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FEAST 2016: WESTERN MONTANA’S ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DINING OUT, DRINKING & GREAT LOCAL GRUB

MONTANA FORESTS HANG ON A CORPORATE LIMB

OPINION

GREG GIANFORTE TALKS IDEAS, ECONOMY, BUT NOT RELIGION

NEWS

RHYTHM ROLLERS LAUNCH NEW ROLLER SKATING CLUB

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FEAST 2016: WESTERN MONTANA’S ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DINING OUT, DRINKING & GREAT LOCAL GRUB

MONTANA FORESTS HANG ON A CORPORATE LIMB

OPINION

GREG GIANFORTE TALKS IDEAS, ECONOMY, BUT NOT RELIGION

NEWS

RHYTHM ROLLERS LAUNCH NEW ROLLER SKATING CLUB

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cover by Charles Wybierala

Voices/Letters School bonds, library bond and the environment .................................4 The Week in Review Griz win, lost sloth and windy weather .......................................6 Briefs Chibi Chibi Comic Con, strange bedfellows and UM enrollment........................6 Etc. Facts get in the way of Montana’s fear mongering...................................................7 News Missoula Rhythm Rollers launch skate club ..........................................................8 News Montana forests to become even smaller corporate limb.....................................9 Opinion Greg Gianforte discusses economy, ideas—but not religion. ........................10 Opinion Tragic joyrides devastate a rural Montana community...................................11 Feature The Indy’s annual holiday food issue hits the sweet spot...............................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts From Las Vegas to Montana, filmmaker Jason Massot finds faith ..........................18 Music One Ton Pig, Kylesa and Wildhoney ...................................................................19 Books Matt Pavelich’s Survivors Said varies wildly ......................................................22 Film Deep Time mines the oil boom’s rich characters ..................................................24 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films.......................................................25 What’s Good Here One wild omelet............................................................................26 Happiest Hour Pumpkin Pie Martini at Montana Distillery .........................................28 8 Days a Week Clarence and Alabama fell in love over pie in True Romance .............29 Mountain High Beginning Birder Walk........................................................................37 Agenda Black Light Benefit for Habitat.........................................................................38

Exclusives

Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 News of the Weird ........................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology.....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-9 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Tuesday afternoon on N. Higgins Avenue Where do you go for the best pie in western Montana?

Followup: What dish are you most looking forward to eating during this Thanksgiving holiday?

Andrea Stanley: My own kitchen. Pumpkin pie in particular. I skip the crust because the crust is not that tasty and it’s not that good for me. I just make a pumpkin pie casserole. Olfactory delights: For me, it’s not the actual eating of it, but the smell of the turkey and the anticipation of a good meal.

Kyle Doyle: Probably my mother’s house.

She makes really good apple huckleberry pie. Ancestral tendency: I’ve always been a huge fan of mashed potatoes. It’s probably the Irishman in me.

Spot on In the olden days, when school buildings were in better shape, when my four children were young and I was less “old” and as I raised kids in the public school system, I recognized the value of communities that truly supported education. Then working as a teacher and years later serving as a school board member for Missoula County multiple terms, the diversity of these perspectives strengthened my realization that education is only made possible by making a responsible investment, not necessarily the easiest.

My anticipation and concern for the school bonds were strained, and I only hoped for the best.

Spot on, Missoula County residents!

You did what creates better futures, proud communities, and voted your responsibility to all the tomorrows of our young people.

This investment will provide us all many positive returns!

The first and best lesson has begun with this—your example. Incredible!

Addrien Marx Seeley Lake

No easy decision

Robert Quinlan: I just moved here, so I haven’t really tried anything commercial.

But I worked at the Blue Damsel Lodge and the chef would make us pies. I loved the huckleberry. A maternal side: Stuffing. My mom’s stuffing. It’s always been my favorite.

I want to thank the voters of Missoula County for supporting the recent school bonds. I know that this was not an easy decision for everybody and that a sense of “bond fatigue” had settled over many of us.

But an entire generation of Missoula County children will now be better off by going to schools that are in good shape and offer the facilities which will prepare them for today’s and tomorrow’s competitive global marketplace. As adults they will be grateful that we made the right decision this year.

Klaus von Stutterheim Seeley Lake

The next bond Svein Newman: Ruby’s. They have the best pie. I’m a big fan of key lime and banana cream, the off-the-beaten-path pies.

Another bread lover: Every kind of stuffing. Last year I went to four Thanksgivings and the best was Charlie B’s. I just had a whole meal of stuffing.

Beth Doglio: It’s not in western Montana, but the San Francisco Street Bakery in Olympia, Wash., has the best pies. Except for my husband’s. Get yer greens: My uncle’s Brussels sprouts.

They’re just so good, and they drive my brother-in-law crazy. He hates them.

As a mom and a business owner, it’s a no-brainer for me to support the Missoula County Public Library in its efforts to build a modern building in downtown Missoula.

I love getting away to a quiet place to do research, discover new authors and films. As the owner of a catering business in Missoula many of my staff are on the younger side. often students or new graduates trying to make a living in Missoula. One of the first places they cut expenses is in Internet Wi-Fi. They know they can count on the library to log on and keep in touch, do schoolwork and apply for jobs.

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Yet the library’s technology services are inadequate to meet the community’s needs, in part due to the bones of the old building being so outdated. They also have to wait in line to use a computer.

Libraries make for a healthier, happier and educated community. I feel that everyone would benefit from these improvements.

I hope you will join me in support of a new library for Missoula.

Beth Higgins Missoula

Reject the plan Does ignoring reality ever turn out for the best? When it comes to energy policy in Montana, Gov. Bullock sure seems to think so.

The state of Montana is set to take a devastating hit if the Obama administration’s latest attempt to destroy the coal industry,

“The Clean Power Plan has one primary goal: an irreversible crippling of the coal industry.” known as the Clean Power Plan, survives legal challenges. It will force a costly and unwarranted change to our nation’s economy, imposing billions in compliance costs on consumers across the country and result in the near certain destruction of the coal industry in our state. Unfortunately, Gov. Bullock appears content with simply rolling over to the pressure of beltway politics while allowing thousands of Montanans to bear the heavy burden of this irresponsible, Washington, D.C., regulatory scheme.

Despite what the PR spin doctors employed by the Environmental Protection Agency may claim, the Clean Power Plan has one primary goal: an irreversible crippling of the coal industry. There is no way around that fact.

The coal industry contributes approximately 5,000 jobs in Montana with an annual payroll of $273 million; it has generated over

$950 million into a trust fund used to fund critical infrastructure projects across the state every year; and it produces annual taxes in the state in excess of $118 million. Not to mention that an entire town right here in Montana is built around coal mining and electricity generation from coal.

The in-house analyses of the Clean Power Plan performed by the staff at the Montana Public Service Commission have found that any proposal to comply with the rule will require closing multiple generating units at Colstrip. This would be absolutely devastating to thousands of employees and their families in our state.

Unsurprisingly, it appears that Gov. Bullock intends to turn a blind eye to the havoc that this plan will wreak on Montana until after the elections next year, with his only response being the creation of a largely symbolic “advisory committee.” He needs to deal with reality. Kowtowing to Washington, D.C., bureaucrats does not “keep Montana in control of our energy future.” The Clean Power Plan has our state in a car, headed off of a cliff, regardless of who is “in the driver’s seat.”

To prove that the people of Montana are more important than his reelection campaign, Gov. Bullock can start by making clear his support for the lawsuit filed by Attorney General Tim Fox to stop this illegal rule from being imposed upon our state. The governor has already acknowledged the devastation that the Clean Power Plan will have on Montana, and the only reason for not unequivocally opposing this rule is fear of radical environmental groups and the money that they are ready to spend against him during the next election cycle if he doesn’t fall in line with their agenda.

It is true that implementing a state-based compliance strategy is preferable to a federal one in the unfortunate event that the Clean Power Plan survives legal challenge. However, vigorously opposing the plan while crafting a state proposal for compliance if necessary should not be mutually exclusive.

Montana’s elected officials must be a united front to ensure that our state never has to endure the devastating effects that this ill-advised policy will inevitably create.

Governor, it’s time to show the people of Montana where you really stand.

Brad Johnson Montana Public Service Commission East Helena

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missoulanews.com • November 19–November 26, 2015 [5]

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Amy Donovan

Wednesday, Nov. 11 Sen. Jon Tester’s office releases the “State of Veterans in Montana” report, outlining shortcomings in VA care around the state. Veterans can wait up to 18 days for specialty care at the Missoula regional clinic, according to the report.

Thursday, Nov. 12 A Huffington Post article listing four cities likely to be “The Next Portland” includes Missoula, praising its “easy access to organic soap and dog treats” as well as the “Montgomery Scotch Distillery.” Someone better tell HuffPo that Montgomery does not, in fact, produce Scotch.

Friday, Nov. 13 The University of Montana men’s basketball team holds on to beat Boise State 74-72 in a thrilling season opener. Despite battling foul trouble, senior forward Martin Breunig leads the Griz with 21 points, while freshman Michael Oguine scores 17.

Saturday, Nov. 14 The Missoula City-County Health Department hosts a final special clinic for high school students who aren’t up-to-date on the new immunization requirements. Students who aren’t vaccinated by Dec. 1 won’t be allowed to attend class.

Sunday, Nov. 15 Actor-turned-musician Jeff Daniels tweets a photo of the Packers vs. Lions watch party at the Top Hat, noting that Montana is “Packer country,” before playing a concert at the venue later in the evening.

Monday, Nov. 16 During local band Midnight Hotdog’s performance at the VFW, guitarist Max Bauerly proposes to lead singer Mikki Lunda, and she accepts. The couple shares a bottle of champagne with the attendees. Brooklyn-based touring band Shellshag jokes that they’ll have to follow it up by proposing to their roadie.

Tuesday, Nov. 17 A powerful windstorm blows through the Northwest with gusts up to 76 mph in the Flathead Valley. NorthWestern Energy reports downed power lines and outages across the state, including St. Regis, Great Falls and Helena.

The view from Waterworks Hill on Nov. 15.

UM

Bad news bearer University of Montana President Royce Engstrom had the look of a man with bad news to break Tuesday afternoon. In a measured voice, he walked a room full of roughly 300 people through a plan to cut more than 200 faculty and staff positions in response to steadily declining enrollment. He spoke of reductions to library staffing, athletics, and academic programs like anthropology, political science and forestry. Broadcast and journalism degrees will be consolidated, and graduate language programs could close. The goal, Engstrom said, is to reach a studentto-faculty ratio of 18 to one.

“These are important and impactful changes both programmatically and personally,” he said. “But the sky is not falling. We were an exceptional institution when we had an enrollment around 13,000 a few years ago, and we will continue to be an exceptional institution.”

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The frustrations that have bubbled on campus in recent years remained palpable throughout Engstrom’s address. Flyers and signs circulating in the UC Theater lobby called on attendees to “Stop Main Hall Attacks on Curriculum” and “Cut Administrative Pork.” Engstrom’s long-term strategy of strengthening programs like business, health care and computational science drew accusations from French professor Michel Valentin and others that UM’s administration is on a path to “liquidate” the humanities. Engstrom balked at the suggestion, emphasizing the proposed reductions were due to a notable drop in humanities enrollment.

“I think that the programs that were in that category of reduction, they are the programs that are struggling with enrollment, and, yes, there is a correlation there to the humanities,” he said. “I’m deeply disappointed ... that students are not attracted to the humanities the way they were a decade or a generation ago.”

Perhaps the most pointed criticism leveled at Engstrom stemmed from his partial reliance on the Academic Alignment and Innovation Program, a faculty-led review of academic programs conducted over the past year. Doug MacDonald, associate professor of anthropology, pointed out that while those involved with the AAIP were never told their results would be used in budget cutting strategies, their findings and Engstrom’s proposals are alarmingly similar.

“In some ways I feel it’s disingenuous to how it was presented,” MacDonald said. Engstrom replied that the AAIP never was and still is not a budget cutting exercise.

The gravity of UM’s position will only intensify as changes begin to take shape in the weeks and months ahead. Engstrom never let up on his message that UM must live within its means, but afterwards acknowledged the pressure of breaking such bad news to so many.

“I’m looking out at this room full of people and

[news] seeing the intense interest that they all have in the welfare of the university and in the wellbeing of our students,” he said. “We have the most committed employee base at this institution that one could hope for, and it is painful to think of making some of the decisions we’ll need to make.”

Alex Sakariassen

Politics

Polling for intent For the second time this month, Republican lawmakers have requested a poll of all 150 members of the Montana Legislature to clarify the intent of bills passed this spring. It’s usually a rare move, but Rep. Nancy Ballance, R-Hamilton, says she hopes the latest request will help alleviate anxieties on both sides of the aisle over new campaign practice rules drafted by Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl.

“Although the [Disclose Act] was approved, one of the biggest issues people had with it was not the fact that disclosure needs to be done but that even the bill itself had some language in it that we thought was going to give too much discretionary power to the Commissioner of Political Practices,” Ballance says. “And then the rules kind of doubled down on that.”

Ballance attempted to capture the bipartisan nature of those apprehensions in a Nov. 16 release, stating that the 23 Republican legislators requesting the poll shared the same legal and constitutional concerns as the Montana NRA, the Lincoln County Republican Party, the Montana Human Rights Network and the ACLU. “To see the written comments, the very first thing you notice is that there are strange bedfellows,” Ballance says. “You’ve got the NRA and the League of Conservation Voters and MEA-MFT all saying the same thing: ‘Wait a minute. We’ve got a serious problem here that somebody’s got to do something about.’”

Yet the objections raised by a bulk of the leftleaning groups Ballance invoked in her poll request were alleviated by Motl in a series of amendments issued earlier this month. Niki Zupanic, public policy director for the Montana ACLU, says her organization is “very pleased with the current revision of the rules.” She adds that the ACLU’s intent with its public comments was not to push for a legislative poll but for rather changes and further clarification.

MHRN co-director Kim Abbott echoes the sentiment.

“Rep. Ballance is correct that the Network had serious concerns with the rules as they were originally published,” Abbott says. “Having seen the changes made by the commissioner’s office, those concerns are now past tense and we believe that the rules are within legislative intent and can effectively implement the Disclose Act.” Those revisions also swayed several Democrats on the interim committee reviewing the rules, paving the way for approval on Nov. 17. While Ballance remains unsatisfied with Motl’s changes, she’s heartened that the poll—which will merely serve to inform courts if the rules spark future litigation— will still occur.

“I think our responsibility is to make absolutely sure [the Disclose Act] is as clear as we can possibly make it,” she says, “and if polling the legislature to understand their intent helps clarify that, I think regardless of where we are in the process we’ve got to do it.”

Alex Sakariassen

Nerds

UM hosts comic con The roar of the crowd at Washington-Grizzly Stadium echoes through the University of Montana campus on a game-day Saturday. But inside the University Center’s third-floor conference rooms, a much quieter but no less intense discussion is taking place about elvish dialects. A workshop leader, Fiona Jallings, reads from a passage written in Quenya, an elvish language created by J.R.R. Tolkien. Then she advises a small audience of about five people on how to design a fictional language according to linguistics.

“If your language has a ‘p’ sound, it will also have a ‘b’ sound,” Jallings says. A young woman with a dyed-blue ponytail nods and mentions that she’s been having trouble with some of the consonant sounds in the fantasy language she’s creating.

The Tolkien language panel is part of the inaugural three-day Chibi Chibi Comic Con, billed as the first comic convention hosted by UM. Other panel discussions include “History of Anime” and “Workshop: My Little Pony.” Elsewhere at the small con-

BY THE NUMBERS

$88.6 million Fair market value for Mountain Water as determined Nov. 17 by a panel of experts following two weeks of trial and deliberation. Missoula Mayor John Engen says he is comfortable bringing the price to city council and the voters. vention, preteens play video games, college students set up Magic the Gathering card games and artists display their wares in a vendor room. Costumed players, or cosplayers, wander around the venue in neon-colored wigs, clip-on fur tails or elaborate horse costumes. A big-screen TV in the lobby shows Hiyao Miyazaki films.

Chibi Chibi was organized by the Student Involvement Network, which tries to host fun events with an educational bent, according to student advisor and program coordinator Joseph Grady. He acknowledges the comic con was intended to appeal to the more “nerdy” side of student life.

“From sitcoms on TV to films and so forth, there’s sort of this renaissance for the nerd, where it’s cool to be a nerd,” Grady says. “It’s acceptable to be witty, to be sharp, to be clever, to be educated.”

The convention is also meant to help aspiring artists learn how to break into a growing market for comics and graphic novels, with workshops on how to create and sell comics.

Tess Langston, a UM senior studying digital animation, displays several of her drawings and screenprinted T-shirts in the vendors room, alongside about a dozen other artists. Langston has been to Missoula’s long-running MisCon, as well as Sakura-Con in Seattle, but this is her first time attending an event as a vendor. She’s spent more than three years working on a graphic novel called Anime Asylum, a light-hearted story about young kids battling an evil queen to save Scribble City. She’s published 15 chapters online so far.

“Yup, I want to be a graphic novelist and an animator,” she says. “I’m making a career out of this. I know it’s hard work, but it will be worth it to do what I love.”

Kate Whittle

ETC. The grim state of “national security” politics was on display this week as Republican governors and lawmakers seized the terror spree in Paris as grounds to forbid Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. The sudden chorus, based on one of the Paris attackers entering Europe with a fake Syrian passport, showed how readily some leaders will stand on the backs of the voiceless to trumpet their own zeal for American safety.

Montana’s Republican representatives eagerly joined. Sen. Steve Daines called upon President Obama to reject refugee applications from Syrians despite noting his “strong sympathy” for their situation. Rep. Ryan Zinke introduced legislation that would stop admittance of Syrian and Iraqi refugees until each is certified to Congress as “not security threats” by the Department of Homeland Security.

Yet as DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson himself told lawmakers last month, “The reality is that, with improvements to the process we have made over time, refugees are subject to the highest level of security checks.” Refugee resettlement in the U.S. is the most rigorously regulated of any immigration process, and security measures were already expanded in 2010. Applicants must undergo more than a dozen steps, multiple interagency security checks and an in-person interview from a DHS officer before entering American soil. The whole process frequently takes two years.

The distortions didn’t end there. Zinke incorrectly described most Syrian refugees as militaryaged males, while Daines suggested the U.S. instead focus its resources on helping Syrian refugees resettle in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

Lebanon, with a resident population of around 4 million people, is already dealing with over 1.1 million Syrian and 450,000 Palestinian refugees.

Obama’s plan allows for just 10,000 new Syrian refugees to enter the U.S. annually.

Gov. Steve Bullock, for his part, said terrorists won’t “intimidate us into abandoning our values.” He declined to join the block of Republican governors vowing to keep Syrians out of their states but assured residents his office is reviewing its refugee protocol to make sure Montanans aren’t endangered.

There isn’t much to review. As the Indy recently reported, Montana is one of the least-welcoming states for refugees and one of only two without a resettlement office. Regardless, state officials don’t have legal authority to restrict certain refugees from their borders. As this week’s shameless opportunism shows, there’s a good reason why.

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Skate or die Missoula Rhythm Rollers launch skate club

by Kate Whittle

On a Wednesday evening, soul music day job as a nanny, she’s also been hunt- its multipurpose room to everything from blares from a small boombox as a handful ing around Missoula, looking for an in- the Missoula Winter Public Market to inof families spin around the linoleum floor door space that could be turned into a teractive art installations. Thompson says of The Hive community center at 800 S. roller skating venue. Most commercial it’s not a long-term solution, but it works Third St. W. Hesitant newbies hold onto rinks run 20,000-30,000 square feet, or for now. (A website is forthcoming, and friends, while more experienced skaters about the size of a small grocery store, skate times can be found at the Missoula Rhythm Rollers Facebook page.) zip past, weaving through the pillars. Two and Neal has a limited budget. boys play at a Ping-Pong table that serves “It was really frustrating,” she says.

In coming months, they hope to exas the “arcade.” It’s the second edition of “But not enough to not do it. It was like, pand the Rhythm Rollers’ hours and put the disco-themed Missoula Rhythm ‘No, I’m gonna keep going.’” on themed dance parties, like the upRollers Skate Club.

The skate club has only been running since Nov. 4, but its founders hope the weekly gatherings will help launch a community effort to establish a dedicated roller skating rink.

“There’s kids here who’ve never skated before, and they can already skate,” says cofounder Kari Neal, an energetic woman who can be found gracefully twirling around the floor on skates when she’s not running the cash register. “This is so great. It’s really been a long time coming.”

Neal says she’s loved skating since she was a hyperactive kid growing up photo by Cathrine L. Walters in California. As an adult, she moved to Missoula The Missoula Rhythm Rollers Skate Club is hosting regular sessions at The Hive in hopes and joined the Hellgate of stoking enthusiasm for a community roller skating rink.

Rollergirls in 2012, where she rediscovered her favorite pastime.

This summer, mutual friends con- coming holiday series of “Eight Crazy “I can’t believe I had forgotten,” she nected her with Melissa Thompson, Nights” in December. They also plan to says. “I knew I had to skate—I want to who’d also been looking to set up a roller host skate-making workshops and even‘skate or die,’ skate until the very end.” rink after she bought skates for her 8-year- tually launch a Kickstarter to help fund After her father and grandfather old daughter. a bigger rink. passed away in the same year, she says it “We got so excited, but we realized “Everyone needs to have the opporwas the impetus for her to realize what Missoula doesn’t have a skating rink, so tunity to move, develop new muscles, she wanted to do with her life: be a skate we needed somewhere to skate,” Thomp- gain confidence and dance,” Neal says. rink operator. son says. “So we started looking for “Self-expression is vital for development.

In the past few years, Neal’s col- places, and it’s really hard to find a space Skating can do that, and I hope to bring lected about 200 pairs of vintage roller that’s big enough for people to move and that to more people here in Missoula and our surrounding towns.” skates, scouring thrift shops and used you don’t mess up the floor.”

Soon after teaming up, Thompson gear stores. (“Have skates and they will kwhittle@missoulanews.com come” is her motto.) While working her and Neal found The Hive, which rents out

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Timber deal Montana forests to become even smaller corporate limb

by Derek Brouwer

photo by Joe Weston

Plum Creek owns 770,000 acres of timberlands in Montana, but harvest levels are expected to continue declining.

Weyerhaeuser, which announced plans to acquire Plum Creek, could soon become the state’s largest private landowner and will manage the forests as part of a massive, 13-million acre land portfolio.

Earlier this month Seattle timber company Weyerhaeuser announced its plans to acquire crosstown rival Plum Creek Timber.

The move creates a new corporate colossus in the U.S. timber industry, with ownership of more than 13 million acres of forestlands across 20 states. While Plum Creek’s 770,000 acres and handful of mills in Montana loom large locally, they will become but a small limb in the companies’ combined portfolios.

The deal, however, is about more than turning logs into lumber. Plum Creek and, more recently, Weyerhaeuser are organized as real estate investment trusts, or REITs, a type of security similar to a mutual fund.

The structure puts timberlands, not wood products, at the center of the company’s revenue stream.

Plum Creek was the first timber company to convert to a REIT and has leveraged that status to prune its Montana holdings in recent years for other “higher and better” uses. Since 2008, the company has sold more than 400,000 acres of its Montana forestland to conservation groups.

Weyerhaeuser, which currently has no footprint in Montana, is poised to become the state’s largest private landowner overnight. How the company manages its holdings could shape the future not just of timber, but of development, conservation and public access in northwest Montana, observers say.

“In that regard, there’s still a lot of opportunity for them in Montana,” says Todd Morgan, director of forest industry research

for the University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research.

Morgan says Weyerhaeuser’s approach to its Montana timberlands likely will be tied to how much value it sees in the Plum Creek mills located in Evergreen and Columbia Falls, which employ more than 700 people. He notes that timber harvests in the state haven’t recovered much since tanking in 2009, leaving mills struggling to make a profit. Though reluctant to predict what could happen, Morgan says Weyerhaeuser may consider closing or consolidating its Montana mills to operate them more efficiently.

The companies seemed to have efficiency in mind when announcing the merger.

Executives say they anticipate $100 million in “cost synergies” over the first year and are looking at spinning off Weyerhaeuser’s cellulose fiber manufacturing division. REITs face strong pressure to bring in steady revenue, as more than 90 percent of income must be returned to shareholders as dividends.

“As a company, they’ll have fairly similar objectives,” Morgan says. “That’s quite different from a local mill, where being a part of the community might be a higher priority.”

Plum Creek declined to disclose its harvest figures for Montana, but the company’s most recent annual report indicates its lumber and plywood mills are short on local supply. Only half of their logs were purchased from Plum Creek’s Montana timberlands, with the rest coming from other suppliers, according to the 2014 report. The report also

projects harvests to decline in its northern forests over the next decade by as much as 20 percent and states that Montana levels, which already make up a small fraction of its total harvest, will “decline modestly.”

Other options for the new company could include selling Montana timberlands for residential or commercial development, as well as for conservation. Richard Jeo, state director for The Nature Conservancy, says the organization isn’t currently in land discussions with Plum Creek after closing a deal for 117,000 acres in the Lower Blackfoot Watershed earlier this year. Jeo’s organization has also worked with Weyerhaeuser on land deals in other states, so he doesn’t expect the acquisition to change much in Montana.

One difference between the companies, however, has already caught the attention of local sportsmen and land officials. While Plum Creek allows free public access on most of its timberlands, Weyerhaeuser charges users for permits and sells executive leases to the highest bidder—another way to glean revenue from its forests.

State Auditor and Land Board member Monica Lindeen issued a statement on Monday encouraging Weyerhaeuser to continue Plum Creek’s practice of “free and open access.”

“I can appreciate that an orderly system of hunting leases may make sense in other states,” Lindeen said. “I am hopeful that Weyerhaeuser will agree with me that this type of system isn’t necessary in Montana.” dbrouwer@missoulanews.com

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[opinion]

Still exploring Greg Gianforte discusses economy, ideas—but not his faith

by Dan Brooks

Double Screening of Roxy Film Academy’s “What I Bring to the Table” starring local students in cooking shows using kid-friendly, locally sourced recipes, followed by Magnolia Pictures’ “A Place at the Table.”

I sat down with Greg Gianforte last week, and I liked him much better than I did when I only read about him on the Internet. That may be ironic. Gianforte is a tech guy, as he reminded me more than once, an engineer. He believes problems within systems have causes and therefore solutions.

He is not running for governor. He is exploring the possibility of running for governor—exploring it so deeply he has hired Aaron Flint, formally of KGVO radio’s “Voices of Montana” program, to direct his communications. Gianforte’s explorations have packed his schedule lately; he was wearing a nametag when he arrived for our interview. I tried to trick him by asking when he planned to announce his candidacy.

“The future,” he says. “If I told you when, that would be an announcement.”

Gianforte is smart. He is plain-spoken and friendly, and he seems genuinely excited by the prospect of bringing higher-wage jobs to Montana.

Now that I’ve met him, I feel bad about kind of making fun of his religion.

Fortunately, he didn’t want to talk about it. We talked for more than an hour, and he did not mention his faith until I asked. Even then, he confined his declarations of belief to the principle that nobody should foist his religion on anybody else. That’s a far cry from the Greg Gianforte who, back in February, cited Noah to argue that the “concept of retirement is not biblical,” much to the delight of wags like myself.

For the record, he was speaking at Montana Bible College, so it’s not as though the question of what’s biblical was orthogonal to his remarks. And he was discussing the satisfaction inherent in work, which is something we pretty much all agree on. Still, it provided an occasion for the press to treat him like a crazy person.

Gianforte “doesn’t believe he has to divorce his Christian faith from his professional life,” ran the lead in Huffington Post, as though the very idea were shocking. But the Gianforte I talked to

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last week seemed to believe firmly in keeping his faith out of his plans for the future of Montana.

I suspect that was no accident. Gianforte is a tech guy, an engineer, and when he identifies a flaw in a system he tries to fix it. Clearly, citing scriptural evidence for raising the retirement age to 600 was causing problems in the gubernatorial exploration system. So he fixed it. Yet he remains visibly excited by ideas.

“I suspect his faith is grounded in that approach: How can life work better?”

Gianforte believes solutions to Montana’s problems—especially its economic problems—will come from the private sector. That makes sense, since his portion of the private sector recently created hundreds of high-paying jobs around Bozeman and made him a billionaire. But his belief in the private sector also makes it difficult to answer questions about what he would do as governor, since mostly what he wants the state to do is get out of the way.

Gianforte believes in the power of that idea, and he embraces it so enthusiastically that he wound up telling me about Adam Smith for several minutes. I am familiar with classical economic the-

ory, but I hoped he wouldn’t notice; he took such delight in explaining it. It was the nerd’s delight in new knowledge.

It’s not that he wants to talk about theory. He wants to talk about how to create high-paying jobs by reinvigorating the natural-resource industries and encouraging professionals who grew up in Montana to come back as telecommuters. But his plan to do that is grounded in laissez-faire economics, the principles that new capital comes out of the ground and industries either create wealth or consume it, and his authority as the man to fix our job market is grounded in the authority of that theory.

He’s a tech guy, an engineer. When a system isn’t working, the first step to fixing it is to learn as much about it as you can. I suspect his faith is grounded in that approach: How can life work better? In asking how Montana can work better, he looks similarly to the old wisdom and the principled, systemic approach.

His nametag says “Greg Gianforte, businessman,” and I suppose any man who made $1.5 billion selling his business is. But the Greg Gianforte I met seemed more like an intellectual.

The fundamental proposition of his exploratory campaign is that thinking better can raise Montana’s wages. He trusts the conceptual framework of classical economics, just as he trusts the conceptual framework of biblical wisdom. It’s not that his ideas are a product of his Christian beliefs; his Christian beliefs seem a product of his faith in ideas.

It is definitely ironic, then, when I ask him for a final message and he says, “Don’t believe everything you read.”

Now there’s the advice of a man who has seen his deepest convictions mocked in the newspaper. It is the advice of a man who, despite that, still believes ideas matter.

Dan Brooks writes about people, politics, culture and his faith in Kirk Ferentz at combatblog.net.

[opinion]

Not invincible Tragic joyrides devastate a rural Montana community

by Wendy Beye

A high school boy who recently survived a catastrophic crash that killed three of his friends in Maryland was quoted by the news media, saying: “We felt invincible!”

The police estimated the boy’s car was traveling at more than 70 mph when it veered off the road and hit a tree. A pastor in our small town in eastern Montana said something similar when he spoke about a local crash: “They must have felt invincible.”

Deadly accidents involving teenagers and vehicles occur daily across the United States, but perhaps they send out the deepest ripples of sorrow in small towns, where the victims tend to be known by just about everyone. Two families in my own rural Montana community are currently grieving over the loss of their 14year-old daughters, who went out joyriding one night this fall.

They met up with a 15-year-old and 16-year-old from a larger town nearby and “borrowed” a car from one of the girls’ mothers. The comma-shaped marks on the highway left by the vehicle’s tires offer grim testimony to the young driver’s actions that night. I imagine he must have thrilled his passengers by swerving back and forth across the centerline.

At 5 a.m., he made one swerve too many, left the road and careened off an approach to a lane that connected to the highway. The car sailed hundreds of yards, then cartwheeled, throwing its unbuckled cargo into the darkness. The young driver is now paralyzed for life.

After one of the funerals, a hundred people participated in a potluck reception where they talked in hushed tones about “lessons learned.” Teary-eyed girls and somber boys sat together quietly, trying

to process the realization that their friends were no longer among the living. Adults shook their heads and said, “Maybe other kids will think twice about driving recklessly. This shouldn’t happen again.”

It will, though, and in fact it already has. Just two weeks after those young people died, four teenage boys from a similar small town about 120 miles west of here piled into a pickup truck and headed east. The Montana Highway Patrol guesses the driver was speeding when he swung wide on a curve. The

“The car sailed hundreds of yards, then cartwheeled, throwing its unbuckled cargo into the darkness.”

pickup crossed the centerline and was hit head-on by a semi-tractor and trailer.

Three more youngsters were gone, pronounced dead at the scene. One had to be pried from the wreckage. The semi driver was not hurt physically, but no doubt will have nightmares about the accident for the rest of his life.

Our community was devastated.

Lecturing young drivers on the need for caution and the necessity of wearing seatbelts does nothing to reduce the likelihood that additional promising lives will be snuffed out in an instant next week, next month or next year. Some of the adults who were tsk-tsk-ing at the funeral in our town probably even survived the same kind of risky behavior in their youth.

They have forgotten how lucky they were—that they, too, once thought they were invincible.

Scientists who study brain development have concluded that the adolescent brain has not yet developed enough neurological connections to produce a sense of responsibility or the consistent recognition of cause and effect. That doesn’t happen until an individual reaches the early 20s—and for some folks, it never seems to happen.

My oldest granddaughter qualified for her driver’s license this summer. I talked with her about her driver education teacher and was satisfied that he has done his best to produce a cautious driver. I know, however, that her 15-year-old brain has not fully developed, and I will spend the next 10 years aware that my phone might ring at 4 a.m. some morning, changing my world forever. It did just that 25 years ago when her own mother, my daughter, was on a trip with her friend in our family car, 2,500 miles from home. My heart stopped beating until I heard my 18-year-old say, “I’m all right, Mom, but the car is totaled.”

Wendy Beye is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She writes in Roundup.

photo courtesy of Jake Hills

missoulanews.com • November 19–November 26, 2015 [11]

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HE MISSED “JUDGMENT” CLASS IN BASIC TRAINING – Fort Bragg, North Carolina, declared an emergency on Oct. 30 when one of its soldiers had the bright idea to arrive for a Halloween party on base dressed as a suicide bomber, with realistic-looking canisters in a wired vest. Gates to the post (headquarters of Army Special Forces and airborne troops) immediately went into extended lockdown, and a bomb-disposal team was called. The soldier’s name was not released.

EWWWW, GROSS! – The Blackhead Whisperer: Upland, California, dermatologist Sandra Lee is a social media cult figure with a massive audience on YouTube, where her cyst- and pimple-popping videos (charmingly, soothingly narrated) have garnered 170 million views. (The “Popping” community, on the Reddit.com site, has more than 60,000 members.) Dr. Lee admits longing for “the perfect blackhead,” which to her apparently means one that is photogenic and slides out easily from its snug epidermal home. Several “Popping” fanatics told a Washington Post reporter that watching the videos is therapy for anxiety, but one fan (a “Mr. Wilson”) apparently gets his “therapy” by submitting videos of his own—unsoothing—oil-laden bursts.

While hopeful Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero seeks funding to perform the first ever head “transplant” (with a patient already lined up), Australian doctor Geoff Askin (the country’s “godfather of spinal surgery”) recently successfully “reattached” the head of a 16-month-old boy who was badly injured in a traffic accident. The toddler’s head was described as internally “relocated” and reset onto the vertebra, using wire and rib tissue to graft the head back in place. (Nonetheless, the operation was widely regarded as a “miracle.”)

POLICE REPORT – “Police Squad!” Lives On: (1) Hugo Castro, 28, wanted for questioning in October in San Jose, California, after his girlfriend was stabbed to death, helpfully presented himself at county jail. The sheriff’s deputy listened—and then suggested Castro go find a San Jose police officer. (Castro did, and the deputy was subsequently reassigned.) (2) New Hampshire state police laid down spiked “stop sticks” in November to slow down a fleeing Joshua Buzza, 37, near Greenland, New Hampshire.

Buzza was apprehended, but not before he managed to avoid the sticks while goading the drivers of three squad cars over them (flattening several tires).

GREAT ART! – Recent Architectural Triumphs: (1) A 33-year-old Frenchman erected a stone table with benches over his mother’s grave marker, so that he and friends could enjoy munchies and wine as he “talked” to her. (2) For the annual German Ruhrtriennale Festival in September, Atelier Van Lieshout created a temporary hotel structure that appeared from the street (even to the non-aroused) to be a couple having “doggy style” sex (to make a statement, a reviewer said, about “the power of humanity over the natural world”). (3) A homeowners’ association in Winter Haven, Florida, petitioned Steven Chayt to remove the 24-by-12-foot chair he had built in his backyard as an art project—especially because of the hole in the seat—making it, said one neighbor, “essentially a toilet.”

FINER POINTS OF THE LAW – Daniel Darrington was spared a murder conviction in October even after admitting intentionally shooting Rocky Matskassy at point-blank range to “relieve his suffering.” The Melbourne, Australia, jury decided that Matskassy, in pain from an earlier accidental shooting, was indeed already dead when Darrington shot him. However, under the law of the state of Victoria, it is still “attempted murder” because Darrington believed that Matskassy was still alive when he pulled the trigger.

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS – Dealt a Lemon, Make Lemonade: Puerto Rico’s murder/voluntary manslaughter rate is four times higher than that in the 50 states, creating a “pool of (organ) donors in the 18-to-30 age range unmatched in the mainland,” according to an October Reuters report. Government officials hope creating a thriving transplant industry will bring Puerto Rico out of its economic doldrums by encouraging economy-conscious patients to spend money on hotels, transportation and food during their stay.

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT – A Liberty, Missouri, sheriff’s deputy politely declined to identify the local man who created the sound of rapid gunfire on Oct. 13 when a “controlled” garbage burn escalated. The man decided to try extinguishing the fire by driving back and forth over it in his van, but the tires caught fire, and in addition to the van’s having a gas tank, it also carried an undisclosed amount of firearms ammunition. The van was a total loss, but the sheriff’s department said it doubted there would be an insurance claim filed.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINAL – Recurring Theme: In October, Rezwan Hussain, 29, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the illegal drugs enterprise he ran from his mother’s basement in Rochdale, England. He had apparently avoided detection until March, when the Greater Manchester police arrived to question his brother. Hussain said his brother wasn’t home, and they left, but a frightened Hussain ran upstairs and began tossing 500 pounds of drugs out the window in preparation for his getaway. However, police had not yet driven away, and the first bag of a nearly $5 million stash happened to land right beside their car.

Thanks this week to Steven Bird, Glenn Gordon, Jim Weber, Scott Brame, Chris & Denise Meek, Woody Thomas and Andrew Bolstridge, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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missoulanews.com • November 19–November 26, 2015 [13]

n Pie: A Global History, a 128-page homage to one of the world’s oldest and most iconic dishes, author Janet Clarkson claims that pies carry a special significance in our culture. Specifically, she writes, “Pies mean Thanksgiving and Christmas and picnics.”

It’s hard to disagree. Throughout history pie has been a regular source of sustenance both for its portability and ability to preserve its fillings; Jack Kerouac wrote in On The Road that Sal survived his cross-country travels almost exclusively on apple

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pie because “it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.”

Today, it’s become a staple at special occasions, a chance to honor tradition and family and togetherness.

Tis the season, then, for pies. For the Indy’s annual holiday food issue, we’ve collected some of western Montana’s best pie— and pie-like—recipes. From traditional fruit pies to a French variation on pie to a pie cocktail (check out Happiest Hour on page 28), we’ve indulged in one of the most beloved dishes you’ll find in a holiday spread.

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Windmill Village Razzleberry Pie Nancy Martin, Windmill Village Bakery A word about pie crust from Nancy: So many people are intimidated by pie crust and lament that they just can’t make a decent one.

You will notice when looking at pie crust recipes that they are all basically the same—flour, salt, sugar, fat and liquid. What makes a crust great is the process used when combining the ingredients. The most common mistake made is overmixing the flour and fat. You want to see bits of fat in the flour. When baking, the fats melt and separate the dough into layers—in other words, flakes.

I use a combination of butter and shortening in my crust. The butter gives a delightful flavor, but an all-butter crust is delicate and can be a bugger to work with, especially in the summer heat. The addition of shortening solves this problem.

The other essential thing is that the ingredients must be cold. I put my measured butter and shortening in the freezer, and use ice water.

This keeps the fat solid.

And a word about the pie: A very popular pie in our bakery is the triple-berry, which is a blend of huckleberries, blackberries and raspberries. If you love berries, this is an explosion of bold flavors sure to illicit yums and mmms from your dinner guests.

With the berries now out of season, I use frozen fruit. The challenge when baking with frozen berries is that they mush and become too juicy if completely thawed out. I measure the berries into the bowl and then either let them sit, or microwave them until they are just barely soft enough for the sugar and thickener to stick. It is important to taste the filling once mixed because the sweetness of berries can vary dramatically.

For thickener I use a blend of clear gel and ground tapioca granules. If using cornstarch, the measurement is the same.

Visit the Windmill Village Bakery at 26715 U.S. 93 in Ravalli

Razzleberry Pie

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photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Apple Rose Pies Christine and Alex Fregerio, Taste Buds Kitchen From the owners: We love the beauty and simplicity of this quintessential fall dish and think it makes a wonderful addition to any holiday table. At Taste Buds Kitchen we teach chefs ages 2-99 how to create delicious, unique dishes from scratch and our Apple Roses are no exception. We love to encourage our littlest chefs to try something new by involving them every step of the way in our culinary adventures, and we delight our adult chefs with new techniques and tastes. Make the Apple Roses your own by experimenting with spices such as cinnamon or cardamom or a drizzle of caramel on top.

Visit Taste Buds Kitchen at 131 E. Main Street in Missoula or online at tastebudskitchen.com Ingredients For the dough: 2 1⁄2 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup butter 1 ⁄4 cup ice water

Apple Rose Pies

photo courtesy of Taste Buds Kitchen

Add the butter and, using a fork, mix until the dough resembles coarse meal.

Pour ice water in a slow, steady stream until the dough just holds together when pinched. If necessary, add more water. Do not overmix.

Turn the dough on to your work surface and gather into a ball. Divide the dough into two individual pieces, flattening each half into a disk, cover with plastic wrap, and chill for 20 minutes.

For the apple rose: 4 apples 1 ⁄4 cup lemon juice 1 ⁄3 cup water 1 ⁄3 cup fruit preserve How to make it The pie dough: Sift flour and salt together in a bowl.

The apple rose: Core and thinly slice apples and microwave with lemon juice and water for 30 seconds to 1 minute, until apples are soft and pliable.

Roll out pie dough and cut into thin strips 6 inches long and 2 inches wide.

Brush pie dough with fruit preserve of choice (raspberry, strawberry, apricot). If too thick to brush add a few drops of water to preserve.

Place apples overlapping each other in a row on the top line of pie dough so they hang over (skin side up). Fold bottom piece of pie dough over apples and roll into a swirl shape.

Place in greased cupcake pan and bake for 15-20 minutes at 425 degrees, until the pastry is golden brown and flaky.

Dust with powdered sugar.

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Ingredients For the pie crust (9-inch): 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces and frozen for 10-15 minutes 8 tablespoons cold shortening 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 1 ⁄3 cup ice water 2 tablespoons white vinegar For the razzleberry filling: 2 cups huckleberries 2 cups blackberries 2 cups raspberries 3 ⁄4 cup granulated sugar (more or less to taste) 1 ⁄2 teaspoon orange zest 1 tablespoon ground tapioca granules 2 tablespoons clear gel How to make it The pie crust: Combine the flour, salt and sugar. Add the butter and shortening. Mix just until the fats are the size of large peas.

Add the liquids and mix just until the dough holds together.

Wrap in plastic and let rest in the fridge for 20 minutes before using.

Roll half the dough between two pieces of parchment paper floured just enough to keep the dough from sticking.

Set the pie tin on the dough and flip it over.

Nancy Martin at Windmill Village Bakery

Gently pull the parchment paper away from the dough.

Set aside.

The filling: Measure the berries into a large bowl and let sit until just barely soft, not completely thawed.

In a small bowl, mix the sugar, orange zest, tapioca and clear gel. Stir into the fruit and taste. Adjust sugar as needed.

Put the filling into the pie shell.

Roll out the rest of the dough and lay it over the fruit.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Trim and seal the edges.

Brush the top with egg wash (1 egg white mixed with 2 tablespoons of water) and sprinkle with granulated sugar.

Cut at least 3 vents in the top.

Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes.

Turn down to 375 degrees and bake for an additional 25-30 minutes.

When the fruit bubbles, it’s done. If the top or edges brown before the fruit is done, cover loosely with aluminum foil and continue baking.

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No Crust Coconut Custard Pie Lou Somerlot, Lou’s Pies A little about Lou: A longtime staple at the Hamilton Farmers Market, Lou also sells his pies at Missoula’s Black Cat Bake Shop. He specializes in homemade fruit pies, cream pies, cheesecakes and candies, using local ingredients when available. When we first contacted Lou about contributing to our annual holiday food issue, he was a little hesitant to give up any of his secrets. We suggested perhaps there was a way to share a great recipe without revealing anything sacred. He came back with this simple and delicious “no crust” option.

Find Lou’s signature pies in Missoula at Black Cat Bake Shop, 2000 West Broadway, or online at blackcatbakeshop.com Ingredients 4 eggs 1 ⁄2 cup flour 3 ⁄4 cup sugar 1 cup coconut 6 tablespoon margarine 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla

How to make it Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine with mixer or blender the eggs, margarine, flour, milk, sugar and vanilla. Add coconut.

Blend for several seconds. Pour into greased and floured 10-inch pie pan (or two 8-inch pans).

Bake in oven for 50-60 minutes. The pie will form its own crust.

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Lou’s Pies at Black Cat Bake Shop

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Turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole and more Looking for more recipes? Check out the Indy Blog at missoulanews.com for links to recipes from the past eight years of our annual holiday food issue. You’ll find other local chefs dishing on how to make the perfect turkey (or proposing you make seared duck breast with sharp cheddar polenta and pale ale butterscotch sauce instead), a bevy of delectable side dishes (including Mayor John Engen’s Southern cornbread stuffing) and enough salads to satisfy the vegetarians at your table. Oh, and a few more pie recipes.

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Apple Cranberry Pie

Apple Cranberry Pie Amanda Carroll and Joy Knudsen, Break Espresso From the bakers: At Break Espresso, we are a fully scratch-made Missoula bakery, making every item daily by hand. We like to do things the old fashioned way: real butter, old wooden rolling pins and classic recipes that remind us of home yet inspire us to create new combinations.

Our Apple Cranberry Pie is full of juicy sweet apples and pops of bright cranberries, topped with sweet buttery crumble that will make your mouth water. This holiday season we want to share it with Missoula because it so perfectly reflects our attitude of “traditional with a twist.”

Visit Break Espresso at 432 N. Higgins Ave. in Missoula Ingredients For the filling: 4 cups chopped and peeled tart apples 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 ⁄3 cup brown sugar 1 ⁄3 cup sugar 1 ⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon

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⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 ⁄2 cup cranberries Pie pastry for a single 9-inch crust For the topping: ⁄2 cup flour 1 ⁄2 cup sugar 1 ⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 ⁄4 cup cold butter 1

How to make it Line a 9-inch pie pan with pie crust, flute edges.

For the topping, combine flour, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.

In a large bowl, combine apples and lemon juice, set aside. In a small bowl, combine sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg and cornstarch. Toss sugar mixture with apples. Once sugar is completely incorporated add cranberries. Mix just until cranberries are evenly distributed. Pour into pie crust.

Cover with Dutch topping. Bake at 375 degrees for about 45 minutes, or until golden brown on top and filling is bubbling around the edges.

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Upside-down Apple Tart Chef Laurence Markarian, Taste of Paris From the chef: Although the traditional American pie is a foreign concept in France, we do have one that has the crust on top. We call it “the upside-down apple tart” or “Tarte Tatin” from the Tatin sisters who created it originally. The recipe looks involved, but it really is not, and it is absolutely delicious.

Visit Taste of Paris at 109 N. Fourth St. in Hamilton or online at tasteofparis.info.

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Chef Laurence Markarian

Pecan pie Gabi Moskowitz, the BrokeAss Gourmet From the BrokeAss Gourmet: Like any foodie worth her salt (pun definitely intended), I am well aware of the problems with high fructose corn syrup, a product almost always called for in pecan pie recipes. So I did some tinkering to figure out how to make this pie corn syrup-free. The result was a lovely, gooey confection that didn’t have the sickeningly sweet aftertaste that some pecan pies leave. Success.

Ingredients 2 eggs 1 cup dark brown sugar, packed 1 ⁄4 cup sugar 1 stick butter, melted

Pecan Pie

2 tablespoon sour cream or yogurt 2 teaspoons vanilla extract pinch salt 1 tablespoon flour 1 cup pecan halves 1 prepared 9-inch pie shell How to make it Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Whisk together eggs, brown sugar, regular sugar, melted butter, sour cream, vanilla, salt and flour until smooth and creamy. Stir in pecan halves. Pour mixture into prepared pie shell.

Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for another 25-30 minutes, or until filling has set and crust is golden brown.

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Ingredients For the dough: 1 1⁄4 cup light flour 1 cube unsalted butter 1 pinch salt 1 ⁄4 cup water For the apple filling: 3 large Granny Smith apples (4, if small) 1 ⁄2 cube unsalted butter 1 ⁄3 cup sugar How to make it The dough: Mix the flour, butter and salt together.

Add the water and knead, pushing the dough out with the palm of the hand, then shaping it into a ball.

Repeat several times.

Wrap the dough in a plastic bag and refrigerate it for half an hour The apples: Heat the oven to 400 degrees.

Grease a pie dish that can be used on a cooktop (cast-iron or Teflon preferred).

Peel and core the apples. Cut each in four pieces.

Melt 2⁄3 of the butter in the pie dish on the cooktop over low-medium heat. As soon as it melts and before it gets brown, sprinkle half of the sugar.

Place the apples in the dish.

Sprinkle with the remaining sugar and top with the remaining butter cut into small pieces.

Turn the heat to medium and cook for 15-20 minutes or until a light caramel forms beneath the apples.

Transfer the pan to the oven and bake another 5 minutes to cook the top of the apples.

Remove from the oven.

Let it cool for a few minutes.

Roll out the dough to a circle slightly larger in diameter than the pie dish.

Place over the apples. Do not tuck it in. The dough will sink down the sides by itself.

Return the pan to the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown.

While still warm, invert the Tarte Tatin on to a serving plate and serve at once topped with crème fraîche.

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[arts]

Road to another place From Las Vegas to Montana, Jason Massot finds faith in the art of filmmaking

by Erika Fredrickson

J

ason Massot has been chasing religion for several years. Not his own faith, as it turns out, but other people’s faiths. The British filmmaker spent time embedded with a chaplain during the Iraq War for a documentary he made with the Discovery Channel.

He spent time with a group of Franciscan friars from the United States who had moved to one of the most desolate areas of London in order to help the poor.

He created a documentary about an energy healer.

And in 2005 he began filming the journey of a woman who moved her family—a husband and five children— from Alaska to the bright lights of Las Vegas, based on a message she received from God in a dream.

“He came to her and told her that she needed to get her family together and leave Alaska—find a better life for herself,” Massot says. “They’d showed up with nothing, so when I first met them they were sleeping in a car at the airport.”

In the film, Road to Las Vegas, Massot, who now lives and works in Missoula, follows four years of Vanessa and Maurice Melton and their children as they navigate the changing landscape. Early on, Vanessa reaps the benefits of the boomtown’s fortunes, scoring a job as an iron worker and purchasing a large house for them to live in. But the housing crash and personal problems—infidelity and addiction—sees the family almost back to square one.

“It all went great until 2008, when she lost everything,” Massot says. “That’s why it took me so long to film this thing. The story only really became clear once the recession hit and [the family] went back to living in hotels with no money. So the film follows the ups and downs of the economy as seen through this family.”

Within the plot line of boom and bust, Massot is able to draw a portrait of a family that reflects a larger picture, but who are still remarkable in the way they deal with their situation. Their flaws are often usurped by their ability to laugh and not give up, and Massot says the family resembles a modern-day version of the Joads from The Grapes of Wrath.

Massot’s relationship with Vegas has an interesting parallel to his subjects. He arrived there without any real prospects for his film—just a desire to tap into the scene where thousands of people were arriving every day looking for a second chance. Unlike many people migrating there, Massot had some money from working on documentaries commissioned though British television networks. But it was still a gamble to show up without a script. For 11 weeks, he scoured casino schools and bars for the jackpot story. He met an aspiring opera singer and a homeless man trying to master blackjack. He even tried filming a few potential subjects, but nothing

Road to Las Vegas by Missoula’s artist-in-residence filmmaker, Jason Massot, follows the Melton family as they navigate the ups and downs of boomtown life.

seemed right. Not until, 11 weeks later, when he finally found Vanessa and her family.

“They were so extraordinary and brilliant,” he says. “We started filming the following day.”

Road to Las Vegas, which screens at the Roxy this week, first debuted in 2010. After it played at several festivals, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Massot went back to making television shows in order to save up for the next big thing. He moved his family to Missoula and has been working as a filmmaker-in-residence here for the past year. His current project is a feature film set in Butte. It’s about a young evangelical community who build a commune to more easily live their lives according to their beliefs.

“And then the pastor basically falls off the rails,” Massot says. “And there are devastating consequences.”

Massot says he was a big fan of Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest, which takes place in Poisonville,

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a town based on Butte. But that’s not his only reference point for Montana. “I’d been here once before,” he says. “I was researching a documentary for the BBC about the militia movement, so I was hanging out with a lot of white supremacists and militia people and militia churches. I got to meet Randy Weaver.

He’s a really interesting guy, really charming, actually.

That film didn’t come off but that was my exposure to Montana.”

For a lot of people, that kind of experience might send them running in the opposite direction. It just goes to show that Massot is the kind of documentarian who truly seems to enjoy diversity. Road to Las Vegas was no exception.

“One of the best parts as a white English guy was being invited into this African-American life that I knew nothing about,” he says. “I was sometimes having to take a reality check like, ‘C’mon, I’m at an

African American funeral in Portland, Ore.?’ That was amazing and humbling. That felt like a real privilege.”

As he takes on his next project, Massot has been meeting with Missoula churches and prayer groups.

Even though it won’t be a documentary, he still wants his next film to have as much authenticity as possible. That means exploring these religious convictions that aren’t his own but are, nonetheless, appealing to him.

“I like this idea that the world I live in isn’t the only one,” he says. “It’s a poetic idea. Making films takes you out of what you know and into other universes.”

Road to Las Vegas screens at the Roxy Thu., Nov. 19, at 6 PM. Money raised will help fund Jason Massot’s current feature film project. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[music]

Grass-fed pork One Ton Pig puts meat on the bones You know what outlaw bluegrass is? It’s when you bring an electric guitar to the picking circle. One Ton Pig figure, What the hell, we’ll drag some drums in there, too.

The result is a rootsy clamor that fits snugly into the Americana genre. Lastville kicks off with a couple of propulsive boot-stompers driven by a rolling snare that sounds like the ol’ 5:18 coming down the tracks. Standard-issue bluegrass instruments like fiddle and mandolin are front and center, sharing space with tangy dobro and electric (gasp!) bass.

Although their velvety harmonies are straight out of Appalachia, these Jackson, Wyo., pickers blow right through the pedantic constraints of trad bluegrass.

(What the...? Was that a guitar solo?) Like Donna the

Buffalo, they use inventive arrangements and a rock rhythm section to drag bluegrass kicking and screaming into the second half of the 20th century.

Lyrically, One Ton Pig work the same side of the tracks as troubadours like Steve Earle, Greg Brown and other examiners of the life of the common man. There are plenty of poetic nuggets, like on “Just a Word” with the lyrics, “I’m the kind of man that remembers faces/ Especially when I’m looking up from a fall.”

Humor, smarts, attitude and chops make One Ton Pig one of those bands you just can’t listen to without a smile on your face. (Ednor Therriault) One Ton Pig play the Top Hat Fri., Nov. 20, at 10 PM. Free.

Kylesa, Exhausting Fire I like a band that can shake off its shackles and take a stab at something new. Kylesa lightly pushed the boundaries of sludge metal in 2013’s Ultraviolet, but on their newest album, Exhausting Fire, they’ve not only shaken the shackles, they’ve shimmied past the guards and tunneled under the wall into the wilderness beyond.

I guess that’s not exactly the best analogy, since Kylesa’s brand of heavy psychedelia isn’t much of a prison. The slow-churning style is hardy and hypnotic, and it’s served them well—it’s just that it can become indiscernible song after song.

Exhausting Fire is a remedy to monotony. Songs like “Moving Day” and “Night Drive” keep an undercurrent of Kylesa’s muddy, amorphous atmosphere, while

breaking into new wave and post-rock flavors. On the menu: a little bit of Built to Spill woven in with a Cure-like riff and a Fugazi-ish chorus. These influences aren’t explicit, though. They’re more like flickering candles that light the way through tripped-out breakdowns and battering black metal narratives.

Songs like “Crusher” and “Shaping the Southern Sky” embrace Kylesa’s earlier sludge without much variation, and they end up being the most lackluster of the lot. In comparison, “Blood Moon” and “Growing Root” churn out a little more structure and a little more emotion. They sound like the feeling of breaking free. (Erika Fredrickson) Kylesa play Stage 112 Tue., Nov. 24, at 9 PM. $15/$12 advance. 18-plus.

Wildhoney, Your Face Sideways Wildhoney’s latest starts like a muscle car coming off the line in a Friday night drag race. Garage rock drums and junior Joshua Tree guitars power a sleek wash of synths, and floating above the whole thing is the dreamy, Debby-Harry-meets-Lana-Del-Ray-afterthe-’ludes-wear-off vocal of Lauren Shusterich. What’s she singing about?

Who knows? Doesn’t matter. This is music that turns inward—raging yet meditative, ethereal yet driving.

The Baltimore post-punkers seem more concerned with mood and texture than following the arc of a traditional song structure. Like early My Morning Jacket, echo and reverb are piled up until it sounds like the album was recorded in an abandoned cathedral at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Still, under

the weight of all those feathers, it manages to rock.

“Hurts to Hear” is a throwback to ’80s rock—it’s what the Go-Go’s might’ve sounded like if they’d been fueled by barbiturates rather than cocaine. Four of the six songs on this EP clock in under three minutes, which seems unusual for shoegazer bands. They make up for it on the last song, “FSA II,” a 12-minute, two-chord grind that sounds like just the thing to pump through your Beats after a deep hit or two of some sick bud or maybe driving around looking for a Krispy Kreme that’s still open at 4 a.m. (Ednor Therriault) Wildhoney play the Real Lounge Thu., Nov. 19. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $10/$7 advance at 1111presents.com.

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1221 W. Helen Ave., 541-1221 $

750 Serving 11:00am – 2:00pm

Meatloaf patty melt – meatloaf slice topped with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese served on house-made sourdough bread.

2 tacos made from grass-fed Oxbow Cattle Company brisket that is braised in Imagine Nation Brewery Ubuntu Robust Porter, topped with organic black beans, house-made queso fresco, sliced Hakurai turnips, bell peppers and cilantro from Western Montana Growers Co-Op and served with Casa Pablo’s chips & Buttercup salsa & sour cream

15 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm

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Prix Fixe Menu Pearl Café

30 Serving 5:00pm – Close 1st Course: Winter caprese salad with roasted tomatoes, mixed greens, mozzarella and pesto vinaigrette or cannellini bean and rosemary soup with red pepper puree 2nd Course: Braised pork shank in red wine and mushroom sauce with creamy polenta, sauteed greens and parsnip ribbons 3rd Course: Marsala and chopped chocolate mousse with almond cookie

The Starving Artist Café & Art Gallery

5 Serving Mon. – Sat. All Day

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112 N. Pattee St., 543-7512

750 Serving 5:00pm – 9:00pm

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750 Serving lunch 11:30am – 3:00pm Mon. – Sat.

Mini sampler plate: 2 Tokyo wings 1 beef or veggie lumpia Side of rice

15 Serving dinner 5:00 – 9:00pm Sun. & Thur.; 5:00pm – 9:30pm Fri. & Sat. Tokusei: One California roll and 8 Nigiri, served with miso soup and sunomono salad or Choose from one of our Tempura dishes: chicken & vegetable, seafood & vegetable, shrimp & vegetable, or gourmet vegetable. Served with miso soup and sunomono salad.

100 Madison St. (in the Doubletree Hotel), 542-4660 1st Course: Pickled golden beets, arugula, feta and pepitas with an apricot vinaigrette 2nd Course: Duck a l ’orange served with parmesan saffron risotto and roasted brussels sprouts and carrots 3rd Course: Chef Jess’s dessert

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Any daily lunch special, served with miso soup and sunomono salad

Finn & Porter

30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm

Choose any two of the following: • Any half cold sandwich selection • Cup of soup • Small house salad • Small deli salad

30 Serving Mon. – Sat. 5:00pm – 9:00pm

403 N. Higgins Ave., 549-7979

Waffles & coffee! Any of our NEW waffles made in-house are up for grabs, as well as delicious, locally roasted drip coffee.

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Sushi Hana

3020 S. Reserve St., 541-7472 $

All prices are per person

1st Course: Insalta Mista – mixed vegetables, fresh greens, red wine vinaigrette 2nd Course: Chicken Parmesan – house-made pasta, tomato ragù 3rd Course: Tiramisù – espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, cocoa

$

Good Food Store 1600 S 3rd St W., 541-3663 $

200 S. Pattee St. (in the Holiday Inn Downtown), 532-2056 $

30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm Choose an appetizer: • Calamari with a vodka red sauce • Chilled broccoli, carrot and bacon salad tossed with a house-made slaw dressing Choose an entree: • Hand-cut bacon-wrapped filet mignon loaded with crab, drizzled with hollandaise sauce and served with rosemary roasted Yukon potatoes and grilled asparagus • Roasted quail stuffed with wild rice, wild mushrooms and mandarin orange with an orange reduction, served with seasonal vegetables Choose a dessert: • Huckleberry cheesecake with a flourless chocolate torte “bow-tie”, drizzled with huckleberry reduction • Monkey bread, an individual gourmet glazed cinnamon pull-apart

Savor Bitterroot

1300 S. Reserve St., 543-9393

111 N. Higgins Ave., 549-2906 $

Brooks & Browns

Carvers Deli

Red Bird

231 East Front St., 541-0231 $

Choose one from each course: 1st course: • Grilled flatbread – created daily with an assortment of farm-fresh toppings • White truffle pub chips – hot pub chips with white truffle salt • Cup of today's soup – our soups are made fresh daily with lots of local ingredients 2nd course: • Grilled pork loin – tender, moist pork loin from Smith Farms in Whitehall, MT, with house-made applesauce • Quinoa-stuffed Portobello – grilled mushroom filled with a mixture of quinoa, parmesan, and sautéed greens • Wagyu beef burger – 1/3-pound Wagyu beef patty and your choice of cheese on a homemade bun 3rd course: • Huckleberry cheesecake – our Montana Huckleberries are paired with fresh cheesecake baked in the campus bakery • Seasonal fruit indulgence and whipped cream – ask your server for today's selection.

• Chocolate flourless torte – this is a gluten-smart dessert that contains no wheat flour. It does contain plenty of chocolate and house-whipped cream.

750 Serving 11:00am – 9:00pm • Turkey cranberry panini • Kale slaw • Chocolate pumpkin cookie

2106 Clements Rd., 721-3322

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50 Serving 8:00am – 8:00pm • Half market club sandwich with roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, avocado, provolone, greens, tomato with house-made fire-roasted red bell pepper and artichoke aioli • Cup of soup – choose from one of our many savory soup options

All prices are per person

Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton, 363-7468 $

15 Serving 5:00pm – 8:00pm 1st course: Fall salad – roasted butternut squash, sweet potatoes, almonds, blue cheese, caramelized shallots & apples, tossed in house-made honey-beet vinaigrette 2nd course: 6oz sirloin steak topped with porter-herb butter, roasted fingerlings and ginger roasted carrots

Taste of Paris 109 N. 4th St., Hamilton, 369-5875 $

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50 Serving 8:00am – 11:30am Maple Syrup & Butter Crepes with a Latte

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15 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm Ham & Brie Sandwich (Baguette or Croissant) and Soup Served with ham (“Jambon de Paris”) and double cream Brie cheese, with French Onion Soup or soup of the day • Chocolate Mousse for dessert.

The Trough at the Olde Dairy $

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30 Serving 5:30pm – 8:00pm • Taste of Paris House Salad: Crown of cucumber stuffed with spring mix, seedless grapes, dried cherries, sautéed pecans and crumbled blue cheese, dressed with our fresh raspberry vinaigrette.

• Scallops: Delicate pearl scallops and button mushrooms in a light wine creamy sauce, served with rice and fresh tomatoes.

• Fresh cream puff filled with “crème pâtissière”, topped with our house chocolate sauce and Chantilly whipped cream

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Buttercup Market

515 South Ave E., 728-5106

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$

1221 W. Helen Ave., 541-1221 $

750 Serving 11:00am – 2:00pm

Meatloaf patty melt – meatloaf slice topped with caramelized onions and Swiss cheese served on house-made sourdough bread.

2 tacos made from grass-fed Oxbow Cattle Company brisket that is braised in Imagine Nation Brewery Ubuntu Robust Porter, topped with organic black beans, house-made queso fresco, sliced Hakurai turnips, bell peppers and cilantro from Western Montana Growers Co-Op and served with Casa Pablo’s chips & Buttercup salsa & sour cream

15 Serving Sun. – Mon. & Thur. – Sat. 11:00am – 10:00pm

$

During Savor Missoula, participating establishments offer a prix fixe menu of $30, $15, $7.50, or $5 per person. Restaurants will also feature their regular menus during the promotion.

Food lovers: Dine out at as many participating restaurants as you like during Savor Missoula; explore new dining opportunities or enjoy old favorites. There are no tickets or passes required!

Prix Fixe Menu Pearl Café

30 Serving 5:00pm – Close 1st Course: Winter caprese salad with roasted tomatoes, mixed greens, mozzarella and pesto vinaigrette or cannellini bean and rosemary soup with red pepper puree 2nd Course: Braised pork shank in red wine and mushroom sauce with creamy polenta, sauteed greens and parsnip ribbons 3rd Course: Marsala and chopped chocolate mousse with almond cookie

The Starving Artist Café & Art Gallery

5 Serving Mon. – Sat. All Day

$

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112 N. Pattee St., 543-7512

750 Serving 5:00pm – 9:00pm

$

750 Serving lunch 11:30am – 3:00pm Mon. – Sat.

Mini sampler plate: 2 Tokyo wings 1 beef or veggie lumpia Side of rice

15 Serving dinner 5:00 – 9:00pm Sun. & Thur.; 5:00pm – 9:30pm Fri. & Sat. Tokusei: One California roll and 8 Nigiri, served with miso soup and sunomono salad or Choose from one of our Tempura dishes: chicken & vegetable, seafood & vegetable, shrimp & vegetable, or gourmet vegetable. Served with miso soup and sunomono salad.

100 Madison St. (in the Doubletree Hotel), 542-4660 1st Course: Pickled golden beets, arugula, feta and pepitas with an apricot vinaigrette 2nd Course: Duck a l ’orange served with parmesan saffron risotto and roasted brussels sprouts and carrots 3rd Course: Chef Jess’s dessert

Hafa at Stage 112

Any daily lunch special, served with miso soup and sunomono salad

Finn & Porter

30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm

Choose any two of the following: • Any half cold sandwich selection • Cup of soup • Small house salad • Small deli salad

30 Serving Mon. – Sat. 5:00pm – 9:00pm

403 N. Higgins Ave., 549-7979

Waffles & coffee! Any of our NEW waffles made in-house are up for grabs, as well as delicious, locally roasted drip coffee.

$

750 Serving 9:30am – 5:00pm

$

Sushi Hana

3020 S. Reserve St., 541-7472 $

All prices are per person

1st Course: Insalta Mista – mixed vegetables, fresh greens, red wine vinaigrette 2nd Course: Chicken Parmesan – house-made pasta, tomato ragù 3rd Course: Tiramisù – espresso-soaked ladyfingers, mascarpone cheese, cocoa

$

Good Food Store 1600 S 3rd St W., 541-3663 $

200 S. Pattee St. (in the Holiday Inn Downtown), 532-2056 $

30 Serving 5:00pm – 10:00pm Choose an appetizer: • Calamari with a vodka red sauce • Chilled broccoli, carrot and bacon salad tossed with a house-made slaw dressing Choose an entree: • Hand-cut bacon-wrapped filet mignon loaded with crab, drizzled with hollandaise sauce and served with rosemary roasted Yukon potatoes and grilled asparagus • Roasted quail stuffed with wild rice, wild mushrooms and mandarin orange with an orange reduction, served with seasonal vegetables Choose a dessert: • Huckleberry cheesecake with a flourless chocolate torte “bow-tie”, drizzled with huckleberry reduction • Monkey bread, an individual gourmet glazed cinnamon pull-apart

Savor Bitterroot

1300 S. Reserve St., 543-9393

111 N. Higgins Ave., 549-2906 $

Brooks & Browns

Carvers Deli

Red Bird

231 East Front St., 541-0231 $

Choose one from each course: 1st course: • Grilled flatbread – created daily with an assortment of farm-fresh toppings • White truffle pub chips – hot pub chips with white truffle salt • Cup of today's soup – our soups are made fresh daily with lots of local ingredients 2nd course: • Grilled pork loin – tender, moist pork loin from Smith Farms in Whitehall, MT, with house-made applesauce • Quinoa-stuffed Portobello – grilled mushroom filled with a mixture of quinoa, parmesan, and sautéed greens • Wagyu beef burger – 1/3-pound Wagyu beef patty and your choice of cheese on a homemade bun 3rd course: • Huckleberry cheesecake – our Montana Huckleberries are paired with fresh cheesecake baked in the campus bakery • Seasonal fruit indulgence and whipped cream – ask your server for today's selection.

• Chocolate flourless torte – this is a gluten-smart dessert that contains no wheat flour. It does contain plenty of chocolate and house-whipped cream.

750 Serving 11:00am – 9:00pm • Turkey cranberry panini • Kale slaw • Chocolate pumpkin cookie

2106 Clements Rd., 721-3322

7

50 Serving 8:00am – 8:00pm • Half market club sandwich with roasted turkey, Daily's bacon, avocado, provolone, greens, tomato with house-made fire-roasted red bell pepper and artichoke aioli • Cup of soup – choose from one of our many savory soup options

All prices are per person

Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton, 363-7468 $

15 Serving 5:00pm – 8:00pm 1st course: Fall salad – roasted butternut squash, sweet potatoes, almonds, blue cheese, caramelized shallots & apples, tossed in house-made honey-beet vinaigrette 2nd course: 6oz sirloin steak topped with porter-herb butter, roasted fingerlings and ginger roasted carrots

Taste of Paris 109 N. 4th St., Hamilton, 369-5875 $

7

50 Serving 8:00am – 11:30am Maple Syrup & Butter Crepes with a Latte

$

15 Serving 11:30am – 3:00pm Ham & Brie Sandwich (Baguette or Croissant) and Soup Served with ham (“Jambon de Paris”) and double cream Brie cheese, with French Onion Soup or soup of the day • Chocolate Mousse for dessert.

The Trough at the Olde Dairy $

All prices are per person

$

30 Serving 5:30pm – 8:00pm • Taste of Paris House Salad: Crown of cucumber stuffed with spring mix, seedless grapes, dried cherries, sautéed pecans and crumbled blue cheese, dressed with our fresh raspberry vinaigrette.

• Scallops: Delicate pearl scallops and button mushrooms in a light wine creamy sauce, served with rice and fresh tomatoes.

• Fresh cream puff filled with “crème pâtissière”, topped with our house chocolate sauce and Chantilly whipped cream

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books

Life adrift Matt Pavelich’s Survivors Said varies wildly

by Kate Whittle

This is Pavelich’s first collection since 1990’s From prehistoric times to present day, the fierce landscape of western Montana has been Beasts of the Forest, Beasts of the Field. The Montana home to notable people. Survivors Said, the ambi- native and graduate of the University of Montana and tious short story collection from Hot Springs-based the Iowa Writers’ Workshop also authored two novels: author Matt Pavelich, celebrates that setting and Our Savage, about immigrants working in early minhopscotches through time to explore dozens of ing camps, and The Other Shoe, a thriller about murcharacters—though some of its stories pull it off der in a modern-day small town. Much like Pavelich’s novels, the 19 stories in Survivors Said include hisbetter than others.

In “Himself, Adrift,” one of the collection’s most toric and contemporary settings and feature everyone from prehistoric cavemen to fireambitious adventure tales, we fighters to newspaper boys to meet Thomas Meagher, the govbank robbers on the lam. ernor of the Montana Territory The attention to detail is who was reported missing and great. The striking opener, “Dispresumed dead when he fell off tant Youth,” follows a primitive a steamboat into the Missouri human who revels in roaming free River near Fort Benton in 1867. around the Bitterroot Valley until Conspiracy theories about the flooding of Lake Missoula Meagher’s fate abound, and threatens his existence. “All these Pavelich contributes a historic currently lively valleys, that was revisioning of his own. He imagtheir dubious start, they were only ines that Meagher might have sterile bays of the lake, the Clark meant to kill himself but surFork, the Flathead, and the Misvived anyway. The story begins sion, all these contained one body with Meagher floating, literally of water that would by tomorrow adrift in the river. “I happened be a half continent away, having at once to find an empty cask swept everything before it, having afloat on the water, and, my bitremoved all my kind but me.” ter impulse spent, I clung to it The history lesson is fun, … I continued. I was. I am.”

Survivors Said but comes across more instrucAfter some time floating, he Matt Pavelich meets an American Indian paperback, Drumlummon Institute tive than absorbing. Survivors Said feels most genuine when it woman standing alone on a cliff.

328 pages, $16.95 focuses on small-town lives and “A woman whose nose had been sacrificed to an infidelity or contagion, her face con- mid-20th century boyhoods shaped by poverty and tained a great crater of knubbled flesh resembling the the background echo of the Vietnam War. meat of a pomegranate, and this pulsed as she The highlight of the book is “And a Cloud of breathed,” he writes.

Dust,” where a teenager called Strizich clings to footDespite a promising setup, “Himself, Adrift” ball while growing up in an economically depressed doesn’t come together in the execution. Like some town similar to Bonner. Here, Pavelich’s prose beof the other stories in this collection, it suffers from comes vigorous and incisive in describing a high the same kind of drawbacks as the HBO TV show school football game late in the season. “Old sweat “True Detective,” where women and people of color and liniment, the scrape and click of cleats on conserve as bit players and objects of interest to predom- crete; Strizich is becoming that paradoxical thing, inantly white male heroes. light and dense; he feels himself becoming a missile.”

This fictional Meagher names the noseless The boy hopes he’ll get a ticket out of his hometown woman “Bella Union,” and she follows him around by earning the attention of college football recruiters, cooking and cleaning until she dies tragically and says but fate might have something else in store. her final and only words, “That was never my name.”

It’s those stories, where Pavelich slows down and How nice of her to be a silent helpmeet until she exits closely examines a brief moment of a person’s life, the scene with barely a fuss. A black character also that are most satisfying in Survivors Said. speaks in cartoonish, distracting “negro” dialogue, Matt Pavelich reads from Survivors Said: Stolike “you got to see about dat yo’se’f, suh.” ries at Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W., That’s not to say that “True Detective” wasn’t Thu., Nov. 19, at 7 PM. worth watching and not to say that some of these stories aren’t worth spending time with. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

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Fields of dreams Deep Time mines the oil boom’s rich characters

by Molly Laich

Waiting for Godot.

Deep Time, a documentary film by Noah Hutton, focuses on the tiny town of Stanley, N.D., and the many changes happening there since the recent oil industry boom. All along we’ve been sitting on 200 billion gallons of oil, but it takes modern drilling technology to get at it, and here we are. Nobody ever made a compelling film about the oil itself—it’s the people who live on top of the oil, the ones trying to get it out from under them and the ones that sell those people homes and beer and drills that matter.

In Deep Time, Hutton speaks to a vast cross section of locals and transplants. We meet a beautiful teenage girl who works at the gas station and has lived in Stanley all her life. We catch up with her again several years later, when she has a kid and runs a successful bar in town with her husband. He gleefully tells us that he doubts they’ll have any economic reason to ever leave North Dakota. In a separate interview, the pretty girl looks at the camera as if to say: “North Dakota forever? Kill me.”

A family farmer tells us he may make more money from selling the clay rock on his property to build roads into the oil fields than he will on his crops this year. He goes on to say, apropos of nothing really, that the oil trade brings in a new, terrifying population of sexual predators from the big cities and he fears for his family. If it were up to me, I’d have spent the whole rest of the film interviewing this guy.

We hear as well from members of the local tribal nations. Oil money has allowed them to regain sovereignty from the U.S. government, but at what environmental and cultural cost? At a town hall meeting, a white woman gets up to the podium and flippantly says the natives are cool with living in “teepees or whatever.” In real time, we see the face of the

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thoughtful, intelligent man her comment refers to as he just barely grimaces. These are the poignant human moments that make a documentary great.

A 27-year-old roughneck outside of a bar talks about the grueling, unforgiving work. “I should have quit the first day,” he says, “but where the fuck else am I going to make $85,000 a year on a GED?” The oil fields aren’t just a homogenous pool of high school dropouts, though, and the film makes that clear. That sweet black gold draws in all kinds. I know at least two men in Missoula who do the 10hour commute every three weeks to the oil fields and then back home again. One of them has a master’s degree in literature and the other has a military background. I used to babysit his mini poodles while he was gone.

Interspersed with the interviews are a collection of sometimes disjointed, sometimes relevant images of the North Dakota landscape, the new apartments and condominiums cropping up as quickly as developers can build them, the sun, an odd shot of a man’s torso in a suit as he sits down in a meeting, the pretty girl from the gas station looking down at the ground and playing with her hair.

“Deep time” is a geological phrase that refers to the multimillion-year time frame in which scientists believe the earth has existed. The facts and images in Hutton’s film culminate into something profound that I can’t quite put my finger on, but may be as simple as: “Change is the best and the worst.” Am I right?

Deep Time screens at the Top Hat Sun., Nov. 22, at 7 PM, as part of the Big Sky Film Series. Director Noah Hutton will be in attendance. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] BRIDGE OF SPIES Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks in this Cold War thriller based on the true story of a prisoner swap with Russia for the pilot of a downed American U-2 spy plane. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex.

OPENING THIS WEEK CHEF and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY To celebrate Savor Missoula, the Roxy is showing a pair of delectable films. Chef screens Fri., Nov. 20 at 9 PM. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory shows Sat., Nov. 21 at 3 PM. For more info, visit theroxytheater.org.

LOVE THE COOPERS With a tagline like “You can’t regift family,” this film is probably the perfect start to the holiday movie season. Family plus holiday usually equals chaos, but with John Goodman and Diane Keaton as your parents, it’s a lot funnier. Rated PG-13. Showing at Carmike.

DONNIE DARKO Movie Cult Night at the Roxy works like this: spin the wheel, choose next week’s cult film. This week it’s Donnie Darko, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a teen troubled by visions of a large, creepy rabbit who makes him do bad things. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Sat., Nov. 21 at 10 PM. ENTERTAINMENT Gregg Turkington sports a Herculean combover as he portrays a failed standup who tries to resurrect his career in a series of excruciating gigs in the Mojave Desert. Rated R. Showing at the Roxy Fri., Nov. 20–Mon., Nov. 23. Check theroxytheater.org for showtimes.

HOOTENANNY! The Roxy presents Hootenanny!, a weekend of serious kids’ stuff. Fri., Nov. 20 features The Iron Giant at 7:15 PM, and Welcome to the Space Show Sat., Nov. 21 at 6:30 PM. Also, lots of cool workshops and a live performance by the Salamanders on Sat., Nov. 21. Visit theroxytheater.org for all the details.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 The wait is over. The final installment in the Hunger Games series finds Katniss Everdeen fighting for survival along side her ragtag group of allies/enemies. Rated PG-13. Playing at Carmike.

LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING The Lord of the Rings series continues as Gandalf and Aragorn lead the battle against Sauron’s hordes, armed with little more than rubber band guns. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Nov. 19 at 7 PM, and Sun., Nov. 22 at 2 PM. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LULU The Met Live in HD presents Lulu, William Kentridge’s production of the Alban Berg opera featur-

THE MARTIAN Left for dead on the Red Planet, Matt Damon attempts to survive until a rescue mission can come for him. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaoh, Showboat.

Another photo hacked from J-Law’s phone reveals an active fantasy life. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay–Pt. 2 is rated PG-13. Now showing at the Carmike and Pharaohplex. ing the titular femme fatale. Showing at the Roxy, Sat., Nov. 21, 10:30 AM.

Showing at the Roxy Thu., Nov. 19–Mon., Nov. 23.

Check theroxytheater.org for showtimes.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: CORIOLANUS Tom Hiddleston stars in Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of political manipulation and revenge.

Showing at the Roxy, Tue., Nov. 24, 7 PM.

TV NITE The Roxy presents TV Nite. Every Monday they’ll show retro TV shows and classic commercials.

Showing at the Roxy Mon., Nov. 23 at 7 PM.

THE NIGHT BEFORE Just in time for the holidays, Seth Rogen and his bros comb Manhattan, looking for the mother of all Christmas parties. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike.

WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE As part of Savor Missoula, the Roxy Film Academy presents “What I Bring to the Table,” a documentary-style cooking show made for—and by—Missoula middle and high school students. It will be followed by A Place at the Table, a documentary about solving hunger issues. Showing at the Roxy, Fri., Nov. 20, starting at 5 PM. Proceeds go to Double SNAP Dollars Program.

ROAD TO LAS VEGAS Filmed over four years, this documentary follows a family who moves from Alaska to Las Vegas just as the economy goes in the dumper. Directed by Jason Massot. Showing at the Roxy Thu., Nov. 19, 6 PM. (See Arts.)

SECRET IN THEIR EYES A group of investigators is torn apart when one of their own daughters is brutally murdered. Starring Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman. Rated PG-13.

Showing at the Carmike.

SICARIO Emily Blunt plays an idealistic FBI agent who battles Mexican drug cartels at the border. Rated R.

NOW PLAYING THE 33 It took five years, but they finally made a movie based on the Chilean mining accident in which 33 men were trapped for 69 days 2,300 feet underground in the 121-year-old San José copper–gold mine. Too many numbers! Antonio Banderas portrays Mario Sepúlveda, the leader of the group.

Rated PG-13. Showing at Carmike.

THE PEANUTS MOVIE Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and, of course, Snoopy join the rest of the Peanuts gang as they make their computer-animated debut. Rated G. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex.

SPECTRE Daniel Craig returns as 007. While working to uncover a sinister organization, James Bond reveals the ugly truth about SPECTRE. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

WOODLAWN True story of a high school football player in the early ‘70s (you can tell by his sideburns) who tries to fight the racism displayed by his cracker teammates. Sean Astin (Rudy) stars. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike.

Capsule reviews by Ednor Therriault.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find upto-date movie times for theaters in the area.

You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot conniption fits. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 at 541-7469; The Roxy at 728-9380; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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photo by Amy Donovan

A wild reason to visit Bonner

by Jamie Rogers Being that I am an American who has lived a life of material privilege, I will always have a preposterously screwed-up relationship with eating. To me, food is not sustenance, it’s a drug, and I use it when I’m sad, when I’m bored, when I celebrate or just because I walked through the kitchen on my way to the bathroom. I offer this disclaimer because we live in a world where people walk into theaters and spray bullets into the crowd and where bombs are detonated at funerals, but last night I listened to a food podcast while I made three cheeseburgers for me and my wife (do the math). If you’d like to use your brainpower reading something meaningful, you should leave now. Because I’m about to exercise my constitutional right to make a big deal about something that doesn’t matter: breakfast.

The root of my problem with breakfast is that popular wisdom suggests it does matter. It’s when we replenish our bodies after a night of fasting (read: sleeping), and science and moms claim it’s the most important meal of the day. And yet it’s the only meal I don’t get excited about. When I was a kid, I approached eating breakfast with the same enthusiasm with which I took out the trash. Scrambled eggs, a bowl of cereal or oatmeal, the breakfast staples never appealed to me.

As a grownup, my feelings have softened, but mostly because I like spending time with my wife in the morning. For some reason, she loves breakfast.

Breakfast, more so than lunch or dinner, dictates that we eat certain types of food and not others. Peruse any breakfast menu in Missoula and you will see French toast, pancakes, veggie browns and meat-andegg options. Many restaurants even advertise that they serve breakfast all day. I’ve never seen a place advertise “dinner all day” (you can get a burger at the Oxford anytime, but that’s another story).

Recently, though, I happened across a menu item that eased my purgatorial breakfast pain. Last week, my wife and I decided to go out to breakfast, but we wanted to try something new. We drove to Bonner

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WHAT’S GOOD HERE

and sat in a booth at the River City Grill. The restaurant is located in a 101-year-old building that once housed a lumber company, but since the late ’90s has been home to a restaurant serving roadside food to travelers on I-90. In 2006, Guy Trenary—who previously owned Trenary’s—bought River City Grill and tweaked the menu. One of the few dishes he added was an omelet that sounds a little weird but recently became the only thing I want to eat in the morning.

When it comes to the first meal of the day, an omelet is as prototypical as it gets, and while most of the ingredients in Trenary’s omelet are not surprising, one puts it in another class: wild rice. It might seem like whatever modicum of flavor rice could add to an omelet would be mitigated by an unappealing mushy texture, but wild rice is satisfyingly chewy and has a rich flavor that is hard to describe. In Trenary’s omelet, the rice mixes with bacon, Swiss cheese and a topping of hollandaise sauce in a way that might make you rethink what to eat for breakfast.

I recently asked Trenary, who started serving wild rice omelets at his previous restaurant more than 25 years ago, how he came up with the recipe. “I was in Minnesota, and my cousin said we had to try this omelet they served in a supermarket,” he said. “It had wild rice and we thought it was good, so we just took the idea.” I followed by asking why he thinks the rice works, and he laughed. “I’m not a chef,” he said. “I’m a [line] cook. We just want to serve good food and give people what they pay for.”

I appreciated Trenary’s responses because he was clearly surprised I had not only considered his omelet so deeply, but that I wanted to write about it. Which is a reasonable reaction; there are definitely more important things happening in the world than my feeling limited by the standard American breakfast. But you’ll think about that stuff whether you want to or not. It doesn’t change the fact that the wild rice and cheese omelet at River City Grill is worth an adventure to Bonner. It might even take your mind off of things.

[dish] Asahi 1901 Stephens Ave 829-8989 asahimissoula.com Exquisite Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Try our new Menu! Order online for pickup or express dine in.

Pleasant prices. Fresh ingredients. Artistic presentation.

Voted top 3 People’s Choice two years in a row. Open Tue-Sun: 11am-10pm. $-$$$

a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s Historic Westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious food does not. Mon-Fri 7am - 2pm. Sat/Sun Brunch 9am - 2pm. Dinners on Fri & Sat nights 5 - 9 PM. $-$$

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 November brings a chill in the air and a desire for PUMPKIN! Bernice's is rockin' out pumpkin bread and pumpkin pies just in time for Thanksgiving. But that ain't all. Enjoy a warm cup of joe on a chilly fall mornin' while nibblin' a piece of Bernice's already famous Pumpkin Coffeecake. Or order any one of our delicious pies with a dozen parkerhouse rolls for Thanksgiving. Place that order early. The earlier the better. Bernice's…a tradition on Thanksgiving dinner tables around Missoula since 1978. xoxo bernice $-$$

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 43 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. $

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. $-$$ Bitter Root Brewing 101 Marcus St., Hamilton 363-7468 bitterrootbrewing.com The Bitter Root Brewery in downtown Hamilton is your one-stop shop for all your holiday needs. Plan your upcoming party, stock up on tasty beer and check off your holiday present list all at the Bitter Root Brewery. Open 7 days a week. Cheers! $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 525 E. Spruce • 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open M-F 6:30-5:30, Sat. 7:30- 4, Sun. 8-3. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ Bridge Pizza 600 S Higgins Ave. • 542-0002 bridgepizza.com 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 11am - 10:30pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm.

Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as

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

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice.

Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$

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El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and (call ahead) gluten-free options, plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and delicious! Get your healthy, hearty lunch or dinner here.

Wi-Fi, Ping Pong, Soccer on the Big Screen, and music from Argentina and South America. Ask about our Take & Bake and Catering too! Mon - Wed 11a - 6p, Thur Sat 11a - 8p. Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locally-roasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$

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Pumpkin pie martini HAPPIEST HOUR What you’re drinking: A shaken martini made of vanilla vodka, pumpkin pie puree, agave, cream and cinnamon with pumpkin spice sprinkled on top. $6.

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$

What it tastes like: Weirdly, it does taste like pumpkin pie. The puree adds a slight grit reminiscent of the pie’s texture. The vanilla tone seems to hint of flaky crust and the agave gives it just enough sweetness to evoke dessert. It’s also icy cold, which ensures that while it tastes like pie, it goes down like a drink.

What’s the lowdown on the vodka?: The distillery makes its vanilla vodka with beans from the Bourbon region of Madagascar and they don’t add sugar or extracts. Besides the pumpkin pie martini, it mixes well with other cocktails like a mule.

Why you’re drinking it: Tis the season for pie! (Check out our feature story this week.) The distillery started making the special martini pre-Halloween and the constant demand for it means it will be on the menu at least through Thanksgiving. “We go to

Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries.

Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30. $-$$$

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Costco every week to pick up more pie filling,” says bartender Agen Heffernan. “It’s been more popular than we expected.”

How to get it: At the Montana Distillery, 631 Woody St., on the north side of downtown.

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

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The Iron Griz 515 South Ave. E. • 728-5106 irongriz.com Located at the base of Mt. Sentinel in the UM Golf Course Clubhouse, the Iron Griz proudly serves delicious, affordable, local foods. Montana food producers, partnering with the UM Farm to College Program, supply our kitchen with the freshest, highest quality meats, produce, locally brewed beer and wines. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 ironhorsebrewpub.com We’re the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 izarestaurant.com Local Asian cuisine feature SE Asian, Japanese, Korean and Indian dishes. Gluten Free and Vegetarian no problem. Full Beer, Wine, Sake and Tea menu. We have scratch made bubble teas. Come in for lunch, dinner, drinks or just a pot of awesome tea. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner M-Sat 3pm-close. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) • 543-7154 themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $4 for those on the Nutrition Program, $5 for U of M Students with a valid student ID and $6 for all others. Children under 10 eat free. Join us from 11:30 - 12:30 M-F for delicious food and great conversation. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar. Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available. Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$

Pearl Cafe 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily.

House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Pita Pit 130 N Higgins • 541-7482 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! $-$$ River Rising Bakery 337 Main St., Hamilton 363-4552 ORDER YOUR HOLIDAY DESSERTS EARLY! Hamilton's favorite bakery, deli, and espresso bar.

Serving all butter pastries, delicious and nutritious muffins, cream scones, and delectable desserts. Or choose from our selection of home-made soups, salads, and sandwiches found nowhere else. Open 6:30am-5:30pm Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:00pm Saturday, 8:00am-2:00pm Sunday. Weekday local business lunch delivery available 9:00am-1:00pm. $-$$ The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery 3020 S. Reserve St., Ste A 541-7472 missoulastarvingartist.com Local, high quality pastries and desserts from Missoula bakeries. Top of the line coffee blends from Hunter Bay Coffee, and specialty, hand crafted beverages. Monthly events, featured artists, and open mic night every Wednesday. The Starving Artist Cafe & Art Gallery is sure to please your palette! $ Sushi Hana 403 N. Higgins 549-7979 SushiMissoula.com Montana’s Original Sushi Bar. We Offer the Best Sushi and Japanese Cuisine in Town. Casual atmosphere. Plenty of options for non-sushi eaters including daily special items you won’t find anywhere else. $1 Specials Mon & Wed. Lunch Mon–Sat; Dinner Daily. Sake, Beer, & Wine. Visit SushiMissoula.com for full menu. $$-$$$

Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Taco Sano Two Locations: 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West 1515 Fairview Ave inside City Life 541-7570 • tacosano.net Home of Missoula’s Best BREAKFAST BURRITO. 99 cent TOTS every Tuesday. 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 10am9pm 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music.

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Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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November 19–November 26, 2015

THURSDAYNOV19 The Upright Citizens Brigade shows Missoula their improvisational prowess at the University Center Theater. The group’s alumni includes SNL’s Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz.

7:30 PM. Free.

A Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition selected by MAM’s Senior Exhibition Curator Emeritus Stephen Glueckert. Glueckert selected 12 seldom-seen works from the MAM Collection, which will be accompanied by some brief text describing why each work has become a favorite of his.

nightlife Hone your chops at the Slow Jam where musicians will play celtic, old time and contra dance tunes at relaxed tempos so beginners can easily join in. Starving Artist Cafe and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St., off the corner of Reserve and Harve Ave. Every third Thursday of the month from 6–7:30 PM. Visit missoulastarvingartist.com or email rocu@rocketmail.com for more info.

Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Trio features Ron Meissner on guitar and Pete Hand on upright.

Bitter Root Brewing, 6–8 PM. Free.

Work out those kinks for a good cause at the UM Physical Therapy Dept.’s Massage Clinic fundraiser. Skaggs Bldg., 6–9 PM. $12 for a 20minute massage, $20 for a 40-minute massage.

For an appt., call 243-4753.

Way Cool Music promises tunes from Alison Krauss to the Zombies and everything in between during their set at the Montana Distillery, corner of Woody and Railroad streets. 6–8 PM. Our band has the best contract rider in history. Trout Steak Revival, pictured here, join Head for the Hills for an epic night of bluegrass at the Top Hat. Thu., Nov. 19. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 advance at tophatlounge.com.

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He’s nice, but don’t you think a van would be better? We Are the City, pictured here, Copeland and Eisley bring a show of melodic rock to Stage 112 Sat., Nov. 21. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20 at ticketfly.com.

Emzee and Silas provide the musical atmosphere to go with that great view of the Bitterroots at Lolo Peak Brewery. 6–8 PM. Free.

Black Mountain Moan plays hardstompin’ Southern blues at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.

University of Montana alum Matt Pavelich reads from his new collection of stories Survivors Said. Shakespeare & Co., 7 PM. (See Books.)

Camp Daze and KBGA team up at Free Cycles for a night of big hugs and good music featuring Seattle’s iji, Ancient Forest, Multi Rachel, BOYS and Grandmother Witch. 7:30 PM. It’s an embarrassment of bluegrass riches when Head for the HIlls and Trout Steak revival do the pickin’ at the Top Hat. Doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $12/$10 adv. at tophatlounge.com.

Wildhoney from Baltimore play it fast and rough with their pop, but without the machismo overlay.

The Real Lounge, doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $10/$7 advance at 1111presents.com. 18 and over show.

Marjorie Garber is the latest guest of UM’s Presidential Lecture Series. The Harvard professor presents “Shakespeare 451: Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury and Humanities of

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Teaching Today” at the UC Ballroom, 8 PM. She will also lead a seminar at the Gallagher Business Building, Room 123, at 3:40 PM. Free and open to the public.

It’s time to get down. Way down at DJ Dance Night at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM. No cover.

Julie Bug and Northern Exposure play nonstop country favorites at Sunrise Saloon. 9 PM, no cover.

FRIDAYNOV20 Missoula stalwarts VTO, MASS FM and The Skurfs are going to show you what it’s like. The Palace, doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. No cover.

A Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition selected by MAM’s Senior Exhibition Curator Emeritus Stephen Glueckert. Glueckert selected 12 seldom-seen works from the MAM Collection, accompanied by some brief text describing why each work has become a favorite of his.

nightlife Radius Gallery kicks off the silly season with their Holiday Show. Seventy-three artists contribute a variety of works that could be your unique gift for that special someone. 114 E. Main, opening reception 5–7 PM. For more info, visit radiusgallery.com.

The Zootown Arts Community Center opens their doors for the annual Holiday Open House. Enjoy an evening of food, libations, music, and art. Meet the folks who make ZACC run, and create small trinkets in the pottery studio, glass fusing studio, and print shop. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

One Missoula classic meets another when John Floridis plays folk rock at Missoula Brewing Co., maker of the vaunted Highlander Beer. 200 International Drive, 6–8 PM. Free.

Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat is a time where parents and their kids can socialize, listen to music, eat great food and have fun. 6–8 PM, free.

Fall Studio Works are presented by the School of Theatre and Dance.

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pirate treasure Like zombies, Peter Pan and KISS farewell tours, pirates seem to make a resurgence in popular culture about once every generation. But long before Johnny Depp ever buckled his first swash, there was Robert Louis Stevenson’s seminal book, Treasure Island.

UM’s School of Theatre and Dance brings Ken Ludwig’s 1987 adaptation to the stage, and director Greg Johnson says it will be an entertaining spectacle. “The first five minutes is like the opening of a Bond movie,” he says. “It’s one of the most actionfilled plays I’ve done.”

Johnson's first exposure to Treasure Island was via the old “Wonderful World of Disney” version he saw on TV at age 8 or 9,

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and it left its mark. “I remember this character, Blind Pew, that scared the bejesus out of me,” he recalls. For this production, he’s hoping Elizabeth Bennett, who plays Pew, will have a similar impact on the audience.

WHEN: Opens Tue., Nov. 24, at 7:30 PM with shows through Sat. Dec. 5 WHERE: Montana Theatre in the PAR/TV Center HOW MUCH: $20/$16 seniors, students MORE INFO: umt.edu/theatredance

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WHO: UM’s School of Theatre and Dance

Count Basie gets his due when four big bands from UM’s Jazz Program perform One More Once, a tribute to the legendary band leader. This is a fundraiser for the program. Dennison Theatre, 7:30 PM. $11/$6 seniors/$5 students with ID. For tickets, visit griztix.com.

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WHAT: Treasure Island

PAR/TV center. Program I at 6:30 PM, Program II at 8:30 PM. Min. $5 donation at the door.

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“She is a very s c a r y c h a r a c t e r, ” agrees Hudson Therriault, one of two freshmen cast in the play. “Greg said specifically, ‘I want you to scare the children.’”

Therriault, who plays the comic sot Dr. Livesey, has been acting since he was in middle school, trying to convince his parents— one of them being

Stensrud Playhouse. Get Up! Stand Up! opens the show. Pizza and a full bar available. 7:30 PM. $12/$9 for students, tickets at stensrudplayhouse.com or at the door. (See Spotlight.)

Leave the Hendrix poster on your wall, there’s plenty of dayglo art to be seen at the Black Light Benefit.

This fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity features music, local beers, live painting and a raffle will keep things grooving. E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main. St., 8 PM. Sugg. donation $5. (See Agenda.)

me—that he did indeed finish his math homework before logging on to “League of Legends.”

The other freshman, Morgan Solonar, landed the lead role of Jim Hawkins. “It’s rare for a freshman to have the lead,” says Johnson, “but she came into the audition fully prepared, and she handled the language.” The Hellgate alumna even cut her long red locks to better suit the character.

She’s one of several women who play the parts of male characters, a reversal of the tradition that dates back to Shakespeare.

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Johnson says he’s got high hopes for the granddaddy of all pirate tales. “I’ve never done anything quite like it,” he says. “We’re doing it big.”

—Ednor Therriault

It’s gonna get heavy. Like, gravity-onJupiter heavy when Walking Corpse Syndrome joins Stupid Human Suit and Earthbound at the Dark Horse Bar. 1805 Regent St., 8 PM. Harvest: A Cornucopia of Culture will stuff so much talent into Stage 112, they might have to set up a kids’ table in the kitchen. Music by High Voltage, Lost Mountain Tribune, Louie and Medelssohn will follow comedy by Eliza Oh and Ethan Sky. Also, artworks by local artists will be on display. 112 Pattee St., 8 PM, free.

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ginger jokers I don’t buy into the idea that gingers have no soul, any more than I believe that Ted Cruz does have one. I raised a couple of redheads, and I can tell you from firsthand experience that they have tons of soul, and they are funny as hell.

When two recessive genes called MC1R combine to create a redhead, it is a rare thing indeed. Less than 1 percent of the world’s population has red hair, and those people share certain health issues like susceptibility to sunburn, higher risk for Parkinson’s Disease and a lower tolerance for pain. I can relate. I’m a redhead, and the last time I had surgery they had to pump me so full of anesthesia that when I farted in the recovery room the nurse got woozy.

Alex Tait and Jacob Godbey understand that when you’re a carrot-top, it is to laugh. Their two-man show, Gingers On Ice, is designed to be an over-the-top

WHAT: Gingers on Ice WHO: Alex Tait and Jacob Godbey WHEN: Fri., Nov. 20, 7:30 PM WHERE: Stensrud Playhouse, 314 N. 1st St. W. HOW MUCH: $9–$12 MORE INFO: stensrudplayhouse.com

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showcase of their comedy chops. “It’ll be a full night for us,” says Tait, a journalism student at UM. “We have standup, improv and scripted comedy.

We’re trying to just really put ourselves out there.”

Tait and Godbey, a media arts major, were in the inaugural group of comics who formed Zootown Improv last year with theater vet Jackie Stermitz, owner of the Stensrud Playhouse. After a few months of performances with the group, “we texted each other at the same time,” says Tait. “We wanted to do something different, see if we could do the entire process ourselves.

So far it looks like yes.” Tait mentions “Saturday Night Live” as a major influence, along with the irreverent standup material of Bill Burr and Donald Glover. As for Godbey, “Jacob is in love with Will Forte,” Tait says.

Audiences can expect a full night, including improv, songs and skits with titles like “Hershey’s Chocolate: A Man’s Guide to Women.” The show represents five months of work, and the duo is weighing the idea of taking it on the road, perhaps starting with Spokane.

“We’re free to take it wherever we want,” says Tait. “It’s okay to put in a lot of work on something you’re really passionate about.””

—Ednor Therriault

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Band In Motion plays a wide variety of music, a little sump’m sump’m for everybody at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.

MudSlide Charley play their funky, upbeat style of blues at the Union Club. 9:30 PM, no cover.

Paydirt dig deep in that fat musical vein of groove at Sunrise Saloon. 9:30 PM, no cover.

One Ton Pig weave the attitude of Johnny and Willie into their blend of bluegrass, rock and folk.

Top Hat, 10 PM. Free show. (See Noise.)

8–11 PM. Get more info at missoulafolk.org.

Get deals on chestnuts, apples, pears, cherries, plums, currants, grapes, and more at the Holiday Edible Plant Sale. Blue Sky Stewardship Farm, 2620 Briggs St., 8 AM–6 PM. A Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition selected by MAM’s Senior Exhibition Curator Emeritus Stephen Glueckert. Glueckert selected 12 seldom-seen works from the MAM Collection, which are accompanied by some brief text describing why each work has become a favorite of his.

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Noy Holland reads from and signs copies of her novel Bird. Fact & Fiction, 4 PM.

Phantom Balance, Rude Max, Codependents, Tiny Plastic Stars, Deeno Babik and Sunraiser keep the mic heated up at the Real Lounge. 9 PM, $3, 18 and over.

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Run free at the monthly dance at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St., with tunes from the Wild Coyote Band. 7–11 PM. $7. Call 2409617 to learn more.

Dance up a storm at the Missoula Folklore Society’s Contra dance every first, third, and fifth (it happens) Saturday through May. Union Hall,

Dancers of all ages and abilities are welcome at Missoula Folklore’s Family Dance.

Enjoy big circle dances and longways sets, live music by Skippin A Groove and calling by Bev Young. Potluck dinner follows. Missoula Senior Center, 5–6:30 PM. Dean and Riley provide the musical interludes at Draught Works Brewery, 6–8 PM. Free.

Britchy share their sweet harmonies and cool Americana at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM.

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Get your daily requirement of country music when the Beet Tops play at Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM, free.

Annick Smith will read from her memoir, Crossing the Plains with Bruno, at the Grizzly Claw Trading Center in Seeley Lake. 7 PM, free.

Zootown Cabaret presents 21st Century Broadway, a musical review featuring music from Broadway shows like Wicked, In the Heights, Matilda, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Bullets Over Broadway. Some material may not be suitable for younger audiences or people who hate musicals. Missoula Winery and Event Center. Two shows, 7 PM and 9 PM. $10/$5 students and seniors, available at the door.

If you can dance to it, Band in Motion can probably play it. Find out at the Eagles Lodge, 8 PM–1 AM. No cover.

We Are the City, Copeland and Eisley bring a powerhouse show of melodic rock to Stage 112. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8. $20 at ticketfly.com.

Paydirt dig deep in that fat musical vein of groove at Sunrise Saloon.

9:30 PM, no cover.

Gladys Friday rides in from parts unknown (Polson, actually) to play some rhythm and blues at the Union Club. 9:30 PM, no cover.

Eat Strike and GENT get things rocking at the Palace, doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. No cover.

Children of the ‘80s, your time is now! New Wave Time Trippers will take you into a massive time warp of a full-on ‘80s dance party with all those great tunes and killer visuals to dress it up. At the Top Hat, doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

SUNDAYNOV22 If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it.

The String Orchestra of the Rockies performs Dido, Queen of Carthage, featuring mezzo-soprano Kimberly James as Queen Dido, accompanied by the UM Women’s Chorus under the leadership of UM Director of Choirs David Edmunds. UM Recital Hall, 7:30 PM. For tickets and info, visit SORMT.org.

Get deals on chestnuts, apples, pears, cherries, plums, currants, grapes, and more at the Holiday

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Huh. Watching curling in 3D does not make it any more exciting. New Wave Time Trippers put on a righteous ‘80s party at the Top Hat Sat., Nov. 21. Doors at 9:30 PM, show at 10. $5.

Edible Plant Sale. Blue Sky Stewardship Farm, 2620 Briggs St., 8 AM–6 PM. Crank up your polka machine and get out to the Five Valleys Accordions Polka dance. Waltz, two-step, all the biggies. Rustic Hut, Florence, 1–4 PM. $4/$3 members. All are welcome.

Christopher Kelly will be on hand to sign copies of Italy Invades. Fact & Fiction, 2–4 PM. Young Missoula dancers ages 7– 16 will perform alongside the Moscow Ballet Company in the Great Russian Nutcracker at UM’s Dennison Theatre, 3 PM. For tickets go to nutcracker.com/buy-tickets.

The Contact Improv Jam is open to those of all abilities who are interested in contact improvisation. Every Sunday, 3:15–5 PM. Downtown Dance Collective, $5.

nightlife Gabrielle Tushbery will entertain you and your beer-sipping crew at Draught Works Brewery, 5–7 PM. Free.

It’s time to start the holiday celebrations, and a great kickoff is the Real Texas Swing Holiday Dance Party, with Western Union providing the tunes at Missoula Winery. 6–8 PM, $7.

Big Sky Film Series’ latest treat is Deep Time, Noah Hutton’s awardwinning examination of the North Dakota oil boom. Showing at the Top Hat, 7 PM, free. (See Film.)

Whether the weekend’s winding down or just getting started, kick back and enjoy the lolz at the No Pads, No Blazers Comedy Hour, hosted by Kyle “Potted Meat” Kulseth every fourth Sunday of the month at the VFW, at 8 PM sharpish and lasting just one hour. Includes half-off drink specials. $3 sugg. donation.

Jazz and martinis go together like cops and pepper spray. Jazz Martini night offers live, local jazz and $5 martinis every Sunday night at the Badlander. No cover. Dig it, and dig it deep, sister.

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MONDAYNOV23 Join studio artist Doug Baldwin for his lecture, Celebrating 50 Years In Ceramics. Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne, 6 PM.

A Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition selected by MAM’s Senior Exhibition Curator Emeritus Stephen Glueckert. Glueckert selected 12 seldom-seen works from the MAM Collection, which are accompanied by some brief text describing why each work has become a favorite of his.

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Is there intelligent life out there?

It’s not a question from a Donald Trump rally, it’s a discussion about the existence of UFOs and ETs at the Bitterroot Public Library, 7–9 PM.

The Craicers and Friends will make you feel all jiggy with their traditional Irish tunes at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 1151 W. Broadway, 6–8 PM.

The Acousticals play tight and tasty bluegrass and Americana at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 7–10 PM. Free.

The Badlander’s latest weekly event is Blues Monday, with a rotating cast of local blues musicians hosted by Black Mountain Moan. 9 PM, no cover.

TUESDAYNOV24 Max Hay brings some acoustic mayhem from Helena to the Lolo Peak Brewery. 6–8 PM, free.

Treasure Island, the School of Theatre and Dance production of the stage adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, opens at the Montana Theatre in the PAR/TV Center.

7:30 PM, $20/$16 seniors and students/$10 for 12 and under. (See Spotlight.)

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

Menu of Events Special prix fixe menus from Pearl Café, The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, Finn & Porter, Red Bird, Sushi Hana, Good Food Store, Iron Griz, Carvers Deli, Hafa @ Stage 112, The Trough at the Old Dairy, Buttercup Market, Brooks & Browns, Bitter Root Brewing, Taste of Paris (see pages 20 & 21 for details)

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Thursday, November 19:

• $1.00 Not Just Sushi Night at Sushi Hana. 5:00 – 9:00pm.

• Good Food Store Cooking Class. Leek “Scallops” with Wild Mushrooms & Black Jasmine Rice. With Emily Walter, Good Food Store Cooking School Manager.

6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll.

• Moscow Monday at Montgomery Distillery. $1.00 from each cocktail sold will go to a local nonprofit. 12:00 – 8:00pm.

• Good Food Store Cooking Class. Taleggio Mac & Cheese with Asian Pulled Pork Salad. Presented by The Trough’s Chef Suzanne Phillips. 6:30pm; $5.00.

Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll.

• Foodie Trivia at Brooks & Browns, 7:00 – 10:00pm. Great prizes!

Tuesday, November 17: • Sake Pairing at Sushi Hana! Presented by Monica Samuels, who has an exceptional understanding of pairing sake with food. Monica will take your thoughts about sake to a different level while the new owners share some of their refreshed menu. $40/person with reservation only. Limited seating; call 549-7979.

• Good Food Store Cooking Class. Clam & Mussel French Stew. Presented by Pearl Cash, Chef/Owner, Pearl Café. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll.

• Mule-Tastic at Montana Distillery. $1.00 from each cocktail sold will go to a local nonprofit. 12:00 – 8:00pm.

• American Whiskey Tasting. Presented by Grizzly Liquor. $20 full tasting; $15 for three. At the Golden Rose, 123 W. Broadway. Whiskey lineup includes: Rowan Creek, Ezra 12 yr. Single Barrel, Jesse James, Highwood Rye, Stillbrook, Jefferson Reserve Goth Cask, 4 Roses Single Barrel. 5pm – 8pm.

Wednesday, November 18: • Savor Local Food: Meet Your Farmers & Ranchers, at Buttercup Market (1221 Helen Avenue). Gather information about land stewardship/conservation, while enjoying food samples and beer & wine samples. Free event with nominal charge for samples. Presented by Buttercup Market & Café, Oxbow Cattle Company, Western Montana Growers Cooperative, and Community Food & Agriculture Coalition. 6:00 – 8:00pm.

• Good Food Store Cooking Class. Potato Gnocchi with Gorgonzola & Walnuts.

Presented by Red Bird Chef Matt Cornette. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll.

• Grammy-Award-Winning Snarky Puppy live at The Wilma, 8:00pm. Tickets: $26 advance; $30 DOS available at Rockin Rudy’s and thewilma.com.

• $1.00 Sushi Night at Sushi Hana. 5:00 – 9:00pm.

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Friday, November 20: • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Acorn Squash & Apple Stew. Presented by Red Bird Chef Matt Parris. 6:30pm; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll.

• Foodie Flix at the Roxy!

Double Screening of Roxy Film Academy’s “What I Bring to the Table” starring local students in cooking shows using kid-friendly, locally sourced recipes, followed by Magnolia Pictures “A Place at the Table.” 5:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior; $5/child “Chef,” starring Jon Favreau , Robert Downey Jr., John Lequizamo and Scarlett Johansson, is the story of a chef who loses his restaurant job and starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family. Rated R. 9:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior • Malarkey at Ten Spoon Vineyard: Venture up the Rattlesnake and enjoy wine by the glass or flight (4 small tasters), antipasto plates by Biga Pizza (or bring your own picnic), free bread sticks, and live music by Malarkey. Tasting Room open 4:00 – 9:00pm; Music 6:00 – 8:30pm.

Saturday, November 21: • Good Food Store Cooking Class. Rosemary & Gorgonzola Waffle with Bacon Whipped Cream. Presented by The Starving Artist Café’s Chef Hannah Freas. 10:30 am; $5.00. Contact GFS Customer Service desk at 541-3663 to enroll.

• Foodie Flick at the Roxy! A special kids’ matinee showing of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the 2005 remake of the classic, starring Johnny Depp, Freddy Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter. Rated PG. 3:00pm. $8.00/adult; $7/senior; $5/child.

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WEDNESDAYNOV25 From Chicago by way of the Flathead, Old Sap brings his unique Americana poetry music to Blacksmith Brewing Co. 6–8 PM, free.

A Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition selected by MAM’s Senior Exhibition Curator Emeritus Stephen Glueckert. Glueckert selected 12 seldom-seen works from the MAM Collection, which are accompanied by some brief text describing why each work has become a favorite of his.

nightlife It’s Movie Night at Stage 112, and tonight’s double feature is Nightmare Before Christmas at 7 PM, and Gremlins at 9 PM. Drink specials and free popcorn. No cover.

Are you sure this is where you left the car? In the woods? Dean & Riley play countrytinged acoustic folk at Draught Works Brewing Sat., Nov. 21, 6–8 PM. Free.

Who opened Board of Missoula in 1989?

Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Savannah, Ga.’s Kylesa tosses a ton of styles into the mash-up machine to forge their own unique sound. Stage 112, doors at 8 PM, show at 9. $15/$12 advance at 1111presents.com.

18 and over. (See Noise.)

Mike Avery hosts the Music Showcase every Tuesday, featuring some of Missoula’s finest musical talent. Also enjoy pool and drink specials. The Badlander, 9 PM–1 AM. To sign up, email michael.avery@live.com.

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This open mic is truly open. Jazz, classic rock, poetry, spoken word, dance, shadow puppets— share your creative spark at The Starving Artist Café and Art Gallery, 3020 S. Reserve St. Every Wed., 6–8 PM. Free.

Wednesday Night Brewery Jam invites all musicians to bring an instrument and join in.

Hosted by Geoffrey Taylor at Imagine Nation Brewing Co., 6–8 PM. Free.(Trivia answer: Dan Gavere and Zack Spannagel.)

Kick back to some sweet, smoky jazz with the Kimberlee Carlson Jazz Quartet. Chuck Flo-

rence, Ron Meissner and Pete Hand are at the wheel at the Top Hat, 7–9 PM. Karaoke every Wednesday with Cheree at the Eagles Lodge at 8:30 PM.

THURSDAYNOV26 The Women’s Club will hold an open gym, free to the public (and dudes). Event includes R.I.P.P.E.D. and Group Cycling at 9 AM, Zumba at 10 AM. Free, but please bring one non-perishable food item to donate to the Missoula Food Bank. 2105 Bow St., 9–11 AM. A Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition selected by MAM’s Senior Exhibition Curator Emeritus Stephen Glueckert. Glueckert selected 12 seldom-seen works from the MAM Collection, which are accompanied by some brief text describing why each work has become a favorite of his.

nightlife It’s time to get down. Way down at DJ Dance Night at the Eagles Lodge. 8 PM. No cover.

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t happened on the Beaverhead River, just below the Clark Canyon Dam, 20 miles south of Dillon.

My old friend Tim and I had set up camp and brought our fly rods to the edge of the river to try our luck just after Labor Day. We’d found a spring flowing from a rock wall about a quarter mile from the river, and when we got to the banks of the Beaverhead, we could see several massive trout holding in the clear, waist-deep water. Their spawning colors were vivid. As we crept to the shore and started stripping line, a flock of birds, amoeba-like, swooped overhead and banked upstream. They turned and flew back our way, then descended toward the river in a spiral. We watched, transfixed, as the 50 or so birds spun in a precise

corkscrew and landed in the water, folding their wings and taking the form of tiny seagulls. We’d indulged in a couple of adult beverages, but nothing that would create this bizarre avian hallucination. I found out later they were Wilson’s phalaropes, and that’s just the way they roll.

We never did catch any fish.

—Ednor Therriault Learn to identify our feathered friends at the Audubon’s Beginning Birder Walk.

Meet at Metcalf Wildlife Refuge Sat., Nov. 21 at 10 AM. Free.

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 It’s never too soon to start planning your excellent bike adventures for next summer. To that end, registration is open for National Bike Travel Weekend 2016. Sign up with your own overnight group or join an existing one. For details and an interactive map, visit adventurecycling.org.

Ski season’s so close you can taste it. You can also taste some fine brews at Higherground Brewing Co. at Ski Film Pint Night. Door prizes, raffles, and a free showing of Warren Miller’s No Turning Back highlight this fundraiser for B.E.A.R. 518 N. 1st St., Hamilton, 4 PM ‘til closing.

Missoula Urban Development hosts Cider Pressing and Fermenting with Joshua Lisbon who will be making hard cider from 5:30–7:30 PM at the MUD site, 1527 Wyoming St. Dave Delisi will present a program about the famed Ruby River at the Trout Unlimited general meeting at the Hamilton Elks Club, 203 State St. 7 PM, free to attend, public welcome.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 Kickstands up, my babies. Four young cyclists will be selected to receive Adventure Cycling Assn.’s

Young Adult Bike Travel Scholarship. The educational course includes bikes, gear, and the training to perform community outreach to promote bicycle touring. Submissions are being accepted now. For more info, visit adventurecycling.org.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 It’s a showdown at the Bozone Corral as the Griz take on the Bobcats in the 115th Brawl of the Wild. It’s in Bozeman this year, so book yourself a room early. Kickoff is at noon at Bobcat Stadium.

Celebrate a great bike season while mourning the end of it at MTB Missoula’s Mountain Bike Ball.

Wear your best black finery. Music by DJ Jack and Hum-Blee, beer from Big Sky, and a chance to win a new bike. All bike shops and cyclists invited. Le Petit Outre, 129 S. 4th St. W., 6–10 PM.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 Burn off some calories in advance at the Turkey Day Family Run. Trot along the Kim Williams Trail while you fantasize about going back for thirds on the candied yams. Meet on the Kim Williams Trail near the Clark Fork at the UM, 9 AM.

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Since 1991, volunteers for Missoula’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity have built 48 homes, with number 49 due for completion this year. These homes are offered to low-income families via a no-interest mortgage loan, which is a boon for folks who don’t qualify for a conventional loan. Each homeowner family is required to put a minimum of 500 hours of sweat equity into the construction, so this is an opportunity that’s earned, giving the family a sense of pride and ownership in a quality house. Even in a burgeoning town like Missoula, where entire housing developments seem to spring up overnight, there is a constant need for more low-income housing.

Habitat for Humanity is partially funded by donations and grants, but the local chapter receives no federal funding and no monies from Habitat International. This is where you come in. But before you get all gussied up for another boilerplate silent auction/rubber chicken dinner, better check that closet for your brightest tie-dye. The Black Light Fundraiser is an evening of entertainment with a twist: black light art will be on display at E3 Con-

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vergence Gallery, along with live music by Ryan Belski and Jordan Lane. Also, Nathaniel Luke Smith will be doing some live painting with fluorescent paints on bones and skulls. You’ll be transported back to those groovy dorm days, and all that’ll be missing is a bottle of Annie Green Springs and Carol King’s Tapestry LP. —Ednor Therriault Black Light Benefit for Habitat begins at E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. Fri., Nov. 20, at 8 PM. $5 suggested donation. All proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 Some dust might get in a few cowboys’ eyes at the Missoula’s ninth annual Adoption Celebration hosted at MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 11:30 AM-1 PM, with lunch and entertainment included.

RSVP at 549-0147.

Researcher and outdoor educator Ava Holliday believes that without social justice there is no environmental justice. She’ll speak out on these issues, with discussions about diversity, sustainability, environmentalism and more as part of YWCA Talks. YWCA center room, 1130 W. Broadway, 4 PM. Free.

Let the sun shine in at the Solarize Missoula workshop. Site assessments and low cost system pricing make solar power more of a reality for homeowners.

Missoula FCU Corporate Training HQ, 3600 Brooks St., 6 PM. Free and open to the public. For more info visit solarizemissoula.org.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 The P.E.O. Holiday Bazaar and Craft Fair features a mountain of one-of-a-kind gifts and handmade goods. All proceeds will go to the many Philanthropic Educational Organizaton scholarships. Learn more about the P.E.O. as you shop in the UC third floor ballrooms, 10 AM–4 PM. Join your neighbors for a walk on Woodland Ave. Area residents are showing their support to halt a pro-

posed gated community that would increase traffic to the area and block off a popular walk-to-school route.

Meet at Woodland Ave. and Dickinson, 11 AM.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula holds its annual Holiday Open House in the main museum building. Make some ornaments, play a giant teddy bear matching game, bring the kids for story time, and dig on some holiday cookies and apple cider. Noon–4 PM, free admission. Donation of used books is encouraged.

Break bread with your neighbors at the Missoula Food Co-op’s Community Dinner. Music by Rocky Mountain Meadowlark, and there’s also a used book sale. 1500 Burns St., 6–8 PM.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 23 Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25 Point of order! UM’s debate team will host this week’s UNite fundraiser to help finance their trip to the National Parlimentary Debate Assn. nationals next spring. Grab a brew at the Kettlehouse Northside tap room, 5–8 PM.

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

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THE HURT AND CONFUSED LOCKER I was dating a sociopathic compulsive liar for three months. I had a gut feeling that he was lying about his work, education, and finances, but I had no real proof. This allowed him to manipulate me and convince me that I was crazy, insecure, and paranoid. Finally, through Internet searches and contact with his ex-wife, I got proof together and confronted him. Though I dumped him, I’ve become super-edgy and suspicious that everyone’s lying to me. I even accused a co-worker of stealing my phone.

I think the stress this guy put me through probably caused PTSD. How does one move on after dating a sociopath?

—Burned Tales from your PTSD support group: THEM: “I was held captive with a burlap bag over my head and beaten with electrical cords.”

YOU: “I’m right there with you, bro. This dude I was dating told me his Ferrari was paid for, and it turned out to be leased!”

YOU: “My boyfriend pretended he was buying a mansion, but he really lives with his parents.”

THEM: “That’s terrible. Can you help me put on my prosthetic leg?”

Sure, according to Pat Benatar, “love is a battlefield.” But spending three months fighting with a sociopathic boyfriend doesn’t leave you ducking for cover whenever a car backfires like a guy who did three tours of IED disposal in Iraq and came home with most of the parts he went in with. Ofer Zur, a psychologist who specializes in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, explains, “To meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, the stressor experienced must involve actual or threatened death or serious injury.”

What you did experience is called “gaslighting,” a covert form of psychological bullying that leaves you doubting your perception of reality and, eventually, accepting the bully’s distorted, self-serving version. So, for example, when you question your partner on something—like their work, education, or finances—instead of doing the civilized, healthyperson thing and giving you an answer, they blast you for daring to insult them by asking.

(People who are cheating will often do this.)

Day after day, as they treat you like you’re nuts, blind, or dumb, your self-worth erodes and you feel less and less able to trust your judgment—to the point where you start using all the red flags as carwash towels.

The thing is, gaslighting isn’t like an alien

spaceship with a giant vacuum hose, sucking in any person in its path. It’s the need for outside validation that makes a person susceptible, explains psychologist Robin Stern in “The Gaslight Effect.” Another risk factor is an overvaluing of romantic love—seeing it as a magical eraser for life’s problems and a way to duck out of the grubby work of developing a self. Believing the unbelievable is the price of maintaining a relationship that seems “more intense, more glamorous, and more special.”

This is basically selling yourself out for love— though all you really have is a snake charmer and a snake, all in one basket, with a boyfriend face taped across the front.

To your credit, you had a strong enough self that you eventually crawled up through the romantic cloud cover and did some latenight Internet snake-hunting. Though you’ve given your reptile the boot (or perhaps upcycled him into a handbag), your fear of being scammed again has you going all Inspector Javert on every slightly shifty-eyed co-worker.

Consider that you’re reacting to the romantic con job as if it happened randomly, like a roast chicken falling out of a private jet and cracking you on the head. To stop wildly flinging suspicion around, accept responsibility: Admit that you got duped because you wanted to believe more than you wanted to see.

Granted, it isn’t always easy to identify the liars. (You can’t just keep an eye out for those telltale pants on fire.) Stern, however, offers good advice to avoid getting taken in by gaslighters and other pathologically inventive hustlers. Instead of debating them on whether a particular piece of information is right or wrong, focus on your feelings. Ask yourself: “Do I like being treated this way ... talked to this way?”

And though you don’t have PTSD, you might take a page out of Zur’s playbook—his notion that we heal from bad experiences by creating a narrative that gives them meaning for the future. You, for example, could use this experience as a giant Post-it note reminding you to take a relationship slowly, meet a person’s circle of friends, and see who they are over time—instead of immediately declaring that you’ve found the love of the century. If you’re going to have a fairy-tale relationship, it shouldn’t be because little or nothing in it exists in real life.

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL Apartment Complex Maintenance Employee needed to be responsible for addressing an array of apartment and property maintenance duties as specified by the Maintenance Supervisor and/or Property Manager, and for maintaining the highest standards in customer service and curb appeal of the assigned apartment community.

Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26525 Customer Service Representative PDT, Inc., an established and growing Missoula manufacturing company is looking for a long term employee for a Customer Service Representative. The Customer Service Rep. is responsible for providing effective customer service for all internal and external customers by using excellent, in-depth knowledge of company products and programs as well as communicating effectively and professionally with team members within and without the customer service department.

Accurately processes orders according to established department policies and procedures, answers multiline phones, communicates with customers regarding their orders and pricing, accurately prepares invoices and shipping documents. Partners with other departments to meet and exceed customer’s service expectations.

Must be proficient in data entry and Microsoft Office. Have strong administration and organizational skills. Attention to detail a necessity. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10165307 Dental Receptionist FUN - Progressive Pediatric Dental Clinic seeking a Temp-to-Hire Receptionist to provide courteous communication with patients and to provide effective office administration. This is a fast-paced environment that continuously serves patients and requires strong multi-tasking and organizational skills so dentists, hygienists and patients stay on a tight appointment schedule. Experience with insurance verification and scheduling preferred. . Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26639 Embroiderer Company seeking part-time employee to operate embroidery machine.

The ideal candidate will have 2 to 5 years experience in operating a embroidery machine, be able to run the machine by themselves if need, an eye for quality, attention to detail and a desire to produce a great product for our customers. Flexible hours with a option of full time in the future.

Company is fast paced and fun to work for! Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26557 FARM/RANCH help needed. Experience a plus. Wages DOE. House provided and opportunity to start your own herd. Tande Ranch, Scobey, MT. Call Tim 406-783-7544 Full Time General Laborer A local company is looking for a dependable and reliable individual to help out on

a temporary basis. This position could move to a permanent position if it is a good fit and the company stays busy. The schedule is Monday through Friday, typically 7am to 3:30pm. Looking for someone to start asap.

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Work is Monday - Friday, day shift. Pay starts at $11.45 per hour, plus benefits: health, life/disability, pension. Full job description & application available. OPEN UNTIL FILLED. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10165339 Bookkeeper/Payroll Specialist We are a growing Bitterroot Valley based business seeking to hire an experienced Bookkeeper/Payroll Specialist.

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Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10165315 LEGAL ASSISTANT / PARALEGAL Seeking a LEGAL ASSISTANT / PARALEGAL to help out a small, highly rated law firm which specializes in real estate and conservation transactions. The ideal candidate is able to communicate effectively, learn quickly, and work in a fast-paced environment with attention to detail. Excellent grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and command of Microsoft Word are required. Experience in a professional office setting is preferred. Daily tasks include document drafting, review, and revision; scheduling and calendaring; electronic and paper file management; telephone contact with clients and other professionals; and, if qualified, legal research and analysis. Full-time or part time; benefits. Starting pay ranges from $12.00 to $15.00 or DOE. **TESTING REQUIRED: Word 2010, 3 Min Typing Test (Onscreen), Advanced Spelling, and Grammar. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10165265 Management Support Specialist A Missoula based collection agency, is seeking an experienced Administrative Assistant to support the management team in the coordination and execution of various programs. The successful candidate will organize, create and assign accounts to members of our collection team. Additional administrative duties such as filing, generating statements, bulk mailing, creating correspondence and providing overall office support will also be required. The successful candidate must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and other computer software programs.

This position requires an individual who is a self-starter, has high attention to detail and is motivated to succeed. This is a part time position with a flexible schedule at 20 hours per week.

Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10165371 SUPERVISOR-REAL ESTATE LOAN PROCESSING

Local bank is seeking a full-time SUPERVISOR REAL ESTATE LOAN PROCESSING. A combination of education and experience equivalent to a high school diploma and minimum two years of real estate loan processing; documented supervisory experience is preferred. Skills in areas related to computer software applications, including proficient use of MS Excel and MS Word computer software, the Internet and bank computer software.

Must be able to follow written and oral instructions. *DUTIES: Position provides leadership and management of loan processing services provided by the department. Will manage staff and oversee delivery of real estate loan processing services; provide technical assistance, training and direct supervision of staff to ensure customers receive the most efficient and courteous service possible. Work days MondayFriday, 8:00am-5:00pm. (1 hour lunch) and as needed. Starting wage is DOE/DOQ with an excellent benefit package. Finalists for this position must be able to successfully pass a credit and background check. ***OPEN UNTIL FILLED*** Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10165277 Work For Peace! JRPC looking to hire a Retail Manager, 2535 hrs/wk and a bookkeeper 3-6 hrs/wk Jeannette Rankin Peace Center • 519 S. Higgins Ave., Missoula, MT 59801 • 406.543.3955 • peace@jrpc.org

SKILLED LABOR Carpenter-Residential Locally owned construction firm in search of skilled and semikilled carpenters for both residential projects. Work will be full time and long term. This is not a seasonal job we are looking for employees to continue on with our company long term. Projects are in and around the Missoula area so travel is minimal. Employees must have current valid license and clean driving record.

Wage DOE. Full job listing online at lcstaffing.com Job ID #26383 Dry Waller Employee needed that has a good idea of how to drywall and has limited experience. Employer will train the right employee certain skills required to drywall. Must be able to push, pull and lift a max of 100lbs. Needs to be reliable and open minded.

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SALES Event Specialist Part Time Sales Are you outgoing, friendly and enjoy meeting new people? Our part time Event Specialist jobs are fun and exciting and could be a great fit for you! The in-store demonstrator is responsible for reviewing program materials, set up and break down of the work area, and the preparation and sampling of products on scheduled event days. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10165345 Outside Parts Sales Rep. The Outside Parts/Service Salesperson is responsible for calling on assigned customers within a specific territory to take orders as well as solicit new business for parts and service department. Delivers parts to those customers as needed. Calls on new prospective clients about 20% of the time (average of 8 hours per week) and serves as a Public Relations person. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10165261

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a nine-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, selfrevealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ve arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back towards where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here?

Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

BLACK BEAR NATUROPATHIC

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Urbandictionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself. 2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual!

You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Normally I charge $270-an-hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game.

They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view.

She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all but one of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: http://bit.ly/liberateslaves.

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MNAXLP receipt requested, at 2620 Connery Way, Missoula, Montana 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 5th day of October, 2015 /s/ Susan O. Johnson Personal Representative DARTY LAW OFFICE, PLLC /s/ Steve Darty, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No.: DV-15-109 Dept. No.: 3 John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of James Jerome Woody, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from James Jerome Woody to James Jerome Silber.

The hearing will be on 11/19/2015 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Date: 10/5/2015 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Darci Lehnerz, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP15-184 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MADELYN DILWORTH, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Successor Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dennis Knight, return receipt requested, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, P.O. Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true, accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. DATED this 1st day of November, 2015. /s/ Dennis Knight, Personal Representative DATED this 5th day of November, 2015. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. /s/ Don C. St. Peter MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-15-206 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF

JOHN DAVID HOLDEN ALSO KNOWN AS JOHN D. HOLDEN Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice of said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kathleen F. Holden, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, Montana 59807-9197, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 15th day of October, 2015. /s/ Kathleen F. Holden, Personal Representative, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, MT 59807-9197 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Leslie Halligan Probate No. DP-15-216 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BETTY B. SWANSTROM, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be certified mail, return receipt requested, to Stephen H. Swanstrom, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 30th day of October, 2015. /s/ Stephen H. Swanstrom WORDEN THANE P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Ross P. Keogh MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Probate No. DP-15-214 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JUDITH ELIZABETH HIMBER , Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jody E. Himber, the Personal Representative, return

receipt requested, in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

Dated this 28th day of October, 2015. /s/ Jody E. Himber c/o Paul E. Fickes, Esq. 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No.: 4 Cause No.: DP-15-215 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: MARGARET ANDERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joseph R. Anders, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of October, 2015. /s/ Joseph R. Anders, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC By /s/ Craig Mungas Attorneys for Joseph R. Anders, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-15-201 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EMMY NILSEN TANDBERG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Rolf Tore Tandberg has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate on October 9. 2015. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Rolf Tandberg, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 6109 Linda Vista Blvd., Missoula, MT 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/22/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201012161 BK: 861 Page 1250, mortgage records of

missoulanews.com • November 19–November 26, 2015 [C5]

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

Ellie is a 2-year-old female American Pit Bull. She is a very sweet girl who loves long walks, playing fetch, and trying to catch the spray of a water hose. Ellie gets along with small dogs, cats, and goats. However, she does not particularly enjoy other large dogs, especially other assertive dogs. Ellie is a love and is really looking for a nice comfy couch to lay on this holiday season.

BOSS•Boss is a 2-year-old male American Pit Bull mix. A true gentleman on leash, Boss is one of the most mellow dogs in the kennel. He doesn't jump up on you to greet, never barks in the kennel, and gets along well with other dogs. Boss is really a striking creature to behold. He has had a somewhat questionable ownership history and is really looking for someone with staying power.

PRIMROSE•Primrose is a 1-year-old female Plott Hound mix. She was recently returned to the shelter because of her puppy-like tendency toward separation anxiety. With training, repetition, and consistency, separation is something that most puppies learn to accept calmly. Primrose is good with other dogs, great on leash and housebroken. She heals well and comes when called.

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DAHLIA•Dahlia is a 5-year-old female Domestic Long-Haired Brown Tabby. Dahlia was returned to the shelter after being in a home for 2 years. She was returned because of a medical condition that causes her to develop crystals in her urine. This condition is kept in check with a prescription diet available at most vet clinics.

Dahlia needs a quiet home without the hubbub of excitable kids or dogs.

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NATALIE•Natalie is a 5-year-old female Tabby/Calico. She is by far one of the largest cats in our cat room and prefers to spend her time curled up under blankets and bedding. She would be a great foot warmer on cold winter nights.

Like most over-sized cats, Natalie doesn't really enjoy being picked up, but she will sit with you and accept your affections.

ASHBY• Ashby is a 6-year-old male Blue Point Siamese. He is a love and a snuggler. Ashby is a bit of a shy kitty, and loves high-sided cat beds and pillow cases. He is a beautiful cat that doesn't get much attention because he is often buried in his cat bed. Ashby would love a quiet home with multiple hiding places to curl up in and would likely leave your Christmas tree alone this holiday season.

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She is looking for a family that doesn't mind if she tags along and does whatever activities they are doing, and spends lots of time with her. Suzie is a featured Senior Pet!

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Brady may possibly have some medical needs common in senior kitties such as hyperthyroid.

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SPEEDO•The Humane Society of Western Montana is promoting its senior pets throughout November as part of Adopt-A-Senior-Pet Month. Senior pets are often overlooked, but they truly make some of the best companions. Nine-year-old Speedo is a friendly Pyrenees/Lab mix and ready to relax with caring companions. His life before the shelter wasn’t easy, and because of that he has some treatable medical issues and a special diet.

ACHILLES• This charming boy was found as a stray with a missing back foot and is now looking for his forever home. Achilles is a bit shy and is looking for a quiet home where he can sleep in a reclining chair and practice his hunting skills on toy mice. His favorite activities are sleep- Missoula’s Locally Owned Neighborhood Pet Supply Store www.gofetchdog.com - 728-2275 ing, hunting and purring when he is content.

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EDITH•This sweet senior is extremely affectionate and is always ready for a good conversation. Edith enjoys sitting on laps and receiving cheek rubs and pets. Edith also enjoys long naps and would love to bask in the sun in a window sill at home. If you are looking for a reading buddy, computer assistant or conversation friend, Edith may be the kitty for you! Come meet her today!

LEONARD• Leonard is a transfer from Missoula City-County Animal Control, and due to overcrowding they thought a change of scenery might just what he needs. According to MAC, he has been fine with cats and other dogs - a good start! Because Leonard is seven, his adoption fee is waived for seniors adopting a pet 7 years or older. And November is Adopt-a-Senior-Pet month - a great time to add this deserving fellow into your home!

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[C6] Missoula Independent • November 19–November 26, 2015

PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA County, Montana in which Diane E. Gray, a single person 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 7 in Block 1 of New Meadows, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/15 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 23, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $110,083.44. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $105,463.07, 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 February 2, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire

amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.114489 GRAY, DIANE E.) 1002.283402-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097 Bk: 788 Pg: 366, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew M. Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Kalberg Estates, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 201200002 Bk: 887 Pg: 879, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Loan Trust 2007WF1. 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 04/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 24, 2015, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $612,829.71.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of

MNAXLP $365,584.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 3, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.17612 MILLER, MATTHEW M. and REBECCA L.) 1002.99556-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 2 of Seeley Lake Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded

plat thereof. Greg Triepke and Karla Triepke, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to New Century Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 11, 2005 recorded April 18, 2005 in Book 750 Page 1484 under Document No 200508851.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for HSI Asset Securitization Corporation Trust 2005NC1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-NC1.

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 $1,287.07, beginning January 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 7, 2015 is $173,331.34 principal, interest at the rate of 8.38% totaling $23,139.57, escrow advances of $8,551.62, suspense balance of $-469.85 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,106.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $39.44 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, includ-

ing warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is

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PUBLIC NOTICES titled 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 INFORMATIO OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 26, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 26th day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Diana Steinmetz Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 07/16/2016 Select V Triepke 42085.115 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2 in Block 2 of NEW MEADOWS, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 13 of Plats at Page 16 Christopher S. Hewitt and Stephanie M. Hewitt, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on August 26, 2005 and recorded on August 31, 2005 in Book 759, Page 426 as Document No.

200522819. The beneficial interest is currently held by United Guaranty. 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 $346.59, beginning 10/7/2009., 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 21, 2015 is $28,276.32 principal, interest at the rate of 12.75% totaling $18,139.02.13 plus accruing interest at the rate of $9.88 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

MNAXLP 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 INFORMATIO OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 27, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho )) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 27th day of August, 2015, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Dalia Martinez, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Law Offices Of Goldberg & Oriel V Hewitt 42119.001 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 8, 2016, at 11:00 AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT L-4 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4250 LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 11 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL NO.5841228 GEO#: 1975-14-2-04-07-0000 JOHN E HATFIELD and TERESA A HATFIELD, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Transnation Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 31, 2008, and recorded on August 11, 2008 as Book 824 Page 902, Document No. 200818920.

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FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,558.65, beginning April 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 31, 2015 is $270,435.81 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25000% now totaling $21,296.88, late charges in the amount of $234.39, escrow advances of $6,908.82, suspense balance of $-53.77 and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,112.94, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.90 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 21, 2015 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss.

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

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taxes. $51,900/OBO. 741-3737

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LAND FOR SALE 4.6 acre building lot in the woods with views and privacy.

Lolo, Mormon Creek Rd. $99,000. BHHS Montana Properties. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. 40.69 acres with 2 creeks & Mission Mountain views. $199,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Old Freight Road, St. Ignatius. Approximately 11 acre building lot with Mission Moun-

tain views. $86,900. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 2398350. shannonhilliard5 @gmail.com NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $145,000.

Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com NHN Roundup. Two 20 acre, unzoned, bare land parcels. $3,000,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com Old Indian Trail. Ask Anne about exciting UNZONED parcels near Grant Creek. Anne Jablonski,

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COMMERCIAL Apartment Complex. 329 & 329 1/2 North 2nd West. 3 unit building with separate house in

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Many upgrades. $385,000. Shannon Hilliard, Ink Realty Group 239-8350. shannonhilliard5@gmail.com

OUT OF TOWN 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home.

442 Kensington $239,900

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3 Bdr, 2.5 Bath, Lolo home. $225,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $200,000. BHHSMT Properties.

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