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nside Cover Story Polson’s Barry Flamm worked on the Council on Environmental Quality under three presidents, stamped out the Forest Service’s use of Agent Orange, ran Montana’s first organic cherry orchard on Flathead Lake, serves on the National Organic Standards Board, has traveled to nearly 100 countries and, at 78, shows no sign of slowing down ............................................14 Cover courtesy of Barry Flamm

News Letters Occupy movement evokes memories of Kent State........................................4 The Week in Review President Obama ends the Iraq War.........................................6 Briefs A Zombie Tools Halloween and Missoula’s “Cockeyed Joe” dies.....................6 Etc. Where should Jesus go? ........................................................................................7 Up Front The Indy’s 2011 election endorsements .....................................................8 Ochenski Iraq War hawks should be tried for war crimes........................................10 Writers on the Range National media late to celebrate Cobell ...............................11 Agenda A Montana Horse Welfare Council meeting .................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan The fat fetish known as feederism.................................................19 Happiest Hour Outback Steakhouse ........................................................................20 8 Days a Week What’s on the other side of the hill?................................................22 Mountain High “A Look at the West,” with Russell Rowland ...................................29 Scope For mature audiences only .............................................................................30 Noise Dead Dog, Kristi Neumann, Infected Mushroom, Hemlock...........................31 Soundcheck The Be Helds just want to have fun ....................................................32 Film Carmike brings Missoula a supersized theater..................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y .................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle....................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World ...............................................................................................C-15

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STREET TALK

by Steele Williams

Asked Sunday afternoon, Oct. 23, outside of Charlie B’s. We hold elections Nov. 8. How important is that to you? Follow-up: If we had to choose a dictator, who should it be?

Meaghan Gateley: I don’t really know what’s going on with the elections but I will probably look more into it before they happen. When are they again? …In that case, never mind, I won’t be looking into it. Self-deprecation: I would elect a really funny writer and comedian who makes fun of himself. If the world has to have a dictator, we should at least be able to laugh at him.

Louis Davis: The elections are very important to me. We need to get a bunch of these assholes, in all levels of government, out of office. America needs a fresh start. Animated: If I had to choose a dictator it would be Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey. They’re both straight shooters, unlike most politicians these days. I’m a strong supporter of straight shooting for truth, justice and the American way.

Kevin Pierson: Elections in general are really important to me, but it seems like every time we elect someone in Missoula they end up selling out. I think it’s total bullshit when politicians tell people what they want to hear just to get elected. Wild Bill: I’m gonna go with Bill Hicks because he was incredibly funny, and he wasn’t afraid to confront controversial issues. He was a stand-up guy. Robert Rowland: Dude, I’m from Oregon and just passing through town for the day, so I can’t vote here. We’ve been walking around town asking all the hippies for pot and no one seems to have any. I thought you guys voted to legalize marijuana. So why’s it so hard to find? Self-entitled: That would be me, dude. If I were dictator, weed would be legalized and people wouldn’t have to hide behind the false mask of marijuana laws. Keep our planet green—smoke weed! Megan Hawkins: I’ve only been here for six months, so I’m not really a Missoulian yet and don’t really know much about politics here…Okay, the drunk guy over there just informed me that after three months here you are technically a Missoulian. So I guess in that case I’m just an uninformed citizen. ‘Ope and Change: Definitely Oprah. Who doesn’t like her? If you don’t like Oprah you’re probably a huge asshole.

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Who can take the heat?

Does anyone really believe that thousands of people in cities all over the country are spending weeks carrying signs and sleeping in the parks because they want to hang out and be cool, as Fox News would lead us to believe? We have seen demonstrations like this before with respect to war, but never with respect to the economy. They come from every background, are of all ages and are simply fed up. Many are desperate. They are sick to the core of wealthy bankers, corporate CEOs and Wall Street fat cats flooding election coffers to keep politicians in place who really do not give a whit about the poor and unemployed. If ever we needed our elected officials to stand together, it was in support of President Obama’s comprehensive jobs bill. It took courage for Democratic senators to stand behind the president and vote for this legislation. Democrats rose to the occasion—all except two: John Tester of Montana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska. More concerned about reelection than about doing the right thing, these two let us down when we needed them the most In the August 23, 2010 issue of Newsweek, an article titled “The Best Countries in the World” reported on an extensive survey that included the aid of an advisory board made up of Nobel laureates and renowned academics from around the world. The survey chose five categories of national well-being—education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness and political environment—and compiled metrics within these categories against which they rated 100 nations. Of the 10 countries of the world that finished ahead of the U.S. in overall ranking, the U.S. may have more billionaires than all of them put together. Could this explain why 64 percent of all people surveyed about Obama’s jobs bill felt that the small additional tax on multimillionaires and closing a few corporate tax loopholes was not only fair, but long, long overdue? So maybe we might want to start listening to those thousands of people demonstrating in our cities all over the country, before the last vestiges of hope completely disappear. Many have already given up on the system. Do we really want to wait until peaceful demonstrations turn into rioting and, once again, we call out the National Guard to shoot our college students? We have seen this nightmare play out before. It was bad enough returning home after my second tour in Vietnam, but watching as the carnage unfolded at Kent State University was simply unbearable. I do not think that as a nation we can survive that again. Jim Lockwood Whitefish

Most of us know that our government is in disastrous financial shape, which should be of great concern to all of us. An intelligent person prepares for the worst and hopes for the best. Our situation reminds me of the logo that Simon Black, the author of “Sovereign Man,” an economic newsletter, has on his letterhead: “There are two ways to sleep good at night...Be ignorant or be prepared.” I am concerned about our country’s future, not so much for myself at my age, even though I do expect to live for some time yet, but for our children and grandchildren, both yours and mine. In light of today’s economic problems, I believe

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“Do we really want to wait until peaceful demonstrations turn into rioting and, once again, we call out the National Guard to shoot our college students?” that Mr. Black’s slogan is very appropriate. My question is, Why are so many uninformed? Are they simply blasé as to what is happening around them and living in a dream world? Or is it low intelligence and the inability to comprehend? For those of us aware of this devastating situation, we better do what we can to help others realize that in order to survive, some planning has to be done. We know that Congress sends money to all of the states for various programs and we know that those dollars, if there are any next year, will be greatly reduced. So what does that mean to us here in Montana? It means that we must be sure that each candidate in next year’s election has the principals and philosophy needed to cut the “waste” and do what’s necessary to keep Montana in good financial shape—and search for ways to create jobs for Montanans. Also, the candidates must be willing to take the heat, because doing what is both right and necessary won’t be easy. Fred Carl, Sr. Superior

Comment on Carlyle There has been a lot of coverage regarding the proposed sale of Mountain Water to the Carlyle Group,

and many local water users have told the Public Service Commission and the Missoula City Council how they feel about the deal. While water users appreciate Mayor John Engen and the Clark Fork Coalition’s efforts on behalf of our water resources, some feel that their agreement with the Carlyle Group is not strong enough to ensure that Missoula will have a clear opportunity to purchase the utility from Carlyle in the future, especially since the agreement is not legally binding. The PSC will make its decision on the proposed sale in the coming weeks. Please write them immediately and ask that they put strong, enforceable conditions on the proposed sale should they decide to approve it. Provisions such as a “right of first refusal” for the city and/or a Missoula utility co-operative and “ringfencing” requirements, as proposed by the Montana Consumer Council, are absolutely necessary to protect our community. Missoula water users want solid assurance that the ownership of the Mountain Water utility can be brought home in the next five years. To access the PSC online comment form, go to: psc.mt.gov/consumers/ comments/ Susan Stubblefield Missoula

Pipeline partiality The Washington Post recently published an article on the friendly relationship between the U.S. State Department and TransCanada lobbyist Paul Elliott. According to a series of emails discovered through a Freedom of Information Act Request, the State Department has shown unfair bias in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline. In one such email, State Department official Marja Verloop writes “Go Paul!” about Elliott’s announcement that he has secured Sen. Max Baucus’s support for the pipeline. The email exchange even indicates an understanding between TransCanada and the State Department that TransCanada would be able to apply for an operating pressure increase once the pipeline is built. Verloop even relayed the understanding to her boss, U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson, in an email stating “TransCanada is comfortable and on board.” The State Department is obviously not in a position to make a fair decision on this project. The decision-making authority should be transferred to an agency without a bias in favor of the pipeline. Janet McMillan Greenough

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Eight days after a Missoula judge gave him a 20-year suspended sentence for vehicular homicide while under the influence, 21-year-old Joshua Jacob-Allen Thielbar again appears in court to face allegations that he violated the conditions of his sentence by associating with felons and using drugs.

• Thursday, October 20 Police arrest and charge Dave Skinner, 27, with child endangerment after he allegedly finds a drunk and vomiting 11-year-old boy on the Missoula Courthouse lawn, near Skinner’s tent in the Occupy Missoula encampment, and fails to contact authorities.

• Friday, October 21 “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over,” says President Barack Obama, announcing that the U.S. will withdraw nearly all troops from Iraq by the end of the year. About 4,400 U.S. troops have died in the war.

• Saturday, October 22 In Flagstaff, Ariz., the University of Montana Grizzlies spot the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks 14 points but claw back to win 28-24, led by freshman running back Jordan Canada’s 98-yard, two-touchdown afternoon. Montana improves to 6-2 (5-1 in Big Sky Conference play).

• Sunday, October 23 Two University of Montana football players are tased and arrested after allegedly getting into an altercation with police at a house party. Griz quarterback Gerald Kemp and cornerback Trumaine Johnson face charges of obstructing a peace officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct after the early morning incident.

• Monday, October 24 The Missoula City Council votes 8-4 to use $16,000 in federal funds to buy 52 GPS devices to monitor Parks and Recreation Department vehicles. City staffers say the devices will track vehicle idling and therefore help to reduce fuel consumption. They are also supposed to ensure that cars are used in accordance with city policies and deter theft.

• Tuesday, October 25 Montana Hunters and Anglers launches a three-week advertising campaign in Missoula and Billings urging voters to tell Rep. Denny Rehberg to vote against H.R. 1505, which would give the Department of Homeland Security control over federal lands within 100 miles of the Canadian border.

Nick Childs kicks off the snowboarding season with a rail slide at the Treasure State Shred Fest, Saturday, Oct. 22, in Caras Park. Shredders worked a 20-foot, two-rail stair feature and artificial snow trucked from Missoula Glacier Ice Rink.

Transportation For disabled, a costly lift Brian Parks, owner of Medicab, a non-emergency transportation service in Missoula, says he’s faced increases in the last several years in the costs of fuel, taxes, payroll, workers’ compensation insurance premiums and vehicle maintenance, while his rates have stayed the same. “In order to stay in business and serve the needs of the community, we have to finally have an increase,” he says. The proposed hike will be between 46 and 483 percent. In late August, Medicab applied for the rate increase with the Montana Public Service Commission, which regulates motor carriers in the state. The commission is reviewing the justification for the increase and should make a decision in the coming weeks, according to Commissioner Gail Gutsche, of Missoula. Medicab, the only cab company in town with lift-equipped vehicles to accommodate wheelchairs, hasn’t increased its rates since 2003. It charges a flat rate of $9 for trips of up to 15 miles.

Parks’s proposal would nix the flat rate and charge customers based on distance, so rates would increase more for longer trips. The increases wouldn’t apply to customers on Medicaid, who make up a significant portion of Medicab’s clientele. “There’s a big need in this community for people on Medicaid to be taken to and from their appointments,” Parks says. “We do that—but we also have to accept the rate of pay for Medicaid, which isn’t very good.” Medicab has had to absorb the Medicaid rate for too long, Parks argues, adding that he’s now forced to pass those costs onto non-Medicaid clients. “We’re looking at a very small percentage of people that this is going to affect,” Parks says. “It’s not going to affect them any more than what Green Taxi or Yellow Cab is already charging.” Mike Mayer of Missoula’s Summit Independent Living Center, which advocates on behalf of disabled Montanans, says he’s not so sure. “I’m afraid if [Parks] raises his rates to that extent it will price a lot of people right out,”

Mayer says, “because often, poverty and disability go hand in hand.” Matthew Frank

Halloween Armed for the zombie apocalypse On a recent afternoon, Zombie Tools’ Wyoming Street workshop is dotted with empty Pabst cans and tables holding rows of sharp and shiny blades. One of the Missoula business’s cofounders, Maxon McCarter, a tall guy with long hair who wears black nail polish, helps splatter blades with wax before handing them off to Zombie Tools partner Chris Lombardi, who uses a paint brush to coat knives with acid. The end result is an antique-looking weapon sharp enough to take out the living dead—or the Pabst cans the blades are tested on. Halloween brings images of undead scavengers. That means October is a busy time for Zombie Tools, which normally sells about 50 blades a month ranging in price from about $200

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to $300. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just busting our ass trying to get ready,â&#x20AC;? McCarter says. His customers tend to be collectors, hunters and wannabe zombie killers. The company dates to 1999, when McCarter met Zombie Tools cofounder Joey Arbour at Flipperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Casino and hatched the idea of holding regular swordfights. That morphed into what became the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drunken Jedi Pirate Circusâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;beer-soaked battles staged in Missoula alleys and backyards. The partners launched Zombie Tools in 2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still sword-fighting to this day,â&#x20AC;? McCarter says. The company has four full-time employees. Part of the reason time is especially tight this season is because Zombie Tools is also the subject of a new reality-based TV series, which is slated to air on cable next year. Missoula-based Warm Spring Productionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; itself something of a success story, with a show now airing on the Travel Channelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is filming the Zombie Tools series. President Chris Richardson says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excited to tap such homegrown talent: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think it has potential to be hugely successful.â&#x20AC;? Jessica Mayrer

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of the Theodore Roosevelt Conser vation Partnership. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really positive thing that they can have some comfort in knowing that these backcountry lands are going to be safeguarded.â&#x20AC;? The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also upheld the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in 2009, making it that much less likely that the

Inventoried roadless areas in western Montana include large swaths of ground in the Sapphire Mountains, Bitterroot Mountains, around Petty Mountain west of Missoula, along the Reservation Divide above the Nine Mile and ringing the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex. Now theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll remain roadless following the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decision, announced Oct. 21, that it will uphold the â&#x20AC;&#x153;roadless ruleâ&#x20AC;? that dates back to the administration of President Bill Clinton. The decision will likely end a decade of legal challenges to the sweeping conservation initiative, which protects 58 million acresâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;about a third of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national forest landsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;from logging and road building. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With hunting season just opening on Saturday, folks are going to be out enjoying these lands for the next five weeks,â&#x20AC;? says Joel Webster

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Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California that would overturn the roadless rule. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cosponsored by Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rep. Denny Rehberg. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most radical, overreaching attempt to dismantle the architecture of our public lands laws that has been proposed in my lifetime.â&#x20AC;? Matthew Frank

Forget those â&#x20AC;&#x153;What would Jesus do?â&#x20AC;? bumper stickers. The J-man is at the center of a much more pressing question in the Flathead this month: Where should Jesus go? For the folks at the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, the answer is simple. He should take a page from Mosesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; book and come down off the mount. The non-theists recently took issue with the statue of Jesus at the top of Whitefish Mountain Resortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair 2, where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as familiar a sight for local skiers as Mardi Gras beads and discarded PBR cans. They have a point. The land belongs to the U.S. Forest Service. As a religious figure on federal ground, Jesus could be violating the Constitution. But He may have found a loophole that would make the tax collector proud. This Jesus was erected in 1953 by the local Knights of Columbus and several military veterans as a World War II memorial, which means the site could be eligible for a National Register of Historic Places listing. FFRF nearly had the Forest Service convinced to deny renewal of the Knightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; special use permit. Now the renewal has to go through public comment. Given the outpouring of local support for the statue, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible Jesus could be sticking around for a while this time. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gained some friends in high places over the past two weeks. Rep. Denny Rehberg issued a statement last week explaining that many WWII veterans were inspired by religious objects they saw in war-torn European villages. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Removal of this symbol of hope and faith is an insult to the sacrifices they so willingly gave our great country,â&#x20AC;? Rehberg said. Rehbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support for the statue is a pious break from his usual brow furrowing over national monuments. And if the government finds our ski-slope Jesus eligible for the National Register, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essentially what Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll become. He may not be as expansive as the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, but a federally recognized landmark is a federally recognized landmark. All this could play out well for Jesus. He couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have asked for a better booster than Rehberg. The congressman is a cosponsor of the border protection bill currently before Congress. If Jesus stays on the fedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mount, perhaps Rehberg can also get Homeland Security to give Him a 24-hour guard.

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U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue. The ruling is good news for hunters. In 2005, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks issued a report on the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roadless areas, saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;At some point, cumulative effects of cover reduction and/or increased roads and trails would make it unlikely that FWP could maintain a five-week general bull elk hunting season.â&#x20AC;? ATV and snowmobile organizations from around the West joined industry interests to challenge the rule, arguing in part that it violated the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act. The court found that the rule allows for multiple uses, including motorized use. The same groups argued that the rule constitutes a de facto declaration of wilderness. While conservationists celebrate the decision, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wary of a bill introduced by

Elk taken in northwest Montana during the season-opening weekend for 2011. In 2010â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first weekend, 31 elk were taken.

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Joe Popovich took his final ramble last week. The man who many knew as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cockeyed Joe,â&#x20AC;? a longtime frequenter of Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sidewalks and alleys, traveled slowly from the Poverello Center, to the courthouse lawn, where he often spent his afternoons. Popovich usually ambled with a shopping cart. This time he made the journey in a small brown box. Popovich died Oct. 7 at St. Patrick Hospital. He was 51. He was cremated. Kathy, a former compatriot, wheeled Popovichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old blue shopping cart down the sidewalk with her forearms. Daisies and sunflowers spilled out the top. She held up a poster-size photo of Popovich, whose ashes rode in the cartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s child seat. The procession grew from four people to six to 10. Some saw the photo, recognized Popovich and stopped to offer their condolences. One asked how long Popovich had been homeless in Missoula. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He moved here in 1996,â&#x20AC;? Kathy said, her voice detached. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So a little less than 20 years.â&#x20AC;? The walk, she said, was â&#x20AC;&#x153;tough, man, tough.â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been some confusion earlier in the week as to the exact date of the memorial. Occupy Missoula protesters had announced during one of their recent general assemblies that it would take place Oct. 23. Others thought it was set for Oct. 19. The turnout was small. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got down to the courthouse, a guy folded up an American flag and presented it to me,â&#x20AC;? Kathy said after the service. Minutes later, the man took the flag back without explanation. Alex Sakariassen

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Endorsements 2011 The Indy braces for a progressive tide in Missoula Two of the Missoula City Council’s weakest members, Ward 4’s Lyn Hellegaard and Ward 5’s Renee Mitchell, also happen to vote with the conservative bloc. They stand a very good chance of being unseated this year by challengers Caitlin Copple, a lesbian activist with solid name recognition among Missoula progressives, and Mike O’Herron, who lost a close election against Dick Haines two years ago and impresses us as one of the strongest Council candidates we’ve ever met. The only promising contender with even a moderately conservative streak this year is Ward 2 candidate Adam Hertz, who’s taking on enigmatic incumbent Pam Walzer. The way we’re reading the wind, the conservative bloc should expect to lose two seats. Meanwhile, a Copple victory would give progressives unprecedented control of city government. For some, that’s an exciting prospect. But perhaps they should be concerned. The last time the left had the Missoula Council locked down, back in the mid-’90s under the banner of the New Party, they handled it so badly that within a few short years the group’s label had become political poison and it disbanded. It wasn’t the New Party’s policy positions that ruined them. It was their insufferably high-handed approach to political process. Everyone outside their own cabal hated them—especially mainstream Democrats, who gnashed their teeth while the New Party torched the prospect of a durable center-left coalition in favor of liberal orthodoxy and a smug power trip. Those folks are gone now, their memory almost forgotten—which could be the fate of Missoula’s next progressive city council if it caters to its idealistic enablers instead of the broader community. We’re not discounting the progressives’ substance. Almost every time a council vote splits the members into blocs, the conservatives get the policy pieces wrong. But that doesn’t license the liberal majority to run roughshod over bewildered citizens or trade the meat-and-potatoes work of city government for undergraduate social justice projects. With that in mind, we offer our endorsements this year with a cautionary note to Missoula’s liberal voters: Winning creates more demands than losing, and for the vast majority of citizens, street projects likely have a more obvious impact on their quality of life than federal election reform, gender equity or even (gasp) marijuana laws.

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Mary “Maer” Seibert vs. Jason Wiener Endorsement: Jason Wiener Hot-button issues like deterring serial inebriates from spooking shoppers and rebuilding the Poverello homeless shelter loom large in Ward 1, which encompasses the Rattlesnake area and parts of downtown. We like that incumbent Jason Wiener invariably demonstrates a strong social conscience. He voted with the minority against council’s 2009 vote to ban aggressive panhandling, expressing worry that the law, which now prohibits asking for money from strangers near ATMs and doorways, would unfairly target homeless folks rather than high school students soliciting cash through a car wash. And Wiener maintains that Missoula has a responsibility to support a new Pov, whether it’s erected in his ward or elsewhere. Since he was elected to council in 2007, Wiener has become one of its hardest working, most outspoken members. He talks easily about the Rattlesnake sewer project, the importance of acquiring Missoula’s public water supply and housing density.

Adam Hertz vs. Pam Walzer Endorsement: Adam Hertz We like that Ward 2 incumbent Pam Walzer is straightforward and accountable. She doesn’t hide in rhetoric. She says flatout that the city needs to spend more money on things like parks and roads, which are important if we’re to maintain Missoula’s quality of life. Creating and preserving amenities will lure fresh blood— and new business—to further grow Missoula’s economy. Yet at the same time, we sense Walzer’s flagging enthusiasm.

Wiener’s knowledge contrasts with the relative inexperience of challenger Maer Seibert, who says she’s “really green.” Seibert, a special education teacher who considers herself socially liberal, prides herself on active listening and giving voice to the underdog, and she supported passage of Missoula’s antidiscrimination ordinance, which makes it illegal to deny services, housing or employment to people based on sexual orientation or gender expression. We like Seibert. She’s passionate. We think Ward 1 is fortunate to have two candidates who care so deeply about their neighborhoods. But Seibert just can’t match up with one of Missoula’s most productive and knowledgeable representatives, which is why we support Wiener’s bid for another term.

Her challenger is 26-year-old Adam Hertz, a mortgage broker and retail-pricing analyst for Moody’s Market who maintains that a representative who doesn’t march in lock step with Missoula’s liberal majority could better serve Ward 2. We agree. We think democracy works best when many divergent perspectives come together, which is one reason we’re endorsing him. Hertz bills himself as a fiscal conservative compared to Walzer. He says the city’s 2012 budget, which raised taxes by about $24 on a home valued at $225,000 and was supported by Walzer along with six other council members, was wrongheaded. Rather than sticking taxpayers with the tab during tough economic times, Hertz says, the city should have looked more closely to find ways to trim its spending. We think he might be on to something there, and we certainly appreciate his obvious enthusiasm for the job.

dum that goes before Missoula voters Nov. 8. If locals support the referendum, Missoula will join a handful of cities that are officially calling upon state and federal representatives to protect citizens from the increasing power corporations have to influence politics. While looking to reshape the big picture, Wolken is also attending to matters closer to home, seeking ways to improve gridlock at the I-90 interchange at Grant Creek and working to get a roundabout built at Spruce and Scott streets. Wolken is passionate about politics, yet she doesn’t get defensive when she’s challenged. We appreciate that. She’s also a quick study. After serving council for less than a year, she’s becoming an encyclopedia of municipal affairs. She’s an obvious pick to serve Ward 2.

Ward 3 Paul Bohan vs. Sean D. Ives vs. Alex Taft Endorsement: Alex Taft Paul Bohan, Sean Ives and Alex Taft are all vying for a chance to replace outgoing progressive council member Stacy Rye. Taft is the best choice—he’s the most level-headed, approachable and knowledgeable candidate in the race. Ives has kept a low profile this election season. He didn’t respond to a request for an interview with the Independent, leaving us unsure about his political goals.

Ward 2 Cynthia Wolken unopposed Endorsement: Cynthia Wolken Missoula City Councilwoman Cynthia Wolken doesn’t do business in half measures. Since she was appointed to the council last winter to replace outgoing councilman Roy Houseman, the progressive attorney has jumped into city business with a fervor befitting a rising political figure. Missoula Mayor John Engen and city council peers lauded Wolken for introducing the anti-corporate personhood referen-

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Bohan voices a familiar refrain when explaining why he’s running for council: Missoula leaders are not responsive enough to citizen concerns. One of Bohan’s biggest

gripes is with the council’s penchant for non-binding resolutions, such as the 9-3 vote this year to support Montana’s 2004 Medical Marijuana Act and Cynthia Wolken’s anti-corporate personhood referendum, which also goes before voters Nov. 8. Bohan says advisory resolutions alienate voters who disagree with council. What’s more, they waste time. Bohan is earnest. He says he likes to help people. We believe him. But he has no background in city government, which leaves him at a distinct disadvantage in a race against Taft. Ward 3’s third candidate has decades of experience working with municipal governments. Before moving to Missoula seven years ago, Taft served as executive director of the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to enhance transportation systems. While in ostensible retirement these past seven years, Taft has compiled an extensive résumé of volunteerism, working with Bike Walk Alliance for Missoula, Five Valleys Audubon Society and Missoula Advocates for Sustainable Transportation. Taft sees himself as an “urban mechanic.” Unlike Bohan, he isn’t concerned about advisory referendums. He’d like to focus instead on the nuts and bolts of city government, including helping Mountain Line to expand service and ensuring that the longanticipated Russell Street redesign will safely accommodate cyclists, pedestrians and motorists. We like his pro-active stance and think he’s ready to serve Ward 3 well from the get-go.

Ward 4 Caitlin Copple vs. Lyn Hellegaard Endorsement: Caitlin Copple Neither Missoula City Councilwoman Lyn Hellegaard nor her challenger, Caitlin Copple, minces words. That makes for a fun race. Copple, an organizer for the Pride Foundation, a nationwide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group, was instrumental last year in helping to pass Missoula’s antidiscrimination ordinance. If elected, she’d be the first openly gay member to serve on Missoula’s lawmaking body. It’s not a coincidence that Copple aims to unseat one of the two council members who voted against the anti-discrimination ordinance, the state’s first. In fact, Hellegaard’s “no” vote partly inspired Copple to run. “It’s what tipped me over the edge,” she says. The two candidates also have divergent views on economic policy. Hellegaard is a fiscal conservative with a 20-year banking

background. She likes to drill into the financials when she can and believes Missoula needs to better analyze how its money is spent. She wants to cut taxes and reduce spending. She was one of four council members last year who voted against creating special tax districts to pay for roads and parks. Unhappy with the new districts, she took her case to the Montana Legislature, which failed to nullify the districts. There’s no mistaking Hellegaard’s combative personality. She can be downright confrontational during council meetings. She was also one of three council members who sued the city in 2009, aiming to stop a zoning-regulation rewrite.

The two differ on social policy, too. Mitchell voted against Missoula’s antidiscrimination ordinance. O’Herron says he supports it.

The challenger says he also differs from the incumbent in personal style. “She tends to complain and gripe,” he says of Mitchell. “I won’t be doing that.” O’Herron was an educated newcomer when he ran in 2009. Since then, he’s had more time to learn about municipal workings. He started volunteering for the Mountain Line board in January and it’s served him well. He’s sharper than Mitchell, which is why we’re endorsing him.

Ward 6 Copple says her would-be constituents get a great deal on property taxes in light of Missoula’s quality of life. She says she believes they, like her, would happily pay more in taxes to preserve and grow amenities in the Garden City. We appreciate Copple’s work furthering LGBT rights. We also appreciate her energy. However, we’d urge her not to discount the impact that tax increases have during tough economic times. Doing so gives credence to criticisms from her opponent and others that liberals like Copple just don’t listen.

Peggy Miller vs. Shane Stack vs. Ed Childers Endorsement: Ed Childers After decades of service, veteran municipal servant Ed Childers is resigned to the fact that city projects always take longer and cost more than anticipated—the Russell Street redesign being a prime example. “I could get frustrated and quit, but you’ve got to keep trying,” Childers says, illustrating his plodding commitment to city government.

Ward 5 Mike O’ Herron vs. Renee Mitchell Endorsement: Mike O’ Herron Ward 5 incumbent Renee Mitchell bills herself as a fiscal conservative who strives to keep city government transparent and accessible. She says the city should curb onerous permitting and regulation requirements to make doing business easier. But one won’t spot a slew of Mitchell-written laws coming down the pike. She’s not among the most productive council members. In fact, she often comes across as more of a burden than a help during deliberations. She appears to have a hard time tracking procedure and sometimes asks questions about subjects that already have been thoroughly covered. Mitchell’s challenger, Mike O’Herron, is more astute. He’s a self-proclaimed moderate who works in timber sale planning for the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. He lost narrowly in the 2009 council election against another conservative incumbent, Dick Haines. O’Herron says the council’s creation last year of special maintenance districts to help pay for roads and parks was a good idea, while Mitchell voted against them.

One of his challengers is Shane Stack, an engineer with the Montana Department of Transportation. Stack declined to interview with the Independent, but he’s said publicly that his engineering experience would give him a leg up when it comes to grasping the ins and outs of public works projects such as the Russell redesign. Stack is a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative who’s pitched the concept of creating a tourism tax in Missoula to help raise revenue. We like the initiative, but his low profile during campaign season concerns us. We worry that if he’s elected to office, he won’t be responsive to citizens. The third candidate in Ward 6, Peggy Miller, is an herbalist who owns an art gallery and herb shop. Miller says she wants Missoula to do more to help secure renew-

able energy and locally grown food and protect its water supply. These are great goals, but Miller’s pitches begin to break down when examined more closely. For instance, she says the city needs a water purification system. That’s a strange priority. As for the Russell redesign, Miller says the street is fine the way it is, which strikes us as screwy considering the challenges that pedestrians, cyclists and motorists have navigating a flawed and at times dangerous roadway. While Childers may not seem fired up about his own candidacy, we know that we can trust him to make reasoned decisions and communicate with his constituents. He’s still the best choice for Ward 6.

Missoula City Referendum Recommendation: No Obviously, money goes a long way to determine success in American elections. Out of necessity, candidates spend more time whoring themselves for campaign cash than attending to the people’s business, and they’re compelled to adopt aggressive policy stances that energize potential donors, as opposed to settling for practical solutions that make television pundits drowsy and thus advance the national interest. For all of you who fear that American democracy is unraveling before our eyes, we’re right there with you. But trying to cure the political malady with a full frontal attack on our fundamental rights to assembly and free speech would be more destructive than the affliction itself. That’s why we’re opposed to Missoula’s referendum on corporate personhood. Never mind concerns about the meaningless, symbolic vote. The whole idea’s plain wrong, and clearly intended to strip speech rights from groups with disagreeable policy positions. The earnest supporters think they’re facing off with the Fortune 500 and billionaire wingnuts, but they’re actually threatening the voice of any interest group that seeks legal recognition. That scares us. We don’t want the government hindering all the great advocacy work done by countless nonprofits. Nor do we want to undermine our press protections, which the Supreme Court majority explicitly warned might follow if the Federal Election Commission got its way in the Citizens United case. One corporation or another owns almost every newspaper, radio station and television broadcaster in the country. If the government regulates institutionalized “electioneering,” the Court argued that it would not be able to distinguish reliably between the protected editorial function of the press and campaign propaganda disguised as modern pamphleteering. (What’s the real distinction between Microsoft stumping for lower corporate taxes and hiring Rachel Maddow to talk about tax reform on MSNBC? Darned if we can tell.) Vote no on this municipal referendum. Money pollutes our politics, but gutting our First Amendment rights is the wrong fix. editor@missoulanews.com

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War crime Lessons from the failed war in Iraq The Iraq War has been deeply unpopular with most Americans for most of its nearly nine years, so it was heartening to hear that President Obama intends to pull out all our combat troops by year’s end. Nevertheless, after the bloodshed, destruction and unbelievable cost—well over a trillion dollars—we have almost nothing to show for our efforts beyond 4,500 dead U.S troops, many more Iraqi dead, the mysterious disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and veterans suffering the alphabetical effects of Improvised Explosive Devices and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It turns out that those who opposed the war from its beginning were right: It’s come to an ignoble end. Obama has done his best to spin this, to make it look as though it was his call, but really, he had no choice. This was his Vietnam. We’ve been kicked out. All that’s missing are Iraq embassy workers on the rooftop clinging to a helicopter. Those who have paid attention to the high-level discussions between Iraq and the U.S. in the last year will recall that as recently as last month, the official U.S. position was that we would be leaving tens of thousands of troops in Iraq to train Iraqi troops and police forces and provide security for diplomatic missions. But that has not been the position of the Iraqis, who long ago tired of the killing and destruction visited on their cities, businesses, homes and families by U.S. forces, and the atrocities committed by the mercenaries we hired through discredited firms such as Blackwater (now Xe). The names of the villains that got us into this debacle should go down in history—George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and the rest of the coterie of war hawks who nested in the White House during the Bush administration. Now they should be tried as war criminals.

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They cooked the intelligence, and did real and lasting harm to the reputation of the U.S. by having people tortured. And they had people tortured. We ought to be ashamed. And yet, what have we learned from this so far, or from the ongoing war in Afghanistan? According to Obama’s new Pentagon chief, former CIA Director Leon Panetta, we’ve learned that killing people with drones and black ops by Special Forces teams is the future of American warfare. This has to make you wonder about Panetta’s threats that military budget cuts

The names of the villains in this debacle should go down in history: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice. will doom our armed forces. Overall military spending in the U.S. has doubled in the last decade to $700 billion annually. That figure doesn’t include the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Panetta says that cutting that military spending by as little as 7 percent a year over the next ten years—by $50 billion—will cripple our ability to protect the nation. And whom does Panetta think we

should worry about now? China. That nation is spending $95 billion a year on its military now–less than a tenth of what we spend when you add in our wars. Panetta says we have to keep spending hundreds of billions of dollars on our military to prepare for the coming Asian threat and “strengthen our presence in the Pacific.” This is bizarre. We borrow 40 cents of every federal dollar we spend, including on the military, and China is our biggest creditor. So we will presumably borrow even more money from China to further build up our military so it can protect us from…China? Do you remember the scene from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, when the inmates impersonate the doctors? Meanwhile, we sell coal, wood and other North American raw materials to China and their huge cargo ships return bearing cheap consumer goods. Our factories are dying while China goes full tilt. We seem to think we’re competing with them by eagerly helping them compete with us. Meanwhile, our military and diplomatic leaders contend we should keep doing just what we’ve been doing, strutting and blustering. But there is a good alternative, in which we actually learn something from the Iraq War: that we can no longer invade and occupy other nations. That option would be off the table. We’d cap our armed forces at a million members, stop commissioning new aircraft carriers and reduce staffing at our 800-plus foreign bases. We’d get out of Afghanistan tomorrow. We’d learn peace. And none of that can happen until the Obama administration has the courage to admit that the Iraq War failed. Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@ missoulanews.com.

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Bright light National media late in celebrating Elouise Cobell by Paul VanDevelder

It is the rare person who gets to be enshrined in the pantheon of heroes. I remember the Herblock cartoon that came out the day after Dwight Eisenhower died. It showed acres of white crosses at Arlington National Cemetery, with the caption “Pass the word, it’s Ike.” Across Indian Country this week, from Window Rock to White Shield to Lame Deer, the “Indian telegraph” hummed with a similar message: “Pass the word, it’s Elouise.” Elouise Cobell, a warrior in every sense of the word—she showed devotion, courage and a willingness to sacrifice her life and dreams for the good of the tribe— died of cancer Oct. 16, at the age of 65. She finally met an adversary that she could not conquer. This untimely dénouement came just months after her heart, mind and spirit were declared the victors in a 15-year-long battle with the most formidable foe of all— the federal government. Cobell’s remarkable saga started in 1994, when she discovered suspicious irregularities in her mineral royalty reports. Royalties owed to her and members of her family by the federal government were not showing up as credits in their annual statements. As she soon discovered, she was not alone. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in 1996, she detailed her shocking discovery: For 100 years, the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and their many agents in the extractive industries had been stealing from the poor and giving to the rich at the expense of Cobell and her 375,000 Indian co-plaintiffs, defrauding them of mineral royalties worth $50 billion, according to Price-Waterhouse’s best guestimate. The irregularity she found in her credit statement had turned into a big deal indeed. In 2011, she won the battle and settled for $3.4 billion. She didn’t get the whole enchilada, but she and her co-plaintiffs got a healthy piece of it. And they had the satisfaction of knowing they’d won the largest

class-action lawsuit ever brought against the federal government—not bad for a middleaged community organizer and banker from Browning, Mont., who spent much of her life on the skinny side of thin, wondering how she was going to feed her kids, buy retreads for her truck or patch the roof over her kitchen before the snow flew.

“Cobell’s getting far more attention from the national media in death than she ever got from them during her life.” Tributes to Elouise Cobell have been pouring in from every quarter. She’s getting far more attention from the national media in death than she ever got from them during her life. All of the big outlets have published glowing tributes, and the lawsuit will go down in history. But I wonder what she would think about all of this glory, given the brush-off she received from the national press for over a decade. Probably, she’d just shrug and chuckle. Over the years I wrote dozens of stories about her long-lasting fight against the Interior Department, but no East Coast editor ever saw it as a story worth sharing. Perhaps the reason they ignored her had something to do with why she brought the lawsuit in the first place: She wanted to shine a bright light into the untidy corners of democracy in America. Cobell’s investigation into the mineral royalty accounts demonstrated once again that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have usually been achieved in main-

stream society by denying those so-called “unalienable rights” to Indians, AfricanAmericans, Hispanics, Chinese-Americans and others who somehow do not fit in. I have no idea what words her family members will carve on Elouise Cobell’s tombstone. I hope it’s something endearing and funny and irrepressible, like the woman herself. Something like “See you all real soon.” Personally, I think a fitting epitaph was written eight years ago by Royce Lamberth, a conservative west Texas judge appointed to the federal bench by the first President Bush. He made the first big ruling in favor of Cobell and plaintiffs, in 2003. “Alas,” he wrote in words you will probably never hear again from a federal judge, “our modern Interior Department has time and again demonstrated that it is a dinosaur—the morally and culturally oblivious hand-me-down of a disgracefully racist and imperialist government that should have been buried a century ago…For those harboring hope that the stories of murder, dispossession, forced marches, assimilations, policy programs and other incidents of cultural genocide against the Indians are merely the echoes of a horrible, bigoted government-past that has been sanitized by the good deeds of more recent history, this case serves as an appalling reminder of the evils that result when large numbers of the politically powerless are placed at the mercy of institutions engendered and controlled by a politically powerful few.” Yes, that would do it nicely. Elouise Cobell, rest in peace. Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the op-ed service of High Country News (hcn.org). He lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of American’s Road to Empire Through Indian Territory.

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I once attended a horse auction in Western Colorado. The auction yard seemed ancient, but the desert wind and sun had cooked the white paint from the outdoor stands and wooden chutes prematurely. Most of the yard lights were burnt out. The ones that did shine either lit the ground in shudders or in a hue of vaguely purple light. The men at the auction wore hats that had already begun to stain with sweat even though dawn had barely passed. The calendar said it was fall. The horses were trotted out. Most were emaciated, ribs visible. Many of them were still spirited, smart enough to know something was wrong. They hopped and bucked as they were led around the small arena. Once purchased, they were led out to small horse trailers and later taken to homes where they were fed by speculators who hoped to resell them once they were fattened up. No horse sold for more than $300. Admittedly, even when well fed these animals wouldn’t have sold for more than a thousand or two. One man bought a lot of horses. He loaded them in two extra-long horse trailers. Everyone knew he sold them in Mexico for dog food and gelatin. At least

everybody said they knew that. Few spoke to the man who had become a regular in the area. His Texas plates made him an outsider. At the time, the Western Slope and the rest of Colorado was in a severe draught. Hay was expensive and in short supply. Large ranches were bringing semi-loads of hay down from Oregon and Washington. Horses were abandoned or set loose in the desert. It didn’t seem like many options existed for some of the folks who loved their animals but could no longer afford them. It was easy to hate the man from Texas. But he wasn’t leaving horses to die in the desert of starvation, predation or dehydration. He wasn’t saving them either. Here’s to hoping that the depressed economy here in Western Montana doesn’t engender too much of this sort of activity anytime soon. –Jason McMackin

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1 Fact is, we don’t talk about immigration in an intelligent manner often enough. If you agree, get listo for the Brown Bag Lecture Reflections on Development and Migration in Mexico After 12 Years of Study Abroad Programs, given by Dr. Paul Haber, Professor, UM Department of Political Science, and Ms. Emily Guttierez. Mansfield Center Conference Room. 12–1 PM. Free. The Northern Rockies Rising Tide has weekly meetings this and every Tue. at at Freecycles, 732 S. First St. W. at 6:00 PM, where participants fight climate change through grassroots resistance. YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts YWCA Support Groups for women every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. An American Indian-led talking circle is also available, along with age-appropriate children’s groups. Free. Call 543-6691. The FVCC President’s Lecture Series hosts Deni Elliot and Eleanor Poynter Jamison and their spiel Internet Ethics for Everybody. Their talk focuses on the media and journalism ethics. FVCC Arts and Technology Building, large community room. 7:30PM. Free.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Stephen Frankie Daniel, 21, was caught robbing a gas station convenience store in Snellville, Ga., by police Lt. B.W. Brown, who happened to be waiting in line behind him. “The manager was laughing at the time he was putting the money in the bag because he was looking at me over the guy who was robbing him,” Brown said, noting that Daniel apparently didn’t notice Brown’s uniform or the plainly marked Snellville Police Department pick-up truck parked outside the store. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Chaz Ursomanno, 22, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after he accidentally shot himself in the head while showing his girlfriend a handgun. Naomi Ensell, 24, told Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies she asked Ursomanno to put the gun away, but he insisted the weapon was safe. To prove it, he held the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. The gun didn’t fire. He then pointed the gun at his head a second time and fired. This time, it went off. (Associated Press) DO BEARS DRIVE IN THE WOODS? - Authorities said a bear broke into a 2002 Toyota Prius parked at a cabin in Lake Tahoe, Calif., then went on a rampage when it couldn’t figure out how to exit the vehicle. “You could look down and see the bear in the car, and its arms were just flailing all over the place, through the windows and everything,” said Brian McCarthy, 61, who watched with his family as the bear kicked, scratched, bit and tore at the car’s interior, ripped open the seats and bit a chunk out of the steering wheel. Then the bear shifted the Prius into neutral. It rolled backward out of the driveway, picked up speed, hopped a small rock wall and stopped on a neighbor’s porch steps. After the bear finally escaped, McCarthy reported the incident. “It’s definitely not a normal thing to hear about,” South Lake Tahoe police Lt. David Stevenson said. (Contra Costa Times) STORM CLOUDS - Brett Cummins, 33, a TV weatherman in Little Rock, Ark., was found in an unfilled hot tub with a naked dead man. The victim, Dexter Paul Williams, 24, was wearing a chain around his neck that Maumelle police Officer Gregory Roussie described as “silver in color and consistent with what I believed to be a dog collar.” Although a witness said the two had been drinking and snorting drugs when they climbed into the hot tub, police filed no charges, saying foul play isn’t suspected. Cummins resigned his job with KARK-TV anyway. (New York’s Daily News) Italian authorities charged seven scientists with manslaughter for failing to warn residents of a 6.3magnitude earthquake that killed 308 people in and around L’Aquila in 2009. The seven defendants are accused of giving “inexact, incomplete and contradictory information” after smaller tremors occurred in the six months leading up to the quake. (Associated Press) ALMOST AS ANNOYING AS ROBO-CALLS - Authorities trying to collect delinquent property taxes in the Indian city of Bangalore dispatched workers to beat drums outside the homes and offices of people who owe money. “The more the noise, the more the embarrassment,” city corporation Commissioner Siddaiah said, explaining the city is owed nearly $40 million in unpaid taxes. “In a way, this is shock treatment.” (BBC News) DEPRESSING NEWS - Although antidepressants are the second-most-prescribed drug in the United States, nearly half the people who responded to a California survey said they wouldn’t tell their doctor about symptoms of depression. Twenty-three percent said they feared that if they did, they would be prescribed antidepressants, which they avoid, according to University of California, Davis professor Robert Bell, the study’s lead author, because they worry about the drugs’ side effects. (National Public Radio) TOO TEMPTING TO IGNORE - While Arizona state prison inmate Dyan Castorena, 40, was assigned to an off-site job detailing cars at an auto auction in Tolleson, she stole a Toyota Camry from the auction and drove away. Authorities searched for six days before Salt River Pima Tribal Police nabbed her at a Scottsdale casino. (Phoenix’s KTVK-TV) STALKER OF THE YEAR - Dutch authorities arrested a 42-year-old Rotterdam woman for calling a 62-year-old man 65,000 times in the past year. The man complained he’d been bombarded with calls, texts and emails from the woman, who claimed to be in a relationship with him and denied that her 178 calls a day were excessive. At a preliminary hearing in The Hague, a judge granted the woman bail on condition that she leave the man alone. Within hours of her release, however, she began calling him again and was taken into custody until her trial. (BBC News) DRINKING-CLASS HERO - A 21-year-old man walked into what he believed to be a casino and asked for some blackjack chips. It was actually the University of Nebraska-Lincoln police station. Sgt. John Backer said the desk clerk turned the man away, but he returned a few minutes later. This time, officers administered a Breathalyzer test. The unidentified man blew .273—more than four times the legal limit—and was placed in protective custody. (Hasting’s KHAS-TV)

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lmost 20 years ago, Barry Flamm moved to Montana. He bought a cherry orchard on Flathead Lake’s Finley Point. Then he converted it to organic, making it the first certified organic cherry orchard in Montana. Nearby cherry growers had come to rely on pesticides to battle the western cherry fruit fly. They assumed Flamm would surrender to pesticides as quickly as the fruit flies. “‘Organic’ at that point in time was almost a cuss word,” Flamm says. “You couldn’t get people to think about organic or reducing pesticides as long as the fruit fly was a menace.” Yet for the 12 years Flamm ran the orchard, he kept it pesticide-free. He never made much of a profit, but he did something more important: He helped demonstrate the viability of organic agriculture. The federal Organic Foods Production Act had just passed, in 1990, and the organic movement was building momentum.

The Alternative Energy Resources Organization, based in Helena, gave Flamm a grant to explore alternatives to pesticides. He co-founded and served as vice chair of the Montana Organic Association. And he saw the gradual acceptance of organic practices, reflected in the fact that he ultimately joined, and later became president of, the Flathead Lake Cherry Growers. Flamm’s impulse to come to the shores of Flathead Lake and experiment with organic agriculture was born years before and thousands of miles away, in Vietnam. He was chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s forestry program in Vietnam, where he studied the effects of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, defoliants—“that’s a polite word for them”— that combined to make Agent Orange. “I discovered the damage that was being caused to the forest, and that concerned me,” he says. When he returned to the states after his three-year stint in Vietnam, he pub-

lished a paper on the ecological effects of Agent Orange that gave government officials heartburn, he says. Flamm, a forester, would go on to be the Forest Service’s first environmental coordinator, charged with implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, which was signed by President Richard Nixon on Jan. 1, 1970. Flamm dedicated himself to stamping out the then-widespread use of Agent Orange within the Forest Service. He says that in the 1950s, agency staffers used to head into the woods to kill weeds with the herbicide sloshing around in containers on their backs. When they came home, their wives would complain about houseplants dying. “We were totally ignorant of any health hazards, even though we knew it was killing plants. I guess you ought to think of that, but we didn’t think that far ahead.” Flamm’s mission in Vietnam and his foray into organic agriculture

in Montana are just two chapters of a remarkable life as a public servant and environmental pioneer. Flamm, who now lives in Polson, was also a member of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality under presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, developed biodiversity management plans in Mongolia and China, and served as the Wilderness Society’s chief forester. Today, at 78, he’s finally resigned from the many positions he’s held and the boards he’s sat on—except one. He still serves on the National Organic Standards Board, a 15-member federal advisory committee that has sole authority over the substances allowed in organic agriculture. Tall and thin with a full head of silver hair, Flamm almost looks his age. He talks in a slow, low and nasally voice, and sometimes can’t find the word he’s looking for. He doesn’t act his age. At his lake-view home within a golf community, which he admits doesn’t quite suit him, Flamm,

Photo courtesy of Barry Flamm

Barry Flamm’s Finley Point cherry orchard was the first in the state to be certified organic.

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became supervisor of Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest, making him the youngest supervisor in the country. Flamm is “an Easterner by birth who became sort of the quintessential Westerner,” says Steve Jellinek, who worked with Flamm on the President’s Council on Environmental Quality in the 1970s. Jellinek says he used to joke that Flamm was the embodiment of Mark Trail, the outdoor-adventuring comic strip character who confronted environmental injustice. In Flamm’s bedroom and living room there’s a photo of Supervisor Flamm astride his horse, Blackjack, a Missouri Fox Trotter, beside Grave Lake in the Shoshone National Forest’s Wind River Mountains. Another remnant from that period hangs in his stairwell, a plaque called “The Order of the Golden Apple,” given to him “For service above and beyond the call of duty on the Shoshone Horse Forest,” the nickname for the forest at the time. Affixed to the plaque are two “golden apples”—dried horse turds spraypainted gold. “I hung this in every office I had in Washington, D.C.,” he says.

wearing a hooded sweatshirt, khaki cargo pants and a Montana Organic Association cap, shows off a few pairs of skis and a kayak in his garage. He regularly skis Blacktail Mountain, in Lakeside, and launches his kayak from his neighborhood’s private beach in Mission Bay. He tells of his upcoming three-week trip to Peru; he leaves in two days. He’s going alone. He’ll visit Machu Picchu and float the headwaters of the Amazon River. He walks around his house, telling the stories behind the photos, awards and maps that hang from the walls. “To place me here now you almost have to understand where I came from,” he says, “because the reasons were even a mystery to myself.”

GOLDEN APPLES Flamm was born in Ohio in 1933. “I had a concern for conservation from my earliest moments [that] I can think of,” he says. “Where that came from, I’m not quite sure. Some of my relatives would joke that I was an Indian left on the doorstep.” He was raised in Cincinnati. He always loved the outdoors, he says, “but I didn’t live in a very friendly outdoor environment. I was always concerned with conservation and wildlife, but my concerns were fairly simple…I could see air pollution, I could see water pollution and that sort of thing. I could see when fish were dead. But I didn’t understand the complexities of it.” After high school, at 19, Flamm drove to Colorado to enroll at Colorado A&M University (now known as Colorado State) to study forestry. His college years began with a short stint working at a

‘EXCEPT FOR THAT GUY FLAMM.’

Photo by Chad Harder

Flamm, 78, now serves on the National Organic Standards Board.

pickle factory. He took his second year off to hitchhike around the country. When he returned to Fort Collins, he began to distinguish himself academically, serving on student council and as the forestry club president. “Everything just

kept falling into place for me,” he says. He married his first wife, with whom he had four children, when he was a student in Colorado. The next decade found him working his way up the rungs of the Forest Service. By the time he was 31, he

Flamm left Cody, Wyoming, for Vietnam in 1967. “I jumped at the chance to go to Vietnam for a host of reasons,” he says. “I was concerned about the military aspect and what was going on and I wanted to experience it. But I also wanted the adventure of going there. I found Asia so fascinating.” In Vietnam, Flamm became trusted by military higher-ups who gave him security clearances and access to helicopters to survey forest damage. He flew on herbicidal warfare missions in South

Photo courtesy of Barry Flamm

As a forester in Vietnam, Flamm saw firsthand the effects of herbicidal warfare.

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ing a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Robert Bergland and commending him on the agency’s work—“except for that guy Flamm.” Jellinek says Flamm developed a reputation for being fiercely independent and resolute, which more than made up for some of his shortcomings. “He’s not a slick communicator…either orally or in writing,” Jellinek says, “but he’s got the ideas and he’s committed to them, and he is tenacious, tenacious. I mean, when he decides on a course of action, he sticks to it—in a very low-key way. He rarely if ever lost his temper, but he was like a bulldog. He would marshal the facts and marshal the arguments and usually get his way—usually because he was on the right side of the issue.”

‘I KNEW WHAT I STOOD FOR’ Photo courtesy of Barry Flamm

“I discovered the damage that was being caused to the forest,” Flamm, second from left, says of Agent Orange application in Vietnam, “and that concerned me.”

Vietnam, collectively called Operation Ranch Hand, to see firsthand how Agent Orange was being used. Flamm was given so much latitude that some soldiers thought he was a CIA agent, he says. “One reason I did these things…was because I was willing to go out and help people when others were afraid to leave the security of Saigon.” Shortly after Flamm returned home from Vietnam, in 1969, President Nixon gave him the Arthur S. Flemming Award, which is presented to outstanding young men and women in the federal govern-

ment. Flamm then became the Forest Service’s environmental coordinator, a position that let him crack down on Agent Orange through the newly passed National Environmental Policy Act. He saw the use of pesticides and other chemicals as a “programmatic” problem. “I didn’t want to review an environmental statement on a five-acre spray job and say, ‘Well, that has no impact,’ and then again on another five acres here, 10 acres there,” he explains. “I wanted to see it all bundled together…and [gauge] the collective impact…Later, when I

headed the environmental program for the Department of Agriculture [under the Carter administration], that’s when I really made the impact, because there I had the backing of the secretary to review and clear certain environmental statements. I made the decision. I didn’t say, ‘You can’t use 2,4,5-T.’ I said, ‘You have to provide a sufficient analysis’—and they were incapable of doing it.” He remembers approving only one application of Agent Orange, on about 20 acres. He also remembers the chair of the House Agriculture Committee writ-

It was under President Carter that Flamm transitioned from senior staff member on the Council on Environmental Quality to director of the USDA’s Office of Environmental Quality. Working under Carter was “an exciting time for me,” Flamm says. He and his colleagues were able to revive ideas that had been shelved under President Ford and make progress on a variety of fronts. He points to a map of Alaska on his basement wall, signed by Carter, that shows the Misty Fiords and Admiralty Island national monuments. He worked with Carter to proclaim those monuments, which are now part of larger wilderness areas. When he came into office, in 1981, President Reagan abolished the Office of Environmental Quality. On the day of the announcement, Flamm had come to

Photo courtesy of Barry Flamm

President Richard Nixon presents Flamm with the Arthur S. Flemming Award.

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work early, at about 5:30 a.m., he says, and found the press release on his desk. He walked to his car to grab his running shoes; he’d been training for marathons. His assistant director followed him there and said, “What are you going to do?” “I’m going to go for a run,” Flamm says he replied. “I’ll see the secretary when I get back from my run.” “Why don’t you go right now?” “I might kill him if I go right now.” So Flamm went for a run. Then he was told that he still had a job as environmental coordinator if he wanted it. “What am I going to coordinate now?” he asked, and resigned. He says his environmental policy positions had caused conservative lawmakers

High Country News and other publications around the country. “The Reagan administration is systematically tearing apart the contributions of nearly a century of environmental work in the country,” he wrote. “This destruction is occurring in virtually every agency across the federal government. The administration is successfully attacking the institutions, the policies, the people, and, ultimately, the quality environment upon which we all must depend. The attacks on environmental policies by the Reagan administration have been so large, so inclusive, and so out of character with a century of conservation direction in this country as to be nearly incomprehensible. Never before have we

dom to go off into the jungles of the Amazon and Costa Rica.” He returned to D.C., earning a Ph.D. from George Mason University and serving a stint as the Wilderness Society’s chief forester in the late 1980s, but he wouldn’t remain homebound for long. A large world map is displayed along the steps leading to Flamm’s basement office. Dozens of pins are pressed into it, representing all of the countries Flamm’s traveled to—close to 100. The pins are color-coded; the red ones indicate the top 10 places he still plans to visit. “Some people call it their bucket list,” he says. One of the red pins is in Myanmar. Three others are in African countries with gorilla populations. Dubrovnik, Croatia’s

see…I always like to see what’s on the other side of the hill.” Flamm’s experience in Vietnam set the course for a series of projects in Asia. In the early ’90s, he helped produce China’s “Biodiversity Conservation Action Plan,” funded by the United Nations Development Program. He led a sustainable forest project in India, and he served as chief of party for USAID’s Nepal Forest Policy Project. “At one point in time,” he says, “I had visited Beijing more than any other city in the world—including Missoula, Montana—because everywhere I was going in Asia, I couldn’t get there without going through Beijing.” In the late ’90s, he led the development of a biodiversity conservation plan

Photo by Chad Harder

Flamm’s visited dozens of countries, but he’s not finished exploring. The red pins represent his “bucket list.”

and agency staffers to ostracize him. “I didn’t have any allies come running.” He says he’ll never forget this: On the day of the announcement, he was walking down Independence Avenue. The director of the Soil Conservation Service was coming toward him, but when he saw Flamm, he crossed the street to avoid him and then crossed back over. “The people I worked with, they didn’t want Flamm to rub off on them,” Flamm says. “It was kind of a lesson. It didn’t really bother me that much. I knew what I stood for.” Flamm penned an editorial in the spring of 1982 that was published in

experienced such total reversals in the progress we have made.” Yellowed newspaper clippings of the editorial are taped inside a frame that hangs in Flamm’s basement. Near it is another frame containing the full text of the National Environmental Policy Act, which Flamm says he still reads occasionally.

‘ALMOST NOTHING IS EXOTIC’ It was only after Flamm hastily halted his 27-year career in federal government that he learned he was eligible for an early retirement package. “It wasn’t much,” he says, “but it gave me the free-

on the list, as is Churchill, Canada, where polar bears come in the fall before migrating north. Another pin is in Cambodia; he’s been there, but not to Angkor Wat, a city of temples dating back to the early 12th century. And then there’s Peru. When he returns from his trip, that pin will be pushed into New Guinea. “I had it on New Guinea for a while,” he says. “Sometimes I change my list.” “The saying is how the world has gotten smaller and smaller,” he continues, “but in my view, as I travel, it gets bigger and bigger, because the diversity, the cultures and the people—the more I learn and the more I see, the more I want to

in Mongolia. That’s where, in 1998, he met his second wife, who was the project translator. They married there a year later. Flamm’s environmental consulting work also took him to Central America, South America and Africa. “Barry likes to explore, and he believes there is no limit,” says his wife, who asked that her name not be published. “At any age, people can open their eyes and explore the world.” “I’ve seen enough,” Flamm says, “that almost nothing is exotic…I don’t have the sense I did that first trip when everything was so exotic, so unique, and I was so sensitive to the smells and

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sights and sounds…The only place I think I haven’t been that might seem exotic is New Guinea…especially if I got around headhunters.”

“A BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON FINLEY POINT” Flamm had been to every state in the country, but when he returned to the U.S. from Nepal, in June 1992, he chose to buy property in Montana. “I always thought about it when I was in Washington—‘Oh, I’d like to set up a farm…an experimental farm and be sustainable and not use chemicals’…So I just jumped in and bought a beautiful

There are now a few orchards around Flathead Lake that grow cherries organically, including the one Flamm started in 1992. As a member of the volunteer National Organic Standards Board, Flamm has influence over the list of substances that may or may not be used in organic crop and livestock production. The list has been debated since 1997, when the USDA issued a draft of the proposed rules for implementing organic standards. The public comment period drew more than 275,000 comments, thought to be the most ever received in federal rulemaking. In 1998, the agency reversed its position on three key things it initially wanted to

ic farmers’ fields, threatening the integrity of the organic label. Fences don’t stop crosspollination. “Some things you can put back into the bottle and you can clean up and start over again,” Flamm says. “This isn’t one of them. I hope there’s still a chance to rectify what’s happening, but it’s terrifying to me.” Flamm says the NOSB is debating whether to come out against Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s decision earlier in the year to allow unrestricted planting of Monsanto’s new genetically modified alfalfa. Alfalfa, the most widely grown perennial forage crop, is especially prone to GMO contamination. Organic meat and dairy producers fear it’s only a mat-

“The whole organic system is based on consumer trust,” says Beyond Pesticides Executive Director Jay Feldman, who serves alongside Flamm on the NOSB. “We have to meticulously ensure that consumers have increasing trust in the decisions that are made by the board, especially as the industry grows and as more and bigger players become engaged in organic. It can’t be seen as just a sales tactic that is used to capture a market. It has to really be seen increasingly as an incredibly rigorous process that is subject to full transparency and oversight and involvement by the public. That requires more people like Barry who appreciate that, understand that and believe that organic will eventually become

Photo by Chad Harder

Flamm’s entering his last year on the National Organic Standards Board. When he’s through, wilderness awaits.

place on Finley Point. It had space, it was beautiful; it had cherry trees and apples and pears.” Flamm taught environmental policy at the University of Montana in 2003. He says he had students who argued passionately, to his surprise, that if one can’t have food that’s both local and organic, it’s better to eat local food. Flamm’s experience taught him otherwise. “I lean toward organic,” he says. “I know a lot of the local food is heavily sprayed. The cherries—I wouldn’t eat a cherry that didn’t come from an organic orchard…If I don’t know it’s organic, I won’t touch it. Because I know what’s in it. I wouldn’t touch a non-organic apple for the life of me. I might as well take a bottle of poison and get it over with quickly rather than die slowly. It’s what you learn in the business.”

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allow in organic food production: irradiation, genetically modified organisms and sewage sludge, millions of tons of which are applied to conventional farm fields in the U.S. every year.

A MOVEMENT, NOT AN INDUSTRY The final National Organic Program rule was published in the federal register in 2000. The industry was worth about $2.5 billion then. It’s worth around $30 billion now. The tolerance of GMOs in organic food production continues to be contentious. Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto’s genetically engineered traits are planted on more than 80 percent of U.S. corn acreage, and in more than 90 percent of soybean, cotton and sugar beet acreage. Genetically engineered material tends to find its way into organ-

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ter of time before they find GMO material in their alfalfa fields. Flamm wants to denounce Vilsack’s decision, which reflects his position as perhaps the board’s most independent and progressive member. Other members represent large companies, such as Campbell Soup Company, General Mills, Whole Foods Market and Earthbound Farm. “I think I am the most independent just by my nature,” he says. “But also, I don’t owe allegiance to anybody right now. Just the organic movement—that’s my allegiance.” He calls it a movement, or a community—not an industry. “I grew up in Ohio and industry meant smokestacks belching smoke,” he says. In his view, the board should represent farmers, consumers of organic food and everyone who benefits from fewer chemicals applied to the land.

the mainstream in food production— because people believe in it, and understand its value, not only for their own health but for the health of the environment and those who work the farms.” Flamm’s five-year term on the National Organic Standards Board ends in January 2013, perhaps marking the end of his work in agriculture. But other frontiers await him. “I love wildlands and wilderness,” he says. “Nothing gives me more pleasure than just being in the wild, without hearing another voice, without seeing any structures…I think when I leave the board I’ll probably try to get active again in wilderness issues in the state, because the state is an incredible place for a wilderness lover.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Fat pleasure FLASHINTHEPAN From time to time, I like to cook my lady friend a nice meal and tell her, “I’m gonna fatten you up for the slaughter.” But since I began researching the fat fetish known as feederism, in which weight gain is eroticized, I haven’t been able to keep a straight face while telling her my special sexy line. In the feederism community, the gluttonous acts that produce fat are as alluring as the sagging, bulbous rolls of cellulose they produce. At the heart of feederism is the relationship between a gainer (or feedee) and a feeder (aka the encourager). The feeder’s job is to help the gainer become fat, an arrangement that gives both parties satisfaction. A common aspiration among gainers is a state of immobility, where he or she is too fat to move around without help. At this point, the assistance of the feeder becomes crucial. Immobility, according to many feeders and gainers, is the sexiest thing ever, though it’s rarely attained. While the feeder/gainer relationship defines feederism, it’s but one of many ways people get off on weight gain. One self-identifying gainer named “Lisa,” who is married to a man, told researchers that she looks at pictures of fat women online several times a week, and masturbates. This research appeared in the article, “Feederism in a Woman” (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2009) by Lesley Terry and Paul Vasey of the University of Lethbridge. Lisa’s testimony is consistent with firsthand sources widely available on the many feederism websites, forums and chat rooms that exist. During a period of active weight gain Lisa claims to have enjoyed great erotic pleasure, especially when weighing and measuring herself, but she ultimately gave up her gains over health concerns. As I learned in a chat room on the website Fantasy Feeder, some gainers are terrified of doctors, thanks to the obesity-related diseases that plague the feeder community, including heart and circulatory problems and diabetes. One chatter with swollen ankles lamented, “My doctor says I have the feet of someone 200 pounds heavier.” Lisa knew the risks, but when she experienced compromised immunity and extreme loss of energy she knew she had to get out. She slimmed down, got married and started nourishing her inner feedee online.

“Lisa’s ideal website would have several pictures of the same woman over the course of the model’s weight gain so that she could see the progressive changes in the model’s shape and size. She said she was aroused by ‘the shapes of their bodies,’” wrote the researchers. While sitting around and being fed, or stuffing your own face, might seem to be the epitome of sloth, many successful gainers describe their practice as hard work. Forum discussions about how to pack it on and keep it on are mirror images of the diet tips and theories shared in forums for people who want to get and stay thin. Before her stint as a gainer, Lisa had a bout with anorexia. This is not uncommon. Feederism and anorexia share an obsession with body image and

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food, and both have their erotic elements. (Google “anorexic porn” if you dare, but be warned: You can’t un-see that shit. It looks like necrophilia and makes feeder porn look wholesome.) Online gainer forums are filled with people discussing their weight-gain goals. “I’m still testing this out but my preferred weight is somewhere between 250 and 300 pounds. Ideally I would like to be heavy enough to have a belly that touches my thighs when I stand up,” wrote one. Another: “I would sell my soul if I could weigh 1,500 to 1,600.” There are also recipe forums, where tips on 3,000-calorie smoothies are shared. And there are forums for lactose- and gluten-intolerant gainers, as well as diabetic gainers (of which there are many). It’s tempting to look for a link between rising obesity rates and feederism. And maybe one exists. Certainly, the availability of cheap junk food enables those with obese intentions. A man who goes by Dr. Feeder (and runs a website called Ask Dr. Feeder) told me via email that there aren’t good statistics on how widespread the practice

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is. “In a survey I did on Fantasy Feeder many feedees claim that their decision to gain weight and/or the amount of weight they’ve gained was strongly influenced by weight-gain sites on the internet. As a practice I’m sure it’s growing, for both those reasons and because it’s easier to find like-minded people.” In his syndicated column Savage Love, sexadvice columnist Dan Savage notes: “We live in a society that’s deeply conflicted about fat and food: we’re not supposed to be heavy, but many of us are; we’re not supposed to eat junk food, but many of us do. Intentionally getting fat, or ‘forcing’ someone to get fat, violates taboos about what we’re supposed to find attractive; since being fat isn’t healthy, ‘forcing’ someone to gain weight is subtly sadistic. By ‘forcing’ someone to eat a lot of crap, you’re pleasuring him and hurting him at the same time.” Dr. Feeder considers being a feeder or a gainer as inborn, much like one’s sexual orientation. “Many of us are aware of this from childhood (under six in my case) and whatever percentage of us that is, that probably hasn’t changed,” Dr. Feeder wrote. “Lisa” also had early feelings for fat. At “7 or 8 years old,” according to “Feederism in a Woman,” she became fascinated with larger people and would pretend her Barbie dolls were gaining weight. When she was 13 years old she had a dream of a fat woman wearing a crop top dancing, her naked belly shaking around, and this was the inspiration for Lisa’s first orgasm in her sleep. “She also fantasized about being forced to gain weight and being teased for being overweight.” I’m no psychologist, but I find it telling that Lisa’s fantasy about being teased for being fat was an early element of her sexuality. Even if it had never happened to her, it speaks to her early awareness that fat people exist, and they are teased. Perhaps developing an attraction to the thing she feared might happen to her—her mom was fat—was a coping mechanism. Might that be happening on a widespread basis? If it is, and with obesity rates growing faster than ever, especially in children, we can expect a lot more gainers in the next generation. That’s good news for feeders, and their institutional counterparts, the food companies that happily and greedily fatten us up for an early slaughter. And maybe it’s good news for the gainers as well. After all, if you’re going to be fat, you might as well be fat and happy.

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Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) • 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$

Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Fall is sneaking up on us all! And so is Halloween! Did you know Bernice’s sells Halloween sweet treats from October 21st thru November 2nd? Awesome frosted sugar cookies. Infamous Pumpkin Bread. Goblin cupcakes. Pumpkin frosting on pumpkin

Big Sky Drive In 1016 W. Broadway 549-5431 Big Sky Drive In opened June 2nd 1962. We feature soft serve ice cream, shakes, malts, spins, burger, hot dogs, pork chop sandwiches and breaded mushrooms all made to order. Enjoy our 23 shake and malt flavors or the orange twist

ice cream. Drive thru or stay and enjoy your food in our outdoor seating area. Lunch and dinner, seven days a week. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve 541-BLUE (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Winter Hours: 4pm - 9 pm Seven Days a Week. $$-$$$

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The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins • 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 39 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am-2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross • 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes, Shakes, and Smoothies the Way You Want It. Come in for our weekday specials. Get Gift Cards any time. Remember, it's a great day for ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius. Double Front Chicken 122 W. Alder 543-6264 Number of years ago Double Front was built, 101. Number of years it’s been cooking chicken,

75. Number if years in the Herndon family, 49. Always getting that perfect chicken dinner, timeless. Come find out why we are rule of the roost. Always the best, Double Front Chicken. $-$$ Family Dental Group Southgate Mall 541-2886 Do you have a flex plan or dental benefit with funding that expires on December 31st? You are not alone. A lot of people wait until December to try and schedule dental appointments. Unfortunately, at year end many patients forfeit their unused benefits because no more appointments are available. The last few weeks of the year are often fully booked. Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula 424 N. Higgins 542-3847 www.flbcofmissoula.com Known for their “Bar Burgers” a masterpiece of deliciousness; Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is unfiltered sophistication atop the skyline of Missoula Montana. Downtown or Uptown, any way you look at it, Flathead Lake Brewing Co. of Missoula is your best destination for great food, wine and spirits. Come on in and join us. We can't wait to see you. Cheers!!! $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. MTH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am-4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula's best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

HAPPIESTHOUR Outback Steakhouse Claim to Fame: This chain steakhouse has all the generic trappings for its Aussie theme, including Aboriginal-style art and boomerangs on the walls. The real claim to fame, though, is the Bloomin’ Onion—a large deep-fried onion appetizer that looks like a greasy golden flower and tastes delicious in the way all fried things do. What you’re drinking: In keeping with the Aussie theme, Foster’s Lager is choice even though it’s comparable to any American domestic. Little Boomey Australian wine takes the class up a notch when paired with steak. For your Outback sweet tooth, the Wallaby Darned is a peachy cocktail. But if you’re feeling like an exhibitionist, you might just order the ’Rita Trio: three glasses hung on a spiral tree, each with a sizable sampling of the lime, mango and pomegranate margaritas, for $8.25. Happy hour: Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., you’ll drink two for one of any Bud, Bud Lite, Miller, Foster’s or house wine, plus margaritas. If you’re a late-nighter, you can get happy Sunday through Thursday evening from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Who you’re drinking with: If you’ve come for happy hour, sit at the wooden square bar in the middle of the room where all the

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action happens. You might meet some regulars, and you’ll for sure end up chatting with Outback staff who take advantage of the drink specials once they get off shift. Happy eating: You can use a little lingo during happy hour when you order the trippy sounding Bushman ’Shrooms for $3, the half Alice Springs Quesedilla for $4 or the half Kookaburra Wings for $5. Just don’t try out your fake Aussie accent. You will sound ridiculous. How to find it: 2415 N. Reserve St., next to Radio Shack. —Erika Fredrickson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

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Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Warm up your chilly nights with our Hot Jalapeno Artichoke Dip. We have Classic French Onion Soup and hearty Bison chili made in house daily. Fall in love with our Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf-stuffed with crispy Daily’s bacon and cheddar cheese, served with cheddar mashed potatoes and corn. And finish the best meal in town with our New Orleans style Bread Pudding with warm caramel sauce and Big Dipper vanilla bean Ice cream. We still have Happy Hour from 4-7 every day and on game days we offer wings specials and all your favorite local micro-brews. Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? nside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula. Hunter Bay Coffee and Sandwich Bar First Interstate Center • 101 East Front St hunterbay.com • 800.805.2263 Missoula’s local roaster since 1991 - now open downtown in the First Interstate Center! Stop by for hand-crafted gourmet coffees and espressos plus madefrom-scratch, healthy sandwiches and soups. Enjoy the sunshine from our patio! Free Wi-Fi and Free Parking in the upper deck lot. Open Monday through Saturday. Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas. Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5-10. Late night happy hour 9-10pm. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all-new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Oil & Vinegar Southgate Mall • 549-7800 Mon.-Sat. 10:00 AM-9:00 PM Sun. 11:00 AM6:00 PM. With a visit to Oil & Vinegar, you will discover an international selection of over 40 estate-produced oils & vinegars suspended in glass amphora-shaped containers on a dramatic backlit wall. Guests can sample the varieties and select from various shapes & sizes of bottles to have filled with an “ontap” product of choice. Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues. Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the

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warm and inviting dining areas. Go to our website Pearlcafe.us to check out nightly specials and bistro menus, make reservations or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway • 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway. Pita Pit 130 N. Higgins 541-PITA (7482) • pitapitusa.com Fresh Thinking Healthy Eating. Enjoy a pita rolled just for you. Hot meat and cool fresh veggies topped with your favorite sauce. Try our Chicken Caesar, Gyro, Philly Steak, Breakfast Pita, or Vegetarian Falafel to name just a few. For your convenience we are open until 3am 7 nights a week. Call if you need us to deliver! Authentic Thai Restaurant 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 sawaddeedowntown.com Sa Wa Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors- no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisine. Now serving beer and wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s Empire Grill 130 W. Pine St. • 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins • 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood. We'll do our best to treat you right. Home of the Famous Fish Taco. Crowned Missoulas best lunch for under $6. Mon-Sat. 11-10 Sun. 12-9. Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun - Wed 83pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$

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Pinky and the Floyd are going to do what they do every time they play the Top Hat, perform a tribute to Pink Floyd, Sat., Oct. 29, at 10 PM. $10/$8 with a costume.

THURSDAY October

The Humane Society of Western Montana is collecting books through the end of October for its first Neu-ter-U book sale going on Nov. 1–15. The money raised will go to the spay/neuter fund. Bring books to the shelter. 5930 Hwy. 93 S. Get your little sponges down to the MNHC’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program so they can develop the necessary skills to cultivate a love of the outdoors. Kids ages 2–5 are welcome when accompanied by an adult. 10–11 AM. $1 for members, $3 for all others. montananaturalist.org.

Things that rule: The Day of the Dead Steamroller Project. Giant prints are created using a steamroller as a printing press. Yes, Gary, that is rad. Parking lot in front of UM Theatre. 10–5 PM. Free Cut through the lactose and check out a Tibetan Butter Sculpture demonstration by visiting monk Lama Paljor, from 5–8 PM at China Woods Home and Garden, 716 N. Dickens St. Free. Call 550-2511. You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night each Thursday. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 Student. Que Bueno! The Downtown Dance Collective has weekly classes in Intermediate Spanish Dance. Castanets? Yes. Skirt work? Yes. Advanced heel work? Que usted lo sepa. 5:45–7PM.

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He’s the doctor and you’re the aural patient when David Boone plays folk from 6–8:30 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-PINT. Have an art attack when the Ravalli County Museum, in Hamilton, presents an opening for the exhibit Taking Stock: A Study of Historic Agricultural Buildings in the Gallatin Valley, from 6–9 PM. Free. Call 363-3338. It’s already time for the Polytana October Potluck. Bring something to share or don’t and remember to be nice. 127 N. Higgins, 2nd floor atrium. 6 PM. Free. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Oct. 28, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calemander c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Help shape the future of public transportation in Missoula by attending a planning meeting for the Mountain Line transit system. Holiday Inn downtown. 6–8 PM. Free.

nightlife That old scrogger Andy Smetanka is at it again with a new program of stop-motion and scratch animation, chock full of rockin’ tunes and no dialogue. The evening’s special attraction: “The Miller’s Daughter”, a very naughty animated “erotic photoplay,” which was accepted last week for the Hump! 2011 DIY dirty movie festival in Seattle and Portland next month. The night also features “City in Shadows” and other Smetanka animated shorts. Do Not Bring Your Kids, pervs. The Top Hat. 6 PM. $4. Authors Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman present a book signing and lecture for Tears in the Darkness, featuring special guest artist Ben Steele, at 7 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. Free. Visit umt.edu/montanamuseum. The Peace and Justice Film Series presents two short films The Warriors of Qiugang, which chronicles the beginnings of the environmental movement in China, and Silent Screams, which looks at the impact of drone attacks on Kurds and other Middle Eastern groups. UC Theater. 7PM. Free. Where or where has Barry Bostwick gone? No matter, you can inhabit his character, Brad Majors at The Rocky Horror Picture Show down at the Crystal Theater. Fact: if you are too cool to throw toast, we can’t be friends. Doors open at 7, show at 8 PM. $12/$10 adv. (available at The Bridge Pizza). Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. Email Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. Missoula Community Theatre presents Dracula, suckers. Find out what happens when a notorious sanguisuge moves next door to your sanitorium. 200 N. Adams. 8 PM. mctinc.org. $21. Dance in a trance during another installment of Ecstatic Dance Missoula, a night of dancing and socializing featuring tunes by Djs Logisticalone and Tygerlily, from 8–11 PM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. $5-$10 suggested donation. Hold onto your trucker hats Missoula, ‘cause the Badlander’s got a new dance party in town. It’s called Prehab, and it’s bound to make you go bonkers on the dancefloor with sets of hip hop and electronic music from local Djs Kris Moon, Vyces and Hotpantz, plus $1 wells & $1 Pabst from 9 PM to midnight. $2, or free with a promo coupon. First guy to sing “Witchy Woman” gets it at Sunrise Saloon’s Rocking Karaoke at 9 PM. Free. I’m fixing to get really wobbly on the dancefloor when Fixing 2 plays at 9 PM at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 block of Strand Ave. Free. Call 728-1559. Escape that electric blanket execution and soothe your soul with the sounds of local “blue-eyed soul rock” band Hell and High Water when it plays with TBA openers at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

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Two great tastes that go great together, climbing and dancing, will be on display during the UM Theatre and Dance production of Grace, or the Art of Climbing, at UM’s PARTV Building, Masquer Theater, Tue., Nov. 1–Sat., Nov. 5, and Tue., Nov. 8–Sat., Nov. 12 at 7:30 PM nightly. $16 general/$14 seniors and students/$10 kids 12 and under.

Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing freely when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. Things have changed and so can you! Check out Dead Hipster Dance Party at its new location: Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com. You dress up like Noam Chomsky and I’ll dress up like Dr. Steve Brule when Seattle’s Blue Scholars brings its forward thinking brand of hip hop to the Top Hat at 10 PM. Seattle’s Bambu and Grynch open, along with locals Shaymlusly Elliterate. $15/$12 advance at the Top Hat or online at tophatmissoula.com.

FRIDAY October

The Mansfield Ethics and Public Affairs Program and the Wildlife Biology Program present a three-day workshop in Conservation Ethics. Learn how to apply principles in conservation ethics in a rational, transparent and critical manner in conservation and management. Graduate credit can be obtained. $340, plus $135 for credit. Call 243–6605 to register. Legendary “Zen Cowboy” Chuck Pyle performs at the Kandahar Lodge at Whitefish Mountain Resort. 8 PM. $15 adv./$18. It’s Christmas at the Conrad Mansion, with live music, champagne and early shopping on Friday. Bazaar Saturday and Sunday. Fri., 7–9 PM. $40. Sat., 10–5 PM. $5. Sun., 11–4 PM. $5. conradmansion.com. Become a boo-tiful maid or a well-spooken gentleman at the Immortal Murder Mystery

Costume Dinner Party where you can involve your alter-self in bribery, murder and mayhem. Space is limited. $50 pp / $90 per couple. Call Leah at 240–1221. AERO (Montana’s Alternative Energy Resources Organization) will hold its annual meeting in Lakeside. The three-day event features tours, discussions, food, music and, you guessed it, contra dancing. $35/$20 students per session. Food and lodging separate. aeromt.org. Flora Way signs her book Long Way Home at Fact and Fiction. 4–6 PM. Free. Practice being peaceful in a world of differences during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Intercultural Dialogue Group, a monthly meeting that aims to bring together people from various backgrounds for an afternoon of conversation and peacemaking, every last Fri. of the month at 4:30 PM in the library of the Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call Betsy at 543-3955 or e-mail peace@jrpc.org for more info. Montana Art and Framing presents Barbara Morrison’s Memento Mori Day of the Dead inspired mixed media sculpture and gouache paintings. Also exhibiting will be Christofer Autio’s Life in Oaxaca black and white photographs from Mexico and his video Weavers of Oaxaca. This is a closing reception from 5 to 9 PM with lots of candy at 709 Ronan Street off of 6th Street in Missoula. Free. For information call 541-7100. The Captain Wilson Conspiracy will get jazzy at the Ten Spoon tasting room. My guess? Captain Wilson saw the second puff of smoke. 5–9 PM. Free.

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Halloween Bash at the Red Willow Learning Center. 825 W. Kent. Call 721–0033. Does Triple Chicken Foot have three Sammy Hagars in the band? Three Joe Satrianis? That would be one way to rock. Come down to Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat and find out. 6–8PM. Free. Where or where has Barry Bostwick gone? No matter, you can inhabit his character, Brad Majors, at The Rocky Horror Picture Show down at the Crystal Theater. Fact: if you are too cool to throw toast, we can’t be friends. Doors open at 7, show at 8 PM. $12/$10 adv. (available at The Bridge Pizza). Dudes and Bettys get ready for the shreddy, shreddy gnar–gnar to come this winter by checking out two, count ‘em, two free snowboarding films being shown at the Wilma, Familia 2 and GOOD LOOK. Doors 7PM. Free. It’s back, people DalyJazz is back with some dope as heck players at one of the hippest venues in town, with Matt Slocum on drums, Sam Yahel on piano and Massimo Biolcati on the bass. Feel free to rock a costume. 7PM. $35. Space is limited, RSVP to dalyjazz@gmail.com. UM School of Music presents Faculty and Guest Artist Series Recital, featuring Jennifer Gookin Cavanaugh on oboe at the music recital hall. 7:30 PM. $12/$8 students and seniors. Call 243–4581. Theatre and archival film are combined in Native Vision, starring Lily Gladstone. The show is the story of a young Navajo girl who is taken from her home and placed in a government-run boarding school during the 1930s. Whitefish Theater Company. 7:30 PM. $18/$14 seniors/$8 students. The Autumn Songs voice recital at Hellgate High features Karen Callan singing soprano and Dorothy Beck Peterson on piano.

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SPOTLIGHT belt it out If you are reading this, you have certainly dreamed of being in a musical. You have wanted to belt out those big, sappy choruses, with your arms flung wide. You wish you could tap dance in a white sailor suit, cap cocked forward, teeth a-gleam. You love a parade. You are in luck. The Missoula Community Chorus is set to present the Sing–Along Sound of Music, hosted by the perfectly chosen weatherman about town, Mark Heyka. The concept is simple. Prior to the show, Heyka guides the crowd thorough vocal warm–ups, and it, your dreams can be realized. You can be part of discusses the uses of the materials inside the a musical. If you are an abhorrent singer, no matter. Hundreds of other voices will obscure your warcomplimentary “magic moment pack,” which contains props to use throughout the film. A subtitled version of The Sound of WHAT: Sound of Music Sing–Along Music plays on the Wilma WHERE: Wilma Theatre Theatre’s screen. Members of the chorus guide viewers/listen- WHEN: Sat., Oct. 29. at 1 PM and 7 PM. ers through the film with rousing bits of dancing and flat-out good HOW MUCH: Matinee $12.50; 6 and under free. Evening $20. Groups of ten or more receive a discount. time zaniness. But wait, my lonely goatherders, there is MORE INFO: singalongmissoula.com also a fancy dress competition and costumes are very much encouraged. bling cries. Just be sure and sing loud and proud, The matinee show will be family friendly, not this may be your only chance to be a singing nun, that the evening show isn’t exactly, but alcohol will a Von Trapp or a doe, a deer, a female deer. be served at the evening event for the shy types —Jason McMackin who need a titch of social lubricant. There you have

Hellgate High School Auditorium. $800 if they do “Fall in Philadelphia” by Hall and Oates. 7:30 PM. Free.

Burlesque Group. $13/$10 advance plus fees at Ear Candy Music.

Fishbowl Friday at the Lucky Strike Sports Bar in the Five Valley Bowling Center will give you the courage to get your karaoke on with Kaleidoscope. 8 PM to close.

Bring your German friend Udo and get down and dank with the untz in your S&M boots when the Palace hosts I <3 House, a night of house music with local DJs Vyces, Mermaid, Hendawg and Bobo, at 9 PM. Free.

MCT Community Theatre presents Dracula, suckers. Find out what happens when a notorious sanguisuge moves next door to your sanitorium. 200 N. Adams. 8 PM. mctinc.org. $21. Let that blackened puss ooze out of your half dead limbs just for zombiefied kicks when the Badlander hosts the 2011 Missoula Zombie Apocalypse Watch, a night of tunes from Detroit punk/psychobilly outfit Koffin Kats, grunge/metal with Seattle’s Mind Vice, plus plenty of heavy metal goodness from locals the Mount Poverty Well Diggers, starting at 9 PM. Also includes an appearance by The Cigarette Girls

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Hemlock brings their poisonous brand of metal (certainly, I am the first to make the connection) to the Dark Horse, with Walking Corpse Syndrome, Undun and XVI Penny. 9PM. $10/$8 adv. It’s time for you to get down with the soul rock sounds of Joan Zen at the Union Club at 9 PM. Free. Chow down on that copper wire when the Copper Mtn. Band plays at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they

start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Of all the iterations of reggae band titles in the nation, Iration is the favorite of Apostle Paul and the Galatians. Top Hat. 10 PM. $16.

SATURDAY

October

If I were you, I’d get my hot cross buns down to Methodist Women’s Fall Arts and Crafts Sale. The proceeds go to their mission efforts around the world. 300 E. Main St. 9AM– 3PM. Free. Is it witchcraft? The Downtown Dance Collective hosts Change Your Age with Kimberlee Carson. This workshop focuses on fall prevention and, I suspect, keeps you limber for more old–timer love–mak-

ing options. 9:30 AM to 3PM. dev.ddcmontana.com. Help women in need and get your palm read, your tarot cards read, your angel astrology handled and have a detox foot bath at the criminally awesome sounding Body, Mind, Spirit Halloween Bash at the Red Willow Learning Center. 825 W. Kent. 10–10PM. Call 721–0033. Via satellite, The MET presents the seventh most performed opera on earth, Don Giovanni, at the Roxy. 11 AM. $20. Bob Bassett signs his book Story of Isaac at the UM campus Fact and Fiction. 11–1 PM. Free. All the pretty horses need our attention and the Montana Horse Welfare Council intends to give it to them by holding their first meeting at the Humane Society of Western Montana. The council’s mission is to promote equine welfare. 11–2PM. mthorse.org. Woodland Ice Center has a gang of action today. From noon until 2 PM it’s Co–ed Try-it Hockey for all ages. From 6–8:30PM it’s the Red Ribbon Week Opening Party 6–8:30 PM. Try–it Hockey for women, with the Wildcats (MT’s Select Girls team) goes from 7:30–9:30PM. $15. Chalk Talk for women with Steve Tartaglino happens from 9:30–10PM. Call 755–3746. OMG! OMFnG! If you’ve ever aspired to be a Von Trapp here is your chance, even if they said, “You aren’t Nazi enough to be a Von Trapp.” The Sound of Music Sing-Along hosted by weatherman Mark Heyka and the Missoula Community Chorus has two shows, a matinee for kids and an evening show for adults. This might end up being the greatest night of our lives. Wilma Theater. 1 PM and 7 PM. $20. Kids 6 and under free. singalongmissoula.com Bring your bearded bard down for the goat circus and stay for the children’s maze when the Old Flynn Ranch, 2298 Tipperary Way, presents a Fall Family Festival, which also features a storybook trail, wool spinning, cider making and other activities, from 1–5 PM. $15 families/$5 adults/$3 children. Call 3604870. Missoula Community Theatre presents Dracula, suckers. Find out what happens when a notorious sanguisuge moves next door to your sanitorium. 200 N. Adams. 2 PM and 8 PM. $21/$17 advance. mctinc.org Stop, It’s Pumpkin Time, Charlie Brown will be performed by the Whitefish Theater Company. 2PM and 7PM. $5 suggested donation. Spiders! Bring your kids down to the MNHC when Animal Wonders brings Live Spiders for kids to see up close and way too personally for this dude. Costumes welcome. 2 PM. $3 for members, $5 for all others. montananaturalist.org. Singer/songwriter Mick Croon will

play tunes at the Ten Spoon tasting room. The question is will you join in the fun? 5–9 PM. Free.

nightlife Where or where has Barry Bostwick gone? No matter, you can inhabit his character, Brad Majors at The Rocky Horror Picture Show down at the Crystal Theater. Fact: if you are too cool to throw toast, we can’t be friends. Doors open at 7, show at 8 PM. $12/$10 adv. (available at The Bridge Pizza). The Open Book Club in Seeley Lake presents A Look at the West with Russell Rowland who is the editor of the West of 98 anthology. Contributors Annick Smith and William Kittredge will join Rowland. Grizzly Claw Trading Co. 7 PM. Free. The Jolly Cork’s Halloween Party features a drag show for the ages with prizes and tons of booty, if you know what I mean. And I know you know, you dirty birds. Proceeds go to the Elks Scholarship Fund and the Missoula AIDS Council. Elks Lodge, Downstairs. 21 plus. 8 PM. $5. Joan Zen will be bringing the funk and perhaps the nattering ghouls of ghostly days past at the Bitter Root Brewery’s Halloween Party. Costumes and cash, people, costumes and cash. 8 PM. Dead can dance at the Downtown Dance Collective’s pre–Day of the Dead Dance. Salsa, merengue, bachata and other dances that sound edible are on the evening’s menu. Lessons at 8:30, dancing at 9 PM. $7. Swig drinks while listening to oldschool rock hits, ‘80s tunes or modern indie rock songs when Dead Hipster presents Takeover!, which features “drinkin’ music” DJ’d by the Dead Hipster DJs starting at 9 PM at the Central Bar & Grill, 143 W. Broadway St. Includes drink specials and photos with Abi Halland. Free. Get in costume and freak out on the dance floor for the Halloween Bash with Zeppo, 9 PM at Union Club. Free. Howl at the moon, shoot out the lights, with the Wild Coyote Band at The Doghouse in St. Regis. Remember, the only good coyote is a live coyote. 9PM. Free. I know I am NOT dressing like Bigfoot for the Lumberjack’s Monster Halloween Party, featuring Sho Down, costume contests and cash prizes. Essentially, I am giving you permission to be Bigfoot this year. Don’t forget the shuttle to-and-fro the party. 9PM. No cover. Worship the all mighty pumpkin caper with your favorite fanged freaks and geeks when the Badlander/ Palace complex hosts its fifth annual Halloween Party, which begins at 9 PM and in the Badlander features Kung Fu Kongress covering Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, as well as a set by The Zooper

Group, featuring MCs Tonsofun and Traff the Whiz with Schmed from Secret Powers, Tom Masse from Miller Creek and others, plus local heavy rockers Tidal Horn playing covers by Dio, along with tunes spun by DJ Ramirez. Down in the Palace, we’re on full dance party mode with sets by local DJs Kris Moon, Mike Stolin and Brand One. $8. And yes, the twister contest has returned and offers the winner a $100 prize. If burlesque is fine, then the Grotesque Burlesque Carnival of Flesh is certain to be a fairly epic ride into all hallow’s eve weekend, featuring Blessiddoom, Burlesque Sensations: The Deville Sisters and Mz. Vox Moxxie, Beefcurtain and Assnyne. Metal, erotic teasing, more metal, costume contests. The Dark Horse. 9PM. $3. Zoo City will be wailing all night long at Harry David’s. 9PM. Free. Tired of doing what you want? Luck you, cuz Abuction Halloween Bash V will force you to have fun against your will with three parties under one roof at The Broadway. Rock, Hip Hop, Karaoke. Costume contests: Scariest, sexiest, Funniest. 9PM. $10. Be warned! Touring the old judge’s chambers at the Ravalli County Museum is not for those under 12. It is for those who who want to seek out specters from the past with EMF detectors (how unbelievable!), thermometers and cameras during the witching hour. Space is limited. 9 PM–3 AM. $20. Call 363–3338. Dress up like a sunken pirate when the Copper Mtn. Band plays a Halloween costume party at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave. 9 PM. Free. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Pinky and the Floyd are going to take over the Top Hat with a super serious tribute to Pink Floyd. I’ll pay them $800 to only play deep cuts off of Meddle. Costume contest. Costume suggestion: Gary Gnu. 10PM. $10/$8 with costume.

SUNDAY

October

Already sweating the Winter Blues? You must need a wintertime activity. Might I suggest hockey? The Woodland Ice Center is has Try–it Hockey for Girls with the Wildcats (MT’s select girls team). 8:30–10:45AM. If that seems daunting, how about some regular old skating? 1:15–4PM. $6/$5 for kids, $3 for skate rental.

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Be a zombie, get in skeleton costume, make a shrine and celebrate Missoula’s Day of the Dead. Events are aplenty throughout the weekend and the parade starts Wed., Nov. 2, at the XXXX at 7 PM and ends at Caras Park.

Help women in need and get your palm read, your tarot cards read, your angel astrology handled and have a detox foot bath at the criminally awesome sounding Body, Mind, Spirit Halloween Bash at the Red Willow Learning Center. 825 W. Kent. 10–4PM. Call 721–0033.

Reading out loud is fundamental when the UM MFA students pair up with esteemed writers in the community for the Second Wind Reading Series, 5 PM at the Top Hat. This week features Carrie Laben and MT Poet Laureate, Sheryl Noethe. Free.

The duo Temple Veil bring their acoustics and a knack for storytelling to the Lolo Community Church. 10:45AM. Free.

Missoula Community Theatre presents Dracula, suckers. Find out what happens when a notorious sanguisuge moves next door to your sanitorium. 200 N. Adams. 2 PM for $17 and at 6:30 PM, $15 for kids $19 for adults. mctinc.org

Barb Morrison will teach you how to make Day of the Dead Wire Figures at the MAM, Noon– 2PM. $10. Make sure you have the lights on as you read this spook-tacular line-up of activities at Families First Children’s Museum 9th Annual Halloween Bash:: Ghouly Ghost Craft project, Spooky Story Time, Creepy Crawly show and oh Mylanta, Freaky Fishing! 225 W. Front St. Noon–5 PM. $5. The only way you’re getting me into a cemetery the day before Halloween is if you dress up like Capt. C. P. Higgins and take me on a tour of the Missoula Cemetery and tell me stories of yore, like at the Stories and Stones Historical Walking Tour. 12:30–3:30PM. Free. Bring your bearded bard down for the goat circus and stay for the children’s maze when the Old Flynn Ranch, 2298 Tipperary Way, presents a Fall Family Festival, which also features a storybook trail, wool spinning, cider making and other activities, from 1–5 PM. $15 families/$5 adults/$3 children. Call 360-4870. Go with the jam when The Rocky Mountain Grange Hall, 1436 S. First St. south of Hamilton, hosts a weekly acoustic jam session for guitarists, mandolin players and others, from 2–4 PM. Free. Call Clem at 961-4949.

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MONDAY

October

The Missoula AIDS Council is setting up a Day of the Dead shrine to remind us of loved ones who have passed on. Please bring items to add to the shrine or come view it in all its glory. 500 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100.

Meadow View Community Church invites one and all to its Harvest Festival. Prizes and games galore. Hillbilly Horseshoes, ‘nuff said. 1900 W. Broadway. 5–8PM. Free.

nightlife Where or where has Barry Bostwick gone? No matter, you can inhabit his character, Brad Majors, at The Rocky Horror Picture Show down at the Crystal Theater. Fact: if you are too cool to throw toast, we can’t be friends. Doors open at 7, show at 8 PM. $12/$10 adv. (available at The Bridge Pizza). Open Mic at the VFW seems like a fine idea, especially with 2 for 1 drink specials for musicians and the working class. This Monday it will begin early with a set by Voodoo Horseshoes at 7PM. Call Skye on Sunday at 531–4312 to reserve your spot in the line-up. Get some much needed spiritual guidance at Between the Worlds, 205 W. Main St. in Hamilton at their Spiritual Discussion Group, this Monday with Tamera Rackham. Call 363-2939 with questions. Mah gawd, Gorilla, it’s the Halloween Juke Party with Mudslide Charley at the venerable Charlie B’s! Get bluesy, sweaty and drunky with some of Missoula’s finest people. 8 PM. Free. So you think you can fill in the blank? Prove it at Sean Kelly’s Open Mic Night this and every Monday at 8:30 PM. Call 542-1471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign up. SIN (Service Industry Night) with the Badlander on Mondays, featuring extra super drink specials for service industry folks. Bring your iPod and they’ll play your music. Every Monday 9 PM-close. Free. Heads won’t roll but bodies will contort to edgy electronic beats for your feet when the Palace hosts

Milkcrate Halloween, which features sets of electronic music by local DJs Marc Lee, Hendawg, Tigerlily and Special K, at 9 PM. Free, with a free drink for the first 50 people who show up in costume. I’ll eat my hat if you haven’t heard of the Cold Hard Cash show by now. I’ll eat a donkey’s hat if you haven’t seen the Cigarette Girls Burlesque show yet. Bring yourselves and your donkey hats down to the Top Hat. 10 PM. $5/$3 with costume.

TUESDAY

November

La America Programa de Ingles presents images from the U.S. and Mexico Drug War in the University Center atrium. The images are graphic in nature but not nearly as offensive as the war itself. Free. Fact is we don’t talk about immigration in an intelligent manner often enough. If you agree, get listo for the Brown Bag Lecture Reflections on Development and Migration in Mexico After 12 Years of Study Abroad Programs, given by Dr. Pa u l H a b e r, P r o f e s s o r, U M Department of Political Science, and Ms. Emily Guttierez. Mansfield Center Conference Room. 12–1 PM. Free. Mix choice beverages with and progressive politics during the return of Forward Montana’s Progressive Happy Hour, which begins at 5:30 PM at the Badlander. Free. Call Forward Montana at 542-8683 for more info. Let someone else do the dishes this and every week for the Tuesday Night “Early” Dinner at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., 5:30 to 7 PM for $9 ($14.95 on the last Tues. of the month for prime rib). Membership not required. Call 54905423 by noon on Mon. to make reservations. There’s a new sheriff in town, but he has no judicial authority, he just loves to rock. The Tuesday Night Open Mic/Jam Night is now at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave, hosted by Louie Bond, Teri Llovet and the UFOkies. Sign up is at 6 PM and music goes 7–10 PM. The Northern Rockies Rising Tide has weekly meetings this and every Tue. at at Freecycles, 732 S. First St. W. at 6 PM, where participants fight climate change through grassroots resistance. Aim your sights on the 8 ball when the Palace hosts a weekly 9 ball tournament, which is double elimination and starts with sign up at 6 PM, followed by games at 7. $10 entry fee. Throw your jazz hands in the air and join Chris Duparri and Ruthie Dada every Tuesday evening for a Jazz Martini Night, with $2 off all

top-shelf martinis at Brooks and Browns, 200 S. Pattee. Free.

dent to earn a PhD.?? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

Intro to Avalanche Awareness: Part 2 is the second part of, you guessed it, Avy Awareness Part 1, given by the Western Montana Avalanche Foundation. REI. 6:30 PM. Free.

Kayakers come on down to Currents for some indoor paddling at the Open Kayak Session. Bring your clean and scoured boats and gear. Now, who is gonna rally down the slide? 8 to10PM. $5.75.

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Be an irie queen or king in the company of some heady mix masters when the Palace presents Royal Reggae Night, featuring Djs Supa J, General Smiley and Green spinning reggae, dancehall and hip hop remixes, starting at 9 PM. Free, with free pool.

Where or where has Barry Bostwick gone? No matter, you can inhabit his character, Brad Majors, at The Rocky Horror Picture Show down at the Crystal Theater. Fact: if you are too cool to throw toast, we can’t be friends. Doors open at 7, show at 8 PM. $12/$10 adv. (available at The Bridge Pizza). Sentinel High School bands want to pleasure your ears during their Fall Concert with some light holiday delight, original compositions and jazz standards. Sentinel High, Margaret Johnson Theater. 7:30 PM. Free. The FVCC President’s Lecture Series hosts Deni Elliot and Eleanor Poynter Jamison and their spiel, Internet Ethics for Everybody. Their talk focuses on the media and journalism ethics. FVCC Arts and Technology Building, large community room. 7:30PM. Free. Grace, or the Art of Climbing involves actual climbing and actual dancing. Together. Parse out some metaphors and experience a visionary performance. Masquer Theater at the PARTV Building, UM. 7:30 PM. $16/$14 students and seniors/$10 12 and under. Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? Who was the only presi-

The crunch in your bro’s toes hurts so good when locals G.R.I.T. (Generously Rendering Interactive Trips) plays it funky with a set of hip hop/funk fusion with a TBA opener during the Badlander’s Live and Local Night, with doors at 9 PM at music at 10. Free.

WEDNESDAY

November

La America Programa de Ingles (LAPDI) presents images from the U.S. and Mexico Drug War in the University Center atrium. The images are graphic in nature but not nearly as offensive as the war itself. Free. The Potlatch Fund will host a two-day community workshop for community leaders interested in starting Native-specific non-profits. Salish Kootenai College theater. 9– 4:30 PM. $35/$20 students and non–waged tribal employees. potlatchfund.org. You don’t know anything about Urdu poetry? And you call yourself a barista. For shame. Come down to the International Brown Bag Lecture Series and check out pre-

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senter Ruth Vanita’’s “Poet and Courtesan: Intellectual Alliances in Late Eighteenth-Century Urdu Poetry.” Noon-1PM, Stone Hall Room 303. Kalispell Toyota is giving away a free car for every pint of blood you donate. Jokes. But you should donate anyway. 1–4PM. Ready for a bloody good time this Day of the Dead? Cool, cool then join up with Missoula’s first Zombie Walk at the XXXX’s at 3PM for makeup and the like, then join the Day of the Dead Parade for a cruise through downtown. $5 suggested donation or nonperishable food items for the Missoula Food Bank (no limbs or brains, please).

Holly Jolly Craft Show & Sale: November 4-6 The Daly Mansion Preservation Trust invites you to have lunch in Hattie’s Kitchen and do all of your Christmas shopping early! Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, November 4th-6th Friday Noon-6pm , Saturday 10am-4pm Sunday 10am-2pm Located off of Eastside Highway between Hamilton and Corvallis, The Daly Mansion will be filled with high quality homemade and handcrafted goods featuring 35 local and regional crafters and artisans. $3.00 Adults/Children Free. For more info call 406-363-6004.

nightlife Check out The Wild Mare in Corvallis for their First Wednesday Wine Tasting at 6 PM, where you can taste some wine, have some appetizers, you know, whatever. This month features wine from Oregon. 283 2nd St. thewildmare.com. Pub Trivia Answer: Woodrow Wilson. Get a rub down on the cheap from someone besides Grandma Billy when the UM Physical Therapy Student Association offers massages. $12 for 20 minutes, $20 for 40 minutes. 6–9 PM. Call for an appointment, 243–4753. Cheers to learning how to speak eloquently in public and stuff! The Speechcraft program offered by Bitterroot Toastmasters Club offers six-weeks of instruction every Wed., 6:30–8 PM, Oct. 5–Nov. 9 at Perkins Restaurant, 1285 N. First St. in Hamilton. $60 includes a workbook. Honor the dead at the Day of the Dead Parade, which begins at the XXXXs. travels on Higgins Ave. led by UM students and their steamroller prints, followed by the Soulaphone Brass Band. The rear is brought up by a pack of Zombies, of course. The parade ends at Caras Park. 7PM. Free. Israeli trance Dj duo Infected Mushroom takes the award for most grosserest band name and takes the stage at the Wilma. 7:30PM doors. $20.

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THURSDAY

November

You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night each Thursday. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 Student.

nightlife Get a rub down on the cheap from someone besides Grandma Billy when the UM Physical Therapy Student Association offers massages. $12 for 20 minutes, $20 for 40 minutes. 6–9 PM. Call for an appointment, 243–4753. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, starts at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Lucky Strike Bar & Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Includes prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. Email Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. Storyhill brings their indy/ acoustic

tuneage and harmonies to the Missoula Winery. 7:30PM. Spin yourself right round, baby, at the Turning the Wheel Adult Tapestry Series, where improvisational expression with your voice and body will make you more alive than dead. Downtown Dance Collective. 16 and up. 7:30–9PM. $8. Hold onto your trucker hats Missoula, ‘cause the Badlander’s got a new dance party in town. It’s called Prehab, and it’s bound to make you go bonkers on the dancefloor with sets of hip hop and electronic music from local Djs Kris Moon, Vyces and Hotpantz, plus $1 wells & $1 Pabst from 9 PM to midnight. $2, or free with a promo coupon. Missoula Homegrown Stand–up Comedy at the Union Club might be so funny you’ll forget to laugh, which is good, right? Sign–up at 9:30 PM if you’re funnier than Chris Tucker. Free. He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free. Things have changed and so can you! Check out Dead Hipster Dance Party at its new location: Sean Kelly’s. Party starts at 10 PM, and oh lordy, there are $1 well drinks until midnight. $3. Check out deadhipster.com. Zoograss ingenues the Josh Clinger Trio and Jesse Driscoll will demonstrate what Zoograss is at the Top Hat. 10 PM. $3. I’m only going to tell you this once: Buy lights for the front AND the back of your bikes. The cops will give you free lights if they pull you over without them; they may also give you a ticket while they’re at it. Be a good citizen and send me your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Oct. 28, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternatively, snail mail your events to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax 543-4367.

MOUNTAIN HIGH I n literary anthologies, Easterners and Midwesterners rarely concern themselves with what it means to be from those places, not like westerners and southerners, anyway. The East Coast, in particular has a long history (by U.S. standards), which provides them with identity enough, while the midwesterner can take solace from the songs of Top 40 country radio that they are authentic in their plain, God-fearing ways. It’s the Southerner and Westerner, though, who seem most concerned with place, as if the rest of the country isn’t as nuanced or spectacular or mysterious. The South’s curious inferiority/superiority complex is definitely intriguing and its multitudinous renderings of American English can be a delight to read and hear, but the aforementioned superiority complex can grow tiresome: I’m looking at you Texas. As Jim Morrison said, “The West is best,” and although that may be true in most cases, we also have our foibles and curses and it can’t hurt to investigate those things now and again. By “now and again” I do mean “constantly,” as the onslaught of published works on the subject of what it means to be a Westerner never ceases. That’s probably

because the meaning of the West and the definition of a Westerner are always in flux. A recent addition to the conversation is West of 98, Living and Writing the New America West, an anthology of 66 western writers who represent every state west of the 98th: parallel. The collection, edited by Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland, seeks to remonstrate against the manifest destiny of the past and demonstrate how the new western narrative must shape a new kind of West. A narrative that takes the environment into account and one that reminds us how living in this paradisiacal landscape requires more than looking enthusiastically at the newly white-capped mountains with awe, but instead requires us to at the very least consider our interdependence with the peaks. —Jason McMackin The Open Book Club in Seeley Lake presents A Look at the West, with Russell Rowland, co–editor of West of 98. Contributors to the anthology Annick Smith and William Kittredge will join Rowland. Grizzly Claw Trading Co. Sat., Oct. 29., at 7 PM. Free.

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 27 Get your little sponges down to the MNHC’s miniNaturalists Pre-K Program so they can develop the necessary skills to cultivate a love of the outdoors. Kids ages 2–5 are welcome when accompanied by an adult. 10–11 AM. $1 for members, $3 for all others. montananaturalist.org. You’ll be climbing up a wall at Freestone Climbing Center’s Ladies Night each Thursday. 935 Toole Ave. 5–10 PM. $6.50/$5 Student. Keep your fangs to yourself during the talk The Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale: What They Teach Us About Our Relationship to Nature, at 7:30 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 28 Dudes and Bettys get ready for the shreddy, shreddy gnar–gnar to come this winter by checking out two, count ‘em, two free snowboarding films being shown at the Wilma, Familia 2 and GOOD LOOK. Doors 7PM. Free.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 The Halloween Haul 5K Fun Run would like you to dress in a costume, bring your pet on a leash and donate your entry fee to UM Physical Therapy students. Very Missoula. Costume suggestion:

Loudon Swain. 8 AM registration, 10 AM start. Contact lizreagh@gmail.com. Woodland Ice Center has a gang of action today. From noon until 2 PM it’s Co–ed Try-it Hockey for all ages. From 6–8:30PM Red Ribbon Week Opening Party. It’s the Try–it Hockey for women, with the Wildcats (MT’s Select Girls team) goes from 7:30–9:30PM. $15. Chalk Talk for women with Steve Tartaglino happens from 9:30–10PM. Call 755–3746. The Open Book Club in Seeley Lake presents A Look at the West with Russell Rowland who is the editor of the West of 98 anthology. Contributors Annick Smith and William Kittredge will join Rowland. Grizzly Claw Trading Co. 7 PM. Free.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 1 Intro to Avalanche Awareness: Part 2 is the second part of, you guessed it, Avy Awareness Part 1, given by the Western Montana Avalanche Foundation. REI. 6:30 PM. Free. Kayakers come on down to Currents for some indoor paddling at the Open Kayak Session. Bring your clean and scoured boats and gear. Now, who is gonna rally down the slide? 8 to10PM. $5.75. calendar@missoulanews.com

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For mature audiences only An abbreviated history of Montana’s contributions to adult entertainment by Skylar Browning

Local filmmaker Andy Smetanka doesn’t normally sound bashful when discussing his work. He specializes in Super 8 silhouette animation, and has made music videos for the Decemberists and contributed to the award-winning films of Guy Maddin. With each project, he’s exhibited the pride of a craftsman and been quick to explain every intricate step of the animation process. The Miller’s Daughter, however, is a little different. While he’s immensely proud of his latest film, and still working in the beautiful world of silhouettes, the subject matter has him tiptoeing around some of the finer points. “I’ve been calling it an erotic photoplay just because that sounds better than ‘adult film,’” he says of the three-minute animated short. “I think I’m just using that antiquated phrase because I still need some sort of armor for it. I need something so I’m not coming across like some sort of sleazeball.” The Miller’s Daughter is not sleazy. Yes, it involves silhouetted oral sex, and some graceful intercourse between two healthy cutout figures. But it also involves shots of lovebirds perched on a windowsill and a lovely flute-heavy soundtrack provided by a little-known Dutch prog rock band Focus notable only for the song “Hocus Pocus.” It’s decidedly more NC-17 than anything close to X-rated.

“Don’t get me wrong, I couldn’t be happier with the finished product,” says Smetanka. “I just didn’t fully realize when I was working on it that I would, at some point, have to own up to it. I never thought about having to tell my in-laws.” Smetanka needs to break the news to his Seattlearea in-laws because The Miller’s Daughter was recently selected for the annual amateur porn festival HUMP!, put on by Seattle’s alt-weekly The Stranger. The twoweekend event begins in Seattle Nov. 3 and culminates with all submitted copies of the films being destroyed. “I’m pretty convinced there won’t be anything else like it in the festival,” says Smetanka, who took special satisfaction over filling out a release form that assured the film’s “actors” were over 18 and willingly participated in the project. “I know it may not be the funniest selection. I know it may not be the sexiest or the kinkiest. But I know it will be among the prettiest.” In honor of Smetanka’s artful new film, we offer an abbreviated history of Montana’s seedier and more commercial contributions to the rich world of adult entertainment. Mary Gleim

Before there were moving pictures, those in need of release turned to local business establish-

ments. Gleim, who was also known as the Murderous Madam of Missoula, owned eight “female boarding houses” during the peak years of downtown’s redlight district. She earned her nickname after killing a rival madam, and later served time at the state prison in Deer Lodge. Her headquarters, located at 265 West Front Street, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Dumas Brothel

This Butte landmark claims to be America’s longest running house of prostitution, operating from 1890 to 1982. Also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it now serves as a museum with seasonal tours of the three-story building. Sheepless in Montana

This 1993 spoof of the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romcom features Brad Armstrong as a poet from the city who escapes to Big Sky Country to find his muse. Forbidden Films covers the rest: “And before you can say baaa, our poet gets his rhythm back. On paper and on top of Dyanna. If dull porn makes you sheepish, check out our Sheepless. Then watch the fur fly…” We looked for A River Runs Through Her and Winter in the Bed, but those must still be in development. Jenna Jameson

The celebrated “Queen of Porn” spent some of her tougher teenage years living on a cattle ranch in Fromberg, Montana, near Billings. In her best-selling autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, she alleges being raped twice in 1990 when she was a 16-year-old in the small town. Jameson soon left Montana and, though underage, started dancing in Las Vegas clubs. By the time she was 19, she was performing in adult films. Her first husband? None other than Brad Armstrong, star of Sheepless in Montana! Montana raised

Turns out Jameson isn’t the only porn starlet to hail from the Treasure State. Victoria Paris started her career in 1988, after the Great Falls native earned her bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Montana State University. She’s appeared in more than 100 films, mostly during the ’90s, including Paris by Night, Ghost Lusters and Black Beauty. Her latest film, according to IMDB, is 2009’s Black Beauty 2: The Devil’s Doorway. Gay film star Blade Thompson lists his hometown as “Montana” in various online biographies, and notes that his father was in the military. He’s been featured in Leather After Midnight as “Ghost #1” and Hole Patrol as “Hustling Lifeguard.” Finally, Tera Patrick, also from Great Falls, shot to fame after appearing as Penthouse magazine’s “Pet of the Month” in February 2000. She went on to star in numerous adult films, run her own talent agency and launch a production company called Teravision. She now hosts “School of Sex,” an educational show on Playboy TV. Andy Smetanka’s The Miller’s Daughter screens at the Top Hat Thursday, Oct. 27, at 6 PM along with a handful of his other silhouette films, including City in Shadows. $4. For mature audiences. sbrowning@missoulanews.com

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I’m not much for pop country, whether it’s from the wholesome Martina McBride, the self-empowering Jewel or the fauxrebellious Gretchen Wilson. But some of it is undeniably hooky, hitting chords that evoke riding a stallion through alfalfa or some equally cliché scene. Kalispell native Kristi Neumann has a talent for these kinds of hooks, which is why she spends part of her time in Nashville. Each song on her new album Peace in Mystery is crafted to lure you in, even if you’re not one for lines such as “I’ve been seeking truth but

Infected Mushroom If you only see one Israeli psych-trance act at the Wilma this year, go see Infected Mushroom. As your friend, I should probably warn you not to do that. Infected Mushroom’s music sounds like if Al Jourgensen did the soundtrack to “Castlevania.” If you do not like it already, the odds of you hearing it for the first time and enjoying it are extremely low. Like coke or Sublime cover bands, trance is a lifestyle. It makes no sense from the outside. That’s a good reason to go to the Wilma and get up in it. An Infected Mushroom album and an Infected Mushroom show are radically different propositions. In performance, they use live vocals and instrumentation, which pretty much turns them into an early-’80s indus-

Hemlock It’s hard to imagine weather without Mark Heyka, but if he didn’t do it, it might be cool to get Hemlock on board. The Las Vegas metal band can be hard to understand, but in the song “World of the Transparent,” bassist and lead singer Chad Smith yells demonically, “It looks like it’s going to rain./I said, it looks like it’s going to rain,” with the kind of certainty that calls for a 100 percent chance. The band is a favorite in Missoula. They often play shows with Slayer, Ministry, Korn and Lamb of God.

argue that Dead Dog is anything other than what American punk set out to become. Here is DIY in action: three mildly freaked-out people from Athens, Ga. playing songs that you have technically not heard before. So what if they’re immediately familiar? On Wednesday they will play a clothing store downtown, thus bringing us one step closer to that beautiful world where everyone is in a band. (Dan Brooks) Dead Dog plays Zoo City Apparel Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 9:30 PM with Mouthbreathers, Bad Naked and The Be Helds. $5. we were never promised absolutes”—those kind of sayings that go on bumper stickers. Yet, all these songs are solidly gorgeous, especially the contagious “Good Girl.” Neumann has a stunning voice. She’s as good as Faith Hill, and she plays guitar. She writes her own songs, and she could probably write chart-topping songs for any Nashville artist. And she’s one of our own. It’s easy to glaze over phrases such as “love will find you” and “seeking truth.” Neumann hits the mark better when she’s more specific, as in “I don’t want to be a sheep so easily led/in a flock of complacent and overfed,” and rawer, as in “Why does self-destruction make me feel so alive?” If she keeps doing that, she’ll blow minds. (Erika Fredrickson) Kristi Neumann plays the Flathead Brewing Company of Missoula Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 8 PM and the Bitter Root Brewery Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6 PM. Free.

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wears his guitar the way men in action movies wear their machine guns—slung high up, near his neck—and he lunges forward when he plays it. Jordon Lybeck’s drums are a new set, he tells me, but they look pretty banged up already and they’re taking a new beating now. It’s too loud to hear what they’re singing about but there’s no doubt that they mean it. It got dark early tonight and winter’s coming on strong and I’m the only person listening. But The Be Helds want to have fun, so they’re having fun. It wasn’t always this way for them. Before they formed The Be Helds, they both played in a prog band that was first called Deny the Dinosaur and was later renamed Cruel World Dream Band. They have a lot of good things to say about that experience, but it wasn’t giving them what they wanted. “I just like simple, fun music,” Lybeck says. “That’s why we quit, sort of, because we were like, ‘We don’t really like this music. We like garage music. Why are we playing this? Let’s just start something funner and not give a shit.’” So they did. They were unemployed and they didn’t have much else to do, so they didn’t give a shit and started playing. Lybeck had never even played drums before. This was in May. They each already had a few songs written and they worked together on some more and two weeks later, they had enough material for an album. Then they spent a day recording the album at

Black National, a studio a friend of theirs is just starting in town. The result was Volume 1, a collection of 10 songs that’s available on their Bandcamp page now and coming out on vinyl as soon as Lybeck finishes gluing the album covers together. “It’s just pop songs, and the lyrics don’t have to mean all that much,” says Coorough. “It can just be songs about girls and shit. It doesn’t really matter so much. It’s just trying to get across a good feeling, I suppose. Getting people jazzed up. Dancing. Getting drunk.” “Hugging and kissing and having fun,” Lybeck adds. “That’s the goal.” Hence, the name. “We were named by a friend,” Lybeck says, “but we thought it fit well with our message of just having fun and being accepting and enjoying people for who they really are. And not being pretentious about it. Just hugging and being like, ‘We all live short lives, let’s have fun’…Don’t put that in there. I’m a little drunk.” They refill their wine when we go back out to the garage, and now they’re playing loud and loose and urgent and there’s some skis leaned up against the wall, some bad furniture strewn Photo by Steele Williams around, some smashed boxes, an old TV, a ladder leading up to a scary-seeming attic. Lybeck blows into a harmonica and smashes his drums. Coorough sings, I guess, about girls and drinking. What else is there? Then they’re done and we go back out into the night and they tell me how now that they both have jobs—both at Worden’s—they aren’t as prolific as they were during the first, unemployed weeks of The Be Helds’s history. This is just one more strike against laboring. “I play my guitar a lot,” Coorough tells me, “but I haven’t come up with a finished product in a while. Just need to do it, I guess.” But if The Be Helds are going to keep going somewhere, they have to keep trying not to get anywhere. It’s staying loose and carefree that keeps their music exciting. “This is a band that I’d listen to if it wasn’t us,” Lybeck said. “I really enjoy this shit. So it’s nice, you know. I don’t know if it’s ‘cause we didn’t spend any time on these songs, so it still sounds like somebody else’s song.” “If it becomes work,” Coorough adds, “you start to hate it.” He pauses, considers and says, “I don’t know where I was going with that.” The Be Helds play Zoo City Apparel Wednesday, November 2, at 9:30 PM with Dead Dog, Mouthbreathers and Bad Naked. $5.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really big. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big enough to make Justin Timberlakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neck stubble look like western larches dotting the Montana landscape. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big enough to make sitting in the third row, as I did at the Carmike 12 on Friday night, a punishing exercise in craning your neck from side to distant side just to grasp the immensity of Timberlakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neck stubble. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big enough to make you think for longer than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever imagined possible about Timberlakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaving habits. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s justâ&#x20AC;Śbig. And because we live in a society where measurables matter more than intangibles, where size trumps substance, the Carmikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new â&#x20AC;&#x153;BigDâ&#x20AC;? theater and its 78-footwide and 38-foot-high screen must be nothing short of awesome. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close to the size of an IMAX screen. Judging from the chatter at Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special screening, it was more than awesomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;epic.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what the gaggle of teenagers called the monstrosity as they settled into the second row for the 7 p.m. show. Never mind that they arrived sometime around 7:45. Fo r a m a j o r i t y that attended the Carmikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural week of â&#x20AC;&#x153;BigDâ&#x20AC;? features, the movies were secondary to the screen itself. How else to explain a lineup that included such shoddy summer sequels as Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Cars 2? Or the fact that a girl sitting in the fourth row during Friday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show would stay for the regularly scheduled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 when she made known to anyone within earshot that she had intended to see Transformers? Whether by the quality of its lineup or the complexity of its published showtimes, the Carmikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand debut of its â&#x20AC;&#x153;BigDâ&#x20AC;? experience seemed to dare audience members to walk away talking about anything but the theater itself. Luckily for Carmike, there was plenty to talk about. In addition to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;colossal wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor screen,â&#x20AC;? the â&#x20AC;&#x153;BigDâ&#x20AC;? features, according to Carmikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cutting edge Christie Brilliant 3D flash projectorâ&#x20AC;? that produces â&#x20AC;&#x153;picture quality with noticeably higher resolution than HD.â&#x20AC;? That picture quality is complemented by a digital audio system that includes six 21-inch subwoofers and 16 â&#x20AC;&#x153;quad-amplified, 4-way speakers.â&#x20AC;? All that light and sound plays out in a 350-seat auditorium with â&#x20AC;&#x153;plush leather highback rocking seats.â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even a tuxedo-clad usher whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hold the door for you as you enter. In action, the setup delivers its promised â&#x20AC;&#x153;sensory overload.â&#x20AC;? The 2D trailersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including one for Timberlakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming thriller, In Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looked crisp and larger than life. The feature presentation looked even better, as some of 3Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawbacksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; darker images, a tendency to focus on only one object in the center of the frameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem as noticeable. For instance, during Deathly Hallows,

when a flying dragon thing punched through the floor of a bank run by freaky troll people, the explosion reverberated throughout the theater and those of us sitting up front had to literally lean back in our fancy chairs to see the three-dimensional dragon extend into the middle of the theater. It was awesomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;er, epicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even for someone who had no idea what was happening in the story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re providing the ultimate entertainment experience that centerpieces large format digital with bigger screens, bigger and better sound, and luxurious intheater seating for cutting edge presentation and the definitive enjoyment of our audiences,â&#x20AC;? says David Passman, Carmikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president and CEO. Carmike, of course, is banking on bigger being better. The national chain started rolling out the supersized theaters last year in markets that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow the national trend of less people flocking to the multiplex. (Billings received the Northwestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first â&#x20AC;&#x153;BigDâ&#x20AC;? theater in July; Missoula is the seventh â&#x20AC;&#x153;BigDâ&#x20AC;? theater in the country.) According to The Hollywood Reporter, movie theater stocks continue to drop because 3D isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the industry savior it was Photo by Chad Harder promised to be and many expected blockbusters have fallen flat. For example, 60 percent more people chose to see On Stranger Tides in 2D than 3D when it opened over the summer, and the film was considered a box office dud against lofty studio projections. Carmikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to offer something special. Put another way: If the movie doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep people on the edge of their seats, at least make sure the seats are plush leather. Starting this weekend, the Carmike 12 will begin playing new releases in its shiny new theater. Those shows will cost moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a $2 surcharge in addition to the regular adult ticket priceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and some of the new-theater smell (a real thing) will have vanished. But the demand will still be there. At the end of Deathly Hallows, as the nearly sold-out theater emptied into the parking lot and lobby, hundreds of others sat on the hallway floor waiting for the next show. Some were there for â&#x20AC;&#x153;BigD,â&#x20AC;? but most were waiting to see Paranormal Activity 3, another poorly reviewed sequel that managed to top last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s box office by earning more than $52 million. It shows that while many turn their noses up at Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy target, or prefer the more cosmopolitan selections at the Wilma, or shun going out altogether for the comfort of their couch and Netflix, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still a market for the big-theater experience. The theater just had to get a whole lot bigger. This week at the BigD: Puss in Boots 3D: Daily at 4:35 with 1:45 matinees. In Time: Daily at 7:20 and 10 PM. sbrowning@missoulanews.com

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Scope Noise soundcheck Film Movie Shorts OPENING THIS WEEK IN TIME What if you were Justin Timberlake and you stopped aging at 25? Nice, right? Wrong. You only have one more year to live, unless you can buy your way out of death and become immortal. Carmike 12: 1:15, 4:15, 7, and 9:40. Big D: 7:20 and 10. Mountain Cinema: 2, 4:15, 7 and 9:15. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10 with matinees at 3 PM on Sat and Sun. No 9:10 show on Sun. Showboat: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15. Stadium 14: 1:05, 4:05, 7 and 9:45, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat.

9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun: 12:45, 3:45, 7 and 9:35, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1:10, 4:05, 7 and 9:35. ESMERALDA Esmeralda is playing for one morning only at the Carmike 10 on Sun. Oct. 9 at 9 AM.

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Johnny English is a British spy played by Rowan Atkinson in a sequel to the wildly popular Johnny English. Now about those assassins... Village 6: Fri: 4:10, 6:45 and 9:15. Sat: 1:30, 4:10, 6:45 and 9:15. Sun: 1:30, 4:10 and 6:45. Mon.–Thu: 4:10 and 6:45. Stadium 14: Fri.–Sun: 12:00, 2:35, 5, 7:25 and 9:45, with

REAL STEEL Finally! It’s the live-action Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em film that nobody’s been waiting for! Hugh Jackman hangs out in the near future as a father who wins his son’s love by leading an underdog robot to the championship. Carmike 10: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 and 10. Mon–Thu: No 1:20 show. Village 6: Fri: 4:15, 7:15, 9:55. Sat: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55. Sun: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15. Mon–Thu: 4:15 and 7:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and now 9 PM show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun: 12, 1. 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 9:50, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1, 1:45, 4, 4:30, 7, 8:30 and 9:40. Mountain Cinema 4 in Whitefish: 1:15, 4, 6:45, 9:15.

PUSS IN BOOTS A sword wielding pussy cat makes a bunch of puns and later meets Shrek. Carmike 12: 1, 4, 6:50 and 9:15. Big D in 3D: 1:45 and 4:35. Village 6: 4:20 Mon.–Fri. 1:20 and 4:20 Sat. and Sun. 3D: 6:45 Mon–Fri. 6:45 and 9:15 Sat. and Sun. Pharaohplex: 3D: 7 and 9, with matinees at 3 PM Sat. and Sun. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9. Mountain: 2, 4:15, 7 and 9:15. Stadium 14: 12:30, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. and no 3 PM show Mon–Thu. 3D: 12, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7, 8, 9:20 and 10:10, with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. No 2:30 or 5:45 show Mon.–Thu. Entertainer: 4, 7 and 9. Mountain: 2, 4:15, 7 and 9:15.

THE BIG YEAR Can you imagine Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin competing to spot rare birds in a prestigious bird-watching contest? Me either. Carmike 10: Fri: 4:15, 6:45 and 9:15. Sat: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 and 9:15. Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45. Mon.–Thu: 4:15 and 6:45. Village 6: Fri: 4:15, 6:45 and 9:15. Sat: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 and 9:15. Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45. Mon.–Thu: 4:15 and 6:45. Stadium 14: 12:05, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45, with Fri. and Sat. midnight showings. Mon.–Thu: 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:30.

THE RUM DIARY Johnny Depp plays a reporter who heads to Puerto Rico in the 1950s and absolutely loses his mind and has unbelievable adventures... Wait a minute, didn’t he already? Never mind. Village 6: 4 and 7 nightly with Sat. and Sun shows at 9:50 and Sat. and Sun. matinees at 1. Stadium 14: 1, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 with midnight shows Fri. and Sat.

THE THING Welcome to The Thing, It should not be but it is, so check out the spooky alien spacecraft in Antarctica. Carmike 10: 1:35, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40. Mon.–Thu: No 1:35. Pharaohplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14: 12, 2:20, 5, 7:30, 9:50, with Fri. and Sat. midnight showings. Mon.–Thu: 1:30, 4, 7:15, 9:40 .

THE WAY Emilio Estevez directs his dad Martin Sheen in the story of a man recovering the body of his estranged son. Let the allusions to real life do what they will. The Wilma: 7 and 9:10.

NOW PLAYING 50/50 50/50 refers to the odds Joseph Gordon-Levitt has of beating the cancer he’s been diagnosed with at 27, but his buddy Seth Rogan and his therapist Anna Kendrick are going to help him through it. I love Levitt so much! I hope he makes it. Carmike 10: 1:15, 4:10, 7 and 9:30. Mon.–Thu: No 1:15 show. Stadium 14: Fri.–Sun: 12:05, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:40, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1:30, 4:10, 7:20 and 9:40. COURAGEOUS Four police officers face a tragedy that changes everything. They spend the rest of the story dealing with whatever that tragedy is, but mostly, the movie seems to be about fatherhood. Alex Kendrick directs, writes and stars. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Mon–Thu: no 1 PM show. Stadium 14: Fri.–Sun: 12:20, 3:30, 6:35 and 9:25, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1, 3:50, 6:45 and 9:35. DOLPHIN TALE This inspirational saga of a boy who builds a dolphin a prosthetic tail and teaches everyone around him to love again is family-friendly and heartwarming. Pardon me, I’m not made of wood. Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd star. Wait, it’s in 3D. I take it all back. Carmike 10: 6:45 and 9:15. in 2D: 1 and 4. Mon.–Thu: No 1 PM show. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: in 2D: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7, 9:15. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:45, 4:15, 7 and

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cert. Carmike 10: 1:10, 4:05, 7:35 and 9:50. Village 6: Fri: 4, 7 and 9:35. Sat. and Sun: 1, 4,7 and 9:15. Mon.–Thu: 4 and 7. Pharaohplex: 7 and 9, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 pm show on Sun. Showboat: 4,7 and 9. Special Midnight show on Thu. Stadium 14: Fri.–Sun: 12:10, 2:25, 4:45 and 9:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1:25 4, 7:05 and 9:30.

Say hello to my little friend. Puss in Boots starring the voice of Antonio Banderas, opens Friday at the Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex, Stadium 14, Mountain Cinema and Entertainer Cinema.

FOOTLOOSE Everybody cut, everybody cut in line to catch this remake of a movie about a kid who isn’t allowed to dance and the tractor that loves him. I hope he can return that love. Carmike 10: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40. Mon.–Thu: No 1 PM show. Village 6 Fri: 4, 7 and 9:40. Sat: 1, 4, 7 and 9:40. Sun: 1. 4. 7. Mon.–Thu: 4, 7. Stadium 14: 12:15, 1:15, 3:15, 4:15, 6, 7, 9, 9:40. with Fri. and Sat. showings at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8:40, 9:40. Pharoahplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Mountain: 2, 4:30, 7, 9:10. Mountain: 4, 7, 9:15. HIGHER GROUND Higher Ground follows the story of what happens when a lady falls from the spiritual wagon and considers whether to get back onboard. The Wilma: 7 and 9. THE IDES OF MARCH Beware the ides of winter in October! George Clooney directs and stars in a political thriller about campaign nuttiness, along with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling and a million other Academy hopefuls. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 9:30. Mon–Thu: No 1 PM show. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:30, 4:10, 6:50 and 9:20, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. No 6:50 show on Tue., Nov. 1. Mountain: 2:15, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:20.

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Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1:10, 4:05, 7:05 and 9:45. THE MIGHTY MACS No gym, no unis, no hope. Ahh, the coach of these Catholic school girls has a Sixth Man in her back pocket by the name of Faith. Fri.–Sun: 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon.–Thu: 1:25, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:30. MONEYBALL Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill have a computer logarithm and a vision to turn the Oakland A’s into a winning team. Nobody believes in them and everything goes wrong, but then the music changes and maybe they will win after all? Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) has a writing credit! Carmike 10: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 10. Mon.–Thu: no 1:10 show. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Mountain in Whitefish: 1:30, 4, 6:45 and 9:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri–Sun: 12:15, 3:15, 6:20 and 9:20, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon–Thu: 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:35. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 Sisters befriend a ghost in 1988. Perhaps the ghost will take them to a David Lee Roth con-

THREE MUSKETEERS Three down on their luck French swordsman and a lady intend to keep Europe from all-out war, but what of romantic entanglements, hmm? Carmike 12: 1:30, 4:40, 7:25 and 10. In 3D: 1:15, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:40. Stadium 14: Fri–Sun: 12:20, 3:30, 7 and 9:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon–Thu: 1, 3:45, 7 and 9:40. In 3D: Fri–Sun: 12:20, 3:30, 7 and 9:30, with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Mon–Thu: 1, 3:45, 7 and 9:40. Pharoahplex: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 pm show on Sun. TWILIGHT A teen girl in love with a bloodsucker must fight off his lecherous leech-like buddies. Carmike 12: Mon.-Thu. at 7:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Tue., Nov. 1, at 7. Capsule reviews by Molly Laich and Jason McMackin. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Oct. 28. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 0 . Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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4-year-old Kiana is a sleek Shepherd cross. She does not enjoy living in a kennel and sometimes gives a bad first impression. Despite that she is very friendly and gets along well with most dogs and loves cats! Kiana has a lot of energy and would love to be included in outdoor adventures with her new family!

Mighty Zeus is certainly a staff favorite! He's a large Shepherd cross with a personality that will light up a room! Zeus needs a home that can give him secure boundaries. He can be a bit pushy so he needs to work for his rewards. Zeus loves to learn new tricks.

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Muffin is a sweet-natured 4year-old with tiger stripes and orange torti spots! Every year the Humane Society takes in dozens of cats with kittens just like Muffin. She raised her babies in a volunteer foster home. Now she's ready to find a loving home of her own!

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PRINCE HARMING I feel like a disappointment to my boyfriend of seven months. I’m 28; he’s 35 and Mr. Smart. He is a Brit and was a top student at Cambridge. He says everyone expected him to become Prime Minister, but he decided to buck their expectations and become a portrait painter. Although he earns a good living, I believe he considers himself a failure compared with the wealthy Brits commissioning his paintings. He says I’d be “more attractive” to him if I wrote for a media blog, as it would help his filmmaking career aspirations. Well, I quit my unsatisfying graphic design job, and I am halfway through getting my master’s in psychology and have no time or desire to blog. He’ll tell me I’m talented/beautiful/smart but add a dig like “It’s surprising you aren’t more accomplished by now” and say stuff like “You’re not very attractive when you’re anxious.” When I tell him this is hurtful, he apologizes and says he just wants to help me better myself. I want to be the strong, confident woman he says is most attractive. I felt that way when we were first dating, but perhaps my insecurity took over. How do I toughen up and develop a thicker skin? —Eroded Love is patient, love is kind, love is surprised you aren’t more accomplished and thinks you’re kinda uggo when you’re anxious. And okay, love isn’t Prime Minister, just some hired brush, but maybe love could paint a couple extra chins on The Duke of Oldemoneyham or Lady Footlocker instead of taking all that bitterness and self-loathing out on you. Apparently, the next best thing to running a country is finding a girlfriend, appointing yourself her sadistic guidance counselor, and running her spirit down till she feels like a chalk outline of the woman she used to be. (All the better to prime her to further your career at the expense of her own.) This isn’t love; it’s insidious emotional abuse—a man doing everything to undermine his girlfriend’s confidence, only to turn around and remind her that confidence is sexy. A younger woman who’s unsure of herself who pairs up with an older, accomplished man is most prone to get into this sick compliment-dig-apology loop you’re in. You idealized this guy and the relationship to the point where you’ve become desperate for his approval so you can crawl back up from where he’s put you down. If you had a stronger self and a realistic view of him, you’d see his putdowns for what they are—stealth abuse passed off

as loving criticism: “Here, let me help you out of a little more of your self-worth.” Instead of wondering how you might grow body armor, ask yourself those basic questions so many in relationships forget to keep asking: Does this person make me happy? Is my life better because I’m with him? You can go back to being that strong, confident woman you once were—once you no longer have an emotional predator for a boyfriend. After you ditch him, take some time to ponder my favorite definition of love, by sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein: “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” A guy who loves you Heinlein-style will “help you better yourself,” but by cheering you on for having the guts to change careers and by telling you you’re beautiful and sexy—without following up by whispering a bunch of sweet “you’re nothings” in your ear.

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“O Romeo, Romeo...eeuw, Romeo... you’re wearing dad jeans and a T-shirt with a wolf on it, and not in an ironic way.” As a younger woman, you’re more likely to dump guys over little things, like style crimes. But after a few years of dating, and a few rounds with some Slick Ricks, minor sensibility mismatches should pale in comparison with serial cheating and undeclared STDs. (You can steer a guy into cooler shirts. It’s harder to get a guy to throw on some ethics.) That said, as a lit hound, you aren’t “shallow” in looking critically at a guy’s emoticon use, just unwise in cutting him off before the first date because of it—assuming the rest of his email doesn’t reveal scorching illiteracy and poor self-expression. Maybe this is his one area of intellectual laziness. We all have some—for example, the intellectually lazy assumption that somebody’s intellectually lazy just because he sometimes “winks” with punctuation marks.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates,” poet Gary Snyder reminds us in his book The Practice of the Wild. “It is also nocturnal, anaerobic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative: cooking away in the warm dark.” I call this to your attention, Aries, because according to my astrological reckoning, you’d be wise to honor all the life that is cooking away in the warm dark. It’s the sun-at-midnight time of your long-term cycle; the phase when your luminescent soul throbs with more vitality than your shiny ego. Celebrate the unseen powers that sustain the world. Pay reverence to what’s underneath, elusive, and uncanny. Halloween costume tips: Draw inspiration from the shadow, the dream, the moon, the depths. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers-that-be, I hereby give you permission to make your love bigger and braver. Raise it to the next level, Taurus! Help it find a higher expression. Wherever your love has felt pinched or claustrophobic, treat it to a liberation. If it has been hemmed in by a lack of imagination, saturate it with breezy fantasies and flamboyant dreams. Cut it free from petty emotions that have wounded it, and from sour memories that have weighed it down. What else could you do to give love the poetic license it needs to thrive? Halloween costume suggestion: the consummate lover. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ve heard the old platitude, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” The owner of a pizzeria in Mildura, Australia updated that sentiment in 2010 when the area was invaded by swarms of locusts. “They’re crunchy and tasty,” he said of the bugs, which is why he used them as a topping for his main dish. It so happens that his inventive approach would make good sense for you right now, Gemini. So if life gives you a mini-plague of locusts, make pizza garnished with the delectable creatures. Halloween costume suggestion: pizza delivery person carrying this novel delicacy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some doors are almost always locked. On those infrequent occasions when they are ajar, they remain so for only a brief period before being closed and bolted again. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I urge you to be alert for the rare opening of such a door. Through luck or skill or a blend of both, you may finally be able to gain entrance through—or perhaps exit from—a door or portal that has been shut tight for as long as you remember. Halloween costume suggestion: the seeker who has found the magic key.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Microbiologist Raul Cano managed to obtain a 45-million-year-old strain of yeast from an ancient chunk of amber. It was still alive! Collaborating with a master brewer, he used it to make a brand of beer. One critic praised Fossil Fuel pale ale for its sweetness and clove aroma, while another said it has a “complex and well-developed taste profile.” I regard their successful project as a good metaphor for the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks, Leo: extracting the vital essence from an old source, and putting it to work in the creation of a valuable addition to your life. Halloween costume suggestions: a friendly ghost, a polite and helpful mummy, a cloned version of Buddha, the person you were as a child.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You could preside over your very own Joy Luck Club in the coming days. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the levels of gratification possible could exceed your normal quota by a substantial margin. You may want to Google the Chinese character that means “double happiness” and use it as your ruling symbol. And it might be time to explore and experiment with the concepts of “super bliss,” “sublime delight,” and “brilliant ecstasy.” Halloween costume suggestions: a saintly hedonist from paradise; a superhero whose superpower is the ability to experience extreme amounts of pleasure; the luckiest person who ever lived.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I know a woman who claims on her Facebook page that she speaks four languages: English, Elvish, Mermish, and Parseltongue. (For those of you who don’t read Tolkien or Harry Potter, Elvish is the language of the elves, Mermish of the mermaids and mermen, and Parseltongue of the serpents.) My Facebook friend probably also knows Pig Latin, baby talk, and glossolalia, although she doesn’t mention them. I’d love for you to expand your mastery of foreign tongues, Pisces, even if it’s just one of the above—and the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to begin. You will have a greater capacity for learning new ways to talk than you have since childhood. Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual bisexual ambidextrous expert in reciting tongue twisters.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Sit, walk, or run, but don’t wobble,” says the Zen proverb. Now I’m passing it on to you as advice worthy of your consideration. Maintaining clarity of purpose will be crucial in the coming weeks. Achieving crispness of delivery will be thoroughly enjoyable. Cultivating unity among all your different inner voices will be a high art you should aspire to master. Whatever you do, Libra, do it with relaxed single-mindedness. Make a sign that says “No wobbling,” and tape it to your mirror. Halloween costume suggestion: Be the superhero known as No Wobbling.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” said scientist Georg Lichtenberg. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Capricorn, the coming weeks will be your time to confirm the truth of that aphorism. Your idiosyncratic brilliance is rising to a fever pitch, and may start spilling over into crackling virtuosity any minute now. Be discriminating about where you use that stuff; don’t waste it on trivia or on triumphs that are beneath you. Halloween costume suggestions: Einstein, Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci, Emily Dickinson.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, 59802-4297 until 3:00 p.m., Monday, November 14th, 2011 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of two parks department four yard dump trailers. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Parks Department Trailers, Closing, 3:00 p.m., Monday, November 14th, 2011”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. This purchase is not anticipated to exceed $25,000 and no bid bond is required. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to readvertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Monday, November 14th, 2011; Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, 59802-4297 until 3:00 p.m., Monday, November, 14th, 2011 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of four police motorcycles Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Police Motorcycles., Closing, 3:00 p.m., Monday, November, 14th, 2011”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid

bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications. Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications. Vendors requesting inclusion or pre-approved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to readvertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 3:00 p.m., Monday, November, 14th, 2011; Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the City’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Director of Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 10:00 A.M. local time, on October 31, 2011 for the construction of the Lolo Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) Vault Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes the installation of a new packaged pressure reducing valve (PRV) vault just to the east of existing well house no. 1; including the removal of a 6” PRV valve inside the well house. In addition to the above, the Contractor shall be licensed and bonded to legally remove existing asbestos piping while connecting the PRV vault or station to the well house and down stream piping. Work also includes the installation of a gravel sump, valves and fittings, piping and appurtenant items per plan and specification for a complete and operable facility. PROJECT FINANCING: The “Lolo Pressure Reducing (PRV) Vault Project)” is funded by Missoula County RSID: 901. Bidders must meet all requirements of the appropriate Federal/State agencies, as indicated in the specifications. SITE OF WORK: The work as mentioned above will be as shown per plan and specification within the limits of Lolo RSID 901, MT. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within fifteen (15) calendar days for all bid items after the commencement date of construction is agreed upon by Missoula County and the said Contractor. However, if a construction date is not able to be agreed upon, the

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Owner shall make the final decision once the Owner issues the Notice to Proceed. Contract time will be extended in accordance with the contract documents. DOCUMENT EXAMINATION AND PROCUREMENTS The Bidding and Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations “Lolo Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) Vault Project”: Missoula County— Public Works HDR Engineering, Inc. 6089 Training Drive 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59808 Missoula, MT 59801 Missoula Plans Exchange 201 N. Russell Missoula, MT 59801 Copies of the Contract Documents may be purchased by mailing check or money order to: Attn: Devie Bessette HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801 PH: 406532-2200 A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished to the Contractor making application therefore from HDR Engineering, upon payment of $100.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash can not be accepted). No refunds will be allowed. Full-size drawings are not available. BID SECURITY: Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of Missoula County against liability. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-4447734. Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. (“Bid Only” registration is available for out-of-state contractors.) All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with Missoula County’s Business Licensing requirements. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Lolo Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV) Vault Project”, “Opening” October 31, 2011 at 10:00 AM and marked “Sealed Bid” with the Contractor’s name, address, current state license number, and, Montana Contractors Registration Number and be addressed to: Missoula County Director of Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 No facsimile bids will be

accepted. Any objection to published specifications must be filed in written form with the Board of County Commissioners Office prior to the scheduled time of bid opening (October 31, 2011 at 10:00 AM). WAGE RATES: This project is funded by Missoula County RSID: 901. As a result, Montana Prevailing Wage Rate Determination (Davis Bacon Wage Rates for Public Works Contracts in Montana) applies to this project. A copy of the said wage rate is attached as part of the specifications in Section 00825. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders shall attend a mandatory pre-bid conference which will be conducted jointly with the Owner and Engineer, at the Lolo Wastewater Treatment Plant, located at 1755 Lakeside Drive, LOLO, MT 59847 at 2:00 p.m. on October 27, 2011. If the Prospective bidder does not attend the mandatory pre-bid conference, the bidder shall be considered non-responsive. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the Engineer. It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The Engineer for this project is: Rickey Schultz, P.E. HDR Engineering, Inc. 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C Missoula, MT 59801-4708 Telephone: (406) 532-2200 OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the Owner and to re-advertise. The bid shall be deter-mined on the basis of the lowest responsible bidder and the lowest sum total of all the Base Bid Items No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. Bids received that do not include pricing for all Bid Items will be considered non-responsive. The Owner reserves the right to authorize construction of any combination of, or all of, the base bid items and additive bid items defined at the bid amounts presented in the Contractor’s Bid Proposal Date: October 13, 2011 Owner: Missoula County By: Amy Rose Missoula County Public Works PUBLICATION DATES: October 20, 2011 October 27, 2011 MISSOULA COUNTY MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-10-1647 Judge: John W. Larson NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE FIRST INTERSTATE BANK, Plaintiff, vs. ROBERT G. MULLENDORE, STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY AS TRUSTEE, JOHN DOES 1-10, JANE DOES 1-10, and XYZ COMPANIES 1-10, Defendants. TO BE SOLD at Sheriff’s Sale on the 10th day of November, 2011, at 1:30 o’clock p.m., at the front door of the County Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, to the highest and best bidder, the following described real and personal property located in Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Lots 1 and 2 on Block “K” of Pattee Canyon Addition No. 2 to Far Views Homesites in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official map or plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for Missoula, County, Montana. The Real property or its address is commonly

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known as 125 Takima Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803. Any person willfully taking down or defacing a posted notice, if done before the sale or satisfaction of the Judgment (if the Judgment be satisfied before the sale), forfeits $500.00 (Section 25-13-702, MCA). DATED this 6th day of October, 2011. /s/ CARL C. IBSEN, Sheriff Of Missoula County By: /s/ Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1. Hall-Camas Creek Conservation Easement A hearing on a proposal to use $250,000 in Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on 482 acres of land in the Potomac area. The applicants are Doug and Jeanne Hall represented by Five Valleys Land Trust. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 9, 2011, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to create or establish that certain county road under the jurisdiction of Missoula County, specifically described as: East Fork Ashby Creek Road, Located in Sections 3, 10 and 11, T12N, R16W Beginning at Ashby Creek County Road in Government Lot 10 (NE1/4) of Section 3, T12N, R16W Ending at a point in the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 of Section 11, T12N, R16W. Described in the Road Book of the Missoula County Survey Office as: A map or diagram is attached that illustrates the proposed action, which is incorporated herein by reference. The County Commissioners are requested to Create and Establish a non-maintained County Road on a sixty foot wide by approximately sixty-three hundred lineal feet long easement, that can be used for all lawful purposes. Creating and establishing of this road is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: To secure legal and insurable access for the eight following tax parcels 2020835, 1706705, 1704405, 1874505, 3068200, 1110808, 1821206, 6145707. Where consent is not given to create or establish a county road, the probable cost to acquire the right-of-way to establish county road: 3.985 acres @ $850 per acre is $3336.25. Petitioners are willing to pay this amount for acquisition of rightof-way. (For more information, please see petition on file in the Clerk & Recording Office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor,

Missoula, MT.) A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested creation or establishment of a County Road will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on November 9, 2011 at 1:30 p.m., Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, MT. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, MT prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 By Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk and Recorder/Elections (406) 258-3241 Date: 9-27-2011 MISSOULA COUNTY A COUNTY TREASURER, HEREBY NOTIFIES MISSOULA COUNTY TAX PAYERS THAT THE FIRST HALF OF 2011 REAL ESTATE TAXES & THE SECOND HALF 2011 MOBILE HOME TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON NOVEMBER 30, 2011. UNLESS 2011 TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME, THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT, WILL ACCRUE INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH AND WILL BE ASSESSED A 2% PENALTY FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID .IF YOU INTEND TO PROTEST YOUR TAXES, YOU MUST MAKE PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE AND MUST INCLUDE A LETTER OF PROTEST WITH YOUR PAYMENT. THE LETTER OF PROTEST MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, PROPERTY DESCRIPTION, GROUNDS FOR PROTEST AND THE AMOUNT YOU ARE PROTESTING PURSUANT TO MCA § 15-1-402. /s/ VICKIE M. ZEIER MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP11-176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES O. ANDIE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to TAMARA G. ANDIE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 4th day of October, 2011 /s/ Tamara G. Andie, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 3 Case No. DV-11-1108 PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS FOR QUIET TITLE. ALROY GROUP, LLC, a Montana Limited Liability Company, Plaintiff, vs. RICHARD B. INMAN and VERA E. INMAN, husband and wife, as Beneficiaries, Escrow Dept. Montana Bank of South Missoula and INSURED TITLES, INC., Trustee, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent. Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA to the Above Named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the clerk of this court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive to 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 Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: Lot 8 in Block 2 of Cottage Grove Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, together with that portion of vacated South 5th Street West northerly and contiguous to said lot as vacated in Resolution No. 88-081 in Book 282 at page 905, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. Witness my hand and the seal of said court, this 11th day of October, 2011. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-11-179 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ELEANOR M. MEUCHEL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Patricia A. Flink has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patricia A. Flink, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Dan G. Cederberg, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of October, 2011. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 598078234 /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP11-177 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BONITA ROSE LOEWEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to CHERRYL F. HANSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Marsillo & Schuyler, PLLC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 5th day of October, 2011. /s/ Cherryl F. Hanson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Cause No. DV-11-1331 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Parris O. Bartlett, Tina A. Bartlett, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Parris O. Bartlett to Parris O. Allison. The hearing will be on 11/30/11 at 1:15 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/14/11. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Cause No. DV-11-1333 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Makayla F. Allison-Bartlett, Tina A. Bartlett, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Makayla F. Allison-Bartlett to Makayla F. Allison. The hearing will be on 11/30/11 at 1:15 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 10/14/11. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall Deputy Clerk of Court NOTICE OF HEARING Excavation Permit to Extend a Water Main in 26th Ave & S. 9th W Street. MISSOULA The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing regarding an Excavation Permit to Extend a Water Main in 26th Ave & S. 9th W Street. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting Wednesday, November 9, 2011, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802;

PUBLIC NOTICES by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Professional Consultants Inc. Contact: Briant Jacobs (406)728-1880 or briantj@pcimontana.com. BY ORDER OF THE MISSOULA BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DATED THIS 24th DAY OF OCTOBER, 2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to Section 71-1-301 et. seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned Successor Trustee hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 7th day of December, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock A.M., at the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, to sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 4313, located in the Northeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 8, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana Property Address: 3460 Grant Creek Road, Missoula, Montana Clawson, LLP, a Montana limited liability partnership, as Grantor, conveyed the above-described real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation arising under a promissory note owed to CLS Mortgage, Inc. who was designated as Beneficiary, in a Deed of Trust dated January 13, 2011, and recorded on January 18, 2011 in Book 872 of Micro Records, Page 827, records of Missoula County, Montana in the principal sum of $300,000.00. CLS Mortgage, Inc. subsequently conveyed its interest to Dietzel Living Trust, Orval Dietzel and Darlene M. Dietzel, Trustees, Equity Trust Company, custodian FBO Darlene M. Dietzel Account #93579, Equity Trust Company Custodian FBO Orval W. Dietzel Account #100780, Waco Investments LLC, David W. Hanson, and Sherry A. Hanson by Assignment of Deed of Trust filed February 10, 2011 in Book 873 of Micro Records, Page 1016 and by Assignment of Deed of Trust filed February 25, 2011 in Book 874 of Micro Records, Page 594. By a Substitution of Trustee dated May 31, 2011, and recorded on June 20, 2011, in Book 879 at Page 210, records of Missoula County, Montana, the Beneficiaries substituted and appointed John K. Tabaracci, of Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C. a licensed Montana attorney, as Successor Trustee. The obligation secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust is now in default, in that payments on the promissory note secured by the Deed of Trust have not been made as required. As of the 1st day of July, 2011, the balance owing on the promissory note secured by the Deed of Trust is $315,599.97, which amount includes principal and interest, late charges, and escrow fees owing. Interest continues to accrue at the rate as set out in the promissory note, until paid, plus all additional accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, title expenses, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Deed of Trust. In accordance with the provisions of the promissory note and Deed of Trust, the Beneficiaries have elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and promissory note and to sell the interest of the original Grantors, its successors and assigns, in and to the property described above, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record at the time of the said Deed of Trust, to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiaries have designated the Successor Trustee to conduct such sale proceedings. The sale noticed herein may be terminated and the Deed of Trust and Promissory Note obligation reinstated by the tender to the Successor Trustee of all amounts in arrears to the date of payment, together with all fees, costs and expenses of sale as incurred. Please contact the Successor Trustee prior to tender of any such payment to verify amounts owing. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are as follows: Clawson, LLP, a Montana Limited Liability Partnership 3460 Grant Creek Road Missoula, MT 59808 Clawson, LLP, a Montana Limited Liability Partnership P.O. Box 17557 Missoula, MT 59808 Eugene H. Clawson, Jr. P.O. Box 17557 Missoula, MT 59808 James M. Clawson P.O. Box 17557 Missoula, MT 59808 Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed here-

in. DATED this 7th day of July, 2011. /s/ John K. Tabaracci, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) : ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 7th day of July, 2011, by John K. Tabaracci, Successor Trustee. /s/ Susan D. Schwarz Notary Public for State of Montana Notary Seal Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission expires: 09/03/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3. 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 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 24, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $853,630.16. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, 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 January 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200607077, Bk 771, Pg 326, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick T. Beers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South one-half of Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 of Car Line Addition a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200911125 Bk 839 Pg 363, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for CSMC 2006-6. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 26, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $175,417.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $148,683.65, 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 January 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.13715) 1002.172506-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200522314, Bk 758, Pg 1491, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Joel T. Vachal and Jacqueline L. Vachal, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 of Gustafson Addition II, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, of record in Book 16 of Plats at Page 6, records of Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/11 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 24, 2011, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $228,002.31. This amount includes the

outstanding principal balance of $220,579.71, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.96070) 1002.202401-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 and 4 and the East onehalf of Lot 5 in Block 71 of CAR LINE ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book No. 584 of Micro Records at Page 1153 Brandy McKenney, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Comp, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 10, 2002 and recorded December 16, 2002 at 4:41 o’clock P.M. in Book 695, Page 496, as Document No. 200237454; re-recorded July 21, 2004 at 4:14 o’clock P.M. in Book 736, Page 1131 as Document No. 200420553. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association fka The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. as Trustee, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of

NOTICE OF ELECTION EQUIPMENT TESTING A test of the ES&S AutoMARK ballot-marking system will be starting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, October 31, 2011, at the Fairground s Fine Arts Building #15, 1101 South Ave W, Missoula, Montana. A test of the ES&S 650 Ballot Counters that will be used to tabulate ballots on Election Day will be starting at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, at the Fairground s Marsda Building, 1101 South Ave W, Missoula, Montana. Both tests are open to the public. Vickie Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County By Debbe Merseal, Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder

Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,237.95, beginning February 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 August 26, 2011 is $153,558.16 principal, interest at the rate of 8.00% now totaling $8,007.46, late charges in the amount of $1,282.33, escrow advances of $2,300.77 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,356.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.65 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

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The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following items on Tuesday, November 15, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. Subdivision Request — Alexandra Estates A request from Liberty Cove, Inc, represented by WGM Group, Inc., to subdivide a 116.27 acre parcel into 23 lots. The property is located between Missoula and Lolo, on the west side of Highway 93. See Map Z. 2.

Rezoning Request — JTL A request from Knife River, represented by pLAND Land Use Consulting, to amend the JTL Special District zoning to expand the allowable hours of operation. The property is located between Wheeler Dr and I90, _ mile west of Reserve St.

See Map H. The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold public hearings on items #1 and #2 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Both hearings will be held in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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: August 5, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 5th day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Blackfoot Commission expires: 5-26-2015 GMAC v McKenney 41965.538 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9D OF SIXTY-SIX QUARTER CIRCLE RANCH, LOT 9, a platted subdivision in the County of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. TOGETHER WITH a private access easement and public utilities easement over and across Lot 9C of Sixty-Six Quarter Circle Ranch, Lot 9, as set forth on said plat Scott A Bombard and Sheree K Bombard, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 20, 2007 and recorded on August 24, 2007 in Book 804, Page 591 under Document No 200722158. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,797.57, beginning November 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 9, 2011 is $262,545.28 principal, interest at the rate of 10.15% now totaling $25,075.41, late charges in the amount of $951.76, escrow advances of $1,891.89 and other fees and expenses advanced of $347.72, plus accruing interest at the rate of $73.01 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: August 3, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc.Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham) On this 3 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Blackfoot, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 CitiMortgage v Bombard 42011.493 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 1951B as shown and defined in the Declaration of condominium for South 4th Street condominiums, a residential condominiums, together with its exhibits as recorded November 14, 2007 in book 808 micro record, page 1532 and recorded as condo 000165, records of Missoula county, Montana, located on Lot 9 in block 8 of low’s addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula county, Montana according to the official recorded plat there of. Together with an undivided 50% ownership in the general common elements and right of use of the limited common elements appurtenant to said unit 1951B as said general common elements and limited common elements are defined in the declaration of condominium and condo 000165 as referenced above. Stacy Debusk and Amy Dockrey, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Ticor Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on November 14, 2007 and recorded on November 20, 2007 in Book 809, Page 165 under Document No. 200730264. The beneficial interest is currently held by ONEWEST BANK, FSB. 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 $916.40, beginning December 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obli-

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gation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 24, 2011 is $172,499.48 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $7,107.75, late charges in the amount of $369.42, escrow advances of $40.28, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,535.14, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.13 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: August 4, 2011 /s/Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 4 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Blackfoot, ID Commission expires: 2/18/20 Onewest/debusk 41969.558 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LAND SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA IN THE STATE OF MT: LOT 4 OF MODERIE LOTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Jack C. Westre, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 27, 2007 and recorded on February 15, 2007 in Book 792, Page 28 as Document No. 200703753. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee for GSR Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-OA1, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2007OA1. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of

$1,254.70, beginning September 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 30, 2011 is $463,926.59 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $30700.04, late charges in the amount of $2070.42, escrow advances of $-5371.85, suspense balance of $-842.77 plus accruing interest at the rate of $84.21 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: August 9, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 9th day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Marti A Ottley Notary Public Inkom, ID Commission expires: 8/15/2012 Litton V. Westre 41462.822 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 12, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 7 in Block 6 of Spring Hills Addition No. 6, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof KAREL A MORALES, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 8, 2007 and Recorded June 12, 2007 in Book 799, Page 329 under Document No. 200714796. The beneficial interest is currently held by Fannie Mae (‘’Federal National Mortgage 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 $1,636.58, beginning

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August 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 12, 2011 is $232,944.24 principal, interest at the rate of 6.8750% now totaling $33,847.05, escrow advances of $6,413.64, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,794.37, plus accruing interest at the rate of $44.49 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: August 2, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Assistant Secretary Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham) On this 2 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public of Idaho Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 Lbps V Morales 42008.005 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 13, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 28 OF THE VILLAGE AT BENTLEY PARK, PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Margaret Bostick, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 28, 2008 and recorded on May 30, 2008 in Book 819, Page 1151 under Document No. 200812174. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $778.63, beginning August 1, 2010, and each month subse-

quent, 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 August 26, 2011 is $130,281.08 principal, interest at the rate of 5.625% now totaling $4,166.08, late charges in the amount of $272.51, escrow advances of $784.13, suspense balance of $-38.93 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,921.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.08 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: August 8, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 8 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Blackfoot, ID Commission expires: 2/18/2014 GMAC v Bostick 41965.418 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 9, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 of Huntington Place, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 27 of Plats at Page 35 Max M. Sherry, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated March 26, 2007 and Recorded March 26, 2007 in Book 794, Page 325, under Document No. 200707028. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,322.61, beginning February 1, 2011, and each month sub-

sequent, 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 June 6, 2011 is $199,937.88 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $5,485.45, late charges in the amount of $529.04, escrow advances of $960.99, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,692.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.92 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: August 1, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ) )ss. County of Bingham ) On this 1 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2014 GMAC Vs. Sherry 41207.922 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 9, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: All that certain parcel of land situate in the County of Missoula, State of Montana being known and designated as Lot 17 in Block 5 of Second Supplement to Highland Heights, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Pamela J Roberts, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Insurance Agency, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated August 6, 2003 and Recorded August 15, 2003 in Book 714, Page 1265 under Document Number 200330155. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage Inc. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing

PUBLIC NOTICES to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $933.99, beginning June 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 10, 2011 is $103,599.83 principal, interest at the rate of 5.75% now totaling $7,096.76, late charges in the amount of $741.40, escrow advances of $3,197.29 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,441.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.32 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: August 3, 2011 /s/ Dalia Martinez First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 3rd day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Blackfoot Commission expires: 5/26/2015 CitiMortgage v Roberts 41926.468 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 9, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 35 OF SPRING MEADOWS, AN AMENDED SUBDIVISION OF BAY MEADOWS ADDITION, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, IN BOOK 17 AT PAGE 72 OF PLAT RECORDS, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Bradley S. Cuerth, Sandra L. Cuerth, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on April 18, 2006 and April 20, 2006 under Document No. 200608861 Bk. 772 Pg. 2110 Micro Records. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of

MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,549.49, beginning April 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 July 28, 2011 is $210,652.27 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5% now totaling $5,576.98, late charges in the amount of $228.20, escrow advances of $530.80, and other fees and expenses advanced of $34.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $37.51 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: August 1, 2011 /s/ Becky Stucki First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Assistant Secretary Successor Trustee First American Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ) )ss. County of Bingham ) On this 1 day of August, 2011, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Becky Stucki, 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 forgoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Cassidy M Wilcox Notary Public Blackfoot Idaho County, Bingham Commission expires: 7/16/2013 Citimortgage V. Cuerth 42011.504 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee’s Sale No: 08-OC-113329 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, Lenders Service Title Agency, Inc., the duly appointed Successor Trustee, will on February 17,2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, of said day, ON THE FRONT STEPS OF THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, the following described real and personal property (hereafter referred to collectively as the “Property”), situated in the County of MISSOULA, State of Montana, to-wit: TRACT A 12 J OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3148 BEING A TRACT LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 15, TOWNSHIP 11 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. The Trustee has no knowledge of a more particular description of the above-referenced Property but, the Trustee has been informed that the

address of 16465 HIGHLAND DRIVE , FLORENCE, MT 59833, is sometimes associated with said real property. JED E TINDER, AN UNMARRIED MAN, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES OF MISSOULA, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CHALLENGE FINANCIAL INVESTORS, CORP., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as Beneficiary, dated 2/2/2007, recorded 2/7/2007 in Volume 791, page 1194, of Deed of Trust, under Instrument No. 200703173, Mortgage records of MISSOULA County, MONTANA. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, Trustee Saxon Asset Securities Trust 2007-2 Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Certificates, Series 20072. The default for which this sale is made is the failure to pay when due under the Deed of Trust Note dated 2/2/2007, THE MONTHLY PAYMENT WHICH BECAME DUE ON 7/1/2011 AND ALL SUBSEQUENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS, PLUS LATE CHARGES AND OTHER COSTS AND FEES AS SET FORTH. [amount due as of October 11, 2011 Delinquent Payments from July 01, 2011 4 payments at $ 2,048.59 each $. 8,194.36 (07-01-11 through 10-11-11) Late Charges: $ 252.03 Beneficiary Advances: $ 916.23 Suspense Credit: $ 0.00 TOTAL: $ 9,362.62 All delinquencies are now due, together with unpaid and accruing taxes, assessments, trustee’s fees, attorney’s fees, costs and advances made to protect the security associated with this foreclosure. The principal balance is $364,802.36, together with interest thereon at 2.875% per annum from 6/1/2011, until paid. The Beneficiary elects to sell or cause the trust property to be sold to satisfy said obligation. 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 for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the same. DATED: 10/12/2011 Lenders Service Title Agency, Inc. Trustee By: Joseph Tran, Authorized Signor c/o REGIONAL TRUSTEE SERVICES CORPORATION 616 1st Avenue, Suite 500 Seattle, WA 98104 Phone: (206) 3402550 Sale Information: http://www.rtrustee.com ASAP# 4114629 10/27/2011, 11/03/2011, 11/10/2011 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/25/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which NATHAN MCCONNELL as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/07/2006 and recorded 09/07/2006, in document No. 200622873 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 782 at Page Number 913 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE NORTH HALF OF LOT 7 IN BLOCK 88 OF KNOWLES ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE IN BOOK 677 AT PAGE 444 MICRO RECORDS. Property Address: 1049 SOUTH 1ST STREET WEST, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP.

There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $157,700.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 01/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/09/2011 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0095770 FEI NO. 1006.143297 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/25/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which GARY OFFILL, AND ROBERTA L OFFILL, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP, MARRIED as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF BILLINGS LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/02/2007 and recorded 10/11/2007, in document No. 200727002 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 807 at Page Number 362 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA AND STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 7 OF THE CORRECTED PLAT OF EL DORADO, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. TAX ID: 5819405 Property Address: 835 DAKOTA AVE, Missoula, MT 598025500. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attor-

ney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $148,389.13 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.375% per annum from 05/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/09/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0095798 FEI NO. 1006.143363 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/27/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MITCH RIDER as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/03/2005 and recorded 06/06/2005, in document No. 200513498 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 753 at Page Number 1422 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 9 OF BRIGGS COURT, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 2127 BRIGGS STREET, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-30CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-30CB. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 04/01/2011 and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $151,777.61 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 04/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary antic-

ipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/12/2011 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0097243 FEI NO. 1006.143442 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/25/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which KATHLEEN M LIKVAN, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/22/2005 and recorded 12/28/2005, in document No. 200534499 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 766 at Page Number 1147 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 37A OF FARVIEWS HOMESITES NO. 1A, BLOCK M LOTS 36A AND 37A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, COUNTY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 419 WHITAKER DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59803. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 01/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $578,481.29 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.625% per annum from 01/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/09/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S.

NO. 11-0095768 FEI NO. 1006.143295 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/27/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOHN G JACOBS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to ZEN TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/24/2007 and recorded 09/11/2007, in document No. 200723661 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 805 at Page Number 667 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS COMMITMENT IS LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA, AND IS KNOWN AS 6107 MAINVIEW DRIVE, MISSOULA, MT 59803 BEING FURTHER DESCRIBED AS: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO WIT: LOT 30 IN BLOCK 6 OF HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 5, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6107 MAINVIEW DR, Missoula, MT 59803-3328. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-5. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 10/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $172,802.03 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 8.75% per annum from 10/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/13/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0097236 FEI NO. 1006.143501 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/08/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or

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PUBLIC NOTICES had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LARRY L SCHMELEBECK AND ANNA SCHMELEBECK, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/02/2004 and recorded 12/08/2004, in document No. 200434087 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 744 at Page Number 906 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE E1/2 OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 3D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 6147. Property Address: 23727 MESSINA DRIVE, Bonner, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT 2005-J2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is

secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $135,298.22 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 11/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/12/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0097242 FEI NO. 1006.143443

Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 01/27/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which CRIS BOLLER as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/10/2006 and recorded 04/14/2006, in document No. 200608371 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 772 at Page Number 1620 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: TRACT 7A1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4266, LOCATED IN THE EAST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M. MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Property Address: 20500 SPOTTED FAWN RD, Huson, MT 59846. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUC-

CESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2011, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $240,845.03 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.25% per annum from 06/01/2011 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above

described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/13/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0097234 FEI NO. 1006.143502 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/03/2012 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which RONNY L. STRAIGHT AND VICKI L. STRAIGHT, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/25/2003 and recorded 07/31/2003, in document No. 200327979 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 713 at Page Number 573 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVI-

SION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 8440 PHEASANT DRIVE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $110,421.58 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 10/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts

are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/19/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0029886 FEI NO. 1006.132267 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/10/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SUE FITZGERALD-TRAVERS, A MARRIED WOMAN as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE INSURANCE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/24/2004 and recorded 03/02/2004, in document No. 200405438 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 727 at Page Number 413 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 5A OF OTOUPALIK ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4119 SPURGIN ROAD, Missoula, MT 59804. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-04. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $142,885.78 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 9.125% per annum from 10/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/27/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 10-0126688 FEI NO. 1006.114440 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOL-

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PUBLIC NOTICES LOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/07/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MICHELE D RUTHERFORD as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/15/2005 and recorded 04/18/2005, in document No. 200508814 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 750 at Page Number 1447 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 21 AND ALL OF LOT 22 IN BLOCK 31 OF SOUTH MISSOULA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 509 BROOKS ST, Missoula, MT 59801-4012. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $155,510.68 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.75% per annum from 07/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/22/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0105939 FEI NO. 1006.143892 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/10/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the

Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JUSTIN POLLACK, AND ANGELA POLLACK, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES (MISSOULA) J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 02/15/2007 and recorded 02/22/2007, in document No. 200704238 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 792 at Page Number 513 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OF TRAVELER’S REST ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 358 MARI COURT, Lolo, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-6. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $419,862.83 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 3.50% per annum from 10/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/26/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0038353 FEI NO. 1006.134822 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/08/2012, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MATTHEW H BROWN, AND LINDA L BROWN, AS JOINT TENANTS NOT AS TENANTS IN COMMON WITH RIGHTS OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J. PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 01/22/2007 and recorded 03/14/2007, in document No. 200705936 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 793 at Page Number 751 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County,

Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA AND STATE OF MONTANA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS FOLLOWS: THE NORTH ONEHALF OF GOVERNMENT LOT 37, IN SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF ON RECORD IN BOOK 4, COPY OF PLATS AT PAGE 7 1/2, DOCUMENT NO. 119118, RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, EXCEPT THE NORTH 30 FEET AND THE WEST 30 FEET THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 546 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1425. TAX ID: 972120. Property Address: 3427 W CENTRAL AVE, Missoula, MT 598046329. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-4. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 03/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $199,713.61 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 03/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 09/23/2011, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0106237 FEI NO. 1006.144041 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on February 23, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the followingdescribed property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 4 and 5 in Block 58 of Daly’s Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, as recorded in Book 1 of Plats at Page 79. Kraig A. Michels and Marie L. Michels, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Western Title and Escrow as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2003, and recorded October 16, 2003, in Book 720, Page 163, Document No. 200339699, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded October 13, 2011, in Book 884, Page 288, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $135,896.19, plus

interest at a rate of 5.875% totaling $63,465.97 and late fees of $259.01, for a total amount due of $199,621.17, as of October 7, 2011, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. the Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 14th day of October 2011. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 14th day of October, 2011 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on February 23, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the followingdescribed property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the NW1/4 of Section 1, Township 15 North, Range 23 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 2221. Roger Allen Chalmers and Ada Marie Chalmers, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 5, 2008, and recorded March 10, 2008, in Book 814, Page 0596, Document No. 200805031, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded October 13, 2011, in Book 884, Page 289, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $230,872.97, plus interest at a rate of 6.5% totaling $53,654.24 and late fees of $303.40, for a total amount due of $284,830.62, as of October 7, 2011, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 14th day of October, 2011. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 14th day of October, 2011 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Tom Garnet Furcht, a/k/a Tomm G. Furcht ATTN: Tom Garnet Furcht 11005 Grant Creek Road Missoula, MT 59808 Wells Fargo Bank MT, National Assn. 1800 South Russell Street Missoula, MT 59801 Wells Fargo Bank, NA P.O. Box 31557 Billings, MT 59107 U.S. Treasury IRS, Rocky Mtn. Division MS5021 DEN 1999 Broadway Denver, CO 802022490 State of Montana Dept. of Revenue P.O. Box 6169 Helena, MT 59604-6169 Wells Fargo Bank MT, National Assn c/o Wells Fargo Financial National Bank Specialize Services 401 W. 24th Street National City, CA 91950 Montana Attorney General Justice Building, Third Fl. 215

N. Sanders P.O. Box 201401 Helena, MT 59620-1401 OCCUPANT, 11005 Grant Creek Road, Missoula, MT 59808 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: Subdiv.-GCT GRANT CREEK TRACTS Lot- 008 14N 19W 15 GRANT CREEK TRACTS, GRANT CR GRANT CREEK TRACTS, GRANT CR GRANT CREEK TRACTS-LOT 8 SUID # 687702 2. The property taxes became delinquent in 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16, 2008, by Missoula County, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Canyon & Prairie Home Investment, LLC. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount due on assessor tax ID #687702 is: TAXES: $3,819.01 PENALTY: $75.00 INTEREST: $948.41 COST: $75.00 TOTAL: $4,917.42 7. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 must be paid by November 9, 2011, 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 November 9, 2011, 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 who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; Telephone (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 at Missoula, Montana, this 9th day of September, 2011. /s/ Liesel Shoquist Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C. 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor Missoula, MT 59801 Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Daniel J. Doyle Missoula County Treasurer Mike Doyle 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: 14N 20W 15 1965, PARCEL 06E, TRACT 6E COS 1965, SUID # 5820633. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Tract 6E of Certificate of Survey No. 1965, a tract of land located in the Southwest one-quarter of Section 10, and the Northwest onequarter of Section 15, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Parcel No. 5820633. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2007 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $1560. 87 Penalty: $31. 22 Interest: $547. 22 Costs: $492. 31 Total: $2631. 62 7. The date that the redemption period expires is ———— ————————-January 2nd, 2012. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project,

LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 27th day of October, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Daniel R. Anderson Missoula County Treasurer First National Bank of Montana 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: 14N 20W 16 5613, PARCEL XXX, TRACT 65A-1 OF COS 5613 IN NW4 IN SECTION 16 14-20, SUID #5912508. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Tract 65A-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 5613, a tract of land located in the Northwest one-quarter of Section 16, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Parcel No. 5912508. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2007 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $8535. 85 Penalty: $170. 74 Interest: $2975. 02 Costs: $515. 39 Total: $12, 197. 00 7. The date that the redemption period expires is — ———————————-January 2nd, 2012. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 27th day of October, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: David L. Burgin Missoula County Treasurer Delores Burgin Collection Bureau Services, Inc. Bitterroot Valley Bank dba Airway Boulevard Bank U.S. Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Rocky Mountain Division Attn: SPF Advisor, MS 5022, Den 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: 13N 17W 10 5824, PARCEL XXX, TRACT 3B OF COS 5824. SUID #4156913. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Tract 3B of Certificate of Survey No. 5824, a tract of land located in the N1/2 of Section 10, Township 13 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Parcel No. 4156913. 2. The

property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2007 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $174. 78 Penalty: $3. 48 Interest: $71. 76 Costs: $519. 71 Total: $769. 73 7. The date that the redemption period expires is ——————— —————-January 2nd, 2012. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 27th day of October, 2011. Montana Land Project LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: James Sears Missoula County Treasurer 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: Subdiv.- MIS MISSION SWAN ESTATES Lot- 029 21N 17W 26 MISSION SWAN ESTATES, LOT 29 MISSION SWAN ESTATES, LOT 29 OF MISSOULA SWAY ESTATES, SUID #223806. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Lot 29 of MISSION SWAN ESTATES, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Parcel No. 223806. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2007 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $932. 78 Penalty: $18. 66 Interest: $318. 15 Costs: $489. 79 Total: $1759. 38 7. The date that the redemption period expires is ———— ————————-January 2nd, 2012. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and

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Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Michael J. Harbine Missoula County Treasurer D R Dammel Donald R. Dammel Donald R. Dammel c/o Cornerstone Financial, Inc. Attn: Robert Congdon U.S. Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Rocky Mountain Division Attn, SPF Advisor, MS 5022, Den Collection Professionals, Inc. 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: 13N 19W 05 PLAT A5, PARCEL XXX, N1/2 N1/2 NE1/4 NE1/4 PLAT A5 5-13-19 9.48AC, SUID #5893009. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: The North one-half of the North one-half of the Northeast one-quarter of the Northeast onequarter of Section 5, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Deed Reference: Book 251 Page 322 Micro Records. Parcel No. 5893009. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2008 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County

whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $1492. 32 Penalty: $29. 85 Interest: $479. 23 Costs: $520. 60 Total: $2522. 00 7. The date that the redemption period expires is ——— —————————-January 2nd, 2012. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 27th day of October, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Phoebe J. Patterson

Revocable Trust Missoula County Treasurer Barry L. Bollenbacher c/o Cynthia K. Thiel, Boone Karlberg, P.C. United States of America c/o Victoria L. Francis Assistant U.S. Attorney Century Condominium Association, Inc. c/o ADEA Property Management, LLP 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax lien sale certificate as: Subdiv.-CCN Lot- XXX Block -XXX 13N 19W 33 CENTURY CONDOMINIUMS, UNIT CENTURY CONDOMINIUMS, UNIT #15 CENTURY CONDOMINIUMS, SUID #3659809. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: CONDOMINIUM UNIT #15 OF THE CENTURY CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM THEREOF, RECORDED ON AUGUST 21, 2001 IN BOOK 666 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 1341, AS DOCUMENT NO. 200120394 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA. SAID CONDOMINIUM BEING LOCATED ON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 738, A PARCEL OF GROUND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDIED INTEREST IN THE GENERAL COMMON ELEMENTS AND LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT TO SAID UNIT AND AS STATED IN THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM AS RECORDED IN BOOK 666 OF MICRO RECORS AT PAGE 341. Parcel No. 3659809. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2007 and a property tax lien exists on the property as a result of a property tax delinquency. 3. The prop-

erty tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 16th, 2008. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 16th, 2008, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $2828. 65 Penalty: $56. 60 Interest: $984. 1 2 Costs: $560. 22 Total: $4429. 59 7. The date that the redemption period expires is January 2nd, 2012. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. Dated this 27th day of October, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC

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1531 S 11th St W: 3 bed, 1 1/2 bath, 2 Car Garage. Turn-key home on a large lot with a double detached garage, privacy fenced yard and one level living! This home has a great floor plan and was remodeled in 2007. $213,900 - MLS # 20114611. Call Shannon Hilliard at 2398350 today!

6106 Longview $235,000 MLS # 20116338 Large 4 Bedroom 2 Bath home located in the South Hills. This home features hardwood floors, open floor plan, and large fenced yard. Call Betsy Milyard for more info 880-4749.

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Development potential. 231 & 211 Grove, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Handsome, Spacious Home on Prime Upper Miller Creek Acreage, 5+ bedrooms, with out of town living on quiet cul-de-sac, 10 acres. Rodeo Rd. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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860 Haley, Florence $550,000 - MLS# 20115636 5 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 car garage home available. Over 5000 finished square ft. Tons of space, game room and its own movie theater - perfect for living and entertaining! Your own private movie theater comes with 55â&#x20AC;? LED 3D TV, seven theater chairs, and an awesome sound system. Call Betsy Milyard for more info 880-4749.

Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home, middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, lots of room in huge shop, needs some updating, priced accordingly! 203 Curtis, 2405227 porticorealestate.com

ing. 300 Central, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Looking for a place to call home? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Looking for homebuyer education? Call me! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com Megan Lane, Frenchtown, $199,900 MLS: 10007166 BRAND NEW 3 BED, 2 BATH HOME ON 1 ACRE. HOME TO BE BUILT SO YOU CAN PICK YOUR COLORS AND SOME FINISHING TOUCHES. GENEROUS $2000 APPLIANCE

ALLOWANCE AND $1300 LANDSCAPING ALLOWANCE. Call Betsy for more info 8804749. Peaceful 11.64 acres with a gorgeous 3 bed, 2 bath home, sits in beautiful Cedar Ridge area, only 15 minutes from downtown Missoula. $299,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com PRICE REDUCED! 2 bdrm 2 bath manufactured home. Addition for possible den or office. Shop & extra space in dbl garage. Zoned for multifamily or commercial. NOW ONLY $104,900. MLS#906610. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

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Immaculate Rose Park Area Home, This light filled home offers a fantastic floorplan, 2 family rooms, large deck and nice backyard for entertain-

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2404 & 2404 1/2 Rattlesnake Dr., Msla $425,000 MLS# 20114396

Rattlesnake dream property with 1 bedroom apartment! 3 bed 2 bath home located on over 1/2 acre manicured & landscaped gardens & lawn. UG sprinkler & "secret garden", fenced yard. This solid home boasts huge picture windows, hardwood floors under carpet. New exterior paint and a 3 car garage! 2 bonus, bath & family room in basement. www.2404rattlesnake.com

Classic Mid-century Rattlesnake Home with lots of character: coved ceilings, hardwood floors, fireplace, stucco exterior, huge lot with mature landscape and perennial beds. 2618 Rattlesnake Dr, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Farm Houses w/land in Missoula, these solid farm houses boast lots of land to spread out and do your thing,

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Wonderful 5 bed, 3 bath home @ top of Fairviews with 2 car garage. Level lot! Borders open space. All new carpet & interior paint. Trex deck off dining room. Great views! Back yard is fenced. $275,000. MLS#20116161. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.110artemos.com

Rattlesnake dream property with a 1 bedroom apartment! 3 bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage located on over 1/2 acre manicured & landscaped gardens & lawn. UG sprinkler, “secret garden” & fenced yard. $425,000. MLS#20114396. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.2404rattlesnake.com. Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops and lots of gorgeous wood, 909 Herbert, 240-5227 porticorealestate.com

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LAND Almost 1/2 acre building site with great views. Close to Ranch Club Golf course and fishing access. City sewer stubbed to the property line. NOW ONLY $69,900. MLS# 10007449. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

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COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins Commercial building on coveted downtown location with lots of foot traffic. Building only for sale. Call Anne 546-5816 for showing. www.movemontana.com East Missoula building lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $65,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com I can help you sell your home! Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507. www.rochelleglasgow.com

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and for a limited time a purchase of a condo at the Uptown Flats

will include a large flat screen TV and assistance with up to $5000 Buyers closing costs!

UPSCALE DOWNTOWN LIFESTYLE AT THE UPTOWN FLATS 1 and 2 bedroom condos available

Two units at the low price of

$149,900 OPEN HOUSE: Sunday noon-4pm or call Jeff or Anne for Appointment

Jeff Ellis

Anne Jablonski

529-5087

546-5816

www.theuptownflatsmissoula.com Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C15 October 27 – November 3, 2011

Good African Rukoki or Rwenzuri Coffee

Peroni, Pilsner Urquell or Sierra Nevada

$4.59 10 oz.

5 lb. Bag Washington Gala, Granny or Braeburn Apples

Family Pack Boneless Top Sirloin Steak

$4.29

$3.29

each

lb.

$6.19 6 pack

Natural Directions Original or Vanilla Almond Milk

Pabst Blue Ribbon or Rainier

$13.99

24 pack

Assorted Winter Squash

Boneless Beef Rump Roast

49¢ lb.

$2.99 lb.

$2.89 64 oz.

Toasted Head Merlot, Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon

Gaea Greek Mixed Pitted Olives

$2.69 5.9 oz.

Fancy Pack 85% Lean Extra Lean Ground Beef

Washington Sweet Onions

$2.79 lb.

49¢ lb.

$10.99 .75 liter

Natural Directions 4 pack Assorted Fruit Cups

Assorted Hunt's Pasta Sauce

$1.77

98¢

16 oz.

Gold'n Plump Whole Cut Up Chicken

$5.69

Litehouse 16 oz. Dips

2 for $5

52 oz.

26 oz.

Boston Butt Bone In Pork Roast

Kootenai 100% Apple Cider

$1.89

$7.49

lb.

Gallon

$3.99 1/2 Gallon

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