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NOTHING DELIVERS DARK TWIST ON MISSOULA KIDS

NEWS

NAIL IN THE COFFIN? SMALL FUNERAL HOMES FIGHT REGS

FILM

HUMANS ARE THE NEW POLAR BEAR

[2] Missoula Independent • April 10–April 17, 2014

cover photo by Cathrine L. Walters

News Voices/Letters Pot, the Front and water ...................................................................4 The Week in Review Cash, Champ and a copter crash .............................................6 Briefs Water, more water and beer (which is mostly water) ..........................................6 Etc. Holy buckets, more wet water.................................................................................7 News Small funeral businesses say new regs will kill bottom line.................................8 News Big Sky literary advisor leaves big shoes to fill at Aerie ........................................9 Opinion Former Interior secretary blasts gas industry pressure .................................10 Feature Can MCPS truly be prepared for a school shooting? ......................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Creature features at the International Wildlife Film Festival ....................20 TV M. Sanjayan on why humans are the new polar bears ............................................21 Music Youngblood Brass Band, The White Buffalo, The Men and Yelawolf ................22 Books Nothing puts a dark twist on Missoula..............................................................23 Film Rockabilly doc gives women due credit...............................................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films .....................................................25 Flash in the Pan Easter bugs........................................................................................26 Happiest Hour Guy on a Buffalo coffee stout .............................................................28 8 Days a Week Can we get a hall pass?........................................................................29 Mountain High A new species of fish ..........................................................................41 Agenda Diversity Day....................................................................................................42

Exclusives

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

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A failure

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, April 8, near the corner of Spruce and Higgins.

This weekend kicks off the 37th International Wildlife Film Festival and WildWalk. If you could dress up like any wild animal what would it be and why?

Follow-up: What’s the one activity you wish David Attenborough would narrate?

Cassidy Fry: I would like to dress up like an albino animal; that would be fun. I saw an albino peacock the other day.

Bark park: It would be interesting to listen to a narration of the dog park. It’s always entertaining there.

Dale Head: A Siberian tiger because they are majestic and beautiful. Footbag: Students playing hacky sack on the UM campus.

Christi Turner’s April 3 column was right on target (see “Nip it in the bud”). If marijuana were fully legal there would be no backcountry grows on public land. Legitimate farmers would produce it by the ton at a fraction of the current cost. There is a reason you don’t see drug cartels sneaking into national forests to cultivate tomatoes and cucumbers. They cannot compete with a legal market.

If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize drug cartels, prohibition is a success. The drug war distorts supply and demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees. If the goal is to deter use, marijuana prohibition is a failure. The United States has almost double the rate of marijuana use as the Netherlands, where marijuana is legal.

The criminalization of Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis has no basis in science. The war on marijuana consumers is a failed cultural inquisition, not an evidence-based public health campaign. Not just in Colorado and Washington state, but throughout the nation, it’s time to stop the pointless arrests and instead tax legal marijuana.

Robert Sharpe Common Sense for Drug Policy Washington, D.C.

Set straight Tommy Whalen: I’d like to be a dolphin because I think they make great noises and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an unhappy dolphin. It’d be fun to “high-flipper” people on the street.

Training wheels: Kids learning how to ride bicycles.

Melissa Rohrer: A giraffe. There’s nothing like them, they are original. Everyone else is close to the ground and I want to see everything. Ordinary life: He should narrate a regular day in a person’s life, like, “And now here he is walking down the street ...”

Dov Printz: I would dress up like a tiger because I had tiger pajamas when I was a kid and tigers are cool. Bears on ice: It would be interesting to see the plight of the polar bear as it stands right now.

[4] Missoula Independent • April 10–April 17, 2014

Recent stories about a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes U.S. District Court water lawsuit contained several inaccuracies. The lawsuit is asking the federal court to apply established federal law as it pertains to reserved water rights. To say the CSKT lawsuit claims tribal ownership of all the water is simply wrong. The tribal motivation of filing the lawsuit is to address a concerning situation where several parties are making water claims in state courts, but neither the tribes nor the United States are part of those suits.

This lawsuit is in no way intended to disrupt negotiations with the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission and the United States, which all share the goal of getting a CSKT water compact approved in the 2015 legislature.

This narrowly tailored lawsuit asks the federal court to declare the ownership of water delivered by the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project.

Some have tried to define this lawsuit as a tribal legal claim to all water, when in reality this claim only addresses water rights claims inside of FIIP. The tribes expressly informed the court that it was not the tribes’ intention to quantify anybody’s water rights as a result of this lawsuit.

The tribes filed the suit to seek an end to the numerous conflicting, inconsistent, and expensive state court litigations filed by the Flathead Irrigation District and the Western Water User’s Association. As said upfront, this federal suit was an effort to

protect tribal rights.

This litigation addresses many of the arguments raised by opponents to the compact that did not pass the 2013 legislature and provides an avenue to have the court decide these issues.

Ronald Trahan Chairman CSKT Pablo

“There is a reason you don’t see drug cartels sneaking into national forests to cultivate tomatoes and cucumbers.”

Bipartisan support For over 60 years, the Montana Outfitters and Guides Association has served as an important voice for the outfitting industry and as a key partner in decisions that effect the management of public land and wildlife resources. We are proud to represent over 200 member businesses across the state that offer a wide variety of outfitting and guiding services. Together, these businesses play a vital role in Montana’s tourism economy and help maintain the culture and traditions of ethical sportsmanship.

MOGA was formed to represent the interests of the outfitting industry and to bring an important business voice to bear on conservation and land management issues affecting Montana. Our members see the preservation and protection of critical landscapes and outdoor traditions as extremely important to all user groups.

These landscapes and the wildlife habitat they provide are not only critical to our industry but to the very fabric of who we are as Montanans. We recognize that these special places remain with us today because of the hard work and vision of the many people who have come before us.

The Rocky Mountain Front is one such place. From the establishment of the Sun River Game Range in 1948 to the creation of the Bob Marshall Wilderness in 1964 and the Scapegoat Wilderness in 1972, folks along the Front have long demonstrated the forethought and fortitude required to keep this exceptional landscape intact. The job of maintaining

such landscapes falls to all of us and is refreshingly bipartisan.

Montana’s congressional delegation, Democrat and Republican alike, have also shown great leadership where the Rocky Mountain Front is concerned. Perhaps the best example of this leadership is the successful withdrawal of federal mineral leases from the area, which was accomplished by former Sens. Conrad Burns and Max Baucus in 2006. We firmly believe that on issues of wildlife conservation and land management, actions should transcend partisan politics and the Rocky Mountain Heritage Act is a good example of an act that is beneficial to Montanans regardless of their political persuasion.

However, as it stands right now, there is no permanent plan to safeguard the unique character of the Front for future Montanans.

Recently, MOGA’s board of directors voted unanimously to support the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act. Under the bill, recreational and agricultural uses that exist today, including grazing and outfitting, will continue to be enjoyed by future generations. The bill prioritizes noxious weed control and limits new road building while preserving motorized recreation and public access for hunting, biking, forest thinning and grazing, and will be mindful of private property rights.

We support the proposed Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act as a common-sense approach that will help keep the Front the way it is for our kids and grandkids. The wild lands of the Front support some of the best deer, elk and bighorn sheep hunting in the country, which in turn supports our businesses and the local communities where we reside. In 2009, it was reported that travel expenditures by nonresident visitors to Montana totaled more than $2.3 billon, creating thousands of jobs and contributing significantly through state and local taxes and basic take home pay. Outfitting is known to bring in $167 million a year to Montana’s economy and creates thousands of full and part-time jobs.

MOGA has communicated our support for the Heritage Act to our congressional delegation with the hope of uniting them behind this made-in-Montana plan.

We believe the time is right to build on the legacy of conservation along the Front by passing this bill for all Montanans.

Mac Minard Executive Director Montana Outfitters and Guides Association Montana City Clarification: Last week’s cover story mentioned the debut of a new film, Untrammeled, but didn’t make clear that it was produced by the Forest Service in conjunction with a large coalition of partners. The story has been updated in our archives.

missoulanews.com • April 10–April 17, 2014 [5]

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, April 2 The Missoula County Detention Center unveils new outdoor recreation areas for women and juveniles. The amenities seek to settle claims from the Montana ACLU, which alleged that the jail was discriminating against female and juvenile inmates by keeping them indoors at all times.

Thursday, April 3 Prosecutors say Amber Maria Tyler, of Missoula, intentionally crashes her Jeep into her husband’s pickup. Law enforcement says Tyler’s two children, ages 6 and 9, are in the Jeep when it collides with the truck. Tyler is charged with assault with a weapon and criminal endangerment.

Friday, April 4 A Minuteman Aviation helicopter crashes just outside the Missoula International Airport. Two people walk away from the crash and sustain no serious injuries.

Saturday, April 5 The American College Dance Festival wraps up its regional conference at the University of Montana with a gala concert featuring the week’s best pieces. “East, West, South then North” by Cal State Fullerton and “Girl Pool” from the University of Oregon are selected to represent the region in Washington, D.C.

Sunday, April 6 U.S. Senate hopeful Champ Edmunds finds $12,000 cash in a backpack near a Missoula church and turns it over to authorities. Edmunds assures supporters on Twitter two days later that he did not pocket the funds for his fledgling campaign, but that he is, of course, accepting contributions.

Monday, April 7 The Missoula City Council declares the area between Scott and Reserve streets, as well as the stretch along East Broadway, blighted. The move paves the way for creation of two new urban renewal districts and, according to city officials, rehabilitation and redevelopment.

Tuesday, April 8 The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival touts its listing in MovieMaker magazine’s spring issue among “50 Fests Worth the Entry Fee.” The publication highlights the fact our local event is now an official Academy Award-qualifying festival.

Freshman Jon Heutmaker greets the season’s first warmer temperatures on April 8 by balancing on a slackline tied between two trees on the University of Montana Oval.

Clean water

Ag rails against EPA rule Late last month, the Environmental Protection Agency sparked yet another firestorm when it and the Army Corps of Engineers announced pending publication of a proposed rule to clarify what waters in the United States fall under the protection of the Clean Water Act. The rule seeks to address confusion over protections for scores of wetlands and seasonally flowing streams.

Several groups including the National Association of Home Builders and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association promptly took issue with the proposal. Texas rancher and NCBA President Bob McCan called the rule, which will be up for public comment for 90 days this spring, a “step too far” by the EPA and the administration.

“This proposal … would require cattlemen like me to obtain costly and burdensome permits to take care of everyday chores like moving cattle across a wet pasture or cleaning out a dugout,” McCan said.

A similar statement by American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman decried the rule as a “tremendous new roadblock to ordinary land use activities.” John Youngberg, vice president of governmental af-

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fairs for the Montana Farm Bureau Federation, questions just how much clarity the proposal truly offers. He says his organization views the proposal as yet another overreach by an agency already “running amok.”

“There’s a fear that they could be in every irrigation ditch and every low spot and every grassy swale in the state if they wanted to be,” Youngberg says.

The EPA issued the proposal partly to clarify regulatory authority over upstream waterbodies that feed into downstream water sources. The agency maintains the authority already exists, but two conflicting U.S. Supreme Court decisions have led to confusion about exactly where the Clean Water Act applies. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy assured members of the international North American Agricultural Journalists this week that the rule would not minimize existing exemptions for farming practices.

“It will not add to or expand the scope of waters historically protected under the Clean [Water] Act,” McCarthy said. “It will not increase regulation of ditches, whether irrigation or drainage.”

Groups like Environment America have countered the ag industry’s backlash by proclaiming the move a vital step in maintaining healthy waterways. EPA spokesperson Lisa McClain-Vanderpool says that here in Montana, more

than 230,000 people rely on drinking water systems tied to such streams. Those total approximately 307,000 stream miles in the state, she says.

Alex Sakariassen

Water

City vies for the prize Property rights advocates and fiscal conservatives predict the city of Missoula’s complaint filed in district court last week seeking to forcibly acquire Mountain Water Company from one of the world’s largest private equity companies will fail, and fail expensively.

“I really do think we’re going to lose millions of dollars,” says Missoula City Councilman Adam Hertz.

Hertz is the only council member to publicly oppose Mayor John Engen’s push to acquire the Garden City’s municipal water system from Carlyle Group through eminent domain, a proceeding the city initiated on April 2.

The city estimates legal costs associated with the battle will run $800,000. Engen acknowledges, however, that the expenses could reach the millions. “It really is a rough number,” he says.

Missoula officials put Mountain Water’s value at $50

[news] million. Acquisition costs, they say, could tack an additional $4 million onto the deal.

For the city to succeed in court, it must show that municipal ownership is in the public’s best interest.

When arguing that point, attorneys for the city note that since the Carlyle Group purchased Mountain Water and its parent company Park Water in 2011, annual investments into local water infrastructure declined from $4.7 million annually to $3.5 million. Profit, the city says in its complaint, is already trumping the needs of local water users. “Defendants are directly responsive to, and influenced by, investors’ demands and expectations, as opposed to the needs and interests of the citizens of Missoula,” the city argues.

One day after Missoula filed its complaint, Detroit attorney Alan Ackerman opined on his “National Eminent Domain Blog” that, while Missoula invested a significant amount of ink in the complaint demonizing Carlyle for its vast resources, he doesn’t believe the city sufficiently demonstrated that it’s best equipped to oversee the utility, as will be required by the court.

“I’m not so sure they can justify a real reason other than the fact they want it and the other guy’s got it,” says Ackerman, who told the Independent that he has represented roughly 2,500 private landowners in eminent domain cases.

Engen says despite concerns and criticisms brought forward by Hertz and Ackerman, he sees the city positioned on strong legal footing. He also believes that eminent domain supporters far outnumber opponents. “I got about 25 positive emails (this past week),” he says, “and one that says I should be thrown out of office.”

Jessica Mayrer

Beer

The German connection When Jan Schneider first walked into Bayern Brewing nearly six months ago, his experience as a brewer was largely limited to operating a computer at Germany’s expansive Jever brewery or “maybe pulling some hoses through the tank farm.” But since coming to Missoula, the Bayern intern has developed a fondness for the hands-on aspect of smaller brewing operations he’d had little exposure to prior.

“Here, I’m actually more in contact with the product,” says Schneider, who attended professional brewing school in Bremen and also briefly trained at the E.C. Dahls Brewery in Trondheim, Norway. “That’s what I like to do.

It’s more like crafting.”

Schneider sits in the Bayern taproom next to fellow intern Christoph Stiller, who attended professional brewing school in Munich and arrived here just one month ago. The two are, respectively, the third and fourth German-born and trained interns to pass through Bayern’s

brewhouse since owner Jürgen Knöller and brewmaster Thorsten Geuer established an official apprenticeship program three years ago. Geuer says the concept was partly a way to strengthen the German-style brewery’s connections to its stylistic roots and “keep us up to date.”

For the interns, the experience promises exposure to a booming American craft beer industry. Bayern does maintain an adherence to the German purity law, but Stiller notes the atmosphere in the brewhouse is much more laid-back than at the fully automated Brauerei Josef Schimpfle in southern Germany where he trained previously.

“In Germany, you work by the clock,” Stiller says.

“Here, you look at the watch, but it’s more relaxing.”

Schneider and Stiller have also enjoyed the increased access to a wide variety of craft beer styles. Schneider in particular has appreciated the opportunity to brew more than pilseners, which Jever brews almost exclusively. It’s nice to experience the constant change typical of smaller craft breweries, he says.

“It doesn’t get boring, because every time, you do something different.”

In a few months, Schneider will conclude his internship and move on to another job—most likely, he says, at another brewery in North America. Stiller will overlap with Bayern’s fifth intern, who Geuer says is due to start this summer. Making beer is “a hip thing” in the United States right now, Geuer says. “Riding that wave and being part of it … It’s just different from what they would experience over in Germany.”

Alex Sakariassen

Justice

Shaken baby petition denied Missoula County prosecutors secured a victory last week when a Fourth Judicial District Court judge denied an exoneration attempt by Robert “Dave” Wilkes, who was convicted in 2009 of killing his three-month-old son.

BY THE NUMBERS Miles John Braunreiter, 46, allegedly drove in the wrong direction on I90 Sunday night before authorities pulled him over. Braunreiter was charged with driving under the influence, felony criminal endangerment and reckless driving.

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“I’m really relieved that the science won out in this case,” says Assistant Chief Deputy County Attorney Suzy Boylan, the prosecutor at Wilkes’ trial.

Boylan says cases involving a child’s death are always emotional, but the complexity underlying the Wilkes prosecution made this one especially trying. Shortly after Wilkes picked his son up from a babysitter’s house and took him back to their apartment on Oct. 4, 2008, the little boy, Gabriel, stopped breathing. The infant was hospitalized and died 22 days later. Wilkes said later that he never struck his son, nor did he hurt him in any way.

Wilkes had no idea what happened.

During his trial, doctors who treated Gabriel attributed his death to what’s called “abusive head trauma” or “shaken baby syndrome.” The diagnosis dates back to 1971, when pediatric neurologist Norman Guthkelch warned colleagues that subdural and retinal bleeding and brain swelling in children, known as the “triad,” presented reason to suspect abuse. Gabriel presented with the triad.

Since the 1970s, however, doctors have proved that the triad can stem from other ailments, including viral and bacterial infections, blood-clotting disorders and liver disease. Evolving science has prompted judges and juries during the past 15 years to reverse SBS convictions in Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa.

In a petition for post-conviction relief filed on behalf of Wilkes by the Montana Innocence Project, attorneys argued that his conviction was based on antiquated science and presented six experts who disputed that Gabriel died from abuse-related injuries. One of those experts, forensic pathologist Peter J. Stephens, asserted that Gabriel died from a rare liver disease.

In his April 2 opinion, Judge Ed McClean wrote that he didn’t buy the experts’ claims. “The detractors who challenge the diagnosis of ‘shaken baby syndrome’ now known as ‘abusive head trauma’ do not appear to have the support of the medical profession,” McLean wrote.

The judge added that “pure second guessing … does not warrant a new trial.”

Wilkes is serving a 40-year prison term. Innocence Project attorney Brendan McQuillan declined to comment for this article other than to say, “We plan on appealing.”

Jessica Mayrer

ETC. If we’ve learned one thing in western Montana over the past four years, it’s that the next megaload headline is never far off. Sure enough, the 40-year-old nonprofit American Rivers this week released its annual report detailing the 10 most endangered rivers in the country. The Clearwater and Lochsa rivers made this year’s list as a pair, with the key threat being what many have feared since 2010: industrialization of a designated Wild and Scenic corridor.

While technically in Idaho, the ClearwaterLochsa is for all intents and purposes a neighborhood waterway in local hearts. And as many already know, news broke in late 2009 that ExxonMobil subsidiary Imperial Oil intended to ship hundreds of pieces of equipment—some heavier than the Statue of Liberty—along its banks on Highway 12 en route to the Alberta tar sands. The proposal failed, due primarily to activism and litigation enacted by Montanans and Idahoans alike. Since then, several other companies have sought such permits, with fewer than 15 actually succeeding.

“While generally successful in the short term,” American Waters says of the protest activity, advocacy and litigation, “the overall threat has not diminished.”

Rivers in the region have fallen on American Rivers’ lists before. Northwest Montana’s Kootenai River was singled out last year due to threats from potential mining activity, as the North Fork of the Flathead had in 2009. Floodplain development landed the Upper Yellowstone a spot in the report in 2006. The Clearwater-Lochsa listing in particular stands out. Unlike the other endangered rivers in 2014, the threat to this corridor is unrelated to outdated management or facilities, new diversion features or polluted runoff. The Clearwater-Lochsa is suffering from the simple fact that there’s a highway running its length—a highway that corporate executives are keen on using to connect western ports to the continent’s development-rich middle.

American Rivers has now amped up the pressure on the Clearwater National Forest, bolstering calls for Forest Service officials to firmly and definitively come out against megaload traffic.

“The Forest Service must take responsibility for management of this Wild and Scenic corridor,” the report states, “and ban the shipment of megaloads along Highway 12.” And while attention now seems to have shifted to Lost Trail Pass and Highway 93, megaload opponents continue to maintain constant vigilance on the Clearwater-Lochsa, aware—as we all probably are by now—that another fight is imminent.

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Nails in the coffin Small funeral businesses say new regs will kill bottom line

by Jessica Mayrer

Dick Brown, who, in addition to ownOn a recent morning inside a small fu- itemizing, for instance, the fact that most neral home in downtown Ronan, mortician human bodies after being incinerated weigh ing Cloyd Funeral Home and Cremation in Mike Thompson points to an array of “several pounds” and that “dental gold or sil- Lewistown, also serves as the chairman of sportsman-centric cremation urns with im- ver and other non-human materials” remain the Montana Funeral Board, filed the first ages of calf ropers, fishermen and golfers. after incineration. Shrider-Thompson’s au- official complaint against Spoja in 2004.

Thompson says he has a vessel to satisfy just thorization form now covers one page. An- Since then, Spoja says 15 complaints total other sticking point for Thompson comes have been filed with the board against his about everyone.

“We normally have a birdbath that’s an from a provision that would require the next business. All of them, he says, came from “a outdoor urn,” he says. “It holds two sets of of kin to view the deceased, something not mortician or a mortician designee.” ashes. It’s called a garden urn. A lot of peo- everyone wants to do.

In 2012, a Montana Department of ple use that, put it outside in their yard.”

“They don’t want to view the body,” he Labor and Industry hearings officer deterThompson owns Shrider-Thompson says. “They want to remember Grandma as mined after interpreting state statute that Spoja was operating unlawfully. Spoja was Funeral & Cremation Services, which she was.” ordered to hire a mortician or to serves about 60 clients a year. cease doing business. He closed Thompson describes his cusin December 2013. tomers as “hard-working farm families” who “come in with a In response to allegations figure in mind that they’re willthat he’s using undue influence ing to spend, and we try to get to stifle competition, Brown them what they want, so they says he’s abstained from votes can afford it.” regarding Spoja’s operations and that state attorneys advise Losing a loved one yields the board. “I’ve had nothing to an enormous emotional toll, do with what’s gone on with but many people don’t realize my competition in Lewistown,” the significant financial exBrown says. penses, as well. Thompson Brown argues that, besays the majority of his clients cause communicable diseases are friends and neighbors, can linger long after death, leaving him especially sensitive cracking down on crematory to the importance of keeping operations such as Spoja’s is in their expenses low. Basic crethe public’s best interest. “The mation services at Shriderphoto by Cathrine L. Walters problem is if a crematory perThompson run $1,510. “And we return the remains to you Ronan mortician Mike Thompson says that state regula- son wants to do the things a mortician is doing, then they in a temporary cardboard con- tions are making it tough to keep costs low. need some of that training. And tainer,” Thompson says.

The problem, according to Thompson Thompson believes that the new rules, they need to be tested by the state,” Brown and other smaller cremation businesses, is if approved, would constitute an intentional says. “They have no training in the commuthe Montana Board of Funeral Service con- effort by the board to tilt the playing field nicable disease aspects, which is the numtinues to increase regulations that make it against small operators like himself, while ber one thing why you have a mortician.”

Brown adds that the proposed rule tougher to offer affordable services. “It’s leaving large and comparably well-staffed changes governing transportation didn’t going to force us to hire help,” he says. funeral homes to dominate the market.

Last month, the six-member funeral “I think it’s to stifle competition,” stem from the board, but rather Montana Board of Health directives governing ambuboard rolled out a series of proposed Thompson says. amendments to the rules governing disThompson isn’t the only business lances, which license the emergency vehiposal of human remains. Among the most owner making allegations against the cles to haul living people and conduct troubling new mandates for Thompson is board. When Bill Spoja opened Lewis- lifesaving efforts. “We’re trying to make our one that would limit who can transport town’s Central Montana Crematorium in rules coincide with their rules,” he says.

Despite criticism from within his own bodies. As it stands, Thompson employs a 2003, state regulations didn’t expressly call service, an ambulance or an on-call fire- prohibit crematory operators from treating industry, Brown also contends that funeral fighter to retrieve the deceased. The new bodies, such as removing pacemakers. The costs have not skyrocketed. When he first rules would require either Thompson or a rules governing crematories, however, launched his business 37 years ago, a service cost roughly $4,400. The same comdirect employee perform the task. have become increasingly stringent.

“That creates ungodly hardship,” Spoja, who for 10 years offered $995 memoration today runs about $7,700. “I Thompson says. “In terms of time, you’re cremation services in Lewistown, says the think the funeral home industry has done looking at three hours, probably, that I’m board, which is composed almost wholly of a damn good job at keeping the costs away from here.” morticians, cracked down on his operation down,” Brown says.

The Montana Board of Funeral Homes Among the other proposed changes are and others like his to protect their interest will debate the proposed rule amendments a requirement that families sign off on a five- in Montana’s funeral industry.

“Anything they can to do defeat the during an April 18 hearing in Helena. page “Authorization for cremation and disposition” form, which goes into significant small crematory operators,” Spoja says, jmayrer@missoulanews.com detail about the cremation process itself, “they’re going to do.”

[8] Missoula Independent • April 10–April 17, 2014

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Creative conundrum Big Sky literary advisor leaves big shoes to fill at Aerie

by Kate Whittle

Council of Teachers of English Highest Award rankings. The awards inspired EvansLynn to take on a challenge, and so she asked students to help her develop Aerie International, which launched in 2008, and prints submissions from students around the globe. (Evans-Lynn’s grant applications were denied, she says, so fundraisers and private donations—including her own cash—support the magazine’s annual

17, she says she’s not sure who will take her place at Big Sky. That decision won’t be made until incoming principal Natalie Jaeger arrives and the budget is finalized in August, according to Littman at MCPS. Littman says it’s too soon to know how Evans-Lynn’s shoes will be filled, but the administration certainly supports Aerie’s mission.

What worries Evans-Lynn the most is the decreasing amount of students willing to sign on for the work.

This year, Aerie International has six students, one of her smallest classes ever, and the magazine is getting fewer submissions. She chalks it up to the ever-increasing student workload.

She believes modern education emphasizes academic essay writing and electives that are easy for institutions to recognize on transcripts, like music and sports. As Evans-Lynn has seen with her own collegeage sons, the cost of higher education discourages teens from careers that don’t seem lucrative. photo by Cathrine L. Walters Evans-Lynn says those presBig Sky High teacher Lorilee Evans-Lynn, left, advises students like senior Robby Pazmino sures don’t leave much for the school’s two award-winning literary magazines. As Evans-Lynn prepares to retire, room for the commitment she’s worried about future students staying interested in the program. of creative writing. As the 2014 issues of Aerie, which had written about this boy, who I had $10,000 budget.) A flip through recent is- come out in summer, approach deadline, maybe held hands with once, Lorilee was sues reveals sophisticated, well-curated col- her students are coming in before school, like, ‘Okay, let’s dig deeper. You have to dig lections with often astonishing depth, during lunch and after class to tackle all of deeper than this poor young man who con- maturity and multicultural perspective. In the editing and layout work.

Evans-Lynn believes the process of crethe 2013 Aerie Big Sky, a girl writes about tinues to be berated in your poems.’”

Evans-Lynn has been guiding young tal- her Hmong family’s traditional New Year ative writing, which includes taking critient for 29 years as an American studies and celebrations in one prose piece. In a poem, cism and giving it, has benefits that are English teacher at Big Sky High School— a boy contemplates a tough, loving but al- more far-reaching than just the ability to put a poem into the right meter. Former much of it in the same three rooms, she coholic father-figure. says. For many of those years, she’s advised Hatton Littman, director of technology student Loewen, who went on to graduate the annual Aerie Big Sky literary journal and and communication at Missoula County Pub- from the UM journalism program, says she Aerie International, one of a handful of lic Schools, is a published poet herself. She learned time management and the tools for high school international literary magazines says she was “blown away” by the pieces in collegiate writing at Aerie. She now works in the world.

Aerie. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is incred- as a writer for a nonprofit in Oregon, and “Having a creative writing class at all is ible,’” she says. “... I wasn’t just reading this still keeps Aerie issues on her bookshelf.

“It takes a rare type of high school teacher kind of rare,” says Evans-Lynn. “And having because it’s an example of student work.” a literary magazine class is really rare, and It’s learning to be edited—and learning to make sure that kind of program stays we have two.” to edit others—which often makes the dif- funded and operational, as [Evans-Lynn] As Evans-Lynn prepares to retire this ference. Evans-Lynne admits there’s some- has. It would really be a loss.”

Evans-Lynn says she’ll stick around to spring and Aerie Big Sky celebrates its 34th an- times “tension” when she pushes a teen to niversary, she says she’s concerned about the do multiple revisions. She credits her time offer advice to whoever advises future issues future of the literary magazine program at Big in grad school at the University of Montana, of Aerie, and ultimately, she’s optimistic. “I where she studied poetry under Richard think there will always be those kids who Sky—and not for reasons you might expect.

For Aerie Big Sky, local students submit Hugo, for her thorough approach, saying are writing in journals and hiding them under their mattresses,” she says. and edit one another’s poetry, short prose, he “held my feet to the fire.” creative nonfiction, photography and art.

As Evans-Lynn gets ready for Aerie’s big kwhittle@missoulanews.com The publication has won several National fundraiser gala at the Dana Gallery on April It takes a gentle but firm hand to coax young authors into turning their fledgling feelings into a worthy piece of writing. Billie Loewen, a writer who graduated from Big Sky High School in 2008, says she’s grateful for creative writing teacher Lorilee EvansLynn’s patience with a teenage obsession.

“I remember being very passionate about this one young man I went to church with,” Loewen says. “About the 10th time I

missoulanews.com • April 10–April 17, 2014 [9]

[opinion]

Equal ground Former Interior secretary blasts gas industry pressure

by Eric Frankowski

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Former Interior Department Secretary Bruce Babbitt visited the University of Colorado recently to talk about oil and gas drilling on federal public lands. Not surprisingly, he didn’t pull any punches.

Babbitt criticized the agency he oversaw during the Clinton years, the Bureau of Land Management, for its handling of drilling on 250 million acres of land and 700 million acres of subsurface minerals, all of which it manages for American taxpayers. Agency decisions about drilling are “dictated by the oil and gas industry,” he said bluntly. Instead of protecting the public’s interest, the agency’s culture and structure facilitate industry profits at the expense of recreation, conservation and natural values.

Babbitt’s comments made me think about the gas industry’s threat to Colorado cities like Longmont or to small towns where local attempts to safeguard areas from drilling can get easily overwhelmed by industry influence. If a federal agency with a $1 billion-plus annual budget and 10,000 employees is “completely outgunned and outmatched” by the oil and gas industry, as Babbitt put it, imagine the industry’s power to dictate what happens at the state level.

Case in point: Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper’s decision to join the Colorado Oil and Gas Association in its lawsuit against Longmont, which has decided to exercise its right to control drilling at the local level.

Longmont voters saw fit two years ago to enact protections to keep oil and gas out of city limits, despite the industry sinking a half-million dollars into defeating the measure. Since then, four other cities have followed suit. And this fall, Coloradans could see a statewide ballot measure that would give cities and towns full authority to decide for themselves whether energy development should be allowed within their borders.

The industry is pulling out all the stops to make sure its power isn’t usurped again.

Oil and gas boosters with the Orwellian moniker of Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development have already purchased more than $2 million in ads and have $2 million more in the bank to tell us how safe and

normal fracking is. Turn on the TV at night or the radio in your car on the way to work and you can’t miss them—and that’s before we even know for sure if there will be a ballot measure.

Industry, with aid from plenty of welloiled politicians, will almost certainly try to make this into a “War on Fracking” that has no basis in reality. I’m like a lot of Coloradans; I drive a car, heat my home with gas and am otherwise an active participant in the

“Agency decisions about drilling are ‘dictated by the oil and gas industry,’ he said bluntly.” fossil-fuel economy. But that doesn’t mean I’m willing to step aside and let companies call the shots every step of the way on when, where and how they drill.

The stakes are far too high. Colorado’s iconic alpine, prairie and plateau landscapes are an economic engine, with consumer spending on outdoor recreation topping $13 billion a year and generating just shy of $1 billion in state and local sales taxes. Altogether, they support 124,000 jobs—14,000 more than the oil and gas industry.

At the local level, places like Longmont are feeling the effects of drilling inching up and into neighborhoods, where real estate agents are reporting a chilling effect on home sales. Academic research has found a correlation between decreased home values and oil and gas development in drilling hot spots like Colorado, Pennsylvania and Texas.

But it doesn’t take statistics to understand that round-the-clock drilling, thousands of truck trips, industrial noise, drums

full of toxic chemicals, noxious fumes, flaring wells and waste pits and pipelines that accidentally spill don’t belong next to homes, parks, schools and playgrounds.

Longmont voters knew this two years ago. Now, some in the banking and insurance industries understand it, too. Increasingly, mortgage lenders are creating policies that don’t allow property owners to lease their land for drilling. Insurers are denying coverage where fracking is taking place. One couple in Pennsylvania was denied a refinance on their home simply because it was on land next to a drilling site.

That’s not right, especially considering that more than 15 million Americans now live within one mile of a fracking site. There is no rational reason for the value of minerals under the ground to trump the value of what happens above the ground. Think conservation values, such as an area’s water supply and recreational opportunities from hiking to biking and home prices. And then there’s the value of knowing we’re not breathing in toxic chemicals and that our peace of mind and quality of life aren’t being sacrificed to pad an oil or gas company’s bottom line.

Whether we’re talking about BLM oversight of millions of acres of public land or individual Colorado communities fighting for the right to make their own rules, what’s missing is a level playing field. Industry calls the shots and government lets it.

We deserve smarter planning and a better balance in managing industrial activity that has the potential for harming what makes Colorado so wonderful. We need to put public interest, public values and public involvement on equal ground with energy development. That’s why it was heartening to hear a former Interior secretary support changing a system that has turned into a government-sanctioned drilling onslaught.

Eric Frankowski is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is senior program director at Resource Media, a nonprofit media strategy firm, and a former city editor at the Longmont Times-Call in Colorado.

missoulanews.com • April 10–April 17, 2014 [11]

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PRAYMATE OF THE MONTH- Italian publisher Mondadori launched a fan magazine devoted entirely to Pope Francis. The first issue of Il Mio Papa (My Pope) featured the pope’s life story and photos, including a pull-out centerfold. The magazine also included ads for a weight-loss cure, a laxative, a beauty cream and a hair-care product. Editor Aldo Vitali, who’s also the editor of a magazine of television listings and celebrity news, declared that the magazine’s purpose was to help the pope make the world a better place. (Reuters) DRINKING-CLASS HERO - A Vancouver drug center began teaching homeless alcoholics to brew their own beer and wine to stop them from drinking hand sanitizer and mouthwash. The nonprofit Drug Users Resource Center, which gained media attention for providing Canada’s first crack pipe vending machine, charges boozers $10 a month to join its Drinker’s Lounge and qualify for five liters of home brew. “It’s more economically viable than buying it at a liquor store, “ noted Rob, who joined the program when it began last summer. Center director Kailin See said, “As the drinking community becomes aware of what we’re doing, we’re obviously having to expand the program.” (Canada’s National Post) A FRIEND INDEED - After Chicago Transit Authority train operator Brittney Haywood crashed into an escalator at O’Hare International Airport, sending 32 passengers to hospitals, the head of CTA’s rail union vowed to fight any attempt to terminate her, even though she admitted dozing off at the controls for the second time in two months. Acknowledging that two dozing incidents “sounds bad,” Robert Kelley, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308, said, “Come on. We’ve all dozed off driving a train [or a car].

There’s a difference between dozing off and falling asleep.” (Chicago Sun-Times) SPLITSVILLE, KUWAITI STYLE - Abuse, infidelity and lack of communication aren’t the only reasons Kuwaiti couples cite for seeking a divorce, according to recent filings in that land.

• A woman complained that she was “disgusted” by her husband of one week because he insisted on eating his peas with bread instead of a fork.

• Another woman objected that her husband “is so obstinate” because he “stubbornly refuses” to squeeze toothpaste from the end of the tube and “keeps squeezing it in the middle.”

• A man decided his marriage was over after he asked his wife to bring him a glass of water, but she refused and told him there was a servant who could do it. (Dubai’s Gulf News) MISSING THE POINT - During an argument with his girlfriend, Tyler Ford, 23, hit her with a textbook used in his anger management class, according to sheriff’s deputies in Spartanburg County, S.C. (Greenville’s WYFF-TV) Honey Dew Donuts announced it was opening a branch at the Quincy, Mass., YMCA but that it won’t sell doughnuts. “It’s definitely tailored to the healthy lifestyle the Y supports,” YMCA official Sara Trubiano explained. (Quincy’s The Patriot Ledger)

TECHNOLOGY’S LATEST VICTIM - After border officials in Ontario arrested Louis DiNatale, 46, accusing him of trying to smuggle a loaded handgun into Canada, the Kentucky resident insisted that he and his wife didn’t want to enter Canada in the first place. He explained they were on a road trip to upstate New York when they were “misdirected by an unreliable GPS.” They arrived at the border crossing, where DiNatale admitted owning a gun, explaining “it was my right as an American citizen to do so,” but denied having it with him. Agents searched the car and found a Bersa .380 handgun stowed in the center console that DiNatale said he had forgotten was there. The retired Army sergeant major faces three years in a Canadian prison. (Los Angeles Times)

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missoulanews.com • April 10–April 17, 2014 [13]

Fergus High School

hortly before 8 a.m. on Dec. 4, 1986, 14-year-old Kristofor Hans pulls a gun from his bag in the auditorium of Fergus High School in Lewistown, Mont.

The pistol is a Smith and Wesson .44 revolver with a six-inch-long barrel that he swiped from his stepdad’s pickup. As he shows it to his classmate Shannon Foucher, he lays out the plan, which he would later tell investigators was inspired by a now out-of-print novel called Rage. At the beginning of seventh period, Kris will knock on the door of Foucher’s typing class. She will meet him at his locker and she will become his hostage. Then they’ll go to room 213, the second-floor foreign language room, where Kris will kill his French teacher, Mrs. Simonfy.

Kristofor Hans was not the first person to bring a loaded weapon to school, but that day in December came at a time when Americans were waking up to the idea of school as a potentially dangerous place.

Through the 1990s and 2000s, school shootings occasionally made the news, and mass shootings at Columbine in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2006 made national headlines and invigorated divisive national debates about firearms regulations and mental health.

But no single incident has changed the way school administrators think about security as much as the December 2012 murders at Sandy Hook Elementary.

“People couldn’t believe it happened, but it happened,” Missoula County Public Schools Superintendent Alex Apostle says of the murders in Newtown,

photo courtesy of Rob Stutz

Conn. Less than a week after the incident, Apostle announced plans to form a task force to recommend ways to make Missoula’s schools safer. “We have our regular drills, we have our safety plans, we have our building plans, but when something like [Sandy Hook] happens, you’re digging deep, if you have any sense about you, and asking, ‘Are we truly prepared for something like this?’”

the second floor. He ran up the stairs, rounded a corner and found Kristofor Hans standing at the opposite end of the hallway, a revolver in his hand. The first bullet hit Moffatt in the stomach. The second whizzed by his head.

Today, Moffatt works as a substitute teacher for MCPS, and aside from Congress passing new firearms legislation—“common sense” changes, Moffatt says, like

“Statistically speaking, in an active shooter situation someone dies every 15 seconds. The whole situation is over in three to four minutes. … The math just isn’t on our side.”

—Capt. Brad Giffin

Three decades ago, no one was asking these questions in Lewistown. On Dec. 4, 1986, Fergus High Assistant Principal John Moffatt was checking on substitute teachers when he heard what sounded like “something in the heating system had exploded” on

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universal background checks—he’s not sure how to prepare for the unimaginable. “I think it would be unlikely that we would create a facility [in Missoula] that is more technologically prepared to deal with something like this than Sandy Hook was,” he says of the

school that serves one of the nation’s wealthiest counties, and that was credited earlier in 2012 by a private security firm as “being proactive on school safety.”

“And in the end,” Moffatt continues, “a determined person was able to get past all that.”

When Kristofor Hans was little, his father, Michael Hans, beat him with a belt. Sometimes with the strap, sometimes with the buckle. During Kris’ 1988 sentencing hearing, his mother, Terri Hardy, recalled her ex-husband’s harsh parenting: “No matter how well [Kris] dressed, no matter how well he combed his hair, that hair was never really combed quite well enough…” she said. “Kris would be severely reprimanded for it.”

Around ages 5 and 6, Kris stopped crying. His father would hit him, and if a sob welled inside of him, Kris would swallow it down. One day, Hardy remembered, Kris was receiving punishment for “something or other,” and Hans accidentally yanked Kris’ hair. Kris immediately began to cry before choking back the tears. “That became the new form of punishment.

Sometimes Kris would still get the belt, but more than likely he’d get his hair pulled…,” Hardy said. “And he would just force himself not to cry.”

In May 1979, Hans and Hardy divorced. Hardy received custody of the couple’s two daughters, Janice and Kim, and Kris went to live with his father. At that time, Hans was studying to become a school psy-

At least five students are known to have read Rage, a novel written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, before bringing a gun to school. It is now out of print.

chologist and took Kris to live in Deer Lodge and Great Falls so he could complete internships. Eventually, the father and son settled in Casper, Wyo. Hardy remarried later in 1979, and settled with her new family in Lewistown.

Kris spent the summer of 1981 with his mother in Montana, and remained there for the school year.

He returned to Casper in the summer of 1982, but again was enrolled in a Lewistown school that fall.

Kris was happy there—to that point, it was the longest he had attended one school—and, in June 1983, Hardy requested Hans allow their son to spend a third year of school in Montana. It’s what Kris wanted.

When Hans refused, she filed a court petition requesting that their custody decree be modified. In 1984, the petition was denied because the court felt “[Michael Hans’ home] provides considerably more structure and challenge to a very talented and capable young man.”

In spring 1986, while living with his father, Kris got on a bicycle and rode to Kaycee, Wyo., about 67 miles north of Casper. For Hardy, it was the last straw. She went to Casper to ask Hans what it would take to let Kris move back to Montana. Hans outlined contingencies regarding schoolwork, grades and participation in sports. Hardy agreed, and when she returned a short time later to move Kris out, Hans handed her a contract, which she refused to sign. Once back in Montana, Hans sent her a second draft. She refused again because she felt the “contingencies were unreasonable.”

In summer 1986, Hardy and Kris received a third and final draft. Among other things, it stipulated that Kris participate in sports and for his freshman fall enroll in classes not typically taken by first-year students: geometry, world history and French II. The contract also required Kris maintain a 3.3 GPA (3 As, 2 Bs).

Breach of any of the contract’s clauses would result in Kris moving back to Casper.

“I had my very serious concerns about it. … I was under the definite impression, and so was Kris, that if some agreement did not get signed, Kris was going back to Wyoming,” Hardy said during her testimony. “I knew down there Kris was unhappy.”

In August 1986, as Kris began his first semester at Fergus High, he and his mother signed the contract.

In the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control began the School-Associated Violent Death Study.

In partnership with the Departments of Education and Justice, the study set out to provide data to help “inform efforts to prevent fatal school violence.” From the outset, the findings were troubling, if, at that time, lacking in context. During the ’92-’93 academic year, the study found that 57 people, including 34 children between 5-18 years old, were murdered on school grounds. During the following year, 48 people were killed. Between fall 1992 and spring 1999, the study would later report 358 people were victims of homicide at school.

During the early years of the study, the enigma of school violence began to move toward the front of public consciousness as well. In 1992, ABC’s “Primetime Live” produced a story called “Deadly Lessons” about violence—namely gun-related—in American schools.

Anchor Diane Sawyer introduced the piece with an anecdote about a 6-year-old threatening his teacher with a gun. “It’s a timely example of what educators say is the spreading contingent of guns and violence in American schools,” she says. “Most of us have already thought it was an inner city problem confined to a few gangs and a handful of schools. But it’s not.”

Still, for most educators, the threat of a person brandishing a loaded weapon in their own school was an abstraction. Melanie Charlson taught math in Missoula public schools in the mid-1990s. She remembers

hearing about school shootings in the news, even in Montana, but the threat didn’t seem imminent. Like most school districts at the time, MCPS protocol didn’t account for a gunman walking down the hallway.

“Things like lockdown drills were not a part of my early career. There wasn’t a lot of training for that,” she says while sitting behind her desk at the Missoula Education Association, where she became president in 2011. “It was so far removed from what we knew.

We had that shooting in Lewistown, but even that seemed like an isolated incident at the time.”

It wasn’t until 1999, she says, that things began to change.

Minutes after 11 a.m. on April 20, 1999, Eric Harris, 17, and Dylan Klebold, 16, planted two 20-pound propane bombs in the cafeteria at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. The bombs were supposed to detonate at the beginning of the lunch period, killing most of the people in the school. The boys would wait in the parking lot armed with two sawedoff shotguns, a semi-automatic pistol and a Hi-Point carbine rifle to pick off the fleeing survivors.

When the bombs didn’t explode, Harris and Klebold walked to the west entrance of the school and began shooting people.

The school’s resource officer was eating lunch in his car at a nearby park when a custodian called him on the radio. He got back to the school and exchanged several shots with the boys before they disappeared through the school doors.

Nearly 50 minutes later, a police SWAT team entered the school, just before Harris and Klebold killed

themselves. In the end, 12 students and one teacher were murdered. Twenty-four others were injured.

The Columbine massacre resulted in more casualties than any school shooting in United States history to that point. The incident incited national debates about gun control, bullying in schools, violent video games and the dangers of young people having unfettered access to the Internet (Harris and Klebold blogged on America Online about making bombs and threatening teachers prior to the attack).

The incident again turned the attention of the federal government to the threat of school shootings. In June 1999, the Secret Service launched the Safe School Initiative, which analyzed the actions of 41 perpetrators of “targeted school violence.” The findings were opaque. Among the conclusions were that “incidents of targeted school violence at school rarely were sudden, impulsive acts,” and that “there is no accurate or useful ‘profile’ of students who engaged in targeted school violence.” The Secret Service did report, however, that all of the perpetrators were male.

In fall 1986, Kristofor Hans was obsessed with the novel Rage by Stephen King. He carried the book around the halls of Fergus High and read it during class. When he stayed home sick from school, he asked that his sister get it from his locker and bring it home to him. It would require a leap of suspect deduction to say he killed Henrietta Smith, the substitute teacher assigned to his seventh period French II

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

After the shootings at Sandy Hook in 2012, Missoula County Public Schools started a Community Task Force on Safety and Security. Among the precautions adopted by the group is active resistance training for staff.

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

The Safe School Initiative, launched in 1999 by the Secret Service, analyzed the actions of 41 perpetrators of “targeted school violence.” The study found most incidents were “sudden, impulsive acts” and that “there is no accurate or useful ‘profile’” of students who carried them out.

class, because of the book, though Kris would later admit the story played a role in his planning.

Rage is told from the perspective of Charlie Decker, a high school senior consumed with his own estrangement from the people around him. Through his eyes, the reader sees a world full of dilettantes and power mongers, and a father who could not be bothered to understand his son.

When Decker is expelled from school, he leaves the principal’s office, lights his locker on fire and fatally shoots his algebra teacher, Mrs. Underwood, in front of the class. He then holds the class hostage for an hours-long standoff with police. In the end, he releases his classmates and is shot three times by the first officer to enter the room. He survives, though, and is sentenced, by reason of insanity, to a term at the state hospital.

Besides Kristofor Hans, at least four other students were known to have read Rage before bringing a gun to school. The incidents prompted King, in 1997, to request the publisher cancel future pressings of the book. “Now out of print, and a good thing,” King said of the story.

What makes Rage more than a horror story of fetishized violence—what likely made it the subject of fantasy for at least five troubled kids—is not the acts of senseless violence, but rather what happens in the classroom after Decker pushes aside Mrs. Underwood’s body so he can sit in her chair. Decker’s captive classmates begin to sympathize with him, to talk to him and listen to him in ways he’d never experi-

enced. As police rally outside the classroom window, with sirens and megaphones blaring, Decker and his classmates bond, irreverent to the trauma and to the authorities surrounding them. Eventually, Ted Jones, the most popular dude in the school who remained

playing Dungeons and Dragons. The only time he got in trouble at school was after he and some friends removed the foam filling from practice dummies on the football field so they could make armor for play sword fighting. His interests were innocuous, even typical for

“It’s not 100-percent guaranteed to protect every student or to protect themselves.

But right now we haven’t done anything in terms of that issue. We’re trying.”

—MCPS Superintendent Alex Apostle

uninspired by Decker, attempts to escape. The boys and girls of the class stop him, though, and beat him with school supplies until he lies catatonic on the classroom floor.

To what depth Charlie Decker’s fictional experience informed Kris is impossible to say. What is certain is that during fall 1986, Kris became increasingly preoccupied with violence. He enjoyed fantasy novels and

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a 14-year-old, but the fantasies in Kris’ mind were turning darker. He thought about hurting people.

Another certainty was that Kris was going to fail French II. Earlier in the semester, as his grades slipped, his mother met with LaVonne Simonfy, Kris’ French teacher. His mother explained her family’s complicated custody agreement, and showed Simonfy a copy of her ex-husband’s contract.

For a time, Kris did some extra credit work and on one occasion stayed after school to make up assignments, but it didn’t last. On Dec. 3, Simonfy asked Kris to stay after school a second time. He didn’t.

The next day, the Fergus Golden Eagles hosted the Montana State A Girls Basketball Tournament. The school was more crowded than usual, with visiting students, parents and coaches. Periods were shortened and many classes were taught by substitute teachers, including seventh period French II (Simonfy was in charge of halftime performances in the gym).

Henrietta Smith lived in the nearby town of Moore with her husband and their two young children. She was a regular substitute at Fergus High, and on that day planned on showing Simonfy’s French class a slideshow from her travels in Europe.

Sometime after the period began, as Smith told the class about her visit to Piccadilly Circus, a knock came at the door. When Smith opened the door, Kris removed his hands from his pockets, leveled the gun to her face and pulled the trigger.

Kris would later say that everything went quiet then. He ran down the hall, forgetting about his hostage, Shannon Foucher. He turned the corner into the art hallway and saw John Moffatt, the assistant principal, who had just run up the stairs. They ran toward one another and just before they met, Kris fired a shot that hit Moffatt in the gut and spun him around and dropped him to his knees. Kris kept running toward the stairwell but, before entering it, he turned and faced Moffatt. He spread his legs and aimed the

gun with both hands at Moffatt, who was unable to stand up. He pulled the trigger and ran.

Kris left the school through the back door as students and staff ran toward the lobby. Some people were crying, some screaming, others asking what happened.

Kris ran home. He hid his stepdad’s gun, which had two rounds remaining (Kris fired a fourth random shot on his way out of the school). Kris’ mother arrived shortly before the police surrounded her home. After 20 minutes or so, she walked with Kris out the front door. Officers flanked the house. At the gate to the front yard, the assistant chief of the Lewistown Police Department told Kris to take his hands out of his pockets. Then he told the boy that he was under arrest.

Melanie Charlson remembers doing her first lockdown drill sometime after Columbine. “Everybody was feeling like school is a very safe place, and it statistically is, even with the number of shootings that have occurred,” she says. But Columbine shook people. “People were afraid,” she says.

MCPS Superintendent Alex Apostle remembers similar steps were taken in Washington state, where he was the assistant superintendent in Tacoma. “Basically, we would drill down just like every school district in America was doing,” he says. “Quite honestly, we didn’t have the resources to do the things we were trying to do. I think things have changed since then.”

They have and they haven’t.

According to the CDC, the number of violent deaths at elementary and secondary schools between 1992 and 2010 remained fairly constant: there’s never been more than 63 (’06-’07) or fewer than 33 (’09’10). And another study, issued by the group Mayors Against Illegal guns, reports that between December 2012 and February 2014, 28 people were killed in school shootings, nominally the lowest number in decades. What has changed is the paradigm of responding to the crises.

Columbine spurred the first major alteration.

Nearly all of the victims that day were killed as officers surrounded the school and waited for a SWAT team to be assembled and dispatched, which protocol dictated. Today, officers don’t wait. Current procedure says that when an officer responds to an armed intruder call, that officer enters the building upon arrival and first and foremost attempts to stop the assailant.

The second catalyst for change came more than a decade later, in 2012, when a 20-year-old named Adam Lanza, with a history of social and behavioral disorders, returned to his former elementary school with a Bushmaster rifle and two semi-automatic pistols he had taken from his mother’s gun collection.

Just after 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 14, Lanza shot through the locked front doors of Sandy Hook Elementary in Fairfield County, Conn. A group of staff members were meeting in an office near the front door when they heard the shots. The school’s principal told her colleagues to “stay put,” and ran into the hall with the school psychologist while someone in the office called 911. The principal and the psychologist were the first people killed at Sandy Hook.

Four minutes later, an officer arrived at the school just in time to hear the final gunshot that Lanza inflicted on himself. Eight minutes after being dispatched, officers entered Sandy Hook, but the shooting was finished.

Like Columbine before it, the incident prompted pundits, school administrators and parents to ask an impossible question: Are schools safe enough?

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

MCPS Superintendent Alex Apostle says he felt he had to take certain steps after the Sandy Hook shootings. “I want to make sure that our students and our staff are safe and secure, and that we have action plans to react to whatever may happen,” he says. “My nightmare is to not be prepared.”

In Apostle’s mind, having to ask was an answer in itself. “Truly, there’s only one thing that matters to me. I want to make sure that our students and our staff are safe and secure, and that we have action plans to react to whatever may happen,” he says. “My nightmare is to not be prepared.”

Days after the shooting at Sandy Hook, Apostle announced his intention to form the Community Task Force on Safety and Security. The effort would consist of three committees: facilities safety and design, public safety and mental health services. (Facilities and public safety have since consolidated to one committee).

It didn’t take long for the committees to effect change. Last year, based on committee recommendations, MCPS’s phone system was updated to allow 911 dispatchers to more easily trace emergency calls, and the district is enforcing a more stringent identification process for school staff and visitors.

The most radical addition, though, comes in the form of active resistance training for MCPS staff. The training is based on a course designed by the Safariland Training Group, a private company that specializes in tactical and patrol training for law enforcement.

The mission of the course is to give trainees the tools to make life-saving decisions in critical situations. The course lasts for eight hours, and covers everything from how to improvise a weapon with a fire extinguisher to how to barricade a door with a rope and a 2x4 to how to treat a sucking chest wound.

So far, two sessions have been offered at Missoula schools, and the district hopes to offer at least one every month. But there are hurdles. A maximum of 50 people can be trained at a time, and trainings require a completely empty school building, which means they are only offered on weekends, outside of regular working hours. Right now, certified staff are

compensated with credit hours toward their requisite professional development, while other staff are compensated with flexible work schedules. There is also the issue of staff attrition, new hirings and the fact that, in order for the training to be truly meaningful, staff will likely need to be trained and re-trained.

Apostle acknowledges the hurdles, but he feels they are worth jumping over. “I think that if we weren’t trying to train our teachers, that would be worse …

We’re trying the very best we can to prepare them for any situation that may come about. It’s not 100-percent guaranteed to protect every student or to protect themselves,” he says. “But right now we haven’t done anything in terms of that issue. We’re trying.”

In May 1988, Kristofor Hans pleaded guilty to deliberate homicide, attempted deliberate homicide and two counts of felony assault. The issue at the center of his sentencing hearing was to what degree Kris could be held accountable for his actions. The state sought to prove Kris acted knowingly, while the defense looked to show that there existed mitigating mental health problems, which were exacerbated by the demands of his father.

On the second day of the June sentencing hearing, the state called John Van Hassel, a clinical psychologist at Montana State Hospital, who had evaluated Kris. He diagnosed Kris with schizotypal personality disorder as well as conduct disorder, which Van Hassel told the court was characterized by “behavior that’s discrepant with community standards.”

“Kris expressed to us a philosophy that he had been born in the wrong time,” he said. “That he did not fit into society.”

As to the role the contingencies of his father’s contract may have played in Kris’ actions, Van Hassel was unconvinced. “I think [Kris] would say he felt they were unreasonable. That doesn’t necessarily mean, in an objective sense, that they were unreasonable …,” he said. “[W]e can say almost everything that occurred in Kris’ life up to the shooting was a precipitant.”

After Van Hassel, the state called Dean Smith, a psychiatrist at Montana State Hospital. He concurred with Van Hassel on his diagnosis of Kris and the role of the contract. Smith also added, however, that the circumstances from which the contract was born took a toll on Kris. “I also am concerned whenever someone, a young person, is placed in the position of either having to decide who his custodial parent will be or have to earn the right to have a certain parent as his custodial parent,” he said.

In the end, of the 17 witnesses who testified at the hearing—including Henrietta Smith’s husband, John Moffatt and Moffatt’s wife, Maggie—only two were called by the defense. Eventually, Kris would be handed two 100-year sentences, and he would be designated a dangerous offender when it came to parole eligibility. No one in Fergus County had ever been sentenced to so many years in incarceration.

At the end of the second day of the hearing, the defense called the final two witnesses to the stand.

The first was Ned Tranel, a psychologist at the Children’s Clinic in Billings. He’d interviewed Kris, and traveled to Casper, Wyo., to interview Kris’ father. He agreed with the other doctors that Kris suffered from mental and behavioral disorders. He had a different view, however, on the ramifications of the contract: “My understanding of the data and the messages I received from all the people that I talked to, indi-

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cated to me the contract symbolized a circumstance which, while in itself not unrealistic and unattainable or unachievable by Kris, to him said that there is one more point at which love from his parents is conditional. You may remain with your mother if. Or you may remain with your father if. Depriving a child of unconditional love is tantamount to withholding one of the essential ingredients of sanity, of mental health.

No one can survive sanely without unconditional love. And to tell a child—and that’s one of the things this document said was, ‘we love you if you behave according to a certain way, according to certain standards’. If I say to my children, ‘I love you if,’ that’s devastating to their mental health.”

Terri Hardy was the final witness to take the stand. Her testimony reiterated the terms of her exhusband’s contract and the abuse her son endured as a small boy. “[Kris] told me just yesterday,” she testified, “he’s sorry about the first time he ever cried.”

On a recent Saturday afternoon, a man wearing a padded suit marched down a hallway in Lewis and Clark Elementary School. He carried a rubber replica of a shotgun. Behind him, another man held a .38 revolver loaded with blanks. When the second man pulled the trigger, the sound seemed to push against the walls of the school and smoke rose to the ceiling.

In one classroom, a group of 12 MCPS teachers and staff scrambled at the sound of the first shot. One of them tried to close the outward opening door, but didn’t want to expose herself in the hallway, which she had been trained to avoid. Instead, several other women turned a table on its end, and pushed it against the door frame. They moved a filing cabinet behind the upturned table, and a woman lay with her feet propped against it. Another woman lay behind her, and another behind her, until the chain of women reached the opposite side of the room, like a doorstop made of bodies.

When an air horn announced the end of the scenario, the man in the padded suit popped his head around the table, and complimented the women on their tactics.

This is what active resistance training looks like, and it is not a joke. One of the course’s chief purposes is to prepare participants for the physiological effect of a real encounter with an armed intruder. Stress inoculation is essential to the course, says Missoula County Sheriff ’s Capt. Brad Giffin, who’s been volunteering his time to lead active resistance trainings. “It’s one thing to talk about it,” he says, “but it’s a whole other thing to put them under that stress and see how they perform.”

To drive home the point, trainees are offered to check their heart rate before a simulation, and again immediately following its completion. One of the women who acted as a link in the human doorstop reported that her rate was between 60 and 75 beats per minute before shots were fired. After, it was 200.

Giffin admits the training may seem unorthodox.

“It’s kind of taboo, to tell you the truth. It’s dangerous training,” he says. “People get hurt doing it.” But he also believes ardently in the cause. “Statistically speaking, in an active shooter situation someone dies every 15 seconds. The whole situation is over in three to four minutes. Municipal police response time is five to seven minutes. County sheriff might get there in seven to 20 minutes. The math just isn’t on our side,” he says. “My opinion is, you focus on the real first responders who actually have to deal with things before police get there.”

There were 24 trainees at the Lewis and Clark course, including a school therapist, a culinary arts teacher, a football coach and a receptionist. Gene Oliver, a guidance counselor, found the training to be “very valuable.” He says he is generally a pacifist, and

though his legs shook while he was taught to disarm a gunman by hitting him over the head with the barrel of his own weapon, Oliver says the experience was eyeopening. “I realized that we do all these drills like the lockdown, but then that’s it. It really hit me that we’re passive and we’ve never really talked about that.”

The active resistance trainings have been the most reported-upon and publicized change so far implemented by the public safety task force. And while it has been universally well-received by the people who have taken the class, it is a decidedly reactionary measure. What about prevention?

Carol Ewen works for MCPS as the Response to Intervention Specialist, and has been a leader in pushing

Oliver echoes the sentiment. He appreciated his resistance training, but he says it’s also important to remember that as a society “we’re woefully lacking in support and staffing for high-needs, at-risk, aggressive kids.”

He’s also willing to imagine the implications of training teachers to take down armed bad guys—to wonder what steps might be taken next.

Just the other week, he says, he was walking to his office with a student who struggled with emotional trauma. They saw a school resource officer standing in the hallway. Most children are titillated by the sight of badges and uniforms and gadget belts, he says, but this student panicked and hid behind Oliver. The stu-

photo courtesy of MT Dept. of Corrections

Kristofor Hans is currently in the Warm Springs Addiction Treatment and Change program, or WATCh, and is scheduled to enter a Missoula pre-release facility in June.

the task force’s mental health committee forward. The most significant change her committee hopes to enforce involves fully integrating all MCPS schools with the Montana Behavioral Initiative, a broad-reaching system that works to identify at-risk children and expeditiously provide them with support. The system is already in place in some elementary schools, but she hopes it won’t be long before the program is ubiquitous.

She believes the recommendations of the safety and security committee, including the hiring of a security officer, are valid, but she wonders if society places too much emphasis on reaction rather than prevention. “I think it’s important. I don’t think we should take things like active resistance training away,” she says. “But I think we as a community need to recognize that we need to invest as much in training teachers to recognize mental illness and prevent problems before they happen.”

She says there are lots of kids in the Missoula school system with challenging lives, and some of them act out in a class and test the patience of the teacher. “To think about what that child woke up to in the morning, and it’s just a miracle they showed up to school at all,” she says. “I think sometimes we do forget about that.”

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dent asked him what the guy was doing? Oliver said he was a policeman, a good guy, but the student continued to hide and began hyperventilating.

“Bad things have happened in [that student’s] life, and that was a huge trigger …,” he says. “I think about those kinds of things.”

At the end of the 1992 “Primetime Live” story, Diane Sawyer interviews Kristofor Hans at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Kris is 20, with sandy blond hair swept to one side. He wears big glasses. He speaks slowly and quietly about his crime. “It was like a dream,” he says. “It was like none of it was really happening.”

Sawyer then asks Kris if he wants to say anything to his victims and their families. He begins to cry and removes his glasses. “I want to tell them I’m sorry,” he says. Sawyer then tells him John Moffatt is in the next room, and that he came because “he wants you to be all right.”

When Moffatt comes through the door, Kris breaks down.

The conversation between the two men was not aired. Moffatt says they spent about 30 minutes to-

gether and that Kris was inconsolable. “Probably twothirds of that time, I ended up just holding him,” he says. “[Kris] was sobbing.”

After Moffatt recovered from the gunshot wound and four subsequent surgeries, he became the principal at Garfield Elementary in Lewistown, a position he held until retiring in 2010.

Today, he and his wife, Maggie, live in Missoula, and Moffatt occasionally substitutes for MCPS. He applauds the district’s efforts to address difficult issues, and he says he’s “for anything that schools do to make the environment safer for kids.” But, in his mind, any district can only achieve so much as long as gun laws remain the same. He points out that homicide is now the second leading cause of death for school-age Americans, and while school shootings are “horrific tragedies,” homicides on school grounds account for less than 2 percent of the lives lost.

“Some people think it always happens somewhere else, others think it’s going to happen anytime,” he says of school shootings, “but we need to look at the big picture. There are relatively few communities in the United States that have dealt with a school shooting … But there are very few communities that have not lost a child to gun violence.”

More than 25 years after he shot Moffatt and Smith, Kristofor Hans also has thoughts about school safety and what could have curbed the trajectory of his young life. In February 2013, before he was transferred from Montana State Prison to a treatmentbased facility in Warm Springs, a reporter from the Montana Television Network interviewed Kris. He wore a black shirt and a black ball cap and glasses, though markedly smaller than those he wore for the ABC interview. Kris is middle-aged, and when he talks about what he did and why he did it, he speaks with the assuredness of a man who has had time to reckon his mistakes.

“I had read this story called Rage by Stephen King, and I don’t know if you’ve heard but that’s been associated with other school shootings. I got the idea that if I carried out this act that the same things would happen to me that happened to the character in the story,” he says, “which is that in the end he got approval from his peers.”

Kris goes on to say that he wishes there had been a way to stop him. “But I think the only way to stop me would’ve been something earlier, something in the prevention phase,” he says.

Kris declined to be interviewed for this story. He is currently in the Warm Springs Addiction Treatment and Change program, or WATCh, and is scheduled to enter a Missoula pre-release facility in June. If he serves a year at the pre-release facility without incident, he can be set free.

In 1988, at Kris’ initial sentencing hearing, the first person called to the stand was Shannon Foucher, the classmate who agreed to be his hostage. She admitted to the court that Kris had told her about the plan in science class a few days before the shooting.

Kris had told her to read Chapter 9 of Rage.

When asked why she didn’t stop him, why she didn’t tell anyone, Foucher told the court, “I didn’t really know. I just—you know, I didn’t really believe it.”

Chapter 9 is a quarter page long, and opens with Mrs. Underwood, the algebra teacher, standing at the blackboard, addressing her class. Just before she looks up and sees Charlie Decker, just before he shoots and kills her, she gives her last lesson. “… So you understand that when we increase the number of variables,’” she says, “the axioms themselves never change…”

Then she looks to the back of the room and asks Decker if he has a hall pass. editor@missoulanews.com

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Creature features Lion kings, GMOs and super predators add pop culture flavor to this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival

by Kate Whittle and Josh Wagner

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ne of the most intriguing films at this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival is a mystery of sorts. Hunt for the Super Predator, an Australian documentary by Michael Lynch, follows a great white shark via a tracking device as it’s chased and eaten by what appears to be a much larger creature. But what is it? Talk about the perfect documentary for science fans and lovers of the BBC’s “Sherlock.”

The 37th annual festival, which runs Sat., April 12– Sat., April 19, will screen over 60 films, many of which play to an audience that’s thirsty for a super predator storyline. Mike Steinberg, director/programmer at the Roxy Theater, took over the IWFF last year and changed the focus beyond animals to cover conservation and environmental issues that directly and indirectly link to wildlife issues. Hunt for the Super Predator screens Mon., April 14, at the Roxy. Here are four other anticipated festival films on subjects ranging from GMO controversies to the “Game of Thrones”-style strategies of lion kings.

GMO OMG About 10 minutes into watching this film at home, I paused, mid-chew with a mouthful of popcorn, and looked ruefully at my bowl. The non-organic Orville Redenbacher was undoubtedly just a few kernels of the 88 percent of corn in America that’s genetically modified. Dammit.

Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert’s 2013 documentary GMO OMG explains how pervasive GMOs have already become in our food supply, in a style that’s light on science terms and heavy on cute graphics and shots of luscious (GMO) ice cream cones. He focuses his lens on his young, precocious kids as his motivation for investigating GMOs and what risk they might pose to our health. He asks people on the street and corporation representatives a simple question: Are GMOs safe? In the process, he travels from southern California to Haiti, where farmers are burning Monsanto seeds, to the international seed bank in Svalbard, Norway.

GMO OMG is definitely one of the prettiest films about corporate greed and modern agriculture I’ve ever seen. (The Mumford and Sons song on the soundtrack made me roll my eyes, but whatever engages the kids these days, I guess.) Seifert insists he’s not trying to dismiss scientific advances, but asking for more rigorous testing on GMOs before they become 90 percent of the American diet. Oops, too late.

If you’re familiar with the debate, GMO OMG will mostly be an emotional reminder of the sustainable ag movement’s fight. For those who aren’t familiar with the issues, the film covers a broad swath in a short time.

As for the question Seifert is asking, it’s no spoiler to say we still don’t have a satisfactory answer. (KW) GMO OMG screens at the Roxy Mon., April 14, at 7 PM. Game of Lions Blood and gore. Battles for bloodline supremacy.

Masculine aggression. Ferocious maternal instincts.

Adolescent struggles for survival. It’s not just the plotline for the next episode of “Game of Thrones,” but the daily lives of African lions, as captured in this 2013 documentary shot by husband-and-wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert for the National Geographic Channel.

Only one out of eight lions survives into adulthood, and as we see in the documentary, it’s because the African wild poses threats like angry water buffalo, droughts and starvation. Lion cubs can even be squashed by overly cuddly lionesses. If they make it to adolescence, they’re kicked out of the pride to wander, often starving, to try to grow big and tough enough to become king of their own group. That’s Mother Nature for you.

Since these are animals we’re talking about, Game of Lions, from last year’s award winning filmmakers Derek and Beverly Joubert, is more family friendly than anything on HBO. The basic storyline

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follows a few individual lions in Botswana, with contemplative narration from Jeremy Irons (who, fittingly enough, voiced Scar in The Lion King). Be warned that Game of Lions is still pretty upsetting— fuzzy, big-eyed baby animals die here. But that doesn’t even compare to the film’s final gut-punch. Lions are facing extinction, because as brutal as nature’s system of checks and balances is, human interference has wreaked much worse havoc. That injustice is not just some fictional plot twist. (KW) Game of Lions screens at the Roxy Thu., April 17, at 5 PM. DamNation “It was kind of embarrassing how little I knew about dams when I started this film,” says the narrator at the beginning of Paul Kimball’s DamNation. The statement suggests one of the most valuable aims a documentary filmmaker can strive for: to show us exactly what we don’t know about subjects we take for granted.

DamNation unfolds in three parts, opening strong with a brief history of United States dam projects and an overview of the conflict over dam removal. Next it examines the threat of dams to the salmon population and the communities that rely on salmon fishing. That part drags, but it’s worth it for the breathtaking footage of dams exploding and rivers rushing back to life. Finally, DamNation takes a look at Earth-Firster Mikal Jakubal’s proto-Banskian artistic assault on a few dams in the 1980s, starting when he rappelled off the top of the 300-foot Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite to paint a 40-foot crack down the concrete face.

While unapologetically biased on the side of dam removal, Kimball’s film does its best to give voice to both sides (though most pro-dam politicians refused to be interviewed). DamNation’s shrewd narrative and devastatingly gorgeous cinematography alert us to what kind of ecological impact even seemingly innocu-

ous industrial projects can have on the environment and sustainable food sources like salmon fishing.

Kimball admits that after working on this film he’ll never look at dams the same way. I doubt anyone who watches DamNation will either. ( JW) DamNation screens at the Roxy Tue., April 15, at 7 PM. She Wolf She Wolf, by Montana filmmaker Bob Landis, follows the dramatic story of an extraordinary Yellowstone National Park wolf. Not long after her birth in 2006, the aptly-named She Wolf was forced to leave her family and create one of her own. Soon she became an alpha pack leader, rare for a female in the wolf world. The film explores the difficult years living on her own, her rise to power, and the triumphs and tragedies of her pack.

This all might sound a little like the summary of a fictional drama, but that’s exactly how She Wolf plays out. There’s a great scene where a herd of buffalo helps her survive. Her time as a lone wolf teaches her to become an expert hunter. She finds two young male wolves, mates with one, and while pregnant has to step into leadership because of the males’ inexperience. They battle a rival pack. They venture outside of the park to avoid starvation. The whole Yellowstone wildlife spectrum seems to join in like a supporting cast, from grizzlies to bald eagles to coyotes.

In many ways it’s the stuff of storybooks.

Though the narration often tends to be trite and repetitive, the photography is intimate and the heart of the story, riveting. Its best moments range from tender to brutal. Landis delivers his anti-wolf-hunting position with tact and never belabors the point. The lives of the wolves speak for themselves. ( JW) She Wolf screens at the Roxy Sat., April 12, at 7:15 PM. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule. arts@missoulanews.com

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We are the new polar bear Scientist M. Sanjayan talks about his upcoming television series “Years of Living Dangerously”

by Erika Fredrickon

Science has been getting a cool makeover lately on television shows like Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” and “I Fucking Love Science,” a website that will soon be a TV series. It’s this atmosphere of science-friendly pop culture that makes “Years of Living Dangerously,” a climate change documentary series focused on personal stories, ripe for public consumption. The show airs this weekend on Showtime and brings a hefty dose of star power. There are appearances by celebrities Harrison Ford, Jessica Alba and Matt Damon—all of whom are involved in environmental charities—and it’s produced by James “Titanic” Cameron along with former producers of “60 Minutes.”

Also featured in one of the episodes is Missoulabased M. Sanjayan, a conservation scientist, documentary filmmaker and Emmy-nominated news contributor. (He also serves as a science consultant for the series.) As part of this year’s International Wildlife Film Festival, Sanjayan will give audiences a sneak peek into the series. He spoke with the Indy about his role in the project, how David Letterman gave him a wake-up call and why the new reports on climate change aren’t all bad.

ditions under which she works and how she pushes to get the data, it’s pretty impressive. I’m hoping that when people see that they’ll understand that scientists are quite literally putting themselves on the line in order to bring us this data.

As a scientist, how do you help non-scientists understand the urgency?

MS: At Christmas Island I was struck by how good the science really is now. We are now moving beyond just talking about temperature change, we’re talking about how wind patterns shift or how ocean

MS: If you look at the first IPCC report you would almost want to put the polar bear on the front of it …

The good thing about this recent IPCC report is that it squarely puts the focus on humans. When you read this report you’re like, ‘Oh I get it. We are the polar bear.” And by doing that I actually think it helps us reframe the debate. Imagine if the first thing we said when we first discovered germs could kill you was that we need to have a massive government program in order to get rid of germs. You’d never see sewer systems in cities—people would laugh at you because of the cost of it. Instead, we said we need to wash our

really pummel me with questions about climate change—not in a mean way, he was charming as can be. But it was clear that this was an issue that deeply mattered to him and that I, as a lead scientist for a big environmental organization, The Nature Conservancy, should have answers. I was repeating things I’d learned in books and papers. I was intellectualizing it and ducking and weaving so that I wouldn’t get caught basically with my pants down not really having an answer on late-night TV. It was kind of funny and it worked for television; I don’t come off looking bad, but it scared me inside.

One of the pitfalls of climate change documentaries is the fatigue audiences feel about such a heavy topic. What kind of tone does “Years of Living Dangerously” take?

M. Sanjayan: The show really talks about climate change as it is today for real people, not as some distant future event. It’s almost like the “60 Minutes” of climate change. Other climate change series kind of come at you from what’s going to happen in the future or lays out the science as a chain of logic. “Years of Living Dangerously” is much more immersive, so even if you’re not interested in climate change you’re going to get caught up in the characters that we are bringing to life.

How did these celebrities get chosen for the series?

MS: James Cameron really has this passion for wanting to do something about the changing planet.

He and the executive producers approached celebrities who they knew either had some real credibility with environmental issues or wanted to learn more about it. Matt Damon has his own charity that focuses on water. Harrison Ford is the vice president for the organization I work for, Conservation International, and he’s been doing that for years.

Tell me about the episode you’re in.

MS: My role in this film is to follow a couple of scientists into the field and tell their stories. I think the clip I might show at the festival is when I go to Christmas Island with scientist Kim Cobb, who is a late-30s mother of three—a very dynamic woman, very smart. If you close your eyes and picture a scientist, that ain’t Kim. And yet she’s literally one of the best climate scientists out there with multiple published papers in science. She goes with a team of her post-docs—an all-female crew, by the way, just by chance—and they go diving underwater with a 100pound drill and they drill cores out of coral. The con-

M. Sanjayan, science correspondent for “Years of Living Dangerously,” collects evidence of climate change on Christmas Island along with climatologist Kim Cobb and Georgia Tech graduate student Pamela Groethe.

temperatures rise very, very specifically. So, the reason people aren’t making decisions [that address climate change] isn’t because the science isn’t good—that may be a delaying tactic. People make decisions all the time that are not in their best interest like smoking or deciding to exercise tomorrow rather than today. I think part of it is we have not used peers to talk to peers, ranchers to talk to ranchers, evangelical Christians to talk to other evangelical Christians.

We’ve stood from afar and preached from above and it doesn’t really work to do that.

What do you think of the recent and dire report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that basically says no one will come out unscathed?

hands, we need to use antiseptic methods. That’s adaptation. When you talk about adaptation you’re talking about changing your life in order to deal with a threat. By changing the argument to be about us and what’s happening right now, we get people far more in tune to thinking about larger mitigation [efforts].

So I’m not depressed about the IPCC report.

How did you become interested in climate change?

MS: I’ve always felt like a bit of a fraud talking about climate change. Some years ago, Steve Running [University of Montana climatologist] and I were lucky enough to meet David Letterman out in Eastern Montana where he has a home. After that meeting, Letterman invited me on his show. He preceded to

I realized that if I was to get out there and tell the story about climate change I had to do it with a lot more conviction. I had to feel it in my bones. When the opportunity came to get involved with this project my initial reaction was “No.” But when they told me, “You will get to go in the field, you will get to understand the science, you will feel it in your bones,” I thought it was an opportunity I couldn’t say no to.

M. Sanjayan talks about his work and screens an episode from “Years Of Living Dangerously” at the UC Theatre Wed., April 16, at 6 PM. The series airs Sun., April 13. Visit yearsoflivingdangerously.com. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[music]

Saturday, April 12 11:00am – 4:00pm Missoula Fairgrounds

$5.00 admission • Kids 12 and under free ** For $1.00, attendees 21 and over will receive a commemorative mug from Rockin’ Rudy’s and one beer

Live music provided by Aspen Sound

Horning in Youngblood adds new blood to brass Youngblood’s badass Youngblood Brass primary rapper, D.H. SkoBand isn’t just another gen, spits out lines that artsy, whimsical group deal with current issues. In using horns to reinvent “20 Questions,” he quips, indie rock coolness. The “‘Asshole’ is my pre-existing Wisconsin outfit calls itself condition,” and you think “riot jazz,” and that’s a he’s just being a smart-ass pretty good description for for no reason until a few what to expect from 11 mutracks later, on “Whiskey, sicians inspired by both Youngblood Brass Band Tango, Foxtrot,” when he New Orleans brass traditions and underground hip-hop, with a dash of punk tackles the health care system with gems like, “Jesus never asked the leper for a co-pay.” rock attitude.

Pax Volumi experiments with fusing music traditions The punk rock part is especially noticeable on the band’s recent album, Pax Volumi, and in particu- that clash in effective ways. It’s easy to get bored with the lar with the first track “20 Questions,” where you can same old punk rock riffs and hip-hop brags, and Younghear a tone similar to Rancid’s ...And Out Come the blood Brass Band seems to be offering a fresh take on reWolves. And, though there’s nothing ska or Oi! about bellion that’s worth our full attention. (Erika Fredrickson) Youngblood Brass Band plays Stage 112 Thu., its sound, the brass foundation hints at those genres April 17, at 10 PM. $10/$8 advance. just by the very presence of horns.

The White Buffalo, Shadows, Greys And Evil Ways

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It’s no surprise that a half dozen of The White Buffalo’s tunes have been used on the F/X biker crime series “Sons of Anarchy.” Oregon-based song slinger Jake Smith creates folk rock as brawny and Harleyready as his moniker implies, but there is more than just muscle to his songs. Smith is a genuine songwriter and storyteller, plainly evident on the concept album Shadows, Greys And Evil Ways, a hard-luck love story of two American kids living on the other side of the tracks from Mellencamp’s Jack and Diane.

Smith’s voice bears a striking resemblance to that of Eddie Vedder’s. That may a deal-breaker for some listen-

ers, but if not, there’s plenty of original ideas to be appreciated here. Tracks trade off between somber ballads and righteous rockers, full of political fuming and earnest love. The conceptual narrative is never thick enough to keep songs from standing by themselves, like the headstrong “When I’m Gone” or the tortured “Set My Body Free.” “The Whistler” is a stand-out track if only for the split second that Smith bellows “I came to get it on!” with a ferocity rarely matched in folk music. (Jed Nussbaum) The White Buffalo plays the Top Hat Thu., April 10, at 9 PM with Chuck Ragan and Jonny Two Bags. $18/$15 advance.

The Men, Tomorrow’s Hits The Men has changed profoundly since its 2010 debut. Immaculada is noisy and abrasive, whereas 2012’s Open Your Heart is noisy and catchy, and 2013’s New Moon is noisy and Western. At an album a year and nearly as many different sounds, the band is like a college town in the Mountain West: What you consider the real version depends on when you came in.

The recently released Tomorrow’s Hits drifts further from what was once The Men’s sole consistent feature—noisy—to explore a roadhouse sound reminiscent of A.M.-era Wilco. If you last heard Open Your Heart, the arrival of saxophones may alarm you. As a

2012-era The Men fan, I first experienced the alt-country jukebox sound of Tomorrow’s Hits as a betrayal.

Then I listened to the back catalog again, and I remembered that The Men has betrayed its old sound on four consecutive albums. The charitable listener calls that versatility. The Men may have changed so often as to convert its entire fan base to uncharitable listeners, but at least it’s not pandering to us. Tomorrow’s Hits is not their most powerful album, but it joins a five-way tie for least expected. (Dan Brooks) The Men plays the VFW Wed., April 16, at 9 PM with Boys, Silver Palms and Total Combined Weight. $8/$10 for ages 18-20.

Yelawolf Join me on this limb where we call Yelawolf the most successful white southern rapper of all time.

Who else? Lil’ Wyte? The list is short, maybe because southern rap is the most regionally particular subgenre, the most cultural, the most defiantly impenetrable to outsiders. In the very gradual integration of hip-hop, southern rap is like, um, the South.

Yelawolf has taken the same path through this minefield that others walked before him. Like his patron Eminem, he is nasal and fast. He evokes the unifying images of the trailer park and the party, and he avoids racially problematic posturing or social commentary. He is quick in both senses of the word and,

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on his albums at least, sometimes backed by Gucci Mane.

He is also restrained from the principal pleasure of southern rap, which is celebrating a culture that much of America regards as dumb. It’s a handicap, but at the same time it’s an incentive toward more technical rapping. He can be cloying in the same way as Twista, but Yelawolf rarely succumbs to the childish cadences that mar the work of other southern emcees. He’s working with extra constraints in a fun genre, and he consistently works hard. (Dan Brooks) Yelawolf plays the Wilma Wed., April 16, at 8 PM. $22.

[books]

Wildfire noir Nothing puts a dark twist on Missoula

by Olivia White

Nothing, Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s disturbing ment door, a bouncer’s gum, Ruth’s thong underwear, debut novel, gives a brutal portrayal of the millennial the safety jacket of a cop. Ignoring these warning signs generation set amid Missoula subcultures. It’s a mod- leads the pair down a path of wild self-destruction.

Cauchon scatters symbols throughout the novel— ern noir in which the University of Montana creative writing grad successfully captures a world of party kids the kryptonite, for one, but also a neglected baby—and and young transients plagued by 20-something narcis- the same symbols appear and reappear in the least exsism, indulging in endless cigarettes, drugs and booze. pected places. Even the characters seem like symbols for The story centers on Ruth and James, two outsiders some larger purpose: Ruth, the devoted friend, James, in search of identity. James journeys to Montana to the follower, Bridget, the exalted one, all hold a deeper learn more about his biological father, and receives meaning within the layers of the novel. I recommend reading the book a second more than he bargained for. time, as discovering the symHis first night in town he enbols and clues throughout counters Ruth and Bridget the story becomes a bit at a party and their meeting thrilling. You will begin to causes a chain of events that see symbols everywhere. sends them on life-changing Nothing takes a few mistrajectories. It helps add to steps. James’ storyline dips a the atmosphere that Caulittle too far into the realm of chon has set the story in the magical realism, clashing with midst of wildfire season. the raw reality of the rest of The burning backdrop adds the novel. The neglected easy metaphor to the charbaby is a device that feels like acters’ drama and intensifies a device, though it’s unclear their downward spiral of whether it’s supposed to be delusion and paranoia. trying to drive home a loss-ofIn a strange coinciinnocence theme or somedence, both James and thing else. If it appeared just Ruth hail from the same once and never again, it suburb of Minnesota, and would have provided a hauntthat’s really the only coming echo for the rest of the mon thread they share. novel. That it literally reapThrough their alternating Nothing pears feels like too much. narratives, however, that Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon (And it recalls the gruesome thread becomes tangled paperback, Two Dollar Radio baby scene in Trainspotting.) into a shared obsession 178 pages, $16 For the most part, over Bridget, a troubled though, Nothing is a strong townie whom Ruth has befriended. Both believe that Bridget has the answers novel that pinpoints the feeling of being trapped in the to all of their questions. Their faith in her becomes a unescapable eddy of a small town. Cauchon’s descrippitfall that leads to an unraveling of the identities they tions of Missoula are remarkably accurate and devoid of romanticism. As Ruth, Cauchon describes one scene with were carefully trying to nurture.

The characters are detestable, yet compelling. On cynical yet honest clarity: “Behind Safeway was the mounthe surface they are carefully constructed illusions. They tain, as skiers call it. The mountain was walled in on three envision themselves as movie archetypes: the indie dar- sides so all winter the snow fell like light-splinters of the ling, the rebel and the mysterious ingénue. Their reality, sky whereas the inversion made the valley smoggy, gray, however—the way Cauchon reveals it to the reader— and dry with snow. Because it was walled in, the mounreads more like a Harmony Korine script, the gut punch tain felt private or like a secret even though there were always a lot of people there skiing, drinking, jumping off of Kids but set in the hell of a fiery Montana summer.

The alternating narrative between James and Ruth shit. But the valley was flat and broad and everything was allows us to see beyond the characters’ surface and revealed, nothing hidden, and yet everyone kept pretenddelve into their psyche. Ruth’s narrative becomes ing there was something left to discover.”

Nothing is a gripping novel. With Cauchon’s more honest over time and the illusions around her shatter, which makes her retreat within herself. She is guidance, a reader unfamiliar with Missoula can get only able to drown out that voice with a steady stream a sense of the layout of the city and the strange, seof alcohol and pills. James’ narration is more bombas- ductive vibe of a valley oasis. For those of us who tic. Discovering that the life that he knew was an illu- grew up in Missoula with the reality of wildfire, she sion, he is free to recreate himself as any character he repackages fire as a powerful metaphor—and plants desires. His voice is that of young boy play-acting, and the horrifying thought of what would happen if Mishe is unable to hide behind his new creation for long. soula itself went up in flames.

Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon reads from NothAs the smoke and ash choke the valley, panic sets in; Ruth and James make fatal mistakes. In an inter- ing at Shakespeare & Co. Sun., April 13, at 4 PM esting plot device, Cauchon describes certain objects along with poet Lehua Taitano, who reads from as being “kryptonite” green. Whenever kryptonite ap- her new book, A Bell Made of Stones. Free. pears, it serves as a warning to the reader that Ruth and James are in trouble: The inside of Ruth’s apartarts@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Scene queens Rockabilly doc gives women due credit

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Probably the coolest takeaway from Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly is when a historian points out that cultural change precedes political change. That is, pioneering women musicians of the early 20th century helped foster the notions that propelled the modern feminist movement. Director Beth Harrington’s 2001 documentary is a foray into the boundary-busting women of the proto-rock scene in the 1950s. Performers like Charline Arthur, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin and Brenda Lee were wearing pants, boogying on stage and calling the shots on their careers way before it was cool. Today, they’re mostly forgotten, especially compared to their male counterparts like Johnny Cash, Elvis, Chet Atkins and Carl Perkins.

Rockabilly, which originated out of white hillbilly music and black R&B, helped introduce big hair, big outfits and dance-worthy beats to mainstream American music. It quickly morphed into the rock and roll that outlasted it. Welcome to the Club’s entertainment value rests on memorable archival footage of old concerts and the witty ladies it interviews in the present day, like Jackson and Martin, who still rock sparkly outfits, bandanas and teased hair some 50 years after they first started playing music.

Martin and Jackson recount the ups and downs of a music career in a time when it was frowned upon for women to have careers at all. Martin remembers her nicknames, like “The Female Elvis,” “Queen of Rockabilly” and, she says with a laugh, “bitch.” Martin got married in her teens, in defiance of her virginal, innocent image that her record label tried to cultivate. When she got pregnant, record executives suggested she abort because they didn’t want a married woman with a child being a professional musician.

Jackson, meanwhile, recalls how she toured with one of the first racially integrated bands; her black piano player, Big Al Dowling, was almost kicked out of a club in Butte, Mont., until she said she wouldn’t perform without him.

The film takes a little bit of time to connect early female musicians with burgeoning feminism: “Betty Friedan comes after Wanda Jackson,” says historian Mary Bufwack. I wish Welcome dug a little deeper, or

at least talked to some current musicians about whether they find women like Jackson inspiring. And while there’s some great footage of black R&B singers of the era like Mahalia Jackson, it’s a bummer no black women are interviewed about their contributions.

The film’s end jumps into the rockabilly revival, which started in Europe in the late ’70s and ’80s.

Women like Martin were gratified to receive some of their due when they were invited to tour Europe and eventually play rockabilly conventions here in America. It’s cool to watch Martin stride out on a Vegas stage, belting out tunes and holding a beer bottle.

The film also subtly presents a case for why we still need to tell stories about the sexism and racism of the ’50s, a supposedly idyllic time in America. At a rockabilly convention, young women sporting tidy victory curls and classic frocks say with a straight face that they like retro rockabilly because the ’50s seem like a simpler, better time. Facepalm.

It’s satisfying to watch films like Welcome to the Club and be relieved that the overt sexism of that era is gone, but let’s face it, American mainstream music culture isn’t much better today. Women are still underrepresented in rock. Men are still much more likely to receive credit for innovating. Women performers can certainly wear provocative outfits and dance on stage, but they’re often forced to walk a fine line between being youthfully sexy but not too sexual. Stay within these bounds and you get Katy Perry’s not-so-innocent goofy slut persona; stray out of it and you’re wrecking-ball Miley Cyrus.

Regardless of whether you want to make a sociological study out of Welcome to the Club, it’s a lighthearted, fun watch if you dig early rock music. Its 60-minute running time is all too brief, but that leaves more time to go peruse old vinyl bins for some Wanda Jackson records.

Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly screens at the Top Hat Mon., April 14 at 7:30 PM as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Series. Free. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK DRAFT DAY Kevin Costner is an NFL team manager trying to decide which talented young men to select for a career that inflicts irreversible head injuries.

(Maybe they’ll save that part for the sequel.)

Also starring Chadwick Boseman and Jennifer Garner. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL A family is astonished to hear that their son believes he visited heaven after a near-death experience. Based on the 2010 best-selling book.

Starring Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly and Connor Corum. Rated PG. Carmike 12.

OCULUS A convicted murderer’s sister tries to prove that his crime was really committed by an evil supernatural force in an antique mirror. Can you put ghosts in an evidence locker? Starring Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites and Katee Sackhoff.

Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE RAID 2: BERANDAL Rookie Jakarta cop Rama must go undercover and delve into the seedy crime underbelly to protect his wife and kiddo. Starring Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Arifin Putra. Rated R. Carmike 12.

RIO 2 The goofy family of macaws returns for an Amazon adventure and more bird-brained antics.

Starring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway and Jemaine Clement. Rated G. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

SLAPSHOT A hockey game occasionally breaks out during this fight movie. Starring Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean and Strother Martin. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Thu., April 10 at 7 PM.

NOW PLAYING CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Steve Rogers and his jawline are just trying to keep on the down-low in modern-day Washington, D.C., but must team up with the Black Widow to fight off assorted villainous mischief.

Starring Chris Evans, Frank Grillo and Sebastian Stan. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

DIVERGENT A teen living in a weirdo dystopia discovers she’s “divergent” and must save her own kind.

Starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James and

Three’s a crowd. Slapshot screens Thu., April 10 at the Roxy Theater. 7 PM.

Kate Winslet. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

ENEMY A professor sees his doppelgänger in a film and goes searching for him. Described as “artsy garbage” by IMDB reviewers, so sign me up.

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent and Sarah Gadon. Rated R. Wilma.

GOD’S NOT DEAD A Christian college student defends his faith to an atheist philosophy professor. Quoth the IMDB message board, “For the Love of God, STOP Misappropriating Nietzsche.” Starring Willie Robertson, David A.R. White and Shane Harper.

Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Quirk-lovers rejoice, Wes Anderson brings us the lighthearted adventures of a mid-1930s concierge and a lobby boy. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham and Mathieu Amalric.

Rated R. Wilma.

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS A singer-songwriter dude in 1961 Greenwich Village wears neck scarves and tries to make it

big. I think I saw this before on the Your Dad, the Original Hipster blog. Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman. Rated R. Wilma.

and Anthony Hopkins. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN The “Rocky and Bullwinkle” bit players get the 21st century highfalutin feature-length computer animated treatment; in some suspicious genetics, Mr. Peabody is Sherman’s dad. Starring the voices of Ty Burrell, Max Charles and Stephen Colbert. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

MUPPETS MOST WANTED Everyone’s favorite green frog gets confused for a smooth-talking con frog. Dude, everybody’s got a doppelgänger. Starring Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

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Humans have always found reason to celebrate spring. What’s not to celebrate, after all? As we welcome the sun back from its hiatus, life sprouts from the rotted remains of autumn, and the world is reborn.

Fertility symbols like the Easter egg were common in many such vernal celebrations, like the pagan holiday Ostara, named after the fertility goddess Éostre, which some believe is the root of the word Easter. In Persia, eggs have been painted for thousands of years as part of the spring celebration of Nowruz.

Vernal egg symbolism is all the more poignant for small-flock chicken farmers, because spring is when one’s hens start laying lots of eggs again after a winter break (big producers, on the other hand, use lights and heat to skip winter). Not coincidentally, this is also the time of year when newly hatched chicks could stand a decent chance of survival, thanks to the warming days. Consequently, spring is when egg hatcheries begin shipping their day-old chicks.

My first flock arrived 10 years ago, just after midnight on Easter Sunday. The post office, of course, is closed at that time, but I got the call to come get them—as happens when live animals are shipped. I’ve been rocking a flock ever since.

Those who raise backyard chickens will inevitably go through an obsessive phase, as the fledgling flockster (this word comes from Harvey Ussery’s book The Small-Scale Poultry Flock) ceaselessly dotes on his or her birds, inundating friends with stories, photos and birthday party invitations. The eggs themselves are what drag many flocksters into the game. For others, egg appreciation starts with a love for the hens, which deepens feeling for their eggs. Which one comes first depends on the flockster.

Flocksters and celebrants of Easter alike use eggs in their respective rituals. And lately, with the widespread availability of hens that lay eggs of various hues, members of both contingents find themselves among prettily colored eggs. My little flock includes a blue egg-laying Araucana, a blue-green-ish egg laying Ameraucana, and two black Australorps that lay light and dark reddish-brown eggs. When I pull these precious gems from the hens’ nesting boxes, I get the thrill of an Easter egg hunt, in patriotic shades of red, white and blue. On a daily basis.

Easter usually falls near Earth Day, which is in many ways a modern rendition of Ostara, the pagan spring equinox party. Earth Day is an appropriate tie-in for Easter, because whatever you do, and whatever you call it, if you celebrate spring you’re also honoring the earth and its cycle of seasons. The hen is a reminder that if you take care of Mother Nature, she will take care of you.

FLASH IN THE PAN

Proper care of my ladies this year included two bags of stale marshmallows that I found in the cupboard. After dumping them in the chicken yard, I was surprised to see the hens completely ignore the marshmallows. Then I had to deal with my kid trying to climb into the chicken yard and eat them. A few days later, one of the hens realized that if you peck hard enough on the dried outer skin of those white things, there is soft sweetness inside. At that point the marshmallows quickly vanished from the chicken yard, and the next day I found four eggs: red, white, blue and green.

Though I won’t make a habit of feeding marshmallows to my hens, I’m not above pampering them.

Thus, while buying some chicken feed the other day at the feed store, I picked up two healthy snacks for the girls.

The first was a gallon-sized pail of dried bugs.

Chicken Grub Insect Medley, to be specific. The ingredients include dried mealworms, dried silkworm pupae, dried crickets, dried shrimp, dried earthworms and this helpful note: “NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.” As you hold the tub of creepy-crawlies with the lid off, every vibration of your hand will make them all appear to squirm around. The sight made the ladies in my coop as happy as it made me squeamish.

Based on how captivating jiggling bugs are, it’s obvious how hardwired the human brain is to notice them. It makes sense, as they could represent not only potential menace, but potential nutrition. Perhaps if I were hungry enough, the latter possibility would be more likely, but I experienced no conflict, or hunger, looking at those bugs. My hens experienced no conflict either. Only desire.

The other treat I got for the ladies out back is a mix called poultry conditioner. Marketed as a supplement for competition and show chickens, it is formulated with a bunch of nutrients and digestive aids to help the birds extract as many vitamins, minerals, pigments, proteins and other materials from their food as possible. I figured that these goodies, in addition to making the girls look pretty, would also make them healthier. And a healthy chicken can put more into her eggs than a malnourished one.

Since I started giving the girls poultry conditioner, I honestly haven’t noticed if their feathers have gotten prettier, but the eggs have. The color of their shells is richer, and they seem to glow even brighter in the nesting box when I open the coop door.

Perhaps the poultry conditioner, and maybe the bugs too, have something to do with the fact that my eggs look more like Easter eggs than ever.

[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) 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 wi-fi. 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. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Easter brings bright colors to Bernice's palate. Fill your loved one's Easter basket with handmade coconut eggs, macaroons, frosted eggs & bunnies, baby chick cupcakes, or full size for the bigger kid in all of us. Mom likes Easter gifts too. Try showing up with a chocolate cream pie, box of breakfast goodies, a cup of freshly brewed Bernice's coffee or a few 6 packs of dinner rolls for after-brunch ham sandwiches. YUM! She'll be telling you how much she loves you all day long. Happy Easter. xoxo bernice. bernicesbakerymt.com $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 41 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. $ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

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El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo's original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Sat 11am5pm. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, a rotating selection of six soups, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive smoothie menu complement bakery goodies from the GFS ovens and from Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day, 7am – 10pm. $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula's Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines!

Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Heraldo's Mexican Food 116 Glacier Dr. Lolo, MT 59847 406-203-4060 HeraldosMexicanRestaurant.com Lunch and Dinner. Open 7 Days • Eat-in or Carry-out • Handmade Tamales • Burritos • Chimichangas • Flautas • Fajitas • Combo plates and MORE. See our menu at www.heraldosmexicanrestaurant.com. Order Your Holiday Tamales Now! Also sold year-round. Call for details. $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

SATURDAYS 4PM-9PM

MONDAYS & THURSDAYS ALL DAY

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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 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close.

Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$

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Guy on a Buffalo coffee stout HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: The first of Great Northern Brewing Company’s 2014 Weathervane Series. This aromatic, dark-as-yoursoul coffee stout was released back in January and is packaged in 22ounce bomber bottles.

What it tastes like: Well, um, coffee. And beer. But more like coffee. It’s like a strong iced coffee with a sudsy aftertaste.

them take it from there: “The weathervane symbolized a time from [brewery founder Minott Wessinger’s] past—it’s an exact replica of the weathervane in which his great-great grandfather adorned the family brewery in downtown Portland, Oregon— The Blitz Weinhard Brewery. Today this iconic ornament twists and turns with the winds of the changing seaphoto by Cathrine L. Walters sons—an inspiration for the styles and flavors of the 2014 Weathervane Series.”

How they make it: The Whitefish brewery partners with Montana Coffee Traders. “We steep forty pounds of freshly roasted beans in our lauter tun for 24 hours in nearly freezing water,” explains the brewery. “The result is a clean coffee low in acidity, making it the perfect addition to our rich and malty stout.”

What you’re eating with it: Great Northern suggests pancakes.

What you’re really eating with it: Anything but pancakes.

Explain the Weathervane Series: The brewery lays claim to the tallest building in Whitefish thanks to its stylish weathervane. We’ll let

What’s next: Great Northern released the Equinox Galaxy Pale Ale in March and the Empire Builder Imperial Pilsner is slated to hit shelves later this month. All Weathervane Series brews are limited to kegs and bomber bottles at select locations.

Where to score the stout: We found ours at Orange Street Food Farm, 701 S. Orange St. The brewery is located in downtown Whitefish at 2 Central Ave. —Skylar Browning Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com

Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service.

Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino.

Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges?

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

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

The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

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

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

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dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadwa 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. $-$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an allencompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

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

We also have a Montana Hummus sandwich made from Montana grown garbanzo beans. Now serving omelettes and mimosas on Sunday, 11-4. At last, local, fresh, and healthy! $-$$ Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

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

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

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April 10–April 17, 2014

THURSDAYAPRIL10 The 10-Minute Play Festival brings six funny, sad and thought-provoking studentmade pieces to the UM PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. Free.

The Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing conference brings together several writers and scholars to talk about the links between literary theory and racialized thinking and history. Events are in the University Center, Holiday Inn Downtown and Shakespeare and Co., Thu., April 10-Sat., April 12. 9 AM-10 PM. Free for UM staff and students. $50 for non-UM affiliates. Visit cas.umt.edu/tip/raceandcreativewriting.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:155 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

UM professor Michelle Bryan Mudd presents “How Water Law Can Adapt to Protect the Fishery” as part of the spring seminar on conservation social science. Forestry Building, room 301. 4:10-5 PM.

nightlife UM art students Claire Melli, Scott Miller and Ellen Walden present their thesis exhibitions in paintings and photographs at the UM Gallery of Visual Arts in the Social Sciences building. Reception from 5-7 PM. Sample the leeks when Porter Creek plays the Top Hat dinner show, starting at 6 PM. Free, all ages.

Stairway to banjo heaven. Yonder Mountain String Band plays the Wilma Fri., April 11 and Sat., April 12 at 8 PM. $25/$22.50 in advance.

Tickets at Rockin Rudy's and ticketfly.com.

The four-week Introduction to Herbal Medicine course with clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn presents a whole-body approach to preventing illness and self-care with western herbal medicine. 210 N. Higgins, Ste 318.

Meets at 6 PM on Thursdays until May 1.

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big deal

Theo Ellsworth’s “The Ghost Doctor is Wearing His Cosmic Relaxation”

As the Alan Jackson song goes, “It’s all right to be little bitty/ A little hometown or a big old city.

Might as well share/ might as well smile/ Life goes on for a little bitty while.”

Forgive me for quoting pop country, but it was one of the most fitting things I could think of for appreciating the small things in life. Our culture has plenty of sayings about big things—“Go big or go home” or “It’s a huge deal.” When it comes to art, we tend to be more impressed with physically larger things, like the biggest paintings, the tallest statues, the largest works of architecture. Those monstrosities certainly deserve the credit they get.

WHAT: {mini} show reception WHEN: Fri., April 11, from 5:30-8:30 PM WHERE: ZACC HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: zootownarts.org

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But it’s just as impressive to make a statement with a limited amount of space and time. Take the ZACC’s upcoming second annual {mini} art show and fundraiser. The show asks a wide array of Missoula artists to submit work that has to be 6 inches around or less in size. This year features works like “Burial Throne,” an intriguing sculpture

by Lee Stuurmans that appears to be a housefly perched on top of a white, tooth-like box, and painter Alison Dillon’s “It Was Over Her Second Cup of Coffee That Josephine Decided To Give Herself the Day Off,” which tells a whole story just in one little title.

You can check out these itty bitty works and much more at the ZACC’s Second Friday {mini} show reception on April 11. It all leads up to the gala fundraiser on Sat., April 19, a night of food and entertainment with diminutive cocktails and weensy hors d’oeurves catered by creative local chefs. Proceeds go toward the ZACC’s mission of fostering community art. In case you forgot, the space hosts youth classes, gallery receptions, screen-printing, allages music and much more. For a little gallery, that’s a pretty big deal.

—Kate Whittle

[calendar] $145. Call 406-830-0949 or email britta.bloedorn@gmail.com to learn more.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking.

Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road.

6–7 PM. Free.

I suspect some spring grass will be sprouting when reggae man Yabba Griffiths plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

More events online: missoulanews.com The 2014 Helmet Project presents 22 bike helmets decorated by local creative types. Reception at Missoula Bicycle Works from 6:309 PM, with auction, food, beverages and tunes from the Boxcutters. Proceeds benefit the Tanner Olson skills park.

Dolce Canto presents “Summits and Shores”, with guest pianist Nicholas Phillips and soprano Gina Lapka. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $18/$15 students. Check out dolcecanto.info.

All Hail Santa’s little helper when Undun, Blessiddoom and Hemlock play the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave. 8 PM. No cover.

During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Get your beards ready to rumble (ladies too) when singer-songwriter White Buffalo and the one and only Chuck Ragan, the Manliest Man in Punk Rock, play the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $18/$15 in advance. Check out tophatlounge.com. (See Music.)

Cross-sections of Missoula tuneage collide when Cash For Junkers, Skin Flowers and Ryan Bundy play the Palace. 9 PM. $3.

Wild Coyote Band plays tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9 PM to close.

Band in Motion gets the ball rolling with tunes at Tamarack Brewing Company, 231 W. Front St. 9 PM. It’s going down, I’m yelling timber when the Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

Something up their sleeves. Bluesy Portland duo Hillstomp plays the Top Hat Sat., April 12, along with Dodgy Mountain Men. 10 PM. $7.

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FRIDAYAPRIL11 Party down, literary style, when the 406 Writers’ Workshop hosts a five-year anniversary celebration with new director Chris Dombrowski at the Downtown Dance Collective. Includes readings from John C. Espy and Gwen Florio. 7-9 PM. Free.

The Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing conference brings together several writers and scholars to talk about the links between literary theory and racialized thinking and history.

Events are in the University Center, Holiday Inn Downtown and Shakespeare and Co., Thu., April 10-Sat., April 12. 9 AM-10 PM. Free for UM staff and students. $50 for non-UM affiliates. Visit cas.umt.edu/tip/ raceandcreativewriting.

I can’t promise it’ll be the most exciting donut you’ve ever heard about when the Montana Supreme Court hears oral arguments about land-use regulation in the “donut” area outside Whitefish city limits.

Dennison Theatre. 9:30 AM, with about 40-minute long oral arguments from both sides. Free.

Take the little ones on a trip around the world without leaving city limits at the Children’s Museum of Missoula’s crafty, activity-based Cultural Friday. 225 W. Front St. 11:30 AM-noon.

nightlife Get a little peek at the {mini} show pieces (measuring 6 x 6 x 6 or smaller) by a big selection of local artists, and perhaps even check out the silent auction. ZACC. Reception from 5:30-8:30 PM. (See Spotlight.)

Living Art of Montana presents The Light Show, a collection of works by local artists, at Community Medical Center’s Cancer Care, 2837 Fort Missoula Road. Reception from 5:30-7 PM.

$25/$22.50 in advance. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 68 PM. No cover. April 11 features New South Fork.

Andrea Harsell boogies at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs. 8-10 PM. Pass-the-hat donation.

Show ‘em your best smize for the annual Project Selvedge fashion design contest at Selvedge Studio.

Fridays on April 4, 11 and 18, with finale on May 2. 6:30 PM. $1.

Cheer up those blues with a little red when El 3-Oh! plays the Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at four 4, tunes from 6-9 PM. Biga antipasto available, or bring your own treats to nosh on.

Enjoy zee cinema at Missoula Public Library’s World Wide Cinema night, the second Friday of every month. The series showcases indie and foreign films. Doors open at 6:45, show at 7 PM. Check missoulapublibrary.org for info. Free.

Feb. 14 features the French/Hebrew film Aliyah.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton.

7:30-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

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

Try not to dance on tabletops and take too many shots when Josh Farmer Band plays the Union Club.

9:30 PM. No cover.

Kung Fu Kongress just couldn’t stay away for long, so they’re back as Kung Fu Revival, playing along with Seattle’s Eric Blu and The Soul Revue. Badlander. 9 PM. $5.

It’ll be the cat’s pajamas when Kappa Oie, Rashelle Myra, Sierra Kamplain and Kristi Neumann play Sean Kelly’s. 9 PM. No cover.

Joey Running Crane’s threatening to leave us forever, so give him a kick out the door at his farewell show with Spencer, Buddy Jackson and a special Goddammitboyhowdy set. VFW. 9 PM. Free.

Keep a lid on it when the Safety Helmet Band plays the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Let the hootenanny continue when New Old Future plays a Yonder Mountain String Band afterparty at Stage 112, with special guests.

10 PM. Free.

The Alliance Française hosts a screening of the charming 2010 film Tout Ce Qui Brille at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier St. 8 PM. Free.

Missoula’s ShoDown plays country fried tunes for your dancing pleasure at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. No cover.

The Yonder Mountain String Band does up a springtime hootenanny just right at the Wilma.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8.

I’ll bring the sausage when Kitchen Dwellers play the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYAPRIL12 The Killdeer Artisans’ Guild presents a selection of works by local artistsk, including weaver Bonnie Tarses and sculptor Kathryn Yelsa, at the Hangin’ Art Gallery on Highway 93 in Arlee.

Reception from noon-2 PM. The Symes Hotel hosts the Goddess Gathering with the Zagrareet Tribe, with a belly dancing workshop at 1 PM and Zagrareet Tribe performance from 6-7 PM. Jordan and Lee play jazz and funk starting at 8 PM. The International Wildlife Film Festival promises to make your heart sing, with several films screening April 12-19 at the Roxy, plus special events throughout the week. $7 per film/$5 seniors/$5 students/$3 kids 12 and under. $75 for festival pass. Visit wildlifefilms.org. (See Arts.)

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[calendar] The Herbal Foundations SEED Program offers an in-depth course in the healing power of plants, particularly herbs native to the Rockies. Students will learn how to grow and use herbs for medicinal purposes. Meets on the second Saturday of every month at Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. Third St. W., at 9 AM, through August. $650. Call 728-0543 or email gp@herbsmt.com to learn more.

The Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing conference brings together several writers and scholars to talk about the links between literary theory and racialized thinking and history. Events are in the University Center, Holiday Inn Downtown and Shakespeare and Co., Thu., April 10-Sat., April 12. 9 AM-10 PM. Free for UM staff and students. $50 for non-UM affiliates.

Visit cas.umt.edu/tip/raceandcreativewriting.

Aspiring scribes ages 12-15 should check out “The Writer At Work,” a six-week series covering the process from creation, drafting, revision and final edits. Buttercup Market, 1221 Helen Ave., Saturdays March 8, 15 and 22 and April 12, 19 and 26. 10 AM-noon. Free. Visit missoulawritingcollaborative.org.

Is love in the air, or just the sizzle of rendering pork fat? Either way, the Bacon ‘n Brewfest at Glacier Ice Rink promises everything carnivores/craft beer lovers could want.

11 AM-5 PM. Live tunes from Sister Soul and the Medicine and the Bottom Feeders. $5/free for kids 12 and under.

You’ll be all set to run off with the circus after the Island Fever Juggling and Poi Festival, where nimble instructors will teach the basics of fire juggling, contact juggling and Chinese yoyo. In the courtyard between Meadowsweet Herbs and Bernice’s Bakery. 1-5 PM. Equipment provided.

The fresh air will do you good when the Montana Rockies Bluegrass Association presents a spring

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festival with 18 bands at Lone Rock School in Stevensville. Noon-10:30 PM, with overnight camping and jamming available. $5/$3 for MRBA members.

Check out mtbluegrass.com.

Jewel Willis of The Joyful Animal instructs a Pet First Aid and Trap Release Clinic, with the best tactics if your dog gets stuck in a trap, at Dunrovin Ranch in Lolo at 1 PM. $20. Learn more at daysatdunrovin.com, and email Alice@daysatdunrovin.com to reserve a slot.

Writers ages 8-11 should check out the Missoula Writing Collaborative’s Creative Writing Workshop with Sheryl Noethe, meeting at Fort Missoula, Officer’s Row, No. 28, from 1-3 PM on April 12, 19 and 26. Free. Call 549-3348 to learn more.

Find out about some dudes named Higgins and Worden when at Growing the Garden City: Missoula’s First 100 Years, an exhibit at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. Opening reception from 1-4 PM. New-York-Times-approved pianist Nicholas Phillips performs pieces from his American Vernacular song series at the Missoula Art Museum. 3 PM. $25/$20 for members, with reception to follow after the performance. Visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

nightlife The Saturday Family Art Workshop: Artist’s Pinwheels with Cindy Laundrie invites all ages to get together and make nifty works of art to dance in the breeze. Missoula Art Museum. 11 AM-12:30 PM. Free, but register ahead of time. Call 728-0447 or email reneet@missoulaartmuseum.org to learn more.

What happens at The Keep stays at the Keep when Missoula’s Community Chorus hosts Missoula UnCorked! Vino Las Vegas, a wine tasting gala, poker and auction. 102 Ben Hogan Drive. 6-9 PM. $50.

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Grumpy face. CunninLynguists play the Palace Mon., April 14, along with J-Live, Sadistik, Nemo Achida, Codependents and Poetic Intelligence. 9 PM. $18. Visit ticketfly.com. 18-plus.

Tickets available at missoulachorus.org or at Rockin Rudy’s.

Knock back a pint or two when Aran Buzzas plays “homegrown Montana folky tonk” at Blacksmith Brewing in Stevensville. 6-8 PM. Get winey, not whiny when John Floridis plays tunes at the Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at four 4, tunes from 6-9 PM. Biga antipasto available, or bring your own foodsnacks.

the UM Cabaret at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier St. 7 PM and 9 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.

The Lolo Square and Round Dance Center hosts a Spring Fling Luau Dance with caller Adam Christman and cuer Lorrie Lane.

Pre-rounds at 7 PM, dance from 7:30-9:30 PM. Call 251-2173 or

visit lolocampndance.com directions.

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The Grizzly Claw Trading Company in Seeley Lake hosts a poetry reading with Alan Weltzien, author of Snow Peaks and To Kilimanjaro and Back, at 7 PM. The Yonder Mountain String Band does up a springtime hootenanny just right at the Wilma. Doors

KVD! KVD! The one and only Kevin Van Dort plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 6-8 PM. No cover.

It’s free to be you and me at the fifth annual Diversity Day Celebration, hosted by NCBI’s Youth Advisory Council. Young folk and a cross-section of the Missoula community will perform song, dance and spoken word based on the “Diverse City” theme, followed by live music and dance party. Missoula Senior Center.

6-10 PM. Free. (See Agenda.)

The first-ever Montana Fishing Film Festival shows films by Montuckians for Montuckians at the Crystal Theatre. 6:30 PM. $10. And heads up, there’s ‘sposed to be free beer from Bitterroot Brewery.

Have a sultry Saturday when the UM School of Music presents

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Sofa kings. Volbeat plays the Wilma Tue., April 15, along with Trivium and Digital Summer.

Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $40. Tickets at Rockin Rudy's and knittingfactory.com.

at 7 PM, show at 8. $25/$22.50 in advance.

Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Who rocks? Aaron B’Rocks at the Dark Horse, 1805 Regent Ave. 9 PM. No cover.

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

Missoula’s ShoDown plays country fried tunes for your dancing pleasure at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. No cover.

You’ll only need a little lettuce when Bozeman’s Flatt Cheddar plays bluegrass as part of the Yonder Mountain String Band afterparty at Stage 112. Bar opens at 8, tunes start at midnight. $3.

Get saucy with the Alternative/Urban Tango Night at Downtown Dance Collective, where you’re encouraged to decorate a thrifted dress or coat to suit the Graffiti theme. Dance lesson at 8 PM, milonga from 9 PM to midnight, with potluck refreshments. $10/$16 for couples.

Check out some cool back-alley bibliophiles at You May Forget the Sky, a poetry reading by Alison Riley and Mackenzie Cole at FrontierSpace. In the alley between Pine and Higgins, near Sean Kelly’s. 8 PM. Donations appreciated.

Captain Wilson Conspiracy plays jazz tunes with covert flair at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St. 8-10 PM. No cover.

You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. Now free.

Rock out with your peacock out when ISCSM hosts a headbanging, leather-jacketed Kings and Queens of Rock drag show. Palace Lounge. Performer protocol from 9-9:30 PM, show at 10:15. $5.

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This Saturday, we’re gonna do it bigger than we’ve ever done it before when Russ Nasset and the Revelators play the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Lake Tahoe-based Americana outfit Ben Fuller Band plays Sean Kelly’s. 9:30 PM. No cover.

The Juveniles promises a mature evening of enjoyment when it plays the VFW, along with Chemical Lawns, Mass FM and Slowglass. 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Portland’s Hillstomp dumps out a bucket of bluesy trouble at the Top Hat, along with Dodgy Mountain Men. 10 PM. $7.

SUNDAYAPRIL13 Party down Indiana Jones-style when UM archaeology faculty and students presents a Montana Archaeology Month Celebration with a nifty artifact roadshow and guided tours in the Missoula Mercantile Building. 1 PM. Free.

The International Wildlife Film Festival promises to make your heart sing, with several films screening April 12-19 at the Roxy,

[calendar] plus special events throughout the week. $7 per film/$5 seniors/$5 students/$3 kids 12 and under. $75 for festival pass. Visit wildlifefilms.org. (See Arts.)

The world-renowned African Children’s Choir performs spiritual and gospel favorites at the King’s Christian Church, 9830 Valley Grove Dr. in Lolo. 10:45 AM. Donations appreciated.

Walk on the wild side at the International Wildlife Film Festival’s WildWalk Parade, where all are invited to dress up as a critter of their choosing and line up at the XXXXs downtown at 11:15 AM, to stride down Higgins to Caras Park. WildFest follows from noon to 3 PM. Free.

Party like an animal at Wild Fest, a family friendly event to start off the 37th Annual International Wildlife Film Festival. Caras Park.

Noon. Free.

The annual Spudfest digs up a good time with food, activities and silent auction at the Senior Center in Alameda Hot Springs.

Noon-4 PM. $5. Proceeds go toward the LaRue Museum.

The Sapphire Mountain Men host the always-studly Public Days, which include blackpowder rifle shooting, tomahawk throwing and period reenactments at the Hellgate Civilian Shooters Association Range. 7350 Zaugg St. in Bonner. Noon-5 PM. Free.

Get in touch with your scientific side at “History In Your Hands” with anthropology professor Kelly Dixon and her students, part of Montana Archaeology Month. Mercantile Building, corner of Higgins and Front. 1-4 PM.

More events online: missoulanews.com One and all are invited to get keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association Dance at the Rustic Hut in Florence. 1-4 PM. $4/$3 for members. Call 406-240-9617 for info.

Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their acoustic instrument, or just sit a spell and listen. Call John at 381-2483. Free.

Knock back some ethanol alcohol for a scientific buzz with the The Missoula Area Secular Society’s viewing party of “Cosmos” with Neil deGrasse Tyson. 501 Lounge in the upstairs of the Iron Horse. Get there and order your dranks at 6 PM and hush up at 7 PM showtime.

The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band puts some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, from 6–8 PM. $7. Visit missoulawinery.com. Polish your steps with swing lessons prior at 4:45 PM. The African Children’s Choir performs at the Lone Rock Bible Church, 1142 Three Mile Creek Road in Stevensville. 6:30 PM. Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free.

MONDAYAPRIL14 It’ll be way tastier than Proust’s madeleine when the Missoula Public Library hosts Cake Day in celebration of National Library Week and MPL’s 40th anniversary. 11 AM. Seventies-era outfits encouraged. And yes, there will be cake.

The International Wildlife Film Festival promises to make your heart sing, with several films screening April 12-19 at the Roxy, plus special events throughout the week. $7 per film/$5 seniors/$5 students/$3 kids 12 and under. $75 for festival pass. Visit wildlifefilms.org. (See Arts.)

Up your music cred by hearing stuff nobody’s listened to before when the School of Music presents the Composers’ Showcase, featuring new tunes from students in the composer program. Performances April 1415 at 2:10 and 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.

City Club Missoula presents a lunch State of the Community address with the mayor, UM president and a county commissioner at the Doubletree Hotel. 11:30 AM-1 PM. $15/$5 without lunch. Register at 541-2489 by noon on April 11.

Pianists Steven Hesla and Barbara Blegen, along with cellist Fern Glass Boyd, perform works by composers Rachmaninoff and Siloti. Seeley Swan High School. Pre-concert talk at 2 PM, performance at 3 PM. $14/12 for seniors/free for ages 18 and under.

Rasa O’Neill presents Therapeutic Yoga for Wellness and Healing, with gentle stretches, breath work and guided meditation.

Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent St. Mondays from noon to 1 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in. Ongoing class. Call 7210033 to learn more.

Julie Cajune performs her one-woman show of traditional Salish women’s stories, Belief, at the Symes Hotel in Alameda Hot Springs. 4 PM.

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

It’ll be nothing to sniff at when UM alumna Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon reads from her first novel, Nothing, along with queer poet Lehua Taitano. Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. 4 PM. (See Books.)

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nightlife Mr. Floridis is here to party, and he’s got backup at the Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover.

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

The one and only Tom Catmull plays the one and only Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover.

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[calendar] Local intrepid journalist Gwen Florio reads from her latest crime novel, Dakota, and parties down at Shakespeare and Co. at 7 PM. Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Call Joey at 406-2290488 to get yourself a spot.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free.

Maybe you’ll pick up some new Latin phrases when hip-hop outfit CunninLynguists play the Palace, along with J-Live, Sadistik, Nemo Achida, Codependents and Poetic Intelligence. 9 PM. $18. Visit ticketfly.com. 18plus.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. Here’s a question to tickle your brainwaves: Who sang the theme song to “The Magic School Bus”? (See answer in nightlife.)

Country singer Pam Tillis plays an acoustic set at the Dennison Theatre at 7:30 PM. $36. Advance tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s.

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Best Local Fashion & Beauty Eyewear Facials Hairstylist Tanning Salon Waxing

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The International Wildlife Film Festival promises to make your heart sing, with several films screening April 12-19 at the Roxy, plus special events throughout the week. $7 per film/$5 seniors/$5 students/$3 kids 12 and under. $75 for festival pass. Visit wildlifefilms.org. (See Arts.)

Up your music cred by hearing stuff nobody’s listened to before when the School of Music presents the Composers’ Showcase, featuring new tunes from students in the composer program. Performances April 14-15 at 2:10 and 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students.

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

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Writers of all stripes can meet somewhere besides a bar for once with the Writer’s Group facilitated by John Robinson at Bitterroot Public Library. 6:30-8 PM every other Tuesday.

Mountain biker and 2012 Olympian Sam Schultz appears as part of a benefit night for the Youth Homes InnerRoads Wilderness Program. Runner’s Edge, 304 N. Higgins Ave. 7-8 PM. Free to attend, but space is limited.

Check out youthhomesmt.org/innerroads to learn more.

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at 7:30. $40. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

More events online: missoulanews.com Veterans and their families and caregivers are invited to the Yoga Warriors class, sponsored by the Learning Center at Red Willow and hosted at The Peak Health and Wellness Center, 150 E. Spruce Street. Free, but limited to 20 participants, so sign up at 7210033.

nightlife Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.

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

Volbeat is back to rock and/or roll at the Wilma, along with Trivium and Digital Summer. Doors at 6:30 PM, show

Declare who is Lord Smartypants of Them All and get a $25 bar tab at KBGA’s Tuesday Trivia night, which includes music and picture rounds, plus drank specials. Pro tip: $25 is enough to buy almost everybody in the bar a Natty Light. Free to play. VFW, 245 W. Main St. 8-10 PM. Kick back for this edition of the Hot Springs Artists Society when Yabba Griffiths plays reggae at the Symes Hotel. 8-10 PM. Pass-the-hat donation.

Solo acoustic country fella Eric Barrera plays down-home tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave, this and every Tuesday at at 9 PM. No cover.

Vancouver-based prog rock band Redrick Sultan gets Canadian-style weird at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover, plus $3 Montgomery drink special.

Colorado’s West Water Outlaws are out to play rock ‘n’ roll no matter what, and they’ll do it with fab hair, too. Top Hat. 9:30 PM. No cover. (Trivia answer: Little Richard.)

WEDNESDAYAPRIL16 Lost Sparrow, a 2009 documentary on the adoption of Native American children before the Indian Child Welfare Act, screens as part of Indian Law Week. School of Law, room 101. 6-7:30 PM. The International Wildlife Film Festival promises to make your heart sing, with several films screening April 12-19 at the Roxy, plus special events throughout the week. $7 per film/$5 seniors/$5 students/$3 kids 12 and under. $75 for festival pass. Visit wildlifefilms.org. (See Arts.)

Sell old stuff or find some new-to-you treasures at the University of Montana Campus Rec Outdoor Program Used Gear Sale.

University Center, noon-5 PM. To sell items, bring ‘em between 7 and 11 AM, and retrieve unsold things and payouts between 5:30 and 7:30 PM. The UM Outdoor Program collects 15 percent of the sale price.

nightlife Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 6 PM. Free, all ages. April 16 features Captain Wilson Conspiracy.

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Kiss me on the bus. Infamous Stringdusters plays the Top Hat Wed., April 16, along with the Boston Boys. Doors at 7 PM. $21/$19 in advance.

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

Free.

You can draw all the steezy ladies of Betty’s Divine when the ZACC hosts another Celebrity Sketch. 6 PM. $12/$10 for members. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.org to learn more.

City Life Community Center hosts Safeguard Our Kids Safeguard Our Prescriptions, a conversation with local professionals about prescription drug abuse. 1515 Fairview Ave. 7 PM. Free.

Poet Monty Campbell Jr. reads from Train Through the Video Game and A Large Dent in the Moon at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Southern rapper Yelawolf plays the Wilma, doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $24/$22 in advance. (See Music.)

Tuscon-based poet Brian Blanchfield reads from his new collection A Several World, along with author Alice Bolin, at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. The Infamous Stringdusters play their own high-energy brand of newgrass at the Top Hat, along with the Boston Boys. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $21/$19 in advance.

Check out tophatlounge.com. 18-plus.

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

Reggae chillmeister Yabba Griffiths plays Feruqi’s at 9 PM. Cover TBA.

Milkcrate Wednesdays: Random Music for Random Kitties slinks on down to the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

Leave it to Total Combined Weight to separate The Men from the Boys when they play a dudely show at the VFW. 9 PM. $8/$10 for ages 18-20. (See Music.)

THURSDAYAPRIL17 Kick it at a cool soirée in support of talented young folk at the seventh annual Aerie International gala, a fundraiser with hors d’oeurves, desserts, live jazz and readings from the 2014 issue of the Big Sky High School literary magazine. Dana Gallery. 5:30-8 PM. $10/$8 for students/$5 for ages 12 and under. $25 for four adult tickets.

The International Wildlife Film Festival promises to make your heart sing, with several films screening April 12-19 at the Roxy, plus special events throughout the week. $7 per film/$5 seniors/$5 students/$3 kids 12 and under. $75 for festival pass. Visit wildlifefilms.org. (See Arts.)

Blessed be the drunks when the Hangover Saints play the Palace, along with Cain and Fable, Lunacy and the Moon and Max Ammons play the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

The Thursday Young Artists After School Program gets the chilluns involved with all manner of art history and media. ZACC. 2:155 PM. $12/$10 for members. Ages 6-11. Call 549-7555 to learn more.

Nature poet Bob Pack reads from his newest works at the Davidson Honors College at 4 PM. Free.

Migizi Pensoneau, member of the 1491s Native American comedy collective (and occasional witty Indy contributor) presents “Intent, Reception and the Reclamation of Native

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[calendar] Imagery” at the University Center Theater. 45 PM. Free, with reception to follow.

$145. Call 406-830-0949 or email britta.bloedorn@gmail.com to learn more.

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

6–7 PM. Free.

Salute cool women and girls with the Soroptimist Spirit of Excellence’s Celebration of Achievement gala at Ruby’s Inn. Includes dinner, music, magician and award ceremonies. 5 PM. $25. Call Michelle at 406-2405991 to learn more.

The four-week Introduction to Herbal Medicine course with clinical herbalist Britta Bloedorn presents a whole-body approach to preventing illness and self-care with western herbal medicine. 210 N. Higgins, Ste 318.

Meets at 6 PM on Thursdays until May 1.

Cultural Minister Andre Floyd is here to spread the gospel of blues at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. Southern rock outfit Blackberry Smoke plays the Wilma, along with The Delta Saints.

Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $18.50. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com.

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During Open Mic Night at Sean Kelly’s, local talented folks may titillate your eardrums. 8:30 PM. Free. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM Thursday to sign up.

Party like a spring chicken when the Young Blood Brass Band plays Stage 112. 9 PM. $10. Check out Stage 112’s Facebook page for more info. (See Music.)

Take our deputy calendar editor out for spin when Dark Horse Country Band plays tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. It’s going down, I’m yelling timber when the Badlander hosts the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot trax and a rotating cast of

DJs. $1 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight; women get in free before 10.

Get an earful when singer-songwriter Dan Tedesco plays the Top Hat, starting at 10 PM. Wild thang (ba-da-da-da-da-da) you make my heart sing. Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event.

Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost.

If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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f you don’t follow the latest news from the world of fisheries management (and why wouldn’t you?!) you might have missed the news about some bragging rights earned by University of Montana scientists recently. Scientists with the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, including University of Montana students, were working on a genetic inventory of fish in the upper Columbia River basin in Montana and Idaho. They were astonished to realize that, after genetic testing confirmed it, a particular small fishy had never been identified before. UM PhD candidate Mike LeMoine, one of the scientists on the discovery team, chats about the cedar sculpin, aka Cottus schitsuumsh, on Thu., April 10.

The six-inch-long, filmy, white-and-brown cedar sculpin was named after the Western red cedar

trees found among the Idaho panhandle streams it was discovered in. The cedar sculpin is no glistening beauty compared to other fish in the watershed like, say, a cutthroat or bull. (One headline didn’t mince words when it called it an “ugly, big-headed fish.”) But it is an indicator of water quality and a source of food for cutthroat and bull trout, who need all the help they can get right now. And in a day and age when species are often disappearing faster than we can catalog them, it’s heartwarming to know there’s still new ones to uncover, and more to learn about the diversity right in our backyard.

—Kate Whittle UM PhD candidate Mike LeMoine discusses discovering a new species of fish on Thu., April 10 in the Forestry Building, room 405. 6 PM. Free.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

THURSDAY APRIL 10 The Montana Native Plant Society is out to get you amped for spring flowers with a photography slide of Wildflowers from East of the Great Divide.

Gallagher Business Building, room L09. 7:30 PM.

FRIDAY APRIL 11 Make sure your first time is special by attending First Timer Friday at the Freestone Climbing Center, 935 Toole Ave. in Missoula, at 7 PM. Free if it’s your first visit.

SATURDAY APRIL 12 Cruise through rolling hills and scenic canyons at the Bobcat Classic Companion Ride, a 33-mile road race that finishes with a climb to the top of Lewis and Clark Caverns, outside Three Forks.

Contact Drew at drewcardoza@gmail.com to learn more.

You’ll be bright eyed and bushy tailed after Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs, which start at 8 AM every Saturday at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Grab breakfast with other participants afterward.

Free to run.

Visit runwildmissoula.org.

The Missoulians on Bicycles host the 74-mile Bearthmouth-Helmville junket. Meet at Eastgate Center before 8 AM to carpool, ride starts at 9 AM. Call Laurie and Ed at 214-4225 to learn more.

The 28th annual Run for the Trees is a 1-mile, 5K or 10K junket throughout Missoula’s riverfront trail system and the UM campus in support of National Arbor Month. Fun run starts at 11:30 AM. Register at Currents Aquatics Center or runforthetrees.org.

Jewel Willis of The Joyful Animal instructs a Pet First Aid and Trap Release Clinic, with the best tactics if your dog gets stuck in a trap, at Dunrovin

Ranch in Lolo at 1 PM. $20. Learn more at daysatdunrovin.com, and email Alice@daysatdunrovin.com to reserve a slot.

SUNDAY APRIL 13 Bring your pic-a-nic basket for the 60-mile MOBI Lunch at Lubrecht ride, which meets at Le Petit Outre at 10 AM to take Highway 200 out to Lubrecht for a picnic in the woods. Call Chris at 5930032 to learn more.

MONDAY APRIL 14 Hunters take note, late-winter mountain lion season ends today.

Five Valleys Audubon gets together to chat about the nifty UM Zoological Museum. Gallagher Business Building. 7:30 PM.

TUESDAY APRIL 15 The spring black bear season is scheduled to open today. Check fwp.mt.gov for hunting regulations and possible date changes.

Lo, spring cycling is here, and if your trusty twowheeler’s not in great shape, check out the handson Bike Maintenance Class at the University of Montana Outdoor Program. The class meets April 15, 17, 22 and 24. $50. Visit life.umt.edu/CREC/Outdoor/default.php to learn more.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 Sell old stuff or find some new-to-you treasures at the University of Montana Campus Rec Outdoor Program Used Gear Sale. University Center, noon-5 PM. To sell items, bring ‘em between 7 and 11 AM, and retrieve unsold things and payouts between 5:30 and 7:30 PM. The UM Outdoor Program collects 15 percent of the sale price.

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I remember once reading a job listing for a company, which I won’t name, that said it wanted to encourage a diverse workplace. “Wear a funny hat! Dye your hair! We’re a fun, diverse office!” it said. Um, wrong kind of diversity.

Diversity, of course, means being inclusive of all races, ethnicities, gender presentations, sexual orientations and physical abilities. While Montana isn’t the most diverse place in the world, it’s still worth celebrating the array of people we do have here.

The annual Diversity Day celebration, on April 12 this year, was founded in 2010 by students in NCBI’s after-school Respect Club. For the party, a cross-section of Missoula area young folk present song, dance and spoken word pieces. Performers on the bill include Express to Speak, Simone Fielding, Eden Atwood, Hmong and Native American artists, poet Tahjbo and the girls of YWCA’s GUTS program. Diversity Day closes with live music from Citi Ghost and a deejayed dance party. Getting to

know your fellow human beings by showing off funky moves: now there’s a way to break down barriers.

—Kate Whittle NCBI’s Respect Club celebrates Diversity Day with a showcase of youth talent and dance party at the Missoula Senior Center Sat., April 12, from 6-10 PM. Free.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY APRIL 10 Community Medical Center hosts a livestream of Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss, part of the 21st annual Hospice Foundation Teleconference. Gallagher Board Room, 2827 Fort Missoula Road. Noon-2:30 PM. Call Aylett at 7288848 for more information.

FRIDAY APRIL 11 Learn how to help local critters when the Humane Society of Western Montana hosts volunteer orientations on Friday at 5 PM and Saturday at 11 AM. Visit myhswm.org to learn more.

SUNDAY APRIL 13 Have a feel-good stroll at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Walk to Cure Diabetes, a 3mile walk starting at 2 PM on Dornblaser field, with barbecue and raffle prizes to follow. Last year’s walk raised $50,000 toward diabetes research.

Check out jdrf.org for info and registration.

The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center honors Claudia Brown the 28th annual Peacemaker award at a celebration at the University Congregational Church. 4-6 PM.

MONDAY APRIL 14 Dr. Nerissa Koehn presents “Transmigrant Health in a World of Permeable Borders: Place, Access and Transnational Competence,” as part of UM’s spring lecture series on global health. Gallagher Business Building Room 106, 6:30-7:30 PM. The Bonner Milltown Community Council meets to chat about a proposed mill levy for the Missoula Rural Fire District and discuss community trails construction. Bonner School Library. 7 PM. Call 240-7793 to learn more.

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

Indian Law Clinic Director Maylinn Smith presents “Anything but Clear and Anything but

Right: A Review of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl,” as part of Indian Law Week. School of Law, room 101.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 The Prescription for Prevention Summit hosts a panel of experts and keynote speaker, Andy Duran from Chicago, chatting about local efforts to prevent prescription drug abuse. Hilton Garden Inn. $35, which includes lunch. Call 258-3022 or email brandee@missoulaforum.org to learn more.

The Missoula League of Women Voters presents the public forum, “Facts and Faces of Homelessness in Missoula Part Two: Individuals in Shelters and Transitional Housing.” Missoula Public Library, large meeting room. Noon-1 PM. Nobody gets out of this world alive, so head to the Willapalooza with The Missoula Community Foundation to learn how to make a will or advance directive. MCT Center for the Performing Arts.

Drop-in from 5-7 PM. Free. Call 406-552-7347 to learn more.

Learn about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new international free-trade agreement currently in negotiations, with “The Biggest Corporate Free For All,” an event sponsored by Montanans Against the TPP. Gallagher Business Building, room 123. 7 PM.

THURSDAY APRIL 17 The two-day Indian Child Welfare Act Conference starts today at the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel, 5252 Airway Blvd., and includes discussions with legal experts, psychologists and Indian adoptees. Call 406-203-2213 or email hillary.plouffe@umconnect.umt.edu to learn more.

Anne Carlson of The Wilderness Society presents “Adaptive Management and Forest Restoration in a Changing Climate,” part of the conservation social science spring seminar series.

Forestry Building, room 301. 4:10-5 PM. Join Hospice of Missoula for Community Conversations on Death and Dying, where facilitators educate people on how to talk about this oft-uncomfortable subject. The Loft, 119 W. Main St. 6–8 PM. Free.

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

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SERF'S UP! My boyfriend works at a hardware store and can fix things, and in the past six months, his sister and her husband have asked him to install their new kitchen faucet, mend their fence (with the husband's help), and assemble a lawnmower.

They are lawyers and could afford a handyman. Instead, they feed him a crappy $15 meal, despite knowing that we struggle to make ends meet. They do invite us to dinner parties, and he lived at their house rentfree for six months when he moved here for college. He generally isn't a pushover but says, "You're always supposed to help family." I also think he enjoys helping them, but when your family has far more money than you, shouldn't they be helping themselves? When I bring up their taking advantage of him, it always causes a fight because he won't see my point of view.

—Frustrated When you're invited to somebody's home for dinner, good manners dictate that you bring something, but maybe a bottle of wine or a pie, not a shovel so you can dig the hole for their new septic tank: "Dinner will be served after a little light plumbing."

The way you see it, unless a person's relative is Jimmy Carter, he shouldn't be inviting them over for an afternoon of home improvement. Well, that's how it works in your boyfriend's family culture.

Their way isn't wrong; it's just different from your way. But perhaps because you're focused on the tumbleweed blowing through your bank account, you're succumbing to "confirmation bias," our tendency to cling to information that confirms our beliefs and shove aside information that doesn't, like how these two previously "exploited" your boyfriend by letting him live rent-free at their place for six months.

Chances are, this has more than paid for his occasional handymanning. And while he's got a way with a screwdriver, I would guess that if he had a legal issue, sis would help him and follow up with a hug instead of a bill with a threat to ruin his credit if he doesn't pay within seven days.

The issue you should be worried about is tucked in at the end of your letter. It's your style of conflict resolution, which appears to be, "There are two ways to see an issue, my way or my way." This is a viable strategy if you've just mounted a successful military coup on a small Central American nation. It's far less effective when you're in a relationship with a man who is able to open doors and walk through them carrying boxes of his stuff.

Every relationship comes with unsolvable problems. Identifying this as one of them should help you stop badgering your boyfriend to change, which will only change your feelings for each other from loving to resentful. You should also figure out the fears behind your stance. (Money worries? The worry that "family first" means he won't be there for you?) Telling him your fears will allow him to listen and reassure you in a way he can't when you're nagging him to stop being there for people who matter to him. Ironically, evoking his sympathy is also the one way you might get him to stop automatically saying yes to "We'd love to see you, little brother!" and then the inevitable Part B: "...because the washing machine is making this sound like people being tortured in hell."

SEX DEGREES OF SEPARATION I've been seeing this fantastic guy, "Eric," for three months, and we're starting to feel like a couple. But a year ago, before we met, I made out with a friend of his at a party. I don't want Eric to find out and think I hid something from him. How should I go about telling him?

—Uncomfortable What barely happened in Vegas should also stay in Vegas. Yes, you and your boyfriend's friend had that special sort of attraction that leads two people to leave a party and never bother seeing each other again. Assuming there's no danger you'd run off with his friend, running off at the mouth would just give your boyfriend an icky visual to replay in his head and probably an icky feeling to go with it whenever you and his friend are in the same room. It's also unlikely that anybody would disclose this to your boyfriend, and even if they did, what would you be guilty of, pre-cheating on him? ("A year ago, my third eye was acting up, and I failed to foresee meeting you before I got a little drunk and made out with somebody you knew.") In general, it's best to avoid offering anyone details from your sex life unless they are your gynecologist or could catch something from you that would lead to a visit from a guy in a beekeeper suit from the CDC.

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Part Time Receptionist COWLES MONTANA MEDIA seeks to hire a part-time receptionist for AM/PM shifts or staggered days to greet visitors and answer a multifunction phone system. Minimum educational requirement is a high school diploma; other requirements include knowledge relating to administrative and clerical procedures, experience with telephone switchboard operation and good communication skills, interpersonal skills and customer service skills. Candidate must be able to sit for long periods of time. Receptionist will be answering telephones, screening and directing calls, relaying messages in a timely manner, greeting visitors as they enter the office, sorting and distributing mail and assisting accounting and sales departments. Work is part-time; hours and days to be discussed

PROFESSIONAL CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED FOR LOCAL HAULS • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 Flatbed Drivers needed from the Missoula area. Home weekly to Bi-weekly • Top pay • Full benefits • New equipment • 2 years experience required • Clean driving record • Must be present to apply. 406-493-7876 Call 9am-5pm M-F only.

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Job# 10041471 MOUNTAIN VIEW COOP, Great Falls Montana is seeking a qualified General Manager. This is a locally owned cooperative with a grain shuttle loading facility, full service agronomy, energy operation and retail with sales of $200 million with twelve locations. Grain, agronomy, energy, retail as well as financial and personal management experience required.

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50 pounds and will experience frequent bending, squatting, lifting and repetitive motion. Valid drivers License with a good driving record. BA or BS preferred; equivalent work experience will be considered. Minimum of 3 years experience retail operation and management is preferred.

Experience in retail sales, marketing, salvage and environmental desirable.

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Job# 10041546 Shift Supervisor This position contributes to Starbucks success by assisting the store manager in executing store operations during scheduled shifts.

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Job# 10041419 Summit Preparatory School on 500 acres in Kalispell is a private, non-profit co-ed therapeutic boarding school for teenagers with psychological, social, family, academic and behavior problems. Seeking male and female Residential Counselors to work as primary resource for team of male and female students to assist with personal needs, track program progression and assist with treatment planning. Req’d: Bachelor’s degree (psych/education related preferred) training or exp. With adolescents, outdoor rec exp.

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Job# 10041384 LOOKING FOR A TRUCK DRIVER. Must have a Class A CDL with a clean driving record.

Competitive wages, starting wage $18 DOE. Benefits: Simple IRA, health insurance, dental, paid vacation and paid holiday.

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SAWMILL OPENINGS PYRAMID Mountain Lumber is accepting applications for BAND SAW FILER and MILLWRIGHT positions. Medical & Dental Insurance, 401(k), Paid Vacations & Holidays, Monthly Incentive Program. Pick up application at Main Office or online at w w w. p y r a m i d l u m b e r. c o m .

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HEALTH CAREERS CNA / PCA EDGEWOOD VISTA is seeking compassionate & caring CNA and/or PCA staff to work on call for day and night shifts. CNAs must have current Montana certification. PCAs are not required to have certification.

Experience with elder care, Alzheimer’s & dementia patients is preferred. Employer willing to train PCAs. Must be able to work in a team environment & have considerable patience, along with desire to work with elderly residents. Need to be able to

take direction & work effectively with staff. Must be able to lift 75 lbs, transfer residents, and communicate effectively with residents, their family members and staff. Required to be on time and reliable. Must be able to pass a full background check and drug test. Will complete documentation on residents; transfer and discharge residents; provide medication assistance; personal care; maintain a safe and sanitary environment; prepare and serve food; clean-up of food and food areas; housekeeping and laundry; and assist residents with activities. Will work on a call-asneeded position with varied days, shifts & number of hours per week. Employer to discuss schedule at interview. Potential for numerous shifts per week.

PAY: CNA—with 2 years of experience, $9.98 per hour, PCA— with 2 years of experience, $8.93 per hour. Wages will depend on experience. Benefits offered for full time. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10041520 Home Health Aide PARTNERS IN HOME CARE INC. The Home Health Aide provides direct personal care and psychosocial support to clients in their residences in accordance with a plan of care; provides assistance with various aspects of personal care and assists with transfers and ambulation; observes clients’ functioning and status; and reports observations to a registered nurse. Schedule is PRN or “asneeded”. Requires CNA license, driver’s license, reliable transportation and appropriate auto insurance. Prior experience in home care is preferred. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10041580 Mental Health Therapist Mental Health Therapist for the 2014-2015 school year, will work as part of a school based team to provide comprehensive

mental health support to a caseload of students with emotional and behavioral challenges in a Bitterroot Valley school (Most likely Stevensville Secondary).

There is potential to start this summer if available. Duties include:Clinical assessment & treatment plan development, Individual and group therapy, positive behavior support, collaboration and teaming with parents, teachers, school administrators and other service providers, crisis response and support, and documentation for billing Medicaid (HMK+), CHIP (HMK) and private insurance.

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Job# 10041577 Part Time - CNA CAREGiver - Bitterroot HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE - EMPLOYER OF CHOICE MAKE A DIFFERENCE TODAY! RECEIVE GREAT PAY AND BENEFITS! HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE is looking for the right people to make a difference in the life of a senior today. A CNA is not required, but is helpful. $9.00 $12.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

Job# 10041451 WELLNESS COACH HKJ INC. - WINDS OF CHANGE MHC. A local mental-health agency has an opening for a WELLNESS COACH. This employee demonstrates exercise and spends most of the day exercising with clients. A highschool diploma or GED is required; preferred is education or experience in personal training, weight loss, exercise and using lifestyle changes to manage and improve chronic illness.

Pay starts at $10 per hour and goes to $12 after probation. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Freedom is the most important kind of joy you can seek right now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "A snowball's chance in hell" is an American idiom that's equivalent to saying "it probably won't happen." After all, a snowball would instantly melt if exposed to the scorching fires that rage in the underworld. But what if there's an exception to this axiom?

Let's call on another American idiom: "when hell freezes over." It's another way to say "it probably won't happen." But the truth is that now and then a cold front does indeed sweep through the infernal region, icing its flames. When that happens, a snowball's prospects of surviving there improve dramatically. And that's exactly what I predict will happen for you in the coming week.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 2007, J. K. Rowling finished writing the seventh volume of her seven Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The day it was published it sold 11 million copies. But Rowling had actually written the final chapter of this last book way back in 1990, when she first conceived the story she was to spend the next 17 years working on. She knew the climax right from the beginning.

I foresee a similar theme unfolding for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. As you plot a project you will be developing for a long time to come, you will have a vision of what it will be when it becomes fully mature.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When you see your shadow, it's usually right next to you. It's there on the ground or floor, a fuzzy black shape that follows you around closely. But today I saw my shadow waving back at me from afar. I was standing on top of a hill, and the sun's rays created a dusky version of me in the meadow way down below. I think this is a useful metaphor for an opportunity that's available to you. In the coming days, you will be able to view the shadowy, undeveloped parts of your personality as if from a distance. That means you will have more objectivity about them, and thus greater compassion. You can get a calm, clear sense of how they might be mucking with your happiness and how you could transform them.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars," said psychologist Timothy Leary. That's good advice for you to keep in mind in the near future. You might want to find a way to carry on constructive dialogs with people who have a hard time understanding you. It's not necessarily that they are stupid or resistant to your charms. The problem is that they haven't experienced some of the critical transformations you have. They can't be expected to converse with you in your butterfly language. Are you willing and able to speak caterpillar?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you thinking of linking your fortunes to a new ally? Or deepening your collaboration with a familiar ally? Have you fantasized about bonding intensely with a source that may be able to give you more of what you want and bring out more of the best in you?

These prospects are worth contemplating, Libra. But I suggest you let your connection ripen a bit more before finalizing the shift. I'm not necessarily saying there's a potential problem. I simply suspect that you need further exploration and additional information before you can make the smartest move possible.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Saturn has been in the sign of Scorpio since October 2012 and will be there until the end of 2014. (It will make another visit from June to September 2015.)

What does that mean? I have a view of Saturn that's different from many astrologers. They regard it as the planet of limitation, struggle, and difficulty. Here's what I think: While Saturn may push you to be extra tough and work super hard, it also inspires you to cut away extraneous desires and home in on your deepest purpose. It motivates you to build strong structures that free you to express yourself with maximum efficiency and grace.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When I took an intermediate painting class in college, our first assignment was to imitate an old master. My choice was the Flemish painter Pieter Breugel the Elder (1525-1569). I worked on reproducing his painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent as precisely as I could. It was tedious and liberating. I invoked Breugel's spirit and prayed for his guidance.

I sank my psyche deeply into his. By the end of the four-week process I'd learned a lot about painting. Given the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest you try something similar. Pick someone who excels at a way of working or a state of being that you would like to master yourself, and copy that person for a while.

For best results, have fun with it. Play!

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author J. R. R. Tolkien spent 14 years working on The Lord of the Rings. In using a typewriter to produce over 1,200 pages, he relied solely on his two index fingers. He never learned the ten-finger typing method. I suppose it didn't matter in the end. Presumably, his impediment didn't affect the quality of his work, but only made it harder to accomplish and required him to spend a lot more time. Is there a fixable limitation on your own ability to achieve your dream, Capricorn? Is there some handicap you could, with effort, overcome? If so, now would be an excellent time to begin.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It's Love Your Messes Week, Taurus. In accordance with the astrological omens, you are authorized to love the hell out of the messes in your life—from the small, awkward knots of confusion to the big, beautiful heaps of fertile chaos. This is not a time to feel embarrassed or apologize for your messes; not a time to shy away from them or ignore them. On the contrary, you should explore them, celebrate them, and even take advantage of them. Whatever else they are, your messes are untapped sources of energy. Learn to love them for the mysterious lessons they keep teaching you. Love them for the courage and willpower they compel you to summon. Love them for the novelty they bring your way and the interesting stories they add to your personal legend.

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It's also the most important subject to study and think about, as well as the most important skill to hone. I advise you to make sure that freedom is flowing through your brain and welling up in your heart and spiraling through your loins. Write synonyms for "freedom" on your arm with a felt-tip pen: liberation, emancipation, independence, leeway, spaciousness, carte blanche, self-determination, dispensation. Here's one more tip: Connect yourself with people who love and cultivate the same type of freedom you do.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "The truth's superb surprise," wrote poet Emily Dickinson, may be "too bright for our infirm delight." Sometimes we've got to be careful about articulating what's really going on. "The truth must dazzle gradually," she said. If it hits us too fast and hard, it may be difficult to digest. So did Emily suggest that we should lie and deceive? No. "Tell all the truth," she declared, "but tell it slant." This is excellent advice for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here's my report on your progress. You are not struggling to embody a delusional state of perfection as it is imagined by other people. Rather, you are becoming an ever-more soulful version of your idiosyncratic self, evolving slowly but surely. You are not dazedly trudging along a narrow track laid down by thousands of sheep. Instead, you are lively and creative as you bushwhack a path for yourself through the wilderness. To celebrate this ongoing success, Pisces, I suggest you get yourself a new power object that symbolizes your inventive devotion.

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PUBLIC NOTICES Christopher W. Froines, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, Terrace West, Suite K, 619 Southwest Higgins, Missoula, Montana 59803 froines@lawmissoula.com 406-541-4940 Attorneys for Plaintiffs MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-14-326 AMENDED SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION CHRIS WARDEN AND LORELEI WARDEN, Plaintiffs, vs. JIM F. AMMEN AND ALICE A. AMMEN, S.F. ERICKSON AND CHRISTINE ERICKSON, QUICKEN LOANS, INC., MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., and any and all persons, known or unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien upon the real property herein

described in the Complaint adverse to Plaintiffs’ ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiffs’ title, whether such claim or possible claim is present or contingent, Defendants. TO: The above stated Defendants: This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title in land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: The South 1/2 of The West 15 feet of the East 165 feet of the South one-half of Lot 2 in Block 39 of HAMMOND ADDITION NO. 3., a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, which includes the land on which their garage is partially located, and more particularly described as: Commencing at the southeast corner of Block 39, Hammond Addition No. 3, thence N 86º52’22” W,

150.04 feet, to the true point on beginning; thence N 86º52’22” W, 15.00 feet; thence N 03º08’34” E, 36.71 feet; thence S 86º40’42” E, 15.00 feet, thence 03º08’34” W, 36.67 feet to the point of beginning and containing 550 square feet. A lawsuit has been filed against you. Within 21 days after the service of this Summons on you (or 42 days if you are the state of Montana, a state agency, or a state officer or employee), you must serve on the Plaintiff an Answer to the attached Complaint of Motion under Rule 12 of the Montana Rules of Civil Procedure. Do not include the day you were served in your calculation of time. The Answer or Motion must be served on the Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s attorney, if Plaintiff is represented by an attorney, whose name and address

are listed above. If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. You may also file your Answer or Motion with the Court.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of said court, this 4th day of April, 2014. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Andrew Jenks, Deputy MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 2 PROBATE NO. DP-14-65 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF THELMA S. SAUNDERS, aka THELMA RUTH SAUNDERS, born as THELMA RUTH SCHEFFELMAER, 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 Larry G. Saunders, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Morales Law Office, P.C. at 422 West Spruce S., PO Box 9311, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 3rd day of April, 2014. /s/ Larry G. Saunders, Personal Representative c/o Morales Law Office, P.C. 422 W. Spruce St., PO Box 9311, Missoula, MT 59807-9311 MNAXLP

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-49 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF HAROLD G. KNAPP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karleen Gail Hickock f/k/a Karleen Gail Knapp has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Karleen Gail Hickock f/k/a Karleen Gail Knapp, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed

with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of March, 2014. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 59807-8234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-53 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NORMAN F. KURTZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four

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PUBLIC NOTICES months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Gretchen Murray, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the abovenamed Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 10th day of March, 2014, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Gretchen Murray, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause Probate No. DP-14-63 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN LEE SWANSON, ALSO KNOWN AS JOHN L. SWANSON, AND JOHN SWANSON 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 of said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Deirdre Swanson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, Montana 59807-9197, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 2nd day of April, 2014. /s/ Deirdre Swanson, Personal Representative, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, MT 59807-9197 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-14-66 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF NEIL W. EASTER, 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 Kirk Alan Easter, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana the foregoing is true and correct.

Dated this 3rd day of April, 2014. /s/ Kirk Alan Easter c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802 /s/ Paul E. Fickes, Attorney for Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-14-267 Dept. No. 1 ALIAS SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION JEANETTE K. NEWLON, Plaintiff v. JACK STILLSON, WESTERN TITLE AND ESCROW COMPANY, WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK fsb, the successors in interest of WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, fsb, HSBC BANK USA NATIONAL ASSN as TRUSTEE for ACE 2005-SN1, ROBERT J. RANGITSCH and HELEN RANGITSCH, RAYMOND R. SEITZ and FLORENCE SEITZ, and EDGAR S. RAMEY and ELIZABETH RAMEY, COMMISSIONERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, and ALL OTHER PERSONS, KNOWN OR 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 THE PLAINTIFFS' OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS' TITLE, WHETHER THE CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM IS PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants, THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff's attorney within twentyone (21) days after service of this Summons, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of Quieting Title to the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 6, EXCEPT the South 68 feet thereof, and West 40 feet of Lot 5, EXCEPT the South 68 feet of said West 40 feet of Lot 5, and Block 8 of RANGITSCH ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. WITNESS MY HAND AND THE SEAL of this Court, the 7th day of April, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust Clerk of Court (COURT SEAL) By /s/ Heather Olean Deputy Clerk /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Plaintif Howard Toole Law Offices 211 N Higgins Ave., Ste. 350 Missoula, MT 59802 Ph. (406) 728-4682 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-14-64 NOTICE TO

CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD LAWRENCE BERTLIN, a/k/a Richard L. Bertlin and Richard Bertlin, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to BRIAN A. BERTLIN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 4th day of April, 2014. /s/ Brian A. Bertlin, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for the Personal Representatives. /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-55 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY D. BARMEYER, 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 BARBARA BARMEYER, return receipt requested, c/o Maser Law Office, PO Box 8688, Missoula, Montana 59807-8688 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 21st day of March, 2014. /s/ Barbara Barmeyer, c/o Masar Law Office, PO Box 8688, Missoula, Montana 59807-8688 MASAR LAW OFFICE, By: /s/ James J. Masar MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-59 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOLORES RAPP, 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 William E. McCarthy, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 26th day of March, 2014. WORDEN THANE PC Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ William E. McCarthy, Personal Representative MNAXLP MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA, MONTANA Cause No. DP-14-35 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHARLES PATRICK GRAHAM, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representatives 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 Bonnie Edith Graham or Alta Marina Graham, the Co-Personal Representatives, 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 25th day of February, 2014. /s/ Bonnie Edith Graham /s/ Alta Marina Graham STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) I, Bonnie Edith Graham, being duly sworn, upon oath, depose and state that I have read the foregoing and that the facts and matters contained therein are true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. /s/ Bonnie Edith Graham STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) Signed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me this 25th day of February, 2014, by Bonnie Edith Graham /s/ Michelle M. Fontaine, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Bonner, Montana My Commission Expires February 04, 2017 STATE OF MONTANA) :ss County of Missoula) I, Alta Marina Graham, being duly sworn, upon oath, depose and state that I have read the foregoing and that the facts and matters contained therein are true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Signed this 25th day of February, 2014. /s/ Alta Marina Graham Signed and sworn to (or affirmed) before this this 25th day of February, 2014, by Alta Marina Graham /s/ Michelle M. Fontaine, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Bonner, Montana My Commission Expires February 04, 2017 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/03/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201102369 B: 873 P: 784, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Nancy K. Coleman, A Married Woman was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Sterling Savings Bank, a Washing-

ton Corporation, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6227, located in the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 26, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201118745 B:885 P:372, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. 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 February 14, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $341,775.24. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $293,547.41, 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 June 25, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7021.18019) 1002.264905-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/12, recorded as Instrument No. 201201760 B: 888 P: 1237, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Henry B Jennings V was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for First Interstate Bank, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 3 of River Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with a 54 foot wide private access and public utility easement over and across Lot 1 and 2 as set forth in said plat of River Estates. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Branch Banking and Trust Company. 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 09/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of February 17, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $209,205.26. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $200,453.71, 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 July 1,

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2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7883.20068) 1002.265456-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 13, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 1 AND THE NORTH ONE- HALF OF LOT 2 IN BLOCK 14 OF BUTTE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 705 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 789. Joe Long, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 11, 2006 and recorded on October 16, 2006 in Book 785, Page 371 under Document No. 200626757. 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 $469.23, 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 January 10, 2014 is $153,441.43 principal, interest at the rate of 2.0% now totaling $8,259.37, late charges in the amount of $182.10, escrow advances of $3,399.88, and expenses advanced of $2,877.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $8.41 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: Janu-

ary 3, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )ss. County of Bingham) On this 3rd day of January, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Boa Vs. Long 42019.517 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 19, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel 1 of COS No. 4880.

A tract located in the NE1/4 of Section 4, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana George L Stevens and Gertrude L Stevens, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronice Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 25, 2006 and recorded September 29, 2006 in Book 784, Page 168 as Document No. 200624919. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee for Residential Accredit Loans, Inc., Mortgage Asset-Backed Pass- Through Certificates, Series 2007-QS3. 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 $6,847.34, beginning February 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of January 23, 2014 is $689,447.70 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $49,381.65, late charges in the amount of $1,816.01, escrow advances of $12,286.63, and other fees and expenses advanced of $292.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $129.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 9, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 9th day of January, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge

to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Ocwen V Stevens 42048.218 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 19, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The following described property: In the County of Missoula, State of Montana, The E1/2 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section 36, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Assessor’s Parcel No: 0794308 Larry Stolle and Dawn Stolle, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 1, 2009 and recorded July 13, 2009 in Book 843, Page 798 under Document No. 200917156. The beneficial interest is currently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as 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 $1,041.67, beginning June 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 19, 2013 is $177,929.98 principal, interest at the rate of 5.500% now totaling $6191.17, late charges in the amount of $156.24, escrow advances of $1,470.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,502.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.81 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: January 2, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 2nd day of January, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Bac V Stolle 42048.741 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 9, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 117 of Mansion Heights, Phase III, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat

thereof Andrea L. Moore, 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 System, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated September 16, 2008 recorded September 22, 2008 in Book 826 Page 973 under Document No 200821789.

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 $2,530.90, beginning May 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of November 28, 2013 is $312,072.93 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $12,051.25, late charges in the amount of $3,700.90, escrow advances of $3,803.44, and other fees and expenses advanced of $667.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $50.23 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 18, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 18th day of December, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Citimortgage V Moore 42090.038 MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on May 9, 2014, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 67 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 2, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA, COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Charles Brian Taylor and Janna M. Taylor, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 26, 2007 and recorded December 31, 2007, Book 811, Page 140, as document number 200733268. The beneficial interest is currently held by Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 $1,333.51, beginning August 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 1, 2014 is $206,242.70 principal, interest at the rate of 6.12500% now totaling $20,001.30, late charges in the amount of $134.14, escrow advances of $6,301.96, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,295.13, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.61 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 16, 2013 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 16th day of December, 2013, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 MAC Vs. Taylor 41965.761 MNAXLP NOTICE TO CREDITORS: MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Dept. No. 1, Probate No. DP-13-173 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH OGLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jan Ogle was appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jan Ogle, return receipt requested, c/o Elison Law Firm, PO Box 5496, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. March 11, 2014. /s/ JAN OGLE, Personal Representative. /s/ Martin Elison, Tel: (406) 541-6665 Attorney for Personal Representative. MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 13-00811-5 Loan Number: 40536708 APN: 2061651 Notice of Trustee’s Sale TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 15, 2014 at the hour of 11 :00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: Lot 2 in Block 5 of REHDER HOMESITES, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. More commonly known as:2239 42ND ST, MISSOULA,MT NORMA W. PARMITER AND BARBARA E. PARMITER AS

JOINT TENANTS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to ARTHUR F. LAMEY, JR, ESQ, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FINANCE AMERICA, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of July 26, 2004, and recorded on July 29, 2004 in Film No. 736 at Page 1994 under Document No. 200421416, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: U.S. Bank, National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation, Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-9 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 14, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 6, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from May 1, 2012 and which payments total: $29,765.25: Late charges: $773.55 Advances: $2,779.21 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $137,744.08 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 7.13000% per annum from April 1, 2012, plus late charges.

Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings.

The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash.

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED: March 6, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1087072 3/27, 4/3, 04/10/2014 MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 13-00814-5 Loan Number: 70882980 APN: 3568205 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on 7/15/2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 55 OF SWEET GRASS ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 3700 JACK DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT JOHN E SKOUSEN AND SAESHA M SKOUSEN, AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY., as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to NATIONAL LAND TITLE INSURANCE, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR DECISION ONE MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of March 12, 2007, and recorded on March 14, 2007 in Film No. 793 at Page 754 under Document No. 200705939, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”).

The current beneficiary is: DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee for the registered holders of MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2007-HE6 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HE6 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 12, 2014 and recorded in the records of Mis-

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s soula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 6, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from April 1, 2011 and which payments total: $91,054.79: Late charges: $731.71 Advances: $2,733.09 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $308,986.26 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 7.59000% per annum from March 1, 2011, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings.

The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash.

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT HYP E R L I N K “http://www.priorityposting.com” www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-5731965 Dated March 6, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1087073 3/27, 4/3, 04/10/2014 MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 13-00819-5 Loan Number: 7090970059 APN: 1227702 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 30, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, Missoula, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: Lot 8 of Hidden Hills, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. More commonly known as: 24600 FRENCHTOWN FRONTAGE RD, HUSON, MT RICHARD SALES AND RENE SALES, as grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES OF MISSOULA, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR POPULAR FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC, as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated March 24, 2004, and recorded on March 29, 2004 in Film No. 728 at Page 1369 under Document No. 200408179, in the records of Missoula County, Montana. (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor trustee for JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2004-3 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 25, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 20, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from November 1, 2012 and which payments total: $24,604.07: Late charges: $1,404.97 Advances: $7,997.89 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $144,119.67 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 7.25000% per annum from October 1, 2012, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale.

The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of

the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALESINFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 Dated March 20, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1088664 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2014 MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 13-01001-5 Loan Number: 7110043929 APN: 5804299 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 29, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: TRACT 5A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3493, LOCATED IN THE EAST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. More commonly known as: 15190 ERSKINE FISHING ACCESS,FRENCHTOWN,MT CHERI LYN DEPHILIPPIS, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to MARK E. NOENNIG, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR WMC MORTGAGE CORP., as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated as of October 4, 2004, and recorded on October 12, 2004 in Film No. 741 at Page 479 under Document No. 200428891, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). The current beneficiary is: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2004-WMC1 Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2004-WMC1 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 24, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 19, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from July 1, 2013 and which payments total: $8,946.81: Late charges: $189.75 Advances: $566.00 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $110,029.39 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 5.87500% per annum from June 1, 2013, plus late charges.

Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s or attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings. The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 DATED:March 19, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature P1088668 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2014 MNAXLP Trustee Sale Number: 13-01038-5 Loan Number: 705622199 APN: 3996306 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD for cash at Trustee’s Sale on July 28, 2014 at the hour of 11:00 AM, recognized local time, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT the following described real property in Missoula County, Montana, to-wit: LOT 25

IN BLOCK 62 OF DALY’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. More commonly known as: 1632 SOUTH 14TH STREET WEST, MISSOULA, MT DEVEN O’BLENESS AND KEARA O’BLENESS, as the original grantor(s), conveyed said real property to MARK E. NOENNIG, as the original trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., AS NOMINEE FOR WMC MORTGAGE CORP. , as the original beneficiary, by a Trust Indenture dated July 19, 2005, and recorded on July 20, 2005 in Film No. 756 at Page 781 under Document No. 200518260, in the Official Records of the Office of the Record of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”) The current beneficiary is: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for the Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of November 1, 2005 Securitized Asset Backed Receivables LLC 2005-HE1 (the “Beneficiary”). FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY was named as Successor Trustee (the “Trustee”) by virtue of a Substitution of Trustee dated February 6, 2014 and recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana. There has been a default in the performance of said Deed of Trust: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears as of March 18, 2014: Balance due on monthly payments from September 1, 2013 and which payments total: $5,726.07: Late charges: $162.90 Advances: $2,040.33 There is presently due on the obligation the principal sum of $141,519.22 plus accrued interest thereon at the rate of 3.00000% per annum from August 1, 2013, plus late charges. Interest and late charges continue to accrue.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds include the trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs and expenses of sale. The beneficiary has elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligation and has directed the trustee to commence such sale proceedings.

The beneficiary declares that the grantor is in default as described above and has directed the Trustee to commence proceedings to sell the property described above at public sale in accordance with the terms and provisions of this notice. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default theretofore existing. SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com AUTOMATED SALESINFORMATION PLEASE CALL 714-573-1965 Dated:March 18, 2014 FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee, By: Megan Curtis, Authorized Signature 11000 Olson Drive Ste 101 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 P1088672 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2014 MNAXLP

CLARK FORK STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 20, 34, 85, 99, 131, 174, 197, 217, 233 and 275. 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 4/21, 2014 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 4/24, 2014 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

"Weave Only Just Begun"– freestyle and challenging.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS

1 Nutty person (and new OED entry of 2014) 12 Talk freely 15 Ziti and such 16 AP competitor 17 Genre for "The Breakfast Club" or "A Catcher in the Rye" 18 Cornelius of "Soul Train" 19 People and language in Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" 20 Waiting for a real person, maybe 22 "Imagine that!"

27 ___ Popken (plus-size clothing retailer; hidden in PULLABLE) 28 Abu Dhabi's loc.

30 Secretly schemed against 33 Ice cream shop item 36 Lot for Londoners 37 Nut 41 Away from the workplace for good 43 Magician Harry, Sr. or Harry, Jr. 46 Designation ditched after smoking bans 47 Robert Indiana stamp insignia 48 Did some dirty dancing 51 Wipes clean 54 "Does that ring ___?"

57 Like a new coat, at first?

58 Acknowledges, with "to" 63 ___ heartbeat 64 Lacking feeling 65 Roofing sealant 66 1955 hit about coal mining

DOWN

1 Suffix after sand or Man 2 Director Egoyan 3 Army surplus store stuff

Last week’s solution

4 Kevin who played Dave 5 1980s teammate of Bird and McHale 6 Former UN Secretary General ___ Hammarskjˆld 7 "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss" singer 8 Switch status 9 1950 film noir classic 10 Ad image 11 Genesis locale 12 Ballet star Nureyev 13 Theater with a log rubbed for good luck 14 Odist with a type of ode named for him 21 "Sons of Anarchy" star Charlie 23 Noises from chopper blades 24 Old-school comedian Buddy 25 Bouncers ask for them 26 Tourist activity of declining popularity?

28 Bar code 29 Pie ___ mode 31 Musician on the road 32 "Gas Food Lodging" actress Skye 34 Rack contents 35 Tetra's home 38 Looked after 39 Particle suffix, in physics 40 Warehouse qty.

42 AAA job 43 Messed up big-time 44 John Bobbitt's ex-wife 45 2009 film set on the planet Pandora 49 Part of DKNY 50 Guy who was all thumbs?

52 Shield bearing Medusa's head: var.

53 Apple tech support?

55 Attachment on property 56 Fords produced until 1991 59 ___ populi 60 Sinus specialist, for short 61 "___ Drives Me Crazy" (1989 #1 hit) 62 Bee chaser?

©2014 Jonesin’ Crosswords editor@jonesincrosswords.com

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

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GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, $800, Condo, DW, Microwave, W/D in unit, carport, S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 7287333 2 bedroom, 2 bath, $795. New complex, W/D hookups, open concept, off-street parking, W/S/G paid.

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720 Turner “A”. 3 bed/1.5 bath, HEAT PAID, W/D hookups, pet? $900. RENT INCENTIVE. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE

$450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653, pat@properties2000.com

1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $309,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

3501 Paxson.4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement, fenced yard & garage. $225,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com

1944 South 8th West. Remodeled 2 bed, 1 bath with deck on 2 lots. $158,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath split-level in Upper Rattlesnake. Private lower level for mother-in-law apartment. $339,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 2225 Missoula. 4 bed, 3 bath on Rattlesnake creek with fireplace, outdoor hot tub & Mt. Jumbo Views. $499,000.

David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com 2607 View Drive. 3 bed, 2 bath ranch-style home in Target Range. Hardwood floors, fireplace & 2 car garage. $238,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, remodeled Central Missoula home. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. 3 bed, 1 bath on almost 5 Target Range acres bordering DNRC land.

4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $190,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath on corner lot in Canyon Creek Village with 2 car garage. $172,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com 606 North Avenue West. 3 bed, 2 bath with finished basement & 2 car garage. $255,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 716 South 6th West. Classic 3 bed, 2 bath with fireplace, deck, fenced yard & single garage. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com Beautiful home on Rattlesnake Creek. 4 bed, 3 bath with gourmet kitchen, fireplace and deck. $865,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355, milyardhomes@yahoo.com I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com.

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Sustainable Mission Valley Great place for sustainable living! Breathtaking views!

Beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath home on 6.06 acres! No covenants! Two greenhouses, All exterior walls built with minimum 2 x 6 or greater construction.

Charming cottage tucked back of road bordering treed Tribal lands to south. Stunning Mission Mountain views of McDonald Peaks.

Pesticide FREE for 4 years! Energy efficient home with new kitchen; includes Monarch Cook stove, stacking washer/dryer.

Detached 2-car garage with heated food storage & shop area. Excellent soil, some sub-irrigated pasture, small orchard with apple, pear & pie cherry trees, grapes, rhubarb and a nice variety of berries. Great place for sustainable living!

Hand pump could be added to well.

University District 102 East Kent $265,000. University 4 bedroom home with character and a 1 bedroom cottage house.

KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Wonderful Westside 1722 Defoe $226,500. 2 bedroom, 1 bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard. A home with character! KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1861 East Broadway. 3 bed, 2.5 condo with deck & single garage. $215,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

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REAL ESTATE 324B North Grant. 3 bed, 2 bath condo with fenced yard & 2 car garage. $169,900. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 5505 Creekstone. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Grant Creek. $130,000.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 541-7355. milyardhomes@yahoo.com Northside Condo 1400 Burns Unit #15, 3 bedroom 1 bath, with balcony and tons of light. $156,000. KD 240-5227 or Sarah 370-3995 porticorealestate.com

Service land. $750,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 53.5 acres overlooking Missoula. Utilities in place, septic approved. $927,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Cooley Street Condo 1545 Cooley St. #C. This upper level 2 bedroom condo provides for easy, sweet living close to downtown and has great North Hills views. $128,500 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis.

1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 532-

Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

Why Rent? Own Your Own 1400 Burns. Designed with energy efficiency, comfort and affordability in mind. Next to Burns Street Bistro and Missoula Community Co-op. Starting at $79,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

Cormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com

COMMERCIAL

NHN Frontage Road, Alberton.

2 building sites with Clark Fork River views. $65,900. Pat Mc-

NHN Raymond. .62 acre in Lower Rattlesnake bordering Missoula Open Space. $154,500. David Loewenwarter, Prudential Montana 241-3321. loewenwarter.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home.

Zoned commercial. $190,000. Prudential Montana.

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

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

OUT OF TOWN

Sheep Gulch, Drummon. 83 acre hide-away adjoining public land. $50,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com

Adorable Lewis & Clark Bungalow 4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, finished basement, deck & 2 car garage. Fenced corner lot near mall & schools.

Uptown Flats #307. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit. $158,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate. 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown.

All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

9296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com

Come check out the condos at The Uptown Flats. 1 bed 1 bath plus high-end amenities.

Starting at $149,900

Beautiful Home On Rattlesnake Creek 4 bed, 3 bath with cathedral ceilings, wood floors, gourmet kitchen, jetted tub and river rock fireplace. Lovely 2nd floor deck overlooks creek. $865,000

Call Anne to learn about the great opportunities available in the Upscale Community of The UPTOWN FLATS.

606 North Ave. W.

THE UPTOWN FLATS

Anne Jablonski

546-5816

PORTICO REAL ESTATE

$255,000 • MLS #20136914

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LAND 160 acres in Grant Creek bordered on two sides by Forest

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

All new windows & new energy-efficient furnace.

Finished basement with family room.

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Fenced yard with fruit trees & raised beds.

Double detached garage.

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$158,000

1944 S. 8th W.

REMODELED • 2 bed, 1 bath • 2 lots on cul-de-sac • Newer roof & windows Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker • Front deck, Real Estate With Real Experience fenced yard with pat@properties2000.com 406-240-SOLD (7653) garden shed Properties2000.com missoulanews.com • April 10 – April 17, 2014 [C11]

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

is just a youngster, although he always has such a serious expression on his face that he appears to be much older! He's a bit shy and isn't at all sure that he enjoys living in our kennel, but he's getting friendlier every day, and he certainly likes to be taken for walks.

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BIFF•Biff is a little bundle of fun who

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just wants to make friends, play as much as possible, and then be cuddled when he finally gets tired out. That might take a while; he has an abundance of energy!

He also has a brand new haircut and is feeling quite handsome.

low! He was already neutered when he came to the shelter, and his coat is in wonderful condition, so we really don't understand why he wasn't reclaimed.

He obviously knows all about being a family pet -- he just needs a new family.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

JADE•She was named Jade because of her stunning green eyes, but they're just one part of her attractive appearance.

She's an older lady, but she's such a beauty that you'd never guess that.

She's also been declawed, so she's looking for an indoor home filled with loving people.

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FLAVIA•A eight months old, Flavia is

BOGART•Bogart is quite a big dog who also has quite a lot to say. That's what we expect from a Hound, of course, but South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Bogart really seems to be trying to tell 2330 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) us something. His coat is just beautiful Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 - very glossy and a deep red that is al- 3708 North Reserve Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) most auburn.

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one of our younger shelter residents.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 SAMPSON• Sampson, aptly named for his luxurious fur, is patiently waiting for his forever home. This handsome boy is quiet, gentle and affectionate. Sampson enjoys the company of other cats and loves to be brushed. Come meet charming Sampson today!

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CHANNING•Channing is an affection-

highly motivated young dog who loves to work for a treat! She is a part of our Paws Ahead training program and has learned a lot from our trainers and volunteers. Sadie loves to play outside with other dogs, as well, and can’t wait to meet her new family!

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BOSCO• Bosco is a 7-year-old Lab/Shar

ate older fellow who is fond of head rubs, labs and endless snuggles! He is FIV positive, due to many rough years spent as a stray. He should be an indoor-only cat and have a healthy diet. Channing will be featured at our Ken Shughart Humanitarian Award at the Doubletree on April 12th!

ABBY•Everyone at the shelter adores Abby! She is one of our longest-stay residents, and although we enjoy her company and silly antics we would love to see her find a forever home. She is affectionate and loves people. De we mention how pretty she is? Come meet Abby today.

SADIE• Sadie is a very intelligent,

Pei mix who came to the shelter after his owner passed away. He loves to talk to you as he shares some of his favorite toys and is an intelligent and fun-loving character who is sure to quickly win over your heart with his endearing personality.

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intelligent, playful and pretty cat with plenty of personality, Augustine might be the one for you! She loves using her scratching post, getting pets and will do anything for a treat! Come meet this sweet and active lady today!

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