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WHERE’S THE DUMMY? TEST REVEALS MAJOR SAFETY CONCERNS AT BLACKFOOT-CLARK FORK CONFLUENCE

CLOWN SHOW PRISON HOMICIDE PUTS COMPANY CREATES ETC. LEGISLATIVE NEWS THEATER HEADS BACK TO HELENA “THE HOLE” UNDER FIRE CHILLING MADHOUSE

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Cover photo by Chad Harder

News Letters Suicide and wolves ..................................................................................................4 The Week in Review Blackfoot Telecommunications grows ..............................................6 Briefs Low fares, ADUs and the end of the world................................................................6 Etc. Why in the world are we debating intelligent design again? ........................................7 News Prison homicide puts solitary confinement under scrutiny.......................................8 News Safety concerns persist at Blackfoot-Clark Fork confluence ......................................9 Opinion For the love of god, move past the Whitefish Jesus debate ................................10 Opinion Drilling down to a deeper energy development debate.....................................11 Feature What happened to Gabriel? ..................................................................................14

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Thornton’s Art House Matinee indulges silver screen nostalgia ..............................18 Music J. Sherri wants you to have a good time..................................................................19 Theater Crime in a Madhouse amps up the horror........................................................20 Theater Cajune refashions Native stories on stage............................................................21 Film Killing Them Softly murders subtlety ......................................................................22 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films............................................................23 Flash in the Pan Bone stock, a liquid asset.......................................................................24 Happiest Hour All Souls Ale..............................................................................................26 8 Days a Week Feeling serious this week..........................................................................27 Mountain High Scott Jurek at the Wilma..........................................................................33 Agenda Jeff Gailus and Little Black Lies ...........................................................................34

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Exclusives Street Talk............................................................................................................................4 In Other News ...................................................................................................................12 Classifieds ........................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess........................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrology..........................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle............................................................................................................C-5 This Modern World .......................................................................................................C-12 PUBLISHER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew Frank PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Jason McMackin STAFF REPORTERS Jessica Mayrer, Alex Sakariassen COPY EDITOR Kate Whittle EDITORIAL INTERN Kelly Conde PHOTO INTERN Eric Oravsky ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Pumpernickel Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Carolyn Bartlett ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Sasha Perrin, Steven Kirst, Tawana De Hoyos SPECIAL PROJECTS COORDINATOR Alecia Goff SENIOR CLASSIFIED REPRESENTATIVE Tami Allen MARKETING & ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Tara Shisler MARKETING & EVENTS INTERN Whitney Skauge FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, Chris Dombrowski Andy Smetanka, Brad Tyer, Dave Loos, Ednor Therriault, Michael Peck, Jamie Rogers, Molly Laich, Dan Brooks, Melissa Mylchreest

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STREET TALK Asked along North Higgins Avenue on Monday, Dec. 3.

by Chad Harder

Montana state Rep. Clayton Fiscus, R-Billings, has sponsored a bill that would “require public schools to teach intelligent design along with evolution.” Should so-called “intelligent design” be taught in our public classrooms?

Follow-up: What class in your scholastic career do you consider the most pointless?

Korry Erwin: No. We really don’t need any religion in public schools. Religions are too closed-minded. Seizing the day: Most pointless? None. I pretty much got to take the classes I wanted to take in high school, and when you choose yourself they shouldn’t feel pointless.

Trevor Bristow: You know, that kind of thing is more up to the parents than it is up to the schools. I mean, some people believe in it, and others don’t. So if you want it taught you probably should teach it at home.

MENSA-ready: Reading. Definitely reading. I tested “genius” in sixth grade, so after that I just sat through the class for credit. But it did feel pretty pointless.

David Harrison: You know, that’s one I don’t have an answer to. I’m well-versed on how and why it’s a complicated issue, like the fact that teachers are supposed to represent the locals’ wishes, and therefore it is in part a parents’ rights issue. Some want it, but is it the school’s responsibility? Figures: Calculus. Since computers use linear mathematics, an advanced algebra would be more useful to more people. But academia just hasn’t caught up.

Loren Miller: Yeah. Creationism should be taught, because God created the world in six days. Applied mathematics: Not one was a waste of time. Welding, math, the others were all very good. I even use the math in my drawings.

Alan Worf: No, I think maybe we shouldn’t focus so much on the designer and instead just focus more on the design. It seems we’d be more able to agree on that, so maybe we should start there.

Adventure class? I guess I’d say I don’t think any of them were pointless. I learned something in every class, and they were all an adventure.

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Elder abuse

Prescribed suicide

The upcoming legislative session will likely see a new push to legalize assisted suicide in Montana. Your readers may also be told that assisted suicide is already legal, which is not the case.

In 2009, the Montana Supreme Court issued the Baxter decision, which gives doctors who assist a suicide a potential defense to prosecution for homicide. In the 2011 legislature, Sen. Anders Blewett and I introduced competing bills in response to Baxter, neither of which passed. Blewett’s bill sought to legalize assisted suicide; mine sought to eliminate the defense. During the hearing on Blewett’s bill, he conceded that assisted suicide was not legal under Baxter. He said: “under the current law...there’s nothing to protect the doctor from prosecution.” Similar statements were made by others. For example, Dr. Stephen Speckart testified that “most physicians feel significant dis-ease with the limited safeguards and possible risk of criminal prosecution after the Baxter decision.”

Legal assisted suicide is, regardless, a recipe for elder abuse in which heirs are empowered to pressure and abuse older people to cut short their lives. To learn more, see www.montanansagainstassistedsuicide.org Assisted suicide is not legal in Montana. The potential defense to prosecution is, however, a “toe in the door” which could lead to legalization in the future. I urge you to tell your legislators that you support reversing the defense to keep assisted suicide out of Montana.

Sen. Greg Hinkle Thompson Falls

I am confused by the ongoing dispute about whether we should legalize assisted suicide in Montana. I am a medical doctor whose patients include incarcerated persons. Law enforcement, jails and prisons are

“I have seen suicidal people get better, and rebuild lives that looked pretty grim.

I do not agree that doctors or anyone else should be steering people to suicide in Montana.”

mandated to monitor for signs of depression and suicidal ideation, and to identify, intervene and/or initiate treatment. We are told that our failure to do so would be a significant breach of an inmate’s civil rights. Yet according to proponents of assisted suicide, patients also have a right to receive a doctor’s assistance with the suicide. This makes no sense.

On the one hand, you have a group of people (prisoners) who suffer from situational depression due to their circumstances. Suicide attempts in this population are not rare. On the other hand, you have a group of people (persons diagnosed with a terminal diagnosis) who suffer from situational depression due to their circumstances. Why is one group entitled to protection and the other is not? Is it because with the second group, you call it “aid in dying” because people are dying anyway?

They may not be dying anyway. Doctors diagnoses can be wrong. I have seen patients in my own practice live longer than expected. What about an older inmate? Would he be entitled to protection or a lethal dose?

This all strikes me as very Orwellian and also discriminatory to people labeled terminal. I thought freedom from discrimination was a constitutional right.

I have seen suicidal people get better, and rebuild lives that looked pretty grim. I do not agree that doctors or anyone else should be steering people to suicide in Montana. I hope that our legislature will clarify once and for all that assisted suicide is not legal in Montana.

Carley C. Robertson Havre

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Backtalk from “In for the kill,” Nov. 29

Revenge killing

Counting butterflies

I agree with the authors: Why are we subsidizing cattle ranchers and allowing an exotic species to overrun public lands?

And why are we paying the price of the revenge-killings of native species? This is a flagrant case of pandering to special interests and must stop.

Posted on 11/29/2012 at 10:37 a.m.

Please don’t believe all this hype and become brainwashed. While there is much to this article that is correct, much of it is very misleading.

It’s sad that the whole pack had to die and lose their way of life, but is also wouldn’t be good for the rancher to lose his business and years of work, not to mention the diversity of grazing that his cattle offer.

So many are quick to jump and say, “Get your cattle off our public land.” But those cows are generating money for the state where nobody else would, unless you pay to count butterflies or something.

If the state sets limits correctly on cattle it benefits the land and native animals.

Cattle, sheep and goat diets do overlap with ungulate diets but they are not the same. By having diversity you allow the forage that ungulates like more nutrients for growth. We’re also generating at least some income on the land for the state and letting this rancher grow beef for America

Bitter beef Maybe what is needed is a “Conditioned Taste Aversion” additive that will discourage humans from eating beef.

Posted on 11/29/2012 at 10:03 p.m.

Act of God Or we could stop paying ranchers for wolf predation, which was the worst mistake ever made by Defenders of Wildlife.

Wolf predation on a non-native species should be considered an act of God, just like blizzards, lightning strikes, and other uncontrollable, natural causes of death.

Posted on 11/29/2012 at 10:45 p.m.

to eat that’s not from Brazil or China but made in America!

Posted on 11/29/2012 at 11:15 p.m.

Uh, that’s ludicrous As a wildlife biologist, I can tell you that the notion of cattle as biodiversity enhancers is pure fantasy and contrary to a huge body of peer-reviewed science. Case in point is the recently settled lawsuit that forces the Forest Service to close 90 or so miles along the John Day River to grazing because of the impact to imperiled steelhead. Hopefully, elements of the hunting and angling communities will wake up one day an realize the extent of the damage wrought to their resources from this damaging and mismanaged activity.

Posted on 11/30/2012 at 5:55 p.m.

Chewing the cud I’m beginning to believe we will argue and not do what is right, all the way up to the point that it is too late.

Posted on 11/30/2012 at 6:42 p.m.

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missoulanews.com • December 6 – December 13, 2012 [5]

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Chad Harder

Wednesday, November 28 Missoula-based Blackfoot Communications announces an agreement to acquire two North Carolina telecommunications companies. The move marks Blackfoot’s third acquisition in six months.

Thursday, November 29 A military Humvee from Malmstrom Air Force Base rolls off Highway 21 near Augusta and injures four passengers, the Great Falls Tribune reports. One passenger suffers a spinal injury and another punctures a lung.

Friday, November 30 Governor-elect Steve Bullock announces that law enforcement veteran Mike Batista will head the Department of Corrections, state attorney Pam Bucy will direct the Department of Labor and Meg O’Leary of Big Sky Resort will lead the Department of Commerce.

Saturday, December 1 The Griz are done, but the Bobcats roll on into the second round of the FCS playoffs.

No. 3-seeded Montana State tops Stony Brook 16-10 and advances to host Sam Houston State in the quarterfinals Friday night.

Sunday, December 2 Authorities in Oregon confirm the Nov. 14 suicide death of David Oliver Relin, co-author of Three Cups of Tea. Relin suffered from depression after critics questioned facts in the book and the business practices of his Montana-based co-author, Greg Mortenson.

Monday, December 3 Republican Sandy Welch asks a state judge to order a recount in her race against Democratic incumbent Denise Juneau for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Welch lost by a margin of less than 0.5 percent of the vote.

Tuesday, December 4 Missoula Municipal Court Judge Kathleen Jenks appoints attorney Sam Warren to replace former Assistant Judge Marie Anderson, who left suddenly in October. Anderson said publicly that she was unexpectedly fired. The reason was never disclosed.

Nearby slash and wildland fires filled the Missoula Valley with smoke on Friday, Nov. 30, darkening skies enough to trigger automated streetlights in Missoula and Bonner to turn on mid-day. Friday was the last day of the permitted burning season, which opens again on March 1.

Frenchtown

Superfund listing expected Missoula County and Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s administration agree that the 3,200-acre Frenchtown mill site northwest of Missoula should be added to the Superfund National Priorities List, and it’s expected to happen soon.

The site holds a soup of contaminants left behind by a half-century of papermaking. In a Nov. 29 letter from the Missoula Board of County Commissioners to Schweitzer and Department of Environmental Quality Director Richard Opper, the commissioners said that after reviewing the results of the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent investigation, “We believe that this is the next logical step to ensure that the parties responsible for the site contamination are required to complete necessary remedial investigation and cleanup.”

The letter came two days after the EPA wrote to Schweitzer requesting consent for a Superfund listing, which Schweitzer is expected to grant before Dec. 21, the day by which the agency asked for a response.

“The data is clearly there to justify the listing and the community supports it, so I don’t see any obstacles

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to the state giving its consent,” says Opper.

The commissioners’ letter says they’re especially concerned about the former Smurfit-Stone site’s 138 acres of sludge ponds and landfills—contaminated with toxins such as dioxins, furans, arsenic, chromium, lead and methylphenol—located within the Clark Fork River’s floodplain. “These areas are at risk of a catastrophic release by a large flood,” wrote commissioners Bill Carey, Michele Landquist and Jean Curtiss.

The three commissioners also noted the “critical importance” of the EPA and DEQ working closely with the property’s new owners to facilitate redevelopment.

In mid-2011, M2 Green Redevelopment, LLC, a subsidiary of the Illinois-based Green Investment Group, Inc., acquired the mill from Smurfit-Stone for about $19 million. The company owns seven former Smurfit-Stone properties in the United States and Canada.

Peter Nielsen from the Missoula City-County Health Department says the county wants “nothing more than for [the Green Investment Group] to be successful in redeveloping that site and bringing some jobs back to the industrial portion of it. At the same time, we have priorities with regard to protecting public safety and

health and restoring the river, and we’re going to stick to those, too.”

Under federal Superfund law, the government can sue all prior landowners to pay for the cleanup.

Ray Stillwell, the president of the Green Investment Group, says he and business partner Mark Spizzo “are cooperating in every way possible with the EPA.” Matthew Frank

Growth

Granny flat gripes Rattlesnake resident Carma Gilligan came to the Dec. 3 Missoula City Council meeting armed with handouts detailing what she sees as the downsides of accessory dwelling units.

“I’m against them completely,” Gilligan told the council.

Missoula now forbids construction of more than one house on a parcel inside a single-family district in the University, Slant Street and Rattlesnake neighborhoods, among others.

Ward 3 Councilman Alex Taft proposes changing

[news] the provision to allow construction of one additional rental unit. The idea, Taft says, is to ease Missoula’s chronically tight housing market, while taking a financial strain off homeowners. Locals like Gilligan worry that more density will bring increased traffic and noise and, in doing so, change neighborhood character.

In an effort to alleviate concern, council spent the past several weeks tweaking Taft’s original proposal, limiting, for instance, the maximum ADU size to 600 square feet, rather than 800, as first proposed. Similarly, the Plat Annexation and Zoning Committee’s draft ordinance now requires that a public hearing be held, along with a council vote, before a property owner is allowed to build a detached ADU. Not everyone is satisfied with those changes. Gilligan told the Independent that she doesn’t mind attached ADUs, or those added onto an existing home.

She believes attached ADUs will be more likely to have an owner live onsite, minimizing the chances a property will fall into disrepair. The PAZ Committee in its draft ordinance requires that ADU owners live onsite. But Gilligan worries that people will skirt it.

During the Monday night hearing, Ward 1 Councilman Dave Strohmaier attempted again to build consensus by proposing that a full-blown rezoning process be required before a property owner build a detached ADU. If Strohmaier’s amendment were approved, a protest from 25 percent of landowners within 150 feet of a proposed granny flat would make a council supermajority vote necessary to gain approval.

Gilligan likes that idea, but Strohmaier’s colleagues aren’t sold. Ward 2’s Cynthia Wolken and Ward 6’s Ed Childers said during the meeting that Strohmaier’s amendment would make ADUs prohibitively expensive.

Mayor John Engen broke a tie vote, sending the ordinance back to committee this week for further refinement—and, no doubt, further debate.

Jessica Mayrer

Apocalypse

Tour to the end According to the ancient Maya calendar, the end of the world is set in stone—literally. The calendar is carved into the walls of what are now Maya ruins and predicts everything will come to a close Dec. 21. Whether you believe that deadline or not, a Missoula travel company is offering a chance to see the writing on the wall on its big day.

Adventure Life has already registered a group of 10 people for its “Celebrate the Maya� trip, aka the “End of the World� tour. Two spaces are still available at $2,545 per person.

“People are saying the world is going to end. We decided it would be fun to create a tour around those events,� says Monika Sundem, Adventure Life’s sales and marketing director.

The 12-day educational tour starts in Guatemala City and will be led by a Maya expert. The group will, among other things, watch a ritual performed by a Maya shaman, explore an ancient Maya city, visit Maya temples and culminate with a visit to the Uaxactun Ruins, one of the oldest complete Maya astronomical complexes in existence.

The details of the Maya calendar are complicated, but the predicted apocalypse is essentially linked to an alignment of the Earth, sun and planets. This alignment will occur on the morning of the winter solstice, Dec. 21, and can be tracked by the position of the sun on the stone calendar. The Adventure Life group plans to be at the Uaxactun complex at the exact moment when planets and sun fall into place.

Of course, Sundem notes that none in the group actually believe this alignment has more than an aesthetic significance. “Most are very well educated and know that this is not the end of the world,� she says.

She adds the company has indeed booked the group return tickets home.

Kelly Conde

Airfare

Courting lower costs The Missoula Economic Partnership has spent the better part of the past eight months courting Frontier Airlines, hoping that the low-cost carrier service will

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Missoula’s rank in Livability.com’s recent list of top 10 best winter vacation destinations. The write-up declared a “nighttime dip in a hot spring� a must-try in Missoula. We bested Casper on the list, but Spokane somehow landed in second place. commit to flights in and out of Missoula starting next spring. But Frontier isn’t the only prospect MEP’s been cultivating. Last month, MEP President and CEO James Grunke flew to Chicago to speak with United Airlines officials about an unusual offer.

As Grunke reported to the Missoula City Council on Nov. 15, MEP is now in talks with United about offering a revenue guarantee if the airline agrees to lower airfares across the board in Missoula. Typically such offers are only made to carriers like Frontier that don’t yet have a presence in the market, Grunke says. That’s exactly what caught United’s attention. “They’d never had anybody approach them on that before,� Grunke says.

MEP had originally raised a pot of money with which to entice Frontier into the Missoula market. It occurred to Grunke and others this fall that, with the money already there, they could simply reach out to current providers about reducing the cost of existing flights.

It’s a more complicated discussion, Grunke says, because those flights are already full and a reduction in airfare would cut into United’s profits in Missoula. However, if Frontier does establish service in Missoula, United would be faced with a low-cost competitor anyway. And Grunke isn’t ruling out a similar conversation with Missoula’s other major carrier, Delta. “Our goal is really simple,� Grunke says. “We want to decrease airfare. We’re not really concerned about the who. It makes some sense to use an existing carrier.�

Grunke adds that MEP’s conversations with United don’t necessarily have any impact on their desire to see Frontier begin service in Missoula.

Grunke says United is now crunching the numbers. The discussion hinges, he says, on convincing the airline that it would benefit from a revenue guarantee. Meanwhile, MEP expects confirmation from Frontier no later than mid-January. The company is currently mapping out its service network for the coming year, Grunke says, taking into account a reduction in its aircraft fleet. Frontier announced last month it would be dropping service in Billings in 2013; days later, the airline said it would be extending service in Great Falls through next summer.

Alex Sakariassen

ETC. Memory repression is a biological mechanism in the human brain that evolved to block unwanted and painful memories. Years ago, a Stanford researcher, after proving that the mechanism exists, called it “motivated forgetting.�

We’re certainly motivated but we can’t quite forget the 2011 Montana Legislature, what with all the frivolous bills floated by Republicans, the wrangling over medical marijuana and Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s veto branding-iron theatrics.

The list goes on.

The circus is on its way back to Helena next month, with another Republican majority, and incoming Rep. Clayton Fiscus, R-Billings, is blowing up balloons for the clown show. He’s already proposing that state law force public schools to teach intelligent design along with evolution.

Intelligent design is the theory that this totally freaking awesome universe and the life it supports cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity, or God. We wouldn’t pass judgement on such a worldview.

Hey, whatever floats your ark.

But Fiscus isn’t demonstrating much intelligence (or memory) by trying to jam his worldview through the legislature.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1987 that teaching “creationism� is unconstitutional because it advances a particular religion, a version of Christianity. The same goes for “intelligent design,� which, in 2005, a federal judge in Pennsylvania called “creationism relabeled.� It’s not science—unless we change the very definition of science to include supernatural explanations, the judge said.

So it’s clear that Fiscus’ bill is a nonstarter and will only waste precious time during the legislative session that begins Jan. 7. The bill, combined with the request

by Rep. Jerry O’Neil, R-Columbia Falls, to be paid his salary in gold coins, portends another 90 days of nonsense that makes the Montana Legislature a laughingstock, just as “birther� bills, the “Code of Montana,� attempts to nullify federal laws and a proposal to legalize hand-thrown spear hunting did two years ago.

Oh, how we wish we’d forget, and that certain legislators would evolve.

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In the hole Prison homicide puts solitary confinement under scrutiny

by Monica Gokey

Shaun Duncan Morrison calmly watched his own homicide trial play out around him in a Powell County district courtroom last month. Flanked by four prison guards, he watched passively through thick black-rimmed glasses, choosing not to take the stand to tell his side of the story.

housed alone in their cells for 23 hours a day with very little human interaction, according to Anna Conley, an attorney with the ACLU Montana Prison Project. The isolation is aimed at correcting rowdy behavior, but solitary confinement is coming under scrutiny for actually having the opposite effect in some inmates.

Photo by Chad Harder

After spending the majority of his time at Montana State Prison in locked housing, Shaun Duncan Morrison lasted 15 days living with fellow inmates before murdering one over stolen earphones.

A jury convicted the 30-year-old Helena man of deliberate homicide for the murder of fellow Montana State Prison inmate 53year-old Julio Santiago Jr. Their conflict started over a pair of stolen earphones.

Morrison first entered Montana correctional facilities in 2001 on theft and burglary charges, and received additional time after he assaulted a prison official. With the added murder conviction, he now faces the prospect of life in prison.

“Morrison was classified high security at the time of the [homicide], but he spent the majority of his time here in locked housing due to his behavior,” says prison spokesperson Linda Moodry.

While Morrison’s case appears straightforward, the American Civil Liberties Union is troubled by one key detail in stories like Morrison’s: the amount of time spent in locked housing. Locked housing is Montana’s term for solitary confinement, also dubbed “supermax” or “the hole.”

In locked housing units, inmates are

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Conley describes Montana State Prison’s solitary confinement unit as rows of single cells that have small openings in the doors to look in and out of.

“It’s generally very quiet unless there’s somebody in a padded cell for behavioral modification,” Conley says. “In those cases, I’ve heard extensive yelling and screaming.”

In Conley’s experience, solitary confinement is particularly damaging to inmates prone to mental illness. At Morrison’s trial, a psychologist testified about his chaotic upbringing and a track record of hospitalizations for mental illness. One psychologist testified that Morrison killed family pets as a child, and he once set fire to the mattress where his father lay sleeping.

State courts have consistently held that the use of solitary confinement for mentally ill prisoners is unconstitutional. The Department of Justice estimates 56 percent of inmates at state prisons nationwide have some sort of mental health problems. Those inmates are also twice as likely to be in-

volved in prison conflicts than their mentally stable counterparts.

In Montana, the ACLU reached a settlement with Montana State Prison this year over the use of solitary confinement on juvenile and mentally unstable inmates after a 17-year-old prisoner attempted suicide four times in locked housing. Suicide attempts are higher in solitary confinement than in general inmate housing, according to Conley.

Groups like the ACLU don’t necessarily advocate the abolition of solitary confinement as a correctional tool, but there’s concern the practice is being overused. The ACLU estimates about 80,000 inmates nationwide are being held in solitary on any given day—that’s about 1 percent of all incarcerated individuals.

“There are some people who can go into prolonged solitary and have minimal negative impacts, but they’re the exception,” Conley says. “For most inmates in solitary, it’s psychologically detrimental. For the mentally ill in solitary, it makes them more dangerous than when they went in.”

Morrison slashed Julio Santiago multiple times on the head and neck with an improvised weapon made from two razor blades, fastened to a pen with wires stripped from the inside of an extension cord. Photos of Santiago’s bloodied body were deemed too graphic for the jury and were consequently withheld.

Morrison’s behavior is consistent with what Conley observes in other inmates who’ve spent prolonged time in solitary.

“Solitary confinement is generally going to make [inmates] more paranoid, more angry, more hostile, more suspicious, less able to interact with others,” Conley says.

Morrison and Santiago were housed in the highest security level below solitary confinement. But Morrison was somewhat new to living with others; he’d only been in general population housing for 15 days before he fatally attacked Santiago.

Morrison told investigators he’d felt threatened by Santiago’s behavior, that he was being “stared down” and that he felt challenged to do something about his stolen property. Morrison said he never intended to kill Santiago, but rather he only wanted to rough him up so he’d be left alone.

Morrison has not yet been scheduled for sentencing, but the prosecution has already said it does not intend to pursue the death penalty. editor@missoulanews.com

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Six feet under Safety concerns persist at Blackfoot-Clark Fork confluence

by Alex Sakariassen

Late last June, the Missoula Rural Fire directly in the main current, they pose a The abutments aren’t the only concern District sent a dummy through the conflu- “significant risk,” as Harris wrote in a letter along that stretch though. Kustudia warns ence of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers shortly after the test. that while portions of the old Bonner Dam “Bridge abutments are notorious for were removed, sizable chunks of it are still hoping to monitor how a human might fair against two Interstate 90 bridge piers. The catching debris—logs and stuff,” Harris says. in the river. There are scores of submerged results were less than encouraging. After “So now if a log gets [caught] on the abut- logs in the main channel as well. briefly disappearing under the first abut- ment, it’s going to get shoved underwater “Unfortunately, the river was sort of a ment, the dummy swirled through an eddy and likely stuck there. Same with a person. dump for many generations,” Kustudia and submerged beneath the second. While It’s going to shove them underwater.” says. “I’ve got pictures of saw blades in the Harris adds that Missoula County river. It’s a hazardous stretch. Every river several spotters claimed to see the dummy resurface downstream, the sightings were Search and Rescue has also expressed a de- is hazardous just by nature, but the lower sire to schedule site-specific training at the I- Blackfoot’s got hazards that are of human unconfirmed.

“I chased it for a mile or so downstream, 90 bridge next summer. creation.”

Whitewater Rescue Institute co-founder ’cause they said that’s where it was,” recalls Discussions about how to mitigate Cody Harris, president of the those varied hazards will likely Whitewater Rescue Institute, continue into next summer. The who was waiting in a kayak most obvious fix is to install sigdownstream for the dummy to nage upstream warning users of emerge. “I never saw it.” danger ahead. Those signs The uncertain fate of that could also encourage users dummy highlights ongoing without proper safety equippublic safety concerns at the ment to simply get out and confluence, and stresses the avoid the section of river enimportance of mitigating river tirely. Kustudia says public servhazards before Montana Fish, ice announcements from FWP Wildlife and Parks opens that in advance of the floating season particular stretch of river to could be another preventative the public. It’s not necessarily measure. But beyond signage or a concern for folks in rafts or a complete closure of the lower kayaks with helmets and perBlackfoot, Harris doesn’t see sonal floatation devices. “It’s many other possibilities. definitely navigable,” Harris “Either change the abutsays. But there’s likely a subments or put signs up,” HarPhoto by Chad Harder stantial risk for scores of innerris says. “Those are the two tubers who have limited Local whitewater experts sent a dummy past the I-90 options.” maneuverability on the river, bridge on the lower Blackfoot this summer. That dummy An extended closure of the and who are oftentimes toting disappeared beneath an abutment, highlighting concerns confluence is set to expire next for public safety should the stretch of river be opened for coolers of beer.

July. According to Kustudia, recreation.

The Indy was made aware FWP is still drafting a plan on of the test after receiving a copy of a letter Mike Johnston says floaters can take some how exactly to execute the opening. He anfrom the Montana Natural Resource Damage fairly simple precautions, “like not be drunk, ticipates that the Clark Fork closure will be Program to the EPA stating that bridge im- and wear a life jacket.” But accidents happen, lifted in early summer, though the floodprovements made by the EPA and the Army and the dummy’s disappearance was plain will remain off limits to prevent setCorps of Engineers prior to the Milltown enough to convince the Missoula Rural Fire backs in vegetative recovery. The Blackfoot Dam’s removal have “resulted in an unsafe District to begin planning rescue responses closure may well continue, Kustudia says, in advance of public use. Those plans, as well until various agencies can agree on how to condition on the Blackfoot River.”

“Those guys looked pretty wide-eyed,” as any future rescues, are going to be tricky, proceed. Doug Martin with Montana’s NatFWP park manager Mike Kustudia says of Johnston says. The abutment hazards will ural Resource Damage Program, which is reHarris and other river safety professionals change as the river level drops over the sponsible for remediation along the who watched the dummy disappear. “And course of the summer, and emergency re- confluence, says the state’s goal is to reopen when they’re wide-eyed, everyone should be sponders will have to adjust their response the rivers “as soon as possible.” But the plans accordingly.

NRDP, the Montana Department of Transconcerned.”

The I-90 bridge piers are a particular Kustudia, who’s heading an expansive portation and others all recognize that rushconcern because, compared to most other state park project at the confluence, says ing to action on the lower Blackfoot could features on Montana rivers, they’re an the abutments also prompted a change of have dire consequences. anomaly. Harris explains that the upgraded location for a proposed river access site in As for the dummy, if it’s ever recovered, abutments are now undercut on the up- Milltown. Originally the state park plan Harris says it can be returned to the Misstream side to withstand moving water, a called for the site to be constructed on the soula Rural Fire District. At least then everydesign he’s never seen before. As a result, Blackfoot above the I-90 bridge. Due to one will know for certain that it’s not still those undercuts have become an entrap- the abutment hazard, the site has since on the bottom of the Blackfoot. ment for logs, sticks and potentially peo- been relocated to a point downstream on ple. With the abutments positioned the Clark Fork. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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For the purposes of this discussion, we will refer to the statue of Jesus atop Whitefish Mountain as “Whitefish Mountain Jesus,” or WMJ. We will also use that phrase when we stub our toes, and when we catch the neighbor kid who periodically throws crabapples at our car—e.g., “Whitefish Mountain Jesus, son, I’m gonna tan you good!”

We will do so because the phrase “Whitefish Mountain Jesus” is hilarious. It’s not because geological features are so inherently funny, either. The statue—which has become the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation alleging that its presence on federal land amounts to government endorsement of Christianity— gets more comical the longer you look at it.

A quick Google search will show you WMJ in helmet with poles, WMJ posing behind variously excited college students, WMJ shepherding whomever in his flock has come to shred the fresh powder. Those times when there was only one set of tracks?

That’s when Whitefish Mountain Jesus was carrying you, bro. As physical representations of the son of God go, Whitefish Mountain Jesus is definitely the one most related to skiing. He is also among the most difficult to take seriously.

Yet take him seriously we must. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen ruled that the lawsuit against the statue could go to trial. Previously, the Knights of Columbus—who maintain Whitefish Mountain Jesus and lease his holy ground from the Forest Service—filed a motion to dismiss the suit, on the grounds that FFRF had not named a complainant directly harmed by the statue.

That hurdle was surmounted with the introduction of William Cox, a Kalispell resident, avid skier and FFRF supporter who swore in an affidavit that Whitefish Mountain Jesus offended him on a regular basis. “Mr. Cox perceives the Jesus statue to be a conspicuously Roman Catholic monument,” the complaint says.

It seems like a reasonable assertion.

Both mountain and lowland Jesus has long been associated with the Catholic church, even if his primary significance is as a historical reminder of World War II. That is the peculiar argument advanced by Kalispell City Attorney Charlie Harball, who claims that Whitefish Mountain Jesus is a non-religious memorial to the service of veterans.

“They’ve chosen a statue of Jesus Christ to express that. We don’t believe that it’s the government trying to put religion on peo-

“As physical representations of the son of God go, Whitefish Mountain Jesus is definitely the one most related to skiing.” ple,” Harball told KPAX. “It is a group of people who put that up. If the group wanted to use a statue of Buddha or Gandhi for the same purposes, we would defend that just as much.”

First of all, Gandhi is not a religious figure. Second, Harball’s argument that Jesus Christ is about veterans and not Christianity is intellectually dishonest in the extreme— approximately as dishonest as Cox’s claim that skiing past Whitefish Mountain Jesus causes him personal injury.

As a person who does not believe in god, I am regularly subjected to specious claims of persecution. A woman at a party once told me that atheists were the most discriminated-against group in America, which

offered me a fun opportunity to tell her about black people. Yes, it is probably inappropriate that the Knights of Columbus put a life-sized statue of Jesus Christ on federal land on top of a mountain. It may even be an insult. But such behavior hardly rises to the level of injury.

That fact is that contemporary society is pretty safe for nonbelievers. No admitted atheist has been elected president, and our money still says “in God we trust,” but America remains a great place to skip church.

Godless jerks like me can drink whiskey and play World of Warcraft on Sunday mornings, as the founders intended, and we do not have to worry about the kind of persecution people put up with in, say, Iran.

It’s an unprecedented luxury, when you think about it, which is why we atheists can maybe be forgiven the fantasy that we are a persecuted minority. As a person who suffers in his daily life almost not at all, I would love to imagine myself a victim of societal prejudice. That would be awesome, provided I don’t have to deal with any actual victimizing. I would say that my ideal level of suffering for my beliefs is approximately what you feel when you ski past a statue of a religious figure you don’t believe in—Buddha, maybe, or the Hindu Lord Gandhi.

Frankly, Whitefish Mountain Jesus is exactly the kind of thing that keeps my atheism fun. So I propose a settlement in FFRF et al v. U.S. Forest Service: They get to keep their memorial to veterans/the slain and risen son of God, but I get to periodically go up there and dress him like the villain in Better Off Dead.

Might that offend the scores of Christian faithful who make their pilgrimage to the top of Whitefish Moutain coincidentally wearing skis? Maybe, but it won’t really hurt them.

Not every insult is an injury, as much as we would like to imagine it so.

Dan Brooks writes about politics, consumer culture and lying at combatblog.net.

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[10] Missoula Independent • December 6 – December 13, 2012

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A few weeks ago, a Texas oilman cornered me at a brewery in the high-mountain town of Ouray, in western Colorado. Some young women from Moab had just taken the table next to my friend and myself, when the fellow wandered over to buy us a round.

Eventually, he revealed that he worked for ConocoPhillips. This didn’t go over well with the Utah ladies, and Mr. ConocoPhillips grew defensive: Did they think the vehicle they had driven here ran on rainbows? When he found out I covered the industry as a reporter, he leaned in tipsily and asked, “Can we have a conversation? A real conversation?”

The answer was apparently no, since what ensued felt like an energy-focused version of writer Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “Men Explain Things to Me.” But if he had gotten past his assumption that I was an airy naïf, he would have realized that I mostly agreed with him: As drilling impinges on more communities, those communities need to have “real,” critical conversations about energy development, conversations in which the locals recognize their role as consumers.

Paonia, Colo., where I live and work, recently became such a town. Last December, nearly 30,000 acres in the surrounding North Fork Valley were nominated for oil and gas leasing. Though the proposal was deferred this summer for further study, in November, the Bureau of Land Management announced its intent to auction about 20,000 of those acres Feb. 14.

Given the habitat fragmentation and pollution that energy development can bring, many here have fought the proposal.

Some of the earlier leases sprawled across mountain biking areas or sat next to schools. Others encompassed springs that feed the town water system or surrounded irrigation ditches for ranches, organic farms and vineyards. As Peter Heller reported in

an essay for Bloomberg BusinessWeek this July, the North Fork Valley “is home to the largest concentration of organic farms in the Rocky Mountains. … The valley produces 77 percent of the state’s apples, 71 percent of its peaches.” The BLM received nearly 3,000 comments on the proposal, mostly in opposition.

“None of (those) issues … are incompatible with oil and gas development,” Steven Hall, BLM’s Colorado communications director, told Heller. Even so, in its

“Are there any places so unspecial that they should be drilled?” latest proposal, the agency removed a couple of the more controversial parcels, including the one closest to Paonia’s water supply and another containing a popular trail network.

Most of the parcels remain, though.

Worse, the sale would occur under the terms of the outdated Resource Management Plan, a 23-year-old document that governs development on hundreds of thousands of acres.

If the agency waited, it could re-examine the proposal under the updated version—due in draft this spring—which, in theory, would allow it to account for advances in drilling technology and changes to the area’s economy, demographics and environment. That might help the agency strike a clearer balance between energy development and other interests.

At an environmental film festival in

Paonia soon after the BLM’s decision, the audience booed throughout a Google Earth tour of the parcels still up for lease.

When a staffer from the conservation group who hosted the event noted that the mountain biking parcel had been withdrawn, discontent only grew. Many refused to accept any leasing whatsoever.

Opponents believe, as do their counterparts in many communities facing oil and gas development, that some places are too special to drill. It’s a valid view; I often share it.

But that raises an uncomfortable question: Are there any places so unspecial that they should be drilled? Mr. ConocoPhillips knows well that few of us in Paonia or elsewhere can say we don’t rely on these fuels —for heat, for transport, for electricity, for the fertilization of food. Every place matters to somebody. And what patch of Earth isn’t habitat for at least a few wonderful somethings? As Bobby Reedy, who runs a local auto shop in Paonia, told Heller: “I wanna flick the light switch and know the lights are gonna come on. If it’s not in my backyard, whose is it gonna be in?”

If we continue to insist on living as we do now, maybe we need to see drill rigs from our kitchen windows and hiking trails, even our school playgrounds. How else can we truly understand the costs of something we use unless we’re confronted with them daily?

This isn’t just the machinery of corporate greed; it’s the machinery of our vast collective energy appetite. And if we can’t look directly at it, and can’t accept what it does to our water and air, then it’s time to do more than just fight drilling. It’s time to go on an energy diet.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Brian Hardman, 22, pointed a gun at Leonard Turner, who was putting air in his tires at a Detroit gas station, and demanded his car. Turner, 47, a former middleweight boxer, grabbed Hardman’s trigger finger and shot off the gun until it was empty, then threw Hardman to the ground. “He got up,” Turner recounted, “and said, ‘Give me my gun back. I got a CCW (carry concealed weapon permit).’ Then I hit him with the gun.” At Hardman’s trial, defense attorney Jonathan Jones argued that his client shouldn’t be charged with carjacking because he didn’t have the gun on him. “The reason he didn’t have the gun on him,” Judge Shannon A. Holmes noted, “is because the defendant got his butt whipped, and Mr. Turner took the gun from him.” (Detroit News) When Susan Cole showed up for jury duty in Denver, she was wearing curlers in her hair and mismatched shoes, according to a court affidavit. When Judge Anne Mansfield asked if any prospective jurors had a mental illness, court reporter Kelli Wessels said Cole “stated she had difficulties getting ready in the morning” and added she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Judge Mansfield excused her but four months later heard someone brag on local radio about showing up looking disheveled and faking mental illness to evade jury duty. The woman was identified as Cole, who pleaded guilty to perjury and received a two-year suspended sentence and 40 hours of community service. (The Denver Post)

TOURIST TRADE - New York and New Jersey victims of Hurricane Sandy complained their cleanup efforts are interrupted by disaster tourists, who’re drawn by curiosity to the real-life scenes of tragedy shown on television. “The gawking was amazing last week,” Staten Island resident Joanne McClenin commented.

“It was kind of offensive as a homeowner, because I felt violated.” (Associated Press) Seven years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, tour buses continue to visit the devastated Lower Ninth Ward, charging an average of $45 per person to glimpse what some tour operators promote as the scene of “America’s Greatest Catastrophe.” After years of loosely enforcing a ban on motor coaches, police began turning back tours and fining violators. “Residents don’t like being gawked at by tourists as though they’re sideshow attractions,” city councilor Ernest F. Charbonnet declared, vowing to introduce legislation to limit buses to 30 passengers along a designated route. (The New York Times)

LITIGATION NATION - David Jiminez, 43, spent hours at the large crucifix outside St. Patrick’s Church in Newburgh, N.Y., praying for his wife, who was battling ovarian cancer. When she recovered, he offered to clean the crucifix in gratitude. While he was scrubbing Christ’s face, the 600-pound marble statuary toppled over and crushed his right leg, which doctors had to amputate. Even though charitable foundations covered his six-figure medical bills, Jiminez sued the church for $3 million. The church denied any responsibility. (Associated Press)

FOR WHOM THE TOLL TOLLS - When Washington’s Capital Beltway opened new toll express lanes in Virginia, adjacent to the free but routinely congested lanes, six accidents occurred in the first 72 hours.

All were caused by drivers swerving to avoid the toll lanes or the unexpected tie-ups resulting from the accidents. Virginia State Police urged drivers who mistakenly enter the express lanes not to back up.

“What we’re seeing out there is what you’d expect with a traffic shift of this magnitude,” said Jennifer Aument, an official with Transurban, the company that contracted with the state to build the variable-toll lanes. (The Washington Post)

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In its first six months, Maryland’s Intercounty Connector reported racking up nearly $670,000 in unpaid tolls—four times the statewide violation rate. Vehicles that use the road without a transponder to record the trip and automatically deduct the toll from an account are photographed and their owners billed. Individual motorists accrued as much as $1,418, and one rental-car company’s debt amounted to $4,263.

Officials said some people don’t pay because Maryland’s toll collectors lack enforcement authority, such as suspending vehicle registrations and referring scofflaws to the courts. State lawmakers promised to address collection methods next year. “We can’t afford to leave money on the table,” state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh said. “The ICC was a very expensive road to build.” (The Washington Post)

SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Combat City, a shooting range in Orlando, Fla., lets its customers fire at each other to test whether they have what it takes to shoot another person if their life depends on it. Owner Dave Kaplan greets customers, searches them for concealed weapons and ammunition, and modifies their weapons to fire only a soft rubber bullet. Participants then enter the range wearing protection for their head, neck and private parts. Even so, the rubber bullets hurt, more so than being shot with a paintball. “There is supposed to be a degree of pain,” Kaplan explained, “so that you do learn from it.” (Orlando’s WKMG-TV) An employee at the Copper County Sporting Arms gun shop in Silver City, N.M., was unloading a .45 caliber handgun when it accidentally fired, shooting a 65-year-old customer in the back. Police Chief Ed Reynolds reported the victim was listed in stable condition. (Las Cruces Sun-News) Firearms instructor Saulius “Sonny” Puzikas was conducting a live-fire training exercise at the Texas Defensive Shooting Academy in Ferris using live ammunition to fire at targets in a house. As darkness fell, he decided to run the course himself and opened fire with a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol. He accidentally shot an instructor still inside the house, once in the hand and twice in the abdomen. Puzikas, whose gun did not have a light, insisted he didn’t see the victim, who was airlifted to the hospital and listed in stable condition. (The Ellis County Press)

DIFFERENT-SEX MARRIAGES - Authorities charged Frederick Hengl, 68, with murdering his wife after they found her severed head in the freezer and her body parts cooking on the stove. District Attorney Katherine Flaherty said there was no evidence of cannibalism. (Associated Press) Police said Holly Solomon, 28, ran over her husband in Gilbert, Ariz., blaming him for President Obama’s re-election because he didn’t vote. She told police she was just trying to scare David Solomon by chasing him all over a parking lot in her Jeep, but her foot slipped on the accelerator. He was hospitalized in critical condition. (Associated Press)

[12] Missoula Independent • December 6 – December 13, 2012

missoulanews.com • December 6 – December 13, 2012 [13]

What happened to

Gabriel?

Robert “Dave” Wilkes is currently in prison for killing his 3-month-old son.

He swears he didn’t do it.

New scientific evidence may prove his innocence.

by Jessica Mayrer photos by Chad Harder

R

obert “Dave” Wilkes hustled to get done as soon as possible. He was moving from a one-bedroom apartment on Third Street to a larger one in the same building, and his young son, Gabriel, was being watched by a neighbor. It was Oct. 4, 2008, just one day before Gabriel turned 3 months old, and the infant was suffering from an upset stomach.

In addition to handling the move, Wilkes dropped off some Tylenol for his neighbor to give Gabriel. It was a hectic day, but Wilkes says he didn’t mind. He always wanted to be a father.

Around 8 p.m., Wilkes finally finished moving his things and picked up Gabriel from the neighbor’s apartment. He hadn’t set up the crib yet, so Wilkes laid his son down on a thick quilt in the bedroom. When Wilkes went to the living room and cracked open a soda, he says he heard gurgling and rushed to check on his son.

“When I picked him up, his head lolled to the side,” Wilkes recalls on a recent fall afternoon.

Gabriel vomited. Wilkes brought his son from the bedroom to the living room, but Gabriel had stopped breathing. Wilkes started chest compressions on the living room futon.

“He wasn’t coming to,” Wilkes says. “His face kept getting redder.”

Wilkes couldn’t find his phone. In the panic, he says he forgot it was in his back pocket. When he ran to the neighbor’s house, the one who had taken care of Gabriel earlier in the day, he screamed at her to call 911.

By the time EMTs arrived, Gabriel wasn’t responding.

“It was kind of a blur after that,” Wilkes says.

Gabriel’s mom, Sonja Wilson, was working in the Mis-

soulian packaging department when she got the call from a Community Hospital receptionist that her son wasn’t breathing. The receptionist said Wilson should hurry.

She still remembers the scene inside the hospital room.

“The first thing I saw was my son laying on the trauma table with like eight doctors and nurses standing around him—you know, trying to revive him, giving him CPR, hooking him up to monitors,” Wilson says.

She then realized Wilkes was in the room, to the right of the door.

“There was Dave sitting on a stool with his knees up to his chest with his hands to his face and he was bawling,” Wilson says.

Wilkes and Wilson sat together at the hospital until 1 a.m.

[14] Missoula Independent • December 6 – December 13, 2012

Missoula Police Department detectives then came and took them to the police station. They questioned both parents, as well as the babysitter, about what had happened that day.

“That whole time I highly believed Dave didn’t do anything,” says Wilson.

Wilkes told the police the same thing he had told the doctors and the same thing he would later tell a jury: He didn’t know what had happened to Gabriel. He didn’t know what went wrong.

F

our years to the day after his son got sick, Wilkes, now 41, sobs quietly inside the Crossroads Correctional Facility in Shelby, where he’s serving 40 years for deliberate homicide. Gingerly, he picks up a photo of Gabriel wearing a blue jumper. It’s the only photo Wilkes has of his son, and he keeps it tucked away in an old Father’s Day card in his cell.

Wilkes says it’s hard to look at the photo.

“He looked so much like me,” Wilkes says.

Three weeks after Gabriel got sick and stopped breathing inside Wilkes’ new apartment, Gabriel died.

The autopsy showed signs of subdural and retinal bleeding and brain swelling. These symptoms are known as the “triad,” and have traditionally been used to diagnose shaken baby syndrome.

SBS is now more frequently referred to as “non-accidental head trauma.” There is no official record of how many people are prosecuted for inflicting high-force trauma on children in their care. Some experts estimate that as many as 200 individuals face such charges annually in the United States.

Authorities considered Wilkes a suspect in his ongoing legal problems, she lived apart from Wilkes slept well the night before and didn’t finish her morn- That evening, she learned that Natalie had died.

An autopsy showed Natalie exhibited hallmark son’s death from the beginning. They believed he was and Gabriel, leaving Wilkes as a single parent. Wilson ing bottle. Edmunds tried to feed Natalie while keepstressed from caring for a newborn and managing the continues to stand by Wilkes’ account and supports ing an eye on her two kids and another child in her non-accidental head trauma symptoms. “Everybody was going back to the 1971 triad,” Edmunds says, recare that Monday morning. move into a new apartment, and accused him of vio- his case.

Moving to a new apartment complicated things “She was very fussy, which was not uncom- ferring to when the combination of injuries first lently shaking or slamming Gabriel. That was the prosecution’s explanation of what happened when that day, but not to the point of setting Wilkes off. In mon,” Edmunds recalls. “She never took a bottle emerged as an explanation of SBS. fact, he has always maintained that he didn’t shake, real well. It took her quite a while and she had trouIn November 1996, Edmunds was convicted of Wilkes went to trial on Dec. 14, 2009. first-degree reckless homicide. She was sentenced to “(Gabriel) died in Spokane in a hospice, after sus- drop or slam his son. He knew something must have ble sucking.”

18 years in custody, with the first eight years in a maxtaining devastating, life-ending brain injuries—injuries imum-security prison. Her children at the time of her inflicted by this defendant, his own father, the day beconviction were 9 months old, 2 and 5. For about five fore he turned 3 months old,” said prosecutor Suzy of her years in prison, her kids came to visit nearly Boylan. every weekend. After Edmunds’ husband divorced The babysitter who had cared for Gabriel testiher, the visits became less frequent. fied that she smelled alcohol on Wilkes’ breath on Edmunds lost an initial appeal in 1999, but in Friday night, the night before Gabriel got sick. She 2003 the Wisconsin Innocence Project took her case. also smelled it on Saturday when Wilkes picked By then, scientists had begun to cast doubt on the Gabriel up.

SBS diagnosis. During a 2007 evidentiary hearing to Boylan said the CAT scan and MRI immediately debate whether Edmunds should have a new trial, the prompted Community Medical Center doctors to forensic pathologist who testified against her during suspect Gabriel’s injuries resulted from abuse. The the first homicide trail said that, contrary to his initial child, Boylan said, sustained “severe non-accident opinion, Natalie’s injuries could have been sustained trauma to the brain—trauma that requires a great —Jessie McQuillan, executive director prior to her time in Edmunds’ care. deal of force to be inflicted—the kind of force you In 2008, the Wisconsin Fourth District Court of would see in a motor vehicle accident, or a fall from of the Montana Innocence Project Appeals cited a shift of thought in mainstream media great distance.” cine on SBS when it overturned Edmunds’ convicNine medical experts testified against Wilkes durtion. The prosecution opted to not try her again. ing the trial. Rich Kaplan, medical director for the “There are now competing medical opinions as Center For Safe and Healthy Children at the Univer- happened to Gabriel, so he wasn’t surprised when Edmunds needed to ready the three other children sity of Minnesota, testified that he and several other police questioned him. for their morning walk to preschool, where one of the to how Natalie’s injuries arose,” the court said, citing “I was like, ‘Okay, I understand that. I’m his fa- youngsters would be dropped off, and she set Natalie in a “legitimate and significant dispute” within the meddoctors involved in Gabriel’s case had thoroughly examined Gabriel’s medical records and ruled out other ther. I [was] there,” Wilkes says. “It’s not like a ghost the master bedroom with a bottle. When Edmunds ical community about the triad. came in and did something.”

Edmunds, now 51, works at a convenience store potential causes of his symptoms. picked Natalie back up a few minutes later, the little girl’s Only recently has a new explanation emerged of head tilted to the side and formula came out of Natalie’s in a St. Paul suburb. A book about her prosecution, It “I was impressed with both hospitals not jumping right on the abuse bandwagon, but doing careful ex- what that “something” could have been. nose. Edmunds thought Natalie was choking. When Ed- Happened to Audrey: A Terrifying Journey from Loving Mom to Accused Baby Killer, came out Nov. 15. amination to make sure there wasn’t anything else,” munds patted her on the back, Natalie didn’t respond.

Kaplan testified.

When questioned about the fact Gabriel had no other visible he Montana Innocence Project signs of injury, aside from a small began investigating Wilkes’ case in bruise on his back, Kaplan said spring 2011. Innocence Project Executhat’s not uncommon with non-active Director Jessie McQuillan says her cidental head trauma, “because bastaff was struck by Wilkes’ consistent bies’ bones bend a lot before they and simple account of what happened break.” the night Gabriel first got sick, as well as Kaplan went on to say that bethe prosecution’s reliance on the triad. cause Gabriel had taken a bottle “A few things caught our eye off before leaving the babysitter’s the bat,” she says. “The fact that house, the injuries must have hap( Wilkes) had been accused of child pened in Wilkes’ care. abuse, and there were no external “I think it would be almost insigns of abuse, and the fact that there conceivable—after he sustained was no history of abuse.” such terrible brain injuries—that In addition, the science behind he could be able to have the neunon-accidental head trauma has rological wherewithal to suck and changed significantly since the triad diswallow in a coordinated fashion,” agnosis emerged more than 40 years Kaplan said. ago. In 1971, pediatric neurologist When reached by the IndeNorman Guthkelch warned colleagues pendent, Kaplan explained that the that the triad alone presented reason sudden onset of Gabriel’s sympto suspect abuse. Since Guthkelch’s toms indicate that he was badly infindings, doctors have proved that the jured just before the little boy got triad can stem from various other ailsick. ments, including viral and bacterial in“This kid was really out of it fections, blood-clotting disorders and the minute he was assaulted,” Kaliver disease. plan says.

These evolving medical discoveries Robert “Dave” Wilkes hugs Montana Innocence Project attorney Brendan McQuillan during a visit at Crossroads Kaplan also told the Independ- Correctional Facility in Shelby. have complicated child abuse prosecuent that he doesn’t believe Wilkes tions. The debate over non-accidental intended to hurt Gabriel. Typically in abuse cases like Edmunds called 911. The operator told her how head trauma constitutes one of the most contested isthis one, parents get frustrated. “Most of these folks sues in forensic pathology today. Some doctors say n fall 1995, Audrey Edmunds was a housewife liv- to do CPR. just lose it,” he says.

“I’m frantic,” Edmunds says. “I’m feeling terrible that it’s impossible to shake an infant severely enough ing in a large suburban ranch home north of MadiBut Wilkes maintains he never lost it. Yes, things son, Wis. She was raising her two young children and that I caused her to choke, because I left her with a to cause life-ending injuries and leave no other signs were hectic. He had full custody of his son and was pregnant with a third. Because she liked caring for propped up bottle.” of abuse. Others say to discount the diagnosis only learning parenting basics on the fly. Sonja Wilson kids, she started babysitting for her neighbors.

Formula continued to come out of Natalie’s provides shelter for child abusers. says her previous partner had abused her daughter, While the debate continues, courts are reconsidOn the morning of Oct. 16, Cindy Beard brought mouth while Edmunds performed CPR. Once EMTs and that prompted the Montana Child and Family her 6-month-old daughter Natalie to Edmunds’ house arrived, Natalie was flown to the hospital and Ed- ering SBS cases nationwide. During the past 15 years, Services Division to intervene. Because of Wilson’s for childcare. Beard told Edmunds that Natalie hadn’t munds waited to hear news from the girl’s parents. judges and juries have taken new science into account

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Innocence Project Executive Director Jessie McQuillan, above, says newly discovered evidence shows that Wilkes didn’t kill his son. Audrey Edmunds, center below, served 11 years for killing 6-month-old Natalie Beard. In 2008, a Wisconsin Court reversed the conviction. In 2010, a jury found Billings resident Nevada Ugalde, bottom, guilty of aggravated assault for inflicting a severe head injury on 8-month-old Isaiah Napier.

when reversing SBS convictions in Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. In October, an Arizona judge tossed out SBS-related murder charges against Drayton Witt, who was convicted in 2002 of killing his 4-month-old son. Witt is the second Arizonan since 2010 to have an SBS-related murder conviction reversed.

At the beginning of this year, the Montana Innocence Project asked five medical experts from across the nation to undergo a comprehensive medical review to find what could have caused Gabriel’s death. Forensic pathologist Peter J. Stephens discovered that Gabriel suffered from a rare liver disease that caused the triad.

Northwestern University School of Medicine pediatrics professor Peter Whitington also found liver abnormalities. Armed with the new evidence, Innocence Project attorneys in September asked Missoula’s Fourth Judicial Court to hold another trial for Wilkes.

“There’s another whole side of this story,” McQuillan says, “that wasn’t told, that wasn’t even explored.”

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hen DePaul University College of Law professor and former prosecutor Deborah Tuerkheimer heard about Wisconsin homemaker Audrey Edmunds’ case, she imagined there had to be others like her.

“If the science had changed enough to warrant a new trial for Audrey Edmunds, then it seemed to me there were likely lots and lots of other cases that fell into the same category, that should at the very least be revisited,” Tuerkheimer says in a recent phone interview with the Independent.

The problem is that scientists’ opinions run the gamut, but the legal system deals in black and white.

Tuerkheimer says that Canada and the United Kingdom have initiated reviews of triad-based prosecutions, but the United States has not. She believes that new science calls into question thousands of convictions.

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“Notwithstanding these rather seismic shifts in medical thinking, the criminal justice system has— with only rare and recent exception—been unyielding to new thinking about a diagnosis that proves a crime,” Tuerkheimer says.

High-force trauma cases such as Edmunds’ and Wilkes’ almost always boil down to a battle of the experts, and a doctor’s time doesn’t typically come cheap. That means the accused who get new trials, those who are acquitted, are the fortunate ones, Tuerkheimer says.

“Those are cases where people have really good experts, and they either do because they’ve got the money to hire a good lawyer and get good experts or because they’re fortunate enough to have an Innocence Project with the resources and the smarts to do these cases right,” she says. “There is an inequality that tends to run through all of this.”

In Wilkes’ case, the Innocence Project’s petition alleges that the prosecution relied on antiquated science and that the defense badly erred when failing altogether to mention the long-raging debate surrounding SBS. Kaplan, one of the prosecution’s expert witnesses, says he’s following up on the Innocence Project’s findings. He has sent a sample from Gabriel’s liver to a colleague and awaits the results.

Wilkes’ public defender, Scott Spencer, said in an affidavit on file with the Innocence Project that he saw no way to cast doubt on the prosecution’s expert testimony.

“This was a very difficult case for me as the defendant insisted that he did not harm the child,” Spencer says in the affidavit. “Yet nothing could be found to overcome the medical opinions, both from the state and from our expert. If there was a different line of attack on the medical testimony, I was not able to find it.”

Prior to the trial, Spencer consulted with Thomas Bennett, a Billings-based forensic pathologist. Bennett examined Gabriel while the child was hospital-

ized in Spokane and he agreed with the prosecution’s medical experts that it appeared the infant had been abused.

Bennett has extensive experience with SBS. In 1999, The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy article detailing his work diagnosing the syndrome while serving as Iowa’s chief medical examiner. Between 1989 and 1997, Bennett autopsies identified 17 SBSrelated cases. Three caregivers prosecuted with his findings were later cleared.

Bennett says that after he visited Gabriel in Spokane, he reported back to Spencer. After that, he didn’t hear from the attorney again. “I didn’t get to see the autopsy report, I didn’t get to see the autopsy in general,” Bennett says. “If they determine they don’t need any more work by you, then you don’t work for them anymore.”

The Innocence Project says in court filings that Spencer’s failure to mention the controversy surrounding SBS is “inexcusable.”

Spencer declined an interview request from the Independent.

“They are looking at the same thing, and come up with two different conclusions,” says Reim’s defense attorney.

Experts also disagreed on the case of Nevada Ugalde, a Billings resident. Ugalde told law enforcement she briefly left 8-month-old Isaiah Napier in a crib on June 11, 2008. When Ugalde came back from doing laundry, she found that Isaiah had fallen onto the floor.

Doctors found significant brain injuries, and prosecution witnesses testified during Ugalde’s trial that there was no way Isaiah could have hurt himself that badly simply falling from his crib. The crib was 32 inches above a carpeted floor.

Ugalde’s public defender, Tanya Dvarishkis, says that her client, who was 20 when she was charged, consistently refused to admit guilt even when offered increased visits with her own son.

“You get to know people as a defense attorney,” Dvarishkis told the Independent. “This girl just didn’t have it in her.”

John Plunkett, a Minnesota-based forensic pathologist, testified on Ugalde’s behalf and called the triad bad science. “It’s bunk,” he told the Independent in a recent interview.

Despite Plunkett’s testimony, Ugalde was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.4 million in restitution to help cover Isaiah’s future medical needs.

The Billings Gazette reports that, as of last year, Isaiah “had four surgeries on his eyes, must wear braces on his legs and is attending classes at a special-education school and taking speech therapy to learn to talk.”

A.R. has recovered and is living in foster care.

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Wilkes is currently serving 40 years in the Department of Corrections’ custody.

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ilkes isn’t the only one facing a triad-based prosecution in Montana. On Nov. 14, District Judge James P. Reynolds sentenced 26-year-old Michael Reim of Helena to 10 years in the Montana Department of Corrections’ custody for aggravated assault. Reim was convicted of inflicting high-force trauma onto his 6-month-old son.

Reim’s attorney, public defender Jennifer Streano, requested the judge decide the case, rather than a jury, because of its complexity. The Reim case centered on two triad symptoms and, after digesting the massive amount of technical information presented by experts, the judge found the child, referred to as A.R. in court documents, sustained “a serious and protracted loss or impairment of the function of the brain and eyes.”

During Reim’s trial, prosecution experts, including Robert Stears, a neuroradiologist from St. Vincent’s hospital in Billings, found after examining high-tech brain scans that A.R. sustained non-accidental trauma. Other doctors, including physicians from St. Vincent’s and the Primary Children’s Medical Center in Utah, concurred.

Michael Laposata, a clinical pathologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who volunteered his time on behalf of the defense, said that A.R. had a blood clotting disorder that was responsible for the symptoms.

Two doctors from Stanford University Medical Center agreed that A.R. had died from illness, not trauma.

ilkes had a bad feeling during his trial. He could tell the jury hadn’t warmed to him or his story because they wouldn’t make eye contact. He concedes that his tattoos and gruff voice may not have helped matters. “A lot of it might have to do with my image,” he says.

Montana Before he was charged, Wilkes would read newspaper articles about parents who hurt their children. He became angry thinking that an adult could do that to a child. Wilkes doesn’t rush to judgment so quickly these days, he says.

“Crazy way to go about changing your thinking, huh?”

Wilkes tries to keep busy in prison and reads a lot. He likes Tom Clancy and Steven King, especially King’s novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Wilkes identifies with the story’s protagonist, Andy Dufresne, an innocent man who’s sent to jail for killing his wife and her lover.

“Andy Dufresne—he got his against the system,” Wilkes says. “I can relate with that.”

If the Innocence Project’s attempt to exonerate him fails, Wilkes won’t go before the parole board until 2017. He says he doesn’t see parole as likely. “I can’t blame them, because if somebody was guilty of what they charged me with, I wouldn’t give them a chance,” he says.

In the meantime, Wilkes marks Gabriel’s birthday every year. He also commemorates the day his son died. Among the things that most troubles Wilkes is that his son’s ashes remain in a purple drawstring bag tucked away at Wilkes’ brother’s house. Gabriel never had a funeral service or memorial.

“I think about that constantly,” Wilkes says. “It’s just unfinished.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Hollywood heroes Tim Thornton’s Art House Matinee indulges silver screen nostalgia

by Jed Nussbaum

lint Eastwood grimaces from a canvas on artist Tim Thornton’s living room wall, his eyes smoldering like the cigarillo clenched between his teeth. A dirty golden sun burns down on the Fistful of Dollars protagonist, his sandblasted countenance bathed in hues of brown and bronze acrylic paint.

On the opposite wall of the room, The Graduate’s quintessential cougar, Mrs. Robinson, averts her gaze from Clint’s classic squint, apparently waiting for a much younger suitor. She smokes seductively in her garish yellow leopard print coat, a neon-green olive skewered in her martini glass. Angel fish swim across the vibrant blue background behind her.

Normally, Thornton doesn’t outfit his living space with so much of his own work, but the paintings currently adorn much of the house in preparation for his First Friday exhibition at the Brink Gallery. The exhibit, Art

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House Matinee, is a collection of over a dozen large-scale paintings of different movie stars from classic films, redefined in electric pop-art appearance, with stylistic references to artists like Stuart Davis and Roy Lichtenstein.

“I kind of want my work to read as something you see instantaneously, like a big movie poster,” Thornton says. “I want the impact to be immediate.”

Thornton’s fascination with his silver screen subjects began in his childhood growing up in Eagle Rock, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, in the era of drive-in theaters and double features. Movies like The Great Escape and It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World made a lasting impression.

He attended the California College of Arts in Oakland, and upon graduating in 1984 he bounced from job to job before moving to Hollywood to become a scene painter. He then returned to Berkeley to serve as the scenic artist for the University of California’s

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performing arts program.

In 2005, he and his wife, Patricia, moved to Missoula so she could attend graduate school. That plan fell through, but Patricia, an artist herself, became involved in the local scene and Thornton says he was quickly drawn in by the town’s appreciation for the arts.

“I didn’t know how great it was,” he says. “I’ve never been in a place that’s felt so welcoming,” Thornton points out a small painting tucked away in black binder. It’s an image of Jack Nicholson’s character from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that he did while still in high school, hinting at the early roots of his current series. The more recent evolution of his focus didn’t begin until 2007 when he did a Halloween show featuring classic horror movie actors like Christopher Lee and Lon Chaney.

Soon, the collection of portraits was growing. The filmmaking process had always been too excessively col-

laborative for Thornton’s liking, but through painting, he found a way to assume the role of “director,” calling all the shots for the images he created.

Now, old yogurt and cottage cheese containers full of paint are strewn across the wood floor and table surfaces in his small studio space, and silver-screen stars from a bygone era loiter around his living room like a Hollywood bar or a spaghetti western cantina. He recalls the impact those actors had on him as a kid, before the days of CGI and blockbuster budgets.

“Once I left the theater, those images would linger,” says Thornton. “There’s a magic to that that I want to be a part of, not as a spectator, but as a participant.”

Tim Thornton’s Art House Matinee opens at The Brink Gallery Fri., Dec. 7, with a reception from 5 to 8 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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Sensual sleaze J. Sherri wants you to have a good time

by Kate Whittle

Sadly, it’s a more common sight than not at a local show: While the band plays, a handful of people stand around in clusters, hands firmly in hoodie pockets, nodding politely to the beat or nursing cans of beer.

But J. Sherri will not stand for apathetic crowds. J. Sherri is not too cool to let loose. J. Sherri is here to get feet moving and hips wiggling. “We definitely encourage grinding on each other,” says singer and guitarist Lukas Phelan, who calls himself J. Sherri.

Along with three other J. Sherris—“I’m J. Sherri, they’re J. Sherri, you’re J. Sherri,” Phelan says—the Missoula band tries to bring a club-banger-inspired sexuality combined with an electronica-noise-punk sound to its

“I saw your penis once,” Phelan says to Wilson.

“Oh yeah. By accident,” Wilson says. “My dress was really short.”

Phelan’s eclectic sensibilities seem to inform much of the J. Sherri persona. His latest musical obsession is vaporwave, a movement that subverts corporate imagery and sounds into electronic music. (The result often sounds like ’80s commercials mashed into cassette recordings of synthesizers.) Phelan is inspired by Bad Naked, the one-man, performance-art act that appears randomly outside Missoula venues clad only in a mask and underwear and bangs out shouty, atonal “songs.”

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live show. J. Sherri has played for an audience about 10 times since starting in February, mostly house shows.

They’ve gotten the cops called twice, which generally means a band is doing it right. They played a show at the VFW when Sam Wilson stopped by to hang up a flier and a bartender asked if he was in a band.

Phelan, a senior in the University of Montana art program by day, got together with Wilson originally intending to create a “Peruvian flute cover band,” but lacking any Peruvian flutes, eventually brought in two more friends and the project morphed into J. Sherri, a deliberately sloppy dance band. Phelan and Neil Gavigan play guitars, Wilson commands drums and keyboards and Rachel Patrie sings. Olympia is the designated J. Sherri band practice beverage of choice. For performances, the fellas of J. Sherri dress in drag and sprinkle abundant doses of glitter.

The name “J. Sherri” is meant to connote a cheesy R&B singer, a la R. Kelly.

“Smooth, sleazy and a little sensual,” Wilson says.

Wilson, a senior in UM’s journalism school, is soft-spoken and wears horn-rimmed glasses. He’s been stressed out about getting his multimedia projects turned in for the end of the semester. But he says he doesn’t have any trouble cutting loose before an audience.

might not. The band’s online presence is deliberately mysterious, with a Facebook page that displays several goofy photos and none of the group. “J. SHERRI LUV ALL WOMENS,” is all the description says. Phelan cobbled together two short, lo-fi electronica tracks called “Trailer Ladies or You Have Some Real Magic I Think” and “Cat Slapz Tummy Touch” and put them up on the Facebook music page.

“I like that the best way to find out about us is to come to our live show,” Phelan says. He hopes to bring in anyone who enjoys music as an experience, as a thing to physically express, from the punk fans to the Ke$ha fans, to the punk Ke$ha fans (and a surprising number of people in this town are both.)

Wilson says J. Sherri’s fans right now are mostly just the band member’s friends, apparently a party-loving bunch. “Maybe eventually we’ll get friends of friends, and their friends to come watch us,” he says.

It can be easy to get a little self conscious and awkward at a small show, at least until everybody is liquored up enough. But J. Sherri is here to remind us that first and foremost, music is supposed to be fun.

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[theater]

Get physical Crime in a Madhouse amps up the horror

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At Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris, it was not uncommon for audience members to faint or vomit during performances, or to scream so loudly that actors would break character to yell, “Keep it down out there!”

The chapel-turned-theater served as the center for naturalistic horror plays between World War I and World War II. The idea: To get the audience worked up into a terrified lather for the fun of it. One of the most popular plays was Un Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in a Madhouse), by Andre de Lorde, about a young girl trapped in an insane asylum who falls victim to the violent, demented actions of three sinister crones.

Call it the Saw of the 1920s.

You simply charge the battery, install the main rotor blades & fly.

Rebecca Schaffer directs a production of Un Crime opening this week in the spooky basement of the Zootown Arts Community Center. She’s a known figure in the Missoula theater scene, most recently director of last holiday’s hit Ringing Out and starring in the University of Montana’s Arabian Nights. Oddly enough, she is not a horror buff. The last scary movie she recalls seeing is the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

“For my entire life I’ve watched on average of about six movies a year,” she says, laughing. “I’m totally not desensitized to any of it. Every time I see something I’m either inspired or terrified or devastated, which is maybe why I have such a penchant for theater.”

Schaffer first learned of Un Crime when she spent two weeks this summer in Blue Lake, Calif., at the Dell’Arte training program, which specializes in physical theater. She had two choices: take a workshop on masks or a workshop on the Grand Guignol. Masks are more up her alley, but the French horror movement intrigued her. “I loved it,” she says. “I think I loved it so much because it’s about creating a reaction in the audience that’s building and building until you just drop them at the end.”

American actors tend to be most familiar with Constantin Stanislavski’s psychological realist approach to theater. You find your character’s motive and let that guide your emotions. Instead of taking that route, Schaffer wanted to use the “naturalist” approach to theater, where actors portray emotions in extremely overt ways.

It makes sense, since Un Crime isn’t a play of thoughts,

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but rather a play of emotions meant to give the audience a visceral experience. Schaffer tried several physical tactics with the actors to effect that sense of horror. She used rasaboxes, which are boxes drawn on the floor labeled with eight rasas, or “flavors,” including fear, revolt, erotic love, rage and laughter. “You jump into the box and you take on the most extreme expression of that emotion that you possibly can,” says Schaffer. “By embodying it physically you start to feel it inside and then everybody around you does. It’s really uncomfortable to watch.”

In another attempt to manifest terror, Schaffer had the actors rehearse a scene in complete darkness. There was a long silence that seemed heavier when the lights were out, and then Ann Peacock, who plays one of the crones, took a large sharp breath as she awoke from sleep.

Without the lights on, that sound seemed more startling.

In another scene, Schaffer took the idea of a power struggle and physicalized it.

The play’s doctor and nun, played by Jeff Medley and Tricia Opstad, respectively, have a contrary relationship.

Photo by Chad Harder Schaffer had them balance a broomstick between them on their palms and move around as they spoke to one another. “I think in power struggles advancing and retreating is important,” Schaffer says.

Missoula’s Un Crime is a production of Viscosity Theatre, a new company dedicated to physical theater and “devised” performance. In the spirit of collaboration, Schaffer and the actors worked on the script together, piecing together several English translations and taking the original French version and translating it on Google to find the mix they wanted. Some lines have been changed entirely and the ending is different from the original.

Schaffer also has plans for how to get the audience into the spirit. Audience members put on lab coats to evoke the sense of being in a mental hospital. There will be an absinthe bar open where people can imbibe and dance to French techno music an hour before the show.

(The absinthe is made by the Ridge Distillery in Kalispell and catered by the Badlander) It’s just another tactic to get everyone in the mood for a little bit of horrific fun.

Perhaps without the puking and the fainting.

Un Crime dans une Maison de Fous continues at the Zootown Arts Community Center Thu., Dec. 6, through Sat., Dec. 8, and Wed., Dec. 12, through Sat., Dec. 18, at 8 PM nightly. Absinthe bar opens at 7 PM. $15/$12 advance at viscositytheatre.com. $5 per absinthe drink. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

[theater]

Beyond Belief Cajune refashions Native stories on stage

on Friday for one night only. It’s a collection of refashioned stories based on traditional tales from American Indian women.

Cajune is a documentary film producer, but most of her energy has been spent in education. In 2009, Utne Reader named her one of “50 visionaries changing your world” for her work over two decades on preserving the Salish language and getting American Indian stories into general school curriculum, as well as into materials for groups like the National Science Foundation and the Montana Historical Society. That same year, Cajune, who teaches at Salish Kootenai College, won a $1.4 million W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to “create, publish, and distribute exemplary, high-relevance texts and media about Native American tribal history.” The money’s helped to fund projects for the Center for American Indian Policy and Applied Research and HeartLines.

Cajune is also involved with the KwKwsum theater program. Salish for “star,” the project has roots bringing original theater to the Flathead Reservation since the

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Julie Cajune wants to know if you can name 10 famous American Indian women. Sound too difficult? She thinks so, too.

“We’re presented as beasts of burden who have no speaking roles,” she says. “There’s so many weird representations of American Indian women and I think that affects young women today.”

Cajune, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, takes on that historical fallacy with her one-woman show Belief, which she performs in Bigfork

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early aughts. It’s now the theater arm of a larger arts effort called Npustin (whose mission is “to bring what’s in the heart into the world”), which Cajune started in 2007 to offer rural communities more artistic opportunities.

While Cajune is comfortable in front of school desks and lecture podiums, Belief presents a different kind of challenge. She’s adapted the stories for performance and will be accompanied by live music. “We must remember what loves us, and we must be brave enough to reach for love,” she says at the start of Act II, which has a violinist, percussionist and flutist joining in her crescendo.

To help devise the project, Cajune collaborated with director Linda Grinde and enlisted the help of Salish writer Jennifer Finley-Greene. What started simply as a selection of Cajune’s mother’s stories and Finley-Greene’s poetry eventually coalesced into a cohesive theater piece. She says the thread that tied all of the stories together is belief— belief in love, belief in the creative process and Cajune’s belief in positive change.

“We all live through disappointment or times of great discouragement or grief that cause us to question beliefs,” Cajune says.

“This is a universal story that doesn’t have cultural or gender boundaries. It’s just one way to deal with it.

It’s not the way for everybody, but it’s my way.”

Excerpts of the show Photo by Brooks Johnson were ready in time for Grinde and Cajune to read at Arlee’s playwright festival last summer. The audience reaction was positive, but Cajune says she still didn’t feel ready.

“At the first reading I thought, ‘What is this, amateur night at a bad talent show?’” she says, laughing. “But Linda has a way of pulling things out of you very gently.

She’s very gifted in that way.”

Cajune says the work is worth her effort. Through theater, she’s reaching a different audience than lectures, books and films can access.

“For me and the work that I’m doing, that means presenting a meaningful and authentic voice and image of American Indian people and American Indian women,” she says. “I couldn’t think of a more meaningful way of doing it than through theater.”

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by Nick Davis

When it comes to movie allegories, there are two basic species. The first and more common group contains films that evoke various deeper themes, leaving viewers, scholars and critics to speculate on their meaning and intent: Was Star Wars simply George Lucas holding up a sc-fi mirror to World War II, or was it a futuristic version of the classic Hero Cycle (or both)? Is the Matrix trilogy primarily a straightforward Resurrection allegory or a warning about the blurring of organic and inorganic intelligence (or both)?

The second group contains what you could call the no-doubters, i.e the original 1968 Planet of the Apes as an unmistakable riff on U.S. race relations in the wake of the Civil Rights era, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a slap-you-upside-the-head Christianity allegory.

Killing Them Softly, the second movie from the tandem of writer/director Andrew Dominik and

The financial powers-that-be are represented by the mafia (neat trick, there), specifically by their white-collar stooge lawyer. When a mob-sanctioned high-stakes poker game gets robbed for the second time, the lawyer engages hyper-articulate and amoral hitman Jackie Cogan (Pitt) to track down the perps. But as Cogan quickly discerns, this isn’t a simple retribution job. Confidence in the poker game has been shattered, nobody’s gambling, nobody’s making money and drastic measures are needed to get the ball rolling again (sound familiar?). In a move to restore confidence, Cogan identifies and sacrifices a scapegoat (in a rare show of restraint, Dominik did not make them siblings sharing the last name of Lehman).

It is at this point that the reality-based underpinnings of the allegory slip away—a metaphorical economic stimulus program apparently being out of even Dominik’s creative reach—and Cogan sets his sights on the actual perpetrators. The ensuing carnage fosters unre-

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leading man Brad Pitt (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was the first), falls squarely in the latter category. In fact, this just may be the most unsubtle allegory in the history of cinema. If this movie’s allegory was a “reality� show, it would be “Jersey Shore.� If it was an aging white pop star, it would be Madonna. If it was a jilted lover’s lament, it would be Cee Lo’s “Fuck You.� You get the picture.

Ironically enough, the source story for the movie, the 1974 crime novel Cogan’s Trade by George V. Higgins, doesn’t appear to have an allegorical bone in its narrative body. But in Dominik’s hands, this tale of a couple of idiotic thieves knocking off a mob-sanctioned poker game has become a scathing indictment of the 2008 financial crash and the poorly regulated financial system that allowed it to happen.

To be clear, Dominik makes no bones of his intentions, from start to finish. The film opens with a discordant scene that mixes audio from a 2008 Obama campaign speech cut into a jarring soundtrack, under an over-the-shoulder shot of a derelict stumbling through an abandoned cement causeway. At strategic moments throughout, we hear snippets of George W. Bush’s speeches addressing the beginning of the massive and unstoppable crash. And the film’s conclusion, played against Obama’s inauguration address, revolves around a brilliantly acerbic undressing of both Obama’s political platitudes on American unity and the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. Whew.

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quited dreams of real-life retribution: What if Elizabeth Warren had been empowered to track down every scumbag financial institution that profited wildly on the unchecked real-estate bubble while simultaneously hedging its own bets on subprime mortgages? Granted, she probably wouldn’t have left the kind of blood trail that flows in Cogan’s wake, but it sure would have made for satisfying prime-time viewing.

Of course, Killing Them Softly is a movie as well as an allegory, and in that regard it’s a damn good ride. The acting performances are phenomenal, led by Pitt at his self-assured best and augmented by fantastic supporting turns from Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins and James Gandolfini. Dominik’s screenplay is a wonder, diving deep into the personalities and motivations of even the minor characters, and anchored by dialogue sharp and tough enough to make David Mamet weep. This rare level of character development sets a measured yet supremely engaging narrative flow, making the action scenes—spare though they may be by the standard of crime thrillers— hugely, edge-of-your-seat impactful.

It’s been said that allegories don’t serve much purpose if their deeper meaning isn’t readily evident.

Dominik, Pitt and Killing Them Softly take that lesson to heart, proving that sometimes, subtlety can be overrated.

Killing Them Softly continues at Carmike 12 and the Wilma. arts@missoulanews.com

[film] THE SESSIONS Based on the autobiographical writings of poet and journalist Mark O’Brien, this story follows the life of a 38-year-old man trying to lose his virginity with the help of his priest and a sex surrogate, all while confined to an iron lung. Starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy. Rated R. Wilma.

OPENING THIS WEEK CHASING ICE National Geographic photog James Balog uses some epic new time-lapse cameras to document the world’s vanishing ice and make us all sad. Rated PG-13. Wilma.

PLAYING FOR KEEPS A former mega-jock tries to get his life together by coaching his young son’s soccer team, but lo and behold a sexy soccer mom tries to keep him from becoming the man he wants to be.

Starring Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel and Dennis Quaid. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

SKYFALL Bond is back and this time MI6 is under attack. Looks like Great Britain’s best operative may have to take down one of his own in order to save the world. Starring Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem and Dame Judi Dench. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

NOW PLAYING CLOUD ATLAS David Mitchell’s book is turned into a movie that tells the stories of many people over many centuries and explores how the actions of one person can affect the world. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant. Rated R. Showboat.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2 In the conclusion of the series, dawn rebreaks again and the child born of human woman and vampire is under attack from the evil Voltouri. Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

THE COLLECTION What if you escaped from the gnarliest serial killer of all time only to be lured back into his booby trapped lair in order to save an innocent little girl?

What if. Starring Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick and Christopher McDonald. Rated R. Carmike 12.

FLIGHT A pilot saves an airliner from crashing, but something more sinister seems to be stinking up the joint. Say it ain’t so, Denzel! Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Nadine Velazquez, Denzel Washington and Carter Cabassa. Rated R. Carmike 12 and Pharaohplex.

KILLING THEM SOFTLY A trio of rubes rip off the area’s biggest, most disreputable gangsters during a card game.

Somebody has got to pay. With their life. Not with money. Starring Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and Richard Jenkins. Rated R. Wilma.

LIFE OF PI Disaster at sea. A boy befriends a Bengal tiger. Adventure abounds. Epic journey. Epic discoveries.

Life, man, life! Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

Ice, ice baby. Chasing Ice opens Saturday at the Wilma Theatre.

LINCOLN Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in this biopic about the United States’ greatest president as he struggles with the war, emancipation of the slaves, his cabinet and his family. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and David Strathairn. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

RED DAWN The 1984 version of this film was the first to be rated PG-13. This version is PG-13, too. The resemblance doesn’t end there. Yeah, so some high school kids in Washington state defend

their homeland from North Korean paratroopers. What? Cuba was too busy? Starring Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas and Josh Hutcherson.

Carmike 12, Village 6 and Pharaohplex.

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS After the evil little twit Pitch tries to destroy the hopes and dreams of the world’s children, the Immortal Guardians get in cahoots to take him on.

Nobody messes with the Easter Bunny, not now, not ever. Starring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Village 6, Pharaohplex and Showboat.

It’s in your nature.

At this wondrous time of year, we encourage everyone to join the people of First Security Bank in giving back to our community by donating to those in need.

Please help by giving to our 27th Annual Holiday Food Drive. Drop your non-perishable foods at any First Security Bank location before December 21.

To volunteer or learn more about the Missoula Food Bank, please call 549-0543.

WRECK-IT RALPH Certain to appeal to folks of a certain age and their children, this animated film tells the story of a video game character seeking to be something more, all the while reeking havoc on the entire arcade where he dwells. Starring the voices of John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch. Rated PG. Carmike 12.

Capsule reviews by Jason McMackin.

Moviegoers be warned! For show times please visit missoulanews.com, contact the theaters telephonically or check theater websites in order to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

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Celebration.

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Bone stock, a liquid asset

by Ari LeVaux

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The expression “stocking up” refers to the many acts of gathering and processing food, usually in preparation for the coming winter. Activities like chopping chutney, canning pickles, freezer-bagging a beast and simmering a pot of sauce are at the core of a lifestyle that a wise friend of mine calls “third-world, first-class.” And stock, the noun, is an essential ingredient in my third-world, first-class kitchen.

Stock is neither soup nor broth, but it is the base for both, and can be used in the making of nearly any savory dish. An ingredient rather than a finished product, stock does not on its own taste like much. Stock should not contain fat, salt or spices. And making it right is a lot more than boiling a leftover turkey carcass.

One of the more noteworthy non-soupy applications of stock is in the making of espagnole sauce, one of the five “mother sauces” of classic French cooking.

Espagnole sauce can be mixed with yet more stock and reduced by half to make demi-glace, a rich, flavorful and altogether labor-intensive sauce that is itself the base for many other sauces. Demi-glace, or “demi” for short, is the most valued ingredient in many a chef ’s kitchen.

For all the prestigious places it goes, a good stock can be made from ingredients that a wino could find in a dumpster, like bones, fish heads, chicken backs and vegetable scraps. Made from mammal bones, it’s called “brown stock,” which is what goes into demiglace. This is the stock that I stock up on this time of year, when I’m done stalking deer, and the venison has been cut from the bones.

Young bones are best for brown stock because they contain more collagen, which gives bone stock a full, creamy feel that you would swear is fat, but isn’t.

Younger marrow also produces more red and white blood cells and other proteins, which add complexity to stock’s flavor. Thus, veal and lamb bones would be your best options if you’re shopping. Hunters, meanwhile, can add superior stock bones to the list of rationalizations with which you comfort yourself after mistakenly shooting a fawn.

Long bones, such as the animal’s front and rear leg bones, work best, as that’s where the most marrow is. To allow the marrow to melt into the stock, the bones need to be opened. Purchased bones usually come pre-cut. If you’re processing meat at home, a bone saw really helps. Or do like me: Wrap bones in a towel and smash them with a cast-iron skillet on the sidewalk. But that comes later.

I begin by placing the bones on a pan in the oven at 350 degrees for about an hour, stirring occasionally so they’re golden brown all the way around but not burned. Twenty minutes before you’re done brown-

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ing the bones, remove them from the oven and allow them to cool to the point where you can comfortably rub the bones with tomato paste (I use homemade ketchup). Roast for another 20 minutes, checking often to make sure the tomato paste doesn’t burn.

Remove the bones from the roasting pan. Now is the time to smash them with that frying pan (or hammer) if you started with intact bones. Place the browned and broken bones in a large empty pot along with the roasting pan drippings. Put the pan on the stove over medium heat and deglaze (i.e., pour liquid into the hot pan) with wine or water, gently scraping the fond (aka the bits of goodness stuck to the bottom of the pan), assuming said fond is not burned. Never scrape a burned fond, except when cleaning the pan.

Pour the deglazed pan contents into the stock pot.

Add a bay leaf, a few peppercorns, and cover everything with water. Cook very slowly, at your stovetop’s lowest setting, for 12 to 24 hours, maintaining full coverage of water over the bones. You don’t want the stock to boil, because that would make it cloudy, in both appearance and taste. Try to keep the pot at the “lazy bubble” stage—the point at which a single bubble lets go from the bottom of the pot every few seconds.

Let the stock cool to room temperature and then put it in the fridge overnight. By morning the fat will be floating on top in a solid raft that you can easily remove.

Reheat the stock back to a lazy bubble. While it’s heating, prepare a mixture of equal parts celery, carrot and onion. The mixture is called a mirepoix, since we’re having French class today. For 2 pounds of bones, use roughly a bunch of carrots, ½ a celery head and 2 onions. Carrots and celery sticks can be left whole or broken in half, and cut the onion in half.

Many cooks oven-roast their mirepoix before adding it to the stock. If doing so, don’t use oil or salt, and cut the vegetables into smaller chunks that will transfer more roasted flavor to your stock.

Add the mirepoix to the stock and cook for three more hours of lazy bubble. Strain the bones and mirepoix, and pour your finished stock into jars. Refrigerated, the stock will last about a week. For longer storage, freeze the stock. Or freeze smaller portions in ice-cube trays and keep the frozen cubes in plastic bags or other storage containers. When you want to make a little fried rice, or a pan of huckleberry sauce to go on a steak, or some pad thai—basically any savory dish will benefit—you’ll be ready.

And as the mercury drops, your stock’s value will go through the roof. You might not be able to sell it for much money, but it will sure warm your bones.

In the third-world, first-class lifestyle, bone stock is a valuable asset, already liquid.

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9 am – 2 am Mon-Sun. Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway (across from courthouse) • 728-8900 Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts.

Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week. Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 It's the little things we do together. Bernice's takes those moments to heart. This Christmas when you want "just the right size" gift or party package think Bernice's cookie plates, frosted Christmas trees (Yep! Those famous sugar cookies), packaged Bernice's Hot Cocoa, a Joyous Kringle, Mini Macaroons, Gingerbread Coffeecake, Loaves of Poundcake, and so much more! Have you checked out Bernice's wear-ables lately? Downright Smart. Coffee mugs?

Oh, yeah. Bernice's wishes you a Merry Little Christmas. bernicesbakerymt.com Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

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

Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Monday – Friday, 7:30 – 2. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty.

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

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 40 years of great coffees and teas.

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

Featuring Crawfish omlettes, beignets, and cafe au lait. Open Monday 11am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, and Sunday 9am-3pm (Beignets available Saturday 11am-2pm, and All Day Sunday) Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 • ciaomambo.com The vibrant energy at Ciao Mambo is fantastically accompanied by steaming hot pizzas, delicious assortments of pastas and of course authentic Italian wine. We focus on making sure that whether it be date night, family night, or business dinners we accommodate whatever the need! And do not forget there are always leftovers! Open 5 to close every day, come make us your go to dinner destination! $-$$

Claim Jumper 3021 Brooks • 728-0074 Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 7 days a week. Come in between 7-8 am for our Early Bird Breakfast Special: Get 50% off any breakfast menu item! Or Join us for Lunch and Dinner. We feature CJ’s Famous Fried Chicken, Delicious Steaks, and your Favorite Pub Classics. Breakfast from 7am-11am on Weekdays and 7am2pm on Weekends. Lunch and Dinner 11am-9pm Sun-Wed and 11am-10pm Thurs-Sat. Ask your Server about our Players Club! Happy Hour in our lounge M-F 4-6 PM. $-$$$ 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.

Educate your taste buds! www.thinkfft.com Mon-Thurs 7am - 8pm • Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm • 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 *When school is not in session, we often close at 3pm Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe.

Across from the U of M campus.

The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts.

Super quick and super delicious! (Happy Hour 3-6 PM MonSat. 2 Empanadas for $7) Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean.

11am-8pm Monday-Saturday. Downtown Missoula. $ $ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffehouse/Café located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch 7 days a week+dinner 5 nights a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and espresso bar. HUGE Portions and the Best BREAKFAST in town. M-TH 7am-8pm, Fri 7am4pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Missoula's Tailgate Headquarters! We carry all of the spirits & accessories to make your tailgate party a success! Largest selection of spirits in Montana, including locally made whiskey, vodka, gin, rum and wine. We're located downtown with free customer parking. Grizzly Liquor was voted Missoula's #1 Liquor Store!

Open M-F 9-6:30, Sat 9-6. $-$$$

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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 $-$$ Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. 532-2056 No time to bake? Let Brooks and Browns do it for you! Cookie platters, mouthwatering truffles and freshly baked pies are just a phone call away. We’ve got your work parties and family get- togethers covered! It’s also not too early to reserve your Christmas rolls and pies! Call Brooks and Browns at 721-8500 today! Have you discovered Brooks and Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula.

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$ Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm

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All Souls Ale Christmas Edition HAPPIEST HOUR How it tastes: All Souls Ale is what Big Sky Brewing Company refers to as an “imperial saison.” It’s spicy and sweet, following in a saison tradition that first emerged in 19th century farmhouses in Belgium. But Big Sky’s saison marks a boozy departure from the beer’s traditionally low-alcohol content, coming in at a whopping 11 percent by volume.

Why we’re drinking it: We like beer that carries a punch. But most of all, we appreciate how sales of All Souls benefit the community.

All Souls Missoula, an alternative Christian church, and Big Sky Brewing teamed up to create and hand-bottle the brew. All proceeds generated from beer sales go to Imagine Missoula, a small nonprofit that organizes volunteers to assist others who need help with little chores like fixing leaks, raking leaves and mending fences.

During the past two years, sales of All Souls have raised $14,000 for Imagine Missoula.

How it looks: The All Souls Ale label makes a specialty brew more remarkable. It features a stained glass window with a red-robed shepherd raising his glass in salute. The label is artsy, festive and, largely because only 100 cases of the Christmas Edition will be issued, quite collectable. Each 750-milliliter bottle sells for $14.

Happy Hour 3-6pm Dinner 5pm-close. Sat: Dinner 5pmclose $-$$ $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service.

Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$

Where to find it: Big Sky is rolling out All Souls on Dec. 7. As of Nov. 27, 26 of the 100 cases had already been sold, meaning it’s probably a good idea to reserve yours now by calling Imagine Missoula’s Nina Alviar at 546-4697.

After Dec. 7, you can find All Souls Ale at Big Sky’s tap room at 5417 Trumpeter Way. —Jessica Mayrer Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche.

Several more baked options and the finest espresso available.

Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula.

Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ The Mercantile Deli 119 S. Higgins Ave. • 721-6372 themercantiledeli.com Located next to the historic Wilma Theater, the Merc features a relaxed atmosphere, handcrafted Paninis, Sandwiches, and wholesome Soups and Salads. Try a Monte Cristo for breakfast, a Pork Love Panini for lunch, or have us cater your next company event. Open Monday – Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Downtown delivery available. $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. (on the hip strip) 543-7154 Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every week day for only $6? Anyone is welcome to join us for a delicious meal from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food, great conversation and take some time to find a treasured item or garment in our thrift shop. For a full menu and other activities, visit our website at www.missoulaseniorcenter.org.

The Mustard Seed Asian Café Southgate Mall 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our nonsmoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, micro brews, fine wines & signature drinks. Gluten free menu, also. Takeout & delivery available. $$-$$$ Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 pearlcafe.us Serving country French specialties, Montana elk, Berkshire Pork, and delicious seafood dishes.

Delectable salads and appetizers, as well as breads and desserts baked in-house. 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. $$-$$$ Philly West 134 W. Broadway 493-6204 For an East-coast taste of pizza, stromboli, hoagies, salads, and pasta dishes and CHEESESTEAKS, try Philly West. A taste of the great “fightin’ city of Philadelphia” can be enjoyed Monday - Saturday for lunch and dinner and late on weekends. We create our marinara, meatballs, dough and sauces in-house so if “youse wanna eat,” come to 134 W. Broadway.

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

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Sean Kelly’s A Public House 130 W. Pine St. 542-1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for lunch & dinner. Featuring brunch Saturday & Sunday from 11-2pm. Serving international & Irish pub fare. Full bar, beer, wine, martinis. $-$$ Silvertip Casino 680 SW Higgins 728-5643 The Silvertip Casino is Missoula’s premiere casino offering 20 Video gaming machines, best live poker in Missoula, full beverage liquor, 11 flat screen tv’s and great food at great prices. Breakfast Specials starting at $2.99 (7-11am) For a complete menu, go to www.silvertipcasino.com. Open 24/7. $-$$ Sis's Kitchen 531-5034 sisskitchen.com Wheat, Gluten & Allergen Free Foods.

Frozen & Dry Mix Products. Sis's Kitchen plays a part in Best of Missoula "Best Pizza" Winner's for 2008-2012.

Find our products at: The Good Food Store • Biga Pizza • Bridge Pizza • Pizza Cafe in Ronan (12"crust). $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI We have quick and delicious lunch specials 6 days a week starting at $7, and are open for dinner 7 nights a week. Try our comfort food items like Pork Katsu and Chicken Teriyaki. We also offer party platters to go and catering for all culinary styles. Lunch 11:30-3 Mon-Sat. Dinner 5-9:30 Every Night. Corner of Pine and Higgins. Very Family Friendly. 549-7979. $$-$$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you're in the neighborhood.

We'll do our best to treat you right!

Crowned Missoula's best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 1110 Sun 12-9.

Taco John’s 623 W Broadway 2600 S Reserve West-Mex® is about fresh taste and BOLD flavors. Taco John’s recipes make you smile and yell “OLÉ”. We combine hearty helpings of seasoned meats, crispy Potato Olés®, and flavorful cheeses with fresh-made Mexican specialties like burritos, tacos, and quesadillas. All topped off with bold sauces, spices and salsas. You’ll find West-Mex® cooking makes for an unbeatably satisfying meal. See you soon ... Amigo :) $-$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 tacosano.net Once you find us you'll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos. Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. Tamarack Brewing Company 231 W. Front Street 406-830-3113 facebook.com/tamarackmissoula Tamarack Brewing Company opened its first Taphouse in Missoula in 2011. Overlooking Caras Park, Tamarack Missoula has two floors -- a sports pub downstairs, and casual dining upstairs. Patrons can find Tamarack’s handcrafted ales and great pub fare on both levels. Enjoy beer-inspired menu items like brew bread wraps, Hat Trick Hop IPA Fish and Chips, and Dock Days Hefeweizen Caesar Salads. Try one of our staple ales like Hat Trick Hop IPA or Yard Sale Amber Ale, or one of our rotating seasonal beers, like, Old 'Stache Whiskey Barrel Porter, Headwall Double IPA, Stoner Kriek and more. Don’t miss $8 growler fills on Wednesday and Sunday, Community Tap Night every Tuesday, Kids Eat Free Mondays, and more. See you at The ‘Rack! $-$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

Mugham to the West. This dude knows what’s up. He is the chairman of the board of the Mugham Society of America. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. Free.

December 6-December 13, 2012

Shahs has style, Shahs has grace and Shahs begins its month-long VFW residency tonight, with J. Sherri and Monster with 21 Faces. 245 W. Main St. 10 PM. $2. (See Music.)

FRIDAYDEC7 The Workers get after it and perform tunes for wine drinking kings and queens at the Ten Spoon Vineyard Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. Sample award-winning wines and delicious antipasto plates by Biga Pizza, or bring your won food. 6–9 PM. Free.

Get festive at the Philipsburg Yule Night which boasts a visit from Santa, a parade of lights and holiday tunes are performed throughout town. Events take place all day but the parade is at 4 PM.

nightlife Get to shopping and support the funkiest kids since “Degrassi High” while authors Sneed B. Collard III, Theo Ellsworth and Erin Saldin sign books at Fact & Fiction Downtown, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Proceeds of the day’s sale support Sussex School. 5–7 PM. Get your brogue on, bro, when Irish band Circle of Friends plays Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St., from 6–8 PM. Free.

What was life like in a French mental institution circa 1925? Awful is my guess, but you can learn more for yourself during Viscosity Theatre’s Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in A Madhouse) at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. Absinthe bar at 7 PM, show 8 PM. $15/$12 advance at viscositytheatre.org.

If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you. The Sufjan Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long takes place at the Wilma Theatre Sun., Dec. 9, at 8:30 PM, with special guest Sheila Saputo. $20. Tickets available at ticketfly.com and are available for pick-up after 6 PM on the day of the show.

THURSDAYDEC6 The UM Jazz Ensemble presents Holiday Swing (don’t be gross), an evening of holiday faves with special guest pianist Michael Kocour. Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way. $100 for a table for four/$20 jazz club seating/$15 general/$10 students.

nightlife What was life like in a French mental institution circa 1925? Awful is my guess, but you can learn more for yourself during Viscosity Theatre’s Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in A Madhouse) at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. Absinthe bar at 7 PM, show 8 PM. $15/$12 advance at viscositytheatre.org.

The University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance presents its acclaimed dance concert Dance Up Close. Program I features ten original dance works that include a bevy of styles and themes. Masquer Theatre, UM PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9. (See Spotlight.)

Jeffrey Werbock performs a traditional Azerbaijani Mugham instrument in Bringing

Blump.

Blump-blump.

Bluuump.

TubaChristmas is flat out the best thing going at Southgate Mall Center Clock Court tonight.

For those looking to toot their horn, rehearsal is at Sentinel High School from 3:30–5:30 PM, while the performance is from 7–8:30 PM. $18 for music/$5 to register. Call Gary at 728-2403 ext. 7041.

The professionals may be stuck in a silly labor dispute, but the locals are ready to drop the puck. Catch the Missoula Maulers against Helena at Glacier Ice Rink to get your hockey fix. 7:05 PM. Tickets at missoulamaulers.com

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doggy style If Delta bluesman Robert Johnson were still alive he may not immediately recognize Three-Eared Dog as the blues.

The Dog’s sound is electrified and often has a swinging backbeat and a snort of funky swagger.

It’s interesting whenever youngsters perform the blues.

Obviously being young (early 20s) is the greatest thing on Earth, at least according to TV. So what could these dudes have to feel bluesy about? Why women, of course. Specifically, “Missoula Women,” a track from their latest effort, Ruby. If you’re bluesiest complaint is that there are too many hot girls in your town and you are unable to remain faithful because of that, then your world is probably not a-shambles.

maybe even throwing down a Latin groove. They make three-part harmonies. They commiserate and banter with the crowd. They do all things you’re supposed to do to make the audience like you.

WHO: Three-Eared Dog EP release party, with Leif and Willard and The Trees WHEN: Fri. Dec. 7, at 8 PM WHERE: Free Cycles Missoula, 732 S. 1st St. W. HOW MUCH: $5. Proceeds go to the Youth Cycle program.

Money from album sales benefits Montana Musicians and Artists Coalition

But the band doesn’t pretend to be a throwback.

Instead, it represents “the next generation of blues,” according to its Facebook page description. This is an apt interpretation of Ruby, but I have seen them perform (and earnestly discuss chili and improvisation) and these dudes play my parents’ music with the casual ease of veteran performers. They effortlessly shift from original tracks to soul and R&B classics,

Help local kids

Be a glam lamb and hear the words of Dr. Suess remanufactured into a musical made to make the audience enraptured. The Whitefish Theatre Co. performs Suessical at Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. 7:30 pm. $20/$18 seniors/$8 students. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

In The Littlest Angel, a mischievous child new to heaven brings a special gift to baby Jesus.

Stevensville Playhouse. 319 Main St. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 advance for adults and $10/$8 for kids. Visit stevensvilleplayhouse.org.

Help make the holidays brighter for kids in need. Pick up a Mountain of Giving gift tag at any MFCU location, purchase an item on that child’s wish list, and return the unwrapped gift to any MFCU branch before December 19th.

Mountain of Giving volunteers will wrap the gifts and distribute them in time for the holiday.

Cash donations are also accepted.

More than you expect

523-3300 / www.missoulafcu.org

Ooh, “sprightly music and drama” is on tap at the Missoula Community Chorus’s presentation of King Arthur. The concert also has a small orchestra and features dramatic interludes. Man, I think Mordred is misunderstood. St. Anthony Church, 217 Tremont Ave. 7:30 PM. $8. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s and at missoulachorus.net.

Three-Eared Dog is celebrating its EP release at Free Cycles, 732 S.

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Blues is something you can do and feel your entire life, something you can get better at with age and experience. It’s unlike, say, technical death metal which can give you arthritis before you’re 30.

And while Robert Johnson might not recognize the music of Three-Eared Dog, it is important to remember that he died while only a few years older than the band, and we’re still talking about him.

First Street W., with Leif and Willard and The Trees. 8 PM. $5. (See Spotlight.)

Get high on life and music at Elevate!, an all-night affair with big lights, big sound and big booties (you must supply your own booty).

American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. 9 PM to 5 AM. $10/$8 advance at Rockin Rudy’s.

If you wanna bang heads with me check out Möther, Missoula’s only unauthorized Danzig tribute band, which features members of Total Combined Weight, Cold Hard Cash Show, Maria, Tidal Horn and American Falcon. Openers include metaleers Shramana and Swamp Ritual. Palace 9 PM. $5.

Tom Catmull and The Clerics keep their shirts on for this gig at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

Mick Croon brings the boom and some smoking hot blues guitar sqawking, too. Sean Kelly’s, 130 W. Pine St. 9:30 PM. Free.

—Jason McMackin

SATURDAYDEC8 The fact is most of us don’t really know how our transceivers work, so stop being a know-it-all Nelly and take the UM Outdoor Program’s Avalanche Transceiver Clinic. The life you save could be your own...The class takes place at the program office in the campus fitness and rec center. 9–2 PM. $15. Visit umt.edu/outdoorprogram.

Local photographers and stylists donate their time and skills to Missoula Help-Portrait which offers free photos to low income folks who would like a photo of themselves or their families. Hellgate Rollergirls warehouse, 812 Toole Ave. Noon–5 PM. Call Dax at 531-9336.

Jerry McGowan, author of The Place, has been writing for more than thirty years and can be found

[calendar] at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., to sign his book. Free book give-away and refreshments. 3 PM.

nightlife The University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance presents its acclaimed dance concert Dance Up Close. Program II features ten original dance works that include a bevy of styles and themes. Masquer Theatre, UM PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9. (See Spotlight.)

Bluesman Mudslide Charlie strums for you clumsy lovers at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole.

Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

What was life like in a French mental institution circa 1925?

Awful is my guess, but you can learn more for yourself during Viscosity Theatre’s Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in A Madhouse) at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. Absinthe bar at 7 PM, show 8 PM. $15/$12 advance at viscositytheatre.org.

Yes you may have another serving of Dickens at Cutbank Literary Magazine’s presentation of A Christmas Carol. Readers include Mayor John Engen, Kevin Canty, David Gates, William Kittredge, Deirdre McNamer, Ed Skoog, Lisa Simon and others. Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. 7 PM. $12/$10 advance/$7 students. Tickets available at Liberal Arts Building Rm. 133.

Avast, the Captain Wilson Conspiracy performs as a duo (bass and keys) at ye olde Finn & Porter from 7–9 PM. Free.

The University of Montana School of Theatre & Dance presents its acclaimed dance concert Dance Up Close. Program I features ten original dance works that include a bevy of styles and themes. Masquer Theatre, UM PARTV Center. 7:30 PM. $9. (See Spotlight.)

Be king of the road when the Country Kings bring dancing tunes to the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. 8 PM. Free.

Grunt grinds out the jamz while you make yourself a fresh tinfoil hat at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., with Nequiter and Zebulon Kosted.

9 PM. $5.

Celebrate the life of Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrel at Dimestock 2012. This year’s lineup includes Mahamawaldi, Blessiddoom and Universal Choke Sign. Plus, there’s a pink beard contest. Dark Horse Bar, 1805 Regent St. $5.

Russ Nasset & The Revelators make fine countrified tunes for you and old Mr. Squeezer at the Union Club. 9 PM. Free.

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Consider this your one stop for holiday shopping: More than 120 local artists set up their best handmade items for the annual Holiday MADE Fair. Things get busy at 11 AM — and we mean Black Friday doorbuster-like busy — and go until 6 PM at the Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park.

Love is a Dog from Nebraska plays “petrified” folk down at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., this evening. The duo is made up of Ron Dunbar and Travis Yost, who are easily the best looking folk musicians in town. 6–10 PM. Free.

Sometimes you just need to let the promoter-provided description speak for itself: The Sufjan Stevens Christmas Sing-A-Long Seasonal Affective Disorder Yuletide Disaster Pageant On Ice visits the Wilma Theatre at 8:30. To be clear, we don’t believe there will be ice. The rest? Sure. And music. $20 from ticketfly.com.

The Har Shalom Chanukah Party has latkes for nibbling and stories to inspire by Rabbi David Whiman. Bring a menorah and light the candles at sundown. 3035 S. Russell Ave. Noon–4 PM. Ian Velikoff has no time for your bad Russian, but he does have time to play you all some music at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 4–6 PM. Free.

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UM President Royce Engstrom is the keynote speaker at the City Club Missoula Forum and he is not bringing the funk but he is talking about technology and the shrinking of our planet (not literally). Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. 11:30– 1 PM. $16/$11 members/$5 without lunch. Visit cityclubmissoula.org.

TUESDAYDEC11 Slap it up, flip it and rub it down at the Badlander’s Live and Local Night with funky soulmeisters Freetown Turnaround. Badlander obvs. 9 PM. Free.

nightlife Tell Us Something is back for another evening of storytelling. Stories last 10 minutes and this go-round’s theme is “Misunderstandings.” Fortunately for me, my stories are all 11 minutes long. Union Club. 6 PM. Free.

In The Littlest Angel, a mischievous child new to heaven brings a special gift to baby Jesus.

Stevensville Playhouse. 319 Main St. 7:30 PM. $15/$10 advance for adults and $10/$8 for kids. Visit stevensvilleplayhouse.org.

The Ed Norton Big Band put some swing in the month’s second Sunday when it plays the Missoula Winery, 5646 Harrier Way, from 6– 8 PM. $5. Visit missoulawinery.com.

John Floridis performs holiday tunes at the Benefit Concert For Family Promise. At the end of the evening comforters will be distributed to those in need. Missoula First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. 7 PM. Cash donations accepted at the door.

Here comes Santy Claus, y’all.

His sleigh is all up in the String Orchestra of the Rockies: Holiday Concert, which features select string students from Missoula high schools. Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $20/$10 students. Tickets available at griztix.com.

It’s a blarney-palooza at the Irish Christmas in America show which features the customs, lore and traditions of Ireland through music and dance. Dennison Theatre. 7:30 PM. $30/$25 advance/$15 students/kids under 12 free. Tickets are available at all GrixTix locations.

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216 W. Main St., Suite 210 • 406-543-0200 www.cedarcreekspa.com • Gift certificates & packages also available online.

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FIRST FRIDAY Tides Gallery at Bathing Beauties Beads, 501 S. Higgins Ave., hosts jewelry and accessories by Ellie Duncan, Janet Bush, Adena Hofer, Jazmine Raymond and Shannon Kemp. 5–8 PM. Free.

Bonnie Tarses displays her handwoven artistry at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Have a brew and get a gander of Hailey Hannah Schofield’s pen and ink works at Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

SELF, a series of self-portraits by Sarah Van Nortwick and Wyatt McCollum, is on display at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 216 N. Higgins Ave., from 5–8 PM. Free.

FrontierSpace Missoula hosts TBA Anonymous Group Exhibit, which means this: no description, clever or otherwise available. In the alley west of Higgins Ave, between Spruce & Pine. 5–8 PM. Free.

The Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave., hosts a boat load of new and emerging artists during its First Friday Holiday Show.

Something like 4,000 artists, or 25. 5–8 PM. Free.

Beverly McGowan brings her pretty photographs to Hunter Bay Coffee, 101 E. Front St. Good old Fred Cuddeback and Jerry McGowan play their guitars. 5–8 PM. Free.

Always working, never shirking, Courtney Blazon exhibits what are certainly phantasmagorical works at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Chad and Christian Ackerman share a music video by artist Veil (aka Chad), at the MCAT Studios, 500 N. Higgins Ave. Zombies are sure to make an appearance. 5–8 PM. Free.

Get a load of what you missed throughout the year during the Prudential Montana Real Estate Retrospective of their 2012 First Friday artists. 314 N. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Monte Dolack has some works for you to peruse at his gallery, 139 W. Front St., along with music by Dan Dubuque. Bring your mom, it’ll be fun. 5–8 PM. Free.

See local artists put a bird on it and demonstrate other skills such as raku pottery at the Sandpiper Art Gallery Christmas Show in Polson, 306 Main St. 5–8 PM. Free.

All aboard for the opening reception of New and Selected Works by Leslie Van Stavern Millar and Kristi Hager at the Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad Street, where DJ Michael Steinberg spins records Fri., Dec. 7, from 5 to 8 PM. Free.

Art maker Tim T. Thornton shares his love of film via his paintings at the Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St., in the exhibition Art House Matinee. 5–8 PM. Free.

This sounds just weird enough. Amber Prouty’s First Friday exhibit In Our Neighborhood is on display at Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave., and takes place in Missoula. No big d, right? In the year 2021. And animals our are neighbors. Like they live in the house next door. 5–8 PM. Free.

Art by Courtney Blazon from World of Structures at Montana Art & Framing.

Upcycled founders Donovan Peterson and Kay Langland show their artworks in their Founders Friday exhibition which features refashioned bike tubes, recycled copper and more things harvested from what some might call trash. 517 S. Higgins Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Relearn what you thought the word “structure” meant at the World of Structures group art show, with rad art ladies Barb Schwarz Karst, Courtney Blazon and Candice Mancini, at Montana Art & Framing, 709 Ronan St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Steve Wilson’s oil painting exhibit Painting of Possibilities bursts with color and chance at Smile Labs, 401 W. Broadway Ave. 5–8 PM. Free.

Embrace the end of the world at the Union Club’s Merry Mayan Christmas Stocking Stuffers for the End of the World, artwork by UM drawing students. 5–8 PM. Free.

Fact: Maps are rad. See contemporary and vintage maps on display at the Rocky Mountain Map Gallery, 1710 Brooks Ave., during The Art of Maps exhibition, from 5–8:30 PM. Free.

Condolences, a series depicting Kirsten Pabst’s personal grief journey after the sudden death of her young son, Sam, is on display at The M Store, 124 N. Higgins Ave. Proceeds will benefit Tamarack Grief Resource Center. 5:30–8 PM. Free.

Jewelry designer Dani Stewart shares her jewelry designs with the world and we live in a shinier world for it. Bella Sauvage Day Spa, 629 Woody St. 5–8 PM. Free.

Marium Etminan-Rad shares her works with us and harpist Jane Shigley this First Friday at the New Hong Kong Chef, 2009 Brooks Ave., which also is a Chinese Christmas High Tea fundraiser for Seedlings of Change, with appetizers galore. 6–8 PM. $25.

Melissa “Don’t call me Missy” Thompson exhibits her felt rugs and other works at Blaque Owl Tattoo, 307 N. Higgins Ave., in an exhbit called the Rugged Peddler. Excellent. 5–8 PM. Free.

Check out some spiffy creations and support the Occupy Missoula Foreclosure Defense Team at the Art Bazaar by the Zootown Solidarity Network. Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. 6–10 PM.

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[calendar] Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free pub trivia, which takes place every Tuesday at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with: Approximately how many letters did Finland’s Santa Claus, Joulupukki, receive in 2006? (See answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.)

WEDNESDAYDEC12 Come hear badass birder Gary Swant speak about his record setting bird-watching trek and see the Steve Martin film based on Swant’s activities, The Big Year. Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation.

nightlife Them Scotch Gals are at it again. They’ll sell you eight single-

malt scotches at the Rhino, 158 Ryman St., for $25 and tell you why they are dee-lish. 5 PM. Get a taste of booze candy at the Montgomery Distillery Grand Opening and Gin Release. Tunes by The Little Darlings. Tours, too. 129 W. Front St. 5–8 PM. Free. Pub trivia answer: Joulupukki received 700,000 letters from children all over the world last year.

More events online: missoulanews.com What was life like in a French mental institution circa 1925?

Awful is my guess, but you can learn more for yourself during Viscosity Theatre’s Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in A Madhouse) at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. Absinthe bar at 7 PM, show 8 PM. $15/$12 advance at viscositytheatre.org.

THURSDAYDEC13 Kevin Van Dort might not play “Santa Baby” but don’t hold that against him. Bitter Root Brewery in Hamilton. 6–8:30 PM. Free.

Getting a new bike for your little angel this Christmas? Get her a helmet, too, at the St. Pat’s Trauma Services helmet sale. Old Western Montana Clinic Building, 515 W. Front St. Noon–3 PM. $8-$23.

nightlife The Josh Farmer Band hoes a musical row down at the Draught Works Brewery, 915 Toole Ave. 5– 8 PM. Free.

Pull out them jazz hands, Sparky, Blue Moon performs for you fireside at The Keep, 105 Ben Hogan Dr. 6:30–9:30 PM. Free.

What was life like in a French mental institution circa 1925?

Awful is my guess, but you can learn more for yourself during Viscosity Theatre’s Crime dans une Maison de Fous (Crime in A Madhouse) at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. Absinthe bar at 7 PM, show 8 PM. $15/$12 advance at viscositytheatre.org.

Vocal chamber ensemble New York Polyphony sing the tunes of yore and holiday sounds at the Music Recital Hall. 7:30 PM. $20/$10 students.

Shahs continues its month-long VFW residency and this week there is something for everyone, unless everyone is a jerk, with The Orators, Better Tennis and Skin Flowers. 245 W. Main St. 9 PM. $2.

Rod Blackman performs a farewell show at the Elbow Room, 1855 Stephens Ave., as he is returning to Memphis. First though, he is accompanied by Seth McGhee on the congas and other

Explore dynamic exhibitions at MAM during the holidays with your family and Friends. *Buy a gift membership and receive a free MAM tote bag. missoulaartmuseum.org

Tue-Fri 10am-5pm // Sat-Sun 12-5 PM

Admission is always free.

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special guests. 2 for 1 wells and progressive beer night starting at 50 cents. 9 PM. Free.

Russ Nasset done gone and cured ya of your tremors with a sweet shot of country hits up at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

The holidays are really getting going on, y’all. If you’ve had some holiday cheer, don’t drive or I’ll personally kick your booty. Send your event info to me by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 7 to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to The Calemandar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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MOUNTAIN HIGH Imagine you do a little hike up the “M.” Undoubtedly, you might decide to have a little snack once you come back down. For me, it would be a burger and fries, because I earned it. Sure, I probably burned less than 300 calories, and that meal is coming in around 1,000 calories. (I will also be drinking beer, trust me.)

Now imagine that you’ve just run 165.7 miles in 24 hours like legendary ultrarunner Scott Jurek did in 2010. Once again, an overwhelming desire for protein and shot of anything numbing, booze or medicinal, is probably what many of us would require. Jurek on the other hand is a vegan. No burger.

No burrito filled with lumps of cheese. He ran for

24 hours and recovered from all that physical damage on a plant-based diet. It sounds impossible to me, but I’ve been trained to think that way. Jurek shares how he learned to conquer long distance races and lead a healthy, inspiring life, without meat and cheese. I’d call it “unpossible” if it weren’t true.

—Jason McMackin Ultrarunner Scott Jurek speaks about his book Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness, at the Wilma Theatre on Tue., Dec. 11, at 7 PM. At 4 PM Jurek takes part in a fun run that departs from Runner’s Edge, 325 Higgins Ave. All paces welcome. Free.

Photo by Chad Harder

THURSDAY DECEMBER 6 Fact: the Red Cross gets slow on blood right before the holidays, so do something about it and enjoy a free cookie, too. The blood mobile is at St. Pat’s, 500 W. Broadway Ave., from 8–2 PM. Call 3295838.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 7 Hikers and bikers, you know that the Mount Jumbo North Zone is closed; unfortunately, I’m here to remind you that the South Zone closes Fri., Dec. 7. But, hey, the “L” and I-90 trails are open. Remember to keep fido on a leash, though, them elk don’t like to be barked at.

A chance to win 50 bottles of wine? It must be time for the Clark Fork Coalition Holiday Party and Online Auction. The event has vittles, victuals and tunes. 140 S. Fourth St. W. Free for members or you can join the coalition for a reduced rate of $10. Tickets can be purchased at Wordens, Liquid Planet, at clarkfork.org, or by calling 542-0539.

Get out the Stoke-A-Matic™ 2010 and take it on down to the Wilma Theatre for Warren Miller’s Flow State, a ski film chock full of the kind grind and other sickness. A portion of the proceeds benefits the West Central Montana Avalanche Foundation. 8 PM. $15/$12 advance at The Trial Head and Rockin Rudy’s.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 Wax up them sliding sticks, slip into some spandex trousers and let the neighbors know that you are vainglorious about your glutes for a reason at the UM Outdoor Program Cross-Country Ski Outing. $30 includes the works: transpo, skis and trip leaders. For full details visit umt.edu/outdoorprogram.

Be a good little pagan and snatch up your Christmas tree cutting permit at one of the Lolo National Forest Ranger District offices. Permits are limited to three per family and cost $5 each. Permits can also be purchased at Bronc’s Grocery in Frenchtown and the Clinton Market. The Missoula Ranger District office, located at Fort Missoula, extends its hours for permit sales to 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM today and next Saturday.

Just don’t run on a full stomach during Run Wild Missoula’s Saturday Breakfast Club Runs,

which occurs every Sat. at 8 AM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. After the run/walk, you’ll grab breakfast with other participants. Free to run. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

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MONDAY DECEMBER 10 Learn the ways of the birds at the Five Valleys Audubon meeting. Tonight’s topic is Boreal Forest Birds and Energy Development. Look up boreal.

Gallagher Business Building, Rm. L14. 7:30 PM.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 11 Unfortunately, no bears are scheduled to speak at the three-day long Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee Meeting, but if there were one it’d be all, “Grrr, roar, grr.” The multi-agency committee is responsible for grizzly bear recovery in the contiguous United States and adjacent Canadian Provinces. Double Tree Hotel, 100 Madison St. 8– 5 PM. Visit igbconline.org.

The Rocky Mountaineers meet at the Trail Head and discuss beard length and lumbar support. This week learn how to spot hoar frost at the annual Avalanche Awareness presentation given by Steve Karkanen of the West Central Montana Avalanche Center. 7 PM. Call 543-6508 to get involved.

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12 Come hear badass birder Gary Swant speak about his record setting bird-watching trek and see the Steve Martin film based on Swant’s activities, The Big Year. Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. 7 PM. $4 suggested donation.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 13 It’s already time for the West Yellowstone Sled Dog Races? Darn tootin’ it is. There are categories for newbies and pros alike in this two-day race. Spectators are welcome and it is free to watch.

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It wasn’t always fun, but he played hard and is the type of dude who will dive for a ball in a two-ontwo game. He is also the type of dude who might foul you and deny it. I like that kind of moxie.

Galius is full of conviction in his play and his writing. His book, The Grizzly Manifesto: In Defense of the Great Bear, uncovers the difficulties facing the grizzly bear in North America in unflinching language and rhetoric, suggesting that big business and big government would rather pillage the land than maintain enough habitat for the bears to live on comfortably.

His latest effort, Little Black Lies, uncovers how Canadian mining and oil interests have quietly filled a once-pristine landscape with toxic tailings,

and ponds and streams full of known cancer-causing agents, all in the name of uncovering bitumen, a sedimentary rock that puts the tar in “tar sands.”

Gailus has been assailed by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers for his opinions on the massive tar sands debacle. Few have the moxie required to take on CAPP and their ilk, but Gailus isn’t looking to make friends with folks hellbent on abusing the environment for profit.

Jeff Gailus signs his new book Little Black Lies at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., on Sat., Dec. 8, from 10:30 AM to noon.

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 8 The 17th annual Helping Hands of Alberton Benefit Auction begins with a fish and chips lunch at noon and an auction at 1 PM. The group provides help to families during the holidays. River Edge Resort in Alberton. For more information call 722-3338.

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Occupy Missoula General Assembly meets at the Union Hall above the Union Club at 6 PM. Visit occupymissoula.org.

The UM Climate Action Now Meeting is out to save the day, promoting sustainability and environmental action. UM Flat, 633 Fifth St. E. 6:30 PM. The Bonner Milltown Community Council Meeting takes place at the Bonner School Library.

On tap, the new roundabout, handicap accessibility, dumpy old railroad crossings and removal of logs and metal debris from the lower Blackfoot River. 7 PM.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 11 Learn how to give and receive empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a non-violent communication weekly practice group, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. 519 S. Higgins. Noon–1 PM. Free.

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome. 1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 12 The Missoula Police Department is now accepting applications for its Citizens’ Law Enforcement Academy. The academy gives the people a chance to understand police work a little better and takes place over nine wednesday nights beginning on Wed., Jan. 30. Deadline for applicants is Fri., Jan. 11. Call 552-6320.

Attend the 1,000 New Gardens Meeting and allow the Garden City to live up to its moniker by helping folks plant the seeds of self-foodulation.

UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth Street E. 5:30-6:30 PM. The Arlee Community Development Corporation hold its monthly meeting at the Arlee High School Business Lab. 6 PM.

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Inspired by outdoor markets across Montana, The Montana Shop is home to local artisans, crafting clothing and accessories by hand.

Our partners produce wonderfully fun products that are made with an attention to detail only possible by loving craftsmanship.

Conveniently located on campus, a trip to The Montana Shop is always uplifting and inspiring.

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As a listener, you provide considerable cost savings over the guy with the gray beard, the monocle, and the couch, and it can’t hurt that crying on your shoulder comes with a front row seat to your jigglies.

Your presence can also provide a helpful thumb on the “I’m outta here!” side of the scale for a man who lacks a Ouija Board, a Magic 8-Ball, or the guts to make a decision. And while it is possible that some of these men fall for you, it’s also possible that any “I love you! I want you! I have to have you!” a man blurts out is just a bad translation of “Eeek! I’ll be alone, and you’re cute and nice to me. You’ll do.”

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BREAKING THE UNSOUND BARRIER Last night, a girl I was seeing several months ago texted me, wanting to get back together. She’d cut all ties with me after accusing me of causing her brother to abuse her, both emotionally and physically. We’d been sexting, and her brother read one of my texts, and she blamed me for his behavior, either for making the abuse happen or for making it worse. She’s no longer living with her brother, and I’m tempted to go back to her, but I don’t want to ruin things with this new girl I’m seeing who seems kind, understanding, and more stable.

—Decisions Think about how this works in an action movie. Typically, the film ends with the hero safe and sound in a bar, reflecting on his narrow escape. (In “Jaws,” the guy didn’t turn around and go back in for a swim.)

You can feel sorry for this woman and hope she gets some help, but a woman who blames you for another person’s behavior is telling you something—she’s irrational and unstable and you’ve probably only grazed the tip of the drama iceberg.

In a word, FLEE!—unless you luck out, and she ditches you. (The self-removing problem girlfriend is the next best thing to a bag of trash that grows legs and walks itself out to the curb.)

It’s actually pretty imperative to make rationality, self-respect, and emotional stability your top must-haves in a girlfriend and to be mindful of how easy it is to rationalize the behavior of the drama dispensers, especially when reminiscing about the hot times. (Red lingerie always pleads its case louder than red flags, and the crazies always seem more fun in bed.) But, getting together with an irrational, unstable woman—especially one with irrational, unstable, meddling relatives—is like sticking your life in a wood chipper. Ultimately, if a woman’s going to take your breath away, it shouldn’t be because there’s only a little more oxygen left in the trunk of her nutbag brother’s car.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The axolotl is a kind of salamander that has an extraordinary capacity for regenerating itself. If it loses a leg in an accident, it will grow a new one in its place. It can even fix its damaged organs, including eyes, heart, and brain. And get this: There’s never any scar tissue left behind when its work is done. Its power to heal itself is pretty much perfect. I nominate the axolotl to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Taurus. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have an extraordinary ability to restore any part of your soul that got hurt or stolen or lost.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the coming months, I hope that you will get sweet revenge. In fact, I predict that you will get sweet revenge. Keep in mind that I’m not talking about angry, roaring vindication. I don’t mean you will destroy the reputations of your adversaries or reduce them to humiliating poverty or laugh at them as they grovel for mercy while lying in a muddy gutter. No, Gemini. The kind of revenge I foresee is that you will achieve a ringing triumph by mastering a challenge they all believed would defeat you. And your ascent to victory starts now.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I would love to speak with you about your hesitancy to fully confront your difficulties. But I will not speak forthrightly, since I’m pretty sure that would irritate you.

It might even motivate you to procrastinate even further. So instead I will make a lame joke about how if you don’t stop avoiding the obvious, you will probably get bitten in the butt by a spider. I will try to subtly guilt-trip you into taking action by implying that I’ll be annoyed at you if you don’t. I will wax sarcastic and suggest that maybe just this once, ignorance is bliss. Hopefully that will nudge you into dealing straightforwardly with the unrest that’s burbling.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Drama is life with all the boring parts cut out of it,” said Leo filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. By that criterion, I’m guessing that your experience in the coming week will have a high concentration of magic and stimulation. You should be free from having to slog through stale details and prosaic storylines. Your word of power will be succulence. For best results, I suggest you take active control of the unfolding adventures. Be the director and lead actor in your drama, not a passive participant who merely reacts to what the other actors are doing.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of my spiritual teachers once told me that a good spiritual teacher makes an effort not to seem too perfect. She said some teachers even cultivate odd quirks and harmless failings on purpose. Why? To get the best learning experience, students must be discouraged from over-idealizing the wise advisors they look up to. It’s crucial they understand that achieving utter purity is impossible and unrealistic. Being perceived as an infallible expert is dangerous for teachers, too; it makes them prone to egotistical grandiosity. I bring this up, Virgo, because it’s an excellent time to reduce the likelihood that you’ll be seduced by the illusion of perfection.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This would be a good week to talk to yourself far more than you usually do. If you’re the type of person who never talks to yourself, this is a perfect time to start. And I do mean that you should speak the words out loud. Actually address yourself with passionate, humorous, ironic, sincere, insightful comments, as you would any person you care about. Why am I suggesting this? Because according to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you would benefit from the shock of literally hearing how your mind works. Even more importantly: The cheerleading you do, the encouragement you deliver, and the motivational speeches you give would have an unusually powerful impact if they were audibly articulated.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast,” a grotesque human-like creature hosts the heroine in his home, treating her like a queen. She accepts his hospitality but rejects his constant requests to marry him. Eventually, he collapses from heartache. Moved by the depth of his suffering, she breaks into tears and confesses her deep affection for him. This shatters the spell and magically transforms the Beast back into the handsome prince he originally was. Your life may have parallels to this story in the coming months, Scorpio. You might be tested. Can you discern the truth about a valuable resource that doesn’t look very sexy? Will you be able to see beauty embedded in a rough or shabby form?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the novel arrangement you create is probably unique in all of human history; its specific order has never before occurred. I suspect the same principle applies to our lives: Each new day brings a singular set of circumstances that neither you nor anyone else in the last 10,000 years has ever had the pleasure of being challenged and intrigued by. There is always some fresh opportunity, however small, that is being offered you for the first time. I think it’s important for you to keep this perspective in mind during the coming week. Be alert for what you have never seen or experienced before.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wish I could do more than just fantasize about helping you achieve greater freedom. In my dreams, I am obliterating delusions that keep you moored to false idols. I am setting fire to the unnecessary burdens you lug around. And I am tearing you away from the galling compromises you made once upon a time in order to please people who don’t deserve to have so much power over you. But it’s actually a good thing I can’t just wave a magic wand to make all this happen. Here’s a much better solution: You will clarify your analysis of the binds you’re in, supercharge your willpower, and liberate yourself.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins talks about a gourmet who “gave up everything, traveled thousands of miles and spent his last dime to get to the highest lamasery in the Himalayas to taste the dish he’d longed for his whole life, Tibetan peach pie. When he got there...the lamas said they were all out of peach. ‘Okay,’ said the gourmet, ‘make it apple.’” I suspect you’ll be having a comparable experience sometime soon, Aquarius. You may not get the exact treat you wanted, but what you’ll receive in its place is something that’s pretty damn good. I urge you to accept the gift as is!

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Having ‘a sense of self’ means possessing a set of stories about who we are,” according to William Kittredge in his book The Nature of Generosity. He says there are two basic types of stories: The first is “cautionary tales, which warn us” and therefore protect us. The second consists of “celebratory” tales, which we use to heal and calm ourselves. I believe that you Pisceans are now in a phase when you primarily need celebratory stories. It’s time to define yourself with accounts of what you love and value and regard as precious.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 3:00 p.m., on Tuesday, January 9, 2013, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for the following: City of Missoula Project MPR 13-001 Tree Pruning & Removal The project consists of tree pruning and removals various public rights of way locations throughout the City of Missoula, Montana. Society of Consulting Arborist’s Registered Consulting Arborists and/or International Society of Arboriculture’s Certified Arborists are qualified to bid on this contract. Qualified bidders shall submit sealed bids as prescribed in the Project Bid request addressed to the City Clerk, City of Missoula, enclosed in sealed envelopes plainly marked on the outside “Proposal for City of Missoula Project MPR 13-001 Tree Pruning & Removal” The project is divided into 8 separate work orders. A bidder may bid on all, one or multiple work orders.

Bids will be awarded in priority order to the low qualified bidder for each identified tree pruning and removal work order listed until all available funds are obligated. The envelopes shall also be marked with the Bidder’s Name, Address and Montana Contractor’s Registration Number, if available. Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of the City of Missoula against liability. A complete set of the Contract Documents will be furnished to the Contractors from the Urban Forestry Office, 100 Hickory Street, Missoula, Montana. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with City of Missoula Business Licensing requirements. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of theiractual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, age, marital or familial status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or because of their

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Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to the bid opening at 3:00 p.m., on Tuesday, January 9, 2013. The City of Missoula provides accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with a person’s ability to participate in any service, program, or activity of the City. In the case of documents, recordings or verbal presentations, alternative accessible formats will be provided. To request accommodation, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (406)5526080. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA PUBLIC NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2013 The City Council has set its meeting schedule for 2013. They will meet the first four Mondays of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana with the following exceptions.

The Council will not meet on the following dates: January 21, 2013 - Martin Luther King Day February 18, 2013 – President’s Day May 27, 2013 - Memorial Day September 2, 2013 – Labor Day October 14, 2013 – Columbus Day November 11, 2013 Veteran’s Day December 2, 2013 – the Monday following Thanksgiving December 23, 2013 – the Monday before Christmas Eve The City Council will meet on Monday, December 30, 2013, the fifth Monday in December. The agenda for each meeting will be posted on the outside door of the Ryman Street entrance of City Hall at least 2 days prior to the meeting an on the City’s web page at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/cityclerk. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk IN DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF CASS, STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA Civil No.: 09-2012-DM-01362 SUMMONS Debra C. Miller, Plaintiff, vs. Christopher A. Miller, Defendant. THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the Complaint in this action, where is herewith served upon you, by serving upon the undersigned an answer or other proper response within twenty-one (21) days after the service of the Summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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By: /s/ Vanessa R. Henderson ND License No.: 06536 HENDERSON LAW, PLLC 808 3rd Avenue South, Ste. 203 Fargo, ND 58103 Telephone: (701) 478-8664 Facsimile: (701) 478-8665 ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF MISSOULA COUNTY INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 10:00 A.M. local time, on December 20, 2012 for the RSID 901 Lolo Telemetry/SCADA System Upgrade Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes upgrading existing Master Telemetry Control Panel; Lift Stations #1/#2/#3 Telemetry Control Panels; Well #1/#2/#3 Telemetry Control Panels; Upper/Lower Reservoir/Booster Telemetry Control Panels; including all internal wiring, ancillary components, programming, testing, commissioning, and training. Additional work includes new Master SCADA computer workstations and appurtenances; Master SCADA software, including installation, configuration, programming, startup, commissioning and training. Contractor shall be responsible for general electrical work, including field installation, conduit, wiring, grounding,

startup, commissioning, and training; and installation of telemetry antennas and accessories.

COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within forty-five (45) calendar days for all bid items after the commencement date of the project is agreed upon by Missoula County and the said Contractor. However, if a project date is not able to be agreed upon, the Owner shall make the final decision once the Owner issues the Agreement. Contract time will be extended in accordance with the contract documents. SPECIFICATIONS AND BID PROCEDURE: The Bidding and Contract Documents may be examined at the Office of Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT. BID SECURITY: Proposals must be accompanied by cash, cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana, or by any banking corporation incorporated in the State of Montana, or by a bid bond or bonds executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the State of Montana in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal form. Performance and Payment Bonds will be required of the successful bidder in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate of the proposal for the faithful performance of the contract, and protection of Missoula County against liability. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Contractor and any of the contractor’s subcontractors doing work on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) except as listed in MCA 39-9-211. Information on registration can be obtained from the Department of Labor and Industry by calling 1-406-444-7734.

Contractor is required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. (“Bid Only” registration is available for out-of-state contractors.) All laborers and mechanics employed by contractor or subcontractors in performance of this work shall be paid wages at rates

as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Successful contractors and vendors are required to comply with Missoula County’s Business Licensing requirements. Proposals must be sealed and marked “RSID 901 Lolo Telemetry/SCADA System Upgrade Project”, “Opening” December 20th, 2012 at 10:00 AM and marked “Sealed Bid” with the Contractor’s name, address, current state license number, and, Montana Contractors Registration Number and be addressed to: Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 No facsimile bids will be accepted.

Date: November 30th, 2012 Owner: Missoula County By: /s/ Amy Rose Missoula County Public Works MISSOULA COUNTY Missoula County Motor Pool will be holding an auction for two vehicles starting Thursday, December 6th thru Sunday, December 16th. Go to publicsurplus.com - select Missoula County. 2000 Green Dodge Stratus - mileage 61,836. Great Condition. 2002 Silver Toyota Prius - mileage 83,725. Very good Condition.

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 50, 94, 148, 203, 216, 230. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers.

These units may be viewed starting 12/17/ 2012 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 12/20/ 2012 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

ACROSS

1 What Burger King tried to serve on a sundae in 2012 6 Sheep's sound 9 L times VI 12 Stopping point in a Carlo Levi novel 13 Fails to live up to 15 Arty district 16 Character voiced by Danny DeVito, with "The" 17 "See above," in footnotes 19 Gp. for doctors 20 "You pick the place" 21 Cocktails with a recipe on the Kahlua label 28 Break room thefts that suck (especially when you put your name on them) 30 B, L or T, e.g.

31 Quicktime file extension 32 Genetic message "venue" 33 OTC sleep-aid introduced in 2012 34 H.S. diploma alternative 35 Three-letter Best Picture nominee 36 "Later, skaters" 38 Bait shop stock 39 "Buffalo Stance" singer Cherry 40 Mountain chain in Utah 41 "Count us in!"

43 Quid pro quo deal 46 Highest-ranking 47 Botanist Gray 50 They're not usually syndicated 55 Sighting subject 56 Costanza mantra 57 Blemish 58 Political theorist Hannah 59 Reggae musician ___-Mouse 60 Train depot, for short 61 Foot, in kid-speak 62 Rail option, to Rodrigo

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1 Strings virtuoso Fleck 2 Mushroom cloud maker 3 Possibly-venomous creature 4 Suffix after pay 5 Reject 6 Roy G. ___ 7 "___ was saying..."

8 Its symbol contains itself at the end 9 World capital that after which the chemical element hafnium is named 10 Sports Illustrated's "Sportswoman of the Year," 1976 11 It gets hung indoors 14 Medical device used to alleviate pain 15 Itch-inducing shrub 18 Surname in fashion 22 1991 e-commerce company acquired by Oracle in 2011 23 Former New Jersey Senator 24 Type of band with a clarinetist 25 From the 20-yard-line to the goal line 26 Hidden attribute 27 English dogs with a keen sense of smell 29 Record half 30 The 411 32 ___ Nabisco (one-time tobacco merger) 37 Hurry, old school 41 Program from FDR 42 Bad blood 43 Seedy places 44 "Hawaii Five-O" nemesis 45 Tree-to-be 47 Jules or Ed 48 Fuel 49 Dam on the Nile 51 Exam for a future atty.

52 It's nada 53 Cookie introduced in 1912 54 "Dark am ___ lovely" (passage from the Song of Solomon)

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION for the issuance of a MISSOULA AIR QUALITY PERMIT Source: Wood Chipper Operation Applicant: Willis Enterprises. The Missoula City-County Health Department has received a complete application for an Air Quality Permit for a wood de-barker and chipper operation at the following location: Section 21 & 22, Township 13 North, Range 18 West at 8462 Highway 200 East, Bonner, Missoula County.

Upon review of the permit application and other information, the Department finds that Willis Enterprises filed a complete application indicating the proposed facility is capable of meeting applicable requirements of the Air Pollution Control Program.

Therefore, the Department hereby gives notice of the preliminary determination to issue an Air Quality Permit to Willis Enterprises to operate the wood chipping operation. The permit will be issued with several conditions attached. The Department will make a final determination concerning the application on December 21st, 2012. Any interested person may review a copy of the application and proposed permit at the Environmental Health Division, 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802. Written comments on the preliminary determination will be accepted until noon on December 21st, 2012. Comments should be sent to the attention of Benjamin Schmidt, Air Quality Specialist (email: bschmidt@co.missoula.mt.us ).

MISSOULA COUNTY OTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD Title III Fuel Mitigation Requests Notice is hereby given that a proposal for

allocation of Missoula County funds for the purpose of fuels mitigation projects was put before the Board of County Commissioners on November 21, 2012. The funds originate from the federal government as part of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, and are being spent under Title III of that Act. The following allocations are proposed: To mitigate the effects of wildfire by supporting Firewise Communities Programs, including cost sharing on fuels mitigation projects: $25,000 to Missoula Rural Fire District; $25,000 to Frenchtown Rural Fire District; $30,00 to Seeley Lake Rural Fire Department and Clearwater Resource Council; $19,000 to Swan Ecosystem; $20,000 to Missoula City Fire Department. Agencies receiving these allocations must have the funds spent by September 30, 2013, or those funds will revert to Missoula County for re-allocation by the Board of County Commissioners. The Board of County Commissioners will act on these proposals at their regularly scheduled Weekly Public Meeting on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. in Room B14 of the Missoula County Administrative Building. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax (406) 721-4043 email bcc@co.missoula.mt.us.

Additional information on the proposals may be obtained from Chris Lounsbury at the Office of

Emergency Management, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; or by calling (406) 2584469. DATED THIS 21st DAY OF November, 2012. Chair, Board of County Commissioners MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON ISSUING BONDS RELATED TO PARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER AND ICE RINK IMPROVEMENTS MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”), will meet on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., M.T., in the public meeting room, Admin B14, of the County Administration Building, located at 199 West Pine, in Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on a proposal that the County issue its limited tax general obligation bonds (the “Bonds”) in the approximate amount of up to $1,300,000 for the purpose of improving and remodeling the Creamery Building (the “2012 Project”), which houses certain operations of Partnership Health Center Incorporation, a Montana nonprofit corporation and a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization (“PHC”), refunding certain of the County’s outstanding bonds as described below, and paying certain costs associated with the sale and issuance of the Bonds. The 2012 Project is located at the Creamery Building, the address of which is 401 West Railroad in Missoula, Montana.

The Bonds will also refund the County’s outstanding Limited Obligation Notes (Partnership Health Care Project), Series 1998 (the “Series 1998 Notes”) and certain outstanding maturities of the County’s Limited

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General Obligation Bonds, Series 2004 (the “Series 2004 Bonds”). The Series 1998 Notes were issued to pay a portion of the costs of building PHC’s health care facility (the “PHC Building”) at 323 W. Alder in Missoula, Montana, and the Series 2004 Bonds were issued to pay a portion of the costs of improving and constructing an open-air artificial ice facility at Missoula County Fairgrounds (the “Ice Rink Project”), the address of which is 1101 South Avenue West in Missoula, Montana.

The PHC Building is leased by the County to PHC and the Ice Rink Project is leased by the County to Missoula Area Youth Hockey Association, a Montana nonprofit corporation and a Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization (“MAYHA”). The Series 1998 Notes and the Series 2004 Bonds will be refunded for interest rate savings, thereby reducing the amount of money the County has to pay on such obligations. The portion of the Bonds to finance or reimburse the costs of the 2012 Project is expected to be in the amount of approximately $400,000, and the refunding portion of the Bonds is expected to not exceed $850,000. PHC and MAYHA, either through their leases or operations, are expected to pay the principal of and interest on the Bonds. All persons interested may appear and be heard at the time and place set forth above, or may file written comments with the County Clerk and Recorder prior to the date of the hearing set forth above. Comments addressed or delivered to the Missoula County Commissioners at 199 West Pine in Missoula, Montana 59802 (FAX (406) 7214043) and received prior to the hearing will be considered. Further information may be ob-

tained from Andrew Czorny, County Chief Financial Officer, (406) 258 4919, or the County Commissioners Office at 199 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, (406) 2584877. DATED: NOVEMBER 21, 2012. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF BROWNFIELDS COMMITTEE MEETING City of Missoula Office of Planning & Grants 435 Ryman Missoula, MT 59802 406-258-3688 TO ALL INTERESTED AGENCIES, GROUPS AND PERSONS: The Missoula Brownfields Cleanup Committee will meet on December 13, at 9:00 a.m., in Room 206 of the Missoula County Administration Building, 199 West Pine. The Missoula Brownfields Cleanup Committee assists with the management of the City of Missoula’s Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Program, funded by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Brownfields Initiative, which provides loans and grants to finance environmental cleanup activities at qualifying Brownfield sites within the City of Missoula. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or underused industrial and commercial sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. This meeting is open to the public. The December 13 meeting will include a staff update and consideration of a request by the Poverello Center, Inc., for a $150,000 subgrant for asbestos abatement facilitating demolition of the Poverello Center’s building at 1106 - 1112 West Broadway in Missoula. For

further meeting and Brownfields information please contact John Adams, Brownfields Coordinator, at the Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman, 258-3688, or at jadams@co.missoula.mt.us.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4656. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Architecture Services Missoula County, on behalf of Youth Homes, Inc., has been awarded a federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) in the amount of $450,000 by the Montana Department of Commerce (MDOC) for site and architectural design and new construction of a 10 bedroom home for low and moderate income youth age 16-17.

The facility will replace the existing facility (Tom Roy Youth Guidance Home) and be located at 2824 West Central Avenue in Missoula, Montana on the site owned by Youth Homes, Inc. Construction is expected to commence in the spring of 2013.

Contingent upon this award, Missoula County is requesting Letters of Interest and Statements of Qualifications for architectural/engineering services to assist Youth Homes, Inc. in designing and supervising the construction of this project in compliance with all applicable requirements under the Montana CDBG Program. Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected respondent. Copies of the detailed request for qualifications (RFQ), including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to

evaluate the responses, can be obtained by contacting Jean Harte, Grants Administrator, Office of Planning and Grants, office location: 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, telephone: (406) 258-3712. All responses to the detailed RFQ must be received no later than 3:00 p.m., Thursday, December 27, 2012. Missoula County is an equal opportunity employer.

Women and minority businesses are encouraged to apply. Missoula County makes reasonable accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with an applicant’s ability to compete in the recruitment and selection process or the respondent’s ability to perform the essential duties of the job. In order for Missoula County to make such accommodations, the applicant must make known any needed accommodation by contacting the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, (406) 258-3712. Persons using a relay device may contact the Montana Relay Service, 711.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-12-207 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGRIT SYROID, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Amanda Wagner, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of

PUBLIC NOTICES the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 30th day of November , 2012, in Missoula, Montana. /s/ Amanda Wagner, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-1261 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Mathew Crum. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Mathew James Crum to Mathew James Jackson. The hearing will be on 12/20/2012 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED: November 21, 2012. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Nicole Borchers, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-12-1364 Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) In the Matter of the Name Change of BRIDGET FREYA LAPOINTE HERNANDEZ, Petitioner. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Petitioner named above has asked the District Court for a change of name from Bridget Freya LaPointe Hernandez to Bridget Freya LaPointe Vetter. A hearing on the petition will be held on the 3rd day of January, 2013 at 9:00 o’clock a.m. at the Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, Montana. DATED this 26th day of November, 2012. /s/ Shirley Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Jeremy Scott, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Karen S. Townsend Cause No. DP-12-201 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HELENE JOYCE LaCASSE, Decedent.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed as Co-Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Allen J. LaCasse and Rosemary L. Howard at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2820 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 20th day of November, 2012. /s/ Allen J. LaCasse, Personal Representative /s/ Rosemary L. Howard, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-12-202 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT L. FRALEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Ardella M. Fraley, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane PC, PO Box 4747, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 20th day of November, 2012. /s/ Ardella M. Fraley, Personal Representative WORDEN THANE, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative /s/ Patrick Dougherty MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP12-194. Honorable Judge Deschamps, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF NORMAN FRANCIS WADE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael T. Henry, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 16th day of November,

2012. /s/ Michael T. Henry, Personal Representative. SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. /s/ Suzanne Geer, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP12-200 Honorable John W. Larson, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE G. OLSON a/k/a KAY OLSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Judith Stenberg and Karla Nichwander, the Co-Personal Representatives, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 20th day of November, 2012. /s/ Judith Stenberg, CoPersonal Representative /s/ Karla Nichwander, Co-Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated October 25, 2010 Grantors: Todd D. Goodrich and Tina L. Goodrich 7 Emerald Drive Missoula, Montana 59808 Original Trustee: Insured Titles, LLC P.O. Box 4706 Missoula, Montana 59806 Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for First Security Bank of Missoula P.O. Box 2026 Flint, Michigan 48501-2026 Successor Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula, Division of Glacier Bank 1704 Dearborn Avenue Missoula, Montana 59801 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807-8957 Date and Place of Recordation: Original recorded October 29, 2010 in Book 868 at Page 426 and rerecorded August 30, 2012 in Book 899 at Page 901, records of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 2nd day of April, 2013, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Lot 9 of Emerald Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Subject to easements of record. Together with improvements and appurtenances. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of One Thousand Five Hundred Five Dollars ($1,505.00) for the months of March, 2012 through October, 2012; together with late charges in the amount of One Thousand Ninety-two and 24/100ths Dollars ($1,092.24); together with overdrawn escrow account for payment of real estate taxes in the amount of Two Hundred Ninety-two and 48/100ths Dollars ($292.48); and other/recording fees in the amount of Forty-seven Dollars ($47.00). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is One Hundred Eighty-eight Thousand Seven Hundred One and 60/100ths Dollars ($188,701.60), plus interest thereon at the rate of 6.5% from and after the 31st day of January, 2012 to October 10, 2012, in the amount of Eight Thousand Four Hundred Thirty-nine and 81/100ths Dollars ($8,439.81), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Thirty-two and 70/100ths Dollars ($32.70), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 1st day of November, 2012. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley,

Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807-8957 STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 1st day of November, 2012, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. (NOTARIAL SEAL) Residing at: Lolo, Montana My commission expires: January 6, 2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/27/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200730982, Bk. 809, Pg. 883, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James Leonard Sampson, 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 15 of Hurt First Addition, a platted subdivison in the City of Missoula, 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 06/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of October 5, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $162,592.29. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $156,932.38, 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 13, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.102943) 1002.230681-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/04/10, recorded as Instrument No. 201010942, Bk. 861, Pg. 31, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Sean W. Hayward, 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 fol-

lows: Lot 6 except the West 13 feet of the South 79 feet and all Lots 7 and 8, Block 11, Butte Addition in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 2 of Plats at Page 57. 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 04/01/12 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of October 1, 2012, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $189,931.36. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $182,684.62, 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 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.102345) 1002.230247-File No. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 25, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Certificate of Survey No. 298, located in Lot 6 of Primrose Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof David Peterson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 5, 2005 and recorded January 11, 2005 in Book 746, Page 452 under Document no. 200500739. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. successor by merger to ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,717.46, beginning December 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 28, 2012 is $194,555.29 principal, interest at the rate of 5.625% now totaling $9,929.34, late charges in the amount

of $674.60, escrow advances of $2,468.81, suspense balance of $947.09 and other fees and expenses advanced of $360.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.98 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: September 19, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 20th day of September, 2012, 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/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Citimortgage V. Peterson 42011.750 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 25, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2 of SHIRLEY ADDITION, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, as recorded in Book 27 of Plats as Page 6 Debbie L Wilcox and Robert E Wilcox, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 26, 2006 and recorded June 30, 2006 in Bk-778, Pg21, under Document No. 200615961.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Nationstar Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount

of $1,156.18, beginning April 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of September 14, 2012 is $155,400.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.87500% now totaling $16,406.10, late charges in the amount of $311.64, escrow advances of $3,181.11, and other fees and expenses advanced of $539.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.27 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: September 13, 2012 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss.

County of Bingham ) On this 13th day of September, 2012, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, know to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Nationstar V Wilcox 41706.583 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 28, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN CITY OF CLINTON, MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 715, PAGE 1349, ID# 1249100, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 16 OF LEISCHNER TRACTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM KELLY S. DUNHAM AS SET FORTH IN DEED BOOK 715, PAGE 1349

DATED 05/29/2003 AND RECORDED 08/26/2003, MISSOULA COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF MONTANA Marc B. Dunham, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Home Connects, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 19, 2007 and recorded May 9, 2007 under Document# 200711279, Book 796, Page 1321. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $759.87, beginning June 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of September 5, 2012 is $120,572.95 principal, interest at the rate of 5.62500% now totaling $2,335.09, late charges in the amount of $236.83, escrow advances of $302.28, and other fees and expenses advanced of $52.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.58 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: September 25, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham ) On this 25 day of September, 2012, 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/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 5/26/2012 GMAC Vs. Dunham 41965.497

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PUBLIC NOTICES Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 03/08/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JARED HEGGEN AND JENNIFER HEGGEN, AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/16/2006 and recorded 08/22/2006, in document No. 200621349 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 781 at Page Number 763 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 45 OF MALONEY RANCH, PHASE VIII, AS A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 6573 LOWER MILLER CREEK ROAD, Missoula, MT 59803.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured

thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2007-J2 MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-J2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 02/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $1,662,837.92 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.875% per annum from 02/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations se-

cured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 10/29/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0045686 FEI NO. 1006.160835 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 03/08/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SUSAN C. MATTHEWS, AN UNMARRIED PERSON as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/01/2005 and recorded 06/07/2005, in document No. 200513653 in Book/Reel/Volume

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Number 753 at Page Number 1597 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT A-1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4050. Property Address: 21413 NINE MILE ROAD, HUSON, MT 59846.

The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF HARBORVIEW MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 200508, MORTGAGE LOAN PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-08. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2012, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $351,127.94 together with interest thereon at the cur-

rent rate of 3.125% per annum from 05/01/2012 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 10/25/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 12-0081258 FEI NO. 1006.170613 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/26/2013 at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following

place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LARRY L SCHMELEBECK AND ANNA SCHMELEBECK, HUSBAND AND WIFE as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/02/2004 and recorded 12/08/2004, in document No. 200434087 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 744 at Page Number 906 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE E1/2 OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS TRACT 3D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 6147. Property Address: 23727 MESSINA DRIVE, Bonner, MT 59823. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-J2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-J2. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made

is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 11/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $135,298.22 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.875% per annum from 11/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: 10/17/2012, RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee, 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407, Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO. 11-0097242 FEI NO. 1006.143443 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on

PUBLIC NOTICES March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 231 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary,

by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above.

The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee.

STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

(SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 233 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price

Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary,

by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above.

The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee.

STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

(SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 235 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary,

by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the perform-

ance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above.

The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee.

STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

(SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 237 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary,

by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obliga-

tion referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice.

DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit 239 of the T.A. Price Condominium, Residential Condominiums located on Lot 12A of Montana Addition—Block 32—Lots 11A and 12A, an Amended Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, as showed and defined in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314 and CONDO000215. Together With each Unit’s undivided interest in the General Common Elements and Limited Common Elements as set forth and described in the Final Declaration of Condominium Under the Unit Ownership Act Pertaining to the T.A. Price Condominium recorded in Book 855 of Micro Records at Page 314. MEI432, LLC, as the original GRANTOR, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as TRUSTEE, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary,

by Trust Indenture recorded September 29, 2006, in Book 784 of Micro Records at Page 337, in the records of the Missoula County, Montana, Clerk and Recorder. A Modification of Deed of Trust thereafter was recorded which revised the Grantor in the prior Montana Trust Indenture to 6 on 6, LLC, which document was recorded on September 30, 2009, in Book 848 of Micro Records at Page 478. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded November 8, 2012, in Book 903, Page 617, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $558,973.31, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $9,648.03, plus late charges of $617.25, plus back-due Missoula County real property taxes of $10,843.16, for a total amount due of $580,081.75, as of August 30, 2012, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above.

The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 9th day of November, 2012. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee.

STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 9th day of November, 2012 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

(SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 05/07/2013

NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on January 25, 2013, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Entrance of the First American Title Company of Montana located at 1006 West Sussex, Missoula, MT 59801, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 AND THE EAST 10 FEET OF LOT 2 IN-BLOCK 42 OF KNOWLES ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA. MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Frank Laber and Lisa Laber, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on March 21, 2007 and recorded on March 26, 2007 on Book-794 and Page-186 as Document No. 200706889. The beneficial interest is currently held by Citibank, N.A., as Trustee for Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Trust 2007-AR3 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-AR3. 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 $640.00, beginning September 1, 2011, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 12, 2012 is $220,022.72 principal, interest at the rate of 7.00% now totaling $13,785.13, late charges in the amount

of $128.72, escrow advances of $3,191.55, and other fees and expenses advanced of $105.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.20 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 properly 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 obliga-

tion 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: September 25, 2012 /s/ Dalia Martinez Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services P.O. Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho ))ss. County of Bingham ) On this 25th day of September, 2012, 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/ Amy Gough Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 5/26/2015 Chase V Laber 41954.058

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1004 Charlo. Energy efficient 2 story 1876 sqft home with 3 bed + bonus, 2 bath, high finishes and stainless appliances. $249,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 1010 Vine Street. Lower Rattlesnake 2 bed, 1 bath very wellmaintained home with single garage. $171,500. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 108 North Davis. 3 bed, 1.5 bath with 2 car garage near Milwaukee Bike Path. Lots of upgrades and a great front porch. $180,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 1136 & 1136 1/2 Howell. 3 UNITS. 3 bed house & two 2 bed apartments on corner lot. $380,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 11689 Stollen Rock Court. 5 bed, 3 bath, 2 car garage on 3.15 acres. $329,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net

1265 #B Dakota. To-be-built 3 bed, 2 bath with double garage near McCormick Park. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com 1520 South 6th West. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with wood floors, fenced yard & basement. $185,000. KD Dickinson, Portico Real Estate 327-8787. kdrae52@msn.com 1830 Schilliing. 3 bed, 1.5 two story with front & back porches, fenced back yard, UG sprinklers, AC & garage. $179,900. KD Dickinson, Portico Real Estate 327-8787. kdrae52@msn.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Pleasant View home. $205,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath Windsor Park home. $195,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 1 Bath South Hills home. $182,500. Prudential Montana.

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4 Klakken, Noxon • $259,000 Charming 9 room motel on 1/2 acre with laundry, mobile & cabin rentals and manager's quarters 1530 Spring Hill $595,000 Beautiful cedar home with wraparound deck on 5 acres bordering Forest Service. Large kitchen, fireplace & heated garage.

6544 MacArthur $240,000 3 bed, 2.5 bath with custom cherry cabinets, granite counters, tile & hardwood floors.

4412 23rd Avenue. 4 bed, 1 bath with 2 car garage on 9600 sq.ft. lot. Lots of room! $185,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net

Huge Lot Bungalow Style Home Middle of Missoula, close to Good Food Store, 1/2 acre + lot, enormous shop, great home. 203 Curtis, 2405227 porticorealestate.com

5104 Village View Way #3.

Beautiful 2 bed, 2 bath South HIlls condo with garage & patio. $164,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com

4600 Monticello. 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage in Canyon Creek. Private backyard & patio. $176,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

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5209 Dutton Court. 5 bed, 3 bath with fantastic kitchen, laundry room and 3 car garage.

Near city park. $339,900. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5 4 6 - 5 8 1 6 annierealtor@gmail.com

5 Bdr, 4 Bath, Wye area area home on 2.5 acres. $389,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 521 Daly. 3 bed, 2 bath in U District. Single garage, basement, studio, enclosed front porch. $369,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 2039 S 10th W. Remarkably cute 2 bedroom home on a large lot very centrally located near Good Food Store, bike trails and schools. Full basement and single garage. KD 240-5227 www.porticorealestate.com 6544 McArthur. 3 bed, 2.5 bath with gas fireplace and 2 car garage. $240,000. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 833 Defoe. 1 bed, 1 bath Northside bungalow with large front yard. $125,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties.

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CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES 1641 Stoddard To-be-built 6plex on Northside. $650,500 Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties 2025 Mullan Road. Mullan Heights Riverfront Condos. Large secure units with affordable HOA dues.

Starting at $144,900. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 4433A Bordeaux Blvd. Newer 3 bed, 2 bath with 2 car garage.

Fenced backyard with dog kennel & pergola. Very nice! $179,000. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com

723 North 5th St. $179,500 www.723n5thmissoula.com

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19488 Highway 200 PRICE REDUCED! $394,900 5 bed on 3 acres across from Blackfoot River.

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53 Brookside. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage on corner lot with Mount Jumbo views. $289,900.

Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 880-4749. montpref@bigsky.net 723 North 5th West. 2 bed, 1.5 bath with maple floors, open kitchen, fenced backyard & lots of light. $179,500. Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 7 2 8 - 8 2 7 0 . glasgow@montana.com Affordable Townhomes Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet new, green-built development may be your ticket. STARTING AT $79,000. 1400 Burns, 2405227 porticorealestate.com Beautiful Downtown Triplex Two 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom; great rental history; great building on Historic Register with tons of character and in great shape! $359,500.

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Open & Light & Green & Clean Efficiency abounds in this 3 bed, 2.5 bath stand alone super-insulated condo with heated floors and so much more.

1530 S 12th W. Near Good Food Store and bike trails. $250,000. 240-5227. porticorealestate.com The Uptown Flats have two one bed one bath units starting at $149,900. Great downtown living! Call Anne 546-5816 for s h o w i n g . www.movemontana.com Uptown Flats. From $149,900.

Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, car port, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com www.movemontana.com

MANUFACTURED HOMES 14x70 MOBILE HOME FOR SALE! $6500.00 o.b.o at 12 Laurie Lane (El Mar Village) 1971 Century 14x70 single-wide. In good condition with built-in dishwasher, stove, garbage disposal, 2 refridgerator/freezers, washer and dryer, raised living room...a MUST SEE!! Please call if interested, we are asking for serious inquiries only. (406)549-2515 or georganayahvah@gmail.com.

1825 Burlington. Two central Missoula lots with 3 bed, 2 bath mobile. Great investment or first time buy. $89,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com

LAND FOR SALE 3.2 Acres in the Wye area.

Gorgeous mountain and valley views. $65,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4,500 Sq Ft Lot on the Northside.

Zoned for single or multifamily.

All utilities available. $59,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com NHN Twin Creek Road/Bonner. 3.69 acres with creek.

Mobiles on permanent foundations allowed. $165,000.

Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net Rattlesnake Acreage Rattlesnake 1/4 acre lot at the base of Mt. Jumbo with all utilities stubbed to the site and ready to build on: $160,000. portico realestate.com KD 240-5227. porticorealestate.com 240-5227

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REAL ESTATE COMMERCIAL 110 Main Street, Stevensville.

Restaurant in heart of Stevensville next to Blacksmith Brewery. $149,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net 4 Klakken, Noxon. Motel with 9 units, laundromat & 2 rentals on 1/2 acre. $259,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

East Missoula Building Lot with great trees and a sweet ‘hood. $55,000. 240-5227 porticorealestate.com Gorgeous Victorian home zoned for commercial use in a great location $395,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN 15305 Spring Hill Road, Frenchtown. Beautiful cedar 4 bed, 2.5 bath with 3 car garage & deck on acreage bordering Forest Service. $595,000. Robin Rice @ 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

170 South 1st Street, Clinton. 2 bedroom, 1 bath with basement & garage on private 2.2 fenced acres. Close to the river and Forest Service land. $165,000.

Rochelle Glasgow, Prudential Missoula 728-8270. glasgow@montana.com 19488 Highway 200 East/ Bonner. 5 bed, 3 bath, basement & 3 car garage on 3 mountain view acres. $399,900. Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net 2 Bdr, 3 Bath Lolo home. $217,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 2110 Petty Creek, Alberton.

Gorgeous 3 bed, 2.5 with 2 car garage on over 10 acres. $409,000. Betsy Milyard, Montana Preferred Properties. 8804749. montpref@bigsky.net

Robin Rice, Montana Preferred Properties.

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3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville area home on 6+ acres. $339,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

PRICE REDUCED! 102 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with 48’x30’ shop. $293,500.

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4 Bdr, 3 Bath Stevensville area home on 13 acres. $575,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

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57005 West Road, Moiese. Certified Organic Farm with artesian well on 80 acres near Flathead River. $525,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653. pat@properties2000.com PRICE REDUCED! 101 Boardwalk, Stevensville. 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Zoned commercial with separate office. $310,000.

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