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AFTER 12 YEARS, SCREENWRITER ROGER HEDDEN’S MISSOULA MIDSUMMER FINALLY HITS THE BIG SCREEN

INTERCHANGE CHANGES FOR ORANGE, VAN BUREN

OPINION

TIME FOR LEARNING IS OVER. NOW IS THE TIME TO KNOW.

MUSIC

MARTHA SCANLAN FILLS IN THE GAPS

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FILM NEWS

AFTER 12 YEARS, SCREENWRITER ROGER HEDDEN’S MISSOULA MIDSUMMER FINALLY HITS THE BIG SCREEN

INTERCHANGE CHANGES FOR ORANGE, VAN BUREN

OPINION

TIME FOR LEARNING IS OVER. NOW IS THE TIME TO KNOW.

MUSIC

MARTHA SCANLAN FILLS IN THE GAPS

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News

Voices/Letters Recycling, coal and animal control .........................................................4 The Week in Review Bike Swap, Missoula College and sexual assault .........................6 Briefs Stem cells, Krakauer and Cherry Gulch................................................................6 Etc. All hail, Commissioner Motl .....................................................................................7 News Hopes, fears follow sage grouse recommendation ...............................................8 News Orange and Van Buren exits slated for overhauls .................................................9 Opinion The time for learning has ended. Now is the time to know. .........................10 Opinion One way to teach children about environmental stewardship ......................11 Feature If I only knew then what I know now..............................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Roger Hedden’s Missoula Midsummer finally reaches the screen........................18 Music Martha Scanlan, Spoon and Rhiannon Giddens.................................................20 Arts Bayla Arietta’s paintings celebrate a new nostalgia ...............................................21 Film White God creates a fantastical allegory ...............................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................23 What’s Good Here All in the family..............................................................................24 Happiest Hour Montana Helles Lager..........................................................................26 8 Days a Week My advice comes from a fortune cookie..............................................27 Mountain High Doggie Dash........................................................................................33 Agenda Southern Rites ..................................................................................................34

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-10 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-11 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Heidi Starrett CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS Christie Anderson ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Cathrine L. Walters CALENDAR EDITOR Kate Whittle STAFF REPORTERS Kate Whittle, Alex Sakariassen, Ted McDermott COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle EDITORIAL INTERN Courtney Anderson ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Tracy Lopez, Will Peterson ADMIN, PROMO & EVENTS COORDINATOR Leif Christian CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, Ednor Therriault, Matthew Frank, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Rob Rusignola, Chris La Tray, Jed Nussbaum, Sarah Aswell, Josh Wagner, Lacy Roberts, Migizi Pensoneau

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[voices]

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday, May 12, on Higgins Avenue.

What’s the best advice you have for this year’s graduating class?

Follow-up: Max Baucus is this weekend’s commencement speaker.

Who’s the commencement speaker you’d most want to hear?

Matt Lowy: Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts or put up with people who are reckless with yours. Having a voice: Kelsey Belnap. She’s the victim that wasn’t heard. Her rape wasn’t prosecuted.

John Brisben: Don’t work yourself to death. When you get a job, don’t take anything personal. Stick with it until you find something you love. A star on and off the ice: Jonathan Toews, hockey player for the Chicago Blackhawks. He’s won two Stanley Cups and two gold medals and he’s overcome a lot of stuff in his life.

Robin Rose: Consolidate your student loans.

If you get a degree in the arts, prepare to be a jack of all trades because you may not be able to use your degree. But don’t let that stop you from trying your damnedest to pursue what you love. And good luck. Be yourself, everyone else is taken: Iris Apfel.

She’s an interior designer, 95 years old, now a model, and has her own makeup line with MAC Cosmetics. She’s living proof that you’re never to old to find yourself.

Sam Tolman: I read a study that found that the best years of your life for men are ages 25-32 and for women 25-35, so don’t think your best times are over when you graduate college. Keep on keepin’ on: Kanye West. He’s taken a genre of music and completely changed it in our lifetime.

He kept going when he had nothing going for him.

Coal to Asia At the recent Asia Montana Energy Summit, organized by the Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, two points of emphasis stood out. First, economies in Asia are rapidly expanding, but rely on imported energy to supply growing demand. And second, energy-rich and strategically located Montana stands to benefit greatly by supplying energy to meet a portion of this demand.

But in order to realize that opportunity, the United States needs to address transportation constraints and political opposition that have hampered growth in energy exports.

Demand for coal in Asia has increased by 400 percent in the last two decades and the demand growth curve is only accelerating. Asian imports of coal are projected by the International Energy Agency to increase an additional 65 percent by 2040. Simply put, coal has been the fastest-growing source of energy in the world of late, and is projected to continue to grow the fastest in the near term.

Of course, Asian countries are also rapidly expanding renewable capacities as quickly as possible. But without some unforeseen technological breakthrough, renewables can only meet a fraction of the increase in demand that is forecast over the next few decades.

As home to the largest coal reserves in the U.S., Montana could benefit greatly from supplying a portion of the coal that the growing Asian market demands. And as the closest coal-producing state to the Pacific Coast, Montana enjoys a competitive advantage in marginally lower transportation costs.

Montana’s abundance of coal is only part of the appeal. The low-ash, low-sulfur PRB coal produced in Montana is in highest demand by Asian countries looking for a cleanerburning product. South Korea in particular has a growing demand for Montana coal because it’s cleaner and because it helps solidify the strategic bond between our two countries.

The demand is there in Asia, and the supply exists in Montana. But the ability for Montana to realize the tremendous benefits of increased coal production are uncertain

due to transportation constraints and political obstruction.

The primary transportation hurdle is the construction of the West Coast export terminals. New export capacity, such as the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point, Wash., is necessary to get Montana coal to Asia and to other consumers around the globe.

If the U.S. prevents the construction of a new export terminal on the Pacific Coast, such as they did with the Keystone XL pipeline, the result will be that Asian countries will simply find other suppliers to meet their growing demand. Countries like Indonesia, Russia and Australia will cash in on the opportunity passed over.

Political efforts to stymie coal production could also jeopardize Montana coal ex-

“Montana has an economic opportunity that most states, and frankly most nations, would kill for.” ports to the Asian market. In addition to political leaders attempting to block export terminals at the state level, federal regulatory barriers are also being thrown up. For instance, the Office of Natural Resource Revenue is proposing a new assessment scheme for coal bound for export markets. The ONRR rule would arbitrarily increase the royalty payments due on that coal to the point where it would no longer be profitable to mine that coal.

Montana has an economic opportunity that most states, and frankly most nations, would kill for. To let this opportunity lay dor-

mant by erecting regulatory hurdles and letting other states dictate what you can and can’t do with your coal reserves is a detriment not only to Montanans, but to people around the world who are looking to Montana to meet their energy needs and to be a leader in energy development moving forward.

Alan Olson Roundup

Recycling in schools As the recycling educator for Recycle Montana, I have spent the past five months speaking with students all across the state.

During that time I’ve had the pleasure of reaching more than 1,500 students through 35 presentations at 14 schools. I’d like to thank the students, teachers and administrators in Billings, Laurel, Lockwood, Columbus, Missoula, Deer Lodge, Helena, Kalispell, Ronan and Pablo for inviting Recycle Montana to help reduce waste in their schools and making these events successful. I’d also like to thank the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for their support and a successful partnership with the Montana SMART Schools Challenge. We hope to see even more schools registered for the challenge next year. We are very excited to spend this week speaking with students in Bigfork, Columbia Falls and Whitefish. (Presentations for schools in any area can still be scheduled for the remaining weeks of the academic year; contact rob@recyclemontana.org.)

This summer we will continue to travel, targeting festivals and similar events to assist with the development of long-term recycling programs. We are also gearing up to produce a statewide recycling guide for communities across the state. You can be a part of this project by contacting Recycle Montana with information about materials collected for recycling in your town. We would like to put your town on the map—literally—at RecycleMontana.org. By working together we will reach our goal of making recycling accessible and easy for all Montanans.

Rob Pudner Recycling Educator Recycle Montana

[Comments from MissoulaNews.com] Backtalk from “Animal control,” May 7

Michael Tassie: The world is such a strange place these days with all the shit going on. Try to find something that makes you happy and benefits the greater good. Get a good job with full pay and you’re okay. Local perspective: I like Pat Williams. He’s got a lot of good things to say. And he’s a Butte kid.

Highly intelligent “This is the most highly intelligent articles ever written on the ‘management’ of our (public!) natural resources and the reality of what this ‘management and harvesting’ is actually doing to those resources!”

Posted May 7 at 3:06 p.m.

Blocked access “Many areas of the National Forest are presently overpopulated with elk, not be-

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cause there are not enough hunters wanting to hunt them but because those hunters are unable to hunt these elk because their access is blocked by private land bordering the National Forest boundary.”

Posted May 7 at 4:07 p.m.

The new cow “Elk: the new cow. Livestock interests complained about the growing elk population until they discovered they could make

money from the guide and outfitting business. In New Mexico landowners are given elk hunting tags to compensate for providing elk with forage (or for political favor) which they can then sell to hunting clients or even sell on the open market. It’s so bad that when a ranch goes up for sale, often the listing might not even mention the number of cows it will run but instead will give the number of elk tags that go with it.”

Posted May 8 at 12:32 a.m.

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, May 6 Nicholas Scolatti shoots and kills his wife, Kalee Scolatti, and her friend Anthony “T.J.” Dupras before committing suicide. The Scolattis, who were estranged, had three daughters, while Dupras had two sons.

Thursday, May 7 Missoula College announces it has hired a new dean, Shannon O’Brien, who currently serves as Gov. Steve Bullock’s education policy adviser. A new college building is set to open on East Broadway in 2017.

Friday, May 8 Gov. Steve Bullock appoints Leslie Halligan to temporarily fill retiring Judge Ed McLean’s seat on the Fourth Judicial District Court.

Halligan will have to win an election this November to complete the rest of McLean’s current term, which ends in 2018.

Saturday, May 9 Ravalli County sheriff’s deputies arrest Monte Hanson for allegedly shooting Joseph Lewis, a bartender, and Lewis’ dog because Lewis served him Clamato juice instead of tomato juice with a beer. Lewis is injured; his dog is killed.

Sunday, May 10 During the second day of the inaugural Missoula Bike Swap, locals come to the Adams Center to buy and sell used cycles. Fifteen percent of all sales benefit Free Cycles and the Bike Walk Alliance for Missoula.

Monday, May 11 The U.S. Department of Justice announces the Missoula Police Department, the University of Montana and UM police have fully implemented the requirements of an agreement to improve their response to reports of sexual assault.

Tuesday, May 12 Daniel Fellows appears in Lake County Justice Court to face three felony charges of criminal endangerment stemming from a Monday incident in which he crashed into the back of a school bus near Polson going nearly 80 mph.

Flowers, cards, candles and pictures fill the front steps of 314 Brooks St., where on May 6 Nicholas Scolatti fatally shot his wife, Kalee Scolatti, and the family friend who’d come to her aid, Anthony “T.J.” Dupras, before Nicholas turned the gun on himself.

Trail

Cherry Gulch changes course Morgan Valiant, Missoula’s conservation lands manager, is waiting for the mini excavator that the city recently purchased to arrive. When it does, he’ll be able to put the finishing touches on a reroute of the first section of the popular Cherry Gulch trail in the North Hills and open it to the public. While the reroute will be somewhat more strenuous—adding a climb and a descent to what now is just a straight hike in—Valiant says it’s a necessary change.

As it stands now, the first quarter mile or so of the Cherry Gulch trail crosses private land owned by the family of Walt Peschel, a retired doctor and the proprietor of the nearby Mountainwood Estates development. In fact, until November of last year, everyone who hiked from the Waterworks Hill trailhead had to cross the Peschels’ unencumbered property. But on Nov. 5, the Peschels and the city formalized a legally binding agreement that allows the public to cross the first few hundred yards of that property, in perpetuity, along the main Waterworks trail.

At that point, users are still on Peschel land, but it’s land the family placed under a conservation easement long ago.

Hence the new Cherry Gulch trail, which splits off from the main Waterworks trail and climbs farther up the side of the hill before dropping back down into Cherry Gulch and continuing along the existing path.

“The reason that reroute goes up the hill is then it’s all on conservation easement property and not unencumbered private property,” explains Ryan Chapin, stewardship director for the Five Valleys Land Trust.

While there are no definitive plans for developing the land where the first section of the Cherry Gulch trail currently exists, Chapin says it’s a possibility. Whatever happens, Chapin thinks it’s important to ensure the public reaches Waterworks Hill via conserved land.

“Since conservation easements and public access are forever,” Chapin says, “we wanted to make sure that the reroute wasn’t ever going to go through the back side of a condominium, for example.”

Despite the slight inconvenience of the reroute and

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the potential for additional development in the area, Chapin and Valiant both emphasize the Peschels’ generosity in allowing public access without a formal agreement for more than two decades, as well as for placing easements on so much of their private land and signing the November agreement.

“The Peschel family has really kind of given, for a long time, the citizens of Missoula a great gift by allowing folks just to walk across their private land to access city open space and access the lands that they already had put into a conservation easement,” Valiant says.

Valiant expects the mini excavator to arrive any day and for the reroute to open in June.

Ted McDermot

Medicine

The stem cell salesmen With every passing PowerPoint slide, amniotic stem cells sound more like a miracle treatment. One statement in particular piques the interest of the 34 people gathered

[news] in the DoubleTreeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Canyon Room: When it comes to joint pain, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amniotic stem cell therapy is literally reversing the aging clock.â&#x20AC;? Jason Wolther, marketing director for PainMD, the Coeur dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Alene-based clinic offering the seminar, occasionally arches his eyebrows and answers his audiencesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; murmurs with an informal, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right?!â&#x20AC;?

Over the course of an hour, Wolther gives those gathered a rundown of the science behind amniotic stem cells. PainMD only uses them to treat joint pain, but according to the presentation, the list of conditions being treated and cured with amniotic stem cells in the U.S. is exhaustive, including neuropathy, erectile dysfunction, cancer, Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease and Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Outside the seminar, PainMDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Travis Autor also acknowledges how miraculous the whole thing sounds. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick to share, anecdotally, the success the clinic has seen with amniotic stem cell therapy. In the year since PainMD began offering the treatment, he says, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proven so popular that it â&#x20AC;&#x153;probably encompasses 90 percent of our practice now.â&#x20AC;? The recent seminars in Missoula and Kalispell are just the beginningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Autor says PainMD is taking the presentation across the region, and plans to open a second location in Las Vegas this summer.

Yet the topic of stem cells in medicine has been at the center of several controversies over the past few decades, from ethical debates over research of embryonic stem cells to the rise of what some stem cell researchers call â&#x20AC;&#x153;hucksters.â&#x20AC;? Organizations like the International Society for Stem Cell Research have grown increasingly vocal about the potential dangers posed by unregulated treatments. In 2012, â&#x20AC;&#x153;60 Minutesâ&#x20AC;? aired an exposĂŠ on an elaborate scam promising patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a cure through use of unapproved stem cell theapies. The two men involved in the scam were subsequently arrested and pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is one of the banes of the stem cell field,â&#x20AC;? says Charles Murry, an ISSCR member and interim director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hucksters are way out in front of the people who are systematically trying to go through and develop evidence-based therapies.â&#x20AC;?

Autor is aware of the controversies, and stresses that one of the first things PainMD talks about in its seminars is â&#x20AC;&#x153;how this is classified as experimental.â&#x20AC;? There are no guarantees, he says, as with any other procedure.

Autor and the PainMD presentation claim there are â&#x20AC;&#x153;3 laboratories in the US that the FDA has authorized to harvest and produce amniotic stem cells.â&#x20AC;? Asked if any labs had been so authorized, FDA press officer Lyndsay Meyer stated the agency â&#x20AC;&#x153;has not any approved amniotic stem cell-based products.â&#x20AC;? By way of clarification, PainMD directed the Indy during a follow-up call to a website advertising the product used in its therapy: a tissue allograft derived from amniotic fluid and manufactured by BD Source LLC. PainMD has advertised the cost of the therapy at around $6,000.

Disclaimer or no, Murry doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy PainMDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims. If it were part of a clinical trial registered with the National Institutes of Health with a review board and no charge to patients, he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a different story.â&#x20AC;? After taking a look at the clinicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stem cell therapy webpage, he cautions anyone seeking treatment from the clinic. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are many erroneous statements here,â&#x20AC;? Murry says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no evidence for stem cells having therapeutic effects on osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, degenerative spinal problems or erectile dysfunction.

Claims like these violate elements of the Hippocratic oath, regulations of the FDA and federal truth-in-advertising laws. In short, it is what I would expect to find under the south end of a north-facing bull.â&#x20AC;?

Alex Sakariassen

Krakauer

View from the outside In the hour leading up to the May 6 community forum with Jon Krakauer at the DoubleTree, dozens of people crowded around director of catering Callie Aschim, desperate to gain admittance. The event room hit its 600-person capacity at 6:15 p.m., and while a few people continued filtering in the doorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;flashing red â&#x20AC;&#x153;xâ&#x20AC;?s inked on the backs of their hands for reentryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Aschim found herself reiterating the same news every few minutes: Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re full.

BY THE NUMBERS

ETC.

Bills vetoed by Gov. Steve Bullock during the 2015 legislative session, including his last three on Friday.

The governor did sign 431 bills into law during the session and let 19 pass without his signature.

In the waning days of the 2015 Montana Legislature, state senators voted to do something they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done in nearly 10 years: Let a man get back to work. The confirmation of Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl on April 24 was met with fanfare or consternation, depending on political affiliation. But with a presidential election cycle on the horizon, you can bet Democrats and Republicans alike will be hearing Motlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name often in the coming year.

Funny enough, the first groups to come under fire from the commissioner after his officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 90-day legislative break were neither Democrat nor Republican. Motl returned to work this week with nearly two-dozen formal complaints lingering on his docket, and in his first order of business ruled that both Stanford University and Dartmouth College had violated state campaign practice laws during the run-up to the twin Supreme Court races last fall.

Some in Montana may already have forgotten, in the wake of more recent debates like Medicaid expansion and the appropriateness of yoga pants, that researchers at the two institutions ran afoul of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top political cop last year.

Hoping to determine, in their words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;whether voters who are given more information are more likely to vote,â&#x20AC;? the Stanford-Dartmouth team peppered several districts in Montana with mailers ranking the four candidates in two nonpartisan Supreme Court cases on a partisan scale between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible the poli-sci professors were just ignorant of Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strict campaign practice laws, but they did drop election-related material in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mailboxes with nothing but a vague fine-print disclaimer. As Motlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision concludes, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a major no-no if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t register, report and disclose your activity to his office.

Stanford and Dartmouth would disagree. In separate statements released this week, both universities expressed their disappointment with Motlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Stanford/Dartmouth mailer at issue was a protected First Amendment university research project about voter turnout,â&#x20AC;? Stanford said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was an academic research project,â&#x20AC;?

Dartmouth echoed.

We like to think Motl, having just won a victory that eluded several of his predecessors, met those letters with an eye-roll and a grin. In reality, he was probably already pages-deep in the next complaint, clearing the backlog for the piles sure to come.

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Rachel Pauli, a local activist and organizer at Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana, urged the crowd not to direct its frustrations at Aschim. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If anyone needs a place to watch the forum,â&#x20AC;? Pauli shouted, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Badlander has agreed to screen it for us.â&#x20AC;?

David Strobel, retired dean of the University of Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduate school, lingered in the hall nearby with his wife and several friends. The group arrived at the DoubleTree for dinner at 5:15 p.m., Strobel explained, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;there were already people in line. They were crowded everywhere.â&#x20AC;? At one point, Strobel added, he watched as former Dean of Students Charles Couture was initially turned away. Strobel stepped in and informed the staff working the door that Couture was actually a prominent character in Krakauerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book.

Couture was allowed to enter.

Fifteen minutes into the forum, roughly 60 people sat at tables and at the bar inside the Badlander.

The venue agreed to screen MCATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online stream at the last minute, shortly after the DoubleTree hit capacity, and all eyes remained locked on a large projector screen near the door. Aside from some scattered laugher when Krakauer told universities to â&#x20AC;&#x153;get your fucking act together,â&#x20AC;? the room remained silent and attentive.

Penny McCormick, who had first arrived at the DoubleTree and eventually wound up at the Badlander, said she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;curious about what [Krakauer] had to say â&#x20AC;Ś and what the community thought.â&#x20AC;? As a mother of three sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two of them athletesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;McCormick said Missoula â&#x20AC;&#x153;really changed my thinkingâ&#x20AC;? on the issue of rape and false accusations.

The audio feed cut out in the midst of a heated exchange between Krakauer and a member of the audience, and the last sound heard over the Badlanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speakers were boos. Despite the eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abrupt end, Alyson Visgauss said she was moved by the number of people who turned out to listenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not just at the DoubleTree but at a downtown bar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that half the town is scrambling to get here and concerned about it,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I love it here.â&#x20AC;?

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Group effort Hopes, fears follow sage grouse recommendation

by Laura Lundquist

A report that could affect Montana, 10 other Western states and one beleaguered bird has started its journey up through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife bureaucracy. Its goal: to reach the desk of USFWS Director Dan Ashe so he can decide by Sept. 30 whether to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. For the past few weeks, a five-member Species Lead Team—including representatives from industry, the states and the USFWS—has been scrambling to develop a recommendation on whether to list the sage grouse. The recommendation, which won’t be made public, is due to USFWS regional directors by mid-May. Five years ago, a similar team decided the species should be listed, but other species were higher on the ESA list. Then, a 2011 court ruling required the USFWS to make a listing decision by September 2015.

That ruling had the team poring over biological data and management plans that the states have developed over the past 10 years in an effort to stave off the listing. As of April, the team was still waiting on computer models to predict how increasing fragmentation of the sagebrush habitat might affect sage grouse population and whether the states’ efforts could be sufficient.

“The listing doesn’t just look at ‘right now’—we have to project what those threats are likely to be in the future,” says USFWS sage grouse coordinator Pat Deibert.

The Lead Team isn’t the only group up against a deadline. The Bureau of Land Management is also scrambling to amend 98 of its land-use plans to address multiple-use activities in core sagebrush areas. The U.S. Forest Service is also amending a few of its plans, all in hopes of avoiding a sage grouse listing.

“Hopefully, in concert with state initiatives and state plans, we will have sewn together a strategy across the landscape that will affect the outcome of the decision,” says Jim Lyons, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

It’s going to take a coordinated longterm effort to save a species whose population has plummeted due to increasing human activity: energy development, subur-

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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signed a bill earlier this month to fund the sage grouse stewardship program, but some wonder if it might be too little, too late to avoid the bird being listed under the Endangered Species Act.

ban development, mining, conventional cattle ranching, the conversion of sagebrush habitat to croplands and all the roads and fences that come with them.

Many praise the collaborations and state and private programs as the “largest conservation effort in history,” but each state follows its own plan and manages the ecosystem a little differently. Those differences could complicate Ashe’s final decision.

Inadequacies in one state’s plan can mean a listing for all because birds don’t recognize borders. States are hoping to avoid that outcome after what happened with wolf reintroduction.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks developed its plan to manage sage grouse in 2005, but much of Montana’s prime habitat is on private land. Over the past decades, the biggest threat to Montana’s sage grouse has been the conversion of sagebrush habitat to cropland.

Last September, Gov. Steve Bullock signed an executive order creating a Sage Grouse Habitat Conservation Program to encourage conservation on private lands. On May 7, he signed Senate Bill 261, a hard-fought law to create and fund the sage grouse stewardship program. But it might be too little, too late.

Sage grouse populations tend to cycle every decade, but the trend has been downward. In 2014, population counts were way down. FWP biologists reported the number of courting males dropped 45

percent or more from the 30-year longterm average.

Gallatin Wildlife Association President Glenn Hockett sat on the 2005 sage grouse working group, but doesn’t think the FWP plan or the voluntary stewardship program go far enough.

“Now that we have these collaboratives, the measure of success seems to be ‘How well are we getting along?’ instead of ‘How’s the bird?’” Hockett says. “It’s like they’re saying, ‘How can you list the bird when we’re doing all this stuff?’”

Montana isn’t the only state with declining sage grouse populations. Data collected between 2007 and 2013 show sage grouse populations throughout the West declined 57 percent in five years, according to an April 24 Pew Charitable Trust report.

Deibert says the listing isn’t really about the bird; it’s about the loss of a large intact ecosystem—an ecosystem also critical to other wildlife. The states are trying to preserve what’s left of that ecosystem without affecting too many people’s livelihoods. But Ashe will have to decide if what they’re doing goes far enough and whether a listing could do any better.

“If the science is clear, he’ll rely on the science,” Deibert says. “If it’s less clear, you have to consider everything else that’s happening out here and your ability to conserve based upon the decision that you make.” editor@missoulanews.com

[news]

Interchange changes Orange and Van Buren exits slated for major overhauls

by Ted McDermott

Rich Eggers has a good view of the intersection where Interstate 90, North Orange Street, North Fifth Street and North Third Street meet from Montana Preferred Provider, the medical marijuana dispensary he owns on Fifth Street—and what Eggers sees is ugly.

There’s traffic backed up all the way to the interstate during peak hours. He watches drivers run stop signs and wait long periods to make left turns. Once, Eggers says he watched a car wait 20 minutes to cross Orange Street. Eggers sees the delays turn into frustration and the frustration turn into reckless driving.

“So it’s a mess,” Eggers says. “Definitely.”

In an effort to clean up the mess, the Montana Department of Transportation is planning a complete overhaul of the Orange Street interchange next summer.

When it’s complete, a roundabout will be set where Orange and the interstate’s two eastbound ramps currently meet. In addition, Fifth Street will no longer connect with Third Street and will instead feed into the roundabout. Along with the changes to the traffic flow, plans also call for the creation of a new shared-use bike and pedestrian trail that will cross the eastbound on-ramp, run underneath the interstate overpass and connect Third Street to the North Hills trailhead located just past the end of Orange.

“There’s a lot of benefit to adding the roundabout and, additionally, adding Fifth Street,” says MDT engineer Shane Stack, who has been working on the project’s design.

“I think it’s going to be easier for people to get in and out.”

In the summer of 2017, once the Orange Street project is complete, MDT plans to move down I-90 and begin work reconfiguring the Van Buren interchange. When that project’s complete, two roundabouts—one at Van Buren’s intersection with each pair of on-ramps—will move motor vehicles between the Lower Rattlesnake, the interstate and East Broadway. Plans also call for new bike and pedestrian paths, as well as for a series of noise-dampening walls north of the highway. Stack says changes to Orange will cost approximately $2 million, while the more substantial Van Buren project

photo courtesy of MDT

The Montana Department of Transportation plans to begin work next summer on a major overhaul of the Orange Street interchange with I-90, including the addition of a roundabout. In 2017, a similar project is set for the Van Buren interchange.

will run about $7 million.

The plan for reconfiguring both interchanges comes more than a decade after MDT began a comprehensive study of long-term capacity issues along I-90 from the Wye to Bonner. While that study didn’t turn up the need for changes along the interstate itself, it found the Van Buren and Orange interchanges insufficient for handling future projected volume, if not current traffic.

“So we knew that the interchanges needed to be improved and better access onto both Orange Street and Van Buren,” Stack says. “The next piece was going out to the public and saying, ‘Well, we know we need to do intersection improvements. And what would you like to see?’ And overwhelmingly, we were told by the community that they wanted to see roundabouts. In addition to that, they wanted single-lane roundabouts.”

MDT has solicited insight from neighborhood councils, property owners, the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board and other groups. Missoula City Councilman Bryan von Lossberg was among those who provided MDT with input about how the Orange Street interchange could be improved and who favored roundabouts as the best solution. According to von Lossberg, who lives on the Northside, “everyone that lives over here is acutely aware that that intersection feels very unsafe.” A round-

about, he says, offers the best means for making it safer.

“The traffic circle will act as a traffic-calming and a speed-reducing feature in an area where I’ve definitely seen cases, just about every day, where that would be a help,” von Lossberg says.

While Bob Giordano, director of the Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation, has some concerns about design features that could encourage motor vehicles to exit the roundabouts quickly, he believes they’ll improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians.

“I see roundabouts fitting into a more human, pedestrian-scale urban cityscape—if they’re designed well,” Giordano says.

Though it’s likely traffic will be disrupted as work begins at Orange Street next summer, Stacks says the aim is for the contractor to approach the project “in such a way that the interchange stays open” during construction.

Whether or not that proves possible, von Lossberg believes temporary disruptions will be worth it.

“I’ve talked about it with a number of constituents in the area and I haven’t heard anyone who is not pretty excited by the idea of change coming to that intersection,” von Lossberg says. “I think there’s a lot of hope.” tmcdermott@missoulanews.com

missoulanews.com • May 14–May 21, 2015 [9]

[opinion]

Dear graduates The time for learning has ended. Now is the time to know.

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[10] Missoula Independent • May 14–May 21, 2015

This weekend, the University of Montana will hold its spring commencement. The class of 2015 will don caps and gowns, search its collective pockets for a mint or something and cross one stage of life into another. No longer will you be students, trapped in airless lecture halls and concerned only with books.

You will become adults, free in airless offices and done with books forever.

I’m addressing you as “you,” because I assume you are a student.

Adults do not have time to read, since we are so busy running society, and animals never learn. I myself “write” this column using the voice-to-text feature of my phone. I dictate the whole column and then text it to my editor, who shows it to a journalism student, who stops weeping long enough to copy it down. It is not a perfect system, but it is the one nature ordained—and who are we to metal whippets?

Today I want to speak to you about a subject that makes many young people uncomfortable: the future. To people as old as I am, the future is of little concern. But to you, the newly minted adult, the future is something for which you will eventually have to take the blame.

The world faces many problems, all of which are my parents’ fault.

For example, the United States is broke, and many of our most violent movies feature heroes who are 60 years old. Along with the continued popularity of Aerosmith, these crises stem from the baby boomers’ refusal to relinquish control of society and let a new generation take charge.

As a member of that forgotten generation, I can tell you I am utterly unqualified to lead. Really, the only thing I’m good at is identifying which bands are fake. The onus is therefore on you, class of 2015, to balance the federal budget, end global warming, address widespread inequality, repair a broken electoral system and force

Arnold Schwarzenegger to retire. While you do that, I will watch on my holoscreen (your job to invent) and try to determine if your haircut is punk rock or what.

These challenges will not be easily met, but you stand on the shoulders of giants. You are a product of the greatest university system the world has ever known, and the interest on your student loans will support dozens of vacation homes. As members of the class of 2015, it will be your job to clean those homes and supply them with Internet pornography.

“The world faces many problems, all of which are my parents’ fault.”

The task ahead is a difficult one, but you can do it if you remember three simple principles: 1. Hard work. A strong work ethic is one of the most important qualities other people can have. According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 17 percent of recent college graduates were underemployed in 2014, meaning they were unemployed, looking for full-time jobs while working parttime or had stopped looking entirely.

The slacking of your contemporaries means 17 percent more work for you— unless you are already rich, in which case you’d be a fool to look for a job. Only people who need the money can be lazy.

2. Temperance. Most of you can ignore this part, but for approximately one in 10, it’s the most important message you will ever hear. You’ll find out soon.

3. Loyalty. You may not be students anymore, but you will always be Grizzlies. As you leave behind the trappings of student life—the lectures, the parties, the dorm-room discussions of art and philosophy, the activities and clubs, the lively exchange of ideas, the all-night cram sessions, the new experiences, the sex, the health insurance, the friendships, literacy— you will carry the traditions of the University of Montana forward with you.

Mostly, that means wearing Griz pajamas to the airport. But it also means applying the principles you learned at UM to the adult world, where football is just as important but other values are strangely inverted.

As of this Saturday, you are no longer students. Now begins a new phase of your life, when you must live according to the portions of your education you remember and angrily deny everything else. The time for learning has ended. Now is the time to know.

In the months and years to come, strange people will challenge your resolve. Many will try to teach you things, some of them out of books. But you will know better than to listen, because you went to college.

You have seen plenty of books already, and you know what’s inside them: words, many of which contain bias. But you care only for truth. As the class of 2015, you bear the flickering light of wisdom that illuminates the TV of this fine community, this great state, this B-plus nation. You’ve been to school, and you know what’s what. Now go out there and tell somebody else.

Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and life after college at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Sex and death One way to teach children about environmental stewardship

by Jourdan Arenson

Getting teenagers to embrace environmental stewardship can be a challenge, especially when those teenagers are cold and wet. One way to grab their attention is to present a drama of sex and death.

For 21 years, that’s been the strategy of Salmon Watch, a field program that allows middle- and high school students to observe spawning salmon at the height of Oregon’s autumn rains. Each November, as adult salmon finish the long swim to their natal streams, local teenagers ride buses to the Whittaker Creek Recreation Site, east of Mapleton, Ore. There, they stand in the rain, learn about salmon ecology and watch skateboard-sized fish spawn and die in the shallow water.

The students have been taught by a team of Salmon Watch volunteers—all wearing heavy rain gear—who are recruited by Jennifer Weber, education coordinator at the McKenzie Watershed Council. To inspire her staff, Weber quotes the conservationist Baba Dioum: “We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”

The volunteers come from the federal Bureau of Land Management, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, a municipal water and electric board and local fly-fishing clubs. The job’s biggest hazard is facing a group of teenagers who are not just cold and wet, but also bored. So everyone has tricks. Justin Demeter, for example, explains the function of a healthy riparian zone by asking students to imagine they are raindrops. They visualize bouncing down through the leaf canopy and filtering through the root mass to cool and cleanse themselves before entering the stream. Demeter finds his we-are-raindrops exercise works best when it is raining.

When Steve Liebhardt begins his lecture on fish biology, he points

upstream to a decomposing salmon carcass. “You can gawk at the dead fish while I talk,” he says. He then conjures the plight of a baby salmon’s swim to the ocean. “You want to be a bigger fish because bigger fish swim faster and fit in fewer mouths.

You have to eat enough … to get fast enough … to avoid being eaten … so you can eat more.”

Later, students examine the aquatic bugs that make up salmon baby food.

“The job’s biggest hazard is facing a group of teenagers who are not just cold and wet, but also bored.”

They use a turkey baster to suck up the bugs and spit them into an ice cube tray. Liebhardt explains that aquatic bugs gorge on the decomposing flesh of adult salmon, and discloses a rather alarming fact about their circle of life: “The baby salmon get to eat the bugs that ate mom and dad.”

Other volunteers use a more literary approach. When Bob Bumstead, a former English teacher, leads highschoolers along the spawning beds, he recites an original poem: A frenzy of salmon In an agitation of water Fighting,

Digging, Laying, Sperming, Quivering as no human thigh Could quiver, Pure orgiastic excess So full of life And death That it hurts to watch.

Even the field-tripping Adolescents Paused their singular Preoccupations To watch in slack-jawed Wonder Sometimes, volunteers need to set the stage to enhance the drama. One year, the salmon ran late, and Weber found no dead fish for streamside dissection. So she stopped by the state hatchery to borrow a few carcasses.

She stored them in her fridge and, the next morning, drove one out to the creek so a volunteer could dissect it for the students.

The dissection usually gets some kind of rise out of even the most blasé teenagers. In the history of the program, volunteers can recall only one instance where a student fainted when a fish stomach was slit open. But ideally, the experience plants the seed for a future in biology. While dissecting a female fish, a volunteer stretches open the slimy body cavity to reveal several remaining eggs. A girl asks, “Do we really have to do this before lunch?”

But a middle school boy wants to see one of the eggs. The volunteer drops an egg from tweezers onto the boy’s palm, where it shines like a pale pink jewel. The boy asks, “Can I keep it?”

When the volunteer says he can, the boy slips the egg into his pants pocket.

Jourdan Arenson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes about science and technolog y in Eugene, Ore.

missoulanews.com • May 14–May 21, 2015 [11]

[quirks]

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – A funeral procession thwarted a man’s attempt to rob a 79-year-old woman in San Antonio, Texas. “We were going really, really slow, so as we passed this bus stop, there was this elderly lady, (and) a gentleman was knocking her around and was pulling on her purse,” witness Robert Garcia said. “Before I turned around, about eight of the mourners were all around him, getting him down, and then we flagged the police officer that was guiding the procession.” Joe Carpenter, 41, was charged with aggravated robbery. (San Antonio’s KSAT-TV) Tony Jerome Torbert Jr., 20, attracted the attention of authorities in Brevard County, Fla., after he posted an ad on Craigslist offering “Legit Counterfeit $$.” Sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant and seized a printer, a computer and counterfeit currency. (Florida Today)

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Authorities accused Carl Grace, 48, of breaking into a house in Hill, N.H., and attacking his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend with a fire extinguisher, striking the woman in the head and on her arm and leg. (Manchester’s WMUR-TV) German police were summoned at 9:40 a.m. after a woman reported that an intoxicated 37-year-old man attacked her and other passersby at a Munich market with a white mouse. Police confiscated the mouse but returned two hours later after a complaint that the same man was throwing a different white mouse at pedestrians. (Germany’s The Local)

PAIN OF PROGRESS – A 29-year-old California man was diagnosed with a torn tendon in his thumb caused by playing “Candy Crush Saga” on his smartphone “all day for 6 to 8 weeks” with his left hand, according to a study reported in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. One of the authors, San Diego orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dori Cage, cautioned that the rise in the number of people with smartphones who spend lots of time texting or tapping on their cellphones or tablets has the potential to lead to a “texting thumb,” a repetitive stress injury that affects the thumb and wrist. She said that people experiencing pain from texting might instead use voice control, such as Siri on an iPhone, or “actually pick up the phone and call somebody” to communicate. (U-T San Diego)

HIGH ON THE DIAL – Radio station KREL-AM in Colorado Springs, Colo., abandoned its unprofitable sports-talk format to become the nation’s first radio station dedicated to marijuana programming. Its new call letters are KHIG. KHIG-AM airs three local shows: “Wake and Bake” from 7 to 9 a.m., “High Noon” from noon to 1 p.m. and “High Drive” from 5 to 7 p.m. It also broadcasts three hour-long newscasts from Los Angeles-based National Marijuana News Service and programming from Chicago-based RadioMD. Six local medical marijuana dispensaries signed up as advertisers. “I just saw a business opportunity,” general manager Mike Knar said, noting that public response has been “amazing.”

(Colorado Springs’s The Gazette)

SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – Larry McElroy, 54, fired his 9 mm pistol at an armadillo outside his home but wound up shooting his mother-in-law. Sheriff’s investigators in Lee County, Ga., determined the bullet ricocheted off the animal, hit a fence, went through the back door of his mother-in-law’s mobile home, through a recliner she was sitting in and into her back. The 74-year-old victim wasn’t seriously hurt. Authorities do recommend shooting armadillos as an effective way of getting rid of them but suggest using a shotgun, which, investigator Bill Smith said, has “a spread pattern with a lot less range.”

(Albany’s WALB-TV) NUMBERS RACKET – As mobile devices hog telephone numbers, new area codes created to meet mathematical demand are causing old ones to become status symbols, for which some people are willing to pay. And others are selling. Ed Mance, who operates PhoneNumberGuy.com, buys numbers in bulk from companies that no longer need them. He sells them for between $299 and $799, although his biggest sale was a “nine-of-a-kind” number for $95,000. Mance notes that the area code most in demand is Los Angeles’s 310, whose numbers are the hardest to secure. Many of Mance’s customers are less interested in the area code than the numbers around them, including ones that spell out words. “HURT and PAIN are the two most in-demand numbers,” Mance said, because they’re coveted by personal-injury lawyers. (The Washington Post)

SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME – Just months after the Sandy Hook massacre, the school district in Halfway, Ore., decided to stage a surprise “active shooter drill” at its elementary school on a day when only teachers were there. Linda McLean, 56, said a man dressed in a black hoodie and goggles burst into her classroom, aimed a pistol at her face and fired. “You’re dead,” he said and left. Panic ensued as the gunman went from room to room, firing what turned out to be blanks.

One teacher wet her pants. Teachers later learned the gunman was the district’s safety officer and that officials had alerted law enforcement so they wouldn’t respond to emergency calls from distressed teachers.

Insisting that the incident caused her to suffer post traumatic stress disorder, McLean in April filed suit against Pine Eagle School District, the safety officer et al. (Portland’s The Oregonian)

[12] Missoula Independent • May 14–May 21, 2015

missoulanews.com • May 14–May 21, 2015 [13]

GWEN FLORIO, AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST When Missoula author Gwen Florio says to “take the big leaps,” the words carry the weight of experience. She’s lived that advice time and again throughout her journalism career, which sounds as adventurous in the telling as one of the mystery novels she now pens. From the streets of Philadelphia to the conflict zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, Florio has made good on her desire to report major stories

for major dailies. Her years covering cops and courts for the Missoulian won her a readily recognizable Montana byline, as well as recent praise in the pages of Jon Krakauer’s book Missoula for her tireless chronicling of this town’s rape scandals.

“I have actually gotten to do most of the things I dreamed about doing,” Florio says, “which is an astounding thing when you think about it.”

Perhaps the biggest leap of all came about two years back, when she left a

steady newspaper job to write fiction fulltime. The decision was “really scary,” she admits. But it’s worked out pretty well— she’s published two acclaimed novels since 2013, Montana and Dakota, and has a publishing deal for three more—because “it has to.”

“I’ve learned to be a lot more trusting that I will do what I need to do to make things work out,” Florio says. “When you jump off that high-dive, you’ve got to make it work.”

The big leaps can pay off big, too. While Florio has found herself saying she wishes she’d gotten more serious about fiction sooner, she recognizes that without all those life experiences, she wouldn’t be writing the type of fiction she does now. She’s dreamt of writing books since the time she could read, and though it sounds trite, Florio encourages graduates to pursue such dreams.

“Don’t be afraid of that,” she says.

“People always say those things are impractical, but if you really want to do them you

THE UNIVERSAL ADAPTER KIT TO LIFE Or what I learned from … John Mayer? Wait, what?

by Ednor Therriault Follow your dreams.

Do what you love, and the money will take care of itself.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Bullshit. These are souvenir-grade platitudes doled out by the kind of people who grow their own flax and think that namaste means the same thing as aloha.

They mean well, bless their hearts. This harmless—if frustratingly vague—advice looks good on a greeting card but tap dances around a central truth that could save you years in reaching the right path to the rest of your life.

The best advice seems obvious once it’s given, like you should have known it all along. A few years ago I plucked a compressed nugget of Zen from a Rolling Stone interview with John Mayer (you know, Katy Perry’s boyfriend), and I’ll share it with you here. Hidden in a goopy oyster of self-involved musings and disingenuous contrition about trashing his ex-girlfriends was this gleaming pearl: Know who you are, and be who you are. To the hilt.

Right there, in three powerful segments, was the Universal Adapter Kit to Life. It took me 30 years to figure it out, but when I read Mayer’s quote, it confirmed that my instincts had been right all along.

[14] Missoula Independent • May 14–May 21, 2015

If only someone had whispered these words into my ear when I was 17.

Know who you are. Are you destined for a life behind a desk as a middle management suck-up? Well, maybe you’re just the right person for the job. Or maybe you’re not. Maybe you should be a fire watcher. Or you might be cut out to hold the stop sign on the highway construction crew. Or your happiness might lie in working as a school administrator in Iceland. How the hell can you know for sure?

You have to find out who you are to the point of absolute conviction.

Make no excuses or apologies for any component of your personality and makeup. What’s your fear? What’s your addiction? What makes your backbone slide? Make a list. Draw a composite picture of your various traits. Look inward like you’ve never done before, even more than that night Trevor brought the killer chronic and ’shrooms to your birthday party and you wound up lying under the coffee table, doing a ruthless soul inventory until the sun came up. Dig deep.

Don’t deny or reject anything. Embrace that shit.

Be who you are. If you love to folf, find a way to keep yourself out on the course as much as possible. Invent a new putter disc.

Get on the pro circuit. Inherit some money. You’re a folfer. Own it. This is where most of us screw the pooch by getting into the

workforce and becoming stuck on the wrong path forever. I’ve been a writer, a musician and a graphic designer since I was 15. I worked my share of cruddy jobs that made me miserable, but they were low-paying cobblestones on the path to my ultimate existence. Also, I didn’t want to live on ramen noodles for the rest of my life. But through this series of soul-numbing gigs and rat bastard bosses, I built a network. Now I’m self-employed, working only with people whom I dig. It hasn’t made me wealthy, but I make my living being me, and I truly don’t give a shit what anybody thinks about me. Except for my hair.

To the hilt. This is the clincher. Honestly, you will have to pay some dues to get to the point to where you can 100 percent be Who You Are, but you need to get there. Outside the artificial womb of academia, it’s an asshole-infested world that can be unjust, unfair and unpleasant. But if you have a firm grip on your true identity, and the gumption to let that identity be your true north, you will emerge from the workaday muck into a world where you’ll be ahead of the game because your essence is well defined and unshakeable. You’ll be confidently navigating the swift waters of your life, and remember, like my friend Steve Bierwag says: Heavy cats float above the shit.

should find a way to do them—without living on the streets or eating cat food.”

During her stint as an adjunct professor at the University of Montana’s School of Journalism this year, Florio has heard a lot of freshmen and sophomores talking about wanting to stick around Missoula.

And while it may sound contradictory to how much she loves where she’s ended up, she has two words for students: Go away.

“Go really far away and go somewhere really different,” she says. “Go to a really big city or go to a different country or different culture … It gives you such a tremendous amount of confidence to go to a really different situation and know that you can handle it, and you need that confidence.”

Florio pauses and chuckles before adding, “then you should come back here.”

NATHAN McTAGUE, LIFE COACH AND ARTIST Certified life coach Nathan McTague subscribes to the theory that if you don’t pay enough attention to your own desires when you’re young, you may be destined for a midlife crisis later. Students often graduate from college and go straight into a career or continue on with graduate school or—because they are in debt—take any job they can get just to stay afloat. Other students take time off to “find” themselves. But McTague says if you continue to look to others for guidance rather than yourself, you’ll end up lost no matter which turn you take.

“For all of our young lives we are trained to listen and mind others and do what we’re told, be good and do good and follow, follow, follow,” McTague says. “A lot of us come out of college with no idea of what we’re into. And then we say, ‘I have to go find myself or discover myself.’ But that’s not really what happens. You come out and you don’t know what to do. You’ve never really lost yourself but you’ve also never really been given the opportunity to listen to yourself. And I think that has a lot to do with what the midlife crisis is all about: ‘I’ve been listening to everyone else my whole life and now I just want what I want.’ So they freak out and leave their families and do stupid shit that they could have done in their 20s if they’d known to do it.”

Besides being a life coach, McTague is also an artist who recently spent one month living in The Brink Gallery making art. The project fulfilled a dream he had 20 years ago, and now that he’s done it, he is trying to figure out new ways to integrate that experience into his everyday life as a family man. The questions he’s asking himself now are the kinds of questions he helps others ask themselves. On the surface, the topics of conversation might be about making art or exercising more or overcoming self-destructive habits or turn-

ing a beloved hobby into a job. But at the crux of it all are larger questions: What are you into? What do you love? Who are you?

“I went to the desert and traveled around the U.S. and for me it wasn’t until I stopped running and settled down that I started to trust myself,” he says.

Besides learning to not follow others, McTague has a couple of other pieces of advice. Do not get sucked into debt, because being in debt means you have less freedom to follow your dreams. Also, learn to tell your own story. Like Odysseus, or any other mythic character, you have a chance to see yourself as the hero of your own epic journey.

“There are the stories society tells us about life: ‘This is how it is, kid, so get used to it,’” McTague says. “And there are stories we tell ourselves where we’re not good enough or we don’t deserve something. But you need to learn to tell your own story and to value the thing that only you are carrying.

The words that explain the whole thing are inscribed on the Temple of Apollo, which is “Know thyself.’ You are entering into this hall of knowledge but the main edict is: know who you are and be that as much as you can.”

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

TAKE A BRAVE STEP

DEREK MOREE, STREET PERFORMER

Unless, of course, you decide to just go back to school

Derek Moree dances alone with a homemade bo staff on the Caras Park stage, spinning and twirling the long stick so it moves seamlessly over and around his body.

A second staff with wicks on either end leans against a nearby railing. Moree, who has a tall mohawk, is practicing on a Sunday evening for when he dips those wicks in fuel, lights them on fire and dances.

“Finding your flow—that’s all this is, that you see. It’s a flow art. It’s not combat. I’m not trying to hit anybody,” he says. “Finding your flow—it doesn’t matter what it is, if it’s something that you really love, go do it.”

For Moree, that advice carries over to everything—including what he’d tell new graduates.

“You don’t fight life’s currents, man,” he says. “It’s too hard. Fight too much for control, you don’t have it. Control’s such an illusion. It’s the old saying— what is it?

‘The best laid plans of mice and men, they fall to shit.’ It always does. You make plans for a vacation, then you get there and you get sick or sunburned. All the plans gone, out the window, so now what are you going to do? Fly by the seat of your pants, man. Live life doing what you want to do.

“I’ve got a friend that just got back from a cross-country bicycle ride,” he continues. “And along the way, she had people going, ‘Man, I wish I could do that.’ And it’s like, ‘Yeah, I did, too. So I did.’ You want to do something, go freaking do it. Don’t let life’s restrictions hold you back from it.”

by Molly Laich When I finally got my bachelor’s of arts, after eight years of unfocused, pizza-fueled, part-time studies, I knew I should have been happy, but that’s not how I felt. This was the spring of 2008, when the world was crumbling all around us but particularly in my hometown of Detroit. Job prospects were grim and I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with a double major in English and psychology anyway.

It’s just that I loved school so much. I loved going to classes and hanging out with my writing workshop friends at the downtown bars afterward. I liked living in my own house with my friends from high school, paid for entirely with student loans. It felt like free money then and still does. I didn’t want it to end. When people asked me how I felt about finally graduating, I told them, “It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.” Seven years later, I’d like to think that I was overreacting, but life is long, isn’t it? And we won’t have all the data until it’s too late.

You’ve just graduated and likely everyone is congratulating you on all your hard work and dedication.

Of course that’s true. But more than any of that, to leave school is a tremendous act of courage, and I just want you to know: I think you’re so, so brave.

The world is an uncertain place, and a dorm room can have the warmth of a mother’s womb. Maybe you’re lucky and your passions aligned perfectly with a marketable trade. Maybe you’re stepping out into the world armed with something practical and in demand— God, what I wouldn’t give to have wanted to be a dentist. If you studied fine art or philosophy or even

something scientific and broad like psychology or environmental science, more likely than not, it won’t be a straight line from campus to a 401k. I hope you’re willing to feel uncomfortable, because your path to greatness is just beginning.

Once I got my degree, delivering pizzas seemed silly and immature. At 27, I felt too old for everything fun. I thought I belonged in an office, wearing panty hose. It took me a good several months to finally land a job at an Internet sporting goods company, writing product copy. (“Shred the pow with a new Burton snowboard!”) The job started at $9 an hour and didn’t even require a degree. In the interview I asked them, “Is it a problem that I have a bachelor’s?” My boss said, “Not as long as you don’t expect to make more money.”

Graduate school isn’t for everyone, but for some people, like me, it’s really the only thing. Working in an office felt like a prison sentence and I immediately applied to six different schools across the country. I’ll never forget the day Dierdre McNamer from the University of Montana’s MFA program called me at the office to tell me they’d accepted me into the program with a full teaching assistantship. I felt like I’d just become the next contestant on “The Price is Right.” It felt like crawling back into my mother’s womb.

If you’re planning on going for more school, I approve and I salute you. It just means you’re still tightrope walking with a net. But if this is it, I hope you know in your bones that you’re a hero. Don’t be like me. Write a better script. This is the best thing that’s ever happened to you.

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Moree admits that’s easier said than done. In fact, it’s something he battles himself.

“I’m guilty of it, because I’m not just dumping my life and effort into this,” he says of his fire dancing. “As much as I love it and obviously people appreciate it, I’ve got too many life restrictions and hold myself back and don’t allow myself to pursue it. I’d also like to … go with the flow, yo.”

NENETTE LOFTSGAARDEN, SEEKER OF BEAUTY Nenette Loftsgaarden sits with her friends JoAnne Hill and Barbara Hettinger at a round table in the Missoula Senior Center after finishing a tai chi class. Together, they talk about their life experiences. Loftsgaarden, 74, grew up in Montana, moving from place to place because her father worked for the state transportation department. Before she was 2, Loftsgaarden says she lived in 20 different locations.

“I know my mom always said about the really blah places in Montana, ‘Don’t look for the differences, always look for the beauty,’” she says. “Sometimes it was hard to find, but you can find anything here.”

Loftsgaarden eventually settled and made her home in Bozeman while attending Montana State University in the 1950s.

She says she recently found out that she was only the second woman to declare a math major at the university.

“That’s something to be proud of,” Hill pipes in. “Know what you want to do

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and go for it. And don’t limit yourself by what society or what people say.”

When asked what advice she’d pass along to graduates, Loftsgaarden says not to be afraid of doing something totally different than what you expected to do with your life.

“I really look at education as not as training for a job but to learn much more.

You expand your world,” she says. “It’s important to have the confidence that it’s

going to work out. If you feel it is the right thing then step out and do it, and everything will follow.”

REP. BRYCE BENNETT, MISSOULA DEMOCRAT “Many times when people are thinking about running for office in Missoula, they will sit down for coffee with the local elected officials and pick their brains for

advice. I’ve had a chance to be a part of many of those conversations and I think the advice I give to them makes just as much sense for graduates who are planning for the next big adventure in their lives,” says Bennett.

“My advice would be to rethink the concept of ‘the right time.’ When we encourage people to run for office, they often say that because of their job, their family or their experience it might not be

the right time (even if they want to run badly.) These same conversations are happening among college graduates right now as they wonder if it’s the ‘right time’ to take a job offer, move across the country or sign up for grad school.

“The secret is: There will never be a right time,” he continues. “The stars will never perfectly align themselves so that you can freely attempt to take the next step or achieve something big. When I was thinking about running for the state legislature at the age of 25, I had a lot of people tell me that I should wait. There was even doubt in my mind if it was the best year to jump into politics. But I had the passion and chose to give it a try and won the following year by 155 votes. Whatever the question ahead of them is, as they leave the University of Montana, I would urge them to not delay reaching for where they want to be because they think they need to wait or a better time will come.

Be bold and make it the right time. As legendary actress Lucille Ball once said, ‘I’d rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven’t.’”

MIKE STEINBERG, FILMMAKER AND DIRECTOR OF THE ROXY THEATER As director and programmer at the Roxy, Mike Steinberg has one of the most envied jobs in Missoula. The neighborhood theater screens classics and cult-classics, art house films and new releases, and

DON’T DO WHAT I DID Actually, you should absolutely do what I did

by Migizi Pensoneau So, you’re graduating! Well, let me impart some of the ancient wisdom I’ve been stocking up on since I was (kind of ) in your shoes in the early ’00s.

First, don’t do what I did.

Second, you should absolutely do what I did, because now I get to do what I love, on my own terms.

Let’s get something out in the open: I, unlike you, don’t have a college degree. I couldn’t be bothered to finish that pesky bachelor’s. So, you’ve already got one up on me. That kind of cavalier, devil-may-care, caution-to-the-wind lifestyle sounds damn cool, but, if I’m being honest, not finishing school set me up for years of shit jobs. These jobs include, but are not limited to: dishwasher, juice guy (that was my actual title; I made smoothies), telemarketer, door-to-door salesman, security guard, concrete contractor

and movie theater employee (concessions and projection). All of those jobs required toeing ambiguous lines of morality and scruples. My life after dropping out of college was inconstant and harried. I promise you, that kind of life is fun for nobody.

So, good on you. Bullet dodged. You have a degree. What now?

That’s where my second piece of advice comes into play. You see, when I was making smoothies, selling vacuums and persuading old people to consolidate their credit card debt (I’m not proud), I was also writing. And writing. And writing. And writing.

For years, I submitted my screenplays for feature-length and short films to everyone I could.

In varying degrees of politeness, I heard some variation of the word “no” for years. Think of how long you’ve toiled at college. That’s how

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long I heard, “No, thank you.” Or, “No, piss off.”

Or, “No, please stop writing to us.” Or my personal favorite, the non-answer, in which you harbor delusions that your “yes” letter may have been lost in the mail before finally succumbing to your own version of rejection.

One day, after years of “no,” I finally heard something different. I had been told “maybe next year” from a film and television writing intensive.

It was the inaugural year of the program, and, as I’d dropped out of school, ping-ponged around the country and hadn’t held a steady job for more than a few months, they’d conceded to consider me for the following year.

But, I managed to turn that particular “maybe” into a real “yes” by showing up on the program’s doorstep and proving that I had the dedication, oomph and chutzpah to follow my dream. I turned that opportunity into a fellowship

at ABC/Disney. Then I managed to turn that fellowship into a career as a screenwriter (and occasional essayist and movie reviewer, thanks Indy!).

Eleven years later, and I’m still writing for a living.

If you’re confused, my advice is not to start a writing career (though you should write because it gets the creative energy flowing). My advice is much more “inspirational poster” than that: Trust your gut/heart/instinct, or however you want to say it. That little voice inside of you that knows exactly what you want isn’t always the strongest voice. It’s the truest voice, though, and should be followed. Everyone will be down on their luck at some point, even you. But those lulls are exacerbated when you’re doing something you don’t love.

That’s it, though. That’s all I got. I don’t have a degree, but I do what I love. And I swear that I’m all the happier for that.

also hosts events like the International Wildlife Film Festival. As a filmmaker and self-described film geek, Steinberg finds himself in his element. But to reach this point, Steinberg says it took accepting the idea that there is no obvious moment when you switch from being a college student full of aspirations to the future self you always dreamt of being.

“I don’t often actually think of myself as a grown up,” he says, laughing. “It shocks me when I look and realize I’m gray and an old man. At some point, I realized there wasn’t going to be a transitional point where, suddenly, like a character in a movie—like the kid from 400 Blows where I see the ocean and now I can be a man. That never occurred.”

Graduating from college creates the illusion that you’re supposed to be leaping from one stage in your life to another, Steinberg says, but often it’s much simpler than it seems.

“When you leave college there’s this sense that now you have to become this other thing,” he says. “I don’t actually think that’s true. I think it’s about actualizing whoever you are. When I was in film school I called myself a film student, but at one point I thought, ‘I’m making films so this is what it’s about.’ I began to realize that it was okay to start calling myself

SGT. TRAVIS WELSH, MISSOULA POLICE DEPARTMENT

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a filmmaker. There’s certainly a tendency to waste time saying, ‘When will I be … ?’

Well, you are. So just be that.”

One of Steinberg’s favorite pieces of advice for graduates comes not from a film but from Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, wherein the protagonist

says, “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

“If we are kind to ourselves I think we end up being kinder to each other,” he says. “The Vonnegut quote is a recognition that you are that [thing you want to be], but you are constantly evolving into a better version of it, too.”

Sgt. Travis Welsh offers two straightforward bits of advice: “Never underestimate the wisdom of your parents, and the value of common sense.”

“Your parents have the luxury of life experience,” he explains. “They have handled everything that has been thrown at them during their lifetimes—many things probably before you were born. Those life experiences have taught them how to make a living, follow a budget, raise a family and deal with minor medical emergencies. They paid their taxes, fixed plumbing, replaced light switches, changed a tire on the car, mowed the lawn, planted flowers, fixed the screen door, bandaged knees, bought furniture, replaced light bulbs and electric fuses.

They have a vast knowledge when it comes to ‘life happening.’ Don’t be afraid to seek them out for advice.

“Common sense is not something you can learn from a book,” Welsh continues.

“It’s not something you can pick up in a lecture. However, it is something you can observe and recognize. Common sense will get you out of many obstacles life puts in front of you.” editor@missoulanews.com

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Out of the loop Roger Hedden’s long-dormant film, Missoula Midsummer, finally reaches the screen

by Andy Smetanka

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creenwriter Roger Hedden has got The List: a running sheet of human, scenic and other resources to exploit for his next project. Perhaps he has other lists brimming with new ways to inveigle old chums like Noah Baumbach (While We’re Young, Frances Ha) and Quentin Tarantino into fresh cinematic adventures, but The List that led to his local directorial debut, Missoula Midsummer, must have been enough to reduce any Missoulian to freshwater inland tears of recognition and joyful belonging. It would have included the following: Horses. Rattlesnake Creek and the Clark Fork. Fly fishing. Shadows Keep. Fireworks. Lesbians. The UM Media Arts and Drama/Dance departments. Greg Johnson, David Ackroyd, Andrew Rizzo, Kendra Mylnechuk. And James Crumley.

Combine ingredients, shake well and let stand for 12 years. Hedden started making Missoula Midummer in 2002 and is just now finishing, in 2015. And, as the self-effacing opening title suggests, after all this time Hedden is almost loath to admit it is a movie.

“Oh, it’s a movie,” he concedes, happy and gruff, not quite concealing the diffidence of a man reflecting on the spoils of Pyrrhic victory. “I like to call it a video story, or a video valentine to Missoula. But yeah, it’s a movie.”

He should know. Hedden is one of that select class of local screenwriters and filmmakers with actual Hollywood experience who, somehow, has ended up here. Hedden, 54, is the writer of 1993’s Bodies, Rest and Motion, based on his own play and starring Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates and Eric Stoltz; and one of six co-writers for Sleep With Me (1994), infamous for his pal Quentin’s cameo as an intense party guest who literally pins another guest to the wall with a wonderful riffing rant on Top Gun as homosexual allegory. He’s been to Cannes with a movie.

He can still “get things” to both Tarantino and Baumbach, and presumably Eric Stoltz, who, according to Hedden, called in the executive money to make Sleep With Me a “real movie,” saving the film from its apparent fate as a no-budget labor of love made on weekends.

That a writer with such industry bona fides would set up house in a town where art-house movies must routinely compete with things like “nice weather” for box office should strike you as either a sick joke or a minor miracle. On the other hand, Missoula turned out to be the perfect place for Hedden to make the kind of no-budget pet project he missed out on with a better-funded Sleep With Me. Cast mostly with amateurs, including actors with zero previous acting experience, filmed around day jobs and originally budgeted at around $500 for a leisurely

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Missoula-based screenwriter Roger Hedden, whose Hollywood credits include Sleep With Me and Bodies, Rest and Motion, recently finished Missoula Midsummer, a movie he started 12 years ago. The movie, pictured opposite, features a cast of familiar actors in a story about falling in love with the wrong people.

summer of intermittent shooting, the story of Missoula Midsummer is pretty much the story of every abandoned Missoula feature, except that Hedden actually finished his. It just took him a dozen years and $14,500 more than he expected.

“The original motive was a couple of students looking to stay in Missoula for the summer instead of going home and getting jobs,” Hedden explains. “The only requirements were, you had to live here and be free to shoot a couple of times a week. No one got paid. The budget was basically for pizza and beer. It was a fun thing that just kept snowballing.”

Budget constraints dictated that Missoula Midsummer would be shot on digital video, which— gather round now, children—in 2002 had none of the advanced capabilities of digital video in 2015. Digital filmmakers in 2015 can choose from different “film looks” (Super 8, 16mm, 35mm) to make it look old-

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school. “Now my cellphone takes a better looking movie,” Hedden scoffs.

Missoula Midsummer owes nothing to newfangled technology. Really, it kind of looks like a featurelength version of a local TV commercial; you halfway expect the opening Missoula montage to end after 20 seconds with a plug for your credit union. Yet for Hedden, there was never any question of digitally distressing the footage or adding artifact to make it look like anything but what it was.

“It looks distressed enough,” he maintains.

“Someone in the cast even suggested we rotoscope it, like [Richard Linklater’s 2001] Waking Life. Come on!"

It’s hard to say if the movie really suffers for its look—but then, it’s also hard to think of another feature that could wear this look with such unself-conscious charm. Unlike Computer Chess (2013), with its celebrated early ’80s camcorder look, Missoula

Midsummer is a very lively, funny movie, replete with jump cuts, humorous inserts and no small amount of fourth-wall breaking. Until you get used to it, though, you might struggle with the niggling feeling you’re watching a sketch version, a rehearsal for the real thing. Only this is the real thing.

The story has the classic feel of vintage film comedy, going way beyond the dated pop culture preoccupations of Tarantino et al. circa 1995 to a time when an entertaining story often meant characters simply falling in love with the wrong people. It’s a classic romantic round-robin: Ashley (Larke Schuldberg) likes Molly (Amber Felker), who likes Larke’s friend Alexandra’s brother, Scotty (Michael Knight), who likes Ashley. In a separate love triangle, Martino (Rizzo) likes Alexandra (Mylnechuk), whose boyfriend is Ashley’s half-brother Jake ( Jesse Robinson) by a famous-actor father she has never met (Ack-

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royd), whose impending arrival in Missoula to scout locations for a new movie throws the local acting scene into mild uproar. Were it not for the Missoula connection, the lesbians and some of the language, one can almost imagine the same script crossing the directorial desk of Ernst Lubitsch. Or, more recently, the desk of David Mamet.

The acting is, to put it plainly, a little uneven— some of it downright wooden. Charming performances abound (a baby-cheeked Rizzo, for example), but the way the characters are linked by their romantic aspirations spells trouble when every other link is either a wooden performance or an unsympathetic character. One suspects that the mile-a-minute writing process (“They’d be handed the pages and we’d

tau (The Bus Movie), and Montana Film Office director Deny Staggs, whose offices helped with the postproduction budget (over $7,000 for sound alone).

Yes, it’s a movie all right. And what makes it a movie—a real Missoula movie, with all the makings of a future local cult classic, but more importantly a Roger Hedden movie—is the consummate skill of its screenwriting. Largely improvised during what little rehearsal there was, Hedden’s script is packed with razor-sharp dialogue and sweetly innocent interactions. If Hedden possesses, as some reviewers have suggested, a Mametlike ability to place funny, philosophical dialogue credibly in the mouths of his characters, one of the reasons Missoula Midsummer is so funny is that it’s suffused with a mild showbiz cynicism that sounds unlikely, to

shoot the scene,” Hedden says of the 2002 days) left little time to reflect much on motivations, or refine the necessary chemistry.

Even so, it’s a credit to Hedden’s List that nearly everyone onscreen contributed in other ways, accomplishing a lot with very little. Amber Felker did her own singing in the club scenes: According to Hedden, she lip-synched the singing scenes on camera to a cassette recording of herself on an off-camera boom box, which had to be re-synched because of the slight difference in playback speeds. The guy playing the (conspicuously well-dressed) panhandler, Hedden reveals, got the cameo because he furnished the production with a prototype mini-Steadicam.

The sudden impulse to finish Missoula Midsummer, Hedden explains, came from having a lot of time on his hands when he went sober in 2012. At that point, a whole new draft of Listees came aboard to help: Dale Sherrard was instrumental, Hedden says, (he hand-picked local animator Megan Toenyes, who contributed bluebirds), as was filmmaker Damon Ris-

say the least, coming from aspiring Missoula actors playing aspiring Missoula actors.

And James Crumley? Hedden’s old friend doesn’t always appear to be “acting” in the same movie as everyone else, but in 2015 a belated film cameo by Missoula’s late, great curmudgeon of letters is a thing beyond price. For his own part, Hedden says he’s excited to watch his movie in an audience (with as many from the cast and crew as he can summon back) and then put it away for good. A new List is underway.

Hedden acknowledges that this movie probably hasn’t got an exhibition life beyond Missoula city limits, but so it goes. It is what it is, but at least it’s ours.

“The flaws are part of the fun,” he says, shrugging. “It’s an entertaining story, kind of shabbily told, but with enthusiasm. Amateurish charm—that’s what we’ve got for this. And I embrace it.”

Missoula Midsummer screens at the Roxy Mon., May 18, at 6:30 and 8:30 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

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Good life Martha Scanlan’s latest fills in the gaps The title for Martha Scanlan’s new album, The Shape of Things Gone Missing, The Shape of Things to Come, stands out mostly because of its length. It’s also a little over-the-top, which is fine, but I much prefer the more memorable, visually striking song titles, like “Abilene” and “Honey Blue” and “August is a Gate,” which do a much better job of illustrating how rich she’s made this effort.

On “Abilene,” Scanlan paints a landscape of denim jeans, El Caminos and rodeo queens with a loungey swagger. Another track, “Unbroken Wings,” introduces a morning of coffee, biscuits and beans with a frosty window in the background, before offering up the more abstract idea of frosty memories. The album is full of birds and rain, horses running in the night, dance-hall dreams and whiskey. Scanlan, who has spent many years as a ranch hand in the Tongue River Valley, walks the line be-

tween old-timey and contemporary Montana life, both in imagery and instrumentation. Her breezy vocals are emotional without overflowing, and their power is fortified by melancholy fiddle and dramatic piano chords. The players she has backing her stand out for good reason—they include Nate Query and Jenny Conlee-Drizos of the Decemberists, among others.

The sentiment on The Shape of Things feels timeless even for a generation who forms relationships over Facebook and Twitter and not always face to face. Scanlan, thank goodness, never clutters her songs with anything so modern as social media. This is Montana life if we escaped from all the filters and lived more deliberately. (Erika Fredrickson) Martha Scanlan plays the Top Hat Thu., May 21, at 8 PM. $16/$14 advance.

Spoon, They Want My Soul In 2010, Metacritic announced that Spoon was the best-reviewed band of the 2000s. But are they anyone’s favorite? I was blacked-in for much of that decade, and I do not remember Spoon hits blasting from every window. They seem to be the Toyota Camry of music: well-crafted and reliable, but not exactly the fulfillment of some wild dream.

The opposite of wildness is not mediocrity, as They Want My Soul demonstrates. The band’s eighth album is delightfully chockablock with danceable, uptempo rock songs. Britt Daniel’s vocals are as satisfying as ever. Flat but not dissonant, gritty but not abrasive,

they embody the pleasant sense of menace that rock has embraced for 40 years now. They Want My Soul is a great album to put on at a party. It will please almost as many people as Taylor Swift, and it will placate the indie snobs.

Maybe that is the role of the bestreviewed band of the last decade: easy listening. Thirty-eight years after the release of Rocket to Russia, rock is as old to us as jazz was to the Ramones. It’s unfair to demand that Spoon be daring and strange, because that’s not what we’ve asked of them. That’s not what rock is. (Dan Brooks) Spoon plays the Wilma Thu., May 21, at 8 PM. $23.

Rhiannon Giddens, Tomorrow is My Turn Rhiannon Giddens is perhaps best known as a member of the Grammywinning African American string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, but she’s on a fast track to change that. She shined in T Bone Burnett’s New Basement Tapes supergroup last year, breathing life and purpose into unreleased Bob Dylan songs like “Spanish Mary.” On her first solo record, Tomorrow Is My Turn, the classically trained singer teams up with Burnett again, using a greater pool of influences to inform a wide display of artistry.

Giddens pens only one of the songs on the album, instead showcasing her abilities as a musicologist and an interpreter to reshape songs of the past, particularly

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those written or arranged by women.

Genre-wise, she covers a lot of territory, cohesively bringing it all under one roof. Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s “Up Above My Head” is an invigorating double shot of gospel, followed by the subtle classical melodies of the title track. Giddens’ swelling inflection on Dolly Parton’s “Don’t Let It Trouble Your Mind” is exceptionally smooth and spirited. The arrangements are rootsy and appropriate, but the cream on top is always Giddens’ powerful vocals, sweetened by her tender vibrato. With chops like these, Giddens deserves her own place alongside the influential women she has represented here. (Jed Nussbaum)

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American party Bayla Arietta’s paintings celebrate a new nostalgia

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“My grandparents would be horrified if they saw Big cans of beer, guns and cut-off shorts are not at all out of place during a Montana summer. A hot my friends wearing the flag as a loin cloth and lighting Sunday afternoon might include PBR tallboys and it on fire,” she admits. “But it’s not that we hate Amershooting old televisions at the gun range after a cool ica. It’s a different sense of patriotism and a different dip in the river. That’s exactly why Bayla Arietta’s wa- idea of gender roles and religion, which I think are tercolor series, Kids, resonates with local audiences. these outdated values.”

Besides the Fourth of July party, Arietta has painted Her paintings capture the carefree backyard party and the libertine-like mischievousness of after hours. They portraits from dress-up parties—the most distinct being are, as Arietta describes them, “a twisted Norman Rockwell,” where nostalgia looks a whole lot different than it used to.

Three pieces from Kids are currently on display at the Missoula Art Museum’s Montana Triennial 2015 show, which is a juried exhibition showcasing established and emerging Montana artists. Arietta fits the description, though she only just moved here late last summer from Woodstock, N.Y., by way of Alaska. In the context of the exhibit, and because of the familiar content, it might be a little surprising that the Kids images were created from photographs of Arietta’s friends and acquaintances in New York, not Montana.

“It’s pictures of my friends having parties, which I think are great images,” she says. “I started doing that as a fun break from other paintings I do that are a lot more intensive and have more elaborate detailed background. I, personally, love those detailed ones, but it turns out other people really like the pictures of my friends getting drunk.”

Arietta got a BFA in illustration “Zoe” by Bayla Arietta from Hartford Art School. Her other series—the more detailed ones—have a mythological, from a no-pants soiree where a woman with two taxienchanted feel to them filled with beautiful and scary dermied minks draped over each breast clutches a gin and tonic. Beyond some deeper underlying themes, the creatures, wild animal and human alike.

Kids has an entirely different tone: simpler and series is fun. And, as evidence by the pieces included in saucier. Many of the paintings come from a particular the MAM’s Triennial show, they’re also relatable.

“This is my particular group of friends,” Arietta Fourth of July party Arietta and her friends threw a few years ago. Arietta recalls they built an effigy “Guy says, “but I have a feeling it’s pretty normal. These Fawkes-style” that was about a story high, and lit it are paintings of folks that aren’t from Montana, but I on fire. There were upside down flags and naked think they represent a generation of people that people wrapped in flags, plus a rusty bathtub—all im- could just as well be living in Montana. I think they ages that show up in the paintings. The flags add an could be from anywhere in the states. I think there’s extra political layer to what might otherwise just look an American feel to it.”

The Montana Triennial continues at MAM like a raucous party. The women Arietta features embody a tough confidence that updates the Rock- through Sept. 4. wellian girl—like Rockwell’s “Prom Dress,” if there was no dress involved. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Dog is love White God creates a fantastical allegory

by Molly Laich

Snausages!

White God is an astounding, crushing film, like nothing I’ve seen before, and everyone with eyes, ears and courage should run to the Roxy and see it immediately. It begins innocently enough as a kind of bleak, coming-of-age story about a young teenager and her dog, but then fate conspires to tear them apart. Humans levy one cruel blow after another until enough is enough and a group of dogs seek revenge.

Is it an allegory for certain disenfranchised human populations at the hands of a racist majority? Certainly. But for my money, the dogs themselves evoke sympathy enough, and no need to analogize the injustice further.

When we first meet Lili (Zsófia Psotta) and her dog Hagen, Lili’s mother is passing her off to her father (Sándor Zsótér) to live for three months in his tiny flat in Budapest. Dad was a professor once but now he’s got a revolting job doing quality control at a slaughterhouse, which is just to say this guy’s not an animal lover and seems less than thrilled that Lili brought a large mutt to live with them. Turns out mixed-breed dogs are subject to extra fees in Hungary, and their neighbor immediately reports the pup to authorities. Dad’s not willing to pay the fine, and after some terse discussion, he winds up throwing the dog out of the car in a sketchy field near some abandoned railroad tracks.

Now the story splits between Hagen out on the street and Lili left to navigate her unfair teenage life without him. Hagen meets other street dogs that are constantly hunted by dogcatchers. He eludes capture, only to later be picked up and trained to kill for sport and profit. A lot of research went into a realistic depiction of the underground Hungarian dogfighting industry, apparently, and these progressions of scenes are nothing short of incredible. Hagen begins his journey so lost and scared, and then one bad

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thing happens to him after another, until it’s easy to see how a dog’s personality might change over time from happy and trusting to fearful and aggressive, and then finally, vengeful.

Twin dogs Rock and Body play Hagen, who looks like sort of a mix between a Shar Pei and German shepherd. (Casting agents found them on the way to the shelter in Arizona.) I’m not being cute when I say these pups are giving Oscar-worthy performances.

These dogs have serious range. Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó wrote and directed the movie, and it’s a great achievement in both visual style and tone, never mind the challenge of working with so many non-human actors.

The final moments are fantastical, but the scenes leading up to the end are more or less rooted in realism; when the story culminates with a pack of more than 200 dogs running wild in the streets of downtown Budapest, we are fully prepared to believe in it, and more than that, root for them. These scenes are all the more amazing when you find out they used real dogs in the actual space with little to no CGI or green screen technology. The film employs 274 dogs total, all of them mixed-breed rescues; if you stay to the end you’ll see each of them listed by name in the credits.

I got my 8-year-old Rottweiler, Dorothy, five months ago, after her usefulness as a breeder expired. She is my destiny and my soul mate and our love for each other is palpable and real. At this point, if Dorothy killed my own mother, I think I’d find a way to forgive her. There’s something special and unique about a lonely girl and her dog, and it’s not a bond to be trifled with. Let this movie be a lesson.

White God screens at the Roxy Fri., May 8– Sun., May 10, at 7 PM nightly. arts@missoulanews.com

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OPENING THIS WEEK MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Awwww yeah, Tom Hardy stars as the eponymous P.O’ed Max, a man on a mission to restore order in a screwed-up apocalyptic hellscape with really cool outfits and fast cars. Also starring Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

MISSOULA MIDSUMMER Filmmaker Roger Hedden brings us a “video valentine” to Zootown, with stars including David Ackroyd, Jillian Campana, James Crumley, Howard Kingston and many more. Not rated.

World premier at the Roxy Mon., May 18, at 6:30 and 8:30 PM. (See Arts.)

PITCH PERFECT 2 The Barden Bellas are back and out to dominate an international competition to regain their mojo.

Starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Hailee Steinfeld. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

TOUCH OF EVIL Orson Welles directs and stars in the dark 1958 tale of murder and corruption in a Mexican border town. Also featuring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh. Rated PG-13. Screening at the Roxy Sun., May 17, at 5 PM. WHITE GOD (FEHÉR ISTEN) A Hungarian girl fights to rescue her beloved dog.

Starring Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér and Lili Horváth. Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Fri., May 15–Sun., May 17, at 7 PM. (See Film.)

NOW PLAYING

Give it a fair shake. Mad Max: Fury Road opens Friday at Carmike 12, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

Jr., Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

EX MACHINA A brilliant young computer programmer must evaluate the, ahem, assets of a beautiful lady android; contemplation about the true meaning of humanity ensues. Starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac. Rated R. Carmike 12.

THE AGE OF ADALINE Blake Lively stars as a woman who stops aging after a supernatural accident; strangely, this isn’t a biography of Cher. Also starring Michiel Huisman and Harrison Ford. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

FURIOUS 7 Let us all commemorate Paul Walker (RIP) in this, the seventh film about cars that are fast and men who are furious. Also starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Tony Stark’s peacekeeping program goes awry and it’s up to a bunch of beefcakes to stop a new villain from his dastardly deeds. Starring Robert Downey

HOT PURSUIT An uptight cop and a freewheeling drug lord’s widow must team up to escape hitmen. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Sofía Vergara and Matthew Del Negro. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

THE LONGEST RIDE In case your DVD of The Notebook is starting to get scratched, a bull rider and an artsy college girl fall in love in the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Starring Britt Robertson, Alan Alda and Scott Eastwood’s chiseled jaw. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 5417469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Noah Baumbach directs a drama about a middleaged couple’s marriage derailed by newcomers.

Starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Adam Driver.

Rated R. Screening at the Roxy Fri., May 8–Thu., May 21, at 6 and 8 PM.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

All in the family

by Lacy Roberts By the time John Kordonouris started working at his family’s gyro shop on South Fifth Street, he’d already been in the restaurant biz for years, soaking up the pace at his mom’s franchise place in North Carolina. It didn’t matter that he was still a preteen, because he knew what he wanted to do. And today, at 21, he is fulfilling his destiny.

John now runs The Greek Gyros and Pastry Shop, often lovingly called #1 Gyros, housed in a blue and white building that sits across from the Orange Street Food Farm. Since 1977, one or another of Kordonouris’s forebears has been teaching locals how to do gyros right. And it’s no secret. The Greek Gyros and Pastry Shop bumps around the top five spots of highest rated Missoula restaurants on Yelp. If you stop by during a busy lunchtime, you’ll see a line snaking out the door, along with the smell of garlicky, oregano-y gyro meat. People are devoted to this place.

“I would say that about 80 percent of our business comes from regulars,” says John as he greets another customer by name. He says they sell 300-500 gyros a day, along with everything else on their menu.

So what inspires such loyalty? John would say it’s twofold: the food (duh) and the family.

Let’s start with the family. Back in 1977, John’s great uncle, George Demonakos, opened up shop, along with John’s great great grandfather Jim Petrou.

There’s still a photo of old Jim sitting on top of the range hood, keeping an eye on the restaurant. John gestures to the photo when he talks about his family.

“I never met him, but I have some sort of [memory], because my grandparents talk about him all the time.” John says. “It’s so weird with Greeks, there’s so much family.”

Indeed, it’s a group effort. John’s mom Demetra, who owns the place, helps out behind the counter, and his grandmother arrives at the shop every morning at 8 to prepare the delicious, not-too-sweet baklava. (“I know how to make it, but I don’t make it as good as my Gramma,” says John, bless him.)

And then there is the fact that if you hang around enough, you’ll get adopted. Demetra invites regu-

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lars—or “usuals,” as they’ve dubbed them—over to her house for barbecues (“they always come,” she says with a smile) and John hangs out with them on the weekends. It seems to me that John knows the name of every person that walks through the door.

“For a customer, if you walk in and someone is like, hey you want the usual? It means they are actually caring for you. That’s what I try to do. I love my customers,” he says.

And then there’s the food. The Greek Gyros and Pastry Shop uses all-beef gyro meat, mixed with olive oil, breadcrumbs, onions, garlic and spices. If you’ve ever wondered (as I have) how a 40-pound inverted cone of rotating ground meat doesn’t just fall apart, well, there’s a trick to that. The cone is frozen. The spinning grillers cook the outermost layer of the gyro meat at the perfect rate so the inside of the cone remains frozen and intact. John says they go through four to six cones on an average day.

The gyro meat is piled on a perfectly grilled pita with shredded lettuce, feta and tzatziki—a garlicky, cucumber-yogurt sauce. You can also satisfy your Greek cravings with their falafel, spanakopita, hummus and baba ghanoush. On top of that, I wouldn’t personally walk out the door without an order of their special fries—crispy and drenched in greek seasoning, feta and tzatziki. It’s like awesome Greek poutine.

John says that in the past 38 years the restaurant has been in operation, very little has changed. They’ve kept the recipes handed down from Uncle George, and the shop is still a hangout for the local Greek community. A core of about 10 Greek families live within a few blocks, most on one particular stretch of Chestnut Street. Most days you’ll find an old-timer or two having lunch, or just hanging out, discussing the latest in animated Greek.

As for the other usuals, they’re easy to find.

“I have to stop myself from eating here every week,” says Matt McQuilkin during a recent lunch.

“We’re really lucky to have something like this in Missoula.” Indeed.

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Bernice's espresso was created by the talented staff at Hunter Bay (and approved by the staff at Bernice's )to represent the full bodied flavor character of the infamous Bernice's Cup o' Joe. Our espresso is a rich Mocha Java blend of sweet berry African coffees united with Indonesian and Brazilian coffees for an espresso that compliments Bernice's palate of fresh baked treats. Serving 7 days a week 6am - 8pm. Now you can enjoy your morning croissant, muffin or scone with espresso! Wheee! Or, stop by after dinner and have a dessert with a demitasse. Bernice's: from scratch for your pleasure...always. 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. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drivethru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood.

Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 42 years of great coffees and teas.

Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jamba-

laya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.

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. $-$$ Eagles Lodge #32 Missoula 2420 South Avenue • 543-6346 Tailgate with us before each Griz home game, and get a FREE ride to the game on our shuttle.

Soup, salad and burgers served for lunch Monday thru Friday 11:00am to 2:30pm. Don’t forget to stop in for our Thursday Night Matadors & Friday Night Burgers, 6:00 to 8:00pm both nights. Live music EVERY Friday and Saturday night and admission is always FREE! 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. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 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 97:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 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. $$-$$$

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Montana Helles Lager HAPPIEST HOUR What it is: Bayern Brewing’s version of a light Bavarian lager (“helles” means “light” or “bright” in German).

After originally starting as a specialty brew provided only to a single Seattle bar, Bayern expanded Helles Lager production and added it to its year-round lineup about a year ago.

lish. In addition, Widmer Brothers’ Alchemy Pale Ale took Best Pale Ale, Carter’s Brewing out of Billings won Best IPA with its Ghost Train Double IPA and Goose Island’s Summer Ale received Best Light Beer. Best of Show and Best Stout went to the Double Stout Black Ale from San Diego’s Green Flash Brewing Co.

Tell us more about the Why you’re drinking it: photo by Cathrine L. Walters Helles Lager: The Zoo City Helles Lager took the coveted Best of Montana award, as well as Best Lager, Zymurgists aren’t the only ones smitten with at the 23rd annual Garden City BrewFest earlier Bayern’s new-ish beer. It took bronze at the this month. The Zoo City Zymurgists, Mis- 2013 U.S. Open Beer Championship and silsoula’s venerable organization of homebrew- ver at the North American Beer Awards the ers, judged more than 70 beers for 10 same year. Most importantly, at 5.6 alcohol by volume and with a full-bodied, smooth finish, different categories. it’s a perfect spring and summer session beer.

Who else received honors? Other local Where to find it: At the Bayern taproom, winners included Philipsburg’s Rope Swing Saison for Best Belgian/French, Great Burn’s Mon- 1507 Montana St. It’s also widely available in tana Creamsicle for Best Specialty and Lolo bottles around town.

—Skylar Browning Peak’s Double Eagle Scotch Ale for Best Eng-

Iza 529 S. Higgins 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pmclose. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ 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. $ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3? (Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:3012:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $ Missoula Farmer's Market N. Higgins by the XXX's missoulafarmersmarket.com Find us on Facebook Seasonal, Homegrown and Homemade!

Fresh local vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants, eggs, honey, baked goods and coffee provided by over 100 vendors. "Music at the Market" performers on Saturdays 9am-noon. Market Hours: Saturday's 8am12:30pm May 2-Oct. 31, 2015 • Tuesday's 5:30-7pm.

July 7-Sept. 22, 2015. EBT, credit or debt cards and MDA gift cards accepted. Happy Shopping Missoula! Thank you for supporting our local farmers.

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

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins 541-PITA (7482) pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$ 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 all-encompassing 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 Romaines is a Certified Green Restaurant ® dedicated to making environmentally sustainable choices in all operations. We serve salads, sandwiches, and soups made from locally grown and raised produce and meats. The menu also includes vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, providing something for everyone on the menu. Locally brewed beers are on tap as well as regional wines pairing well with salads and sandwiches. $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ 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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May 14–May 21, 2015 from nations including Guinea, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. Meets on the second and fourth Thursday of each month from 6-7:30 PM. $5 donation requested.

Get the evening started off right when Ten Skip Stone plays folk ‘n country and a dash of whatever else they like at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover.

Missoula Community Theatre peels back the layers with Shrek: The Musical, at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, May 13-17. All evening shows at 7:30 PM except Sundays, which are at 6:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Call 728-7529 for the box office.

If they’re doing it right, outlaw country dudes Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts will sing about trucks ‘n prison ‘n trains and Mama at the Top Hat, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

FRIDAYMAY15 All my best friends are metalheads. Less Than Jake plays the Wilma Sat., May 16, along with Reel Big Fish and The Interrupters. Doors at 7 PM. $23.

THURSDAYMAY14 The UM School of Media arts presents the 2015 Spring Expo, showcasing experimental films, documentaries, games, artwork and more at The Roxy Theater. 4–10 PM. Free. Check out umt.edu/mediaarts.

Moving out of your dorm? Have a lot of unwanted stuff? The UM Thrift Program is dedicated to ensuring all that unwanted dorm decor doesn’t end up in the landfill, with drop-off locations outside each of the residence halls from May 13-17 from 10 AM-7 PM, as well as two off campus locations. The program is also looking for volunteers. Visit UM Campus Thrift’s Facebook page or email cam-

pusthrift@mso.umt.edu for more information.

nightlife The Missoula College’s culinary arts students host the annual Capstone Dinner: Night Caps, a tribute to retro midcentury supper clubs with terrines, shrimp cocktails and everything else that Betty Crocker dreams

of. 909 South Ave. at 5 PM. $80 per person, includes wine pairings. Call 243-7870.

Come and listen to some folk, folks when John Floridis plays at Bitterroot Brewery in Hamilton. Show from 6-8:30 PM. The Djebe Community Drum and Dance class offers interactive instruction in performance traditions

Filmmaker and graphic artist Rachel Stevens takes mundane parking meters and makes ‘em something special in You Can Be Here at FrontierSpace, in the alley between Pine and Spruce. Closing reception May 15, 3-6 PM.

nightlife Sip a Guinness and be whisked away to the Emerald Isle with the

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[calendar] Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover.

Family Friendly Friday invites little ones to boogie while parental units kick back at the Top Hat, starting at 6 PM, with a rotating lineup of local musicians providing all-ages tunes.

No cover.

Get a little Mississippi blues pumping through your veins, along with some brews when Mudslide Charley performs at Bitterroot Brewery. Jams from 6-8:30.

Celebrate the last best place with the Dana Gallery’s fourth annual Icons of the West group exhibit, with 150 new works from artists including Tom Gilleon, Deb Schmidt and Greg Wilhelmi. Opening reception from 68 PM. Hang out with Tom Catmull on the terrace, darling, and enjoy the view at The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive.

Tunes from 6:30-9:30 PM. No cover.

BFA dance senior Emily Jay Vascimini presents We Carry the Ocean Inside Us, an original performance exploring internal struggles, “that will leave you soaked with emotion and swaying to the rhythm of the waves.”

Downtown Dance Collective at 7 and

Take a hike. Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts play the Top Hat Thu., May 14, at 9:30 PM. No cover.

9 PM, with talkback after the 9 PM show. $5.

Learn more about Missoula’s seedy underground history when Nikki Manning reads from her new

book Historic Underground Missoula at Shakespeare and Company, 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. Wendy Woollett’s Montana Monologues brings to life the experience of older ranch women and their experiences growing up in the 1930s and ‘40s. Stevensville Playhouse, performances Fri., May 8-Sat., May 9 and Fri., May 15-Sun., May 16 at 7 PM, plus matinees on May 10 and 17. $15/$12 in advance, $12/$8 in advance for kids. Visit stevensvilleplayhouse.org.

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

Missoula Community Theatre peels back the layers with Shrek:

The Musical, at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, May 13-17. All evening shows at 7:30 PM except Sundays, which are at 6:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Call 728-7529 for the box office.

The Roxy hosts another edition of Homegrown Shorts, an evening of films that might’ve been made in your backyard. 7:30 PM. $6-$8 admission.

Celebrate the man in black at the Top Hat’s Cold Hard Cash Show, a tribute to Johnny and the Tennessee Three. Starting at 9 PM, The Top Hat Lounge. Tickets are $5.

LA DJ Mikey V is mixin up some tunes for this month’s edition of I’ll House You at the Badlander, doors and music starting at 9 PM. No cover, plus $4 Stoli energy drank special.

The Devastation Tour arrives to wreak havoc upon the Dark Horse,

Help for chronic and acute disease.

Revealing what will get you well.

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[calendar] with such heavies as Walking Corpse Syndrome, Morbid Inc. and Blessiddoom rawking out at 9 PM. $7.

Head to the Union Club for a Friday night to remember with Russ Nasset and the Revelators providing the grooves, starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

Goodness, my gracious what an evening it will be when Seattle based blues-rock trio My Goodness plays at The Palace, along with Missoula’s new-ish outfit Tiny Plastic Stars. Doors at 9:30 PM. $10/$8 in advance.

SATURDAYMAY16 A dude you may be familiar with by name of Max Baucus is the speaker for UM’s 118th Commencement, starting at Washington-Grizzly Stadium ‘round 10 AM. Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild Coyote Band. 7-11 PM. $7. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

Mingle among the sweet abundance at the Missoula farmers markets and People’s Market, with produce, arts, crafts, baked goods, hot breakfasts and strong coffee at the XXXXs, Pine Street and riverside parking lot east of Caras Park. Things get running about 8 AM and last til 1 PM. Tomorrow, May 17, is the deadline to register for the Techniques of Terraforming creative writing workshop, with emphasis on sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Meets at Missoula College’s Health and Business Building for 10 weeks through July. $185, open to ages “16 to immortal.” Visit bluedoor10.blogspot.com to register and email Bridget for info at bluedoor10@outlook.com.

Fill up on pancakes and find yourself a treasure in another person’s trash at the Annual Boy Scout Troop 1911 Garage Sale and Pancake Breakfast, First Christian Church, 2701 South Russell St. ‘Cakes at 8 AM and sale at 9 AM. Breakfast is $4 at door, $2.50 in advance. All proceeds benefit the troop to pay for activities and supplies and such.

Visit bsatroop1911.org for more information.

Saturday every month through the school year. Missoula Senior Citizens’ Center, 705 Higgins Ave. 11–11:45 AM. Donations appreciated.

Malarkey does their tuneful Irish thing at Ten Spoon Winery while you sip ‘n chat the evening away, 6-8:30 PM. No cover charge.

nightlife You’ve heard the rest, now shine your boots and party when the Best Westerns play alt-country and rock tunes at Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover.

The Nashville indie-folk rock husband and wife duo You Knew Me When are strummin’ away at the Bitterroot Brewery in Hamilton. The love fest is 6-8:30 PM. Wendy Woollett’s Montana Monologues brings to life the experience of older ranch women and their experiences growing up in the 1930s and ‘40s. Stevensville Playhouse, performances Fri., May 8-Sat., May 9 and Fri., May 15-Sun., May 16 at 7 PM, plus matinees on May 10 and 17. $15/$12 in advance, $12/$8 in advance for kids. Visit stevensvilleplayhouse.org.

The dream of 90s ska is alive, so have yourself a beer when you attend the Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish concert at Wilma. Doors at 7, show at 8 PM. $23 at Rockin Rudy’s, KnittingFactory.com or 866-468-7654.

Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo deliver the primo Saturday nite party at the Badlander.

Doors at 9 PM. Two-fer-one Absolut vodka drinks until midnight. No cover.

Commune with the party vibes when Joan Zen and her band rock out at the Union Club, starting ‘round 9:30 PM. No cover.

Gather up your jazz cats and enjoy a superlative evening while the legendary Azar Lawrence wails away on his sax at Daly Jazz, 240 Daly Ave, 9 PM. $25 minimum donation; children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult. RSVP to dalyjazz@gmail.com.

Ditch the pomp ‘n circumstance for some old-school jamz when Dead Hipster’s I Heart the 90s presents a special Graduation Edition party at Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. $3 to get in, drink specials aplenty.

Montana Legal Justice is proud to announce the opening of its Walk-in Legal Clinic! This program is the first of its kind in Missoula.

The mission of the Clinic is to ensure all Montanans have access to legal services at an affordable price.

The Clinic offers limited scope representation at a flat-fee rate and currently handles family law and domestic relations issues.

As we grow, Clinic services are likely to expand so please don’t hesitate to contact us to find out if we can handle your legal issue.

If you need further assistance beyond what the Clinic offers, we can transition you to full representation with one of our other attorneys at Montana Legal Justice.

Monday 10 am – 1 pm Tuesday 8 am – 3 pm

Clinic Hours: Wednesday – by appointment Thursday 1 pm – 6 pm

Find us at 415. N. Higgins Avenue, Suites 1 & 2 or call 406.356.6546 • www.montanalegaljustice.com

Dance the night away with mindaltering tunes from New York DJ/producer duo Designer Drugs, rocking the Palace stage starting at 9:30 PM, along with M.R. Wizard, Sharkwe3k and Holdr. $10-$15. 18-plus.

Rock out with Missoula’s own funkalicious Locksaw Cartel and Letter B. at the Top Hat. Show starts at 10 PM, $5 cover at the door.

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Missoula Community Theatre peels back the layers with Shrek: The Musical, at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, May 13-17. All evening shows at 7:30 PM except Sundays, which are at 6:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21.

Call 728-7529 for the box office.

Bitterroot singer-songwriter Emzee sings smooth and soulful originals and covers, with wide array of influences from Janis Joplin to Rihanna. Great Burn Brewing, 2230 McDonald Ave. Show starts at 6 PM and is free.

The Missoula Folklore Society Dance invites one and all to cut loose at the Union Hall, with tunes from Skippin A Groove. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for members and students/free for volunteers and kids.

The Contact Improv Class & Jam invites you to groove on a Sunday afternoon and get hip to the ways of improvised dance and community spirit. Meets at the Downtown Dance

John Thompson, a longtime artist with A Carousel for Missoula, chats about his prints and carvings at the Saturday demonstration at Missoula Art Museum, 10 AM-noon. Free.

Little ones can feel the rhythm at Kids’ Vibrations, a 45-minute educational blast with local musicians and Tangled Tones educators on the third

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[calendar] Collective on every other Sunday from 2:30-4:30 PM, until the end of May. $1-$7 sliding fee scale.

nightlife Coordinate your own ménage à trois while John Floridis Trio plays folky tunes at Draught Works, 5-7 PM. No cover.

Missoula Community Theatre peels back the layers with Shrek: The Musical, at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, May 13-17. All evening shows at 7:30 PM except Sundays, which are at 6:30 PM. Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM. $15-$21. Call 728-7529 for the box office.

MONDAYMAY18 Arina Hunter leaps into action with her BFA dance performance, Rhythmic Motion, at Headwaters Dance Studio, 1042 Monroe St. Mon., May 18-Tue., May 19, at 7:30 PM. $5.

nightlife Let a glass or two of red set you right while Kristi Neumann springs into action at Red Bird Wine Bar, with tunes from 7-10 PM. No cover.

Shake, rattle ‘n roll at the Beginner/Intermediate Jazz Dance class, led by Jennifer Meyer-Vaughan on Mondays at Downtown Dance Collective, 7:30-9 PM. Yoga pants allowed, regular rates apply.

TUESDAYMAY19 To heck with sitting at home when you can watch PBS on a bigscreen and munch on popcorn at the screening of “11th and Grant: The Drum Brothers,” a music program featuring their lively mix of world music. Roxy Theater, 7 PM. Free.

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Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters takes the “eek out of public speaking” with weekly meetings at the Florence Building, noon-1 PM, on the second floor. Free to attend. Check out shootinthebull.info to learn more.

nightlife Learn to do-si-do with a partner of your choice at the Top Hat’s Square Dance night. All dances are taught as you go to live old time string music. The dancing begins at 7:30 PM, all ages and free.

C.U. this Tuesday at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To warm up the noggin, here’s a trivia question: Sir Edward Elgar composed “Pomp and Circumstance” originally for the coronation of King Edward VII. What Shakespeare play does the title reference? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Mike Avery hosts the SingerSongwriter Showcase, now on Tuesdays at the Badlander at 9 PM. No cover. Email michael.avery@ live.com ahead of time to sign up.

WEDNESDAYMAY20 Ease into a comfier seat for the Tour of Montana Bicycle Film Festival, featuring documentaries and short films about all things wheel-y. Screening at the Roxy Wednesdays in May at 7 PM, plus Sat., May 30, at 7 PM. $90 for a series pass/$10 per screening, with discounts for students. Pass purchase includes all five films, Q&A sessions and a happy hour with filmmaker Kathryn Bertine. Check out theroxytheater.org.

Naomi Kimbell leads the Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors

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secret paths Something about subterranean places invites intrigue. New York City’s massive network of abandoned subway tunnels, now the locations of underground shanty towns, are of particular interest.

Missoula's underground is not nearly as extensive, nor has it evolved in modern day into anything other than storage space for the businesses above. Still, there are mysteries under our feet.

WHAT: Reading of Historic Underground Missoula WHO: Author Nikki Manning WHEN: Fri., May 15, at 7 PM WHERE: Shakespeare & Co. HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: shakespeareandco.com

Folklore circulates around Missoula's underground network of tunnels and basements. University of Montana grad student Nikki Manning’s book Historic Underground Missoula tells the story of business owners involved in the research and archeology of these spaces and the attempt to get to the bottom of what these areas were used for. Manning and her team of students focus on specific buildings in downtown that were at the heart of Missoula during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Some stories, verbally passed down and perhaps embellished with time, tell of opium dens and trafficking of alcohol during the prohibition era. One rumor tells of a “John Wayne” tunnel entrance under the old Macy’s building that supposedly led to the Florence building so that Wayne could run errands

unnoticed. The book follows Manning into these cavernous spaces and allows us to wonder with her as she describes her investigation. What was that vast network of tunnels under the old Macy’s building used for? Who built them? Who left their shoes down there?

One of the most successful things Manning’s book does is leave certain questions unanswered.

The reader is allowed to speculate and the imagination runs wild, while Manning and her team explore basements beneath the former brothels in old Chinatown, among other areas below the sidewalks of our city.

—Kellen Beck

Rewording workshop, where participants will explore their thoughts and feelings with writing. Living Art studio, 725 W. Alder St., Ste. 17. Noon-1:30 PM. Visit livingartofmontana.org for more info.

Win big bucks off your bar tab and/or free pitchers by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM.

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The weekly Dinner and a Movie series brings top-notch indie flix and good eats under one roof. Screening at the Crystal Theater at 7 PM, $7.

Dinner menu from Silk Road available (not included in admission price).

John Floridis breaks out that guitar and sings those folkrock tunes of his at the Montana Distillery, 521 Woody St. Show starts at 5:30 PM; no cover.

Today’s alphabet lesson comes from Letter B, playing tunes at Draught Works from 6-8 PM. Free.

If you haven’t played with clay since elementary school, the Coil Pots class at the ZACC for adults is just the ticket, where you’ll make unique pieces from 6-8 PM. $20/free for members. Check out zootownarts.org.

Move in the right direction when the East Coast Swing class with Cathy Clark takes over the Sunrise Saloon on Wednesdays. Class runs from 7-8:30 PM; beginners should show up at the start. $5, payable in cash when you arrive. Partners not necessary.

Seattle rocker gal Star Anna hangs

out at Stage 112, along with our own crooner Marshall Granger. Doors at 9 PM, show at 9. $6. (Trivia answer: Othello, and the line “Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!”)

Live those “American Idol” fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke with Cheree at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, with drink specials and the chance to win $50 big ones. 8:30-10:30 PM. No cover; stick around for the prize drawing to be eligible to win.

Grab your axe and head on down to the Hump Day Jam at Monk’s Bar, with a PA and backline available, but you can bring your own amp if you wanna. Gets rolling about 9 PM. Free.

Baby Tyger and Hot Apostles team up to pump up the jams at the

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SNAP recipients, run your EBT card and receive a match on your SNAP funds, up to $20 per market. (while funds last) Double SNAP Dollars Program sponsor this week: Montana Community Development Corporation

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[calendar] Real Lounge, corner of Front and Pattee Streets. 9 PM. Cover TBA.

newfound skills with a live band at the Sunrise Saloon. 1805 Regent St. Classes are $5 and start for beginners at 7 PM, intermediate at 7:30 and live band music at 9.

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Find the John Corbett look-alike of your dreams and take him for a spin while Julie Bug and Northern Exposure party at the Sunrise Saloon, starting around 9 PM. No cover.

Fairies, romantic misunderstandings, oafish donkeys and plenty of gin-soaked banter comes to light in A MidDrunken Night’s Dream, an hour-long abbreviated Shakespeare reading where the actors are drinking it up for realsies. Delightful. It all goes down at the Badlander at 7 PM sharpish. Free.

The residency shenanigans continue with Joey Running Crane and the Dirty Birds at the VFW; rumor holds that this week, they’ll be Holy Diver-ing into some metal covers. Guests include Minneapolis psych-metal outfit Maeth, plus our own Shramana and False Teeth. 10 PM. $5/$7 for ages 18-20. Special two-fer edition: if you show up before 9:30 PM with a friend, it’s $7 for two.

nightlife Let tunes from Hardwood Heart soften your gaze at Draught Works Brewery, 6-8 PM. No cover.

Montana songwriter Martha Scanlan spends an evening at the Top Hat singing about belonging and place, along with Jon Nuefold. Doors at 6 PM, show at 7. $16/$14 in advance at the Top Hat and Rockin Rudy’s. (See Music.)

On the right track. You Knew Me When plays the Bitterroot Brewery Sat., May 16, from 6–8:30 PM.

The Acousticals are a pickin away and showing off with some booty waggin bluegrass at the Bitterroot Brewery. Show from 6-8:30 PM. Hone your chops at the Slow Jam, where musicians will play celtic, old time and contra

dance tunes at relaxed tempos so beginners can easily join in. Starving Artist Cafe, 3020 S. Reserve St., off the corner of Reserve and Harve.

Every third Thursday of the month from 6-7:30 PM. Visit missoulastarvingartist.com or email rocu@rocketmail.com for more info.

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Turn your camera on when Spoon plays the Wilma, along with special guests. Doors at 7 PM. $25/$23 in advance. Tickets on sale at Rockin Rudy’s, knittingfactory.com. (See Music.)

Bust out those bolo ties, learn to do some country two stepping and then test out your

Shout-out to this week’s special guest calendar editor, Kellen. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event to guarantee publication. 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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s your canine companion a bit of a showboat? Or maybe they’re in need of a big day out? Perhaps he’s looking a little scruffy and needs to do some networking to find a new groomer? Whatever little Fido needs, it can be found at Missoula’s fourth annual Doggie Dash at Silver Park, hosted by Missoula Parks and Recreation.

The Doggie Dash will feature an agility course for your bud to show off, plus groomers, trainers, dog walkers, veterinarians and more. There will be a 1-mile fun run and a 5k as well, both of which your furry friend are invited to join as long as he or she is leashed. All proceeds from the event will benefit homeless pets at Missoula Animal Control, a cause

near and dear to this writer’s heart since I am the owner of two rescue pups. So go out and show your hairy little mutt a good time while helping to support a good cause.

—Kellen Beck The fourth annual Doggie Dash is Sun., May 15 from 11 AM-2 PM in Silver Park, 900 Cregg Lane. Race registration is $25 in advance and includes one human and one dog. $2 for each additional dog. Race day registration is $35. Find more information at ci.missoula.mt.us or 721-PARK.

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THURSDAY MAY 14 Flutter your way over to the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium, which marks national Endangered Species Day with an informational exhibit on monarch butterflies. 218 E. Front St., second floor. 7-8:30 PM.

SATURDAY MAY 16 The Peak Triathlon offers options for beginners and experienced triathletes. Beginners will appreciate the shorter swim of 500 yards, larger swim lanes and fewer participants in each lane. The bike course of 12.4 miles is an out and back on Blue Mountain Road. The run is 3.1 miles throughout nearby neighborhoods along rolling hills. All proceeds support Fit to Fight of Missoula. Visit peaktri.com.

The MOBI folks take off on the Paul O’Connell Memorial Ride, an 80-miler from Sula to Wisdom.

Stops at local stores are planned, but bring a lunch ‘n snax. Contact Norman for info at normsingley@gmail.com, 370-3739.

Creepy crawly critters get a bad rap, so celebrate National Kids to Parks Day at Travelers’ Rest State Park, where you and your kiddos learn about insects and why they aren’t as gross as we might think. 11 AM-noon, 6717 Highway 12 West, Lolo.

Suggested donation of $2 per participant.

SUNDAY MAY 17 Slip into those bike shorts and head to Kalispell for the Herron Hammer, featuring 6.4-24.6 mile trips on a mix of singletrack and doubletrack. Visit montanacycling.net.

The MOBI-sters head out to Painted Rocks Reservoir from McCormick Park at 8 AM for an 87miler; you can also shorten the trip by starting at Darby.

Contact David for info at david.e.barth@gmail.com.

MONDAY MAY 18 Our hard working friend, the bee, could use a little help. Learn how to garden for pollinators at the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge; runs 4:30-6:30 PM for homeschool and 4H kiddos, 7-9 PM for adults.

Wildfowl Lane north of Stevensville. Call Jill at 6423601 for more information.

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The Montana Dirt Girls kick into gear with group cycling trips in the Missoula area, meeting up at 6 PM every Tuesday at various locations. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com to sign up for the mailing list and find out more.

THURSDAY MAY 21 Land and livestock owners are invited to attend the Non-lethal Predator Management Workshop in Polson at the KwaTaqNuk Resort. This workshop will help to educate folks on how to deal with carnivorous predators in a way that benefits all parties, including reducing and preventing conflicts with grizzlies and wolves. Registration begins at 7:40 AM and the workshop runs till 5:00 PM. Free to attend; call John at 657-6464 with any questions. calendar@missoulanews.com

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In 2009, The New York Times Magazine ran a photo essay that caused a national outcry. Gillian Laub’s haunting collection, “A Prom Divided,” documented how Georgia’s Montgomery County High School held racially segregated homecoming and prom rituals, despite the integration of its schools since 1971. National attention eventually led to the town integrating these events.

The documentary Southern Rites revisits this community one year after the town merged these segregated proms. Unsurprisingly, racial tensions are still high. Amidst the hope for progress during a historic campaign to elect their first African-American sheriff, Laub explores the repercussions when a white resident of a neighboring community is charged with the murder of an unarmed young black man. The case reopened wounds and divided the community once again on long-standing racial lines.

Find your inner Om with a one-day meditation retreat, led by Montana native and longtime Buddhist teacher David Curtis at 102 McLeod Ave, 9:30 AM-5 PM, with a lunch break. Suggested donation of $20-$50. Call 961-5131 or email info@tibetanlanguage.org for more information.

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The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. Take note the group is now meeting on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

MONDAY MAY 18 Rocky Mountain Rising Tide gets together to work on grassroots solution to the climate crisis, every other Monday at The Hive, 5:30-7:30 PM.

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Southern Rites screens at the Top Hat as part of the Big Sky Documentary Film Series on Sun., May 17. Show is free and all ages are welcome. Doors at 6 PM, show at 8.

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Southern Rites is an important documentary not only because of its subject, but also because of its timing. With riots in Baltimore and national protests, we, as a country, are having a serious discussion about racial stereotyping and the treatment of African-American individuals by police officers. Southern Rites debuted on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision 61 years ago, proving that we haven’t come quite as far as we would like to believe since that time.

Southern Rites tells a story that needs to be told and helps to highlight racial issues and themes that are universal.

—Kellen Beck

Get in touch with healing arts at the Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors workshop, at Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Unit 17. Noon-1:30 PM. Free. Call 549-5329 for info.

The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition’s summer field day series kicks off May 20, with five locations around the Missoula area, including St. Ignatius and Lifeline Farms in Victor, where beginner and experienced farmers and ranchers can learn the ins ‘n outs of the business. Make sure to head over to missoulacfac.org/field-days-2015.html to register in advance and learn more.

Find help with food issues at the Overeaters Anonymous meetings on the third floor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on Brooks St., Wednesdays. Newbies can come at 6:30 PM, and the regular meeting begins at 7 PM. Free. Call 543-5509 for info.

NAMI Missoula hosts a screening and discussion of the award-winning film Call Me Crazy at Missoula Public Library, 6:30-8:45 PM. Free.

THURSDAY MAY 21 Eligible adults over 60 are invited to apply for the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, which provides coupons for fresh produce at participating market vendors. Coupons will be distributed in late June. Visit missoulaagingservices.org or head to the Missoula Aging Services office, 227 Stephens Ave., during regular business hours to find an application and more info. Call 728-7682.

Land and livestock owners are invited to attend the Non-lethal Predator Management Workshop in Polson at the KwaTaqNuk Resort. Registration begins at 7:40 AM and the workshop runs till 5:00 PM. Free to attend; call John at 657-6464 with any questions.

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, plus there’s nice beverages and snacks.

Neuropsychologist Rob Velin gives a presentation on “Understand the Risks for Alzheimers Disease,” about all the latest developments and early diagnosis techniques, at the Missoula Federal Credit Union Training Center, 3600 Brooks St. 6-8 PM, with refreshments provided. Free. Visit missoulasos.org.

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

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EAT, PRAY YOU'LL SHUT UP, LOVE I've always been a feelings stuffer, but I've been reading about vulnerability creating intimacy, blah, blah, blah, so I'm trying to be an open book. Though my boyfriend appreciates this, he keeps telling me there's a line between expressiveness and my making everything an emotional issue to be hashed out. He last said this when I confessed that I had Googled his exgirlfriend and felt threatened by how pretty she is. Should I have kept that to myself?

—Open If you were any more open, you'd have squatters and roosters.

It's great that you've thrown yourself into the trenches of Self-Improvementville, but the way you connect with someone is by letting them see who you are, not poking them in the eye with it every 20 minutes. Vulnerability shouldn't be a fancy word for “everything you say or do hurts my feelings.” This Carnival Of Insecurities presented as problems for your boyfriend to solve turns his life with you into a neverending emotional chorewheel. (Remember, he’s in a relationship with you, not a psychology internship.)

This isn’t to say you're wrong to look to your boyfriend for soothing. But before you press a problem on him, ask yourself how it would affect him, whether he can fix it, and whether it's really his business to know. Not all feelings are made for sharing.

Some need to go off in a corner and die a quiet death on their own. Still, you aren’t without help in ushering them there. (This is what therapists, best friends, and the Journaling-Industrial Complex were invented for.)

People think that keeping romance alive takes a $10,000-a-night Spanish castle package, complete with moonlight carriage rides with an aria-singing Placido Domingo jogging behind. But it's actually the mundane daily stuff that matters—how you and your partner respond to each other's seemingly unimportant remarks and gestures. It turns out that telling your partner “I can’t find the salt shaker anywhere” isn't just an expression about a lost object; it's what marriage researcher John Gottman calls a “bid for connection.”

In a study Gottman did with newlyweds, he found that the ones still married six years later were overwhelmingly those who consistently engaged with their partner and met those "bids" with "turn-towards." Turning toward a partner means being responsive—soothing, encouraging, supportive, or maybe just showing interest.

This involves, for example, replying to your partner's remark about the lost salt shaker—even with "I hate when that happens!" rather than "Lemme finish this 'Minecraft' session" or saying nothing at all (effectively treating them like some old couch you stopped noticing).

This "turning toward" thing is something you and your boyfriend can each do.

Think of it as treating each other like you haven't forgotten you love each other. It's smart relationship policy and smart life policy—wiser than getting in the habit of responding to a partner's “I’m starting a machete collection" with "That's nice, dear.”

TOAD RUSH The guy I've been seeing for a month just told me that he doesn’t want a relationship or monogamy. I told him from the start that I was looking for something “real” and wanted to take it slowly. I did sleep with him too quickly—on the first date. Still, I feel that men don't really respect what you say you're looking for. They get what they want and then leave. How do I keep this from happening in the future?

—Ouch Nothing like tearing off all your clothes on the first date to say “I want to take it slowly.” (Your words said no, but your thighs had a marching band and a banner: “Welcome Home, Big Guy!”) Many women claim to be seeking something “real”—either because they are or because they don’t want it to seem like their exercise program is “the walk of shame.” Guys are hip to this, so they nod their heads about the “real”ness-seeking and then nudge the woman to see whether she’ll tumble into bed. In other words, your problem was not that the guy didn’t “respect” what you said you wanted but that you didn’t.

To avoid another Sexodus, match your behavior to your goals. Research (and common knowledge) finds that having sex pronto is a bad idea for a woman who’s looking for something lasting with a guy. This isn’t to say sex on the first or second date never leads to more. It’s just a risky strategy to sleep with a man before he’s emotionally attached to you—like when your answer to the question “So...how long have you two lovebirds been together?” is “It’s actually coming up on two and a half beers!”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): In mythic terms, you should be headed for the winner's circle, which is inside the pleasure dome. The parade in your honor should follow the award ceremony, and let's hope you will be on the lead float wearing a gold crown and holding a real magic wand while being sung to by a choir of people you love and who love you. If for any reason you are not experiencing some version of these metaphors, I urge you to find out why. Or better yet, get busy on planning a homecoming or graduation party or award ceremony for yourself. From an astrological perspective, you have a mandate to be recognized and appreciated for the gifts you offer the world.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Endings to be useful must be inconclusive," wrote science fiction novelist Samuel R. Delany. I endorse that theory for your use in the coming weeks. Interweave it with this advice from playwright Sam Shepard: "The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning." In other words, Gemini, don't be attached to neat finales and splashy climaxes. Consider the possibility that you can simply slip free of the complicated past and head toward the future without much fanfare.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My astrological colleagues discourage me from talking to you Bulls about financial matters. "Most Tauruses know ten times more about the mystery of money than you will ever know," said one. "Their excellent instincts trump any tips you could offer."

Another astrologer concurred, noting, "The financial advice you give Tauruses will at best be redundant and at worst simplistic." A third colleague summed it up: "Offering Tauruses guidance about money is like counseling Scorpios about sex." So although I'm shy about providing recommendations, I will say this: The next five weeks will be a favorable time to set in motion the plans to GET RICHER QUICKER!

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The danger of resisting a temptation too strenuously is that the temptation might depart. I suggest that you prevent that from happening. Without throwing yourself at the mercy of the temptation, see if you can coax it to stick around for a while longer.

Why? In my view, it's playing a useful role in your life. It's motivating you to change some things that really do need to be changed. On the other hand, I'm not yet sure that it should become anything more than a temptation. It might serve you best that way, not as an object of your satisfied desire.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): British Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley was a brilliant military commander. Renowned for his ability to beat larger armies, he also had great skill at minimizing loss of life among his own troops. His most famous triumph took place in 1815, when he led the forces that defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo. In the aftermath, the French tyrant lost his power and went into exile. What was the secret of Wellesley's success? "Bonaparte's plans were made in wire," he said. "Mine were made in string." In other words, Wellesley's strategy was more flexible and adaptable. As circumstances changed, it could be rearranged with greater ease. That's the approach I recommend for you in the coming days.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I suspect you are about to experience some prime contenders for The Most Unusual Adventures of 2015. Are you thoroughly prepared? Of course not. There's no way you can be totally ready to adapt to unpredictable wrinkles and change your mind at a moment's notice. But that's exactly what will make these experiments so fun. That's why they will be effective in building up your resilience and willpower. For best results, apply your nighttime thinking to daytime activities, and vice versa. Spend minimal time on responsibilities that don't teach you noble truths about your fellow madmen and madwomen. Now here's my big question: How can you tap into the extra power you will need during your rite of passage?

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many modern astronomers are allergic to astrology, but from my perspective there is no inherent conflict between the two fields. Four of history's greatest astronomers were practicing astrologers, after all: Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Tycho Brahe, and Pierre Gassendi. One of my friends in college, a Scorpio woman named Martha Maiden, is a first-rate astrologer who got a degree in astronomy and became a top scientist at NASA. In the spirit of finding reconciliation between apparent opposites, I'm happy to say that you are now a virtual virtuoso in your ability to reconcile both apparent opposites and actual opposites. I invite you to use this aptitude with flair and daring.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian Matt Stutzman competes in the sport of archery.

He's the world's record holder for longest accurate shot, having hit a target 230 yards away.

What makes his accomplishment so extraordinary is the fact that he was born without any arms.

He holds each arrow in his mouth and grasps the bow with his right foot and the help of a chest harness.

In the spirit of this armless archer, and in accordance with your current astrological omens, I invite you to initiate an attempt to triumph over one of your so-called disadvantages.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Long before Lou Reed recorded the song "Walk on the Wild Side," Nelson Algren wrote a novel titled A Walk on the Wild Side. It depicts the luxuriant depravity of New Orleans' French Quarter in the 1930s. One of Algren's most enduring bits of spiritual advice goes as follows: "Never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own." What do you think of that, Capricorn? Even if you don't regard it as a universal rule that you should unfailingly obey, I suggest you observe it in the coming weeks. For the sake of your mental hygiene, be extra discerning about what influences you absorb—not just in bed, but everywhere.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The cosmos has authorized you to be hungrier than usual.

You may also feel free to respond to your enhanced hunger with an extra aggressive quest to be fed. Therefore: Be voracious! Risk being avid, ardent, and even agog. Fill yourself up with pudding, pleasure, praise, peace, perks, and privileges. Anything else you'd like to engorge? If some unenlightened person questions your right to claim the biggest piece and the sweetest taste and the best fuel, inform them that your astrologer says you have ultimate permission.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is there an interesting ally whose path rarely crosses yours? Do you draw inspiration from a like-minded dynamo who is not fully available? Has fate kept you and a friend from getting as close as you would wish? According to my reading of the astrological omens, relationships like these could become more substantial in the coming weeks.

The dream of a more robust connection could ripen into an opportunity to actually collaborate. So be alert for the openings, and be prepared to do what's necessary to go deeper.

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IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE KAREN A. ORZECH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2015-1081 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION HOWARD HORTON, Plaintiff v. ROSE FIELD et. al., Defendant. TO: Rose Field, North Star Court, 740 Turner Street #31, Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, PO Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought

by Plaintiff will be takien against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s

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IN THE JUSTICE COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA BEFORE MARIE A. ANDERSON, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Case No.: CV-2015-1076 SUMMONS FOR POSSESSION BY PUBLICATION HOWARD HORTON, Plaintiff v. LEX NOTTI et. al., Defendant. TO: Lex Notti, North Star Court, 740 Turner Street #18, Missoula, MT 59802 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer a Complaint filed in Justice Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer upon Plaintiff’s attorney, Thomas C. Orr, Thomas C. Orr Law Offices, PO Box 8096, Missoula, Montana 59807, within ten (10) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in the case of your failure to appear or answer, relief sought

by Plaintiff will be takien against you as requested. A $30.00 filing fee must accompany Defendant’s answer. DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015. By: /s/ Marie A. Anderson. Justice of the Peace

Joan E. Cook LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 4 PROBATE NO. DP-1580 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: RAYMOND COOK, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joan E. Cook has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the above-named as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 11th day of May, 2015. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-73 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JACK EARL NICKERSON a/k/a Jack E. Nickerson and Jack Nickerson, Deceased.

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 32, 161, 279, 297, 318, 485, 510, 538. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Tuesday May, 26, 2015. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday May 28, 2015 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 23, 141, 204. 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 5/18/2015 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 5/21/2015 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.

missoulanews.com • May 14–May 21, 2015 [C5]

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 ROSS EARL NICKERSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 24th day of April, 2015. /s/ Ross Earl Nickerson, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 4 Cause No. DP-15-82 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA ANN BINGHAM a/k/a Patricia A. Bingham, 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 WENDY RUTH BLEVINS, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 7th day of MAY, 2015. /s/ Wendy Ruth Blevins, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-15-79 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DONALD P. WOLD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Allen D. Wold has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Allen D. Wold, 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 4th day of May, 2015. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 598078234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause

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No.: DV-15-309 Dept. No.: 2 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION CAROLE L. McDONALD, Plaintiff, and GERALD EUGENE STEVENS, TAMI LYNN STEVENS, 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 ABOVENAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in the Action which is filed with the abovenamed Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file our 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 filed fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of Quieting Title to the followingdescribed real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 in Block 1 of Linda Vista, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the county Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

WITNESS MY HAND AND THE SEAL of this Court, the 27th day of April, 2015. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Plaintiff

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-14-205 DEPT. NO. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LUCINDA W. HIGHTOWER, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Terry L. Hightower 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 the notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims may be mailed to Howard Toole, the attorney for Personal Representative at the address of PO Box 8774, Missoula, Montana 59807-8774, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015.

HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, PO Box 8774, Missoula, MT 598078774 /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-77 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD V. LINDBORG, 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 Kai Lindborg, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 1st day of May, 2015, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Kai Lindborg BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Kai Lindborg, Personal Representative

Notice of Application Notice of Application for Air Quality Permit pursuant to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program. Rocky Mountain Equipment LLC will file on May 15, 2015 an application for an air quality permit from the Environmental Health Division of the Missoula City-County Health Department. The applicant seeks approval for operation of Asphalt Pavement Recycling at S34,T14N,R20W 8865 Roller Coaster Rd. Any member of the public who wishes to review the application, obtain a copy of the application, or who wishes to submit comments should contact the Department at 301 W. Alder,Missoula, MT 59802-4123 or phone 258-4755.The Health Department will make a preliminary determination on whether a permit will be issued and provide notice to the public for comment on the determination. The notification will contain the date when the Department intends to make a final decision. The address and phone number at which interested persons may obtain further information or obtain a copy of the proposed permit will also be included with the preliminary determination.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-68 Judge Ed McLean NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of LINDA JEANNE CRONK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as the Personal Representative of the Decedent’s Will and the Decedent’s estate.

All persons having claims against the Decedent, Linda Jeanne Cronk, are required t present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. The Personal Representative is Cameron L. Cronk, c/o Moulton Belllingham PC, PO Box 2559, Billings, MT 59103. A written statement of a claim must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at the above address or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 22nd day of April, 2015. /s/ Cameron L. Cronk

[C6] Missoula Independent • May 14–May 21, 2015

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200607077, Bk 771, Pg 326, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick T. Beers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South one-half of Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 of Car Line Addition a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201323789 BK 923 P 355, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., CSMC Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-6. 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 07/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 11, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $189,036.91. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $144,175.72, 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 21, 2015 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# 7777.13715) 1002.172506-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/30/11, recorded as Instrument No. 201114608 Bk: 882 Pg: 435, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Trevor St. Germain and Annika St. Germain, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 4 of Certificate of Survey No. 2719 located in the Northeast one-quarter of the Northwest one-quarter of Section 12 and the Southeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 1, all in Township 14 North, Range 23 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 9, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $133,344.72. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $127,501.41, 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 July 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents

(valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

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

(TS# 7023.112420) 1002.278959-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/19/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200404701 Bk: 726 Pg: 1403, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Lisa M. Koetter and Michael E. Koetter, wife and husband was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 2A2 of Certificate of Survey No. 5518, a Tract of Land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 30, Township 16 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Together with a 45’ Private Access and Utility Easement across Tract 2B as disclosed on Certificate of Survey No. 5201. MORE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS: Tract 2B of Certificate of Survey No. 6376, a Tract of Land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 30, Township 16 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/14 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 18, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $163,100.25. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $149,495.79, 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 28, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

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

(TS# 7023.112908) 1002.279240-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097, Bk. 788, Pg. 366, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew M. Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Kalberg Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof.

By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201200002 BK 887 Pg 879, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-WF1. 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

PUBLIC NOTICES by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 04/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 24, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $598,817.80. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $365,584.06, 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 August 3, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference.

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

(TS# 7023.17612) 1002.99556-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot C14 of Canyon Creek Village, Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. APN #: 3714609 Philip McLendon and Kristen McLendon, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 14, 2011 and recorded November 18, 2011 in Book 885 Page 1107 under

Document No. 201119480. The beneficial interest is currently held

by PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION. 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 $894.44, beginning October 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 February 27, 2015 is $176,251.67 principal, interest at the rate of 4.25% totaling $11,164.18, late charges in the amount of $89.42, escrow advances of $4,432.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,083.04, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.52 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

MNAXLP TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 19, 2015 /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 19th day of February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Phh V. Mclendon 42067.090 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 35 of Maloney Ranch, Phase VIII, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. George Tyler Hangas and Brien Hangas, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Surety Title, LLCMr. John Barker, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 26, 2005 and recorded on May 27, 2005 in Book 753, Page 641 as Document No. 200512697. The beneficial interest is currently held

by HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Indenture Trustee of the Fieldstone Mortgage Investment Trust, Series 2005-2.

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 $2,692.83, beginning September 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 18, 2014 is $302,706.69 principal, interest at the rate of 6.60% totaling $82,523.05, late charges in the amount of $4,202.16, escrow advances of $29,721.46, suspense balance of -$17.67 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,117.45, plus accruing interest at the rate of $55.50 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: February 18, 2015 /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 18th day of February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Ocwen V Hangas/george 42046.345 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 30, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main door of the First American Title Company located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 16 and the West One-Half of Lot 17 in Block 3 of Residence Addition, a platted

subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Rebekah A. Dubois, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., A Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 12, 2012 recorded July 16, 2012 in Book: 896, Page: 1376 under Document no.

201213099. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Trustee. 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 $1,041.63, beginning July 1, 2014, 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 March 1, 2015 is $221,540.74 principal, interest at the rate of 3.5% totaling $5,773.65, late charges in the amount of $624.36, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,368.71, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.24 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: February 20, 2015 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss. County of Bingham) On this 20th day of February, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Guild Vs. Dubois 41291.880 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 15, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 12 and 13 in Block 44 of Hammond Addition No. 3, in the City of MIssoula, MIssoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. RBJ Properties 2, LLC, a Washington Limited Liability Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Kevin S. Jones, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Anthony H. Wright and Sally Wright, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded August 16, 2013, in Book 918 of Micro at Page 36, as Document No. 201316470, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $85,874.33, plus interest at a rate of 9.5% totaling $1,229.30 and late fees and buyer fees of $150.45, for a total amount due of $87,254.08, as of May 5, 2015, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in ac-

cordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 5th day of May, 2015. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 5th day of May, 2015, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2017 Timothy D. Geiszler GEISZLER STEELE, PC Terrace West Suite K 619 Southwest Higgins Missoula, Montana 59803 406-5414940 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DV-14-1326 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION COMMUNITY BANK, INC., a Montana corporation fka Community Bank - Missoula, Inc., Plaintiff, vs. JACK C. WILKINSON, MELISSA WILKINSON, MONTANA LAND PROJECT, LLC, MISSOULA COUNTY, WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., PILAR’S BEACHWEAR, INC., PILAR JENSEN, and INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: Pilar’s Beachwear Inc., Pilar Jensen, Pilars Beachwear LLC, and Pilar Beachwear, Inc. A lawsuit has been filed against you.

This is a suit to foreclose on a Mortgage held by Plaintiff on real property located in Missoula County Montana, specifically described as Tracts 1-A and 1-B of Certificate of Survey No. 6153 which parcels are now known as Tracts 1-A-1 and 1-B-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 6335, all on file with the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. Within 21 days after 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 the Plaintiff or Plaintiff ’s attorney an Answer to the attached Complaint or 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 is listed above. If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

You also must file your Answer or Motion with the Court. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said court, this 21st day of April, 2015. /s/ Shirley Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Michael Evjen, Deputy Clerk.

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Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 4062 4 1 - 3 2 2 1 LOEWENWARTER.COM Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal and solar PV. 369-0940 or 642-6863 www.naturalhousebuilder.net Northside Home 633 Phillips. Country kitchen, light and bright house, lots of sheds and great Northside location! $150,000 KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Orange Street Triplex 201 S Orange Street Triplex. $275,000. Location is awesome, near the river and downtown and river trails and bike trails and all sorts of conveniences. Two main floor units, one upper. Some hardwood floors and some upgrades and tons of character! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com “There once was an agent named Dave/Whose clients they all would rave. He’ll show you a house/loved by both you and your spouse. Both your time and money he’ll save.” Tony and Marcia Bacino. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221

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JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s "...And Red All Over"-or at least at the start.

by Matt Jones

REAL ESTATE LOEWENWARTER.COM We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7 2 8 2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22; Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.

CONDOS 2004 Silver Tip Clusters. 4 bed, 4 bath in gated Circle H Ranch. Backed by conservation easement land. $675,000.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annie realtor@gmail.com Burns Street Condo 1400 Burns #16. 3 bedroom unit in the Burns Street complex next to the Missoula Food Co-op and Bistro! $160,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com

ACROSS

1 Adjust accordingly 6 "The Many Loves of ___ Gillis" 11 Consumed 14 "Against the Wind" singer Bob 15 It's not what you'd expect 16 Shins genre 17 V-shaped fabric pattern 19 Smith or Taylor 20 Chapter in history 21 "Disco Duck" singer Rick 22 Renaissance Faire title 24 Curly treatment 25 Molly formerly of "SNL" 27 Show up 30 Deli turnover 31 Kazakh character who's been retired 32 Muscular jocks, stereotypically 36 "South Park" character Cartman 37 Wild hogs 38 Anti-piracy org.

39 Adult contemporary radio fare 41 Like Old King Cole 42 Band with a Ben & Jerry's flavor named for it 43 Endowment recipients 44 Person on a pension 47 Dad's sister 48 Big name in violins 49 Killer whale of a 1977 film 50 Hotel amenity 53 Instrument for Stan Getz 54 Lines seen outside the club?

58 50-50, for instance 59 Dasani rival 60 Blackboard stuff 61 Ice Bucket Challenge cause, for short 62 "Touched by an Angel" actress Reese 63 Sharpens

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DOWN 1 Tennis Hall of Famer Arthur 2 "Caught in the headlights" animal 3 Taj Mahal's locale 4 Part of MPH 5 Neptune prop 6 Mascot of Kellogg's Honey Smacks 7 Odist's spheres 8 Haunted house greeting 9 "Canterbury Tales" locale 10 Hair that's wished upon 11 Reddy or Hunt 12 Chum 13 Amount of eggs 18 One short on social skills 23 Occurring naturally 24 It's surrounded by the fuzz?

25 Sarcastic comments 26 Compilation album tracks, often 27 His mother raised Cain, too 28 "90210" actress Spelling 29 Advanced math course 30 Stacy of "Prison Break" 32 Bullwinkle, e.g.

33 Frigid follower?

34 Bold challenge 35 "Survey ___ ..." ("Family Feud" phrase) 37 Soft white cheese 40 Flourished 41 Black-and-orange butterfly 43 Air conditioning conduit 44 One who uses cannabis spiritually 45 Letter with an attachment, maybe 46 Perennial presidential debate issue 47 Venue for some football games 49 Toyota logo's shape 50 C-___ 51 Brazilian hero 52 Makes inquiries 55 Night before 56 Rapper ___ Wayne 57 "So that's your game!"

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 #303. Top floor unit looks out to the “M” and includes all the wonderful amenities that The Uptown Flats offers. $159,710. 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

MANUFACTURED 8625 Western Farms Road.

1976 Champion mobile on 11+ acres with garage/shop. $125,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

LAND 1 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $115,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call

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Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 18 acre building lot with incredible views. Lolo, Sleeman Creek. $150,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $125,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com LOWER RATTLESNAKE LAND FOR SALE- NHN RAYMOND.62 ACRES. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.co m

NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Mountain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $159,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, un-

zoned, bare land parcels. $3,000,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-581. annierealtor@gmail.com

COMMERCIAL Rose Park commercial building with attached rental. $265,000.

BHHS Montana Properties. For

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

OUT OF TOWN 1476 Eastside Highway, Corvallis. 3 bed, 2 bath Victorian on over 7 fenced acres with barn & outbuildings. $389,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 15080 Big Horn Road, Huson. 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 1,000 +/-

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

Missoula Properties

UPTOWN FLATS #210 $149,000

1 bed 1 bath North-facing, towards tree-lined residential area. Upscale & close to downtown.

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feet of Clark Fork River frontage. $495,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-3605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 17430 Six Mile Road Wow. Stunning setting - picture perfect with a wooded hillside behind and open meadows in

front. 12.5 acres with wonderful farm house $250,000. KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com 2 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Alberton / Petty Creek Home on 20 Acres. $245,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or

visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Bonner area home on 1.73 acres. $279,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000.

BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $465,000.

BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 6850 Old Faithful, Lolo. New 3 bed, 2 bath on 1+ acre on quiet cul-de-sac. $349,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate

531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Lolo Acre 5565 Brady Lane, Lolo. An acre with a view, large shop/garage; beautiful setting. $170,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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

Office: 406-258-7522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

224 ESSEX LOLO, MT $255,000

30 Wagon Wheel Lane, Plains

$550,000 4K sq.ft. cedar log cabin with 5 acres

$249,900 1734 West Kent

Pat McCormick

Spacious 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 bonus rooms & family room in lower level.

Fenced yard & large single garage.

Real Estate With Real Experience

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

5 bedroom 3 bath with over 2000 sqft of living space, daylight walkout lower level, huge yard, and spacious family room.

Contact Matt for more information 406-360-9023

Properties2000.com

15080 Big Horn Road, Huson • $495,000 • Private 4 bed, 2.5 bath on 6+ acres • 1000 +/- feet Clark Fork River frontage • Open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, large windows, wood & tile floors • Walkout lower level, detached garage, shop & barn with separate living area • Fishing paradise only 20" to Missoula

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