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Voices/Letters The trials of Timothy Schwartz ...............................................................4 The Week in Review Parklets, Neutral Milk Hotel and Buddhas...................................6 Briefs Beer class, dogs barking and the Wilma’s projectors ...........................................6 Etc. A bad month for grizzlies..........................................................................................7 News Attorneys general asked to investigate lands transfer leader ................................8 News Behind-the-scenes moves give Riverfront Triangle new life ..................................9 Opinion Proposed ballot initiative pulls the trigger on school violence......................10 Opinion An illustrated guide to loving pro wrestling...................................................11 Feature Learn to burn with the Clay Studio’s wood-fire kiln .......................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts McCarthy Coyle comes to life in a new collection.................................................18 Music High Voltage, Royal Thunder and Dwight Yoakam.............................................19 Books David Gates on regional writing, coke and his new book.................................20 Books Marian Palaia offers stunning characters in Given World ..................................21 Film Live From New York! avoids the real answers.......................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ......................................................23 What’s Good Here A cheesy love story ........................................................................24 Happiest Hour Adam Vizzo at James Bar .....................................................................26 8 Days a Week Let it burn ............................................................................................27 Mountain High Ten Spoon 10K....................................................................................33 Agenda Rising from the Ashes.......................................................................................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-11 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12 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 CALENDAR EDITOR Ednor Therriault STAFF REPORTERS Kate Whittle, Alex Sakariassen COPY EDITOR Gaaby Patterson EDITORIAL INTERNS Mary Bradley, Bonnie Chan ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua GRAPHIC DESIGNER Charles Wybierala CIRCULATION ASSISTANT MANAGER Ryan Springer ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Steven Kirst, Ariel LaVenture, Toni LeBlanc, Jake Brown ADMIN, PROMO & EVENTS COORDINATOR Leif Christian CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Scott Renshaw, Nick Davis, 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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STREET TALK

by Mary Bradley and Bonnie Chan

Asked Monday, June 8 at the “M” Trail.

Professional wrestling comes to Missoula this week in the form of Big Time Wrestling featuring Bret “The Hit Man” Hart, “Nasty Boy” Brian Knobs and Scott “Scotty 2 Hotty” Garland. If you had a professional wrestling nickname, what would it be?

Follow-up: What would be your signature move?

Dan McCourt: Dan the Thunderclap.

Fantastical: I don’t know anything about wrestling, but it would be some fantastic escape. That’s something you have to do.

Craig Herbert: My nickname is Animal.

They’ve been calling me that since I was 16 years old. I used to wrestle (at UM). Fear the Pickle: My signature move—and how I won the state championship—is called the Olympic Roll, but my teammates and coach called it the Bare Pickle move. Before we would wrestle we would strip down bare naked and stand in two lines before standing on the scales. My coach would come in and say, “Okay, guys, bare pickle.” It just morphed into that.

Jadi Jo Reynolds: My persona is Betty.

Betty the Smasher. Betty’s my alter ego.

She comes out when I’m having a rough time and she just gets things done.

Ready to fly: What’s that one where you come down with the elbow? The Flying Hammer Elbow. I’ll come at you with the elbow.

Charly Reynolds: Bucket. Bucket Made of Steel, because my real nickname is Bucket, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Spider-Man: I’m going to go with the Spider Jockey. You wrap the legs backward on the ribcage, and you take your arm and put it right by the mouth.

Jerome McNeill: Pretty Boy Mac. Everybody calls me Mac. Protect the middle: The Pedigree. It’s when you hit them in the stomach and then drop them.

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Schwartz’s trials As a criminal defense attorney and a longtime feminist, I am startled at the current social climate against young men accused of sex assaults. In light of all the negative press surrounding the Missoula County Attorney’s Office, the public outcry to prosecute more campus sex assault cases and the biased journalism in town, people have forgotten about the Constitution and the presumption of innocence. Our justice system is designed to protect the accused from rumor, speculation and mob mentality. Victim’s “rights” do not trump the rights of the accused.

Somehow in sex assault cases, there appears to be a presumption of guilt. When a woman accuses a man of sexual assault, she is automatically believed and damn anyone who questions her. Every effort to defend the accusation is portrayed as victim blaming.

Taxpayer dollars are being spent to fly in outof-state so-called “experts” to explain how rape victims act that defies common sense.

Have we forgotten our history of false rape accusations? The Scottsboro boys? The Tawana Brawley case? Brian Banks? Conor Oberst? The Duke lacrosse team?

Timothy Schwartz was accused of sexual assault and suffered 15 months of his own private hell. Warehoused in our local jail for five months, his mom drove six hours to and from Bozeman every Sunday to spend 30 minutes with him. When he was finally released on bond, he was required to wear a GPS bracelet, a Scram bracelet, go to drug treatment, submit to random urine tests and wear a drug patch on his arm—all to the tune of about $1,000 a month, for the privilege of not being incarcerated. Meanwhile, the accuser, Jane Doe, had moved to California.

Accepted protocol invokes the rape shield laws, so Jane Doe is afforded anonymity forever while Tim Schwartz is just a Google search away from being a known rapist. Even now that Tim was found not guilty, Jane Doe’s anonymity remains protected.

Jane Doe surrendered her personal responsibility with the hope the Missoula County Attorney’s Office would champion her cause. Despite Jon Krakuaer’s book lamenting the failure to prosecute, the Missoula County Attorney’s Office did prosecute this case, three times.

Our prosecutors should not defend or represent victims of crimes. Prosecutors are supposed to represent all of us and make

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discretionary decisions on how to wield their power to make our communities safer. In this case, the prosecutorial team became so personally invested, that when Tim was found not guilty they criticized the jury for their decision. Like a teenage cyberbully, the unprofessional and knee jerk response by the prosecutorial team was to blame the jury.

We used to be concerned about jury nullification; now we should be worried about jury vilification.

Two hundred people were accommodated to attend the “rally” for Jon Krakuaer and his new book, making the front page of the Missoulian. Where were those 200 people at an actual trial of a campus rape case?

Why does the Missoulian show up the last day for closing arguments?

“Like a teenage cyberbully, the unprofessional and knee jerk response by the prosecutorial team was to blame the jury.”

The Independent printed a cover story titled “The Trials of Jane Doe” (June 5, 2015).

In the article, Dan Brooks quoted the lead prosecutor, Jane Doe, the victim’s advocate/attorney and the Missoula County Attorney. Not once did he speak with either defense attorney, Tim, his mother, stepfather or sister who sat in the courtroom every day.

Brooks wrote when the verdict was read, “Kauffman (the defense attorney) cried.”

What motivated Brooks to add the fiction that Kauffman cried? What makes Kauffman cry is the destruction of our presumption of innocence, the mass hysteria over campus sex assaults, the adulation of celebrity over reality and the one-sided reporting by the media. Brooks gave no attention to Tim Schwartz, who had been exonerated of rape. It appears the journalist was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled his preconceived notions about the victimization of women on college campuses. The reason is that the media

has a narrative and if the verdict does not fit into their bias, it is simply ignored. Some call it Cat logic. If you don’t look at it, it doesn’t exist.

The media plays a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation is in trouble.

The undisputed facts are Jane Doe had sex with Tim and they spent the night together. When Jane Doe woke up in the morning, Tim got out of her bed and began cleaning up from the night before. While he cleaned up the dorm room, Jane Doe received a text from her roommate (sleeping 43 inches away from Jane Doe the entire night) wondering what was up. The roommate texts: “What what in the butt.” Jane Doe replies: “Hell No! He isn’t that attractive but he is pretty good in bed lol but he needs to leave.”

When Tim finally gets the hint, he leaves Jane Doe’s room and the dorm floor girls flock around Jane Doe making fun of her hickeys and teasing her about the guy she spent the night with. Jane Doe starts to feel like the sex wasn’t what she wanted and goes out to lunch and shopping. Fifteen hours after the sex she reports she was raped to law enforcement. If Tim had been found guilty of her accusation, he could have been sentenced to a mandatory minimum of two years in the state prison to life. Any parent with an adolescent boy should be terrified.

Feminism means freedom, but not without responsibility. Women have fought for equal pay, equal opportunities and sexual and reproductive freedoms. If the current system is so bad, let’s go back to the house mothers with their rolling pins, checking in the college girls for their 7:00 curfews every night.

The bottom line is college kids are having sex with each other. Along with this comes conflicted emotions and regrettable sex. Young lives are being decimated over the spectacle of dragging these kids through the criminal justice system and kicking the can to the jury. The Missoula County Attorney’s Office should not abdicate their prosecutorial discretion because it is politically incorrect. A trial is a war zone and there can only be winners and losers. If the pressure continues to push these cases to trial, we all lose..

Lisa Kauffman Criminal defense attorney Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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by Robin Carleton

Wednesday, June 3

Fox Hotel Partners unveil their sprawling, $150 million proposal for the Riverfront Triangle site at the corner of Orange and Front streets. The first phase is scheduled to be completed in late 2018 or 2019, with the full project done between 2021 and 2024.

Thursday, June 4 After a routine traffic stop, the Montana Highway Patrol arrests a Canadian man found with 40 kilos of cocaine in his pickup truck near Saint Ignatius. Michael Douglas Miranda, 22, is charged with possession of an estimated $1.5 million worth of drugs.

Friday, June 5 First Friday artwalk attendees stroll through “parklets” set up by the city of Missoula on the 300 block of North Higgins Avenue, where two parking spaces are temporarily covered in artificial grass, potted plants and park benches.

Saturday, June 6 Indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel plays its first (and likely only, since this is billed as a final tour) Montana show at a sold-out Wilma Theatre. Due to a strict no-photography rule, Instagram-addicted concertgoers must resort to posting photos of ticket stubs in order to brag about the experience.

Sunday, June 7 The Ewam Garden of 1,000 Buddhas in Arlee hosts the second annual Tibetan Cultural Day, with traditional dance performances. It was the garden’s first major celebration after recently marking the milestone of placing its 1,000th statue.

Monday, June 8 Missoula City Council approves Boise-based White-Leasure Development’s request to build a Native Grill and Wings on North Reserve Street, near Sean Kelly’s Stone of Accord. The company also plans to build a Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers restaurant nearby.

Tuesday, June 9 Authorities release the names in the Deer Lodge murder-suicide that left five dead.

Michael Augustine Bournes killed his wife, Arie Arlynn Lee, and their three children before setting his cabin on fire and shooting himself.

Tait Brink and Kristin Litz take a break from their Wednesday, June 3, night ride to appreciate a panoramic view of Missoula from the summit of Mount Sentinel.

Theater

Wilma donates projectors It will take some heavy lifting, but this week two of the Wilma’s old 35mm film projectors will find a new home just a few blocks down Higgins Avenue at the Roxy Theater.

“I think this is kind of wonderful,” says Mike Steinberg, executive director of the Roxy. “It’s very generous of Nick and Robin [Checota] to donate the projectors.”

The Checotas, who purchased and revamped the Top Hat a few years ago, recently bought the historic Wilma with a major remodel in mind. Nick Checota says they’ll be keeping projectors in the Wilma’s main 1,000-seat theater, but he wants to take a different approach to screening films. Previously, the Wilma showed movies on a daily basis, using the small side theater even when a loud concert was underway in the main room. Checota says that’s because distributors often require theaters to show a movie for seven con-

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secutive days or more—which is tough to pull off in a busy concert venue. He’s optimistic that he’ll be able to find workarounds and possibly run new movies in shorter four-day blocks. In the meantime, the small theater has already been closed and gutted.

“All the great performing arts centers, they have kind of a pre-function space where people mingle, where you have events,” Checota says. “So what we’re doing with that [small theater] is kind of extending the main lobby and having a lounge pre-function area there with a bar, and we’ll open up some of the existing windows that were there originally.”

As the Wilma remodel progresses, Checota says it made sense to give the extra projectors to the Roxy. He adds that he doesn’t see the Wilma as being in competition with the Roxy’s art house programming.

The Roxy already has a digital projector, but Steinberg envisions the 35mm projectors being put to use for special screenings of archival footage and classic films. Since most major Hollywood studios have com-

pletely switched from film to digital, old reel-to-reel projectors aren’t commonly used anymore. In fact, says Steinberg, the gear is often just sold for scrap.

“This is a lost art form, being able to do the reel changes,” he says.

The trick now will be getting the hulking 300pound projectors into the Roxy’s small projection booth. They’ll likely have to be dismantled and reassembled, but Steinberg says managing tight spaces is part of the theater glamour.

“Booths are almost always kind of an impossibility,” he says. “Seemingly the last thought anybody had when they built the theater was the booth.”

Kate Whittle

Dogs

Barking up the right tree Animal Control Supervisor Jeff Darrah presented revised ordinances to the Missoula City Council

[news] June 1, changing the law of the land for man’s best friend. Along with new fees and a clear definition for dog shelters, any dog that barks, yelps, whines, bays or makes other noises at repeated intervals of at least five minutes with less than a minute of interruption quickly becomes a “nuisance barking dog.� If a dog starts to bark up the wrong tree, so to speak, owners may find themselves with a misdemeanor citation and a fine between $50 and $100 if action is not taken to solve the problem.

While the new ordinance passed, one question went unanswered: Why such specific wording in what constitutes a “nuisance barking dog�? “Barking in the city is very tough to enforce,� Darrah says. “The way the language was (in the previous ordinance), it made it hard for people who were keeping bark logs to comply.�

The original ordinance stated that dogs who made noise at repeated intervals or incessantly for a total of 30 minutes in a 24-hour period qualified as a nuisance.

However, after complainants found logging the hours in an official log book cumbersome, Animal Control looked to make a change.

Animal Control receives daily phone calls about barking dogs. Darrah says most complainants tolerate the noise until they reach a breaking point and pick up the phone. Unfortunately for those seeking solace, that only begins the process. The most essential part, Darrah says, is logging the dog’s behavior over time.

Darrah explains that, initially, dog owners will receive a visit from an officer who notifies them a neighbor has complained and is now documenting their talkative pooch. At that point, Darrah says most owners take steps to alleviate the issue, such as changing the hours their dog may be outside.

If barking continues even with a warning, complainants can log the hours thoroughly over a 14- to 20-day period—along with a witness’ signature—before Animal Control steps in. Darrah says in some instances an ineffective log can result in starting the process over. “The logs have to be done completely,â€? he says. “A lot of the time, we get logs that are incomplete. They may just put ‘Dog barked all day,’ and that might be the case, but the way the ordinance is written, we’re looking for a specific time ‌ We’ve lost nuisance barking cases in court for not having filled-out logs.â€?

The new ordinance should help minimize those past problems.

“If the person says, ‘Hey, I don’t enjoy that,’� Darrah says, “they have a right to peace in their own home.�

Mary Bradley

Beer

BY THE NUMBERS Billions of dollars spent in 2014 by an estimated 10.9 million nonresident travelers in Montana, according to a study released June 5 by the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana.

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FVCC launches brew program For plenty of college students, beer is an integral part of the experience. At Flathead Valley Community College, a new associate’s degree will make beer part of the curriculum.

This fall, FVCC launches its new Brewing Science and Operations Program, where students will learn the ins and outs of crafting artisanal brews. The curriculum will be overseen by Heather Estrada, director of FVCC’s agriculture program. “I think we’re pretty lucky to have this program here, and it will do a lot for Montana’s brewing industry,� she says.

FVCC’s administration believed a brewing degree made sense for a state with a $234 million craft beer industry and the fourth-highest number of breweries per capita. Some universities, including Oregon State, offer four-year degrees in fermentation science, but Estrada says two-year degrees like FVCC’s are unusual.

FVCC is currently seeking a full-time faculty member to teach brewing courses and is accepting applications for the brewing program on its website.

Estrada notes that students have to be 21 years old to sign up.

If the brewing courses are popular, Estrada could see the college having its own on-site brew facility someday. For now, they’re partnering with Tamarack Brewing, which will offer its Lakeside location as a classroom space. “We’re going to have sort of the practical brewing side of the program completed there,� Estrada says, “and they’ll put a small pilot system in the brewery, and students will go out a couple times a week and brew at Tamarack.�

Tamarack Brewing owner Josh Townsley has worked with FVCC before and thought it seemed natural to invite the college to use the brewhouse’s space. “Now to have a program in our backyard, who wouldn’t want to come to school in the Flathead and learn how to brew?� he says.

FVCC brewing students will also have the advantage of experimenting with hops grown in the Flathead Valley at the Glacier Hops Ranch, about 8 miles from campus. Glacier Hops owner Tom Britz is the only commercial hops grower in the state and he says that’s for a reason.

Though hops are suited to a western Montana climate and grow well enough in a backyard or small garden, harvesting them is another matter. “It’s expensive, it’s labor intensive, it requires specialized equipment,� Britz says, adding that he recently used a state Growth Through Agriculture grant to purchase a German-made hop harvester, shipped from a small farm in Bavaria. “Compared to picking by hand, it puts big smiles on people’s faces to see hops come out of that machine.�

Hop plants take a few years to fully mature, and Britz is hoping to start selling in 2016. Several Montana breweries and a Canadian one have already indicated their interest, he says. FVCC students will be required to take a class in hop selection and production where they’ll get handson experience in Britz’s research plot. Britz is growing dozens of varieties, with aromas such as lemon, pine and cedar. “It’s just so much fun to see people react to the smell that’s in them, and say, oh, that’s where beer gets its smell from, its aroma,� he says.

Kate Whittle

ETC. Last month wasn’t the best for grizzlies in northwest Montana. Most awoke in March and April, the early onset of spring driving them to shake off their winter naps and search for grub.

But within a 10-day period in late May, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks received reports of three separate bears shot dead in the Flathead, and the agency is currently offering a $2,000 reward for tips that lead to a conviction in one of those cases.

The string of deaths started May 16 with a report made to FWP by a Wisconsin black bear hunter who fessed up to mistakenly shooting a grizzly. He appeared in court the following day and pleaded guilty to the killing, resulting in a $235 fine and an order to pay $2,000 in restitution.

Four days after the Wisconsinite’s botched hunting excursion, FWP biologists and a special agent with U.S. Fish and Wildlife recovered the carcass of a grizzly near the Middle Fork of the Flathead. Lab work confirmed the bear had been shot, leaving two 15-month-old orphans.

The agency has released little information about the third dead bear discovered May 24 at a campground in the Yaak, part of a smaller recovery area home to as few as 50 grizzlies. According to FWP spokesman John Fraley, both cases remain under investigation with nothing new to report.

Last month did bring some small amount of justice for several other dead bears. On May 26, a district court judge sentenced Bigfork resident Dan Wallen to three years probation and ordered him to pay $15,000 after Wallen was found guilty of unlawfully killing three grizzlies exactly one year earlier. According to court records, Wallen shot at the bears with a .22 caliber rifle in May 2014 claiming they’d repeatedly raided his chicken coop. One was subsequently put down by a neighbor due to its injuries. The other two were discovered nearby in the ensuing days, both dead.

Montana has made some significant strides in human-grizzly relations. As the population continues to grow and expand its geographic footprint, a few conflicts are inevitable. But building tolerance only goes so far. The unreported killing of two bears within four days and 200 miles of each other suggests something more troubling: a lack of respect for these bruins. Unfortunately, that’s one thing hunter education and bear-aware outreach can’t fix.

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Opposition to the transfer of public lands movement has grown increasingly vocal throughout the West over the past year. But last week marked the first direct challenge to the movement’s most prominent leader, Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory. The fledgling Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Campaign for Accountability sent letters to the attorneys general of Utah, Arizona and Montana June 1 requesting they investigate Ivory over allegations of “engaging in a scheme to defraud … local government officials out of taxpayer funds.” In leveling its accusations, the campaign cited Ivory’s efforts in those three states to secure paid membership from county governments in the American Lands Council, of which he serves as president.

“He and his wife are pocketing a significant percentage of the money that comes in to the American Lands Council,” says Campaign for Accountability Executive Director Anne Weismann. “Some of these municipalities are foregoing jails, whatever, to scrape together the money to give to him. To me it screams out fraud. We’ll see if the attorneys general agree, but he certainly is making money and lining his own pockets.”

According to tax filings, the ALC paid Ivory $40,000 in 2012 and $95,000 in 2013. His wife, Rebecca Ivory, also made $19,715 working as director of communications for the organization in 2013.

However, Montana remains something of an outlier in the trio of states to receive complaints. Utah boasts 21 ALCmember counties, two of which are listed as “platinum” members on the council’s website—a level that indicates donations of $25,000. Four counties in Arizona have also paid into ALC. Yet despite Ivory’s past appearances before a number of local officials, no Montana counties have joined the ALC as paying members.

Weismann, who worked at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington prior to founding the Campaign for Accountability this spring, doesn’t feel the

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The nonprofit Campaign for Accountability filed complaints against Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory in three states last week, claiming Ivory’s efforts to enlist county support for the transfer of public lands is “tantamount to selling unwitting victims the Brooklyn Bridge.”

lack of Montana taxpayer money going to the ALC—and, subsequently, into Ivory’s pocket—makes her case for an investigation by Attorney General Tim Fox any less strong. Her complaint characterizes Ivory’s late 2013 tour through Ravalli, Sanders, Flathead, Mineral and Lincoln counties as one “paid for with taxpayer funds from dozens of counties in other Western states.” The complaint also claims Ivory “appears to have committed the offense of solicitation by encouraging others, including Montana State Senator Jennifer Fielder, to solicit funds from Montana officials to fuel the activities of ALC.” “It certainly is the case that [Montana counties] haven’t joined up, but he has tried,” Weismann says. “And in our view, that’s the crime.”

John Barnes, communications director for Fox’s office, cannot speak to the specifics of the complaint but does confirm it is “already under review and receiving attention.” The first step is to determine what authority the attorney general may have in the matter, Barnes says. He can’t offer a timeline for when an investigation might begin and is unsure if Fox’s office has been in touch with the attorneys gen-

eral of Arizona and Utah about the issue.

In a subsequent press release, Ivory dismissed the letters as “desperate bullying” and claimed groups like the Campaign for Accountability are “so afraid of the success that the transfer of public lands movement is having that they’re stooping to these kinds of bullying tactics.” He elaborated on the issue during an online video chat with Colorado Ethics Watch Director Luis Toro and Salt Lake City Tribune reporter Brian Maffly, attributing his ALC salary to his role educating others on the promise of the nonprofit’s mission. Despite Ivory’s defense of the legality and constitutionality of a lands transfer, Weismann and other critics continue to point to a growing body of literature from legal scholars disputing the ALC’s assertions.

“I’m a lawyer, so I look at the legal arguments he’s making and they seem so facially ridiculous,” Weismann says. “I’m not trying to demean his arguments, except that to me, the constitution is clear and the whole argument about the Enabling Act, it’s been discredited for a long time. Long before he came along with this theory.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Kind of a big deal Behind-the-scenes moves give Riverfront Triangle new life

by Jessica Mayrer

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Hotel Fox Partners recently announced a new $150 million plan for the long-dormant Riverfront Triangle site at the corner of Orange and Front streets. The group expanded its original 1.87-acre proposal into one that encompasses 7 acres, or roughly three city blocks along the north side of the Clark Fork.

During a Missoula City Council committee meeting last week, Councilman Alex Taft asked why local lawmakers should approve the Hotel Fox Partners’ request for more time to complete plans for a major project at Orange and Front streets inlight of the developers’ apparent lack of progress.

“You’ve had this project for four years,” Taft said. “You’re not moving. Why should we give this to you again?”

Taft’s question came as council deliberated the partners’ request for an 18-month extension on an agreement that has given them the exclusive right to develop the 1.87 acres of city-owned land since 2011. While there’s been no visible change to the land, Hotel Fox Partners has significantly enhanced their vision for the prime piece of property along the Clark Fork’s north bank.

The group unveiled to council an ambitious $150 million plan that’s four times larger both in cost and size than what was first proposed four years ago. The new Riverfront Triangle site would encompass 7 acres, or roughly three city blocks, and feature an approximately 29,000-square-foot conference center, two hotels, two restaurants and 200 “market-rate” rentals. Fifty condominiums and 85,000 square feet of retail and office space would dot the site.

When responding to Taft’s question, Fox principal partner Pat Corrick noted the appearance of inactivity is misleading. A significant amount of work has occurred behind the scenes. “From our perspective, a lot has

been happening,” Corrick said.

Missoula Mayor John Engen bolstered Corrick’s claim. Engen said the partners scrapped their initial plan at the city’s behest to begin exploring the feasibility of a larger development. “We have constantly been pushing for the next thing—the next better thing,” Engen said.

Aiming to satisfy the city, the partners have been working to acquire more land.

They bought one parcel on the southwest corner of Orange and Front streets and negotiated with Providence Health and Services, the owner of St. Patrick Hospital, an agreement to purchase additional parcels adjacent to the Clark Fork. To date, the partners have invested $500,000 into the Riverfront Triangle project, Corrick said.

In an interview after last week’s meeting, Corrick says he feels good about his group’s ability to complete the expanded project.

He acknowledges, however, certain variables that don’t necessarily fall under developer control could impact the project. “We’re not counting our chickens, as they say, at this point,” he says.

For instance, Corrick and his team will begin due diligence on the St. Patrick properties in the coming weeks. Two of the St. Patrick properties and the one already purchased by Fox formerly served as gas stations, meaning some environmental cleanup may be required. “Underground tanks can create some cleanup issues,” Corrick says. “But they’re not extreme.”

Assuming no significant problems arise, the Providence deal is slated to close for an undisclosed amount next year.

In addition to environmental concerns, funding constitutes another variable. The current capital lending market is strong, Corrick says. Barring unforeseen shifts, the developers expect to secure financing in phases throughout an anticipated eight-year construction period.

Another task will be to negotiate a deal with the city for its 1.87 acres. As Missoula City Councilman Jason Wiener notes, that’s a conversation that has yet to occur. Wiener says also that he’d like more information about how much the developers willseek in financial support from the city. In 2008, Missoula established the Riverfront Triangle Urban Renewal District to encourage investment in a swath of land that includes the Fox site. URDs capture district tax revenue and use it to fund demolition and infrastructure.

“All of that calculation needs to be a lot clearer to me before I feel confident,” Wiener says.

Following last week’s committee presentation, council expressed excitement about the project during its regular June 8 meeting and unanimously agreed to give the partners an 18-month extension. As for Taft, he says his initial concerns have been addressed.

“I was satisfied with their answer,” he says. editor@missoulanews.com

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One of the best aspects of Montana’s legislative system is that it’s over so quickly. The House and Senate meet for 90 days every two years, so lawmaking is less like an eternal struggle and more like a tennis match between people who haven’t played since the summer before last. The only drawback to this approach is that the need for a new law sometimes becomes glaringly obvious when no one is in Helena to draft it.

Fortunately, our system allows ordinary citizens to propose such laws as ballot initiatives. Last week, Chet Billi submitted the first ballot initiative of the 2016 election, which would allow teachers with concealed weapons permits to carry guns in Montana schools.

Billi is a 17-year-old junior at Whitefish High School, which makes sense.

What high school student doesn’t wish his teacher had a gun? What with competing for grades, navigating the challenges of adolescence and planning for college, today’s students cannot be expected to focus on learning without the reassurance that, should the need arise, their teachers can deploy lethal force.

Like many teenage boys, Billi describes himself as having “immense respect for firearms as well as a deep love for them.” He professes less love for the government. In an interview with Sanjay Telwani of MTN News, he complained that after a school shooting, “The first thing the government seeks to do is take guns out of the hands of the very people who could have prevented the incident.”

I agree. The whole problem with this country’s approach to gun violence is that we try to reduce the number of shootings in public schools to zero, which is unrealistic. Instead, we should focus on ensuring that every time someone shoots people in a school, that person is also shot. Only then can our children feel safe.

Anatomy of a tragedy: Mr. Wilson is teaching geometry when he learns that an active shooter is stalking the halls of

his school. Normally he carries a concealed pistol, but the government has forced him to leave his gun at home. As the cracks of shots draw closer, he instructs his students to crouch beneath their desks and wait for death.

Anatomy of a triumph: As the cracks of shots draw closer, Mr. Wilson instructs his students to crouch beneath their desks, draws his Glock 9mm and takes up a firing position at the back of the room. When the shooter enters, Mr. Wilson fires a cluster of shots—aiming high to reduce collateral damage—and

“What high school student doesn’t wish his teacher had a gun?”

kills the shooter instantly, or at least quickly. Eventually, the children stop throwing up and school resumes.

Wouldn’t that be a better world than the one we live in now? Yet our government continues to indulge the fantasy that somehow we can construct a society in which no one gets shot in schools.

Such a candyland has never existed.

Even before the invention of firearms, disturbed loners were bursting into schoolhouses and laying about themselves with axes or, in certain isolated and gruesome incidents, hayforks.

Did our forebears therefore undertake to ban farm implements? They did not. With the prudence of their age,

they issued every schoolmarm a bowie knife and let their children learn how a free society works.

Sadly, that kind of common sense is in short supply today. Our contemporary dystopia stakes our children’s lives on the kind of people who become public school teachers. Wouldn’t we all feel better if we staked their lives on the kind of people who become public school teachers and apply for concealed weapons permits?

There have been 136 school shootings in the United States since 1990, but none of them were our fault. They didn’t happen because there are 310 million civilian-owned firearms in the United States. They had nothing to do with the fact that, since 2001, U.S. manufacturers have gone from producing 2.9 million guns a year to more than 5.5 million a year. Firearms are a boom industry, but that doesn’t mean we are collectively responsible for the actions of a few sick weirdos.

Making and selling millions of guns doesn’t cause school shootings or even contribute to them. Those tragedies are caused by evil lunatics whose actions cannot be predicted. Guns don’t kill people. People kill people, and those people can only be killed with guns.

That is why I support Billi’s ballot initiative. We need to stop the rash of school shootings and develop a sane approach to gun violence—one that reduces the number of dead children and slightly increases the number of dead adults.

The good people of Montana need not settle for one-sided gun battles in our schools. Billi’s ballot initiative finally gives teachers what they’ve been asking for since the days of Horace Mann: a chance to shoot back. God and the voters of this great state willing, by 2017 we can all stop mourning school shootings and start mourning school shootouts.

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Hammerfist instructors confronted the suspect, who finished loading his vehicle, a Jeep that he was taking for a test drive, then said he’d wait in the vehicle. Carrio pulled the suspect out of the Jeep and held onto him until police arrived. (Tampa’s Bay 9 News) Michael Kevin Meadows, 43, entered a drug store in Beaver, W.Va., wearing full camouflage and a paintball mask, and started spraying pepper spray to take down employees. According to a criminal complaint, he then walked forward and stepped into the cloud of pepper spray. He staggered out of the store emptyhanded, but surveillance video led police to him. (Beckley’s The Register-Herald)

GOLDEN OLDIES – A man in an assisted-living facility in Norristown, Pa., lost his housing subsidy after officials discovered a prostitute under his bed. Uri Z. Monson, the facility’s financial director, said the man, believed to be in his 70s, was a “more mobile gentleman” than other residents and bought alcohol for them, using his profits to pay for prostitutes. (Associated Press) The FBI reported that a gunman wearing an oxygen tank with tubes in his nose robbed a bank in Washington, D.C. He received an undisclosed sum and fled. (The Washington Post)

DRONE ON – Four months after a U.S. intelligence employee landed a personal quadcopter drone on the roof of the White House, the Secret Service apprehended Ryan MacDonald, 39, for flying a drone across the street from the White House. MacDonald was asked to land the device, about the size of an iPad, and complied. The White House was locked down for more than an hour. (Associated Press) Police in Lake Huvasa City, Ariz., reported that Nolan Pollard threw a T-shirt at a low-flying drone, causing it to fall to the ground and break. Pollard explained that he reacted because he was scared when he saw the drone flying toward his face. Police cited him for criminal damage. (Lake Huvasa City’s News-Herald) Army officials blamed a data link for causing controllers to lose track of a drone being used “in support of increased force-protection measures” at Colorado’s Fort Carson. The 4-pound drone crashed in a civilian’s yard 12 miles from the military base. “I couldn’t figure out who owned it, so I wrote my telephone number on a piece of paper … and held it in front of the camera, thinking someone would call me if they wanted it back,” Colorado Springs resident Ronald Fisk said. No one responded, so Fisk called police.

(Colorado Springs’s The Gazette) New Justice Department guidelines for government-operated drones ban flying them “to engage in discrimination” against targets on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, national origin, sexual orientation and “gender identity.” Unmanned aerial surveillance also cannot legally be used to monitor activities protected by the First Amendment. (The Washington Times) Washington state Sen. Pam Roach introduced a bill making the use of a drone to commit a felony an aggravating action that would add a year to a prison sentence. “Nefarious drone enterprise” would join carrying a firearm (up to five years extra), trying to outrun a police car (one year) or being armed with a crossbow or hunting knife (six months). Roach said she fears drones could be used to smuggle drugs into prisons, help burglars scout empty houses or enable poachers to track protected Roosevelt elk.

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t’s 6 a.m. and Casey Zablocki looks beat.

Boosting himself off a battered couch, he stretches, walks in an aimless circle, runs a hand through his wild, curly hair and then stares off into space, idly twirling the end of his mustache. His T-shirt is inside out, his Levi’s smeared with soot and his logger boots are powdered with dust.

“I haven’t taken my contacts out in four days,” he says, as though just realizing it.

He grinds his red eyes with grimy knuckles, sits back down on the couch and is asleep in seconds.

Up here on the side of Black Mountain, a small clearing in the trees plays host to the cause of Zablocki’s exhaustion: The Clay Studio of Missoula’s wood-fired ceramics kiln. A behemoth built into the mountainside, it’s a voracious dragon that requires round-theclock feeding, eats a cord of wood a day and takes up to 10 days to fire. As the current wood fire artist-in-residence at the Clay Studio, it’s Zablocki’s job to oversee this process and, even though he’s got a small army of volunteers and supporters helping, he can’t seem to rest during a firing—too much excitement, too much at stake and too many variables

that require attention. So he grabs catnaps here and there.

On this, the penultimate morning of the firing, he dozes face-to-face with the beast that holds hundreds of white-hot pots in its belly and contentedly churns along just under 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. In 15 minutes he’ll be up again to check the pyrometer (which measures temperature in the kiln), stoke the fire and gauge the color and quality of smoke pouring from the chimney.

The tradition of using wood to fire ceramics is ancient, stretching back to the roots of civilization when wood was the only fuel available to vitrify raw clay and

turn it into something stable and utilitarian.

Today in America, the wood fire community takes its cues loosely from Japanese firing techniques that have their roots in the 5th century. The kiln on Black Mountain is what’s known as an anagama kiln, which means “cave kiln” in Japanese and is a pretty good description: About 8 feet wide, 5 feet tall and 20 feet long, with a chimney at one end and a door at the other, it’s sunk into the hillside like a burrow. With its vaulted ceiling and stone facade it’s an impressive piece of construction, and even as anagama kilns go, it’s a monster. But it was built big for good reason.

“In Montana, there was a good amount of wood-fired activity early on,” says Ryan Mitchell, the ceramic artist who designed and built Missoula’s wood fire kiln in 2007.

Montana is a state graced with a small but impressive ceramics community, the

photo by Steve S. Saroff

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cornerstone of which is the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, home to one of the first—and still considered one of the very best—ceramics residency programs in the country. Since the middle of the 20th century when well-known artists like Peter Voulkos and Rudy Autio drew the attention of the international community, Montana has quietly been expanding its reputation.

“It’s been really interesting on the national level,” says Shalene Valenzuela, executive director of the Clay Studio.

“People keep saying, ‘Huh, what’s going on up there in Montana?’ And then they come for a residency at the Bray or the Red Lodge Clay Center or here in Missoula, and they end up staying for 10 years because the community is so great.”

Given the state’s history, it made sense that when American potters first began dabbling in wood-fired work, Montana would be out ahead of the curve.

“David Smith built the University of Montana’s kiln at Lubrecht Forest in 1986, and at the time, it was only the 13th wood fire kiln in the country,” Mitchell says. A

this was going to be something to bind everyone together, so we decided to go big. I wanted it to be so big that no one would ever be turned away.”

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ack on Black Mountain, yellow warblers and juncos and flickers are in full swing in the trees, surprisingly loud in the morning hush. The sun comes through the trees slantwise, and all around the kiln arrowleaf balsamroot blazes yellow. Mist rises from the Clark Fork, just a few hundred yards away. Sleepy ceramicists are milling around in the dawn light, brewing coffee on the camp stove, munching granola bars, tidying up the space in front of the kiln. Some are crawling out of tents pitched on the hillside, or rising from hammocks where they have caught a few hours of sleep in anticipation of tending the kiln for the 6 a.m.-to-noon shift. Others have yet to go to bed, having worked through the wee hours of the morning or stayed up all night to offer support and encouragement.

“I like the community aspect of it,” says Mike Kurz, one of the founders of

dio’s annual Woodfire Invitational. “And I don’t mean you have to like getting blisters, but you have to like the sense of accomplishment that comes from pushing yourself past being uncomfortable. You have to be enough of a dork to do it, and by that I mean you can’t give a shit about what other people think. Nobody beyond this group gets it the way you do, and you do it because you love it.”

As groggy as they are, the dawn shift at the kiln is already getting into the rhythm of the work, replenishing piles of pine, timing their stoking so the coalbeds are fed evenly, monitoring the color and quantity of smoke to make sure the fire is getting just the right mix of fuel and oxygen. Everyone on shift this morning has been involved in several firings in the past, but they’ll be the first to tell you that in many ways, they’re flying by the seat of their pants—just as most wood firers would tell you.

“You have to fire 150 kilns to understand it just a little bit,” Zablocki says, “and you’ll always be learning. The Japanese have been doing this for thousands of years and passing down those

“Maybe we’re insane, but I think other ceramicists are a little jealous.” photo by Kayla McCormick

decade later, Mitchell himself caught the wood fire bug while studying ceramics at Montana State University. His fascination led him to the University of Montana—and its wood fire kiln—for graduate school.

But Mitchell quickly realized that having access to a kiln was only half of the equation.

“I learned early on that I needed a support team to fire it. And I also learned that there were a lot of Missoula people who really wanted to participate,” he says.

Unfortunately, non-students technically weren’t supposed to fire the university’s kiln. After a few years of surreptitious community involvement, it became clear that there was both the need and the desire for an independent wood-fired kiln in Missoula.

After many conversations with the Clay Studio, a fortuitous donation of bricks, a donated, long-term lease of land and a whiskey-fueled fundraising event, Mitchell broke ground on the anagama in March 2007.

“At first it was going to be small,” Mitchell says, “but then I realized that so many kilns that I initially thought were big quickly felt too small. I knew the ceramics community here was growing and that

the Clay Studio and a longtime wood firer. “I was a little surprised because I’m sort of a solitary person, but that’s what drew me to it all those years ago—the romanticism and the mystique, but also the opportunity for people to be together and share ideas. And once I found that community I realized, Aha! Here it is.

I’ve arrived.”

It’s a ragtag crew that gathers around these firings, ranging in age from early 20s through 70s. University students, professional artists, odd-jobbers, bakers, nurses, teachers, misfits and social butterflies. Under any other circumstance, it’s unlikely this group would ever find itself gathered in one spot, let alone camped out together on this hillside a few times a year, telling jokes and breaking bread and working together through rain, snow, sub-zero temperatures and scalding sun.

But there’s a commonality that runs through the group, and it’s not just a shared penchant for clay and splinters and tattered hoodies and cheap beer.

“You have to like work,” says David Peters, a wood-fired ceramicist based in Helena who recently joined other artists from around the country for the Clay Stu-

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

The Clay Studio of Missoula’s wood-fired ceramics kiln is a behemoth built into Black Mountain. It requires round-the-clock feeding, eats a cord of wood a day and takes up to 10 days to fire.

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“I do it because it’s about finding a balance between confidence and experience and humility. And that’s where you always want to be, right?” photo by Steve S. Saroff

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traditions. We started here in, what, the 1970s? But as a national community, we’re learning. We’re going at things in different ways, and there’s so much it’s always teaching us.”

And that’s part of what makes the subculture of wood fire ceramics so compelling: The feeling of belonging to a semi-secret society that disappears into the woods for days on end in the service of this mysterious, temperamental, demanding form of art. There’s an immediate bond that forms between wood firers, which was apparent at the recent invitational, when ceramicists from as far away as California and New Jersey gathered to fire their work together.

“The wood kiln as a whole holds a special place in our community,” Peters says. “We’re all standing around this hot pile of bricks for days, it’s in our face, but we’re here doing it together. It’s a beautiful event. And maybe we’re insane, but,” he adds with a laugh, “I think other ceramicists are a little jealous.”

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eters hits on what is perhaps the crux of the process: The act of working together to harness the raw and tremendous power of fire, and using it not to destroy but to create something beautiful.

“There’s something about the forces of nature and playing with the elements,” he says. “Wood firing is basically recording the violence of this extremely hot fire.

You’re playing with the elements, and what you end up with is an object that bears a permanent record of this human interaction with nature.”

The outcome of that interaction is often spectacular. Most work in the kiln isn’t glazed, which means the results are purely a product of the interplay between the raw clay and the conditions in the kiln. “One way I like to think about it,” Peters says, “is that the clay and the wood ash are talking to each other. We just give them the opportunity for that conversation.”

Ash settles on and sticks to the work over the course of a firing, a process that creates glassy, glaze-like surfaces tinged with grays and blues and browns. Flame licks over and around the work, leaving ghostly evidence—faint reds and oranges—of where it eddied and stalled.

Depending on where a pot sits in the kiln, it may emerge encrusted with ash, nearly unrecognizable, like an archaeo-

logical relic pulled from the dirt. Some porcelains blush pink in the most delicate ways. Clays with high iron content turn black, looking for all the world like cast iron. Clays containing lots of sand produce surfaces that are pitted and cratered, like moon rocks. Some clays break out in iridescent rainbows. Some clays turn purple. Some produce a psychedelic surface aswirl with green and black, a result jokingly referred to as “frog in a blender.” Opening a kiln door after a 10-day cooling period feels a little like Christmas morning: the anticipation, the excitement, the unveiling of happy surprises.

Just as often, the results of a firing are decidedly underwhelming. “Just when you think you have it dialed in,” Peters says, “you open up a kiln and it slaps you in the face.” Outside elements hold sway over firings and can cause major fluctuations in outcome: “The weather, the barometric pressure, the way the kiln was loaded, how wet the wood is, the species of wood, how you cool the kiln—all of these things impact results. Who knows, maybe even the phase of the moon!”

Zablocki says.

It’s a process inherently infused with risk, and the ever-present possibility of failure. Pots explode, sending shrapnel into neighboring pieces of work. Sculptures crumble and fall over. Mugs melt and weld themselves to the shelves.

Sometimes a whole kiln-load of work turns an uninspiring shade of brown. But Zablocki sees these unanticipated outcomes not as setbacks, but as a part of the process.

“You’re always going to have disappointment in wood firing, you’re always going to have shitty pots. And if you’re not okay with that, well, you’re in the wrong gig,” he says. “You know, wood firing applies to life in a lot of ways. In order to learn, you have to fail. There will be big disappointments in your life, and it’s not exactly the disappointment that’s bad, it’s what you do after, how you finish, what you do next. And that’s your choice. That’s how you learn.”

All of this, of course, may raise a question: Why do it at all? Why haul and split endless amounts of wood, spend a full weekend painstakingly loading a kiln and stay awake for a week playing nursemaid to a voracious creature, all for the chance of maybe getting the results you hope for? There are gas kilns

Most of the work in the wood-fired kiln isn’t glazed, which means the results, shown at top, are purely a product of the interplay between the raw clay and the conditions in the kiln. “You have to fire 150 kilns to understand it just a little bit, and you’ll always be learning,” says Casey Zablocki, the Clay Studio’s current artist-in-residence, pictured at left inside the kiln.

and electric kilns that are far more reliable and take far less work. There are even tidy little wood fire kilns that one person can fire in 24 hours within the comforts of civilization.

When you ask wood firers that question—Why do it?—they tend to shrug and smirk a little and say something along the lines of, “Yeah, I know, it’s crazy.” But upon further prodding, they offer real answers. Because of the chance for beautiful, serendipitous, unexpected results. Because of the gnarly, earthy surfaces. Because of the community. Because it’s a conversation with the natural world. Because it’s hard work and we’ve forgotten as a society how to work hard. Because of the risk of loss. Because you’ll never have it entirely figured out.

“I do it because it’s about finding a balance between confidence and experience and humility,” Peters says. “And that’s where you always want to be, right? Ranging in that place where you’re always learning, you’re always growing, but you’re also trusting in what you already know. “

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uring the final night of firing, the activity level around the kiln will reach a fever pitch as the crew pushes it toward its peak temperature of roughly

2,300 degrees. During this phase, stoking is a near-constant process. As workers open the small ports to toss wood in, fire licks out, hungry for oxygen and bolstered by backpressure. Black smoke billows. The flames rocketing from the

chimney can be seen miles away, by motorists on Mullan Road. Inside the kiln the atmosphere roils, plasmic, the air itself on fire and writhing like a snake. The coal beds pile up, glistening and diamondbright. The atmosphere is at once festive

and intense: onlookers bring pizza, drink beer and whiskey, keep up a steady din of chatter and laughter and music through the night. There are those in the group who have been awake for days and add that distinct energy that only comes

photo by Steve S. Saroff

Community and camaraderie play big roles among those who tend to the Clay Studio’s wood-fired kiln. The atmosphere is at once festive and intense: onlookers bring pizza, drink beer and whiskey, keep up a steady din of chatter and laughter and music through the night. There are those in the group who have been awake for days and add that distinct energy that only comes of giddy, sleep-deprived delirium.

of giddy, sleep-deprived delirium. In the firelight, in the forest, there’s a pagan, ancient element that is intoxicating.

Within the midst of the bacchanalia, the four or five people working the kiln guzzle water in an attempt to stay hydrated. They wear sunglasses against the searing brightness and bandanas around their faces against the heat. They wear heavy gloves that singe and stink of burnt leather. They sweat and stoke and move wheelbarrows full of wood. Sometimes they’ll use long pieces of rebar to pull small pots from the flames and let them crash cool in the damp night air, a process that offers telltale markers of the conditions inside the kiln. They’ll confer about the results: Is the kiln hungry? Is it content? Does it need more air? Is it time to offer it cottonwood instead of pine? They might sketch out a game plan with a piece of charcoal on the ground in front of the kiln, like athletes discussing a play or generals orchestrating a battle. Zablocki will be at the center of the huddle, eyes wide, focused and energized. The group listens and nods, sliding their gloves back on before fanning back to their posts. If you look closely, you can see their faces aglow with adrenaline, with the thrill of conversing with fire. editor@missoulanews.com

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[arts]

Living out loud Missoula’s late iconoclast, McCarthy Coyle, comes to life in a new collection of his selected works

by Erika Fredrickson

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Indy co-founder Eric Johnson once stated Coyle was as he raged against hypocrisy, and against the artless month. He’s at work up in the loft. I’m down n 1987, Richard “McCarthy” Coyle wrote about much more than that, calling him “our profane saint” banter and pettiness that ruled the cliques he claimed here drinking Wild Turkey. Growing driving a thousand miles from Missoula to the and mentor. He had some success in writing, includ- would never risk letting him in … ” maudlin before the wood stove. This guy is Ozarks to find his “baby” sister’s unmarked grave.

For the most part, Wagner lets Coyle’s writing ing the O’Neill award, a Stanford writing fellowship, a painter. He had told me he was once a proHe had with him a cherry tree sapling and a bottle of and op-eds published in newspapers from coast to speak for itself, but he does offer a few anecdotes— tégé of Andy Warhol. “I was one of the Pretty bourbon, and he planned to plant the tree where she coast. But he was often distracted—even by his own how he and his brother, Mark, went train hopping Boys playing in The Factory,” he explained. was buried, baptize it in liquor and dance on top of it. in Alaska with Coyle and how Coyle’s family reacted admission—and he was known to be bad tempered.

But that was long ago. We are middle-aged In the story, “Tree Planting,” the late Missoula play“Reading the book, you can see these patterns to the on-stage depiction of themselves in Drawing men now. Aliens looking for love. Brought wright, journalist, political gadfly and eccentric-aboutwith his defiance, his willing the world to be the way Down the Moon when it was first staged. (His together by an advertisement. town, explains how his sister, Adrienne, had died of mother, distressed, had to be carried out of cancer a few years earlier, and was buried in a the theater.) The tales are juicy, because plot near her pagan commune. “Aidey,” as he Coyle’s life was juicy. But Wagner has mancalled her, was a lesbian separatist—something aged a collection that lovingly pays tribute, that didn’t always sit well with some family without sugarcoating. members, though it made the family heartsick “He got to a point where, to put it bluntly, to be so disconnected from her. he just didn’t give a flying fuck what people Coyle didn’t care about her being a lesbian thought about him,” Wagner says. “He arrived (he was also gay), he was just mad at her for at a point of clarity as to who he was as an dying. And he was mad at himself for being in deartist. He had a unique aesthetic understandnial and not saying a proper goodbye. He wanted ing of the world.” her forgiveness, he wrote, “for everything. For Wagner says that “Tree Planting” is one of being too proud. For locking her in the closet his favorite pieces because it captures Coyle when she was little. For being mean and making so perfectly, the way that when he wasn’t her cry. For not loving her as much as she loved being outraged, he could be outrageously me.” The road trip to plant the cherry tree was magnetic. At one point in the story, he walks an act of redemption. “Aidey had once told me into a bar holding the sapling and yelling that she’d love to live in a cherry orchard,” he wrote. he needs to find his sister’s grave—all the “So, I will plant the tree. Mark her resting place.” while in his John Lennon glasses and beads, “Tree Planting” is one of many pieces in The like a “leprechaun hippie” (as Wagner deCherry Tree is Blossoming, a newly published scribes him), with all the rednecks on their selection of Coyle’s letters, poems, journals, ficbarstools looking him up and down. Eventutions and dramas. The 569 page book, compiled ally, with the help of a monk, he finally gets to

by Coyle’s nephew, John D. Wagner, spans over her grave, plants the tree, pours the bourbon two decades of his writings. It provides an intiand sings a ballad. A few months later, he remate glimpse into an inventive character who ceives a message from the monk telling him lived his life—a good portion of it in Missoula— his sister’s tree has bloomed. “The cherry tree with desperate hope and unyielding rage, all of has blossomed!” Coyle recalls yelling to all the which comes through in his fierce prose. patrons in line at the post office. “My sister’s The book features early writings, like a series of letters he wrote in 1971 while attending McCarthy Coyle—pictured at left in 1979 and, at right, later in life with one of his great-nephews—was a cherry tree! It’s blossoming!” And they all playwright, journalist and eccentric well-known in Missoula. A new collection, titled The Cherry Tree is cheered, though they had no idea what he was the prestigious McDowell Colony writing res- Blossoming, features his letters, poems, plays and essays. talking about. idency. It also offers his wild, precariously ro“He took a lot of air out of the room,” Wagner adThe book includes obvious selections like his he wanted it to be and his outrage and frustration manticized correspondences with his lover, Michael, including a 1995 essay called “Portrait of a Chinese play about Aidey (and the family), Drawing Down the when it didn’t happen,” Wagner says. “He may not mits. “In family gatherings—wedding receptions or fuCricket,” which gives a slightly fictionalized account Moon, which won a Eugene O’Neill award. But the have had the tools to succeed but he certainly had the nerals—he really took a lot of energy to accommodate, lesser-known essays and letters provide an even more chops as a writer and inventive mind and storyteller.” there’s no question about that … But I like these ecof how their relationship eventually fell apart: Wagner, who came to know and love his uncle, centric guys. I love that they don’t give a shit what peoexquisite look behind the scenes of a gifted writer who struggled to love a world that constantly disap- gives The Cherry Tree is Blossoming another layer of ple think about them and I love that they are brilliantly I’m holed up with a stranger in a mounoutrageous, almost professionally outrageous. Richard intimacy that no other editor could provide. pointed him. tain fast-hold on the edge of the Beartooth “I always wanted to be Richard’s favorite,” he writes knew he was an outrageous guy, in his sexuality, in the Coyle is remembered in Missoula for helping to Wilderness. The day after tomorrow is the found the underground newspaper, The Borrowed in the editor’s note. “And not just his favorite nephew, way he wrote, the way he dressed, the way he exspring equinox and I will mark the timely Times. His work in public television helped launch or even his favorite relative, but his favorite person. His pressed himself in his friendships—and I think he revanniversary of my birth at two minutes beMissoula Community Access Television, where he whole life, he made it clear that he could only abide the eled in that. He really lived out loud.” fore noon. Forty years. This guy from the City hosted a state politics show called “Under the Copper last of the good people, and I wanted to be in that tribe. of Brotherly Love arrived in Montana two Dome.” He was even a copy editor at the Indy, though Even more than that, I wanted to be admired by him, days ago. We had agreed that he’d stay for a efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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[music]

Swinging hard High Voltage beefs up the rock on Electrify Hard rock that ... swings? If Guns N’ Roses could pull it off, why not High Voltage? On their third album, this versatile Missoula band manages to slam several disparate stylistic ingredients into a meaty hard rock stew that mostly satisfies.

Heavy metal touchstones litter their sound like decimated wrecks in a Mad Max landscape: chunky guitars, thundering double kick drums and, soaring above it all, the prog-metal wail of Travis Allred. His muscular vibrato and tone land him squarely in the wheelhouse of Geoff Tate, but beyond that the band has little in common with Queensrÿche, the famously self-serious Seattle band.

Allred and co-vocalist Maddie Voltage—a powerhouse

in her own right—accompany each other nicely, trading verses and choruses over Metallica-style rhythm guitar and wellplaced keyboard work from Milan House.

Songs like “Unknown” and “Aftershock” drive the headbanging aggression with a rubbernecking rhythm, and the results are a welcome detour from the bludgeon. Every song is complex and skillfully layered, but at 15 songs and more than an hour in length, it’s a pretty relentless march. It’s not bloated, it’s just a 24-ounce steak when a 16-ouncer would be plenty filling. (Ednor Therriault) High Voltage plays a CD release party at the Top Hat Fri., June 12, at 10 PM. Free.

Royal Thunder, Crooked Doors Whenever I want to stir up my classic hard rock loving friends, I point out that if I could time travel to a smoky arena in the ’70s, I’d choose a Heart gig before Led Zeppelin. There’s something about a gutsy female voice soaring over the holy trinity of bass, drums and guitar that just works for me. Miny Parsonz, bass player and frontwoman of Atlanta’s Royal Thunder, more than delivers those goods when she steps up to the microphone.

Royal Thunder’s swampy hard rock has a modern edge to it, but it leans hard enough on what has come before to please my ear. Parsonz may not have the vocal battering ram of Ann Wilson, but she puts enough bluster behind a bluesy quaver to more than complement

the thick, mid-tempo rumble of the band’s compositions. She can definitely bring it when she needs to, like in “The Line,” where her delivery is at times quiet and subtle, then breaks wide open.

If there’s anything retro at all about Royal Thunder, it might be in the guitar playing of Josh Weaver. I mean that as a compliment. From his tone to the construction of his riffs and solos, this is a guy who has clearly listened to all of the best kinds of music. Crooked Doors is a great listen from a band I’d never heard of before. (Chris La Tray) Royal Thunder opens for Halestorm at the Wilma Fri., June 12, at 7:30 PM, along with Rival Sons. $38.

Dwight Yoakam, Second Hand Heart Dwight Yoakam’s first three albums stand as a vinyl Mount Rushmore of modern country: airtight, rock hard and pure as grain alcohol.

In the 30 years since he exploded out of the LA punk scene with Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. his style has meandered, sometimes taking weird trips down blind alleys. You can’t fault a guy for following his instincts when they’re usually right.

Even his failures (3 Pears’ “Waterfall,” with its acidtrippy lyrics that tread the same psychedelic path of Sturgill Simpson’s “Turtles All the Way Down”) are more interesting than the pop that passes for country these days.

Second Hand Heart, which Yoakam produced, indulges his fascination with late-’60s rural pop, a la Glen Campbell and CCR. Lots of tambourines, handclaps, ensemble harmonies and poppy instrumentation give these songs a throwback feel (dig the bongos on “Dreams of Clay”), although layers of crisp guitars keep things modern.

Seven songs in, Dwight unloads the first of three haymakers in a row. He tears through “Man of Constant Sorrow” with a ferocity that had me asking, “O brother, where you been?” This hotfoot honky tonk leaves no doubt that this Kentucky boy is at the peak of his powers. Your move, Nashville. (Ednor Therriault)

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[books]

I yam what I yam David Gates on regional writing, not doing coke and his new short story collection

by Molly Laich

The last time I saw David Gates was in summer 2012, when we drank Maker’s Mark at the Depot and I badgered him aggressively about when we’d see another book. Finally, finally, the journalist, Pulitzer Prize-finalist author and part-time Missoula resident has given us the splendid short story collection A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me, which we recently discussed over email.

Your characters often address the reader directly. Some examples include: “If I’m sentimentalizing those days, bear with me” and “Anyway, here’s the coda.” I like this style of storytelling very much. Do you ever have a specific reader in mind?

David Gates: I love this stuff, too, and I imagine I caught it from books like The Catcher in the Rye, Lolita, Samuel Beckett’s trilogy of novels and so on. No, I’m not addressing any reader in particular—just the reader whose presence it seems silly and artificial to ignore, especially if you’ve got a first-person narrator talking. I don’t hear these narrators as simply talking to themselves—what would be the point, since they already know the story they’re telling?

Earlier this month I wrote in an interview: “It’s fine to be a white male writing about finding your hot wife in bed with another man in your over-mortgaged house on the East Coast and whatever existential crisis that moment unfurls and all.” to which you replied, “Damn right it’s fine,” in what I can only assume was a playful and self-effacing way. But it’s true, right? That who you are as an older white man writing about educated people is plenty prevalent still but not particularly in vogue. Of course I’m not mad at you and it’s not your fault. But what do you have to say for yourself?

DG: Nor am I mad at you—you were right on the money. Sure, I was joshing. What I meant was that I’ve made a damn good living off of this material, and what I meant by that was that I actually haven’t— check my sales figures—though I do have a great teaching job. Older white male writers may not be in vogue, but they still seem to be eating three square meals a day, when they’re not trying to lose that spare tire. And I notice a lot of younger white male writers dealing with overeducated people. And let’s not forget such nonwhite, non-male smarty-pantses as Paul Beatty or Lorrie Moore, or, or, or. Writers do tend to be overeducated—hell, you’re overeducated yourself—and they tend to write about what they know. Tiresome, maybe, but I yam what I yam and that’s all what I yam.

photo courtesy of Mary McCormick

Renowned author and UM writing instructor David Gates recently released his new short story collection, A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me.

One can’t help but notice that many of your characters use drugs and alcohol with suspicious authenticity. Not to mention your Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel Jernigan and its unsentimental portrait of an alcoholic father. Have you ever had any issues in your personal or professional life with people holding you responsible for your characters' bad behavior? Asking for a friend.

DG: I’ve occasionally run across people who are surprised not to find me falling-down drunk and keeping a civil tongue in my head. But it’s been rare— most people seem to realize that fiction is fiction. My second novel, Preston Falls, is about a cokehead, and, believe it or not, I’ve never done coke.

This collection runs the gamut of human experience. Here I am in my 30s and worrying that I haven’t been married yet, but if your stories are any indication, my nightmare’s just beginning: Di-

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vorce at 47, a kid that can’t stand me—why even try to guess? You don’t have kids and you’re not a woman but you write convincingly from both perspectives, so it can’t all be informed by experience, right? For example, having read Preston Falls, it absolutely blows my mind that you’ve never done cocaine.

DG: Well, shucks. Some of this comes from experience, some from observation, some from projecting myself imaginatively into people of different ages, different sexes, different sexual orientations. I was writing about geezers, for instance, long before I turned into one. Somebody, maybe Flannery O’Connor, says you’ve seen enough by the time you’re 12 to write fiction for the rest of your life. I actually think it might help to get past puberty, but you see the point.

here intermittently since 2010. ( We met in your first UM fiction workshop, in case readers were wondering the origins of my cloying familiarity.) Has the West wormed its way into your heart or your writing yet?

DG: Into my heart, yes—certainly into my affections. Into my writing, no. I suppose it might, but I’ve been a Northeast regionalist for a quarter of a century or so. That part of the country—its history, its topography, its people—continues to obsess me.

I still go back there for a couple of months twice a year, and I’m a relative newcomer to Montana. I just don’t have the authority to write about the West. Perhaps when I come to know it as well as, say, Kevin Canty has—but by that time I’ll probably be pushing up bitterroot.

These stories all take place out east. You’ve been teaching at the University of Montana and living

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[books]

Miraculous thing Palaia offers stunning characters in Given World

by Kate Whittle

In Marian Palaia’s debut novel, The Given World, ally with chapters told by Riley’s lovers, friends or our protagonist Riley breaks her arm at age 9 after parents. It’s a useful way to learn more about Riley she backflips off the porch of her Montana Hi-Line than she herself can tell us and sometimes lends the home. You would hope she’d learn a lesson, but in- feeling of a collection of short stories. The narrative stead, she follows up this trick a short while later by occasionally leaps forward and back into different slipping off the roof, puncturing a lung and breaking parts of Riley’s life, but the revelations are given in a ribs in the process. These are the kind of mistakes purposeful way. Palaia captures the passing of Riley will make again and again: one stupid thing fol- months and years with elegant prose, stopping to lowed by something even worse. She’s the kind of linger on brief but pivotal moments in Riley’s maturation. I sometimes had to person you know—or stop and marvel at clever maybe you are—who is little turns of phrase and smart and endearing but poetic references, like can’t seem to get their act when “a little fresh fog together. cat-foots east from the In Riley’s formative City.” preteen years, her beloved Palaia’s women are older brother enlists in the the sort who are so often Army and then goes missvilified in more traditional ing in Vietnam, never to stories: neglectful mothbe found. Despite parents ers, wayward junkies, inwho mean well enough, capable of love or Riley grows into a weird, devotion. People, usually sullen teenager, getting men, are always trying to high on mescaline and rescue Riley, whether it’s driving recklessly. “My from homelessness or parents, I knew, saw me drug addiction or bad orbiting a little too close boyfriends, and yet they to the sun, but they didn’t still can’t really save her: try to talk me down, probthat’s up to her. It’s enorably because they knew mously refreshing to read they couldn’t, or were a story that talks about afraid of pushing me even complicated women with farther away,” she narThe Given World so much empathy. Riley’s rates. At 16, Riley falls for Marian Palaia life is not a moral lesson a sweet, doting Native hardcover, Simon & Schuster or parable. She’s just American boy from the 304 pages, $25 human. nearby reservation, but he Though Given World doesn’t really reach a pat gets drafted into the Army and leaves—without knowing Riley’s pregnant. This might sound like the setup conclusion, we’re still given a sense that as Riley apfor a pablum romance or easily resolved coming-of- proaches middle age, she might find some peace and age story, but Given World is something else entirely. equilibrium. It’s in the little things: as a restless Palaia, whose degrees include an MFA from the teenager at the beginning of the story, Riley looks up University of Wisconsin-Madison, draws from her ex- at the Montana sky and feels like she might drown in periences living in Montana, California and abroad the vastness of it. But by the end, she can lie in the to richly illustrate the rest of Riley’s misadventures. front yard of her childhood home and marvel at how As an adult, Riley is a petite tomboy who bites off many constellations are visible way out in the sticks, more than she can chew, taking tough gigs like me- away from city lights. “I close my eyes for a minute chanic work and delivery driving, while sometimes and reopen them to watch the stars explode,” Riley delving a little too far into booze and drugs. Along says. “I do this over and over. Every time it is different. the way, we get a sense of time and place from un- Every time it is the most miraculous thing.”

Marian Palaia reads from The Given World mistakably real details, like the smoky pulp mills in the Missoula Valley to Bay Area lesbian dive bars to Thu., June 18, at Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. 7 PM. the crowded streets of Saigon.

While most chapters are narrated from Riley’s perspective, Palaia also breaks up the story occasionkwhittle@missoulanews.com

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[film]

Deep thoughts Live From New York! avoids the real answers

by Migizi Pensoneau

Meanwhile, other people are doing coke.

When I heard that someone was making Live From New York!, I was excited to see it. I’ve read the 2003 book of the same name, and I love that it’s all interviews and opinion, brought to us from the people who were there. The book offers a raw, warts-andall look at “Saturday Night Live,” the most popular sketch show ever to grace the television set. That tone is perfect for documentary—and I’d been itching to see the same style of candid, in-depth interviews on a big screen.

Unfortunately, the film is a far cry from the book.

Live From New York!, directed by Bao Nguyen, is a look at the 40 years that “Saturday Night Live” has been on the air. But with a short 90-minute running time, it quickly becomes clear the film can only pay brief attention to any given topic. There are myriad subjects discussed, and any one of them could be a documentary of its own.

The most interesting part of the film covers the topic of diversity. People of color on “SNL”—like Garrett Morris, Eddie Murphy, Tim Meadows and Leslie Jones–have always been an exception, rather than the rule. The same goes with female writers and performers. Getting their material to air has been a struggle throughout the show’s existence. But instead of tackling the issue heavily and broadly in the way the book does, the documentary focuses on Jones as a way of saying, “See? We’re doing better by black people and women now!” That’s especially problematic because Jones didn’t join the show until last year, and only after public outcry. The implication seems to be that “SNL” is cool now and there’s never been a diversity problem, because the diversity problem is societal

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and “SNL” is a reflection of, like, society, man. As writer Anne Beats argues/jokes in Live From New York!, “SNL” was “not unlike the rest of television.

Hey, where was the black friend?” For a show that had the power to push boundaries, the acknowledgement falls short of taking any real responsibility.

So much for warts and all.

There’s a lot of self-congratulation here, as well.

The interviewees often inflate the impact and influence of the show, particularly when it comes to politics. Al Franken pretty much says “SNL” lost Al Gore the presidency. Meanwhile, Will Ferrell worries that his take on George W. Bush made Bush likable and won him the White House. While the look at politics and the show’s influences are interesting, once again the film whisks away without exploration. Particularly smug is the reverence to SNL’s handling of the tragedy of 9/11. Did you know it was “SNL” who told the country it was okay to laugh again?

The doc is built around the 40-year milestone, and looking back at all that time is only natural. But why bring up the heavy topics? It would have been nice to have a best-of clip show where everyone talks about their favorite sketches, and it would have still been effective. Instead, the film asks real questions while avoiding real answers. As a result, watching Live From New York! is like visiting a fascinating museum that’s just about to close. There’s no time to really explore much of anything at all.

Live From New York! screens at the Roxy Fri., June 12, through, Thu., June 18, at 7 PM nightly. arts@missoulanews.com

[film]

OPENING THIS WEEK CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Spielberg Week continues with this flip side of the ET coin.

Richard Dreyfuss stars in his iconic role as a man obsessed. You might be inspired to road trip to the Devil’s Tower. Screening at the Roxy, Thu., June 18, at 8 PM. DANNY COLLINS Al Pacino stars as an aging rock star who decides to make some changes when he discovers a letter that had been written to him by John Lennon. Showing at the Roxy, Fri., June 12–Thu., June 18. 6 PM and 8 PM nightly.

THE PAW PROJECT Inspiring story of the grassroots movement to stop the declawing of felines both large and small. Showing at the Roxy, Tue., June 16, 7 PM.

NOW PLAYING ALOHA One of the most appealing casts of the year struggles to be noticed in the long shadow of Bill Murray in this Cameron Crowe joint. Aloha, Mr. Hand. Starring Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone.

Rated PG 13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 3 A gifted psychic contacts the dead in order to protect a teenage girl who has been targeted by a spiritual entity. You know, like that one episode of Happy Days.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

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.

JAWS The movie that emptied beaches up and down both coasts 40 years ago is back. Spielberg’s seagoing classic must be experienced on the big screen. Make sure you bring spare undies. Screening at the Roxy, Thu., June 11, 8 PM.

POLTERGEIST A suburban family’s little girl is captured by evil forces in a modern-day version of the horror classic. Starring Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt and Kennedi Clements. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Awwww yeah, Tom Hardy stars as the eponymous p.o.’d Max, a man on a mission to survive in a screwed-

EAT WITH ME A mother and her gay son learn to connect as the son’s Chinese restaurant faces foreclosure. Strong directorial debut from David Au features Nicole Sullivan and a brief cameo from George Takei. Oh, my. Hosted by Big Sky Pride. Showing at the Roxy, Thu., June 18, at 8 PM.

SAN ANDREAS Rednecks, homophobes and Wonder Bread conservatives will be cheering loudly in multiplexes across America as California succumbs to The Big One and crumbles into the sea. Dwayne Johnson tries to save one person, reluctantly saves many. Also starring Carla Gugino and Paul Giamatti.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

SLOW WEST At the end of the 19th century, 16-yearold Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas (Michael Fassbinder), a mysterious traveler, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way. At the Roxy, Thu., June 11, 6 PM & 8 PM.

JURASSIC WORLD Chris Pratt, a revelation in Defenders of the Galaxy, stars as the scrappy, charming misfit who faces a full-on dinosaur revolt when the theme park’s GMO dolphin-lizard thingy pops its cork. Does not pass the Bechdel test.

Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

KNIFE IN THE WATER (NOZ W WODZIE) Roman Polanski’s first feature film landed him on the cover of Time magazine. This taut psychological thriller also received an Oscar nomination.

Showing at the Roxy, Sun., June 14, at Looks like somebody used a little too much Axe body spray. Jurassic World opens Fri., June 12. Check movie listings for times 7 PM. and theaters.

THE LAST AVATAR There may be a solution to our Age of Chaos. In the words of the titular Kalki Avatar, “We are becoming conscious of our power to remake the world.” Showing at the Roxy, Fri., June 12, 7 PM. LIVE FROM NEW YORK! Saturday Night Live has been an American institution for 40 years, holding up a funhouse mirror to politics, culture, media and art. Archival footage and interviews are used to explore the show’s early years. Showing at the Roxy, Fri., June 12–Thu., June 18, 7 PM. (See Film.)

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 Jr., Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

ENTOURAGE The band of adolescent sycophants surrounding pretty boy Vincent Chase are back, doing battle in Hollywood with sleazy agent extraordinaire Ari Gold in the inevitable big screen resurrection of the popular series. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

up apocalyptic hellscape. Update: HOLY FIREBALLS THIS RULES. And it even passes the Bechdel test! Also starring Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MAN AND SUPERMAN Ralph Fiennes plays radical thinking bachelor Jack Tanner in this superb imagining of George Bernard Shaw’s witty classic. This is a live screening of the staged production. The Roxy, Tuesday, June 9, 7:30 PM. For tickets, visit mtlive.org.

SPY Comic force of nature Melissa McCarthy continues her march toward world comedy dominance, this time playing a cross between Austin Powers and Lara Croft. With more cussing. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

TOMORROWLAND A curious teen and a notably handsome gentleman team up to venture to a magical place that exists in their shared memory. Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson and Hugh Laurie. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle and Ednor Therriault.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 7282521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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A cheesy love story

by Lacy Roberts When you first turn in to Tyler Tucker’s 84-acre farm, it kind of feels like the animals have the run of the place. You are first greeted by a traffic jam of turkeys and chickens who don’t feel the need to move from the road just because you’re driving a car toward them.

Once you get around the poultry, a herd of sheep comes into view, happily grazing in the shadow of the Bitterroots. That’s when you notice the shiny new building nestled into the hillside above the pasture, half of it underground. This is where our thousands of years of sheep husbandry really has paid off: the cheese cave.

Let’s back up a moment, because the cheese starts with the milk. The Tuckers milk their herd of 90 sheep twice a day, seven days a week, in their newly built creamery. You get a lot less milk from sheep than you do from cows, but according to Tyler, sheep have both high protein and high butterfat in the milk, “so you also get a lot richer cheese.”

“I just really like cheese, and I also like raising the animals,” Tucker says as he walks those 30 yards from the creamery to the cheese cave. “And I think it’s a really neat thing when you raise the animals on-site, you’re feeding them from your site. That milk’s just getting transported right up the hill to be made cheese.”

He’s describing what the American Cheese Society classifies as “farmstead cheese,” a special designation

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 BERNICE’S IS SERVING ESPRESSO!! Yep, you heard us right. And, we have heard you. 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 beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus.

Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open MF 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. $

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only used when the cheese is made at the farm, with no milk from outside sources.

The cheese cave is the dominion of the farm’s resident cheesemaker, Stig Hansen. A former corporate chef and cookbook author, Stig left the corporate world to learn how to make farmstead cheese in the early 2000s.

Now, as he stands next to the pasteurizing cheese vat, talking about whey in his light Danish accent, it’s clear that Stig is right where he wants to be. “I just love cheese,” he says. It seems to be a theme with these guys.

The first cave is the “blue room,” as in blue mold.

There are too many little bries aging on the shelves to count, all in different stages of their development.

The young ones still look curdy, like feta pressed into the shape of a brie. As they get a little older, they start to go through a gnarly stage—let’s just say they look like they were forgotten in the back of your college refrigerator. They emerge from their awkward phase as perfect white-rinded bries, but with a twist. Stig pokes holes in them as they age to make room for blue mold to grow inside. The effect is creamy and mild, the blue giving the brie a light burst of flavor.

The second cave is for Stig’s washed rind cheese.

A washed rind cheese is often considered a stinky cheese because the technique and the cultures used result in, well, an odiferous effect. “If someone tells

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

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ 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 food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 years of great coffees and teas.

Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh

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me the cheese stinks, I take it as a compliment,” Stig says. He adds that we must be careful in this cave— the b. linens culture used in the process would, much like Tyler’s animals, have the run of the place if given the chance. “If you put anything else in there, it just jumps over and has a happy day growing on other cheeses.”

Before you decide that you hate the idea of stinky cheese, consider this: Stig’s washed rind cheeses have had their 15 minutes of fame. A cheese he made for his old business was featured on Anthony Bourdain’s TV show (Bourdain called it ‘incredible’) and a distributor out of San Francisco has already placed an order, even though Stig hasn’t even completed the first batch.

Also on the menu are the Tucker Family Farms’ fresh sheep ricotta romana and a delicious, creamierthan-your-average feta. That ricotta though … it’s

made from 100 percent whey, or the liquid leftover once the fat and protein solids are removed from the milk. The result is so sweet, nutty and creamy, it almost tastes chocolatey. My goodness, it is good.

Tucker Family Farms sells the blue brie, feta and ricotta (did I mention you should try the ricotta?) at the Clark Fork Market and the Hamilton Farmers Market, and their selection will grow in the coming weeks as more cheeses mature in Stig’s cave. Once they figure out what we like to buy, Tucker envisions running products much like a brewery, with four or five staple cheeses and rotating seasonals.

In the meantime, Stig and Tyler are simply excited to finally be bringing their products to customers.

“We’re just like a couple of kids on Christmas morning,” Stig says while preparing for market. The funny thing is, customers feel the same way.

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. $

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. $

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

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

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 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 97:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ 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

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wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music. What deal will you find today? $-$$$

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. $$-$$$

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. $$-$$$

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 3pm-close. $-$$ 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 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. Saturdays 8am-12:30pm. “Music at the Market” performers on Saturdays 9am-noon.

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. $$-$$$

Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week.

Call if you need us to deliver! $-$$

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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. $-$$ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon– Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

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. $$-$$$

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. $-$$

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

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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Adam Vizzo at James Bar HAPPIEST HOUR Who’s serving: With 12 years of bartending under his belt and a lighthearted, welcoming spirit, Adam Vizzo fits right in at the James Bar’s cozy, dimly lit and laid-back quarters. “I get to host a party every day, play tunes and meet a lot of new people,” he says.

In the bar’s modern atmosphere, patrons are greeted by a few TVs, large portrait photos of Janis Joplin and a young Willie Nelson, a fireplace and a generous back patio. When patrons leave, Vizzo doesn’t say goodbye, but rather “see you later.”

What he's serving: While Vizzo admits his drink of choice is tequila, he says his specialty is a “damn good Manhattan.” But during a recent shift, it’s clear Vizzo can make just about a damn good anything, including a Bloody Mary described by one customer as “just perfect.” That Bloody goes especially well with the James Bar’s newly introduced Sunday brunch.

Bitterroot Beanery Multiple Locations Find us on Facebook Serving organic, free trade coffees, iced mochas & lattes, fruit smoothies, milkshakes & shaved ice drinks. Check out our menu on Facebook. Open daily 6:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. South Hamilton • 363-4160, North Hamilton • 363-2519, Woodside • 381-4196, Victor • 3814407, Corvallis • 274-4074. $ Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton 363-7468 bitterrootbrewing.com Bitter Root Brewing is open 7 days a week serving delicious microbrews and tasty hand-crafted food. Live music EVERY Thursday and Saturday from 6-8:30pm. Check out our website or find us on Facebook for upcoming events, menus, and other information. Cheers! $-$$ Bouilla 111 S. 3rd Hamilton 406-361-0223 Serving breakfast and lunch. From scratch modern American cuisine served in the beautiful Bit-

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The backstory: Vizzo began bartending in Akron, Ohio, after a construction job didn’t work out. At the ripe age of 21, after learning the tricks of the trade at a neighborhood Chili’s, Vizzo hopped from Ohio to Idaho and eventually to Missoula, where he’s been tending at James Bar since 2010.

You can usually spot him by his appropriately Western pearl snap shirt. “Easy on, easy off,” he says. “I found one at a thrift store and have been hunting them down ever since.”

Where to find him: The James Bar is located downtown at 127 W. Alder St., next to Al’s and Vic’s. It’s open every day from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

—Mary Bradley Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

terroot Valley. Check out our menu on Facebook. Open Monday - Saturday. $-$$ The Hamilton - A Public House 104 Main St., Victor 642-6644 Enjoy traditional pub fare in a warm, comfortable atmosphere. Serving a variety of appetizers, soups and salads and pub favorites of English Style Fish & Chips to Calamari & Chips to a Grand Tattie. Open at 11a.m. Monday-Friday and 4:00p.m. on Saturday. $-$$ Taste of Paris 109 N 4th St., Hamilton (406) 369-5875 tasteofparis.info FRENCH BISTRO and Crêperie offering authentic, yet affordable French homecooked specialties. French Wines. Gourmet Gifts. The outdoor patio, open in summer, adds a lot to the Parisian experience. Open TuesSat 9am– 8pm. $-$$

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June 11–June 18, 2015

Nobody in here to complain about my cigarette. Dave Chappelle returns to standup at the Dennison Theatre, Wed., June 16, and Thu., June 17, at 7 PM & 9:30 PM. Tickets $57 at GrizTix outlets.

THURSDAYJUNE11 The Ruby Jewel Jamboree twangs heartstrings with Greg Cahill and Special Consensus performing at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7. Visit rubyjeweljamboree.com for info and tickets.

nightlife Downtown ToNight celebrates a whopping 15 years of food, family fun and summertime easy livin’ at Caras Park, every Thursday from 5:30-8:30 PM through mid-September. Cash for Junkers plays tonight.

Free to hang out.

The Djebe Community Drum and Dance class offers interactive instruction in performance traditions 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.

The Bitterroot Public Library Fellowship Club will meet to discuss the book The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Adyashanti in the West Meeting Room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St., 6 PM to 7:30 PM. Free.

Learn your Swingin’ Thing from your Country Slide when Cathy Clark teaches country dance steps at the Sunrise Saloon every Wednesday and Thursday at 7 PM. $5/lesson, payable in cash.

Thoreau said it: Simplify, simplify. Not to nitpick, but couldn’t he lose a “simplify” there to stick with

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High-tech medicine is great at diagnostics; low-tech medicine is great at healing the body, mind and spirit.

power of tunes While putting the finishing touches on a slideshow for my son's high school graduation last week, I congratulated myself for not getting all weepy as I sifted through hundreds of photos of my boy, from birth to senior prom.

Then I added the music. Before I knew it, I was sobbing like Micky Arison when he learned LeBron was returning to Cleveland. As surely as smell can be a direct connection to the memory part of our brain, music is a powerful pipeline to our emotions.

Chris Henry, co-owner of Ear Candy Music, had seen first-hand the sheer joy that music can bring people. After losing his mother to Parkinson's Disease, he wondered how he could pair musicians from Missoula's deep pool of talent with seniors,

Larry Hirshberg

mushrooms and more science.

WHAT: MusiCare Montana benefit night WHO: Holy Lands, special guests WHEN: Sat., June 13, 8 PM–2 AM WHERE: Stage 112 at the Elks Lodge HOW MUCH: $5 MORE INFO: musicaremontana.org

notably those suffering from other degenerative brain ailments. “Music is a social necessity,” he says.

With the help of Tara Emory, he started MusiCare Montana with the goal of bringing musicians together with residents living in care facilities to create a community based on shared musical experience.

Kind of like a Grateful Dead concert, but with fewer

Saturday's benefit at Stage 112 will feature several of the musicians who have participated in MusiCare, and the proceeds will help the organization cover expenses and maintain a high level of professional musicians. I just hope they don't have a slideshow.

—Ednor Therriault

the theme? If minimalism intrigues you, a Meet Up group gathers at Break Espresso at 7:30 PM to discuss same. Hosted by Cindy Laundrie Marshall.

SHAHS occupation of the Ole Beck VFW continues with No Fancy, Buddy Jackson, J. Sherri and SHAHS. 245 W. Main St., doors at 9 PM, show at 10 $2, 18-plus.

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, drink specials aplenty and attractive local singles in your area. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM.

Will Petersen tears through a few hours of good ol’ rock n’ roll at the Union Club, 9 PM-midnight. No cover.

Small town girls, city boys and anyone that leaves out can share the night on and on and on at the Dead Hipster Dance Party of lore, at the Badlander on Thursdays, with opening guests SharkWe3k. No cover, plus $1 wells from 9 PM to midnight.

Is it country rock or rockin’ country? You make the call. Jones and Fischer blend it up at the Sunrise Saloon, 9 PM, no cover.

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It's been shown that music is processed by both halves of the brain, so it could be an effective tool in breaking through the cognitive barriers for memoryimpaired seniors. Dementia patients who rarely talk have actually sung along to some of the music played

by MusiCare's performers, who receive a small stipend to play at care facilities. Local musicians Larry Hirshberg, Aaron Jennings and Eli Redeker have been helping out a lot, says Henry, along with choral group Rocky Shoals and a host of other artists.

They’re called Missoula’s best swing band, but you should judge for yourself. Just don’t use the word “jazzy.” Ever. Swing 13 at the Top Hat, 9:30 PM, free show.

LA’s Coolzey laces his scattershot style of rock, rap and punk with literacy and humor. He’s like Kid Rock with an education. Also on the bill: J Rawls, Wormwood, and Missoula’s DAR. The Real Lounge, 112 Pattee St., Doors at 9 PM, show at 10. $5, 18-plus.

FRIDAYJUNE12 If you know the difference between an Atomic Piledriver and an Atomic Wedgie, you have pro wrestling to thank. Wresting legend Bret “Hitman” Hart will be on hand as Big Time Pro Wrestling brings top-name grapplers to Missoula.

Gangrel, Scotty 2 Hotty and Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner are on the card, along with WCW and WWF Tag Team Champion Nasty Boy Brian Knobbs and Mister TA. Ogren Park at Allegiance Field, 5–10 PM. Tickets $15 and up, MSO Hub, or call 543-3300, or go to MissoulaOsprey.com The best of the Treasure State is on tap at the Montana Professional Artists Association’s 11th annual show and sale, with an array of fine art for your pe-

[calendar] rusal at the Bitterroot River Inn in Hamilton, June 12-14. Learn more at montanaprofessionalartistsassoc.com.

Check out all the asses at Montana Mule Days, the state’s largest mule and donkey show, with competitions and exhibits at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds in Hamilton, June 12-14. Runs concurrent with the Big Sky Fiber Arts Festival, also on the fairgrounds. Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground plays Friday, 6:30–9:30 PM, $10. $5/day, $10/all three days (includes concert). Free for kids under 6.

Trot over to montanamuledays.com.

Corvallis United Methodist Church will hold its annual rummage sale at Eastside Highway at Cemetery Road, June 12 and 13, 9 AM to 3 PM. Prepare to have your mind expanded, Montana-style, as Scapes opens at the Radius Gallery. Sixty-one artists have works in the show, which covers a variety of ‘scapes: land, mountain, water and mind. 114 E. Main St. Gallery is open 11 AM-6 PM.

nightlife Here’s looking at you, Missoula, warts and all. Rochelle Hansen’s black and white photos are on display at Frame of Mind’s “Second Friday.”

1706 Brooks St., 5:30–9 PM. Young artists show their stuff at Creative Minds, a show of works created in the Young Artists After-School Program (YAAP). At the ZACC, June 12, 5:30–8:30 PM. Mike Huberman frequently invites the rain to be a part of his painting process, which results in oddball planetscapes and other weird textural hoo-hah. He’s doing his thing at the ZACC, 5:30–8:30 PM. They’re pickin’ and you’ll be grinnin’ when Poor Henry takes the stage with some fresh roots music at Bitter Root Brewing. 6 PM–8 PM, no cover.

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

Tonight: Local Yokel. No cover.

Rock outfit Halestorm cartwheels into the Wilma on the Carnival of Madness tour, featuring guests Rival Sons and Royal Thunder. Doors at 6:30 PM, show at 7:30. $38. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, knittingfactory.com and 866-468-7624.

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

Presented by Sacred Mysteries.

You’ve been dreaming–now it’s time to wake up! See the trailer at www.thelastavatar.com. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center.

Screening at the Roxy, 7 PM, $10.

Kottonmouth Kings have kancelled. New headliners Hed (pe) are joined by Fear Don’t Scare and The Family Ruin. Stage 112, doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Tickets $15 in advance, check out 1111presents.com or Rockin Rudy’s. All ages.

The Hamilton Players present Singin’ in the Rain, based on the beloved Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film and is a not-to-be-missed musical. June 1214, 19-21 and 26-28 at 100 Ricketts Rd., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM, tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for kids.

Drop the bass and raise some funds. EDM at the ZACC, with live electronic music by Mechanical Wonderland. All proceeds go to the ZACC. 8–11 PM, all ages, $5.

Band In Motion tends to stay in motion, unlike their fictitious cross-town rivals, the Completely Still Combo. Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM, no cover.

Chicken walk and coaster step the night away to Missoula’s own Cash for Junkers, who play honky tonk and West Coast swing at the Union Club starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYJUNE13 Come on in, the water is fine at the Hot Springs Homesteader Days, which feature a weekend of rodeo, live music on Main Street, parades, arts n crafts and other sundry entertainment. Visit hotspringschamber.org.

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. Garden City Shootout 3on3 Basketball Tournament. The Tournament takes place on Saturday, June 13th and finishes on Sunday, June 14th at Southgate Mall and raises

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[calendar] money to support youth and family programs at the City Life Community Center. Player divisions range from 2nd grade up to adult. Teams from around the state, and even out of state, come to this tournament to test their skills and have a great time playing Montana basketball.

Blackfeet tribal member Jeneese Hilton joins MAM’s Dustin Hoon for a discussion about “Raven Reviewing Modern,” her 18-painting gift to the MAM’s permanent collection. Missoula Art Museum, 10 AM–noon.

You mean, there was life before YouTube? Plunge into the creative pool, kids: Trace, cut, and assemble your own shadow puppets, then use them to tell your story. Children under 7 must be with an adult. Missoula Art Museum, 11 AM–12:30 PM. Free, first come first served.

In Montana, the sky is big and the roads are all less traveled. Jon Axline reads from his road trip account, Taming Big Sky Country.

Shakespeare & Co., 11 AM, free.

Glad y'all got the memo about untucked shirts. Greg Cahill and Special Consensus bring the strings to the Ruby Jewel Jamboree at Ruby's Inn. Thu., June 11, 7 PM. For tickets and info visit rubyjeweljamboree.com.

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Give your Boris Spassky bobblehead a rub for good luck, and bring your A game to the Western Montana Chess Championship. Also bring a chess set if you can. Ruby’s Inn, 4825

[calendar] N. Reserve St., registration from 12:20-12:40 PM. All skill levels welcome. Early reg. $15/adults, $5/juniors and newcomers, $5 more if paid at the door. Bring fees to Greg Nowak, Liquid Planet on Higgins, Thursdays 5–7 PM.

nightlife What do you get when you add a piano to a string band? The toe-tapping sounds of Folkinception.

Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM, no cover.

Band In Motion tends to stay in motion, unlike their fictitious cross-town rivals, the Completely Still Combo. Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM, no cover.

MusiCare Montana’s Benefit Night features performances from a collection of Montana musicians from their roster, plus sets by Holy Lands and others. DJ Mermaid takes over the wheels of steel at 11:45 for a dance party. Stage 112, $5, 8 PM–2 AM. (See Spotlight.)

Break out that obnoxious Hawaiian shirt from the back of your closet, but remember—it’s a sin to tuck ‘em in. Queer Party at the Palace featuring a slew of Bozeman DJs, 9 PM. No cover.

second and fourth Sunday of the month at alternating locations, 1-5 PM. $4/$3 for members. Email helenj4318@hotmail.com for info.

nightlife The 18-piece Ed Norton Big Band puts some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, from 6–8 PM. $7. Polish your steps with $5 swing lessons prior at 4:45 PM. Visit missoulawinery.com.

Music straight from left field to the VFW. Verma, Rayon Xhis, and Avant-Garde Alliance get the psychedelic sounds going at the VFW, 8 PM.

MONDAYJUNE15 Put your money where you beer trap is for Big Sky Pride. Community Night at Thomas Meagher Bar means they’ll donate 20 percent of all sales to Big Sky Pride. 6– 10 PM. Yarr, the Pirate Circus Kid Camp is just what you’d expect, with five days of swashbuckling and high-flying adventures for ages 7-10 years old,

June 15-19 at Moksha Aerial Studio.

Fencing is in the mornings and acrobatics the afternoon, so pick ‘n choose either or both. Visit MokshaAerial Studio.com for registration and info.

Obviously, this camp needs a disco ball. Glitter Mania campers will explore how glitter, glass and glossy objects react with light at the ZACC. 9 AM-4 PM, June 15–19. Ages 6–12. $180, $165 for members.

nightlife 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.

TUESDAYJUNE16 What’s even better than a puppet show? A puppet rock opera!

The Bat Honey Puppeteers will have kids of all ages throwing the horns with “Squidbelly” at the North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., Stevensville. 9 AM. Free.

The Performance Arts Sleepover Camp for kiddos ages 8-12 runs

We guess it makes sense that someone named Joan Zen strives to bring Buddhist-inspired love to her audiences through song. Groove to Zen’s funk and reggae at the Union Club starting at 9:30 PM. No cover.

Missoula’s own High Voltage makes you touch the third rail at their CD release party for Electrify. (See Music) Top Hat Lounge, 10 PM, no cover.

Until we can convince Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers to come to Missoula, there’s The Petty Band from Bozeman. They play Lucky Wilbury’s tunes at the Top Hat Lounge, 10 PM, no cover.

SUNDAYJUNE14 All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup on the red carpet for the third annual Missoula Symphony Association Soiree and 60th anniversary celebration. Includes a swanky five-course dinner accompanied by MSO musicians at the Florence Hotel, 111 N. Higgins Ave. 5:30 PM. Call 721-3194 or visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets and info.

Get all keyed up with the Five Valley Accordion Association, which presents its dance jam every

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Campers are asked to shut off all devices, besides being able to call home in the evenings. $250, includes lodging and meals. Call 530345-6324 or email jkristoffer22@hotmail.com for info and registration.

nightlife Enjoy a pint or three of Harvey Milk Stout, a special brew, while enjoy the landmark film Milk to help kick off Pride Week at Imagine Nation Brewing, 1151 W. Broadway. 5:30–7 PM. Who says you can’t drink your way to a clear conscience? Lolo Peak Brewing donates $1 for every pint sold tonight to the Double SNAP

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trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM. 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.

Live those “American Idol” fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke with Cheree at Eagles

Craig Johnson reads from his latest Walt Longmire mystery, Dry Bones, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM.

Downtown ToNight celebrates a whopping 15 years of food, family fun and summertime easy livin’ at Caras Park, every Thursday from 5:30-8:30 PM through mid-September.

Enjoy a different live band each week. Free to hang out.

Marian Palaia reads from her debut novel The Given World, a novel about a young woman in post-Vietnam America searching for the courage to go home. Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W., 7 PM. Free.

You some kinda wise guy (or gal)? Prove it at the Quizzoula trivia night at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., with current events, picture round and more. Gets rolling around 8:30 PM. To get you warmed up, here’s a trivia question: What is Hulk Hogan’s real name? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, drink specials and attractive local singles in your area. Monk’s Bar. 9 PM.

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

Are LA’s The Heathers as darkly funny as their namesake movie? Only Wynona Rider knows for sure. Is Okay, Paris Mingus and Rooster Sauce round out the rockin’ bill at The Real Lounge, inside Stage 112. 9 PM, $5, 18+. Tickets: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/865329 Willie Nelson and Family, along with Alison Krauss and Union Station, play a whopper of a co-headliner at Osprey Stadium, with special guest Jerry Douglas. Time TBA. $55, plus fees. Tickets on sale Feb. 27 at MSO Hub, 5433300 and ticketmaster.com.

It’s big. It’s gay. It’s the Big Gay Cabaret.

Viscosity Theatre slathers gay sauce all over its Comedy Cabaret for a pair of Pride Week performances. Issues like gay marriage, STDs, boudoir kink and more are leavened with laughs, making for a highly entertaining night of comedy. Crystal Theatre, 8 & 10 PM, $12/adv., $15/door. Get tickets at https://viscosity.tixato.com/buy/big-gay-cabaret

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Dave Chappelle is one of the top comedians of his (or any) generation, and he’s returned from self-imposed exile to perform standup. Thank you, comedy gods. Adult content guaranteed. Dennison Theatre, 7 and 9:30 P M. $57 at GrizTix locations and www.umt.edu/griztix. Or call 243-4719.

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Next time, you guys set up the tent before you open the whiskey. Alison Krauss and Union Station perform with Willie Nelson & Family, with special guest Jerry Douglas. Wed., June 17, 7PM at Ogren Park. Tickets $55 + fees at MSO Hub or ticketmaster.com.

Dollars program at the Missoula Community Food Co-op. 6201 Brewery Way, Lolo, 6 PM. Jack Nisbet reads from his latest, Ancient Places, a collection of stories about the natural and human history of the Pacific Northwest. Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., 6:30 PM. It’s Jazz Night, cats and kittens, so haul your carcass down to the Top Hat and dig the Captain Wilson Conspiracy. 7 PM, no cover.

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8:30-10:30 PM. No cover: stick around for the prize drawing to be eligible to win. Trivia answer: Terry Gene Bollea.

Dave Chappelle is one of the top comedians of his (or any) generation, and he’s returned from self-imposed exile to perform standup. Thank you, comedy gods. Adult content guaranteed. Dennison Theatre, 7 and 9:30 PM. $57 at GrizTix locations and www.umt.edu/griztix. Or call 243-4719.

Combining Motown soul and N’awlins jazz with a sprinkling of funk and folk, Sista Otis shakes up the stage tonight. New Old Future and Dog Days open. The Palace, 9:30 PM. No cover.

Portland’s Ana Tivel folks it up, with Missoula’s Wartime Blues opening with some homegrown Americana. Top Hat Lounge, 9:30 PM, no cover.

Mr. Calendar Guy wants to know about your event! 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 Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801.

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Runners will start at the Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery and loop through the area on a mix of trails and roads. The circuit will lead them through neighborhoods, fields and forests, as they're clocked by chip timing to prevent any Rosie Ruiz-type shenanigans.

Upon crossing the finish line, runners will receive a glass of tasty Ten Spoon organic wine in a commemorative glass. (Non-alcoholic drinks will also be available.) Massages and snacks will also be offered.

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mer night to provide a soundtrack to the lengthening shadows and the close of another sunny (hopefully) Missoula summer day.

A Kids Fun Run will lead the youngsters around the winery, and they'll enjoy some Big Dipper Ice Cream at the finish, which they'll have to share with the grown-ups.

—Ednor Therriault Ten Spoon 10K is Sat., June 13 at Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Registration 3–4:30. Kids Fun Run at 4 PM. 10K Race starts at 4:45 PM. Awards ceremony, wine tasting and live music 5:30–8 PM. Registration $35–$42, kids race free. Sign up at www.runnersedgemt.com.

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According to Splash Montana, summer starts today. Everyone’s favorite place to dunk your junk is now open 11:30 AM-8 PM Mon.–Fri., 11 AM–6 PM weekends. For info on fees, lap swim and more, visit missoulaparks.org.

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 find out more.

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Saddle up, ladies, Women Bike Missoula is leading a two-wheel posse on an 8- to10-mile ride.

Start pedaling at the XXXXs at the north end of Higgins, and end at the Iron Horse. 5:30 PM. facebook.com/womenbikemissoula for more info.

Kiddos can reel in a whopper at the All-Abilities Fishing Derby at Silver’s Lagoon in McCormick Park, where ages 3-14 can compete for the chance to win prizes. (Mind you, kids 12 and up need a fishing license.) Runs 9-11 AM on May 9 and June 13. $1 to enter. Visit missoulaparks.org.

Hey, Boo Boo! They’re getting between us and that pic-a-nic basket! Junior Ranger Day at Frenchtown Pond lets kids earn their badge on National Get Outdoors Day. Sorry, Yogi. 10 AM–Noon, ages 4-12. Free.

Dirty looks and elbows will be flying as the Hellgate Rollergirls kick off their season with a double header with Spokane’s Northside Nightmare, and the pragmatically named Flathead Valley Roller Derby. Also catch the junior Hellions at 4:30.

Missoula County Fairgrounds Events Center, doors at 4 PM, bout at 6:30. $8/adv., $10/door. Tickets: hellgaterollergirls.org.

SUNDAY JUNE 14 If you think a Wooly Bugger is a hairy man from Liverpool, you might benefit from the 15th Annual Women’s Fly Fishing Clinic. Learn and practice casting, reading water, tying knots and playing (and hopefully landing) fish. Proceeds benefit Chicks ‘n Chaps, a breast cancer fund. Frenchtown Pond, 1–4 PM, $100.

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Learn to identify the vegetation that surrounds us at Botany By Habitat with plant dude Greg Peters.

Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 9 AM–5 PM, $70/members, $80/non-members. Call 327-0405 to register.

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Who is going to lead us out of this miasma of turbulence and conflict that is the modern world?

Take a look in the mirror, Miss Thing. Each of us has the power to be a part of a bigger change.

To help energize and inspire those who want to be a part of that change, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center has designed a Peace “unconference.” Rising From the Ashes: How Do We Create Peace From Chaos, Confusion and Conflict will start with four 510-minute “lightning” speakers who will inspire participants into identifying their individual passions for peacemaking. The group will then be invited into a circle where they will discuss various topics of interest to them. From this circle, a fluid break-out session will employ “Open Space Technology,” facilitated by Harold Shinsato. The idea is to encourage each participant to find his or her most powerful topics to share with like-minded others with whom they can share ideas and inspiration.

Lightning keynotes will be delivered by Keiko Ozeki, Center for Ethical Leadership; Kim Maynard, international peacebuilding practitioner and author; Lizzi Juda, artistic director, Turning the Wheel, and Patrick Marsolek, author, teacher, facilitator of nonviolent communication.

For 30 years, Open Space has been used to accomplish high levels of engagement, which leads to greater learning, community development and per-

sonal responsibility for exploring new ideas. Designers of the unconference hope to inspire all of Missoula’s peace community into finding their passion and then taking action to work toward peace, social justice and environmental sustainability.

The unconference begins with welcoming remarks from Betsy Mulligan-Dague, executive director of the JRPC, and ends with light snacks and music

by Lawrence Duncan.

—Ednor Therriault JRPC's Peace unconference, Rising From the Ashes: How Do We Create Peace From Chaos, Confusion and Conflict, is Sat., June 13, 8:30 AM–5:30 PM at the University Congregational Church. Free to JRPC Members, $15 for non-members. Lunch, snacks & an evening reception included. To register, visit http://civicrm.jrpc.org/

[AGENDA LISTINGS] FRIDAY JUNE 12 She’s almost 100 years old, and the lady needs a little attention. Come help beautify the ZACC building by pulling weeds, planting flowers, painting, etc. Gloves and refreshments provided. 235 N. 1st St. W., noon–6 PM. Who doesn’t like to look at heavenly bodies?

UM Dept. of Physics and Astronomy offers two 50minute planetarium shows in the Payne Family Native American Center’s Star Gazing Room. 6:30 & 8:30 PM, $6/adults, $4/12 & under.

Stargazing doesn’t get much better than this.

UM’s Blue Mountain Observatory hosts free pubic nights throughout the summer. Astronomers will be on hand to point out interesting celestial objects. Observation begins one hour after sunset. No cost, but a ticket must be reserved at http://bit.ly/1KOSelu.

SATURDAY JUNE 13 Kick off the summer with the kids with a Pop-Up Picnic. Face painting, crafts, music by Childbloom Guitar and more. Hosted by Children’s Museum Missoula, at McCormick Park, 2–4 PM. Free.

YMCA Adaptive & Special Olympics athletes, coaches, fans and friends are invited to a Friendship Visit with the Journey of Hope Cycling Team. Meet at the fenced field directly behind the YMCA for a BBQ dinner and field games. Sat. 5:30-7:00 PM $5 donation, bring a side dish.

MONDAY JUNE 15 Kids on the autism spectrum, grades 2-7, can learn in a fun and safe environment at the YETI Ex-

plorers Camp at UM’s Dewit RiteCare Clinic, 634 Eddy Ave. June 15-19, 9 AM–3 PM. $265, insurance may be billed with prescription. For info: Jennifer Closson, 243-5261.

TUESDAY JUNE 16 The three-week Xi Xi Hu: Walking Qigong course imparts wisdom about coordinating breath and movement to regulate the five organ spirits.

Meets on three Tuesdays at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., from 6-7:30 PM. $40 for three-week course. Visit redwillowlearning.org.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 It’s Coffee Talk! Although Linda Richman won’t be there, the friendly folks from the Missoula Downtown Association will be. Join them to learn about the good work being done by the United Way of Missoula, under the guidance of Missoula rock star Susan Hay Patrick. 412 W. Alder, 8–9 AM. Get in touch with healing arts at the Creative Connections for Cancer Survivors workshop, every third Wednesday of the month 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.

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THE FILE HIGH CLUB A year ago, a co-worker I had a crush on made moves on me after hours at work, and we stopped just short of having sex. I saw him as a potential boyfriend, and I emphasized that I was not interested in casual sex. He told me at the time that he had broken up with his girlfriend but two days later said they'd made up. Several times since, when his relationship has been on the rocks, he's suggested we have sex. I told him I want no physical contact with him ever again, and now he rarely speaks to me, despite seeing me daily at work. I considered him a friend, so I'm devastated he took advantage of me and was only interested in cheating. I'm finding it really hard to heal and move on.

—Disturbed If there's a next logical step after latenight office sexytime, it probably isn't "Now that we're done despoiling the conference table, let's go meet each other's parents!"

Remember dating? People who want relationships—especially female people who aren't up for anything less—go on dates before they go on the conference table. This isn't to say women should never have after-hours fun with some guy at work; it's just that if you want a relationship, having sex before he gets emotionally attached is a risky strategy—one that often leads to just sex. Or just sex whenever his relationship is on the rocks.

Sure, you "emphasized" that you don't want casual sex—a statement that probably buzzed on papery little wings around the guy's ear before getting squished by his sex drive. Women evolved to be the Missouri of human sexuality—Missouri's nickname being "the Show-Me State." Women protect themselves by being what evolutionary psychologists Martie Haselton and David Buss call "commitment skeptics"— holding off having sex while seeking evidence of a man's willingness to invest (beyond an evening of semi-naked fun in a desk chair). As for men, research by psychologists Russell Clark and Elaine Hatfield confirms what most of us have observed numerous times: As long as a woman has a moderate level of attractiveness, a man's likely to want to have sex with her. In other words, while women are the sexual gatekeepers, for men, there is no gate. There isn't even a fence.

Sure, it's disappointing when a man you're picturing in the "future boyfriend" slot just wants to have sex. But feeling insulted about that is like my feeling insulted that my 5-pound dog tries to have sex with

GENERAL my arm—apparently some sort of odd biological imperative that my arm and I don't take personally.

To move on, turn this into a learning experience so you can protect yourself in the future. This starts with admitting that you got sucked in not because of something this guy did but because you let ego and emotion do the driving while reason was gagged, hogtied, and left for dead in the trunk. Accept that it's your responsibility to vet whether a situation would ultimately work for you instead of leaving the guardianship of your needs to others—others whose agenda may not match yours.

Yes, I'm hinting that many men will tell a woman just about anything to get sex.

(Just ask a man whose grandma has died suddenly and tragically … dozens of times.)

FERAL HUGS After casual sex, why do some men spend all night spooning and cuddling? This just happened for the second time, and it really messes with my head. My nesting inclination kicks in, and I start fantasizing about engagement rings. And I'm not some needy little thing.

—Confused It's like when the plane's landing gear is malfunctioning and a person grabs the hand of the stranger seated next to them … not because that person means something to them but because it feels better than possibly dying alone in a fiery explosion.

Casual sex, like grain alcohol and ladies' clingy knitwear, isn't for everyone. In research by anthropologist John Marshall Townsend, many women who just wanted sex from a guy still woke up the morning after with worries like "Does he care about me?" and "Is sex all he was after?" This is perhaps because of the release of the bonding hormone oxytocin—upon orgasm or from intense cuddling. (In men, testosterone goes all defensive lineman, tackling the oxytocin and blocking it from getting to its receptor.) Understanding this may lead you to rethink hooking up. At the very least, you should take precautions for safe sex— like asking "Where's the fire escape?" and telling a guy about the tender talk you need immediately afterward … such as "You can let yourself out" and "Don't forget to leave the parking pass in my mailbox."

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will soon be escaping—or maybe "graduating" is the right word—from your interesting trials and tribulations. In honor of this cathartic transition, I suggest you consider doing a ritual. It can be a full-fledged ceremony you conduct with somber elegance, or a five-minute psychodrama you carry out with boisterous nonchalance. It will be a celebration of your ability to outlast the forces of chaos and absurdity, and an expression of gratitude for the resources you've managed to call on in the course of your struggle. To add an extra twist, you could improvise a rowdy victory prayer that includes this quote adapted from Nietzsche: "I throw roses into the abyss and say: 'Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me.'"

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I think it'll be better if you don't engage in much sacrifice, compromise, or surrender in the next two weeks. Normally they are valuable tools to have at your disposal, but for now they may tend to be counterproductive. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you need to be more commanding than usual, more confident in your vision of how to take action with maximum integrity. It's time for you to draw deeper from the source of your own power, and express it with extra grace and imagination.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Drug expert Jonathan P. Caulkins estimates that Americans are stoned on marijuana for more than 288 million hours every week. A U.N. report on global drug use concluded that Canadians consume weed at a similar rate. Among Europeans, Italians are number one and the French are fourth. But I encourage you to avoid contributing to these figures for the next twelve to fourteen days. In my astrological opinion, it's time to be as sober and sensible and serious as you ever get. You have the chance to make unprecedented progress on practical matters through the power of your pure reasoning and critical thinking.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): "To look at a thing hard and straight and seriously—to fix it." Aries author Henry James said he wanted to do that on a regular basis. He didn't want to be "arbitrary" or "mechanical" in his efforts. I invite you to make this perspective one of your specialties in the coming weeks, Aries. Pick out a tweaked situation you'd like to mend or a half-spoiled arrangement you want to heal. Then pour your pure intelligence into it. Investigate it with a luminous focus. Use all your tough and tender insight to determine what needs to be transformed, and transform it.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I propose a Friends Cleanse. It would be a three-week-long process of reviewing your support team and web of connections. If you feel up for the challenge, start this way: Take inventory of your friendships and alliances. If there are any that have faded or deteriorated, make a commitment to either fix them or else phase them out. Here's the second stage of the Friends Cleanse: Give dynamic boosts to those relationships that are already working well. Take them to the next level of candor and synergy.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you carry out the assignments I recommend, you will boost your charisma, your chutzpah, and your creativity. Here's the first one: Try something impossible every day. Whether or not you actually accomplish it isn't important. To merely make the effort will shatter illusions that are holding you back. Here's your second assignment: Break every meaningless rule that tempts you to take yourself too seriously. Explore the art of benevolent mischief. Here's the third: Clear out space in your fine mind by shedding one dogmatic belief, two unprovable theories, and three judgmental opinions. Give yourself the gift of fertile emptiness.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the 16th century, roguish French author Francois Rabelais published a comic novel entitled The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. In the course of his satirical story, a learned teacher named Epistemon takes a visit to the afterlife and back. While on the other side, he finds famous dead heroes employed in humble tasks. Alexander the Great is making a meager living from mending old socks. Cleopatra is hawking onions in the streets. King Arthur cleans hats and Helen of Troy supervises chambermaids. In accordance with the Rabelaisian quality of your current astrological aspects, Scorpio, I invite you to meditate on the reversals you would like to see in your own life. What is first that maybe should be last? And vice versa? What's enormous that should be small? And vice versa? What's proud that should be humble? And vice versa?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There's no better time than now to ask the big question or seek the big opening or explore the big feeling. People are not only as receptive as they will ever be, they are also more likely to understand what you really mean and what you are trying to accomplish. Which door has been forever locked? Which poker face hasn't blinked or flinched in many moons? Which heart of darkness hasn't shown a crack of light for as long as you can remember? These are frontiers worth revisiting now, when your ability to penetrate the seemingly impenetrable is at a peak.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The writer Donald Barthelme once came to see the artist Elaine de Kooning in her New York studio. Midway through the visit, loud crashes and bangs disturbed the ceiling above them. De Kooning wasn't alarmed. "Oh, that's Herbert thinking," she said, referring to the metal sculptor Herbert Ferber, who worked in a studio directly above hers. This is the kind of thinking I'd love to see you unleash in the coming days, Capricorn. Now is not a time for mild, cautious, delicate turns of thought, but rather for vigorous meditations, rambunctious speculations, and carefree musings. In your quest for practical insight, be willing to make some noise. (The story comes from Barthelme's essay "Not-Knowing.")

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sidney Lumet was an American director who worked on 50 films, including 14 that were nominated for Academy Awards, like Network and Dog Day Afternoon. Actors loved to work with him, even though he was a stickler for thorough rehearsals. Intense preparation, he felt, was the key to finding the "magical accidents" that allow an actor's highest artistry to emerge. I advocate a similar strategy for you, Aquarius. Make yourself ready, through practice and discipline, to capitalize fully on serendipitous opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs when they arrive.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too," said American writer Josh Billings. I agree with him. It's not impossible to solve the mystery of who you are, but it can be hard work that requires playful honesty, cagey tenacity, and an excellent sense of humor. The good news is that these days it's far less difficult and inconvenient than usual for you to deepen your self-understanding. So take advantage! To get started, why don't you interview yourself?

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tMONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-100 Dept. No. 1 Judge Leslie Halligan NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of KALEE N. SCOLATTI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kathleen Vavrovsky, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Dirk A. Williams, Crowley Fleck PLLP, PO Box 7099, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 31st day of May, 2015. /s/ Kathleen Vavrovsky Personal Representative of the Estate of Kalee N. Scolatti, deceased

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT CAUSE NO.: DP15-72 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DANNY LEE PAYNE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. A written statement of the claim indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, and the amount claimed may be filed with the Clerk of the Fourth District Court, Missoula County, or mailed, return receipt requested to the attorney for the Personal Representative at the following address: ESTATE OF DANNY LEE PAYNE c/o David C. Payne, 4438 Devonshire Drive, Bountiful, Utah 84010 Dated this 29th day of May, 2015 /s/ David Payne, Personal Representaive MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-66 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN

THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF AVIS MAE GRAUMAN, 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 be mailed to MARCUS J. GRAUMAN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Charles W. Schuyler, PC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 18th day of May, 2015. /s/ Marcus J. Grauman, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-15-74 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN FAULKNER LAINE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to GAYLE McKELLAR, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 27th day of April, 2015. /s/ Gayle McKeller c/o Worden Thane P.C. PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806-4747 WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Gail M. Haviland MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 4 Cause No.: DP-15-104 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: MICHAEL ALLEN ILLI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been ap-

MNAXLP pointed 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 JoAnn S. Illi (a/k/a JoAnn S. Hogan), the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 3rd day of June, 2015. /s/ JoAnn S. Illi, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ R. Nick Jones Attorneys for JoAnn S. Illi, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 4 Cause No.: DP-15-76 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: LAVERNE E. REUTHER, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Paulette Docktor, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 2nd day of June, 2015. /s/ Paulette Docktor, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ R. Nick Jones Attorneys for Paulette Docktor, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP15-93 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VALARIE V. NOONEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-

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PUBLIC NOTICES named estate on May 20.

2015. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John Nooney, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2373 Aetna, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Cause No. DP13-69, NOTICE TO CREDITORS, IN RE THE TESTATE ESTATE OF ARVIN M. KLEPPEN, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Michael J. Wolf has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael J. Wolf, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o MacDonald Law Office, PLLC, P.O. Box 9222, Missoula, Montana 59807-9222 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED May 28, 2015. /s/MacDonald Law Office, PLLC by Spencer T. MacDonald, Attorney for Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Cause No. DP15-75, Dept. No. 2, NOTICE TO CREDITORS, IN RE THE TESTATE ESTATE OF VERNON W. LANE, DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jacquelyn Lane has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Jacquelyn Lane, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o MacDonald Law Office, PLLC, P.O. Box 9222, Missoula, Montana 59807-9222 or filed with the Clerk of the

above-entitled Court.

DATED June 3, 2015. /s/MacDonald Law Office, PLLC by Spencer T. MacDonald, Attorney for Personal Representative.

Notice of Public Hearing The Homeword Board of Directors will hold their quarterly board meeting on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, from 3 – 5 pm at 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 114. This meeting is open to the public. For further information, contact Kellie Battaglia, Homeword Operations and Program Director, at 406532-4663 x12. If you have comments, please mail them to: Homeword, 1535 Liberty Lane, Ste 116A, Missoula, MT, 59808.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/26/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200512469 BK-753 Pg-413, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Johna B Koontz was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mountain West Bank, NA was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 16 and the Southwest one-half of Lot 17 (which said Southwest one-half is a strip lying adjacent to and along the entire lot line common to Lots 16 and 17), all in Block 54, South Missoula, according to the official plat thereof in Book 1 of Plats at Page 19, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference: Book 28 of Micor Records at Page 67. By written instrument beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to The Bank Of New York Mellon fka The Bank Of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2005-34CB, Mortgage Pass-through certificates, series 2005-34CB. 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

MNAXLP 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 04/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 9, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $186,372.30. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $118,400.00, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 24, 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

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www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 8193.20327) 1002.280005-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 4, 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 17 OF CORNERSTONE PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF Jessica Seaich, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CMI, LTD, a Montana Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 8, 1999 and recorded September 13, 1999 in Volume 595, Page 1431 under Document No. 199924939.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), a United States 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 $246.73, 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 December 12, 2014 is $80,019.90 principal, interest at the rate of 2.00% totaling $2,048.73, escrow advances of $3,074.37, suspense balance of $-251.98 and other fees and expenses advanced of $39,432.81, plus accruing interest at the rate of $4.38 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 asis, 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: March 27, 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 27th day of March, 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 Seterus V. Seaich 42008.853 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 28, 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 18A OF SUPPLEMENT TO PARKSIDE ADDITION, BLOCK 145, LOTS 15A AND 18A, AN AMENDED PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Darek J. Nalle, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 28, 2013 recorded January 31, 2013 in Book 907, Page 1123 under Document no.

201302157. The beneficial interest is currently held by Stearns Lending, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of

PUBLIC NOTICES $1,217.76, beginning October 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 $266,840.61 principal, interest at the rate of 3.250% now totaling $4,315.97, late charges in the amount of $303.56, escrow advances of $2,923.89, and other fees and expenses advanced of $649.02, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.76 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 in-

clude 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 asis, 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

MNAXLP 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: March 23, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 23rd day of March,

2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, 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/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Loan Care V Nalle 41883.540 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Name of Deceased: Kathleen F Carlson Court of Probate Case: Missoula County Case Number: DP15-99 I, Christopher Carlson, have been appointed personal representative for the estate of the abovenamed deceased. If any person or organization has a valid claim against said estate they must serve a copy of the claim upon me at the address below. The claim must include the basis of the claim, name and address of claimant. Creditors must

make claim within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred.

Date of first publication: June 4, 2015. Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen F Carlson 1015 Taylor St, Missoula, MT 59802 406-370-3239 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Name of Deceased:

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 42, 69, 102, 136, 273, 568 & 629. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, June 22, 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, June 25, 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.

Kevin G. Edwards Court of Probate Case: Missoula County Case Number: DP15-61 I, Stacey Erickson, have been appointed personal representative for the estate of the above-named deceased. If any person or organization has a valid claim against said estate they must serve a copy of the claim upon me at the address below. The claim must

include the basis of the claim, name and address of claimant. Creditors must make claim within four months from the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred.

Date of first publication: May 28, 2015. Personal Representative for the Estate of Kevin G. Edwards 6121 Avon Lane, Missoula, MT 59803 406-240-4645

CLARK FORK STORAGE

Sherlock Storage

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 12, 81, 103. 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 6/15/2015 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 6/18/2015 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.

Will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units:

5,8,14,15,16,19,36, 39,42,50,51,54,55,61, 62,63,65,67,70,91,99.

This will be a Live Auction at 5pm on Friday June 26th, 2015 at 2603 Industry Rd, Missoula Montana. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales Final. Units are sold in their entirety. Buyers to remove all items from each unit. Bring your trucks and trailers and be ready to buy!

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 MIRANDA• Miranda is a 5-year-old fe-

male Pit Bull. She needs an experienced home because she never learned boundaries. She would do best in a home without young children due to not knowing how to play gentle. Miranda seems to want to play with other dogs but needs an owner willing to train her and teach her how to make introductions successful.

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BRADFORD•Bradford is a 3-year-old male Pit Bull mix. His goofball personality keeps everyone entertained. He is a rather playful boy but will react if he feels threatened by another dominant dog. In the shelter, he is a ball of energy.

Once you get him out on a walk, Bradford has great manners and a really happy, silly disposition. He would do well in a single dog home.

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BOSCOE•Apso mix. He is a rather mellow fel-

low and gets along well with everyone. His comical underbite is sure to put a smile on anyone's 2330 South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) face. Boscoe is scheduled for a dental on Thursday, and will then be ready for a forever family. 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 9:00am-12:00pm (Sat)

JAZZY•Jazzy is a 5-7 year-old female Tortie. She is a delightful adult cat. She loves to lounge about and be cuddled. Shelter staff call her "Jazz Hands" because every morning she reaches her paws out of her kennel to try to get your attention. Jazzy has been at the shelter for 6 months and is very ready to find that special someone to give her a relaxing and loving life.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

MARTA•Marta is a 10+ year-old female Chocolate/Lynx Point Siamese. She's a lazy old lady, who likes to lounge about and has obviously enjoyed many treats. She has a craggy meow and a someone cantankerous personality. Marta would love a quiet home that would allow her to continue her lovely lazy ways.

HOLMES• Holmes is a 2-year-old male Gray Tabby. He is the class clown of all cats and would love to spend hours entertaining you. He's a feisty young boy who gets along with most other cats, loves catnip, and is always game for string toys. Holmes does not like dogs and would be best in a home with no small children.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 NOLA• Nola wants everyone to know that

June is Adopt-a-Cat Month and that the Humane Society is celebrating by waiving adult cat adoption fees when adopters sign the Paw Pledge.

Nola is very friendly and likes to spend her time being near her people. Some of Nola's favorite activities include being brushed, relaxing in laps and eating snacks.

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SULLY• Sully is a rather debonair-looking gentleman who is looking for a quieter furrever home. He is declawed, meaning he should go to a home where he will be an indoor-only cat. While there were some issues in his previous home with the other cat, Sully does fine with dogs. Join us at the Dairy Queen on Higgins this Saturday (June 13th) from noon to 3 pm for an afternoon of adoptions and ice cream!

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

BETSY•Betsy is a gorgeous lady who was recently transferred to the Humane Society from another facility and she is excited to be in Missoula for Adopt-a-Cat Month. Betsy is a friendly gal who would love to have a home with plenty of toys and windows. Betsy enjoys pets and rubs and will purr her thanks to you. Come meet this beautiful girl today!

BROWNIE• Join the Humane Society at the Roxy at 7pm on Tuesday, June 16th for a free viewing of "The Paw Project," an inspiring film about one woman who started a movement that changed everything. Brownie enjoys treats and relaxing in the sun. She is looking for a loving Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store home that can give her plenty of pets and a warm www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 South Russell • North Reserve lap to snuggle on.

ROCKY•Rocky is a playful boy who is looking for an interactive home. Rocky loves playing with toy mice, toy balls and the laser pointer. The cat tree is also a favorite item that Rocky likes to perch and scratch on. Independent, friendly and active, this big boy is sure to let you know you are never alone. Rocky wants to make sure everyone is invited to a free viewing of ‘The Paw Project’ at the Roxy on Tuesday, June 16th at 7 pm.

REX• Rex has three important messages to share. First, he wants to let you know that his adoption fee will be waived during June’s Adopt-a-Cat month when his adopter signs the Paw Pledge. Second, he would love for everyone to join the Humane Society at the Roxy for "The Paw Project" viewing.

And third, Rex wants you to know what an awesome and adoptable cat he is (he likes to play, meow, purr and sometimes snuggle).

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RENTALS APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $575, N. Russell, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking.

GATEWEST 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $675, newer complex, near Broadway & Russell, DW, A/C, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1024 Stephens #13. 2 bed/1 bath, central location, DW, coinops, cat? $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1024 Stephens Ave. #14. 1 bed/1 bath, central location, coin-ops on site, cat? $625 Grizzly Property Management 5422060 1315 E. Broadway #11. 1 bed/1.5 bath, near University, coin-ops, storage, pet? $725.

Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1315 E. Broadway #7. 2 bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coinops, pet? $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1502 Ernest #3. 1 bed/1 bath, central location, W/D hookups, storage. $575 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1801 Howell #1. 2 bed/1 bath, W/D hookups, storage, pet? $775. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1918 Scott St. “B”. 2 bed/1 bath, Northside, coin-ops, storage. $725. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 1920 S. 14th St. “C” newer centrally located studio, W/D, AC, double garage $650. Grizzly Property Management 5422060

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE

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

2 bedroom, 1 bath, $705, quiet cul-de-sac, near Good Food Store, DW, coin-op laundry, offstreet parking, H/W/S/G paid.

No Pets, No Smoking.

GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $750, 62 and older community, third floor unit, elevator, coin-op laundry, free basic cable, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $795, Southside location, remodeled, w/d hookup, storage, carport, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $850, near Mount & S. Russell, DW, newer appliances, A/C, large closets, storage & off-street parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, $800, near Reserve Street, DW, microwave, W/D in unit, storage, carport, off-street parking, S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking.

GATEWEST 728-7333 2236 Foothills: 2 Bedroom, South Hills, Dishwasher, Hookups, Great views, Cat OK! $675. Garden City Property Management 549-6106. 1 year Costco membership.

2306 Hillview Ct. #1. 2 bed/1 bath, South Hills, W/D hookups, shared yard, storage. $600.

Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 442 Washington St. 1 bed/1 bath, downtown, coin-ops on site, cat? $725 Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 NOW LEASING! Mullan Reserve Apartments Rugged yet refined. Secluded yet convenient. Luxurious yet sustainable. Call for a free tour.

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MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-273-6034

DUPLEXES 505 Cooley: 3 Bedroom duplex, Pergo floors, 1 1/2 Baths, Small dog? $1195. Garden City Property Management 549-6106. 1 year Costco membership.

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SERVICES

REAL ESTATE

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HOMES

Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes. 369-0940 or 6426863 www.naturalhousebuilder.net Remodeling? Look to Hoyt Homes, Inc, Qualified, Experienced, Green Building Professional, Certified Lead Renovator.

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10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Lewis & Clark home. $250,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

11864 O’Keefe Creek. 5 bed, 3 bath on 20 acres. Daylight walkout lower level, decks & double garage. $382,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

2101 South 14th West. Remodeled 4 bed, 2 bath on corner lot.

Lower level has separate entrance, kitchen & bath. $239,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

1633 South 4th West. 1920’s 4 bed, 2 bath with all the modern components. Great front porch, fenced backyard & patio. $272,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

2227 West Kent. 2 bed, 1 bath ranch home with unfinished basement. Priced to sell! $129,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270 glasgow@montana.com

2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 2 Bath, South Hills Home. $220,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call

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223 West Kent. Secret Garden Retreat with 3 beds, 2 baths, hardwood floors, solarium and single garage. $297,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000.

2 4 0 - 7 6 5 3 . pat@properties2000.com 286 Speedway. 3 bed, 3.5 bath with spa, full finished basement & 2 car garage. $249,000.

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annierealtor@gmail.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $235,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5205 Skyview. 3 bed, 2 bath with river rock fireplace. $230,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor@gmail.com 5442 Prospect Drive. 4 bed, 3 bath in Grant Creek with lower level, deck & double garage.

Next to open space. $399,500.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 550 South Avenue East. 2 bed, 2 bath with full basement on 3 lots. $282,500. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 5312605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 5802 Longview Drive. South Hills Split Level. 4 bedroom, 2 bath, double car garage on 9,338 sf fenced lot. $215,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 - 5 8 1 6 annierealtor@gmail.com 601 Montana Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath on 3 lots in East Missoula.

Fenced yard, double garage & shop. $249,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 9250 Sharptail, East Missoula. 3 bed, 2 bath with walk-out basement. Huge yard & mountain views. $205,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7288270 glasgow@montana.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath on 5 acres with MIssion Mountain & Missoula Valley views. $385,000. Pat Mc-

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Cormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you Find Your Way Home.

Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Central Missoula 216 South Ave. West. Sunny and Sweet 3 bedroom home in a most convenient location and in great shape. $239,900 KD 2405227 porticorealestate.com FSBO: 1813 McDonald, 5 bedrooms plus bonus room, 2 bathrooms, hot tub, 2 car garage and fenced yard. Close to bus, parks, and schools. Lots of updates, see craigslist ad for details and pictures. $245,000. Erin 406-590-4396 Gardener’s Dream 1527 S. 4th West. Enormous lot, great for gardeners and very wonderful home and location too! $259,900. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Great Location 180 Burlington. Absolutely charming home with character, water-wise landscaping, beautiful location. $250,000. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com House hunting downtown? Stop by the Missoula Farmer’s Market. N. Higgins by the XXX’s. Sat. 8am-12:30pm. missoulafarmersmarket.com. Find us on Facebook.

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REAL ESTATE your home now is the time. The local inventory is relatively low and good houses are selling quickly. Let me help you Find Your Way Home. Please contact me David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Interested in real estate? Successfully helping buyers and sellers.

Please contact me, David Loewenwarter, Realtor, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES MONTANA PROPERTIES 406-241-3221 LOEWENWARTER.COM Natural Housebuilders and Terry Davenport Design, Inc. Building net zero energy custom homes using solar thermal and solar PV. 3690940 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 “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 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) 7282621. 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/ TOWNHOMES

$185,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula Real Estate 7 2 8 - 8 2 7 0 . glasgow@montana.com 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 5 4 6 - 5 8 1 6 . annierealtor@gmail.com 2101 Dearborn #40. Contemporary 3 bed, 2 bath on upper floor with community room & underground parking. $339,000.

Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. 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

LAND FOR SALE 1 acre building lot with incredible views. Mullan Road West. $115,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r d s 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 Alberton. Nice lot available. $25,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula. 728-8270 glasgow@montana.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 Edgewood. 3.53 acres on backside of Mount Jumbo. $79,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.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.com 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. $155,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, unzoned, 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 +/feet of Clark Fork River frontage. $495,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 531-3605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

"Sweet Freedom"--freestylin' it.

by Matt Jones

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 $235,000. KD 240-5227 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 @ 2396696, 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

ACROSS

1 Nullifies 11 Basketball hoop part 14 Savory bakery appetizers 15 Hungarian wine city 17 "Tommy" star 18 The heart's location?

19 Hard rain 20 Straddled 22 Service pieces 25 Prefix before pod or pub 26 Drake's genre, derisively 27 Target for some vacuum attachments 28 Henner of "Taxi" 30 Figure out 31 "Deliverance" piece 36 "Save us!"

37 Words before well or often 38 Lifelong 42 Head-of-the-line boast 45 Subway in a Duke Ellington tune 46 They chase in chase scenes 48 Tony with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy 50 Attacked on foot 51 Times long gone?

52 Upgrade from black-andwhite 56 Submission tape 57 NPR show covering journalism 58 "Solaris" author Stanislaw ___ 59 "Here goes nothing"

111 Pattee Canyon #20. 2 bed, 2 bath Maplewood Condo with 2 car garage. $160,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

531-2605 vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 2002 South 6th West. 2 bed, 2 bath ground-level, end unit with patio & single garage.

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REAL ESTATE

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. $339,900. Vickie

Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com

3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville Home.

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

Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or

$209,000.

BHHS

Montana

Properties. For more info call visit www.mindypalmer.com

1184 BENCH ROAD

1633 South 4th West • $278,000 1920's style 4 bed, 2 bath on new foundation with new roof, fenced yard, patio & covered front porch.

2014 BEST REAL ESTATE AGENT

575 Killdeer • $315,000

BETWEEN FLORENCE & STEVENSVILLE

• 5 bed, 3 bath ranchette • 2300 sq.ft. on 7.5 fenced acres • Hardwood floors, tile & granite countertops • Deck with mountain views • Hay barn, UG sprinklers & 2 car garage

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Pat McCormick Real Estate Broker Real Estate With Real Experience

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5 bedroom 2.5 bath home. Listen to the creek & enjoy outdoor recreation while minutes from town. Land features Grant Creek frontage, 6.3 acres mixed timber & meadows. $450,000 Contact Matt for more information 406-360-9023

FINANCIAL 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