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News Voices/Letters Coal, the age of innocence and abortion...............................................4 The Week in Review Metals US, Zombie Tools and public lands .................................6 Briefs Smurfit, Smell and Bear 726 ................................................................................6 Etc. Schweitzer goes bat-crap crazy ................................................................................7 News Charter-backed I-172 withdrawn, but could still set a precedent ........................8 News Veterans in Montana wrestle with VA deficiencies ................................................9 Opinion Lamenting the end to initiative season..........................................................10 Opinion Artisan cannabis could create a new market after legalization......................11 Feature Two middle-aged moms deliver balls-to-the-wall radio ..................................14
Arts & Entertainment Arts Brian Kevin searches for a young Hunter S. Thompson.......................................18 Music Spoonboy, Needlecraft and the Hard Working Americans ................................19 Books More reflection required in Frances Kuffel’s Love Sick.....................................20 Film Citizen Koch attempts to unravel dark money politics ........................................21 Film Mysterious photos come to life in Vivian Maier..................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ......................................................23 Munchies Elevating even the most mundane dish ......................................................24 Happiest Hour Family Pet Night..................................................................................26 8 Days a Week When the boss is away.........................................................................27 Mountain High Great Divide Mucker ..........................................................................33 Agenda Hunt for Treasure rummage sale.....................................................................34
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STREET TALK
by Cathrine L. Walters
Asked Tuesday, June 24, near the corner of Higgins and Broadway. Who’s your favorite comedy duo? Follow-up: What radio program gets you to most regularly tune in?
Greg Morris: “Tom and Jerry” and the everyday shenanigans they pulled off. Limerick listener: The local NPR station’s “Wait...Wait Don’t Tell Me!” on Sunday mornings.
Jared “Blue” Ross: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. If you’ve never seen the movie Neighbors you are missing out. Play ball! I listen to Sports Talk 1450. They talk generally about sports and cover local sports.
Dan Conner: Cheech and Chong. When they were crossing the border and the agent asks “How long have you boys been in Mexico for?” And one says “A day,” and the other says, “A week” and then decide, “A weekday!” College tunes: The music shows on KBGA, I like the variety there.
Kate Cluff: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. Obviously for the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin skit, but they hosted the Golden Globes last year and it was great. Public radio: I really like NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “RadioLab” and when I want something fun, “Pea Green Boat.”
Laura “LB” Barthrop: Adam Sandler and the chronic dude Peter Dante. They always talk about herb in a great way. Morning edition: “Free Beer and Hot Wings” on The Blaze weekday mornings. They always get my day started with informative news and a good laugh.
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We know better Coal was used in a long age of innocence and denial. Today we clearly know better—burning coal has negative side effects. What cannot be denied is it remains a powerful source of heat and energy. When I was a boy in Missoula there were several outlets for coal to heat homes. We had a coal furnace. I remember the smoke from coal fires was black and did not smell good. After almost 20 years, coal and wood were banned from the city limits to help promote healthy breathing. Also the tee-pee burners were outlawed. Last week I went over a long coal train on an overpass by the pulp mill. With the proposed building of Pacific sea ports—exclusively built to accommodate coal shipped to China—it was easy to visualize endless coal trains going west. It’s an ugly and obvious attempt for polluted profits from those at the top of the idea. We really do know better now. Gary LeDeau Arlee
A choice now You may have seen a TV ad in which I call out Congressman Steve Daines’ antiwomen voting record. The story I share in the ad is very personal, one that may make some people uncomfortable, but it’s one that has shaped the way I look at how decisions affecting women’s health are made. Too often, rape survivors are silenced. We are silenced through the act of violence itself. We are silenced by our friends or family who don’t believe us or call us “martyrs” for daring to speak out. We are silenced by a judicial system that more often than not puts the victim on trial and not the criminal. We are silenced by fear, shame and social stigma. We are also silenced by politicians who stand in the way of freedom of choice. Congressman Daines opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest. He would even make rape victims into criminals if they choose to have an abortion. As a survivor, I am profoundly offended by the idea of a government official standing in the way of a decision as deeply personal as that. I, and the majority of Americans, believe that no gov-
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ernment should have the power to tell its citizens what they may or may not do with their bodies. No government should have the power to tie the hands of trained, licensed medical professionals to provide care. The American Medical Association “strongly condemn(s) any interference by the government or other third parties that causes a physician to compromise his or her medical judgment as to what information or treatment is in the best interest of the patient.”
“Even if the abortion bans Daines supports included exceptions for victims of rape or incest, it still wouldn’t be enough to protect girls like me.”
Congressman Daines doesn’t share those beliefs. He has voted repeatedly for some of the most aggressive anti-choice legislation in decades and sponsored a socalled “personhood” bill, which would grant all fertilized eggs full legal and constitutional rights, effectively criminalizing abortion. These personhood bills could make some forms of birth control illegal, open up miscarriages to criminal investigation, and prohibit in-vitro fertilization. You may recall Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin’s remarks about abortion and pregnancy resulting from a “legitimate rape.” Daines tried to distance himself from Akin’s position, yet he still voted in
support of the bill in question with no exception for victims of rape or incest. In 2012, “Daines noted that his position is the same as the national Republican Party’s platform: that abortion should be legal only to save the life of the mother.” I was only 14 years old when I was raped. Like many other victims, I was ashamed and afraid of what people would say about me if they found out about it. Even if the abortion bans Daines supports included exceptions for victims of rape or incest, it still wouldn’t be enough to protect girls like me. Rape or incest exceptions usually include a police reporting requirement. Rape and sexual assault are some of the most underreported crimes in our nation with fewer than 35 percent reported to police (according to the U.S. Department of Justice National Crime Victimization Survey.) I was too afraid to tell even my closest friends or family; the idea of walking into a police station and telling a stranger behind bulletproof glass about what an older boy had forced me to do was too much to bear. These additional reporting requirements are an attempt to judge and shame women for being victims of violent crimes. I didn’t have a choice about what happened to me when I was raped, but I should have a choice about what happens to me now. Montana women deserve the freedom and respect to make their own choices about their bodies. We deserve better than politicians deciding what we may do with our bodies. Abortion is a deeply personal decision for any woman. We are not in her shoes, and those decisions should be left to the woman with the counsel of her family, her doctor and her faith— not her congressman or senator. Telling this story publicly took a lot of courage, but I’m not alone. One in four of your friends and family is also carrying a story of their own about sexual violence. Many of these stories are never uttered aloud. Think of those loved ones when you vote for our next senator because the elected leaders who share—or don’t share—these values are going to be deciding on laws that affect real people’s lives. Melissa Barcroft Helena
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WEEK IN REVIEW
VIEWFINDER
by Cathrine L. Walters
Wednesday, June 18 Missoula-based company Metals US announces plans to expand its metals-processing operations and create 120 jobs as it develops new technology for use in mining, water processing and environmental remediation.
Thursday, June 19 The Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office releases the name of the pilot killed in a Tuesday airplane crash at the Lost Trail Pass ski area. Michael Blume, 62, was flying an antique Grumman G-21 Goose when he went down.
Friday, June 20 Nine days after the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole denies clemency for Barry Beach, Centurion Ministries’ James McCloskey, who has been fighting on Beach’s behalf, issues a response. McCloskey laments the board’s failure to “remove their heads from the sand” and see the reality of the case.
Saturday, June 21 Zombie Tools hosts its sixth annual solstice party, complete with local bands, spirits and brews, and Zombie Tools co-owner Max McCarter slices through 36 beer cans with a Zombie-made Apokatana blade. (If you missed the shindig, there’s video posted on the Zombie Tools Facebook page.)
Sunday, June 22 The Missoula Osprey lose their fourth game in a row and remain winless at home after falling 6-2 to the Helena Brewers. A bright spot for the Osprey is the performance of southpaw reliever Wagner Mateo, who pitches two scoreless innings.
Monday, June 23 Missoula County Justice of the Peace Amy Blixt sets bail at $100,000 for Coty James Low, 34, who was arrested Saturday for allegedly attempting to kidnap a 10-year-old girl from Downtown Lions Park.
Tuesday, June 24 Sen. John Walsh introduces legislation to prevent Congress from selling public lands managed by the federal government. The bill comes in response to an initiative passed by the U.S. House in April authorizing such transfers, a measure Walsh calls “as radical as it is wrong.”
World Cup fans at the Top Hat cheer on Sunday afternoon after Team USA player Clint Dempsey scores a goal giving the U.S. a 2-1 lead over Portugal.
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Suit pending against DEQ The Missoula City-County Health Department last week authorized filing a lawsuit against the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. If all goes as planned, the suit will seek to stop DEQ from permitting the new owners of the shuttered Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. property from discharging destructive levels of contaminants into the Clark Fork. “This basically takes us back in time in terms of pollution, and this river, and this valley, and this entire basin, that we’ve worked for decades to clean up,” City-County Health Department Director Ellen Leahy told the board when citing local rationale for moving ahead with the lawsuit against the state. The health board’s unanimous decision to file suit comes in response to DEQ’s March announcement that it would grant the shuttered paper mill’s new owners, M2 Green, a wastewater discharge permit allowing the company or its successors to pump contaminants into the Clark Fork that twice exceed those currently emitted by Missoula’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. “Somebody could bring in an agribusiness, industrial agricultural operation, manufacturing, processing,
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chickens, pigs, you name it,” Missoula Valley Water Quality District Supervisor Peter Nielsen said in an interview after last week’s health board meeting. “There’s lots of places in the country where the rules are tightening down on industries like that. This would be the place where it’s remaining loose.” The Clark Fork Coalition and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are also poised to join the lawsuit. M2 Green did not respond to requests for comment. DEQ cited pending litigation when declining to discuss the permit. The pending lawsuit constitutes the latest development in the former paper mill’s saga. In 2011, M2 Green, a subsidiary of the Green Investment Group Inc., purchased the 3,200-acre property, stating its intention to erect a wind turbine manufacturing operation there. To date, that plan has not come to fruition, and M2 Green owes more than $460,000 in property taxes to Missoula County. In August 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency found that the byproduct of decades of papermaking at the site—contaminants such as arsenic, dioxins and furans—remain in the soil and groundwater. In 2013, the EPA proposed designating the property a Superfund site. County officials say such a listing is es-
sential to ensure those responsible for the contamination are forced to pay for the remediation. The earliest possible Superfund listing would be this fall. Jessica Mayrer
Wildlife
Griz 726 cited in lawsuit Nearly two years ago, Grizzly Bear 726 vanished in the Centennial Mountains along the Montana-Idaho border, leaving behind little evidence as to his fate. But the state of his radio collar—sliced off and stashed under the bank of a creek—along with a .308 rifle cartridge recovered nearby led some bear advocates to assume the worst. Now, four environmental groups are citing 726’s disappearance in a push to halt summer sheep grazing by a federal agricultural research station. WildEarth Guardians, the Western Watersheds Project, the Gallatin Wildlife Association and Cottonwood Environmental Law Center filed suit in federal court June 23 demanding the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station scrap plans to graze sheep near known grizzly habitat on the fringes of Yellowstone National Park. Among other allegations, the groups maintain that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by
[news] issuing a “legally inadequate” biological opinion. That opinion, released last month, says the station’s grazing activity is unlikely to jeopardize the existence of grizzlies due to a lack of reported encounters between bears and humans in the area. The groups refute that position based on field diary entries from the sheep station recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The entries list several incidents from 2007 and 2008 involving grizzly bears on the station’s West Summer allotment; two of those entries state sheep station personnel were chased by bears. “It’s certainly alarming that the Fish and Wildlife Service has disregarded previous grizzly bear/human encounters,” says CELC Executive Director John Meyer. “Now it’s no longer the grizzly bears that are at risk. It’s actual human lives. That changes the game.” As for Griz 726, Meyer believes the bear’s disappearance provides context in the suit. When CELC and others challenged deficiencies in a prior biological opinion last year, 726 escaped mention due to lack of information. But another document obtained by the plaintiffs—a heavily redacted law enforcement report by FWS from July 2013—sheds new light on the bear’s case. According to the investigation, the two sheep station herders present near 726’s last known location didn’t return to work the following year, closed out their bank accounts and changed their phone numbers. The report also states both were “supposedly reported to the Department of Homeland Security for breaching their contract, a violation of their visa to the U.S.” “It casts a long shadow over the operations at the sheep station,” Meyer says. He feels the groups have a compelling case to halt grazing at least for this summer, “until a new biological opinion is prepared.” Alex Sakariassen
City life
What’s that smell? In the middle of May, Debby Florence began noticing a disturbing smell in her Northside neighborhood. “I became concerned, because I thought it smelled like natural gas,” Florence says. “My neighbors noticed it, too.” In the days that followed, the smell came and went. Some nights the odor was so powerful that it woke Florence up. She worried that it indicated contaminants in the air that could affect her and her 12-year-old son. Florence reported her concerns to NorthWestern Energy, which investigated. Despite receiving roughly 20 similar complaints from North and Westside residents during the past several weeks, company spokeswoman Claudia Rapkoch says NorthWestern hasn’t found a problem in its local delivery lines. In response to the complaints—Westsiders as recently as June 14 reported detecting an aroma akin to
propane or natural gas in the neighborhood—the Missoula Fire Department and the City-County Health Department are working to identify the odor and its origins. Missoula Air Quality Specialist Ben Schmidt says thus far they don’t have a definitive source. “Chasing odors is really difficult,” he says. Investigators have hypothesized that vapors from Emerald Services, an oil storage and recycling facility on Phillips Street, are responsible for some of the complaints, says Missoula Fire Marshall Gordy Hughes. “The crews have been on several calls there as of late,” he says. “One that keeps coming in with the description of possible natural gas odor...We have been receiving other calls
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of chemical odors in the area that were traced back to the recycling facility, Emerald.” When asked whether Emerald is the culprit, Schmidt says that during recent visits to the facility, he’s noted only a “normal” oily smell. “I actually didn’t find anything that would be considered a public nuisance, as far as odors go,” Schmidt says. Susan Thoman, from Emerald’s corporate office in Seattle, acknowledges that the Missoula facility received an “odiferous load” of oil in April. “It was isolated,” Thoman says. “And we dealt with that immediately.” Aside from that, Thoman hasn’t seen any evidence to indicate the recycling facility is responsible for the ongoing complaints. In light of the unanswered questions, Schmidt says the health department will continue investigating. If the department finds an environmental health problem, it has authority to require corrective action. The challenge comes from definitively pinpointing the source. As the health department works to track the odor, Florence and her neighbors will be left wondering what, exactly, is blowing through their neighborhood. “I don’t know what’s safe and what’s not safe,” Florence says. Jessica Mayrer
Early on Saturday afternoon, “Gangsta’s Paradise” echoes through the base of Marshall Mountain. Eighteen elite cross-country riders are about to begin a junior men’s Union Cycliste International World Series crosscountry bike race at the annual Missoula XC competition. These riders, all between 17 and 18 years old, have come from across the country and from abroad to compete for world-ranking points. Among the pack is Jose Gerardo Ulloa, a 17-year-old from Mexico. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot of the kids in the Olympics,” says Ben Horan, a race official watching from the deck of the former ski hill’s lodge, along with a small group of spectators. When the starting bell sounds and the riders push off, spectators fan out in search of the best vantage. Horan points out a spot high up on the mountain where the course briefly splits and riders are allowed either to make a harrowing jump—the A-Line—or take a safer, slower tack on the B-Line. Observers hike up, paralleling and occasionally crossing the 5-kilometer course. Signs on trees indicate the names of ski runs—Ambush, for example—that are now overgrown with young pines. At the A-Line, there’s a small crowd of volunteers, spectators and riders’ parents waiting for racers to pass. The first to arrive is wearing a green and red Mexico jersey. It’s Ulloa, and he makes the 5-foot A-Line jump look easy. Landen Beckner, the sole Montanan competing in his category, comes next. After the riders pass for the last time, spectators scramble back down the mountain just in time to watch Ulloa cross the finish line in first. Speaking through his coach and translator, Ziranda Madrigal, Ulloa is excited and gracious. He came all the way from Guadalajara to spend one hour, eight minutes and twenty-four seconds riding Marshall Mountain. He seems to think it was worth it. As the winner, he receives an elk mount. Ulloa holds it up proudly, but Madrigal has some reservations. “It’s going to be difficult to get in the plane,” he says. Ted McDermott
ETC. Brian Schweitzer’s flap-happy mouth landed him in more than the usual peck of trouble last week. After the National Journal printed a lengthy profile of Montana’s bolo-festooned ex-governor, the public exploded with outrage over a pair of indelicate remarks he’d made about Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Pundits were crawling over each other to declare Schweitzer’s supposed 2016 presidential bid officially dead. Even we posed the question whether the gaffe would stop a potential campaign before it ever started. Upon further reflection, however, we’re not entirely convinced this latest foot-in-mouth caper was as damaging as it was made out to be. Yes, Schweitzer’s metaphor involving Feinstein “standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees” was crass. Yes, his assertion that Cantor’s “effeminate mannerisms” trigger his “gaydar” was random, bizarre and insulting. But was either comment all that shocking coming from a man who told a reporter in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s family came “from a polygamy commune in Mexico,” who accused Republican legislators in 2011 of looking “bat-crap crazy,” who had his driver pull a U-turn on a fivelane highway in the Flathead with an Indy reporter in the car just to look at tractors? If anything about the recent kerfuffle was mildly surprising, it was the fact that Schweitzer apologized via Facebook for what he admitted were “stupid and insensitive remarks.” The post attracted 311 comments at last count. Most were what you’d expect: justifiably pissed-off people declining—in many cases with profanity—to accept the apology. A few broke the trend, however, thanking Schweitzer for owning up to his carelessness and even lauding his usual candor. In a world of Beltway politicians and presidential dynasties, people obviously see something different in Schweitzer. Despite the ridiculousness of his political theater, Montanans still talk about the time he wielded VETO branding irons on the Capitol steps, the time he blasted targets with an AR-15 or the time he cruised around New York City handing out Montana-made products. His mouth runs, sometimes to unfortunate places, but his statements were hardly the biggest scandal to hit a campaign trail. Schweitzer’s cantankerousness, his unpredictability, his complete lack of filter all fascinate the public in a way few other politicians do. He may not have much of a shot in 2016, but to say last week’s comments are a game-changing gaffe is bat-crap crazy.
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Corporate initiative Charter withdrew I-172, but has it set a precedent? by Ted McDermott
On June 13, proponents of Initiative 172 were confident they would get at least 24,175 Montanans to sign their petitions, beat the state’s June 20 signature-gathering deadline and have their proposal placed on voters’ ballots in November. Five days later, however, the initiative’s sponsors ended their campaign and withdrew I-172. This sudden and surprising turn of events came as a relief to those who had opposed the controversial ballot measure, ar-
In March, Charter responded by submitting I-172 for the Montana Secretary of State’s approval. The measure asked Montana voters to do what the courts would not: reduce the company’s tax burden retroactively to 2006 and in perpetuity. In so doing, the measure would have cut the state’s property tax fund by $65 million and by an estimated $7.2 million per year going forward, according to the Montana Office of Budget and Project Planning. After the
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Two days before the state’s signature-gathering deadline, Charter Communications withdrew a ballot initiative that would have significantly reduced its tax burden. While many consider the initiative’s withdrawal a victory for taxpayers, some fear the precedent it could set.
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guing that it represented a dangerous corporate perversion of the initiative process. But the fight over the future of that process is far from over. The sponsor of I-172 was Charter Communications, a Connecticut-based company that provides telephone, internet and cable to some 5.7 million customers in 29 states. Last year, after purchasing Optimum from Bresnan, Charter became the primary provider of these services in Montana. Soon after, Charter sued the state in an effort to have its tax classification revised. Rather than being considered a telecommunications services company, as the Montana Department of Revenue classified the company, Charter argued it should be assessed as both a cable television system and a telecommunications company. The distinction was significant. It would mean a dramatic reduction in the company’s tax burden—and in the state’s tax revenue. Charter won the argument in District Court, but the Montana Supreme Court overturned that decision in early December of last year and ordered the company to pay what it owed.
Secretary of State’s office approved the initiative for signature gathering in May, various critics of the measure emerged. Foremost among them was Eric Feaver of the Montana Education Association and the Montana Federation of Teachers. “It’s pretty obvious to see what Charter’s doing here,” Feaver says. “It’s trying to buy its tax liability and shift its obligation to you and me and every other property taxpayer in the state of Montana. That ought to outrage everybody.” Online, a movement called FU 172 emerged to drum up opposition to the initiative. In an atypical trio of editorials, the Billings Gazette urged its readers not to support the initiative. Feaver and the MEAMFT sought to challenge the “legal sufficiency” of I-172, but the state Supreme Court ruled the measure could proceed. Opposition to I-172 arose not only from concerns about property taxes but also about the precedent it would set. Montana has allowed voters to pass state law through the initiative process since 1906, then intended to allow citizens to circumvent a state legislature beholden to corporate interests and unresponsive to voter demands.
“Over the years, the initiative process has been an avenue for, basically, citizens to reform the political process when the legislative process is controlled by economic interests,” says C.B. Pearson, a policy consultant who has worked on a number of citizens’ initiative campaigns in Montana. While those economic interests have periodically interfered in the initiative process, Charter’s attempt to enlist voters in a campaign to overturn a Supreme Court decision and reduce its tax burden struck some as an unprecedented abuse. “I have never heard ... of a specific institution, organization, corporation or individual seeking to have their tax liability amended downward by a vote of the people,” Feaver says. “I mean, this is a totally unprecedented act. The only way to look at this is, well, if Charter can actually get away with spending a gazillion dollars qualifying this petition for the ballot and then is able to convince voters that, somehow or another, it shouldn’t pay the taxes it’s required by law to pay, and if that passes, well then what’s to prevent other corporate bodies from doing the same thing?” Charter proved unsuccessful in its effort. On June 18, Charter and the Department of Revenue reached an agreement that ended the initiative campaign, collected most of Charter’s disputed back taxes and preserved the Supreme Court’s ruling on Charter’s tax classification. The state did agree to refund $9 million in protested taxes paid between 2010-2013 and to reduce back taxes owed from 20072009 to $8.3 million from nearly $16.5 million. According to Mike Kadas, director of the Department of Revenue, the agreement was a victory for the state. Sarah Cobler Leow of the Montana Budget and Policy Center also welcomed the settlement, attributing it “undoubtedly” to the public outcry against I-172. Though I-172 was withdrawn, the involvement of special interests in the initiative process will likely continue. “So far we’ve been lucky,” Pearson says, “that not a lot of bad policy—economic policy—has advanced in Montana through the initiative process.” Opponents of I-172 argue, though, that it took more than luck to stop the measure. “Had nobody challenged Charter from the get-go, what’s the risk to them?” Feaver says. “Had we never raised those questions, there would have been no pause to the process.” tmcdermott@missoulanews.com
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The long wait Veterans in Montana wrestle with VA deficiencies by Alex Sakariassen
prompted him to give up on the VA entirely and instead seek relief by getting back in touch with his traditional Native roots. Monroe opted not to focus on his personal battles last week when he stood up in a room full of fellow veterans during a listening session with Sen. Jon Tester, recently named to a conference committee tasked with reconciling House and Senate versions of a bill to address troubling and wide-
week’s discussion, Tester said that once veterans got their foot in the door in the state, they were pleased with the quality of VA care they received. Still, he added, a 48-day wait is unacceptable. “While that may be better than some areas of this country, it is far too long for anyone to wait, let alone a veteran,” Tester said. “We’re committed to fixing those access issues.” Those who spoke up during the listening session were largely unanimous in their suggestion regarding how to fix the system in Montana. Many called on Tester to explore privatization of the VA and allow veterans to seek care from non-VA facilities locally. Tester said that consideration would require extreme caution, but Monroe feels privatization could potentially solve several problems he himself has run up against with the VA. “We can’t have this same cookie-cutter approach as the rest photo by Cathrine L. Walters of the nation does,” Monroe says. More than 70 veterans turned out for a listening session with Sen. Jon Tester last “The Montanas, the Wyomings, week on deficiencies at the Montana VA facility at Fort Harrison. Among them was the South Dakotas—we need to Dustin Monroe, an Iraq veteran who has experienced several problems with the have our own solution for these VA since 2006. states, because we do have a very “This affects my everyday life—walking, spread deficiencies in the VA. He says he diverse population between the Native popeven jobs,” Monroe says. “I’ve just sucked didn’t want to distract from the broader dis- ulation and the non-Native population, and it up, but I shouldn’t have to suck it up cussion—one that has reached a fever pitch also the rural versus non-rural.” when they put the damn pins in me to help across the country ever since the revelations Monroe, who also worked at Walter me out.” this spring that scores of veterans died while Reed National Military Medical Center and Monroe, 32, grew up in Browning and waiting on appointments with the VA in saw “the worst of the worst of this war,” regraduated from Great Falls High School be- Phoenix, Ariz. members when he moved home to Fort fore enlisting in 2000. He’s an enrolled The nationwide scandal has already led Belknap for a time several years ago. He was member of the Assiniboine Tribe on Mon- to intense congressional hearings and an in- still battling with PTSD, but the Hi-Line tana’s Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, and ternal audit by the VA itself. The VA inspec- lacked any direct access to VA care. Instead, since his honorable discharge more than six tor general has launched investigations into he was encouraged to teleconference for years ago, he’s gone from getting a business 26 facilities over accusations that staff doc- counseling. degree at the University of Montana to tored waiting lists; just this week a whistle“Nobody wants to talk to a damn TV,” working with a host of nonprofits aimed at blower alleged to CNN that the VA hospital he says. “There really was no alternative that improving life in Indian Country. His latest in Phoenix had removed “deceased” notes we had. There’s no help up on the Hi-Line efforts as CEO and founder of Native Gen- from veterans’ files to cover up how many in Montana.” erational Change range from restoring had died while awaiting care. VA Director It’s a struggle in Missoula too. Appointreservation playgrounds to increasing voter Eric Shinseki promptly resigned amid the ments are frequently scheduled three or participation in tribal communities. scandal on May 30, one day after an an- more months out, Monroe says, and it can But the ankle problems persist. He’s nouncement that VA Montana Health Care be tough for veterans to get all the way to tried to get help through the U.S. Depart- System Director Christine Gregory would Fort Harrison. VA care for mental health ment of Veterans Affairs here in Montana. be stepping down in June to spend more here is good, he adds, but even that portion of the system is understaffed. They don’t get back to him, he says, further time with her family. Shortly after talking to the Indy, Monfueling a frustration with the VA he’s felt ever In Montana, wait times for new patients since he got out of the service. His past strug- at the VA’s Fort Harrison facility in Helena av- roe called to say he’d aggravated his ankle gles with the agency range from getting his erage 48 days, longer than in neighboring injury at the gym. When the VA failed to anson listed as a dependent on his veteran ben- states according to the agency’s June access swer his call, he decided to head to the efits to receiving adequate care in his strug- audit. The VA inspector general’s May review emergency room. “Whatever,” he says. “I’ll gles with post-traumatic stress disorder. The ranked Fort Harrison near the bottom—121 just pay out of pocket if I have to.” former took more than a year of persistent out of 128 facilities—for primary care wait asakariassen@missoulanews.com pressure to accomplish, he says; the latter times at VA facilities nationwide. During last Dustin Monroe’s ankle has given him problems ever since he got out of the U.S. Army in 2006. He busted it up on tour with the 25th Infantry Division in Iraq, when he was hit by an IED. The pins placed in his ankle after the injury broke about three years back, he says, massaging the top of a foot dotted with scars. He can still play basketball or walk around, but not without taking pills for the pain.
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Early elimination A ballot fan laments the premature end to initiative season by Dan Brooks
Every four years or so, we put aside our differences and come together for one of the most spectacular contests of human potential in the world. The community we find during this time—our passions inflamed by competition, our rivalries tempered by camaraderie—suggests the outlines of a better society, even our better selves. Truly, now is an inspiring time. I refer, of course, to ballot initiative season. Like many, many readers of independent newsweeklies, I awaited this ballot initiative season with bated breath—also a baited hook to lure canvassers sent by my internet service provider away from the house in the mornings, but more on that later. The point is that after all that waiting and baiting, my two favorite ballot initiatives got withdrawn, and ballot initiative season was over before it began. These are hard days for balloting fans. I should know because I’m the biggest ballot fan of them all. I can’t get enough of voting on things. I carry strips of paper in my pockets. I was terribly disappointed when I got to the ballet. But nothing could disappoint me more than the premature end to this year’s ballot initiative season and the seasonal allergies that accompany it, commonly known as ballot fever. We had a real David and Goliath narrative going. The Healthy Montana initiative, a proposal to accept federal funding for expanded Medicaid coverage, fell short of the 25,000 verified signatures it needed and withdrew the day before deadline. Meanwhile, Charter Communications—the David in this story, gentle lamb of God—stopped gathering signatures for an initiative to lower its own property tax bill. They settled with the state. It was frustrating when these two contenders dropped out of ballot initiative season because it left so many questions unresolved. For example: the political Goliath that is Montanans within 38 percent of the poverty line has been knocked to earth, but for how long? Next time, we might not have Attorney General Tim Fox—the other David in this
[10] Missoula Independent • June 26–July 3, 2014
David and Goliath and David story. Problems writing their measure kept the Healthy Montana Initiative from submitting a reviewable proposal until December, and that cost them a lot of signatures. But it was Fox’s delays and challenges that ate up crucial weeks during the balloting preseason.
“It was frustrating when these two contenders dropped out of ballot initiative season, because it left so many questions unresolved.”
The Healthy Montana Initiative was withdrawn and resubmitted to the Secretary of State three times. The second time, the Attorney General rejected it for appropriating money without legislative approval. Canvassing finally began in February. Two months later, Fox asked the Montana Supreme Court to order a new fiscal note for the initiative— one that would have invalidated all signatures gathered up to that point. The Supreme Court threw out Fox’s challenge, but he did the Lord’s work. If I may mix my sports and biblical metaphors, he kept drilling the Healthy Montana Initiative with rocks until it dropped just before the end zone. Goliath played for the wrong team and/or god, and Fox brought him down.
Meanwhile, Charter Communications diligently conducted its own act of democracy. You might know Charter as the company that bought Optimum, the company that bought Bresnan, the company that made you complete voice menu instructions on restarting your router before you could schedule a service appointment. They still do that, but now Charter gets the profits. As of last Thursday, Charter was disputing $34 million in property taxes with the state of Montana. Ballot Initiative 172 would have reversed a January decision by the Montana Supreme Court and reclassified Charter Communications as a cable company, not a telecommunications company. In addition to lowering your cable bill, as the text of the initiative promised, it would have cost the state $1.1 million a year and paid Charter $10 million from the general fund. None of that is going to happen, because Charter settled with the state of Montana just before the deadline to get its initiative on the ballot. And once again, one of the most exciting storylines of ballot initiative season dissolved into unanswered questions. Blanketed with A) volunteers collecting signatures on behalf of health insurance for poor people and B) paid weirdos mumbling about the cable bill, would Montanans really choose team A? Would the same AG who complained that Healthy Montana Initiative hid the true cost of free money from the feds allow Charter’s end run around the judiciary? And when the machinery of democracy geared up, would we really vote against cheap help for the poor and in favor of an expensive win for the cable company? These were the questions this ballot initiative season promised to answer, and then the whole thing went kaput. I’ve never seen such a letdown in my life. It’s as if David settled with Goliath, and then 7 percent of the people watching died of preventable illnesses. Dan Brooks writes about politics, consumer culture and weirdos at combatblog.net.
[opinion]
Primo pot Artisan cannabis could create a new market after legalization by Andreas Mink
In my cousin Sepp’s garden, in Germany’s Black Forest, there is a big tree that produces lots of yellow plums every year. Sepp, a retired forest worker, keeps the grass cut very short around his mirabellenbaum, so he doesn’t miss a single fallen fruit. Every evening in the fall, he gathers the plums and throws them into a big barrel to ferment. When winter comes, Sepp brings the barrel to a local distiller, who will return him some 10 bottles of mirabellengeist, clear plum spirits. It is a unique and wonderful drink. I thought about Sepp and his plums during a recent visit to the small town of Paonia, population 1,600, in western Colorado, where I met a handful of local marijuana growers during a reporting trip for a Swiss newspaper. Their pride as cultivators and their fierce dedication to quality reminded me strongly of the farmers and vintners I have met in the Black Forest. But unlike traditional growers such as Sepp, the cannabis cultivators in Delta County acquired much of their expertise working alone, learning their trade over decades of trial and error. “We learned to grow world-famous pot from nothing,” one of them told me at the town’s microbrewery, Revolution Brewing. To this German reporter, they seemed like good examples of American self-determination. And while the “guerrilla growers” I met disliked the idea of “working for the tax man,” they said that the legalization of marijuana has now brought them, their state and the country to a historic juncture: Colorado’s rigid regulation of cannabis legalization smartly squeezes them into either giving up or going legitimate. The growers I talked to all expressed a desire to take this opportunity and go legal. All of a sudden, I had a vision of this place’s future. Given the ideal microclimate around Paonia, many small fruit farmers struggling to maintain their operations could start growing cannabis, maintaining their families’ and the region’s way of life that way. As their pro-
duction expands, new jobs and opportunities would be created. Legalization of recreational marijuana has already created a new reality in Colorado. From my interviews with elected officials, growers and investors in Denver and Boulder, I came away with the impression that there is a massive “green rush” underway in the state. Growing cannabis in Colorado has
“Think Oregon pinot noirs, French champagne, single malt scotch or small batch bourbon. Paonia cannabis could have that same cachet.” begun to attract capital from all over the country, and the state is becoming a laboratory for the rest of the United States and perhaps for other parts of the world as well. Investors and politicians expect national legalization to become a reality in the next 10-15 years. As state Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, told me, growing cannabis could quickly turn into an industrialized, nationwide endeavor controlled by big corporations. While this train gathers steam, though, a window is opening for the town of Paonia and Delta County, one of the poorest counties in the state. Growers can’t compete in an industrialized market that handles cannabis as just another agricultural commodity, but
they could build on the global renown of locally grown marijuana, and follow the example set by the wine and liquor industries. Think Oregon pinot noirs, French champagne, single malt scotch or small batch bourbon. Paonia cannabis could have that same cachet and pedigree, as an artisanal, “premium” agricultural product grown by local farmers in a sustainable fashion. One way to achieve that and preserve the North Fork Valley’s unique characteristics would be to found a cultivators’ cooperative, create and protect a brand such as “Paonia Grown” (along the lines of the Italian Denominazione di origine controllata—DOC— for wines such as chianti) and then establish their own labels, just like a Glenfiddich scotch, a Knob Creek bourbon or a Taittinger champagne. This would put Paonia on the map globally for generations to come, much the way the monk Dom Pérignon did in the 1600s for champagne and the Champagne region of France. I was told that there is an intense debate underway in Delta County over cannabis cultivation, and a referendum on how marijuana will be handled will be held in November. Marijuana comes loaded with symbolism, be it as the “evil weed” or a “food of the gods.” As a reporter, I was captivated by the tensions over the issue, which seems to have grown out of deeply ingrained—and antagonistic—cultural and political convictions. For my part, I look forward to a place called Paonia and the North Fork Valley becoming the Champagne region of cannabis. This would benefit all of the region’s inhabitants. Andreas Mink is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a syndicated opinion column service of High Country News (hcn.org). Born in Germany and married to an American, Andreas is the U.S. correspondent for the “JM Jüdische Medien AG” and a reporter for the Sunday edition of Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland’s leading paper.
missoulanews.com • June 26–July 3, 2014 [11]
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n #01 life lesso CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Andrew James Joffe, 24, called 911 to report that he was lost and being chased by wild hogs in Pasco County, Fla. Deputies who responded located Joffe and then discovered he had an open warrant for driving with a suspended license. While his backpack was being inventoried for safekeeping at the jail, a deputy found a GPS whose “home address” wasn’t Joffe’s. Joffe admitted taking it and other items from a car. “We have had people with warrants call us to turn themselves in before,” Sheriff Grady Judd said, “but it’s unusual for someone with an active warrant, who just burglarized a car, to get lost and call us for help.” (Sarasota’s WWSB-TV) Authorities charged Riley Allen Mullins, 28, with robbing a woman in Bremerton, Wash., after the victim received a Facebook friend notification from the suspect. She recognized him as the robber by the distinctive neck tattoo on his profile picture. (Kitsap Sun)
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WHAT COULD GO WRONG? - Intending to help students relax and de-stress before final exams at St. Louis’s Washington University, a petting zoo brought several animals, including a two-month-old bear cub, to campus for students to cuddle. The cub promptly bit and scratched at least 18 students. University officials then informed the injured students that they would need rabies shots. Ultimately, health officials determined the bear didn’t have rabies, sparing the students the painful shots. (Reuters) FUELING OUTRAGE - Officials in Marion County, Ore., ordered a waste-to-energy facility to stop burning fetuses to generate electricity. The facility, Covanta Marion Inc., acknowledged that it routinely incinerated medical waste, including fetal tissue from abortions, trucked in from British Columbia but explained that it was under contract to the county and that the medical-waste program is “county run and managed.” County Commissioner Sam Brentano acknowledged that the county ordinance governing the program allows for all human tissue. “I don’t know that you can know just like I should have known, but I didn’t,” Brentano said. “I’m sorry I didn’t know that this included fetal tissue, but now that I do know, believe me things change.” (Portland’s KOIN-TV) ELECTRIFYING TESTIMONY - Testifying against dairy farmers claiming that “stray” electrical currents from a Utah power plant are harming their cattle, expert witness Athanasios Meliopoulos stated that a person couldn’t feel a 1.5-volt current. Attorney Don Howarth, representing the farmers, then handed Meliopoulos a child’s gag pen, told him it contained a 1.5-volt AAA battery and challenged him to “push the back of the pen and tell the jury whether you feel it or not.” When he did, he “received a strong electric shock, which caused his body to jerk and to drop the pen,” according to Judge James Brady, because the pen also contained a transformer that boosted the battery to 750 volts. Brady fined Howarth $3,000 for conduct amounting to “battery of a witness.” (The Salt Lake Tribune)
missoulanews.com • June 26–July 3, 2014 [13]
Ann Szalda-Petree, left, and Teresa Waldorf launched “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” on KBGA in 2009. There is no second “Ann,” but the duo decided to keep the name after a promotional poster for one of their live comedy shows introduced the error years ago.
BrOaD cOmEdY by Ednor Therriault • photos by Cathrine L. Walters It’s 9:20 on a Wednesday morning. Ann SzaldaPetree slides into a booth in the sun-dappled atrium of the University Center and pops a hummus-smeared cracker into her mouth. “Healthy is my middle name,” she says, chewing on the cracker. “I’ve been doing some tooth grinding so I need some hummus to warm up.” She starts to laugh at her own joke, spraying bits of food onto the table. Teresa Waldorf leans into Ann, cackling gleefully as the two begin swapping cracks about bite guards and dentist chairs. Slap some headphones on them and break out a couple of microphones, and you have “The Ann and
Teresa and Ann Show.” Every Wednesday morning, these two middle-aged moms turn the University of Montana’s campus radio station, KBGA 89.9, into their own comedy foxhole, filling an hour with sketches, interviews, boundless repartee and spontaneous songs. “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” is balls-to-the-wall, seat-of-your pants radio, and these two have it dialed in. On-air, they exhibit the kind of easy flow that comes mostly from hard work. Their weekly high-wire act is supported by decades of experience and training in a variety of disciplines, but mostly it’s that rare
[14] Missoula Independent • June 26–July 3, 2014
quality called chemistry. They might be working without a net, but they’re gripping that tightrope with monkey feet. “They are a yin and a yang,” says Clark Grant, who has produced “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” since its inception in 2009. “It’s not about either one of them, individually. The show is larger than either of them. Teresa uses her theater training to make the guests comfortable, then Ann uses her strengths as a psychologist and hits them with a deep question.” The jokes come fast and furious, mostly at the
hosts’ own expense. They both sing, beautifully. They make up “Nuggers”: two words combined into one, like “shafotion” (shameless self-promotion) and “stipples” (stretched nipples). Nuggers itself is a combination of “nut huggers,” a reference to Steve Perry’s satin pants. They play “Where’d You Get That Bad Aleck Album,” a competition to see who brings in the most obnoxious yardsale LP. Teresa always wins. They also interview guests, and happily take credit for “discovering” all kinds of local talent from Asaph Adonai (aka The Grocery Store Liberace), to Red Dress, two high school girls who recently made
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If Missoula’s theater community has an A-list, Teresa Waldorf is near the top of it. Acting and directing, standup and improv, comedy or drama—she’s tackled it all. Growing up in Nebraska, she got involved in drama in school and she says it quickly became the center of her existence. After “a childhood full of constant and elaborate pretend characters,” she came to Missoula and earned her master’s in theater in 1991. Since then she has been running a summer acting camp for grade school kids, as well as giving acting lessons, teaching drama at UM and indulging her inner Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney
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with frequent cries of, “Hey, kids, what do you say? Let’s “I do love to hear people’s stories,” Ann says. put on a show!” “During interviews I’m just unaware of anything else. Last fall she directed and acted in Wonder of the Where Teresa plays it close to the vest, Ann It’s just by the grace of God that I haven’t dropped World, a shoestring-budget “screwball tragicomedy” Szalda-Petree wears her heart on her sleeve. Make that the F bomb (on-air) [more on this later]. And I believe about Annie Taylor, the first person to go over Niagara both sleeves, wrist to armpit. “Teresa doesn’t fall in every word that drips out of their mouths. Then later Falls in a barrel and survive. The play attracted some love every day like I do,” says Ann, the younger of the I look at Teresa and she says, ‘That’s the biggest bunch of the top actors in Missoula to its cast, including two by eight years. “Also she’s not easily awed like I of bullshit I ever heard in my life. Did you see that David Mills-Low, Rosie Seitz Ayers and the late Justin am. I can be awed by somebody playing a D chord.” look on his face?’” Fatz. The daughter of a Marine, Ann grew up in “We’re lucky to live in a place where, if you Lynnwood, Wash., the oldest of nine kids. Her decide you want to make something happen, sights were set on a microphone early on. “I love you can probably find a space that’s relatively afradio and I love music,” she says. “I used to listen fordable and 50 to 70 people will come. That’s to the radio when it was 10 or 11, after everyone enough,” she says. else was asleep, and think about what I would With her husband, Rick, an IT specialist say or sing if I ever had the chance to be the one and working musician, she has two boys, a junon the air.” ior at UM and a high school senior. Despite the After going to Seattle University on a volleyhectic home life of a working mom, Teresa is ball scholarship, she came to Missoula in 1988 to consistently upbeat, exuding an animated, lifeearn her degree in psychology. She met her husof-the-party energy peculiar to theater people. band, Allen, her first day in Montana. But there’s also a touch of that Midwestern re“He was an older, handsome, mysterious serve that Johnny Carson—a fellow Midwestgraduate student in experimental psychology,” erner—was known for. It’s a slight aloofness she says. “He had waist-length hair and a Junior that protects her from revealing too much Mint stuck to his jeans. For a month. There was about herself. something about him.” They now have two “I’m a very moderate person. I’m a true Midsons—one who just graduated high school—and westerner,” she says. “We just don’t talk about an eighth-grade daughter. “As our kids will attest, anything that’s wrong. I don’t invite drama into there is nothing quite like two psychologists raismy life. I just do not engage.” ing children,” she says. She has stage presence to burn, but exAnn juggles a busy schedule, and she likes it plains that the roles she plays are quite rethat way. In addition to her therapy practice, she moved from her real self. She is no Method co-produces a weekly show called “Health and actor. “You pull from a lot of different places Clark Grant has manned the board for “The Ann and Spirit Radio,” and took over the production reins (when playing a role),” she says. “You can’t Teresa and Ann Show” since its inception. “We real- for “In Other Words,” the Montana Public ized that after a year and a half that the show was deny that you’re pulling from this deep place functioning because they both had a common enemy,” Radio show that had been run by Beth Judy for of all this wealth you’ve been collecting. Grant says. “Me.” 22 years. There’s sense memory and concentration and “I think being born in 1965 affected me in a all this stuff, but I am a compartmentalizer. Always Ann’s “real job” as a therapist, coupled with a bot- lot of ways: the war, the civil rights movement, the have been. I can get into that place and step out of tomless pool of natural empathy, gives her the tools women’s movement, the unrest all around,” she says. it. Some people stay in that place for days. I could to be a great interviewer. “I always wonder if all of that permeated me in utero. never do that. It would cost me too much emotion“Ann is genuinely interested in hearing other peo- I rarely feel content.” ally. The only instrument you have is you. You’re not ple’s stories,” Teresa says. “She just sucks it out of peoAs a therapist, she works primarily with severely a canvas and paint. You’re not a guitar. You’re it. ple. It’s amazing to see it in action. She can get emotionally disturbed children and their families as You’ve got to take care of that medium.” the clinical director at Partnership for Children. “It’s anyone to say anything.” rewarding work, but one needs good friends, a loving spouse, great kids, a good church, a comedy radio show, a band, a spiritual radio show, and a feminist radio show to get through it,” she says. “I have all of those.” “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” provides an invaluable creative outlet. “As a therapist, you get eaten up by being so open,” says Ann. “You have to do these things like music, or other ways to express yourself, to be known for who you are instead of always trying to know everybody else.” Ann is the technophile of the pair, a self-described “gear head” who loves gadgets and technology. She’s the one who posts each week’s show to their website (theannandteresaandannshow.com) after it airs on KBGA. She also records video and audio of herself and her duo Blue Dream at open mics and other live performances. “I am obsessive about recording because I like working with it,” she says. “I just like having sound in my hand. I don’t think of it as an historical document so much, like for posterity. I just like When she’s not on-air at KBGA, Teresa teaches acting and directing at the University of Montana and children’s work- fucking with it.”
their singing debut on the show. Their free-wheeling interviews are typically conducted with little or no preparation, and they have been known to assault guest musicians with parodies of their own songs, usually off the cuff. “Songs Made Up On the Spot is our favorite segment,” says Ann. Missoula poet Sheryl Noethe was on the show this spring. Any reasonable song-maker-upper would be rightfully intimidated in the presence of Montana’s current poet laureate, but Ann and Teresa are not normal. When Noethe was in the studio a few weeks ago, the hosts wasted no time in treating their listeners to a song about their affection for Noethe and her work. Ann: “Oh Sheryl, you want to be on our show, I wish you didn’t have to go. Because, Sheryl, I’m kind of in awe of you, and all the poetry stuff you do.” Teresa: “She came, she went, she ran, she read us poems. She’s kind of like psalms. She’s got long hair, she’s dressed like a referee today. That’s all I’ve got to say.” They swap verses while Ann strums her Taylor acoustic. If the rhymes are awkward, they don’t care. They’re always moving toward the next joke. To witness them lock eyes across the control board to surf a wave of comedy is a wondrous and powerful thing. And maybe a little frightening. Especially at 8:00 a.m. on a weekday. “You know why these two are so chipper this early in the morning?” says Noethe during a station break. “They’re stoned. They were in a van out in the parking lot smoking a joint as big as my arm.” This brings a bark of laughter from Teresa. “If I was stoned I’d be asleep right now!” When they return from the break, Noethe reads an elegy from her book. Being an elegy, it is not funny. Ann ignores the control board, which she is trying to learn to operate, and focuses her entire being on the poet. Teresa, her back to the window that looks out on the green expanse between the UC and the Mansfield Library, rocks back and forth, absorbing the verse. When Noethe finishes, Teresa heaves a big sigh. Ann’s eyes well up. “That,” she stammers into her mic, a small tremor in her voice, “that … that’s almost a movie.” Their genuine interest in other people and their art is at the core of the duo’s chemistry, and it’s one of the reasons “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” has lasted five years as KBGA’s Wednesday morning juggernaut, providing some early morning laughter—and occasional tears—to so many Missoulians as they drive their kids to daycare or head off to work.
shops. Ann works as a therapist.
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When Ann and Teresa first pitched their show to KBGA they described it as like “Car Talk,” but with women and not about cars.
She also recently started a page on tumblr (aszalda.tumblr.com) where she posts photos, songs, videos, audio snippets and other bits from a life she finds endlessly interesting. “I have a tumbler too,” says Teresa. “It’s a tumbler of gin and tonic. With extra lime.” Teresa has little patience for technology, and doesn’t listen to recordings of their shows. She doesn’t check how many views their website has or how many likes they’re getting on Facebook. “Given the option to sit at a computer, sit and read, or pick dandelions, I would pick dandelions,” Teresa says. “I’m good at that.” “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” usually runs pretty smoothly, but with an anything-can-happen, improvised feel. It’s a tricky balance to maintain their brand of planned spontaneity, and they weren’t always this good at it.
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Clark Grant worked as the program director at KBGA in 2009 when Ann called in to ask about having a radio show. She and Teresa had written and performed Parents Night Out: Sensory Overload, an eclectic, bizarre comedy show that featured such segments as “What’s That In Your Mouth” and a “Visually Impaired Auction.” The show was a fundraiser for Families First, done on the condition that thenDirector Barb Cowan was not allowed to preview the material. The show was a hit, and other shows soon followed. At a friend’s New Year’s Eve party, Ann and Teresa proclaimed their mutual desire to do a radio show, and set out to conquer the airwaves. Under the moniker Purple Bedroom Productions, they recorded a Father’s Day special and shopped the tape around. Although the demo was roundly rejected by several commercial stations in Missoula, they kept their heads up. “Some people think we’re funny,” says Ann. (That credo became the
show’s tagline.) Then Ann called KBGA, Grant answered the phone and the fuse was lit. “Right on,” he said. “Yeah, you guys can have a show. Come on over. Tell me about it.” Ben Weiss served as KBGA’s general manager at the time. “They were pitching their show as ‘Car Talk,’” he recalls, “only with women, and not about cars.” Weiss wanted to help them get on the air, but bristled at their brazen attitude. They insisted on doing a one-hour show in a station schedule built on two-hour programs. They demanded the 8:00 a.m. time slot. When asked to fill out a 20-song sample playlist, they entered “Journey” 19 times and then one song by Head East. After reading the boundary-pushing titles of some of their planned segments (“Who’s In My Mouth”), Weiss says he was “a little skeptical of their desire to … treat the laws that govern the station’s compliance with the feds in such a cavalier manner.” Once they took to the airwaves, though, he quickly became one of their biggest supporters. They stumble over the line from time to time, but thus far Ann and Teresa have avoided ruffling any FCC feathers. Of the two, Weiss says that Ann has always seemed more concerned with the regulations, chiding Teresa for swearing on-air or breaking the rules concerning event promotion and other public radio no-nos. During a week last year when Grant was on a rare break, Weiss filled in on the board as the show’s engineer/producer. Ann accidentally let an F-word slip, he says. It is a claim she flatly denies. Weiss failed to record the show (it’s the only one not available in their website’s archive), so we may never know the truth. But he stands by his story. “To be there when Ann did it, I laughed with the full force of cosmic justice in my lungs,” he says. Weiss has seen enough on-air personalities come and go over the years to know that these two have a natural gift, an innate charisma that can’t be learned or faked. He agrees with Grant that the contrast between their personalities is the key to their show’s success.
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“They are like Bert and Ernie, for adults, and not made out of felt,” Weiss says. “This difference shows most when they interview other people, often performing artists themselves. Teresa gets them to talk about what they do; Ann gets them to talk about how they think about what they do. The result is that in a 10-minute interview with a local musician, the listener learns from Teresa’s questions that the guy writes his own music, plays guitar and sings, and will be performing live the upcoming Friday at local bar X, and from Ann’s questions that love for his favorite sports team can be traced back to a stuffed dolphin that protected him from the dark when he was an orphan.”
“They are like Bert and Ernie, for adults, and not made out of felt.” —Ben Weiss, former KBGA general manager
By the time Weiss left KBGA in 2011, Grant had taken over as general manager. His responsibilities multiplied, but still he manned the board for “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” and functioned as a foil to the estrogen onslaught served up by these mavens of mayhem. It’s clear that the three are good friends, though, and their relationship was cemented almost from the day they met. “Clark insinuated himself on us,” Teresa says of their initial meetings. “We’re sitting there outside the UC for our DJ training, and he’s just shaking his head.
It was obvious that this was a kid that was desperate for some older female attention and was already basking in it. And we just instantly fell in love with him.” The indoctrination process was a comedy show in itself. Ann and Teresa reported for duty and learned that they would have to take production training. They found the FCC rules and regulations so funny they read them on the air at the first opportunity. One section of the rules deals with libel and slander, and it was impressed upon them repeatedly that you can’t say anything about someone that isn’t true. So they immediately cooked up a segment called “Stephanie Is a Drunk and a Liar.” “Well,” says Teresa with a shrug, “she is.” “But then Clark taught us each to run the board,” says Ann, “and we frustrated him so badly because we were doing things imperfectly and he would just say, ‘I’ll just do it.’ That was awesome because then we could concentrate on just talking.” Grant focused on the technical issues, trying to engineer the show while also keeping the ladies within those FCC boundaries. At times it must have seemed like an English professor trying to teach syntax to a couple of parrots jacked up on Red Bull. He gradually got pulled into the on-air banter, slipping into the role of beleaguered third wheel while running the board and answering phone calls from their growing audience. “We realized that after a year and a half that the show was functioning because they both had a common enemy,” he says. “Me.” At first, he says, the two-against-one dynamic “seemed like a good device.” But the women harangued him so relentlessly that he eventually clammed up. “There was a year or more where I just didn’t speak.” “He was down to a series of grunts,” Ann recalls, “and then silence. No matter how much we baited him.” Did she use her therapist wiles to try and draw him out? Grant laughs. “I refused to have my brain swept out by Ann.”
± While their on-air relationship was hilariously contentious, Ann and Grant became good friends and musical collaborators off the air. After their weekly post-show debriefing, Grant would give Ann a guitar lesson. Eventually, as she became more proficient on the guitar (“I practice a lot”), they went from teacherstudent to musical partners, and began writing songs together. Their duo Blue Dream is the result of that friendship. They released a CD of original songs last summer, and a follow-up is in the works. Blue Dream’s music is as evocative as their name, full of languid, echoey guitar drones and layered soundscapes. That is, when they aren’t playing one of Ann’s eccentric songs like “Fur Flying Furry” or her proto-punk celebration of homonyms, “Dictator.” They’ve also learned the ropes of radio together, as Grant co-produces both the “Health and Spirit Radio” show and “In Other Words.” “It pays the rent,” he says. When Grant came from Arkansas to attend UM, he didn’t know a soul. He scored a job at KUFM, and got hooked on radio. “I started thinking, how am I ever going to get on the air? And someone mentioned campus radio. I met these people (at KBGA) and they became my family,” he says. Ann and Teresa came along soon enough and took the young French major under their wings. “I could never have imagined that these two women who walked through the door could provide me with so much joy, so much inspiration,” he says. “I can’t think of how many times I’ve had dinner at their houses.” His passion for public radio has propelled Grant into a new venture, the Butte America Foundation. The nonprofit organization plans on promoting so-
cial justice, and has received authorization from the FCC to construct a low-power FM station in Butte. Grant has moved to Butte, where he is working on setting up shop on the second floor of the Carpenters Union Hall. BAmF expects to launch some time in 2015. Ann, like Ben, has been a driving force in BAmF, but the loss of her partner in music and radio pro-
“There’s going to be acute sadness from across the room,” Teresa said into her mic, not-so-subtly deflecting any angst she might be feeling over Grant’s looming exit. “I’m not sad, I’m totally fine,” said Ann, a little too quickly. She changed the subject, telling Grant about some ideas she has for their new show on the Butte station when it’s up and running. “Teresa and I
this station and he’s gonna make me go through some kind of … vetting to see if I can have a show!” “I’m cool with that,” said Teresa, not engaging. “I just want to phone it in.” Grant didn’t budge, clinging to the high ground. “Terry Conrad always says that radio is a privilege, not a right,” he said with his soft Arkansas twang. “So I don’t think one little hoop is too much to ask, is it?” Silence. Teresa came on: “We’ll be right back with ‘The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show’...”
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With Grant leaving the show, there’s some question about how “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” might change. But the hosts aren’t worried. “All I want is snappy repartee,” Teresa says. “I don’t even know if I need anyone to listen.”
duction has been a tough blow. This spring, they devoted two consecutive shows to Grant’s departure from the team. The trio reminisced about the countless funny, bizarre and emotional moments they have shared in their five years together.
have a show there, right? We get a show.” It’s a statement, not a question. “Sure,” Grant said. “You just have to fill out a proposal, is all.” Ann sputtered with faux outrage. “I have bled for
Fans of their shows and podcasts will no doubt be wondering what direction “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” will take without Grant. Don’t expect huge changes. The hosts realize that the magnetic chemistry between them is rare, and the change creates new possibilities. In other words, the comedy whole is greater than the sum of its talented parts, and “The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show” simply won’t be denied. How long they can keep it going is, apparently, up to them. “Nobody’s ever going to ask them to quit,” Grant says. If they ever did leave the airwaves, says Teresa, they would still get together and do what they do. She would just set up a couple of microphones in her living room and they would pick up where they left off. “All I want is snappy repartee,” she says. “I don’t even know if I need anyone to listen. If no one listened to ‘The Ann and Teresa and Ann Show,’ and as long as I got to have a microphone and Ann was right there, would I still do it? I think I would.” editor@missoulanews.com
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Author Brian Kevin traveled through South America, including by riverboat on the Magdalena River near the town of Mompos, Colombia, to follow the path of Hunter S. Thompson, who spent time there in the 1960s.
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he average person probably thinks of Hunter S. Thompson as played by Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: a partly bald guy in sunset aviators smoking a Dunhill cigarette out of a holder, high on LSD and drunk on Wild Turkey. Easily forgotten is the young, intrepid reporter Thompson was in the 1960s when he worked a year covering South American politics for the National Observer. In The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America, author and University of Montana graduate Brian Kevin travels to South America to discover the greenhorn Thompson, before he was the well-known (and well-caricatured) gonzo journalist and counterculture hero. Kevin relies on old letters written by Thompson (published in the 1997 collection The Proud Highway), as well as early newspaper articles Thompson wrote while he was traveling through South America. Kevin’s own six months of adventures follow the path from Panama down through the Andes to Argentina and up through Brazil. He begins the book with, “I was tearing across the roadless desert in the back of a jostling beer truck … a blast beat echoed across the flats, muffling the clink of contraband bottles, a death-metal soundtrack to the rawbone panorama of sand and sky.” Smartly, The Footloose American isn’t an attempt to emulate Thompson’s gonzo style—Kevin’s punchy prose are his own. In part, the book aims to unravel the man behind the myth, but mostly Kevin uses Thompson’s work as a guide to discover how the same political, cultural and social issues of South America have (or haven’t) changed since Thompson wrote about them 50 years ago. How did you first become acquainted with Thompson’s travels in South America?
Brian Kevin: In The Proud Highway there’s just fewer than 20 letters from this year that Thompson spent as a freelance foreign correspondent in South America in 1962 and 1963, while he was still sort of cutting his teeth. And, also, there’s an anthology from the late ’70s of some of his early magazine work that contains maybe six out of the 18 newspaper stories he did while he was down there. It’s not like it’s a secret—this material is out there—but it hasn’t gotten a lot of attention because it predates this counterculture character that came later on. When and why did you decide you were going to write this book? BK: I was probably 21 or 22 and I was sort of in that what-am-I-doing-with-myself moment that a lot of us probably have had. I was already an admirer of his at that point, I’d read all the big ones—Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and On the Campaign Trail, Hells Angels and The Rum Diary, which is not that great of a book but it’s interesting—and so with the South America [writings] it was like, “Wow, man, why have I not heard of this before?” I remember thinking that it would be rad to pick up and travel the world and, also, that the handful of letters from South America seemed like an inadequate exploration of what must have been a pretty significant turning point in this guy’s life. But I didn’t really travel the world. I got a magazine job and then I moved to Missoula for school and I got married at one point and the better part of eight years went by. But there was a point where all of a sudden I had graduated and I wasn’t married anymore and I had no idea what I was about to do. The dramatic answer is that I decided to do this thing I didn’t do eight years ago and travel the world ... and it also seemed like a potentially good writing project.
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What were you hoping to find out about Thompson in your travels? BK: He has this tantalizing quote in The Proud Highways that goes, “After a year of roaming around down here the main thing I’ve learned is that I now understand the United States and why it will never be what it could have been, or at least tried to be.” And he doesn’t elaborate! So it’s this great line from a guy who later on claims his journalistic beat to be “the death of the American dream.” How did you decide where you would go and what you would do down there? BK: I wanted to look into the topics he was writing about 50 years ago and kind of see how those story lines were progressing. So if Thompson wrote about mining in Bolivia, which he did, then that would become the topic I would look into, rather than just having this backpacking trip bouncing around the continent, hanging out at hostels doing all the bullshit and then expecting it to be an interesting narrative. What surprised you the most in your research and travels? BK: Thompson had good political instincts and he was there at a very pivotal time. The U.S. was just sort of dabbling in what we now call “nation-building,” and Thompson was narrating about that meddling. So much of that shit is still playing out and that became clear to me over and over again. But I went down there on the heels of Occupy Wall Street and so that was kind of eerie. Income inequality was such a major theme in Thompson’s writing because it was such a major theme in Latin America. But all of the sudden, we see that this major theme has kind of
crept its way back into our story here in the developed world. Those echoes across the 50-year span, that’s what ended up being surprising to me. What is it about the gonzo style that appeals to people? BK: I think there are folks in the journalism community and serious readers who see him as a moldbreaker. With Hells Angels or a lot of the great earlier magazine journalism he was getting past the bullshit, Photo by Chad Harder the mustiness, I guess, of stale official newspaper journalism. I think that’s a good reason to admire the gonzo thing—also, it’s super funny. But there’s another thing. He probably has given rise to as much really bad writing as he’s served as a hero to really good writers. The darker appeal of the gonzo thing is that notion that, “I can be a wild crazy fuck-around and somehow that itself is a revolutionary act and will catapult my prose and my insights to new lengths,” which is totally not true. What were your thoughts about Thompson coming out of this project? BK: One of the really neat things about digging into anything Thompson did in the early 1960s, including but not limited to his South American reportage, is that you see glimmers of that gonzo style, but you also see someone who had a super firm grasp on the fundamentals. He had a knack for getting powerful images across within an 800-word newspaper article for a general audience. He was a badass reporter and he continued to have strong political instincts even when he became kind of schlocky writer in the 1990s and 2000s. He was good at knowing what the story was. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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Sing-alongs Spoonboy’s pop punk is just a matter of heart The Tumblr page for David Combs, aka Spoonboy, includes frequently asked questions such as, “What are your opinions on dropping out of high school?” and “How do you feel about people singing along to shows?” The Washington, D.C., pop punk artist answers in a surprisingly serious fashion—surprising, perhaps, because so many other musicians would opt for sarcasm or flippancy. For instance, he doesn’t mind people singing along at his shows, but maybe not during an acoustic set where he might be drowned out. As for high school, well, YOLO. If it’s not working for you, he says, drop out—just know there are consequences. (His answers are more in-depth than that, but that’s the gist.) Do fans really ask him this stuff? As an advice dispenser, Spoonboy’s a bit earnest, but as a musician that earnestness transforms into something great. His new split record with London’s Colour Me Wednesday includes five of his songs, each kind of starting out the same—with a guitar riff like Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl”—but diverging quickly into a diverse collection of shiny gems. In “The Dispossessed” he sings about a guy’s number he has folded in his pocket. We don’t know the situation, only that he’s feeling nostalgic and that not calling is painful and calling could also be a bad thing. “It’s not a matter of strength that pushes blood through your veins,” he sings. “It’s just a matter of a heart that keeps pumpin’.”
Heart, in fact, seems like the best description for Spoonboy’s strength and something that was also true for his previous punk band, The Max Levine Ensemble. The Spoonboy split is a super catchy collection of anthems; it’s raise-your-lighter material by someone who is approachable and principled. By the end of the record you might be able to understand how fans see him as someone to turn to for advice. Maybe. One thing’s for sure, these are songs with which we definitely want to sing along. So Spoonboy, can we? (Erika Fredrickson) Spoonboy plays the VFW with Erica Freas, Lymph Gnomes, The Hasslers and band-in-residence Slowglass Thu., June 26, at 9 PM. $5/$7 for ages 18–20.
Needlecraft, Hunk Out! I started listening to Needlecraft’s newest album with headphones, but just a few seconds into Hunk Out! I knew I’d made a huge mistake: This is not a sitting-down affair, it’s a dance party. Better, it’s a dance party on a beach with half a dozen short bursts of subversive fun. It’s lo-fi-style with high-end production, surf-pop with a landlocked longing. Musicians Mikki Lunda, Hana MT, Adelaide Every and Clark Grant follow Needlecraft’s first album with a welcome diversity—instead of being all punch-andgo, there are more pervasive hooks and plenty of poignant moments. “It’s OK” turns ’50s doo-wop on its head with the line, “She likes girls and he likes boys, it’s OK! They’re
both gay!” The playfulness continues on the title track and “Boy Patrol,” where they sing, “Freeze, come out with your shirts off. Do you wanna go to jail tonight?” Hunk Out! closes with a remix of “Haunted Car Chase,” which opened the group’s previous eponymous album, and it’s downright spookier than the original. Hunk Out! likewise slows down focuses on what these girls and guy did and still do best: keeping the vibes of a bygone time alive with smiles—or maybe smirks. (Brooks Johnson) Needlecraft plays a record release show, with MASS FM, Boys, J. Sherri and Cool Death, at Stage 112 Fri., June 27, at 9 PM. $5, 18 and over.
Hard Working Americans, Hard Working Americans Round up a few seasoned musicians from established bands and throw ’em into a studio with a batch of songs. Supergroup! Should work every time, right? Wrong. Remember that great album by Zwan? Yeah, me neither. So when Todd Snider snagged four guys from other bands, including Widespread Panic’s bassist Dave Schools, to form Hard Working Americans and record an eponymous album, no one knew whether it would fly. The collection of songs Snider brought to the table (written by others) are loosely united by a blue-collar and no-collar theme, but there’s a lot of variety here. Will Kimbrough’s “Another Train” is probably the hardest rocking song Snider has ever recorded, with its piledriving rhythm and crunchy guitars. The band rubs some dirt into the Bottle Rockets’ “Welfare Music,” in-
fusing the song’s melancholy with some real firepower. Overall it’s a solid, focused album with several high points. Hayes Carll’s “Stomp and Holler” balances Chad Staehly’s (Great American Taxi) whorehouse piano nicely with Neal Casal’s (Chris Robinson Brotherhood) southern rock guitar as Snider sings, “I’m like James Brown, only white and taller/ All I want to do is stomp and holler.” The sweetest surprise here is Kevn Kinney’s “Straight To Hell,” a Drivin’ N Cryin’ power ballad that Snider sings with an almost uncomfortably intimate vulnerability. As the band gradually adds electric piano, drums and a soaring guitar solo, Snider explodes into a craggy, full-throated roar that’s perfectly supported by the tasteful dynamics of this group of veterans. These guys obviously listen to each other. I think you should, too. (Bob Wire)
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Growing pains More reflection required in Kuffel’s Love Sick by Kate Whittle
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” goes a Joan Didion quote I like. “...We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” Many people grow up anticipating that marriage, stability and “happily ever after” will be the story they get to tell—but what happens when life has other plans? Our culture doesn’t have many narratives about what life is like for childless, unmarried older women, besides the stigma of “spinster.” Brooklyn-based author Frances Kuffel, a Missoula native, details dating as a never-married 50-something in her new book Love Sick: A Memoir of Searching for Mr. Good Enough. In a series of short, diary-style anecdotes, Kuffel talks about working odd jobs and making ends meet while she hooks up with various odd characters she meets through dating sites. The reader in a similar life position who wants commiseration might find a lot to identify with here. “It is unhappy dating that, as Tolstoy says of families, is unique in its unhappiness and therefore lends itself to storytelling,” she writes. She’s also frank about depression, wavering self-esteem and an ongoing battle with her size. Kuffel, a University of Montana graduate, is a seasoned memoirist and poet. She gained a lot of media attention and positive reviews for 2004’s Passing for Thin, about her eating disorders and substantial weight loss, but not as much attention for subsequent works where she talked about gaining a lot of the weight back. Her writing is at once conversational and odd; her sentences twist and turn in unexpected ways. Poetry shows in her eye for capturing detail and memorable visual aspects of a scene, like when she recalls “the pitcher of ice water with floating tangerine quarters in the lobby of our hotel” and a garden with “prayer wheels in the cool daffodil light” from a visit to Arizona. I was completely prepared to root for Love Sick, but unfortunately, the anecdotes don’t add up to a cohesive or compelling thread. It’s partially a drawback of the diary style, which leaps between time periods and transitions abruptly between ideas. Kuffel’s series of dates with weird and charmless men just gets sad rather than funny, and makes me struggle to remember why you’d go on a date at all. We rarely learn why any of these men were worth the time in the first place. She describes spending five years hoping that a former crack addict, whom she’s slept with twice, will decide to date her. Her size attracts a guy with a feeding fetish. Another dude turns out to be an Internet scammer. These things might be funny, except that they come off as dramatic and serious. There’s some pettiness, too, on her part, like when she mocks divorced men who are absorbed in the accomplishments of their college-bound daughters. (Divorce, she notes, is “like bronchitis: At some point, everybody’s had it.”) After each encounter, she runs back to her dog, family and gay friends for sweeter, lighthearted moments that offer respite from the joyless man-hunting. I found more
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honesty and genuine emotion in her reminisces about her childhood in Missoula and love of her father than in any other passages. In a lot of ways, Love Sick reminds me of friends who are always using poor judgment with relationships and always baffled that things turn out badly; some women—and men—just have a need for attention that overrides good sense. Kuffel acknowledges, time and time again, that she “auditions” to be a girlfriend without asking herself if the dude is really someone she wants to be with. “I cleaned my apartment—for men. I had my hair and eyebrows done—for men,” she writes, and goes on to muse, “But maybe I didn’t need
Love Sick: A Memoir of Searching for Mr. Good Enough Frances Kuffel paperback, Berkeley Trade 272 pages, $15
a guy. Maybe I needed me.” I was optimistic that this would be a turning point of the book, but she doesn’t take her own advice. While I didn’t expect Love Sick to end with a marriage or even a great life-changing epiphany—and I don’t think it should need one—I wish this book found some kind of resolution. The “searching” in the book’s title implies some sort of “finding” will happen, but by the end, Kuffel doesn’t seem to have found any more wisdom or security than before. Real life doesn’t always make for a tidy story, of course, but I can’t help but wonder if a little more time and perspective would have helped shape a different narrative thread. Love Sick made me thankful that I’ve been taught to approach dating from a different perspective. I’m aware that finding a great committed relationship doesn’t guarantee self-actualization or fulfillment, and conversely, being single isn’t a guarantee that you’ll be miserable. Happily ever after, as experiences like Kuffel’s ultimately prove, isn’t a useful story for most of us. kwhittle@missoulanews.com
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Koch problem Citizen attempts to unravel dark money politics by Nick Davis
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In Citizen Koch, it’s clear that Oscar-nominated directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water) did not set out to make the definitive documentary about the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court case and the flood of political “dark money� it released in its wake, the recall election of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, the rank-and-file union members of Republican persuasion who felt betrayed by Walker’s union-busting policies, the Tea Party movement, the unsuccessful 2012 Republican presidential run of former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer, or even the gajillionaire brothers David and Charles Koch to whom the film’s title refers. The film spends time on each of these subjects, which is probably why it doesn’t really nail any of them. In other words, Citizen Koch is a bit of a ramble. If cohesion is your thing, you’re not going to find it here. But Deal and Lessin peel back enough layers in all those stories to reveal a series of remarkable moments, most of them ranging from “whoa� to “holy shit!� on the astonishment scale but salted throughout with enough genuinely funny scenes to prevent you from wanting to blow your head off in despair. A fair number of those moments are presented as simple did-you-knows, such as the fact that Fred Koch, the founder of what is now considered the secondlargest private company in the U.S., was a co-founder of the John Birch Society in 1958. And that his sons Charles and David, who now run Koch Industries, were the largest contributors to Scott Walker’s 2010 Wisconsin gubernatorial run, despite the fact that neither they nor their company reside anywhere near America’s Dairyland. And that on the same day that the Wisconsin election board was presented with nearly one million signatures in support of the recall election, Walker was in New York City picking up a cool half-million from two high-powered, out-of state supporters. And that Citizens United was a major proponent of the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas—now arguably the court’s most conservative member—back in 1991. And that the film was initially slated to receive funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and to air on PBS’s Independent Lens series before both funding and airing were cancelled ... and that the Koch brothers, oddly enough, have funded public television
to the tune of $23 million over the years. There are some real meat-on-the-bones, dramatic moments here as well, especially given the context of what has happened since the 2010–2012 timeframe encompassed by the film. There’s footage of Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address, where conservative Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito famously made a sourpuss face and mouthed the words “That’s not true� in response to the president’s concern that the recent Citizens United decision would open the floodgates for special-interest spending in U.S. elections. There’s a shot of Scott Walker on what appears to be a victory junket around Wisconsin after his initial election, telling a billionaire contributor that his strategy for breaking public-sector unions was to “divide and conquer� by tying their collective bargaining rights to the state’s annual budget. Another scene shows volunteers working for Walker prior to the recall election making cold calls to potential voters about his opponent’s record of tax increases as mayor of Milwaukee, and then the official in charge of that effort saying on camera, with a straight face, that his people were engaged in strict issue advocacy and not candidate advocacy. The funny moments in the film come primarily from feisty U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore of Milwaukee, a fierce opponent of Walker’s efforts to tighten voter ID laws in the state, who opines that the rich and powerful must get nervous around election time because of the equal power inherent in a single vote, and urges her constituents to exercise their voting rights “because they don’t want you to.� Intimate moments arise from the film’s profiles of the Republican union workers who join the recall effort against Walker, culminating in a surprisingly sweet scene when one of them, in his mid-50s, votes for the very first time. You won’t come out of Citizen Koch with all the dots connected on the dark-money, union-busting, teapartying world we live in. But the dots Deal and Lessin build the film around will absolutely get your head spinning. And sometimes, that’s more than enough.
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Shutterbug Mysterious photos come to life in Vivian Maier by Molly Laich
“Sorry, your face broke my lens.”
Of course I enjoyed this movie. You’d have to be some sort of unfeeling robot-ghost who hates beauty, people and mysteries to dislike John Maloof ’s found art documentary Finding Vivian Maier. Now I want to appeal to you specifically to make a point of leaving your house to see it, nestled alongside your neighbors in the warm cocoon of the Wilma’s dark theater. With a sweet little documentary, you might be thinking you can wait a year for Netflix. But Vivian Maier’s photography is so plainly good, it appeals on such a gut level, that it causes people in the audience to gasp and mutter—and what a treat to be present to hear it. As a bigtime film fan, I’ve witnessed an observable decline in crowd attendance, and I fret about this often. Going to the movies with strangers is basically the last thing tethering me to society, and if the phenomenon goes extinct in 10 years, I don’t know what will become of me and my cursed kind. But back to the movie at hand. Our story begins with Maloof, an earnest, ambitious frequenter of estate sales and collector of oddities who happens upon a box of Maier’s undeveloped photos at an auction. Maloof recognizes the talent behind the images, and in the course of procuring more than 100,000 negatives, he begins to piece together the life of the eccentric, elusive packrat. Vivian Maier was born in 1913, in either New York City or France. (One of the film’s high points involves a spirited discussion amongst people who knew her on the particulars of just how fake her French accent was.) She worked as a nanny for a variety of families in Chicago, but her pictures also include stints in New York, Los Angeles and extensive travels abroad to quaint villages in France. It’s a real shame that Maier died in 2009, before Maloof could ask her about her work or cut her in on the considerable fortune levied by the sudden new interest. What we learn of Maier comes from Maloof ’s tireless investigation and interviews with her friends and the families for whom she worked. All of them say Maier was an aggressively secretive person who would have
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hated all the exposure and attention, which brings up just one of the many questions about art and agency a film like this poses. If you’re asking me, I think good art doesn’t belong to just the artist and we’re entitled to gawk at it after her death, but I suppose it’s up for debate. Anyway, there’s a particular pleasure in discovering an artist who seems to have lacked the ambition or interpersonal skills to get her work out into the public. Of Maier, we learn she was a tremendous hoarder, that she had a morbid fascination with death and, specifically, murder, that she very likely had some mental illness and was at times straight-up mean to the children under her care. We hear from experts in the field of photography who patiently explain to us what makes her photographs good, although it’s hardly necessary. Her pictures include a variety of self-portraits (which I refuse to impugn upon by calling “selfies.”) She was unusually tall, she dressed funny and used a specific brand of camera that hovers mid-torso. Taken from a lower angle, her subjects are towering and able to look the photographer straight in the eye during the moment of capture. In some of the portraits you get the impression you’re seeing the moment just before the subject registers what’s happened to them, before they have time to feel violated, touched or angry. Maloof directed and wrote the film along with collaborator Charlie Siskel. As Maier’s sole discoverer and curator, Maloof is central to the story and handles his role in the mystery with grace and appropriate distance. At times, he brings up more questions than can possibly be answered, but isn’t that often the way of things? If you’re seeing this movie on a date, Finding Vivian Maier has the potential to do you a big favor. From your date’s ability to engage with you on the film’s many provocative questions, you’ll have a better clue where the relationship is going thereafter. Finding Vivian Maier continues at the Wilma.
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OPENING THIS WEEK FADING GIGOLO John Turturro decides to pimp himself out, with the help of Woody Allen, ‘cause you’re never too artsy for some gross sex jokes and fretting about male insecurity. Also starring Sharon Stone. Rated R. Wilma. THE WHOLE GRITTY CITY Three New Orleans marching bands prepare for Mardi Gras in the midst of violence and poverty in this 2013 documentary. Screening at the Top Hat Mon, June 30, at 8 PM, as part of the Big Sky Film Series. TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Prepare for Two! Hours! and! Forty-five! Minutes! Of! Explosions! Starring Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. WE ARE THE BEST! (VI AR BAST!) It’s the 1980s and punk isn’t cool anymore. Three Swedish teens start a band anyway. Punkest thing ever. Starring Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin and Liv LeMoyn. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy June 27-29 and July 2-4 at 7:15 and 9:15 PM.
NOW PLAYING 22 JUMP STREET Officers Schmidt and Jenko go “deep undercover” at a local college, which entails a lot of multiple choice tests and stressful late-night essay writing. Lol, JK, they totally party it up, brah. Starring Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube. Rated R. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. CITIZEN KOCH Oscar-winning directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin expose the money behind the Tea Party, unlimited corporate spending, enormously powerful people using everyday people like disposable playthings. Y’know, cheery, feel-good stuff. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy at 7 and 9 PM June 27-29. (See Film.) EDGE OF TOMORROW A video game meets Groundhog Day, basically, when a blip in the space-time continuum lets soldiers relive the same fight over and over. Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt and Bill Paxton. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Cute, hipstery teens meet through their cancer support group and fall in love. Get out the hanky, y’all. Starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Nat Wolff. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Filmmaker John Maloof searches for the backstory behind a nanny whose 100,000 photos
“Pussy Riot, here we come!” We Are the Best! opens Friday at the Roxy.
found after her death earned her acclaim as an amazing photographer. Not rated. Wilma. (See Film.) THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Quirk-lovers rejoice, Wes Anderson brings us the lighthearted adventures of a mid-1930s concierge and a lobby boy. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham and Mathieu Amalric. Rated R. Wilma. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Hiccup and Toothless discover a secret ice cave full of mysteriously adorable wild dragons and something called a Dragon Rider. Standing up for what they believe in and the power of friendship ensues. Starring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett and Craig Ferguson. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat. JERSEY BOYS Four dudes from a sketchy part of New Jersey
get together, hone their falsetto and rise to become The Four Seasons. Starring John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen and Michael Lomenda. Rated R. Carmike 12. THE LUNCHBOX (DABBA) A young housewife befriends an older man through notes in Mumbai’s famous lunchbox delivery system. Starring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Rated PG. Wilma. MALEFICENT Angelina Jolie rocks a bitchin’ horn headdress in a weird version of Sleeping Beauty. Also starring Elle Fanning and Sharlto Copley. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex. THE NANCE A gay man hides his identity in the burlesque scene of 1930s New York, in this Broadway production starring Nathan Lane. Not rated. Screens at Carmike 12 Sun., June 29 at 1 PM.
THINK LIKE A MAN TOO The couples from 2012’s Think Like a Man are together and happily planning a romantic weekend in Vegas, but things go awry, as you might expect. Starring Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union and Wendi McLendon-Covey. Rated PG-13.
Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle. Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 8835603.
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In the movie Elf, the man-child played by Will Fer- sesame oil, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon sugar, rell pulls a jug of syrup from his sleeve and pours it ¼ teaspoon red-pepper flakes. How you make it: Mix it all in a small bowl. on his spaghetti. Only then, once his noodles and marinara are slathered in sugary liquid, will the giant That’s it. Eat it with: Definitely chicken, but also veggies elf eat his dinner. I have a real-life friend who’s the same way when like red peppers and snow peas. it comes to hot sauce. He puts it on eggs in the morning, chicken sandwiches at lunch and lo mein for din- Garlic Chipotle Mayo What you need: 5 cloves peeled garlic, ¾ cup ner. I’ve seen him use it on salad. Once, on a dare, he chugged half a bottle at a restaurant table like it was mayo, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 chipotle peppers Gatorade; kid hardly broke a sweat. When my friend in adobo. How you make it: Cook the makes something that actually garlic in a pan over medium-high calls for hot sauce, like wings or a “Once, on a dare, heat until cloves are golden queso dip, he has to make two brown. Transfer to food processor portions—one for him and one for people who still value their re- he chugged half with rest of ingredients. Blend until smooth. Add salt and pepper maining tastebuds. a bottle at a to taste. I don’t share my friend’s afEat it with: Excellent with fection for atomic heat, but I have learned something from him (and restaurant table roast beef and steak, even better with fries. the elf ): A perfect sauce can elevate even the most mundane like it was Homemade Rooster Sauce main dish. In my house, taking a couple What you need: 1 pound red Gatorade; minutes to whip up a killer sauce jalapeño peppers (no stems), ½ means I can make regular chicken pound red Serrano peppers (no nuggets for the kids and turn it kid hardly broke stems), 6 cloves peeled garlic, 3 into something worthy of standtablespoons honey, 3 tablespoons a sweat.” out street food for me. It means I tomato paste, 2 tablespoons fish can reheat leftovers that have lost sauce, 1 tablespoon kosher salt their natural flavors and infuse them with something and ½ cup white vinegar. (Pro tip: Stick with just special, in little or no time. It means I can have a de- jalapeño peppers, and be sure to remove seeds and licious meal on the fly and, when the cupboard is ribs, for a slightly milder sauce.) stocked and the mood is right, feel inspired to build How you make it: Chop up the peppers and an entire meal around the sauce rather than the other place them, along with everything else, into a way around. blender. Blend until smooth. Pour into medium Here are three recipes that fit this category for saucepan and bring to boil over high heat. Reduce me, ranging from foolproof simple to requiring a bit to medium heat and cook 10 minutes, stirring occamore prep time but paying off in the end. sionally. Remove from heat and let sauce cool to room temperature. Bottle and refrigerate. Lasts up Peanut Sauce to a week. What you need: ¼ cup chicken or veggie broth, Eat it with: If you’re my buddy, just about any 2 tablespoons peanut butter, 1 tablespoon toasted damn thing.
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Dairy Queen’s Pet Night HANGRIEST HOUR Ambience: It’s a warm Monday evening, and the South Higgins Avenue Dairy Queen bustles with locals who have converged on the establishment for after-dinner sweets. Two blond boys intent on devouring their ice cream cones pay little attention to the soft-serve dripping onto their white T-shirts. Two hungry looking poodles mill about not far from the DQ counter. A woman eyes the menu while cradling a heeler-dachshund cross named Big Eddie. What you’re eating: The South Higgins DQ provides free pet cones every day. But Mondays are special, because people get free stuff, too. On Monday nights, the South Avenue Dairy Queen hosts “Family Pet Night,” when furry and not-so-furry companions receive free ice cream cones and whoever accompanies the pet receives a mini Blizzard at no cost. Who you’re eating with: A Saint Bernard, who wolfs his cone down in three bites, a blue heeler and several mixed-breed dogs, all accompanied by doting human companions. Big Eddie, specifically, appears destined for the good life. Diane Foster, who’s accompanied Eddie on this outing, says he
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just got sprung from the Thompson River Animal Care Shelter the day before. “This is his first trip to the Dairy Queen,” she says. DQ shift manager Melissa Earhart says Pet Night isn’t limited to canines. In fact, Earhart once brought her fish. “I know we’ve had a rabbit,” Earhart says. “And I’ve seen a cat once.” How to find it: Dairy Queen, 1735 S. Higgins. Pet Night is Mondays from 5-11 PM. —Jessica Mayrer Hangriest Hour serves up fresh details on western Montana eats. To recommend a restaurant, dish or chef for Hangriest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.
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Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$
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are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time. We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers! Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate 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. $$-$$$
Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 406-549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges? Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am-2am. $-$$
Plonk 322 N Higgins 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an allencompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.
Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$
Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$
Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. 543-7154 (on the hip strip) Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org. The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Parkers’ Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare. Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers
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Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
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nightlife Make a wave when Tom Catmull’s Radio Static plays Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave., from 5-8 PM. No cover. Smith Henderson reads from his hefty new novel Fourth of July Creek at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 6 PM. Sip in a sultry manner when the Joan Zen Jazz quartet plays the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover.
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Safe sex salad bar? I’d go back for seconds. In honor of National HIV Testing Day, the Open Aid Alliance hits downtown streets from 6-9 PM or so to pass out condoms, lube and info about the HIV/AIDS prevention services in Missoula. Free. Call 543-4770 to learn more. Bellingham folk singer Dana Lyons rolls into town on the Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour, with an upbeat, humorous take on environmental issues. Bring a picnic blanket and snacks, or have some cash ready for the Family Meal truck. Ten Spoon Vineyard, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. 6:30-9 PM. Donations requested. There’s fun in store for the whole family with the Vaudeville Variety Show at the Opera House in Philipsburg, opening tonight and showing on weekends through Aug. 30. Visit operahousetheatre.com for dates and times. Modern Lovers legend and Farelly brothers buddy Jonathan Richman plays the ZACC, with Tommy Larkins on drums, at 7 PM. $15. Advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and 1111presents.com. Venerated country fella Sammy Kershaw plays the Top Hat, along with Shane Clouse. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $27/$23 in advance at tophatlounge.com. Cut loose when the Wild Coyote Band plays dancin’ tunes at the Sunrise Saloon, corner of Strand and Regent. 9 PM. Missoula heavies Shramana rawk out at the Palace, along with Czar, Faus and Arctodus. 9 PM. No cover. Silver mettle. Fitz and the Tantrums play the Wilma Sun., June 29. 7 PM. Advance tickets sold out.
THURSDAYJUNE26 Cream II: The Next Generation gets even creamier with the all-star jam sesh featuring Missoula’s young musicians at Sean Kelly’s. 8 PM. No cover.
I bet you wood be stoked to see the sights at Libby Logger Days, a community celebration with beer garden, logging competitions, water fight and Bull and Bullette of the Woods. June 26-29. Visit loggerdays.org. Undo that keyboard hunchback with Lunch Re-Boot Yoga, a gentle practice with Mary Han-
son. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays, noon-1 PM. $40 for six classes/$9 drop-in.
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Come in like a wrecking ball when the Badlander hosts the new TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $2 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover. Slowglass gets all turnt up for its final residency, this time with very special guests Erica Freas (RVIVR) and Spoonboy (Max Levine Ensemble) plus The Hasslers and Lymph Gnomes (excellent band name). VFW. 10 PM. $5/$8 for ages 18-20. (See Music.)
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FRIDAYJUNE27 Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be a cheesy evening at Zootown Improv sketch comedy and improv at the Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. First St. W. Doors at 6:30 PM for raw improv from 7-8, with main show including sketch comedy at 8:30 PM. Beer, wine and Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizza available. $12/$22 for two if purchased online. Tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com. I bet you wood be stoked to see the sights at Libby Logger Days, a
community celebration with beer garden, logging competitions, water fight and Bull and Bullette of the Woods. June 26-29. Visit loggerdays.org. Show off that hot rod Lincoln with the annual Garden City River Rod Run, which features a parade of nearly 200 classic rigs on Higgins Avenue from 9-10 PM, with car show and shine in Caras Park all day Saturday. Free to spectate.
to feast upon. Just north of Stevensville on Highway 93. 4-9 PM on June 27, 11 AM-9 PM on June 28 and 11 AM6 PM on June 29. $6/$3 for kids 12 and under. This year benefits the Stevensville Pantry Partners Food Bank. (See Spotlight.)
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Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM. No cover. Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a winner at the Missoula Fencing Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olympic Day celebration, with a fencing class for ages 9 to adult. 1200 Shakespeare St. 6-8 PM. Free. Oenophiles and audiophiles alike can kick it to the stylings of Steve Kalling at Ten Spoon Winery, 4175
Rattlesnake Drive. Tunes from 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Safe sex salad bar? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go back for seconds. In honor of National HIV Testing Day, the Open Aid Alliance hits downtown streets from 6-9 PM or so to pass out condoms, lube and info about the HIV/AIDS prevention services in Missoula. Free. Call 5434770 to learn more.
ye olde festival As much as human society changes throughout the centuries, hopefully for the better, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice to think about the joys that are timeless. If you transported back to 14th century Europe, for instance, where women were chattel, the population was recovering from the Black Plague, plumbing was primitive and dentistry nonexistent, it would be pretty weird. But if someone were to hand you a chunk of roasted fowl leg and a mug of beer, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d probably find yourself at ease. The Big Sky Ren Faire offers roasted meats, brewskis and cool outfits of old, plus adequate plumbing, thank goodness. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of just two ren faires in the state, and the only one in western Montana, according to board member Jamie Lawrence. WHAT: Big Sky Renaissance Faire WHEN: Fri., June 27, 4-9 PM, Sat., June 28, 11 AM-9 PM and Sun., June 29, 11 AM-6 PM WHERE: One mile north of Stevensville on Highway 93 HOW MUCH: $6/$3 for kids 12 and under MORE INFO: bigskyrf.com
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She says the annual shindig offers lords and ladies strolling about in period costumes, local artsy vendors and all manner of feasting and revelry, plus jousting contests and Society for Creative Anachronism demonstrations. Friday night kicks things off with opening ceremonies, parade, Moroccanthemed Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feast and a pirate wedding. (The pirates arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t real, but the wedding part is.) Big Sky Ren Faire is, as you might guess, a place for passionate, creative, crafty people to convene, from local mead brewers to armor manufacturers.
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Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival went on despite triple-digit temperatures. It takes some dedication to keep wearing a full-length dress and corset in that kind of weather. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s temperatures promise to be milder, so dress up to your heartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content or just take in the action. Either way, proceeds from this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s festival go toward the Stevensville Pantry Partners food bank. People getting together for a good time and a good cause should never go out of style. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kate Whittle
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Tourists these days, man. Portland’s P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. play the VFW Fri., June 27. 10 PM. Cover TBA.
Hilarity ensues when a young woman has to move back in with her obnoxious parents in Current Conditions, opening at the Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg. 7 PM. Showing on weekends through Aug. 30. Check operahousetheatre.com for dates and times. Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 7:30-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more. Comb those whiskers before the Fox Den DJs play electronic tunes to heat up the evening at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover. Solve dilemmas the simple way when solo dude Rock Paper Gary plays banjo, uke, piano, synth, harmonica and geetar. Palace. 9 PM. No cover. Lil’ Smokies and Cash For Junkers present tunes to accompany general revelry at the Top Hat. 9 PM. $7.
Hang out with the coolest babes around when Needlecraft presents a record release show at Stage 112, along with hunks like MASS FM, Boys, J. Sherri and Cool Death. 9 PM. $5. 18-plus. (See Music.) Sisters are singin’ it for themselves at Ladies Night featuring Maiah Wynne, Micah Nielsen, Robyn Shepherd and Kappa Oie. Sean Kelly’s. 9 PM. No cover. Become at peace with your inner party spirit when Joan Zen Band plays the Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover. The 406 Band plays all the right dance numbers at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. No cover. Find out that there’s more to life than being ridiculously good-looking when Aaron Traylor hosts the new Top-40 dance night Zoolander at the
Badlander. 10 PM. No cover, plus Montana Moonshine drink specials. R.O.C.K. in the USA when Portland’s P.R.O.BL.E.M.S play the VFW. 10 PM. Cover TBA.
SATURDAYJUNE28 A tasty potluck and tangy company is on tap when Brooklyn violinist Skye Steele brings his fierce hair and tunes to VonCommon, along with Ben Simon and J&J Hauling Co. (aka Aaron Jennings and Dave Johnson.) 1909 Wyoming St., #7. 7 PM. Bring a dish to share and $5-$10 for the touring act. Get hot coffee, baked treats, fresh produce and bump into all the friendly acquaintances you can handle at the Missoula Farmers Market, now running for 42 years. 8 AM-1 PM.
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[calendar] the clinic on Fridays, or call 363-8637 to learn how else to help. (See Agenda.) Idaho travel writer and columnist Sandy Compton reads from selected new works at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 10:30 AM. Come ye lords, ladies and peons alike to the Big Sky Renaissance Faire, featuring live performances from knights, maidens, belly dancers, archers and much more, plus ales and meats to feast upon. Just north of Stevensville on Highway 93. 4-9 PM on June 27, 11 AM-9 PM on June 28 and 11 AM-6 PM on June 29. $6/$3 for kids 12 and under. This year benefits the Stevensville Pantry Partners Food Bank. photo courtesy of Jerry Brenner
Seeing red. The Garden City River Rod Run features a 200-plus car parade down Higgins Avenue on Fri., June 27, followed by car show in Caras Park through Saturday. Free.
I bet you wood be stoked to see the sights at Libby Logger Days, a community celebration with beer garden, logging competitions, water fight and Bull and Bullette of the Woods. June 26-29. Visit loggerdays.org. The Great Falls Autism Conference features keynote speaker Temple Grandin, along with Beth Aune, Sean Barron and Miss Montana 2012, Alexis Wineman. Mansfield Convention Center in Great Falls. 7
AM-4:30 PM. $65-$130. Call 800489-0727 for info. Early rising produce-seekers, occasional walk-of-shamers and waffle sandwich lovers rejoice, the Clark Fork Market is back in action under the Higgins Bridge. Saturdays through October from 8 AM1 PM. Prime people-watching is available for the Missoula People’s Market,
which features all kindsa arts and crafts and tasty treats on the street at E. Pine and Higgins. Saturday mornings through September. The Ravalli Women’s Center, in an effort to make up for lost funding, presents the Hunt For Treasure rummage sale with neat stuff at the parking lot at 303 N. Third St. 9 AM-2 PM. Proceeds support women’s health services in the Bitterroot. Drop off items for donation at
nightlife We can’t all be a metalcore super group from Phoenix, so live vicariously through the Dead Rabbitts, who play Stage 112 along with Relapse Symphony, Myka Relocate and Nightmares. Doors at 5:30 PM. $12/$10 in advance at Rockin Rudy’s, plus $5 surcharge for minors. All ages. It’s summertime and the cotton’s high, baby, so kick back when Rhanda Johnson and Easy Living play the Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover. The Ten Skip Stone trio plays bluegrassy originals at the Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6-8:30 PM. No cover. A little sip of red will smooth things out nicely while Britchy plays pleasing tunes at the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175
Rattlesnake Drive. Tunes from 6-8:30 PM. No cover. Put down that plate of crow and order something tasty when Ryan Bundy plays the Top Hat dinner show at 7 PM. No cover. Get hot to trot with the Missoula Tango’s dance, on the fourth Saturday of every month at Red Bird. 7:30 to 10 PM. No cover, with impromptu lessons for beginners. Learn more at tangomissoula.com. You can be positively sure that Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo will juice up the joint at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. 2-for-1 Absolut drinks until midnight. Now free. The 406 Band plays all the right dance numbers at the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave., from 9:30 PM to close. No cover. Band in Motion plays tunes to get in gear to at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.
SUNDAYJUNE29 The Target Range Farmers Market gets into the swing of the season with several local produce vendors, out at 4095 South Ave. W. 10 AM-2 PM, Sundays through Sept. 28. I bet you wood be stoked to see the sights at Libby Logger Days, a community celebration with beer garden, logging competitions, water fight and Bull and Bullette of the Woods. June 26-29. Visit loggerdays.org.
Beach babes. Geographer plays the Top Hat Tue., July 1, along with The Hasslers. 8 PM. $12/$10 in advance. 18-plus. Visit tophatlounge.com.
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[calendar] 5205 Grant Creek Dr., and work on your elk-camp locution with the best. All are invited. Noon–1 PM. Free.
Families, hipsters, hipsters with families and whoever else that leaves out are invited to the summer Missoula MADE Fair, a craft-a-palooza in Caras Park from 10 AM-5 PM. Peruse missoulamadefair.com.
Work out those toxins before feeling the groove with the Michael Franti and Spearhead Soulshine tour, which features a yoga session from 3-5 PM and concert with Soja and Brett Dennen starting at 5:30. Big Sky Brewery Amphitheater. $51 for both/$20 for just yoga/$41 for concert. Tickets at the Big Sky taproom, Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com. Free shuttle departs from the Rhino around 5:30; see the Rhino’s Facebook for info.
Come ye lords, ladies and peons alike to the Big Sky Renaissance Faire, featuring live performances from knights, maidens, belly dancers, archers and much more, plus ales and meats to feast upon. Just north of Stevensville on Highway 93. 4-9 PM on June 27, 11 AM-9 PM on June 28 and 11 AM-6 PM on June 29. $6/$3 for kids 12 and under. This year benefits the Stevensville Pantry Partners Food Bank. (See Spotlight.)
Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40. Students must have doctor’s okay.
nightlife Bottoms up, bottoms up, when Top House plays tunes at Draught Works Brewery. 915 Toole Ave. 5-7 PM. No cover. LA’s perky popmeisters Fitz and the Tantrums cut loose at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. Advance tickets sold out. Close out the weekend in style at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis from 7:30 PM to midnight, plus live jazz and DJs. Starts at 8 PM with Front Street Jazz. Free.
MONDAYJUNE30 If “multigenerational karaoke” don’t get your heart aflutter, perhaps raffles and prizes will at the Garden City Sing-A-Song at Sean Kelly’s. 7-9 PM. Donations requested. Proceeds will benefit the Missoula Senior Center. The independent producers of the upcoming film The Bridge Between Starshine and Clay host open auditions in the small boardroom at the Missoula Public Library. Roles sought include a male in his late 40s and women in their 20s, 40s-50s and two 18-year olds. 11 AM-6 PM. Email wmtacu@gmail.com for more info.
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nightlife Front-row seats to the action. Chevelle plays the Wilma Mon., June 30. Doors at 7 PM. $32.50/$29.50 in advance at jadepresents.com or Rockin Rudy’s.
Grab that ol’ trombone and head on over to Sentinel High School’s band room, where the Missoula City Band rehearses from 7-9 PM to practice before the Wednesday concert at Bonner Park. Call 728-2400, ext. 7041.
here’s a question: What was the first video shown on MTV on Aug. 1, 1981? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.
Rye Bones and Ryan Bundy shake, rattle ‘n roll at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., from 7-10 PM. No cover.
Patty Hearse, Old Ghost and Mr. Soap team up in remembrance of Tuesdays past and Wednesdays to come at the Live and Local Night at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover. Trivia answer: “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
Alt rock outfit Chevelle turns it up to, presumably, 11 at the Wilma. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $32.50/$29.50 in advance at jadepresents.com/chevelle-missoula or Rockin Rudy’s. Open mic at the VFW, 245 W. Main St., seems like a fine idea, especially with 2-for-1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. 10 PM. Free. Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. To tantalize those neurons,
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Watch your little ones master tree pose in no time during yoga at the Children’s Museum of Missoula. 11 AM. 225 W. Front. $4.25. Hey hunters and other liars, come on down to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation conference room for Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters, at
It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, out on the corner of Third and Reserve, presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900. Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM twostep and 8 PM country cha-cha.
The Missoula Public Library’s online book club discussion begins today for James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss. Call 721-BOOK for info or find The Trail 103.3 Book Group on goodreads.com. Brianna Randall and other expecting mamas host a Prenatal Strengthen and Stretch Class that combines yoga and toning exercises. Oula Studio, 1900 W. Broadway Suite E, Tuesdays through July 8 from 10:4511:45 AM. $7. Bring a yoga mat.
Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25.
nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages. The Literary Elements film series kicks off to accompany the summer reading series at the Missoula Public Library. 6 PM. Call 721-BOOK or visit missoulapubliclibrary.org.
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[calendar] The Opera House Theater presents the opening for Wife Begins At Forty, a light-hearted take on midlife crisis, with performances running on weekends through August. 140 S. Sansome St. in Philipsburg. Visit operahousetheatre.com for ticket info and times.
Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages. Cyclists of a certain age are welcome to the Singles of Missoula Tuesday evening summer bike rides, where you’ll meet behind Conlin’s Furniture near 1600 S. North St. W. to ride the bike trail and possible get ice cream. Call 251-2616 for info. ‘Frisco trio Geographer plays synthy alt-rock tunes at the Top Hat, along with The Hasslers. Doors at 8 PM, show at 8:30. $12/$10 in advance. 18-plus. Check out tophatlounge.com.
All aboard for the annual Blues Cruise, with live music from Three Eared Dog and a cash bar aboard the Far West Boat, which departs from the dock in Lakeside at 7 PM and floats Flathead Lake til 9 PM. $25. Call 8573119 for reservations and information.
Idaho metalcore band (oh, you read that right) The Ongoing Concept plays the Palace, along with FUULS. 9 PM. No cover.
Who knows, maybe you’ll come out ahead when Dark Horse Country Band plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1101 Strand Ave. 9 PM. No cover. Shake what your mama gave you when the Groovetrotters, featuring a lineup of a dad and his four sons, plays reggae, funk and jazz at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.
WEDNESDAYJULY2 Leslie Budewitz reads from her savory new foodie mystery, Crime Rib, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. Get a calming start to the morning with the Weekly Sit Meditation at the Learning Center at Red Willow. Wednesdays, 7:30-8:15 AM. Previous experience meditating is helpful. $35 for four weeks/$8 drop-in. Hold all my calls, Sally, for I’m stepping down to Caras Park for Out to Lunch, which runs from 11 AM-2 PM on Wednesdays with live local music and all manner of tasty things served out of food trucks. Yoga for Round Bodies with Leslie Burgess tailors to bigger folks who want to start yoga-ing. Learning Center at Red Willow, Wednesdays from noon-1:15 PM. Doctor’s release required. $80 for eight-week series. Brianna Randall and other expecting mamas host a Prenatal Strengthen and Stretch Class that combines yoga and toning exercises. Downtown Dance Collective, Wednesdays through July 2 from 4-5 PM. $35 for four classes/$25 for members. Bring a yoga mat.
Bad case of sex hair. Soja plays the Big Sky Brewery Amphitheater, along with Michael Franti and Spearhead, Tue., July 1. Yoga session from 3-5 PM, concert at 5:30. $51 for both/$20 for just yoga/$41 for concert. Tickets at the Big Sky taproom, Rockin Rudy’s and knittingfactory.com. Free shuttle available from the Rhino; see the Rhino’s Facebook page for more details.
The Jocko Valley Farmers Market presents wholesome produce, tasty baked goods and general cheer at the parking lot of the Hangin’ Art Gallery in Arlee. 4-7 PM on Wednesdays.
nightlife Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the T’ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. First Wednesday of the month from 6:30—7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in. Sip a giggle water and get zozzled, baby, with the Top Hat’s weekly Jazz Night. 7 PM. Free, all ages. July 2 features the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Quartet. Feel the grass between your toes, breeze in your hair and tunes in your ears at the Missoula City Band con-
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certs, in Bonner Park every Wednesday at 8 PM. Free. July 2 features a Patriotic Prelude. Local DJs deliver tunes and libations at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.
THURSDAYJULY3 The 19th annual Arlee Celebration 3 on 3 Jamboree features divisions for youth and adults, including coed teams, at the Thomas Lyles Memorial Courts at the Arlee Pow Wow Grounds. Last-chance registration at Wilson Foods on June 30 from 6-7 PM. Check out missionvalley3on3.com. Check out all the pretty horses— but avoid romantic entanglements with beautiful Mexican women—at the
Western Montana Quarter Horse and Paint Horse Show, July 3-6 at the Sapphire Event Center off the Eastside Highway in Corvallis. Competitors from five states and Canada will vie for who has the finest horseflesh. Check out sapphireeventcenterllc.com. Undo that keyboard hunchback with Lunch Re-Boot Yoga, a gentle practice with Mary Hanson. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays, noon-1 PM. $40 for six classes/$9 drop-in.
nightlife Thursday is the new Friday, so let’s get the weekend started with Downtown ToNight, wherein an array of local music, food and beverage is available for your afternoon enjoyment at Caras Park. 5:308:30 PM.
Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Missoula’s Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club. Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free. Come in like a wrecking ball when the Badlander hosts the new TNT dance party, featuring hot Top 40 trax and a rotating cast of DJs. $2 well drinks from 9 PM to midnight. No cover. Mudslide Charley slings a bucket of blues at the Top Hat. starting at 10 PM. No cover.
Your father smelt of elderberries. Submit events to Calapatra the Calendar Mistress at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.
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MOUNTAIN HIGH If you’ve always been a fan of playing in the dirt, here’s an adventure to dive into: the Great Divide Mucker run on June 28, with three miles of obstacle courses like stream crossings, hurdles, cargo-net climbs and commando-style rope climbs. This is untimed, and less about competition than everyone getting “as goofy wearing running shoes as they ever have or will again,” according to the site. If you’re in decently good shape, this is totally achievable. Wear whatever outfit motivates you to run, like a leotard, cape or Goodwill prom dress, keeping in mind you’ll never be able to wear it again. If you’re one of those types who likes a little mid-race carboloading, there’s a pit stop for mid-race beers, too. (A kid-sized version of the course lets ages 6-12, accompanied by a parent, get
their grime on, too.) Post-run festivities include more beer, food and an open-air shower to rinse off. If this all sounds tempting, but you’re already scheduled for a different sort of dirty weekend, no fear; there’s plenty of time to plan for the Missoula Mucker on Sept. 6. —Kate Whittle The Great Divide Mucker, a three-mile obstacle course run that promises stream crossings, commando-style rope climbs, hurdles, cargo net climbs, slippery slopes and, of course, lots of mud. Great Divide Ski Area on Belmont Drive outside Helena. Sat., June 28, starting at 8:30 AM. Registration and race details at montanamucker.com.
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FRIDAY JUNE 27 Newbies and experienced canoers alike can find a contest to suit ‘em at the Open Canoe Slalom Nationals, on the Roundup Rapid on the Blackfoot River, mile marker 26.7 on Highway 200. International racers compete June 27-29. Visit 2014opencanoenationals.com.
SATURDAY JUNE 28 Intrepid cyclists are advised to enjoy the 66 feet of descent at the Beartooth Blitz starting line, ‘cause it’s 4,700 feet of climbing over 23 miles from there, baby. Race activities are based at Rock Creek Resort, six miles south of Red Lodge. Check out headwatersstudio.com. Celebrate the Swan by getting acquainted with some of the 98 miles of recreation trails along the Swan Front and Mission Mountains Wilderness, with footraces including a half-marathon, 10K, 5K and 1mile, plus 13- and 34-mile trips for bicycles. Register by June 20 at swanecosystemcenter.org. The RATPOD (Ride Around the Pioneers in One Day) is a 130-mile bike junket to benefit Camp Mak-A-Dream. Registration is full, but check out ratpod.org to get on the waiting list. You betcha it’ll be scenic at the seventh annual Mountain to Meadow Half-Marathon and 5K Fun Run, which starts at the Lolo Pass Visitor Center and winds through forests of Englemann spruce and subalpine fir. 8:30 AM Mountain Time start. Visit runlolopass.org. The Montana Sierra Club invites y’all along for the 12-mile round-trip Refrigerator Canyon Trail near
Helena, with about 1,200 feet of elevation gain. For time and meetup info, email Jonathan at jmatthews@carroll.edu. Learn about conservation and ranching in the upper Blackfoot Valley with the all-day Five Valleys Audubon. Meet at the northwest corner of the Adams Center parking lot for a carpool leaving at 7 AM. Bring a lunch and dress for the weather. Call Jim for more info at 549-8052. If you’re missing RATPOD this year but still wanna ride around with peeps, the Missoulians on Bicycles meet up at McCormick Park at 10 AM and decide on a destination. Surprises! Wee! Visit missoulabike.org.
SUNDAY JUNE 29 Multitask with the best of ‘em at the Bozeman Tritons Triathlon, which now features an Olympicdistance race option (1500m swim, 40K bike, 10K run) along with a sprint (750m swim, 20K bike, 5K run) and junior version. Visit bozemantritons.org/tritonstri/race-info. Ages 12 and up can come along on the Montana Sierra Club’s Clark Fork river float and waterside lunch in the Bonner/Milltown area. For time and meetup info, contact John at yodelingdog@hotmail.com.
TUESDAY JULY 1 The always down-to-earth Montana Dirt Girls host a hike or bike ride every Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the Montana Dirt Girls page on Facebook for ride info.
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Ravalli County made headlines, and not in a good way, last year when its county commission voted against accepting Title X funds for low-income women’s health care services. It cost the commissioners nothing to accept those funds, but losing access to services doubtless cost hundreds of women in the area a lot of money, time and, potentially, their health. But take heart, because as an outreach program of Sapphire Community Health, the new Ravalli Women’s Wellness Center has established a nonprofit, volunteer-run resource for low-income women in the area. The clinic offers basic services like pelvic exams, cancer screenings, STI testing, pregnancy counseling and contraceptive services, all on a sliding-fee scale, all from volunteer doctors and nurses.
The clinic still needs funding, though, and aims to raise $86,000 to support services for more than 400 women in the next year. The upcoming Hunt for Treasure rummage sale on June 28 is part of that effort. If you’re in the area, you can drop off items for donation the day before, or just peruse the sale for neat stuff on Saturday. Every bit helps. —Kate Whittle The Ravalli Women’s Wellness Center presents the Hunt For Treasure rummage sale, 303 N. Third St. in Hamilton, Sat., June 28. 9 AM–2 PM. Proceeds support women's health services in the Bitterroot. Drop off items for donation at the clinic on Friday, or call 363-8637 to learn how else to help.
[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY JUNE 26 The Vestibular Dysfunction Local Support Group meets every third Thursday of the month to share experiences and increase awareness at Element Physical Therapy, 2455 Dixon Ave. Noon-1 PM. Visit elementpt.com. Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free. You don’t have to be a time lord or a doctor to check out the Missoula Time Bank, in which members exchange skills and services instead of money. Orientations at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center on the fourth Thursdays of the month. 7 PM. RSVP required at info@missoulatimebank.org. Check out missoulatimebank.org.
FRIDAY JUNE 27 The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins Bridge from 12:15-12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.
SATURDAY JUNE 28 Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.
MONDAY JUNE 30 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129
W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.
TUESDAY JULY 1 Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays. Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955. The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at the Ewam Buddhist Center, S. Third Ave W. 5:30-6:30 PM. Call Clare at 721-8224. Local activists host a reading and fundraiser in honor of the seven people arrested in April while peacefully protesting coal trains in Missoula. Guests include Poet Laureate Sheryl Noethe. Union Hall, 78:30 PM. Donations requested. Check out blueskiesmt.com/rsvp.
WEDNESDAY JULY 2 Give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a nonviolent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Noon. Free. Now meeting on Wednesdays.
THURSDAY JULY 3 Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.
AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also email entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 JASMINE• Jasmine is a 2-3 year-old female Pit Bull. She came to the shelter because her owner was arrested and he could no longer care for her. She is a dominant female that does get along with some other dogs. Jasmine would do best in a cat-free home. She is very playful and can run/hike for hours without getting tired. ROWDY•Rowdy is a 3-4 year-old male heeler. He is true to his breed-smart, active, and needs a job. He would make a great ranch dog for a family that is used to heelers.
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CRISSY•Crissy is our long-term resident at the shelter. SHE NEEDS A HOME! She is a 3-4 year-old female cat. Crissy does need to be the only cat in the home. She also requires a corn-free diet. Crissy is very loving and will purr for hours when getting attention. We desperately want to find Crissy a home. Come meet Crissy.
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HECTOR•Hector is a 2-4 year-old male brown tiger/white cat. He had a rough life before coming to the shelter. He had a lot of health issues but he is now in good health and is looking for a great home. Hector may look a little rough around the edges still, but he is a lover.
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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 SYLVESTER• It’s finally time! Sylvester has waited so long, he has a feeling that June is his month. Paw it forward this June by donating to Cat Corner Spring Spruce Up Fund. Make a donation to help improve life for cats at the Humane Society of Western Montana and adopt a cat for free. Sylvester is sure that’s his ticket home.
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RJ• RJ is a snuggle bug. She loves to be held and enjoys hanging out with her sister, Furry. She is friendly and social with people, including kids. RJ loves her scratching post, which helps this inside cat get exercise and flex her claws (with which she is very gentle). RJ would like to be adopted with Furry. Did you see how cute her crossed eyes are?
BENJAMIN•Benjamin This confident fellow is one of the most unique and charming boys you will ever meet! Benjamin loves toys, treats, and talking. He has a very funny meow that is sure to keep a smile on your face. Benjamin is very intelligent and is a master of using interactive food toys. He is full of personality and wit.
FURRY• Furry and RJ love people of all ages, but new human additions to their household have pet allergies and these two senior ladies find themselves needing a new home. Furry enjoys being held, using her cardboard scratcher (pick one up in our reTail store!) and snuggling with her sister, RJ. These two girls qualify for our Seniors for Senior program.
EMMA•Emma Beans can be a little shy at first but she loves to play with her toys and enjoys being spoiled with treats. This beautiful feline is ready to find her forever home. Visit her at The Humane Society of Western Montana today! This June make a donation to help improve life for cats at the Humane Society of Western Montana and adopt a cat for free.
BETTY• Betty is a very sweet, snuggly cat who loves a nice warm lap that comes with lots of pets! Unfortunately her previous owner recently passed away, but Betty would love to become a part of your family where she can continue to give all her affection. She is declawed and content to spend her days indoors. Come meet her at the shelter today!
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BRIDLE PARTY I'm going to a friend's bachelor party in Vegas, which includes a strip club visit. My girlfriend said I have to sit that out. She believes going could lead me to cheat on her. I assured her that I have no intention of cheating—ever—and strippers have no interest in me anyway. Well, she's adamant. I caved, agreeing to skip the strip club, but my friends' teasing will be merciless. What if I just go and fib to my girlfriend to keep everyone happy? —Restricted Unless your girlfriend's name is Moses and she's just come back from a mountaintop chat with God, she doesn't get to hand down commandments: "You look at some other woman's woohoobies and I'll ask The Big Guy to smite you." Regarding your caving to her demand, you should un-cave; go to that club with your friends. Not secretly. Openly. In other words, tell her you're doing it. Because an adult shouldn't get to control another adult's behavior, and being in a relationship doesn't change that. Also, allowing her to give you orders sets a really bad precedent. (What will she object you out of doing next? And how soon before she fits you for a leash and a bark collar?) A bachelor party is a male friendship ritual. While women tend to share their feelings Oprah's couch-style, men often bond through drinking, ribbing, and humiliation, like forcing their soon-to-be-married buddy to get onstage on his hands and knees to be spanked by the stripper. Your girlfriend seems to have given no thought to the social repercussions of your telling the guys your governess is making you stay back in your hotel room and watch a movie. (Would "Fried Green Tomatoes" work for her, or would she prefer you watch something on the Lifetime channel?) And sure, sex for pay is easily findable in Vegas. However, a typical bachelor party visit to a Vegas strip club takes place not at some seedy, out-of-the way joint where anything goes but at a ginormous corporate warehouse of stripping where some 6'8" genetic experiment of a man makes sure no male paws wander anywhere on the dancer they aren't supposed to. The strippers at these places can make 100K a year just dancing, and they aren't looking to the crowd for sex or boyfriends. (Their primary job isn't even dancing but stripping men of their money.) You could have reassured her about all of this if you each hadn't taken the emotionally easy way out. Instead of talk-
ing about her fears, she went all ayatollah on you, and instead of standing up for yourself, you figured you'd just lie to her. Problem-avoiding—rather than laying out your feelings and problem-solving—tends to bode poorly for a relationship's survival. Backtrack and try a little adult conversation. You just might convince her that looking isn't the gateway drug to cheating—much like ogling a Porsche doesn't lead to grand theft auto and watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" doesn't mean you're just one big power tool away from dismembering people.
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JUNE WETTING My fiancee and I are getting married in Hawaii. She planned to have photos shot of us afterward, kissing in the ocean in our formalwear. I'm fine with this, but her dad is absolutely irate. We don't want kids, so there won't be any daughter to pass her dress to. Then again, her dad paid almost $3,000 for it, so I get where he's coming from. — Middleman There's her father growling, "Why not just flush my money down the toilet?" (Best that she not answer that with, "I actually had my heart set on taking it out to the ocean and drowning it.") Your fiancee is looking to get in on a trend called "trash the dress," in which the bride gets photographed, post-wedding, destroying her dress while running through muddy woods, playing paintball, frolicking in the city dump, or throwing herself in the ocean. In concept, I love the "elegance goes for a muddy stroll" photos. However, I think this trend is pretty horrible, even when the bride— rather than the National Bank of Dad— has paid for her dress and is thus entitled to do whatever she wants with it. Maybe a far more wonderful final photo in your wedding album would be one of another bride—one who can't afford a dress or much of a dress—walking down the aisle in your wife-to-be's $3,000 gown. You'd be kicking off your marriage with an act of kindness, and she could still do the shot in the ocean— say, in a $35 sundress—or perhaps on the beach, dancing around the fire you light to burn all of your wedding gifts.
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Africa, Brazil Work/Study! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply today! www.OneWorldCenter.org (269) 591-0518 info@OneWorldCenter.org SOAPMAKER’S ASSISTANT BOTANIE SOAP is seeking a SOAPMAKER’S ASSISTANT who is creative, positive, upbeat, and looking for a permanent work position.. This is a physically demanding job. Requires the following: ability to work Monday - Friday, 6am 2pm; ability to lift up to 50 lbs and stand for long periods of time. CLOSES JUNE 30TH, 4 PM. $9.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10058043
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Nelson Personnel is working with a well-established law firm who is need of an experienced bookkeeper. **This is a full-time position, beginning initially on a temporary-to-hire basis. **Pay begins at $10/HR with an immediate raise upon hire. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10058091 ELECTION ADMINISTRATOR Seeking a regular, full-time ELECTION ADMINISTRATOR. Requires a Bachelor’s level degree. Degrees best suited for this position may include business
administration or public administration. ***CLOSE DATE: 06/30/14. $64,043.00 Yearly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employ missoula.com. Job# 10058079 Hospice Volunteer Coordinator The Volunteer Coordinator is a member of the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) who is responsible for the recruitment, retention, coordination, training, and supervision of volunteers to provide services in support of hospice patients and families. This position acts as a liaison between hospice and the communities it serves; ensures the required volume of volunteer services; maintains volunteer records in accordance with hospice policies and Federal and State regulations; and delegates tasks to volunteers as a means to manage multiple priorities. Schedule is part-time (generally 24 hours per week). Eligible for benefits. Requirements include bachelors degree in health, social or human services (directly related experience may be substituted for degree), a valid drivers license, appropriate auto insurance, and reliable transportation. 1 year of previous hospice or volunteer experience. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10058137 ANCHOR / REPORTER KPAX COMMUNICATIONS INC is seeking to hire a full-time ANCHOR / REPORTER. Requires a College Degree in Journalism. Applicant should have two years professional experience as an anchor or reporter. A Producing background is a plus. We are
seeking a true journalist with solid editorial judgment. Applicant needs to be a self-starter, a positive influence in the newsroom, with good communication skills. Must possess a valid driver license with adequate automobile insurance and a good driving record. Will anchor and produce weekday 5:30 and 10:00 PM newscasts in our Missoula studio for sister-station which covers Northwest Montana. In addition, the candidate will anchor other newscasts, report, shoot video, and edit as needed. Candidate will also coordinate news coverage with a three-person staff based in Kalispell. Work is full-time, weekday afternoon - evenings. Wage is depending on experience. EOE Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10057975 LEGAL ASSISTANT Missoula law firm is looking for an experienced family law/litigation LEGAL ASSISTANT. $11.00 $15.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10058143 Volunteer Coordinator Missoula non-profit is seeking a Volunteer Coordinator whose primary responsibility would be recruiting, supervising volunteers and facilitating one agency training per year. This position is also responsible for quarterly reporting as well as case and volunteer data management. Q$11.00 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10058071
DAY CARE ASSISTANT SUBSTITUTE VAN NICE FAMILY DAYCARE. Substitute CHILD CARE ASSISTANT needed for this established at home day care business. Daycare hours are 7:40AM - 5:15PM, Monday Friday. Shifts vary - position is part time, will be needed for fillin and to cover absences & vacations. Wage is DOE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service: employmissoula.com. Job# 10058069 anted:Advancement Director Blue Mountain Clinic has an opening for a full-time Advancement Director! The person in this position has overall responsibility for Blue Mountain Clinicís event management, grant/donor cultivation and maintenance, educational outreach /advocacy programs, marketing, and external communications including: newsletters, website content, and public speaking. The ideal candidate will have experience and skills in non-profit organizational work, event and database management, donor relations, and written communications. Must be pro-choice. Salary range to start is low to mid-30K a year depending on experience. Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to Annie Hansen at annie@bluemountainclinic.org or to 610 N. California St. Missoula, MT 59802. Guitar Instructor The Missoula Childbloom Guitar Program is seeking a part-time instructor to work with children ages 5-12. Applicants must have music reading skills, an understanding of classical guitar tech-
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By Rob Brezsny
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Japanese word tsundoku describes what happens if you buy a lot of books but never read them, leaving them piled up in a neglected heap. I recommend that you avoid indulging in tsundoku any time soon, Gemini. In fact, I urge you not to acquire any resources that you then proceed to ignore. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it's crucial to make conscientious use of your tools and riches. To let them go to waste would be to dishonor them, and make it less likely that you will continue to receive their blessings in the future. Take full advantage of what's yours.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you could harness the energy from a typical lightning bolt, you would be able to use it to toast 100,000 slices of bread. That's an impossible scenario, of course. But I see it as an apt metaphor for the challenge you have ahead of you. I suspect you will soon get access to a massive influx of vital force that arrives in a relatively short time. Can you find a way to gather it in and store it up? Or will most of it, after the initial burst, leak away and be unavailable for long-term use? The secret to success will lie in whether you can figure out how to create the perfect "container."
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "Forget the suffering / You caused others. / Forget the suffering / Others caused you." Czeslaw Milosz wrote these words in his poem "Forget," and now I'm passing them on to you. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to purge the old hurts you are still carrying, both those you dealt out and those you endured. Opportunities like this don't come along often, Leo. I invite you to repay emotional debts, declare amnesty, and engage in an orgy of forgiveness. Any other things you can think of that will help wipe the slate clean?
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When a Navajo baby laughs for the first time, everyone in the community celebrates. It's regarded as the moment when the child completes his or her transition from the spirit realm into the physical world. The person who has provoked the baby's laughter is charged with planning the First Laugh Ceremony, a party to commemorate the magical event. I foresee a comparable development in your life, Virgo. You won't be laughing for the first time, of course, but I suspect your sense of humor will reach a new ripeness. How? Maybe you will be able to find amusement in things you have always taken too seriously. Maybe you will suddenly have a deeper appreciation for life's ongoing cosmic jokes. Or perhaps you will stumble upon reasons to laugh longer and harder and louder than you ever have before.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Would you like to be free from the experience of getting criticized? Do you think it might be nice if no one ever accused you of being wrong or off-track? If so, here's how you should proceed, says American writer Elbert Hubbard: "Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." But I'm afraid I can't recommend that behavior for you, Libra. In the coming weeks, you have a sacred duty to your Future Self to risk being controversial. I urge you to take strong stands, speak raw truths, and show your real feelings. Yes, you may attract flack. You might disturb the peace. But that will be an acceptable price to pay for the rewards you receive. This is one time when being courageous is more important than seeking harmony.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any," said American writer Mark Twain. How do you respond to that impish nudge, Scorpio? Are there any geniuses and heroes out there whom you consider to be worthy of your respect? If not, I urge you to go out in search of some. At this phase of your evolution, you are in special need of people who inspire you with their greatness. It's crucial for you to learn from teachers and role models who are further along than you are in their mastery of the game of life. I also believe it would be healing for you to feel waves of admiration and reverence.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Everyone has something to hide," declared Russian author Anton Chekhov. Is that true? Do even you blunt Sagittarians have something to hide? I'm going to say that for 90 percent of you, the answer is yes. There are secrets you don't want anyone to find out about: past events you are reluctant to disclose or shady deeds you are getting away with now or taboo thoughts you want to keep sealed away from public knowledge. I'm not here to scold you about them or to encourage you to spill them. On the contrary, I say it's time to bring them fully into your conscious awareness, to honor their importance to your life story, and to acknowledge their power to captivate your imagination.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A German chemist named Felix Hoffman had a prominent role in synthesizing two very different drugs: aspirin and heroin. In analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I see you as having a similar potential. You could create good stuff that will have the power to help and heal; or you could generate borderline stuff that will lead to a lot of problems; or you could do both. How it all plays out really is up to your free will. For best results, set your intention to go in the direction of things like aspirin and away from things like heroin.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) had an unusual fetish. He enjoyed eating apples and pears and other fruits while they were still hanging on the tree. Why? Maybe because the taste was as pure and brisk and naked as it could possibly be— an experience that I imagine would be important to a romantic poet like him. In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest you use Coleridge's quest for ultimate freshness as a driving metaphor in the coming week. Go to the source to get what you need. Dispense with intermediaries. Be as raw as the law allows.
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PUBLIC NOTICES MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DR-114-328 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: HAYLEY JEAN WRIGHT, Petitioner, and STEVEN LUDWIG, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner’s attorney within twentyone days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a dissolution of marriage. There is no real property involved in this action. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, the 18th day
of June, 2014. SHIRLEY E. FAUST, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Heather Olean, Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 1, 2014, 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: A portion of Lot 73 of Dinsmore’s Orchard Homes No. 5, Missoula County, Montana, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point of the South boundary of said Lot 73, which point is equidistant from the East and West boundary lines of said Lot, thence North a distance of 260 feet; thence East to the East boundary of said Lot 73; thence South along the East boundary of said Lot to the Southeast corner thereof; thence West along the South boundary of said Lot to the point of beginning, as recorded in Book 1 of Plats at
MNAXLP Page 10. Kenneth M Bohenek, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 24, 2010 and recorded September 29, 2010 in Book 866 Page 925 under Document No 201018832. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association (“FNMA”). 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 $812.34, beginning November 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 March 18,
2014 is $149,889.62 principal, interest at the rate of 4.625% now totaling $3,211.38, late charges in the amount of $396.74, escrow advances of $440.83 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,204.68, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.99 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, except-
ing only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as
would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 21, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 21st day of March, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing in-
strument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Seterus V Bohenek 42008.880 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 28, 2014, 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: Tract B2 of Certificate of Survey No. 1593, Located in the Northeast One- Quarter of Section 34, Township 11 North, Rage 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana Yevgeniy P Kirichenko and Tamara Kirichenko, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as
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PUBLIC NOTICES Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 2008 and Recorded May 12, 2008 in Book 818, Page 1115 under Document No. 200810739. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Trustee The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $791.72, beginning November 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 March 1, 2014 is $148,578.68 principal, interest at the rate of 4.625% now totaling $2,854.76, late charges in the amount of $251.14 and other fees and expenses advanced of $188.14, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.83 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by
public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 21, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 21st day of March, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Guild V Kirichenko 41291.913 Joan E. Cook LAW OFFICE OF JOAN E. COOK 2423 Mullan Road Missoula, MT 59808 (406) 543-3800 office@cooklaw.com Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY DEPT. NO. 3 PROBATE NO. DP14.31 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: PATRICIA ANN GILLAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Joseph P. Gillan has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the above-named as the attorney of record for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of June, 2014. /s/ JOAN E. COOK MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP14-101 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SHARLENE F. WESTMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of this estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice of said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, Raedene Leiby, 2075 Vineyard Lane, Missoula, Montana 59804, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. Dated this 10th day of June, 2014. /s/ Raedene Leiby, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/08/99, recorded as Instrument No. 199900837 Bk 568 Pg 2221,
MNAXLP mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Richard A. Sandefur and Wendy L. Sandefur, husband and wife was Grantor, North American Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 of Huson Heights, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200704460 BK 792 Pg 735, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 2, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $105,514.69. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $90,081.56, 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 September 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed
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at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.106495) 1002.252209-File No. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-125 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GRACE E. JOHNS, 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 Ralph H. Johns, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 17th day of June, 2014. /s/ Ralph H. Johns c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 /s/ Paul E. Fickes, Esq. Attorney for Personal Representative NOTICE OF PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE TO: Ernest W. Johnson and Robert E. Johnson P. O. Box 66 Frenchtown, MT 59834, Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802, Ernest W. Johnson and Robert E. Johnson 3757 North Reserve Street #A Missoula, MT 59808-1517, Ernest W. Johnson and Robert E. Johnson 6675 Desmet Road Missoula, MT 59808, Plaggemeyer Family Limited Partnership 3757 North Reserve Street #A Missoula, MT 59808-1517, Plaggemeyer Family Limited Partnership 3011 American Way Missoula, MT 59808-1921, Plaggemeyer Family Limited Partnership 4607 North Avenue West Missoula, MT 598045027, Plaggemeyer Family Limited Partnership 201 Bentley Park Loop Missoula, MT 59801, Plaggemeyer Family Limited Partnership 3010 Garfield Street Missoula, MT 59801, Plaggemeyer Family Limited Partnership 3901 O’Leary Street Missoula, MT 59808, Plaggemeyer Family Limited Partnership c/o Patsy Plaggemeyer Registered Agent 4607 North Ave. W. Missoula, MT 59804, First Security Bank of Missoula 3220 Great Northern Way Missoula, MT 59808, First Security Bank of Missoula 1704 Dearborn Missoula, MT 598064506, Three Rivers Bank of Montana P.O. Box 7250 Kalispell, MT 59904, Three Rivers Bank of Montana 233 East Idaho Street Kalispell, MT 59901, Three Rivers Bank of Montana 552 North meridian Road Kalispell, MT 59901, Three Rivers Bank of Montana c/o AJ King, Registered Agent P.O. Box 7250 Kalispell, MT 59904, Three Rivers Bank of Montana c/o AJ King, Registered Agent 233 East Idaho Street Kalispell, MT 59901, Three Rivers Bank of Montana c/o Charles E. Hansberry of Garlington, Lohn & Robinson,
PLLP 350 Ryman Street PO Box 7909 Missoula, MT 598077909 Pursuant to section 15-18212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: TAX ID: 3258409 TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4374, LOCATED IN THE SE1/4SE1/4 OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. AND PORTION “A” OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5594, LOCATED IN THE SE1/4SE1/4 OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA 2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1, 2011. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 14th, 2011. 4. Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 14th, 2011. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Timothy Christensen, 5145 Clearview Way, Missoula, MT 59803. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due is: TAXES: $22,208.12, PENALTY: $444.16, INTEREST: $5,249.82, COST: $340.59 TOTAL DUE: $28,242.69 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 must be paid by August 18, 2014, which is the date that the redemption period expires or expired. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to August 18, 2014, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer’s Office that is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurers 200 W Broadway Missoula MT 59802 (406) 258-3271. FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1) The address of the interested party is unknown. 2) The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3) The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 19th day of June, 2014 Timothy Christensen MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate Case No. DP-14-128 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Ronald James Hay, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must
either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Susanne Margaret Hay, return receipt requested, at 10850 Highway 10 East, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 19th day of June, 2014. /s/ Susanne Margaret Hay, 10850 Highway 10 East, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY PROBATE NO. DP-14-89 DEPT. NO. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DELMER ALLEN SHATTO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kathryn Haddick has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of the notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims may be mailed to Personal Representative Kathryn Haddick, 41710 Baypoint Road, Polson, Montana 59860 or to Howard Toole, the attorney for Personal Representative Kathryn Haddick at the address of 211 N. Higgins, Suite 350, Missoula, Montana 59802-4537, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 4th day of June, 2014. HOWARD TOOLE LAW OFFICES, 211 N. Higgins, #350, Missoula, MT 59802-4537 /s/ Howard Toole, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-14-58 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MAUREEN C. MURPHY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Timothy J. Murphy 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 Timothy J. Murphy, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 3700 S. Russell Street, Suite 104, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of March, 2014. /s/ Timothy J. Murphy, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/15/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200706553 Bk: 793 Pg: 1368, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which David E. Jones was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 18 in Block 9 of
West View, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201402879, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for GSAA Home Equity Trust 2007-7, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-7. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 2, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $175,580.30. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $171,257.61, 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 September 11, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.108976) 1002.268437-File No. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-110 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS
PUBLIC NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GRACE V. LUCAS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jane Lucas Rabe, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 28th day of May, 2014, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Jane Lucas Rabe, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/12/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200618504 Bk-779 Pg 995, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Gerard T Boes, an Unmarried Man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for America’s Wholesale Lender, its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Charles J Peterson was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 5046, located in the West One-Half of the Southeast One-Quarter of the Southeast One-Quarter of Section 19, Township 16 North, Range 22 West, Principle Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201321305 B: 921 P: 671, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 30, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $130,090.62. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $121,072.88, 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 September 10, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7021.18149) 1002.268353-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 4, 2014, 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: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NE1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 2 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4065 Keith A Patterson and Tina M. Patterson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on October 24, 2008 and recorded on October 24, 2008 on Book 828 and Page 658 as Document No. 200824272. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. 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
MNAXLP $1,249.45, beginning August 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 12, 2014 is $189,875.45 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50000% now totaling $33,317.44, late charges in the amount of $199.92, escrow advances of $9,638.64, suspense balance of $-1,075.26 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,004.42, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.81 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 28, 2014 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this
28th day of March, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same. /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: Nov 6, 2018 Chase v Patterson – 41954.032 NOTICE OF PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE TO: Camco, LLC 2505 South Russell Street Missoula, MT 59801, Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802, Camco, LLC c/o Gordon Campbell Registered Agent 2505 South Russell Street Missoula, MT 59801, Bitterroot Valley Bank Lolo Shopping Center P.O. Box 9 Lolo, MT 59847, Bitterroot Valley Bank c/o K.L. Templeman Registered Agent 11300 Hwy 93 South Suite D P.O. Box 9 Lolo, MT 59847 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: TAX ID: 4305914 LOT 107 OF PONDEROSA HEIGHTS, PHASE 2A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1, 2011. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 14th, 2011. 4. Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 14th, 2011. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Aimvest Capital Fund I, LLC, PO Box 1832, Missoula, MT 59806. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due is: TAXES: $5,273.82, PENALTY: $105.50, INTEREST: $1,254.70, COST: $262.40, TOTAL DUE: $6,896.42 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 must be paid by August 18, 2014, which is the date that the redemption period expires or expired. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to August 18, 2014, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer’s Office that is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurers 200 W Broadway Missoula MT 59802 (406) 258-3271. FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1) The address of the interested party is unknown. 2) The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance.
3) The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 19th day of June, 2014 Tim Christensen, Managing Member Aimvest Capital Fund I, LLC. NOTICE OF PENDING TAX DEED ISSUANCE TO: Eagle Nest Estates, Inc. PO Box 5164 Missoula, MT 59806, Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802, Eagle Nest Estates, Inc. 713 West Central Avenue Missoula, MT 59801, Gene Mostad as Registered Agent of Eagle Nest Estates, Inc. PO Box 5164 Missoula, MT 59806, First Security Bank of Missoula 100 E. Broadway Missoula, MT 59802, First Security Bank of Missoula 1704 Dearborn Ave. Missoula, MT 59801, Current Occupant 713 W Central Ave. Missoula, MT 59801, First Security Bank of Missoula PO Box 4506 Missoula, MT 59806 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: TAX ID: 883706, 713 W CENTRAL AVE, MISSOULA MT 59801, LOTS 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10 AND THE EAST ONE-HALF OF LOT 11, BLOCK 35, HOMEVALE ADDITION, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, AS FILED IN THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S OFFICE, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. EXCEPT THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN BLOCK 35 OF HOMEVALE ADDITION TO MISSOULA, MONTANA, INCLUDING ALL OF LOT 5 AND A PORTION OF LOT 6 IN SAID BLOCK 35, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 5; THENCE SOUTHERLY ALONG THE LINE BETWEEN LOTS 4 AND 5 IN SAID BLOCK 35, 120 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 5; THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE SOUTH BOUNDARY OF SAID LOTS 5 AND 6 A DISTANCE OF 42.9 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 6, 61.9 FEET; THENCE WESTERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 6, 7.9 FEET TO THE EDGE OF AN EXISTING CONCRETE SIDEWALK; THENCE NORTHERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 6 AND ALONG THE WESTERLY EDGE OF AN EXISTING CONCRETE SIDEWALK, A DISTANCE OF 38.1 FEET; THENCE EASTERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 6, 3.2 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 6 ALONG THE WESTERLY EDGE OF AN EXISTING CONCRETE SIDEWALK 20.0 FEET TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 6; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG THE
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PUBLIC NOTICES NORTH LINE OF SAID LOTS 5 AND 6, 47.6 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 427 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 313. TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR GRANTEE, OR HIS TENANTS, RENTERS, CUSTOMERS, BUSINESS INVITEES, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES, TO WALK UPON, OVER AND ACROSS THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PORTION OF LOT 6 IN BLOCK 35 OF HOMEVALE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TOWIT: A STRIP OF LAND LOCATED IN LOT 6 OF BLOCK 35 IN HOMEVALE ADDITION TO MISSOULA, MONTANA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 5; THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE NORTH LINES OF LOTS 5 AND 6 IN SAID BLOCK 35, A DISTANCE OF 50.8 FEET; THENCE SOUTHERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 5 A DISTANCE OF 58.1 FEET; THENCE EASTERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 6 A DISTANCE OF 7.9 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE EASTERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 6 A DISTANCE OF 3.4 FEET TO THE WEST WALL LINE OF AN EXISTING BUILDING; THENCE SOUTHERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 6 AND ALONG THE SAID WALL A DISTANCE OF 38.0 FEET; THENCE WESTERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 6 A DISTANCE OF 3.4 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY AND PARALLEL TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT 6 A DISTANCE OF 38. 0 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 427 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 313. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on June 1, 2011. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 14th, 2011. 4. Missoula County purchased the property tax lien at a tax sale on July 14th, 2011. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Aimvest Capital Fund I, LLC, PO Box 1832, Missoula, MT 59806. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due is: TAXES: $27,144.01, PENALTY: $542.89, INTEREST: $5,877.74, COST: $366.75, TOTAL DUE: $33,931.39 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 must be paid by August 18, 2014, which is the date that the redemption period expires or expired. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to August 18, 2014, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a
tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer’s Office that is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurers 200 W Broadway Missoula MT 59802 (406) 2583271. FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1) The address of the interested party is unknown. 2) The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3) The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 19th day of June, 2014 Tim Christensen, Managing Member Aimvest Capital Fund I, LLC. INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for construction of the Lost Horse Siphon Project will be received by Ward Irrigation District at the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc. until 4 PM local time on July 25, 2014, and then publicly opened and read aloud. The project generally consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following major items: installation of a high density polyethylene inverted siphon under Lost Horse Creek, open-trench installation of a steel pipe under Montana Rail Link rail, earthwork associated with increasing height of canal bank, installation of concrete pipe inlet and outlet features, and temporary stream diversion. The Contract Documents consisting of half size Drawings and Project Manual may be examined or obtained at the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc. 3011 Palmer Street Missoula, Montana 59808. Required deposit is $100 per set, which is not refundable, by regular mail or United Parcel Service (UPS). Payment of an additional $25 is required for express mail. In addition, the Drawings and Project Manual may also be examined at the plan exchange in Missoula and Montana Contractors-Helena. There will be a Pre-Bid Conference at the office of MorrisonMaierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 at 1 PM on July 10, 2014. Interested CONTRACTORS are encouraged to attend. A tour of the project site(s) will be conducted after the meeting. The CONTRACTOR(s) is required to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view the Invitation to Bid in its entirety please visit the Clark Fork Coalition’s website at: www.clarkfork.org MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-104 Dept. No. 4 Judge Karen S. Townsend NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETTY JUNE STACY, Deceased. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are
RENTALS required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice of the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Loretta S. Day, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Christensen Fulton & Filz PllC, PO Box 339, Billings, Montana 59103-0339, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: June 3, 2014. /s/ Loretta S. Day, Personal Representative of the Estate of Betty June Stacy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-14-120 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CECELIA C. POOLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MICHAEL D. POOLE, 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 MICHAEL D. POOLE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at c/o Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney at Law, 200 University Plaza, 100 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Date: 6/13/2014 Place: Missoula /s/ Victor F. Valgenti, Attorney For Michael D. Poole, P.R. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/09/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200822197 Book 826 and Page 1381, mo rtgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Marko D. Wagenmann, unmarried was Grantor, Charter One, a division of RBS Citizens, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company of Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 of Overlook Addition, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/13/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 23, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $56,253.84. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $44,237.45, plus
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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 September 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 8991.20014) 1002.268132-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/23/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200621607 Book 781 Page 1021, mortgage records of MISSOULA County, Montana in which Lloyd A. Carrell was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC, Its successors and assigns was Beneficiary and Western Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in MISSOULA County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 in Block 5, Bellevue Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 4 of plats at page 26 1/2 on file and of record in the Office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201224932, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/13 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 2, 2014, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $182,186.06. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $169,737.87, 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 September 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.104437) 1002.262253-File No.
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5619 Prospect. 5 bed, 4 bath well-maintained Grant Creek home with 3 car garage. $419,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula. 239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com “Find your way home” with David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate. LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406-241-3321 5 Bedroom, $207,000 101 Cove Court - 5 bed, 2 bath house in the South Hills. Great views and lots of updates. Rustic hardwood floors, new carpet and laminate. Great first home or investment opportunity. Proven rental history. Megan Twohig, Glacier Sotheby’s International Realty, 406-370-2895, mtwohig@glaciersir.com. 1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $309,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 756 Angler’s Bend. 3 bed, 2 bath with 3 car gargage on East Missoula golf course. $472,600. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate. 5329229 tory@montana.com Slant Street Charmer 733 Marshall $225,000. Slant Street charmer with lots of light, a wonderful yard with raised beds, and an awesome shop all in a convenient location and ready to move in to. KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
716 South 6th West. Classic 3 bed, 2 bath with fireplace, deck, fenced yard & single garage. $259,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com
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6833 Linda Vista. 5 bed, 3 bath with 2 family rooms, extra downstairs kitchen and large fenced yard. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 406456-2260 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com
Anne Jablonski, Realtor with Portico Real Estate, recently obtained her Montana State Broker license. Anne has 12 years of experience helping clients buy and sell real estate in Missoula and surrounding areas. You can find her at www.MoveMontana.com
I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana @gmail.com. Visit my website at www.on93.com More than 35 years of Sales & Marketing experience. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com 4101 O’Leary. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with 2 car garage in Hellgate Meadows. $279,000. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 544-8700 chrishonzel@lambrosera.com 7201 Old Grant Creek Road. 4 bed, 3 bath with Grant Creek frontage, deck & fireplace. $655,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417355 betsy@milyardteammt.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. $179,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit
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Wonderful Westside 1722 Defoe. 2 bedroom, 1 bonus, 2 bathroom home on the Wonderful Westside with awesome gardens in the fenced yard. A home with character! $189,000. KD 2405227. porticorealestate.com 10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $320,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 5805 Mainview. 4 bed, 2 bath South Hills home with basement & deck. $220,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Propeties. 541-7355 betsy@milyardteammt.coom 3904 England Blvd. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Pleasantview. $230,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 4415 Shepard Lane, East Missoula. 3 bed, 3 bath on 1 acre near Canyon River Golf Course &
Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com 309 Plymouth. 4 bed, 2.5 bath Craftsman bungalow with wood floors, sky lights, patio and claw foot tub. 1 bed, 1 bath apartment in lower level. $339,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 4781 Montrose. 3 bed, 2 bath in Canyon Creek. RD eligible. $182,500. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 5417355 betsy@milyardteammt.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.
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2515 Klondike Court. 4 bed, 3 bath ranch style in Grant Creek.. Chris Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 544-8700. chrishonzel@lambrosera.com
3501 Paxson.4 bed, 1.5 bath with hardwood floors, basement, fenced yard. $225,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 541-7355. betsy@milyardteammt.com 1965 Raymond. 4 bed, 2 bath split-level in Upper Rattlesnake. Private lower level for mother-in-
law apartment. $325,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816 annierealtor @gmail.com Newer 2 bed, 1bath 1200 sq. ft. home on 1.02 acre lot. 1200 sq. ft. attached garage, recently fenced, new roof sealant. Easy to maintain. Bring you own land-
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1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 5402 Canyon River Road. Canyon River Golf Course Lot. 15k sq.ft. $150,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
910 Bandmann Trail. Over 1 acre on Canyon River Golf Course with 252 Clark Fork River frontage. $275,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com 18.6 Acres in Sleeman Creek, Lolo, Unzoned. $150,000. Prudential Montana. For more info
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605 Dunkleberg, Drummon. 2 bed, 2 bath on 28 acres with creek. $249,000. Pintlar Territories R.E. 406-859-3522. pintlarterritories.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Edgewood. 3.35 end-ofroad acres on east side of Mount Jumbo. Close to river. $89,900. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605.
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521 Hartman #11 $829,000 This stand-alone river-front condo is superbly amazing! 3 bed, 3 bath, meticulous home with so much light & beauty inside and out. Truly one-of-a-kind and located downtown and next to the river trail. MLS #20143716
6301 Hillview Way $400,000 Exquisite views from the expansive master suite, living room and dining room in this 16 room home overlooking the Missoula Valley. MLS #20143650
Homes 2116 W Kent Charming Inside and Out .........................$174,000 2422 Wylie Sweet Rattlesnake 3 Bed Home ...................$243,500 6301 Hillview Exquisite Panoramic Views......................$400,000 816 Kern Home W/Downstairs Apartment......................$239,000 1617 Stoddard Restored 1920s Northside Farmhouse.....$269,000 1722 Defoe Westside 2 Bed & Bonus .............................$189,000 2607 View Dr. One Level Living PLUS.............................$238,500 6699 MacArthur 4 bed/2.5 Bath Custom Home ............$285,000 733 Marshall 2 Bed/1 Bath Slant St Charmer .................$225,000
Homes With Land 406 Aspen View Polaris MT. Borders Public Land................... $345,000 2348 River Road 2.23 Acres in Town........................................$535,000
17430 Six Mile Stunning Setting 12.51 Acres With Solid Farm House .... ....................................................................................................$260,000
Land East Missoula Building Lot With Trees.........................................$55,000
Townhomes/Condos 521 Hartman #11 Downtown, Riverfront & Amazing!...........$829,000 1400 Burns 3 Bedroom Unit On One Leve ..............................$150,000 1400 Burns Cheaper Than Rent.......................................From $79,000 Uptown Flats #306 Third Floor Views!...................................$162,000 Uptown Flats #210 Modern 1 Bed ........................................$149,000 1545 Cooley #C Rooms With a View.......................................$128,500
Commercial: 2309 Grant Commercial Building & Land................................$155,000
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4 Bdr, 2 Bath Central Missoula home. Commercial or Residential. $185,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit...
River Access 17430 SixMile, $260,000. Historic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home in great condition on stunning 12.51 acre setting with views, fruit trees, tons of gardening space and so much more! KD 240-5227 porticorealestate.com
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109 Church Street, Stevensville. Historic 3 bed, 1 bath with library, parlor & fantastic front porch. $139,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate, 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com
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11901 Lewis & Clark Drive, Lolo. 2 bed, 2 bath with many upgrades including roof & windows. $189,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 5329283. ritagray@lambrosera.com 3 Bdr, 1 Bath Alberton home. $125,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit
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1290 Thunder’s Trail, Potomac. 3 bed, 3 bath on 20 acres. $795,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Stevensville area home on 3.2 acres. $529,000.
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terroot River. $465,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula, 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com
1333 Juniper, Alberton. 5 bed, 3 bath on nearly 20 acres bordered by National Forest. $725,000. Tory Dailey, Lambros Real Estate 532-9229 tory@montana.com
575 Killdeer, Stevensville. 5 bed, 3 bath on 7.5 fenced acres. Great mountain views. $335,000. Vickie Honzel, Lambros ERA Real Estate 531-2605. vickiehonzel@lambrosera.com
3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $325,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit
7725 Moe Road, Lolo. Octagon House on 9.7 acres. 5 bed, 3 bath, private office, 3300 sf, views, dead-end road and a great backyard! $519,000 Celia GrohmannBanana Belt Realty 406-550-1014 celiamontana@gmail.com
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