some worthwhile music.

Timmy’s Organism and Wolf Eyes play the ZACC Below along with Austin’s Video Thu., March 3, at 8 PM. Cover TBA. arts@missoulanews.com

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I came to know Rick Bass first as a nonfiction lights Bass at his best, showing the struggles of our writer. My mother gave me a copy of The Ninemile main character’s conscience, as well as capturing the Wolves when it first came out in 1992, because she steamy heat of that particular part of the country. Our knew I loved wolves and because the events de- narrator (again in first-person) works out of Mississcribed went down not far from where we lived. Of sippi, where he has a lover, but spends much of his course I’ve also read Winter, a book, like Norman time traveling around the poor hill communities of Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, that has spawned northern Alabama to secure oil drilling leases. How waves of literary pilgrimages from wide-eyed would- this process works is interesting just from a cultural be Montanans for a couple decades now. I loved and historical perspective, buttressed by Bass’ early both. It never occurred to me that Bass might do as background as a petroleum geologist. But how the narrator juggles what he does well writing fiction. and the pace of it— with the I picked up an audiobook women in his life and the peoon CD (remember those?) for a ple he encounters when trying cross-country drive around to secure drilling rights—is an 2004. That collection of discs feaexcellent examination of the tured stories from the Best Amerhuman heart. ican Short Stories series, and “The River in Winter,” anone of those stories was “The other new piece, is a tightly Fireman,” written and read by written story of a 15-year-old Bass. I thought it was excellent. boy who dives into the WhiteThis piece, originally published fish River on something of a in Bass’s 2003 collection The bet. He aims to secure a length Hermit’s Story, is one of those of chain to a submerged selected to appear in his new pickup truck that had recently collection, For a Little While. plunged through the ice. He Of the 25 stories in For a does it before a crowd of onLittle While, 18 have been publookers, who, with the aid of a lished previously and seven are couple horses, intend to then new. For readers just now disuse the chain to drag the truck covering Bass’ short fiction, this from the river. His mother isn’t is the absolute best place to For a Little While there. It is the same river his fastart. For a Little While showRick Bass ther drowned in a year earlier. cases the better part of 30 years hardcover, Only three other writers in of work from one of America’s Little, Brown and Company the last 25 years have had as best short story writers, and to 480 pages, $28 many pieces selected for the see it collected between one set of covers is impressive. Even those who own the Best American Short Stories series: Alice Munro, Lorprevious collections that compose the bulk of this rie Moore and Joyce Carol Oates. That’s some heady one will likely find something new to marvel over, if company. One need look no further than For a Little only for the excellent consistency of quality. There While to learn why Bass is there. The list of magazines that have published his work—The New Yorker, The isn’t a dud among these pieces.

Like traversing the states Bass is most associated Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review—is as impressive with—Texas and Montana—several of these stories seem a bunch as any writer could dream of appearing in. to go on and on forever. The journey truly is the beau- He’s won multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart tiful part of the trip, though; the destination almost be- Prizes. Then there are the Guggenheim and NEA felside the point. “Goats” takes place in the Houston area lowships. Now, having spent several hours immersed decades ago, a first-person tale of two boys who are in the worlds he creates, I am absolutely on board growing up hoping to become cattle barons. As they get with all those other writers and publications who are older and their means to purchase throw-away beeves so effusive in their praise of his clear, lyrical writing. improves, one may wonder where the story is headed. When I think of Rick Bass now, it is as a fiction writer But the characters they encounter along the way, not who sometimes writes nonfiction.

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[film]

Bettering America Michael Moore’s latest stacks up the evidence

by Molly Laich

“You mean, I’ve got to hold this thing all the way to Normandy?”

Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next has a misleading title, although I should have seen the misdirect coming. His last was 2009’s Capitalism: A Love Story, a scathing critique of America’s convoluted, forprofit culture wherein the love part is largely sarcastic. I assumed this latest documentary would be another critique on America’s penchant for throwing its military might around, but that’s just the scaffolding to prop up Moore’s larger premise. What if, instead of invading other countries for our usual evil, imperial reasons, we went in and reclaimed their progressive ideas on things like workers’ rights, prisons, public schools and the war on drugs?

With that same fed up but hopeful energy he’s brought to his other films, Moore signals his invasion by bringing a large American flag on a pole with him to interviews and then ceremoniously setting it down. In Italy, Moore talks to a typical middle class couple about their country’s policy on employee time off—and, big surprise—it’s a lot cooler than ours. We learn that Italians dole out several weeks of paid vacation time, in addition to five months paid maternity leave, time off for honeymoons and other flights of fancy. Americans have long grown accustomed to a culture that values long hours and employee sacrifice, and so with this news the film triggers its first of many culture shocks.

In France, the school lunches don’t look like beige lumps of garbage, and in Finland, there’s no qualitative difference between the public schools in their poorest and richest neighborhoods. In Norway, we see prison cells that look like dorm rooms, where the maximum sentence is 21 years and murder is still rare. In Portugal, resources they would have spent arresting drug users go toward treatment options instead, and the hits just keep coming from there.

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matter in humorous ways, so it’s easy to forget that Moore was an early pioneer of the genre. In his first film, Roger and Me (1989), Moore explored the collapse of his hometown of Flint, Mich., by using humor and participatory journalism in a way that few documentaries up to that point had ever attempted. Now, with the water crisis in Flint making national headlines, his iconic first film is more relevant than ever.

Comparatively, Where to Invade Next doesn’t have a whole lot of new information—you’re probably already familiar with most of these ideas—but they have an impressive impact on the psyche when stacked together.

In 2016, a Michael Moore film is unlikely to change anyone from a conservative to a progressive; our media choices are too tailored to hope for anything like that. Where to Invade Next exists mostly as a reconfirming of beliefs among progressives. In that vein, the film shows us that cultural change doesn’t have to be some abstract, impossible notion in the future. In Iceland, we learn that women’s rights protests in the 1970s gave way to the country’s first female president in the 1980s, and now they have an entire generation of women who see their success in the public sphere as a normal, pedestrian thing. We see footage of students in other countries vehemently protesting when the government tries to take away their right to a free college education. In America, students react to constant tuition hikes with a comedic, profound lack of action.

All of this points to a plain and powerful thesis: A better America is possible, and change can happen more swiftly than we’ve been trained to believe.

Where to Invade Next opens at the Roxy Fri., March 4. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Rated R, showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK HAIL, CAESAR! The Coen brothers are back with a sprawling farce set in the glory days of Hollywood. Stars Josh Brolin, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, Scarlett Johannson and many more. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy.

RISEN Story of the resurrection, as seen through the eyes of a nonbeliever. Roman military man Clavius is tasked with finding out what happened to Jesus in the days after his crucefiction. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.

LONDON HAS FALLEN Gerard Butler discovers a plot to assassinate all the world’s leaders. Can Dr. Evil be behind it? Also starring Aaron Eckhart and Angela Basset. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

SON OF SAUL (SAUL FIA) A Jewish worker in the Auschwitz concentration camp tries to find a rabbi to give a child a proper burial. Nominated for a best foreign film Oscar.

Rated R. Showing at the Roxy.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MANON LESCAUT (ENCORE) Soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Roberto Alagna join forces in Puccini’s passionate love story. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Mar. 5, 11 AM. NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: HANGMEN With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden. Showing at the Roxy Tue., Mar. 8, 6:30 PM. REPO MAN The life of a repo man is always intense. This week’s Movie Cult selection has everything you’d want, namely, Harry Dean Stanton, and Emilio Estevez as Otto, the punk rocker turned repo man.

Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Mar. 5, 9 PM. TANGERINE Out at the Roxy is a new series featuring LBGTthemed films. First up is Tangerine. Sin-Dee is out of jail and moves through the L.A. subculture with her friend Alexandra to hunt down her cheatingass pimp boyfriend. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Wed., Mar. 9, 7 PM. WHERE TO INVADE NEXT The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back. Michael Moore visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy.

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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Tina Fey plays Kim Barker, a journalist who recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Han Solo, Luke, Leia and Chewy are back as J.J. Abrams hefts the yoke of the mighty Star Wars franchise, picking up where 1983’s Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi left off. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex, and pretty much every theater everywhere.

“Honest, I ordered a camo backpack. Will this stand out?” Whiskey Tango Foxtrot opens Fri., March 4, at the Carmike.

NOW PLAYING

who competed in the 1988 Olympics. Stars Hugh Jackman. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.

13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Director Michael Bay reportedly shows massive restraint on the flying cars and moon-sized fireballs in this based-on-true-events account of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

GODS OF EGYPT Winged golden gods, Egyptian skyscrapers and firebreathing cobra worms feature heavily in this CGIintensive fantasy adventure. Stars Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

THE BIG SHORT Four outsiders who see the looming bust of the housing bubble decide to take on the big banks.

Starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling. Nominated for a best picture Oscar.

Rated R. Showing at the Roxy.

DEADPOOL Ryan Reynolds stars as possibly the most smartassed superhero in the history of Marvel Comics.

Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.

EDDIE THE EAGLE Based on the true story of Eddie Edwards, the improbable but tenacious ski jumping Englishman

KUNG FU PANDA 3 Po (voiced by Jack Black) continues his “legendary adventures of awesomeness” as he faces two foes.

One is supernatural, the other, not so much. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex.

TRIPLE 9 A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town. Stars Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.

THE WITCH A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by witchcraft, black magic and possession. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.

ZOOTOPIA In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a fugitive con artist fox and a rookie bunny cop must work together to uncover a conspiracy in Disney’s new animated feature. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike.

Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault

RACE Based on a true story, Race recounts the story of Jesse Owens competing in the Olympics against long odds and under the hateful eye of Adolph Hitler. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike.

THE REVENANT After being brutally mauled by a bear, a fur trader struggles to survive in the 1820s wilderness with only his wits and less than one bar of cell service.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area.

You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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photo courtesy of BLK/MKT

Rise of the pop-ups

by Jamie Rogers Nate Harbison isn’t your typical aspiring chef, but there’s nothing typical about starting a pop-up restaurant in Missoula. He doesn’t have much culinary pedigree. He has never owned a restaurant. He counts tacos among the great food inventions of human history. None of these things should surprise you. He’s still qualified for the gig.

Pop-up restaurants wear many different masks.

They happen in people’s homes, in unoccupied commercial spaces and abandoned buildings. The meals, usually dinner, are often for small groups of people who purchase tickets in advance, and when the food is finished, so too is that iteration of the restaurant. (Increasingly, though, celebrity chefs are opening pop-ups that stay in one place for weeks or even months.) Like brunch burgers, gourmet toast and food trucks, pop-up restaurants were a food trend in Portland 10 years ago, so, naturally, we are now ready for one in Missoula.

This is a good thing not only for Missoula diners, but also for people like Harbison—people who are passionate about food, but also relatively new to the game and understandably reticent about investing in a restaurant, truck or cart.

“You need to put so much money into a restaurant, and so many of them fail,” he says. “I just want to get my food out to people. I want to get their feedback and see what they like and what they don’t.”

A pop-up, then, is the perfect place to start.

It wasn’t until just a few years ago that Harbison started thinking about food and cooking seriously.

“I’d just moved to Missoula, and I spent most of my days babysitting my girlfriend’s son,” he says. “I was just bored, so I started cooking.”

Harbison, 29, had few culinary skills when he began cooking at home. Though he’d worked in kitchens before, much of his know-how came from his mom, who was an unremarkable cook. “The few things she taught me, they weren’t bad,” he says. “It was just the plainest food.”

In the beginning, Harbison followed recipes lineby-line, but soon began tweaking them. Growing up

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WHAT’S GOOD HERE in northern California, he loved to paint and draw, and while he doesn’t consider himself “the greatest artist,” he’s always found inspiration in color. When he realized cooking was a lot like art—ingredients in a recipe are just paint on a palette—he gained the confidence to make the recipes his own.

“I realized that I could rearrange the food and that that could make it completely different,” he says.

“It’s a painting on a plate.”

About a year ago he got a job working at the Dinosaur Café in the rear of Charlie B’s bar. He likes working there, but cooking a menu as entrenched in Missoula culture as the Dino’s doesn’t leave much room for creativity. So last fall, after a visit to San Diego, Harbison was inspired to research other avenues to introduce people to his food.

BLK/MKT (Black Market) hasn’t officially launched yet, but Harbison hopes to begin a regular Friday dinner service in the next month or so.

Though he’s not sure exactly how BLK/MKT will operate (one of the advantages of being a pop-up), he initially plans to offer weekly or monthly memberships. After signing up, members will receive emails detailing where and what Harbison will be serving that week. He says it could be anywhere from a private home to a vacant commercial space. The experience will change each week (the food, he points out, will be prepared in a commercial kitchen and served at that week’s location).

And as for the food, if the photos on BLK/MKT’s Facebook page are any indication, Missoula will be glad to have, what I believe to be, its first true popup. Sidewalk pad thai, a venison meatball sub (pictured above), pineapple shrimp ceviche—Harbison’s food looks both elegant and straightforward, equally suited for first dates and nursing hangovers.

“I’m not going to have a theme with this … I just want to cook really good food for regular people. And at this point, I just want people to try my food,” he says. “By any means necessary.”

[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in.

Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation.

Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Have you checked out Bernice's website: bernicesbakerymt.com? Are you a fan of Bernice's on Facebook? Did you catch that silly Christmas video on YouTube? Googled our activities lately? #bernices? Bernice's not only has awesome breakfast pastries, elegant cakes, signature wedding cakes, cookies and treats galore, lunch, excellent coffee, AND NOW ESPRESSO! Bernice's has great employees who rock the social media! 37 years of solid goodness! Check out our social media and then stop by to celebrate a job well done! xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$

ment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm.

Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 43 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. $

Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

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. $-$$

Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $

El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$

Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. 542-0002 bridgepizza.com A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$

Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commit-

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531 S. Higgins

541-4622

PAD THAI, BULGOGI, KOREAN PORK NOODLES, GREEN CURRY, ADOBO, KATSUDON, BOBA TEAS, BEER, WINE, SAKE

2-for-1 drinks (with entree) 3-6pm Mon-Fri

Sat & Sun

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BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

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. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana microdistilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$

$…Under $5 $–$$…$5–$15 $$–$$$…$15 and over

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Tapping Fridays at the Dram Shop

HAPPIEST HOUR How it works: Each Friday at 4 p.m., after you’ve skipped out on work for the day, the bartenders at the Dram Shop open a beer cask by driving a metal spike into it with a rubber mallet. The growler fill station and taproom’s “Tapping Fridays” event is an ode to a longtime British tradition, and onlookers are encouraged to applaud and whoop as the cask is tapped.

the wooden cask. As deemed by tradition, the beer is served at between 49 and 54 degrees, which is about the temperature of a cellar.

How special are these beers? Very. In the past, the cask beer has included a Huckleberry Cold Smoke from Kettlehouse, a Blood Orange Amber Ale from photo by Erika Fredrickson Draught Works and both a Raspberry Cardamom Imperial Stout What you’re drinking: The Dram Shop, and a Cinnamon Toast Crunch Moose Drool which features a rotating menu of local and from Big Sky. specialty beers, wines and ciders, offers a What’s on tap next: This Friday’s cask new cask of specialty beer each week. The cask rotates between local breweries Kettle- beer is an Orange Peel Mint IPA from Big Sky. house, Blackfoot River Brewing, Draught How to get there: The Dram Shop is loWorks and Big Sky Brewing. Employees from the Dram Shop sometimes collaborate with cated at 229 E. Front St., next to the Pearl Cafe.

—Erika Fredrickson the breweries to create the brews. Pints cost $4. Growler prices vary according to size.

Happiest Hour celebrates western MonWhat’s a cask beer? A cask beer is unfil- tana watering holes. To recommend a bar, tered beer that goes through a double fermen- bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, tation process—the final of which is done inside email editor@missoulanews.com.

SATURDAYS 4PM-9PM

MONDAYS & THURSDAYS ALL DAY

$1

SUSHI Not available for To-Go orders

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service.

Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 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. $-$$

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 weekday 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 Korean-Japanese 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 Alaskan King Crab, Duckling with Pomegranate Cherry Sauce, Angus Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

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! $-$$

The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $

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. $-$$

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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March 3–March 10, 2016

THURSDAYMARCH03 Sorry, not sorry: The No Apologies Writers, including Cyndy Aten, Audrey Peterson, Karen Ward and more, read their original works of poetry and creative nonfiction at Shakespeare & Co. 7 PM. Free.

Bonnie Gestring of Earthworks discusses the many impacts of the proposed Montanore coppersilver mine in northwest Montana. Clark Fork Coalition, 4 PM. Free and open to the public.

The UC Gallery’s 5th Annual Juried Exhibition, Bedtime Stories, features UM student work juried

by Missoula Art Museum Senior Curator Brandon Reintjes. Reception is 4–6 PM, with awards announced at 4:30. Free. The exhibit runs through March 31.

nightlife Meditation for Beginners with Raquel Castellanos is every Thu. at the Red Willow Learning Center, 825 W. Kent. 5:30–6:30 PM. $45.00 for the four-week course.

Tom Catmull is as familiar and comfortable as your grandma’s favorite afghan. Throw him over your shoulders at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.

Andre Floyd is a bluesman through and through.

He weaves his rhythmic spell at Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Colette Derworiz of the Calgary Herald delivers the UM School of Journalism’s Marjorie Nichols lecture on the topic of Canada’s changing climate.

Turner Hall Dell Brown Room, 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

photo courtesy of David Morrison

“Hi, we’re the non-union roofing crew.” Texas trio Purple play Stage 112 Sat., March 5. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5, 18 and over.

Award-winning author Monica Drake is the author of Clown Girl and The Stud Book. She reads from her work at the Payne Family Native American Center, room 105. 7 PM, free and open to the public.

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[calendar] Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, an edgy commentary on the intersection between violence and dance, continues at the Masquer Theatre, PAR/TV building. 7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Parental discretion advised.

Dusk shine some musical light on the dance floor at the Sunrise Saloon, 8 PM. No cover.

Something’s Afoot continues at the Hamilton Playhouse. It’s murder, mystery and comedy as the guests in an English mansion disappear one by one. 8 PM. $15 at the Hamilton Players box office.

Third Man Records recording artists Wolf Eyes are joined by psych-rockers Timmy’s Organism

FRIDAYMARCH04 The Taste is Montana Food Bank Network’s fundraiser that fills your belly while you help provide food for the hungry. Over 75 tastings are offered by local chefs, caterers and breweries.

Music from the John Floridis Trio. Neptune Aviation 6–9 PM. $45.

Enjoy organic, Made in Montana wine and live, local music by David Boone. Pack a picnic or buy a salami and cheese pack. Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. Tasting room opens at 4 PM, music at 6. Free, but wine will cost you.

The Missoula Irish Dancers get their jig on at the North Valley Public Library, then give a free lesson afterwards. 6:30 PM. Free.

the guests in an English mansion disappear one by one. 8 PM. $15 at the Hamilton Players box office.

Ethan J. Perry and the Remedy Band play sweet Americana in a show at Free Cycles Missoula, 732 S. 1st St. W. 7–9:30 PM. Donations are welcome.

House is in the house when Breathe Carolina bring the bump to Monk’s Bar. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30. $12/$10 adv. at 1111presents.com and Rockin Rudy’s. 18 and over.

The Little Prince continues at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 7:30 PM. $18/$16 seniors/$8 students. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, an edgy commentary on the intersection between violence and dance, continues at the Masquer Theatre, PAR/TV building.

7:30 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Parental discretion advised.

All Systems Flow, Beauflexx, Mr. Wizard, Chad Dabox and Nerdskull combine for a night of hip hop and flow at Stage 112. 9 PM. No cover.

Spokane’s hottest country outfit, the Ryan Larsen Band, whoop it up at the Sunrise Saloon.

9:30 PM. No cover.

photo courtesy of Ville Askeli Juurikkala

“Valmistaudu pitämään kasvosi sulanut.” Translation: Prepare to have your face melted. Finnish metal megastars Nightwish head up an evening of thundering rock with fellow Finns Sonata Arctica and Delain from Holland. Sun., March 6, at the Wilma. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. $32.50–$175 at thewilma.com.

and Video from Austin for an evening of paint-peeling rock at the ZACC Below, 235 N. 1st St. W. 8 PM. All ages, cover TBA. (See Music.)

Wisenheimers will be cracking wise at John Howard’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform; things usually start around 10. Free.

From San Francisco, the Brothers Comatose bring their entertaining, roots-rocking string band to the Top Hat with The Easy Leaves. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $10 at tophatlounge.com.

nightlife Richard Fifield gives an undoubtedly entertaining reading from his novel The Flood Girls. Stick around and have him sign your copy at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins, 5:30 PM. Free.

Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie to some live music while parental units kick back at the Top Hat. 6 PM. No cover.

Get your Gaelic on at the Irish Music Session every Friday at the Union Club from 6–9 PM. No cover.

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Take a break from the workaday world and experience the play Working, based on the Studs Terkel book as adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso. The story explores the search for the extraordinary things in life through the eyes of ordinary working stiffs. Stevensville Playhouse, 7:30 PM. Tickets at stevensville playhouse.org.

They ride in from the West, guitars blazing, and take no prisoners. The Idle Ranch Hands spill no blood, only great country music at the Union Club.

9:30 PM, no cover.

Nashville 406 play grown-up country at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.

Boise’s Transistor Send join Iron Eyes and our own Dorothy for a night of alternative rock and original sounds at the Palace. 10 PM. $5.

Something’s Afoot continues at the Hamilton Playhouse. It’s murder, mystery and comedy as

Missoula funksters Shakewell will have you doing just that on the dance floor, with Partygoers and more. Top Hat, doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5.

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FIRST FRIDAY Gesine Janzen from Bozeman exhibits Floodplains, in which she uses multiple print processes to depict the qualities of flowing water and the elusive qualities of memory.

Missoula Art Museum. Reception 5–8 PM. Charlie Russell as painted by Pablo Picasso is the provocative style of the Judith Gap series by George Gogas, who is being honored Mar. 5 in UM’s School of Fine Arts’ Odyssey of Stars. Gallery 709, 709 Ronan St. Reception 5–9 PM. Missoula sculptor Maryann Eikens answers questions and discusses her bronze work at Freshwater Studio and Gallery, 101 E. Broadway. Enjoy hot spiced cider and cookies.

5–8 PM. Patricia Thornton’s Misfits, Monsters and Pretty Things features mixed media collages full of anthropomorphic characters with a touch of whimsy. Clyde Coffee, 610 S. Higgins. Opening reception 5–8 PM. In a deliberate break from Regionalism and beyond Modernism, Into the 21st Century features works by Thom Joyce that explore diverse new worlds and ways of seeing our culturally linked Internet world. At the Hive, 800 S. 3rd W. 5–10 PM. Check out some paintings and wearable art by local artist Nancy Rishoff at a one-nightonly exhibit. Gecko Designs, 523 N. Higgins. Reception 5–8 PM. N is for Nest features the mixed media assemblage works of Marion Lavery. 4 Ravens Gallery, 248 N. Higgins. Opening reception 5–8 PM. Larry Thomas’ Ammophilia features abstract artworks that depict the quiet moments, places of transition between grass and sand, sky and water. On display through July 23. Missoula Art Museum, opening reception 5–7 PM. The Last Best Dream, a collection of surrealism artworks, continues at Radius Gallery. First Friday art walk, 5–8 PM. Self-taught artist Emily Hall displays her new works, which feature some autobiographical subject matter. The Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins. Reception 5–8 PM. Montana Wilderness Association presents photos of the Great Burn proposed wilderness area, on display through March and April. Lake Missoula Tea Company. Reception 5–7 PM. Timeless Fetish features the scupltures of Caitlin Finley. She exhibits alongside Jack Honeysett at the Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St. 5–8 PM. Dennae Tirrell designs and makes her jewelry for the free-spirited and adventurous soul, crafting her pieces with sustainable, local and reclaimed material. Bathing Beauties Beads, reception 5–8 PM. Bayla Arietta creates ethereal interpretations of reality using watercolors on hot press paper.

George Gogas’ Judith Gap series is featured at Gallery 709. Opening reception 5–9 PM.

Check out her work at Betty’s Divine. Opening reception 5–8 PM. Artist Jessie Smith presents her first solo gallery exhibit, Ode to Art. Her works include acrylics, graphite, watercolors, photography, even poetry. Also music by Meagan Mackeever.

E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. Opening reception 5–9 PM. Photographer/ videographer Steve Slocomb and creative lamp artist Tom Parcheta display their photos at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Montana Properties, 314 N. Higgins. Reception 5–8 PM. Vintage Spirits is an exhibit of Bryan Steward’s oil paintings, depictions of candid moments. The Artists’ Shop, 127 N. Higgins.

Celebrate First Friday with a familyfriendly art show featuring preschoolers’ work as well as pieces by local artists. Enjoy refreshments, live music and a silent auction, including art and gift certificates to local businesses. All proceeds benefit Spirit at Play. Le Petit Outre, 5:30–7:30 PM. Admire art from students of Clark Fork School while learning more about the National Wildlife Federation’s educational programs and enjoying kid-friendly activities. National Wildlife Federation, 240 N. Higgins. Reception 5:30– 8:30 PM. Early works of Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival, ranging from the ‘80s and ‘90s, are on display at Frame of Mind, 1706 Brooks St. Reception 5:30–9 PM. The theme of growth and flowering in Bloom helps you look forward to spring. Exhibit features five regional ceramic artists. Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne. Reception 5:30– 9 PM. First Annual Candy Wrapper’s Hippity Hoppity Ball is the name of the event at Real Good. Part hip-hop, part screenprinting, part illustration. Features Max Mahn and Big Diction.

1205 Dafoe St. #1, 8–10 PM. (See Arts.)

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What the hay! Missoula singer-songwriter David Boone returns for a show at Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery Fri., March 4, 6 PM. Free.

SATURDAYMARCH05 Enjoy a night of belly dance, fun and camaraderie at the Bordeaux Family Belly Dance Extravaganza. Money raised will go toward the improvement of downtown Missoula. Crystal Theatre, doors at 7 PM, show at 7:30. $10.

UM’s Students in Communication and Hearing Work in Action host their 4th annual Spring Autism Conference. Speakers include associate professor Ann Garfinkle and family support specialist Marie Middleton. Ruby’s Inn, 8 AM–5 PM. For more info visit mshaonline.org.

Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W. Dig into your writing with The Writers’ Room, a one-day workshop hosted by the Missoula Writing Collective. Classes are taught in four downtown locations by 12 pro writers. 10 AM–5 PM. $60 per class or $120 for three. For info, visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org.

Humanities Montana continues their Spring Speaker Series with “Anna Lester O’Keefe,” pre-

sented by Emily Darling, followed by “Emma Slack Dickenson” by Dawn Dambaugh. Daly Mansion, 10 AM. Free.

Meet artist Larry Thomas, grab a coffee, and hear him talk about artmaking. Missoula Art Museum, 10 AM–noon. Free.

The annual ACLU meeting allows supporters and newcomers to hear updates from the executive director and legal director. Also, two roundtable discussions to explore a variety of civil liberties topics. UC 3rd floor, 11 AM–2:15 PM. $25/$10 students and “living lightly.”

The Women’s Fair features entertainment, makeovers, massages, retail therapy, raffles and more. University Center ballroom, 11 AM–4 PM. For more info visit missoulawomensfair.com.

A pruned tree is a happy tree. Learn this arboreal skill at MUD’s Tree Pruning Workshop. Orchard Gardens Neighborhood Farm, 210 Grove St., 1–4 PM. $5–$40 per class, visit mudproject.org.

Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, an edgy commentary on the intersection between violence and dance, wraps up with a matinee performance at the Masquer Theatre, PAR/TV building. 2 PM. $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under. Parental discretion advised.

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nightlife Think your chili has the beans to stack up with the best? Put it to the test at the 5th annual Chili Cookoff. Donated cash and food will go to the Montana Food Bank Network. Territorial Landworks, 1817 South Ave. W., Suite A. 5:30 PM. Must register by Thu., Mar. 3. Contact StephanieL@ TerritorialLandworks.com. (See Agenda.)

Djebe Bara West African Dance and Drum Group gets your blood pumping at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset Duo play a little country, a little folk and other guitar-related music at Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.

Ted Ness and the Rusty Nails play bluegrass, Yellowstone Valley-style at Bitter Root Brewing, 6– 8:30 PM. Free.

ACLU of Montana’s Executive Director Scott Chrichton is the winner of this year’s Jeannette Rankin Peace Center civil liberties award. Join the celebration and award ceremony at Missoula Winery. Catering by Masala. 6–8 PM. $25/$10 students and “living lightly.”

Ready to give swing dance a try? Check out the community swing dance at Martha Jane’s Uptown Dance. Admission includes a free 45-minute lesson

in triple step swing from 6:30-7:15 followed by general dancing. 1008 Burlington, 6:30–9 PM. $7.

Sally Thompson reads from her book People Before the Park, a chronicle of the Kootenai, Blackfeet and other indigenous peoples. Grizzly Claw Trading Co., Seeley Lake. 7 PM. Free.

The Little Prince continues at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 7:30 PM. $18/$16 seniors/$8 students. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Working, based on the Studs Terkel book, continues at the Stevensville Playhouse. 7:30 PM. For tickets, visit stevensvilleplayhouse.org.

Nashville 406 play grown-up country at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.

Something’s Afoot continues at the Hamilton Playhouse. It’s murder, mystery and comedy as the guests in an English mansion disappear one by one. 8 PM. $15 at the Hamilton Players box office.

Charcoal Squids, Tiny Plastic Stars, Bullets or Balloons, Wojtek and Sunraiser conspire for a night of mayhem at the VFW. Doors at 9 PM, music at 9:30. $7 for 18-20, $5 for 21 and over.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo completely disrespect the adverb with their Absolutely Dance Party at the Badlander, which gets rolling at 9 PM, with fancy drink specials to boot. No cover.

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unknown factor

Take a grumpy, gun-packing Joe from the Dirty South, slick back his jet black mane to expose a fearsome widow’s peak, and give him some boomerang mutton chops. Then bless him with Music Rowlevel guitar skills and a hyper-redneck worldview, and you’d have something close to Unknown Hinson.

A few years ago a copy of The Future Is Unknown, his second album, fell into the hands of my friend, local bluegrass musician Richie Reinholdt, who immediately

no lip,” is acted out in a brilliantly trashy, low-budget romp.

Many know Hinson as the voice of Early Cuyler from the animated Adult Swim series “Squidbillies.” Early was basically a cartoon, tentacled version of himself. That drawl, which turns “women” into “womerns” and “nuclear” into “nuk’l’r,” is unmistakeable.

With his ever-present snub-nose revolver and custom-embroidered Western suits, he cuts a distinctive figure while tossing off lines like “I cut her loose from my heart/ WHO: Unknown Hinson, Rev. Horton Heat, more Like a big ol’ stinkin’ fart.”

WHEN: Tue., March 8. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9.

Songs like “I Ain’t WHERE: The Badlander Afraid of Your Husband,” “I HOW MUCH: $22/$20 advance at ticketfly.com Cleaned Out a Room (In My Trailer for You)” probably won’t be showing up on country alerted several musicians to this twisted radio any time soon, but it can’t be said “Hee Haw” nightmare. We’d never heard that Unknown Hinson doesn’t have a anything like it—killer country picking and moral code. “I won’t live in sin with you, surf guitar coupled to wildly hilarious and but if you’re havin’ my child/ I guess there’s inappropriate songs like “I Don’t Take only one thing to do, hell, I got to marry Dope” and “With His Money (And Your you,” he sings in “I Won’t Live in Sin.” Love).” Who was this guy? Then we saw Someone this funny and this talented dethe video. Hinson’s “Venus Bound,” a rock- serves to be known. abilly shuffle about a guy who builds a —Ednor Therriault rocket ship to go “where women don’t give

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[calendar] Bowie tribute band Glass Spiders play a show at the Top Hat, a fundraiser for Missoula Community Radio. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5 min. donation at the door.

Spokane’s hottest country outfit, the Ryan Larsen Band, whoop it up at the Sunrise Saloon.

9:30 PM. No cover.

They’re the Michael Jordan of swingin’ honky tonk, except they’re white. Cash for Junkers play the Union Club, 9:30 PM. No cover.

Purple rock out Texas-style at Stage 112, with special guests TBA. Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5, 18 and over.

nightlife Alt-country mad scientist Danny Barnes uses the banjo in ways you never could have imagined.

At the Top Hat. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $15/$12 advance at tophatlounge.com. (See Music.)

Jazz chanteuse Kimberlee Carlson enchants with her trio featuring Ron Meissner, Pete Hand and Micki Singer. Draught Works Brewery, 5–7 PM. Free.

It’s metal night, Finnish style. Nightwish are

ister visit missoulacareerfair2016.eventzilla.net. For more info call 406-728-7060.

Join the March for Meals and show your support for Meals on Wheels during March. Pick up a donation form at Missoula Aging Services, 337 Stephens Ave. Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon–8 PM.

The Confluence of Renewable Energy and Human Health: Putting Ourselves to Work for a Human-Powered Future features associate professor Dr. Bradley Layton leading a discussion on how our energy consumption habits are at odds with human health concerns. UC, room 332. Noon–1 PM, free and open to the public.

nightlife The Craicers and Friends wield a musical shillelagh with their traditional Irish tunes at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM.

SUNDAYMARCH06 Bring your best puh-puh-puh-poker face to the Texas Hold ‘Em tournament, a fundraiser to support the Missoula Downtown Foundation.

Elks Lodge, 112 Pattee St., 2 PM. $100 single buy-in or $1,000 sponsor table. Prizes for top ten finishers. Sign up at missouladowntown.com/poker.

The Mrs. Butterworth vs. Log Cabin debate heats up when the Sons of Norway host their Scandinavian Pancake Breakfast. Proceeds go to scholarships for attendees of the Norwegian language camp in Red Lodge this summer. Sons of Norway Nordic Pines Lodge, just south of Missoula on Hwy. 93 S. 9 AM–1:30 PM. $7.

Can I get an amen? Dance Church is in session on Sunday mornings. Dancers of all abilities are welcome at this mellow, guided class that lets you move like nobody is watching at the Downtown Dance Collective, 11 AM–noon, $5.

Something’s Afoot wraps up with a matinee performance at the Hamilton Playhouse. It’s murder, mystery and comedy as the guests in an English mansion disappear one by one. 2 PM. $15 at the Hamilton Players box office.

Pass your hand-me-downs along to another family and pick up some fresh togs for the kids at the Missoula’s kids’ clothing swap. Bring gently used, quality items to the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library. Clean clothing can be brought at 2 PM, swapping commences at 2:30. Free.

Working, based on the Studs Terkel book, continues at the Stevensville Playhouse with a matinee performance at 2 PM. For tickets, visit stevensvilleplayhouse.org.

The Little Prince continues with a matinee peformance at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. 4 PM. $18/$16 seniors/$8 students. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

A silent auction raises funds for Madeleine Renee Roseboom, a 21-month-old who passed away after a brief illness. The benefit will help her parents with medical bills, funeral costs and other expenses. The Missoula community is invited to attend. Stage 112 at the Elks Lodge, 4–7 PM. The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities interested in exploring movement improvisation. At the Downtown Dance Collective every Sunday from 4:30–6 PM. $5.

“Dude. Let me borrow your comb.” Breathe Carolina play house music at Monk’s Fri., March 4. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9:30. $12/$10 advance at 1111presents.com or Rockin Rudy’s.

joined by Sonata Arctica and Dutch rockers Delain at the Wilma. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $32.50–$175.00 at thewilma.com.

Here’s your one-way ticket out of Squaresville. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover.

MONDAYMARCH07 Dan Dubuque plays slide guitar and Charango at the Red Bird Wine Bar. 7–10 PM. Free.

Employers, registration is open for Western Montana’s Career Fair, held Thu., April 28. To reg-

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nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, two hours of Jerry Garcia and Co. 5–7 PM. Free, all ages.

Top of the Mic, Missoula’s own battle of the bands, returns. Solo acts, duos and bands compete for $1,000 cash. The Badlander, 9 PM. No cover.

TUESDAYMARCH08 Save Our Smith is a fundraiser to help protect the Smith River from a proposed copper mine.

Food, drinks and music by Tom Catmull’s Radio Static. Free.

Get those thumbs limbered up! The Official MPL Gamers Club meets to play Wii and Xbox 360 in the YA dept. at the Missoula Public Library. Ages 13–19, 6:30 PM. Two-step the midweek blues away at Country Dance Lessons at the Hamilton Senior Center, Tuesdays from 7–8:30 PM. $5. Bring a partner. Call 381-1392 for more info.

You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more.

Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: Who is Rev. Horton Heat’s longtime bassist? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

[calendar] It’s a psychobilly freakout when Rev. Horton Heat, Unknown Hinson, the Legendary Shack Shakers and Lincoln Durham sink their teeth into your hide at the Badlander. 9 PM. $22/$20 adv. at ticketfly.com. (See Spotlight.)

WEDNESDAYMARCH09 Strum and Drum is a benefit concert that supports the guitar education program at Salish and Kootenai College. The Mike Murray Band and Tim Torgerson are joined by several of last year’s Crown of the Continent Guitar Workshop students. Johnny Arlee and Victor Charlo Theatre, SKC in Pablo. Doors at 6:30 PM, show 7–9.

The Artists Along the Bitterroot brown bag lecture series features discussion about art stuff. Every Wed. through April. Bitterroot College in Hamilton, 103 S. 9th St., Room 116. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Give Local Missoula is a 24-hour online giving day, with the goal of raising $300,000 for Missoula nonprofits. Volunteers can attend an orientation session March 9, 1–2 PM at the Roxy Theater. For more info visit missoulacommunityfoundation.org.

nightlife A Phish Happy Hour? Sounds more like a Trey Anastasio solo. Enjoy Phish music, video and more at the Top Hat every Wednesday at 4:30 PM. But I know you’ll show up at 4:20. Free. All ages.

Every Wednesday is Community UNite, wherein 50 cents of each pint of tasty KettleHouse brew goes to a deserving organization. This week’s beneficiary is the Missoula Food Bank. KettleHouse Northside Taproom, 5–8 PM. Presentations on sex trafficking and sexual assault in Montana feature Rep. Kimberly Dudik and human rights advocate Hilly McGahan. Mission Valley United Methodist Church, 70715 Hwy. 93 N. Potluck at 5:30 PM, discussion begins at 6. Free and open to the public.

Bob Wire continues his campaign of maximum honky tonk penetration at Great Burn Brewing. 6– 8 PM. Free. (Trivia answer: Jimbo.)

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

John Dendy provides the tunes at Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM. Free.

Rediscover “the magic which makes you legendary in your own mind” when “Poncho” Dobson hosts the Live and Loco open mic at the Symes Hotel, Wednesdays from 6–9:30 PM. Call 741-2361 to book a slot, or just come hang out and party. Free.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in. Hosted

by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.

Cribbage enthusiasts finally have a place to share their affliction at Cribbage Night. Enjoy a few cocktails as you look for nibs and nobs. Boards and cards provided. Rattlesnake Creek Distillers, 128 W. Alder St., Suite B. 6–8 PM.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. Nick Ut, best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a young Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm attack, speaks as part of a nationwide centennial celebration of the Pulitzer Prizes. Alexander Blewett III School of Law, Room 101. 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

West Coast jazz? Continental jazz? Bebop?

Avant-garde? It’s all free jazz, as in no charge, Dad, when the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Quintet takes the stage for Jazz Night at the Top Hat. 7 PM, no cover, all ages.

Rick Bass reads from and signs copies of For a Little While, his latest collection. Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins. 7 PM. Free. (See Books.)

THURSDAYMARCH10 Former NFL player Wade Davis is a thought leader, writer and educator on gender and race equality. After coming out in 2012, he was named executive director of the You Can Play Project. He speaks at the UC ballroom, 7 PM. Free, all are welcome.

nightlife Thesis exhibitions by MFA grad students Tressa Jones, Kate Lund and Aja Mujinga Sherrard are on display through Mar. 24 at UM’s Gallery of Visual Arts. Opening reception 5–7 PM. Meditation for Beginners with Raquel Castellanos is every Thu. at the Red Willow Learning Center, 825 W. Kent. 5:30–6:30 PM. $45.00 for the four-week course.

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

This month the discussion focuses on The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation by Stephan A. Schwartz.

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

Kari Lynch provides the tunes at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.

Bare Bait Dance Co. presents All About Moon.

These dance pieces are inspired by a variety of moon myths, quintessential moon songs and general moon mania. Open Space at the PAR/TV center, 8 PM. $14/$12 advance. barebaitdance @gmail.com.

The Double Down Band is in it to win it at the Sunrise Saloon. 8 PM. No cover.

Submit your event to calendar@ missoula news.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. Don’t forget to include the date, time, venue and cost. Or snail mail to Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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Join us for . . .

THE WRITERS' ROOM/writing workshops & fundraiser March 5, 2016 • 10 to 5 o'clock 10 to 11:45 a.m.

Sheryl Noethe/Poetry & the Line Break/Fact & Fiction Caroline Keys/Songwriting/Boyle Deveny & Meyer Robert E. Lee/Form Poems/Shakespeare & Company Caroline Patterson/Kickstart Your Fiction/Missoula Public Library 11:45 to 12:45 p.m.

Buffet Brunch ($12) the Top Hat: "Kicking the Loose Gravel Home" Film about Richard Hugo 1 to 2:45 p.m Rachel Mindell/The Prose Poem/Fact & Fiction Marnie Prange/Working with the Image/Shakespeare & Company Chris Dombrowski/Creative Writing Across the Curriculum/Boyle Deveny & Meyer Fred Haefle/Writing Memoir/Missoula Public Library 3 to 4:45 p.m.

Dana Fritz Gale/Fiction: Raising the Stakes/Boyle Deveny & Meyer Derek Heckman/Storming the Novel/Missoula Public Library Mark Gibbons/Poetry: Sound, Breath & the Oral Tradition/Fact & Fiction Alex Alviar/Fiction from Personal Spirit/Fact & Fiction Cocktail Hour 5 p.m.

The Radius Gallery - 114 East Main Street $60/1 class, $110/2 classes, $150/3 classes register at www.missoulawritingcollaborative.org or call (406) 449-3348

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This week’s Chili Cookoff will require your best effort. What’s the secret to making a great pot of chili? Well, if I tell you, it’s not a secret anymore. But what the hell, I should share this knowledge. As they said at Faber College, knowledge is good.

First things first: crank up some Los Lobos. Colossal Head is good. To start the chili, crumble a couple pounds of ground beef into a big pot. Or if you’re a vegetarian, just one pound. Brown it until it’s gray, then add the onion that you chopped 30 minutes ago. Dice up a shallot and stir it in. Ditto four cloves of garlic. Since I’d rather eat a dirty shop rag than a bell pepper, we’ll not include those here. Now it’s can opening time. And when I say cans I mean the normal size cans, not those large Catholic family cans. I like to use four kinds of beans: black, white, kidney and ... hmm. I guess I just use three kinds.

Don’t drain off the liquid, that’s where all the delicious salt is. Add a can of petite diced tomatoes, a can of chopped smoked chilis, a can of tomato sauce, half a can of corn and a full can of Rotel (original—this is no time to wuss out). Next add a couple of tablespoons of chili powder. Then stir in a tablespoon of ground cumin (not tree cumin), which somehow makes it taste like chili. Simmer on medium low for both sides of Born to Run. Bon appétit!

—Ednor Therriault The 5th annual Chili Cookoff is Sat., March 5, 5:30 PM. Donated cash and food will go to the Montana Food Bank Network. Territorial Landworks, 1817 South Ave. W. 5:30 PM. Must register by Thu., Mar. 3. Contact stephaniel@territoriallandworks.com.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY MARCH 4 The Taste is Montana Food Bank Network’s fundraiser that fills your belly while you help provide food for the hungry. Over 75 tastings are offered by local chefs, caterers and breweries. Music from the John Floridis Trio. Neptune Aviation, 6–9 PM. $45.

SATURDAY MARCH 5 Buy local, eat local at the Missoula Winter Public Market. Enjoy fresh produce, frozen meat, eggs, honey and other locally sourced food. Snag a hot cup of locally roasted coffee and check out the handmade crafts too. 10 AM, 800 S. 3rd St. W. The annual ACLU meeting allows supporters and newcomers to hear updates from the executive director and legal director. Also, two roundtable discussions to explore a variety of civil liberties topics.

UC 3rd floor, 11 AM–2:15 PM. $25/$10 students and “living lightly.”

ACLU of Montana’s Executive Director Scott Chrichton is the winner of this year’s Jeannette Rankin Peace Center civil liberties award. Join the celebration and award ceremony at Missoula Winery.

Catering by Masala. 6–8 PM. $25/$10 students and “living lightly.”

SUNDAY MARCH 6 The Mrs. Butterworth vs. Log Cabin debate heats up when the Sons of Norway host their Scandinavian Pancake Breakfast. Proceeds go to scholarships for attendees of the Norwegian language camp in Red Lodge this summer. Sons of Norway Nordic Pines Lodge, just south of Missoula on Hwy. 93 S. 9 AM– 1:30 PM. $7.

Bring your best puh-puh-puh-poker face to the Texas Hold ‘Em tournament, a fundraiser to support

the Missoula Downtown Foundation. Elks Lodge, 112 Pattee St., 2 PM. $100 single buy-in or $1,000 sponsor table. Prizes for top ten finishers. Sign up at missouladowntown.com/poker.

Pass your hand-me-downs along to another family and pick up some fresh togs for the kids at the Missoula’s kids’ clothing swap. Bring gently used, quality items to the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library. Clean clothing can be brought at 2 PM, swapping commences at 2:30. Free.

A silent auction raises funds for Madeleine Renee Roseboom, a 21-month-old who passed away after a brief illness. The benefit will help her parents with medical bills, funeral costs and other expenses. The Missoula community is invited to attend.

Stage 112 at the Elks Lodge, 4–7 PM.

MONDAY MARCH 7 Employers, registration is open for Western Montana’s Career Fair, held Thu., April 28. To register visit missoulacareerfair2016.eventzilla.net. For more info call 406-728-7060.

Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, noon–8 PM.

TUESDAY MARCH 8 The Confluence of Renewable Energy and Human Health: Putting Ourselves to Work for a Human-Powered Future features associate professor Dr. Bradley Layton leading a discussion on how our energy consumption habits are at odds with human health concerns. UC, room 332. Noon–1 PM, free and open to the public.

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

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eading map and compass is a navigation skill that every serious outdoors enthusiast should have. In order to safely navigate unfamiliar terrain, you can combine a good orienteering map with a decent map compass to determine your location and plan your route.

You’ll have it better than Lewis and Clark. They used sextants, octants, a chronometer and several type of artificial horizons to determine their latitude and longitude. They also carried a circumferentor, which helped them find their position between magnetic north and true north. Kind of important when you’re hauling tons of heavy gear and wish to avoid plunging off a surprise cliff. If their calculations were off by as lit-

tle as 2 degrees, it would mean an error of up to 100 hundred miles. And with the younger Corps of Discovery members chanting, “Are we there yet?” it would be a tense backtrack indeed.

Of course, they had no maps. They were making them. Thanks to the efforts of Lewis and Clark, you can walk into your friendly neighborhood outdoor supply store and pick up a beautiful, highly detailed, deadaccurate map to use with your compass.

—Ednor Therriault

Annual Meeting University Center at UM, 11:00 – 2:15 ($25 / $10 student) Montana Supreme Court Candidate Forum University Center at UM, 2:30 – 4:00 (FREE!) Jeannette Rankin Civil Liberties Award Missoula Winery, 6:00 – 8:00 ($25)

A Map and Compass course is offered at the North Valley Public Library in Stevensville Tue., Mar. 8 at 6 PM. Free.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

THURSDAY MARCH 3 Looking for something a little different this spring break? UM’s Office for Civic Engagement is offering students a trip to Moab, Utah, where they’ll camp and volunteer in Arches National Park. $300 per student. Applications must be submitted by 5 PM, Fri., March 4. For more info email Kellie at kjhof@comcast.net.

The drones are here! The drones are here! The Autonomous Aerial Systems Office celebrates its launch with a public drone fly-in. All are welcome to bring their aircraft or try one out at the event under a safety net. At the UM Oval, 1–4 PM. Free.

Bonnie Gestring of Earthworks discusses the many impacts of the proposed Montanore coppersilver mine in northwest Montana. Clark Fork Coalition, 4 PM. Free and open to the public.

Colette Derworiz of the Calgary Herald delivers the UM School of Journalism’s Marjorie Nichols lecture on the topic of Canada’s changing climate.

Turner Hall Dell Brown Room, 7 PM. Free and open to the public.

SATURDAY MARCH 5 Be an explorer for a day at Travelers’ Rest State Park. Learn what it took for Lewis and Clark to complete their journey, in this latest program of Trekker Kids. 11 AM. $2 for kids, adult chaperones are free.

A pruned tree is a happy tree. Learn this arboreal skill at MUD’s Tree Pruning Workshop. Orchard Gardens Neighborhood Farm, 210 Grove St., 1–4 PM. $5–$40 per class, visit mudproject.org.

The Watershed Education Network hosts three water monitoring training sessions in March, starting with this one. Greenough Park, 2–5 PM. Free and open to the public. RSVP to water@montanawatershed.org.

TUESDAY MARCH 8 Join the Montana Dirt Girls every Tuesday for an all-women hike or bike somewhere in the area. You can find the upcoming trip posted at facebook.com/ MontanaDirtGirls. Various locations, 6 PM. Save Our Smith is a fundraiser to help protect the Smith River from a proposed copper mine. Food, drinks, and music by Tom Catmull’s Radio Static. Free.

UM’s Wilderness Institute hosts a weekly free lecture series, What’s the Wild Worth? The Price of Nature’s Amenities Through a 21st Century Conservation Lens. This week’s speaker is Dr. Evan Hjerpe, Executive Director of the Conservation Economics Institute. UM’s Gallagher Building, room 122. 7:10– 8:30 PM. Free and open to the public.

The Rocky Mountaineers meeting features images and stories from Norman Singley, Michael Moser and Neil Simpson’s bike and hike journey from the start of the Hiawatha Trail to the end of the State Line Trail. The Trail Head, 7 PM. Practice your Eskimo rolls and flat spins at the Open Kayak session. Bring your own kayak and gear, ages 14 and under require adult supervision. Currents Aquatic Center, 8–10 PM. Normal entry fees apply. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us/161/Aquatics.

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SILENT AUCTION Begins at 11AM Thursday March 10, 2016 - 3645 Clark Fork Way Missoula, MT 59808.Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, and other household goods. Buyers bid for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash/money orders accepted for payment. Units reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. ALL SALES FINAL.

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He will come when called and would love the opportunity to learn more tricks. Check out the Humane Society of Western Montana, a great animal shelter and pet resource. Become a Facebook friend or check out www.myHSWM.org!

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By Amy Alkon

TO GIVE AWAY

FIFTY SHADES OF WAIT

I’m a very successful guy in my 30s. I had a lot of casual sex in my 20s, but I got sick of the disconnection and emotional fallout.

I’m looking for a relationship, and I’ve started waiting to sleep with women (for at least a month). I tell them this, but the waiting thing seems to make them want me more and push to have sex. What I don’t get is why some get so angry at me.

—Slow Train Women are used to men wanting sex right away—or sooner, if possible.

Your being the one with your legs crossed? Well, it’s like offering a dog a strip of bacon and having him look up and say, “Aww ... thanks, doll, but I’m good.”

Now if these women getting angry with you were just lusty, there’s an app for that—one that allows a moderately attractive woman to swipe a sex partner over faster than Domino’s can get there with a pizza. The problem here is female sexual psychology. We all want to be wanted, but research by clinical psychologist Marta Meana finds that women, especially, seem to have an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. This makes evolutionary sense, in light of women’s need for reliable signs that a guy would stick around after sex to “provide.” A man having an uncontrollable longing for a particular woman is pretty great insurance—right up there with legshackling him to the cave wall.

Not surprisingly, according to research by evolutionary psychologist Patricia Hawley, if there’s catnip for women, it’s those “bodice ripper” novels. They feature intense male desire for a woman, but not of just any male—a “powerful, resource-holding” one, like the playboy prince or titan of industry.

This alpha god cannot be tamed, until ... whoops ... up pops our heroine, the apparently ordinary maiden. The hunky royal or CEO is so taken with her unique (and otherwise overlooked) beauty and spirit that he can’t help but grab her and “ravish” her. Of course, in real life, we call this felony rape. In romance novels, when the guy is uber-rich and cruelly handsome, it’s the start of a beautiful relationship.

So, women’s inability to defeat the time lock on your zipper is telling them something—no, not “Wow ... he thinks I’m really worth getting to know,” but “Wow ... he thinks I’m uggo” and “That two-week sabbatical from Booty Barre has really caught up with me.” It may

help a little to reassure them that you find them wildly attractive—like by “confessing” that you have to take three cold showers and stare at pictures of steamed vegetables before every date. For you, this is the only possible way to keep from giving them one of those manscam long hugs that turns into sex ... uh, that is, three weeks and four days later.

THE SILENT SCRAM

I was dating this girl for about three weeks, but I just wasn’t really feeling it, so I “ghosted”—stopped asking her out and just didn’t respond to her texts. Some of my friends said I was mean to “ghost,” but honestly, I think it’s a lot kinder than telling somebody you’re not into them.

Why have an uncomfortable conversation when you can just slip out and everybody is spared?

—Slow Train Why take 45 seconds to text a girl that it’s over when you can make her obsess about you for two months straight, stalk you on Instagram, and bore her friends catatonic with “Is his phone broken? Is my phone broken? Did he see that drunken Facebook post? Should I have waxed my mustache?”

Wordlessly disappearing on somebody you’ve spent more than a couple of hours with at a coffee bar is a kick in their dignity—telling them they aren’t even important enough for you to tell them they aren’t important. It also makes a person go unnecessarily berserko, due to what’s called the “Zeigarnik effect.” Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik observed that unfinished business causes administrative problems for our mind—leaving it in a “state of tension” and causing it to annoy us (over and over) to get “closure” on whatever’s been interrupted and left incomplete.

This isn’t to say you owe a woman a detailed rundown on your feelings; you just need to tell her that you’re done. Ideally, open with something complimentary, and then bring down the ax: “Not working for me.” “Not feeling it.” That sort of thing.

She’ll cry, she’ll eat some cake, and she’ll move on. Ultimately, if you want to be kind, a breakup should feel more like ripping off a Band-Aid than hysterically searching for your car for four hours in a multi-level parking structure.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS High school student looking for a job. PartTime or Temp. $8/hr. Available after-school and weekends.

What do you need done? Data entry, yard work, distribute flyers/marketing materials, cold calling to schedule meetings, etc.

Lets talk, call Dominick @ 5445859.

Ladies, please join us for lunch! Bitterroot Business Connections MBN Sub-Networking Group. Every 3rd Wednesday • 11:30-1PM • Bitter Root Brewing (upstairs) • 101 Marcus St, Hamilton • 11:30 - Noon: Networking • Noon - 1: Guest Speaker.... As an extension of MBN, the Bitterroot Sub-network works to promote and support women in business and professional practices by providing a local forum for interaction with others who can offer diverse perspectives on business management and growth.... Learn more about MBN at discovermbn.com Spring Lecture Series The Artists Along the Bitterroot Brown Bag Lecture Series is free and open to the public. 12-1 pm, Wednesdays March 4 -April 29.

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Dry Cleaner/Laundry Worker Busy full time position pressing clothing for a locally owned Missoula Business. Candidate needs to be able to differentiate colors. Sort articles to be cleaned by fabric type, color, and cleaning technique. Load clothing into laundry and drycleaning machines. Iron or press articles, fabrics, and furs, using hand irons or pressing machines.

Training will be provided. This is a fast paced working environment with daily goals that must be met once training is complete.

Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID # 27194

Production Support Level I Contribute to running the business by ensuring quality and on time delivery when preparing prefinished siding, including: loading of automated machines, painting of boards by hand, and bundling and packaging of units for shipment. Contribute to improving the business by continually contributing and implementing ideas to improve the worksite or processes at all times. This includes creating a positive culture of continuous improvement by learning and applying lean principles, exhibiting honesty at all times, and respecting other people at all times. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27159

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Driver Seeking Route Driver for linen service. Temp-to-hire full-time position located in Missoula and the surrounding area.

The Driver will be responsible for making deliveries, providing excellent customer service and must have the ability to lift up to 50#, repeatedly. Qualified individuals will have delivery experience and extensive knowledge of the Missoula area. Clean driving record required. Wage DOE $12.00 Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #27208 Collect Signatures for Referendum Petition Seeking an outgoing individual to collect signatures for our Safe Montana petition. The ideal candidate will believe in our cause, be self-motivated and have the ability to attend a variety of events and locations throughout Missoula to reach the greater population. M-F, 8: 00-5: 00.

Assignment may possibly last up

to 6 weeks at $10.00/hr. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27106 Court Security Officer Safeguard federal courts and court employees against unauthorized, illegal, and potentially lifethreatening activities. Deputized as Special Deputy U.S. Marshals with firearms and arrest powers.

Be a U.S. citizen at least 21 years of age. Be a high school graduate or have a General Educational Development (GED), or equivalency. Be able to read, write, and speak English fluently. Possess a valid state driver’s license. Completed or graduated from a certified Federal, state, county, local or military law enforcement training academy or program that provided instruction on the use of police powers in an armed capacity.

Have at least three years of verifiable experience as a certified law enforcement officer or its military equivalency. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10183777

Outlaw Music 724 Burlington Ave. is seeking a part time employee 3 days per week for our Music Store sales floor. Drummers welcome but must also play guitar or bass. An understanding of basic instrument set up is desired.

Retail and marketing background preferred. Requirements include computer data entry, utilizing inventory database, and working with photo shop & Gimp programs. Ideal position for university student. Hourly & commission sales. Please bring resume to our store to set up an appointment with the owner. 406-541-7533

Public Safety Communications Officer Missoula County. Requires high school graduation or GED. One year experience working with the public.

Keyboarding speed of 45 WPM and Data Entry Alpha-Numeric Test certifications which can be taken at any Montana Job Service. Subject to passing a criminal background investigation; preemployment hearing and drug screen. Must attain and maintain CPR and EMD certification; and CJIN, NCIC and POST certifications. Work rotating shifts, nights,

Advertising Account Executive The Missoula Independent, Montana’s premier weekly publication of people, politics and culture, is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our advertising sales team. Customer service experience and strong organizational skills are required.

Sales experience is preferred, but we’re happy to train someone who brings a great attitude and lots of enthusiasm. We offer a competitive comp and benefits package, as well as a fun, dynamic work environment.

Send resume and salary history to: Lynne Foland at 317 S. Orange, Missoula or to lfoland@missoulanews.com.

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Business Development Specialist Driver Dental Assistant Dermatology LPN Dry Cleaner/ Laundry Worker LPN II Insurance Agent

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Medical Office Receptionist in small private practice.

High school or equivalent education required.

Experience with office work in a healthcare setting is preferred.

Must be familiar with Microsoft Office programs. Customer service skills are most important. If interested, please send resume with references to: mtfaimissoula@gmail.com

EMPLOYMENT weekends and holidays. Exposure to stressful environment. Work is primarily performed in communications center and requires long periods of sitting or standing at a computer work station; performing data entry; and wearing a communications headset. Occasional bending, reaching and lifting (10#). May require some travel for training or meetings.

Performs work involved with 9-11 call taking and emergency service dispatching. This is an entry level training position for the 9-11 Center and is used to train employees to take emergency and non-emergency phone calls; to dispatch emergency medical and fire services; and to prepare the employee for advancement to PSC Officer II level duties anticipated to occur after one year of employment. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10183590 Sales Clerk CENEX GRAVEYARD SHIFT to operate cash register, stock shelves and perform light clean-up. Must be computer literate, as sales will be entered into computerized sales system. Requires good customer service skills and ability to work well with the public and other staff. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10183890 Service & Delivery Local business seeking Spa Service/Deliver/Retail sales person. If you are self motivated with a positive attitude looking for a long term career then we want you. Must be reliable, willing to work, able to lift #75. Experience with plumbing, electrical and carpentry preferred.

Experience with retail a plus. Must have clean driving record. Starting wage $13 DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID # 27011

PROFESSIONAL SCOBEY is accepting applications for Chief of Police. Starting salary DOE. Please contact City of Scobey at 406-487-5581 for full description, benefits and application

SKILLED LABOR CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED from the Missoula area. • Must be present to apply • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-4937876 9am-5pm M-F. TRUCK

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setting with a current MT LPN license or certified/registered MA required. New graduates will be considered. Wage range from $13.50-$20.25/DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27049

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RN Consider joining Hillside Health Care as an RN. We are closely knit and highly functioning team committed to making every moment matter in our residents’ lives. With a rich history of compassion and a heart for delivering superior service, our campus and life care centers are dedicated to serving seniors with a complete continuum of social, spiritual and health-related care. As an RN, you ensure that our residents receive high quality of care. We need an RN who can carry out a full spectrum of nursing functions.

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Dental Assistant Small Dental Clinic practice is seeking a part-time Receptionist/Dental Assistant to provide front office and back office support. The ideal candidate will provide courteous communication with patients and to provide effective office administration. This is a fast-paced environment that continuously serves patients and requires strong multi-tasking and organizational skills. - See more at:. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26849 Medical Coding Train for a career as a Medical Coder with Career Step. The Medical Coding and Billing program can be taken online at your own pace. Career Step trains you to the latest coding standards of ICD-10 and fully prepares you for taking the national certification exams. Pay in full by February 29th and get a free laptop or $300 off tuition. Payment plans also available. Visit referral.careerstep. com/ref10228 for more information. `

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High school or equivalent education required. Experience with office work in a healthcare setting is preferred. Must be familiar with Microsoft Office programs. Customer service skills are most important. If interested, please sent resume with references to: mtfaimissoula@gmail.com Dermatology LPN/CMA Candidates must have excellent clinical and computer skills (Epic experience preferred) and be able to demonstrate their initiative and ability to work in a team environment with patients, providers and co-workers. Be a part of an organization that makes a difference in our health care community.

Seeking LPN/CMA’ s with experience in Dermatology, Family Practice, Midwifery and a Sleep Clinic

RNs up to $45/hr., LPNs up to $37.50/hr., CNAs up to $22.50/hr. Free gas/weekly pay, $2000 bonus. AACO Nursing Agency 1-800-6564414 Ext. 4.

SALES Insurance Agent Seeking an Insurance Sales Agent to join one of the most recognized brands in the nation with an outstanding reputation in the Insurance industry.

Immediate opportunity for a sales-minded individual to join an exclusive team of Insurance Agents in our Missoula, MT branch office. Now is the time to grow with an industry leader that is passionately committed to providing exceptional products and services to our members. - Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #25884 Salesperson Seeking a fulltime Inside Sales Representative to grow our existing customer base including national key strategic accounts and pursue new customers in the commercial aquatic market. You must be goal and customer oriented in order to achieve or exceed the monthly and annual sales target and the Company’s overall strategic goals.

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ANIMALS

Salvaged bricks for exterior siding or interior masonry 8,000+ Bricks on pallets and ready for pickup in Milltown.$2,500 obo. Will consider selling in lots of 1,000, make me an offer. Call 258-6442

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MUSIC New & Used Musical Instruments & Equipment Audio & DJ Equipment • Music Accessories • Percussion. First Interstate Pawn. 3110 S. Reserve, Missoula. 406-721-7296 Turn off your PC & turn on your life! Guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass lessons.

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Staffing Consultant Enjoy the complete satisfaction of landing new clients with your outgoing personality, in a friendly sales-driven environment. Build LC Staffing s market position by locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing business relationships. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID# 27090

WORK WANTED 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.

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High school student looking for a job. PartTime or Temp. $8/hr. Available after-school and weekends.

What do you need done? Data entry, yard work, distribute flyers/marketing materials, cold calling to schedule meetings, etc.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Sportswear manufacturer Adidas is looking for ways to repurpose trash that humans dump in the oceans. One of its creations is a type of shoe made from illegal deep-sea nets that have been confiscated from poachers. I invite you to get inspired by Adidas’s work. From an astrological perspective, now is a good time to expand and refine your personal approach to recycling. Brainstorm about how you could convert waste and refuse into useful, beautiful resources—not just literally, but also metaphorically. For example, is there a ruined or used-up dream that could be transformed into raw material for a shiny new dream?

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There isn’t enough of anything as long as we live,” wrote Raymond Carver. “But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Virgo, you’ll soon be gliding through one of these intervals. Now and then you may even experience the strange sensation of being completely satisfied with the quality and amount of sweetness that arrives. To ensure optimal results, be as free from greed as you can possibly be.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s not always necessary to have an expansive view of where you have been and where you are going, but it’s crucial right now. So I suggest that you take an inventory of the big picture. For guidance, study this advice from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “What have you truly loved? What has uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time? Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and they may reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self.”

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some night soon, I predict you’ll dream of being an enlightened sovereign who presides over an ecologically sustainable paradise. You’re a visionary leader who is committed to peace and high culture, so you’ve never gone to war. You share your wealth with the people in your kingdom. You revere scientists and shamans alike, providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm. Have fun imagining further details of this dream, Gemini, or else make up your own. Now is an excellent time to visualize a fairy tale version of yourself at the height of your powers, living your dreams and sharing your gifts.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I do not literally paint that table, but rather the emotion it produces upon me,” French artist Henri Matisse told an interviewer. “But what if you don’t always have emotion?” she asked him. This is how Matisse replied: “Then I do not paint. This morning, when I came to work, I had no emotion. So I took a horseback ride. When I returned, I felt like painting, and had all the emotion I wanted.” This is excellent advice for you to keep in mind, Taurus. Even more than usual, it’s crucial that you imbue every important thing you do with pure, strong emotions. If they’re not immediately available, go in quest of them.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Actress Blythe Baird writes about the problem that arises when her dog sees her eating a peanut butter and chocolate chip bagel. Her beloved pet begs for a piece and becomes miserable when it’s not forthcoming. Baird is merely demonstrating her love, of course, because she knows that eating chocolate can make canines ill. I suspect that life is bestowing a comparable blessing on you. You may feel mad and sad about being deprived of something you want. But the likely truth is that you will be lucky not to get it.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The other day, lying in bed,” writes poet Rodger Kamenetz, “I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.” He speaks for the majority of us. We spend much of our lives entranced by the relentless jabber that unfolds between our ears. But I want to let you know, Scorpio, that the moment is ripe to rebel against this tendency in yourself. In the coming weeks, you will have a natural talent for celebrating your body. You’ll be able to commune deeply with its sensations, to learn more abut how it works, and to exult in the pleasure it gives you and the wisdom it provides.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his “Dream Song 67,” poet John Berryman confesses, “I am obliged to perform in complete darkness operations of great delicacy on my self.” I hope you will consider embarking on similar heroics, Sagittarius. It’s not an especially favorable time to overhaul your environment or try to get people to change in accordance with your wishes. But it’s a perfect moment to spruce up your inner world—to tinker with and refine it so that everything in there works with more grace. And unlike Berryman, you won’t have to proceed in darkness. The light might not be bright, but there’ll be enough of a glow to see what you’re doing.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s the dictionary’s definition of the word “indelible”: “having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out, or efface; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.” The word is often used in reference to unpleasant matters: stains on clothes, biases that distort the truth, superstitions held with unshakable conviction, or painful memories of romantic break-ups. I am happy to let you know that you now have more power than usual to dissolve seemingly indelible stuff like that. Here’s a trick that might help you: Find a new teacher or teaching that uplifts you with indelible epiphanies.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to poet Tony Hoagland, most of us rarely “manage to finish a thought or a feeling; we usually get lazy or distracted and quit halfway through.”

Why? Hoagland theorizes that we “don’t have the time to complete the process, and we dislike the difficulty and discomfort of the task.” There’s a cost for this negligence: “We walk around full of halffinished experiences.” That’s why Hoagland became a poet. He says that “poems model the possibility of feeling all the way through an emotional process” and “thinking all the way through a thought.” The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get more in the habit of finishing your own feelings and thoughts, Aquarius. It will also be more important than usual that you do so! (Hoagland’s comments appeared in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.)

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Unless you work at night and sleep by day, you experience the morning on a regular basis. You may have a love-hate relationship with it, because on the one hand you don’t like to leave your comfortable bed so early, and on the other hand you enjoy anticipating the interesting events ahead of you. But aside from your personal associations with the morning, this time of day has always been a potent symbol of awakenings and beginnings. Throughout history, poets have invoked it to signify purity and promise. In myth and legend, it often represents the chance to see things afresh, to be free of the past’s burdens, to love life unconditionally. Dream interpreters might suggest that a dream of morning indicates a renewed capacity to trust oneself. All of these meanings are especially apropos for you right now, Pisces.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

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If you’re a man interested in ongoing, peer-facilitated personal work with other men, consider joining our weekly men’s group.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-16-22 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MERRIT C. WELTY, a/k/a Mike C. Welty Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to DIANE WELTY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, P.C., 523 South Orange Street, P.O. Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 11th day of February, 2016. /s/ Diane Welty, Personal Representative THOMAS C. ORR LAW OFFICE, P.C. 523 South Orange Street Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Thomas C. Orr, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-16-25 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANIEL R. BROOKS a/k/a Dan Russell Brooks, Deceased. NOTICE IS

HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WILLIAM L. BOUCHEE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 12th day of February, 2016. /s/ William L. Bouchee, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 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. DP16-21 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT ALAN HOPKINS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Emily Dawn Hopkins, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. /s/ Emily Dawn Hopkins, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC By: /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV15-853 Department No. 2 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION GREGORY S. MARTINSEN, Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT H. SCHOENLEBER AND VIRGINIA E. SCHOENLEBER, JOHN DOES 1-5, JANE

MNAXLP DOES 1-5, and ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, ROBERT H. SCHOENLEBER AND VIRGINIA E. SCHOENLEBER, JOHN DOES 1-5, JANE DOES 1-5 and ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file our answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff ’s attorney, Dan G. Cederberg, of Cederberg Law Offices, P.O. Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807, within twenty-one (21) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; This action is brought to quiet title to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana and described as follows: THE WEST 17 FEET OF LOT 27 AND ALL OF LOT 28 IN BLOCK 7 OF COOK’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. In case of your failure to appear to answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for

the relief demanded in the Complaint. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 28th day of January, 2016. (SEAL) Shirley E. Faust, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-16-37 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LELA R. AUTIO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Lisa G. Autio and Lar K. Autio, the CoPersonal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. We declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 22nd day of February, 2016, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Lisa Autio /s/ Lar Autio BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sims, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 598079199 Attorneys for Lisa G. Autio and Lar K. Autio, CoPersonal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-192 NOTICE AND INFORMATION TO HEIRS AND DEVISEES IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: DELBERT LEROY MARKLE, Deceased. To the Heirs and Devisees of the above-named estate: 1. The decedent, Delbert Leroy Markle, died on August 11, 2015. 2. This notice is being sent to persons who have or may have some interest in the estate being administered. 3. Herman Henry, whose address is 1211 Big Pines Lane, Missoula, Montana 59802, was appointed Personal Representative of said estate on October 22, 2015, without bond. 4. Pa-

pers and information relating to the estate are on file in the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, County of Missoula, Missoula, Montana 5. This estate is being administrated by the Personal Representative under the Uniform Probate Code with supervision by the Court. Recipients are entitled to information from the Personal Representative regarding the administration and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. 6. I declare under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 8th day of February, 2016. PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE /s/ Herman Henry III DATED this 10th day of February, 2016. MILODRAGOVICH, DALE & STEINBRENNER, P.C. Attorneys of Herman Henry By: /s/ Liesel Shoquist MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-192 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DELBERT LEROY MARKLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that HERMAN HENRY has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Herman Henry, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Liesel Shoquist, Milodragovich, Dale & Steinbrenner, P.C., 620 High Park Way, PO Box 4947, Missoula, Montana 59806-4947, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 8th day of February, 2016 PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE By: /s/ Herman Henry III. MILODRAGOVICH, DALE & STEINBRENNER, P.C. Attorneys for Herman Henry By: /s/ Liesel Shoquist MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

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PUBLIC NOTICES COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-16-32 Hon. Karen S. Townsend Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF LINDA L. SKJELSET, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Douglas G. Skjelset, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. By: /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset Attorneys for the Estate STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing Notice to Creditors is true and correct.

Signed this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Barbara J. Proud, Personal Representa-

tive Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day of February, 2016. /s/ Sharon J. Davis Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Clinton, Montana My Commission Expires May 14, 2018 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-16-29 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ROBERT M. CASEY , Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Steven J. Casey 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 Steven J. Casey, as Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Richard J. Samson, 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 17th day of February, 2016. /s/ Steven J. Casey, Personal Reprsentative /s/ Richard J. Samson, Attorney for Personal Representative 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802

MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-16-38 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARILYN GAYLE CARLISLE, a/k/a GAYLE CARLISLE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to James Carlisle, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 23rd day of February, 2016, at Culbertson, Montana. /s/ James D. Carlisle, Personal Representative BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sims, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807-9199 Attorneys for James Carlisle, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-16-39 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THERESA M. FRISTO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to RUSSELL V. FRISTO, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Douglas Harris, Attorney at Law, PO Box 7937, Missoula, Montana 598077937 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 25th day of February, 2016. /s/ Russell V. Fristo, Personal Representative

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/17/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200413948 Book 732 Page 1241, mortgage records of MIS-

SOULA County, Montana in which Lori Hanebuth, a married woman as her separate estate was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company, a Montana Corporation was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 4 of Certificate of Survey No. 5200, a tract of land located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 20, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, Principal Meridian, Montana Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201304679, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association, as Trustee for GSMPS Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-RP3. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly install-

ments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 5, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $191,819.80. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $180,898.17, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on May 19, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/15/98, recorded as Instrument No. 199834018; BK 566; Pg 1422, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which David E Chamberlain, a single person was Grantor, Norwest Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and First Montana Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel E of Certificate of Survey No. 3983, located in the Northwest quarter (NW1/4) of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments

of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 6, 2016, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $61,827.23. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $57,824.28, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, On the Front Steps, City of Missoula on May 19, 2016 at 11:00 AM,

MNAXLP Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation

of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com orUSA-Foreclosure.com.

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285034-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 15, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 10, BLOCK 6, WAPIKIYA ADDITION #3, CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT AND SURVEY THEREOF NOW ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA DOROTHY E

DORVILLE, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, Attorney at Law, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to (“MERS”) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as a nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on July 26, 2007, and recorded on August 9, 2007 as Book 803 Page 507 under Document No. 200720642. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”).

First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $923.30, beginning July 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges

against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of November 3, 2015 is $146,900.08 principal, interest at the rate of 4.87500% totaling $3,023.14, late charges in the amount of $69.77, Negative escrow advances of $-373.31, and other fees and expenses advanced of $67.00, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a

public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made

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

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred

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1 Move slowly 5 "Smokey ___ Cafe" 9 "American ___ Warrior" 14 First state to weigh in on presidential candidates 15 Inauguration Day recitation 16 How anchovies are preserved 17 Ink for a fan of '60s chess champion Mikhail?

19 Bossa nova relative 20 Photographer Adams 21 Facebook display 23 "I call it!"

26 Crew team need 27 Do a grocery store task 30 Introduction from an Italian guy who doesn't speak much English?

36 Box score stat 37 Having no experience in 38 "Beat it!"

39 English aristocrat 41 Resulted in 43 Feels under the weather 44 Roman ___ (novel genre) 46 Trees that yield hard wood 48 Dir. from Reno to L.A. 49 Insult your private instructor's headwear?

51 Monopoly token choice 52 Restroom door word 53 Actress Sedgwick of "The Closer" 55 It's often served sweetened 60 Buddy who bugs Bert 64 Friar's Club event 65 Barbecue offering, or what the other three theme answers do?

68 First name in fragrances 69 Musician who feuded with Eminem 70 1960s bluesman Redding 71 Consenting responses 72 Blunt-edged sword 73 Get one's feet wet

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1 Falafel accompanier 2 Home buyer's need, usually 3 Mail deliverers at Hogwarts 4 Behind the times 5 Write hastily, with "down" 6 Grain in granola 7 Prince William's alma mater 8 Yeezy Boost 350, for one 9 Leaf and Pathfinder, for two 10 Where Chad is 11 Coastal Alaskan city 12 Agree (with) 13 "Only ___" (Oingo Boingo song) 18 Even out 22 Got the most votes 24 Jessica of "7th Heaven" 25 Site of a 1976 anti-Apartheid uprising 27 Sandwich need 28 Calculators with sliding beads 29 Lena Dunham show 31 Dark Lord of the Sith 32 Onslaught 33 From Limerick 34 Mango side, maybe 35 "Good to go!"

40 "Hmm ..."

42 Word of affirmation 45 Former MTV personality Daisy 47 Buying binge 50 Blast creator 54 Katniss Everdeen's projectile 55 "Dirty Dancing" actress Jennifer 56 Actress Byrne 57 "... 'cause I ___ me spinach, I'm Popeye ..."

58 Mr. Hoggett's wife, in "Babe" 59 Each, informally 61 1920s leading lady ___ Naldi 62 Abbr. in the footnotes 63 "___ quam videri" (North Carolina motto) 66 Late actor Vigoda (for real)

PUBLIC NOTICES and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 4, 2015 /s/Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 4 day of December, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Seterus vs DORVILLE 100560 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 5, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE EAST 65 FEET OF LOT 11 AND THAT PART OF LOT 12, BLOCK 2, WAPIKIYA AD-

DITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 12, BLOCK 2, WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 2; THENCE, SOUTH ALONG THE LOT LINE COMMON TO LOTS 11 AND 12, BLOCK 2 WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 2, A DISTANCE OF 130.25 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 12; THENCE N O R T H E A S T E R LY, ALONG THE SOUTH LOT LINE OF SAID LOT, A DISTANCE OF 11.30 FEET; THENCE NORTH A DISTANCE OF 127.64 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 12; THENCE, WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 12, A DISTANCE OF 11.0 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE IS IN BOOK 3 AT PAGE 1042 OF MICRO RECORDS. DAVID A BAXTER, as Grantor, conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation, its successors and/or assigns., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust on December 17, 2004, and recorded on December 17, 2004 as Book 745 Page 204 Document No. 200435087.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Ditech Financial LLC FKA Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Mon-

MNAXLP tana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,044.54, beginning June 1, 2015, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 5, 2015 is $102,651.33 principal, interest at the rate of 5.50000% totaling $2,923.45, late charges in the amount of $315.76, plus accruing interest, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without

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

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

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 12, 37, 67, 84, 86, 154, 223, 286. 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 3/21/2016 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 3/24/2016 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 18, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company, LLC Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 18 day of December, 2015 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company, LLC, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Ditech Financial LLC vs DAVID A BAXTER 100565-1

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 15, 19, 161 & 613.

Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods.

These units may be viewed starting Monday, March 7th, 2016 All auction units will only be shown each day at 3:00 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday, March 10th, 2016 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 LOLA & LILY• Lola and Lily are 9-year-

old Cairn Terrier mixes. These sisters have been together all their life, but when their owner passed away they wound up at our shelter. They are very close to one another and we are hoping to keep them together by finding a retirement home for the pair. Both are a tad bit overweight and could use a diet and exercise regiment.

TUX & GREEN EYES•Tux and Green Eyes are approximately 9-year-old male shorthaired cats. These sweet boys were sent to a vet to be boarded back in October, but their owner never came back for them. They are slightly overweight after having spent so much time in a confined space. They truly do love each other and would enjoy spending their entire day curled up in a cat bed together.

RUDY•Rudy is a 5-year-old male black cat. He is a true heavyweight champion at the shelter, weighing in at 20 lbs. Rudy comes across as a big, lazy couch potato, but all he wants in life is to find the most comfy place to snuggle. Despite his size, he gets around quite well. Rudy is the type of cat that will pick his person. If he picks you, there is not a single thing you can't do with this cat.

Southgate Mall Missoula (406) 541-2886 • MontanaSmiles.com Open Evenings & Saturdays

2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd 3510 S Reserve

2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri)

3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat)

BUDDY•Buddy is a 1 1/2-yea-old male Chihuahua mix. He is an all-around great dog.

Buddy is good with other dogs, kids, and cats.

Weighing in at a whopping 18 lbs, he's the perfect size for an apartment, a family dog, or a second dog. He is great on leash, but will also willingly jump into your arms. Buddy is just that, the perfect little buddy. Come fall in love with this adorable little red dog.

LULA BELLE•Lula Belle is a 5-year -old female brown tabby harlequin short-haired cat.

Lula is a very sweet cat who loves to find tight spaces to snuggle in to. However, when you call her name, she responds with the sweetest meow and slowly inches her way out to get affection.

She loves attention, but is a little unsure of being picked up or carried. Lula Belle is afraid of dogs and some cats.

INDY• Indy is a 9-year-old female black tuxedo short-haired cat. Her previous owner had to move and was unable to bring Indy. When Indy first came to the shelter, we noticed she had a large mass on her belly. Thanks to the help of Cats on Broadway and Friends of the Shelter, we were able to have a large mammary tumor removed and tested for cancer. Luckily, Indy is cancer-free and ready to find a forever home!

3600 Brooks Street, Missoula missoulafcu.org (406) 523-3300

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

www.missoulafoodbank.org For more info, please call 549-0543

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

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 HARLEY• Harley is a sweet, scruffy 2-yearold girl with a big mohawk and an even bigger heart. In her free time she loves hiking, walks, and a nice warm place to chew on her bone. If you love mohawks and outdoor adventures, she is the dog for you! If you're interested in Harley, contact the Humane Society of Western Montana today!

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ANABEL• This kitty is easy-going and ready to find a new home that will shower her with affection. Anabel would like to find a sunny window and/or a warm lap to curl up on. She seems to pretty content with her situation, but is looking forward to being in a home of her own.

Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store Anabel is currently featured at Petco. If you www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 would like more information on this lovely girl, South Russell • North Reserve give us a call at (406) 549-3934.

TECH•This spirited young man came to us

as a transfer from an overcrowded shelter.

Tech is looking for an adult home where he can hike, run and play to his heart’s content! Tech prefers female dog friends and loves peanut butter! If you are looking for a high-energy hiking buddy to enjoy life with, Tech may be the boy for you!

GUS•Meet Gus! True to his breed, Gus is a high-energy dog. He loves to learn new tricks and work on food toys. Gus also has a few quirks so he will do best in a home with a person fluent in Terrier. He loves to hike and wouldn't mind a never-ending game of fetch! Contact our Behaviorist, Jean, at behavior@myhswm.org for more information or to arrange to meet him at the shelter!

ZOEY• Zoey's life changed dramatically when her family moved overseas. While a little reluctant to adapt to her new surroundings, Zoey is feeling better about shelter life. She still can’t wait to for that perfect person to come and adopt her, though. Zoey has a great personality profile, has lived with a dog and children, and enjoys laser pointers and snuggling in a warm blanket.

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MIMI• Meet Mimi! Mimi is looking for a quiet place to rest her beautiful head. She spends her days lounging, enjoying the company of her cat companions. If you are looking for a calm, kind older cat to join your family, Mimi may be for you!

Come meet her today! missoulanews.com • March 3–March 10, 2016 [C9]

RENTALS FIDELITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. 7000 Uncle Robert Ln #7

251-4707 111 N. Johnson # 2 2 Bed Duplex $725/month Uncle Robert Lane 2 Bed Apt. $760/month

APARTMENTS 1-2 bed, 1 bath, $650-$850, S. Russell area, D/W, A/C, coin op laundry, balcony, off street parking, W/S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333 108 W. Broadway #2. Studio/1 bath, completely remodeled, DW, W/D, urban chic design in downtown Missoula. $1100 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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1324 S. 2nd Street West “C”. 3 bed/2 bath, central location, W/D, DW, single garage. $1050. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

2 bedroom, 1 bath, $750, near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, off-street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-8777353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

2306 Hillview Ct. #3. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, W/D hookups, storage. $650. Grizzly Property Management 5422060 425 Crosby: 1 Bedroom, 2nd floor, on-site laundry, central, cat OK $685. Garden City Property Management 549-6106

Studio-2 bed, 1 bath, $550$650, N. Russell, coin-op laundry, storage and off-street parking, HEAT PAID. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 7287333

MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park. Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $460/month.

406-273-6034 Lolo, nice park. Lot for single wide 16x80. Water, sewer and garbage paid.

No dogs. $280/mo. 406-273-6034

DUPLEXES 1914 S. 14th St. West “B”. Studio/1 bath, newer unit, double garage, W/D, A/C $675. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

yard, off street parking. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 321 W. Spruce St. #2. 2 bed/1 bath, recently remodeled upper unit, near downtown with deck overlooking the back yard. $1000. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 524 S. 5th St. E. “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, 2 blocks to U, W/D, all utilities included. $1000 Grizzly Property Management 5422060

HOUSES 1 bedroom, 1 bath House, $700, near Higgins & South, private yard area/parking in alley. S/G paid. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333

2 bedroom, 2 bath, $825, Broadway & Russell area, D/W, A/C, coin op laundry, balcony, off street parking, W/S/G paid.

NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Gatewest 728-7333 Professional Property Management. Find Yourself at Home in the Missoula Rental Market with PPM. 1511 S Russell • (406) 721-8990 • www.professionalproperty.com

2 BD

2BA, HOUSE Close to U & Downtown 1300SF, W/D & Dishwasher

Grizzly Property Management, Inc. "Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

2205 South Avenue West 542-2060• grizzlypm.com

$1195/mo. utilities included

Finalist

Finalist

MHA Management manages 7 properties throughout Missoula.

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All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program.

1920 S. 14th St. West “C”. Studio/1 bath, central location, double garage, W/D, A/C $675. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.

2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex, $650, off Pullman, W/D hookups, storage, shared fenced

1235 34th St. • Missoula (406) 549-4113 missoulahousing.org

REAL ESTATE No Initial Application Fee Residential Rentals Professional Office & Retail Leasing Since 1971

www.gatewestrentals.com

GardenCity Property Management 422 Madison • 549-6106 For available rentals: www.gcpm-mt.com

Earn CE credits through our Continuing Education Courses for Property Management & Real Estate Licensees westernmontana.narpm.org

[C10] Missoula Independent • March 3–March 10, 2016

Missoula – Sherrie Featherly a local leader in the residential property management field, has just been awarded the prestigious MPM® (Master Property Manager) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®). This prestigious designation is held by fewer than 165 property managers nationwide and is reflective of the professional commitment made to the industry by Sherrie Featherly.

“Receiving my MPM® designation was one of the proudest moments in my professional career,” said Sherrie Featherly, President of Missoula Property Management. The professional designation is awarded to property managers who have completed the highest levels of achievement, including advanced course requirements, service to the NARPM® organization, and service to the real estate industry. A detailed examination of the applicant as well as letters of recommendation from clients is required to complete the certification requirements.

This important designation is one Sherrie Featherly should be very proud of and reinforces the expertise they maintain within the property management field.

The National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®), founded in October 1988, provides a permanent trade organization for the residential property management industry. NARPM® continues to be the premier professional association of residential property managers, currently representing over 4,000 members comprised of real estate agents, brokers, managers and their employees. Their mission is to support the professional and ethical practices of rental home management through networking, education and designation. The Association administers several designation programs including the Residential Management Professional (RMP®), the Master Property Manager (MPM®), the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC®), and the Certified Support Specialist (CSS®). More than 50 local chapters of NARPM® are currently operating in major metropolitan areas, and many more are in the formative stages. For information, call NARPM® National at 800-782-3452 or visit www.narpm.org.

HOMES FOR SALE 2 Bdr, 1 Bath, North Missoula home. $165,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2004 Silver Tips Cluster. 5 bed

on 1/2 acre in Circle H Ranch gated community. $675,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@ gmail.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath, Downtown Missoula home. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

REAL ESTATE 360 Stone Street. 5 bed, 4 bath ranch style on 3 acres. Additional 2.52 and 6.49 acre parcels also available. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com

homes with radiant floor heat.

406-369-0940 OR 406-642-6863.

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Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $154,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

4 Bdr, 3 Bath, South Hills home. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com

Uptown Flats #301. Large 1 bed, 1 bath plus bonus room with all the amenities. $210,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

LAND FOR SALE

Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Close To Good Food Store 1824 S 9th St W. Centrally located home with character and charm, close to Good food Store, bike trails and a quick jaunt to downtown. $219,900. KD 406240-5227 portico realestate.com Fidelity Management Services, Inc. • 7000 Uncle Robert Lane #7, Missoula • 406-251-4707. Visit our website at fidelity property.com. Serving Missoula area residential properties since 1981.

Lewis & Clark Neighborhood 631 Pattee Creek Drive. Across from Splash, wheelchair accessible, wonderful, spacious, light, beautiful Lewis & Clark area home. Over 3300 s.f. of living space. $299,500. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Natural Housebuilders, Inc. Building comfortable energy efficient craftsman

2 Bdr, 1 Bath, Tina Ave Condo. $139,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. Burns Street Commons is a very special place to call home and this three bedroom upper level unit offers spacious, convenient, and beautiful living space. $158,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

2003 Lil Diamond Cluster. Beautiful .58 acre lot in Circle H Ranch gated community. $94,900. Rochelle Glasgow, Ink Realty Group. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy.

Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

LOOKING TO BUY. $45,000 for lot in Missoula. Offering 45,000 for buildable lot in Missoula, prefer North or West Side but open to other locations.

3900 sq. ft. minimum, looking to build around 800 sq. ft home.

Contact me and we can look into zoning/possibilities.

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

COMMERCIAL 3106 West Broadway. 20,000 sq.ft. lot with 6568 sq.ft. building with office, retail & warehouse space. Zoned M1-2. $810,000.

Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

240-7653 pat@properties2 000.com

OUT OF TOWN 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath with barn & greenhouse on 7 fenced acres. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group. 2398350 shannonhilliard5@ gmail.com 178 Huckleberry, Florence.

High-end 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 2.59 acres near Bitterroot River. $419,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546.5816. annierealtor@ gmail.com

@ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Florence home on 4.85 acres. $285,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Frenchtown home. $350,000. BHHSMT Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or

www.mindypalmer.com

Six Mile Huson 17430 Six Mile Road, Huson. Stunning

3338 Hollis Street BACK ON THE MARKET!

$310,00 MLS# 20153915 Lewis & Clark rancher offers convenience & space with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms & functional floor plan.

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $190,000. BHHSMT Properties.

For more info call Mindy Palmer

Rochelle Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

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REAL ESTATE

property with beautiful land and views. 3 bed, 1.5 bath early 1900’s well maintained farmhouse. Yard features a massive raspberry patch and many fruit trees! $235,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

MORTGAGE

@ 406-721-1444 or visit www.creative-finance.com

EQUITY LOANS ON NONOWNER OCCUPIED MONTANA REAL ESTATE. We also buy Notes & Mortgages. Call Creative Finance & Investments

We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula.

Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell:

703 PARKVIEW $340,000

FOR SALE • $810,000 Building & Land Only 6568 sf Building / 20,000 sf land Offices and Warehouse

Homes 3215 Hollis St. Right in the Heart of Lewis & Clark Neighborhood. ..............................................................$290,000 932 S. 2nd W. Sweet & Sunny 2 Story in McCormick Park Neighborhood .....................................................$239,000 631 Pattee Creek Dr. Spacious 3 Bed, 3 Bath. Full Finished Basement...........................................................$299,500 2004 Silver Tips Cluster Rustic Meets Romantic.................................................................................................$675,000

Homes With Land 360 Stone St. Sprawl Out In This 5 Bed Ranch on 3 Acres............................................................................$440,000 17430 Six Mile Rd. Picture Perfect With Wooded Hillside Behind & Open Meadow In Front ..........................$235,000 856 Duck Bridge Lane Awesome Tiny Farm................................................................................................$235,000 406 Aspen View Rd, Polaris, MT. Wow, Check It Out! .................................................................................$295,000

Townhomes/Condos Burns Street Commons #13 Great Location! 3 Bed 2 Bath..........................................................................$147,000 Burns Street Commons #14 Next to Food Co-op & Bistro! 3 Bed ...............................................................$160,000 Burns Street Commons #16 Such convenience & charm ............................................................................$158,000 Burns Street Commons #17 Wow! Awesome floor plan ..............................................................................$154,000 Uptown Flats #210 Efficient 1 Bed .............................................................................................................$154,000 Uptown Flats #301 Large 1 Bed + Bonus Room........................................................................................$210,000

Land Stone 2.52 Acres Pond Fed By Irrigation Is Home to Ducks & Wildlife in Summer ........................................$175,000 Stone 6.49 Acres Fantastic Woods With Lots of Walking Trails to the River ....................................................$175,000 Old Indian Trail 4.77 Acres. South Facing Slope of Hillside at Base of Grant Creek.......................................$90,000 Old Indian Trail 15 Acres. Views of Lolo Peak & Missoula Valley ..................................................................$148,000 Old Indian Trail 19.77 Acres Buy Both Above For Less ..............................................................................$230,000

Commercial: 9435 Summit 40x60' Shop + Almost 2 Acres......................................................................................................$250,000 Featured: 3215 Hollis St. Right in the Heart of Lewis & Clark Neighborhood. $290,000

932 S. 2nd W. Sweet & Sunny 2 Story in McCormick Park Neighborhood $239,000

[C12] Missoula Independent • March 3–March 10, 2016

Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

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

Properties2000.com

Farviews home with remodeled kitchen, wood floors, 2 fireplaces, decks with spectacular views, master suite & huge recreation room. Convenient mud room with built-in storage cubby. Ideal for hosting parties in any season.

Contact Matt at 360-9023 for more information.