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Having been bred for hundreds of years to work with people, border collies have largely been spared the beauty pageantry of the show-dog world. Breeding for intelligence over beauty has led to their rank as the brightest dogs in the world in instinctive intelligence, adaptive intelligence and working intelligence—and to their candidacy as Montana’s true dog ....................................14 Cover photo by Chad Harder

News Letters Where’s the integrity in Lake County?.............................................................4 The Week in Review Judge Cebull’s racist email .......................................................6 Briefs Mini WikiLeaks, parks and sexual assaults........................................................6 Etc. Lipstick and bullets ...............................................................................................7 Up Front Journalist Jodi Rave pioneers Indian Country coverage.............................8 Up Front Front residents brace for the Bakken’s slow spread ...................................9 Ochenski Heed the clear-sighted “extremists”..........................................................10 Range A lion and a deer walk into a subdivision ......................................................11 Agenda MUD’s Backyard Chicken Basics...................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Fish pharm .....................................................................................18 Happiest Hour Flipper’s Casino ...............................................................................19 8 Days a Week My dog is smarter than your honor student....................................21 Mountain High The Chamberlin Rail Jam ................................................................29 Scope The world according to Dexter Roberts .........................................................30 Noise Pickwick, Lynx, Cataldo and Asher Roth..........................................................31 Theater UM cultivates Chekhov’s Orchard just right................................................32 Film Project X pushes the boundaries of shallow.....................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology..................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-11 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Robert Meyerowitz PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Jason McMackin STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Skylar Browning COPY EDITOR Ted McDermott PHOTO INTERN Michelle Gustafson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Jenn Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Chris Melton, Sasha Perrin, Alecia Goff, Steven Kirst SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, George Ochenski, Nick Davis, Andy Smetanka, Brad Tyer, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Azita Osanloo, Jamie Rogers, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks

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STREET TALK

by Michelle Gustafson

Asked late Monday afternoon between the Kim Williams River Trail and Jacob’s Island Park.

This week’s feature story looks into the lives of border collies. What’s the best breed of dog?

Follow up: What’s the worst?

Kirsten Towgood: I love both small and large dogs! When I was pregnant, my mom bred her first litter of beagles; they’re very sweet, with ears like velvet. Years later, we got a puppy, a quarter wolf mixed with Australian shepherd and border collie. He was a great dog and lived 13 years. Poodlefree MT: One of my best friends works for PETA and takes home strays all the time, so I’ve seen every breed and love them all—but probably poodles. They’re always jumping on me, and they dig their nails in you. I’m just not into them.

Alex Babat: Dogs from the reservation. My dog Wally is a black Lab mix, which turns out to be the same as every dog in Missoula. He adopted me in a way. Teach ’em well: I think it just depends on how you raise them. It’s nice not having a loud dog...but if me and a loud dog locked eyes and it worked out, then I’d be okay with that, too.

Shelby Shaffer: My favorite would be the husky: They’re big and beautiful and cuddly. I grew up with a cockerpoo, a cocker spaniel-poodle mix. I love her, but she’s not my favorite breed. No quiero el yappito: Chihuahuas. They’re yappy and I do not like yappy dogs.

Kyla Pellouchoud: Heelers! They’re really sweet and trainable if you put the time into it. They have a mind of their own, so you need to teach them what it means to be good for a human, not just what a dog thinks is good. Heelers were bred originally to chase cows around and you really need to exercise them. Hatin’ on Yorkies: I don’t like little dogs, although since moving to Missoula I’ve met some Jack Russell terriers and corgies that I’ve liked. But Yorkies are pretty dumb.

Butch Waddill: Malinois, it’s a Belgian shepherd. They’re super smart and obedient and were the dogs that the SEALs used to get Osama bin Laden. My dog, Xena, is wonderful, except she wants to play with everyone! Dog nation: They’re all wonderful.

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Keeping my change A recent parking ticket I received will be the last I pay to the city of Missoula.

My wife and I will no longer park in the Missoula downtown area prior to 5 p.m.

Monday through Friday. If Missoula’s intent with the new parking violation fees is to keep us from spending our hard-earned money at downtown Missoula businesses, it has succeeded.

We will no longer give the downtown our business during meter hours.

It needs to be made clear to the city that parking meter fees are viewed by the public as nothing more than a tax to park—analogous to a sales tax—for spending money to keep downtown businesses afloat. That tax is predominantly levied against poor people who work minimumwage jobs. Thus, the city of Missoula steals from the poor to give to the rich.

Perhaps Missoula needs to look to the city of Kalispell, which removed all of its parking meters in the early ’80s. Since then, its downtown businesses have thrived.

As far as the “free” first-hour parking in Central Park—who cares? This is just another scam by the city to somehow give you a “deal” that will then require money for an hour and a minute. Money, I might add, that I will not give to the Missoula Parking Commission under any circumstances.

It is truly a sad state of affairs when elected officials inflict additional grief on an already struggling populace with such fees and fines.

Shame on the city of Missoula.

Michael Jarnevic Milltown

ment. I was disappointed that none of those organizations attended the auction.

I hope that in the future, a conservation group such as Five Valleys Land Trust or Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will purchase the Maclay ranch from Metropolitan Life Insurance so this property can be added to the national forest or the state land system.

Susan Reneau Missoula

“The Lake County attorney and sheriff (past and present) appear bent on sweeping it all under the rug. Man up and hold this department to a standard we can all respect. Simply do what’s right.”

You forgot my bid I enjoyed the article in the Independent about the Bitterroot Resort and Tom Maclay (see “Why is this guy smiling?” March 1), but I need to add something to the story about the auction of Maclay’s property on the steps of the Missoula Courthouse.

I arrived early on Feb. 22 to prepare for bidding and was the first person to place a bid. It was low and I knew I didn’t have a chance but I wanted to try.

Contrary to your article, a million-dollar bid was not the first bid.

My bid was not mentioned in the article. I guess it was too low, but it was sincere. The sheriff ’s deputy asked for an opening bid several times and I spoke up first, bidding $1,000. I was prepared to go to $5,000.

Prior to the bidding I was calling groups that in the past have purchased such land to set aside for public manage-

No faith in Lake County I am confused following all the articles in all of the local newspapers about the misconduct in the Lake County Sheriff ’s Office (see “Good cops, bad cops,” Feb. 23).

It is my understanding that the primary job description for law enforcement is to “serve and protect.” It seems to me that the primary job requirements for these personnel are “honesty and integrity,” beyond necessary technical training. If we can’t trust them, how can we be expected to believe they will perform their function properly, and that we can support them in that endeavor? When these individuals break the public trust, through obvious and admitted lack of personal integrity, why should they be treated any differently than any of us civilians?

Forget criminal offenses and statutes

of limitations on punishable infractions, let’s just focus on officers’ integrity in performing their work.

A sheriff ’s deputy claims to have knowledge and experience (that he doesn’t possess) and is promoted to a special position, receives more pay and special consideration, and then later admits (after his untruth is discovered) that he “misrepresented” himself and was not actually qualified for that work. Where I come from, that’s called lying (and stealing); it displays a total lack of integrity, and he should be fired. Law enforcement officers should be held to a higher standard, not lower. He carries a gun. How safe does that make me feel?

I don’t want him tried in court for being a liar and a thief. I want him removed from the public payroll and replaced with someone who actually holds and displays a better sense of character and honor. The entire saga, as printed in the Independent and elsewhere, reads like a bad children’s bedtime story.

The Lake County attorney and sheriff (past and present) appear bent on sweeping it all under the rug. Man up and hold this department to a standard we can all respect. Simply do what’s right.

Michael Gale Ronan

Resign, Cebull In the law there is a doctrine called res ipsa loquitur. In Latin, it means “the thing speaks for itself.”

Judge Richard Cebull’s action speaks for itself, despite his denial. A joke involving President Obama’s mother implying bestiality is the lowest of the low in terms of racism, misogyny and animal cruelty. Unfortunately, the dogs cannot speak for themselves.

I realize we have a First Amendment right to free speech in this country.

However, in terms of professional ethics, judges are held to a higher standard, which involves the avoidance of any sense of impropriety. Cebull has breached his duty of care to act reasonably. Additionally, his perceived ability to be fair, impartial and unbiased in future cases involving any woman or person of color has been severely compromised.

One extremely pornographic alleged joke has caused irreparable harm to the image of the federal judicial system in Montana. Is this joke evidence of the kind of judicial temperament we citizens want and expect from our federal judges in Montana?

I think not. Cebull should do the decent thing and resign.

Mary Catherine Dunphy Miles City

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Chief U.S. District Court Judge Richard Cebull admits to the Great Falls Tribune that he sent an email to friends from his courthouse chambers the week before about President Barack Obama that equated interracial sex to bestiality. Cebull insists he isn’t racist.

• Thursday, March 1 Missoula’s Kettlehouse Brewing Company announces the “terrible decision” to pull its beer out of the Helena, Kalispell and Great Falls markets.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be able to stay below the 10,000 barrel limit that allows it to keep open its two Missoula taprooms, the company says.

• Friday, March 2 The Montana GOP files a complaint with the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee against Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. It cites a Politico report alleging that Baucus is using his sway over tax reform to dissuade corporations from contributing to Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg’s campaign to take Tester’s Senate seat.

• Saturday, March 3 LGBT folks and their friends put on short dresses, high heels and sharp suits and converge at the Holiday Inn-Downtown for the annual Black and White Ball. The ball benefits the Western Montana Community Center, which aims to use education, advocacy and collaborative networking to empower the LGBT community.

• Sunday, March 4 Missoula Police respond to a single-vehicle crash on Hillview Way. Jason McDonald, 20, of Frenchtown, dies at the scene. Another man, 18-year-old Josh Kenneth Gruebele, dies after being hospitalized. The driver, 21-year-old Justin Barber, faces two felony charges of vehicular homicide while under the influence and one count of negligent vehicular assault.

• Monday, March 5 The Missoula City Council unanimously approves a conditional use permit that authorizes the Montgomery Distillery to do business in the Garden City. Distillery owner Ryan Montgomery aims to begin serving his Quicksilver Vodka from a new tasting room at 129 W. Front Street in April. From there, he says, he envisions branching out into brandy, whisky and gin.

• Tuesday, March 6 A man robs the Higher Ground coffee hut off Orange Street near I-90 at 10:30 a.m. KPAX reports that the man indicates he’s armed and tells the barista he doesn’t want money from her tip jar, only from the register. The thief flees on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Caretaker Charlie Pearl checks on the 800 miniature buddhas at the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas near Arlee on Wed., Feb. 29. A practicing Buddhist originally from the Bronx, Pearl says he enjoys his position. “I’ve cursed, I’ve run an illegal nightclub and I’ve sold liquor without a license, but I’m here, so I must have done something right.”

Media Missoula man’s mini-WikiLeaks Jimmy Tobias spends most days leading a trail crew for the Montana Conservation Corps. But when he’s not working with MCC on Forest Service contracts, he’s busy running Honest Appalachia, a new WikiLeaks-type website designed to help whistle-blowers anonymously leak documents to journalists and the public.

“The idea is that as traditional media is dying, especially in rural areas like Appalachia, that someone else needs to step in to expose and investigate important stories,” says Tobias, 24. “I see the site as helping to fill that void.”

Honest Appalachia launched January 11 after receiving a $5,000 grant from the Sunlight Foundation. Already, Tobias and co-founder Garrett Robinson have received considerable publicity for localizing the WikiLeaks model. The Associated Press and Washington Post have both written stories about the project, and that coverage has helped generate new leads. Tobias says a local media partner is currently following up on one tip involving “a major state agency in West Virginia.”

Honest Appalachia aims to do three things: sup-

port whistle-blowers, act as a “matchmaker” between whistle-blowers and local journalists and help others set up similar sites on their own. Tobias says the Honest Appalachia team—about five people, most of whom work in West Virginia—will vet documents and investigate tips before sharing information with select media outlets. As for helping others launch their own sites, Honest Appalachia’s code is open-source and low cost—but secure. The site’s software is set up to encrypt and route documents through servers located in Iceland, Tobias says, in order to protect the contributors’ identity.

“Providing anonymity is vital,” he says.

What’s not vital, however, is Tobias working anywhere near Appalachia. He moved to Missoula in May 2011 and, since his MCC work is mostly seasonal, he can dedicate a lot of the winter to working on the site. In the summer, others will pick up the slack.

“Because it’s a web-based project, it makes it easier,” says Tobias, who first got involved in Appalachian issues with Climate Ground Zero.

“There are really no problems to me being based in Missoula, which is great because I like it here.”

In fact, Tobias says the Honest Appalachia model could lend itself to his new home state. He admits it’s a ways off, but notes that Montana mir-

rors the Appalachian region and its history with the extraction industry.

“If it’s successful and we have the financial resources and the time…something like Honest Rockies could be a possibility,” he says.

Skylar Browning

Sexual assults UM: “Call 911” The University of Montana and the City of Missoula last week rolled out a comprehensive campaign to encourage victims of sexual assault to call 911. That effort prompted some to question whether UM administrators feel confident with how UM’s Office of Public Safety handled a Feb. 10 report of a male aggressor forcing a female student to get into his car and then providing her with alcohol and drugs.

According to UM’s Feb. 10 campus safety crime log, a “female was forced into a vehicle in the Lommasson Center parking lot this morning around 2:28.”

UM’s student newspaper, the Montana Kaimin, reported that the man took the woman to his residence and forcibly kissed her before she

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escaped through a window. UM’s Office of Public Safety categorized the crime as providing alcohol to a minor. The same male student allegedly raped a woman hours after the first incident.

During a Feb. 28 student forum, UM chemistry major Sarah Hamblock asked UM President Royce Engstrom if he was troubled by Public Safety’s response to the Feb. 10 allegations. “I was wondering if you’re concerned about the fact that maybe our campus security isn’t adequate in this, in regard to sexual assault. I guess I feel it isn’t,� she said.

In response, Engstrom explained that city and campus law enforcement communicate efficiently.

Calling 911, he said, is simply the best means to contact city and campus police in an emergency situation.

When a reporter asked if Public Safety’s response was adequate, Engstrom bristled. “I have no reason to believe that our police officers in any way misrepresented what took place,� he said.

Engstrom said that the decision to classify the first incident as alcohol-related came after UM Public Safety consulted with the City Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutor Gary Henricks responded to UM’s inquiry. He says Public Safety did not tell him that the woman was forced into a car, nor did campus police say anything about a forced kiss. “What I was told is she had been offered a ride home,� Henricks said. “There was never any allegation of sexual assault.�

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during the public review period that ended March 2.

Most, she says, were in favor of the larger comprehensive plan, with the size of the RV park being the most contentious component. One of the comments in opposition was a 347-signature petition gathered by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. “We don’t think there’s tremendous public clamor for a lot more asphalt inside Yellowstone National Park,� says GYC Conservation Program Director Mark Pearson. That “may be appropriate in a commercial RV campground in a gateway community, but that doesn’t seem appropriate to us inside Yellowstone.�

Pearson also says the park shouldn’t base the design of its infrastructure on RVs, which he says

Yellowstone RVs coming through Yellowstone National Park is proposing a patch of pavement about the size of eight football fields to accommodate the ever-growing number—and size— of RVs that roll through.

Under the park’s Lake Area Plan, which was released for public review last month, it proposes to put down about 10 acres of pavement within the existing Fishing Bridge RV Park, which is currently the only campground in Yellowstone that offers water, sewer and electrical hookups for RVs. The plan also calls for 2.8 more acres, or 121,000 square feet, of building development in the area. “We are not proposing expanding the footprint of the RV park,â€? says Eleanor Williams Clark, a Yellowstone planner. “We’re proposing all development to be within the boundaries of that [RV] park‌and it does not violate any of our grizzly bear conservation measures that are in place.â€?

Clark says Yellowstone received 130 comments

accounts for a “pretty tiny slice of the visiting public.�

Clark can’t say what the percentage of Yellowstone visitors arrive in RVs. But it’s not the number that’s the problem. “It’s the fact that some of them are longer and require longer or larger turning radii,� she says. “They’re not outlawed. They’re allowed in the gates at this point in time. I know others have pointed to the possibility of limiting [RV] length, like other parks�—including Glacier National Park—“have done.� Yellowstone has studied that before, she says, but decided against it. “That’s not to say it can’t be explored in the future.�

Matthew Frank

Parks County eyes Travelers’ Rest expansion Missoula County Commissioners are evaluating a proposal to spend up to $300,000 of Open

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Space Bond money to purchase 24 acres of wildlife habitat and riparian area along Lolo Creek 12 miles south of Missoula. “The site is just awesome,� says Missoula County Commissioner Michele Landquist.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks opened Traveler’s Rest State Park 10 years ago. A partnership between the state agency and the nonprofit Travelers' Rest Preservation and Heritage Association helped grow the park from 15 acres to 50. If the Missoula County Commissioners approve using Missoula’s voter-approved Open Space Bond to help pay for the new land acquisition, the park just south of Lolo will grow again.

Travelers’ Rest is a National Historic Landmark that sits atop a centuries-old Native American campsite that archeologists say Meriwether Lewis and William Clark used during their early-19th-century expedition. The property is home to American mink, river otter, muskrats, black bears, mule deer and six species of woodpecker. “It’s a wonderful section of riparian area,� says Travelers’ Rest State Park Manager Loren Flynn. “Incredible wildlife habitat, [and] fisheries habitat as well.�

The county and the Heritage Association are evaluating whether to pool their resources with state conservation funds to purchase, at a discount, three parcels that lie adjacent to the existing park, currently owned by the Holt family. The parcels have yet to be appraised and include a 10-acre property that contains a significant amount of riparian habitat and 900 feet of Lolo Creek frontage. A second parcel now being leased by the park would be acquired by the state.

That property now houses a museum and visitor center, along with park offices. If the transaction is approved, the Holt family plans to donate the museum and its contents, including an extensive Native American bead collection.

The third parcel lies at an optimal location to connect a trail that runs north and south along Highway 93 to one that runs east to west along Highway 12, says Sarah Richey, who’s been helping to facilitate the deal on behalf of the county. “What the acquisition would do is allow Travelers' Rest State Park to expand their trail system and allow public access there along the creek,�

Richey says.

Commissioners are tentatively scheduled to vote on the proposal at the end of March.

Jessica Mayrer

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Two weeks ago, Sen. Jon Tester issued a stern request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. There’s a sleeper in our midst, a health risk as ingrained in American culture as shrink-wrapped cheese and the microwave oven. Women, even children, are under threat, Tester cautioned, from rising levels of lead in their everyday lives.

Lipstick, it seems, has gone to war.

Tester’s release revealed that from 2009 to 2011, the maximum lead content in common lipstick more than doubled. This neurotoxin builds up in the body gradually, and given lipstick’s proximity to food and the cheeks of loved ones, the potential hazards are not to be scoffed at. Tester asked the USDA to investigate how much lead can be ingested from regular lipstick use and urged the agency to set a cap for the level allowed in cosmetics. “Jon Tester is committed to consumer safety,� Tester spokeswoman Andrea Helling wrote. “Not disclosing dangers of rising levels of lead in lipstick is irresponsible and can have serious health impacts.�

Lead exposure can lead to a number of nasty symptoms, which makes Tester’s plea to the USDA all the more compelling. Ingesting high levels of lead can lead to digestive and kidney disorders, slowed motor reflexes and even blindness. According to scientific findings, those suffering from lead poisoning may also experience involuntary clenching of talons, droopy wings...

Wait. Talons? Wings?

For the past few years, conservationists have been vocal about the impacts of lead poisoning on birds of prey. Groups like the Center for Biological Diversity have pleaded with the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate or ban lead bullets and fishing weights. Raptors are ingesting lead in gut piles left behind by hunters; trout streams are choked with discarded lead tackle. Lipstick clearly isn’t the only enemy. So where is Tester?

You don’t have to search hard for his sentiments on the presence of lead in the natural environment. He’s fought hard against higher regulation of lead products.

How is this possible? If lipstick is such a concern, why not the concentrations of lead we’re depositing in the environment?

Tester’s office says the responsibility to regulate ammunition falls to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, not the EPA. Still, we can’t help wondering why he hasn’t been equally vocal on what lead is doing beyond our backyards. Maybe it’s because bald eagles don’t vote.

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Catching fire Journalist Jodi Rave pioneers Indian Country coverage

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But the site’s main strength, Rave Buffalo’s Fire is her project of the Jodi Rave has what she calls “the entrepreneurial bug.” It was with her moment. On a recent day, inside her says, is its opinion and analysis written by throughout her 11 years covering Native Missoula home-office, Rave talks about the experts on different facets of Indian American issues for Lee Enterprises in pressing need for more reporting on Native Country. “Let’s go to the people who are Nebraska and Montana. She couldn’t American issues that goes deeper than what in the trenches and have them tell their imagine working for someone else for the non-Indian journalists “parachuting into stories,” she says. “They’ll get it right. And rest of her career. Three years ago, she our communities” can do. It’s the reason you won’t have somebody coming in trytook the leap, leaving the Missoulian and she became a journalist in the first place. ing to piece together a story and write it launching Buffalo’s Fire, a personal blog “The mainstream press, they’ve always in a couple of days and miss the finer about Indian Country. But as the number been really absent and have overlooked nuances or totally overlook some key areas. We’ll have people who really know of hits climbed into the millions, it proved tribal communities,” she says. what’s going on telling the to be worthy of somestories. That’s really what I thing bigger, she thought. consider one of the highLast year, Rave, a member lights of Buffalo’s Fire.” of the North DakotaOne of the site’s first based Mandan, Hidatsa columns is by Fredricka and Arikara Nation, set Hunter, director of out to transform the blog American Indian Student into a national news site.

Services at the University of Buffalo’s Fire verMontana, who discusses sion 2.0 officially culturally relevant stratelaunched last week durgies for retaining Native ing the Reservation students. In the fall of 2011, Economic Summit and she notes, nearly a quarter American Indian of the 585 Native American Business Trade Fair in Las students enrolled at UM Vegas. The site, Rave were either on academic says, will “chart a new suspension or probation. course in Native news.”

Rave finds herself Rave says Buffalo’s charting many courses Fire will develop a particthese days. To call her a ular focus on land and print journalist who’s language. “You hear a lot successfully gone digital of people talk about the ignores the larger aims of need for economic develher leap. opment, and that’s always Rave, who in 2004 important,” she says. “But became the only Native preserving the Indian American woman to land base and promoting receive a Nieman indigenous languages are Photo by Chad Harder Journalism Fellowship, at two key, critical areas.”

Harvard University, left Former Missoulian reporter Jodi Rave last week launched On the Fort Berthold the Missoulian in 2009 Buffalo’s Fire, a national Native American news website.

Reservation in west-central North Dakota, where Rave primarily to write a book Buffalo’s Fire, made possible by a grew up, only one fluent speaker of the about Elouise Cobell, the Blackfeet woman who fought for more than a web-based fundraising campaign that Mandan language remains. That’s why Rave decade to win a $3.4 billion settlement brought in more than $10,000 last year, is seeking a doctorate in language revitalizafor Native Americans robbed of their covers politics, language revitalization, tion, and partly why she plans to soon Individual Indian Money trust accounts. science, education, indigenous knowl- return to Fort Berthold and her hometown Cobell, who died last October, is also the edge, natural resource development and of Twin Buttes. subject of a movie script Rave is writing. Indian trust reform, among other topics.

There’s another reason to go home: Two years ago, Rave began hosting a radio Rave hopes advertising will sustain the the oil and gas boom. The Fort Berthold program about Native issues on KBGA. site. It attracted more than a half-million Reservation is at the center of it. And the She’s nearly completed a master’s degree visitors in February, before the official land management issues the boom at the University of Montana, where she’s launch. Rave is also developing a Buffalo’s brings into focus are at the center of the studying law, environmental studies and Fire mobile app. book Rave is writing about Elouise The site is partly a news aggregator. Cobell. “All of the issues that define the creative writing. After that, she plans to pursue a doctorate in Native language Recent posts point to stories on topics Cobell lawsuit are unfolding today in revitalization. And she’s working to devel- ranging from the Confederated Colville North Dakota, and on my reservation,” op another website that will display Tribes in Washington agreeing to a $193 she says. remote sensing data to help tribal mem- million settlement with the federal governNaturally, it isn’t much of a leap for bers track oil and gas activity on reserva- ment for mismanaging tribal lands to the Rave to go cover it. tions. She’s a journalist in the broadest debate over the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname. possible sense. mfrank@missoulanews.com

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seen over the past century, there wasn’t necessarily any pressure to clearly delineate mineral ownership. Until now.

The question of mineral rights is even further complicated by the possible presence of split estates. Surface owners may not hold claim to the resources beneath their land, or they may share mineral ownership with multiple parties. Subsurface minerals might even be under the ownership of the state.

During the four-hour meeting March 1, Patrick Montalban, president of Mountainview Energy and a member of the Northern Montana Oil and Gas Association, told locals that their ownership rights over minerals are strongly protected by state statute—even if they aren’t the sole owner.

According to the Montana Environmental Quality Council, which compiled a pamphlet outlining split estate laws in 2007, “courts have held that the mineral right has no value unless the oil or gas can be removed from the ground.”

This means mineral owners are granted reasonable surface access rights regardless of the surface owner’s desires.

Photo by Alex Sakariassen Impeding a mineral owner’s pursuit of development would In Choteau on March 1, Patrick Montalban explains the penalties Montana likely result in hefty fines, landowners could face if they impede some forms of oil and gas exploration.

Montalban stressed. panies have contacted local landowners to says inquiries regarding subsurface mineral “That’s meant to protect the rights of inquire about mineral and access rights on ownership are four times what they were other landowners who want to see their farms, ranches and sprawling private just over a year ago. Some of those come minerals developed,” Montalban said. spreads. The calls are enough to spark from farmers and ranchers; others come Those who don’t intend to welcome a rumors and generate confusion as to who from land men investigating mineral potential boom may find the choice isn’t prospects for scores of oil and gas compa- that simple. owns what below the surface.

Sentiments are mixed as to how wel- nies. Jaconetty estimates about 10 land Calgary-based Primary Petroleum come a glut of oil and gas development men are currently compiling data from her began mapping subsurface formations would be. But state and federal officials office on a daily basis. More are coming all along the Front late last year. Mountainview were quick last week to assure locals that the time.

Energy has acquired the exploration rights “We just had a call from another oil to roughly 80,000 acres in the area. Teton even if exploration ramps up in their backyards, there’s no guarantee oil and gas company that wanted to know...what we County already has several follow-up meetcompanies will be “smoking cigars and sip- do,” Jaconetty says. “They’re sending three ings scheduled for later this month. ping cognac” over what they find. “It’s a sci- to five people next week. We got two new Montana Oil and Gas Manager Tom ence project,” said Don Judice, petroleum ones today [March 5] from Texas. Yeah, Richmond feels the public anticipation— manager for the U.S. Bureau of Land we’re pretty busy.” and fear—is outpacing reality. He calls the Sussing out who owns the riches expectations along the Front “a little unreaManagement. “In our part of the state, we below the Front isn’t easy. Land may have sonable,” primarily because that area, like haven’t discovered anything.”

The fears reflected in questions changed hands over the years, but owners central Montana, is still in the exploratory ranged from water contamination to somewhere down the line could have phase. No one’s proven that the area boasts sprawling mobile “man camps” to escalat- reserved part or all of their mineral a major oil play like the Bakken, he says, ing prices on goods and services for local claims. Farmers, ranchers and land men and until somebody does, “that kind of residents. Judice attempted to allay con- may at times “have to start with day one, activity doesn’t happen.”

“The man camps aren’t going to show cerns over fracking by pointing out that at the homestead,” Jaconetty says. “These any such activity along the Front would people were really smart back in the early up tomorrow,” Richmond adds. “They may occur at a depth of 4,000 feet—far deeper 1900s” when it came to holding on to not show up at all.” than at Pavilion, Wyo., where the EPA is potentially valuable assets. And with the currently investigating claims of fracking limited development that the Front has asakariassen@missoulanews.com There was hardly room to breathe in the conference room at Choteau’s Stage Stop Inn March 1. Locals spilled into the hallway or sat shoulder to shoulder in the hotel’s lobby. A sign taped in the breezeway announced that the public meeting was at full capacity. Roughly 250 people showed up from Dupuyer, Augusta, Great Falls—all drawn by the latest buzz words creeping west from the North Dakota state line: Oil. Gas. Fracking. Boom.

Teton County called the meeting in response to uncertainty surrounding the spread of the Bakken oil play. Already com-

pollutants in well water. Such chemicals aren’t that uncommon, Judice said. One is even used to prevent McDonald’s milkshakes from melting, he added. “Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “I’m not here to advocate this. But there’s been a lot of talk of secrecy about this...and I’m here to say most of these chemicals are nothing you don’t have under your kitchen sink.”

“Yeah, but you don’t drink those, either,” an audience member said.

One of the key concerns in Choteau is far removed from the public safety and environmental fears voiced March 1. Teton County Clerk and Recorder Paula Jaconetty

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Hang the ‘collaborators’ And heed the clear-sighted “extremists” Last week, the website Counterpunch posted an article by long-time forest activist Michael Donnelly that takes on one of the hottest issues in the environmental arena these days. Titled “The Wages of Compromise: When Environmentalists Collaborate,” it examines the result of such collaborations and reveals the history behind the strategy: where it came from and who it benefits.

On the occasion of the 30th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon’s Eugene campus last week, Donnelly writes that the buzz this year was about environmentalists collaborating with government agencies and industries that are in the business of cutting trees for profit under the rubric of forest health.

The strategy originated when Bill Clinton was president, he contends, and now has become the preferred model for environmentalists and other nonprofits and foundations that fund them, even as it decimates forests and harms the planet.

While Donnelly is correct about the national origins of the kind of collaboration that is now embraced by federal and state agencies, resource extraction industries, foundations and the groups that take their funds, Montana’s own sources of “collaboration” are worth exploring.

While Clinton was president, Montana had a Republican governor, Marc Racicot, and Republicans had huge majorities in both the state House and Senate. Extractive industries had a field day, receiving virtually anything they wanted from the governor and legislature and capping it all with a massive downgrade of Montana’s water quality laws, which were once considered some of the finest in the nation.

But of course, Montanans have a very long history of what actually happens when resource extraction industries run wild. We’re home to the biggest Superfund site in the nation, which stretches from Butte to Missoula. Flying over our cut-over forest lands is really the only way to perceive the massive devastation already visited upon the state.

We’re struggling to recover species such as the bull trout from the brink of extinction, thanks to habitat loss due to sedimentation from thousands of miles of logging roads.

Trying to appear to serve the public’s interest while absolutely serving the interests of the extractive industries, Montana Republicans came up with a

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novel idea. It was called the Consensus Council and, in theory, was instituted to provide a new way of dealing with thorny natural-resource issues.

The idea was as simple as it was insidious. The Governor appointed some representatives of various “stakeholders” to the Consensus Council, where they were supposed to come to agreement

Montanans have a very long history of what actually happens when resource extraction industries run wild.

with land management agencies and extractive industries on how to move forward while supposedly balancing extractive environmental impacts with economic growth.

But here’s the rub. The agency personnel, such as the directors of various state agencies, were appointed by the governor to carry out his agenda, which was anything but environmentally conscious. Even the quickest review of Racicot’s agency directors will show that he appointed former extractive industry lobbyists to oversee the very agencies that were supposed to be regulating those industries. Add the representatives from the extractive interests themselves and the fix was in. There was no way the votes for “consensus” could ever wind up on the side of greater environmental protection.

It would be nice to be able to put the blame squarely on Racicot’s shoulders, but in fact, the roots of collaboration in Montana came from a document titled “En Libra” that was published by the industry-funded Western Governors’ Association. “En Libra” set out, as its founding principle, “collaboration, not

polarization,” that would “result in improved and expedited environmental decision-making and implementation.”

It’s worth noting that nowhere in the document does it actually describe enhanced environmental protection as a goal or outcome, just “expedited environmental decision-making and implementation.” What that means in plain language, and in the manner that collaboration now works, is that extractive industries get quicker access to more resources with less hassle from environmentalists because the “consensus” of the “collaborators” is given credence via the blessing of the government.

There was, however, a secondary strategy, widely-known as “divide and conquer.” The faux credibility of consensus did a great job of marginalizing those who were not appointed to the collaboration groups and who believed that the laws of the land, not a phony agreement from a stacked deck, should be followed when it came to resource-extraction impacts.

These outcasts, also known as environmental heroes to many, were dubbed “extreme environmentalists” and beset with slings and arrows from government agencies, the collaborators, the media and the corporate extractive industries with whom they did not seek “consensus.”

Donnelly quotes David Brower, the first director of the Sierra Club, who said, “Compromise is often necessary, but it ought not to originate with environmental leaders. Our role is to hold fast to what we believe is right, to fight for it, to find allies and to adduce all possible arguments for our cause. If we cannot find enough vigor in us or our friends to win, then let someone else propose the compromise, which we must then work hard to coax our way. We thus become a nucleus around which activists can build and function.”

Collaboration is an industry-initiated, industry-funded and industry-friendly strategy to neuter the environmental movement. Divide-and-conquer is working as planned. Yet there are those who know we cannot continually cut the environmental pie in half to benefit extractive industries, especially when the pieces have become too small to split.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Bad dog A lion and a deer walk into the neighborhood...

by Laura Pritchett

There’s a dead fawn outside my front door. It’s been completely and carefully covered in grass, which means that it is a mountain lion kill, which means that the mountain lion responsible is going to come back to finish eating. I would never have noticed it, except that my dog was sniffing and whining and making an urgent noise that sounds exactly like something Chewbacca would say.

When I called Colorado Parks and Wildlife to report the dead fawn, braced with the sure knowledge that they would come out and remove it, the man told me to let it be—just let the mountain lion enjoy the leftovers.

“Um,” I said. “I have young children. I have a dog.” I paused and waited for him to change his mind.

Instead, he sighed. “Well, I’m sure you’ve trained and fenced your dog.”

I had. But it is my belief that passion nearly always trumps rules. That is why people fall in love in ways that make no sense, and it is why dogs contort their bodies to scramble out of a well-fortified fence to go roll in dead deer carcasses.

After the first good roll, I told my dog, “I love you, and we’re going to get through this together.” I lathered her up with dish soap and sprayed her with the hose, all the while hanging on to her collar despite the ripping of tendons in my shoulder socket. I murmured to her, as a dog-whisperer might, about cause and effect. Roll in dead deer, get a bath in cold water. See the connection?

She did not see the connection. She was out 10 minutes later, rolling in dead fawn. Then she showed up at my door, smiling, wagging, oblivious, a fawn leg dangling from her mouth.

So out we went again, back outside to

the hose, both of us freezing. Then I felt bad and brought her in, and while she was safely inside, I threw the fawn leg as far as I could into the willows beyond the fence.

And then I re-fixed the fence.

These last few nights, the mountain lion has indeed returned to feast. In the morning, I check the progress: more deer gone, scattered in various directions. Hurry it up, I mutter.

I startled the dog, which dropped the fawn part and jumped on me to check that I was okay.

My dog has received 12 baths in the last four days. My shoes are permanently wet and yet have simultaneously frozen into a strange and uncomfortable shape resembling prehistoric croissants. I have given my dog baths inside and outside, and I have truly and sincerely done everything I can to keep her in our yard. And yet, the dog’s hide is scratched and bloody from wire; one nail is broken and bleeding from digging.

She keeps finding new ways out.

Until the 13th bath, which was today, I still loved my dog. I had the door propped open because it was unseasonably warm.

The dog was happy about this, because she likes to sit on the threshold of the house.

Every nook and cranny in the fence had

been attended to, and I felt confident that my sweet-smelling dog would remain sweet-smelling and obedient. But what did I see? The dog sitting in her spot, tail thumping happily, chewing on a rotting remnant of deer.

A noise issued forth from somewhere deep inside me. I startled the dog, which dropped the fawn part and jumped on me to check that I was okay. Unsurprisingly, she smelled like rotten deer flesh; she had bits of fascia in her teeth. And that is when I discovered a very old fact, but one that is new to me: Temporary madness can allow for all kinds of normally impossible feats. I rushed out of the house, hollering. I threw every rotting half-chewed chunk of deer I could find over the ditch and over a fence and into a nearby horse pasture, which is not owned by me. At the end I was speaking what sounded like Chewbaccan, although English words occasionally emerged— something about stupid mountain lion, fawn, nature, dog, universe, I hate you all.

Then I came inside, washed my hands and made myself a nice cup of hot tea.

The dog, freshly bathed, is sleeping now at my feet, head resting on one foot so I cannot get up. It’s possible that I still like my dog, now that I’ve had a breather. That doesn’t mean I love her, not yet. I do like the fact that she believes that rules are meant to be acknowledged, and then ignored, and that her tail wags in her sleep.

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Question: Do you want the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus rex residing in your backyard? If so, would you eat its eggs? What about feed and care for it? Many people do. The T-rex’s relative is, of course, the chicken. Locavores throughout the country and in Missoula fancy themselves capable of raising birds for those oh-so-delicious eggs with the sunburst yolks. How hard could it be, right? They’re like cats. They eat bugs. Fend for themselves. Groom their own feathers. If a guy can grow a stalk of corn, raising chickens must be a breeze. Bad news, hipsters, growing chickens is work. Fortunately for you aspiring chicken ranchers, there is a man who can aid in your effort to make the best darn omelette this side of François-Pierre de La Varenne. His name is Greg Price and he is as close as we’ve got to a bonafide chicken superman.

Price normally works as the River Road Farm Manager for Garden City Harvest but he is teaching a Backyard Chicken Basics workshop for MUD (Missoula Urban Demonstration Project). He says the

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SUNDAY MARCH 11 The annual Habitat for Humanity family selection process begins now. If you think you might be eligible for a home built with your hands and Habitat’s, attend the meeting at City Life Community Center. 1515 Fairview. 2 PM.

The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30–6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment. 120 Hickory.

Rural Employment Opportunities and the Bitterroot Job Service host a WECAN event for those seeking employment, receiving financial education information or looking to become mentors. Bitterroot Job Service. 274 Old Corvallis Rd. 5 PM. Free.

Heartbeats are about more than former “Miami Vice” star Don Johnson. Find out how at the Community Medical Center Foundation Minerva Society Lecture My Heart is Not Beating Right: What Gives? given by Dr. Stephen Tahta. Gallagher Board Rm. 5:30 PM. Register at marchminerva.eventbrite.com.

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MUD’s Backyard Chicken Basics workshop takes place at MUD Northside, 629 Phillips St., on Sat., Mar. 10, from 1 to 4 PM. Cost is $20/$10 for members. To sign-up, call 721-7513 or go to mudproject.org.

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The latest installment in the Peace and Justice Film Series is Your Mommy Kills Animals, which looks at the animal rights movement in the US. Gallagher Business Bldg., Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

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workshop’s intention is to remind people “that chickens are living beings that need care, work and require responsibility.” Price points out that chickens are native to the tropics and are easily frostbitten, so building a coop that is worthy of a Montana winter is important. Although chickens provide a great protein source, they also are a great protein source for other critters. Every day and every night, chickens are stalked by predators as small as a weasel and as large as a bear. It is our job to keep them out. The workshop illustrates how to mitigate that circumstance and not only have fresh eggs but a fresh understanding of something you thought you already understood: responsibility.

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SATURDAY MARCH 10 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

Get help with them taxes so we can pay for wars, roads and drones at UM’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. Bring your ID, Social Security cards, W-2 and any other tax docs you may have. Both spouses must be present if you’re filing jointly. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 209. 9 AM–4 PM. Free.

MONDAY MARCH 12 Blue Mountain Clinic, along with the Missoula AIDS Council, offers free, anonymous and blood-free HIV testing. 610 N. California. 1–4 PM. Free. Call 721-1646.

Hear what Pulitzer winner Anne Marie Squeo thinks about The Split Personality of Branded Journalism during her Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the UM School of Journalism. UC Theater. 7 PM. Free.

TUESDAY MARCH 13 The UM Wilderness Institute brings scholars, writers, scientists and explorers together to share stories of how water shapes our lives, landscapes and politics in the Wild Waters in the West Lecture Series. This week, Anders Halverson, writer and ecologist, gives a lecture titled An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World.

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The Missoula Patriots host Theresa Manzilla of the horse rescue group Willing Servants for a talk titled The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. Valley Christian School Auditorium, 2526 Sunset. 7 PM. Free.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 14 The annual Habitat for Humanity family selection process begins now. If you think you might be eligible for a home built with your hands and Habitat’s, attend the meeting at City Life Community Center. 1515 Fairview. 7 PM.

THURSDAY MARCH 15 Learn how two unlikely friends made the Americans with Disability Act a reality at the Peace and Justice Film Series movie Music Within, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Disability and Students at UM. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - A man wanted on rape charges was arrested after stopping to flirt with a uniformed female police officer on patrol in San Francisco. The 26-year-old man was “obviously enamored,” police Capt. Paul Chignell said, and approached the parked police cruiser to strike up a conversation. When he asked the officer if she was married, she replied that she wasn’t available but asked the man’s name. As he walked away, she ran a records check and discovered the no-bail warrant for rape. (San Francisco Chronicle) A little more than an hour after stealing beer from a liquor store in Santa Clarita, Calif., three suspects returned and demanded the surveillance video of the crime. They brandished a knife and cut the clerk during a scuffle, then fled. Sheriff’s deputies had surrounded the scene, however, and arrested Oscar Jimenez, 19, Eduardi Salgado, 18, and a juvenile. (Associated Press) When the Uinta County, Wyo., Sheriff’s Office received a call from a man asking for roadside assistance after he ran out of gas, the dispatcher sent state troopers to help him. They ran a routine check on the stranded motorist, Richard Vincent, 59, and learned he was wanted in Georgia for violating parole on a murder and escape conviction. (Associated Press) SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - When Dustin Bueller, 20, asked Moises Zambrana, 48, to see his gun after church in Lealman, Fla., they made sure not to endanger parishioners gathered inside the church by stepping inside a closet. Zambrana removed the Ruger 9mm’s magazine and began explaining the weapon’s safety features. He forgot about the round in the chamber, however, and the gun accidentally fired, sending a bullet through the wall and into the head of Hannah Kelley, 20, who is Bueller’s girlfriend and the daughter of the pastor. She was hospitalized in critical condition. (Tampa Bay Times) A 52-year-old man walked into the Arizona Shooting Range in Broward County, Fla., rented a gun and shot himself in the head. He was taken to the hospital, where he died. When sheriff’s deputies went to notify his wife, they found the 45-year-old woman’s body and concluded her husband had killed her. (Miami’s WIOD-AM) FUTURE FLUNKERS - China banned three kindergartens in Shanxi province from offering palm-reading tests that the schools claimed could predict pupils’ intelligence level and potential. Although many parents were eager to have their children tested, some later complained about the method and its high cost: $190. (Reuters) SCAM-A-RAMA - Nicolaos Kantartzis pleaded guilty to rigging pay phones in the Washington, D.C., area to make phantom calls to toll-free numbers so he could collect a fee for each call. Because the calls are free to callers, the recipient has to pay the cost, half of which goes to the pay-phone operator. Kantartzis made some eight million calls, most lasting only a few seconds, collecting 50 cents each to net $4 million. (Associated Press) As finance director of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Ronald Lederkramer paid for upgrades to the taxpayer-owned facility’s sound system by charging $270,000 to his personal credit card, collecting $24,000 worth of reward points, then paid the credit card installments with government-issued checks. He insisted he used the points for travel to conferences on Coliseum business, but when asked for documentation, he said, “Why would I have kept that?” (Los Angeles Times) FOOD FOLLIES - Chile’s Supreme Court ordered the newspaper La Tercera to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a recipe for churros. Days after the newspaper printed the recipe for the popular Latin American fried dough snack, hospitals around the country began treating people for burns suffered when the dough boiling in oil suddenly exploded. Judges ruled that the newspaper failed to test the recipe before publication. (Britain’s The Telegraph) A Transportation Security Administration agent confiscated a frosted cupcake from a Massachusetts passenger flying from Las Vegas, citing its gel-like icing as a potential national security threat. Accusing the agent of lacking common sense, Rebecca Hains, 35, called the incident “an encroachment on civil liberties” and said such incidents done in the name of security are “really theater” that are “not keeping us safe.” (Associated Press) GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS - As cars have complied with federal requirements to improve fuel efficiency, declining gas use has caused revenues from the federal gas tax to plummet, leaving less for roads, bridges and transit projects. “It no longer works as our primary source,” transportation attorney and former Transportation Secretary Jim Burnley said. The tax—18.4 cents a gallon for gasoline and 24.4 cents for diesel—accounts for 45 to 50 percent of capital spending for transportation. It was last raised in 1993.

(USA Today) HOW CONGRESS THINKS - Frustrated with the Senate’s failure to approve a budget, U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., told a town hall meeting in Bixby, Okla., “I’d love to get them to vote for it. Boy, I’d love that, you know. But other than me going over there with a gun and pointing it to their head and maybe killing a couple of ’em, I don’t think they’re going to listen unless they get beat.” (Associated Press) Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, insisted that increasing the flow of oil through the Alaskan oil pipeline would benefit the caribou that live near the project. He explained to the House Natural Resources Committee that the caribou enjoy the warmth that the pipeline radiates. “So,” he informed his colleagues, “when they want to go on a date, they invite each other to head over to the pipeline.” He credited the pipeline for a tenfold boost to Alaska’s caribou population and said the caribou might be adversely affected if oil stops running through the pipeline. When his colleague, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, said he wasn’t sure Gohmert knew what he was talking about, Gohmert remained adamant, saying, “It sounds like they need the pipeline.” (The Washington Post)

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Working sheep is a border collie’s favorite activity.

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n a grassy enclosure, Nan is frozen in a crouch, staring down eight sheep. The sheep have packed themselves into a nervous ball, neck over neck, like one big, wooly, many-headed creature. They watch the border collie out of the corners of their eyes.

Lynn Mason stands just inside the fence with a long stick like a sheepherder’s staff. He’s a tall, practical, 72-year-old man with a short, white beard and a worn plaid cowboy shirt with pearly snaps. “Nan,” he calls. “Nan, away to me.”

The dog pops up and races counterclockwise around the small herd. They react by moving in one big blob toward the fence.

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“Na-a-n!” Lynn says sternly this time, a warning for her to slow down. On the outside of the fence, two more border collies—Rose, a red merle, and Parfait, a 6-month-old pup—can barely contain their excitement. They’re waiting for their turns with sheep. It’s been a long few months since any of them have gotten much practice.

They may be idle just now, but these dogs are the seed stock for future generations of dogs that are bound up with Montana and the West, whether they’re working stock with a drive and intelligence that seems to top any other breed’s or just hiking with their owners or playing their border collie games at your local dog park.

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Having been bred for hundreds of years to work with people, border collies have largely been spared the beauty pageantry of the show-dog world.

Breeding for intelligence over beauty has led to their rank as the brightest dogs in the world in instinctive intelligence, adaptive intelligence and working intelligence, according to a 2006 University of British Columbia study.

On a recent day in late February, Mission Falls Ranch is still enjoying a good deal of snow. The driveway up to the old St. Ignatius homestead is lined with stately box elders. At the front door, a happy pack of seven border collies bounds out to greet you.

Besides Nan, Rose and Parfait, there’s Skookum, Wisp, Scarlett and Mac Duff. Not one dog looks like any of the others—some are the classic border collie black-and-white, others are either tri-color or an orangey-red, some are shaggy-haired and others are smooth. The Masons have carefully bred all of them for their herding instincts. At this working dog haven, they hone their skills.

The house, where Lynn and his wife Joan live, has been built onto many times since it was first settled in 1915. The 160-acre property, which is on the Flathead Reservation, was originally owned by an American Indian couple, then sold to an Iowa couple who raised pigs and corn. In the 1940s, it was

run as a farm where people could come and pay for a sit-down chicken dinner. When the Masons took it over in 1985, they bought cattle and started learning about breeding and training border collies. Two years ago, they switched from cattle to 29 head of sheep, a herd that was recently decimated, leaving 12 dead, after what they think was an attack by roaming dogs. Occasionally, they sell a lamb, but most of their income now comes from selling puppies from their border collie litters and from the paintings— mostly of horses—that Joan makes.

At the base of a rolling hill are the sheep, penned at the banks of Mission Creek. Near to the old stone smokehouse are a pear and a crabapple tree, carefully trimmed to leave a sight-line from the house, where the Masons have set up a telescope fixed on a bald eagle nest. In a blue spruce tree next to the house, horned owls nest in a wicker basket Lynn hitched to the trunk. The whole place sits under the brilliant, looming shadow of the Mission Mountains, capped with snow and swirling in blizzards.

When they got their first border collie, Moxie, the Masons didn’t know what they were in for. Joan went to look at the puppies at a woman’s barn on a property that also was host to 1,000 sheep.

“How do they work?” Joan asked her.

The woman replied, “I just tell her to go get—” and before she could finish, the woman’s border collie shot out the door to round up the sheep.

“She had to call her back,” says Joan. “From that point on, she spelled everything out so her dog didn’t know what she was saying. And I thought, ‘This is really something: spelling in front of the dogs?’”

When Joan brought Moxie home, she didn’t know yet how to train her. One day, when the dog was six months old, Joan was moving heifers, trying

The Mission Ranch in the Flathead Valley.

to get them into a corral. But every time she was going in the right direction, one of the cows would break and climb up the hill away from her. Moxie stayed with her, but Joan noticed that whenever she called to the cows with a “ch-ch-ch,” the dog would dive in to help. “Okay,” she thought. “We can do that.... So I got them down to the bottom and I stopped watching the heifers and started watching her, and I’d go ‘ch-ch-ch’ and she’d dive in there no problem, even when they’d go up the hill she’d follow and I’d wait until she was in the right place and make the sound.”

This is the real surprise: that the border collie already knows what to do, sometimes even before the owner does. Lynn recalls growing up on his family’s ranch in Michigan and having a light bulb moment. He was helping to push cattle through the gate and out to pasture when he noticed that the cows weren’t moving. No matter how much he shooed them forward, they wouldn’t budge. All of a sudden, he realized he didn’t know where the herding dog was. He peeked around the cows and saw that she was the one blocking the gate, not letting them move forward. Her instinct was to make sure they didn’t get away, he says.

Like all dogs, border collies are descendants of wolves, which hunt big prey in packs. A non-dominant wolf will push a game animal toward a dominant wolf. Essentially, that could have been what was happening with Lynn’s dog—her natural inclination was to gather the cattle toward her owner. Lynn knew he had to change his strategy. “If you open the gate and go through the gate ahead of the cattle, and let the dog follow behind and bring the stock to you, it works,” he says. “Typically, the people that are not experienced using dogs, they’ll always run into that situation with a border collie.”

Instinct isn’t everything, however. After the Masons figured out Moxie’s abilities, they still needed lessons in how to hone and harness her skills.

Herding-dog owners will tell you that obedience school softens a dog’s instincts, which makes some sense: Training a herding dog is about maintaining her assertiveness while at the same time teaching her to promptly respond to vocal commands, body language and tone. It’s a balancing act.

The Masons learned flanking commands and worked with Moxie on a long leash to teach her to stay in sync with them.

“It’s not always pretty at first,” says Lynn. “They can be hardheaded and you have to break them.”

The flanking commands are international, stemming from early Scottish sheepherders who discovered the magic of their collies and used it to their advantage. There’s a kind of formal beauty to the words. “Away to me” or “Way to me” tells the dog to go counterclockwise around the sheep. “Go by” or “On by” means go clockwise. “Steady” asks the dog to slow to a creeping walk. “Down” tells her to instantly drop.

“Walk on up” lets her know she can walk toward the sheep. And “That will do” dismisses the dog from her duties. The dog reacts to the tone, too. A command said low alerts the good dog to go slow, and when it’s said with more excitement, she knows to speed up.

But a border collie also has a problem-solving mind of her own. Knowing the commands to go counterclockwise or clockwise doesn’t teach the dog at what point on the clock to stop, nor how far to be from the sheep. The border collie learns those lessons from experience—how far away from the sheep or cattle she needs to be so that they’re aware of her but not so scared they’ll scatter, and also where on the gathering circle she needs to be in order to push the sheep in one direction or another.

A good herding dog learns all these things. A great herding dog, a dog worthy of Montana, has an extra quality that’s hard to pin down. And that’s what Moxie had, says Lynn.

“She was a dog that when you entered a field, there could be stock out there—maybe 300 or 400 yards away—and they knew she was there. And when she started to go, they were aware of her. She very rarely had to bite. It was just the presence. She was probably the most powerful dog we’ve ever had, and power is something that is very hard to define. But you know it when you see it.”

Smarter than poodles—and stealthier Border collies seem to have a long history. In 943, a Welsh King, Hywel Dda, wrote of how impressed he was with a black dog that would take sheep to pasture and return with them in the evening. In 1486, a long-tailed dog was described that fits the description of a modern border collie.

There’s a record in 1514 of two Polish sheepdogs being traded for sheep in Scotland; those dogs seem to have been bred with Scots sheep dogs, which created a shaggy blue merle coat. In 1700, the English artist and naturalist Thomas Bewick mentioned the collie in his book The General History of Quadrupeds, saying, “Its aid is highly necessary in managing...numerous flocks of sheep in...extensive wilds and fells.” The first sheepdog trial, a contest of skills, was held in Wales in 1873.

And then came Old Hemp, a collie born in 1893.

Old Hemp not only became the reigning champ of sheepdog trials—speedy, quiet and exacting—but he’s also regarded as the progenitor of all modern border collies.

“Collie” was a blanket term for herding breeds in general. The “border” part of the name became

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popular after James Reid, secretary of the International Sheepdog Society, inserted it to distinguish the top-notch collies that came from the border counties between northern England and southern Scotland.

And then the wizard dogs crossed the pond. Sheepdogs were brought to Montana in the early 1920s, if not before. After a sheep herder died at Fort Benton in 1936 and his body was sent east, a “big, gaunt shepherd dog” that looked like a border collie became famous for waiting by the railroad for his master to return.

There is a statue of him there today.

One description of a sheepherder in Montana says, “The life of the herder is extremely lonely, both day and night being spent with the sheep. Once a week, a man brings him food; and for weeks, and even months at a time, the only company he has aside from his sheep is his dog and possibly his horse.” Their sharp minds won them a place as workmates and even companions in the West, and they’ve never left.

A 1972 test in England rated the border collie the most intelligent dog breed (the poodle came in second), with the problem-solving ability of a 12-year-old human. Unlike so many other dogs that are bred for their appearance, border collies largely have been bred for intellect and trainability alone. It’s not just about teaching a dog a trick; border collies appear to have more abstract ways of looking at the world and their place in it.

Joan and Lynn Mason’s border collie bible, The Versatile Border Collie, tells this story: A border collie from Arizona named Commodore came back from a long day of sheepherding with a felt hat in his mouth. After he had penned the sheep, he pushed the gate closed with his paws and dropped the hat at the feet of the ranch foreman. The foreman recognized the hat as one that belonged to his sheepherder.

Commodore tugged at the foreman’s pant leg, so

he followed him to a distant pasture where the sheepherder lay badly injured by a rock slide.

One border collie, Rico, was showcased on German TV in 2001 with the ability to understand 200 words, and the capacity to learn more. More recently, another border collie, Chaser, made the news for being able to identify 1,022 toys by name, plus being able to understand and execute complex demands like “fetch Sponge Bob and put him in the box” or “paw at the lamb.” Yet another border collie, Betsy, is said to be able to look at a photograph and then retrieve the object depicted in the photograph, even if she’s never seen the photo or the object before. All of these border collies are doing more than acing exams; they seem to be opening new doors onto what people and other animals can do together.

At Carroll College, in Helena, Ann Perkins started a program to study the bond between animals and humans. Farm and ranch dogs such as border collies are prime examples in her classes. “The progenitor for all domestic dogs was the wolf and our relationship with the wolf has evolved through a partnership: I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine,” Perkins says.

“Within the lifetime of a human, we changed predators that looked like foxes—and that were biting, aggressive and wild—to animals that looked more like border collies. Through training and primarily selective breeding, we have these incredible dogs that are absolutely driven to bring the sheep in. And it’s all about that working relationship.”

The Carroll College program started as a human-animal bond curriculum within the department of psychology. But having the human psychology focus turned out to be only half of it. Animal science, on the other hand, fell short, too. Those studies, typically represented in zoology or biology departments, look at all kinds of facets of animals: physiology, classification, ecosystem—everything except their relationship with humans.

“We love our dogs and cats, and farmers

Lynn Mason lets the dogs out.

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and ranchers have a relationship with their cattle and sheep—even if they’re going to go to market,” says Perkins. “I wanted to develop a discipline that would focus not on the kingdomphylum-class-order-genus-species, not on theleg-bone-is-connected-to-the-heel, but defining what is important about that bond.”

In the canine wing of the program, students learn the best ways to work with a rescue dog to help it be the best dog it can be. The types of services those dogs end up in are incredible— not just working with stock but also helping people with autism so they can navigate visual and audio stimuli that might otherwise hinder them. In one famous case, a dog at Carroll College was trained to alert a person with diabetes when his blood sugar was too low.

Another part of that curriculum focuses on history, such as the way border collies have evolved and emigrated with humans from Scotland to the U.S. It’s not a mere matter of celebrating the bond, though, says Perkins. It’s accessing an angle on history that’s as important as politics, art and science. “It’s like the role of the horse throughout history,” she says. “Oh my gosh, it’s like, guns and germs and steel and all that don’t even a hold a candle to the role that the horse played in how we civilized the world. If you had a horse, you were a conquerer, and if you didn’t, you lost. And dogs have played an important role, too. We study the relationship so we see how it’s evolved and where it’s going to go.”

If you go to Montana State University’s Sheep Institute website, you’ll notice a photo of a sheep and below it a photo of a border collie.

Two things are happening now with the sheep market, the institute says. Droughts in Australia and New Zealand have led to a sheep shortage, and that coincides with a demand in the U.S. for more ethnic foods that use lamb. A demand for lamb could be a demand for more of the kinds of dogs that can round up sheep, says Rodney Kott, the institute’s sheep specialist, “because most sheepherders do want a border collie. And

a well-trained border collie is very valuable.”

However antiquated and romantic the sheepherding dog might seem to urban culture, and however mechanized the world of agriculture has become, there’s nothing quite like a dog and her sheepherder. “We have four-wheelers and we can put microchips in sheep,” says Perkins. “But with herding dogs–and I don’t want to quite call it the last vestige, but it really is a hold onto a very ancient relationship where dogs are supporting humans and their job is just as important and relevant.”

Perkins had a border collie who used to gather her sheep. She recalls when three sheep got away and were completely out of sight. She told her dog to go get the sheep. “He looked at me like, ‘Are you crazy? There aren’t any sheep.’ But he left and then he turned back about four football field lengths away to make sure that’s what I wanted. And over the ridge he went, and maybe three miles away, and back he comes with the sheep. You wait and there they come, bringing the sheep back. What kind of bond is that? How could you do that with a machine?”

Beauty over brains There’s a bumper sticker that perfectly exemplifies the controversy of breeding dogs, specifically working dogs. It says, “Border Collie: Brains Before Beauty.” There’s also a Tshirt you can get online that says, “The Kennel Club is Darwin’s Nightmare,” and underneath, “Unnatural selection, unfit for function.” That slogan is from Terrierman’s Daily Dose, a blog mostly about politics in the dog world. You’ve seen the parody of this world if you’ve ever watched Christopher Guest’s 2000 film Best In Show. The superficial, obsessive display of dogs and owners is exaggerated in that case, but the focus on beauty and standardized features is not.

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Long bred for work and not show, Border Collies are physically diverse, with a wide range of traits.

“The rough collie—the Lassie dog—was a herding dog at first, but they’ve almost lost that instinct,” says Joan Mason, the St. Ignatius breeder. “And do you know why? Here’s our rant.” The American Kennel Club “recognized the border collie and these other breeds too. They put in standards about what a border collie should look like.”

For about 40 years, the AKC allowed border collies in its miscellaneous category for performance— which is, of course, what it’s known for. But in the early 1990s, the AKC started hinting that the border collie would soon be required to be a show breed— meaning its looks would be standardized and its breeding for work would be a secondary. The American Border Collie Association and its supporters went nuts. If there was one way to quash the instinct of a breed cultivated through centuries, they protested, this was it.

“The ABC hired lawyers and lobbyists to prevent the AKC from recognizing the border collie as a breed,” says Mason, but the AKC did it anyway, “against everybody’s wishes, and so that locks in that. In the ABC, there are no standards, which is why you really don’t know what a border collie looks like. You know what they act like.”

Donald McCaig, a Butte native and author of the 2007 book The Dog Wars: How the Border Collie Battled the American Kennel Club, also opposes this standardization of the breed. In the book, he talks about the dying art of sheepherding in Scotland and laments that so many working dogs end up only doing field trials and agility contests, which, he claims, dilutes the arcane subtleties of the dogs’ instincts. He charges that the Scots have learned to work with the genetics of the dogs whereas Americans try to dominate them. He writes, “It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog’s genetics, not to impose man’s will over dogs.”

As with so many purebreds, working dogs that are bred for certain physical characteristics can end up with issues. The desire for the red or blue merle pattern on a collie can lead to congenital deafness.

Border collies should never be bread merle to merle, Mason Says.

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fate with her nonprofit organization, Bangtail Dog Rescue. People breed border collies merle to merle, she says, “because they want to get those really flashy colors that get rewarded in the confirmation ring. And unfortunately, a lot of breeders, if they have a puppy that’s born with excessive light color,

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Even when not working, the Mason’s collies keep a close eye on the sheep.

These dogs often end up almost colorless. Some are born without eyes, or with light-blue eyes that have a tendency toward blindness. With this kind of breeding for beauty, a quarter of a litter can end up with these defects—and that often leads to them being euthanized.

In Corvallis, in the Bitterroot Valley, Jackie Loeser helps rescue deaf border collies from that

they’ll just kill them. Which is pretty sad, because they’ll make pretty good pets.”

Most of the dogs Loeser fosters are deaf herding breeds from shelters that are overcrowded. “I think a lot of shelters, they get in a deaf dog and they think, ‘Oh, we’ll never be able to adopt them out,’” she says. “I don’t think it’s necessarily true, but I see their point. If they have 20 dogs in there and one of

them is deaf and 19 aren’t, it’s probably harder to adopt out a deaf one.”

On a recent visit, Loeser was fostering—along with her own nine dogs—a happy, deaf border collie-great Pyrenees cross named Hush, a tall, sweet dog that liked to jump up on people. Once he had his paws on your forearms, he’d carefully gaze into your face as if looking for some kind of signal. When he played, he pranced sideways, watching all the human faces to see their reactions.

Loeser owns a working dog, Flyer, who’s also deaf and as sweet as Hush and as attentive to facial expression. Loesser’s blue heeler-cattle dog, Ruby, is also deaf and mostly blind; she follows Flyer, her seeing-eye dog, around.

The deaf dogs sleep soundly. Sometimes their ears perk up, apparently apropos of nothing, although if the air is very still, they can feel the vibration from a clap or someone walking on the floor.

Some bark in strange high pitches.

Loeser says that deaf working dogs also seem prone to OCD behaviors if they’re kept in a shelter for too long. One deaf border collie she took under her wing was like a whirling dervish, spinning in circles from a neurotic excitement. He was a happy dog otherwise, but the behavior for most people seemed both bizarre and annoying. The first time she adopted him out, he was returned at 3 a.m. in a snowstorm. The second time, he was returned within a couple of hours. “I didn’t think I’d ever find him a home,” she says. “I kept telling people, ‘You’ve got to give him time.’ I think the longer he’s in a stable home, the more that behavior will diminish.” He was recently taken by a young college woman who, so far, has had him for three months.

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After passing through the tunnel, Kip eyes Jackie, eagerly waiting for further instruction.

by, and then freely. “I find that these guys are better hiking companions because they don’t tend to range as far,” she says. “Since they can’t hear you, they check back more often. I think they do pay more attention to people’s expressions.”

Loeser does agility training with her deaf dogs.

She helps hone their natural working skills through hand signals rather than verbal commands, and with a penlight: They learn that the flickering of the light means different things—sit and shake, for instance— and once she gets them used to those, she can work on more advanced signals.

Hush is new to the lessons. Before she can ask him to sit and shake, he’s already eagerly on his rump with his paw lifted.

A few weeks later, Hush is adopted by Laurie Gerhardt, in Livingston. Gerhardt loves border collie mixes and she is also a sign-language interpreter, which is another reason she thought Hush was a good match. He mostly needs training like any other dog, she says, although she also has been stomping on the floor and flicking the lights to get his attention.

“There are people who have taught their deaf dogs hundreds of commands,” Loeser says. “I’m a little biased because I love the herding breeds. I think in general they’re easier to train. They’re bred to work with people.”

dog can get focused on one animal, honed in so hard that both dog and sheep are locked in a staring contest. Lynn taps a stick in front of the dog, trying to get her to break the gaze and pay attention to the entire herd, not just one sheep. That intensity is both the challenge and strength of a border collie.

Context matters: On a ranch, the dog’s perseverance is what makes her so powerful. As a pet, it can be called “obsessiveness.”

Joan says that one border collie she knows of, living in a condo with her owners, was a sweet dog but was always startled by loud noises—thunder,

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Even if the border collie is a little more laid back, a person working long hours could come home to unexpected chaos. “We have discouraged some people because it was evident to us that they just want to take a dog home and have it turned out into the yard all day,” says Lynn. “A border collie doesn’t operate well with that. They are going to go find something to do, and if they’re not supervised, what they find to do you’re probably not going to like.”

Working border collies have to learn a series of rules: sheep and cows are okay to gather, cars and

Why we’re here Lynn and Joan Mason’s youngest border collie, Parfait, is a greenhorn. She’s only six months. By the time she was three months, she’d learned to scoot under the fence to watch the other dogs train with the sheep. She’s a natural, says Joan, but still has a lot to learn. When Lynn lets her in with the sheep, she nips at their legs and they end up stuck in a tight bunch against the fence. Lynn grasps her collar, pulling her to position. Another issue Lynn has to watch for is what’s called “the eye.” A determined

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gun shots, firecrackers. “The owners came back one day and she’d gone berserk. It looked like they had been broken into and somebody had been hurt.

There was blood. She’d tunneled through the dry wall to the outside. She’d broken glass, the curtains were down. It was a tricky moment in the life of that dog.”

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deer are not. They can learn not to chase chickens, but Joan says that some owners can end up quashing the dog’s will to gather if the owners are too negative. Once you do that, says Joan, you can’t turn it back on—and then you have an unhappy dog.

Positive reinforcement and consistent training is the key to the balance, she says. It’s about providing a

conduit for their energy but not letting them “freelance,” where they go out on their own to herd and subsequently hurt another animal.

“If they go out and do their own thing without you, it can go bad fast,” says Lynn. “And that’s one of the hardest things with Parfait. She has an awful lot of drive and she can jump a fence, so she wants to go down there and do it herself. With nobody to stop her, it gets ugly.”

Some of the border collies they breed and sell end up in agility training and sheep trials—a redirection of their energy from working a job to sport.

Others end up working in unexpected places. Ellie works on a boat for water search and rescue and in the snow, on avalanches. In Arlee, Dooly directs weed-eating goats. Sophie helps with cattle on the Wise River. The Masons have sent dogs out to work on golf courses, where they can run off geese and other fowl that take over the green. Unlike other dogs that might chase those birds off temporarily, border collies go the extra mile to chase them off the grass, into the water and then away for good, perhaps because the border collie understands the overall goal—the reason she’s there.

There’s long been a joke in Montana, apparent on T-shirts and bumper stickers that say “Citizens for a Poodle-Free Montana.” That might seem a little harsh in one light, especially as poodles are, supposedly, almost as smart as border collies, and Montana has always thrived by attracting clever creatures. Still, if Montana had a dog, what breed better suits the state than the one bound up with its ranching heritage, for whom looks are less important than getting the job done? What better than another creature, black-and-white or red or blue, who knows why she’s here and is committed for the long term?

And it can’t hurt that she works for kibble. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Fish pharm FLASHINTHEPAN AquaBounty Technologies, maker of genetically engineered salmon, is almost out of money. It’s been more than two decades since the prototype of its AquAdvantage salmon was spliced into existence, and a decade since AquaBounty applied for FDA approval, but the fish remains on the sidelines of a salmon-hungry market.

The approval process is the first use of the FDA’s guidelines for GE animals, and if approved, AquAdvantage would be the first GE animal green-lighted for human consumption. Further complicating matters, the FDA chose to treat the salmon as a “new animal drug,” rather than a food. The drug per se is the genetically engineered part of each piece of AquAdvantage DNA, and is found in every cell of the fish.

The AquAdvantage salmon is an Atlantic salmon with genes inserted from a Chinook salmon and an ocean pout. The Chinook gene codes for growth hormone, and the pout gene keeps the Chinook gene locked in the “on” position. The extra growth hormone helps the AquAdvantage salmon reach market size twice as fast as non-GE salmon.

The approval process hasn’t moved significantly since September 2010, when the FDA announced it would redo a previous environmental assessment on the fish. The assessment is problematic because the fish aren’t produced in the U.S. Eggs fertilized on Prince Edward Island, in Canada, are shipped to a containment facility in interior Panama.

Meanwhile, the regulation of AquAdvantage salmon as a new animal drug, rather than as food, is causing side effects of its own. On Feb. 8, an alliance of consumer advocacy groups submitted a petition to the FDA requesting that AquAdvantage salmon be regulated as a food.

FDA regulation as a food additive is called for, says the petition, in cases where “breeding or selection through genetic engineering reasonably expects to alter the substance’s nutritive value or the concentration of constituents.”

One such constituent is IGF-1, a hormone found in some animal products that’s linked to cancer in high doses. The petitioners suspect AquAdvantage salmon of harboring elevated levels of IGF-1 and challenge AquaBounty’s claim that IGF-1 levels in AquAdvantage salmon are no greater than in normal salmon. The petition says AquaBounty’s own data suggest IGF-1 levels could be higher in the GE salmon.

Since the fish is being considered as a new animal drug, the scientific issues around AquAdvantage salmon are being reviewed by FDA’s Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee ( VMAC). The VMAC has been criticized for not containing experts in relevant fields, like allergenicity or endocrinology.

“Most of the people on VMAC are veterinarians that deal with large animals,” says Michael Hansen, chief scientist of the Consumers Union.

Two weeks before the most recent VMAC meeting, in September 2010, the FDA announced it considered AquAdvantage salmon to be safe. Huge public protests filled the unusually short 14-day comment period that followed. At the September VMAC

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meeting, it was announced that a new environmental assessment would be done.

According to the transcript of the VMAC meeting, Dr. Gary Thorgaard of Washington State University said, “I would not feel alarmed about eating this kind of fish certainly. I am not worried about it.” Nonetheless, Thorgaard, a fish geneticist, voiced concern about the environmental risk of an AquAdvantage salmon escaping into the wild, and endorsed the idea of a new EA. Earlier in the meeting, Dr. Erik Silberhorn, who produced an environmental safety assessment on behalf of AquaBounty, was asked for information on native fish and amphibians in the area surrounding the grow-out facility in Panama.

Silberhorn replied, “No, I do not have information on native fish...The assessment of the local environment is still under the jurisdiction of the Panamanian government, and the same thing would occur in Canada.”

It’s appropriate that Panama and Canada should be in charge of protecting their own environments.

But will they? And when the “drugs” in question can

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swim thousands of miles across international borders and potentially mate with fish from elsewhere, a fish pharm becomes a matter of global reach and responsibility. If it gets approved in Panama, where will the next facility be?

AquaBounty’s method for sterilizing its salmon is 98.9 percent effective, according to its own data.

The environmental significance of that fertile 1.1 percent was compelling enough to help AquaBounty get a $500,000 FDA grant, in September 2011, to improve its sterilization practices.

Oddly, the sterility numbers the company reports far exceed the FDA requirement of 95 percent sterility. If the company is already exceeding the threshold by nearly four percentage points, why would it need grant money to further improve sterility techniques?

Things aren’t adding up on AquaBounty’s balance sheet either. On March 22, shareholders will vote on a proposed restructure to trim costs, raise operating capital and continue waiting out the FDA approval process. A private sale of stock to company insiders will raise enough funds to float the company for 10 months more of its upstream voyage.

AquaBounty acknowledged in a Feb. 22 letter to shareholders it “does not expect significant sales until 2014 and thus anticipates a need to raise further funds before that time.” This raises the question: Why fundraise for 10 months when you need, in a best-case scenario, about two years?

AquaBounty stock currently sits at $4 a share, down from $150 in 2006, when the company went public. The last time ABTX showed any life was in August, 2010, when the FDA announced it considered AquAdvantage safe. The stock had shot from $4 to $25 in days, before settling back down after the VMAC meeting, two weeks later, when the significance of a new EA set in.

More positive remarks from the FDA could send the stock back up again, giving AquaBounty the opportunity to raise more capital. Maybe that’s what AquaBounty is hoping will happen in the next ten months. Or perhaps the company is biding its time to see who wins the election, or is waiting for another FDA grant to come in. Or maybe 10 month’s worth is all the money AquaBounty could raise at this juncture, which wouldn’t bode well for its future stability.

AquaBounty did not respond to requests for comment, so we’re stuck guessing why, after a 23-year haul, it’s kicking the can 10 months down the road.

LISTINGS $…Under $5 $–$$…$5–$15 $$–$$$…$15 and over Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) • 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wifi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week.

Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Have you checked out Bernice’s web-site: bernicesbakerymt.com? Are you a fan of Bernice’s on Facebook? Did you catch that silly Christmas video on YouTube? Viewed the Montana Home Shopping Showcase?

Bernice’s not only has awesome breakfast pastries, elegant cakes, signature wedding cakes, fresh bread, cookies & treat galore, lunch,

and excellent coffee. Bernice’s has great employees who rock the social media! 34 years of solid goodness! Check out our social media and then stop by to celebrate a job well done! xoxo Bernice 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 beega) 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. $-$$ Big Sky Drive In 1016 W. Broadway • 549-5431 Big Sky Drive In opened June 2nd 1962.

We feature soft serve ice cream, shakes, malts, spins, burger, hot dogs, pork chop sandwiches and breaded mushrooms all made to order. Enjoy our 23 shake and malt flavors or the orange twist ice cream. Drive thru or stay and enjoy your food in our outdoor seating area. Lunch and dinner, seven days a week. $-$$

Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2.

In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty.

The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins • 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Burger Shack 1900 Brooks • 549-2194 (Holiday Village) LOCALLY OWNED AND OPERATED! Come take a bite out of our ½ lb big & beefy burgers! We're the the only burger joint in Missoula serving 100% Certified Angus beef, hand-

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HAPPIESTHOUR Flipper’s Casino

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 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. $

Happiest Hour: Flipper’s Casino Ambiance: Sidling up to the long, smooth wooden bar in the dimly lit casino, it’s easy to feel at home. If you’re looking for friendly chatter, this is the place to go. Flip’s vibe is one of a neighborhood watering hole.

A handful of regulars hold court here daily.

The place develops a distinctly hipster vibe as the evening wears on and young people wearing skinny jeans and hi-top Converse file in.

What you’re doing: Watching football, baseball and game shows on one of several TVs. Flippers is like a kid’s clubhouse, except for adults who like to gamble, play pool and shoot faux wildlife while playing Big Buck Hunter. Patrons seem to enjoy “shooting at things that don’t shoot back,” says casino owner Ross Bittner.

What you’re drinking: Roscoe’s Red, an amber ale made especially for Flip’s by Kettlehouse. The casino also serves wine and a variety of micro and domestic brews.

What you’re eating: We’re not sure what the secret is, but we think Flipper’s bacon

pattied, charbroiled and made to order. We have over 18 mouthwatering specialty burgers to choose from and there’s always a Burger Deal of the Day. Check out our selection of Far Out Phillies made with Certified Angus top sirloin-tossed with our own housemade sauces. Even the burps taste good! Open Monday thru Saturday 11am to 8pm. Call ahead or order to-go 549-2194.

Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm SunWed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$

Photo by Chad Harder

cheeseburgers, with pepper jack, lettuce, tomato, pickles and onions, with fries on the side, are the best in town.

Specials: Rotate nightly; we recommend the Friday night burger and a domestic pint deal for $9.

How to find it: 125 South 3rd St. W., just off Higgins Ave. —Jessica Mayrer

(all day)

Tuesdays - LADIES' NIGHT 4pm-9pm Not available for To-Go orders

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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. We deliver and we cater!

Double Front Chicken 122 W. Alder • 543-6264 Number of years ago Double Front was built, 101. Number of years it’s been cooking chicken, 75. Number if years in the Herndon family, 49. Always getting that perfect chicken dinner, timeless.

Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week.

Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 Brooks and Browns Trivia Night is back. $7 Bayern Pitchers plus appetizer specials. Every Thursday from 7-10pm. $50 Bar Tab to winning team. Warm up your chilly nights with our Hot Jalapeno Artichoke Dip. We have Classic French Onion Soup and hearty Bison chili made in house daily. Fall in love with our Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf-stuffed with crispy Daily’s bacon and cheddar cheese, served with cheddar mashed potatoes and corn. And finish the best meal in town with our New Orleans style Bread Pudding with warm caramel sauce and Big Dipper vanilla bean Ice cream. We still have Happy Hour from 4-7 every day and on game days we offer wings specials and all your favorite local micro-brews. Everyone loves our SUNDAY BINGO NIGHT! Sundays 6-9 pm at Brooks and Browns. Same happy Hour specials ($5 pulled pork sliders, ? order wings, ? nachos; $6 Bud Lite pitchers) Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

3/8 Thursday Karma and JJ Baker from Sick Kids @ 6 pm 3/10 Saturday David Boone @ 5 pm 3/11 Sunday Ron Dunbar @ 4 pm 3/15 Thursday Barnaby Wilde @ 6 pm

SATURDAYS $1 SUSHI 4pm-9pm Mondays & Thursdays - $1 SUSHI

Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve

by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$

Come find out why we are rule of the roost. Always the best, Double Front Chicken. $-$$

3/17 St. Patty's Day Shenanigans Doors OPEN 10 AM Live Music, Stout, and Irish Food all day!

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner.

Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Rotating music and DJs. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ 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. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our allnew bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates.

Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50.

Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75.

Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, and fresh fish daily. Delicious salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. 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. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (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

$…Under $5

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!

Sapore 424 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-6695 Voted best new restaurant in the Missoula Independent's Best of Missoula, 2011. Located on Higgins Ave., across the street from Wordens.

Serving progressive American food consisting of fresh house-made pastas every day, pizza, local beef, and fresh fish delivered from Taste of Alaska. New specials: burger & beer Sundays, 5-7 $9 ~ pizza & beer Tuesdays, 5-7 $10 ~ draft beers, Tuesday -Thursday, 5-6:30 $3. Business hours: Tues.- Sat. 5-10:30 pm., Sat. 10-3 pm., Sun. 5-10 pm.

Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees.

Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$

exp. 3/31/12

Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too.

Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins • 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9.

Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street • 830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs.

Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive • 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$

Best breakfast in town! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

March

COFFEE SPECIAL

Mocha Java Blend $10.95/lb.

BUY 1 Entrée GET 1 FREE of equal or lesser value*. MUST PRESENT COUPON *Valid through March 31, 2012.

Mon-Fri 7am - 4pm (Breakfast ‘til Noon)

Sat & Sun 8am - 4pm (Breakfast all day) 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622

COFFEE FOR FREE THINKERS

Missoula’s Best Coffee

BUTTERFLY HERBS Coffees, Teas & the Unusual

232 N. HIGGINS AVE • DOWNTOWN

BUTTERFLY HERBS COFFEES, TEAS AND THE UNUSUAL 232 N. HIGGINS •

DOWNTOWN

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. $-$$ YoWaffle Yogurt 216 W. Main St. 543-6072 (Between Thai Spicy and The Shack) www.yowaffle.com YoWaffle is a self-serve frozen yogurt and Belgian waffle eatery offering 10 continuously changing flavors of yogurt, over 60 toppings, gluten free cones and waffles available, hot and cold beverages, and 2 soups daily. Indoor and outdoor seating. Meetings welcome. Open 7 days a week. Sun-Thurs 11 AM to 11 PM, Fri 11 AM to 12 AM, Sat. 10 AM to 12 AM. Free WiFi. Loyalty punch cards, gift cards and t-shirts available. UMONEY. Like us on facebook. Let YoWaffle host your next birthday party! $

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Arts & Entertainment listings March 8 – March 15, 2012

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Let there be light. PDX's indie-folk mega-band Blind Pilot unloads its big sound on The Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., on Fri., Mar. 3, at 10 PM, with Cataldo. $12/$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

THURSDAY March

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Destination Missoula holds a monthly board meeting at the MSO Hub, in the conference room. 101 E. Main. 3–5 PM.

Load up on carbs and see old friends during the Missoula Senior Center’s Swedish Pancake Supper, which is followed by Bingo Night. 705 S. Higgins. 4 PM, bingo at 6 PM. The Riverfront Neighborhood Council Meeting and Soup Social takes place from 4:30–6 PM at the Montana Natural History Center. Let’s talk traffic and playground equipment. 120 Hickory.

tTimes Run 3/9- 3/15

Cinemas, Live Music & Theater

The Artist Nightly at 7 & 9 Sat. matinee at 1 & 3

Shear Art Salon

Dangerous Method

406-214-3112

Nightly at 7 & 9 Will NOT show Fri. 3/9 or Wed. 3/14 Sat. matinee at 1 & 3

Shearartsalon.com

www.thewilma.com

1804 North Ave W, Suite F

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Beer & Wine AVAILABLE 131 S. Higgins Ave. Downtown Missoula 406-728-2521

nightlife Rural Employment Opportunities and the Bitterroot Job Service host a WECAN event end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., March 9, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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for those seeking employment, receiving financial education information or looking to become mentors. Bitterroot Job Service. 274 Old Corvallis Rd. 5 PM. Free.

Dudes, come get your climb on during Freestone Climbing’s Dude’s Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.

Heartbeats are about more than former “Miami Vice” star Don Johnson. Find out how at the Community Medical Center Foundation Minerva Society Lecture My Heart is Not Beating Right: What Gives? given by Dr. Stephen Tahta. Gallagher Board Rm. 5:30 PM. Register at marchminerva.eventbrite.com.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Forget the work day and prep for the weekend with the tunes of Karma and JT Baker at Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole.

6–7:30 PM. Free.

night. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursdays to sign-up. 8:30 PM–Midnight.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. The Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Grab your gal pals and motor over to the Silver Slipper’s Ladies Night for Karaoke by Figmo. Do that one about the shack where love is. Be sure you have a Fred lined up.

4055 Brooks. 9 PM. Free.

Get high on the tunes of Northern Lights when they ultra-countrify the Sunrise Saloon.

1101 Strand. 9 PM. Free.

Three lock box rockers The Blox kick out the jams at the Pulse inside the Press Box. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Hey pew, what’s that smell? It’s Bird’s Mile Home at the second week of their VFW Residency with The New Hijackers, Cat Heaven and Airstream Safari. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. Free. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Cinch your chinstrap and adjust your lid at Synergy Sessions, a night of glitch hop and electronic stylings with Sydney, Australia’s

SPOTLIGHT resident aliens

The latest installment in the Peace and Justice Film Series is Your Mommy Kills Animals, which looks at the animal rights movement in the US. Gallagher Business Bldg., Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn-Downtown. 7–10 PM. So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as adapted by Tom Stoppard.

Masquer Theatre. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under.

Tix available at UMArts Box Office.

Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free.

Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino.

Prizes for podium finishers. 1515 Dearborn.

8–10 PM. Grab ye olde acoustic and learn “Sundown” before you roll into Sean Kelly’s Open Mic

It’s Folk:30 when Kristi Neuman performs at the Sean Kelly’s. 130 W. Pine. 9 PM. Free.

The battle continues as some of MSO’s finest musical talents battle it out each Thursday in the Top o’ the Mic Trilogy competition to crown the champion of music at Sean Kelly’s. 130 W. Pine.

9 PM. Free.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Multi-instrumentalist and all-rad bad-ass kitty Lynx brings her beat boxing and genre splitting tunes to the Top Hat with DJ Mermaid and Tahj. 10 PM. $10/$8 adv. (See Noise in this issue.)

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Road trip! Silver Mountain offers up 2-for-1 lift tickets on Mondays and Powder Thursdays, oh, and Fridays though Fri., Mar. 16. silvermt.com.

Learn about the two g’s during author Bill Webber’s lecture Gorillas to Grizzlies: Lessons From a Conservation Journey.

Webber is the founder of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s North American program. Liberal Arts Building, Rm. 11.

7 PM. Free.

Patient heal thyself with with the help of clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn’s class Herbal Medicine for Immune Support. Lifelong Learning Center. 310 S. Curtis. 7–9 PM. $15.

Call 549-8765 to register.

Do that dance quick, mama. Word up, it’s Blue & The Vagas Nerve playing the kind of music we can all agree on. Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

FRIDAY

Sublime with Rome plays Sublime songs even though Brad asked them not to do it, with Everlast. Wilma Theatre. 7 PM. $40/$37 adv.

The Judge oughtn’t be around when all the pretty words happen at the Top Hat’s Spoken Word Flowetry event. 7 PM. Free.

Mr. Bill and Electrocado, plus locals Inevitable Thought and MetaTron. The Palace. 9 PM. $7/$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

Come celebrate with sometimes Indy writer and current creative writing MFA student Melissa Mylchreest during her MerriamFrontier Award Reading in the Mansfield Library Poetry Corner. 4 PM. Free.

Photo courtesy of Bird’s Mile Home

No one has ever accused the members of Bird’s Mile Home of being shameless self-promoters. They have a lackadaisical yet positive spirit that could come off as apathetic if one has never heard their raucous live performances or listened to a recording. Cliché alert: BMH is more focused on the music than the hustle that comes with it. That said, reality has a way of trawling through the waters and kicking up a wake or two. They said yes to a month-long residency at the VFW because as guitarist and vocalist Keith Moore points out, “This way we get in a weekly practice, since we’re a band with no practice place and no transportation. But,” he continues on a positive note, “we have a record and a tour.” Bassist Timmy Arrowtop has a different version of how they ended up doing a residency: “I was drunk and Tom [Helgerson] asked me, so I said yes.”

Recently, the band, which also includes drummer Joey Running Crane, recorded a 7-inch at Club Schmed that contains five songs clocking in under seven minutes (it hasn’t gone to press yet). They’ve moved away from the studio sound of their self-titled LP toward “a WHAT: Bird’s Mile Home March VFW Residency more live sound,” according to Moore. That sound WHERE: Ole Beck VFW, 245 W. Main St. can be heard every Thursday for the rest of WHEN: Thursdays in March at 9 PM March at the VFW. But it’s doubtful that they’ll stick HOW MUCH: Free to the plan, as there really is no plan, other than a tour of the Pacific Northwest in April, which still requires transportation and many of the dates to be finalized. For the final show of the residency on Mar. 29, the group has concocted a typically BMH-style finale, one that a writing teacher might call a “surprising, yet inevitable ending.” It’s almost a guarantee that you’ll never guess what the surprise is, and by the time you did, Bird’s Mile Home will have already changed their minds about it.

—Jason McMackin

nightlife Get a taste of country estate living when El 3-Oh! performs at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Free.

Test drive your million dollar T-shirt idea at the ZACC’s Free Silkscreen Night.

Staffers conduct demos and guide you step-by-step in the art of being awesome.

235 N. 1st St. 5:30–8:30 PM. All ages.

Free. zootownarts.org.

The ZACC is all about Second Friday and this week is no different, as Mark Crocifisso’s exhibition Four Animals of the Chinese Zodiac opens with largescale multi-media paintings. 235 N. 1st St. 5:30–8:30 PM. Free.

One man’s treasure is another man’s treasure at the Dana Gallery’s 11th Annual Collector’s Resale Show, where bidding and auctioneering art are the evening’s delights. 246 N. Higgins. 6 PM. Get your big time eat on when FVCC Culinary Arts Teaching Kitchen hosts a Chef’s Table, featuring food made by students who are on their way to a hotel kitchen near you. 6 PM. $39. Reserve your tix at fvcc.edu/chefstable.

Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being

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awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

Ron Dunbar is up for child-sitting duty at the Top Hat’s Family Friendly Friday. Watch out for whirling childrens. 6–8 PM. Free.

Attention amateur fashion designers, there’s another round of Project Selvedge about to set the MSO fashion scene agog. Fashion show at 6:30 PM. The Northern Rockies Rising Tide fights for the northern Rockies, including tackling the megaload issue and so much more. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center back room. 510 S. Higgins Ave. 7–8:30 PM. So much of a good thing. The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Anton Chekhov’s tragic comedy The Cherry Orchard, as a d a p t e d b y To m S t o p p a r d .

Masquer Theatre. 7:30 P M. $16/$14 seniors and students/$10 for those 12 and under. Tix available at UMArts Box Office.

The Holistic Weight Loss Support Group is facilitated by Tereece Panique and takes place at the Unity Church of Missoula at 7:30 PM. 546 South. $2 suggested donation. Call 493-1210 for more info.

If you’re fiendin’ for some jazz and you’re tired of listening to bootlegs of a “A Night in Tunisia,” check out the UM School of Music Jazz Concert. University Theatre. 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students. ummusic.org.

C’mon move this, shake that body and then some during the Contact Improv Jam, which includes rolling, falling and more extra-physical dance moves. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. 3rd St. W. 7:30–9:30 PM. $5 suggested donation. For more info.

600-6076.

I said, Are you ready to laugh? If so, fill up on the observational humor of Paula Poundstone, who you may know from NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” or from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Wilma Theatre. 8 PM. $34/$31 adv.

Get caught in a bluegrass and folk snare when Trapline performs at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel.

8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

Figure out what all the noise is about when America’s Liquor Down Band finally gets a chance to give classic rock its due at the Dark Horse Bar. 1805 Regent. 9 PM. Free.

Fact: All this machinery making modern music can still be openhearted, just check out Sick Kids DJ Drums, which features MG of Dead Hipster and J.T. Baker of Sick Kids XOXO and Shahs playing the skins. Now go on and dance.

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Palace. 9 PM. $3/$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

AM. Go to runwildmissoula.org for fees and course descriptions.

Finally, you can put the voodoo dolls away, cuz Tom Catmull and the Clerics are doing lin...tunes at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

Blow your eardrum into side two of ZOSO when noise purveyors Taboo, Ancestral Diet, Better Tennis and Shahs do work at the VFW. 245 W. Main. 9 PM. $2.

Rubber baby buggy bumpers Reverend Slanky play that funk and soul that we all can agree on at the Badlander. 9 PM. $5.

Make a date for dancing and the like with the fellars of County Line, who perform at the Sunrise Saloon.

1805 Regent. 9:30 PM. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s.

Free. Call 728-8799.

This is not a threat: I’ll House You with DJs Kris Moon, Mike Stolin and Hotpantz does happen at The Jolly Cork’s. 112 N. Pattee St. (Front St. entrance). 10 PM. Free.

Blind Pilot is getting a bit big for them Top Hat britches but they’re gonna do work up in that piece, with Cataldo. 10 PM. $12/$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20. (See Noise in this issue.)

Three-Eared Dog pours blues all over the floor at Sean Kelly’s. Let’s help them clean-up with our feet.

130 W. Pine. 10:30 PM. Free.

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Dudes, the Missoula Women’s Fair is not a secret pick-up spot; instead, it’s a place for women to discover resources that can help them succeed, from education and fitness to parenting and leadership information.

UC Ballroom. 11–4 PM. Free. missoulawomensfair.com.

If this doesn’t stoke the crowd nothing will. The Montana Natural History Center’s Saturday Kids’ Actvity Up in the Clouds allows youngsters to make a cloud in a jar and build a weather station. 120 Hickory. 2 PM. $3/$1 members.

Let me tell you something, Mean Gene, the Mismo’s Magical Meet hosts over 500 gymnasts from MT and ID for a weekend that will literally make people flip. Starts at 8 AM. Go to mismogym.com for complete schedule.

Forget the funk of it, it’s time to Run for the Luck of It, which has 7-mile, 5K and 1-mile options. The race starts at Sean Kelly’s, and that means no funny business. 8:45

Get help with them taxes so we can pay for wars, roads and drones at UM’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. Bring your ID, Social Security cards, W-2 and any other tax docs you may have. Both spouses must be present if you’re filing jointly. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 209. 9 AM–4 PM. Free.

Stop dreaming and start doing. Join the Rocky Mountain School of Photography for an Information Day and Open House. 216 N. Higgins. 9–4 PM. Free.

Learn why Sanka ain’t all it’s cracked up to be at the Hunter Bay Spring Coffee Tasting led by founder Glen Junkert, who focuses on roasting and brewing techniques. 101 E. Front. 10 AM. Call 830-3388.

The Heirloom Winter Market still has plenty of local num-nums for you and yours, including farm-fresh eggs, butter, sausage, lavender, honey and more, more, more!

Ceretana Gallery and Studios, 801 Sherwood. 10 AM–1 PM. Hunt for the treasures of Old Barnaby Hornswoggle during Missoula Parks and Rec.’s Lubrecht Experimental Forest Adventure. Snowshoes provided

by REI. Call 721-PARK to register.

The monthly meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution takes place at the Best Western Rocky Mtn. Lodge in Whitefish at 10:30 AM. For more info., call Carol at 892-2529.

Join historian Richard Ellis at the Travelers’ Rest Storytelling Series event about Charles M. Russell. Travelers’ Rest State Park is 1/2 mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12.

11 AM. $4/under 18 free, Are we becoming dinosaurs?

Perhaps. Probably. Listen to David Trexlar from the Dinosaur Museum in Bynum at his presentation Becoming Dinosaurs: A Prehistoric Perspective on Climate Change Today. Whitefish Community Library. 12:30 PM. Free.

Let the Montana Natural History Center teach your kids to guess at the weather as well as Mark Heyka during the Saturday Kids’ Activity: Up in the Clouds. Kids build a weather station and decipher the skies. 120 Hickory. 2–3 PM. $3/$1 members. montananaturalist.org.

Learn to keep an eye on our water and be an awesome citizen during

There’s a difference between living and living well, just ask Barb and Tom, who play folk tuneage for you at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel. 8–10 PM. Pass the hat.

The Top of the Mic Trilogy Semifinals are going down fuschnickensm. Check out some of the town’s best musical outfits at Sean Kelly’s. 130 W. Pine. 8:30 PM. Free.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo prove that you can be king of the world or slave to the grind at Absolutely, a dance party featuring every style of rump-shaking tuneage. The Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2 for 1 Absolut drinks until 11 PM. Free.

It’s almost spring. Embrace the new greenery by checking out the newly minted band Chasing Crow (formerly Whiskey Rebellion) when they perform at the Lumberjack Saloon west of Lolo.

Rent a cabin, sit a spell. 9 PM. Free.

Funny cuz it's true. Paula Poundstone performs comedy at the Wilma Theatre on Fri., Mar. 9, at 8 PM. $34/$31 advance. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s or ticketfly.com.

the Watershed Education Network’s Stream Monitoring Training.

Greenough Park Pavillion. 3–5 PM. Call 541-9287 to sign-up.

nightlife Those delightful gals down at Canvas Studios are hosting an Art Party, featuring the works of Courtney Blazon with photography by Red Light Studios and snacks and such by Burns St. Bistro.

429 Madison. 5–8 PM. Free.

Have a beer and listen to the tuneage of David Boone at Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole.

5–8 PM. Free.

Gotta have clean water to have good wine and you gotta have good wine to live, damnit! Head to the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery’s Nonprofit Night to benefit WEN (Watershed Education Network), with music by Matt Tipton and delicious food treats. 4175 Rattlesnake. 5–9 PM. Ad astra per aspera! The Friendship Force of Missoula and Western MT hosts a potluck where members Lilian Evans and Mary Ann Schipf share exchange experiences in Colombia. Welcoma Club, 3108 Clark. 5:30 PM. Call 728-2995.

Celebrate the Story of Esther with Har Shalom during the Purim Masquerade Party, a Jewish carnival with dancing and klezmer music by Chutzpah. Come in costume or come as you are. Elks Club, 112 Pattee. 6 PM. Free.

Keep an eye on your wallet when you check out the Dodgy Mountain Men performing at the Blacksmith Brewery in Stevi. 114 Main. 6 PM. Free.

Get a taste of the Hemingway lifestyle at the Missoula International School’s 15th Annual Salsa Ball.

This year’s theme, Casino Havana!, features hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction and music by La Pachanga. Funds made support financial aid and educational programs. Holiday Inn-Downtown. 200 S. Pattee. 6:30 PM. $25. mismt.org.

C’mon down and be yourself at the Contra Dance held at the Rocky Mountain Grange, with Celtic Knots and lessons for you newbies. This is a fragrance-free event, so leave the Drakkar Noir and Charlie at home. Lessons 6:30, dance starts at 7 PM. $10 per family/$5 ind. Call 642–3601.

Enjoy the soothing sounds of the Heart to Heart Duo and dance the night away at the Missoula Senior Center. 705 S. Higgins.

7–10 PM.

No doubt the good times are rolling when Russ Nasset and the Revelators make magic tangible at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Put down the papers and listen up to Pickwick as they play dat pop and soul stuff, with Sick KIds XOXO and Kevin Koutnik. Palace.

9 PM. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

Make a date for dancing and the like with the fellars of County Line, who perform at the Sunrise Saloon. 1805 Regent. 9:30 PM. Free.

If you’re thinking of dancing with a gal or two or perhaps taking that Canadian fella of yours out and aboot, then the Cold Hard Cash Show and Tom Catmull and the Clerics are here to serve up dancing and bum-squeezing tunes at Monk’s Bar. 225 Ryman.

9:30 PM. $5.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at Feruqi’s. 10 PM. Free. Call 728-8799.

Bad boy toy Mac Lethal hits the stage for the Chamberlin Rail Jam Afterparty at The Top Hat. 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Take a trip to a town where love lives in all its forms during the Whitefish Theatre Co.’s performance of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine.

7:30 PM. $8. whitefishtheatreco.

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Embrace Argentinian Tango at the Brick Room and help out a worthy cause. This month it’s the UM Dance Program. Lessons at 8 PM, melonga at 9 PM. Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main. $16 couple/$10 ind. ddcmontana.com.

Let me tell you something, Mean Gene, the Mismo’s Magical Meet hosts over 500 gymnasts from MT and ID for a weekend that will literally make people flip. Starts at 8 AM. Go to mismogym.com for complete schedule.

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Thighs o’ fire are hitting the slopes of Snowbowl for the Vertical Challenge. Two-person teams rally the mountain to see who can claim the most vert in one day.

Lots of categories, and the entry fee gets you a chair-side lunch and post-ride brew. All funds go to the Montana Food Bank. $25. montanasnowbowl.com.

Learn what all squawking is about at the Beginning Birder Walk at Maclay Flat led by MT Natural History Center Asst. Ed. Director Brian Williams. 9:30 AM. Free.

Join photogs Kathy Eyster and/or Lee Silliman for the Ansel Adams Drop-In Tour at the MAM and get insider info on the bestknown photog of all-time. 335 N. Pattee St. Go with the jam when The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others, from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949.

The annual Habitat for Humanity family selection process begins now. If you think you might be eligible for a home built with your hands and Habitat’s, attend the meeting at City Life Community Center. 1515 Fairview. 2 PM. Occupy Missoula General Assembly takes place at the

Union Hall. 208 E. Main St. 2–4 PM. occupymissoula.org.

from 6–8 PM, 5646 W. Harrier. $5. missoulawinery.com.

Question: How do we get the kids to piano camp? Answer: Attend the fundraiser concert From the Studio to the Stage, which features members of the Missoula Music Teachers Association. Music Recital Hall.

3 PM. $10/$5 seniors and students.

Man, I totes wanna go to Tuscany but I can’t afford the flight and I’m afraid of boats, but the good news is I can get a taste of the Italian place during Destination Dining.

Meet at the Dolack Gallery for champagne and hors d’oeuvres before dinner at the Red Bird with wine pairings. 6–9 PM. Call 5323250 for tix. $95.

Beer, music and hangouts that’s what MissoulaLive’s Acoustic Micro Sunday at the Draught Works Brewery is all about, this week Ron Dunbar provides the music. 915 Toole. 4–6 PM. Free.

nightlife Listen to some real live writers during the Second Wind Reading Series, where MFA students and teachers share their stories with the world. This week it’s Alison Riley and Zoey Farber. The Top Hat. 5 PM. Free.

The Tourness French Film Festival presents Un Prophete, which follows a young man as he becomes a mafia kingpin while in prison. Introduction by Mladen Kozul, UM modern and classical languages professor. UC Theater. 5 PM. Free.

Put some swing in your second Sunday when the Ed Norton Big Band plays the Missoula Winery

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Road trip! Silver Mountain offers up 2-for-1 lift tickets on Mondays and Powder Thursdays, oh, and Fridays though Fri., Mar. 16. silvermt.com.

Blue Mountain Clinic, along with the Missoula AIDS Council, offers free, anonymous and blood-free HIV testing. 610 N. California.

1–4 PM. Free. Call 721-1646.

If all the Sunday jazz on MTPR isn’t filling the hole in your chest, then head to The Top Hat for the Suna Quintet’s evening performance. 7 PM. Free.

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Take a trip to a town where love lives in all its forms during the Whitefish Theatre Co.’s performance of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine. 7:30 PM. $8. whitefishtheatreco.

At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

Some called him the discontented Polish count, but we’ll call him Felix. Hear his tunes at the Mendolssohn Club Concert at the Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $10/$6 students. Call 243-2794 for ticket info.

The High Country Carvers welcomes carvers of all abilities to their meetings, which take place at the Evergreen Fire Dept. No power tools, but you need gloves and a bench hook. 2236 Hwy. 2.

6:30–8:30 PM.

Close out the weekend in style with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz & DJs, during the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. Live jazz starts at 8 PM with the Donna Smith Trio. Free.

Easiest way to make rent since keno: Bingo at the VFW. 245 W. Main. $10 buy-in.

Super rad lady and hard working feminist Rebecca Walker (yes, that Rebecca Walker, Alice Walker’s daughter) discusses diversity, identity and family at the UC Ballroom, with a book-signing to follow. 7 PM. Free.

Hear what Pulitzer winner Anne Marie Squeo thinks about The Split Personality of Branded Journalism during her Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the UM School of Journalism. UC Theater. 7 PM. Free.

It’s time for the BonnerMilltown Community Council meeting. Topics include West Riverside Fire reforestation and discussing the Main Street Design project. Bonner School Library.

7 PM.

See the pretty birds of Ecuador in Birds of a Cloud Forest, which features the photos of Jan Wassink during the Flathead Valley Audubon meeting at the Summit. 205 Sunnyview, Kalispell.

7 PM. Free.

The S.A.F.E. Book Club in Hamilton meets to discuss Alan Brennert’s Honolulu. 252 W. Main.

7 PM. Free.

Learn to slow down and chill, baby, at clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn’s two-part class Herbal Medicine for Stress Management. Red Willow Learning Center. 825 W. Kent. 7–9 PM. $45. Call 721-0033 to register.

I haven’t hit the Red Bird Wine Bar since January, hint-hint wife, but you should hit up that joint and check the tunes of Joan Zen that accompany epicurian delights. 111 N. Higgins. 7–10 PM. Free.

Hear Terry McEneaney explain what the word “numenon” means and hear about the late, great passenger pigeons at this Five Valleys Audubon program. Gallagher Business Building, Rm. L14. 7:30 PM. Free.

Don’t just express yourself, be expressive at the ZACC’s weekly, one-hour poetry workshop. 235 N. 1st St. 8 PM. Free.

Get an early start on the St. Patrick’s Day festivities at the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center during their St. Patrick’s Dance.

8–9:30 PM. Call 549-9437 for more info.

Hey Lamar, it’s Milkcrate Monday’s Nerd Party, so go and get your dork on and dress nerdy (hint: like the dudes at Bodega) with the Milkcrate Mechanic, The Convict Clique, To n s o f u n , M i t e A s w e l , Wormwood, S.M.T. and DJs DNE and Tigerlily. The Palace. 9 PM. Free, with free pool and $6 pitchers of PBR. Open Mic at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and

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the working class. Call Skye on Sunday at 531–4312 to reserve your spot in the line-up or I bet you could roll in and be all, “Dude, I do a perfect Sublime.”

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The Cultural and Art History Club of Whitefish meets to discuss the only things that matter, like Johannes Vermeer. Stumptown Art Studio.

10–12 PM.

Church in Whitefish. Weigh-in at 5 PM. Meeting at 5:30 PM. For more info., call 862-5214.

Aim your sights on the 8 ball when the Palace hosts a weekly 9ball tournament, which is double elimination and starts with sign-up at 6 PM, followed by games at 7. $10 entry fee.

You saw House Party, but you still can’t do the Kid ‘N Play. Do something about it by taking the Downtown Dance Collective’s Beg./Int. Hip Hop dance class with Heidi Michaelson. 1221 W. Main St. 6–7 PM. ddcmontana.com

Make it happen, for Fun with Yoga at the Families First Children’s Museum might work for you and the kids. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25.

The VFW hosts my kind of threeway during a night of Singers, Songwriters and Spaghetti, with food provided by the Blue Bison Grill. 245 W. Main St. 6 PM. Free.

Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room and work on your elk camp locution at the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters. All are invited. 12–1. 5205 Grant Creek Dr. Free.

YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691.

Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsoleck during Compassionate Communication Non-Violent Communication Weekly Practice Group at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center.

519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

The UM Wilderness Institute brings scholars, writers, scientists and explorers together to share stories of how water shapes our lives, landscapes and politics in the Wild Waters in the West Lecture Series. This week, Anders Halverson, writer and ecologist, gives a lecture titled An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How R a i n b o w Tr o u t B e g u i l e d America and Overran the World.

Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM.Free.

Grab a banh mi at the UC and head to the Mansfield Center Brown Bag Lecture Cultural Arts in Vietnam’s Villages, given

by Do Thu Ha, visiting professor from Vietnam National University.

Mansfield Conf. Center. 12–1 PM. Free.

The Native American & Minority Health & Cultural Competency Lecture Series hosts two lectures by Dr. Gregory Holzman. First, Public Health: Building Healthier American Indian and Alaska Native Communities at 12:10 PM in the Skaggs Building Rm. 169. Second, Six Winnable Battles Toward a Healthier Community at 6 PM in the North Underground Lecture Hall. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 115 S. 3rd St. W. 1-3 PM. For information call 543-3955.

Learn to keep an eye on our water and be an awesome citizen during the Watershed Education Network’s Stream Monitoring Tr a i n i n g . G r e e n o u g h P a r k Pavillion. 4:30–6:30 PM. Call 5419287 to sign-up.

nightlife Start making sense at the weekly Taking Pounds Off Sensibly Meeting (TOPS) at First Baptist

The Missoula Patriots host Theresa Manzilla of the horse rescue group Willing Servants for a talk titled The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement. Valley Christian School Auditorium, 2526 Sunset. 7 PM. Free.

Find out where this crazy mixed-up world is heading at the UM Alumni Association’s Community Lecture Series, which features Daisy Rooks’s lecture Protestors, Politicians or Professional Change Agents?: The Future of Activism in the US. UC Theater.

7–8:30 PM. $20/$15 for members.

Take a load off while you get a load of some of the area’s better musicians during the Musician Showcase at Brooks and Browns in the Holiday Inn-Downtown. $7 Big Sky pitchers and $2 pints. 200 S. Pattee St. Free.

Get saturated with acculturation at the Faculty and Guest Artist Series with pianist Margery McDuffie Whatley. Music Recital Hall. $12/$8 seniors and students. ummusic.org.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

True or false, there more chickens than humans on earth? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Now this is comedy, Frenchy! Get your chuckle on during Comedy Night at Lucky Strike Casino. 151 Dearborn Ave. 8 PM. $5.

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Dive into the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition with Dr. Rafael Chacon during his lecture Wunderkammer: Cabinet of Curiosities. This is how horror movies start. UM PARTV Center. 7 PM. Free.

Keep that noggin safe with a helmet from St. Pat’s Trauma Services.

years old) at the Downtown Dance Collective. No dance experience is necessary and drop-ins are welcome. Just wear good clothes for dancing. 121 W. Main St. 5–6 PM. ddcmontana.com Hey ladies in the place, I’m calling out to ya, cuz it’s time for Lunafest 2012, a film festival by and for women, which raises money for women’s nonprofits nationwide, including our very own GUTS program. Wilma Theatre. 5:30 PM. $10/$5 students. Call Erin at 543-6691 for more info.

Get over hump day and maybe that person you went to prom with by enjoying the tuneage of Rennie Frank at the Blacksmith Brewery in Stevi. 114 Main. 6 PM. Free. (Pub Trivia Answer: True, there are more chickens than people in the world.)

Artists of all levels are invited to the MAM’s non-instructed Open Figure Drawing Class. This class gives artists the opportunity to draw from a for-real person. Ages 18 plus (you and the model). 335 N. Pattee St. 6–8 PM. $7/$5 members.

Don’t get lost, orienteer your mind and take your kid to Missoula Parks and Rec.’s Beginner Map and Compass Skills course.

Currents Aquatic Center. 12 and up. 6–8 PM. $8. Call 721-PARK to register.

This month’s Teen Open Studio: Art as Life/Life as Art provides young artists with a chance to render art from the world around us.

Facilitated by Lauren Norby.

MAM, 335 N. Pattee. 6–8 PM. Free.

Weaving spiders come not here. Pianist and vocalist Eliza Rickman performs at the Badlander, 208 Ryman St., on Tue., Mar. 13, at 9 PM. Free.

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing, with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

Bow down to the sounds at Royal Reggae, featuring dancehall jams

by DJs Supa, Smiley Banton and Oneness at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

Cost is $7 to $23 and there are helmets for all activities. 515 W. Front.

11 AM–2 PM. The Clark Fork Coalition’s March Walks and Talk Event Fly-Fishing Made Easy is also sponsored by Grizzly Hackle and gives new anglers and old pros an update on the rivers’ fish populations (true) and the hottest new knots (not true). 140 S. 4th W. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Get swept away in that spooky angelic piano music of Eliza Rickman, who performs with folkateer Darah Fogarty at the Badlander. 208 Ryman. 9 PM. Free.

Learn to keep an eye on our water and be an awesome citizen during the Watershed Education Network’s Stream Monitoring Training.

Greenough Park Pavillion. 4:30–6:30 PM. Call 541-9287 to sign-up.

Get your monthly allotment of acoustical gnar during Zootown Throwdown with Javier Ryan. 10 PM. Free.

nightlife Let them dance, or at least give it a try, during Kids’ Hip Hop (7–10

Let’s talk about the dam ice during the Glacial Lake Missoula Spring Fling, an event for those who love to geek out on Glacial Lake Missoula discoveries made in a Bitterrot bog. Montana Natural History Center. 120 Hickory. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation.

The annual Habitat for Humanity family selection process begins now. If you think you might be eligible for a home built with your hands and Habitat’s, attend the meeting at City Life Community Center. 1515 Fairview. 7 PM. Black Eyed Peas fanatics are welcome to belt out their fave jamz at the Badlander during Kraptastic Karaoke, beginning at 9 PM. Featuring $5 pitchers of Budweiser and PBR, plus $1 selected shots.

Free.

Be a beat-street bugaloo shrimp at Local Laptops, where local electronic beatmaster generals, including DuBuddha, Simpleton, MetaTron and Trailer Park

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Jordan, make it happen. The Palace. 9 PM. $3/$8 for those aged 18-20.

Seigel-Boettner. Charles H. Clapp Building, Rm. 131. 7 PM. Free.

Join the Josh Farmer Band for some pop/jazz piano rockitude. This is a key-tarfree zone. The Top Hat. 10 PM. Free.

SW Montana poet Jed Berry reads from his collection Awake Before Dawn at Shakespeare & Co. 103 S. 3rd W. 7 PM. Free.

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Road trip! Silver Mountain offers up 2-for-1 lift tickets on Mondays and Powder Thursdays, oh, and Fridays though Fri., Mar. 16. silvermt.com.

Get your paper together and learn how to do it right at the Sustainable Business Council’s two-part Strive Towards Sustainability workshop. Office Solutions and Services, 1020 North. 11–12:30 PM. Call 721-3000 ext. 1119.

nightlife UM Visiting Artist Anne Appleby gives a lecture on her work, which includes paintings that use light and color. Social Sciences Bldg.

Rm. 356. 5:10–6 PM. Free.

Show your native pride by Starting Your Plants from Seeds with the Montana Natural History Center at the Ft. Missoula Native Plant Gardens. Under the big silver water tower at Ft. Missoula. $5/MNHC members free.

Hey foodies, get on the trolly for the Missoula Winery’s 2nd Annual Raclette Dinner, a taste of Switzerand that is made up of cheese melted over boiled potatoes and a charcuterie platter. Um, yeah. 5646 Harrier. $80 couple/$45 per person. For reservations call 830-3296.

Get your locution on and become fixated oratorically at the weekly meeting of the Treasure State Toastmasters. Community Medical Center meeting rooms. 2827 Ft. Missoula Rd. 6–7 PM. Free.

Go ahead and get Barnaby Wilde tonight at the Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole Ave. 6–8 PM. Free.

Learn how to hide those unsightly stains during the ZACC’s Adult Art Workshop: Basic Scarf Dyin’. 235 N. 1st. $20/free to members. Register at 549-7555.

Fact & Fiction hosts author Laurie Johnson, who reads from her book about her life with bi-polar disorder, I Am Laurie. 220 N. Higgins. 7 PM. Free.

Learn how two unlikely friends made the Americans with Disability Act a reality at the Peace and Justice Film Series movie Music Within, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Disability and Students at UM. Gallagher Business Building Rm. 122. 7 PM. Free.

If you can’t figure out whether you’re related to Ulysses S. Grant, maybe it’s time to go to the Western Montana Genealogical Society Meeting. Tonight’s topic Overcoming Brick Wall Issues in Family History Research.

Missoula Public Library, Large Meeting Rm. 7 PM. Free.

Bicycles rule, we all know that. See how they can change the world at the screening of With My Own Two Wheels by Jacob

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Three Way Street does naughty things to their instruments at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery. 4175 Rattlesnake. 7–9 PM. Free.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place. $7 Bayern pitchers. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn-Downtown. 7–10 PM. Fans of grammar, logic and rhetoric, grab your liberal arts degrees and head down to the Central Bar and Grill’s trivia night, hosted by local gallant and possible Swede Thomas Helgerson. 143 W. Broadway. 8 PM. Free.

Show ‘em that pop culture knowledge is just as important as having a job during Trivial Beersuit at the Lucky Strike Casino. Prizes for podium finishers. 1515 Dearborn. 8–10 PM. Grab ye olde acoustic and learn “Sundown” before you roll into Sean Kelly’s Open Mic night. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursdays to sign-up. 8:30 PM–Midnight.

Get sweaty with all the beautiful people at the Dead Hipster Dance Party, where love and funk is in the air. The Badlander. 208 Ryman St. $3, with $1 well drinks from 9 PM–midnight.

Grab your gal pals and motor over to the Silver Slipper’s Ladies Night for Karaoke by Figmo. Do that one about the shack where love is. Be sure you have a Fred lined up.

4055 Brooks. 9 PM. Free.

The battle continues as some of MSO’s finest musical talents battle it out each Thursday in the Top o’ the Mic Trilogy competition to crown the champion of music at Sean Kelly’s.

130 W. Pine. 9 PM. Free.

Don’t get derailed by work. Take a ride with Party Trained at the Sunrise Saloon. 1101 Strand. 9 PM. Free.

The Lil’ Smokies aren’t having a foam party but that don’t mean it won’t be cooking when the band hits the stage at Pulse inside the Press Box. 835 E. Broadway. 9 PM. Free.

Three-Eared Dog plays that blues for you to shuffle your feet to down at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Hop a train and catch the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank for a night of roots tunes, with locals Aran Buzzas and P.D. Lear.

Palace. 9 PM. $5.

Bust out your best cookie duster for the Mustache Bash with music outfit Adventure Club. The Top Hat. 10 PM. $15/$12 adv./$5 surcharge for those aged 18-20.

Hey jerks, quit getting all hammered-up and driving around town. Just walk or call me.

Seriously, you should walk. Hook me up with the goods by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Mar. 9 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH Y ou’ve heard the tales from Bozeman. The party that was off the chain. The tricks that were off the hook. The booming jams that made your shirt evaporate into a sea of like-minded sweaty revelers. Wait, you haven’t? You don’t know what the dealy-o is with the Chamberlin Rail Jam? I’ll tell you, it’s a big old party celebrating winter and all its glory (even if the glory seems fleeting on these recent sunny days). It’s been going on down at Big Sky and Bozeman for five years, with the goal of eventually touring all around the country. The CRJ has decided to make Missoula its first “urban” stop. For those of you guffawing over the conceit that Missoula is urban, the event is taking place at Big Sky Brewing Co. within earshot of the interstate. There are musical performances by “I Like College” rapper Asher Roth and locals Black Mask, along with a bonfire and shenanigans. But the whole event is built around the

rail jam itself. The event is made up of 25 skiers and 25 boarders. The overall length of the jam is 90 feet with the rails brought up from Lost Trail Powder Mountain and the ramp itself being made from scaffolding. The riders are judged by the fine fellas of Lost Trail Terrain Park. And if you’re worried about snow, don’t be. All of it comes from Glacier Ice Rink.

The Chamberlin Rail Jam takes place on Sat., Mar. 10 at the Big Sky Brewing, 5417 Trumpeter Way. Ski prelims start at 4:30 PM, while the snowboard prelims begin at 6:15 PM. Music starts at 7:30 PM with local Black Mask followed by Asher Roth. The after-party takes place at the Top Hat with David Dalla G and Mac Lethal. Tickets are cost $40 to $15 and are available at chamberlinrailjam.com.

Fourth Annual Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture “The Split Personality of Branded Journalism”

By Anne Marie Squeo Vice President of Communications Lockheed Martin Electronic Systems

Monday, March 12, 2012 at 7 p.m.

University Center Theater, 3rd Floor Photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY MARCH 8 Dudes, come get your climb on during Freestone Climbing’s Dude’s Night. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 students.

FRIDAY MARCH 9 Active outdoor lovers are invited to the Mountain Sports Club’s (formerly the Flathead Valley Over the Hill Gang) weekly meeting to talk about being awesome, past glories and upcoming activities. Swan River Inn. 6–8 PM. Free.

SATURDAY MARCH 10 Forget the funk of it, it’s time to Run for the Luck of It, which has 7-mile, 5K and 1-mile options. The race starts at Sean Kelly’s, and that means no funny business. 8:45 AM. Go to runwildmissoula.org for fees and course descriptions.

Hunt for the treasures of Old Barnaby Hornswoggle during Missoula Parks and Rec.’s Lubrecht Experimental Forest Adventure. Snowshoes provided by REI. Call 721-PARK to register.

Join historian Richard Ellis at the Travelers’ Rest Storytelling Series event about Charles M. Russell.

Travelers’ Rest State Park is 1/2 mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12. 11 AM. $4/under 18 free, Let the Montana Natural History Center teach your kids to guess at the weather as well as Mark Heyka during the Saturday Kids’ Activity: Up in the Clouds. Kids build a weather station and decipher the skies. 120 Hickory. 2–3 PM. $3/$1 members. montananaturalist.org.

Learn to keep an eye on our water and be an awesome citizen during the Watershed Education Network’s Stream Monitoring Training.

Greenough Park Pavillion. 3–5 PM. Call 541-9287 to sign-up.

SUNDAY MARCH 11 Thighs o’ fire are hitting the slopes of Snowbowl for the Vertical Challenge. Two-person teams rally the mountain to see who can claim the most vert in one day. Lots of categories, and the entry fee gets you a chair-side lunch and post-ride brew. All funds go to the Montana Food Bank. $25. montanasnowbowl.com.

Learn what all squawking is about at the Beginning Birder Walk at Maclay Flat led by MT Natural History Center Asst. Ed. Director Brian Williams. 9:30 AM. Free.

The Annual Jeff Cole Distinguished Lecture was established to recognize and remember Jeff Cole, lead journalist in the field of aeronautics for The Wall Street Journal and 1980 UM J-School Alum.

MONDAY MARCH 12 Road trip! Silver Mountain offers up 2-for-1 lift tickets on Mondays and Powder Thursdays, oh, and Fridays though Fri., Mar. 16. silvermt.com.

At Slacker Mondays, from 6 PM until close, slackline fans can come to Freestone Climbing Center at 935 Toole Ave. to test their balance. $13/$10 for students. Visit freestoneclimbing.com.

See the pretty birds of Ecuador in Birds of a Cloud Forest, which features the photos of Jan Wassink during the Flathead Valley Audubon meeting at the Summit. 205 Sunnyview, Kalispell. 7 PM. Free.

Hear Terry McEneaney explain what the word “numenon” means and hear about the late, great passenger pigeons at this Five Valleys Audubon program.

Gallagher Business Building, Rm. L14. 7:30 PM. Free.

TUESDAY MARCH 13 Learn to keep an eye on our water and be an awesome citizen during the Watershed Education Network’s Stream Monitoring Training.

Greenough Park Pavillion. 4:30–6:30 PM. Call 5419287 to sign-up.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 14 The Clark Fork Coalition’s March Walks and Talk Event Fly-Fishing Made Easy is also sponsored by Grizzly Hackle and gives new anglers and old pros an update on the rivers’ fish populations (true) and the hottest new knots (not true). 140 S. 4th W. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Learn to keep an eye on our water and be an awesome citizen during the Watershed Education Network’s Stream Monitoring Training.

Greenough Park Pavillion. 4:30–6:30 PM. Call 5419287 to sign-up.

Don’t get lost, orienteer your mind and take your kid to Missoula Parks and Rec.’s Beginner Map and Compass Skills course. Currents Aquatic Center. 12 and up. 6–8 PM. $8. Call 721-PARK to register. calendar@missoulanews.com

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As it should be The world according to poet Dexter Roberts

by Melissa Mylchreest

Things that are true about Dexter Roberts: He taught English and philosophy at the University of Montana for four decades. He is a founder of UM’s Wilderness Studies Program. He is tall and lanky. He lived for 30 years in a little cabin up Grant Creek, where he enjoyed the company of deer and bears and jays. He is a lifelong apprentice to Buddhist practice. In his college years, he played basketball for Colgate. Friend of Gary Snyder. Owner of cats. World traveler. Advocate, activist. Father and grandfather.

Wonderer. Poet.

He is, too, now an old man, and one who would prefer that his first published book of poems arrive in the world without a lot of fuss. “He doesn’t want to be out front, like something special,” says Mark Gibbons, a Missoula poet and a friend of Roberts. “He just wants the world to be full of poetry, and he wants to be a part of it.”

So it is with only a small amount of fuss that I insist everyone read this small, beautiful, quiet book.

Imagine a World was published in late 2011 as part of the Montana Poets Series from FootHills Publishing.

Roberts had been writing his whole life, and his hand-written poems lived in spiral notebooks and on scraps of paper, tucked away in drawers and baskets throughout his cabin. He had begun to gather the makings of a chapbook, but never moved toward publication. Finally, friends and fellow poets—Roger Dunsmore, Mark Gibbons, Tom Burch, Marylor Wilson, Karen Rice and Craig Czury, editor at FootHills—gathered to sort through the stacks of paper and, with Roberts’s blessing and oversight, create a book.

The poetry world is better for their efforts. Roberts’s

poems are straightforward and insistent, observant and measured, the sort of poems that are refreshing in their directness. While many of these poems read simply, it’s a simplicity that carries weight: Rather than playing with glitzy language, Roberts pares ideas or images down to their crux and invites the reader to see them for what they truly are. Clearly influenced by deep nature poets like Robinson Jeffers (to whom a section of the book is dedicated), Roberts calls for engagement with the natural world, wholly and believingly. These poems are riddled with nudges and gestures: He tells the reader “don’t,” tells the reader “forget,” urges the reader to “look.”

Most importantly, Roberts wants the reader to sit up and take notice.

“Dexter is an American Buddhist poet,” says Gibbons, “and he’s also an 80-year-old man, which says a lot right there. Things have changed dramatically around him in the past 80 years. But he’s also been at the forefront of understanding that the world needs to evolve in a direction other than this old capitalist machine.” It’s this vision for the possibility of a more holistic, just world that is the driving force throughout Roberts’s work.

The book can be read as a series of instructions on how to live observantly and with compassion; yet instead of sounding didactic, as they could, these poems sound humble, everyday, even humorous. The piece titled “December 6, 2006” offers a perfect example: Compassion begins in silence not screaming at the noisy old cat not removing her from underfoot with spray from a plastic bottle (she deserves this as much as plants do) or a nudge under her feet with a foot.

Stillness then, too.

Photo by Michelle Gustafson

Dexter Roberts insists on imagining better days, in his book of poetry.

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Roberts isn’t only interested in the daily lessons to be found in and around his cabin, however. He’s equally passionate about issues the world over: injustice, environmental degradation, human rights.

Rather than simply railing at the problems of the world, he grounds them in the recognizable; in a poem that references Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa and America, he juxtaposes the carnage of bombed-out villages with the vision of a road-killed

deer, allying the unfamiliar with the familiar and bringing humanity to both.

Like many poets, Roberts draws deeply on memory for inspiration. It’s in these poems that a more personal side appears. In “Good News from the Long Past,” he speaks to his son in Beijing: I called him because I thought of three big rainbow he landed from a side channel of the Bitterroot when he was a small boy.

(I walked there, very slowly/yesterday.)

The poem is aware of its own restraint. It’s about a father’s memories of time spent with his son, about aging and about the passage of years. And while other poets may have felt compelled to expound on these themes, Roberts lets them rest lightly in the reader’s mind; the act of remembering and time’s inexorable pace become worthy subjects for meditation and reflection, all on their own.

There are moments of ringing clarity in these poems, during which the whole man, the whole wilderness-advocate-Buddhist-teacher-angry-yet-awestruck man, is visible: No need to kneel.

But do that too If you’d like, To honor somebody Or something.

Then you’ll notice What is growing underfoot.

We would all do well to heed this advice, the words of a man who has made a life of observing and reflecting, getting angry, falling in love, catching fish, reading, teaching and meditating. “Imagine a world,” he tells us, “in which all goes well... Imagine the works / to be done, / to move in that direction, / ourselves and generations to come.” With Roberts’s poems in print, in hand, it becomes a bit easier to envision. arts@missoulanews.com

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Pickwick Indie Rock© has been mining my mother’s record collection for the past four or five years, finding all the mellow sounds that would’ve ruled a station with the call sign KINK back in ’86, so it makes sense that we’ve reached the early ’90s Bonnie Raitt-era of R&B. How do you say a band reminds you of Kenny Loggins without sounding like a lout looking for a reaction? You don’t.

Especially when it also sounds a little like Crowded House. Not to mention the soundtrack to The Commitments. Before you go tossing your well-worn copy of Nick of Time through my office window, the previous sentences are meant as compliments.

In bars all over the country, and Denmark, wannabe R&B bands perform every weekend and suck soul from the world with covers of classics buried by

Lynx On the Horizon Cartesian Binary Recordings

Lynx’s music is moody and contemplative, strikingly beautiful and often complex in its arrangement. The Oakland, Calif.-based beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist expertly bridges the gap between genres on her latest record, On the Horizon, which mashes together folk, indie pop and beats that teeter between downtempo, hip-hop and dubstep. At times, she sounds like the female counterpart to Los Angeles experimental instrumental hip-hop

Cataldo Prison Boxing Red Pepper Records

I looked at the press release accompanying the album: Another indie-rock/folk band from Seattle.

Another musical project fueled by a bad break-up and the Northwest’s dour weather (it said it right there in the PR materials). “I’ve heard this before,” I thought.

And it’s true, sort of: Yes, the lead guy, Eric Anderson, has that quintessential, nasally voice. Yes, the tunes, while catchy, well-recorded and well-played, sound a little familiar.

And then I listened closer: Man, can this guy write lyrics! Get past the banjo and the horn section, and there’s some really smart stuff going on. I’ve never heard a lyricist reference glaciers, invasive insects, urethras, marigolds, kneecaps, gas stations and zip codes

Asher Roth Pabst & Jazz self-released

Asher Roth is back! Who’s Asher Roth? He’s the “I Love College” guy. The white rapper with the laconic delivery who summed up the college experience with conceits like “Time isn’t wasted when you’re wasted” and “I can get pizza for a dollar a slice.” Roth’s latest incarnation seems to be as a weed rapper. But that doesn’t mean he’s become lackadaisical. He has a new album that drops this spring; this mixtape is just three months old.

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muddled horns that randomly honk notes or by passionate Michael Bolton-esque wails meant to convey emotion or horniness. However, what the Seattle-based Pickwick does is particularly difficult, because what Pickwick does is tasteful. They forge original R&B tunes that aren’t histrionic or “grown and sexy.” They make the old new again. They play music you and your mother can agree on when she comes over for dinner. ( Jason McMackin) Pickwick performs at the Palace Sat., Mar. 10, at 9 PM, with Sick Kids XOXO and Kevin Koutnik. $5. artist Baths, with a reliance on emotive vocals, spliced samples of found sounds and glitched out beats.

Everything is also expertly mixed, and nothing seems cluttered, especially on tunes like “Young Blood,” where digital bleeps, dubstep beats and meaty bass snuggle with unlikely bedfellows like the banjo and mandolin. “Traces” is another gorgeous gem, and offers up some dope beatboxed rhythms that switch between hip-hop and house and are coupled with minor-key banjo licks and lyrics like “The sight of you is like the morning dew / So refreshing / So sweet / And yet so cold.” The overall feeling of this album is morose and pensive, but somehow it isn’t a downer. Lynx’s angelic voice infuses a sense of balance and warmth to the affair. (Ira Sather-Olson) Lynx plays the Top Hat Thursday, March 8, at 9 PM, with Tahj and DJs Mermaid and Kris Moon. $10/$8 advance.

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so effectively. Lines like “You're not a savior, / You’re a longawaited malheur” sound pretentious on paper, but somehow don’t when sung.

The album’s opening line, “Let’s begin at the end of a bad year,” sets the tone. These songs are earnest, and while that usually bugs me, this earnestness feels earned. Sure, they’re break-up songs (although surprisingly upbeat), but they feel familiar, as though Anderson took that malaise we’ve all felt and actually did something useful with it—like make a cool album. (Melissa Mylchreest) Cataldo plays the Top Hat Fri., March 9, at 10 PM, opening for Blind Pilot. $12. Sold Out. I’m going soothsayer on that backside: Pabst & Jazz will turn out to be superior, more surprising and more engaging for hip-hop fans than his upcoming official release. Certainly, his label is interested in repeating the success of “ILC,” but these tracks are created by a man out to prove he’s something more than a one-hit wonder. “Get By” demonstrates Roth’s lyrical and reliable pop sensibilities. “Running Away” unveils the mindset of a man ruminating on his own hip-hop authenticity: “I’ve been bordered up by a border / I’mma sort it out in order / … / Not interested in anybody’s listening / Do it for the gist of it.” Roth quickly graduated to stardom but it’s here that he becomes an emcee. ( Jason McMackin) Asher Roth performs with Black Mask at the Chamberlin Rail Jam at the Big Sky Brewery on Sat., Mar. 10, at 8:30 PM. $23.09, available at railjammissoula.eventbrite.com

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Cherry on top UM cultivates Chekhov’s Orchard just right

by Mack Perry

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subtle and understated yet appropriately curmudgeonly turn as Firs, particularly during the play’s final, poignant scene. But it’s ultimately Kristen M. Beckmann who steals the show as the The Cherry Orchard’s proud, tragic lead Lyubov. Resembling a considerably younger Jessica Walter, Beckmann switches from playful and flirtatious to melancholy and remorseful on a dime. Her magnetic stage presence suggests that she could carry the entire production herself if it became necessary, and her performances during the scenes in which Lyubov recalls her young son who has drowned are genuinely moving.

Praise should certainly be given to director John Kenneth DeBoer, who displays mastery of the delicate and, at times, challenging source material. DeBoer’s naturalistic stage direction, coupled with scenic designer Matt Gibbons’s simplistic yet achingly atmospheric set design (making use of real tree bark!) elevates the show’s wide-ranging performances admirably.

As with any storied production, however, there are a few notable issues that keep the The Cherry Orchard as envisioned

by UM College of Visual and Performing Arts students from becoming a complete success.

Some of the choices behind the music that was utilized both Photo by Michelle Gustafson during scene transitions and Daniel Haley and Cally Shine star in UM’s The Cherry Orchard. select moments of the play were jarring and inconsistent, ming with rich, memorable performances and does effectively pulling audience members out of the nortremendous justice to the unassuming yet somewhat mally well-established world of the narrative. While some scene transitions featured ambient, folkschizophrenic legacy of Chekhov’s swan song.

Taking place at a family estate in a provincial town inspired numbers consistent with the time period of in the northwestern region of Russia during the early the play, others made bewildering use of contempo1900s, The Cherry Orchard follows the struggles of rary indie rock in the vein of Coldplay and Oasis. The Madame Lyubov and her family after the abolition of worst offender in this regard is the use of serfdom that sparked tremendous change in Russia. DeVotchKa’s “The Winner Is” during Ranevyska’s Like many members of the aristocracy during this time, party at the beginning of the second act. Another nitLyubov and her daughters must come to terms with the pick is that many of the Russian names were misproloss of their wealth and social standing even as mem- nounced, something that could have been remedied bers of the lower class, many of whom served the fam- with the use of a diction coach. Surely the university ily as servants, now begin to occupy the coveted posi- has access to students that could offer this service tions that the aristocrats once held. The show’s titular cheaply or for free. Nevertheless, this lively rendition orchard is the focal point of the estate and the symbol excels despite these problems. of the tale’s changing-of-the-guard class struggle.

During the first half of the production, A significant amount of words could be dedicated Beckmann’s charismatic Lyubov glibly states to merto the varied, engaging performances of the produc- chant-turned-landowner Lopakhin that “people tion’s talented and amiable ensemble and, even still, a shouldn’t waste time going to plays.” The ironic, number of fantastic actors and actresses would regret- fourth-wall shattering implication of that statement is tably get left out. That’s how many noteworthy per- given even greater significance by the fact that UM’s formances this particular production contains. Nick production is exceptional. In other words, Madame Pavelich, resembling a lanky, scarecrow-esque Edgar Lyubov, it’s safe to say that going to this particular play Allan Poe, is a comedic revelation in the role of is far from a waste of time.

Yepikhodov, nailing the awkwardness and deadpan The Cherry Orchard continues at UM’s delivery of Mr. Catastrophe Corner himself. Rebecca Masquer Theatre in the PARTV Center Thu., March Schaffer radiates all the appropriate bombast and irrev- 8, through Sat., March 10, at 7:30 PM nightly. $16 erence of governess and improvisational ventriloquist general/$14 seniors and students/$10 children 12 Charlotta. She manages to project even while chewing and under. on a pickle (no small auditory feat). Oh, and that dog!

Peter Philips makes quite an impression with his arts@missoulanews.com Acclaimed Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s final play is famous for its conflicting tonal duality and the vast range of interpretations that have been applied to it by directors like experimental innovator Peter Brook and New York Civic Repertory Theatre founder Eva Le Galliene. As the story goes, Chekhov originally conceived The Cherry Orchard as a comedy and was appalled when director Constantin Stanislavski reinterpreted the first production of his work as a tragedy at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1907.

Since this initial performance, writers and directors have strived to maintain the complex contradictions of Chekhov’s last documented curtain call. With the exception of a few stylistic oddities and bizarre musical choices, the UM School of Theatre & Dance’s rendition of the Tom Stoppard version of The Cherry Orchard is brim-

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Bad crack Project X pushes the boundaries of shallow

by Molly Laich

Project X is assembled from the leftover parts of other films, as many enthusiastic pre-screeners have said. “It’s like Superbad on crack!” boasts one of the commercials. (Can we please retire saying that things are like other things “on crack” when all we really mean is that the new thing is messier or more depraved?)

It’s true that there are three awkward teens in search of a life-defining party, just like in Superbad, but this time there’s a handheld camera and the writing is lazier and meaner. The cast features mostly unknowns.

editing, you’d think Dax would be skilled enough to hold the camera steadier. But I digress.

I hate to be the fuddy-duddy tasked with pointing this out, but why have the filmmakers (including producer Todd Phillips of The Hangover) gone out of their way to make everyone so mean-spirited and thoughtless? All of the women could have been replaced by blow-up sex dolls and not much would be lost. We get it; horny guys like hot chicks and normal looking girls have no value. The girls of Superbad were pretty, but they also had souls and looked like real teenagers.

Partying so hard.

There’s JB, the lovable fat sidekick (Jonathan Daniel Brown) who we are told is “working on his diabetes” by hypersexual ringleader Costa (Oliver Cooper). You might recognize Thomas (Thomas Mann) from last year’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story. It’s his parents’ house that ends up getting trashed. He even looks a little like Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and like Cameron, he will have to confront his father about a damaged sports car. It’s Thomas’s birthday and his parents are going away for the weekend. Spearheaded

by Costa’s efforts, the three begin planning for what turns out to be a highly publicized party, amidst Thomas’s nervous hesitation. “Fifty people tops, okay?”

What could go wrong?

Project X borrows the cinéma vérité effect of other recent films (in this context, that’s French for Cloverfield meets Paranormal Activity). It’s so in the style of recent horror and not comedy that for the first half of the film I kept waiting for a monster to jump out and eat everyone on screen. (No such luck! Ha ha.)

The conceit is that one kid named Dax (Dax Flame) is able to film every important plot turn, but the movie is clever in the way it explains his intrusively voyeuristic behavior: He’s weird. He may have killed his parents.

With such astounding sound quality (I don’t understand, were the cops miked before they got to the scene, or...?), slow-motion dance sequences, underwater titty footage and truly professional post-production

Project X thinks that it can hand a hot girl a videogame controller and the rest will just write itself.

It’s 2012, and the kids are still calling each other fags in that flippantly hurtful way of meaning “lame” or “cowardly.” As much as I want to avoid being cranky, I can’t overlook the film’s underlying messages: Ordinary girls have no value, gay=bad and of course you’re nothing if you’re not popular in high school. Finally, is there something inherently funny about an angry Little Person punching everybody in the balls or is it dumb and awful? Honestly, I don’t know. This might just be one of those instances of my personal bias against physical comedy.

Some good things: The sequences leading up to the fiery explosions promised in the trailer have the allure of a well-orchestrated train wreck, and there are a few funny moments involving a garden gnome and a couple of pre-teen security guards. The home video camera style is well executed, or else it’s easy to ignore after a few minutes. The party looks like a genuinely good time, and there’s something to be said for a film that delights in delight itself. In the end, though, the viewing experience is like leafing through party pictures on a Facebook photo album: It’s fun for a second, but ultimately empty.

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Scope Noise Theater Film Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK JOHN CARTER Holy Christ-figure, Batman! Vietnam vet John Carter must defend a lady and battle creatures twice his size, all while on Mars. Cue the “Hero’s Journey.” Starring Taylor Kitsch and Willem Dafoe.

PG-13. Carmike 12: 3D: 1:20, 4:20. 7:20 and 10:05 pm, and midnight on Fri. Big D: 1, 4, 7, and 9:50 pm, and 12:15 am on Fri. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with matinees at 10 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 3D: 6:45 and 9:15 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 3D: 12, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1, 2, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45 and 7:45 pm, Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 pm Showboat: 4, 6:50 and 9:20 pm.

Rated R. Carmike 12: 1, 1:30, 4, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:20 and 10 pm, and midnight on Fri. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 pm, with 3 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:40 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. Mountain: 2:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15 pm Showboat: 4:15, 7 and 9:15 pm.

THE ARTIST Will talking pictures end silent film star George Valentin’s career? Will he find love with a young dancer? It seems black-and-white to me. Starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. Rated PG-13.

Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with 1 and 3 pm matinees on Sat. Stadium 14: 12:15, 2:35, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:35 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 and 9:40 pm, Mon.-Thu.

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND A kid and his mom’s boyfriend search for grandpa on a topsy-turvy island where big things are small and vice versa. Opposites, people love ‘em. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Michael Caine. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 4:45 and 9:45 pm. 3D: 1:45 and 7:15 pm, and midnight on Fri. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. Stadium 14: 12:05 and 5:05 pm, Fri.-Sun. and 4:25 pm Mon.-Thu. 3D: 2:25, 7:25, 9:45, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:25, 7:25 and 9:45 pm, Mon.-Thu. DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Make Fox News angry and take your kids to this story of young boy’s love of a girl and the grumpy fella that protects the environment. Starring the

4:15, 7:15 and 10 pm. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 4:05 and 7:05 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. THIS MEANS WAR Two CIA agents battle for Reese Witherspoon’s affections with gadgets galore. Will either try writing her a poem? Starring Chris Pine and Tom Hardy. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7:30 and 10 pm, and midnight on Fri. Pharaohplex: 2, 4, 7 and 9 pm. Stadium 14: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:30 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:25 pm, Mon.-Thu. THE VOW Hello V-Day! Rachel McAdams wakes up from a

No, we went to White Castle yesterday! John Carter opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex, Stadium 14, Showboat and Mountain Cinema.

SILENT HOUSE A young lady is trapped in her parents’ lakeside vacation home and things get really weird fast as she finds that she can’t communicate with the outside world. Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Adam Trese. Rated R. Village 6: 4:15 and 7:15 pm, with shows at 9:45 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1:15 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:25 and 9:40 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:30, 4, 7 and 9:30 pm, Mon.-Thu. A THOUSAND WORDS A solipsistic literary agent learns the real meaning of words when a spiritual guru places a Bodhi tree in the no-good agent’s backyard. As the leaves fall so shall the man, hmm? Starring Eddie Murphy.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45 and 10 pm, and midnight on Fri. Stadium 14: 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:20 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 and 9:35 pm, Mon.-Thu.

NOW PLAYING ACT OF VALOR The world’s finest navy, the United States Navy, unleashes Navy SEALs on kidnappers and terrorists. You done messed up again, terrorists. Starring Alex Veadov and dozens of uncredited SEALs.

CHRONICLE Three high school boys gain superpowers and have a surprising lack of control when it comes to their urges. Starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Kelly. PG-13. Village 6: 4 and 7 pm, with matinees at 9:30 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9 pm.

A DANGEROUS METHOD Jung versus Freud, toss in a romantic entanglement and you got yourself a movie. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender. Rated R. Wilma: 7 and 9 pm nightly, with Sat. matinees at 1 and 3 pm. No show Fri., Mar. 9.

THE DESCENDANTS George Clooney takes his daughters on a trip to confront the man his wife has been cheating on him with. Did I mention his wife is on life support? Rated R. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm on Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 2:30 and 7:20 pm, Fri.-Sun. and 1:20 and 6:50 pm, Mon.-Thu. GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Fire in the hole! Johnny Blaze sets his head on fire and does battle with the devil. Starring Nicolas Cage. Rated PG-13. Stadium 14: 9:55 pm, Fri.Sun and 9:25 pm, Mon.-Thu.

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voices of Taylor Swift and Danny Devito. Rated PG. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 6:45 and 9 pm. 3D: 1, 4, 6:30 and 8:45 pm, and midnight on Fri. Village 6: 7 pm, with 1 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. 3D: 4 pm, with 9:10 pm shows on Fri. and Sat. Pharaohplex: 3D: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm. Stadium 14: 12, 4:30 and 9:15 pm, Fri.-Sun. 1 and 6:30 pm, Mon.-Thu. 3D: 12:30, 2:15, 2:40, 5, 6:45, 7:15 and 9:30 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:30, 3:30, 4, 7, 9 and 9:30 pm, Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2, 4, 7 and 9 pm.

PROJECT X What happens when the YouTube generation throws a rager? Same thing that happened before camera phones. Starring Thomas Mann and Oliver Cooper. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:45, 4:30, 7:30 and 9:50 pm, and midnight on Fri. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9 pm, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 pm.

Stadium 14: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30 and 9:50 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. 1:25, 4:25, 7:25 and 9:35 pm shows, Mon.-Thu. Mountain: 2:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15 pm.

SAFE HOUSE A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. Denzel shows up and stuff gets real. Starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. Rated R. Carmike 12: 1:15,

coma with severe memory loss and finds her hunky husband romancing her once again.

Starring Channing Tatum. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 pm, and midnight on Fri. Stadium 14: 1:10, 4:20, 7:20 and 9:50 pm, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. WANDERLUST A couple of busy Manhattan professionals find themselves out of work, living on a rural commune and having sexy, topless good times.

Starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston. Rated R. Village 6: 4:30 and 7:30 pm, with shows at 10 pm of Fri. and Sat. and 1:30 pm matinees on Sat. and Sun. Stadium 14: 1:05 and 9:50 pm.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Mar. 9. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 4 .

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LOOKING FOR THE GAIA NEXT DOOR I’m an Occupy girl, age 45, into eco-shamanism and planetary consciousness stuff. I’ve mostly dated engineers with a playful side who initially seemed open to my interests but quickly became resentful of them. My boyfriend of two years is different—easygoing and willing to expand his horizons. He actually reads the articles I post on Facebook and discusses them with me. We laugh effortlessly and are very giving to each other, but I can’t shake the feeling that I should look for somebody more my type (more artistically, politically, and spiritually inclined). I fantasize about meeting an artistic shamanic guy who is gorgeous and open and shares my sense of purpose, but the truth is, guys in my social milieu can be very competitive, neurotic, and immature.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Controlled hysteria is what is required,” said playwright Arthur Miller in speaking about his creative process. “To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria.

It’s agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.” I hope this little outburst inspires you, Aries. It’s an excellent time for you to harness your hysteria and instruct your agony in the fine art of singing. To boost your chances of success in pulling off this dicey feat, use every means at your disposal to have fun and stay amused.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Cherokee Heritage website wants people to know that not all Native American tribes have the same traditions. In the Cherokee belief system, it’s Grandmother Sun and Grandfather Moon, which is the opposite of most tribes. There are no Cherokee shamans, only medicine men and women and adawehis, or religious leaders. They don’t have “pipe carriers,” don’t do the Sun Dance, and don’t walk the “Good Red Road.” In fact, they walk the White Path, have a purification ceremony called “Going to Water,” and perform the Green Corn ceremony as a ritual renewal of life. I suggest you do a similar clarification for the group you’re part of and the traditions you hold dear, Taurus. Ponder your tribe’s unique truths and ways. Identify them and declare them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the coming weeks, the activity going on inside your mind and heart will be especially intense and influential—even if you don’t explicitly express it. When you speak your thoughts and feelings out loud, they will have unusual power to change people’s minds and rearrange their moods. When you keep your thoughts and feelings to yourself, they will still leak all over everything, bending and shaping the energy field around you. That’s why I urge you to take extra care as you manage what’s going on within you. Make sure the effect you’re having is the effect you want to have.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Artist Richard Kehl tells the story of a teenage girl who got the chance to ask a question of the eminent psychologist Carl Jung. “Professor, you are so clever.

Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life’s goal?” Without a moment’s hesitation Jung replied, “The detour!” I invite you to consider the possibility that Jung’s answer might be meaningful to you right now, Cancerian. Have you been churning out overcomplicated thoughts about your mission? Are you at risk of getting a bit too grandiose in your plans? Maybe you should at least dream about taking a shortcut that looks like a detour or a detour that looks like a shortcut.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): An old Chinese proverb says: “My barn having burned to the ground, I can see the moon.” The speaker of those words was making an effort to redefine a total loss as a partial gain. The building may have been gone, but as a result he or she had a better view of a natural wonder that was previously difficult to observe. I don’t foresee any of your barns going down in flames, Leo, so I don’t expect you’ll have to make a similar redefinition under duress. However, you have certainly experienced events like that in the past. And now would be an excellent time to revise your thinking about their meaning. Are you brave enough and ingenious enough to reinterpret your history? It’s find-theredemption week.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Numerous websites on the Internet allege that Greek philosopher Plato made this statement, which I regard as highly unlikely. But in any case, the thought itself has some merit. And in accordance with your current astrological omens, I will make it your motto for the week.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves,” said Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. His advice might be just what you need to hear right now, Libra. Have you struggled, mostly fruitlessly, to change a stagnant situation that has resisted your best efforts? Is there a locked door you’ve been banging on, to no avail? If so, I invite you to redirect your attention. Reclaim the energy you have been expending on closed-down people and moldering systems. Instead, work on the unfinished beauty of what lies closest at hand: yourself.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In this passage from Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins provides a hot tip you should keep in mind. “There are essential and inessential insanities. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety—garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo.” I’ll add this, Scorpio: Be crazily wise and wisely crazy in the coming weeks. It will be healthy for you. Honor the wild ideas that bring you joy and the odd desires that remind you of your core truths.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I don’t think you will need literal medicine this week. Your physical vigor should be good. But I’m hoping you will seek out some spirit medicine—healing agents that fortify the secret and subtle parts of your psyche. Where do you find spirit medicine?

Well, the search itself will provide the initial dose. Here are some further ideas: Expose yourself to stirring art and music and films; have conversations with empathic friends and the spirits of dead loved ones; spend time in the presence of a natural wonder; fantasize about a thrilling adventure you will have one day; and imagine who you want to be three years from now.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Each of us is the star of our own movie. There are a few other lead and supporting actors who round out the cast, but everyone else in the world is an extra.

Now and then, though, people whom we regard as minor characters suddenly rise to prominence and play a pivotal role in our unfolding drama. I expect this phenomenon is now occurring or will soon occur for you, Capricorn. So please be willing to depart from the script. Open yourself to the possibility of improvisation. People who have been playing bit parts may have more to contribute than you imagine.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The “cocktail party effect” refers to your ability to hear your name being spoken while in the midst of a social gathering’s cacophony. This is an example of an important practice, which is how to discern truly meaningful signals embedded in the noise of all the irrelevant information that surrounds you. You should be especially skilled at doing this in the coming weeks, Aquarius—and it will be crucial that you make abundant use of your skill. As you navigate your way through the clutter of symbols and the overload of data, be alert for the few key messages that are highly useful.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA COMPETETIVE SEALED PROPOSAL (CSP) TO INSTALL NEW METERS AND APPURTANCES TO EXISTING IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN VARIOUS CITY PARKS Project # PR12-03 MC The City of Missoula is requesting proposals to Install New Meters and Appurtances to existing irrigation systems in various parks, City Project No. PR12-03 MC. The City will select one (1) final Respondent to provide labor, equipment and materials necessary to complete the meter conversions as outlined in this request. SCOPE OF PROJECT This project consists of the conversion of approximately 43 irrigation supply sites having either existing flat rate systems, or oversized metered systems. The project scope will be to convert these to appropriately sized metered irrigation supplies. The water utility company will supply the meters and certain fittings and associated elements as further described in the proposal requirements and the selected Respondent (supplier), will supply the necessary valves, fittings, pipe and other such appurtances as may be necessary to complete the installations. The basis of measurement and payment for the contract work will be per specific site as individual lump sum line items as provided in the proposal sheet. DESIGN GUIDELINES & SPECIFICATIONS Most of the sites requiring modification are contained within standard meter pits and the work will take place within them. A small number of the sites do not have meter pits or have identified suspect, or faulty, valves and these sites will require excavation and restoration to complete

the installations. Refer to the Proposal Packet for a complete listing of requirements and specifications. A guided tour/inspection of the project sites will be conducted on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Interested respondents are strongly encouraged to attend. Any resulting questions or concerns will be addressed in an addendum which will be emailed beginning Thursday, March 8, 2012 to those respondents having signed for Proposal Packets and provided email addresses.

Any Respondents not availing themselves of this tour/inspection will not be provided another opportunity other than to inspect the sites on their own. COMPLIANCE Installations must comply with all applicable Federal, State and Municipal codes, requirements and specifications, including, but not limited to, Mountain Water Company’s requirements and the Montana Public Service Commission. In accordance with MCA 49-3-207 and Chapter 9.64, Missoula Municipal Code , Nondiscrimination Provision in All Public Contracts and the city of Missoula’s affirmative action plan, the Supplier will ensure that hiring is made on the basis of merit and qualifications and that there will be no discrimination in employment on the basis actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, political ideas, sex, age, marital or familial status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or because of their association with a person or group of people so identified of their actual or perceived except where these criteria are reasonable, bona fide occupational qualifications. The Respondent and

any entities doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734. The Supplier is required to have registered with the DLI prior to submitting a proposal on this project. (“Bid Only” registration is available for outof-state Suppliers.) All workers employed

by Supplier in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The Supplier shall utilize the Montana Davis-Bacon Wage Rates for Highway Construction effective to the most recent date posted prior to bidding. Questions concerning the CSP should be directed to: Missoula Parks & Recreation Attn: Alan White, Project Manager 100 Hickory Street Missoula, Montana 59801 406.552.6261 awhite@ci.missoula.mt.us The City of Missoula shall be exempt from any liability for costs incurred by unsuccessful Respondents in preparation of the proposals. PROPOSAL SUBMITTAL AND CONTENT Sealed proposals must be submitted to Missoula City Clerk’s Office by 5:00 pm MST, March 13, 2012 and must be addressed as follows: Proposal for City Project # PR 12-03 MC. CSP to Install New Meters in Various City Parks Attn: Marty Rehbein, CMC City Clerk City Clerk’s Office 435 Ryman St. Missoula, MT 59802-4297 No proposal may be withdrawn within a period of sixty (60) days after the proposal due date. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state statutes governing procurement and with

MCA Ch. 18.4 Part 3 and relevant ARM. Accordingly, the City of Missoula reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate at the sole discretion of the City of Missoula. The City of Missoula is an EEO/AA, M/F, and V/H Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and disabled individuals are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Interested Suppliers are encouraged to sign up for automatic notifications and updates on this and other City projects by visiting www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. Click on the “Bid Notification” button in the upper right hand corner of the page to sign up. The award will be made to qualified Respondent whose proposal is deemed most advantageous to the City, all factors considered. Unsuccessful Respondents will be notified in writing as soon as possible. Full CSP packets are available at the Currents Aquatic Center Front Desk, 600 Cregg, Missoula, MT 59801 and must be picked up in person and signed for to establish a plan holders list for Respondents. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the CSP due date of 5:00 p.m. March 13, 2012. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of one Cemetery mower. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Cemetery mower., Closing, 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 27th, 2012”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms.

No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to readvertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 27th, 2012; Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387.

Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA Marshall Canyon Ecosystem Management and Fuels Treatment Project Request for Proposals The City of Missoula, Parks & Recreation Department is requesting proposal statements for a forest thinning and fuels treatment services on city-owned open space in the Marshall Canyon area of Mt. Jumbo.

Proposals are requested from interested, experienced professional foresters. Contractors interested in submitting proposals are required to attend a pre-proposal tour of the project area on Tuesday, March 20th at 11am, Marshall Canyon Trailhead, off Marshall Canyon Dr., Missoula, MT. Following the on-site meeting, qualified professional contractors will have six days to submit final proposals with costs. Mt. Jumbo is a public conservation area located within the Missoula City limits and managed primarily for

native habitat. In the absence of fire, a dense understory of young trees exists throughout forests on Mt. Jumbo. Additionally, juvenile ponderosa pines and Douglas fir are encroaching into areas which have historically been native grasslands. Management goals for this project include selectively thinning across roughly 40 acres (see attached map).

The density of trees per acre is quite variable across the site depending on slope, age of stand and available moisture. The project area borders the Missoula city limits. The City of Missoula is an EEO/AA, M/F, V/H Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.

Consultant performing work under the proposed contract will be subject to the Governmental Code of Fair Practices, Title 49, Chapter 3, Montana Codes Annotated (NonDiscrimination in Hiring) and Missoula Municipal Code, Chapter 9.64 (Illegal Discrimination.) Three paper copies and one electronic copy of vendor proposals are due Monday, March 26th, 2012, at 4:30 pm to: Missoula Parks and Recreation Operations Division c/o Morgan Valliant, Conservation Lands Manager 100 Hickory St. Missoula, MT. 59801. Late proposals will not be accepted. Detailed requests for qualifications must be obtained from Morgan Valliant, City Conservation Lands Manager or on-line at http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. Questions about the project should be directed to Morgan Valliant at mvalliant@ci.missoula.mt.us (406) 5526263.

INVITATION TO BID NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY MISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT (MUD), a 501 c3 non-profit corporation, AT THE OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT, ROCKING M DESIGN, PC, LOCATED ON THE SIXTH FLOOR OF 101 WEST BROADWAY, SUITE 612, MISSOULA, MT 59802 UNTIL 1:30 PM LOCAL TIME ON MONDAY, APRIL 2ND, 2012. BIDS WILL BE OPENED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT AND PUBLICLY READ ALOUD FOR THE FURNISHING OF ALL LABOR, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING: MUD TOOL LIBRARY & TRUCK SHAR RELOCATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT Missoula Urban Demonstration Project MISSOULA, MT GENERAL SITE WORK general site construction work to include: subgrade, utility connections, asphalt removal and placement, concrete curbs and sidewalk, concrete foundation slab and piers, subdrainage, topsoil and mulch, and incidental work. SEALED BIDS SHALL BE ADDRESSED TO ‘MUD Tool Library & Truck Share RELOCATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT: GENERAL SITE WORK, Rocking M Design, PC, 101 East Broadway, Suite #612, Missoula, MT 59802’ AND ENCLOSED IN SEALED ENVELOPES PLAINLY MARKED ON THE OUTSIDE “PROPOSAL FOR MUD TOOL LIBRARY & TRUCK SHARE RELOCATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT: GENERAL SITE WORK” THE ENVELOPES SHALL ALSO BE MARKED WITH THE BIDDER’S NAME AND MONTANA CONTRACTOR’S IDENTIFICATION NUMBER. NO BID MAY BE WITHDRAWN AFTER THE SCHEDULED TIME FOR THE PUBLIC OPENING OF BIDS, WHICH IS 1:30 PM., LOCAL TIME APRIL 2ND, 2012. BIDDER QUESTIONS WILL BE TAKEN BY THE ARCHITECT THROUGH MARCH 21, 2012. ADDENDA, IF REQUIRED, WILL BE ISSUED MARCH 26, 2012. A COMPLETE SET OF THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS CONSISTING OF DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, BIDDING DOCUMENTS AND PROJECT MANUAL MAY BE EXAMINED OR OBTAINED AT THE MISSOULA PLANS EXCHANGE, 201 N. RUSSELL, MISSOULA, MT (406) 549-5002. ELECTRONIC COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH EMAIL DISTRIBUTION AT NO COST TO THE BIDDER FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT, CONTACT: JENNIE@ ROCKINGMDESIGN.COM.; REFERENCE MUD TL&TS GENERAL SITE CONSTRUCTION ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT REQUEST. CONTRACTOR AND ANY OF THE CONTRACTOR’S SUBCONTRACTORS DOING WORK ON THIS PROJECT WILL BE REQUIRED TO OBTAIN REGISTRATION WITH THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY (DLI). FORMS AND INFORMATION ON REGISTRATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, P.O. BOX 8011, 1805 PROSPECT, HELENA MONTANA 59604-8011 OR BY CALLING 1-406-444-7734. CONTRACTOR IS NOT REQUIRED TO HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE DLI PRIOR

TO BIDDING ON THIS PROJECT, BUT MUST HAVE REGISTERED PRIOR TO EXECUTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT. ALL LABORERS AND MECHANICS EMPLOYED BY CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTORS IN PERFORMANCE OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORK SHALL BE PAID WAGES AT RATES AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY LAW. THE CONTRACTOR MUST ENSURE THAT EMPLOYEES AND APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT ARE NOT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. THE WORK OF THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED with federal funds and is subject to community development block grant (CDBG) Program Supplemental General Conditions and Federal Labor Standards Provisions. Minority and women-owned businesses are encouraged to bid. EACH BID OR PROPOSAL MUST BE ACCOMPANIED

BY A CASHIER’S CHECK, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR BID BOND PAYABLE TO THE ‘MISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT’ IN THE AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN TEN PERCENT (10%) OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE BID. SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS SHALL FURNISH AN APPROVED PERFORMANCE BOND AND A LABOR AND MATERIALS PAYMENT BOND, EACH IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) OF THE CONTRACT AMOUNT. INSURANCE AS REQUIRED SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER(S) AND A CERTIFICATE(S) OF THAT INSURANCE SHALL BE PROVIDED. MISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO WAIVE INFORMALITIES, TO POSTPONE THE AWARD OF THE CONTRACT FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED THIRTY (30) DAYS, TO ACCEPT THE LOWEST RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE BID WHICH IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE OWNER, TO REJECT ANY AND ALL PROPOSALS RECEIVED, AND, IF ALL BIDS ARE REJECTED, TO BE ADVERTISED UNDER THE SAME OR NEW SPECIFICATIONS, OR TO MAKE SUCH AN AWARD AS IN THE JUDGMENT OF ITS OFFICIALS BEST MEETS THE OWNER’S REQUIREMENTS. ANY OBJECTIONS TO PUBLISHED SPECIFICATIONS SHALL BE FILED IN WRITTEN FORM WITH THE ARCHITECT PRIOR TO BID OPENING AT THE OFFICE OF Rocking M Design, PC, 101 East Broadway, Suite #612, Missoula, MT 59802’. THE CONTRACTOR IS REQUIRED TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. Monday, March 19 2012 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County Public Works, for the purpose of purchasing of Ten Thousand (10,000) Tons of 3/4” Asphaltic Plant Mix. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: Cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Asphaltic Plant Mix – 2012” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works 2011 Asphaltic Plant Mix Bid 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION for the issuance of a MISSOULA AIR QUALITY PERMIT Source: Asphalt Plant Applicant: Riverside Contracting, Inc. The Missoula City-County Health Department has received a complete application for an Air Quality Permit for an asphalt plant to be operated at the following location: NW of Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 22 West about 1.7 miles north of the Nine Mile Road I-90 intersection, Missoula County.

Upon review of the permit application and

other information, the Department finds that Riverside Contracting Inc. has filed a complete application indicating the proposed facility is capable of meeting applicable requirements of the Air Pollution Control Program. Therefore, the Department hereby gives notice of the preliminary determination to issue an Air Quality Permit to Riverside Contracting Inc. to operate the asphalt plant.

The permit will be issued with several conditions attached. The Department will make a final determination concerning the application on March 26th, 2012. Any interested person may review a copy of the application and proposed permit at the Environmental Health Division, 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802. Written comments on the preliminary determination will be accepted until 5:00 PM March 23rd, 2012. Comments should be sent to the attention of Benjamin Schmidt, Air Quality Specialist (email: bschmidt@co.missoula.mt.us ) MISSOULA COUNTY Section 3 Public Notice The City of Missoula, on behalf of the Missoula Housing Authority, has received notice of the award of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Missoula Housing Authority will soon commence the implementation of the Palace Apartments rehabilitation project.

The project will consist of the rehab of the Palace Apartment building, a 60-unit affordable housing project located at 149 West Broadway, in Missoula, Montana. CDBG regulations governing the grant require that to the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and employment arising in connection with this CDBG-assisted project will be extended to local lower-income residents.

Further, to the greatest extent feasible, business concerns located in or substantially owned by residents of the project area and minority or women owned businesses are encouraged to be utilized. For more information, please contact Melissa Gordon, Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802 or call (406) 2584980.

MISSOULA COUNTY The Clinton Rural Fire District is selling a 1988 Western Star type one fire engine and numerous miscellaneous fire appliances and fittings. Any comments should be sent to Clinton Rural Fire, P( Box 237 Clinton, MT 59825 or in person at a board meeting. The next board meeting is March 12th at 7pm at the Clinton fire station.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-07-32 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF IRVING FRANK SATZER, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. 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 PATRICIA ECKER and JUNE HAIG, the CoPersonal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o Semansky Law Office, at PO Box 3267, Great Falls, MT 59403 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED 13th day of February, 2012. /s/ Patricia Ecker, Co-Personal Representative /s/ June Haig, Co-Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-29 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of WILLIAM R. BLAIR, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above 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 Mary O. Blair, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of her attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th Street East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 598077099, or filed with the Clerk of the Court.

DATED this 17th day of February, 2012 CROWLEY FLECK PLLP. /s/ Dirk A. Williams, Attorneys for Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-33 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: KERRY MCMENUS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John Boyle, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 26th day of January, 2012. /s/ John Boyle, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-11-1258 Judge: Hon. Ed McLean Dept. No. 1 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. ZIN-

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PUBLIC NOTICES VEST, LLC, Plaintiff, vs KIM SHEA, a/k/a KIM L. HALVORSON, individually and as surviving joint tenant of MICHAEL SHEA; BENEFICIAL MONTANA INC., d/b/a BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE CO., YOUNG ELECTRIC SIGN CO., DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, CHILD SUPPORT; DEANNA SAALE, 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 and adverse to plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: 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 PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to respond to the Complaint to Quiet Title in this action which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, W. Scott Green, 2817 2nd Avenue North, Suite 300, Billings, Montana 59101, within twenty-one (21) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the arrangement prayed for in the Complaint. This action is brought to quiet title to the Plaintiff in the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SE1/4NW1/4 of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the southwesterly boundary of Lot 3, Block 3 of Donovan Creek Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, which said point of beginning is south 1575.5 feet and east 2392.1 feet, more or less, from the northwest corner of said Section 17; thence from said point of beginning S.56º00’E., along said southwesterly boundary of Lot 3, Block 3, 310.0 feet to a point which is south 1748.8 feet and east 2649.1 feet, more or less, from said northwest corner of Section 17; thence S.34º00’W., 100.00 feet to a point which is south 1831.7 feet and east 2593.2 feet, more or less, from said northwest corner of Section 17; thence N.56º00’W., 310.0 feet to a point which is south 1658.4 feet and East 2336.2 feet, more or less, from said northwest corner of Section 17; thence N.34º00’E., 100.0 feet to the point of beginning. As shown in Warranty Deed recorded September 8, 1970 in Book 25 of Micro Records at Page 197. Excepting therefrom the following described portion: Beginning at a point on the southwesterly boundary of Lot 3, Block 3 of Donovan Creek Acres, which said point is South 1575.5 feet and East 2391.1 feet, more or less, from the Northwest corner of said Section 17; thence S.56º00’E., a distance of 175.5 feet to the true point of beginning of this description; thence continuing S.56º00’E., a distance 134.5 feet; thence S.34º00’W., a distance of 100 feet; thence N.56º00’W., a distance of 129.0 feet; thence N.30º51’18”E., a distance of 100.14 feet to the point of beginning. As shown in Warranty Deed recorded March 23, 1973 in Book 47 of Micro Records at Page 248. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said Court this 7th day of February, 2012. (SEAL) SHIRLEY E. FAUST, CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Casey Kragh, DEPUTY CLERK Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County Cause No. DV-12-178 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Sarah Ann Zbinden, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Sarah Ann Zbinden to Sarah Ann WinterNight. The hearing will be on April 4, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be a the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 2/17/2012. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-207 Dept. No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Susan Johnson Cole Rose, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Susan Johnson Cole Rose to Susan Elaine Rose.

The hearing will be on April 3, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: February 28, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-12-26 Ed McLean, Presiding.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF KENNETH E. LIZOTTE, 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 Victoria A. Otto, 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 17th day of February, 2012. /s/ Victoria A. Otto, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1

Probate No. DP-12-38 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LOIS JAMES WAGNER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John Paul Wagner, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 29th day of February, 2012. /s/ John Paul Wagner, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-12-24 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Wendy F. McQuaide, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned 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 Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 14th day of February, 2012. CHRISTIAN, SAMSON & JONES, PLLC. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-11-222 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BRUCE B. GAMBLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are 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 SHAWN E. ROSSCUP, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 9410, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED: December 13, 2011. /s/ Elizabeth Caldwell, Personal Representative. /s/ Shawn E. Rosscup, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate Case No. DP-12-34 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of FLORENCE WESTON YOUNG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Mark Weston, return receipt requested, at 2240 Cales Ct. Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of February, 2012. /s/ Mark Weston, Personal Representative, 2240 Cales Ct. Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-12-37 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GORDON H. SIMMONS, 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 Sarah S. Lester, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 315 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 29th day of February, 2012. THIEL LAW OFFICE PLLC Attorney for Personal Representative /s/ Matthew B. Thiel Notice of Public Hearing The Missoula County Park Board will conduct a public hearing on the draft Missoula County Parks and Trails Master Plan, which will replace the 1997 Missoula County Parks and Conservation Lands Plan. The public hearing will be held during the regular Missoula County Park Board meeting, scheduled for Thursday, March 8, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, Montana. Interested parties are invited to attend and provide comments on the Plan. A copy of the draft plan is available for public inspection on the Missoula County Website and at the Missoula County Parks Office, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. For additional information, please contact 258-4716. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 2584716. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/06/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200523744, Bk 759, Pg 1351, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Veronica L. Morgan, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel 5 of Certificate of Survey No. 351, located in the NW1/4 of Section 13, Township 15 North, Range 22 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 03/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 29, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $284,820.23. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $264,607.47, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 11, 2012 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. (TS# 7023.95442) 1002.200790-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/15/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200917604, Bk 843, Pg 1246, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jhawn D. Thompson and Misty J. Thompson, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 57, together with the Northerly half of vacated Bedard Street adjoining said Lots 12, 13, 14 and 15 in Block 14 of the Townsite of Frenchtown as vacated by Resolution recorded April 7, 1966 in Book 2 of Micro Records at Page 533. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201119250, Bk 885, Pg 877, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 3, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $168,374.51. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $159,856.94, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 16, 2012 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.Northwest-

trustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.97589) 1002.207163-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/12/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201101220, B: 872, P: 1035, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kristina L. Edsall and Tanner S. Dempsey, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship was Grantor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Chicago Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Chicago Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 86 of Car Line Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 16, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $144,205.95.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $134,297.00, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 29, 2012 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. (TS# 7037.79418) 1002.207567-File NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 3 AND ALL OF LOTS 4 AND 5 IN BLOCK 81 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jason Bagaoisan, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 15, 2009 and recorded on April 22, 2009 in Book 837, Page 1298 as Document No. 200909262.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, 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 $673.21, beginning June 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 1, 2011 is $121,409.54 principal, interest at the rate of 5.000% now totaling $2,522.37, late charges in the amount of$ 148.46, and other fees and expenses advanced of $301.87, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.63 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in

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cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 7, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 7th day of December, 2011, 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/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Guild V Bagaoisan 41291.630 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 12 OF LOST MINE SUBURBAN TRACTS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF John S. Weiss and Carla J. Weiss, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated July 12th, 2007 and recorded on July 23th, 2007 in Book 802, Page 149, under Document No. 200718747. The beneficial interest is currently held by MetLife Home Loans, a division of MetLife Bank, N.A. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,018.48, beginning February 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of December 17, 2011 is $261,472.03 principal, interest at the rate of 6.6250% now totaling $33,960.76, late charges in the amount of $264.12, escrow advances of $6,141.01 and other fees and expenses advanced of $104.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $47.46 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BEUSED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 5, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O.

Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 5th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Asst 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/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Metlife v Weiss 41305.274 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 16, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT B26 OF WINDSOR PARK, PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. David Englund and Teresa Englund, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated December 27, 2006 and recorded December 29, 2006 in Book 789, Page 1057 under Document No. 200633176. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,544.17, beginning May 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 19, 2011 is $176,711.37 principal, interest at the rate of 6.8750% now totaling $7,685.99, late charges in the amount of $427.63, escrow advances of $1,237.76, and other fees and expenses advanced of $506.80, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.28 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 6, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 6th day of December, 2011, 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/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, ID Commission expires: 5-26-2015 Citimortgage V. Englund 42011.569 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 23, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 OF SUNDOWN RANCH ESTATES SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Michael W Goggin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 24, 2003 and recorded on June 30, 2003 at 4:11 o’clock P.M., in Book 710, Page

650, under Document No 200323422. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2003-HE3, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-HE3. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,328.58, beginning February 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 18, 2011 is $153,979.03 principal, interest at the rate of 7.5% now totaling $34,252.46, escrow advances of $1,859.60, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,338.64, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.64 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 14, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 14th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, know to me to be the Asst 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/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Chase/goggin 47024.967 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 30, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 OF WHITE WATER PARK SUBDIVISION, TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED 1/9TH INTEREST IN THE COMMON AREA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF AS ESTABLISHED BY CASE NO. 49481, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Janet Delzer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 27, 2006 and recorded on January 27, 2006 in Book 768, Page 41 as Document No. 200602042. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $814.09, beginning July 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 16, 2012 is $170,128.41 principal, interest at the rate of 3.00000% now totaling $3,186.99, late charges in the amount of $449.91, escrow advances of $2,924.70, suspense balance of $-622.13 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,435.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $13.98 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts

PUBLIC NOTICES or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 21, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 21st day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Asst 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/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 GMAC V Delzer 41965.618 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 9, 2012, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the South Door of the First American Title Company of Montana, located at 1006 West Sussex, in Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: LOT 12 IN BLOCK 2 OF MOUNT SENTINEL ADDITION NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. PARCEL II: LOT 13 AND THE EAST 25 FEET OF LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF MOUNT SENTINEL ADDITION NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 780 OF MICRO AT PAGE 1244 John Bakos, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 2, 2008 and recorded on July 8, 2008 under Document No. 200815987, Book 822, Page 767. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,437.67, beginning November 1, 2010, 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 22, 2011 is $371,336.74 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $28,066.57, late charges in the amount of $365.64, escrow advances of $6,570.55 and other fees and expenses advanced of $837.56, plus accruing interest at the rate of $67.40 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor

in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default, The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 5, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 5th day of December, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Asst 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/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 BAC v Bakos 42019.252 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/04/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RONNY L. STRAIGHT AND VICKI L. STRAIGHT HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/25/2003 and recorded 07/31/2003, in document No. 200327979 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 713 at Page Number 573 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 8440 PHEASANT DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $110,421.58 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 11/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 1/20/2012 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0029886 FEI NO. 1006.132267 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/12/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SCOTT KNIGHT, AND BILLIE ANNE KNIGHT as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/07/2005 and recorded 07/12/2005, in document No. 200517167 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 755 at Page Number 1215 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDI-

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request for a public forum by the Missoula School District and Partnership Health for a proposed medical clinic at Lowell School located at 1200 Sherwood in the RMI-45 zoning district. SEE MAP Z. 2. A request by Glen Faechner, represented by Loken Builders, for a variance to allow a detached garage to encroach into a side yard setback for a property located at 150 Kensington in the R5.4 zoning district. SEE MAP C. 3. A request by Discovery Alliance Church for a front and side yard setback variance, a variance to exceed the maximum lot coverage, and a variance to extend the life of a variance for a property legally described as Lots 5 & 6A of Hellgate Meadows, Phase 1 & 2 in the Hellgate Special District. SEE MAP Y. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at 258-3869 or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us

TION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. ALSO SHOWN OF RECORD AS LOT 5 IN 4 OF WAPIKIYA ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 109 WAPIKIYA DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803-1230.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $153,245.73 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 2.75% per annum from 03/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees,

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. Subdivision Request – Reilly Acres A request from Reilly Acres, LLC, represented by Martinsen Surveys, to subdivide a 28.30 acre parcel into 12 residential lots. The property is located at the base of McCauley Butte, between Ringo Drive and Humble Road in Target Range. See Map A.

The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Item #1 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4, 2012.

The hearing will be held in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged.

The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana.

Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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 Dated: 01/30/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0006202 FEI NO. 1006.152741 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/08/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which THOMAS D. ERVING AND MIKELL K POTTER, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/14/2007 and recorded 11/20/2007, in document No. 200730276 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 809 at Page Number 177 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 11A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1872. Property Address: 16600 TOUCHETTE LANE, Frenchtown, MT 59834.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 120, 211, and 237. 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 March 19th, 2012 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 March 22nd, 2012, 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.

Central Mini Storage will action to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 11, 17, 24. Units contain misc items. These units may be viewed by appt only by calling 543-9798. Please speak to Shannon. Written sealed bids may be submitted to the storage offices at 401 SW Higgins Missoula, MT 59803 prior to March 30, 2012 at 3:00pm. Auction sales will be final after this date.

Buyers bid will be for the entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. ONLY cash or money order will be accepted as form of payment.

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by Matt Jones

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34 Responds to (in a certain way) 35 "Letters to a Young Contrarian" author Christopher 36 Freeze again, like slush to ice 37 Rapper with the 2011 hit "Work Out" 38 Reeeeeally long time 42 "Sesame Street" org., back in the day 43 Seals (out) 45 "Daily Manhattan media news and gossip" site 46 Ultimatum ender 47 Peace Nobelist Lech ___ 50 Fencing swords 51 Others, in Spanish 52 "Tiny Bubbles" crooner 54 Muesli ingredient 55 It's put on a chair in a prank

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PUBLIC NOTICES event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $397,581.09 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.375% per annum from 12/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 01/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0026415 FEI NO. 1006.131552 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/11/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which ROGER W OLSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/25/2008 and recorded 10/03/2008, in document No. 200822659 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 444 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF LOT 11, THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF LOT 12 AND THE SOUTH 72 FEET OF THE WEST 24 FEET OF LOT 13 IN BLOCK 94 OF SCHOOL ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, RECORDING REFERENCE IN BOOK 265 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1439. Property Address: 1828 HOWELL ST, Missoula, MT 59802-2136. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA

COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $128,519.12 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.25% per annum from 11/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 01/26/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0005244 FEI NO. 1006.152563 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/13/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which BRADLEY K WATKINS AND ALISA J WATKINS, JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/15/2008 and recorded 02/21/2008, in document No. 200803740 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 813 at Page Number 835 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 7 OF SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO FOOTHILLS ESTATES NO. 4, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2517 HIGHWOOD DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the

obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $215,141.87 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 1/31/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0006816 FEI NO. 1006.152743 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Pursuant to §71-1-301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee's sale to be held on the 31st day of May, 2012, at 11:00 o'clock a.m, on the steps of the Courthouse of Missoula County located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL 1: TRACT 2A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5342, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 14 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. AND PARCEL 2: TRACT 39 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1925, LOCATED IN THE WEST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Sharon E. Schneider and Robert J. Schneider, as Grantors, conveyed the above-described real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bitterroot Valley Bank d/b/a Clark Fork Valley Bank, organized and existing under the laws of the State of Montana, who was designated as Beneficiary in a Real Estate Trust Indenture dated August 15, 2008 and recorded on August 15, 2008 as Document No. 200819254 in Book 824 at Page 1236 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana (“Trust Indenture”). Dan G. Cederberg, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 15, 2011, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

Grantors have defaulted in the performance of the said Trust Indenture and associated Universal Note by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,202.21 for the month of April, 2011, and of $1,229.18 for the month of May, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. As of December 28, 2011, the sum of $11,135.65 is past due.

As of December 28, 2011, the principal balance due was the sum of $143,396.91 principal, plus $8,000.61 accrued interest, with interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the variable rate set out in the Universal Note, which is currently 7.70% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse any amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary's interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Trust Indenture. In accordance with the provisions of the Trust Indenture and Universal Note , the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Trust Indenture and Universal and has elected to sell the interest of Sharon E. Schneider and Robert J. Schneider, the original Grantors, their successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Dan G. Cederberg, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants 2403 Highway 83 N. Seeley Lake MT 59868 Occupants 10460 Sweet Pea Way Missoula MT 59808 Robert J. and Sharon E. Schneider 10460 Sweet Pea Way Missoula MT 59808 Department of the Treasury I.R.S. 2681 Palmer Street, 2nd Floor Missoula MT 59808 Internal Revenue Service Stop 8420-G PO Box 145595 Cincinnati OH 45250-5595 Internal Revenue Service District Director Rocky Mountain District Attn: S.P.E. 5020 600 17th Street Denver CO 80202 - 2490 Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATED this 20th day of January, 2012. /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) : ss.

County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 20th day of January, 2012, by Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee.

(Notarial Seal) /s/ Susan Marshall Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My commission expires: 17 March 2015 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/19/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which TODD PRESSLER AND TRACY PRESSLER, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to PINNACLE TITLE AND ESCROW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIS-

TRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/08/2008 and recorded 02/15/2008, in document No. 200803360 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 813 at Page Number 455 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 8 OF LINDA VISTA SEVENTH SUPPLEMENT-PHASE VI, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6894 LINDA VISTA BOULEVARD, Missoula, MT 59803.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $262,927.03 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 02/07/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0062353 FEI NO. 1006.140199 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/18/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LEONARD T SMITH, AND CONNIE L THOMPSON, AS JOINT TENANTS as

Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. MIN# 100025500001136777, as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/24/2009 and recorded 08/28/2009, in document No. 200921349 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 846 at Page Number 794 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 30-A OF DINSMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES ADDITION NO. 4, LOTS 29 AND 30, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3070 SOUTH 7TH STREET WEST, Missoula, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $395,546.15 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.00% per annum from 10/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 02/02/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0008290 FEI NO. 1006.152876 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 06/22/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST

COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LESLIE I. CONNELL as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/25/2008 and recorded 09/30/2008, in document No. 200822419 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 204 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 448 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3841 Lexington Avenue, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $223,424.51 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 10/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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 Dated: 02/08/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0108987 FEI NO. 1006.110520 Auction Storage Contents 2A, 14B, 16K. 10:00 a.m. 3/13/12. 2122 South Avenue West, Missoula.

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By Jennifer Taylor, 2012 MOR President The messages the American public have received in terms of housing and an economic recovery have been mixed at best; but home sale numbers and prices, low mortgage rates, and a spike in home builder confidence point to a housing turnaround.

Rebounding from another slow year in the Nation and Missoula, the housing market is picking up steam. Prospective home buyers are taking advantage of insanely low mortgage rates and reductions in home prices. Home buyers have opportunities now that they haven’t had in years in terms of inventory and bang for their buck. For example: Desired monthly payment-$1,000 • Current Interest Rate-3.88% • House Price$213,000 2007 Interest Rate-6.00% • House Price-$167,000 In addition, although economists have suggested for years that a turnaround in the housing market will be necessary in order for the economy to recover, politicians are just now getting the message. It seems that this issue will play a key role in the upcoming elections. Below are headlines that illustrate both recovery and how regulations may help (or hurt) in the future.

HouseLogic: Home Sales Rise in December Existing-home sales continued on an uptrend in December, rising for a third consecutive month and remaining above a year ago, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.

CNN Money: Mortgage Applications Surge Amid Record-Low Rates

Mortgage loan applications surged 23% last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, as record-low interest rates convinced many home owners it was time to refinance into lower-cost loans.

Wall Street Journal: Home-Builder Sentiment Hits Highest Level Since Mid-2007 U.S. home builders’ sentiment rose in January to the highest level in 4 1/2 years, the latest in a series of signs that the housing market is finally beginning to recover after a prolonged bust.

The State: Rally for Home Ownership Bridges Political Divide Hundreds turned out in a diverse crowd for a rally designed to head off prospective federal legislation that could hurt home buyers and owners. The well-publicized rally attracted Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, along with U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), and former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, a Republican.

HouseLogic: Time for GOP Candidates, and Obama, to Step Up on Housing Policy If you’ve been paying attention to the Republican presidential candidates lately, you wouldn’t guess that housing is one the most important issues on voters’ minds. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich — the top three finishers in most national polls — have been fairly quiet on the issue. Instead, the leading Republican contenders have been narrowly focused on attacking President Barack Obama’s jobs record.

At the heart of the matter is the fact that no matter what the economy is or what a

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For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Central Missoula home with a two car garage. Close to the Good Food Store. $189,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Rose Park home on a corner lot. $249,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath single level Stevensville area home on 6.3 cross-fenced acres with a large shop. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3901 O’Leary: Two bedroom, 2 story unit, Newer, Carport, Storage, Free cable, Private deck, #219 has washer and dryer, 1 1/2 bath, Dishwasher, No smoking or pets allowed $100.00 COSTCO GIFT CERTIFICATE GCPM , $825, 5496106, gcpm-mt.com

4 Bdr, 3 Bath Grant Creek/Prospect Meadows home next to open space. $322,900. Prudential Mon-

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

RICE TEAM

Robin Rice • 240-6503

4 Bdr, 2.5 Bath Upper Rattlesnake home in a great neighborhood. $415,000. Prudential Montana.

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

Rochelle Glasgow

544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Missoula Properties

Vacation Rental 4 Sale Charming vacation rental half a mile from Georgetown Lake and 6 miles from Discovery. This cabin has been a vacation rental for 7 years with many return clients, is being 8169 Lower Miller Creek • 3 Bed, 2 bath Well kept manufactured home on five productive acres in Upper Miller Creek.

• 2 storage sheds, a detached double car garage and a separate shop/garage.

• Only be 5 minutes from town.

• $250,000 • MLS # 20113133.

“FAMOUS NINE MILE HOUSE” • Purchase the restaurant/bar, the house, outbuildings, & 4 trailer spots for • Dynamite investment for the right person with great potential for income from the rentals and the restaurant.

• $449,000 • MLS # 20113100

860 Haley, Florence • 5 Bedroom, 3 Bath, 2 Car Garage • Over 5000 Finished sqft. Amazing home with gorgeous views, & paved road access.

Tons of space, game room and its own movie theater - perfect for living and entertaining!

• $550,000 • MLS #20115636

PRICE REDUCED

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117 Dallas, in LOLO. $184,900 • 3 Bed 2 Bath home on the hill in Lolo.

• Spacious living room, large backyard & deck, great views of the mountains, and huge family room in the basement.

• Perfect home for RD financing.

Please call me with any questions Astrid Oliver Senior Loan Originator Guild Mortgage Company 1001 S. Higgins Ave 2A Missoula, MT 59801

Phone: 406-258-7522 Cell: 406-550-3587 NMLS # 395211, Guild License #3274, Branch 206 NMLS # 398152

REAL ESTATE Wonderful 5 bed, 3 bath home @ top of Fairviews with 2 car garage.

Level lot! Borders open space. All new carpet & interior paint. Trex deck off dining room. Great views!

Back yard is fenced. $275,000.

MLS#20116161.

Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties.

544-7507. www.110artemos.com

home has potential to also have downstairs rental. Just $275,000 MLS 20117301 Call Anne 5465816 for details. www.movemontana.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

Beautifully Newly Remodeled. 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Lot rent is $255/mo Setup in beautiful park. 626-4514 or 546-9475

2 Bdr, 1.5 Downtown Missoula condo. Zoned for Residential or Commercial use. $339,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

PRICE REDUCED! Manufactured 3 bed 2 bath home, permanent foundation, low maintenance vinyl siding, 3 acres, partially fenced, double garage. Large deck with awning over looking the Bitterroot Valley. Large master bedroom with nice master bath.

663 Ridge Road, Stevensville. $179,000.

MLS#20117486.

Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

Five bedroom, 4 bath townhome with 2 car garage on The Ranch Club golf course. Amazing views. Golf everyday! 2640B Tanbark Way MLS #20120690 $399,000.

Call Anne for details.

546-5816 www.movemontana.com For a limited time a purchase of a condo at the Uptown Flats will include a large flat screen TV and assistance with up to $5000 Buyers closing costs!The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units at $149,900. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com Four bed, 1-1/2 bath, 3 car garage home at 345 Brooks.

Close to downtown, neighborhood coffee shop/restaurant, and university. Long time family

MANUFACTURED HOMES

COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic.

Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com

OUT OF TOWN 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Florence area home on 10 acres with Bitterroot River frontage. Horse Barn,

cross-fenced. $449,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13.9 acres with panoramic Bitterroot Mountain views. $629,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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Starting at $149,900 OPEN HOUSE: Sunday Noon-4pm or call Jeff or Anne for Appointment

Jeff Ellis

Anne Jablonski

529-5087

546-5816 PORTICO REAL ESTATE

www.theuptownflatsmissoula.com Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C11 March 8 – March 15, 2012

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Big Brothers Big Sisters present

SPRING GALA! Friday, March 23, 6:00pm Hilton Garden Inn

Info and tickets: 406.721.2380 or bbbsmissoula.org/spring-gala-event

UM College of Visual and Performing Arts presents

Odyssey of the Stars 2012 Saturday, March 24, 7:30pm Featuring School of Theatre & Dance Alumnus

Palmer West, '98, Film Producer: Requiem for a Dream A Scanner Darkly Info and tickets: 406.243.4970 or umt.edu/umarts/odyssey